skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I want to give Intel any credit here whatsoever because they don't deserve any, but that 320 Tera Ops number involves multiple chips and to the best of my knowledge, Nvidia has not specified whether that's 8, 16, or 32 bit math.

And they're not the only ones, we still don't know the underlying math model in Google's second generation TPU now do we?

We are swimming in a sea of FUD and Benchmarksmanship right now, but if I had to make a bet, the next three years are owned by Nvidia. After that, things get hazy.
Except for the fact that male and female pay for the same job, and experience level are statistically the same and there is no actual pay gap.

The $0.79 on the $1 shit has been debunked a million times yet is still persists for some reason.

The last good study I read showed a gap of something like 5% which was in the statistical margin and was largely accounted for by negotiation tactics.

For an anecdote I (a male) earn less than many other men in my same job, and same experience level. Why because I am TERRIBLE at salary negotiation, (or any other price negotiation, i.e I prefer the CarMax pay what the sticker says model to the haggle over every last $1 model)

At the same time, I have been involved in the hiring of both male and female employees in the IT world, never once at any time I have ever seen, heard or been a part of discussions where a person would be offered to get a lower salary simply because of their gender.

Every hiring process I have ever been involved in the Pay scale is always set long before we even have any applicants. We have a budget, wages for each position are set based on the budget the gender or personal circumstances of the person have no factor in it. We have to find someone that not only fits the job requirements, but also the salary requirements. That can be a challenge, and we have had to pass on candidates simply because we could not meet their salary demands.
How do countries get their names?
Yeah, a PM company around here (Olympia, WA) had two separate websites, one targeted at renters, one at landlords.

Nothing was mentioned on the renter site, and verbal promises (worth the paper they're written on, etc., etc.) made to renters said that they "heavily discouraged arbitrary rent increases as they felt properties were priced fairly in consultation with the owner"...

Meanwhile on the owner / landlord site: "We ensure you get the maximum return on your investment, including yearly rental increases of the maximum allowed by law or as close to it as possible".

Awkward moment for the PM showing me a place when I showed her that website and asked her to reconcile the two positions.
You may be misinterpreting things. Relevant from Wikipedia: "Lo argues that much of what behaviorists cite as counterexamples to economic rationality—loss aversion, overconfidence, overreaction, and other behavioral biases—are, in fact, consistent with an evolutionary model of individuals adapting to a changing environment using simple heuristics."

And as an aside, I am pretty tired of people saying things like this, without fail, in every thread about economics. A simplified model is better than no model at all. People have been trying to account for irrationality for ages. It's not particularly astute to recognize that individuals are not perfectly rational.
Once, not far from Squamish, my wife and I slept quite nicely in a 6th gen Honda Civic DX hatchback.

No SUV required.
Everyone is chiming in with anecdotes. Maybe they're all correct.

But I definitely remember fireflies being everywhere at my parents house and turning the sky into a shimmering display... and I rarely see more then a few fireflies at all these days.
While peer review has its problems, it's hardly the biggest problem and there are systemic issues that peer reviewers can't see.
E.g. one of the biggest issues in science is publication bias and the lack of publishing "negative" findings. You don't see as a reviewer if the person submitting the study has three other studies laying on his desk that he'll never publish.
The main driver is increased state spending on health care, particularly Medicaid. That spending, which is mandatory, crowds out education funding, because states have a balanced budget requirement. Medicaid spending in Illinois, for example, is up 141% since 2000 and health care is 25% of the state budget. Obamacare, which did nothing to control health care costs, actually expanded Medicaid eligibility.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/health-care-costs-consume-25-...
I had the same feeling, I don't mind ads if they are done well.
> things like Chinese starts that are specific to certain cultures

While it's true that there are national styles of play, the Chinese opening is not called that because it's really popular among Chinese people. It's called that because a particular Chinese pro helped popularize it, even though it was invented by a Japanese amateur.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_opening for some more info. FWIW, I (a caucasian American) use this opening all the time. It's just a generally good opening if you like a certain style of play.
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I agree with your first sentence, but professors at public universities don't actually make much money compared to other professions with similar education levels. Typical pay is 70-90k.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/11/annual-aaup-s...
> But the problem is probably less big in Guix because only a few graphics drivers are actually supported due to the fact that all the drivers needs to be Free and free of binary blobs.

This is a property of Linux libre, not of Guix per se.
I guarantee it. Some PM companies I'd rate lower than debt collection agencies on the ethics scale. See my sibling comment, promising owners they'd find ways to apply the maximum possible rent increases.
> It's an uninteresting reduction since linear algebra can describe almost everything.

The question is whether it can do so efficiently. As far as I know, alternating applications of affine transforms and non-linearities are not so useful for some computations that are known to occur in the brain such as routing, spatio-temporal clustering, frequency filtering, high-dimensional temporal states per neuron etc.
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Man, I'd love to get a Model S. If only they weren't so expensive... Anyone have opinions on the ideal model year and trim to target for max bang-for-buck? From a cursory look, I'm thinking something like an 85D (not P85D). Probably either 2014, for first gen autopilot, or a 2013 without. (I've heard a lot of stories about quality control issues with early cars, which hopefully were ironed out somewhat by 2013.)
Absolutely. My life is riddled with bad choices, some of which I continue today. I'm constantly surprised I am where I am, and that I'm somehow alive.

Can I delay gratification? Sure. I don't always want to do so. I don't fear death. I fear fragility of the mind and body. I don't want 90 boring years. I want 70 damned fun years where every day is the best day ever.

I'm nearing that 70 year mark and not even remotely scared. They'll prop me up with opiates and amphetamines. I see that as something to look forward to, not fear.
What stops people lying about the wage? I suspect men do it more often and negotiate bigger salaries this way.
Yes; but rather that they aren't more important than people. Well, that is actually silly because under the right circumstances, it could be that the property (or any other) rights of person A are more important than all of person B as such. It's just trivially true when A = B (A and B are the same person). No right attributed to A is more important than A him or herself.
No, you should be up front with your salary range.
You're commenting on a blog post about a Go program that taught itself everything about the entire problem domain from scratch, and then improved to superhuman (and even supercomputer) ability through self-play.

...
Direct link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.07969.pdf
>>> This law won't do much, if anything, to change the basic dynamic. For what it's worth, I work for a public institution and my salary, and the salary of all my coworkers, is public. The sky hasn't fallen.

Are you a schoolteacher? There is a widespread public backlash against the salaries of schoolteachers, which are perceived to be too high. This has dramatically affected the ability to attract good people.

I think that how public perception affects public sector salaries varies from one job to another. The public loves the salary that we pay to our state's college football coach.
Nearly all touchpads support multi-touch, this includes Synaptics "plastic trash". You just need to enable things like two-finger scroll and three-finger-click (etc). If you're using an older version of Windows you might need to update the driver, those who use Linux generally get this out of the "box" and can just enable the required options.

Having both two-finger-scroll and side-scroll enabled is possible and quite handy for those occasions you can't use or don't feel like using two fingers, e.g. when you're holding a hot soldering iron in one hand and a collection of parts in the other - just scroll using a knuckle.
Thanks for this succinct explanation. It bears many similarities to problems of politics and governance that I wrestle with.

I wonder to what extent crowd work can be effective for making real progress; I've been impressed by things like FoldIt and astronomical classifiers (as opposed to the BOINC distributed processing approach) but I don't know to what extent those result in real progress vs useful-but-limited stamp collection. I am very interested in the possibilities for gamification but it seems like there's a big gap between the empirical data collection/space mapping aspect and actual theoretical development of the kind done at the Santa Fe institute or the IAS.
The same article, when published in The Atlantic, did in fact have a title referring specifically to the Midwest: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/midwest...
They have to. The functionality is table-stakes for any business selling a physical products in stores, and no site or store platform has the functionality built-in.

I implemented Storemapper for a few clients (indie sellers and major brands), and they absolutely loved it b/c it solved their exact problem and cost next to nothing.
> You can always write a salary lower than what you make..

It's... optimistic... that you think they're going to take you at face value when you do so, rather than requiring employment / income verification.

And in most cases, "the information on this application is true to the best of my knowledge and I understand that my application may be rejected if I provide false information"...
How big was this study? Did they test how well the students performed when they had to search for information?

They say that the students read much faster on the screen. What if they just slow down a bit?

The textbook industry is corrupt and will believe or promote anything to try to hold on to profits.

Wasting all of that paper and making people lug around a bunch of heavy books is asinine.
Less butterflies and fish, more wasps and squids.

Thanks climate change!
Had precisely the same experience except it was for an Apple II project instead of NES emulation. Turned me into one of those a-holes who think everyone should start with assembly if they want to learn C.
So, where do I get premade versions of this included all words of the 28 largest languages? This is one of the most valuable properties of word2vec and co: Prebuilt versions for many languages, with every word of the dictionary in them.

Once you have that, we can talk about actually replacing word2vec and similar solutions.
This is common knowledge in the gifted community and has been for decades. I mean, the study sounds pretty flawed, like a conclusion looking for verification, but there have long been support groups for the gifted population and their parents, in part because gifted people tend to be special snowflakes.

I absolutely hate the common explanations for this phenomenon. The "over-excitabilities" mentioned in the article is a common explanation that has been around a really long time and Hoagies Gifted Page has long been pretty bad about "poor mouthing" giftedness. A lot of what is there (or was the last time I looked) talks about how utterly miserable it is to be so smart and how much it harms you socially and emotionally.

Yes, there are social problems that tend to go along with giftedness. And, yes, ADHD, OCD et al are so common at high IQs that some people refer to them as "co-morbidities" for lack of a better term. (I am also aghast at the article lumping ADHD and ASD in with "mental illness." Ugh.)

But, I have my own thoughts on some of what is really going on. I don't really agree with most of the standard explanations and opinions about this phenomenon. From what I gather, it is pretty well documented as a trend.

But, some comments here on HN are making me feel better about never bothering to join Mensa. A cousin of mine was in it and suggested I join for scholarship money to help me return to college. I never got around to applying.
> In either case, not protecting things also wastes huge amounts of resources

Why "also"? It's not about wasting resources, it's about producing poison. When you spill milk, you waste resources, but you do zero lasting damage. When you produce plastic and other things and they, say, end up accumulating somewhere in the food chain, that's an entirely different ballpark.
Stock rom without root was pretty decent for me. No ads at all.
However, I only use free software apps mostly from F-Droid (and uBlock Origin takes care of the web). I knew that this was putting myself in a bubble, but I had not realized that the experience of using a phone for a lot of people must be that annoying. What a shame. Computers should serve humans, not the other way round!

I discovered Google Play's App Store on someone else's phone, that was painful and stressful. But what you are describing seems hellish.
I thought they make something like the hololens.

The USP seems to be direct retina projection instead of a regular display.
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How is Rackspace still in business?
As posted above: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifax-breach-fallout-y...
This is a great, simple explanation of word vectors. However I think the argument would have been stronger if there were numbers showing that this simplified method and word2vec are similarly accurate like the author claims.
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Monsanto.
The employer is also expected to give a range upon request.
Would it be more cost effective overall to just put those discoveries directly in to the public domain and not worry about the administrative overheads?

Further, would the private sector benefit from such crucial hard-research discoveries being public knowledge and thus open for all to benefit from? (Possibly in exchange for a requirement of a minimum number of workers in that field in this country, and an import tariff on products if they aren't locally employing? I could see extending mutual tariff free exchange status among other nations with similar public domain enriching efforts.)
Extended data figure 2 contains something really cool: how long it takes for AG0 to discover a joseki, and how long it takes it to later discard it as non-jokeki. So you could, in theory, evaluate a human joseki by plotting AG0's probability of playing it against training time (or against its Elo rating). What's also cool is that the differences that cause it stop playing a joseki must be really minute, but it can see them anyway.
This "vulnerability" is extremely hypothetical and they have not given proof that it can be exploited in the field. Just conjecture and a demo in a totally unrealistic environment.
Maybe they're trying to tell you to stop mowing the lawn and start enjoying the meadow?
Very interesting. Makes one think about creating a small, initially sterile, tip that would work with the bottle top that would decrease drop size.
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Not trying to be trite, but that's why the saying goes:

"Reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order". Recycling is a last resort.
It seems more about how flat the surface is when you fold the rear seats. In my Kia it goes up and down. Impossible to sleep.
It makes you wonder why they choose V8 instead of their own JavaScript engine

https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
Some of the people you go out of your way to slander as both trump supporters and climate change deniers exist as they do because of people like you, who immediately take any adverse global trend, blame it on climate change with what amounts to shakey, correlative evidence, and then shame anyone who dares glance over with a skeptical eye.

We are dumping all kinds of chemicals into the environment - pesticides, plasticizers, and a host of bio-active compounds which we already know may be directly responsible for the decline of certain individual species[1].

Climate change is a serious threat. But your post is an example of how climate change has become a highly politicized meme.

Next thing you know, it becomes a cultural taboo to be skeptical about climate change, and suddenly we're only asking the questions we are allowed to ask, looking for the data we are allowed to look for, sweeping inconsistencies under the rug, and just generally practicing sloppy science.

The scientific method necessitates skepticism. I welcome sources to the contrary, but modern western climate science is void of any published criticism, or at least it was when I had access to journals some 5 years ago. Hell, I couldnt find ONE paper discussing ANY benefit on any place on earth from a warmer climate-which is absurd, because northern permafrost could thaw and create arable land, for example.

Climate science has been sickened by politics and political correctness. You should be very wary.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
rational actor in econ ≈ uniform spherical cow in physics
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Given that NSA employees in the past have abused that power, I wouldn't put it past current Equifax employees to do the same.

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/nsa-stalking/
Some companies will ask you to sign their contracts in blood if they thought they could get away with it. Doesn't mean that you should.
I'm not sure how you define "modern conservative movement" but I believe Buckley is considered one of the really important neo-conservatives. I believe the more recent (which I would class as modern) movement that is popularly attributed with nationalism is different than the neo-conservative.
The Happening much?
4. Programming Language TiDB uses Go for the SQL layer and Rust for the storage engine layer. As Go has a Garbage Collector (GC) and runtime, we think it will cost us days to tune the performance. Therefore, we use Rust, a static language, for TiKV. Its performance is much better. CockroachDB only uses Go.

CockroachDB uses RocksDB for the storage engine on each node, and that's written in C++ (which can be viewed as good or bad).
I would love to know how this adversarial training doesn't end up overfitting. Or, put another way, I'd love to see another piece of software (or even a human being?) exploit Alpha Go's overfitted strategy.
Definitely worth it in rare situations, but the cpm to hit 1 person is massive - hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
I looked into starting a company around this idea about 10 years ago but I don't think the world was ready for it. I think my number was 250 heh. I still don't think the world is ready for it. Manufacturers gain too much from pretty and clean and unique packaging. One solution could be to create a system whereby environmentally friendly dyes could be sprayed onto and washed off the containers to allow for differentiation.
nor is it particularly astute to create an entire discipline used to justify our entire social order on a theory that is known at the onset to be incorrect, all the while claiming it is more 'rational' and less 'superstitious' than the ones that came before it..
Indeed, the Haskell community is very self critical, much to its credit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3b498l/if_you_coul...
I remember reading somewhere that it was the first time humanity had chosen to take a step backwards in terms of transport speed. Definitely seems like there would be a market.
Ha! I do wonder about using a board game where the rules periodically change in simple ways at random. A human could easily adapt to the rule changes while playing and adjust their strategy accordingly. Would a Deep Learning algorithm be able to do this?

If we keep the board and pieces digital, then the board could change shape, the pieces could change color indicating a random association with a rule change, and what not.
"Saving time" during the interview process doesn't make sense if you're going to spend the next X years being UNDERpaid at your job.

If we assume that your time has some amount of value, you are always better off withholding your desired salary.

If you want to see whether or not they're going to be a potential employer, ask them for a ballpark of what they're willing to pay. But there is no reason for telling them free information.
Agreed. I know I'm winning by 4 points but I have no idea about my probability of winning. However if I'm winning I know that I should play low risk moves and refrain from starting complicated fights. That increases the probability of winning. IMHO the exact value is out of reach for human beings.
How well would this work with ads targeted through popular platforms like FB and Twitter, I wonder?
I've also been told that they would verify it before, so that would be out.

The law also requires that a pay range be provided by the employer upon request. I'm completely in favor of this law. Those who are strong negotiators will still be able to negotiate how they wish, and those who are in less fortunate positions won't have their pasts come back to bite them.
I think GP poster is saying that recycling is a false third option.

It simply doesn't happen except perhaps in the case of aluminum, glass or paper.
How about Tesla "delivery mode"?