skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the early days of Wikipedia. I remember thinking "this is crap" and I don't think I was mistaken at the time. The interesting thing about Wikipedia is that there was never a period where it seemed "good but". It went from a few years of being crap to evoking wow very quickly. It went from a sustained period of less useful than Britannica to more useful in the blink of an eye.

Wikipedia went to wow because people (and machines) produced deep content. This suggests that deep reporting can be crowd sourced...I mean what but journalism is the Wikipedia article on the Trump presidency? The reporting just doesn't play out across static content on multiple sites. Consider the 2014 Romanian Presidential Election. [1] It might be considered authoritative reporting. The long process and continuous refinement of that reporting is hard to distinguish from investigative journalism in any way other than it not being in pursuit of a headline [2].

WikiTribune has the possibility of delivering news without mass market appeal precisely because Wikipedia more or less does it already. To the degree that the distinction between encyclopedias and newspapers come down to printing technology and the historical business models associated with those differences then the Wikipedia business model for journalism may be viable.

[1]: I picked it arbitrarily, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_presidential_election...

[2]: And cynically being published despite the lack of titillation worthy of a headline.
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Similar has been done. "Pay what you want" restaurants featuring healthy options have all failed.
Notice that the comment mentioned harassers not "men", so maybe you are jumping the gun a bit there. The idea that "all harassers are harassers" sounds pretty solid reasoning to me.
I agree, I'd absolutely love to live in such an environment. But my outlook is pessimistic towards abuse on both sides when one can get something out of it, while yours is optimistic. I'd worked in a company where a woman slept with a boss of a company offering a multi-million business opportunity and after securing the contract, she was rewarded with the role of a head of an important branch (I left in disgust with overall culture anyway). If you think this is an exception you might be surprised what a cesspool the top level of companies often is and what it takes to get there. The rules are applied highly selectively, often exploiting stupidity/idealism of the one that is now "out" that didn't properly cover their back or didn't play nasty politics collecting evidence against anyone that might threaten them. The flawless ones often aren't promoted either as there is no way to easily coerce them. In limit only the worst kind of people would stay in power unless some disaster comes, cleaning the Augean stables.
> However hard it is to be a grad student in the US, there's still a lot of competition for each one of those low-paying grad student spots, so even if demand for those jobs goes down a lot, the seats will still be filled.

Yes, but grad students aren't fungible commodities; if the best grad students with the best choices don't want to go to US schools, it will impact the quality of research, the ability to attract top talent at other levels, the ability to attract funding, and the ability to generate value through research (patents, etc.), as well as the quality of graduates and their future income potential, which affects things like likely future growth of endowments.

Your analysis of the Universities’ interest is correct, in terms of financial interest, only in the shortest possible term, which might be key for the kind of for-profit public firms that live and die by the next quarterly report, but most universities aren't like that.
Similarly: in Germany you used to bed able to watch the entire back catalog of public broadcasting companies. They got sued by private broadcasters and now are only allowed to show two weeks back. I think it's ridiculous, since the tax payer paid for and owns the content.
Yeah, that's a limitation of Roku, the older ones don't support HEVC.
Well... I don't want to legitimize their "need" for my phone number (which granted they already figure out through contact books of others, they don't even hide that they've inferred it). Phones and 2fa are not dependent upon one another.
Wow! Circa $1.50 hour. Whereas human transcription services are more like $45 per hour.

This kind of price will open up entirely new applications. E.g., for ~$10/day, you could transcribe every conversation you have at work. Combine that with good search and your phone becomes a supplemental, artificial memory. "I know I talked about that with somebody but I can't remember who" becomes a thing of the past.
Yeah, that'd definitely be a huge issue.

One interesting aspect people are missing in this thread is that the power dynamic goes both ways: a manager could coerce a report into a relationship or a report gets unfair advantage over their peers by exerting influence on their manager. Or both. Not only that, it opens the door to blackmailing.

That's why the dynamic is bad and people trying to make a defense of it (I've seen co are misguided or haven't considered all the factors. There's a reason why there's a legal-approved training on this.
we should (not) discount all publicly funded food.

I am all for food stamps. I wish that were made more readily available. Due to the lengthy and complex application forms, it is hard to apply to the program. I have six years of college and only managed to fill it out successfully because an agency helped me. I lost my food stamps due to a bureaucratic snafu and my attempts to reapply on my own were not successful having to do with barriers for me in the application process.

The EBT card itself is done very well. I would be completely fine with people suggesting we make this program easier to access and also increase the funding by about 50 percent. I don't see any reason why we need to dream up some imaginary American Diner for feeding people instead of making some modest improvements to an already existing program with a proven track record that has already worked out a lot of the bugs.

(When I was first on food stamps, using the EBT card was not as smooth as later. I know from firsthand experience they have worked out some of the bugs to make it work more smoothly than it used to.)
Another weird fail point: their entire discussion on their "Real names policy" ( https://www.wikitribune.com/project/real-names-policy-a-note... ) is being conducted by people who have already been vetted by the system; unclear if people who insist on pseudonyms are being let in, and thus whether their voice is even heard.

Furthermore, the system mandates that you have a First and a Last name. Gonna be a problem for the people who only have one....
It doesn't appear to affect (regular) Sierra, so if this issue exists on El Capitan, I'm guessing it's a separate, though relevant, problem, rather than being the exact same one.
Sorry for the delayed response!

> However in order for a fork to be sustainable it means that it needs to be more than a rebranding, otherwise it cannot survive. In particular, if Waterfox is retaining the XUL support, then it's going to get harder and harder to merge upstream Firefox into it, which means a bigger and bigger burden on you.

I am aware, but the plan is to keep XUL support going for now until the end of ESR 59 (Q1 2019) and by then having an appropriate replacement.

One path was the idea to keep following Firefox except to extend the APIs available (and submit them to Mozilla as well in-case they get would like to merge).

> And implicit in this claim is that Mozilla is selling the user out and I don't see how.

Sorry I didn't mean it to be interpreted that way! Just meant that the general stigma about OSS + business not working together (although the last few years that has been changing).

> Speaking of which, Ecosia might be cool for having trees planted from its revenue, but it kind of has the same problem — being dependent on Bing and thus Microsoft. And I'm going to guess that the results are at least as poor as DDG and the problem for users is that most users will apply the "three strikes you're out" rule, because you don't want to second-guess your search engine on every search, unless you really, really care so much about privacy that you can take that pain and most people don't.

I see. Well I believe it's still worth it and from feedback I've heard, many people don't mind the results as they find Bing results fairly decent and are more than happy to support the project. I don't think it's too unreasonable to not want to have to rely on Google for everything? People are free to use it if they want to though.
I found this[1]. Appears to be an invite-only preview for now; waiting for my application to be processed.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/
Well, amortize sounds a bit funny when the first user basically has to pay the whole cold run, hehe
I don't have any opinion on whether or not PhD students are employees or not, however, what I do want is consistency. So if PhD students are indeed students, yet receive a massive tax break in the form of "free tuition" (contrast this to imaginary undergraduate working for a college, who receives income from the college from a job and has to pay post-tax income for tuition) then undergraduates should have the same benefit (that is, tuition reduction from pre-tax income, if they work for the school that they go to).

That's it.
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I said "nebulous" because it's such a vague line item. It's probably fine that a grant doesn't have to itemize how much is paying the utility bills, how much is paying the janitorial staff, how much is paying middle management... and grant funders are fine with this too. I am not protesting the concept of overhead.

I'm just saying, as long as there already is this line item called "overhead" that pays for the university's operating expenses out of the grant, why does there also need to be a line item called "tuition" for the same purpose?
> As an example, it still annoys the hell out of me that a zoomed in image that is not completely visible always sticks to the edge of the window it's in—good luck selecting anything at or near the edge.

I've been using Pixelmator quite a bit lately, and that one just drives me nuts.
Hey thanks! I actually stayed away from those kinds of problems because they're well covered by other sites, but I'm interested in what you mean by presenting then in my way?

Do you mean algos in a practical front end context?

Thanks again for checking it out!
AWS will likely add PHP support, yes but they absolutely will not do what this project does: Running a NodeJS http server that launches a PHP binary and runs local scripts.
Cool, thanks! Checking it out.
Check out https://www.moonlightwork.com. They take 15%, I believe.
I get the reference. It simply has no relevance to the topic, and gives people no reason to read the piece.

In fact, it actively detracts from the piece, by forcing people to focus on it instead of the supposed content.

It's like clickbait, only less successful.
They announced they were going to be using their open source cni plugin https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/
There's a difference between someone voluntarily sending an artist money, vs the artist openly soliciting donations in a manner easily construed as advocating piracy.
They don't specify what this has to enable deep learning. Intel GPU? Atom processor?
You can do that in Instagram as well. You can create chat groups and specifically send them one of the exploding "snaps" for lack of a better word.
Yup, just explaining how K8s is not a magic salve you can rub on everything to prevent vendor lock-in.
It almost shouts at you. Mine says "Install this update as soon as possible"
Link to that comment for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15807634
Reinvent causes this to happen every year. And to be frank, AWS announcements generally have major impact on the internet as a whole, especially on how people do business on it. So, it's deserved, i would say.

Full disclosure: former AWS Employee
After you get 2.2 million, you say you can take $80K per year.
So you're saying that you'll be able make 3.6% interest per year.
I think that rate of return (after taxes and inflation) is reasonable.
In my opinion, the best way to get this is to invest in the S&P 500 via a low cost ETF such as SPY. There are many different opinions on this point.

Assume you can get the same 3.6% rate of return while you are saving.
Assume you save the same amount every year.
How long will it take to get to $2.2M?

Save $10K per year - 62 years
Save $20K per year - 45 years
Save $30K per year - 37 years
Save $40K per year - 31 years
Save $50K per year - 27 years
Save $60K per year - 24 years
Save $70K per year - 22 years
Save $80K per year - 20 years
Save $90K per year - 18 years
Save $100K per year - 17 years

But I suggest you look at the whole thing a different way.
Start with your estimated salary. How can you have about the same amount of spending money while you are working and after you retire? (A lot of people say you need a little bit less money in retirement, so you can adjust for this.)

For example, assume you get a job with take home pay of $100K per year.
If you save $20K per year, and work 45 years, you'll have $80K per year while you're working, and $80K per year in retirement. If you are able to save $30K per year for 34 years, you'll have $70K per year while you're working, and $70K per year in retirement.

I made a little spreadsheet, and came up with all the above numbers.
It's not too hard to set up a small spreadsheet and play with these numbers yourself.
I have some constants at the top - A1 has amount saved per year and B1 has interest rate, as a fraction, not a percent, 0.036.
After that, each row of the spreadsheet has a different year, starting with year 0, balance 0.
The first column is the year, for easy reference.
The second column is the new balance. Old balance + (Old balance * interest rate) + Amount saved per year.
Use $A$1 and $B$1 to refer to the constants at the top.

I ignore inflation to simplify things. Instead I use an after-inflation interest rate. These are all very rough estimates, after all. Who can really predict investment returns 20 years from now?
Hibernation when a spot instance is reclaimed is an excellent addition. Like TFA says, it’s like closing the lid on your laptop, and re-opening it later. This definitely makes spot instances more attractive to developers who don’t have the, ahem, bandwidth to write the additional fault tolerance code typically seen in spot instance-optimized workloads.
I thought MTG too.
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Honest question - why is that something to avoid? What does the floating point representation buy you that say an int64 doesn't, with the same choice of units ie. 1 = 10^-6 dollars?
It's not very much. 100 GFLOPs is about 1-2 Haswell/Broadwell cores (32 FLOP/s * ~2 GHz AVX frequency). Even 2015 era mobile GPUs like the Apple A9 GPU (iPhone 6S) is higher throughput (~150-200GFLOP/s achievable).

If you're executing these models at 30FPS on an HD stream (say ~1mm pixels/frame), you have roughly a 100 * 10^9 / (30 * 10^6 ) = 3,000 flops/pixel budget if you're operating at peak, which is about the same flops/pixel of a 16 channel -> 16 channel 3x3 conv. In practice of course you can usually operate on a much smaller spatial input.
> most universities aren't like that.

I hope you are right, but I'm not so sure. We'll see I suppose.
I am so glad to see this. However, I feel often the problem is on the interviewer end as its very common to shoot algorithmic problems at FE engineers.

I wrote down some of my ideas for hiring questions here: https://medium.com/@lifeinafolder/not-so-crazy-ideas-for-hir...

Also out of curiousity, why haven't you made your profile public on the site? I think it would add more credibility.
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Fwiw, I've always used "log to" for writing out logs. "Log to stderr". So, you know, extra fun deciding what's "correct".
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That’s generally what happens when a company has a conference which announces a lot of new products.
Its the AWS developers conference right now. You see the same effect for other big tech firms during their respective equivalents.
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Oh I don't resent him, he's just not a person I would like to spend time with. I just often think I'm generally bitter about parenting because of this.
Yeah. Android app has sucked for a while now. Can't quickly snap something interesting. What's the point?
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Isn't that because re:invent is happening now?
I thought you were going to say that the human translator would use the service , add his own surcharge of $30 and still be cheaper than the competition :)

seriously this will sell like crazy to public offices and services that keep transcripts of conversations, courts of law etc.
Recmend, the Yelp for Instagram  Now in App Store
AWS IoT 1-Click - One click creation of an AWS Lambda trigger for any device
sigh, amazon is taking over hacker news. They need to chill on posting. They posted 15 posts to the front page and thats 50% of the headlines... all amazon.

Hope everyone loves amazon!
Agreed. I'm looking at transcribing some of my talks, and even if I had humans do the work I'd be doing my own editing pass. Speech is just different than writing; one needs a good mental model of both speaker and listener to make all the right editorial choices.

Automated recognition strikes me as a good place to start, though, especially for applications like search.
> BigDecimal is also a viable solution, but it's entirely unnecessary and the cost really is enormous especially if you need to handle a large number of transactions. But sure, if you say performance genuinely isn't an issue go with BigDecimal.

That is exactly what we currently do, and speed of computations is definitely not an issue at all. If we have performance related problems (and we do sometimes), they have never in 10 years originated from numerical computation just taking too long, but always from other inefficiencies, quite often of architectural nature that uselessly burn a thousand times more cycles than the numeric part of the job.

BigDecimal provides exactly what we need: a no-brainer, easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and always correct vehicle for the calculation of monetary sums. It lets our developers focus on implementing the business logic, and also on making less of the described high-level failures that get us into actual performance troubles, instead of consuming a lot of mental share just to “get the computation right“ in all circumstances.
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True true.

That said, this takes a lot of the coding out of your hands. Presumably Microsoft and Google and IBM have similar cloud offerings.

It's really hard to evaluate the quality of these offerings. I'd love if a website existed that had a cross platform analysis of these natural language processing site – basically compare and contrast these cloud offerings against rolling your own. It would have to use a few data-sets to get an all round picture.
Really useful to know, thanks.
>Sounds good to me!

That's the half-lie you trot out at the beginning of a rand that ends with "think of the children"

The generalized version is "don't go too much faster or slower than the majority of drivers around you"

The one person doing 55 in a 60 (or ever 60) where everyone goes 80 may reduce their own legal liability if things go bad but they're also greatly increasing the likelihood that things go bad.

I really hope there was an implied /s that I missed.
Even inexpensive human transcription works pretty well though assuming good audio and recordings that aren't difficult for other reasons (strong accents, etc.) I usually get my podcasts transcribed by a service that is basically a quality control front-end for Mechanical Turk and I need to do minimal cleanup.

I'll be interested to see how this works in comparison when it's more broadly available. I'm guessing it will be sufficiently worse that it won't be worth using for this purpose. If it's cheap enough though I could see using it for other recordings that I don't normally get transcribed today.
I'd like to see it more as a stepping stone for when Mozilla extend their API/we implement similar ones that keep a lot of the old functionality found in the low-level APIs. I've mentioned to the users already it would be unfeasible to do it by myself and this would be a good stepping stone. Hopefully more competition is seen as healthy that everyone can benefit from.
They need to chill on posting. They posted 15 posts to the front page and thats 50% of the headlines... all amazon.

Hope everyone loves amazon!
"I was hoping for skynet. This is just a killer robot. You can put a machine gun on a lawnmower and get this far."

(I'm kidding, obviously. This is not new tech, but having a cloud API for it does make life easier for a lot of tasks.)
It WAS rushed. Amazon has customers banging on their door demanding container support in 2014 and they got ECS out the door, fast. Now it’s 2017 and Kubernetes seems to be the winner of the “orchestration wars” so they’re pivoting to that. Smart move of them to ship something and patch it up later if needed, they successfully defended against GKE’s assault and are vying to stay on top.
Because not enough people stop buying/using their products.
Given Alexa's performance, this is the last thing I'd want to use.
I was homeless for a long time. Valuing my agency above all else helped me solve my problems and get off the street.

When you start eroding rights on the excuse that someone is too poor to have any right to care about such high minded frivolities as rights, you deprive them of hope of resolving their problems.
All these entries were deleted. I repeatedly reset the Google Now entries and settings.
I'm sure that will happen. Automating a first pass and saving the humans for the second, smarter pass will be a great combination. Higher quality, lower cost.

But that's only if you care about human-readable quality. I'm especially interested in the applications where we don't.
Running load efficiently on a given resource. Most VMs running a single app are under-utilized so it's more efficient to pack apps into containers and run them across a smaller pool of servers so that they all get the necessary resources without waste.

Kubernetes does really well with this, although ease of deployment using config files and the abstraction from underlying vms/servers is probably more useful for most companies.
The structural incentives are different, as they are mostly private or state-established quasi-private nonprofits; they don't answer to shareholders who buy and sell continuously and especially based on quarterly reports.
You're right, but I guess it seems to be a non-story to developers because the first thing you do prior to launch is add telemetry for user behavior and app performance.
How would you use Batch + Fargate? Let’s assume Fargate is a supported compute environment in Batch.

(I run the containers org at AWS. I happen to run Batch as well)
A third of the front page of Amazon; what's going on? Did they release a dozen products in one go? Interesting release strategy to bulk everything as opposed to spacing it out..
Awesome offer. I already got it.
Not really sure why you would use this over an Android/iOS phone and Tensorflow Mobile, or Jetson TX1+camera if you need more FLOPS at a small size
That one precisely! Thanks!
The high-pitch noise in the background was what I noticed the most. I have nothing against the "behind the scenes" style, but at least don't hurt my ears.