skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans can build associations with very few samples

This to me is an example of whatever the opposite of anthropomorphism is - assuming that humans sample like computers, and then extrapolating to "low" relative to computing. It's also my #1 pet peeve in DL debates.

As someone who has also raised children I can see how this conclusion (low sample rate) can be made, however as someone also deep into ML/RL I see how wrong it is.

You say "very few" samples without a metric. I've seen people in the past cite 2 or 3 presentations of a stimulus to a child, for example in the form of a toy, and then state that the child has correctly visually identified the toy with a verbal label in subsequent tests.

Assuming that these 2 or 3 presentations correlate with 2 or 3 samples is wrong because it doesn't take into account sample rate.

Every presentation batch is a 4D (continuous time + three dimensional) multi-sensory supervised labeling exercise at first (no RL until the first recitation/exploration). Using rough abstractions, at 60 "frames per second" input rate, and lets assume there was a "supervised labeler" (aka parent/guardian) which said the word "toy" multiple times across a 5 minute play period, you have up to 18,000 "labeled" pieces of training data across multiple sensory inputs for one object.

If you blindfolded the child and had them identify the object by feel you may need more batches, similarly with other senses (smell for example).

Obviously this is a gross simplification - but the constant 1:1 batch comparison at the sampling rate between humans and [linear models/MDP/differentiable programs/Neural Networks] really is way off.
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Thumbs up for Debian, the workhorse of the entire Linux ecosystem.
For reference, i was on a 50k IU dose of D3 last year for schools of months. It's considered therapeutic for diagnosed and lab-confirmed deficiency.

Since then I've periodically stayed on s 10k IU supplement three times a week. That's just over the counter.
Surely there are many “actually useful” jobs that don’t require further education?
Media’s Serious Cutback in Startup Investing – The Information
Fast pain receptors send signals to the brain at a speed of between 5 and 30 metres per second (via A-delta fibres). So if the pain travels a distance of 1cm, it wil reach the brain in between 0.3 and 2 milliseconds. If the killing process lasts any longer than this, it probably generates excruciating pain, albeit briefly.
Why ‘your’ programmers just want to code
There are billions of things that have changed this year compared to last year and you're attributing your lack of getting a cold to Vitamin D?
When I see func FibTailVecSum(n int) int { if n < 2 ... and func FibTailVec(acc int, a int, b int) (int, int) { if acc == 1 { I go full Terry Pratchett and began to yell Guards! Guards! I mean, these are perfect examples of Elixir guards. Is there a similar functionality in Go?
It's my replacement for Notepad++ after I moved from Windows to Linux as my daily driver. The balance of features, responsiveness, and simplicity work well for me.
> it is not even possible to reduce energy consumption to low enough that solar and wind would be sufficient.

What do you really mean by that? Solar has enough capacity to power some million times our energy usage, so you are clearly not talking about bare capacity.
I usually write something small that I've written multiple times before. I try to write it exactly like I would in whichever my currently most-used language is. It gets really painful in parts because languages differ. Sometimes the writing is the difficult part. Sometimes writing it in the same way is easy but the runtime performance is bad. Sometimes the tooling just doesn't support what I am trying. Finding these pain points helps me develop an intuitive sense for which of my habits I should steer clear of with the new language. After I consider how the new language would allow or encourage me to write it differently, I re-write it. Then I diff my original and final implementations.
In case it helps, I definitely saw it in school, I remember it clearly. If it wasn't live, then they re-played it unedited as if it were live, before the news broke, but that also seems improbable.

I was in the 5th grade, and our teacher was super excited to break the regular class schedule to let us watch this live science happening. When it happened, the room went quiet with disbelief. After maybe ten seconds, one of the class clowns said "No, a Bud light" thinking it was funny and trying to break the awkward silence but being a kid not realizing how brutally insensitive it was at that moment. The teacher got really upset, turned off the TV, and went into the other room to cry & calm down while we just waited quietly.
Or it might just be placebo.
>Case in point is Mr. Trump who has declared bankruptcy multiple times without having any impact on his personal worth. This is just nuts

So... if that weren't possible, how do you think it would affect the rate at which businesses are created? Let's say you want to start a business, but if you hit hard times and need to fold, you are _personally_ liable for any debt? Would you start that business, knowing that your financial life could easily be destroyed for the next 30 years? If you _did_ decide to start that business, do you think you'd want to grow at anything more than a snail's pace (if at all)?
2018 is the year Selenium IDE rises like a phoenix from the ashes
Indeed, it's my go-to GUI text editor on every platform I use (apart from Haiku OS, though it isn't a daily use OS yet).
Having been sleep deprived due to watching much overwatch league this week. I'm convinced that my productivity is garbage with any less than 7 hours a night
Deep Misconceptions About Deep Learning
OMG that would be fantastic! Yes please! chx1975 gmail com finds me. Thanks!
These scooters really market themselves, which anyone in a served region can attest to. They’re everywhere.
Technology, Technological Domination, and the Great Refusal [pdf]
I had a cancerous mole removed in 2013 (melanoma stage 1a) and my dermatologist basically told me tanning is NOT ok and was never ok.

"There is no such thing as a healthy suntan. Any change in your natural skin color is a sign of skin damage. Evidence suggests tanning greatly increases your risk of developing skin cancer. The increase in skin pigment called melanin, which causes your skin to tan, is a sign of damage. Once skin is exposed to UV radiation, it increases the production of melanin in an attempt to protect the skin from further damage. The increase in melanin may cause your skin tone to darken over the next 48 hours."

https://www.asds.net/10-Skin-Cancer-Myths-Debunked/
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unless they knew beforehand to not enter plain text messages there. ever.
Memory Overload
Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]
a quite beautiful polyphonic piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPaJLXfd-w. but agreed that some of the most beautiful musical pieces mankind has ever created can be found in the Western classical music tradition. i don't care very much for comparing who is better than whom.
https://zeit.co/now is pretty fantastic for this.
Sunlight ftw.
The tech world is split over Telegram’s fund-raising campaign
Physicists Found a Trick to Solve an ‘Impossible’ Puzzle of Gravity
I'm not terribly familiar with Geany, so don't take this as a confirmation that it's not possible, but Kate, which is sort of KDE's Geany, does have vim keybindings.

With Geany being a lightweight IDE, I'd say Kate is a feature-rich text editor, so it's not quite the same, but maybe it works for you nonetheless.
I use for nearly all my docker containers the distro Alpine Linux.

It is much lighter. I commonly find that Alpine images use at least 300MB less disk than Debian ones.
Higher speeds are more dangerous, and thus require more safety equipment.
ITER is a political tool, not a scientific one. The real cutting edge fusion research is being done at some small private companies trying to make aneutronic fusion work, and from places like MIT. If we’re ever going to break the endless cycle of “in 50 years” it will not be a result of ITER.
I have no link at hand either, but I also read about blind people being unable to transfer their concepts of objects build from touching them to seeing them when their sight was restored. They know what a sharp edge or a pointy thing feels like but they don't know what it looks like.

But I think that actually strengthens my point, blind people are capable of learning how different object feel and they recognize them this way but they so just fine without vision and if they suddenly gain access to vision it does not help them.

In general having more senses will help to more reliably identify objects because you have access to more features to differentiate them, for example distinguishing materials from imitations just by vision can be hard or maybe even impossible. But when you can also touch them you gain a lot of new information about surface structure, hardness, thermal conductivity and so on and you can easily distinguish between, for example, real stone and plastic or wood with a stone print on it.

But just because it is advantageous in the general case to have access to more than one sense that does not imply that it is necessary for a specific task.
Which they are very upfront about, and if you are only using it to connect over public wifi I don’t see any big issues with it.
I have had similar outcomes. I started the Intermediate Fasting in order to try to lower my cholesterol, but mine actually went up as well. Weight went down initially, but then stabalized at my normal, pre IF, weight.
Point 2 is largely not an issue, solar insolation vastly outweighs human energy consumption in all forms.

CO2 is bad because it increases the energy trapped from insolation, a CO2 free power source that double energy consumption as a whole would be far better than the effects of CO2 on the atmosphere, very much a nice problem to have tbh.

> Global energy consumption is roughly 15 terawatts annually. The sun provides around 174 petawatts of energy to Earth, of which 89 petawatts is absorbed by the planet.
My doc had me on 25,000 IU once a week for a few months to get me through a sluggish period where I felt low T even though I was excercising. It’s funny how people claim certain doses are low or high. This is probably based upon what their doctor told them to take or what they heard from someone just as uninformed as themselves. Surely there’s a body mass chart for dosing that would clear this up for everyone?
I think the obvious answer to this is to use a generative adversarial approach, but the more I think about that the more difficult it sounds in practice. Say once you've trained in the initial weights of your classifier from your training set, you have a generator start adding distortions, occlusion, and noise to the training set images, then train the classifier to recognize those as true positives. Of course the difficult part is defining a generator architecture that can learn to generate a wide enough variety of distortions, occlusions and noise...
Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail
Yea, but HackerNews is really only going to appeal to a select group of people. Computer illiterate folk aren't going to be talking about compilers, lisp, APL, Smalltalk, blockchain, or the other 1000 compsci things that come up on here daily.
Show HN: Visual VPC Flow Logs
How the Investigative Reporting on Larry Nassar, Ford, and Amazon Unfolded
Wow. These guys can be found around my property in the summer. I had no idea these were stink bugs and despite handling them when I was younger, I've never smelled anything foul about them.

After some googling, the bug that I am familiar with as a stink bug is also known as a pinacate bug. These are up to an inch and a half long, and I never see more than two at a time. When I thought of 26k of these invading a house, I was shocked. Finding out this other beetle is also a stink bug was fun to learn. I could imagine an invasion of these.

These stink bugs are similar to box elder bugs, a kissing beetle, which can swarm when it warms up. These guys, I've had collect up in window sills. There are vastly more outside than in (they are flying around, gathering everywhere), but can be just an annoyance inside as they keep to windows.

These smaller stink bugs have an apparent vector of the Tree of Heaven, another invasive species that is actively combatted in my area. So it makes sense we would have the smaller stink bugs too. I was also surprised to read they were first documented in 1996 in America as I can recall these at least as early as 1990 or 1992. As a little kid, I would have to look out for them on the blackberries I picked out of my yard.
So we continue to play wack-a-mole with the C++ codebase rather than develop in a language that makes whole classes of exploits impossible?

Firefox is not safe. It’s been routinely exploited by law enforcement and hackers alike.
Yes, while I haven't done anything with ML myself, I heard via the 3Blue1Brown video on Deep Learning[0] that the sigmoid function isn't really that used anymore. But I figured allowing that being able to tweak the dynamic range could make it a good fit for the rescaling and recentering approach.

You know what, I'll just go ahead and post a link to this article on the Unum google group, perhaps someone there can add some thoughts[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&t=17m

[1]https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/unum-computing/RHrQU...
Very true but depending on what latitude you live at, it may be impossible to get enough on sunlight alone. There's dermatologist that claims a link between latitude and mortality:

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_weller_could_the_sun_be_go...

Recommended watching - there is more to sunlight than Vitamin-d.
I'm really curious why co-op building companies provide cheaper housing compared to regular private companies.

Public sector inefficiency is well studied. Co-ops efficiency however not so much, at least for me.
If we removed the food stamps and other benefits given to low pay workers and their employers I doubt.

Just about anything worth doing needs an education of some kind. There are some that don't really need much/any education (sales, etc) but those usually need a certain kind of personality to be effective at. And the few that truly anyone could do without any education and are paying enough to be productive to the society (not funded by tax payer money through various benefits) are very rare.
Sinbad should just go ahead and make that movie now. He can then release it with a marketing campaign that says, "The classic childhood favorite, lost for 20 years, now available and fully remastered!"
Good air filters are complex, not just an HEPA filter, but a series of stages. And an active carbon filter for chemicals.
The demand for Russian natural gas will only plummet if there's a huge shift from natgas heating to electric heat, and that would take hundreds of billions (if not trillions) of Euros to accomplish.
Amazon, Google, Others Are Developing Private Air-Traffic Control for Drones
> Getting women in the pipeline from an early age.

How is this any different from a culture which pushes women away from STEM? In either case, we're pushing our expectations upon those girls.
In fact Geany has its own plugins (git, code navigation, ctags, terminal, auto-close, project, to just name a few) it does 95% things I ever needed.

Also, it has multiple themes for you to choose too.

https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes

Try it, it's truly great, especially for someone liked me tried things differently and always going back, so light and fast whenever I needed, I feel it's faster than gedit and gvim, and a lot faster (e.g. to open for editing when you need an editor handy&quick) comparing to vscode.
Same here. We moved to a new house a few years ago and was hoping they’d stay at the old one, but no luck.

Also: hey Fred!
From the abstract of the paper:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12520-018-0599-...

"Two thousand years ago, only supernatural forces could explain these phenomena from Hadean depths whereas nowadays,
modern techniques hint to the well-known phenomenon of geogenic CO2 degassing having mantle components with relatively
higher helium and radon concentrations."
Strange, in my case (tested on myself and my wife) sleep deprivation (e.g. sleeping and hour or two less than optimal sleep time) causes depression.
A lot of the technology used in practice is very out of date. Engineers usually call this proven and reliable.
Glad to hear we’re not the only ones! The box elder bugs definitely love windows, and the insulation in door frames. They like to overwinter in those spots.

The box elders can be a big nuisance - but they are also very pretty at an individual level.
Do the steam cleaners work with hard water? Our area has really hard water and I need to use a reverse osmosis filter even for our humidifier otherwise the scaling is really bad and accumulates quickly.
If Bach could survive without the benefit of recorded media, then rock, jazz, big band and hiphop will survive easily. Maybe not forever, but definitely for hundreds of years.
Debian for server, definitely.

Ubuntu for desktop, which is similar to Debian.

Openwrt for devices that has limited RAM.

FreeRTOS for MCUs with real-time needs.

That covers the universe for me, enjoy them all.
Nowadays there a meditators, sports people, musicians... all in Twitch.

Twitch is gathering a large passionate community that is worth to reckon with. If I did streaming, I guess I would A/B test whether YouTuBe or Twitch gave me better results in terms of number of viewers and overall “impact”. Are there studies on this ?
I dislike tattoos, and I think tattoos are a strong indicator that the wearer lacks impulse control.

OK, so now with that flip comment aside. What makes the current generation lack the impulse control that previous generations had? Or was their lack of impulse control expressed in other ways? Probably a good psychology thesis topic.
Music about multi-threading
I saw it live in school that day, it was on one of those TVs on the roll around carts and we definitely saw it happen live.

We used to watch all the shuttle launches live.
When poor people do things that increase risk of injury, we hector them. When rich people do so, it's obviously that the laws are at fault.
Literally can't - yes, many people literally can't get the money in their hands to lease/buy a car.

Figuratively can't - yes, some people don't make enough money to justify a car, whether that is a monthly lease, large upfront cost, insurance, etc.. when they attempt to fit it in their budget, the budget ends up negative or pushes out elements of higher utility. of course, this requires living somewhere that actually supports non-car infrastructure.
I truly hope this is true, but when I think about the creation of some technology that lets us do this, I'm left with a roadblock I can't get around: Who is going to pay for this, when we can't even get the US to agree to cost-saving commitments to reduce CO2 output?

If we get to a grid that's ~100% renewable, we'll likely have oversized it a massive amount, like 50%-200% more energy could be produced than is needed at the time of productions, to deal with seasonal and weather variability. Let's call all that energy free, because it has zero marginal cost and would be curtailed otherwise. Who pays for the capital on the equipment to pull out CO2 from the atmosphere, and the disposal of the resulting tons of carbon?
This is one of the official Ubuntu Flavours:

Ubuntu,
Ubuntu Mate,
Ubuntu Gnome,
Kubuntu,
Xubuntu,
Ubuntu Kylin,
Ubuntu Budgie,
Ubuntu Studio.

All share the same software repositories, and are collections of similar or related software packaged together - mostly based on desktop environment

Ubuntu and Ubuntu Gnome both use Gnome
Ubuntu Mate - Mate desktop environment,
Kubuntu - KDE,
Xubuntu - XFCE,
Ubuntu Budgie - Budgie desktop,

Bionic Beaver is the code name for 18.04 LTS. The confusion stems from Budgie also being named after an animal.
Today's proven and reliable technology can't do fusion yet - that's the whole point of these projects.
Some clarification:

* The majority of our TAMs are primarily remote and occasionally visit a satellite office that we have in various cities (NYC, Chicago, Dallas, Washington DC, Toronto, etc.)

* The majority of our product engineering team works on site in either SF or RTP. (That said, I am currently a remote product engineer.)

* TAM roles are more technical than you probably expect from something with "account manager" in the name. It is customer facing, but it also frequently involves programing, operations, and other engineering sort of work. I think that TAM and Product Engineering were initially the same team at Tanium.

* We are also hiring for Security, Data Science, EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response), various Director-level roles, and more. Each of these categories include some remote roles. See https://tanium.com/careers/ for more details.

* Several people emailed me resumes. That wasn't really my intention, although I did forward the ones I received along to our recruiting team. (And, apparently I get a bonus if we hire someone that way!) The one thing they asked me was: what specific role each individual was interested in. So, while I'm happy to forward along your resume, please let me know what role you're most interested in.
Maybe. And how much money do you think you'd loose each year due to such scams? Maybe 50 cents?
my god, kill yourself faggot.
The "52 states" thing seems to be a common false memory: http://www.debunkingmandelaeffects.com/51-or-52-states-in-th...

Personally I also remember (as a child) thinking that the US had 52 states but that's mostly because "51st state" is a common expression I likely came across frequently enough to think that there are at least 51 states, 50 feeling too rounded and 52 being a close enough number that frequently pops up elsewhere (52 cards in a deck, weeks in a year).

I don't like the term "Mandela effect" because of the pseudo-scientific connotations, though. It's just a false memory and in many cases it's not even a memory, just a misconception (like thinking there are penguins at the North Pole because it's easy to mix up the Arctic and Antarctic or to mistake puffins for some kind of penguin).

EDIT: As for Korea: googling yields several claims of people misremembering its placement on the map but if I had to guess I'd blame news reports that like to highlight countries on the map by showing them in isolation or exaggerating their borders by creating a small gap around them.
I realize the decision is said and done but can anyone share in easy to understand terms what the big deal is with systemd?
Also the pre-training takes 2 years
I don't understand why it is so difficult to kill bad ideas. You can't just magic your way to full employment, the economy does not work that way.

"Public sector employment subsidies tend to have	negligible or even negative impacts at all horizons."[0]

[0]: http://ftp.iza.org/dp9236.pdf
I read it as: the UI is as modern most other applications on your desktop (it uses whatever theme they do)
Paid education for the unemployed is just going to lead us even deeper into the over-credentialing race. Half the jobs that require Bachelors now don't need much more than a high school diploma, I'm not sure why we'd encourage more of that.
Also the fact most US maps show Alaska and Hawaii semi-separately makes me think its 50 plus 2.
We set expectations for everyone. Not all expectations are bad expectations. We should set the policies so we're not having a deficit of labor in certain areas when we have an abundance of underutilized resources. If we didn't have a deficit, we wouldn't be seeing the numbers of imported labor in this market.
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Russian president, animation and open-source: What happened in May 2017?