skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I've argued in the discussion here of this paper:
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/28/deep-learning-scaling-is...

The most reasonable conclusion of the findings at that acolyer link is that all neural net training algorithms are essentially evolutionary, with the data providing enough randomness just by itself to power that. Some algorithms do better at first, when the going is easiest, but all get you to the same place at roughly the same rate, overall.

We've really discovered a singular method of arriving at working neural nets: evolution. (A method which I used back in the 80's to create a neural net tic-tac-toe player on a 12mhz machine - but couldn't get Hinton to look at, back then, unfortunately, when we were face-to-face.)

"Trial and error" isn't an unfortunate bug in the method, it is the method. The rest of the algorithmic arabesques do speed that process of evolution a bit in the initial stages, but they don't change the underlying effective process substantially and get the same results. We are where we are.
If the prospect of mass unemployment and the infliction of considerable misery on a large portion of the population is considered "the brighter side" then your argument contains some pretty consequential unstated value judgements.

What, exactly, is the point of commerce in the first place? Is it measured by some abstract efficiency metric or do real life humans figure into your analysis at all? If so, which humans count and which ones don't?
There are a bunch of different approaches.

The simplest and probably the most common is to simply read the code. With experience, patterns of vulnerabilities pop out at you; also, you get good at quickly eliminating code that isn't likely to be in the critical path of a vulnerability, allowing you to focus on the code that is.

Some people start from patterns and work backwards through code looking for reachability. 10 years ago, you might have done that by sweeping for memcpy's and working back to inputs. Nowadays you'd probably be looking for pointer/length math, or allocations and frees.

A primitive automation technique is get the target hooked up to a debugger and then run a blind fuzzer at it looking for faults. More advanced fuzzers will track basic block coverage and tune inputs to reach new paths.

If you're really committed to a particular project (like, someone's paying you to do it, and you have a fair bit of time), you might hoist the code out of its natural setting and build a test harness for it, so you can fuzz it "in the abstract" without having to deal with any of its surrounding code. I've done that for OS work before (you'd be surprised how much of a kernel you can "port" back to userland, if all you need to do is exercise logic).

Peers of mine have also instrumented virtual machines like QEMU to do this kind of testing.

Finally, the most modern way to do this kind of work is to generate models for the code and then use provers to verify things about them. SMT solvers were all the rage for this a few years ago; my sense is that code proving tools have gotten more interesting than that since then.
I know he is neither of these. What I am trying to say is that he is a spiritual thug and a shrewed businessman.

> he's the future of India.

I think you wrote it as a joke. Or may be I couldnt see him that way as I am not a member of Ramdev cult.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I don't think that's quite right.

A Terry stop is about reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, based on evidence, but not sufficient evidence for an arrest. A person can be detained temporarily in order to alleviate that suspicion and searched for weapons for the officer's safety. In some jurisdictions, a person who has been detained can be required to identify themself, but I don't believe any court has held that involves producing government-issued ID.

Under normal circumstances, a person cannot be stopped just to check that they have a valid driver's license. A driver can argue that they don't need to produce ID because there was no valid reason for the stop. There have been some exceptions carved out for checkpoints of various types, and I think all of them are legally problematic and morally unjustifiable.

There are also issues of jurisdiction. I'm not sure if immigration agents have jurisdiction to enforce traffic laws.
I think a fair number of people would agree that the Google pre-G+ is not the same Google post-G+.

The businesses can survive and do well without needing to know every habit of everyone and target ads based on knowing everyone's predilections and peccadilloes. Sure it would be more like classical Newspaper ads and broadcast TV ads; which, while they worked, are acknowledged not to be as effective, but still effective enough to support the ad and consumerist economies.

It's probably not to late to return to that business model, if people demand it enough and legislators don't cave-in to business demand.
The goods being in location A rather than location B is the value add.

Logistics is a profit centre, not a cost.
Median truck driving wage is $42,000 according to the article, so...
Short haul trucking has miserable pay and long haul trucking is a miserable job.

It's also not clear if the $80k jobs referred to here are employee or owner-operator jobs. If they're employee it's a massive outlier and if they're owner-operator the expenses are high and $80k results in rather pathetic take home pay.
Isn't this a strawman?

Clearly someone who makes $1M could live of their investments.
Roofing doesn't pay that well. Most workers doing mine seemed to be English as a second language type people.
Their business intelligence practice has gotten so much faster that they're probably planning 100 years out.
> We should constantly appreciate how fortunate we are are

This only applies to a small fraction of engineers clustered in a literal handful of geographic areas. I personally don't know a single engineer in my country that makes $200k (and the cost of living here is just as high as any major US city). Earning half that is seen as a very good salary.
How do you recommend any company that makes less than a million a year to live under the threat of accidental destruction at the whim of a foreign nation?

Do you think we should comply with every countries laws? What happens when they conflict? (like US free speech laws vs China, or even Britain?)
The reason this hasn't happened in decades is every time there are labor gains the fed steps in to thrust us into a recession to destroy any labor gains thus salaries remain frozen in 1979, you salary is still wearing huge sideburns and a leisure suit while a sandwich and a soda from the market are $18. The fed plays a big role in suppressing wage income. Ultimately we create a society that punished hard work and rewards sloth on the part of the rentier class.
I don't understand this either. The big ad companies have a huge incentive to keep your data secret, so only they can serve you ads. The big privacy danger will always be the government through the ISPs.
وکیل شهرداری – وکیل دعاوی شهرداری – وکیل متخصص شهرداری
As someone who is both a farmer and software developer, if you were going to force me to choose, I'd probably go with the $120k job. Although I see no reason to not do both and collect the $120k and $40k income.

> Some jobs are not worth the extra money to a number of people no matter how much money you throw at them.

Which is fine. As price rises, demand wanes. If strawberry pickers cost more than the consumer is willing to pay for strawberries, we'll stop growing strawberries and they can start eating something that is more efficient to produce (for example, something that is more easily harvested with machines) instead.

I will point out that this is why the formal definition of shortage is not "being able to buy what you want at a price you can afford", even if it is used that way colloquially.
For one, it pigeonholes your internet experience. Systems like this basically take the simplest, stereotyped, one-note view of you from a snapshot of your online activity, and constantly projects that judgment back at you.

Buy a microwave oven on Amazon, for example, and now you're seeing microwaves everywhere. If you browse Youtube with cookies enabled, it's a terribly limited experience compared to with cookies blocked. The recommendations are circular within the topics you've browsed and never expose you to the broad content out there. It's a much better experience when recommendations are simply associated with the video you're currently watching, instead of from your viewing history. The data selling effect causes this sort of thing to percolate among your entire web experience.

Another is simply monetization of the self without being part of that direct monetization stream. To some people, if actual money is made off them, it seems unfair they don't get a cut. Receiving services doesn't suffice in those people's minds.

Many people are fine with sites selling ad space & what's being viewed, but are not fine with their personal information being attached to it, for basic privacy concerns.

So, of course, there's the Big Brother aspect which is socially unhealthy, and has chilling effects on freedom of expression. Obviously, there is strong, negatively associated generational memory still in play from places like North Korea and Nazi Germany, where people are/were constantly spied on for "incorrect" beliefs and statements. Certainly the personal data collection & warehousing portion of this industry can evoke similar fears here. People have already experienced negative effects like ending up on no-fly lists for zero understandable reason, presumably because of government snooping with false positives or incorrect association with similarly-named people.

Imagine if every time you went to a store, a federal agent followed you around with a clipboard with 2 columns labeled "Terrorist?" and "Child predator?". For every item you looked at, the agent would make marks evaluating how much that reflects one of the two columns. You're an upstanding citizen with zero affiliation to those categories, yet marks are being made. That's what online surveillance (for whatever reason, including PII-linked advertising) feels like to many. Even if the columns are "only" political affiliation or touchy social issues, the same response can be had.
I don't think that the officers did anything wrong.

I didn't like that the officers only decided to search my vehicle after they knew I wasn't a US citizen and then abandoned the search once they saw my visa but I don't think that these decisions exceeded the discretion that the offices are authorized to use during a stop.

I also didn't like that the officers made me uncomfortable and nervous during the stop but again I don't think the officers were acting inappropriately. It's on me that even with my government background I get nervous interacting with officials in situations like this.

I guess if anything my complaint is that I would prefer that border patrol checkpoints only stop people who are in the process of crossing a border rather than random highway checkpoints (in this case I was probably an hour away from the border) and if you are stopping people without reasonable suspicion or probable cause I'd prefer that the same stop procedures be applied to everyone.
German-style would be rude, actively hostile, malicious even. Funny how American and German customer service cultures are at the two ends of the spectrum, both unpleasant to deal with though.
My step sister's husband drives a truck. It pays well, but it's a terrible job. They have two kids, and he is gone a lot. It's a hard life, that I wouldn't wish on anyone.
I can't afford the legal costs to prove my innocence against a foreign government anymore than I could afford a $20 million fine. (there's no limit to how many times they can attempt to fine you, even if you are innocent every time)
The most laughable thing is when HR benchmark salaries and offer the average, but still expect above-average quality to walk in the door. Get rid of all them save the payroll clerks and any company will be better off and better to work for.
Border stops have to have a connection to an actual border crossing regardless of where they occur. CBP can't conduct suspicionless searches of 2/3rds of the US population.
Railroads are only inexpensive because they demand those minimums to reduce or eliminate their touch labor costs.

If they removed those minimums, the price would go up substantially - your model doesn't include that cost on the train side, it would incur it on you as a shipping aggregator, making your costs uncompetitive.

Just a guess, I haven't done an analysis.
Yes, the "everybody has their price" analysis bothers me as well because it only takes into account monetary compensation. There are lots of other factors which make a job more or less appealing: time away from home, job security, personal risk, physical demands. Maybe try to attract more talent by improving working conditions?
1) reading code, spotting standard bugs, or with domain know-how spotting logic errors.

2) static code analyzers (i.e. llvm scan-build). Lots of false positives, still requires 1).

3) fuzzing (i.e. afl). Usually some setup needed, still requires 1).
The United States is a representative republic (e.g. voters get to choose whoever represents them in the House and Senate, their local governments and their President) while the EU as it is today can be best described as a Oligarchy.

Let me explain.

Citizens in the EU can only vote for the European Parlement (EP) which takes place every five years. However, the European Parlement only exists to make it look like citizens have any influence in European politics which is not the case.

The true power of European politics lies within the European Commission (EC) which is NOT elected by the people but are politicians within the EU chosen by politicians within the EU. The EC doubles as both the executive and legislative branch of the EU.

However, Citizens within the EU have no influence on execution or legislation by the EC whatsoever (they would like to pretend that the people do have this influence, because the pretence of "democracy").

Many HN members residing in the US are currently quite angry that they have Donald Trump as their president. But actually they have to be glad, because in about four years his first term has ended and you, as citizens of the US, at least have the ability to choose a better president (if the majority agrees, ofcourse). In Europe, unless European law and government will be seriously reformed, we will never have that opportunity. We are stuck with a unchosen and thus undemocratic legislative and executive branch who have total control over the democratically chosen local leaders and governments.

Still think the EU is so awesome? I hope you will reconsider.

PS: Source being me, I live in the EU and know pretty much all you would ever need to know about local and European politics around these parts.
> I imagine his online manager is not very good considering the lack of response to accusations of him being Ted Cruz.

If he is Ted Cruz then better to have people joking about it and not actually taking it seriously.

If he is not Ted Cruz then better to have people joking about Ted Cruz and not actually taking it seriously.

Sounds to me like his online manager is doing an excellent job after planting the memetic seeds in the public consciousness.
I wouldn't re-train as a truck driver for $200k a year? Would you?

And you can't just say 'there's lots of people for whom $200k would be a lot of money' because there's a lot of people who whom $50k is a lot of money and those jobs aren't filled either.

Short of literally offering a million dollars a year, it's got to be more complicated than how much you offer.
Did you follow up on this with the department?
TIL that 8k is too much for a 2015 MBP to render in software.
The shortage, if there is one, won't last long once the autopilot-enabled truck convoys get going.
To be honest, I can't complain about the state of the industry. You find someone (through recommendations), they give you a quote, you drop off the goods, and the stuff arrives 6 weeks later. It's miraculous, there must be so much informal knowledge to make it all work.

The disruption is these "moving pods". They are more expensive, but they are well advertised, and one fears that the established small players will be driven out of business.
I'm sure you could almost double the number of drivers by getting some "girls can drive big trucks too" program.
This pattern of writing has been used for hundreds of years.

It starts with a base mostly detached description dividing people into groups. The groups begin mundane or at least non-threatening. The idea is the reader will attach themselves to one of those groups so that they are insulated from what is to come. The writing here even helps you with this, "G2 is my native social class, and probably that of most of my readers.". A flattering upper-middling position in the hierarchy just defined.

But past this point the article takes a hateful turn. The description of the previous groups existed merely so that the reader could ensure they personally don't exist as part of the target. Here the perpetrators are not people, they are rapists, war lords, and gamblers. There is nothing virtuous about this group, "they’re the ugliest and most broken of each nation". In effect there are really only two groups, that of the good and that of the evil.

At this point, the reader is supposed to have two conclusions, 1. there exists a group of bad people we must do something about, and 2. they personally are one of the "good guys". The group descriptions merely exist to justify collective action against of group of "bad people" who are not bad because of actions but because of who they are intrinsically. They cannot be saved.

What action is to happen varies, this form of argument has been used to justify everything from the taking of land and property to outright genocide. They always target a small minority of the population and assure the reader the violence will not be directed at them.
I wonder what kind of car Emacs would be... maybe an unimog? Or a VW bus. And what would Vim be? And NeoVim? And XEmacs? And Atom? JetBrains? Nano? Ed?
There was a truck driver on NPR a while back giving an interview. He noted the same thing. Only very few drivers with specialized skills make a good living. Everyone else is tied to a very low net salary structure.

It was an interesting observation that he contrasted to this myth of the independent truck guy working for himself... when really most are just as tied to company whims and rules that they have nothing to do with, and arguably have less freedom than most workers.
In my experience people who want charter schools want one of two things, either to send tax money to a religious school, or to destroy the public school employees. There's a lot of actual knowledge and infrastructure behind running a public school. It's sounds appealing that you can do better than some terrible big city trouble-bound public school, and we should all strive for better educational opportunities, but the charter schools consistently show now benefit and generally worse results than public schools. And that's not from lack of funding from the billionaire class. For example, see https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED528633.pdf. That seems pretty settled.

I think a more productive question is what can we do to help under-performing public schools. My suggestion is more funding to help the kids from underprivileged backgrounds catch up. That includes free breakfast and lunch, food to take home on the weekends, pre-K education, more resources for the school including reducing class sizes.
I am not compliant with Chinese, British or German anti-free speech laws either. Why should anyone feel threatened by a foreign government's internal laws? The US is a sovereign nation (as are almost all others) and EU laws do not apply here.
Yea, anti-circumvention law violates the idea that consenting adults should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home. I wonder what will happen to patents if 3D printers become more versatile and as common as 2D printers so common people can download items from online? The download surely won't be patent protected, and the end user might be able to legally print it under the "experimental use" exception.
It’s thinking like that that got ski jumps put on aircraft carriers
Well, I did say Seattle. Yes, I'm fortunate. I did move here for a good job 20 years ago. I would expect that west coast salary increases should also pull up the entire market.
> By your logic entire concept of labour shortage is outrageous

The concept of an anything shortage in an efficient market is outrageous.
> It's a much better experience when recommendations are simply associated with the video you're currently watching

This is very subjective. You cannot speak for everyone, and meanwhile Youtube generates petabytes of analytics every day showing what people really like, down to each individual.
At a certain point, the marginal value of a dollar to anyone isn't worth the work it would take to make that dollar. That value is different for different people based on the opportunity but it does add up in aggregate.

If someone can choose to make $30K a year and adjust thier lifestyle accordingly instead of making $90K a year doing a job that they don't want to do, many people will choose the former.

I would go so far as to say the vast majority of public school teachers make the choice between less pay and being able to do a job that they enjoy as opposed to doing a job that they don't enjoy.

Anecdotally, every person I know that decided to work in the school system (including my mom and my wife) chose to do it because of stability, being off for the summer, and being able to work with kids when they both could have made more money doing something else. I doubt you could offer them 10x the amount of money to be willing to work in the fields.

But more to the point of the article, many people would not take the trade off of the dangers and long hours away from thier families, for any amount of money.
I don’t know, I think the introverts are better at empathy, and exactly that makes interactions exhausting.
If a European exchange student participates, it does not automatically export their native laws to the US, and supersede them.
Here is the repo: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac

Skimming the readme, I see that it's almost entirely mac specific and mostly UX. I can't say they are completely useless but nothing really vital, except the features inherited from Carbon, which seem useful (I really like the concept of AppleScript, i.e. all programs responding to a single programming interface; I guess DBus is supposed to do sth. similar on FreeDesktop, no?).
There are as many kinds of nils as programming languages.

Cixl [0] doesn't derive nil from every other type, instead Nil and most other types derive Opt; which means that user code may specify Opt to accept nil or any other type to have them automatically trapped by function dispatch. I find this to be a nice compromise between wrapped optionals and shooting from the hip.

[0] https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl#optionals
What Is a Car Shipping Calculator?
Car shipping calculator is basically a human created program. The purpose of this calculator is to give a rough figure or an estimated amount of shipping charges that might incur for the course of the shipment
It isn't pyramid scheme. It is cult following. You can sell anything to anyone if you effectively project yourself as a spiritual leader.

This guy even claimed that homosexuality can be treated by yoga. And his followers send messages on whatsapp group which reads something like, "cancer is not a diseace. doctors use it as a fear mongering tools for making money. It is basically a vitamin B17 deficiency blah blah blah."