skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this class/site is mentioned on every relevant HN for very good reason: it's actually that good.

I dislike learning from video (upping playback speed helps), I dislike the coding style of the library and the notebooks (nonlinear notebook execution especially), and I still think this is the best available class on anything deep-learning related, and it's only getting better. The top-down, practice-before-theory approach is excellent, but they still get into the theory, often in a much more intuitive and better motivated way than you get elsewhere. Also tons of little breadcrumbs dropped throughout lessons and in the forum to dig deeper for those inclined to.

If you go this route, make sure to follow the suggestion of re-implementing each lesson, from scratch, without referring back to the original notebook. It's a little too easy to not do that and miss out on the lessons you learn from struggling through the actual code.
This is true in limited cases. Changes in bond values in relation to interest rate changes is much more involved than this. The first derivative is known as "duration" while the second derivative is known as "convexity". The size and timing of payments will vary from bond to bond, which heavily affects interest rate risk:

Duration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_duration
Convexity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_convexity
Marcin Przybylek wrote a series of books called "Gamedec". The first book is a collection of short stories. Detective crime stories all involving games. Permadeth. Pvp. Hacks and cheats. Kidnappings. Augmentations. Etc. The second book is still much a detective story but it is now one longer book, not a collection of stories.

Afterwards gamedec series changes style and pace, still okay but no longer detective work.
Reminder that Lenovo has been struggling with quality control lately (they're not the only ones) https://www.ultrabookreview.com/21014-dr-servicelove-learned....
It's really frustrating to read glowing reviews, buy a brand new laptop, and then feel you lost at the lottery.
At least it feels like Macbook related issues get a lot of press so you know where things stand.
In 2017 the minimum employment income required to file was $10,400 for an individual under 65. No laws need necessarily have been broken.
From my experience an engineering manager in most organisations is considered a direct promotion from a senior or lead engineer. Compensation tends to follow this and thus I'd warrant in 90% plus of cases engineering managers make more than the engineers.
To be fair, they usually have a warrantied lifespan of 25 years... and as solar cells start degrading, their output drops off in a gradual linear fashion.

At 25 years, solar panels still produce between 80% and 87% of their manufactured capacity. At 50 years, they should still produce between 60% and 75% of their manufactured capacity.

It's quite possible that solar panels could have much longer life spans. There isn't a lot of data yet, but there are some indications that they'll be performing well.

A 33W solar panel (Arco Solar 16-2000) actually outperformed it’s original factory specifications 30 years after it was manufactured

World`s first modern solar panel still works after 60 years

Kyocera has reported several solar power installations that continue to operate reliably and generate electricity even though they are nearly 30 years old

The big problems in longevity at the moment are batteries and inverters that typically have to be replaced every 5 to 10 years.

When I build my off-grid solar system, I'm planning to use NiFi batteries (Nickel Iron) that have lifespans in the hundreds of years with minimal maintenance. They're larger and hold less capacity, but don't damage themselves when over/under charged and use materials a lot more available than modern high-density battery storage technologies.

I haven't seen a long-life inverter yet and that's frustrating. Inverter manufacturers have thin margins and competition, so they focus on lowering costs rather than redundancy and hardening.
My point was that Netflix always understood what their real business is. Not all companies do.

As an aside, I do think the "digital" part is not the most significant part of Netflix's transformation. In pursuit of "we deliver entertainment on demand," Netflix started creating entertainment. That is a bigger cultural shift for a company than creating a streaming service. (Although their streaming service is an impressive and significant achievement.) But if they hadn't started creating entertainment, I don't think Netflix would be as relevant as they are now, nor would I think they would have a future.
Will the IRS take responsibility for the accuracy of my taxes?

I'm not going to trust some 3rd party to do my taxes unless they're responsible for the accuracy of my taxes. The federal government (government in general for that matter) does not have a particularly good track record of not holding other people accountable when it screws up.
I don't know if computer literacy is the problem here. I spent many years as a teenager heavily configuring my computers, despite having basically no knowledge about how they worked. I think it's more the case that some people are simply disinterested in computers, and as such, neither like textbased nor gui configuration - they would rather the computer just worked the way they expect it to. Which is, in my eyes, reasonable. These people tend to care about configuration solely when something isn't working, at which point they tend to go to google, or ask somebody. At which point, text based configuration makes more sense, because you can just copy and paste it (at the cost, I guess, of being more sensitive to small mistakes in syntax).
As an aside, I'm loving this talk (the YouTube video). Thank you for sharing
As much as I agree that what we currently have at the head of most big tech companies may be ill-equipped to handle the current task at hand regarding the political minefield that big tech has stepped into, I really believe that they are, simultaneously, probably the best-equipped people that can be found.

I mean, to say they are not the right people for the job is one thing. I'm saying that there probably _isn't_ a right person for the job of internet censorship. What we need is to increase education regarding critical thinking so people don't take literally everything they read on the internet at face value.
You should work for the pharmaceutical companies to get Xanax added to the water supply.

Just imagine how much crime would go down if everyone was too chill to steal or murder!
What exactly makes Zuckerberg nerd?

It is just my pet peeve. Businessman with ability to do people things and being good in business being considered nerds for no real reason.
Thanks for the pointer -- I have an article here.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation...

If you hover any diagram, there are options for a colorblind-friendly version.
Here are some maybe sort of out there ideas I came up with:

1. Be in the process of getting a masters degree. No one really cares at the end of the day as long as you are a graduate student affiliated with a decent school (this may be field-dependent). In CS you can easily publish for example as a masters student at brown -- I have a friend who had no problem doing this with no co-authors and never went on to get a PhD, but he was at an Ivy League school.

2. Find an academic friend or a former professor/adviser in your field and be his/her co-author. This has the added benefit of potentially increasing the quality of the research if they agree to edit/help you with it. Could be combined with option 4.

2. Be a former academic and publish to ArXiv using your old academic email address (not really publishing, but at least people can cite it at that point).

3. Publish to ArXiv without an academic email address. People will be able to cite it, but you won't be "published" per say (in the deep learning community many, many citations are to preprint servers). People not familiar with academia won't know the difference and will still be impressed if you say list it on your resume under publications.

4. Form an LLC, make a good website about how your company does research in X field, and self-publish as a "white paper" (I took this approach a few years ago, but I no longer maintain the website). In some industries, much of the significant research is contained in white papers or company funded papers. It might also be possible to submit to a conference/journal under the auspice of a company -- I don't know how that works though.

5. Get in touch with the journal/conference you want to submit to and explain your situation and ask for advice. Depending on the venue they might be very accommodating.

A note on "funding". At least in the CS community, funding is often not needed to conduct groundbreaking research as it's 99% of the time just you sitting at a computer. There are exceptions, but I think in CS being self-funded isn't going to raise as many eyebrows as in other fields.
William Blake’s Final Resting Place (2017) [pdf]
Exactly this. The exposure of PCIe is way more powerful than what USB can deliver.

But Intel seems to have - for the third time, with the conditions better than ever - really messed up the Thunderbolt launch/promotion.
Lower taxes? In France the bracket for a family for €104,120 to €279,132 is only 30%.

Sure if you live in Oaklahoma you might pay less than that but CA/NY state taxes plus property taxes, plus fewer investment tax free options, I think US taxes are now similar or higher. Ie 28% federal + 10% state + 10% property taxes equals nearly 50%. Sure sales tax is lower.

Plus - you still have to pay for your medical care, and universities and no social safety net.
hmm that actually sounds more intuitive than the potato example
A bit of nerd-hate there, eh? Financial types must really hate that nerds have taken over 1/2 of the stock exchange.

There's a solid argument past the flamebait though. When your company becomes the de facto public commons, a forum, and isn't, de facto, just a private brick and mortar shop(the usual concept of a private space that you can arbitrarily ban people from) anymore, what is the appropriate response? That requires some education in history, political science, philosophy, etc.
Republicans won't for the very simple reason that it's supported by democrats. The Republican party made it abundantly clear for the last decade that their primary platform is "don't let the left have any wins."
The truly impoverished recipient won't owe much in taxes to begin with.
What is fog computing?
How would you compare a blog to a paper?
I personally read just about as much papers as blog posts, with both containing valuable information and important ideas.
I have my own blog, but I'm currently sitting on some ideas that could maybe... maybe be a paper.
Sure, peer-review is nice, but how many people are going to read about my idea as a blog post, vs in a (pay-walled?) journal.
I'm inclined to think that outside academia, a blog post may actually have a bigger reach. The paper has more bragging rights maybe though.
They basically removed the ability to have other browsers on iOS by restricting the performance of other browsers, so all the other browsers became reskins of Safari. And nothing happened to them.

This isn't accurate, and Chrome and Firefox are viable, performant, alternatives to Safari. All browsers are using WKWebView engine, and at least for the last 2.5 years, all have access to Nitro JS engine, so there is no performance penalty for third party browsers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/new-chrome-for-ios-i...
If they do, they are terrible at it. I get 'corrections' from the IRS about once a year to previous returns, all of which are basically them making an error and then sending me a bill. Not only do I have to waste time preparing my taxes, but I have to waste additional time disputing their BS 'corrections'.
It boils down to a war on attention.

These companies want your attention, they use abusive notifications, gamification, and the like to try and get that initial eyeball, than everything from there is about minimizing boredom, and maximizing interest and attention.

"Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit" (https://xkcd.com/915/)

Everything about the modern app is designed from the ground up to be interesting in some way or another, to avoid becoming boring after long use. But overuse is messing up how we frame what is really boring, kinda boring, sorta interesting, etc.

The sad truth is the answer is very likely regular periodical boredom, keep the brains auto scale system in check.

I wonder how effective just explaining this concept to kids or young adults would be at minimizing this.
I doubt that we'll ever have a New Internet Citizen; we have to presume current levels of cupidity/ignorance.
Advertising underwrites and funds almost all of it.

Can we really assume the social media we know today would exist in it's present state without advertising? I think it would be inconsiderate and wholly unimaginative at best to suggest that it would. I think separating the two is a mistake.

The internet forums I grew up with in the late 90s were, I would argue, nothing but healthy. They exposed me to worlds of encouragement and knowledge. The social media we have now seems to be no comparison.

"Making people watch ads" is not the problem with advertising. The problem is the existence it creates for ourselves. Advertising, at it's current levels in the US, dictates our whole conception of the world we live in. I wonder if many will ever realize this without studying humanities and working in the ad industry; two things that combined have depleted my faith in humanity unless we can reverse this grave mistake. To think this is just an issue of time lost sitting through ads is just a misunderstanding of what advertising in 2018 even is, or of how it defines the world you think you live in.
that's my point, in theory we do some quite complex stuff so why are we ok with being resources? we do have the opportunity to realize this and make a change, factory workers might not..

(not trying to go anywhere with this, just loud thinking)
I agree it's hardly a complete solution but it's like 70% of it, right? Especially if the goal was just to build a human aide.

That said, it's going to fail hard if your puzzle is a magic eye puzzle.
Nyc TAMI sublease great for startups
There are quite a few very reputable journals (i.e. PLOS) which charge for publication. Conferences also charge, but the justification is that you get to go to the conference! The test for me is : is this for profit? The "proper" conferences and the "free to access" journals are (should be) non-profit or run by a not-for-profit foundation, money has to come from somewhere to keep these afloat, but so long as there is no one cashing in then I think you are good to pay.
I'm there, but it's tough :|
Thanks for sharing this! It's awesome to see another independent company tackling STT well. If you guys ever want to try to collaborate, let me know! My email is in my profile.
lol, and smoking has health benefits!

Yes, there's a chance. But, if history is any guide, not a good one.
A paper ballot system is just as terribly ineffective as electronic voting. Look at Russia. They have a paper voting system as well.

I know in other poorer nations thugs just straight stuff the ballots with votes, some even steal the box, some set it on fire, and it can be in general a complete shit show.

What is simply required is a publicly available audit of elections, where any citizen can verify for themselves the outcome of their local results.
worth noting this is reinforcement-learning specific; fascinating field, getting a lot of press the last few years, but best considered an important and distinct field that just happens to intersect with ML/DL. I'd suggest understanding DL on simpler problems (well-understood CV/NLP problems) before wading into using it in reinforcement learning.
> I decided that rather than get the couple hundred bucks I would receive as my return, I will forgo the stupid process altogether.

You would rather willfully evade taxes (not file) to protest the system? The hundreds of dollars in your favor doesn't cut it for you?
I started doing /r/flipping as a side hustle. It works, but it scales with how much time you're willing to spend on it. But that's also a benefit of it-- no hours, no deadlines, nobody to answer to. And failure is painless. Obviously it makes less money than contracting on the side would, but I couldn't find a way to do contracting without signing up for large chunks of time in advance.
Privacy Pass. https://privacypass.github.io/
For people who are unaware, there is a cryptographic solution to this. Cloudflare worked with crypto researchers to create a way for Tor users to anonymously verify that they're not a bot. It's called Privacy Pass and it solves this problem: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...
I'd rather end all payroll deductions, then everyone must write the IRS a check N times a year. That way people know exactly what they are paying.
Okay then.

But you must have them on site 24/7 to be able to respond as fast as Couldfare to any new security issues. You must pay them a lots of money because they must be expert level. You also need to have 24/7 security around your servers and all the backups and redundancy.

Very few businesses have customer information that is wroth the paranoia and investment to doing everything inhouse.
There's ways. A memorized "secret" that would be put on the ballot in addition to your vote could be used for you to verify a checksum.

The main issue is the hardware, and added complexity. But these are interesting problems that should be talked about.
Definitely an improvement. It would likely be rare for the IRS to assert extra income than the taxpayer actually received, though exceptions will exist. Income actually earned but not reported would be more common.

If the IRS later notices, presumably any recipient who is impoverished and for whom there's no evidence of fraud wouldn't be charged penalties on any balance due, and might be eligible for some offer in compromise or installment plan. This is no different than now, except even less of a justification for penalty when self-reporting isn't the norm.
Botnets are too unreliable. They're only any good for coordinating DoS attacks and spamming, the sorts of attacks that don't require persistence of infrastructure.

Tor is a common CnC and exfiltration vector. Nothing good will ever originate from a pseudoanonymous network developed for spycraft. We have enough problems with it that we shoot it on sight.

The bigger problem is becoming abuse of cheap VPS and seedbox services (and anon VPNs) to launch attacks. $5 gets you a non-attributable box managed by an overseas entity with a gigabit link and an IP strategically located near your target to thwart geoip-based blocking. With that price point and features, why fuck around with botnets or Tor?
Do the same on the login page. You have to stop the bots from trying to brute force user accounts and passwords.
Ex-hacker is in desperate situation, agrees (reluctantly) to perform one more hack in exchange for getting out of said desperate situation, is the Neuromancer-ripped plot of many a bad hacker movie (Swordfish and Blackhat certainly qualify). Take away the tech and you have a pretty standard heist-film plot going back before Neuromancer.
Perhaps this is an issue in journal based publishing, I don't know.

In CS, we publish in conferences. Conferences don't have editors in the sense that journals have. So there's no initial filtering step. Anyone can submit, and anything that gets submitted will be read by at least 3 or 4 reviewers (who don't get to see the author list). Anyone who does get to see the author list (e.g. the program committee chair) is not involved in any decision making about specific papers unless there is a very serious violation of some kind (which in practice happens very, very infrequently).
Google Tracks Location Data Even When Users Turn Service Off, AP Report Finds
not just tor. i use a commercial proxy and allow google store cookies yet i keep having to complete those captchas just because of my IP address..

seems like google could alleviate this if they checked value of certain cookies before making people repeatedly solve captchas.
I'm moving to Portugal!
There might be unofficial builds, but it's not included in their official list of supported devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
I don't have any articles, but I think I could come up with one reason why electronic voting may be preferred.

The last time I voted was a municipal election in my city. I was given 3 separate ballots (mayor, my city councillor and my school board trustee). My understanding is that many elections in the states also have multiple propositions and other things the citizens are asked to vote on. So the paper system could become cumbersome and confusing with many issues on the ballot. Therefore, an electronic system where you are presented a single item at a time could be easier.

I'd still argue that paper ballots are better for security issues, but the above could be one argument against paper ballots.
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Mark is 34. Sure must feel good to be all pedantic about his maturity, but that's not actually the problem. The problem is that the CEO of Facebook or Twitter, whoever it is, is in a Catch-22, they can't solve the disinformation/hate-speech/trolling problem without massively increasing costs on moderation, decimating some growth/engagement metrics and in the process destroying a ton of "shareholder value". If they don't solve the content problems, the platform will slowly die anyway as users start to flee the toxicity. So we're all hanging on as these guys try to awkwardly walk some impossible to find line between the two paths. The last FB earnings were a step in that direction but barely an inch, and things will get much worse.
I have paid taxes in Sweden and Spain. In both countries, I get a preliminary tax form with all my data. If I don't want to change anything I just need to go online. Click Accept. And pay with my credit card the difference between what my employer pays to the government monthly and the total, around 100$. It is very efficient.

I have the feeling that apart from lobbying USA loves to hate taxes. To make paying taxes overly-complicated adds to that feeling. When you only need to pay 100$ at the end of the year after one or two clicks (or you can get a paper copy mailed to your home and pay at the bank) makes it less painful.
Entirely different part of lenovo though.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2616335/techology-business...

So, while tangentially relevant, it is like bashing samsung washing machines for touchwiz on samsung phones.
Parent dealing with this question myself. The two main challenges that we face:

1) A smartphone is increasingly required for getting by in society. My kid doesn't really need it, but I worry about him navigating the transit system to/from school and extra curricular activities. A smartphone takes some of the parental anxiety away here.

2) Sadly, a flip-phone is a sign of poor status and it invites bullying at school.

I feel there is a genuine need for parental controls on smartphones, but getting it right is, from an engineering standpoint, not as trivial as we might think. It's also probably not as profitable either (we have a lot of battles over the phone in our house, but a lot of parents just don't care about setting similar boundaries).
There are also studies that suggest that people's morality changes depending on the language used. In particular, they become less utilitarian with a foreign language: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-morality-chan...