skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, a recent exciting phenomena of interest to researchers is how and why the spectrum of the Hessian appears to separate into 2 parts - a "bulk" part that changes very slowly and "outliers" that change quickly. This suggests that only a few weights in the model actually change during training. If one could determine which weights these are, it might lend to faster and more efficient learning algorithms that don't have to backprop to all the parameters in a large neural network.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.04454.pdf

https://openreview.net/forum?id=ByeTHsAqtX
> Unix-Like

It has been my impression that one of the advantages of Unix is not having to rewrite the userland each time you write a new kernel or port an existing one to a new platform.
Unfortunately, many large and traditional medical device companies did not incorporate security practices in their design and development phases nor did they stay vigilant in the post market phase with regard to the latest and greatest security updates. It is only in recent years and due to many embarrassing news article reporting on vulnerabilities in pacemakers and and infusion pumps that forced these companies to take more actions. But even then they are still tailing behind other industries especially in the consumer and financial sectors.

It's also worth to mention that FDA's focus is different from HHS or other agencies. While other agencies care about consumer data integrity and patient health information (PHI) in the case of HHS and HIPAA regulations, FDA is focused solely on patient safety and clinical efficacy. FDA hold medical device companies accountable only if vulnerabilities lead to patient safety issues within the risk management framework. If medical device companies show in their hazard analysis and risk management file, that it's unlikely for vulnerability to be exploited where patient safety is compromised, given the clinical controls and intended use environment, then they don't have to act on them.

You can see that in the FDA Post market guidance on Cybersecurity where they show a chart for Controlled vs Uncontrolled vulnerabilities. So its not uncommon to see scenario where you see a high CVSS score for a vulnerability, but for a medical device intended use in a hospital the manufacturer claims that according to their risk management file, the same vulnerability is controlled and thus its ok not to take any additional measures.

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1516&bih=947&tbm=isch&sa=1...:
What happened to equality under the law? I hate these corporate ad-hoc tax deals. Create a rationale tax policy and apply it to everyone.
I believe the correct term is 'anectdata.' The article uses a study with many participants to try to explain it, while this comment does not.
Is avoiding a distorted market more important than avoiding disrupting the lives of people?

“Nobody is entitled to live in a certain area for a certain price.” isn’t really true if they were there first and have established a family or a community.

Maintaining a functioning free market is not inherently a moral goal, although many seem to think it is.
Because people who buy shares want the share price to go up.
You only have access to the subset of the market that offers remote employment.
Amazon's base pay cap is $160k-ish in Seattle, and $180k-ish in SFBA/NYC.
I'm sure the fact that they pay near zero in office rent/leases helps such companies with cash flow.

You're also likely to get more productivity form employees that don't have to spend 2-3 hours per day traveling. I found myself working a full 8-9 hours when working from home, whereas if I was traveling to the office I'd be looking to duck out after 6-7 hours. The 3pm slump is a drag and I personally dread the commute home. Those few extra hours mean that I can squeeze out more code.
The agreement has to be ratified by EP and 28 national parliaments though, so realistically it's much less than 5 months.
"employees in hotter job markets have more leverage because t"

No, cost of living does not imply hotter markets for software developers.

Vancouver, London, Hong Kong, Moscow are very expensive with not tons of devs, and devs are lower paid.
Yup. These days most people have fast connections. Hosting your personal website from your home should be the default. Huge amount of storage, no changing terms of service, no perverse profit incentives, no third party doctorine problems, no deplatforming problems, and it cuts the gordian knot of deciding what is allowed and what isn't. Then people can associate however they want.
Jobs already move to other countries. Will Jeff Bezos want a house in Dubai, like the Halliburton guys?
Nashville is unexpected third-place winner in Amazon HQ2
A better question is why don't companies move outside the US? Why do they stay?

And the answer to that has nothing to do with taxes, it's all the things taxes pay for like an educated population, low crime rate, rule of law etc etc. On top of that warehouse jobs can't be moved outside of the US due to shipping latency.
No, four Sundays and twenty minutes. I was surprised too.
Is Snapchat Going to Die?
But you wouldn't have access to the whole market, because you'd be missing out on people in the major tech hubs. And as it turns out, much of the best talent in the world is clustered in those tech hubs.
I thought I read that the tax benefits were paid "per job created".

So creating half the jobs results in half the tax benefits.
Actually, there's already ~10k people working on Alexa
I think medium has some cool features like the "claps", comment boxes and story analytics. There's a lot of stuff that that just works out of the box

However I really dislike syndicating my blog to it because the formatting is so limited. You cannot do bullet point lists for example, which makes it a huge pain having to tinker with your existing post to reformat it for medium.

Nowadays I just syndicate an introduction to the post and a "click here to continue reading" hyperlink to my actual blog. Which is a rubbish experience for Medium users.

I'm wondering if there's a decentralised version of a blogging network, where users host their blog themselves, with the social features like claps/comments wrapped around it, plus a bit of a 'recommendation' system for other posts in the network to get that network of writers feel.

I know disqus exists but it's not quite the same
I agree with the general thrust of this article - the company grows and its needs change over time. You will need to change along with them. But I think the last 1/3 of the article is a little too self-congratulatory. It's not really clear the retaining early employees is important, and in fact they may become more dead weight as the company grows. The concept of maintaining "company culture" is silly, that changes as the company grows anyway. The company owes nothing to early employees and some churn is likely.
Similar to an even exchange in chess. If you’re behind it’s a good deal, if you’re ahead it’s bad. Of course evaluating value taking into account positions (and thus determining whether an exchange is really “even”) is not straightforward.
A few years ago I was looking at the specific heat of common substances and water is pretty much off the charts compared with everything else (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Tables/sphtt.html).

But the heat of vaporization is also huge: it takes about the same energy to boil a quantity of water as it does to take it from 0°C to 100°C.

The main downside is that the vaporization/condensation has to take place at 100°C, which is arguably a bit hotter than is ideal for safe space heating. Also the water returning to the boiler might not be cold enough to condense out the water vapor from the fuel (more important in fuels like natural gas with a big difference between HHV and LHV).

I've sometimes wondered if it would be practical to operate a steam heating system at a partial vacuum so that the condensation/vaporization could occur at a lower temperature, but I haven't seen that done anywhere so I'm guessing the answer is no.
>tankless flush-valve toilets

Quickly tried to find a picture of this, but don't know what exactly i'm looking for. Can you post a link?
What Amazon did shouldn't be illegal; what the cities did to try to get Amazon to them should be.

Rather than punish Amazon, punish the public servants who thought a large tax break for years, or real estate deals, would really be big enough to draw the company in.

What Amazon did was playing the field; why not get a bonus for letting others compete; rather than taking nothing because it was already decided?
Zendesk shifts to platform play with Zendesk Sunshine launch
Ten years ago I was called in to remediate a new web application which had been subcontracted to an Indian development company. The PHP developers who'd put it together evidently didn't know about classes, and each page in the application was hundreds, sometimes thousands, of lines of spaghetti code, most containing the same duplicated (but subtly changed) blocks providing database connectivity etc. Security had not been a concern either; passwords and credit card details were stored unencrypted in database text fields.

I was called in because, while most of the application worked, some of the requested features were not yet complete. When I made my initial recommendation (scrap the whole thing and start again) I was told the client's board would not agree to that because of the money already invested and the fact that the board had seen a demonstration proving that "most of it worked".

It took two developers eighteen months to beat this sorry mess into a maintainable state while ensuring it remained "usable". It would have taken one third of that time to rewrite it from scratch.
Having a hard start/stop time and your personal "office space" helps a lot. Try putting something on your schedule around 4-5pm, such as working out or going for a walk. It'll certainly help you disconnect from work.
In general they don't in the sense of being fully Bayesian.

The mental gymnastics are that:
- The objective function of the neural net was a likelihood.
- The prior was improper.
In which case the net is a MAP estimate.

A MAP estimate will not give you good uncertainty quantification. Given the application to risk modelling, this seems unlikely to be a trivial departure from a fully Bayesian method.
I'm referring to common immigration policy, i.e. from outside the EU into the EU. This is distinct from freedom-of-movement for EU citizens within the EU. Such freedom-of-movement does not apply to non-EU citizens.
We should make all auctions illegal since there's always a chance somebody could bid more than the prize is worth. If we don't protect these people from spending too much money, who will?
Jeff Bezos Is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies
"Theorems live inside theories" - sorry, didn't get that.

axioms:
* given same price, consumer goes for higher grade product.
* as relative price difference decreases, some consumers start going for higher grade product.
* rules of arithmetic.

in any case, it seems that we have appreciation for different things. you prefer detailed verbosity, i prefer a simple idea that can be easily understood.

great and profound ideas are not necessarily complex, many of them are quite simple. let's keep them that way.
Fewer and fewer every day. Like Trump, Corbyn has a hard-core minority that will back him no matter what, but his support within the general party diminishes every time a new poll comes out and his popularity within the general electorate is currently down in the rubbish levels enjoyed by our sad PM. He may currently be seen as the lesser of two evils, but not by much.
Whats new in Ruby 2.6
Value tends to scale with scarcity, economics 101. Gitlab doesn't have to pay people higher salaries for living in HCOL. All it should care about is talent level, which should favor hiring talented people not in HCOL.
Exactly, there is no sense in trying to write UNIX in another language because it defeats the original goal of the system.
They use a "rent index", "hot market adjustment", and "country factor" to account for that, I think.

> Vancouver, London, Hong Kong, Moscow are very expensive with not tons of devs, and devs are lower paid.

True enough, but rent correlates with tech salary pretty well within the US at least, where I'm guessing most of their employees are.
Our reasons for paying local rates can be found on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

Paying the same wage in different regions would lead to:

1. A concentration of team members in low-wage regions, since it is a better deal for them, while we want a geographically diverse team.

2. Team members in high-wage regions having less discretionary income than ones in low-wage countries with the same role.

3. Team members in low-wage regions being in golden handcuffs and unlikely to leave even when they are unhappy.

4. If we start paying everyone the highest wage our compensation costs would increase greatly, we can hire fewer people, and we would get less results.

5. If we start paying everyone the lowest wage we would not be able to attract and retain people in high-wage regions.
The only truly pure functions exist in the imaginary world of mathematics, if you even believe that.

Note I already mentioned persistent stores of state.

I think you'll find the need for some kind of process like task. Maybe not...

Maybe re-read. I've already said that there would be a process like task. Lambdas will need to be associated with state. Users won't have to start processes. Instead, processes will be more like processors.
That's not what the article says, or hints at:

> The biggest advantage to an all-remote team is obvious: Your hiring pool is gigantic, and you don't need to convince top talent to move for you.

So the impression is, we hire you not because you live far off in Romania, but because you're really talented and we need you.
That's some nice marketing hype, of which this article has plenty. I get it though, those people making tons of money at the head of the company, marketing, PR and all that, are making those money for a reason. They know how to spin stories. It's their job. And it's a legit job.

So I agree with you, but I won't expect that to be the official line.
If there is vomit nearby my parents dog will choose it over it's own food
And yet NYC still has some of the highest rent in the country. For someone making 60k or less it doesn't matter much if the rent is 2k or 3k a month, it's all totally unaffordable anyway and those people are either pushed further out from where they work, or if they're young they split the rent amongst 2-4 people.
But the candidate doesn't have that many options so they have to put up with what they can get. It's thw law of offer and demand.
until the new CEO called me in for a chat.

Maybe that CEO was infallible... or maybe he just wanted to give the job to one of his b-skool buddies. Who can say?
To be clear: not all traffic has to be routed through it, just DNS.

All that I had to do was assign a static IP address to the MAC address of the VM network interface, and configure my router's DHCP to hand out that static IP for DNS.

It's all done over a singular ethernet connection between my router and the server; the amount of traffic is very minimal.
Why'd they change it, I can't say, Amazon just liked it better that way.
I understand it's just frustrating to hear dismissal of one platform or other from comments on EU copyright law when the fact is that it will govern everything that is going on the internet. It will affect everything as user interaction is a central and crucial part of what we do on the internet. GDPR did a number on what we consume for "the greater good" and while I do appreciate that I'm now more in control of what goes on with my data, I lost access to so many sources. And while I do have ways to protect myself where ever I go, I have been punished for the lack of care and awareness of internet users who simply didn't care then nor do they care now, collective punishment rarely does any great good for the whole. And yet again, I'm savvier so I can circumvent most of the blocks by VPN but the rest are now enjoying a worse experience. This ain't good in any metric, none of it is.
Of course, and if companies push that too hard, then their services and products can be banned or severely tariffed.

Democratic countries do not have to lay down and accept whatever megacorporations want to inflict upon them.
Behold, academia.

The only maintainers of this code, ever, have been grad students and postdocs. I estimate there have been about 12-15 generations worth. This code has supported hundreds of publications in its lifespan.

A codebase that began life in 1987, in C. First ported to matlab in 1999. First source control was added (as SVN) in 2015. Between 2015 and 2018, there were 6 commits total, yet 3 people graduated out of the lab from it. Probably 100,000 loc total, of which I estimate maybe a third is ever used. 1400-line matlab functions are normal-ish. I've found loops nested 11 levels deep.

It's a series of psychophysical experiments. Each experiment exists in at least 4 different versions side by side in source, each named slightly different, often by incorrect datestamp of last modification. Version control across machines is not well maintained, so you have to diff everything before you can copy or move files lest you accidentally blow something away completely.

Oh, and it's mexed and wrapped for use on a mac on exactly one snow leopard machine, hardware from 2007.

edit: I think this counts as a job, not a student experience, because I am not a student. I just have to clean this mess up once in a while.
Your English is good. :)
That comment makes no sense in the context of HQ2. The choice of NY/DC strongly suggests that these are places Amazon was expanding to anyway, for business reasons (execs nearer business/defense higher-ups they are selling to). If you're trying to move to the cheapest possible place, you would never choose these locations.
> Imagine someone added Adaptive Cruise Control to your existing car without telling you - the first time the car braked on its own, you’d freak out. The car is suddenly behaving in a way it should be able to.

I recently got a hell of a shock in my fathers BMW: I was driving with cruise control engaged, depressed the clutch, and when I released it, found the car re-accelerating to match it's previous speed. Every other car I've driven has disengaged cruise when the clutch is engaged, so this took be quite by surprise and could have put me in danger.
The EU Commission's position, if I remember correctly, is that all those mechanisms cease to apply as soon as the person gets so much as one temporary job of any length within the country they're moving to and that the host country must give them full benefits entitlement from that point forward.
> all industries would naturally gravitate to the regions of highest density

I used a bit of shorthand, above, in saying "the relative size of cities in almost every geographic region is remarkably stable." Let me expand on "geographic region," because it reveals the tension that keeps the world from collapsing into Chongqing [1].

The size of a "geographic region" for this purpose is best defined as the distance the average economically-productive person can commute in a day. Back when people walked, towns tended to be about 10 miles apart. As transport technology improved, Manhattan ate its neighboring boroughs. It is now consuming Northern New Jersey and Connecticut. Barring a quantum leap in transportation tech, Charlotte is safe.

(On the seeds for dispersion: Certain economic activities, like mining and agriculture, occur somewhat independently of population centers. You go where the mineral veins and fertile land are. The fruits of those activities navigate the transportation geography, navigable waterways, flat areas across which rail lines can network and natural harbors, their wealth concentrating at the hubs. Thus, a fundamental industrial tension between distributed economic activity and the concentrating effects of transportation emerges.

In the modern world, those industrial distribution factors remain. Added to them are activities that are cheaper away from population centers, e.g. large-scale manufacturing and nuclear-power generation. Nevertheless, technology so far appears to be increasing the concentrating factor faster than the dispersion term by making (a) the distributed economic activities less labor-intensive and (b) increasing profits to those organizing our social structures-whether in finance, logistics or government–who benefit from the chance encounters proximity promotes.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
Amazing work! I've been excited about this technique since I first saw the original demos of it (https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse) - but can someone explain (at a very high level) how Wave Function Collapse works? I've read through some of the documentation on various repos - it starts with the nitty-gritty details, and I haven't been able to grasp the concepts.
> Rather than punish Amazon, punish the public servants who thought a large tax break for years, or real estate deals, would really be big enough to draw the company in.

They are reacting to incentives, just like Amazon is. They are stuck in a tragedy of the commons, and each is trying to play the field, as best as they can.

I'd place the blame on the agent with more power (Amazon), and the one that initiated this spectacle (Amazon).
A sentiment among members of a former team was that automated tests meant you didn't need to write understandable code - let the tests do the thinking for you.

This, and stuff like your story, are why I don't trust people who promote test-driven development as the best way to write clean APIs.
>I totally get where you're coming from, but I'm not convinced that Medium helps at all. I mean, this article was posted to Medium. Medium didn't put it in front of you. So how is Medium helping?

Medium put it in fronts of tons of other people though -- someone of which posted it here.

And I discover posts on Medium alone every day.

Plus, Medium posts don't feel like a wasteland -- they have a healthy number of comments.
A person from country C can immigrate into the UK by immigrating into one of 27 different other countries, and then using free movement to get into the UK. This makes border control harder.
Interesting watching the votes go up and down. There are those who strongly disagree; an axiom upon which to burn the whole world and all the people in it, one might say.
Google's Squoosh (Image Compression Project) GitHub
It's not a theory, it's how any market with voluntary buyers and sellers work. It's slightly more complicated with wages being sticky, but if Gitlab can get someone in Mississippi to work for half and get the same results as someone from SF, then they should (and do) do that. It's why manufacturing moved to China.
Where do you live that you have such an aggressive dairy industry?
I guess it's a sign that the demand for remote workers are still low enough that it has not pulled up the income of remote workers that much.
> - Roundtrip-able (reversible?)

You mean injective
That’s some twisted Trump logic you have there.
If the system allows for tax cheating, why not take advantage of it?
I would probably guess that this would be because according to recent polling the vast majority of the members of this socialist worker's party actually support a people's vote. Is commissar Corbyn the only one that gets a vote?
Don’t forget LTCM. Very smart.
Why did you post your rant on medium?
Not even Google has come anywhere close to being able to make complex NN models that have a human interperable "receipt" for decisions. In fact, for certain classes of problem solving it's likely impossible and that is already a huge problem.