skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any good guides, tutorials, or research papers that investigate or advise how to inspect weights during training for debugging. The only things I read are to watch out for vanishing gradients, and when fine-tuning the most change in layers are seen toward the end of the network, not the beginning layers.
I'd be interested to know if a "full copy of the copyright laws" would fit in a standard email payload
What if every employee were paid at the Austin rate?
12k line code-behind for an ASP.NET page that duplicates PDF files, driven off of a spreadsheet, and adds some additional information at the top of each page. This has generated the majority of a major state's ballots for at least the past 4 elections.
> First, I think I should be paid based on the value I bring to a company, not my location. Otherwise, aren't we subsidizing those who choose to live in an expensive place like SF or NYC over those who are happy with a smaller city like Portland of Austin?

Employees are never only paid based on value. If that was the case, janitors would make great money, since having a clean work environment is very important and valuable.

What you're missing here is leverage. Janitors don't make much money because most people are capable of basic janitorial tasks, and thus they have little leverage in the job market because they could be easily replaced.

In the case of Gitlab, employees in hotter job markets have more leverage because they could more easily find a high paying job where they live. People living in weaker job markets don't have that. Gitlab is paying the former group more precisely because they have more options.
It's almost everywhere the same for remote gigs. I guess a way to "trick" that system is to find a remote gig as a tourist and then go back where you want to live originally.
Data Science with Python in Visual Studio Code
The cat utility is among the simplest, but once upon a time true was about the simplest possible Unix utility.

#!/bin/sh

Yes, that's really it. Fire up the shell, get it to exit with 0, which is taken as success. That's all that's really necessary for its spec.

GNU's is around 29 KiB compiled, and it uses some of that to support --version and --help flags. MacOS's is around 17 KiB compiled and ignores flags.
The same way that other legitimate email service providers do: they charge a monthly or yearly fee for service.
Nobody mentioned Wordpress yet? Last time I checked it was a terrible pile of procedural code
any entertaining examples from your time working on it?
I'm glad to see this here. What are we to make of our collective fascination with dragons? What does it say about us, or what does our unconscious know about the universe that it is struggling to communicate?

A scenic addition from A Wizard of Earthsea:

""You are a very young wizard," the dragon said, "I did not know men came so young into their power." He spoke, as did Ged, in the Old Speech, for that is the tongue of dragons still. Although the use of the Old Speech binds a man to truth, this is not so with dragons. It is their own language, and they can lie in it, twisting the true words to false ends . . . "
> x = 4

4

> y = new (x.constructor)(x)

[Number: 4]

> x.constructor

[Function: Number]

> y.constructor

[Function: Number]

> typeof x

'number'

> typeof y

'object'

> x

4

> y

[Number: 4]

Is y a clone of x?
I know Optimizely isn't as relevant these days, but this article matches my experience there. Just about all the early employees were pushed out or encouraged to go when the business matured a bit and the adults from SalesForce were brought in. Of the first few dozen employees, only a handful are left.
It might not be guilt per se, since it was only an example, so consider it what you want. Be it bad PR, obligations, compliance, etc.
Why are corporations moving out of the US to different countries? Why can't they stay?
Your style resembles that of a moron. I'm not saying you are one, just that the things you say make you sound like one.

See how insulting that isn't?
My Top Takeaways from YC Startup School
While I disagree that cost of living adjustments are wrong, you are likely dodging a bullet by choosing not to work for them. This company generated $10.5 million in revenue with 350 employees. That’s revenue of just $30K per employee. Since most employee salaries are likely near or above $100k, that means they have a very high burn rate. Investors won’t subsidize them forever, so it’s probably not the best place to work.
I've never researched company and interpersonal loyalty, but this rings exactly true for me.

It is possible to be only be loyal to each other and destroy your company, a la tragedy of the commons.

Loyalty to coworkers naturally includes loyalty to the company, because (ostensibly) if the company does better, everyone working there does better.

I don't understand the impulse to steal or skimp or be lazy. It seems short sighted and damaging.
Bike Commuting in the Bay Area and Beyond
Anki won't really help here. Flashcards work for natural languages because there's a huge vocabulary that you have to learn (10k words minimum for 'simple speech'). Sheet music is written with a very small "vocabulary": 12 notes that just repeat up and down the keyboard; a few dozen common symbols for dynamics, articulation, etc; a handful of note "lengths"; and that's about it.

The hard parts are getting your fingers to actually execute what they need to do, sight reading, ear training, and--most importantly--music interpretation. Ear training is the only aspect where I could see software helping.

My advice:

1) Definitely get a teacher, even if you only see them every other week. The function of the teacher isn't to "teach" per se--you'll be doing most of your "learning" in practice anyway--but you need someone to check up on you every once in a while to catch and break bad habits that you don't know you're even forming yet.

2) The most effective practice is the kind of practice that's extremely directed, focused... and boring. Practicing scales, trills, and arpeggios. Playing one bar of music over and over slowly until it's memorized and you can play it perfectly 10x in a row, then moving to the next bar. Every once in a while you have to put everything together to practice musicality, but that's generally going to be a small fraction of your practicing hours.

3) If you actually want to learn efficiently, you have to put in a pretty solid, consistent effort, i.e. 1h every day for you, 30min every day for young kids. Doing a bit here and there is like exercising once in a while: you just spend all your time losing muscle memory and regaining it with little forward progress. It took me 11 years of half-assed practice as a kid to play ARCT (university-level) piano, but only about a year as a young adult to get my flamenco guitar up to about 70% of that level. The difference? As an adult you can sit yourself down and slog through the boring stuff in order to save yourself time in the long run.

4) Keyboard is fine, but it has to be one of those high end, full size, weighted keyboards with synthetic ivory keys, etc (roughly $1-2k). These are usually marketed as "digital pianos", not "keyboards". The cheap half-length, unweighted, plastic key keyboards with tons of knobs and sound effects (e.g. $200-400) aren't meant to be used for playing piano. Those are more meant to be MIDI controllers for triggering synths, etc.
> I don't know why you're being downvoted

HN users use the downvote to show disagreement. Ideally it would only be used to bury comments that were off topic, spam, etc, but the only system I've seen with a correct implementation of this is https://lobste.rs.

Edit: This comment is a case in point since I've been downvoted less than 30 seconds after posting it. Ha. I challenge someone to prove me wrong.
Really? Because "freedom of movement" seems to be the sticking point in the Brexit negotiations. The UK can't go the Norway route because it doesn't want "free movement" into its territory.
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> If it's wrong(and illegal) to pay people differently based on their race or gender, I can't see how it should be alright to pay people differently based on their cost of living.

It makes no sense to equate location with immutable characteristics like race or gender. People can move to a new city.

> There ought to be a movement to outlaw this practice.

State and municipal minimum wage laws would be neutered by such a law.
This isn't a chart at all. The format I hoped for was the style used in this breakdown of the food industry, which really illuminates the scale and breadth of the major players:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxfam-us/www/static/media/files/Beh...
Simple, you'd never be able to hire the talent from the cities with the highest concentration of the best talent.

(this is not to say there isn't amazing talent anywhere else, but not paying market rate for SF/NYC based engineers is an easy way to never be able to access the largest chunk of the best engineers in the country)
Can anyone knowledgeable comment on this. Right now I'm using enpass and trying to wonder if BitWarden would be better. Enpass has some issues when if sync fails it doesn't really report that (for me at least). I also have had some issues when I'm in a trusted machine (at work) but not my own when having a web-vault access might be good.

On the other hand I do love the no cloud mode of enpass which potentially of makes it slightly more secure (a cloud for password storage would be a juicy target). It also means I have a local backup of all my password in my devices in case of some issue including bitwarden web vault being down.
Redox isn’t Linux. It has its own kernel that you can read about in the docs.
> How is this different from a web browser?

or a search engine
Very simple: a much higher hiring bar, which requires more hiring effort, but it's well worth it. To me, every manager should be deeply technical: that doesn't mean they should be wizard developers, but they should be able to discuss very well technical solutions, have opinions (this is very important! being opinionated and not just go with the flow is really really good, it shows you care!), and also be able to troubleshoot the systems their teams work on, so they don't interrupt everyone as soon as there is even a minor customer escalation. That's key to gaining respect from your team and be effective, from what I've seen. Otherwise, you're basically just a glorified delegator and you're not sheltering your team in any way.

The VP that was hired chose a different approach and decided to poach people with very long management experience in "stagnant" companies, who jumped ship at being promoted to "director of engineering" from their previous "engineering manager" title: of course these folks don't know much about the technical stuff, and are basically just there to manage processes and remind everyone to fill some bs on jira. The major thing these people care about is making the VP happy, it's incredibly comical. Whatever he says, it's law (paradoxically, I have many conversations with the VP and he instead likes that I am frequently confrontational and argumentative, in a good way, when it comes to technical opinions).

This is also dangerous for another reason: as new IC people get hired, they can quickly sense the weaknesses of their managers, so they either 1) Leave out of frustration 2) Stay, because it's convenient for them (it certainly allows average performers to cruise through their job) 3) Or, more dangerously, they manipulate their boss in order to drive their personal agenda (e.g. do horrible work saying to the managers "all the other solutions would be too difficult", and the clueless manager trusts without verifying, since he/she is not capable of verifying).
Then those in SF would be significantly below the poverty line?
An excellent paper which uses (some of the) results we have also found studying the weight matrices of neural networks...namely that they rarely undergo rank collapse

https://calculatedcontent.com/2018/09/21/rank-collapse-in-de...

But they miss something..the weight matrices also display power law behavior.

https://calculatedcontent.com/2018/09/09/power-laws-in-deep-...

This is also important because it was suggested in the early 90s that Heavy Tailed Spin Glasses would have a single local mimima.

This fact is the basis of my early suggestion that DNNs would exhibit a spin funnel
What's the problem with "hand-rolled components"? Isn't that pretty much the essence of building non-trivial frontend stuff? Or does this have some special meaning in the Angular world?
Ofcom and the ASA who regulate political broadcasting in the UK.
> I can't see how it should be alright to pay people differently based on their cost of living.

Insofar as local CoL correlates with race and potentially other protected characteristics (religion seems likely, for instance), there's a pretty good “disparate impact” argument that it would be presumptively illegal if challenged under US federal anti-discrimination law.
The highest-rated tech reporter in the US is an intern?
Under this theory, if their replacement can come from a cheaper place than silicon valley they should get payed a lower rate than silicon valley employees.

I think the more accurate description is people are payed the amount they could get if they moved to a different company.
They couldn’t! Basic demographics mean this kind of approach would, like it or not, end us.

Although given the global inverse correlation between financial prosperity and birth rates, we’ll be back on our feet within a generation!
Then people in SF or NYC would probably leave.
I set up a [docker image for writefreely](https://gitlab.koehn.com/docker/writefreely) and I love the clean and minimal-yet-everything-I-want UI. Any chance you'll open source snap.as so I can self-host my images?
Would love to see this be vizualized in Augmented reality as well, like an ARKit app.
I love that you didn't have time to read the article but enough time to write a 550 word 9-point list post.
Ha, I see others have written great responses to this already. I have heard not all children are difficult. I personally can't imagine such a thing, but I have one of those "spirited" children. The comment below from syedkarim about putting locks on the doors made me laugh. I tried that with limited success.
Why the French Don't Show Excitement
People like to keep saying the elite will reach godhood thanks to the increasing pace of biological/technical progress (that they will reap the most). But the opposite might well happen. The more data that pours in the more obvious it may become they are all, like you say, just replaceable cogs.
I have a friend who's a metalworker, and I've always been intrigued by the parallels between our trades (mine being programming).

I think my favorite correspondence, though, is that the material we work with is the same material that our tools are made from. If my build scripts are broken, I fix them by writing code. If his mill is broken, he fixes it by fabricating a replacement part.*

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*Not always, of course, but you get the idea.
Thanks very much for this. I'll need to be sending to a lot of countries outside the US, so I'll have a look at nexmo as well as Twilio. I appreciate it!
This Sharia Compliant Cryptocurrency Is Backed by Gold and 8 Fiats
Also not a lawyer, but cartel behavior usually refers to price-fixing and other anti-competitive behavior. Small businesses banding together the way you described would just be lobbying and already happens frequently.

Amazon should be investigated for anti-competitive practices, and their ability to negotiate this kind of a circus is certainly an indication of that. The problem has been two-fold -

1. The Sherman act is over 100 years old and was written to target 19th century trusts like Standard Oil and the railroads. These need to be updated to reflect new types of models of trusts and conglomeration (and accumulation of power) that have developed.

2. Enforcement - the SEC and FTC are largely toothless and everyone knows it. If you are a company that can afford a team of lawyers, its unlikely you will be penalized in a way that actually hurts.
> The core counter-explanation to the scientific consensus is "Scientists are greedy liars in a giant conspiracy to get rich on research grants", which I find, um, problematic.

I think this is a core counter-explanation for anti-vaccine and GMO as well.
I used a similar software for quite a while: https://www.getguesstimate.com/

It's a spreadsheet where each cell is a probability distribution, quite well done and easy to use.

Note: I'm not related to this service in any ways.
They'll be using the Citi Building, which is a few minutes' walk from the stations you cited.
I’m 40 as of last week! High five 1978!

We all have our vices and consumption excesses that when unchecked are unhealthy. Social media became that for me and started to cut into time I’d rather be spending doing something else. So I quit in 2016 and have been much happier without it. HackerNews has not become that for me but if it did I would do the same.

I took the hosts file approach as well and it has been sufficient to remind me and catch the occasional lapse.

Best of luck!
Without copyright an mit license would not mean anything - the existence of copyright is the only thing that makes software “property” that you can own. In a post-copyright world there would not be anything for you to license.

If you want to apply a license to something there has to be something to license.
It's not likely that the small groups of people working on new operating systems really effect the outcome of open source desktop. One guess is that not enough UI/UX people work on open source desktops. The other guess is that hardware information is hard to come by, so driver support is still lacking.
Find antipatterns in code
I have been playing with Gamma (mygamma.io) and have been finding it really useful as a static analysis platform.
Binary Optimization and Layout Tool – Optimizing Performance of Binaries
Can you name any end user desktop issues for Linux? I don't know any except lack of native Adobe Photoshop, limited selection of games and inefficient marketing. It already is easy and pleasurable for any reasonably young non-gamer non-geek with Windows7&Mac background to use Ubuntu or Manjaro, just install it, install and pin all the apps they need and no questions emerge.
I mean, all that really proves is that climatology is more complicated than orbital mechanics.
I think you mean "shouldn't." Capital does all sorts of things that you might find self-destructive. Do you think they'll behave any differently when they're beholden only to Westminster instead of Brussels as well?

That inverse property doesn't seem to be holding up for Japan.
Your 2nd to last one is right I think. Other forms of engineering are constrained by physical world rules. In software we have to recreate reality and redefine and model how the real world system works. Mech eng/ chem eng etc don’t have to recreate reality , physics just works and will always work .
As they say in Boxing, if you want loyalty, buy a dog.
Yeah, this is weird. I would be very surprised if the company doesn't have some sort rule against this. I started working from home a few months ago and as part of the agreement there is a clause about not being the primary caregiver of a dependent child while working.

I'm not sure how you could get much of anything done attempting to do that.
I would say

“Understanding Deep Learning Requires REMEMBERING Generalization”

https://calculatedcontent.com/2018/04/01/rethinking-or-remem...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09553

We can understand this using the traditional theory of Statistical Mechanics of Generalization

Briefly, shuffling the labels corresponds to decreasing the effective load on the Neural Network, which pushes the system into the spin glass phase
I’m also calling foul here: there is no way I could ever work in my office if my toddler was in the house without another adult supervising. Even if there is, the best I can do is lock the office door and hide from him...

One of my friends does nanny share and can work in his basement. That would work well, but you still have to be in stealth mode around the kiddies.
This is completely false. Where do you get such silly ideas? Have you ever taken flying lessons?
I have seen a couple of good discussions on Lobste.rs
The number of users is not very big- they're invite only. I know that some HN regulars are posting there so maybe you could ask for invite here or head over to their IRC and then try it out. I don't use it myself, HN is big enough time sink as it is.
VA is definitely not.
Alexis Ohanian: hustle porn is one of the most toxic dangerous things in tech
How could one possibly rule out contamination by this logic?
Fantasy Football Retirement
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/10/labour-mps-...
Your company isn't just some faceless entity interested only in profits. It's face is all of you and it exists to keep all of you fed and with a roof over your head.

We all have experienced that in hard times a company's only loyalty is to its shareholders. At times, upper management may decide to divert some of the resources to itself, but that's a small, exclusive circle that most are not part of..
Yes, ventilation here is more like a fan in a room window than a sealed box and tubes.
But if everyone is working from home, you'd have access to the whole market, thus finding a same candidate without this leverage ?

(please excuse my english)
IMO a better advantage is that you can hire talent from anywhere, without the caveat that they have to uproot their life to join your team. Paying local market rate is shitty (generally) and reduces your competitiveness against other remote employers that don't try to squeeze 10-40% off employee salaries (which is most of them, FWIW). Not to mention, how could you possibly make 10m rev/employee but with a straight face worry about them making 20k 'too much' because they live in Iowa or something!?

I wouldn't even bother applying at Gitlab because I know they won't pay me competitively. Pass!

TLDR: "can pay local market rates" only works if you're the only company to ever offer remote work, and you have to compete only with other local market offers. Which is a fantasy in 2018.
The adjustment seems overly aggressive. Salary is proportional to 0.7 * Rent_Index + 0.3, where Rent_Index is normalized to be 1.0 for New York City - so basically they're adjusting salaries as if 70% of your spending goes to rent. They probably should use an index that's a bit less aggressively weighted towards housing costs.
I live in rural Arkansas, and work remotely. My salary is adjusted for cost of living - I don’t make as much as I would in the LA area, where my employer is located - but I’m fine with that. It gives companies incentive to hire remote devs, and I make far, far more than I could locally. Even assuming I could find the same work on-site here, I’d be making a little more than half what I am now. Everyone wins.
Unfortunately, improving the desktop picture and having a unified Linux for the masses has been an unfulfilled dream for at least 20 years. There have been real improvements, but short of a black swan event it still feels like we're far away from that goal.
I'm talking about long term impact, not emergency measures. Everything you've mentioned is an emergency measure AFAICT.

For comparison, the impact of banning the printing presses only materialised quite a lot later than it happened. Remember that Europe used to be a lot of independent (and feuding) nations, rather than a union of any sort. There were unions of sorts under the Catholic and Orthodox churches, but England for instance was not part of those unions. it was in those times that Europe went through the scientific and industrial revolutions, while the empires I mentioned slowly stagnated.