skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpret it as saying: "non-convexity ain't no big deal in this context", and this is the latest contribution in a line of other "no spurious local minima" machine learning theory research. It's interesting for showing that it applies to a rather complex model like ResNet.
> “This could be an attempt to grab more market share from the independent repair providers. Or it could be a threat to keep their authorized network in line. We just don’t know.”

Good grief. "Apple adds systems integrity hardware to reduce the risk of local compromise" becomes "Apple is out to destroy your repair business" because reasons.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181112153533/https://blog.netl...
That's a very good point. They weren't widely used. But Japan did use both chemical and biological weapons against the Chinese. We don't really know why Hitler didn't use them, but it's likely that his experience in WWI gave him a unique hatred of chemical warfare.

Regardless by the time Germany accepted that they were facing an existential threat, they couldn't have used Chemical weapons to completely decimate their enemy the way a losing country could with ICBMS (both land based and on submarines).

They had no way to reach America, or even Britain at the end of the war (with enough munitions), so chemical attacks would have been pointless by that time. If Hitler could have pressed a button completely destroy America, Britain, and Russia when he was in his bunker in Berlin, I'm willing to bet he would have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Changde#Use_of_chemi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...
> If YouTube can afford it but their competitors go out of business in the EU how would the market shrink?

"The market" is a statement about demand, not supply. The market can still shrink if the legislation goes through, because the legislation can have secondary effects that cause people to be less interested in consuming content on a tube-style platform.
There are a lot more Germans that know English than there are Americans that know German. In fact I have never even talked to a German who did not know English. ;)
related, i’d like to see some software which could configure aws services to implement zapier like functionality for you.

and/or implement/deploy simple personal web services (rss reader, wiki, maybe even webmail?) on top of apigw/lambda+other services as necessary.
What the building is zoned for.
I don't think it's going far enough. There are several hundreds variables completely separating China and the USSR and Japan from a blanket comparison.

I would like to hope that they hit the breaks in the same way that Japan did, and there's certainly plenty of evidence that it's possible. However, if their model remains viable and they continue growing at the same rate, they'll certainly eclipse us in political and economic influence in 10-20 years at most - potentially technologically as well. I'm not sure that's even a disputable claim - it should be self evident. The question is if we'll suddenly outperform or if they'll hit a stumbling block, which remains to be seen.
Ask HN: How to stop being cynical all the time?
Maybe I'm just growing up, or building "character", but I realize I will always have to endure bullshit in life that I have no control over. In college, it's going through unhelpful TA's and price gouging by Pearson/Housing/etc. At work, it's maybe office politics or even in consulting it's unreasonable clients. A friend would tell me to "suck it up and drive on".

I'm slowly cutting out unessential social media. I only check the news twice a day. I've listened to "this is water" by David Foster Wallace. I've read the Cracked article on Six Harsh Truths. I do exercise/yoga and slowly am integrating ten minutes of mindfulness into my moring. I'm still crabby.
Nice, this was a good refresher on some of the lesser known parts of the newer specs.

+1 for explaining the event loop and job queues

-1 for no semi-colons though (kidding ;))
What makes it really tricky is that it's actually both a regular programming language (with built-in lightweight non-os threads), and subset of it, when you use the right design patterns, is a hardware description language.
> Post-brexit UK tries to nuke somewhere in the EU

What is stopping pre-brexit UK trying to nuke EU? The EU treaties?
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With the largest pile in the world of written natural language representing dynamic human communication, Google is able to use deep learning, combined with the methods of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to draw inferences about the essential content and intent of your emails and sort them into types.

Using these same machine learning methods, a trio of possible responses to a given type of email message is generated and tested. Every time a human uses one of these three responses, a datapoint is supplied to Google that says “given message type A, a human has chosen response X as an appropriate one.”

Multiply this last step by a thousand or a million or a gazillion, to the point where a clear statistical pattern emerges, and Google can conclude with some confidence that when a person expresses ideas, thoughts, feelings, or questions that can be classified as type A, it’s reasonable for another human to respond with utterance X.

This is usual attribution of magical powers to "AI" (and really they mean "ML") by the people who don't know how it actually works.

In this case:

* Sensitivity detector checks if email is sensitive, smart reply is turned off for sensitive emails (obviously didn't trigger in this case). I personally think this is questionable feature - imagine your keyboard turns off if it thinks topic is sensitive.

* Encoder model produces embedding which is compared with pre-computed and pre-clustered embeddings for whitelisted replies. Top replies for three top clusters are selected (selecting replies without clustering will produce very similar replies). All potential replies are white-listed for obvious reasons.

While clicks produce useful metrics (really, this is the target metric), they don't produce useful training data for two reasons: (roughly speaking) you can't train a model on it's own output and there is no way for model to learn to suggest something new. Fundamental challenge for training such models is that production metric is different from training metric: model is trained to select likely reply that was typed, production metric is reply that is clicked.

There is bunch of blog posts and papers from Google Research describing how it works.
Gmail sells ad impressions. So less email is not good for business.
There are reasons to go to war that transcend macroeconomics. Our instincts to tribal violence are ancient, and I suspect the social bonds of shared fear, danger, and trauma are far more potent than most of us peacetime civilians understand, arguably being an end unto itself. Moreover, there are political motivations domestically that have nothing to do with ostensible mission objectives, whether pursued ideologically, or cynically. If anything, our long stretch of (relative) worldwide peace is the anomaly, and it's debatable whether that would be the case if not for the atom bomb setting an existential upper bound on the level of war that first-world societies choose to tolerate.
In the case of my little brown bats, they detest being picked up. The screech and scream like it's the end of the world. I usually have to follow them around the house until they get themselves into a corner.

The exception to this in my case was a little pup that was scared and confused due to a forest fire outside. The smoke drove it into the house and it only screeched a little bit when I picked it up. It's doing fine now.
You have a (probably) $6k machine that is still giving you a workable system 10 years later - doesn't that tend to suggest something?
> but can't prevent local privilege escalation from non browser clients

That is such a different threat model though. A native app has a lot more permissions than a web page. Trying to protect one native app from another is not really done much. Like, are MS Word documents encrypted so Slack can't read them from disk?
Particularly interesting in light of linux's "everything is a file" principle...sockets, printers..
Yup!

A savvy developer has no reason to use higher quality, longer lasting materials. The price of the house goes up and that affects how long the house will be on the market, which affects the developer's cashflow.

The owner who will be living in it for decades to come might have a higher stake in doing that
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Why We Need Difficult Books
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Having owned a dozen cars, shopped for far more, desired features and options that the manufacturers don't give, and finally buying ONE car brand-new, I relished the opportunity to actually have my voice heard for once.
Puts your suffering in open space office into perspective.
For an interview last year, I interacted with Google recruiting almost entirely using smart replies. One of the suggestions to the initial email was fit to send without modification and the idea was so amusing to me that I stuck with it as much as possible throughout the process. It wouldn't surprise me if the other end of the conversation was mostly machine generated as well; two Google systems talking to each other with a bit of human editing here or there.
I don't like how your reply is explicitly tribal. You seem to live in a world of us / them dichotomy in political matters. That, explicitly, is unhealthy.

Politics is increasingly being wired up to tribal, emotional cues, where the first thing people do when confronting a new piece of information is establish which tribe it belongs to, so they can read it with the right frame of mind - confirmation bias both ways.

Precise writing backed by facts and some research is in short supply because it isn't as sticky and engaging, it doesn't get the blood flowing, whether it's raging one way or another.

An article challenging left orthodoxies is far more valuable when written from a rational standpoint than from an explicitly right-wing standpoint.
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Ha, now I'm imagining this book:

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Inside, only one line: "Hike the Appalachian Trail in winter, eating only what you can carry or kill."
I suspect should one of them be successful, the next challenge will be a proper direct crossing.
You’re talking about something different. Or at least mixing examples. I’m quite aware that there are many examples of men not giving up the first time, but parent comment seemed to suggest that in their culture, the woman is expected to say no, despite their positive interest, and the man is expecting to receive a no, and is then expected to try more, as though this scenario is the norm and not the exception.
Maybe feasible if < 1% of content requires human review. (~1,000 reviewers). But seeings as a lot of people treat report buttons as a "mega downvote" I don't think this is feasible in practice.

If this law is rolled out, I highly suspect that YouTube in the EU will consists solely of large channels that have a low rate of videos that violate policy.
Yeah that is interesting. I hadn't noticed on my first read through. He was absolutely touting the benefits of JIT with a claim "In some cases a JIT version could make code run thousands of times faster, but benchmarking is key." I guess this benchmark shows that it is quite a bit slower in this particular case.
> Are large numbers of concurrent transactions really an issue in practice though? There may be some per-transaction overhead, but I haven't seen any stern warnings about it, e.g. in the Postgres docs for max_connections.

There's definitely scalability implications to higher number of established connections in postgres. Essentially computing a "snapshot" (visibility information for queries etc, needs to be computed at least once a transaction) is O(#established-connections). If you get in the high hundreds on a large NUMA machine, and you run tiny fast transactions, you definitely can observe the overhead of that.

>> > Thus, a backend concurrent connection (i.e. transaction) cap of N, translates to O(N) concurrent MVCC "world states" that the DB engine has to keep track of. No matter how efficient the DB engine is at doing that, that's still a lot of state!

There's definitely ways to handle that better than O(N), at least in the average case.
> What if websites start requiring specific files to exist before allowing access?

Like session cookies, or SSL certificates?
Lots of great answers here - but something I wanted to focus on is doing a risk analysis alongside the estimates. Places where I have worked have generated corporate estimates for clients (usually in a competitive bidding situation). One of the sign-off decision points business enforces on the bid teams is to check that they have considered risks to the project, possible impacts in terms of time and cost (usually related), and a risk budget (e.g. for extra days for rework) which depends on the magnitude and probability of the risks. Risks are usually expected to be higher if the work involves any sort of novelty. If risks don't manifest, the business makes more profit, but if they do the PM has a basic safety reserve. The need to keep estimates competitive generally creates pressure to force the risk budget down, but the fact that the process is subject to business scrutiny and independent internal review can lead to mature debate about the issues.

The key to this process working is to have a tech assurance function that is independent of the bid team and their management, and that the overall company accepts the process. The assurer can say to the business "I think you are pricing this too low for the risks involved" but it is specifically not the reviewer's call as to whether the bid is submitted or not, so management can still submit the estimate if they want to. But, if things subsequently go south, the blame isn't immediately passed to the bid team or the delivery team.

Alternatively, generate an estimate, round it up to the next order of magnitude, and double it.
Approximation is not what it's about. It's about integration. Write that google doc and store it as a local .docx or .odc. Edit that 20 MB raw picture in a browser app and store it back to the disk, instantly, then feed it to a traditional desktop editor. Write that Python script in a Web IDE, store locally, and upload it to an Arduino.
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Quite easily? People don't hire you because of what you know. Most people get hired through connections or nepotism
https://www.youtube.com/user/KurzgesagtDE

Though I wouldn't be surprised if more people watched the English version because so many people in Germany speak fine English.
Since when Scandinavia is not economically liberal?
GCU is that "alternative facts," anti-science, magical thinking "university." They have the money and the Christian cult (Chris Hedges' words) to pull it off.
What else surrounded that? What was breakfast and dinner? There's a lot more than lunch in a day. 2 slices and a can of pepsi is probably around 700-800 Calories.
Point well taken. But the U.S. government does consider the polygraph to be a pass/fail procedure. Applicants and employees suffer severe career harm for "failing."
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The middle ground sounds awesome.
Can confirm.

As an American who lived in Germany decades ago, this was actually a substantial barrier to me improving my German. It was usually easier for them to converse in English than for me to converse in German, they jumped at the chance to practice their English with a native speaker and it made it difficult for me to find opportunities to practice my German.
The democratization of news and resisting the madness that is crypto journalism
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he had already filmed one for Spider-Man: Far From Home, that one has wrapped production. It's a possibility that he may have some canned appearances meant for future movies as well, but I think FFH is the last one where they could have physically brought him onto the set.
In the worst case of scientific fraud RoundUp Ready has been studied which is more than any other breeding method can claim.

Ruby Red Grapefruit? They made that by putting a nuclear radiation source in the middle of an orchard and seeing what happened. Killed some trees, but somewhere was a grapefruit that tastes better. No scientific study was done.

Organic - random mutations happen every generation, and none of them have ever been studied.
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Do you happen to know the throughput when using PPPoE?
maybe this?
https://websitebeaver.com/insanely-simple-webrtc-video-chat-...
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Might want to consider branding the actual plate instead to get the effect through the entire talk.
Those places will be well explored by robots by the time we get around to sending people (assuming we ever do which I have my doubts of).
Probably putting flyers in mailboxes without paying for postal service to do so.

Now that I stop and think about it, it's likely illegal in the US, too. Interfering with mail services might well be a federal crime. (or maybe not, I really don't know).
Interesting.

The original text linked to the English version with its 7M subscribers. The German one has 300k.

Now I’ll wonder about YouTube analytics too, and what being “number one channel in Germany” really means...
"It doesn't get easier, you get stronger".

I assume you are from a tech background? Break networking down to baby steps. I was always told to go "three deep" on a question.

Ex.

Me: Hey, how are you? What projects are you working on now?
Person: Hey, I'm alright. I'm working on this widget
Me: Cool. Why did you chose to work on this widget?
Person: Because I want to learn more about squelch
Me: I don't know much about squelch; what have you learned?
...

This helps avoid shallow talk, and establishes that you are a functional person who is interested in them. (Most). People love to talk about themselves.

Now that you've established yourself, you can start talking about what you want, whether it be you're looking for clients, looking for a second opinion on xyz, etc.
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Penn Jillette likes to discuss this. Having worked so long with one person, they have a lot of shared stories. And he tells of listening to Teller tell a story and know that he's full of shit, getting nearly everything wrong. And also having Teller listen to him tell the same story, and thinking he's full of shit and getting everything wrong.

And then there's the third person or some sort of record of the event that shows that both of them are full of shit and getting everything wrong.
> When you visit youtube.com, you are shown a small slice of all the videos in the YouTube database that YouTube thinks you should watch. Isn't that curation?

That doesn't have any effect on which videos they're hosting. All the ones that aren't featured are still there. It's not as if Hollywood would be satisfied for YouTube to be hosting infringing content just because it wasn't featured.
Rescue operations and environmental impact, I see your point. Don't agree, but it's a valid point.

But the point about the grief and heartache for those left behind could be said for anyone who does anything risky. Nothing more dangerous than a gentle stroll unless you're a single childless orphan?
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Importantly not SGD, just GD.
Glibc wrappers for (nearly all) Linux system calls
Massive Solar Storm Detonated Hidden American Bombs During the Vietnam War
Youtube isn't really providing a necessity, it's providing an entertainment option. Consumers have lots of those. If it becomes very onerous or expensive to provide their content, then they (and other providers) may have to produce less of it, which would shrink the market.
Check his twitter and LinkedIn as I've seen him touch on it on both recently, but yeah that's one of the articles I've seen.

I think this is the first one I saw https://qz.com/work/1458073/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian...
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TL;DR: Lock down the scope before providing estimates. Always double your estimate because developers are damagingly optimistic about their ability to get things done.

Slightly longer version:
If the scope isn't locked down at a granular enough level, one where each unit of work would take no more than one day, then you can not trust the estimate.

If you as a developer provide or agree to an estimate before the scope is locked down, then you're doing this at your own peril. That estimate will be used against you at every opportunity. It will be used to pressure you into working for free (overtime isn't usually compensated for in full-time positions). Your personal relationships or chances of getting into one will suffer. You'll begin to hate the people you work with. You'll get fat and / or ugly. Remember Milton? Never forget Milton!

Being asked to provide an estimate prior to scope is more of a negotiation tactic than a serious attempt at accomplishing valuable work. If you thought you were making $x for y hours of work per week, well guess what?! Because of your premature estimate, you're now making $dx where d is less than one and hopefully above zero.

Okay, so lets say that you were able to lock get the scope locked down. What now? Now you can provide an estimate by adding up the estimates for all the granules of work you'll be doing and then you'll want to double that number. Why double? Because most developers are incredibly optimistic about their ability to deliver quality code. You're probably not adequately including time for QA and changes anyway. The last 20% of any project often takes 80% of the time, so double those estimates.
Which species are you referring to?
That's interesting! In my case I'm an independent publisher and this "product" lets me step into a possible group of people that might never know about me otherwise. Someone that might appreciate other work I do, in the same topic, which I distribute through my newsletter (I try to create a useful set of resources every week, as a full-time effort).
I'm more interested on providing value on the long term rather than making a quick buck with "pay as you want". Of course all the usual throwaway domains are then filtered out :)