skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's basically the original observation of NLP (no, not that one) - that people often literally express their mental state through language on a non-trivial level, and IMO still one of the better things which make it worth studying.

Just find yourself a trainer who has a similar propensity for metaphysics as you (which can range from 0 to all-in-new-age) since the field has diverged into various interpretations.
Seconding the recommendation for https://blog.statsbot.co/support-vector-machines-tutorial-c1... - after reading that, "Optimal hyperplane for linearly separable patterns" actually made sense to me.
When I looked into Square 1 for my start-up, they had fees for EVERYTHING. They may be geared towards start ups but I suggest you carefully look at their fee schedules.
I think it's probably a bad strategy to try to be the "NLP guy" to potential employers. You'd do much better off being a software engineer on a project with people with ML or NLP expertise.

NLP projects fail a lot. If you line up a job as a company's first NLP person, you'll probably be setting yourself up for failure. You'll get handed an idea that can't work, you won't know enough about how to push back to change it into something that might, etc. After the project fails, you might get a chance to fail at a second one, but maybe not a third. This isn't a great way to move into any new field.

I think a cunning plan would be to angle to be the person who "productionises" models. Tonnes of data scientists these days are surprisingly light on programming skills, and they expect to hand off a notebook to someone who'll "make it work". I think that sort of role would position you well to take over the actual modelling as well.

As a bit of background, I'm the lead author of spaCy, a popular NLP library. I'd like to stress that spaCy's definitely just one part of a solution --- nothing is a "make NLP go now" button. I do think you'll need to know machine learning to have really successful NLP projects. Another thing you might want to check out is our annotation tool Prodigy: https://prodi.gy . This is especially good for experimenting, as you really need to annotate data to get anything done.
> I have a compulsion to arrange toys in sexual-situation-resembling poses, stage simulated toy-crashes or break the cute atmosphere in similar a way

Why must this be a compulsion? If you had something else to do at the time, would you be unable to do it without first re-arranging the toys? If not, it strikes me as normal self-amusement/play more than anything else.
Going a little further than just JPEG-XR - definitely do performance tests for new releases. We had a bug that affected one page in our app. It made people cringe using the feature set that invoked it, but essentially something in angular was firing, and the thing it did caused a re-fire. It just kept looping when on these very specific pages in the app. I finally found it and killed it. But definitely don't go to production with a client CPU murdering bug. It can't be measured the same as network latency, etc... so you really need to use your apps.

I was surprised to see a post from Trivago - I might have to book my next hotel through them.
I thought it had been proven that a two layer neural network has the same power as a deep one (obviously with a much greater width). It's just that deep neural networks are a lot more practical to train in practice. So I'm not sure how important that distinction is.
> They would hugh you strongly and in ocations even bite

Double check they aren't cats.
Somewhere in the 2000's, cars became too computer-controlled. In the old days you had levers and dials and that sort of things, or even resistor boards and sensors. Too many HVAC systems can only be controlled by the touch screen these days, as well as all the other options of the car.

At least in the past, you could replace broken parts or rig them on/off, but now everything is controlled by a stereo or touch screen which is $2,500 from the dealer and good luck finding a replacement in 10-20 years.
I know a woman who graduated from Stanford law about 5 years ago who accomplished her dream by getting a job in environmental law.

She despised the work, made too little money relative to her debt, and now works as an advisor at a law school specializing in helping graduates reduce and manage their debt through all means possible. She regularly posts links to things like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-UEqJ85KE
A king would say the same thing about his throne. Why should privilege - whether it's power or wealth - flow through bloodlines if we can prevent it?
Re: What books/activities do you recommended for being more charismatic?

Try alcohol. It may not work for everybody, but experimentation is part of science.
Top reasons your child has frequent headaches, abdominal pain, ADHD, allergies
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Good question, I should probably add this to my original question. Personally, I am trying to build a recommendation engine of sorts and I think Graph DB is suited for this but I am no expert.
While that does seem like a buried lede, I felt it wasn't my place to raise alarms about a 2 year old bug that may have been fixed.

The bug description certainly makes it sound very serious. If its not fixed in upstream, it at least seems fixed at the distribution level since Ubuntu 18.04 and newer don't suffer from the issue. Or if they do, it can't be reached via the same code in ul.
When going to bed immediately switching off lights and go to sleep. No more reading or watching. That has fixed my insomnia.
Wireline EE here. ML in the context of wireline communications has been widely studied (grant money works that way). However, at least in wireline communications there isn’t a lot of gain to be had. This is because we have good physical models of underlying impairments and our ASICS are optimized using those physical models, so ML isn’t able to improve upon that much. Where it can help is where we don’t have good data on underlying physical parameters of the channel. So in this case, you can get a bit more capacity than you would otherwise. So for wireless where you have signal fading and huge variation in multi path interference, maybe there would be benefit as these phenomena are hard to model.

Also, you may not realize but we’ve been using ML techniques for decades in communications. Gradient descent is used to optimize equalizers; maximum likelihood estimation(and equalizer optimization) used for phase estimation in high order QAM. Plenty of other examples. So you probably are already familiar with much of the basic tool kit. I had a wannabe startup founder in ML tell me that there’s no way I could possibly understand the stuff if I didn’t have PhD in that area in CS (I am physics). I just smiled and nodded.
Fair enough. They are trainable to a point from what I understand. I was thinking along the lines of rote memorization.

The main thing people are hoping to measure as I understand it is the quickness with which one learns to recognize patterns and organize concepts. Measuring someone's quickness when they aren't starting from zero will obviously have a bias. Luckily it's easy for field researchers to find people who aren't solving symmetry puzzles in their spare time, or taking courses about abstract algebra.
The majority, when it isn't all, are functionally already out of their jobs. These bridge investments exist to provide the runway gut the company and sell off its assets. I have no real problem with PE firms not getting to do that at the expense of people who the company have promised things to.
>Billboards, TV etc have a lot of laws associated with them which cause the owners to act preemptively. So, it's generally not possible to anonymously post an explicit x rated image on a Billboard or TV commercial due to the people doing manual content reviews. Prime time TV added tape delays and a manual bleep to avoid similar issues.

Sure, we've decided as a society to limit some freedoms for the greater good. You also cannot shout "fire" in a movie theater. We have libel and slander laws. We have laws against harassment.

It's a question of where to draw the line, and I believe censoring legal discourse crosses it.
>None of the locals I've seen, not even the guys on ATVs, sustain the FedEx guy's pace.

Fedex driver probably doesn't own the truck.
Another option is that you spoof your sim card and gps to HK with xposed, and then the wallet will unlock, and if you are lucky enough, it will allow you to directly debit your credit card.

There is some kind of uncertain logic it uses to guess if somebody in HK is an actual Honkonger with a foreign credit card, but rumors are that some card issuers work 100% of times.
401ks are investment vehicles or "buckets" that contain investments, rather than investments themselves, so a 401k's risk level depends entirely on the underlying assets (investments) that it holds. There is nothing inherently more safe about a 401k from an investment perspective compared to any other type of bucket.

Within their 401k, most people hold a higher percentage of stocks (more to gain) earlier in their working life and transition to a higher percentage of bonds (more stability / safety) later in life as they approach retirement.

Good concrete examples of what to hold are Vanguard's funds which are low cost and own the whole stock market because they're index-based. VTSAX for stocks and VBTLX for bonds.

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...

There are also target-date funds (also called target retirement date funds) which automate the transition from stock heavy to bond heavy based on a future retirement date, and you pay extra for this benefit, but BE CAREFUL as many of them charge significantly more fees than doing it yourself.

Vanguard is one of the best (lowest fee), so for example, their TDFs have a 0.13–0.15% expense ratio while the two index funds above have ERs of 0.04% and 0.05% respectively.

It is not uncommon for the more popular mutual fund providers to have radically higher expense ratios in the neighborhood of 1–2%+ (in addition to other more subtle fees). The difference might sound small but compounded over decades, the effect is massive. (There's a reason people working in finance are paid so well.)
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I'm unclear on how the idea of blocking the all sites and services on the internet became part of this conversation.
You can't learn this in a book. You need to put yourself out there (in social settings) and learn through trial and effort. Much like reading books about weight lifting won't make your body grow muscle, you need to actually get inside a gym and put in the work.
Sure it is.

Not everyone is micro-optimizing their code just to save a couple of needless extra ms.

I never, ever since 1993, had to work on a C++ project where stdio vs iostream performance made any worthwhile difference, besides stdio being less secure to use.
> What sort of problems are well-suited to graph databases?

If you have a graph, then a graph database, with built-in graph algorithms, will be able to run operations on your graph without pulling all the data out to a client. I'm not an expert in PostgreSQL but I don't think it has any graph algorithms?
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> Like Silicon Valley Bank, they are geared towards startups

I used Silicon Valley Bank because I had heard this. What that really means is they are geared towards startups with millions in funding from top tier VCs trusted by the bank. Although in my experience, Silicon Valley Bank has great customer service for the stuff they could help me with.
How to do HTTPS with backwards compatibility
Aluminum has some advantages--albeit at a price. [1] though it's not clear cut for a variety of reasons. It's also not just the structure but everything carrying fluids around or making up the suspension system. Corrosion is nasty--I used to be involved with the design and maintenance of offshore drilling rigs--and it's pretty much a constant battle that you never win.

[1] https://www.engineering.com/AdvancedManufacturing/ArticleID/...
It is extremely tough. I left my Civil Engineering career path in 2015 in search of a career in tech. I then applied to graduate school at SMU for an online masters in data science. I am still struggling to find meaningful work, but currently mentoring a data science bootcamp.

This is a very tough track but uf you have software development experience it should be easier to get a role in ML or Data Science.
Go straight to the classic on this topic: The Art of Memory by British historian Frances A. Yates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory
Sounds like there could be a lot of science yet to come!!

From Wiki: at Pluto's distance, a rate of approximately 1 kbit/s per transmitter is expected. Besides the low data rate, Pluto's distance also causes a latency of about 4.5 hours (one-way).

Scientists have a lot more patience than I do!
I totally accept your point about tourist vs. local prices.

But when it comes to credit cards, China is truly different: They don't have Visa or MasterCard (or AmEx) in the country. They do have Union Pay, which is a special, China-only credit card.

So businesses do often take credit cards. They just don't take non-Chinese credit cards.

In this sense, they are different from other countries I've visited.
There are degrees of suffering before you die and you can up the probability that you'll live healthier for longer with some decisions.
> fact that gay marriage is somehow still a debate in America?

Some people also think the Earth is flat. Does that mean that round Earthers are in imminent danger from them?

Being against gay marriage is a very low status belief that one can no longer hold openly in most of polite society. Aren't you satisfied? Does every single rural agricultural worker or person living under a bridge have to agree before you are safe?

> I'd say you would have to be deliberately ignoring the politics of the time which are generally not friendly at all to members of the LGBT community.

Quite contrary. My eyes are wide open. We live in the best time EVER to be gay. Gayness is openly celebrated in the most prosperous places in our society. It's only ridiculed in the dark corners.

> You're creating a situation which somehow equates the author sharing her experiences with homophobia to that of someone who is homophobic. It's a goddamn terrible analogy. Try again.

It absolutely isn't. I have seen time and time again in the gay community an outright phobia against heterosexuals who look or act traditionally straight. It's very unkind to judge people based on their external appearance or sexual preferences. I have learned from experience not to pre judge people. Mostly in that some of the best friends and allies I have are people who I'd have expected to be "bigots."

Kindness and openness towards others begets the same in return.
Living in a completely unsustainable capitalism system, I am surprised how much we're stuck in our own little bubbles.

Personal finance shouldn't even be a thing. We have the capacity to provide every basic need to everyone, but we choose not to, in order to make very few people extremely rich.

Oh well, it's not like anything will ever change (at least while I'm alive)
The difference is that the domestic population of China is large enough to provide plenty of economic activity such that foreign tourists actually don't really move the needle. If you were operating a business, what would you do in that situation? There's not a lot of economic incentive to provide service to foreign tourists.
To be honest, I don't know what the business model would be, but it seems like it should be in the banks long-term best interest to create rich, prosperous people with invest-able funds. They are literally in a position to create their own wealthy customer base.

What would it actually do for a big bank, if it were the exception rather than the rule, that their low/middle-class account holders had enough savings to cover several months of expenses and small/medium emergencies without relying on credit, had a reasonable portfolio of retirement investments, and on their way to being in a financial position to get involved with other kinds of investments, eventually?

The banks could automate all the best practices of personal finance for most their account holders, to make all of the above happen for their average customer. Software is cool like that.

- They could divert a percentage of all deposits to emergency funds by default.

- They could set aside money for expenses, based on your cash-flow history by default.

- They could set aside spending money, also based on your cash-flow history by default.

- They could manage a persons credit debt (think pay minimums while savings/cushion is built, then use the extra cash flow from savings goals into debt payments).

- If the customer dip into savings because your car broke down or something - starting filling up the emergency fund again.

- If credit debt is paid up, savings goals are hit, they could start automatically put portions of savings into low risk long term investments (IRA's etc).

(Simple.com does some of the above kind-of but its a manual process - but quite nice compared to what 21st century online banking has been, so far)

And I'm sure there's much much more - and for the people who do really well, then they can funnel those people into more customized investment approaches. Are market forces so screwy, that all this would actually be bad for the banks bottom line, in the long run?
How are first hand accounts of a psychological phenomenon in an article describing said psychological phenomenon unnecessary?
This is normal behavior among my family. I've always been like this. I also know many people like this. Very odd to hear people needing to vouch that it's real.
Nice! Another pivot story. How did you make it past the Recruiters and their filters? Just with your kaggle portfolio? Any chance you can post a link to your kaggle profile. Congrats on winning Kaggle and that's no mean feat, considering the competition(pun intended).
yes - raising grains for distillers and millers, while coding too. Gets hectic at planting and harvest time!
The article is about over stimulation of the emotion and reward systems of the brain and how negative thoughts can help neutralize that over stimulation. I'm suggesting that same pattern may be represented by a self learned behavior that's adapted to being overexposed to cuteness.
FWIW: I don't buy for a minute that this has anything to do with chinese "culture".

I've seen one of those videos. In it, a group of chinese workers were forging a huge ring. There was indeed something "rednecky" about it, but as far as I could tell as a layman, they were legit forging the part. It's just that instead of all of the robot arms and mechanisms moving the metal around inside a factory (the next video was some German factory doing some similar part) they were using a crane and a forklift outdoors in a dirt yard. OSHA inspectors would crap their pants, but to me it looked like they were doing the same operations.
Even if they cannot get all the data back, I suppose they could do a preliminary analysis onboard and decide what to send back.

It is, in a very broad sense, the same problem we have at the LHC. There is just too much data taken for the available storage and bandwidth.
Actively using ArangoDB. It has good performance and features. The only thing lacking is something akin to “views” but you can always denormalize into another collection albeit managed by the application. Graphs are a very natural way of thinking about entities and relationships and in its simplicity my development sped up. I personally like to try and schema out in MySQL Workbench etc. but if you want to get started doing something you can basically just make a mind-map and that’s effectively your schema, very intuitive and quick. Great for proof of concept.

Oh and the ability to query for shortest path and similar graph computations, and the DB does all the heavy lifting, is super nice.
So, when you log into the Bank of America website, you want to be greeted every time with things like the following?

"Dude, maybe you should sell this car that you're paying $450 per month for and get a $7000 used car."

"Did you know that between starbucks and happy hour you spend an average of $120 per week, and that amounts to 10% of your take-home pay?"

"You currently spend $2500 per month on rent. If you downsize from 2 bedrooms to 1, you can save $X over the next 3 years."
Your question got me thinking, and led me to find this: https://github.com/bitnine-oss/agensgraph "AgensGraph, a transactional graph database based on PostgreSQL"
> With a pension, you own a promise from the employer to pay you a fixed amount. How it does that is (theoretically) none of your concern.

I'm mostly in the dark about the US pension system, so forgive me if the question is a silly one: How is this 'promise' not a legally binding debt, to be repaid as much as possible by the selling of assets during bankruptcy?
Well, to be pedantic, they do have Visa and Mastercard credit cards. Otherwise, it'd be really hard for their citizens to experience the world as tourists. But due to capital outflow restrictions, these credit cards are a bit limited.
Yes. You pay money to withdraw from your WeChat wallet into your (Chinese) bank account.

I've never had to do this, because I'm a foreigner, and thus cannot remove money from there.

Besides, WeChat is sitting on a pile of cash, thanks to this payment system: Everyone who transfers money into their WeChat wallet is basically giving TenCent (the WeChat company) money they can use to invest, or whatever they want. I've heard that they have about $60 billion at their disposal thanks to this, but I don't know where I read this and it's hard to know how accurate it is. But given that everyone in China uses WeChat payments, I wouldn't doubt it.

When I left China on Saturday night, I still had 600 RMB in my wallet. That money will remain there until my next visit, currently scheduled for April. I've effectively loaned 600 RMB to WeChat, which they can use however they want for four months. Multiplied over many users, that's potentially quite a bit.
fwiw, I have no problem with JSX, but the React documentation itself [1] suggests using react-hyperscript, which (along with hyperscript-helpers) makes a very nice syntax:

div([
div([
p([
a({ href: "foo" }, "Link")
])
])
])

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/react-without-jsx.html
It's best not to take your own experiences with acceptance about literally any matter whatsoever and use it as a lens to fathom what it's like for other people.
Re: From 2003 to 2013, it slightly trailed the country in GSP growth...

CA was one of the hardest hit states in terms of the mortgage bubble, and thus had a slow recovery. Newer data would probably show better results as the effects of the bubble are dissipating.

But the hollowing out of the middle is a common pattern just about everywhere in the "mature industrialized world". The loss of factory jobs and loss of mom-and-pop stores due to the Internet is part of the reason, but may not be all of it. It seems to be growing into a winner-take-all world. Warren Buffett admitted his fund can take risks others can't because it has lots of companies in it to buffer against specific losses. And the big tech co's have a big portfolio of patents to use against startups that threaten them. Even if the claims are dubious, the sheer volume of lawsuits can end a smallbie: "courtroom DOS attack". Being big helps you to get bigger.
Not mentioned in the post but I'm assuming you're using O0 for "debug"? It may be worthwhile to reconsider as O0 is now considered to be a tool for compiler authors & regular people should use -Og (or opt-level 1 for Rust) as a way of generating builds that have performance optimizations applied that don't impact debugging.