skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with what you just said on the basis of I know too many PhDs who can't change a tire. I think there's a lot of value in knowing how to do things, especially in the US where hiring someone to do work for you is super expensive and in the case of home improvements, often difficult to schedule anyone to show up at all.
It wasn't just the Nobel, though. Her contribution was largely ignored until quite recently.
I agree this is a double standard - maybe we as educated people in this forum can move past arguing gender semantics in 2019?

Can't wait for someone to try and guess my gender through HN... Maybe we should add a HN eula that states users must assume all other users are of a non-binary gender identity...
One interesting thing to note is that ResNet152 is deeper than VGG19 but has less number of FLOPS
I recommend finding an independent eye practice - independent ophthalmology practices are common and likely to also have optometrists on staff - and getting a printed prescription from your exam. This lets you sidestep the Luxottica monopoly completely when you take your prescription to an online vendor like 39dollarglasses.com. You can easily get two pairs of glasses with the full suite of antireflective coatings for less than the copay you'd pay buying glasses at retail with insurance.
That's almost never the case. It's not some evil cabal in a boardroom deciding to do bad things. It's almost always a combination of tons of societal and cultural factors that compound on each other.

You can imagine that their mid-level manager probably didn't fight for them as hard, perhaps due to some bias. Said manager may have evaluated said employee more harshly in yearly reviews as well without realizing it.

Their peers may have essentially done the same, lowering their perceived performance. Their peers may have also essentially boxed them out, making it more difficult to succeed.

Projects may have been handed to employees that were not underrepresented. This happens often, and is a strong motivator for career growth.

The hiring manager(s) originally responsible for bringing on the employee may have used algorithms or generally biased data that showed them the potential hire could be acquired at a low salary.

These are only small pieces of the puzzle, and may or may not be part of what happened at Oracle. They're all small/insidious factors that may not even be detectable or measurable at an individual level, but if you pay attention to larger trends, you can start to see them.
Immigration isn't a constant force of nature. It will never go to net zero, but who's to say that as opportunities improve elsewhere and fertility drops, immigration might not drop to replacement level?
I would rather get same priced new MacBook Air, better touch pad, better screen, better OS and better battery life.
Easy to get it installed, difficult to trouble shoot. But now that I figured it out I can breeze through it.
I'm curious about the Killer wifi cards as I've never heard of them and I've always had issues with the Intel wifi cards in my Thinkpads. I went so far as to buy USB wifi for those times when the Intel one wouldn't work. Basically I'm saying that when I first saw it I was happy to see it wasn't Intel, but you are saying it's worse?

[edit] Oh... and you can get the 16G model without the 4K display. Just select the i7/8G model and upgrade it.
> neurons in the network are simplified mathematical representations.

That is the important difference. A biological neuron is more like a cell in the cell automaton (Conway's game of life). It is a dynamic process, even if the dynamics change by a small factor, it could have a very different behaviour. Artificial neurons on the other hand are much more uniform and lack the time dimension. If you account for dynamics, then learning in the brain is a completely different thing than learning in neural nets. It has been proven that Hebbian learning (local plasticity of synapses) approximates gradient based learning, though in simulation it attains lower accuracies.

Another observation was that biological neural nets don't have a mechanism to communicate gradients back. But a deep learning experiment proved you can have fixed random back connections and the network will still learn. They don't actually need to be symmetrical connections.

The real mystery is about loss functions. Such a loss function would have to be computed in a distributed fashion in the brain. They are the origin of the learning signal. The brain has many such loss functions that have been discovered by evolution. We have not understood loss functions well enough, and understanding them would be a huge leap forward.

Another important observation is that the brain learns from the environment, not a fixed training set. Environments are richer sources, and our current crop of AI agents are playing all sorts of games, but they never have the same complexity as real world. Btw, tomorrow DeepMind will make a Starcraft demo.
Check out imercer.com. Depending on how you look at it it may start to look like a a middleman for cartels.
I bet this is a typical story across the board in US. The "salesman (or woman)" are just that. They are barely trained as technician in this field. But they are trained to sell.
I've been looking at this too. I have a new app I've been working on which is similar to both Zotero and Mendeley.

https://getpolarized.io/

It looks like they're "encrypting" by saying that there is some sort of GDPR requirement when in reality it's more plausible that they're trying to lock in users.
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It's not really spam when it's a legitimately helpful comment.
An algorithm optimizes on something, that something is set by humans. Full stop.

We've already seen naive "content-neutral" engagement-preference algorithms fail spectacularly (russian propaganda on facebook, elsagate on youtube, etc).

The more naive the algorithm, the easier it is for outsiders to manipulate by gaming inputs to the data stream.
Did not know that. Honestly I would pay a bit more for Intel wireless vs. Killer. Thanks.
Venture capitalists see a whisp of smoke and dump a truckload of firewood on the first embers.

They want a big bonfire asap, and don’t really care if they end up extinguishing the flames instead.
I grew up in a suburb. It's important to remember that kids are closer to the ground. Shrubbery. Slates and what burrows beneath. Trees—the texture of the bark and the vestibular effects of climbing. Ice on the ground in this season, the smell of gasoline and grass in another, and the detritus of illegal fireworks after a holiday.

Seeing strangers. Seeing new strangers. Seeing the same old strangers every day until those strangers are recognized as neighbors.

Just being in that world is an experience of wonder and learning.
I think you're right that being really good at HTML/CSS/design is hard AND being really good at writing complicated UI code in JS is hard. They're both hard problems (or can be!). Where I disagree is that moving from an expertise in one to another is asymmetric (JS -> HTML/CSS [easy], HTML/CSS -> JS [hard]). I think it just depends on a person's interests. Some people really only care about the complicated logic so they'll stick to the JS side of things. Some really only care about design and visual aspect so they'll stick to HTML/CSS. Some people can do both very well. And of course there's a million permutations in between. What matters the most I think is whether a person's interested. If a person is interested they'll learn anything eventually. That and likely they'll learn it better than someone who's not interested who's had more time/experience.

I think when you're going to hire someone you should try and screen for interest in the things you need them to do. That and screen for a proven ability to learn things quickly (cognitive ability). That or you take a calculated risk when hiring.
Women who do negotiate aggressively are often less likely to be granted what they ask for, also. There’s a new study I recall that women ask for raises at the same rate as men but are not granted raises at the same rate as men.
There are market research firms that specialize in this area. It's useful to have such information, so it has monetary value - money presumably saved by underpaying or avoiding overpaying your workers. It's not something the average employee would afford in money and effort to research.

It's a good question how the data is obtained. Maybe through mutual data sharing agreements in exchange for access? Anyway, I've see such reports for my country, with very detailed breakdowns for job types, seniority, broad technology area, forecasts etc.
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"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."[0]

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."[0; emphasis mine]

"Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data."[0; emphasis mine]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
...that's entirely the point. In one instance he is claiming it is manipulated by humans, in the next he is saying that it is math driven. He's changing his description of how algorithms work depending on the situation.
I downvoted you. He’s stating facts/info and answering a question. He’s not telling you what you should prefer. Unnecessarily argumentative.
Before we throw huge money, we have to make sure we are really using it the best way. These ever larger colliders are big investments. The Higgs was an obvious hole missing in the puzzle, let's find another obvious hole in the puzzle.
Why the revolt over HN?
There is a new company out there that solves the cost problem by offering advanced hearing aids with a remote care from an audiologist using video conference (vs. a doctor's office visit). A friend of a friend loves their device and said that service was really good too. http://listenlively.com
I think it's a rejection of “AI can't be racist”—if humans can be racist, the AI systems they employ can also be racist.
Not that weird. There are lots of employees and the big bosses tend to only see birds-eye views like project/staffing budgets. They care if a team of 10 costs 2.5m/year. They don't dig into why unless they have a problem with the budget to begin with.
Do you know what happened during the housing boom in the US? The 1950 to 1960 was one of the biggest housing explosions in the US. As well as one of the biggest population explosions with the population growing some 20% in those 10 years. This [1] is the population of the largest cities in the US in 1950. This [2] is their population in 1960. You might notice something quite interesting. The population of nearly all major cities declined!

The housing boom was not people building up residential areas inside of well developed cities. It was people accepting some sacrifice and moving outside of cities into areas where previously there was nothing. This is a big part of the reason why housing was so cheap. It also helped keep city housing prices low since it had a [quite extreme] depressing effect on demand.

The reason I mention this is because when you build houses in the middle of nowhere you don't often have to go far to find more nowhere. Everywhere you look is just row and row of cookie cutter houses, then a 2 mile bike trip and you're in the 'wild lands'. Lots of children got to grow up in these exact sort of areas. I had the fortune of getting to spend some brief part of my childhood in an area like this, and then most of the rest in an ultra urban area apartment in the middle of the city. Suffice to say, I won't be raising my kids in the middle of a city!

[1] - https://www.biggestuscities.com/1950

[2] - https://www.biggestuscities.com/1960
But also lacks a developer edition.

There's at least some value in that guarantee that you won't run into any driver issues.
Sure, but a GitHub Gist is like a StackOverflow answer. You’re not supposed to just copy/paste it in your code: you read it, understand the principles behind it and then apply it in your codebase.
I’ve managed a few eyewear stores in Australia and it is important to not forget that the dispensing, fitting and quality checking of eyewear is time consuming if you don’t want to half-arse it. I’ve never worked in the very high end stores, but whoever is rolling in money, it wasn’t us.
This argument is particularly badly formed. Tests are your application but you are testing for correctness not speed. In theory your tests could exercise as quickly as possible as many unique operations as a customer could perform in hours of normal use. You would never want this to take hours.
I have an app similar to Zotero (Polar) and we don't sync with cloud services either.

It's a bit of an anti-feature. We can't really control the data store if you're monkeying around with it under the hood.

Polar already supports cloud sync so we encourage users to use that. Same with Zotero I imagine.

- The lack of developers and thus slow pace of improvement.

Do you mean the dev pace of Zotero is slow? I wonder if their legacy infra is slowing them down.
But why do you need that on a laptop? Just run it on a server.

If you work for a employer with deep pockets I guess sure why not? Otherwise a workstation you can remote connect to (if you work from home or travel) is probably good enough.
Oh look, a guy trying to be helpful while making some money mentions his product on a fucking tech-news website run by a famous startup incubator and you idiots want to report it?

Classy.

This is especially stupid considering the entrenched eyeglass industry is a monopoly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7H-_8UkmFU

Basically, this guy can't NOT be helpful
Is it just me, or are attacks on "capitalism" really annoying? I feel like it is a straw man army that does nothing but socially signal. Capitalism doesn't function without regulation and neither is capitalism anathema to socialism or even communism (e.g., China). So, attacks on capitalism are vague and counterproductive. What are you saying -- that you want to eliminate markets? That you want to outlaw the profit motive? Inane.
If there is more information in the embedding than the baseline Generator is extracting, then adding in Convolutions between the Transpose Convolution blocks will certainly add more parameters the model could use to learn that.

Since the question is about training speed though, in general, larger models require more data which requires more time to train, so you'd actually increase both your data requirements, and time required to train.
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Intel Ark claims 32GB limit in the first place for Kaby Lake Refresh chips but Campuspoint tested 32GB sticks (64GB) with the T480 and it worked. Indeed, it seems every Intel chip supporting DDR4 SO-DIMM supports 32GB sticks.
We use Okta internally where I work and it's been fairly smooth as far as the end user experience. I'm sure it hasn't been perfect but it's always a pleasure having one sign on for everything

My team did use Okta React briefly for an internal project but we couldn't get it to play nicely with Cypress (e2e testing) so we ended up removing it sadly.

I'm pretty sure we had just implemented it incorrectly though since we were still getting to grips with React at the time (as a team that previously had little to no combined UI experience) :)
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Never to be mentioned: All of the engineers who won’t work at Google because of what they did to Damore.

Techies aren’t as politically mono cultural as this (and most other pieces) would have you believe. Many would happily build something for ICE as another example.
Think about all the times you've told a recruiter/hiring manager your previous salary (don't, btw). Think about the HR teams and such at your company that have access.

Shrewd people can get this data, especially if they're willing to pay for it.
Matching skills with ideas
I don't think variadic functions are uncommon. Try Idris - not only it has them, but you can actually statically typecheck the arguments against the format string - all in regular code, with no special help from the compiler!
Regarding the 11-yr-old laptop I would be interested to know not only the compile time but also the storage required, e.g. size of src tree plus any tmp space required, etc.

I like to compile kernels using memory-backed filesystem without any persistent storage mounted. This helps with speed.

For example, with BSD, I only need about 200 MB RAM to produce a more-than-adequate kernel (about 17 MB).

One of the benefits of doing "development" on old hardware IMO is that the programs I write on the old machines is guaranteed to be very fast on the new machines. I can move these programs back and forth between machines without worrying about performance.

If I only used new machines to write programs, e.g., small, relatively simple ones, then I could not be sure that they would run well on the older machines.
That's not how it works out in real life. For example, in Congress all staffer salaries are open. There are still huge differences for the same position and people don't revolt over being paid less. They also don't jump ship when they find out.
I didn't realise there was a full time team as well. As I said I am grateful it exists, and advocate for Zotero to be the preferred option for nearly all opportunities.

It is fair to say though that it isn’t as well resourced as others, and is also starting from behind. As long as that momentum continues it should eventually be the de facto solution (iff Mendeley are going to make user unfriendly choices), but as yet I don't think it is comparable to the behemoths like R that have maturity and continuous development and thus are superior in every possible way to the paid alternatives (Stata, SPSS).
Apparently if you shove in a lot of garbage, subject it to a decision making process nobody can explain in detail, out the other end comes magic reliable data that if you question you obviously just have an agenda.
Are Asians underrepresented at Harvard? Or if you’re referring to something else, can you elobarate?
I feel like a writer once discussed the power that exists in limiting and controlling the language used in public discourse... /s
How does that address the parent commenter’s assertion? Discrimination, whether intended or not, has the same outcome for the discrimated party.
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing that link.
> I haven't met a dev who doesn't find terminals worlds quicker than hunting and pecking in a GUI.

There's a billion Windows users out there, do you think there's 0 developers amongst them? :)
Almost no present software will run acceptably on a 486 since machines orders of magnitude faster are available at walmart for $300 the question of what software would is mostly academic.
Point taken. But still, the imagery of an automobile flying is what I've always thought of when I heard the phrase "flying car". Not a plane that can be driven.
There are companies out there who organize salary surveys.

Every company pays in a bit to cover the costs/overhead with putting together a market report, and also submit the job titles and salaries of their workers. Possibly more data too, but I'm not certain. E.g. time with the company or years of relevant experience would be very handy.
Nothing is impossible. Move to the Netherlands. Amazon has almost no precense here (yet) :)
Maybe that's because a single company controls 80% of the market:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7H-_8UkmFU

(it's an Adam Ruins Everything about the eyeglass industry)
Should we just keep the government shut and replace it with AI?
Did the original version use forks and spaghetti? I was taught chopsticks and rice, which makes more sense to me; you clearly need two chopsticks to pick up rice, but you don't need two forks for anything, let alone spaghetti.

Obviously the metaphor doesn't bear close inspection in any version, but that bugged me a bit.
Why? What's wrong with not letting them come in the first place? It would create
more opportunities for people already here, and increase demand for education
that leads into this career.
Right. Except that you have to buy eyeglasses if you want those numbers. The app will not tell them to you, and the frames alone are $349, not counting lenses. Total price starts at $600 and goes up. So, no thanks. I'll pass.
Doesn't Walmart do this without a membership? How do they get away with it?
So I work over a home PC, work PC, and a laptop. I'm already paying for limitless Google Drive, so want to use that. It kind of works, but is not a simple option - you have to set certain directories to sync, and not others (otherwise: corruption). I'm guessing box is similar?
You’re not alone: I have the 9360, too, and experienced 6 of your 8 listed problems (the battery replacement I haven’t tried, and the heat I never noticed).
In an age when people doxx you and call your employer to ask them to fire you because you upset their delicate sensibilities, it is somewhat understandable to be paranoid.
chrome://cast works fine for me on MacOS/Chrome 71 without being signed in to a Google account.
It is a really good book (apart from the exception I had with the Aswan Dam section). Concise and funny. Something you want on your reference shelf when studying systems.
Some aren't public providers it's just a webapp you can do nearly anything you want.
As far as DRM goes it isn't really a problem since it's easily solvable on any device you use, for devices they can use the built-in DRM, for computers it's already a browser anyhow so you have the OS and browser level DRM.

And you know what even if you aren't going to stream through the Plex app itself which is easily achievable how hard it is to just make the search API accessible and then simply have links like netflix://f9dd2846-cda5-49a0-bb19-fb9ba5b0521d for one click streaming?

The trailers, recaps and episode data is publicly available any how e.g. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70300800

All I want is for a basic API that would allow you to search then use these links to launch the stream through your account I don't care in which app it actually streams, this can be solved by an intern in an afternoon and it's mind boggling why it hasn't been done yet.
If there exists a scenario where it fails then yes, it is impossible. Just because something works the way you intend it to in some specific case doesn't mean it works in the general case (and the general case is what matters here.)
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Have you checked out Vudu? The catalog is pretty large.
Can't comment on Zotero but in Polar we have a similar issue where we need to move over the PDFs. We're going to start using hard links so at least if it's on the same drive you can have the same copy just in two different places.
You're right. It's also because we live in 1st world conditions, and once your basic needs are met, we strive to address the higher ones, like fulfillment and meaning.

I've worked with programmers who live in 3rd world countries like the Philippines, and notice a huge difference in the way they treat their job. When I give them a boring task, they don't ask what is this for, or why am I doing this? They just do it - on the flip side, they don't care about the product, or the company mission. I'm not saying this because it's good or bad, but this is just what I've noticed.
I'd add "working on a monolith java app, along with running Node, IntelliJ and occasionally a VM with Gitlab in it" to the list of domains that require enthusiast grade specs. Oh, and slack.