skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you could get access to the actual models that are being used to run e.g. Google Translate, but if you just want a big pretrained model as a starting point, their research departments release things pretty frequently.

For example, https://github.com/google-research/bert (the multilingual model) might be a pretty good starting point for a translator. It will probably still be a lot of work to get it hooked up to a decoder and trained, though.

There's probably a better pretrained model out there specifically for translation, but I'm not sure where you'd find it.
YC is obviously very successful and has funded a total of companies worth over $100B. It makes sense that, if you have something that's working, you expand it.

I see the latest offering of another new early interview round in NYC as proof of this. As a YC applicant myself, I'm glad that they want to fund more companies.
OK, I read your link. I don't see anything in it matching your claims. What I see is a list of dogwhistles being called out as dogwhistles. If you have a complaint based on actual behaviors, they'll still investigate it. What they won't do is waste time investigating the formulaic nonsense spewed by people seeking to attack those who are calling out bad behavior. But pay close attention. They are talking about the form of a complaint. If you have a complaint that takes the form of "this behavior is abusive," it will still be considered.

For what it's worth, I have no doubt that trolls have tried to hide behind claims of being oppressed before. But I have never seen a systemic case of it creating immunity from criticism. I have seen a couple individuals who think they get away with it, but only on venues that don't make systemic efforts to enforce good behavior, like Twitter.

Do you have a specific example of a troll being shielded by github's policies?

> > If you believe that anyone seeks to harass you on the basis of being white.

> Gonna have to stop you right there. You don't know anything about my ethnicity, and it does not matter. You need to be able to make a point without falling back on that.

Gonna have to ask that you read what I wrote. Like, the very first word. "If". I was adding a special note in case your situation matches the hypothetical. If your situation does not match, you have not caught me. I made no assumptions. I added context for a common case among all likely readers on this site.

For further context, I'm a middle-aged white man. I used to think about these issues in a way that would make me say things very similar to what you have been saying.

In my case, that's because I was sheltered and unaware how many advantages I had. I was only aware of a few glaring disadvantages. As I grew up, I noticed there were some groups of people I offended systematically, even when I didn't mean to. By my early 30s, I had finally seen this enough to acknowledge that the problem was me. I made an effort to learn as much as I could about why people disagree with me.

I kept an open mind, I accepted that my ignorance was damaging to people I didn't understand, and I broadened my understanding in order to stop it. You know, the rational approach to one's own ignorance.

Oh, wait, those are condescending platitudes. Except they're also a non-condescending description of exactly what I did.

Heres the thing - your viewpoint is nothing new to me. I used to agree with it. But then I added more information, and I found I couldn't agree with it anymore. I deeply regret how long it took me to finally notice these blatant things about how the world works.

And I've got a structural postscript - I'm not replying to you to try to change your mind. I'm asking you, and everyone else reading who agrees with you a bit, to be willing to question your assumptions. You don't need to change your mind. But at least be willing to accept that some of those who disagree with you do because they started where you are and then learned more.
Tart – terminal art program
Most open software that is not vender provided will run on RISC-V. Meaning no matter if Google or Microsoft, that stuff will work.

It want use their proprietary extensions but often I don't really care about that and if they pay for developing or updating all open source software so it runs on their extension then that's fine also.
Hi. Cloudflare GC here. Some informed comments here. Feel free to AMA.
I’m currently development manager (or whatever the proper English title may be) of a small team putting the last touches on a niche BI product. We have our first relevant customer and of course had to do some crunch time for a week away from our companies office to some parts.
Other than that I don’t WANT us to work overtime but to stay healthy in every way, that means if you have a burning you can of course check in something in the evening, but I’ll message you, thanking you for your work and reminding you that you are supposed to spend the evening with your kids / mso. We may need to work overtime for a while to fix some fuckup one day, but until then I‘d consider it a bad sign.
Never heard of the Shell Theorem, great way to explain it With a very simplified example: a picture frame
Thank you for saying this, I was worried of what I would see once I came back for the comments. The signal-to-hyperbole ratio is near zero.
It's basically standard practice for any business to negotiate tax breaks for building in one place rather than another. I'm not going to spend any real amount of time tracking down theoretically publicly available documents on these deals. Sure the records exist, but I have no knowledge of a database I can search, and I'm not putting in a FOIA request.

Here's an article discussing the topic at large[0] (and Google is one of the beneficiaries here).

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/02/us-cities-and...
That's awesome - thanks for sharing your story. I think one of the key points that I was trying to get across is that you don't need to live the narrative that the world tells you is right and instead progress with what works for you.

Even if you didn't start your company out of pure passion, it ended up becoming that for you. Congrats
This was a toy company without tech founders. I'm surprised that Mark Cuban didn't say so on Shark Tank.
56% is not a resounding endorsement, though, especially for such a big-ticket giveaway that the city absolutely does not need.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
I'm not sure why they would use the USD as the backing for such a thing over say Gold/Silver, etc. Say 1oz gold at X level purity for every coin. Bringing back the Fort Knox currency backing would imho be much stronger than any fiat currency.
I don't mean the blockchains, I mean the users. What if someone makes a typo?

I'm not a part of the US economy though.
Embrace & extend are a big danger indeed. We might be headed into an era where there aren't a few well-understood proprietary ISAs but instead there are lots of badly understood proprietary ISAs that base on some open source core.
It is rarely labeled that way so the history of the animal doesn't come into play when purchasing.

When people think animal cruelity they think beating your family dog vs the state of factory farming or organic farming.
All freelancers should learn how to quickly assemble a simple SaaS (e.g. Bootstrap + Flask + Stripe) and then quickly implement a version of whatever they were doing in their paid projects (making sure it's legal ofc) and expose it as an SaaS using their SaaS template. They can even form a separate Delaware LLC for each of them, once the SaaS is built they can just try to sell it; lots of money there as well as not many people can build a company from the scratch.
> “Finding a problem” in sales is very commonly a euphemism for creating the perception of a problem that the customer did not perceive before the sellers efforts.

Yes, but that just omits the crucial distinction between an actual problem that the customer did not perceive before the seller's efforts, and a spurious problem that the customer did not perceive before the seller's efforts.

> The distinction you propose is vacuous.

If that's the way you are using the words "pain and fear", that's your choice. But it's not the way I understood those words. I took those words to be referring to a particular kind of problem, the kind for which the customer can be made to feel that they absolutely need a solution, instead of just that they would like to have one. And that distinction is not vacuous, because it explains why the tactic of convincing the customer to perceive a spurious problem might work a lot better if the perceived (but spurious) problem is of the first kind rather than the second.
Trump to sign border bill, declare emergency: McConnell
What is it with women these days that they don't understand about biological clock and the joy of having children. Is the feminist propaganda so strong that people forgot the basic premises of life? This woman is going to be lonely and sad for most of her lifetime.
Reading the quote in context:

> Isn’t SQL a programming language? It is, but it’s declarative. You specify the outputs you want (i.e. which columns from your table you want to pull), but not how those columns are actually returned to you. SQL abstracts a lot of what’s going on under the covers of a database.

You want a procedural language, one where you have to specify how and where the data is selected from. Most modern languages are procedural: Java, Python, Scala, R, Go, etc.

The author is trying to contrast fully Turing complete languages with a declarative domain specific language like SQL. (Yes, I know that some extensions provided by various database implementations make SQL Turing-complete.) Unfortunately, the word she chose to express this is already a term-of-art in the programming language world which means something different. Luckily, we're all charitable readers, so we can correct on the fly and understand what she meant.
are chess players required to write down their moves?

or could the event organizers set up some overhead cameras

or make a smart board

and automate the entire thing that way?
That's very cool. Thank you!
Gifted education is, I believe, an area that has rather too much funding compared to gifted mental health services. (Mental health services generally, of course, but often gifted children are functional long enough and just enough that debilitating conditions that have nothing to do with intelligence, but could end their life, are not identified in them.)

A lot of the gifted education policy discourse seems to treat gifted children as resources where the yield must be increased. But they are, like all children, humans and the primary problem of their condition is not "not achieving according to their ability", but indeed it is suffering. Policy should strive to address, first, suffering, and only then be concerned with achievement. (Again, as with all children. For example, this is what is done with education for children that don't have the intellectual abilities for regular schooling.) And I don't really wish to tell actual experiences here, but gifted children have plenty of suffering that is not simply due to being bored in school or not told they're smart often enough.
Ya know, draftbit.com is in beta right now and offers some pretty complex styling of React Native screens without messing with code. Although no way to import data... yet ;)
People like AOC love pushing these types of these well-intentioned top-down gov economic engineering policies which claim to help the little guy (or the environment in this case) but ultimately either do the opposite and largely just create inefficient systems, promoting graft and cronyism, and generally making us worse-off than before. Often they work for a short period of time before the entire marketplace figures out how to exploit it or work around it. Rinse and Repeat.

Despite constant evidence that it continually fails to do what they claimed and keeps profiting large politically connect companies, at what point to we start rejecting the whole concept in the first place?

Are we continually supposed to believe the next time will be better? The next politician will be more honest and competent? The next batch of over-committed way-too-late patch work of policy with fix the thousand leaks of the boat which they largely generated in the first place?
Yeah, it's really insane. I think I might get more spam "upgrade" offers from Spectrum than I do all other mail combined...
>"70% of New Yorkers support our plans and investment, a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence"

While I'm skeptical about this claim about 70% of NYers supporting this, if it's true, then they should do a better job of voting.
You have to ask yourself, why is a retail company (which started as an online bookstore) in the least bit interested in the police business?

This is a disturbing trend. It seems that, as tech companies get larger, they are giving themselves over to the surveillance state with ever more enthusiasm.
I mentioned Cadillac because it's a textbook case of a brand that has gone through a long life cycle.

My grandfather, a retired bricklayer who immigrated from Poland, would drive nothing but a Cadillac in the 1980s and he was by no means rich. Many people his age drove them, particularly if they were from populations attacked by Germans in WWII such as Italian, Jewish, etc. A similar prejudice existed towards Japanese cars in the U.S. and in parts of Asia violated by Japan.

That was good for Cadillac for a while, but it became associated with old people and objectionable people (like my uncouth neighbors or my relatives who get the beat down from time to time in bars or parking garages)

GM has busted their ass and has had some success at keeping Cadillac successful despite that.

Thus Cadillac is a good base for a "theory of luxury car marketing," and calling a "BMW" a "Cadillac" is a bit like calling a "Pepsi" a "Coke".
I think your conclusion is too strong. Yes, we know bigger models and data generally lead to better performance (e.g. BigGAN results last year) but progress in architecture can still speed up progress in ML tasks. If we were still stuck using RNNs and LSTMs for language modeling we wouldn't be talking about this news today.
what you're missing, that's obvious, is that blockchain is a solution looking for a problem where none exists. The word was imbued with virtue, and at this point blockchain has come to mean 'virtuous database'
Its absolutely a goal of RISC-V to make it friendly to good bootloaders and there are lots and lots of discussion going on how these interfaces should look.

This stuff is still in flux but go into working groups for privilege architecture and security and you will see all these discussions.

RISC-V was never and will never be designed with the goal of eliminating royalties.
Correct. Especially since it’s centralized, they could have used any secure form of asymmetric encryption to offer the same guarantees
Oh, don't get me wrong - solar power generation is fantastic in areas that can support it (Which is most of the world.)

Rooftop solar power generation is what I have an issue with. Utility-scale solar has all the advantage that you cited, without the disadvantages of being incredibly labour-intensive, overcomplicating the electric grid, and offloading long-term maintenance to non-experts.

If you are going 100% off-the grid, then yes, local installations may be cheaper (Because they don't include the cost of maintaining the grid.)

However, you'll still have to maintain a national grid - because not all buildings or businesses have the rooftop capacity, or the hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital to install enormous battery blocks.

So, what ends up happening, is that a few people drop off the system, and raise prices for everyone else - including people who don't have the option to drop off the grid. My building, for instance, houses 40 units. It has four times the rooftop capacity of an average home. No amount of battery storage is ever going to let it be grid-independent. Other residences dropping off the grid, completely, just shift costs around - they wont reduce overall costs.
Oh, absolutely, the meaning is perfectly clear! I just want to see a Scala programmer cry.
It worked out for Amazon. The biggest goals of HQ2 were to get around barriers to further growth and development in Seattle and to hedge against the risk of further populist backlash in Seattle. The fact that a populist backlash in New York happened so suddenly demonstrated that NY suffers the same afflictions as Seattle.
It's becoming ever more certain that the transformer architecture is one of the largest contributions to AI (not merely machine learning, but AI), often beating LSTMs despite LSTMs being expressive enough to capture Turing Equivalence (at least in theory). Its main ideas are three: shorter paths help gradient flow, the training setup and the final key aspect, unhelpfully called self-attention. Self-attention is better thought of as a form of similarity gated key-value soft memory on which learning operations allows Transformers to learn non-trivial programs with contextual weights look-ups.

I also notice reported tries, suggesting some level of curation. While this level of generation is undoubtedly impressive and a sign of non-trivial levels of understanding, the ability to project along arbitrary dimensions of similarity at a fine-grained level and to learn from text instruction is more useful than text generation. Although the unicorn story was a really fun read, better than many humans already, I doubt it could have gone on for much longer. It maintains a theme but not coherently or fluently (see especially the Kennedy nanotech and recycling examples, comparing the dis-fluency there versus the excellence of the Civil War report suggest at least some over-fitting). These relatively minor caveats aside, this is unambiguously an outstanding result.

Winograd Schemas are the single metric to track if interested in understanding how language understanding is truly improving. OpenAI reports 71% and wrongly report the previous record as 63%. The current record here is at 65% https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard though not fully comparable. Will OpenAI be submitting? Note that you can get to 60% using about 1-2 orders of magnitude less data and compute.

It concerns me that results here are so far dependent on such large data and computation. However, based on several papers I've read, I do not believe this to be inherent even in transformers. I plan to do some experiments on this when I free up some bandwidth.

If everyone is pulled in by the glamour of working for a well funded, prestigious operation then it should be no surprise that they do not consider paths which operate on several orders of magnitude less data and computational resources.

We all should consider bringing about a group of researchers who swear to an austere computational life of a single GPU, no more than 4-8x average RAM and CPUs that do not cross 90 Watts. The Bicameral Order would be a good name for such a group.
What did you do in that 5 weeks to make it profitable?
Other businesses can move into those spaces and will end up paying more in taxes. Property values will go up slower. Having one company move in sounds great but diversity might be a better longterm strategy.
Definitely very appealing to anyone who already has money in wealthfront and can live with there money potentially not being accessible for 1-3 days. Its crazy how little the banks offer. My current bank gave my account a special status after maintaining a high account balance for a few months. The benefits I gained are slightly better deals on services at the bank (ex 25% extra cash back, or some small percentage off a new mortgage interest rate). In comparison, the return I would get on the amount if I put it in any 2%+ savings account is far more. Doesn't look like my bank will be keeping that money for long.
Or, in other words, current coin offerings build workaround of such entities into their value proposition. But there's also a class of potential consumers for whom that might be an anti-value. JPMorgan seems like they're willing to test that potential market.
1. Go to your nearest finance department, either in the company you're working for or a relative's company, whatever.

2. Find a specific task that they're using Excel to accomplish.

3. Make a web app that reduces their clicks and typing into Excel.

4. Charge whatever you want-- they will pay.
I agree. At best the argument that you can trust "smart" people is circular: that smartness is a socially constructed measure of how "good/right/clever" everyone else finds your thinking. so in general people will endorse the opinions of those they endorse as "smart people"
Also Blackbird holds at least 73 other patents [1], some notably shitty, with which to sue the next poor sap. The sap doesn't even need to require buttock lift support [2] (I am NOT making this up!), for example, in order to be sued and perhaps pay the extortion fee out of court to be rid of it.

The system is broken.

1. https://www.cloudflare.com/blackbirdpatents
2. https://patents.google.com/patent/US7081036
UEFI is a pretty terrible firmware and a huge mess. HP ported it for RISC-V but they seem to have lost interest.

The open source firmware people like are however doing a lot, coreboot, u-boot, linuxboot and so on. There are discussions ongoing about how to design the low level interfaces.
the site uses many algorithms some of which are AI-based. AI does not always kick in or in other words its results are not always ranked higher. Try this search - https://aidomainsearch.com/?search=z . as you can see brand and composite have ai capabilities. We want to use ai more extensively in future.
Calling them tech companies is really stretching the meaning of the word, so yes. Unfortunately, the term stuck for some reason.
Indeed; don't forget the follower databases (read replicas that can be upgraded to master).
Still matters in many embedded applications.
100% this, "If anything being highly intelligent makes it much easier to rationalize a ridiculous belief system."