skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case the DRM code running in your PC is in a hostile environment. That is someone else's code running on my host and fearing me. The dynamic is exactly as I described. The question is: Whose code are you going to run on your machine? And why is there a trust issue?

We've already seen the Sony rootkit fiasco, so it doesn't seem unfair to say one should not trust what DRM providers are doing. We should definitely not let their malicious garbage run in a secure onclave where you can't tell what it's doing as suggested by these researchers.
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>But in the end the benefits of open standards and interoperability made public networks more useful than a walled garden.

The world has swung the other way. If I want restaurant reviews, I need yelp/tripadvisor/googlemaps/facebook to access each database of reviews. To order a delivery meal I need ubereats/doordash/grubhub/postmates/amazon. To compare taxi prices, I need to open uber and lyft, and to rent a scooter I need a new app in each city. To send a message I need fbmessenger/whatsapp/skype/hangouts. Even Match Group keeps its subsidiaries as silos, instead of allowing interop. It probably actually INCREASES peoples desire to hop around the different products, knowing they dont work together. If gmail and outlook didnt work, id be more likely to have both. Open standards and interoperability made public networks more useful, but now that the networks are in place, and access is ubiquitous, walled gardens can spring up and dominate MUCH faster than distributed protocols.
> A language is just a system of symbols intended to represent objects and things.

This isn't what I meant, or what is generally meant, by language.

Humans are distinguished by our ability to generate and understand novel sentences. This isn't a question of scale -- it's not a question of the number of things we have names for. It's a question of the ability to create and understand sentences that have never been created before. No other animal does this, as far as we know.

> You can also think without words. You do that any time you visualize something.

I'm not sure I can visualize something without naming it or describing it.
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Taxes from 25,000 making low six figures pales in comparison to the incentives handed to the corporation. What is a better investment for NY, handing 3b to amazon, putting 3b directly into the rail system, or putting 3b in an investment fund and making use of the dividends? I'm not sure, but I can't help but think that if amazon figures 3b is a good deal for them, then it is an irresponsible use of public funds to enrich large % shareholders of amazon rather than having that public money 100% go to public use. Amazon isn't in it to improve LIC or NY, they are in it to raise their share price at the end of the day and wouldn't care less if Queens burned to the ground and sunk into the east river as long as earnings reports remained positive.
>But in the future, I think ML will look more like a tower of transfer learning. You'll have a sequence of models, each of which specializes the previous model, which was trained on a more general task with more data available.

He's almost describing a future where we might buy/license pre-trained models from Google/Facebook/etc that are trained on huge datasets, and then extend that with more specific training from other sources of data in order to end up with a model suited to the problem being solved.

It also sounds like we can feed the model's learnings back into new models with new architectures as well as we discover better approaches later.
An important take away from this article is simply the perils of home buying. People usually only do it once or twice in their life (I have done it twice so far) and it's really easy to make a very expensive mistake. Imagine this article with another property problem instead of Sun Run: a mother-in-law unit with a tenant, a disputed property line, a requirement to retrofit the house to make it earthquake proof, illegal additions to the house.. etc. All those things can be pitfalls in a house purchase that a buyer will not know much about.

The realtor sounds extremely negligent to not correctly inform the buyer about the true situation until after offer is made. That should be a flag. Realtors understand loss aversion and that you can get very fixated on a particular house. Better to get you to start thinking the house will be yours then break the bad news to you. People just don't buy houses often enough, and they get too emotionally attached, to make rational decisions. Listen to the author talk about how this is the place where he might raise a child. That sounds so portentous, but really wherever you live is where you might raise a child.

Owning a house can be great, but the best way to do it is to think about it like buying a used car. Realize the people you are working with are nicer, smarter used car salesmen. Check everything out with true third parties and be ready to back out.
It's Australian English, of course.
Hmm, I tested a few sentences and it didn't turn up any exact matches (aside to this article), so maybe I'm wrong.

With a temperature of 0.7/1.0, that's enough for sufficiently random text I suppose. (the raw, uncurated generated text using the smaller model is a bit more random: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/gpt-2/master/gpt2-s...)
...there is nothing personal or acidic in this post?
One of my favorite points in the book is the explanation for why any sort of niche small business software sucks.

In consumer software, customer acquisition cost is low and development costs can be spread over millions of people, so there is a big profit potential even though the price is low. For large enterprises, the customer acquisition cost is high (lots of meetings with suits), but the payout is high (millions of dollars is good value for software that is going to be deployed at 20,000 locations and serve millions of customers). For a small business, customer acquisition is still expensive (sales and support done personally), but the price is still pretty low.

The book cured me of mumbling "I could make software better than that in a week" every time I saw a receptionist at a small office struggling with a bad app.
So Equifax shouldn't be held liable for the leak of personal data?
Likewise, every hedge fund is quantitative, and puts “quant” or “quantitative” into as many job titles as it can.

All these trendy terms eventually devolve into noisy marketing to attract talent.
Good thing they are fixing this issue, though it won't be open for another couple years. My cousin is one of the engineers on the project, pretty cool stuff going on on that project, some of it has never been done before.
If you use the `CODEOWNERS` feature, it won't auto-ping anyone until it comes out of the draft state.
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Volvo's reputation for reliability tanked during the Ford years.
CF and G public resolvers use Anycast, so not everyone will see it down.

A work around would be to use a recursive caching server to forward requests upstream to multiple IP's and let it track which one is down. Unbound DNS is really good for this. You could set forwarders to 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and it will track which ones are up.

An example configuration in Unbound DNS would look like this:

forward-zone:
name: "."
forward-addr: 1.1.1.1 # CloudFlare
forward-addr: 1.0.0.1 # CloudFlare
forward-addr: 8.8.8.8 # Google
forward-addr: 8.8.4.4 # Google
forward-addr: 208.67.222.222 # OpenDNS
forward-first: no

And you can view it's status with unbound-control:

unbound-control dump_infra | grep 1\.1\.1
1.1.1.1 . ttl 1745 ping 0 var 71 rtt 284 rto 284 tA 0 tAAAA 0 tother 0 ednsknown 1 edns 0 delay 0 lame dnssec 0 rec 0 A 0 other 0

This method of caching can also slightly improve the privacy of the people using your network. You get the bonus of a local low latency cache, and requests are distributed among multiple destinations, slightly reducing the marketing benefits of running those public DNS servers.
You could interpret that, though, to mean building the lifestyle so that either your commute is easier, a job that you can control the hours better, or simpler living. For example, if you're riding commuter rail to work, that could potentially free up some time to maybe plan things, etc...

I'm pretty sure there's plenty of jobs/careers that this type of thinking wouldn't work at, but to counter that, there's also plenty more where it would.
This is great! A lot of my non-progammer friends want to make apps like these and this is the first product that I think is simple enough to recommend. Congrats on the launch and I look forward to trying it out.
That sounds honest and reasonable.
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This definitely strikes a chord with me. I feel that if it's just one person working on a side project then there is less pressure to deliver. On the other hand, when one is working with other people (in our case, I'm the sole developer) on creating a new business it becomes extremely exhausting to manage a full-time job, a new business, staying fit and still having time for social engagements. Fortunately, I have been able to take some time off from full-time work and spend more time on our new business and already feel so much more productive.
For me, this statement is definitely true. I can manage about 3-4 hours of concentrated problem-solving a day at work. While I do do side projects, I have noticed that the energy I spend on them takes some of the energy I normally spend on work.

In the evenings I sometimes don't have enough mental energy to even decide what dinner to cook, let alone work on side projects, so I do most of that on weekends "for fun." Personally, I can't imagine trying to monetize that - I'd burn out way too fast.

Different people are different, though.
But then we're back to square one, aren't you basically describing a distributed (but still perfetly "trustful") database? Isn't that effectively what this DTCC provides?

What in this allows JPMorgan to provide the same service for free? Is it really technical innovation or is it just a different business model? Wouldn't they be able to do the same thing without using anything cryptocurrency/blockchain related?

I feel like I'm missing something obvious but I don't see what it is.
When I started my first data-science role, the role description of my company sounded a bit like "software engineer who happens to know stats and ml". The description was fairly specific on the fact that data scientists would build and deploy models and services. Nowadays it seems not to fall under the software engineering umbrella. And I do think the change started with the deep learning craze. It distorted a lot in the field. Nowadays I see so many overfitting and complicated models that cannot be operated in production. But they sure make impressive slides and reports.
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I decided to build this after a client bailed on a Dialogflow deal. The bot I spent 3 months to setup and provided 1000s of training sentences for, failed to answer some 20 questions it was trained to handle.

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Can you elaborate a bit more about that? What does "advance" mean in this case?

Right now our apps are deployed on Heroku but our Postgres is RDS. We didnt want to plan long term on Heroku.
And I don't even know if that makes sense.

So I've been always wondering about RDS vs. Heroku Postgres.
Java dependency.
SRECs are generated and auctioned quarterly. After an initial lag I get a check for SREC sales every 3 months.

There are schemes where you can get fixed price SRECs by signing them over to a 3rd-party. The third-party then give you a fixed amount monthly or quarterly or whatever but it's a significant discount on the auction price.

There are also companies that will give you a lump sum for your 10-years of SRECs up front but like all 'need cash now' schemes there is a significant discount.
Hopefully it will be a bit more stable when turning if the battery is in the floor, no more rolling like in the Top Gear episode :)
Here’s a free native GUI for Oracle:
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But I agree with the sentiment. Maybe more like four hours/day, assuming you've simplified the rest of your life.
According to this link someone posted https://www.justice.gov/criminal/file/1096306/download your hypothesis for money = corruption doesn't really hold water. The most corrupt areas (most arrests of government officials by federal law enforcement) per capita are Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
>One thing to note about this downward trend of women in CS: its unique...

I wonder why, though? If we're to follow the social trends, these same women - who worked in computing before the 80's - were the mothers and grandmothers of the children of the 80's, yeah? Did their attitude towards computing and women in computing suddenly change overnight - even though they were in the very same field, themselves? What would cause them to, in not even the span of a generation, decide that home computers should be relegated to boys, alone? Sure, Hollywood didn't help, but I feel like there must be something missing from this equation that would explain the why behind it.

>A lot of these pictures ... women moving cords, operating keypunch machines ... it doesn't seem great. It looks like men relegated women to tedium. In the same way that women were typists back in the day. Now I realize those photos are much older, but maybe these sexist attitudes persisted back in the late 70's and early 80's and CAUSED more women to be in CS? Women did the "busy work" for the fancy new "computer machine business", while the men ran the business.

I don't see how that's "busy work", when the computing infrastructures back then were way different. Your punch card were your modern-day versions of instructions sets and you had to know what you were doing with them to get the machine to do what you wanted to do (especially, if you had to punch the cards, yourself). Changing cables on an old switch panel is like connecting RJ-45 to your laptop, today. None of this is "busy work" and I'm not even sure how one would get the idea that it is busy work...?

>Is this a bad take?

Possibly. Having not been alive before the early 80's, myself, I won't try to lie and answer in the negative nor the affirmative. What I can tell you, though, is that women helped the industry thrive and grow (especially, during periods of war); so, it - more than likely - wasn't the cesspool of sexism that you're implying.
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Hey - thanks. I'm also happy with the Dennis Ritchie portrait. As a "hobbyist" it took me some time to get that portrait right! I'll be adding Ken Thompson soon and most likely will add Charles Babbage to that list at some point.

Edit: I just took a look at your drawings, they are impressive. Is there any way I can get in touch with you privately?
> But while point to point routes have grown, hub and spoke routes have grown far more.

I wish trains were lower priced. I'd much rather, say, fly to Paris then take a train to Brussels rather than take a technically shorter flight that might get delayed, or I might miss if the customs line is long.

But my choices are often expensive direct flight, cheaper hub and spoke flight - plane+train is often more expensive :(
That said, that might not be the best example, because that same first command with Unix utilities is just:

pgrep -f /bin/bash
If you're unhappier with the national decisions (e.g. Trump) than regional ones, regionalism starts looking better and better... I'd bet that's almost all the reason behind it, not some kind of deep ideological stance on governance.
You can add additional DBs, I think in Heroku you can’t. So you can do multi tenant or host multiple projects
Google announcing they <WANT> to double their presence in New York is not the same as Amazon signing an agreement of understanding with the city and state.

Google hasn't committed to anything. Once it does, it will most likely seek the same tax benefits that Amazon did from the pre-existing programs if it qualifies
Exactly true.

The point of a blockchain is trust. If it is controlled by a single party, its sole value collapses.

Except marketing value.
Huh? Electric car subsidies were just that, subsidies (i.e. Tesla cars were cheaper).
My problem isn't time. My problem isn't energy. My problem isn't desire.

I would like to make something. I would love to make money making something.

My problem is that I don't know what to make.
I don't think your confidence is justified. Having a lot of smaller employers might be more stable and less disruptive than one big one.

Predicting the future is hard and counterfactuals are tricky, so we may never know which choice was better.
After the initial selection by JP Morgan new members would (presumably) be added by a consensus of the existing members. That would remove JPM as the sole gatekeeper.
Less pay sounds good until you see the talent that comes with less pay.

Junior devs and low performing seniors.

Amazon claimed my city didn't have enough talent.

What they meant is that 6 figures is too much to pay per programmer.
Thank you so much! It's currently simplistic but we hope to add more power but keep it approachable for your friends.
> what jobs? Are we talking software engineers or warehouse workers?

Workers with an average salary of $150,000, I think it's disingenuous to act like you don't know that but you're also an expert in property tax reform.
Maybe "base that stores data"?
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Sounds like either an agreement with the new owner that involved a price reduction on the home in exchange for the continued income. Or something totally shady!
It's basically functional programming. I find that my approach to writing code is very similar to how I work with the shell. The main difference, I guess, is that the command 'units' are slightly bigger, in the form of functions, but the way I iterate my solution to a problem is basically the same.
Yeah, an elephant in the room really. The post just implicitly assumes that.
ls | rb 'group_by { |x| x[/\d+/] }.select { |_, y| y.one? }.keys'

https://github.com/thisredone/rb
> It explains in informal terms the structure and mechanics of a CNN

It actually gets quite formal. you could implement a (non-performant) CNN from everything in that video. The point is, that someone came up with a hypothesis "hey imposing this structure should yield faster convergence to usable results" is totally inductive science, and that is able to be explained quite well and simply from simple primitives that you don't need a math degree to understand really indicates some level of maturity in the field.

>People are hoping to see, ultimately, mathematical proofs that neural networks can e.g. efficiently learn target functions given a certain amount of training data and a certain number of trainable parameters.

yeah I don't dispute that, but to characterize our understanding of machine learning as not going beyond 3 or 4 neurons is just plain crazy.

Moreover, for some RNNs, e.g. character-based LSTMs trained on language models, we can extract feature details. I recall one case (sorry not bothered to find it) where there was a memory line dedicated to detetcting opening and closing quotation marks. Now this is a feature that one would expect to be obvious, or at least more so than other language features, but it's still a rather high level (and successful) attempt to understand how these machines function.
> Not even NY can "very quickly" absorb 25k people in a small area without screwing up quality of life for the people who already live there.

Of course it can. This is New York fucking City, there are literally single buildings with that many jobs in them here.
> With all this investment, quantum computing may be coming soon

Assuming we double the number of physical qubits we can use in a quantum computer every year starting now, we might be able to build one capable of running interesting algorithms sometime around 2040.

The general consensus in the field is that we need to have 100,000 times more physical qubits in a machine to achieve scalable error-corrected quantum computation. That represents tens of millions of qubits; our current state of the art is floating somewhere in the low to high tens of qubits. That’s quite sobering compared to breathless tech reporting, and it doesn’t address the decoherence reductions we’ll need either.

Quantum computing is not coming soon, barring an unlikely and unpredictable series of fundamental breakthroughs. The field is still very much in the, “we have no evidence it’s impossible” stage of research.
As long as he isn't in charge of the decision it doesn't matter.
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Nice! As you go from 2D to 3D what are some unique issues you are expecting to run into?
That still doesn't need any technology derived from Bitcoin though. git branches and a git merge driver could do it.
Obviously the customers are the businesses with money deposited at the bank.
And that's useful (if you use CODEOWNERS) - but just having a checkbox that says "don't ping the CODEOWNERS" on all PRs would have the same effect without needing a different type of PR.
How long are your passphrases preferably? I've encountered issues with many websites limiting to less than 32 characters not being long enough for my passphrases.

This is partly due to the complexity of calculating hashes being multiplicative with the password length, so they limit password length to prevent dos.
> I'm curious how solar could have put a dent in overall power production needs as peek energy usage comes around 6-8pm when solar panels are producing almost no power.

I'm pretty sure the usage peak period is more like noon to six p.m. The grid demand peak is now 6-8 p.m., because of customer-site solar.
The link tax was not rejected in Germany, in fact it's the law of the land there. When it failed to lead to the expected riches, the lobbyists behind it switched their attention to the EU level.

It could well be argued that all Internet regulation has to do with enabling a united market.
If someone tries to cheat, you suspend their participation if you are empowered to do so, and / or report them to the appropriate regulatory bodies / law enforcement.

Blockchain doesn’t allow anyone to circumvent anything.

Unless it’s a perfectly spherical blockchain operating in a vacuum.
There is a spectrum of how engaged you are with your kids as a parent and it would be hard to have a full time job, a side job, and then also be a highly engaged parent.

Also I think it would be even more difficult as a mother.