skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of this quote from an article about Phil Libin, former CEO of Evernote:

> Eventually he (Phil Libin) pinpointed the source. "It was the carbs," he said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/phil-libin-fasting-routine-2...

I think bad eating habits, eating unhealthy food, too much, too often, and too erratically has something to do with the uptick in these conditions.
The Fight for the Right to Drive
Oh no, I remember this. The Pi's output pin causes harmonics so the consequences would be so bad. Every article, including this one, that talks about using the Pi to transmit specifically screams about using a band-pass filter.

I'd love to see a screenshot of a spectrum-analyzer when the device is running nearby.
Well, the cliche apparently tries to cover all the code, which, as you correctly said, is non-practical.

The problem is that, like all other cliches, it sounds very convincing and it may take quite some time for the young inexperienced mind to rebuff it.
This is true, but everything is complex only up to the point when you begin to understand it. Scurvy was a complex disease until the discovery that it was cured and prevented by citrus fruit(1). Now we have the technology to skip right to the discovery of vitamin C, a miraculous 100% accurate test for scurvy.

I know I'm oversimplifying, but I think the point is valid. This is why discovery of a biomarker is so crucial -- it begins to "decomplexify" the disease so we can properly define it and start to find treatments for it.

(1) Ok, it's never really that simple: http://mentalfloss.com/article/24149/how-scurvy-was-cured-th...
It's a dumb comment.
There was a ton of malware being distributed as add-ons that came packaged with other installers.

This solved that issue.
This may be getting tangential, but I'm curious: what's the big sell for you with Workflowy vs. other similar outlining tools? I've personally shifted my outlining over into org-mode and it feels like I'm just a bare intermediate user there; wondering if there's functional advantages that Workflowy retains.
Gradient accumulation and gradient checkpointing are orthogonal. You might want to use them simultaneously.

If I had to compare them, I'd say that accumulation is about working on a minibatch datapoint by datapoint and faking being able to run an entire large minibatch in a single shot, while checkpointing is about working on a model layer by layer and faking being able to run an entire model in a single shot.

The problem with GPT-2-335M and why nshepperd had to mess with gradient checkpointing is that the GPT-2-335M model will literally not fit in your standard 11GB GPU (and from Twitter comments about people trying it on the new 16GB Google Colab instances, it's unclear if 16GB would be enough either!). You can't even run minibatch n=1. It doesn't fit. It OOMs.

The model itself is only a gigabyte or so, the problem is that the self-attention layers, when run, use up a huge amount of memory for their intermediate steps, which must be stored in order to trace everything backwards through each step for the backprop part of training.

(Right now I believe nshepperd's code punts on doing gradient accumulation simultaneous with gradient checkpointing, so we've just been reducing the learning rate, which is sort of similar to faking large minibatches with gradient accumulation.)

Fortunately, because the self-attention layers are so small and cheap to compute, they work well with gradient checkpointing. They're cheap to recompute on the fly, so it's more important to save memory and allow training at all. (This is also how OpenAI is training the Sparse Transformers which are enormous; they haven't said either way, but I assume this is how they trained the larger GPT-2s like the 1.5b parameter version, because I can't imagine what hardware would fit even a single GPT-2 1.5b without tricks.)
I see that all the time with internal systems. Let's say the devs didn't add an option to export data a file. This omission can later on trigger other departments to create very expensive workarounds but due to internal organization/politics it's almost impossible to change the original system to add an export option.

Especially with new stuff often nobody in the organization has any expertise so it's common that the devs take a first cut at the problem.

Another common thing is that even if the devs ask for clarification they get none but the deadline still ticks so you just take your best guess.
Yeah its pursuable as a crime but there was no malicious intent and it doesnt make sense to charge anyone. Im actually super glad they used good judgement.
“A direct search on the CDC 6600 yielded”

That’s probably enough description of methodology for many people here to reproduce the results, right? :)
Did you read the paper? The authors don't know a cause, but they mention a previous hypothesis by Myhill and such people, that it's something to do with the metabolic system breaking somehow; and they have a brief discussion of whether their test could be detecting something in this area. (Myhill's suggested mechanism is better fleshed-out than that, but I have only a passing interest in this subject so I don't really understand it.)
Nice, you just changed his == claim to ===.
Tor project is US government op, true. It's good at hiding government employees using untrusted networks from hostile third parties. It is also good for foreign whistleblowers releasing data to US government.

Tor is NOT good at keeping you private from government. It is good at keeping you private from your ISP or employer however.

Don't do anything illegal using tor and thinking you are safe.
Butter knives are used to prevent crumbs transfering to the butter dish, which can go mouldy. They've got nothing to do with germs in the mouth.
I lost my job for speaking up about women’s rights
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Blames His Resignation Partly on Social Media
> This is the simulation of how a moon could have been formed

The animation doesn't show a moon in a stable orbit forming, so obviously it doesn't even show how it could have happened.
Gravity that attract mater imho (and make hot matter go on surface). There is another effect : the incoming moon is not a sphere any more before impact.
I really, really dislike that phrase.
I'm super interested to know the answer to this question. I imagine it's more interesting than just uninstall/reinstall.
It's the opposite: builds compiled from the source allows changing the flag, those builds from Mozilla have the option disabled.
Now they are leveraging a lot.
I’d love to hear how this was resolved.
BERT is bidirectional. How do you use that for language generation?
Whoo. That's a rather aggressive response.

"I appear to be the target of a personal character attack piece, that's been making it's rounds on social media today, expertly timed to ruin my weekend at PyCon US 2019.

"I got nothing but strange signals from njs since I first interacted with him, which is why I didn't answer his threatening-sounding emails. What was the threat I was perceving? That he'd do basically do exactly this."
On the topic of stolen books, an employee at the Royal library in Sweden stole a number of ancient books, some of which turned up in the US. The case ended with him blowing himself up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/books/swedish-royal-libra...
The problem is going to be the volume, and how long it takes the reader to figure out what is going on. You can look at a photo and quickly realize something is wrong. With this, you may need to read a few paragraphs or even start reading through what else the "author" has written. That is effectively a denial-of-service attack on human comprehension.

Consider the issue of fake reviews: sometimes fake reviews are really obvious. Sometimes they aren't. Often the best way to pick out the fakes is to analyze all of the other reviews the user has written. That is going to become harder.

For very technical topics, where the reader comes with a strong background knowledge in that topic, picking out the fake material isn't too difficult. I suspect for the hazier things where the writers are more or less stating opinions, like politics, it is going to be incredibly difficult (for a human reader) to separate the bots from real people.
Only thing I got on Chrome Tablet/Android was this super nasty TRUSTe cookie layer.
This is interesting and she's got a point. Given that women have more rights than men right now, if I could just say that I'm a woman without having to "transition" (whatever that means), I definitely would.
> Myhill

Sarah Myhill is a crank who sells blood tests and weird megavitamin mixes to vulnerable people.
So, it will probably always be true that there is a need for web developers, who can be well compensated. However, it will always be for people who need something that hasn't been automated yet. So, you have to be able to develop in something beyond standard html or wordpress, etc.

Another idea, and this is more speculative not something I've done personally, is to specialize in helping out organizations who have built a hairball of Wordpress plugins, which they now can neither maintain nor live without. In other words, assume they will try to live without a well paid web developer, and will only come to find you once that has not worked out, and they need rescuing. I believe there are a lot of organizations like that, and more being created all the time.

Lastly, the key is making sure that your customers are happy with you, so you need to be able to talk to people, and gently help them to better understand their own technological needs, rather than assuming they will come to you with a well defined problem. There are a lot of organizations that know they have a problem with their web presence, but don't know enough about that to understand exactly what to ask for; if you don't have patience or ability to help them sort that out then freelance is probably not for you.
Show HN: Parallel Multi-Scale Network Embedding with Walklets
It can be applied to pretty much anything. In most cases it's quite reasonable (there should be one and only one list of users of the system), but taken to the extreme (there should be only one list of messages your application may ever give to the user) can hinder the development a lot.
This is absolutely correct and I don't know why anyone would try to deny it. We've known most of these things for a long time, as well as having multiple studies reinforce it, including recent ones.

Filling out your meals with more plant based foods instead of avoiding those foods while eating lots of low quality meat will have measurably better outcomes:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255644.php
Why would a company sell their most important resource? They let advertisers specify a Target user but they don't sell their own data afaik, right?
For many of them it could be that they expect to feel better than they do, buy how they feel is closer to normal than they realize, given their body fat %, blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, atherosclerosis, breathing problems, prediabetes, acid reflux, etc. They are feeling bad compared to their parents and grandparents at their age, but not due to what people normally think of as a medical condition.
Not an update, but expired certificate on Wink hubs:

http://status.winkapp.com/incidents/4c47cdvgl6b4
If you are living with CFS i recommend giving https://cfsremission.com/ a look.
I'm more likely to skip dinner. I'm too much of a morning person to skip breakfast.
Scaled agile is my current pet peeve. "Value Streams" and "Program Increments" and a "distilled" book that's 500+ pages.
Photograph the books, a dozen at a time. Put a box number label next to the books. Put the books in their box, glue the label to the box. Stack the boxes.

Sort the boxes by height, line them up in a row. Put slats of wood between the rows to distribute and stabilize the load.

I wrote a program to automatically generate simple HTML files to display the images. See sample:

http://kyber.ca/b/index.html

Use OCR to digitize title & author..
Also I would have no confidence in estimates of the population that don't involve either a systematic search, or a symptom we're unavoidably certain we'd spot.

Humans who are 10 feet tall would stand out. Humans with XXX were unheard of until they found one by accident and then it turns out they weren't that rare but we'd never gone out of our way to look.

(Having the wrong number of copies of most chromosomes causes something obvious and often fatal, but humans necessarily have 1 or 2 copies of X anyway and cope so 3 isn't that astonishing)
Burning down London stopped the plague too.
Ad hominem attacks instead of real arguments about the proposed theory is mean and not professional.. If that's what happened. My guess is that many areas of theoretical physics are getting too competitive, while funding is always limited. So, intellectual merit could be not the only (or not the main) consideration, outwheighed by things like reputation. Most mainstream researchers also have their own pet theories, and defending "some UFO guy's theory" that might compete with their own pet theory is hardly a priority for them either, especially at such a reputation cost. In the field that has so many theories that are hard to prove right or wrong, human capital and connections could decide the future of your theory, apparently.

Sabine Hossenfelder is an open-minded researcher, as far as I can tell. Sad that the author could not follow up with her, but there must be reasons for that.

Very interesting, thank you for the comment. I like math and computer science academia more than physics for these reasons -- people are less cut-throat, and generally more fun than in physics.
CEO Honesty Survey
My first thought is to email a link to a fix, including a reason and an apology.
These are overall really accurate depictions of what life in UX is like.

I do have a comment on this one:

> “Users don’t read”

> An overly used argument to convince clients and stakeholders to cut copy length in half. If you made this far to this article, you’re living proof that this statement is untrue.

The real principle here is that users don't read anything that doesn't look like it will help them do what they're trying to do.

In the case of the article: Sure, I read the article, because I wanted to read the article. But notice I didn't read the titlebar, the subtitle, the author, the nav, the footer, the newsletter subscription form...

Someone reading copy probably wants to know something about your product. Depending on what they want to know, they might skim around the page looking for the most relevant thing – for instance, looking for a header named "Specs" when trying to find battery life.

Making your copy shorter will certainly make that task easier and save their time, and it'll probably make it less likely that they'll decide they didn't want to know things about your product that much.
Don't attribute malice where incompetence may serve as a valid explanation. This is a fundamental tenet of information security practice. Besides, it's silly to think an outage of massive proportions would be the most effective means of owning software.
I'm pretty sure that worrying about your hosting provider going out of business is one of the least important things to think about when you have a startup that's still trying to build its business model.

And seriously, not everything has to be hosted on k8s, not everyone has to use Terraform, it's ok running your application on Heroku, DO or some other hosting. If Heroku goes out of business, you'll have a few months to preapre a migration plan. It's ok to handle it then, right now there are probably more important things for them to do.
Not a UX cliche as such, but a frequently used phrase:

A carefully curated collection of resources

Translation: a list of links

Even better if you can shoehorn “hand-picked” in there (A hand-picked collection of curated resources to help you learn [technology])

Presumably the hand-picked links are always preferable over the, er, robot-picked ones.

I wonder what a real museum curator must make of it all (I presume they don’t really care).
I thought that AWS nowadays is also feeding at the firehose and auto-disabling any of its keys it could find in a commit?
Zoos with flamingos tend to have a lot of them. I would guess they are hard to tell apart.
The Difference Between Goals, Strategies, Metrics, OKRs, KPIs, and Kris
2 popups make the article unreadable for you? I got one popup and some tracking links blocked by ad blocker, nothing unusual.
I had to take Health class in middle school and high school, and it didn't include any of these claims. Even if it had, my health education (while admittedly not great) consisted of a lot more than just 3 facts.
The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It's Caught on Film
How does unsplash make money?
Well, it's slow. But that should be a problem for a later time.
In the WaPo article:

"In 2012, an Australian tourist named Dennis Ward was kicked off a cliff into a body of water by a cassowary when he and his family were visiting Babinda Boulders in Queensland. 'It just came straight up to me, decided to pick on me for some reason, I don’t know what for,' Ward told the Cairns Post."

I shouldn't be laughing but that is an outrageous story.
While I appreciate that this is a large advance, I’m worried that these releases will make the internet completely worthless after some time. If AI can come up with fake news, fake text, fake videos and pretty much anything the user wants it to, then we will be flooded with biased content that’s untrustable. There’s probably some critical percentage of AI generated content on the web that guarantees this happening. (I’m guessing it’s around 40%)
> This is a satire article, where I use humor, irony, and exaggeration to invite reflection.

Except good satire uses exaggeration to lampoon things that are (at least partially) true in reality.

Whereas for half the examples here my reaction was, "No one has ever said that for that reason."
thanks brother
By immediate mode GUI do you mean the game dev variety or the Web browser DOM type i.e. React etc.?
Every single one of my Firefox extensions stopped working with an error message that says "could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled" re-downloading doesn't work either. I'm assuming it's happening to everyone?
> spartan nature of Dutch lunch

I just ran some numbers. The average salary of Dutch Software Engineer is €42,993[1]. 1.2% of €42,993 = €516.

There are 261 weekdays in a year; subtract 30 holiday/vacation days from that, you get 221 working days.

€516 / 221 = €2.23

Can lunch be a mere €2.23 (US$2.50) in the Netherlands?

My employer delivers free lunch to all its employees everyday as well ( via a service called https://www.servedbystadium.com/ ), but the cost of this is typically around $15-$20 per meal.

(I estimate my employer has allocated about $4000/year per employee for the free lunch. That's around 2% to 3% of the salary of most of our software engineers, but salaries on average are about 3 times[2] in the U.S. compared to the Netherlands.)

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/NL/Job=Software_Engineer/S...

[2] https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary
I think that this suggestion that CFS might be caused by bad diet is even more irresponsible than telling it is psychological. CFS patients would wish that it were that simple.

CFS onset is often abrupt, and can often happen to otherwise very healthy and active people. For example, a common story is that the patient becomes sick from a viral infection and then gets stuck with chronic fatigue syndrome even after the infection goes away.
I work in the digital agency space and have had projects across a huge variety of domains (ecommm, finance, health care, retail) and different types of deliverables including web, mobile, kiosks, IoT or VR.

Anytime a developer on my team had the power to deliver something without checks and balances, it's a red flag. We always determine the expected behavior before writing code and always check that behavior before delivery by at least one non-coder and usually more than one. A decision in code that affects the experience is always a bug and it usually gets noticed before anyone sees it.

So, I'm honestly not familiar with the situation you're describing.
Please, please tag each batch of books with a unique lot number, so they can be associated with a specific estate or deceased bookstore. One or more humans spent a lot of time curating those collections. If one of the lots was well curated, then anyone who finds a book that they like will want to see the other books in that lot.

Source: people who have spent years trying to find the names of the 8,000 books in R.A. Lafferty's personal library, lost after he died. About 300 title names have been recovered, https://www.ralafferty.org/tulsa-books/
> I don't buy for 5 minutes that Tor Browser is secure regardless of configuration.

You don't need to "buy" this idea - we're talking about free and open source software. If you passionately believe it's insecure, you would do everyone a great service by explicitly pointing out how it is so in the source code, rather than peddle FUD.
Yes, but the idea of their for-profit subsidiary is to develop new stuff, not sell old stuff. (It'd be like the Hershey Foundation selling Hershey Chocolate.) No one is making >100x returns off of spinning off a 'GPT-2 startup', either. GPT-2 isn't that far in advance of everything else; there's already a replication of the WebText corpus they trained GPT-2 on.
I don't know whether you've experienced chronic fatigue, but from your comments on this thread it looks like you haven't. It is dramatically more debilitating than you seem to give it credit for. (I haven't personally suffered from CFS, but I know people who have. Additionally, I have experienced months of insomnia which resulted in my being unable to do pretty much anything - lack of sleep is truly crippling - and I can only presume that CFS makes you feel much worse in a wide variety of ways.)
It should be noted that while he did utter that quote, the interview being posted choose to use it as the title, likely to get the reaction it has (i.e. being shared, not for the content of the interview but more from the controversial nature of that quote.)

Also, having been following Simpson for some time, I believe him when he tried to clarify later that this wasn't from a place of ego. Rather, it's because he's written and talked so much about JavaScript that he's bound to have also forgotten a lot also.

Still, it was a poor choice of words to try to express that, and made worse by the article using that as it's headline.
I could add an entire 10-page rant about people who insist on the Liskov substitution principle.
The article links to another about Mary Arnold-Forster, considered a pioneer in lucid dreaming. She wrote a book titled "Studies in dreams", available on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/studiesindreams00arnogoog
You clearly have a very wrong idea about cfs. Walking 100 meters and then you’re very sick for a couple of days, that’s cfs. Can’t get out of bed sick.
yes https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-...
> and MSNBC/CNN and any other left leaning news network dropped their shit to jump on the bandwagon of harassing her.

How was the the coverage of the right leaning news sites?
The Fundamental Importance of Adversarial Examples to Machine Learning
Broken link. This appears to be the correct one:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/04/24/facebook-whil...
Shouldn’t there be some kind of standard DNS response for this? There are dozens of different HTTP status codes for all kinds of scenarios. Doesn’t DNS have something like that? I know almost nothing about DNS, I’m just curious.
The points are mutually inclusive. The congestion charge is one of the reasons why there is little incentive to drive in central London.