skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- "Some of the models are so big that even in MILA we can’t run them because we don’t have the infrastructure for that. Only a few companies can run these very big models they’re talking about" [1]. NOTE: MILA is a very good AI research center and, while I don't know too much about him, that person being quoted has great credentials so I would generally trust them.

- "the current version of OpenAI Five has consumed 800 petaflop/s-days" [2].

- Check out the Green AI paper. They have good number on the amount of compute to train a model and you can translate that into numbers.

- https://medium.com/syncedreview/the-staggering-cost-of-train.... NOTE: That XLNet number has to be wrong - it should be 5-figures, not 6.

I'm not an expert in on-prem ML costs, but I know many of the world's best on-prem ML users use the cloud to handle the variability of their workloads so I don't think on-prem is a magic bullet cost wise.

$1M annually per project (vs per lab) isn't bad at all. It's also way out of whack with what I saw when I was doing AI research in academia, but that was pre deep learning revolution, so what do I know.

Re: the moving goalposts - the distinction is between the cost of a training run and the cost of a paper-worth research result. Due to inherent variability, architecture search, hyperparameter search and possibly data cleaning work, the total cost is a couple orders of magnitude more than the cost of a training run (multiple will vary a lot by project and lab).

I understand why you don't trust what I'm saying. I wish I could give hard numbers, but I'm limited in what I can say publicly so this is the best I can do.

[1] https://medium.com/syncedreview/yoshua-bengio-on-the-turing-...
[2] https://openai.com/blog/how-to-train-your-openai-five/
Milpitas superintendent has 80% error rate tallying school board appointment
Is there a better way to blockquote? HN doesn't have anything like Markdown's '>' for quotes/blockquotes.
> 10,000 objects isn't actually that many

Yeah but these 10k objects are containing themselves many more objects (item inventory, proximity mobs etc).
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> [Ford] slowly drew out from the wallet a single and insanely exciting piece of plastic that was nestling amongst a bunch of receipts.

> It wasn’t insanely exciting to look at. It was rather dull in fact. It was smaller and a little thicker than a credit card and semi-transparent. If you held it up to the light you could see a lot of holographically encoded information and images buried pseudo-inches deep beneath its surface.

> It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant - a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn’t even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.

> Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
Single-Family Housing Upholds the Patriarchy and Hurts Moms (2018)
He mentioned uncontacted stone age people. That's a reference to tribes today who choose not to connect with the outside world. For example, the Sentinelese are said to not even have fire. They have metal now only because a few years ago a big freighter crashed on their island, which surely was perceived the same as a UFO crash would be to us.
No webpack is a big win. Thinking Gatsby is this fun & easy thing and then realizing you're going all-in on the current npm/JS insanity is not a good feature.
The way I see Svelte is as a one-stop-shop type of framework (similar to Angular and Ember in philosophy), but exclusively for client-side concerns, and aggressively geared towards leveraging standard web idioms (HTML that looks like HTML, CSS that looks like CSS, JS that looks like JS), whereas most competing frameworks extend grammars in various non-standard ways (Angular's "HTML" isn't parseable via a standard HTML parser, and React's "JS" requires a parser that supports JSX - and then there's the whole CSS-in-JS thing where people get tripped up by double quoting and camel casing rules). Said frameworks typically also have steeper learning curves due to framework-specific APIs.

Where I think Svelte falls a bit short (given its flavor of comprehensiveness) is that while it concerns itself with strictly client-side things like in-memory state and animations, it offers nothing for sorta-server-related things like data fetching or routing, and you're left to find libraries to fill the gaps (similar to how you would in React). I feel like the bigger frameworks are up to something DX-wise, with providing more integrated/idiomatic ways of interfacing between subsystems (e.g. getting a data fetching API to talk to a state store, or making routing aware of them). Gluing subsystems from different libraries adds weight to application space code (see e.g. react-redux vs Vue) and at some point this starts mattering (usually during maintenance phase). Maybe Svelte's middle ground is your cup of tea, but obviously YMMV a lot.
The safety value proposition of the max is kind of hard to sell after two planes crashed. It was already the most successful plane ever in terms of avoiding retraining right?

All that unlocked safety value didn't count for much.
I have been extracting these layers of boilerplate like accounts you need to launch a web app into a parallel web application that accompanies your web app instead of being bundled with it. I'll be launching this in October.

https://userdashboard.github.io/home

The software provides UIs for users and administrators and APIs and tests and documentation for accounts, organizations, Stripe subscriptions and Stripe Connect platforms all added through modules. It proxies your application server, and you either serve your application within a template or occupy the entire page, how you write it and what you use is left to you. My software tells you who is using your server, and is fully API-driven in case you want more info.

It's ready to use now, and the core software is ready to go but Connect requires client side JavaScript for France, and subscriptions requires the new payment SCA flows which are in-place but doesn't have tests yet, and localization needs to be finished up and that's all probably another week or so.
It misses the optimization and execution part, i.e. how joins, filtering and aggregation is executed
Spotify blows Apple Music out of the water on these kinds of reccomendations, the playlist radios and user discovery playlists are pretty impressive.
It is indirectly; if a company has trouble hiring, they might switch up the stack a bit to try and attract new talent.

For example, my previous employer (Jet.com) used F# partly because one of the most senior engineers liked it, but also partly because they thought it might attract some tech talent out of the shadows.
I bet you could answer 99% of Stackoverflow questions with this generic answer ;-)
No, not the case. The device must be put into DFU mode before the exploit is attempted - it doesn't work on the phone in any other state.
Yeah thats really annoying. Why does that even happen?
How do "we" know this?
Thankfully modern indoor operations will be using efficient LEDs to avoid those roof issues when you can’t vent all the time.
It's even worse then if he had the wrong skin color because at least that's real. He has been lynched because of straight up lies by the media.
Ask HN: Projects for social good?
I am a university professor but I feel deeply unhappy that I am not working on any of the real world problems. I work on machine learning and distributed systems to some extent. But I feel I am wasting my time solving problems which could either benefit big companies or irrelevant for anyone. What can I do to make the world a better place with all the talent and time I have. I also have number of students who can help me in these projects while earning their credits.
Re: privacy – DNA contains a tremendous amount of information about a person. Although it is true we leave DNA everywhere we go, up until very recently that information was not recoverable. For the average person this is still the case and will remain so until the point that $20 DNA sequencers are available at CVS.

Logically, it should not be surprising that people consider this information to be private. On a more visceral level, it “feels” like a violation; but I think that’s something you either grok or don’t.
Unfortunately with the downside that your bundle will be quite large. Hopefully that'll get better, but most likely, due to fundamental reasons (you need to pass along a C# runtime), I doubt it'll be even remotely close to something like Svelte.
Using the threat of violence to enforce what adults can and can't put into their own bodies never produces a positive outcome. It only creates violence and allows dangerous products to flourish. With all these stories about people dying from fentanyl and fake carts, when have you ever heard of someone having any issues from a bad batch of beer, or even a bad batch of cigarettes?
Checkm8 - Unpatchable iPhone Jailbreak
They are already being spoofed.

It's crazy moving between legal and illegal states, the amount of knowledge and safety involved change dramatically. Those in illegal states have no idea about proper packaging, that they should be able to check test results online, etc. So just some QR code linking to a page full of non-sense fools them.
No formatting at all is better than 100s of characters in a preformatted block.
> Is it sustainable? Like managing a growing server farm manually, probably not.

Sustainable for what exactly? Being good enough to handle complex emergency procedures?

There will always be a more experience subset of pilots plus new ones coming in. They have the benefit of having two pilots (sometimes more) so they can even off the average experience in the cockpit.

Although newbie co-pilots have contributed to crashes in the past as well.
Afaik your second statement is sadly impossible. The system needs a blob "shsh" signed with an 1024 bits rsa key by Apple's server to install an upgrade or a downgrade.
If this key is in the bootrom, you can't override it ?
The leads are the top of the funnel. Traditionally salespeople take leads and turn them into deals. So I presume they were seeing a big falloff between interest and conversion.

It also doesn't surprise me at all they struggled to find good salespeople. I hear that all the time. Seems like it's hard to tell the difference between a salesperson who can sell your product and one who's just selling themselves to you.
The rights to Ms. Pac-Man are caught up in a messy legal battle
> and that the system was only recoverable if you had some extremely specific knowledge.

This isn't true. If you follow the runaway trim procedure, you recover. Pilots in the US are required to demonstrate the runaway trim procedure as part of a type rating checkride.

Aggravating factors are, IMO:

1) Even well-trained aircrews getting a runaway trim condition on takeoff are not guaranteed to show the same performance as on their checkride day.

2) Not all jurisdictions require this demonstration.

3) The MCAS could fail in a way that could be surprising and not seem exactly like normal runaway trim (intermittency).

4) This test of "can you handle runaway trim?" was much more frequent than the normal causes of a stuck switch or actuator.

I think #3-4 is the big issue. While better trained crews could address the others, MCAS has the ability to fail in a way that it only does stuff when the crew isn't looking. There's nothing that can address this but system redundancy.
I saw a role open at a competing company for a bigger job that I would have been perfect for. They wanted me to take a personality test, which was supposed to take an hour, but could be paused/picked up again, and then a coding test which was going to be a block of 3 contiguous hours.

I volunteer teach, I am president of my condo board, help run a local meetup, have a demanding job, oh and a family that needs love too- my free time is precious.

I started with their personality test (Calipers). It actually took 3 hours over 45 minute sessions that took the better part of a week. Fitting that in was extremely stressful and took away pretty much all of my personal time. When it came down to blocking out 3 hours for their coding test, I just could not be bothered- this would require me to more or less have to lock myself in a room for a good part of a saturday or sunday, toiling away still to only have a chance for a new job that might work out better than my current (I quite like my current job, this was just a potentially bigger role), but maybe not.

And I wasn't even in the market- Imagine now I am doing this for 5-10 (if not more) different companies. Its completely unreasonable IMHO.
I use Svero. Sapper is alpha and still in flux - I'll check out Sapper again once it's stable though.
Modern C for C++ Peeps
MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
Thanks for mentioning that. I notice this too and it bugs me. I've tried a few different layouts and positions for those navigation buttons and so far haven't found anything else I like better. My thinking at the time was that most readers aren't quickly paging through chapters so it's not a key affordance.

I'll probably do some site tweaks after I finish the last chapter. In the meantime, the layout is quite responsive. If you make the window narrower, eventually you get to a single column layout with the navigation statically positioned on top.
Couple of comments:

- Article is from April 2019 and seems to be an attempt to bring it back into social consciousness.

- As others have commented previously, it does not focus on EU citizens - primarily non-EU citizens visiting the EU.

- Appears to be very similar to the existing VISA waiver program run by the USA.

Definitely one that should be classified as "proceed with caution" but it's not as outrageous as the headline makes out.

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_the_Schengen_Ar...

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2019-0388_...
Sure it's not a new problem, but it's one of the things people claim will be solved by crypto currency. If crypto currency is just regular currency except controlled by a non-democratic entity then it's a step back, not a step forward.
It was surprisingly easy. Granted, I cribbed an awful lot of plumbing from the AWS post (which pushed changes to SNS), but I was pleasantly surprised.
There is no evaluation without a worldview, such a thing is preposterous. However, there is something to be said for having advisors that are not literally being actively paid by the people you are trying to regulate. Ideology is one thing (it's at least honest and heartfelt), not having any advice is another thing.

Using Google's people is like using the lawyer of the guy you're suing.
Yeah you look at hugo there are 0 npm dependencies while you can use it with react and and npm based build its optional which is nice. Now that the vast majority of browsers use script type="module" there is no longer a dire need for npm, es6 modules can now be used without a complex webpack process behind their inclusion.
Running TOR exit node is not illegal.
Take this logic far enough: criminals use shoes, so make it illegal.
Any suggestions on protecting credential transfer in a MUD? I have been wanting to build one but honestly I'm used to the convenience of HTTPS and the passing of credentials over a socket is preventing me from starting.
I recently started a project using svelte and the difference from React and Vue is so drastic for me that it isn't even funny!

Now, I know how opinionated we all are and how the best thing is what we already know, but after working with Vue and React extensively (the company I currently work for uses Vue/TS for a huge app, think over 1000+ .vue files) the particularity about svelte is that you hardly notice that you are using it!

Vue has the Vue way and React has prophet Abramov to light the way, but svelte is completely out of your way. You wanna follow MVC? go ahead, DDD? why not?

I have learned more HTML5 and CSS3 using svelte than any of the other frameworks because it encourages you to use it, because the wheel has been invented already.

Again, everybody has their opinion but for me svelte is the framework that has the least magic of all, the you can set it up without a incredibly complicated webpack config or obscure 'create-react-app' that makes it very easy to start a project but you don't really know what's happening underneath.

And it just HTML and probably 5 or 6 extra JS things like $: and a different use for export in a component.

If you are already religious about your framework, good for you, but if you are open to ideas, take a look a svelte!
> From the article it sounds like this is strictly an issue of it not being legal and regulated.
This has nothing to do with regulation or prohibition. Remember fake pentium chips, capacitors, transistors and tons of other electronic components? The simple fact is popular things will be counterfeited and vape cartridges are easy to counterfeit. Counterfeiting is also a problem in legal states too. Unless you are going to a legit shop and spending real money you are most likely getting fake garbage.

When cannabis carts came around they were $75 here in NYC for a 1 gram and were tough to get. My first was a nice brass knuckles brand that hit like a mother fucker. Then there was a sudden flood and prices were dropping as low as $35 for a 1 gram and people were suspicious. Then it was even reported back then that counterfeiting was a big problem.

When CA legalized a second wave of cartridges came in and we got more brands and again, higher prices around 50-60 for 1 gram. but again, rumors of fakes followed and so called trusted brands like kingpen were vulnerable.

Me? I just smoke flower. Can't fake that. Though you can be sold low yield crap or laced stuff but honestly, I haven't heard of that crap in over two decades. Basically that's the kind of shit they pull on unsuspecting high school kids. The worst flower you get nowadays is generic mexican brick weed that smells like plastic wrap.
> I've been anticipating the Garbage Collection chapter (next on the list!) for quite some time!

Me too! It's one of the chapters I've been most looking forward to writing. (This chapter on closures was another.)

> Do you have an estimated time frame for when it will be released?

Chapters take me roughly a month, but there's pretty high variance depending on what else is going on in my life. I work on it every day, but the amount of time per day varies. My hope is that it will get faster as I get closer to the finish line. It's been a long marathon, longer than I initially anticipated.
Can somebody verify this?
The US and Austria had lowered participation of women in the workforce and that makes them worse places for women to work? What kind of logic is that?

By that logic one might say that rising wages were bad for workers because it reduces the percentage of the population that work a second job!
As an A12 owner, I'm really happy my device is now reasonably more secure if taken into a government back room during customs or via an evil maid attack. Different perspective I suppose.
For the same reason "user consent" is inaccurate when used as an argument by big tech: big tech can't fully inform people because they have a conflict of interest. Moat of the time, it's not unethical or something, it's just a true, unavoidable, conflict of interest.
Contents of my .mailcap file:

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There is a key macro you can do to spawn something like a firefox session instead of lynx but I have not had to bother yet.
Interestingly, you basically did the same thing as OP.
Coding Like It's 1983
Yeah, I know what I have written.

I also know that I have written, that I did not know many details about the case or the witch hunt in general as it was a witch hunt, in which both sides were wildly throwing accusations around and I found it hard to find actual facts. And that seemes to be still he case.

Now apparently I misunderstood the comment about the sign being tacked later on, but how do you know Minsky turned her down?
Early tech people were different. Before there was much money in tech, only sincere nerds went into it.

Since the mid-90s, there've been an increasing number of money-focused techies. Probably still a minority, though.

In fact, before the 80s, finance was also mostly sincere accounting nerds. Then someone got the surprising idea that bankers could be Masters of the Universe.

It happened to doctors too. And lawyers before that.
I was involved with design and planning for a solution to predict unscheduled maintenance and warranty claims for vehicles. I think that we had a pretty similar problem. Unfortunately I did not stay with the company I was working for, so I can't speak to the effectiveness of the approach. A simplified example is below.

There is tons of scheduled maintenance. And there are also lots of common unscheduled maintenance items. These were basically worthless in any naive prediction. Basically "Ah, I see that an engine failure is always preceded by dozens of oil changes." There's a tiny predictive value, because number of oil changes is a proxy for age/use; older engines are more likely to fail.

But that sort of prediction wasn't helpful. We ended up proposing a strategy that I shorthand to "without which, not". Basically we wanted to classify the events which precede a specific type of failure, but which we don't see in similar vehicles without the failure. This is grossly oversimplified.

An analog would be the idea of necessary vs sufficient pre-conditions. We were trying to identify the sufficient pre-conditions.

To draw the analogy to a recommendation engine, a common failure mode is that popular things get recommended a lot. Another failure mode is that they basically become genre filters. This is discussed elsewhere.

So in a movie context, we wouldn't be looking for "what do other people who like this movie watch"? Because that's a genre popularity contest. We would ask "Given that a user likes Movie A, what did they watch before that other Movie A likers didn't watch?" And then look for clusters there.

Again, I'm grossly oversimplifying this, because I didn't get to implement the solution I mentioned. The approach seemed promising, though. You might consider this a nuance on "down-weighting popular things", but it's not quite that.