skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's been done. For example, "Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimization through Reversible Learning" https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03492 , Maclaurin et al 2015 (one of their cites). The idea is pretty obvious: of course you'd like to learn the hyperparameters like they were any other parameter. But that's easier said than done.

The problem is that, well, to backpropagate through a hyperparameter, you would need to, say, track how it affects every iteration throughout the entire training run, rather than simply tracking one parameter through a single iteration on a single datapoint. And it's difficult enough to do gradient descent on a single hyperparameter, so it hardly helps to start talking about doing entire stacks! If you can't really do one, doing ad infinitum probably isn't going to work well either.

If you look at their experiment, they're doing a 1 hidden-layer FC NN on MNIST. (Honestly, I'm a little surprised that stacking hyperparams works even on that small a problem.)
You could perhaps try framing it as a negotiation, i.e. "there was nothing in my original contract that indicated this would be one of my regular responsibilities, I'm happy to open negotiations with you in order to add that stipulation." Think of a salary at which you might actually consider being on-call (don't be charitable; make it double or triple or quadruple your current salary if you want). Then, increase that number by 50% and call it your starting offer. If they balk and try to talk you down, offer to go lower, but don't go below that number from the first step. Negotiations will almost certainly stall and your supervisor (who I presume is the one putting pressure on you) will then have political cover to tell their own supervisor (who I presume is putting pressure on them) "hey, I tried", and hopefully this will continue far enough up the chain until it reaches a person that is so detached that they don't really give a damn and drop it. If they do eventually end up firing you over this, then this indicates they would likely have fired you anyway and therefore you've not lost from this exchange. And on the slim chance that they accept your terms of quadrupling your salary, I guess you can retire substantially earlier. :P
You have essentially described a world with extremely high interest rates.

We have empirical data on what happens in such worlds: economies tumble into recession and there is mass unemployment.
VR, then?
A still-relevant classic analysis of US military-commercial ventures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
My read was that they would be getting money on a regular basis for Windows 7 this way. MS is pushing for Windows as SaaS hard, this pushes Windows 7 towards SaaS, aka the subscription model. For them it's the best of both worlds. Some stubborn places keep Win7, MS gets regular money from them, and then some day when they actually move to Windows 10 they keep selling them their "managment" features they're selling now. If not, they still replace the Windows Store $ and advertizing $ they get from Windows 10. Where's the downside for them? And in reality, they keep doing patches for YEARS anyway for big customers (US NAVY?) anyway, why not monetize it AND give a clear path to all future things they want to ell you? And all the while saying "You have to leave Windows 7" and washing their hands of lots of things, like WHQL for drivers, software testing, etc...
The Model S sales are down close to 70% YoY. That’s very obviously not the platform of the future
After World War I the British redrew the map of the middle east pretty arbitrarily after defeating the Ottoman Turks founding modern Iraq. It wasn't really guaranteed in the first place to include people who like each other.
I have a choice whether I would like my annual salary paid over 10 months with no pay in the summer or over 12 months. My annual salary doesn’t differ one way or the other.

I think the comparison was median annual income and median days of vacation per year. It doesn’t matter too much if the pay is distributed as a single annual lump sum or paid out every hour.
There is a problem with our intuition about gradient descent that blinds us, a little bit.

For a local minimum to exist, that means that the function we're looking at has to have a local minimum when sliced in every dimension.

In our intuition, this is relatively common, because we usually imagine 2d manifolds embedded in 3-space (ie, "hill climbing"). And when there's only 2 dimensions, it's not hard to have a "bowl", where the function curves upward in both dimensions.

In fact, a "saddle point", where one of the dimensions curves up and the other curves down, feels "unlikely" to most peoples' intuition, because we don't often run into physical objects with that shape.

But, saddle points in higher dimensions "should be" far more common than local minima. You only need one dimension to curve downward to have a "hole" where the "water" can escape and continue flowing downhill.

Gradient descent easily gets stuck in 2 dimensions, and so we are often surprised by how well it performs in higher dimensions.
I'm interested in some examples.

the ones that come readily to my mind like Iran and Chile don't quite fit that mold.
Enjoyable read, thanks for writing it all down : ) Keep on fighting the good fight.
The Taycan is DOA. If I want an electric car then I’m getting a Tesla because it’s the easiest to own, easiest to charge, the most proven and outperforms every other EV. If I want a Porsche then I’m getting a 911 turbo because it’s their most iconic car. I’m not about to spend 150k on their first attempt at an EV, the riskiest model in their catalog and the one that will most likely sell the lowest volume. I don’t understand where the market is for the Taycan. Forget about it being a “Tesla killer”. It’s good that they’re going electric. I hope they stick with it and do well. But Tesla has already established themselves as a premium brand. It’s not like Porsche is coming in and filling a void here. They are going up against the leader in the leader’s strongest segment, and one which is low volume and not much pie to share.
I got sick of textedit and installed open source atom
Bad news. Tiny will be investing in growing Meteor and taking it out of (basically) maintenance mode.
Plastic Tea Bags Release Billions of Microplastics into Every Cup
No it isn’t. The US invasion that threw out out Saddam’s government is how we got ISIS.
> In retrospect, you should ask yourself what specifically caused you to be a C average student.

I appreciate your response.

I'm 32 now, and I've had a long time to think about this question. Here's what I think is the answer:

I lack the focus over time which is required to build a deep knowledge or skill.

In other words, I get bored or frustrated quickly. Once bored, or frustrated, learning tapers off VERY quickly. I'm not a child prodigy, so learning anything takes focussed effort over time. The second it gets hard, or boring, my ability to stay on task diminishes rapidly.

It's not as simple as "grin and bear it", trust me I've tried. In college that's all I did. Grin, and bear the struggle. That's no way to learn. I need to be able to sit, fail, learn, sit, fail, learn, succeed, over and over and over. But for every sit, fail ... a frustration builds. Even the slightest frustration / anger, saps you of focus.

If it's not frustration/anger from struggling that derails me... It's sheer boredom. I can sit and read a boring book, for example. But after a few pages, I'll straight up forget what I was even reading. It's like my brain just goes offline whenever I encounter something boring. I have to stop, and re-read whatever it was I was reading.

That's truly what it comes down to. I can't sustain focus on something long enough (hours, days, weeks) to become really good at it.

For what it's worth - I've been prescribed and have taken adderal. It's a miracle for focus, but I HATE how it makes me feel. My heart rate jumps 10-15 bpm (from ~50 resting, to 60, or 65). I FEEL my heart beating harder, which is not pleasant. Then, hours later once the drug has worn off, I feel down... Depressed, and still my heart feels 'heavy'. Oh and that's on a "small" dose (5-10mg). I can't take the stuff.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141438 and marked it off-topic.
You can't pay for groceries with health insurance either but you still have to include fringe benefits when calculating total compensation.
To be fair, they weren't totalitarian. That's absurdly overstating things. North Korea or Khmer Rouge Cambodia were totalitarian governments.
> For pirates, the solution was multifaceted, but the most critical components were: * Profit sharing - The riches captured by a pirate vessel were split amongst the pirates in a remarkably egalitarian model. * Democracy - The Captain and Quartermaster of a pirate ship were elected democratically by the crew.

> The result was pirate ships were able to outfox the established navies of the time and manage ships with crews upwards of 100 all without the support of established judicial systems.

This is fascinating to me. Do you happen to have any references or further reading you're willing to share?
> If we have an "Empire", then why don't we get paid like one?

I sympathize with the frustration you express and the cognitive disconnect you are experiencing. I live in New York City, "the Empire State", where if the subway lines work it is a good day. It is decidedly 3rd world.

This term "empire" was first tacked on US by the British. I don't recall the name of the wanker in question but there was an English chap ("historian") who did the corporate media circus rounds a bit after 9/11 urging us to look to the British Empire as an example on "how to run an empire". Someone with access to LexisNexis can likely dig up the provenance of that appellation.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/15/the-us-hidden-e...

My own pet theory, based on highly consistent historical precedents, is that the empire of the day is recognizable by their architecture. Now if some aliens were to scope out various cities on this planet, most certainly NY and the rest of US look like yesterday's news. But then look at London, Paris, and major cities in China.

It is a Banker's Empire. [We're the muscle.]
it's technically not vesting (my founder shares were fully vested on acquisition) - more of a hold back. we made sure to negotiate this term in.

doesn't work that way for employees unfortunately.
That is a very interesting perspective, thank you for sharing it.
This is good news for you... because Tiny will continue to expand its feature set and the competition will make both platforms grow. ;)
Weren't Apple and Amazon usually referred to as "Apple Computers" and "Amazon.com" at some point? Also, Alphabet is definitely "new", and someone else already pointed out the origin of "Intel"

EDIT: Wikipedia confirms Apple originally being in corporated as Apple Computer, Inc. and Amazon as Amazon.com, Inc.
I read it as OP is looking for that. RH lacks it.
My wife uses Gmail for her side business and it's nearly full (15GB for free is the current standard apparently). If she ends up paying for that service it might just be the thing that makes us drop Dropbox. Google drive is good enough for her needs (we don't really sync anyway, just upload and share).
At most for $50k, so it would need to be a very cheap house. You can't borrow more than $50k or half of your 401k assets, whichever is lower.

You could take out for your down payment to avoid PMI, although I don't think that's what was being discussed in the example. (It wasn't worded so clearly to me though.)
> anger and other undesirable effects.

"other" could mean these from the linked article:

> The growing literature on androgenic anabolic steroid (AAS) usage suggests that some users can develop bouts of aggression known as steroid rage, mood disturbance, hypomania, irritability, and depressive episodes (9–15).

Whenever I think about ourselves, I think from an evolutionary perspective. All of the mentioned effects exist in species other than humans. I can list several reasons why the behaviors could be considered desirable.

Also note, the article says the only significantly increased emotion was anger hostility. Why does anger exist?
Shareholder capitalism has a pretty shoddy record for anyone who isnt a shareholder
> Teacher’s unions don’t opposes “school competition.” They oppose school privatization,

How would one have meaningful 'competition' without privatization?
What does "education wasn't a given for the poor" mean? That's such a vague statement I don't see how you can link it to anything. Education can mean grammar school, high school, college...people in the past, who were farmers, were generally poorer and less educated. However, less educated doesn't mean no education. My grandfather was a farmer in the 19th (and early 20th) century, and no, he didn't have a college degree, but that doesn't mean he never went to school or was illiterate.

Linking to a google query like that is a step below even Wikipedia. If you have a source you consider authoritative, why don't you provide that. I'm not going to read the clickbait garbage in those hits.
What’s your evidence there was no backlash? This kind of finding seems like the type of thing both MRAs and a majority of feminists¹ would object to.

I can’t even see the title of the original paper since this one is paywalled. I was going to go try to quantify this “absence of backlash” you mentioned.

¹ It is sort of an interesting question, which majority of feminists that is. Some liberal, trans-inclusive, biological-constructivist feminists who believe in a notion of a “female brain” would potentially see no problem with the study. That is quite a minority though. The vast majority of liberal feminists would be “social constructivist” feminists who believe male/female brain differences are overblown and would view the study incredulously. Similarly, some biological-essentialist radical feminists do believe in comprehensive sex differences, and would be amenable to the finding. These would be your typical “man haters”, who are vocal online because their ideas are not welcome hardly anywhere. However, the vast majority of radical feminists believe the male/female sex differences have primarily to do with reproductive organs and, again, brain differences are overblown. And therefore would also be incredulous of the result. So all-in-all the vast majority of feminists would by default object to the study. But there is a sex-essentialist slice that cuts across the liberal/radical divide who would entertain the ideas.

On the MRA side too I believe there are sex essentialists who would be fine with the study, although many more liberal MRAs would object to it purely on the grounds of it portraying men in a negative light. I’m less familiar with the ideological divisions in that group though.

As a side note, this is part of why liberal and radical feminists are able to hate each other and talk past each other: both sides can credibly accuse the other of harboring biological essentialists.
Google defaulting to ignore system settings and use Google DNS server is an issue.

But it's cute how ISPs are trying to mash deploying of DoH support and default to Google server into one issue.

The last paragraph absolutely seems like fearmongering:

Moreover, the centralized control of encrypted DNS threatens to harm consumers by interfering with a wide range of services provided by ISPs (both enterprise and public-facing) and others. Over the last several decades, DNS has been used to build other critical internet features and functionality including: (a) the provision of parental controls and IoT management for end users; (b) connecting end users to the nearest content delivery networks, thus ensuring the delivery of content in the fastest, cheapest, and most reliable manner; and (c) assisting rights holders’ and law enforcement’s efforts in enforcing judicial orders in combatting online piracy, as well as law enforcement’s efforts in enforcing judicial orders in combatting the exploitation of minors. Google’s centralization of DNS would bypass these critical features, undermining important consumer services and protections, and likely resulting in confusion because consumers will not understand why these features are no longer working. This centralization also raises serious cybersecurity risks and creates a single point of failure for global Internet services that is fundamentally at odds with the decentralized architecture of the internet. By limiting the ability to spot network threat indicators, it would also undermine federal government and private sector efforts to use DNS information to mitigate cybersecurity risks.

I don't see how IoT management is going to be affected by DNS resolution made by a browser. CDN's DNS server in any case sits upstream and should be able to perform needed optimization. Google's or any other US DNS provider is not exempt from complying with the US law and court orders.
Seems like it'd be pretty straightforward to block signals coming from the side (e.g. by putting some metal or something else similarly RF-blocking between the antenna and the jammer), no? Kinda like how wearing a hat helps keep the sun out of your eyes. Actively jamming the jammer (i.e. inverting the signal received from the jammer side and rebroadcasting on the the antenna side) would help, too, though this probably makes it easier to detect. And yeah, the higher the jammer, the harder it is to block it without blocking the signal you're trying to actually see (but it's still possible; if it wasn't, then modern astronomers would have a much harder time picking out interesting things amidst the menagerie of cosmic background radiation bouncing about).

There are plenty of other strategies, too (like not sticking to a single frequency, or picking frequencies that are likely to be too valuable to block with such a blunt-force method).
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Caution:

As a foreigner you may have a problem joining a credit union unless you have a green card. I know a few of credit unions that have these kinds of restrictions.

I say go to those that know how to deal with foreigners. (The last thing that you want is to have your account locked out because a small bank/credit union did not know what to do with you, opened an account and it was flagged down the line - maybe 6 months later).

Those would be:

1) Big national banks

2) Big international banks such as HSBC

3) If you are by Chinatown, look for banks servicing Asian population

After you open one account open a second account in a different bank. You do not want to keep all your eggs in one basket, especially as a non permanent resident. Dealing with an account lock out is especially annoying without a network in a country.
Sad news. I use Python 2.x since Nokia 3230 with Symbian v7.0 and really enjoyed with making mobile apps on my true smartphone[0] Nokia N82 with Symbian v9.2. Thanks to PyS60[1] I "dive into Python"!

(spoiler) There was little known fully functional 3D polygonal & animation editor written in PyS60 for Symbian phones by Malaysian dev — it was like Blender3D for mobile! His site now unavailable, but app backuped![2]

I still need use Blender 2.49b for some game addons development, but seems like the only way to get it work on newer Linux distros is just package Blender 2.4x as AppImage portable binary by bundling Python 2.x, because Python 2.x packages removed from Debian 9.x repository and has no plans to make it available in Debian 10.x.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Early_smartphones

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyS60

[2] http://profismart.org/f-180431.php
This was fantastic.

> With stingy living I'm set to retire at 40 and that blows my mind

Got some Mr Money mustache vibes from your post, now I know why. Congratulations.
If you're in a situation where your vesting schedule incentivizes your acquirers to fire you without cause your lawyers may have ripped you off.
One of my early jobs was working at a small PC repair/sales shop owned by a married pair of Indian immigrants.

They would fart as freely as blinking. This was in a very conservative white midwestern town, and they wouldn't even reel it in while pitching sales to potential buyers.

I was a teen at the time and couldn't believe it, ripping ass right in front of a potential customer while running over prices of various components, without missing a beat.

But clearly this is a cultural thing, and some cultures don't seem to frown upon it.

The best part was they also ate vegetarian, and the most convenient vegetarian fast-food option was taco bell so they ate bean burritos practically ever day. The flatulence was nearly constant.

Are your office mates immigrants?
wear sweat pants and no underwear and put your foot up on stuff while you talk to people in the office.

If you don’t have a penis, put a strap under the sweat pants.

No one is going to fire you with cause for not being aware of your obviously swinging dick.
I think it's been discussed a few times on HN before. The fact that it's over 80 years old yet easier to understand than newer material is amazing.
This is a specific technique, designed to confound a specific DPI method. It is not a generic blocker, or circumvention, as I understand IPSEC or IP in IP or IP over ICMP or IP over DNS or any of a number of tunnelling and encryption mechanisms.

The name is misleading: its a shield, for one weapon. Its not armour against all weapons
How do you plan on making money?
And Interactive Brokers' new "Lite" version.
You assume 40% of the population won't create a lot of unrest when the 60% come into power and cut them out of having a say in how their lives are run. Which, I guess might happen, but it seems unlikely, especially given the acrimonious history that just keeps getting deeper and deeper.
Recently went through something similar with a fairly well known tech company. I was told after nearly a whole day of workshops and interviews that I didn't make the cut. Was called back 3 months later and asked if I'd be interested in another role, organised an interview and the company cancelled it the night before.
I can call at 2am PST and get a nice british support rep in about 1.5 rings. They’ve never given me a reason to think about leaving.
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Cash and real estate. I realized after all the investing and while I did beat the market, I realized if I invested in myself I could get 1000x returns rather than 1.10x returns.

So I got out of the market, started a bunch of different businesses. A couple stuck and now I'm working on another one that will need a lot of cash in the near future, so that's where I leave it.
So, we don't want to give homeless people jobs because that's uncompassionate. Everyone knows they are charity cases and the only kind thing to do is give them charity, not opportunity.

And we don't want to give loans to poor people because that's clearly predatory lending. They would be better off without the option to decide for themselves because everyone knows how stupid they are and how incapable they are if making any kind of decent decision.

That's a recipe for a permanent underclass.

Opinion of a formerly homeless person who took out a Payday loan to go stay at a dive of a hotel for three nights to escape a deadly storm. My logic: three nights in a hotel was cheaper than replacing my laptop, which I needed to keep earning money.

I had no idea how I would eat for the rest of the month and didn't care after walking past a river about six times wider than I had ever seen it and my "safe" campsite for weathering the storm that was currently under probably six to ten feet of water -- before the worst part of the storm rolled in. I just knew I would be in a hotel that night if there was any means whatsoever to arrange it so I wouldn't die that weekend.