skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the size of the networks they are training might already be good motivation for developing custom hardware for training.

I would expect their training hardware to be something specifically aimed at optimizing memory bandwidth to support distributing training of their “shared” hydra feature. It’s interesting that the shared hydra feature extractor is able to converge as they keep adding more and more output predictions under a training regime of interleaving asynchronous updates to the model from different predictor networks ...

Seems to me the formula they are pursuing with custom hardware might be to support a strategy of
1. keep adding more predictions based on same feature
2. Increase the span of time represented by batches used to train the recurrent networks

Both pursuits seem very data efficient in terms of the amount of training data they could conceivably collect per unit time of observation ...

Custom hardware with a problem specific memory architecture aimed at efficiently supporting training with very large rnn time slices could be developed that’s more about “make it possible to train this proposed model at all” rather than “make it faster/cheaper to train existing common model architectures”. When custom hardware is required to make it possible to train the model they want, the validity of the hardware development cost bet might end up being more about the effectiveness of the model they think they want than it is about maintaining general purpose performance parity vs any off the shelf hardware options ...
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Do you have a link handy? I couldn't find it with a quick google.
We were supposed to be living in pod houses
Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me twice... the point is, you can't get fooled again.
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I had a minor fall while snowboarding last January. I just slipped on an ice patch while slowing to a stop, and hit the back of my head. Was wearing a helmet. This was my second concussion as an adult (to my knowledge).

My startup was struggling, but that sealed its fate. Couldn't really work for the next couple months. We ran out of funding and pivoted to consulting (thankfully that's going well).

11 months later and I still have significant symptoms. Can't do any real exercise beyond very mild cardio, can't focus on code for anything challenging for extended periods of time, I get a lot of headaches, I'm a bit less patient, and have general focus and cognitive endurance problems.

When an MRI last month revealed mini hemmorages, it felt like a relief. At least it showed me that my symptoms were caused by something tangible, something a radiologist could point at. Motivated me to finally take a real vacation now. I feel more empathetic towards people with mental health issues now.

This was from a minor fall. Concussions are crazy.
In all fairness, speculative philosophy and evolutionary neuroscience are completely different angles on the problem. Also the problem at hand is not arguing about the philosophical properties of empirical knowledge, but that evolution may favor an increasing level of "ignorance" in order to maximize survival. Which may be surprising to, say, some hegelians who believe that as time passes species get more enlightened.
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Sometimes topics have been done to death and you don't want to talk about it any more. Repeatedly having newcomers reintroducing a topic is quite grating, and often leads to long time community members ceasing to enjoy it. Like teenagers playing stairway to heaven in the guitar shop.

Also, can you share the specific song or banned list?
Perhaps it would be good if all material facts related to a company must be disclosed to all share/option/warrant holders once the number of equity holders or claimed value of the company exceeds a certain threshold. At least an annual balance sheet, income statement, and cap table.

I've found that in practice the legal rights of minority shareholders are often not respected in private companies and there's not a lot that you can do about it.
In an environment where you are also modeling the problem but must do so incompletely as you discover its depths, the iteration of a solution model will always need to be adjusted over time and refined into a better representation of reality. I think if you mean to declare that errors in domain modeling are failures in skill then you aren't accounting for the limitations of humanity in our efforts. I believe we have accepted that refactoring is healthy and to be expected.
It's good to comment the what too if it's hard to discern what it's doing from the code.

There have been a number of cases where, for instance, I had to call a bizarrely named API and do something unexpected in order to get an unintuitive outcome and in that case a "what" comment isn't such a bad idea.
You’re downvoted likely because the high expenses of hospitalization speak more to inefficiencies in healthcare supply chain and the economics of insurance and really has nothing much to do with how much hospitals can afford on IT. Some hospital systems are rich... but they’re not that rich.

That said I agree (based on 1st hand experience) that the larger healthcare multibillion dollar systems in the US can afford to pay more for better IT/engineering. There is simply little incentive to do so. And further it’s more than just hiring a few engineers with FAANG pay... these institutions are organizationally not suited to engineering. Changing this would not be easy for them...and no, we don’t need a hospital run like Facebook or Uber.

Then there are the tons of smaller systems in the US.. they cannot afford high priced engineers regardless of the pre-insurance line charge for a bag of saline.
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This is what I’m saying by over-commenting. I stated comments at the beginning of functions - what are the arguments? - what does it return - or at the beginning of class names are the wise go.
http://archive.is/hgVAp
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I think (hope?) it is for printing, and not for reading in the browser. The example has `@media print{..}`, so I assume that is what the intended end result is for this project.
I ran digital ads for a presidential campaign, and Twitter is right to ban them
They don't have to block anything. Just make sure that any caller id number is validated and registered to the company making calls. I shouldn't be receiving calls from local numbers that are actually Indian call centers threatening that the police are on their way unless I pay my IRS bill with iTunes gift cards.

Services like twilio avoid this easily by simply requiring me to purchase the callback number or at least validate that I have control of the callback number I want to use.
No I meant deleting items takes a very long time, like the current grand parent.

Search is quick, in Ctrl+H and the URL bar suggestions are instantaneous. No complaints there.
We're past time for simple challenge response for this, if not something better. Computer picks two digits, maybe they are part of your SSN sequence, or not, you have to parse that and say true or false. Then last three of your SSN. The current strategy is b.s.
Which is entirely cherry picked and optimistic.

Autopilot has the luxury of being able to / requiring disengagement in less-than-favorable driving conditions. Humans don't.

A fair comparison would be comparing against the miles/conditions/roads driven.
Cyber security standards are in place to make the process easier to understand for the non-technical executives, who approve the budgets.

Without the standards the executives don’t know who they should believe, and invariably they believe the guy who sounds and acts like themselves, which means he knows as much about cyber security as the executives.

If you know what you are doing regarding cyber security, AND you are doing all the right things, HITRUST compliance is a cinch.

If you don’t know what you are doing regarding cyber security, HITRUST at least gives you a fighting chance. But then that’s the rub, if you don’t know what you are doing why are you running cyber security.
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Much of that cost has to go to people who cannot pay for healthcare and the massive amounts of bureaucracy managing multiple contradictory medical billing codes by company.
Any resources you would recommend?
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Speech recognition is generally not considered a time series problem though.
Once in a while it would nice to see some attention be paid to oppressed people other than the same few powerful groups.

So I'll say it this way: hurray for people in STEM (and everywhere) who've overcome challenges of all kinds.
Thanks. Couldn't find a "code first" example before my irrational impatience with Microsoft kicked in :P

I haven't touched C# in ages but that definitely looks odd compared to what I remember of it (like SwiftUI looks a little odd compared to Swift but not by this much.) My immediate thought: why capitalize the property names?

Fabulous is comparatively verbose too but probably more idiomatic with F# (which I have no experience with.)
As the saying goes, it's not about the money. It's about sending a message.
We hear this all the time today -- social skills are underrated, technical prowess isn't everything etc. I agree but on the other hand, if a person likes algorithmic stuff and can't bring themselves to develop their soft skills no matter how much they agree on their importance -- towards what kind of jobs/fields should they turn to?
Can I go further and disable stack traces as well, without giving up entirely on std? I don't want my release builds to have any of the extra code required to walk the stack. Just let the app crash; if I want a stack trace, I'll use a debugger.
That's the main reason I've always stuck with Firefox. I use the address bar as a way to quickly access my history instead of using bookmarks, and it has worked so well for me so far.
I did a big deep dive into this when I was implementing offline caching of web pages and annotations in Polar.

The issues I had were mostly to do with converting to pagination and I decided that in practice it just wasn't worth it.

The problem is that pagination on web pages just doesn't work. People have figures and so forth that need new page breaks to properly work.

CSS has extensions for this but the problem is that no one uses them because they're not intending their pages to be printed or paginated.

I have more work on this if you're interested:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/10/06/Whats-Next-For-Web-Captur...

https://getpolarized.io/2019/05/11/portable-web-documents.ht...

... I've decided to just migrate all this work for EPUB for various reasons but I'm also going to migrate to one continuous 'page' due to the CSS pagination issues I mentioned above.
Check out the CPython code base sometime, as an example of a top notch code base. Are the comments sparse?
It’s worth noting that M.2 & U.2 both have 4 lanes, so anything more would need to be HHHL or FHHL. Anyway, the Liqid LQD4500 has a 4.0 x16 interface and claims 24 GB/s. I don’t wanna know how much it costs, though.

https://www.liqid.com/products/composable-storage/element-lq...

https://www.servethehome.com/liqid-element-lqd4500-32tb-pcie...
I've seen studies that show it is.
Well, here's an outside perspective with no particular axe to grind:

Your position to avoid "cruelty free" products may or may not be valid. But this case does not support it.

I think in this case you've fallen victim of the natural human tendency to confirmation bias ("the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories")

Sorry... you may not be receptive to this info, in which case I'm sorry to bring it up since it's only going to annoy you. (Also, sorry if I'm wrong.)
For this and other reasons I switched to a KDE distro and saved >$1000 on hardware.

Yes it's not as pretty and takes some getting used to. But there was no tangible benefit to paying extra to be in the Apple ecosystem. I can code just the same as before. Perhaps what I miss a little is the trackpad. Those are nice.
I should note that the feature still exists though is more hidden than before. Previously right-clicking all along the top bar would show this option. Now there are two other ways to restore:

1. Mac: Cmd + Shift + T | Windows: Ctrl + Shift + T

2. Right click a blank spot to the right of the last tab, menu item 'Restore Closed Tab' will appear.
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As cloud security improves, a weak link emerges: people
The same is true for Enron, Worldcom, Lehman Brothers, etc.

Creating a company and raising billions of dollars so you can defraud people is not about creating a company. It is about gaining money at others’ expense.

Do you understand now how your statement is not relevant?
Given how terrible a lot of low-end Dell keyboards get after years and years, most people would cheer :)

With the main apps being virtualized, workstations are refreshed less often than they used to be.
Our company has used BulletTrain (RoR) with success - met our unique business needs quickly and at a low cost. Since it’s standard Rails we can tap into a big dev community.

https://bullettrain.co/
That link is hilariously broken on my phone (Safari iOS 12)

I see the tiny zoomed out 2x2 layout of the page, but if I try to zoom in, it zooms in on the abyss.

And if I try to pan while zoomed in, it zooms back out to the illegible zoomed out view...

-

Actually the more I play with it, the more interesting the way it breaks are.

I was able to zoom in when I scrolled down first, and very inefficiently pan around the 2 column view, but if I pan too far, the zoom resets.

And sometimes I just end up being taken to the abyss again.

Which I figured out is way off in the right margin.
You could even make the point that the movies and shows that these services produce are becoming more perishable. When Netflix first came out with House of Cards it was talked about for months. Maybe it was just the quality of House of Cards but no new in recent years (besides GOT) has drawn this much attention. People seem to just watch the same shows over and over again until something new comes onto the service. The Irishman is the next test for this idea, but I don't see this movie being talked about till the end of the year even. We have so much on these services constantly coming out that the movies and T.V. don't have the same lifetime that they used too.
Aye, but that's not my point. I'm saying everything that's old is new again. No one builds a processor that's computationally limited to lock employees into data entry. It was done in the 70s and prior out of necessity. Pretty much everything that's out there from Snapdragons to RPis are Facebook-capable.
In FF each profile is a different directory (good) for Chrome I force it to specific user-settings so there is no cross contamination.

And yes, it's basically a trivial interface shortcutting that FF built tool.
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Yes, yes. Rules seem cumbersome. But access to the public makes a candidate more successful, and that costs money. Therefore those with the most money should be the most successful, to the point that policital pundits will report on dollars raised as an indication of campaign success.
any reason for this vs. plumbum?
My use of 'optimal' is more of 'sufficient to keep reproducing given current conditions' than anything.

If you're suggesting that evolution isn't the right vehicle for this process, then we'll have to disagree.
CockroachDB no longer stores each non-primary-key column in a separate value by default - you're right that that's less efficient than necessary.

You can now explicitly specify the layout of your table data across keys via CockroachDB column familes: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/column-families.ht...

By default, since several years ago, all data in a table is stored in the same column family.
Great title for a great article. It’s hugely important we dissect the lies we are told about how the world is and how it was.
While human learning might be similar, is it similar enough? Humans seem to require very few data points to learn something. Just a few examples are enough for a human to grasp a pattern. As far as I know, we haven't been able to do the same in ML.
My question is whether this includes overhead of actually persisting the data and guaranteeing a certain SLA in terms of retrieving the data? Don’t get me wrong, this is a nice achievement and good luck to them if their objective is to build a storage company (I or my company has no need to store large amounts of data at high speed so no bias there) but there’s a difference between ingesting data at high speed and actually guaranteeing it’s going to be there in a year’s time despite potential storage drive failures and stuff.
Comment the intentions and motivations for behavior.
whats the use case?
PBMs are rent seeking middlemen. Their desire to seek the lowest drug price is arguably what contributes to things like quality standards at pharmaceutical manufactures slowly loosening and contaminants getting into the supply line.

Honestly, we should have an independent 3rd party with zero financial investment in either approving or rejecting a quality check of a batch sample. Something Federal, so manufacturers cant "shop states", that administers and regulates drugs and their distribution. Not sure what I would call it. I tend to go with cartoonish things, so Merlin after the bumbling wizard sounds fun, but the bureaucrat in me thinks the acronym "F.D.A." would suffice.
No, 1/7 < 0.15 < 1/6. Whether that's an optimal failure level for human learning is a different question that this research doesn't seem to really answer.
So is it a hash function they use for quick and easy value retrieval. New to SQL, not sure what cockroach db does.
> It would definitely be good for more "AI"-interested tech people to grapple with Searle, Nagel, Chalmers, even if you don't fully buy all their arguments.

No, it wouldn't, especially Searle whose best known argument in this area is entirely for a distinction which can by definition make no difference in the material universe. It might have theological/spiritual applications (though beyond holding open the possibility than certain material facts do not demand the naively obvious spiritual conclusions without itself rebutting those conclusions, it doesn't likely to bear much load even there), but from a material perspective it's pure intellectual autoeroticism that has already been granted far too much attention by people who could contribute more to human progress by spending that time on (almost literally) any other pursuit.
> Solar and wind ... cannot be the sole basis for a power grid without positing some new energy storage .. for which there is nothing on the horizon.

In investment and projects true, in technology no. It's just a bit expensive and politics..

Useful technologies (dramatic reduction of required storage):

* HV DC long-range transmissions (Russia)

* offshore wind (Hornsea)

* load scheduling (home dual tarrifs, remote-managed water heaters, regulated aluminum smelting, upcoming vehicle charging, ..)

* plain old overprovisioning

Slow Storage:

* electrolytic hydrogen stored in caverns (estimated cca 40% efficiency)

* automated train (cars) loaded with rocks on a slope (85% eff.)

Fast storage:

* batteries (Tesla)

* flywheels

Not that useful for scaling:

* pumped / regulated hydro - currently very important but scaling limited by geography.
This is possible in keras, just drive new models that are functions of a monolith model and train independently. I still don’t understand the point though. If you train a “subgraph”, the other tasks dependent on the part of the graph will have to get retrained anyways, since those edits will affect the other tasks.
Thanks for this, very interesting!
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Thanks, this is helpful. Maybe she’s one of those people who stockpiles frozen food because she can’t really leave the house on her own.

Frankly, the night markets in the original piece sound much nicer than a weekly 20 min chat with the postman...
The use case is when I buy a plane ticket it comes with a 3 page receipt and E-ticket, and rather than downloading a PDF, we can have HTML specify how to flow the document into a document. It seems the necessary extensions are almost TeX like, alternating headers, columns, sections, page break.

HTML is already exceeding good at flow layout, we can flow text into desktop, mobiles. Why not extend the rules so they flow into a piece of A4 document, or two columns?

Another use case is reports, where there are tabular data, where headers should be repeated at the top of every page. Wouldn't it be nice if HTML/CSS could specify this instead of resorting to Crystal Reports? It'd certainly make us doubly productive.
>Gnome-based

How unfortunate.
A different hospital/security thread from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21483337
I tried to avoid clinical depression... If we're talking clinical depression I want to exclude myself from this conversation because I'm not an expert.

I'm talking about social laziness. Few people have the guts to go introduce themselves to a stranger (in an appropriate context of course) and strike a conversation and try to make a friend. At the office this is "built in" and you get a level of socialization for free. So many people rely on these perks and leave it at that. Tons of firsthand observation here.
Are there any architecture papers/blogs on re-designing software for very fast storage ?

Once storage is as-fast as memory, things change.

Please note: i am NOT referring to cpu-on-the-memory-chip architectures
I know, I meant it's not the only way the character and movies could have been done.
I was being paid to do the same in 1999!
One potential approach is Apache Airflow.
As though getting 100% on my calculus quizzes indicated that I wasn't learning. Or, that I would learn more if I didn't study as hard and got 85% correct.
He's the author of The Old New Thing... he was heavily involved in the development of Windows and he's generally highly regarded in software development circles. He's been around for a long time.
Healthcare CIO here. This is true. Healthcare is still using paper fax. It has a 30 year old data interchange format that no one really supports because it's more profitable to lock in customers to your EMR. Healthcare is HORRIBLE about upgrading anything, at changing processes, and technological progress in general. Healthcare is VERY backwards from a tech standpoint.

Another problem is that EVERYTHING is custom, we use very, very few off the shelf solutions. Need an EMR? Let's build it in MUMPS, a 51 year old language that originated on the PDP7 and call it a state of the art system like Epic or GE Healthcare. Don't like the terminal interface? Let's slap a GUI on the front that still interacts via TTY on the back end. SQL? Nah. C, C++, or any more modern language with more robust features and way more programmers? Nope.

Now, there are some EMRs and other healthcare-centric apps that are better written, but they're also terrible. Healthcare is a relatively small market, you'll never sell a million units of your app, so you charge out the wazoo for it, get a few health systems on it, and allow they to go crazy with customization to help lock them in. And then you try to add on modern security features on to a system that's been growing for 50 years and it's a nightmare. It's INCREDIBLY common for nurses and doctors to need to have administrator access on their Windows desktops for various apps.

I was about to leave IT in general when a healthcare gig landed on me, and I'm glad it did. I find it very refreshing to be in an industry where it's so far behind that there are mountains of problems to tackle, even if half of them are so stupid it makes me want to cry.