skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right in that there's no reason to believe AI can do this effectively.

However, in my experience, HR departments and hiring processes are anything but rational. HRs buy any kind of snake oil by the barrel, and hiring managers generally reach their position for reasons entirely unrelated to the ability to identify and hire above average employees.
Even when you buy HP cartridges, the printer can detect how old they are, and they arbitrarily stop printing well after a certain amount of time. A cartridge absolutely does not guarantee s certain number of printed pages
There's a certain amount of innate talent involved in any profession, so additional training and education is unlikely to help. No amount of education or training would ever turn me into a professionally successful artist, for example.
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How much of the training people is going to become underutilized because of hidden and poor optimization metrics? Thank you so much.
My summary:

Neural nets have massive "capacity" which means that, in the face of finite data sets, they can both (a) reasonably represent generalizable and non-generalizable functions and (b) can take on priors which do not distinguish between those classes of functions. The upshot is that after training, the posterior weight of robust/generalizable models will equal that of fragile/non-generalizable ones.

We need to believe that the priors that we actually use don't have that property if we're to believe in the posteriors produced by BNNs. Should we?

Today, priors in networks arise mostly out of network topology since initialization methods are somewhat constrained by practicalities in training. The article criticizes those who would assert that network topology (+ initialization) leads to a reasonable prior in the space of effective input -> output functions as realized by the network.

To put that in different terms, you might imagine an argument saying that network topologies are biologically inspired and thus represent a decent approximation of the space of "achievable" implementations of functions in the given task. But does an argument like this say anything about the generalization capability of functions favored by this prior? You might characterize this as "Easy" versus "Correct".

I'm not trying to actually represent argumentation that neural network topologies actually are reasonable in shaping "uninformative" Gaussian priors in the weight space into "uninformative" and "generalizable" priors in the function space. There may be some really good arguments out there. But, if we're going to understand NNs as reasonable Bayesian processes, then that question needs to be interrogated.
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For the specific problem of benchmarking small code snippets, how do you create the initial small dataset?
> Should Sony also be forced to keep their service running for PS1 games that had an online component - forever?

On the other hand, would that even be particularly difficult?

For most companies making games with an online component, if they set aside 0.1% of revenue into a fund that would take over server costs once support ends, that fund would last for a very long time.

At a certain point the player base drops enough that you only need one server and a few hours a month of labor. (Less than one server, actually, once you factor in virtualization. Even if you want to have some redundancy and support multiple regions.)
I'll install it if it replaces 'dang' with 'chapati' or 'papad' (which would subsequently be pronounced Papa-D).
None of this is that important to the overall game, though. You can turn Tetris into a turn-based puzzle game where you have an unlimited amount of time to place each next piece, it just has to obey the same rules as having overhead clearance on it, and it's still the same game. This is effectively the game that AI players are playing anyway, since they think faster than the pieces fall and thus time is not a constraint for them.
> "Seems like a constant gripe about talent shortages but then conflicting stories about how to filter an overwhelming supply of talent."

There is an overwhelming supply of people who claim to be talented but there is a dreadful shortage of those who actually possess it.
This is just spreading the cost of parking to people who don't use it... instead of only people who drive their own cars paying for the parking, now everyone has to.

Does the school also pay for public transportation for people who don't drive? Or the extra housing costs of the people who pay extra to live close enough to walk?
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"...only FOSS survives"
But yeah on of the many learnings of the long now foundation is that for things (wind Mills, businesses, etc.) To survive over a thousand years they need a community to maintain them.

Netscape died and yet we still have Firefox.

Editor have come and gone and Emacs is still here, and I'm sure it will be here in 10 years.
I haven't looked into it, but I bet salaries grow exponentially with the number of reports.
As someone who commuted to college parking illegally is just something you have to do. I had parking fines I had to pay before receiving my diploma even though I made the grades and such. Parking and universities is a mess.
Yes, one can imagine some aliens evolving differently such that they don't enjoy games, but all of them?
Sort of. Epson has tanks but charges for a “maintenance box” replacement that fills up with waste ink.
I disagree that it's not dangerous. The initial earthquake may only immediately kill a few thousand but the aftermath would be absolutely devastating. It would be the most catastrophic natural disaster and humanitarian crisis in the history of the United States. We know that it is coming and that it is overdue. It would be greater than 911, Katrina, and all the other crises that have occurred that we are still dealing with the aftermath of.
My opinion of this is that it has to come from movies and perhaps that portion of our mass media that is seen outside of the US.

I remember watching CNN in my hotel room in Munich the first time I traveled to Europe a few decades back. I was absolutely horrified. Seriously. I used to watch CNN almost exclusively here in the US. In case someone wants to come back with a Fox News comment, know that at the time FNN did not even exist (it came on air in 1996).

My first thought after watching CNN in my room in Europe was: Our enemies could not pay for better negative coverage of the US. I mean, it was horrible. Brutally negative. And very different from the CNN programming we were exposed to in the US. It made me realize why so many people had negative views of the US. Not the sole reason, of course, but this was quite shocking.

The other thing you have to realize in terms of the US is that this is far from a mono-cultural population, very far. There's tremendous cultural variety from coast to coast and north to south. And even within each region, cultures vary. I mean, just speaking of myself, while a US citizen, I come from both Latin American and Middle Eastern cultural backgrounds. By that I mean that I speak multiple languages, grew up in multiple cultures and feel at home in any of them.

And so, stereotyping Americans is, well, at the end of the day, fairly ignorant. I don't mean that as an insult but rather as a factual statement. Anyone who lumps "Americans" (as in the entire US population) under one category, culture or school of thought simply does not know what they are talking about.

Since we are talking about this, the term "American" sounds offensive (and ignorant) to a lot of people. How dare they call themselves "American"! That's a continent, not a country!

Well the name of the country is United States of America. In the case of Italy you can call yourself "Italian", France, "French", etc. What are you supposed to do with "United States of America"? Call yourself "United States-ian?". That's how you come to "American". This used to bother me until I understood where it came from and it made total sense.

BTW, there are other countries who do this kind of thing:

Mexico's official name is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" or "United States of Mexico".

Brazil's official name is "República Federativa do Brasil" or "Federal Republic of Brazil"

In English we call them "Mexican" and "Brazilian" for short, just like people from the USA are called "American".
if I leave my apartment in NY without any devices and transport myself exclusively with a metrocard paid for with cash, I can move myself across the entire city without being surveilled

I will however probably walk into at least one photo that gets posted publicly in the course of a day.
Solutions:

1. Place dorm rooms nearby

2. Subsidize local public transport companies

3. Build more parking spots

4. Offer more content for students to watch at home

5. Take in less students if you don’t have the capacity

6. Organized ride sharing programs.

7. Off-campus parking with bus services
Building a bigger parking lot requires money... who should pay for that, all students or just students who drive?

Why should non-driving students subsidize driving students?

Also, the school is not in charge of public transportation.
Absolutely, without this it is just snapshotting and compressing the particular biases of the interviewers in the training set, in a lossy way, not training against ground truth (good hire // bad hire)
A spot in a multistory parking desk costs upwards of $30,000 per spot. Even if you oversell permits by 2x and assume a 50-year lifespan with no maintenance, that is still $300/yr per parking permit. Why should students who want the exclusive right to leave their property on campus be subsidized by students who take more space/environmentally efficients modes of getting to campus?
> The schools initial response to the problem was to get on campus earlier; which is an absolutely absurd statement for a community college since the demographics include a lot of single mothers and otherwise working adults.

Also, if everyone came earlier in order to get a parking spot, there would still be no spots, because everyone came earlier.
If there's significant nondeterminism in the execution, the method discussed in TFA is also worthless. It's pretty clear determinism is the basic assumption of this discussion; no one's arguing that you should use the minimum execution time among random cases as the performance characteristics of timsort, for instance.

Of course, caching of deterministic code complicates matters too.
>the same people who park illegally tend to be cavalier about blocking bike lanes and curb cuts, speeding, rolling through crosswalks, etc.

this is generalization at the next level.

Anecdotally, when I was in university, I saw parking fees for the spot that I paid for in my first semester go from $180 for the semester (13 weeks) to $600/semester in my 4th year. I think parking tends to be a bit of an issue at many universities across north america.
> Dog piles on Internet forums because the dev isn’t doing what you want isn’t fine.

Therein lies the problem. You cannot reasonably expect to link a blog post that says what that one did on Reddit and not have people dog pile. They will, every single time.
The problem is that people need to know in advance to change their behavior: tell them that today will cost $20 and people will take the campus shuttle, bike, or walk. Tell them that you’re charging more after they got there just makes it stressful and won’t change behavior unless it happens often enough to be highly predictable - just like many people drive hoping traffic won’t be bad today because they’re prone to dismissing bad events as outliers.
I think there is because you don't always have a hotel in convenient spot. Not having to go back to your hotel might be added value.

Like you have to check out at noon but you have evening flight and you could drop your things somewhere in city center and take Uber to airport from there instead of going back to pick your stuff.
You need an ID card to do most things without going there or using snail mail. You can go there and get either a temporary residence card, or get an e-residence card online, which costs around a 100€ and takes about a month to get. You can pick it up at an embassy.

Company registration is done through a web app where you just select from drop downs or choose numbers, like how many shares are needed for certain votes etc. I think it was around 250€ and was approved in a day or two. A forwarding address for the company is about a 100€.

You have to visit the bank to open local accounts. You can get an account with a EU-wide challenger bank if you don't want to go there just for this. No real benefit to having a local account unless you want financing for local projects or something along those lines. The banks charge you more or won't open accounts if you are a foreigner or e-resident.

Taxes and reports can be done online. If the company is dormant or doesn't make a profit it's very simple. Otherwise you can get an accountant.

No idea about employees and payroll but unless you want to employ locals it's not very interesting.
California is a “one party state” because Gov Pete Wilson and the CA GOP went after the racist vote in the mid 90’s to get re-elected by heavily supporting Prop 187, which denied all state services to undocumented immigrants. Until then, it was relatively conservative.

Turns out that (thankfully) there aren’t enough racists for keep control of the state government, and since then the CA GOP has become basically irrelevant.
You're creating a false dichotomy here. Not all home owners are "rich" and not all renters are "poor". Property owners are just running a different business than you. You can easily be a renter that's wealthier than the person you happen to be renting living space from.
> how should we handle distributing a limited number of parking spaces when there are more people who want to park than available spaces?

Presumably most students are living on or not too far from campus. What should be done to get more of them to use transportation options that don't involve driving to and parking on campus?
Hi. Yes, I see- I misunderstood this. My apologies
for the hasty reading of your post.

But, in that case, there does exist a very good generalisation prior on function
space that is well known and well understood: the simplest hypothesis (e.g.
the one with the smallest minumum description length) is always better
(because it results in a reduction of the hypothesis search space with a
corresponding reduction to the size of the error on unseen data while keeping
the number of examples constant).

See:

Occam's Razor (Blumer and friends):

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0020019087...

Quoting from the abstract:

We show that a polynomial learning algorithm, as defined by ["A theory of the
learnable", Valiant 1984], is obtained whenever there exists a polynomial-time
method of producing, for any sequence of observations, a nearly minimum
hypothesis that is consistent with these observations.

Would that begin to address your concerns?
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I'm usually staying in hotels and, to be honest, I've never tried to go into a random hotel and asked them to take my bag. So my alternative take is I'd probably rather pay $6 for a legit service than farfing around social engineering random hotels to store my bag for me.
That's exactly it. He did not answer in good faith. He answered with a false dichotomy that everyone knows is false.

Not sure why you're upset at me for calling it out.
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That’s different: in this case the student was knowingly using a metered service and would have no reason for doing so other than shifting their cost to someone else.
It's a slippery slope when discussing subsidizing. Should students who are Lit majors subsidize expensive research labs? Or sports teams? College costs really can't be a la carte.
If I can't speak then how should I interact with a voice interface?
openssl can also do it. no dirlisting though.

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout /tmp/key.pem -out /tmp/cert.pem -nodes && openssl s_server -WWW -port 8443 -cert /tmp/cert.pem -key /tmp/key.pem
Connect N type games seem almost certain to exist elsewhere, as are connection games such as Hex. The fundamental concept is very basic, and the there are not a lot of variations.

There are a plethora of abstract games that have been invented that are not played very much, but seem to have the potential for extreme depth of play. I would be willing to bet that some of those neglected games are played by Aliens somewhere in the Universe, and enjoy the level of success in their society that Chess or Go enjoy here.
There's this awkward gap in online service pricing that I hate. I'd like to pay $3 per month for a 100GB Dropbox quota, but Dropbox decided (rationally--I don't blame them) than anyone paying less than $10 per month isn't worth their time.

Pretty much all ~consumer services like that are either free or at least $10.
Right, the model only works if there remains some rump of deployed devices for which the owner is willing to pay the real cost of continued service.
> I would do some capacity based pricing.

How do you think parking prices are set? They set a price that results in the parking lot mostly full most of the time. They even vary prices by time of day, sometimes.

Also, school parking usage is pretty predictable. Students are parked there while they go to class. Are you expecting them to leave class if parking gets too expensive?
Because schools pretend to charge cash in order to separate casual drivers from those that absolutely need it. However, given the costs of car ownership and tuition, the cost of parking permits are generally (a) not a deterrant to “casual drivers” (people willing to bear the cost without urgent need), (b) disproportionately impactful on those that Do need to drive, (c) basically just milking students.

Of course people cheer fucking with that
> But that is a bad goal - we don't want to optimise economic flows, we want to optimise quality of life and standards of living.

Heh it's a great idea for the powers collecting that spending though ;)
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There were a couple links here today in the "New" section with headlines that peaked my interests enough to click on them but they went to "Medium.com" which requires I "sign in" with Google or Facebook.

I won't do that. I'm not a hardcore "do not track" surfer but I have my limits and that's just a line I won't cross.

I don't think it's a leap to say this probably happens more than authors think.
Yes, I've worked in that space which is where I got the idea from.
I mean, the plan could be to destroy random cars if the parking lot is full, to make space for more. That might be slightly worse than this person's plan.
It's not UC Davis or Europe. Btw, if living near the main centroid of Davis, it's faster to bike than it is to drive or take a bus because parking + walking takes time. I even had the gate code to park right next to classrooms (it's good to know the parking folks, especially on rainy days) but that still took more time and costed more money than biking. Davis is also one of the most walkable cities, especially living around downtown.

PS: I took the ten year professional student plan between working at Stanford for a couple years and consulting. I had half of my courses canceled in 2000 when they couldn't find lecturers because most were out making $250-500k in industry.
In the long term I think the national GOP is doing this by going after racists, extreme fundamentalists, and other fanatics.

The fanatic vote is political cocaine: temporary high, then you need more and more, then your non coke head friends drift away, then you are strung out.
Who do you think should pay for the impact of your parking? The land use, pollution, congestion. Someone else, I guess?
Universities often disproportionately distribute costs, especially with facilities that are not used by everyone. This should be treated no differently despite the anti-car (or anti-sports, or anti-leisure, or anti-gaming, or anti-phone, etc) sentiment of late.
Thanks for the writing. I had noticed some of the things you wrote but not all (I am not a Go programmer though I keep track of what is happening there). Your post made me look a bit more into 'defer'. I did not expect it to be a source of errors.
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I agree in principle. Just the implementation of common core seems backwards. My kid is struggling to make sense of it, and I don't have any good way of helping her because it all seems backwards to me. I did teach her carry the one, like I learned, and she picked it right up. But I stopped that too because I didn't want to confuse her. So now I'm somewhat clueless what to do to help. The teacher recommended those dumb video games, after we've worked all our lives to limit her screen time.

That's why I say common core, even though the goal is more understanding and less memorization, actually leads toward the opposite.
You can certainly prepare your house for the earthquake and shaking. For one, reinforcing the structure, making sure the ground is under the house is attached to stable, hard rock like granite versus sediment, and very importantly, using wood instead of brick or concrete (look at Bill Gates's Xanadu house - it's not a coincidence that it is completely made out of wood, the best house material for withstanding earthquakes). These people are definitely consulting scientists and engineers and preparing themselves and their family for a potential M9+ event.
Nobody. The assault began on public transportation began before GM even existed.
Right, but this is called 'gravity' in the game, so I think it's what ggp was talking about
I’ve been hit by the blade of a DJI Phantom before on the arm. It didn’t break the skin or cause bleeding, but did leave a welt (and was obviously a bit painful).
> Does the school also pay for public transportation for people who don't drive?

Frequently enough, yes, it does.

The University of Michigan runs free shuttles from central campus to north campus. They don't check student IDs either, anyone can ride them.
> The ink is the product you are using.

You can think of the ink as an implementation detail. With this model you're paying for a capability that happens to be priced on a per-page basis. That's simpler/more understandable for most people than pricing by, say, ink volume.

Yes, this can seem very strange, and it won't make sense for everybody.
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Huh .. that'd be a fun post; see how many of these can be susceptible for climbing out of their web root. The author does list which ones support dir indexes.
Yes, this way the people who ignore parking fines can keep filling spaces, of which there are now 12 less.

Sure, it's a fun example how simple tricks can beat complicated devices, but this only benefits the people who willfully take up valuable parking space that others might want.

It's only a matter of time before the university will switch back to the boot, risking more damage to everybody's cars, or to good old towing, dragging up the price of getting your car back.

Everybody loses because of a few childish students showing off how they're so much smarter than the system.