skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In NLP there is a very clear and powerful new paradigm: train a HUGE language model using vast amounts of raw text. Then to solve the problem of interest, either fine-tune the model by training on your specific dataset (usually quite small), or 0/1-shot the learning somehow.

The crucial question is : is this paradigm viable for OTHER types of data?

My hypothesis is YES. If you train a HUGE image model using vast quantities of raw images, you will then be able to REUSE that model to work for specific computer vision problems, either by fine-tuning or 0/1-shotting.

I'm especially optimistic that this paradigm will work for image streams from autonomous vehicles. Classic supervised learning has proved to be difficult if not impossible to get to work for AV vision, so the new paradigm could be a game-changer.
Should make you realize just how much abuse there is on the internet that it's worth it to just filter traffic with no UA.

Usually people get stuck on the fact that we can't have nice things, so X sucks for not letting us have nice things, yet I seem to never see people acknowledge why we can't have nice things.

Then I'd see a lot more "ugh, bad actors suck!" and less "ugh, websites are just trying to make life miserable for me >:("
As weird as that sounds in practice, the idea of doing it in simulation sounds very similar to the idea of "orphanogenesis" in Diaspora. Though most new "people" are formed by mixing the traits of existing individuals, every once in a while the society will create a new person by randomly mixing some traits and keeping track of the resulting genotype. The person so-formed is called an orphan in the book. Awesome hard sci-fi idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)#Plot_summary
See my addendum. Didn't mean to miss it. Just answering several people at once.

Aside from being a student, I have no other affiliation with the school.
^ it seems that HN needs to do some garbage collection, and remove the state linked accounts here as well
So if you slice “the market” granularly enough and squint, then there is a monopoly.

If I had a general consumer business, I would much rather use FB advertising because they know more about their users than Google.
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Same here. I just googled "1930s office chair," and the first few hits were all of a certain style. I was given one, and refinished it. The wheels are gone, and in their place, the bottom of the base is covered with self adhesive felt.

But I'm fortunate that I don't sit for very long. I actually work in hardware, and have set up the basement rec room as a lab, so I'm a little more mobile than someone doing pure programming.

Second best thing, seriously, is to cobble a standing desk by whatever means possible.
When you know your target runs Internet Explorer, you serve phishing pages to IE users and some boring content to other users, at the server level. We've had this keep our user tests out of Google Safebrowse and so on. I'm sure similar tricks end up applied to Facebook's UA and "legitimate" marketing sites.
several thousand years of selection for genes with strong fat storage abilities, coupled with an imported western diet, has resulted in:

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/in-depth/i-have-seen-so-many-fune...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2008/03/20085251...
I don't actually think that was the point. Here the code was literally spinning for dozens of milliseconds, running multiple pause instructions sequentially. I'm no expert in this kind of thing, but spinning for that long without checking the condition is really strange, and caused them to actually be hit by the length of the pause instruction very severely since they were essentially spinning for something directly proportional to the length of a pause.
>Every generation needs a Woodstock

A massively failed capitalist project that leaves behind an enormous mess?
Still no?
Ask HN: Have you transitioned from being a PM to engineering?
I'm currently a PM at a FAANG company, but I've always been curious about switching to engineering. Now that I've been PMing for 7 years, I'm seriously considering making the leap.

I never set out to be a PM, but sort of fell into the role from being the most technically-minded account manager at the first startup I joined. And while I don't have a CS degree, I've always been interested in engineering and have coded up various side projects for fun.

I see a lot of articles about people who've switched from engineering -> PM, but basically zero in the reverse direction.

If you've made the switch, I would love to hear about your experience. How did you make the switch? Has it been worth it?

Thank you for sharing.
Ok, thank you for the answer.
> The new institution, learning I had been attending U of the P, promptly told me that U of the P credits would not transfer. Universal transferability in question, I opted out.

Yes, many schools will not accept coursework from nationally accredited universities. This includes coursework from UoPeople. You will not be able to apply for many graduate schools as well. A degree from UoPeople definitely comes with limits, and I wish the school was a little more forward about that. (There are lots of discussions about this on the internal social network.)
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“Cut funding for police departments”, that is shown in that poll isn't what the dismantle/abolish is about (it's not even a fair portrayal what “defund” is centrally about, which is shifting funding from PDs to alternative services.) And that poll is from near the beginning of the recent protests.

More recent polling shows much higher support for both “defund” and “dismantle” than what that poll found for it's lopsided framing of “defund”.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-poll-e...
> My hypothesis is YES. If you train a HUGE image model using vast quantities of raw images, you will then be able to REUSE that model to work for specific computer vision problems, either by fine-tuning or 0/1-shotting.

This has been demonstrated for many years, it's not news. Many of the SOTAs like BiT require pretraining on JFT-300M, or Instagram, or what have you.
Wow. This likely throws a wrench in Intel's ability to design a revolutionary "Non Core" architecture free of all the security vulnerabilities that have been plaguing the Core family due to unsafe shortcuts in the name of performance.

Here's to hoping that in the 2 years Keller had been in Intel, he had left many good, realizable ideas on how to overhaul Intel's CPU architecture. If not, then this news might be the death knell for Intel's CPU might for the next decade.
We are in a team that saw increased demand during COVID. I expect that he thought it would be a lot easier to ask his management to come up with $200K in expense than have the core services start to fall over under load if people weren't working effectively.
I agree, there is great value in sign languages for people who are unable to speak. (Disclaimer: I am hearing and learnt New Zealand Sign Language)

Obviously, it comes with great effort on both the part of the wife and OP, plus a rethinking of some social interactions and even social groups.

However, no problem is insurmountable with sufficient assistance and support from friends, family, and expert groups. Learning sign language is fun and a great way to meet new friends, hearing and Deaf alike.

It may be a last resort, but it's an option not to be ignored.
What makes it an office? A separate room (or at least separated area, dedicated desk and chair, necessary peripherals and paraphernalia, sufficient electrical outlets and opportunity to not be interrupted.
you're leveling a claim i might agree with, but i don't think you're doing so in an appropriate way (as in, if everybody behaved this way when similar feelings arose, we'd have a real shit community)

if you have a problem with the statement, can you address where it's inaccurate? or can you be more explicit with your own assertion in order that the rest of us can address where your inaccuracies are.
I'm not an expert on RDP. But I tunnel RDP over SSH all the time... What am I doing right?
It's worth noting that at least one of the demos is not few-shot: the code completion one notes it was trained on Github.
I never understand why likeminded people don’t just start a city? “Wild country” was an example of this, but they were bound together by a quasi religion.

There’s so much unincorporated land in the USA. So many opportunities to prove things work or don’t work. Why move into a place somebody else built?
Sounds good except for "is a document db".
Industrialized countries have done a pretty good job at getting us to override the instinct to reproduce uncontrollably.
This article [1] describes the features in 1.15. The new linker is quite impressive in reducing executable size because it reduces more unused code:

For more realistic programs, binary sizes go down by 3.5% or as much as 22%.

The original linker was written by Ken Thompson, who is now retired.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/820217/
They said years ago not before 2.0
No, I'm talking about when the fact was fully understood and widely known in the 1800s.
This is pedantic BS that has nothing to do with the issue in the article. The article talks about a very specific issue of offsets in practice cases. This is equivalent to somebody talking about simple circuits and then complaining that "but what about relativity".
Also gaming consoles have advantages for specs that's for gaming but also useful for smoothness UI.

The problem is I don't gaming on TV so I buy STB with crappy SoC.
Is there a reason you don't want to use S3? It's hard to recommend a product without understanding your goals here.
Ah, really? My apologies then. I must've missed that.
Doesn't Chrome use Blink, a fork of Webkit?
Intel has been very clear in the past they'd not let such a thing happen: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-sti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discover_Card#Business_develop...
Do you think trading innocent people's lives to prevent criminal exploits is an acceptable strategy?

I mean, there weren't any criminals here at all, but let's pretend they were dealing out of the apartment, as the reporting has suggested was the impetus. How many escaped drug dealers are worth one Breonna Taylor?
Very interesting. Although from what I could find on it, it doesn't really sound like a good example to argue that an unpoliced society can be a nice, safe place to live. I certainly wouldn't describe it as utopic.

> locals and activists help with the cleaning and cooking and even take turns being a night watch after someone – reportedly far-right activists – set a squat on fire.

> “It’s hard to live in peace when teenagers come here just to get high or you need to run to your car because protesters are setting them on fire,” says Dioni Vougioukli, a journalist who has lived in the neighborhood for 10 years.
The paper you linked does not say what you think it says. It merely claims that, due to a lack of proof otherwise, calories don't evade thermodynamic laws.

It also says the exact opposite of what you seem to believe, which is that diets with different macronutrients compositions have different weight outcomes despite having the same number of calories.
The ag the silver searcher

As programer, finding/looking up the code takes your primary time. so after I got into ag, it changes my behavior of checking the code. from somewhat lookup to searching.
> This is one of those things where a surprising fact isn't astounding, but just makes me think the definitions are badly chosen. After all -- of course if you pick definitions in weird ways, you get weird results.

I agree that it's not astounding. I think it's surprising because the definitions are well chosen, and intuitive in most cases, but this mathematical object just falls through the cracks.
I was all ready to move away from Photoshop and try Gimp.

I needed to add some arrows to some screenshots for some documentation and thought, "this should be easy, now's the right time to try it out".

After installing Gimp and googling for 10 minutes, I gave up because all the solutions seemed ridiculously overcomplicated for something so basic as a line with an arrow end.

There's no simple way to do something even this basic in Gimp. So it's back to Photoshop or even Paint.net for me.

Please somebody tell me I was mistaken.
> "My understanding from the original antitrust case against Microsoft is that it DRASTICALLY impacted the internal culture at Microsoft. While the EU got their browser choice option in Windows, the indirect consequences were much further reaching. Based on comments I've read from former MS people, every decision after the antitrust case happened were looked through in a different light. 'Will this bring on more scrutiny?'."

Pretty much spot on, at least in my recollection.

[EDIT] As an aside, it's widely held (e.g. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/01/learning-from-micro...) that Microsoft's antitrust woes were because it didn't have political lobbyists in place to counteract it and supposedly Google took a lesson from it and built up it's lobbying efforts considerably. Kinda makes you wonder where their efforts broke down?
Demote it to a group of flaky tests that don't block pushes. Or, demote them and block the push when a flaky test fails 100% of the time.
Note, the real "killer app" for electric trucks is not long haul, not yet. Diesel is really, really good at long haul. And arguably, since the engines are running at a pretty constant speed for a long time, they're pretty efficient at it.

Electric trucks are first aiming at local and drayage routes, which actually make up a significant fraction of the trucking industry. You don't have to capture 100% of the market to make a huge impact.

Drayage trucks are typically back at their home base every night, and spend their days running containers to and from ports, intermodal yards, and other shipping depots. These routes aren't actually well-suited to the way diesel trucks and conventional transmissions work, with lots of local roads, starting and stopping, idling, etc. They're ideally suited to electrification, even with fairly small batteries. A typical drayage truck may only put on 200 miles in a day, with many even less. And they're usually parked overnight, so recharging isn't that big a deal. (Yes the chargers are still enormous, but they have hours to spend, it's not like you need to charge the thing in 15 minutes.)

Note that pretty much every "traditional" truck maker has an electric program in progress with test vehicles on the road, some more serious than others. Tesla's entry is interesting, but brand loyalty and history may mean it's not a slam-dunk, if the others can deliver something that works well and still "feels like" the trucks their owners know and love. Others may fly the "futuristic" flag with pride. Time will tell!
I really don't want to argue about this.

You're not going to convince me that Django isn't an overblown toy. I'm not going to convince you that it is.

Same with metaclasses, you're not going to convince me that they're a good idea (despite what GvR does with them) and I'm not going to convince you that using them is irresponsible.

So what are we left with?

> That’s not even the same thing

But html.py (would have) solved the problem we had. without the nasty surprise.

> In any case, shunning it wholesale is stupid.

No, it's conservative. That's a different thing.

I want to be able to hire someone who can modify a form. The more complex and obscure the the code is (even if it's only twenty lines long) the smaller the pool of folks who can use it with mastery.

Think about it.

Anyway, I'm off learning Erlang/OTP now and it really makes Python's runtime look like a joke in comparison. Web-app backends are Erlang-shaped, not Python-shaped. Not using it sooner makes me feel stupid.
If you had a general consumer business and used both, you'd probably drop Facebook after finding that they don't translate into revenue growth at nearly the same rate. If you didn't, you'd still likely find that your return on investment is far better with Google ad buys. At least, that was my experience with a lifestyle/hobby product. So many leads from Facebook were simply garbage, and the numbers seemed, well, let's just say questionable.

Again, your mileage may differ, but FB knowing more about people didn't seem to matter for me. When it came down to it, a dollar spent with Google was far better than a dollar spent with FB.
I work for Bing. Awwww, man. ;-)
According to numbers that came out during the Oracle trial, Google only made $23 billion in profit from Android from inception through 2016 (https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...). Google pays Apple a reported $8 billion a year to be the default search engine for iOS. Apple has made much more on mobile from Google than Google has made on Android.

Youtube is still just barely profitable according to most accounts even with $15 billion in revenue.
It does, but it forked long before that blog post was written.
Ah, yep! Gans’ work is heavily based on Girard.
That's only you, though. Plus you don't have a consumer business. Not very persuasive.

The "choice" described in the paper is not between Facebook and Google, it is between Google and nothing. According the the authors, Facebook does not particpate in the business of ads for the "open web".
> could not grasp the idea of plagiarism being unethical

I remember experiencing this at a private religious university. At the time, my hyper-religious mind was blown to see students outright cheating in the Testing Center.

Since then I've been exposed to additional perspectives on plagiarism. It is an extremely deep and nuanced topic. A few years out of school, I ended up mentoring and then teaching college students who seem to match the sort of person you describe. This was a huge shock at first.

The more I learned about these students, the more I learned about the sheer variety of perceptions involved: One person's fairness concept is, to another person or group, a latent power dynamic which ought to be questioned.

Or, this person's concern for the big-picture ethical questions is this other person's small-picture roadblock in an economic problem which seems more urgent with each passing moment. You want a big picture? Can you justify it in seconds, with something that's not simply a subjective perception or largely-covert moral construct of your own?

Yet another person's assumption of perpetually commonly-understood contract is another's baroque exercise in cleverness and flexibility. It's the sneaky laser dance from _Ocean's Twelve_, and _that_ kind of challenge is, psychologically speaking, extremely energizing for them. Don't think they didn't notice how things work in the "real" world! (When these two see each other face to face--so to speak--there are harsh outcomes)

Anyway--sorry to hear about your experience & thank you for sharing so that others can be more educated about their choice of institution.
The law is changing to accommodate them to make whatever they're doing the letter of the law.
I've attended several schools online at both the undergrad and graduate level including a for-profit school. I don't find much different between them because they've all followed an asynchronous approach.

However, UoPeople is different in that it's much, much less instructor led. They use a "peer learning" pedagogical approach. It's something I quite dislike about the school. I consider it to be poorly implemented and leads to problems like "revenge grading." However, I tolerate it because it allows me to study in a structured environment for less than I'd pay at my local community college.

It's not something I would recommend for weak learners and/or for many who need a regionally accredited degree.
Or the Mexican ones, who even tag themselves with the #RedAMLO hashtag.
Stadia has been perfect for me, zero complaints. The subscription is well worth having a library of games to explore (or replay, in the case of Superhot).

I'm a new dad, so jumping in and out of games is important. Sadia makes that easy, unlike the huge updates on my Switch (nevermind the filled SD card). I also love that I can move room to room without needing additional docks - just a multi purpose chromecast.

There is so much fear/noise in this thread about Google shutting it down, and I gotta say, I'm just not worried about that. If it happens, so be it, I'll have gotten plenty of value out of the platform. Are you not going to see a movie in a movie theater because you don't own it after and the theater might go out of business someday? Are you all still buying Blu-ray? Everything dies, live a little, go stream Doom Eternal.
as another commenter responded, that is not as universal as you would thing! :)
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It seems to me that D has been too many places and has too many features. My impression is that D sometimes uses a GC, sometimes not. I believe I can do many interesting things in D once I learn the language well enough to pick a certain subset of features, much like C++. In other words, if I want to write GC free code in D I have to learn what NOT to use.

If I want to pick a subset of features, I'd probably pick C++. Or, if I'm willing to use a GC and runtime, then there's lots of languages to choose from.

I use Rust if I want "safety" and no GC and that's all I get.

This is my impression. But I know very little of D so do not judge the language based on my impressions.
Ask HN: Tips when changing your name?
A friend is getting married and we were talking about the pros and cons of a name change – aside from the semantic and social pros and cons, we realized there are likely many gotchas in the internet age of digital accounts.
Worth keeping in mind as well that situations like that likely happened before, but a group protecting territory and chasing someone while police is not around wasn't newsworthy.
You don't need a $700 chair to avoid back problems.
Then what’s the point of them?
Yes I was slightly piffed. Yet, the professor was notably intelligent and very professional. My comment was for others wondering if it was a scam.
Its not a scam, it's real, but preferably for people seeking a multicultural experience along with their general educational knowledge, irregardless of the loss of highly guaranteed nontransferrability. Perhaps if one is retired, for example, it would simply be an amazing choice. :)
The Open Feedback Circle (create a feedback culture on your team)
Disappointing to see the pricing model has changed; there used to be a license for unlimited project sizes, but now appears to be a $15/mo sub for their paid service.

Understandably, this was before they transitioned from on-device models to more complex, larger cloud models.

The free 400KB limit is quite generous, but you may need to spend time tuning the ignore if you have junk in your project folder.
I don't love the idea of giving Amazon money. And while I haven't done much research, I would imagine there might be an offering that does a better job catering to small projects, since S3 is very much built for "full-sized" use cases. Could be wrong about that. But mainly I'm just curious to know what the players are in the space.
Who cares if FB participates in the “open web” when the majority of adults in the US have a FB Account and probably spend more time on FB than anywhere else?
Have you tried a better one for an extended period?
No, it isn't.

But good lord, sometimes trying to get technical help on the Internet turns into this rabbithole of people who are specifically looking for ways not to be helpful. "Did you really want that?" "Did you consider alternatives?" "What you really have is an XY problem."
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