skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the post you were responding to was not to discuss the details of this particular claim, it was to show that one of the best ways we can learn about perspectives beyond our own and discover the faults in our logic is through discussion.

It would seem you consider discussion a tool so dangerous (in that it can have real effects) that we should not have them unless we have a perfectly representative group of people taking part in that discussion. But that seems... extreme (e.g. it means that two people can't have a discussion, since two people will never approximately represent all of the groups making up our society). Perhaps you could clarify your claim?
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Gluon put out substrate which is supposed to do this:

https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate
This. It's one thing to say "don't be biased against people who don't have public GitHub profiles full of stuff they can show off". It's very clear that there are a variety of reasons why that would be the case.

But it's an entirely different thing to say "side projects have no correlation to job skill". Which is literally what a lot of people in the article's referenced tweet are saying, and even what a few people here are saying.

The reality is, most of the resumes you're going to get for any particular job posting are going to be garbage. Poor performers are over-represented in the open job market, both because they stay in the job market a lot longer (can't stay very long at one place) and because they need to apply to lots of places in the hopes of playing the numbers.

The resume is completely broken. But it's all we get from "open" job positions. If the resume is all I have to go on, most of the ones I get I have to throw away because they have nearly zero match for the posted position. Of the few that are left, the ones that somehow show they aren't a hot-potato are going to the top of the stack.

If all you have is enterprise Java experience and you're applying to my VR project in C#, and you have nothing to show, not even side projects, that you have any experience writing C# or game code, I'm not going to even give you a call. And that sort of thing is the majority of resumes you'll receive.

If you want a particular job, you need to be able to show some kind of ability to do it. If that's your actual, professional experience, that's the best. But if you're trying to change industries, you gotta have something that correlates. So what is it going to be, if it isn't a side project?

The better way of evaluating candidates is to start from referrals, but that has its own issues of gatekeeping, either conscious or unconscious.

If we're talking about open job listings, getting nothing but a cover letter and a resume (and you're lucky to even get a cover letter), how else are you supposed to do it? You can't interview everyone. There are people who will be a complete waste of time.
They are also efficient at inference-time. On GPUs the difference is noticeable only for sequences of length > 1024 (2048 for reformer since it adds some operations for hashing) thanks to the massive parallelism of GPUs amortizing the quadratic effect of the "usual" self-attention mechanism.

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Linformer (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.04768.pdf) is a different project from the one linked in https://linear-transformers.com/ (Transformers are RNNs https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16236.pdf).
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There is a big difference between ML practitioners and professional statistians. Former commonly are unaware[1] of a rich set of statistical biases and ways to tackle or mitigate them.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/survey-d4f168791e57
Most production raster tile systems use osm2pgsql + Mapnik. These are not easy to install. You may need to generate two or three sets of raster tiles for different pixel densities. The total number of tiles will explode past around zoom level 15. https://switch2osm.org is a good intro.

The newer way to do raster tiles is to actually generate vector tiles first, and then do the rasterization dynamically. Mapnik can do this, renderers like MapboxGL can be run in headless mode to do this as well.

Yes, I wish this was easier too.
I wonder if this has an impact on tire wear? I'd imagine the bumps would wear down the tread faster. Probably negligible for such a short stretch, but still curious if there's been any sort of analysis to that effect.
Taking that a step farther, the entire bicameral federal legislature could be seen as a weighting of rural over urban in the US.
Because they have to know who you are in a fair bit of detail both to comply with the law and to know who they should let take money out of the account. Because they need you to agree to a bunch of contacts. Because they need to get you things like a bank card. Because they need to decide if they want to lend you money (most often in the form of a credit card). And so on and so forth.
Yeah, that's good management, only detect after the problem has gotten too big, and then deal with it in the most useless way possible. Go team.
Lots of people saying it doesn't work, but worked for me.
https://github.com/c-wilkinson

Maybe a staged rollout? I did notice that if I look at my profile when I'm not logged in, it doesn't display.
Call Google and I'm sure they'll sort it out

Oh wait, that's not the way Google does support. What you should do is get someone with lots of twitter followers to tweet @google until someone notices this and solves it for you.

Not everyone has enough followers to activate this channel, but surely you know someone who works at Google or has 100k followers?
I guess thats how I got stuck with some niche framework with no proper documentation and almost no answers on Stack Overflow when I am stuck.
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Opinions formed after a best-as-you-can assessment of the evidence
are better than the alternatives.

Sure, agreed.

A group of black people are perfectly capable of empathising
with, understanding and having a nuanced opinion of the
concerns of disabled people. Swap adjectives around as you like

Absolutely not. Nobody will have as much evidence on the experiences of a group as those within the group.

Have you ever worked closely with disabled folks? Been one? Had them in your home? As somebody with minor disabilities myself, it is absolutely humbling when my friend with different disabilities visits, because various things in my home and the surrounding environs affect her in ways that I could not imagine without her help.

Am I discussing anecdota, rather than hard evidence? Certainly, but most of the truly hard decisions in the world are not the sort that lend themselves to purely evidence-based approaches.

There is no conclusive study or collection of studies that can, for example, tell us how to resolve the Israel/Palestine matter, whether allowing women to abort their pregnancies is a good idea, etc. We can not establish proper control groups, etc, to study these issues. Much purported "evidence" is biased. We need to lean on the evidence as much as possible, but there is also no substitute for the voices belonging to those being discussed.
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The problem is that you assume there is such thing as an objective truth that can be "reached" or "discovered". That is definitely not the case for social sciences like psychology.
Railway crossing design has parallels in software design. Rare events, expensive safety/security mechanisms, expensive redesign, and safety/security mechanisms that are perceived as repetitive irritants rather than timely helpers.
Searching locations (geocoding) is never perfect. Google seems to be the best at it, though. Probably because they've put significant effort into doing that specifically and they simply have access to more data than any other organisation. OSM isn't about geocoding, it's about building a geographic database of the world. Geocoding is just one application and not one that seen a great deal of attention, relatively speaking. Personally I often use Google maps for geocoding if I have to but most of the time I already know where I'm going on the map so have no need for it.
By my interpretation of the article, it seems to agree that this is the solution. The caveats seem to come mostly from paying for it.
That tickled me, thank you 8)
Depends on the job. The good jobs involve background checks, and the entire stack may be checked.
I guess now would be a good time to recommend 'Permutation City' by Greg Egan... Great book!
This does not make sense. There are other professions who come into contact with strange dogs on a daily basis (postal workers, Ups, delivery men, landscapers, utilities inspectors). How many get bitten or face aggression? They would face this issue on a much larger scale but it not so.
If you torture someone then use a time machine to restore him to the initial state, did you do anything bad?

You can't do this to anyone real but you can easily save and then restore the state of the simulation at any point.

Torturing someone in a simulation is not any different than imagining someone being tortured, or performing lots of arithmetic operations.

So the only logical thing is to admit that torturing/killing/hunting a species to extinction is bad not because of pain, but because of stealing computational resources belonging to someone else/some other sophisticated computational process.
MIT's 6.824: Distributed Systems (taught by Robert Morris) is completely open and available online, and it includes video lectures, notes, readings, and programming assignments from as recent as Spring 2020 (including half of the lectures recorded from home as the pandemic strikes). The assignments even include auto-graded testing scripts, so you can verify your solution to the assignments.

It's not necessarily a MOOC in the exact same vein, but given that the knowledge you gain from a MOOC is the valuable part (as opposed to any completion certificate or check mark), it's still extremely valuable and a great opportunity to learn.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
Yep, your profile doesn't show any of this for me, even when logged in.
Agreed! I really appreciate Algolia trying to make it simple and transparent.

It’s a way better experience than having to talk to a sales rep to get a sense of pricing after 3 calls.

We face the same challenge with Decimlas.app, and will be adding pricing to the landing page in the next few weeks.
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The concept of "guard against runtime errors" doesn't make much sense.

Technically speaking, even languages with strong safeguards (random examples: Golang, Rust) can't "guard against runtime errors", because it's possible to panic a program by performing an out-of-bounds array access (which classifies as "runtime error" in a very strict sense).

A concept that makes sense is the amount of safeguards provided by a language (/type system), however, this depends entirely on the use case; it's an intentional choice of the developer.
Yes, so were Java and applets. And we all know what happened there.
If unsolicited, sure. But requested mail is requested mail.

The real question is whether they file email from other causes similarly.
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Does anyone know any good introductory/intermediate neuroscience MOOCs? My favorite one by Henry Lester got deleted off Coursera unfortunately.
You pay in cash and state you don’t need a receipt. I’m fairly certain that the speeding ticket I received in some southern african country never appeared on the official ledger. You pay “advisors” that facilitate the border crossing. Plenty of ways to keep the image of respectability while still having cash change hands.
There are people who think of contingencies for an eventually popular product, and people who build actually popular products to think of contingencies for.

Contingengies are things like business models, scalability, high availability, and big data. People who obsess about these before something even exists tend to do so in meetings solely to utter words that keep them on a large organization's payroll.
A free OpenStreetMap based alternative you could use to keep it running in the future:

http://photon.komoot.de/

http://photon.komoot.de/reverse?lon=10&lat=52
I think that's the whole point of those clauses: scare the people.

In France, from what I understand, there's a special court for employment issues. I'm not sure if you need a lawyer for those, but it's supposed to be easy to take your employer to this court.

However, even so, except in case of something pretty extreme, I'd prefer not having to deal with that. But then I guess this could be used a signal that the company is into playing games and maybe look elsewhere. Especially when they're reassuring orally but wouldn't put any change in writing.
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It will have a performance tradeoff that you can spend on more iterations. The concern of extra data seems trivial, the output of bcrypt is already a serialized structure and should be easy to extend, and technically is not different from planned hash migration.
Your site seems a very useful and constructive contribution to good faith discussion

However I feel that this particular policy is going to discourage some reasonable and informed people from discussing topics which may get them fired or mobbed on social media, etc.

That you have contributors who will take that risk is not the same as opening the opportunity to everybody including those who will not.

Your take on anonymity is opinion but stated as fact; obviously there are negatives of the abusive "keyboard warrior" type, but it also enables people who might have unpopular or "incorrect" opinions to voice them fearlessly and honestly.

In supposedly liberal democracies it is not clear how to claim "political dissident" status - what are the criteria?

The emphasis should be on civility and good faith, not whether or not they are confident to use their real name in a public space.
By forming friendships with neighbors.
But the previous use is concerning deciding policy. What they're talking about here is having a discussion.
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The article mentions it at the end, Shapiro is best buddies with Mark Zuckerberg. That's something not everybody can replicate.
The PDF file contains the string "/Creator (QuarkXPress\252: LaserWriter 8 8.3.3)", so it doesn't appear to be made with LaTeX.

I'm not a designer but I know designer friends using QuarkXPress around that time, and it is my understanding that you'd create the layout largely via the QuarkXPress GUI and also much manual tweaking, so the layout was probably confined to the company producing this document.
They changed. They fired their Windows QA and the quality of Windows went down even further as a result.
Where does this 8s number come from? This article claims there's no clear evidence for it: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790
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"It's on owners to do their best to prevent police from interacting with their unrestrained dogs."

This there is the problem. Why should the general public be afraid of police when on a daily basis their dogs do interact with other professionals and workers?. This is because of fear inculcated by their behavior and there is no recourse later.
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I can tell a story. I used to work for a HVAC installation company, pretty small in terms of staff but we subcontracted a lot. Initially brought on as a mechanical engineering intern, but moved on to sales engineering when I found an interesting statistical relationship.

A large factor in quotes to clients was the underlying cost of air conditioning equipment in our niche, and often a game of sales intel was played between suppliers and competing contractors (like us) for a given job site. Favorites were picked, and we could get royally screwed in a quote, losing the sale to the end-customer.

Fortunately, we had years of purchasing information. It turns out that as varied as air conditioners are across brands and technical dimensions, when you have years of accounts' line items and unused quotes, you don't get a dimensionality issue. Since we operated in a clear-cut niche, this was especially true. We could forecast, within a margin of error of two per cent, exactly what any of our suppliers would quote us (or our competitors!) for a job long before they could turn it around. Huge strategic advantage.

This was the watershed moment for me when I realized even basic multiple linear regression was a scarily powerful tool when used correctly.
The better managers I know are pretty critical of quantifying every work metric possible. Either you get it or you don't but perhaps that separates good managers from bad ones.

If you cannot define a goal that people can work towards aside from a most uncreative KPI, it is always a management problem. At least in engineering.

It is a work culture thing, but if you have a constructive one established, these tools can do much damage.
There are a couple of issues here that seem to crop up every time people try to apply antitrust to these sectors. No one ever seems to address them. It's almost as if people decided they want a shiny new task force and then looked for a justification... Specifically my issues are:

First, that it's not really possible for tech companies to share their data without massive leaks. You can identify most people from their post code and date of birth. So the idea that google can strip names from the database and make it available and that 3ont come back to haunt users is frankly silly. The Cambridge Analytica scandal (imho a much more pressing issue that competition in tech/advertising) proves this. It also shows what happened historically when Facebook tried this.

I don't think it's possible to share datasets at all without basically having a total privacy breach. I don't particularly trust facebook/Google with my data, but I trust them more than "literally anyone who fills in a form and send it in to request access".

The second issue is that these are natural monopolies. That what the press release itself argues. That's what most people think. That's why these tech companies haven't been caught abusing their positions under existing rules: they don't need to, the landscape does it for them.

This is important because the only want to bring competition to a natural monopoly is to change the landscape. Every time that competition obsessed governments have tried to force competition on natural monopolies without that has failed. Here in the UK the examples of this include weird fake "markets" for train operators, water utilities and Internet infrastructure. Maybe UK Gov should finish those great leaps forwards before getting involved in something more complex, faster changing and international?

Again, I think these services should be regulated. I'm just saying regulating a natural monopoly is not the same as trying to force it to not be a natural monopoly...

The third issue is a bit more general. We have a lot of antitrust issues here in the UK. I hear the US is the same. But Facebook isn't on the top 100 for me. Sure, they're a monopoly but unlike other monopolies or oligopolies they don't seem to be abusing their power. So why is everyone desperately interested in them? The CMA should get its shit together and deal with the appauling quality of broadband in the UK (I could list the massive abuses going on there). Or mobile phone networks (some of the lowest rated companies in the country for a reason). Or water or trains.

People may argue Facebook is "essential", maybe it is. But its not as essential or as expensive as my (legally mandated, under regulated, suspiciously profitable) monopoly water supplier.
That sounds a bit like sunk cost fallacy? The development money is already spent, so the willingness to build the aircraft would seem to be based only on the marginal cost. But with modern financial engineering, who knows.
Great example of sigma-delta modulation. (Or it might actually be PWM. I should get out and look at it some time.)
Stuff made here is crazy high quality for a channel with 11 videos overs 3 months. It must be the best picks from a prior channel they made surely it's so much work.

The CNC bend marker on his plasma cutter is really nice.

DIY Perks is far nicer than it's at-first-glance clickbait looking content: https://www.youtube.com/user/DIYPerks/videos
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Not sure if it's a new one, but I'm liking https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global thus far.
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How are these changes necessary? What problem does moving git branches away from being references to master copies solve?
It was autocompleting in a major search engine at least as recently as several days ago.
> Let’s be clear: this software is specifically designed to help employers read workers’ private messages without their knowledge or consent. By any measure, this is unnecessary and unethical.

I am too European to understand how this can be legal.
Yep, and the same goes for US, Canadian, Australian, and a few other licenses. There's no preference towards EU/EEA licenses but probably due to reciprocity (?) Switzerland implements it for all EU/EEA countries. My point was in response to the EU license exchange facilitation in Sweden that the GP mentioned, as that isn't specifically due to the more stringent licensing in all of those countries.
Can you elaborate, RE: the Go code review?
There was at least one set of ads of Smith standing with in a profile with swastika on his sleeve visible.
Once engines are efficient and powerful enough to bolt two on to a double decker and fly across the Pacific, they may come back.
That's easy to say when your local politics isn't controlled by homeowners who have financial incentive to oppose density.
A natural experiment is an experiment (an AB-test if you will) that occurs by chance rather than conscious design. For example, two neighboring countries contemplate banning smoking in restaurants, but in one the bill fails with 49% of the vote, in the other the ban goes through with 51% of the vote. It's not perfect, but you could argue that these countries can now be used to estimate the effect of a smoking ban on mortality and health in a way that is almost as good (but not quite as good) as a randomized clinical trial, whereas you can't just compare two arbitrary countries with differential rates of smoking, because they might be different on so many other counts as well and there is no pre-intervention data to serve as a baseline.

More broadly, ML does not really answer questions like "was this death caused by smoking, or rather by a hundred other things associated with smoking like lower income and bad health insurance?", though it is excellent at predicting who is likely to die prematurely. So it's great for prediction, but not so great if you want to learn more about the underlying structure of a phenomenon.

Statisticians are sometimes surprised to see so much interest in machine learning given that its view of the world is not open to inspection (though there's https://github.com/interpretml/interpret I guess) so we as humans learn nothing, but it turns out that in many cases we really don't care all that much about the underlying mechanism, as long as we can make accurate predictions.