skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly. Those overparametrized models first overfit to the training data in the classical sense, and generalize worse to unseen data, and then, if we keep training past the interpolation threshold, the models start generalizing better. That's why the phenomenon is being called double descent. Injecting noise via dropout or mixup obscures this learning dynamic.
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There has been a slight change of policy. But the one thing we know works to change behaviour - increasing the prices - will not happen under the current government.

https://www.ft.com/content/a22ebd88-9cf2-11e9-9c06-a4640c9fe...
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> Companies where SW is the product value developers more I think.

And the IT budgets are different. Very different. On a related note, remember when some organizations had IT (and specifically web dev) under their marketing departments?
On second thought:
4. I would go for specific leading topics for a person and leave clustering for the rest. Clustering removes the fine granularity you spend so much time voting on in the beginning. The cards also rely on gut instinct plus fat fingers - i found myself mis-swiping on several and didn’t really care to go back and fix them. Instead, you should allow statements of explanation behind the most pertinent topics or highlighting the most relevant topics after one is done swiping and then prioritize matching on those, with the rest lumped into clusters.

5. The topics do conflate two different mental systems and they clash badly: Interests are things you want to pursue more of together. Politics are divisive topics. You and I share an interest in building products that help people with niche interests find each other, we should be able to find each other with your product. Instead, we found each other with the HN discussion. That’s because depth and insights surfaces with content generated by the person, while swiping is low threshold but also too low signal and the gut instinct of one strongly opposing swipe would be to “skip” that person. If you want connection, let users focus on a few key topics to them and let them pick a few they definitely want to avoid in another person, then let people reach out based on your statements of purpose on a topic. If you want to dig into these problems over chat, call, or email, feel free to reach out to me at hnusername at dreamlist dot com.

5 The down side with people matching is the reason why there are no people marching IPOs out there. Once you are successful, you have to leave. The dating sites have all aggregated into one big company which is a cash cow. Don’t converge towards dating unless you want acquired and users churning massively. The interest matching is slightly different, in that a good match doesn’t preclude you from staying on the platform. The politics ones always turn into a dumpster fire, as political preferences can be fleeting based on your in-group. I would stick to interests for things you want to do together.
Injury risk can be counterintuitive, like how synchronized swimmers pretty much universally suffer from concussions [0]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/16/490074935/t...
Can GPT-3 be flipped on its head, to remove such content, rather than create it?
Just give the lowest income residents some money. They can use that to purchase mail delivery services on the market. (Or purchase other things they might like better.)
Thanks. I saw this git repo earlier and it looks interesting (even though most of my machines are on LTS 18).

I don't see anything about subnets in there though. Did I miss something?
I have a bicycle trailer which caries 80 kg and has enough room for a big grocery.
Not sure about USPS specifically, but our canada post is just finally catching up now.

They explained it was basically christmas holiday load, without the extra staff, with less staff on a non busy time (people taking covid related time off for sickness and family).
I agree that it brings clarity. You need good soft skills though, or else that clarity can become bitterness as your pragmatic advice is ignored and your teammates wonder why you always seem so oppositional.

Hasn't happened to me, but I've had a couple older coworkers who seemed to be in that place, which just seems like such squandered experience.
indeed, the text to speech conversation works extremely fast even in browser (like Colab) once you get your model tuned right.
I'm with you. I'd love a one-time budget for modifications to my home that will actually make it viable as an office. I've invested in a better chair, monitor(s), peripherals etc. That money shouldn't have came out of my pocket.

That's being said, I don't work for Google, but the guarantee that I'd be able to move some place cheaper for a year would make these expenses easier to swallow.
I get the feeling that every model for a business making money from open source has some sort of perverse incentive.
Business and Finance are not the same thing.

"Business and Finance" is like saying "Apps and Code"

Before computers, many many people like today's computer programmers would be accountants, quants and other financial professionals (and engineers).
The school year thing is going to be a big deal for a lot of employers. Schools here are either doing full online or "hybrid", where half the time your kid is at home. In either case, working five days a week at the office isn't going to work for a lot of people this year, regardless of the safety of being at the office.
Population density: 240 per Km2 (Germany) vs 40.015/km2 (Contiguous U.S.)

While there are no doubt significant benefits for the U.S. to attain looking at models for how other countries handle the distributive logistics of various industries, I would argue that the vastly different population densities of the two nations should be assumed to be material, unless and until robust arguments with strong evidence show otherwise.
Yes, you are very much correct. Unfortunately, if HHMI and the like are unwilling* to do these sorts of funding experiments, I'm not really sure who will.

* I can't claim to be up-to-date on the distribution of labs funded so for all I know someone is already doing this.
Forced prison labor is forced prison labor, whether it is Uighar extremists in China making $0.25/hr or nonviolent minorities in the American prison system making $0.25/hr. We should probably get our own house in order before prescribing solutions to a much bigger country dealing with much more complicated problems.
No, You Aren’t a ‘Visual’ or ‘Auditory’ Person
I feel like we should demonetize competitive sports. Sports are wonderful, but money (and maybe fame) incentivizes you past the point where you stop based on how your body feels.

Maybe we miss out on records and storylines, but I think there are much healthier ways of spending our time.
Unstable leaders lead to unstable markets. I doubt it did much to his psyche other than act as a reminder to be careful what you invest in during periods of political instability.
Variance is a funny thing. For example, a stock that went up every day by 1%, would have higher variance, and thus more "risky" than a stock that went 0.1% up every odd day and 0.1% down every even day.
> I don't know much about solar panels, but I thought they broke down fairly frequently and required specialized tools and knowledge to repair?

My grandparents installed a solar panel at their (now my) cabin over 35 years ago. We typically have lots of snow during winter and temperatures down to -20C. During spring and fall it is usually quite windy, with lots of rain and some hail now and then. Summer time it often goes above 30C.

The panel itself has had zero maintenance during that time. It's just been standing there, doing its thing. Maybe someone wiped it once in a while, but not more than that.

A couple of years ago I had to dismount it to do some repairs on the cabin, and then the "cables" going from the outside connection into the panel broke. Some fragile foil-looking things. But up until then it was working just fine.

The battery required more care, but the panel just worked.
Ideally we could discuss a topic without needing to take eachother's personal situations into account. The discussion space is large enough that drilling down to me as an individual seems a pointless distraction.

For what it's worth, I wasn't always a rich programmer. There may be a very specific reason I empathize very well with the plight of the proletariat ;)

That sexual advantage bit is really interesting to hear about. It drove me from Taiwan the first time I was there. Too many 40 year old white dudes preying on foreign women in the bars. Didn't want to become that, stuck as an English teacher. I'll chew on this new analysis.
You can't ignore it. If you ignore the framework that is a requirement for 20-30% of advertised positions, then you are limiting your ability to get hired. That may be good advice if you are the one architecting the new project, but not if you are looking for a coding job. If you are looking for a new coding job, look at what people are hiring for and at least get familiar with a good number of those things.

Of course if you aren't having trouble finding a job then you don't need to follow this advice.
Interesting concept, this has probably been one of the more difficult problems in my life.
Agile really scratched that "cult" (weird names, daily rituals, special roles, people who don't do it are either ignorant or evil) part of the brain that programmers are susceptible to, the part that starts so many flamewars over emacs versus vi or top-posting versus bottom-posting. It's as if people forgot that programming existed before Agile came along.
You are right that the British example relies on eminent domain to some extent.

But private suppliers plus eminent domain is still a far cry from nationalized roads.
> the only obligation is to send the modifications upstream as patches

That is incorrect, the modifications have to go to users not upstream. All the GNU copyleft licenses are like this.
They are a "contact us" kind of organization, but if you look hard enough you'll find prices from a while back [1].

TLDR: Minimum tier was $400 signup + $1,375/year for up to 100,000 mails/year.

[1] https://returnpath.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Return-Pat...
I have vague memories from the Windows 3.1 era of writing a batch file that would replace AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS with stripped-down versions (after creating backup copies). This would save memory and allow some games to run that otherwise wouldn't.

I'd run the batch file, then reboot and play the game. When I was done, I'd run another batch file to rename the backup copies onto the original files, then reboot again and Windows would start.

Good times.
I've worked with two types of older engineers:

1) Ones who keep up their skills

2) Ones who don't

The former are a treasure trove of knowledge and skills, and provide substantially more value than anyone junior ever could. Going through so many computing eras gives a higher-level way of thinking about abstraction, or understanding computer architectures. They've hand-tweaked assembly, C, Java, and when they're now doing JavaScript or Python, they understand all the layers of metal underneath. They've gone through flow charts, structured, functional, object oriented, and all the variants there-of. They've written high-speed algorithms to draw lines with pixels, to ray trace, and are now coding GPGPUs.

The latter are liabilities, bringing in 1980-era best-practices. They're working on some legacy BASIC or COBAL system from the seventies, and surprised they can't find a new job when that's upgraded and they're downsized.

I've rarely seen #1 and #2 mix. They're very different crowds, and in very different types of companies.

My own experience is that I need to devote about 20% of my time to keep up, if I'm doing it on an ongoing basis, or about 1-3 months every 2-5 years if I do occasional deep dives. Basically, I dive headlong into whatever is the newest, trendiest stack, and get a product out using that, deeply learning all the deep things behind it too. That's what works for me. YMMV.
Maybe you're just in a shitty job? I thought I was burned out on programming a few years ago, turns out I was just burned out on a specific stressful job.
It also has to outcompete other products that do the same thing.

That's not going to happen if your product is a baroque mess that requires a ton of support in order to use/setup/understand compared to other competing products.

Ideally, your product is as easy to use as possible compared to other products, yet complex enough to require support.

Anyway, many corporations will buy support as a matter of course, whether they need it or not. And if they want specific features they might pay to have them added rather than dedicate their own engineers to writing and maintaining that code, especially if they don't have the in-house expertise to do so.
Sounds like a nice conspiracy, but realistically, how could they hide something like that? Presumably there are hundreds or more employees working on this. If Elon Musk et al. heard about it 5 years ago, this must be one of the best kept secrets in recent history.
I switch from my Mac mini to Android phone and back regularly. I don't have to re-pair them.
New era! Somebody should use that!
(I work for Google but opinions are my own)

It’s more about convenience than the cost.
I think the right type of thing are the sorts of questions that get put in buzzfeed lists like “10 questions to find out if your date is the one” and “how compatible are you? 25 questions to predict relationship success with your partner” type things.

The questions are all like “do you like camping”, “would you like to live in a foreign country” etc.

Some questions like this have actually been studied for their predictive ability I think.
It adds up if the workforce is large enough. Don't be surprised if the cost per workplace is a sizeable fraction of your annual salary.
Would probably be useful if this could be viewed on a desktop, is that in the pipeline? IMO apps have a much higher hurdle for first checking out whether they're actually useful or not.
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Could you do it photographically? If you can photograph the head movements at a high enough frame rate, you should be able to calculate the acceleration that produced those movements.
One thing I have never seen in the US, but seems more common in Europe is 2L or 3L plastic bottles of beer.

I guess being stuck at home, a 1/6 keg with a tap and CO2 system (which is less expensive than you'd think!) is the way to go -- with CO2 it should be ok for a few weeks to a month?
It seems to work, but this is about at the limit of what it can achieve - the UK is having to switch off renewable power sources increasingly aggressively to stop them from going any higher for grid stability reasons, and pay them quite a bit to do so.
Why ignore? Take a look, have an idea. Add another data point to the chart of where the industry is going.

Once you have seen, say, 15 frameworks, it becomes easier to map a 16th in the coordinate space, and quickly learn it when needed by reusing the knowledge you already have.
That's a good point and I will use it during our next all hands meeting.
Do you feel like the lecturer was correct, or incorrect?
The use of color is indeed fantastic. Except for choosing a black background for the graphs.

I wanted to print the webpage wihtout wasting so much ink. And a white background improves readability too.

For that I needed to learn how to manipulate the image in order to invert only the greys without altering the rest of the colors. It actually was pretty easy with Gimp (duplicate layer, choose mode: HSL Color for the upper layer, invert colors for the lower layer).
Yeah I could phrase things better.
Fuck that... That is the same as taxing the middle class (because you must know that taxing essential services affects everyone equally no matter how much money they have and that poor people get tax credits for it)
Yes the company legendarily known for providing so many amenities its staff don't really need to leave the office is doing this to save a few bucks.
Sorry, you're right, thanks for the correction. In practice, sending the patches upstream is the easiest way to be compliant, though.
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I live in rural America and USPS doesn’t deliver to my house because I live on a dirt road. UPS, FedEx, DHL and OnTrac all deliver just fine.
NYC parking prices, California gas prices (and possibly California registration costs depending on country), European tax rates, and "safety" inspection programs (that mostly just increase the cost of operating old, cheap cars), combine to provide a hefty financial incentive for people in Western Europe to take the bus/train.
What about liquid hydrogen, which is much denser than compressed one? Not an option for UAV?
The author’s latest blog post explores some related territory:

https://forgottenarbiter.github.io/Correlated-Randomness/
It's hard to convince folks to read your article without the introductory image (even if it is irrelevant or out right misleading). Sad but not totally unexpected given our short span to focus on anythin in the ocean of "information".

Here you can find the "non stylised" Electron Microscope image from another paper:

https://jvi.asm.org/content/93/19/e00644-19/figures-only
I’ve had a hard time adjusting to the AWS devops phenomenon. There is so much damn uninteresting configuration and button-pushing, rather than engineering, that I get bored with it. Yet I feel social pressures to get various AWS devops certifications to remain on top of things. Previously used Jenkins successfully for many years so I have devops experience, but there is something about EC2 instances, elastic beanstalk, load balancing, etc at AWS that just makes me want to retire (yet I still get tremendous joy from programming and designing).
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Not necessarily. If you list say 15 years of experience and a degree with no date, the reader will assume you are "at least 37". We're just trying to get an interview here - when you show up they'll have a better understanding of your actual age (in most cases), but at that point they're committed to the interview and hopefully the candidate performs well enough where age won't be a factor in any decisions.
Could yours be stored or used in extreme heat frequently?

Beyond that, it could just be a battery defect. Devices that last for multiple days should last for several years before seeing that kind of degradation.
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And also the more likely they have wisdom that is far more valuable than whatever the flavor-of-the-month tech skill is anyway.
Simply dying your hair, and staying fit will go a long way in making someone look much younger than they are.
Weight cutting is pretty bad for your body, and they take it to extreme levels of drying out their bodies too, so any of these sports which have weight classes (all the weight lifting, wrestling) are pretty damaging to all organs in the body and have caused death before. Not advocating to stop these in Olympics, pointing out there's non-obvious risks athletes take beside head trauma.
I have always worked for product companies, on products that I find interesting. Currently it is a product for margin calls in finance, before it was SMS routing and delivery, before that VoIP. Even if everything I do isn't new or interesting, there is enough variations and challenges, both in the code and also learning more about the domain.
The times I have started to feel that it was boring and repetitive, I have changed jobs (but I've stayed at least 5 years in each place).

I also like to try to get better at what I do as a developer. Mostly this is by reading books or taking MOOC courses. I think there is quite a lot to learn about developing SW well (because it is a really complex activity). So that also keeps me interested.

About eight years ago I also started blogging [1] about SW development. I've found that trying to formulate what I think about it has also kept it interesting.

[1] https://henrikwarne.com/
Most of this thread is the financial equivalent of someone saying "How do I do mail merge and excel macros to automate some of my business process" and getting answers like "To get started, Install Linux".
This is how the original [0] is described so they probably just went with that and a bit of editing for effect.

[0] https://www.mediabakery.com/MRF0009873-a-stylized-scanning-e...
Interesting but I found the opposite. Font a bit small, grey on grey hard to read and no links whatsoever! (Why not if you are writing for the web?) No strong personality comes across - and I like most of what Ben does. I find it actually visually less engaging than a lot of corporate blogs.
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My windows experience is as infrequent and as brief as I have been able to make it, but AFAIK editing registry keys + reboot is the only way to do it without third-party software.

Thanks for the AHK tip. The programs I usually find look like hastily-constructed malware on a dodgy sourceforge link & always make me feel real :-| about installing them on a fresh box.
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>Depends whom you want to credit/blame for things like

no it doesn't, which is the point. Free market capitalism or common law or the internet is not culture, it's a sort of operating system and infrastructure to build stuff with, which can be adopted or discarded as a civilisation sees fit.

China now has capitalism, is China now liberal? What are a hundred years? China and India are thousands of years old. Britney Spears and Steve Jobs and Disneyland are exciting for a few decades. Are they exciting for three thousand years? No, and that's something that the US has painfully experienced over the last few decades. It's sold its operating system to other societies the same way Microsoft sells copies of Windows, but it hasn't touched their culture.
Thanks for sharing! Could you expand more on those 3 years in making that transition? Do you work at a consulting company or did you start your own?
The Blutmärz Era was quite different too, there a social democrat administation asked for, or at least tolerated, the aid of right wing forces (Freikorps) to stop significant strikes of Spartakist Communists, about 2000 of them were killed.
That schism and distrust on the left also significantly helped the Nazis a decade later in not having a unified left to their opposition.

The conflict here was a fundamantal post war struggle about the course of action in the first ever German Republic. Germany was not an established Empire like the others either. It was not even 50 years since the German Unification 1871 under Prussian Dominance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_March_Battles
yeah exactly. Even if you manage your time well to take care of personal responsibilities, you always have a nagging feeling that you are falling behind.
Oh, that's nothing to worry about. Any halfway decent software engineer who gets fired on Thursday should be able to just waltz into a new job the following Tuesday.

I keep reading that on Hackernews, so it must be true!
I largely agree with the arguments made, but the following assertion is plain bogus

> GPT-3 is the first NLP system that has obvious, immediate, substantial economic value.

Text mining (relation extraction, named entity recognition, terminology mining) and sentiment analysis are billion dollar industries and are being directly applied right now in marketing, finance, law, search, automotive, basically every industry.
Machine translation is another huge industry of its own. Chat bots were all the hype a few years ago.
Let's not reduce the whole field of NLP to language generation.