skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In contrast, most current methods break down when applied to the data-scarce conditions that are common for most of the world's languages. Even recent advances in pre-training language models that dramatically reduce the sample complexity for downstream tasks (Peters et al., 2018; Howard and Ruder, 2018; Devlin et al., 2019; Clark et al., 2020) require massive amounts of clean, unlabelled data, which is not available for most of the world's languages (Artetxe et al., 2020).

Languages are generally not unique and this is how humans are able to deal with sparse data as well. So you can use a language model that is trained on text across all languages and then the model will infer common structures to languages with sparse data. XLM did this and seems to perform fairly well although I don't know how sparse you can go before it breaks down.

> Doing well with few data is thus an ideal setting to test the limitations of current models—and evaluation on low-resource languages constitutes arguably its most impactful real-world application.

This is what ML and Stats has done for the last X decades and it has limitations due to the need to constrain the problem with human generated rules/knowledge/axioms. The new large scale language models skip the human rules step and are thus able to learn the long tail of language structure. I don't see how you can have it both ways as the unconstrained problem is infeasible to learn on small data as there isn't enough to generalize from.
You may want to inquire about stolen territory by Russia in places like Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine. They no longer fear. It's just stolen.
Poles fear still, Belarus does too, so do people in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and Russians have all kinds of territorial claims and festering wounds that they continue to claim as their own.
> Nature really is the best computer science teacher if you want to be brutally effective at being inefficient.

And at the same time, it also creates enduring and resilient organisms that propagate and thrive over time scales we cannot really and truly comprehend.
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Seems like it came in handy fixing the Hubble multiple times, but what your talking about was probably overkill for what they ended up using it for.
Brain teasers are really useful for job interviews where the role involves solving brain teasers. Other than that they can get in the sea.
He didn’t? The commit message is awkward enough that I can believe it is a first time commit.
> It might be that Tokyo is an internal tourist destination for that week that skewed my perception, though.

It's rather the opposite - families leave Tokyo to visit the grandparents still living in more rural areas. But when schools are out you'll always see more kids.
I had no idea! That makes me happy, as I want to support them.
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I recalled immediately this interview with Ron Howard on the Director’s Cut podcast.

The segment starts around 20:30 to 34:00 with a discussion of directing stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, and Brian Dennehy in Cocoon (1985) and their different acting styles—particularly Don and Wilford.

God speed.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-directors-cut-a-dg...
On the other hand, a huge amount of those applications target consumers to get them to misspend more money, so not having them might be a benefit?

Surveillance capitalism relies on getting ever more info about you, and exploiting it or selling it on to all that want to exploit it. NLP is one vector to extract that info from raw data.
Did you not understand the meaning of the title?

And if you did understand it, what does it matter if the word is misspelled?

Language is a tool to convey meaning, not to give nitpickers a field day.
> The lack of response on being called a troll is pretty deafening. I think it is easy to see this account is a byte-dance or ccp paid troll.

You're not allowed to actually say that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
"They're toasted"

A bit like saying something is "curated" instead of restricted, if you can make something ordinary sound extraordinary you're on to a marketing winner.
Which app do you recommend? I tried Apollo, Narwhal and Comet and didn't think any were as good as the native Reddit app.
Fun fact: the original Amazon Echo has a significant amount of Kindle software in it, developed by the same branch. The later releases switched to Android for no particularly good reason...
Yes - if the information was published on a non-protected account that would be considered public.
Yes, they come in bio glass capsule and do not get attached to the soft tissues (unlike chips used in animals, as I’ve heard), so can be easily removed.
Polarization is exactly that, remove all gradients. Fascists like to make out everything is black-white. “Only siths deal in absolutes”
Just give me an affordable 8 inch !
Yes, as in this case the posts in question include direct physical threats like threatening the children of judges with murder and rape.

Using social media to threaten physical violence against Bolsonaro's opponents has been a theme all throughout his time in power.
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Yes. Inhabitants usually get used to it and deny the problem. But Having been to Berlin in a snowy winter, the number of brown and yellow spots dotting the freshly snowed-in sidewalk within hours is very impressive in a negative way. Other german cities are far less bad in this regard (but I didn't visit all of them).
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If that’s true (which it isn’t for everyone) there’s still nothing wrong with that.
I am not aware of any, it is a very niche thing though since the majority of people can be connected with cables(I know in US there are issues but in other countries if you have electricity in a remote place you can just add a internet cable on the same polls and bring cheap and fast internet to everyone).

Do you honestly see China,Russia or India governments giving money to a foreign company when they have their own space programs? The governments to not min-max for short term financials and you also have on top of that the security issue to trust US.
It’s not clear you get permanent COVID immunity, just like you don’t get lifelong flu immunity. The Swedish gamble may become a cycle of unneeded deaths.

And people gave you solid evidence that Sewdish numbers are not the result of early elderly outlier events. You should stop claiming that in so many posts when it seems untrue.
Those things are often coupled with addiction, is self-destructive. Addiction from lack of a balanced life is an arguably preventable downward spiral.

If you want to say video games fall in the same category, I would argue video games are to heroin as caffeine is to amphetamine. Additionally, things that people get addicted to are not the issue, but rather the life around the things that people are addicted to are the issue. Just look at the use of cell phones in the contemporary world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

On future-self: My future-self already makes my decisions. If they choose to appreciate art (as video games are) on a Sunday or repair some electronics older than me, or go on a walk, none of those things are wastes of time. The mere supposition that they are is obnoxious.
I’m not sure about removing an implant from the hand like in the article but I’ve had the similarly sized/shaped Implanon removed and replaced from my arm several times. It’s just a small incision, a pair of tweezers to pull it out, and a stitch or two to close it back up. The whole procedure takes less than 15 minutes. They could probably do it in five but I’m kind of squeamish so they go slow. They use local anesthetic so you can’t feel the incision but you can still feel the implant coming out and your skin being pulled which grosses me out big time.
So tired, of 6inch everywhere
About the static typing point, I believe the JIT compiler knows what types you're calling your function with, compiles a version for them, and checks types before calling the compiled function.

So in the case of matrix multiplication, it knows that it's a double-vector of ints and runs the whole thing compiled. So it should, theoretically, be just as fast as a compiled language.
Please edit your top-level comment.

EDIT: Apparently you can't. Sorry.
how eccentric! would much rather prefer a yt vid / tutorial pls.
Mainly the fact that there is nothing that operates on the same model: chat as a fundamental component, elevation to "question pages" and answers after that. Plus, it's great excitement seeing one of your own creations come to life, especially when it has real-time feedback (like on reputation changes or upvotes/downvotes). I wanted to see also how minimal the final product could be on what I consider a "barebones product" and it's around ~550kB. Yes, feature creep is real, I would love to pick your brain about NodeBB over tea sometime.
Has “globalist” as a term been relegated to a pejorative?
I'm not sure how Spotify is to blame for bad label deals, which are nothing new. Artists also have lots of ways to get onto Spotify and other services without a label if they wish.

Bandcamp takes only a 15% cut, which is better than Spotify's 30%, but the way people talk about it you would think there's a 10x difference or something.
GDPR was born yesterday, and government intervention on such private matters can really cause a disaster. You want to have control over your data, and just to cite one case, Apple has started embracing it a while ago ahead of GDPR laws. Perhaps because it is a hardware company it has more incentives (like, it could very well create something akin to a 'family vault' that would be a fancy digital vault that you could buy and store your family data on it, and it would survive even fires - just thinking some crazy ideas, so don't judge me too much).

I am positive that market forces would achieve the same effect sooner if it were not by GDPR. One thing that has to change in my opinion is the idea of 'exporting out'. People should be using such services to import in what they have to share with others, instead of blindly relying on them to access remotely.
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Can the performance overhead be latency masked down the line so you don’t have as much overhead in practice? For example compression of slow storage media like tapes technically adds overhead but in practice because the slowest part of the chain is usually reading/writing off the tape you either don’t experience any actual overhead in practice or even often experience a small speed increase unless you can massively parallelize media access with multiple heads at which point the CPU/RAM becomes the bottleneck again.
That's why I still have a Kindle DX. It's way out of updates and it's very slow, but it still works.
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I just wanted to say that I think we packaged some cool demos in the toolkit. One is the privacy preserving search we debuted in the MacOS toolkit we put out a few weeks ago, and this one also has a fully encrypted neural network inference over credit card fraud data. If you like encryption, or like the idea of encrypted machine learning check it out! We built all the special dependencies for you, along with an integrated IDE setup to run the examples trivially. The encrypted ML example also uses a brand new, fresh out of the IBM research kitchen, encrypted machine learning library that makes it work.

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This is not just me being neurotic and over sensitive. I have tried to look up "the immune system" and found definitions indicating "it's how the body protects itself from invaders" and failing to list specific organs in the body.

I have also made remarks trying to elucidate the lymphatic system and how it works. The circulatory system pumps it for half the equation. Most people seem to have no idea how the lymphatic system works either.
To do it via code, you have to write the code change, run it to make sure you didn't break anything, get the code reviewed, wait for it to compile, and then deploy. In database, you run one simple query.
Celsius? My perfect temp is ~70 farenheit
These unfortunately have absolutely awful reviews everywhere. It's impressive it's lasted as long as it had for him. I believe the manufacturer stopped making these because they suck so bad. They also aren't designed to be serviced and would still require a lot of hacking in the same way a window unit would be
A Stanford talk on how Dropbox was scaled
Doing something does not give you authority to bend principle. Additionally, he doesn’t seem qualified to be an authority on anything.

Your points are more well constructed than his, and I am not discrediting the merit of physical activity or mental health maintenance, just the idea that free time should be spent entirely on those things is a violation of the golden rule.
Real or not, I'll keep using that name as a placeholder for any evil corporation.
Pedophilia is considered a mental illness under DSM-5 and ICD-11. Although admittedly someone can view child pornography without being a pedophile.
You're making a common mistake, that of equating "scientific" with "good". Science is a particular method for learning about the world, not a marker of moral worth. I don't want to get too far into the epistemological weeds here, but there are plenty of other, perfectly valid ways to understand the world, many of which are used and studied in academia. The easiest examples to point to are philosophy and mathematics. Mathematicians are not scientists, neither are philosophers.
The numbers 70,000 to 116,000 are for the entire 1957-1958 pandemic, which of course is done. The number of over 150,000 for the current pandemic is only the deaths to date, which are at a rate of about 1500 per day now and rising. So I'm not clear on what your argument is supposed to be? We could split hairs over the numbers to date, but we know that the current pandemic is very far from over. Is there any serious dispute that when it's over, the current pandemic will surpass 1957-58, if it hasn't already? We don't have a vaccine, only a minority of the population has been infected, and it's still spreading.

I was arguing for a hard lockdown to stop the current increase in cases. I'm not sure how it even matters whether the final toll in 1958 was 70K or 116K or somewhere between. We know the current cases have been trending upward for the past month in the US. Without a lockdown, they're likely to continue trending upward.
Monzo Bank here in the UK does that. Your account doesn't have a password. Instead, when you want to log in, it sends you an email with a link that expires after a certain amount of time.
My two cents: go ahead, do it anyway and use the competition as inspiration on which features to add, which to leave away and which to improve.

I was in a similar situation some time ago. I started working on an app with the main reason to teach myself Android programming. After a while I was quite content with the app and contemplated releasing it on the app store. I then started to become aware that this was a space were over a dozen other apps existed. I decided to go ahead anyway. Now it has grown to become a source of a bit of additional income and I dare to say meanwhile it's the most useful one of its kind on the app store (but still not the most popular one).
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Did they not already commit to running VMs on Big Sur on their ARM chips? ARM-based Linux exists and will run full speed. Because they are kicking kext’s to the curb and stepping up with their own virtualized hardware drivers, we may not have to keep waiting decades for VMware or others to pull their head out with respect to 3D support. The best GUI apps already run on iPad and all of them run on ARM Macs so I doubt new Apple is thinking like they need to hobble the VMs to prevent Linux GUIs from taking off.

But booting these Macs into anything but BigSur is not happening as accessing the hardware without using Apple’s drivers could cause product returns.
He played the postmaster general in seinfeld, very funny
I'm pretty sure the ones listed in the article are on Amazon. I bought my Whynter ARC-14S from Amazon. It's very loud, but it gets things cold. They're not cheap.

edit: loud like air-whooshing loud, not like vibrating compressor loud.
Facebook wasn't buying and selling stock in public companies they gathered data on, and additionally didn't have a contractual arrangement with those companies to keep data about traffic to them private.

There's plenty of precedent for this kind of behavior: Comscore buys traffic data from ISPs and sells the aggregated insights. Supermarkets count sales and create in-house brands to compete with the vendors they sell products for.
I'm up 75% this year [0] by buying companies I like and holding them 'forever'. But if someone asks me for investing advice I'll still tell them to go for index funds.

Because while I might be lucky enough to trounce the market right now, that doesn't mean I'll trust anyone to pick the right companies. It's safer to go for average returns than to risk the market trouncing you, especially with the vast majority of your wealth. And no, this etoro account is not my main investment account.

[0] https://www.etoro.com/people/neversell/stats
Unfortunately in the real world, noone writes about the Honeywell basic-ass wifi AC controller but instead jizzes themselves over the Google Nest "with AI" which I will find time to write an extension that replaces "with AI" with "with if statements" sometime this century.
> I don't see how you can have it both ways as the unconstrained problem is infeasible to learn on small data as there isn't enough to generalize from.

I mostly agree with you, but it does seem like current models require more data to learn language than baby humans.

This would suggest there is a middle ground between old fashioned data starved learning, and current overfed models.
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The disturbing thing is how these technologies which could be used to benefit all of us are being used by the CCP (China Communist Party) to perfect the vision of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others to completely crush individuality. All aspects of an individual's life can now be monitored, controlled, and punished.
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Fairly self explanatory. Similar to HN, but less tech oriented and more geopolitical policy/strategy oriented.

Thanks in advance to thread contributors.
We've been implanting electronics in people for a very long time, we have a good understanding of the process now.
Thanks!

I know about lesswrong, and you’re not wrong
Cardano was funded with an ICO in Japan, one of the most restrictive country about crypto-currencies. The amount was 64M$ which is not that much for developing a blockchain for 5 years with almost 100 researchers & devs. It's not a scam.