skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If training a language model was "unremarkable" we wouldn't have a hypefest everytime anyone releases a new model, with a catchy name no less. BERT, ROBERTA, GPT-2/3/... etc. are remarkable enough for their creators to write papers exclusively for the purpose of announcing the model and describing the architecture used to train it etc.

Actual NLP practitioners are not having a hype-fest every time someone spends a shitton to train a transformer LM on a new dataset. It's definitely cool, but I wouldn't cal it remarkable. What was cool about GPT-3 was the demonstration of the effectiveness of the "few-shot"/"conditioning" approach. I didn't find it surprising, but it was cool to push it to the next level.

> In any case, I don't remember anyone ever naming their n-gram models or HMMs etc

That's because they are literally different model architectures. The 3-gram model is the same everywhere, it doesn't depend on dataset. A 3-gram "trained" on Russian would still be a 3-gram. Similarly, BERT trained on a German corpus would still be BERT, it wouldn't need a "new catchy name." That's my point.

As a side remark, you are vastly overestimating the amount of dataset specific tuning that you need - you can often just use the exact same hyperparams and run it on a new dataset - there's been some recent literature showing that a lot of these architectures are actually quite resilient to different datasets and hyperparameter choices and arrive at similar local minima. Sure, you might be off by 1-2% from SOTA accuracy (let's say on a classification task) but in production systems you're generally not shooting for the SOTA that was released in the last 2 months but rather something close-ish to those results.

Honestly, quite confused this is the hill you want to die on.
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Yeah... we've heard this before. But the wavy stuff makes me feel so ... _caaaaalm_ :)
The first amendment also isn't as limited as you implied, no matter how much you might wish it. Shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater is not protected because of the danger, not because the theater is privately owned.

The topic of discussion is comments that fall out of first amendment protection because of their content, not because of where they were posted. The authoritarian knee-jerk "first amendment doesn't apply to private companies" argument is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.
European rural :) It is a valley, tho, and if there wasn't that one tower, there would be 0 bps.
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Genuine question: seems like this is mostly a political post without much relation to the typical content one would expect on HN. Is there some kind of “off-topic” policy at HN for these things, or is it fair game given that enough people upvote it?

Edit: article seems to be flagged now, guess I have my answer.
Anti-fossil fuel mandates imposed by the California legislature is part of the reason there is a shortage of power in various areas. Rushing the transition without enough alternative supply in place is a recipe for further problems.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-blackout-warning-11...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/08/15...
If my business had failed in the first 4 years I’d have been toast. As it was killing the business after 8 years was still hard enough to build a new career from. Starting a business in your early 20s is fun, it can work out and you will learn a lot but if it tanks you’ll have been better off starting in a normal job 9 times out of 10
Congrats on the release. We've made a ragtag solution in-house that is complicated but works on those few unfortunate events that we need it.
There's a demo on request but it would be helpful if we can have a better way to test the product.
Maybe an endpoint where we stream maybe 10000 events and see them replay?
What sort of pricing tier are we talking about?
There's a bunch of things you can do to make a choice easier. The most obvious thing you can do is just taking the time you need to make an informed choice. Read the docs, source code, check out known issues, examples, etc. Do you plan to integrate tech X with tech Y? Check if everything you need is supported. Keep notes if it's really overwhelming. You can speed up the process by eliminating choices early if you know your project's hard requirements. If all this doesn't apply to you, e.g. because there are multiple choices that fit your requirements, just pick one and see how it works out for you.

At the end of the day however, you just need to pick something and roll with it. If it turns out not to be the best choice, you'll have at least learned something and the next time you have to choose you'll be better informed.

Don't stress out about it too much. It's a natural part of software development. When you are coding (after selecting all your tools), you are _still making tons of choices_. It's just in a different context; how will you structure your code? What coding paradigm will you apply? What algorithms will you use to solve your problems? You learned to cope with this stress too. It just takes time and experience.
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> Schools are already underfunded

Do you have any way to show this? Do student outcomes actually vary with the amount of funding the school gets? At the very least, the Kansas City Experiment [0] says that dumping infinite money into a failing school district doesn't materially impact outcomes.

0: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-06-22-950622...
It's interesting to see that in America, some government services can run at a loss but others are expected to be solvent. No one complains that the military doesn't pay back the 700 billion a year it takes but if public transportation goes over budget or the post office, suddenly it's a big deal.

I honestly don't get it. Most services in most countries run at a loss but they provide huge public benefits so it's worth it. The USPS allows people to vote, seniors to get their medication, people to pay mortgages or send packages.

It seems so non-political and yet somehow even the most basic of services provided by the government are now a battleground.

I feel like this country has just collectively lost its mind.
> To even take an educated risk, there would need to be a model of that risk.

I consider the move from "my cat is completely isolated indoors" to "there are still vectors of transmission" an improvement of that model. Demanding that we need the exact likelihoods or otherwise completely reject the possibility is fallacious.

> Or there was research indicating that the risk is low in these circumstances, but it’s suppressed because it’s not the narrative that the study sponsors want anyone to hear.

It is interesting that your standard of evidence is much lower for this hypothesis of conspiracy and you use it to negate your cat's threat model.

I agree the risk is low, but your initial responses "what virus would live in cats and bugs" "the cat is under total isolation" "cat is too slow to catch a mouse" etc show that you were not informed on this topic. To give an anecdote, an odd fly, spider, mosquito etc walks in to my friend's house all the time, despite all windows being screened, and their fully indoor cat would go after them with joy every time he finds them (he would try to eat them). They don't do periodic deworming either, but they still accept that there is a risk albeit small, and don't externalize their discomfort to conspiratorial veterinarians.
I write down the trade offs.

https://github.com/andrewt3000/web_development#web-developme...
CVPR recognized this paper for the best paper of the year award
California gets 12% of its power from hydro, but I'm sure they're already shifting that production around to compensate for solar.
This is a very pragmatic approach, I like it.

But I want to share an alternative to this because it helped me greatly in the past:

Sometimes this kind of decision fatigue is actually clouding something more profound and you might be on to something valuable, some kind of truth that is hidden away and still needs to come out.

Your decisions get blocked (from your subconciousness?), because you know this in some way and you cannot quite grasp why that is yet.

The hard part is to decide whether this is the case at all. I don't have a silver bullet for this, but one thing that helps is to try to be optimistically self-critical.

If you determine that this is actually the case: You have found some deeper idea/connection that you don't understand enough yet. Then you want to explore the idea by writing prototypes and text to figure out whether there is some pragmatic core that you can extract.

Note that sometimes these ideas are positives or rather solutions. But often they are problem statements or criticisms. The latter needs more exploration, often with different technologies.
Horrible company. If its free, your the product. People (Citadel, Virtu) only buy for one reason, they can make more money from it.

Payment for order flow (PFOF) is illegal in the UK and investors have seen better execution rates. Robinhood is illegal in the UK.

Links to CFA report stating order execution improvement after canceling PFOF and Robinhood canceling UK launch.

https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/advocacy/policy-positions/pa...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/robinhood-scraps-launch-of-i...

To be fair, TD Ameritrade is just as bad. TD Ameritrade and TD clearing combined have 606 reports slightly worse than Robinhood.

Its amazing what you can learn from looking at other countries that are specialists in an industry. For example, Tesla, hydrogen fuel cells, and Japan but that is a story for another day.
Is there a longer translation that gives more nuance than "suffering"? Often times we settle for less precise words in favor of pithiness/conciseness.
Going to plug a couple of relevant things here.

- A book I saw recommended here called "The Sciences of the Artificial," which talks about the purpose and practice of modeling with computers.

- An old post of mine, where I wrote that "creating knowledge is a philosophical act that businesses mostly didn't realize they were getting into when they got on the data science bandwagon."

- A post by HN user "wenc," a practicing data scientist. I'm going to copy-paste the whole thing because I think it's that good and relevant:

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Data science is correctly valued when you realize how relatively unimportant it is. It is a small cog in a larger machinery (or at least it ought to be).
You see, decision-making involves (1) getting data, (2) summarizing and predicting, and (3) taking action. Continuous decision-making -- the kind that leads to impact -- involves doing this repeatedly in a principled fashion, which means creating a system around the decision process.
For systems thinkers, this is analogous to a feedback control loop which includes sensor measurements + filters, controllers and actuators.
(1) involves programmers/data engineers who have to create/manage/monitor data pipelines (that often break). This the sensor + filters part, which is ~40% of the system.
(2) involves data scientists creating a model that guides the decision-making process. This is the model of the controller (not even the controller itself!), which is ~20% of the system. Having the right model is great, but as most control engineers will tell you, even having the wrong model is not as terrible as most people think because the feedback loop is self-correcting. A good-enough model is all you need.
(3) involves business/front-line peoplewho actually implement decisions in real-life. This is where impact is delivered. ~40% of the system. This is the controller + actuator part, which makes the decisions and carries them out.
Most data scientists think their value is in creating the most accurate model possible in Jupyter. This is nice, but in real-life not really that critical because the feedback-loop inherently moderates the error when deployed in a complex, stochastic environment. The right level of optimization would be to optimize the entire decision-making control feedback loop instead of just the small part that is "data science".
p.s. data scientists who have particularly low-impact are those who focus on producing once-off reports (like consultant reports). Reports are rarely read, and often forgotten. Real impact comes from continuous decision-making and implementing actions with feedback.
Source: practicing data scientist
> Trump himself has admitted to wanting to starve the postal service of funds so that mail-in voting will become difficult, as tens of millions of Americans are expected to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.

This is why I can't help but admire Trump, the fact he remains untouched proves how cunning him and his team are. Either that or how fragile the checks and balances system truly is.
I hate that this feature isn't stable yet. I actually ended up writing my own just to gurantee a stable interface.

The notion to put name derivation on operations is probably more trouble than it's worth. Random new ops will never support it, leading to never predictable results.

Still this is all better than pandas. <Shudder> pandas.
Hmm, it does make sense, but I think delaying carriers from starting their routes probably put backpressure on the upstream team to complete their work on time. Really hard to say if this is good or bad without more knowledge of the internal incentive structures that keep the system running smoothly.
Congrats on the launch!

Two questions:

- If I have some data in Kafka, why would I want to pump it into your platform instead of spawning an Elasticsearch instance and using something like Kafka Connect to write to it and gain visibility?

- If I use Kafka as a permanent data store (with infinite retention), I can easily replay all events with existing clients (or with plumber). What additional functionality does the "replay" feature offer compared to that?
Ustin here.

It's definitely on our roadmap to fix. Thank you for the feedback!
The way I like to explain meditation aimed at samatha it is that your mind is like a busy room full of conversations, and as you meditate, the conversations go quiet one by one, until there are just a few left. The ones left, the stubborn, uncooperative ones, are often the least pleasant. They are the ugly thoughts, the scary thoughts. And because you've let all your other thoughts go quiet, the unpleasant voices are now filling up the whole room. Before, you might not have been able to really hear them over the noise, but now even whispers ring out loud and clear. You can't make them shut up, and you aren't supposed to initiate new thoughts to refute them. You are only supposed to observe. In this way, a meditation session can, on a bad day, turn into sitting and listening to all your worst thoughts echo inside your head, not through any mistake, but as a natural consequence of how meditation works, especially for a beginner.

I don't know of any traditional meditation practice that claims to provide immediate benefit for a novice. It is presented as a skill that yields results through sustained development and practice, and difficulties are expected along the way. People presenting it as a quick and easy way to improve mood are the same kind of people who promote fad diets.
Did that bear maul him though?
Possibly due to those services charging fees and generating income tends people to envision them as a business instead of a service.
It's all fair game until the mods bump it off the frontpage.
Which is surely an argument for "never start a project using microservices"?

Who knows exactly what their interfaces are going to be, across their entire project, on day 1, and gets that right every time?
Yeah, why was this posted?
A fake blog written by AI shot to the top of Hacker News
If I remember correctly, HN is supposed to have information interesting and useful for thinking people. This example doesn't qualify as off-topic then.
It makes sense in isolation except that it’s illegal and leads to delays in delivering or attempting to deliver, say, first class mail.
IMO, it should cover company and living expenses.

The rest can come later.
I heard lying is endemic in Hollywood.
How is anything about his hamfisted (publicly admitted) attempt to disenfranchise voters even close to cunning?

Maybe it’s because his party and half of America is also on board with it?
That's not an accurate summary. HN users flagging an article is the primary reason articles go missing from the front page.
It is nice and calming, btw your twitter link at the bottom your site is broken (it links to https://batch.sh/www.twitter.com/batchsh).
Is there any study data comparing these kinds of thermometer boxes? They look like mini hotboxes that can heat up like a car left in the sun.

edit: someone posted a wiki link for Stevenson screen below just after I asked.
Lots of the value of RH is their ability to acquire customers at a much lower cost than traditional brokerages.
This is an interesting choice to make. There is an option to risk incorrectly applying some corner case of well formed patches, and a risk of incorrectly applying malformed ones that are working silently today.

I can see wanting to avoid the former. The latter also seems bad though. Rarely is it ever made so clear that fixing bugs in a popular tool also leads to compatibility issues. People often cite that concern to avoid fixing bugs, but this is a legit case of that dichotomy.
The article states that there was no such shortage...
All AV ignores files which are concatenated to an MS-signed file? Huh, presumably you mean only on Windows, but really? No AV treats .jar files concatenated with signed MSI as suspicious -- how did that situation arise?? It's a strange heuristic.

Isn't it like having a special 'I know my bag smells like drugs to sniffer dogs but I promise I don't have drugs' channel at airport arrivals; and when people go down that channel you don't bother to check their bags.
What data would they have on you? I'm assuming you're using a browser with tracking protection extensions, so what data are they stealing from you?
3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K
Also pretending to like the Grateful Dead gets pretty annoying after a while
Do you have a link about the better execution rates in the U.K.?
Specific to the Nimby-ocracy issues of Texas though, many homes have HOAs, so I'm not convinced that Nimby-ism isn't worse in Texas, there's just more land to spread out over.
It's more like C# to Java. Setting aside the different character sets used, a lot of code written in one can be translated almost directly to the other. Whereas F# and Clojure, while using many similar idioms, have fundamentally different approaches to types which significantly alters your program structure and design approach.

Both J and APL work on the same type of things (principally, arrays and nested arrays) with functions being applied over the arrays or across multiple arrays. And both languages encourage a point-free or tacit style of programming (though J, from my limited experience with both, seems to push this a bit further sometimes). For a functional paradigm example it's probably more like the difference between SML and Ocaml, or between two similar lisps like Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp. There are clear differences in focus in the two language designs, but much more in common (again, setting aside the choice of characters, you can find an equivalent for most APL symbols in J and vice versa without needing to create too many new definitions).
Even if there was some sort of budgetary problem, it seems logical that services that are explicitly required by the Constitution, such as mail and census, would have precedence over those that are not.
It work on magpies. When they nest, Maggies "swoop" at people, dogs and such that get too close. In australia (where all birds are much bolder), people do the sunglasses trick.
A service is just a specialized business though.
I think checks and balances system was built for different condition, and sort of past due to get updated.

It's like the Web... which was built for academic document exchange, and now we're in a hurry to bolt on zero-trust features on top.
"It’s very easy to confuse the emptiness of self with the nonexistence of self."

Yeah, basically you have to realize that the fact you observe all of the normal brain noise is gone does not mean you are gone. You still observe. And most critically, you are not your brain noise, but something beyond that.
A couple years ago I moved to the mountains with my family and cutback on mindless tech consumption (social media, Netflix) and started reading more books and working out (power rack in my garage).

I feel my IQ has gone up a few points and I’m more in control over my behavior/emotions but my anxiety is worse. I’m plagued by my thoughts of the shortness of time and the temporary relationship I’ll have with my children.

I think it’s a natural part of the human condition and people escape for a reason.

Historically, religion remedied that in a lot of ways, which is why it was called “opium of the masses”. People need a worldview-framework to overwrite their base firmware.
One of my friends finally got unpacked after moving to Detroit and is working on his latest album, in his basement studio space that would be unaffordable after paying rent in Oakland.
But should the USPS operate that way? The purpose of a government-operated mail service arguably is to guarantee the quality and types of services that free-market competitors can’t or don’t want to offer.
What social scientists consider "solved" does not usually jive with reality. That attitude in itself shows the field still needs to mature. They are also notorious for being more "enlightened" from my experience interacting with them at University.
> "The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 metres (5 ft) above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight intensity" [1]

And they use enclosure like this to do that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen

> If you're standing on dark surface in a hot place, the air temperature can be much higher. "In recent years a ground temperature of 84 °C (183.2 °F) has been recorded in Port Sudan, Sudan."

I have a outdoor temperature sensor in one of those enclosures and one in my attic. On sunny days, the attic regularly reaches 140+ °F and is maybe 50+ °F hotter than the outside air. I'm sure if I put the sensor directly on the roof, it'd closer to the attic temp than the outdoor temp.
> The user doesn't get a better price from a dark pool than they would in the market

This is sort of true and sort of not. For an individual trader, it's mostly true.

The law says orders should execute at no worse than the national best bid or offer (NBBO). The NBBO is the best marketed bid and marketed offer. It does not include orders on a dark pool.

A trade executed at NBBO and filled at a better price in a dark pool is perfectly legal and somewhat commonplace. This is what Citadel et al do.
We are planning to support as many messaging systems as we can. We will definitely investigate Pulsar. Going to add it to our feature list and make an issue on plumber to support introspection on Pulsar. Cheers!
to provoke discussion. Read the personal stories throughout the comments here. They don't have to be objective to be valuable.
I disagree. The article doesn't make a good case, but the 1920s were a special time, especially for German- and English-language philosophy in the philosophy of logic, language, and science. The 1920s saw the creation of the Vienna Circle and a refutation of Hegel and his ilk, a huge step forward in the progress of analytic philosophy. Carnap alone probably has more influence than Heidegger among the most prominent philosophers today. Also Russell was active in the 1920s, along with Alfred North Whitehead.
I can't help but see some of the beauty you saw in the mountains in your post maybe.
It appears that the linked web page may also be running on a WiFi-enabled SD card and can't handle the load.