skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of other brands have them, but they use it only for redirects and not as their main domain like Google does. Example: experience.apple
> Or you pick up a guitar, then go to YouTube and see some kid who's been practicing twelve hours a day since infancy and lose all hope.

on the flip side, most skills seem to respond asymptotically to practice/effort (rapid progress at the beginning, diminishing returns near the top). the very best guitar players in the world are not radically more technically proficient than the classical/jazz guitarists at your local conservatory. you can see this in esports a lot. players come out of the woodwork all the time who have trained hard and smart at a game for two or three years and dethrone people who have literally been playing since they were eight.

being the world's best X is usually more about gaining proficiency in adjacent skills Y and Z and having a bit of luck than it is about being lightyears ahead of everyone else at X itself. this is how roger federer dominated tennis for so long. he wasn't the world's best at any one stroke, but each one of his strokes was among the best, and he invested heavily in a style of play that was uncommon on the tour at that time.
Definitely. That was a great start.

The book also does a good job of addressing concerns about appearing too spammy or scummy. Helped me change my mindset about that part of sales too.
A post-truth era? Why Americans may be better-informed than ever
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> Curious what sources you receive public funding from?

We list everything in detail here: https://safing.io/ownership/#influences
Ask HN: Studies into long term exposure to “non-ionising” radiation?
Sometimes I feel concerned that 3g, 4g and 5g could have some interference with brain waves or that rather than non-ionising, they are just very very slightly ionising, enough to be missed in a small scale experiment but adding up over a long time, and especially getting worse as more and more waves are being transmitted.

Perhaps this is just paranoia and lack of scientific knowledge, but not knowing concerns me, and I’m reluctant to just trust what is generally held to be true
TL;DR: For high-dimensional models (say, with millions to billions of parameters), there's always a good set parameters nearby, and when we start descending towards it, we are highly unlikely to get stuck, because almost always there's at least one path down along at least one among of all those dimensions -- i.e., there are no local optima. Once we've stumbled upon a good set of parameters, as measured by validation, we can stop.

These intuitions are consistent with my experience... but I think there's more to deep learning.

For instance, these intuitions fail to explain "weird" phenomena, such as "double descent" and "interpolation thresholds":

* https://openai.com/blog/deep-double-descent/

* https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09349

* https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11118

* See also: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~ryantibs/papers/lsinter.pdf

We still don't fully understand why stochastic gradient descent works so well in so many domains.
If you can write a web page that submits a user form and a server that writes that data to a persistent database ... I'm failing to see which part of the "stack" is unfilled. This is what bootcamps teach.
Yup. People don't realize how many applicants literally can't even pass FizzBuzz, or some slightly more complicated variant. It is not just a meme. Dunning–Kruger.
> Who has copies of their text messages on their laptop?

Anyone with the My Phone app in Windows and a linked phone.

> Who has PDF copies of emails?

Those look like they were created, e.g. with a PDF printer, from the originals. They've now released Hunter's signature on the repair form, as well, and claim to have phone calls from him calling about it.

So far the "Russian disinfo" campaign is without evidence of that, given that the ODNI says there's no intelligence pointing to that and nothing but anonymous rumors thereof. Doesn't mean anything in these files is true, but some of the details match what we already know.

That said, we'll have to wait and see. I don't think Steele's primary Russian subsource is behind this one, though, but it could be like the original Dossier--a mix of salacious but unverifiable statements with true but innocuous statements.

Though I think Hunter with the meth pipe is already pretty damaging. That aside, for the best for the public to know all about the future president & his son's Bursima dealings so that it cannot be used as blackmail in the future, no?
>The lockdown happened because we had no masks. Simply had none.

Masks have their place, but they aren't "be-all and end-all" of policy. In fact, if all you do is mask, they don't work very well. You need to pair them with social distancing and other measures.

At the time we locked-down though, most public health agencies, including WHO, was not recommending masking for the public. We locked down because we didn't know how bad the virus was. Numbers like 3-5% infection mortality rate were being thrown around (which was scary). It wasn't because of lack of PPE.
> There is no meaningful data that any hiring process--good or bad--improves the outcome of a hire. If there were, everyone would be using it.

No, it's just the companies using it keep that data to themselves. Their hiring process is then a competitive advantage.
The democratic states said they will look to merge with this case in the coming weeks if they determine charges are appropriate.
Does numbacuda allow passing buffers between kernels now? Or does it still pretty much require you to write a single superkernel in a buggy, difficult-to-debug language subset?

C isn't usually a breath of fresh air, but the last two times I tried to use nubacuda and failed (~1.5 year ago), it sure felt that way.

EDIT: yes, looks like it supports on-device buffers now. I'm still in "once bitten, twice shy" mode on account of the bugs and debug story, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
Not sure I agree with this. I have to constantly remind myself not to get stuck in the endless rabbit holes of stuff I don’t know and actually get some work done.
We were just in the process of surveying firewalls. PANW was high on the list, given the user experience. They are no longer on it since today.
"Never attribute to engineering that which is adequately explained by marketing"
> They either didn't honor it, or it wasn't enough time.

Knowing what they say about both companies, it was probably both reasons at the same time :-))
This does not work for introverts that are fantastic at their jobs
Here is your answer. Multiple people post, and eventually the upvote lottery puts one of them on the front page and a discussion ensues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837458
Their goal isn't to actually enforce antitrust though, it's to appear strong for the election. So anything after November is completely useless to them. Your comment implies that once Democrats take over, there will be no more appetite for an antitrust case, which is not true.
Officially, hoarding has never been allowed. You can't buy IPs unless you have a plan to use them. And there's nothing strange about a company with tens of millions of VMs buying tens of millions of addresses.
It's not set to the Gilbert & Sullivan tune but Weird Al did a Pokemon Polka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsSFlLYnwtc
The thing that companies fail to do is reconcile hiring decisions with performance reviews afterwards. They have a single hiring practice and they NEVER EVER change it, regardless of the quality of the eventual hires.

The missing feedback loop from performance review back to the hiring process means that the hiring process can't get fixed. Until companies start adding that process back in, hiring will never get better.
> Then you'll have one of these "fancy" modern websites that load their content entirely through js and it'll fail because the HTML is the same on all pages.

What are you talking about, it would be done entirely on the backend.

Mind you, I've brought it up with dang multiple times and he says it would be a hassle and too brittle to be effective (fair enough), but nothing about it would require javascript.
Dixon-Coles, Ntzoufras, McHale, there are a few papers on Bivariate models from German authors (Groll...so google "Groll bivaraite Poisson"). I would also understand ranking algorithms (there is a book called Who's #1?). Bear in mind though, most papers are fictional/p-hacked/just bad.

I would also think carefully about what you are doing and why. Most people fail because they try to bet on markets that are, for them, unbeatable (for example, football data is expensive). It is far easier to pick off obscure markets (I did not do this because I had a junior high school maths education and needed some guidance).
I'm not entirely sure what's leading you to this conclusion. The original Macintosh had no privileges system and let apps write to random bits of memory. It was quite problematic for multitasking, in fact.
As much as I despise this kind of software as an end-user the data collection can be for above-board purposes and is required in certain regulatory domains. Zero excuse for being a shitty application though.

In our case we were required to verify that any machine that connected to our VPN was sufficiently updated, had a backup taken, was running AV and was recently scanned for malware, and had disk encryption enabled with our recovery key.
It's really tempting to apply Poe's Law when they propose to let the market decide which national parks are "worth it".

It reads an awful lot like a list of "things that other people need but I don't". It's also a weird mishmash of things that aren't federal and things whose total expenditure is such a tiny percentage of tax dollars that you could zero them out while making a rounding error in your paycheck. Things that actually have large budgets -- the military, social security, roads, primary education, police and fire departments -- are also things that they benefit from.
We shouldn't ask why engineering hiring is broken. We should ask how an industry with broken hiring can succeed. Software engineering has such ludicrous margins that the labor market for software engineers can be ludicrous in equal proportion.

The result is that we can bully and cajole smart, capable people, then go on to make 6 figure salaries and makes billions of dollars in revenue.
London here
Max. normal offering: ADSL2 only, 12mbit down, 1mbit up
We had to buy a leased line for the building (1gbit down/1gbit up)
I'd push that a step further and say the problem is about data that's been rendered into a different form for human readability. The plain serial text of a magazine article exists in principle and likely wasn't written with ideas like column splits and image-wrapping at the front of the author's mind. 2sk21 advocates shipping that serial form instead of something image-like. That's what's machine-hostile about PDF: it makes the least semantically significant parts easy for the machine to discern at the cost of obfuscating the really important ideas.

Though as a counterpoint, separating content from presentation is already a fairly common practice.
Will not necessarily help I guess.
Rampant shoplifting leads to another Walgreens closing in S.F
I've toyed with the idea of buying a /24 as a (probably terrible) investment that I would actually get at least some use out of in the short term (some VPSes like vultr let you bring your own IPs). Anyone have enough experience with this to talk me out of it?
^ I completely agree. This article [1] fully convinced me. And it prompted me to write my own post [2].

[1] Some Thoughts on Interviewing and Why We Do It https://jwongworks.com/blog/2018/07/24/some-thoughts-on-inte...

[2] Screening developers should be easy https://acjay.com/2019/05/16/hiring-developers-is-easy/
Depending on the area, you can't even get internet outside of full cities. I own a house that's a few miles outside of a small town in Oregon. When I moved up here from the bay area recently, I had to rent a second house in the nearest city 30 miles south because there is absolutely no terrestrial internet service even within the city limits of my ~700 person town.
The core problem with class-based object orientation is that methods go inside of the type instead of being added externally. That means everyone has to agree on what methods can be called on a class or they have to subtype it, which sounds harmless, but is actually a big problem when what you really wanted to do was just define a new method for an existing type. My best attempt at explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY

There's also the issue that one sometimes needs to specialize generic operations in generic algorithms on something other than the receiver—sometimes even on more than one of the arguments. Single dispatch forces you to use something slow and awkward like double dispatch in cases like this. And that's assuming the person who wrote the generic code anticipates the need for specialization! If they don't allow for it, then you're just stuck. With multiple dispatch, you can just define the method you need the specialization for and you're done.
Yeah, in some cases I have started going with "this might be malice and it might be incompetence, but since the behavior is the same either way who cares?"
Also why McMaster Carr is a fantastic e-commerce site. It’s perfect for its purpose.

Not all shops should be like it, not all websites should be like Wikipedia. But it’s hard to find better sites for their purposes.
I don't think this is fair. There is definitely some unforced error, but a lot of the complexity is shared with other languages in it's heritage eg the trait system is no more complicated than haskell's typeclasses, and haskell also has macro systems on top of that.

Also the simplicity in zig comes from a major innovation in controlled partial evaluation, which we've yet to really explore the consequences of. Rust had already made a major innovation in the form of the lifetime system. It needed to figure out all the implications of that so it made sense to draw from existing designs where possible for the rest of the language rather than piling on more new and untested ideas.
This looks good, do you use any tools to keep track of these?
that "we" is the whole of the citizens and residents of the country, not a central planning committee. the government is the power apparatus that is meant to express and realize our common good. as a power apparatus, it cuts both ways, and we must remain vigilant as citizens on keeping it aligned with our goals and desires.

wealth by itself, especially as we measure it, is hollow and a poor collective goal, and its singular pursuit expressly undermines the level playing field and much of our humanity. prosperity is a more holistic expression of our collective goal, with wealth creation not being the principal ingredient of prosperity. industry, purpose, solidarity, community, well-being, welfare, success, esteem, respect, free expression, etc. are all (much) higher on that list.

it behooves us to look beyond simplistic ideologies (which only benefit the political, by collapsing our horizons insidiously) to perform our duties and responsibilities to each other as a society.
Having ridden a lot of motocross in my younger stupider years I can attest to the fact that controlling the rotation of your wheels while airborne is a very important consideration when jumping a motorcycle. If you know what you are doing you can use the rotation or braking of your wheels to control your attitude (and subsequent landing) in the air.

At least from RC car to small motorcycle it seems to scale, no idea about the physics in flipping a humvee and whether the wheels have enough leverage to do that.
The 4G/5G question seems absurd the way it was posed as a matter of mere reliability. Don't we care more about range and the odd characteristics of the moon and the vacuum of space?
> AWS will most likely never use that many IP addresses.

Are you sure about that? A comment here said that they had 1.4 million servers in 2014, and AWS at the time was probably 1/50th of what it is now. On top of that, I think they have some IoT offerings, and who knows what they're going to offer in the future? They're basically building an internet-sized platform to run half the internet on top of it.
It reminds me of this comic: https://xkcd.com/538/

Let's spend X on a super uber computa password cracker or let's spend X/100 on a bribe to a guy who works there.
Well done! Yet, I think with properly recovered meta-data you do not need to splice long videos into separate clips, use ffmpeg to stream from a given file at given place. You keep just 45 .mp4 files (one per tape) and a single .csv (or whatever format you store your meta-data in). Programming tricks will let you reorder or fix clips on-the-fly just by editing your meta-data. That's what I plan to do with my video archive :)
"It is useless to have a conversation with those who will not listen." Neither of us are listening, because we're both sure we're right. So I'm out.

You get the last word, if you want.
Nope, I read the manufacturers published specifications for their equipment and looked up the pricing on publicly accessible websites.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/product-selection

https://www.fortinet.com/products/product-compare?cat=ngfw

And you can get pricing from any VARs website such as CDW.com

Good try though.
And now we see why Android exists, and how immensely valuable it is to Google.
The real answer is to take from the military budget ($700B/yr) instead of from the civilian space budget.
Define "qualified".

It's also true that it can be ridiculously hard to get a company to respond to an application, and to get an interview.

Assuming the job requirements aren't unnecessarily restrictive, there is something in the screening process that is actively harming both applicants and hiring managers.
Because it's the truth? Let me tell you why from a perspective of "major" vaning power that is UK. The lockdown was a huge mistake with catastrophic economic consequences for a densely populated country like UK. The conservative government did it to save their voting base which is mostly old people who are in the risk group. It was supposed to last a few weeks, but instead went on for 6 months and is still effectively not over. They keep coming up with rules that are more retarded than the previous ones. Right now I can spend the whole day in the office without a mask, but I can't go out to lunch with my coworkers. It gets worse - in my gym I have to wear a mask for those 20 meters between the door and the gym floor where the receptionist sits who is walled off with glass better than a bank teller. They keep millions of people on furlough like chinese government keeps lights on in empty factories to cover up shrinking economy. Most of those jobs are not coming back. Admitting all those incredibly stupid mistakes for the government would mean an instant political suicide.

Also, nobody will probably read this, because I noticed this post has been flagged into oblivion.
> Palo Alto Networks appears oblivious to the fact that the New York Attorney General’s office sued and won an injunction against McAfee from enforcing its contractual restrictions against publishing reviews or comparisons of its products without its consent more than 17 years ago. In enacting the Consumer Review Fairness Act, Congress has also prohibited businesses from including contract terms that prohibit consumers from reviewing products or services they purchase.

New York only matters if either party has standing in that jurisdiction. Palo Alto Networks(California) and Orca Security(Israel) would not, however there could be made a case that the video in question resides on servers(youtube) in New York.

The argument for the application of 15 U.S. Code § 45b appears to only apply to "form contracts".

> means a contract with standardized terms— (i) used by a person in the course of selling or leasing the person’s goods or services; and (ii) imposed on an individual without a meaningful opportunity for such individual to negotiate the standardized terms.

It appears as though the EULA is a form contract and Orca indeed falls under the protections of the Consumer Reviews Fairness Act.

EULA: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/asset...
The other comment about a kit is a good suggestion. FPGA cloud instances are also an option.

Register Transfer Level (RTL) development generally has less pleasant tooling and a much longer feedback cycle than software development. So expect some friction there.

Also, for the algorithms part, you might have something in software that isn’t a great match to hardware and will need some re-architecting. Sorting is a good example of this. Check out “sorting networks” for a popular way of accomplishing sorting in hardware.

I did a master’s thesis on transitioning a graph inference algorithm into an FPGA implementation.
Send me an email if you have any specific questions.
I've used Google Data Studio + Heroku Postgres for a similar purpose. Works great, but I wish there were an OSS alternative to Data Studio.
A lot of the newer syndicates spread themselves quite thin afaik. They maybe don't have the contacts to get liquidity/early prices so they do lots of sports (Tennis and Cricket being two that appear to be growing...again, afaik).

I have heard that the largest syndicate has groups that only cover one football team. I have no idea whether this is true or how/where you get the liquidity to justify this.
Yeah I was thinking about that as I was writing and trying to convey why I feel like deep models are different. I think one way of thinking about it is that protein structure, even though it has lots of parameters, it is all happening within the confines of 3D space. A protein that could move in lots of dimensions at once, could probably reliably fold much more easily, and it would be easy to find this structure.
DOJ's antitrust fight with Google: how we got here
Fortunately public facing systems are capable of being dual stacked so that won't be a problem. There's no reason internal networks can't be v6 only. Microsoft's already done it.
Deep learning is a form of optimization. Optimization involves moving along a high-dimensional surface to find the lowest point. In principle this can be nearly impossible because the surface might be covered in dramatic peaks/valleys/saddles obscuring the route to the lowest point. Some simulations have implied that this is not what the surfaces corresponding to deep networks look like, and that they instead look like a big gentle slope down to the minimum, with only small bumps along the way.
Thanks for the recommendation. I will take a crack at it.

It's a little surprising to me that readers would be demanding what they expect from the books. The whole point of Dune is that politics is a multi-layered process of wheels within wheels within wheels. It should come as no surprise that everything would turn out to be a head fake -- that's so much of the enjoyment of it.
The thing that distinguishes multiple dispatch from single is that you can dispatch based on the types of all arguments to the method, not just one. E.g. you can define

function somemethod(x::Int, y::Int)

function somemethod(x::Int, y::Float64)

function somemethod(x::Float64, y::Float64)

Multiple dispatch is available at least in Common LISP, though I guess that's not considered particularly mainstream.
Overclocking the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
Has anyone tried Python notebooks in VSCode Online?

I didn't know about GitHub code spaces with Jupyter support.
The keyboard thing is new to me, wow that sucks. The other one sounds like a workaround for captive portals. I think there is some documentation on that wrt Safari and the built in networking, but it was mostly a workaround needed to deal with wifi hotspots that intercept dns until you pay/subscribe, and it causes safari to look hung - so they had to make it clear it wasn’t their browser hanging since it couldn’t make SSL connections.