skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by findings like this one, and I'm hoping someone here can educated me.

There are many known universal approximations. Deep networks are one. SVMs are one. Heck, cubic splines are one, and they've been in use for nearly a hundred years IIRC.

The problem has never been one of finding a sufficiently powerful approximator. It has been training that approximator. My understanding of the significant advancement made by deep learning is that we finally figured out how to train a specific kind of universal approximator in a way such that it finds very good separation surfaces for what used to be impossible-to-solve classification problems.

But it should be no surprise to anyone that there exist, in theory, other universal approximations that approximately reproduce the same separation surfaces, should it? I'd expect any universal approximator to be powerful enough to reproduce the separation surfaces, hence the meaning of the word "universal". The problem was always finding the right weights, not finding the right approximator architecture.

Am I missing something?
Thought this might be related to https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/mir/index.html at first, but it seems to be an entirely unrelated project using the same name.
I've been programming for 52 years. I've learned a dozen or so languages and OSs. This career requires continued learning of new languages. Otherwise you are just a coder.
That's correct. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore... for more details
> Basically, I think the underlying idea is valuable - low-cost, fast, reliable, accessible money transfers - clearly something missing right now in this world, even for the "global rich" (citizens of first-world countries), let alone for the "unbanked".

For most of the "banked" in the US, doesn't Zelle cover all that for transfers within the US?
Or support versioning using GitHub! Excel has always been a powerful repl, these extensions are leveling it up.
I look for high IV in stocks whose patterns I've become familiar with overtime to get a real sense if it will actually hit a certain strike. I have stocks that I know are prone to selling off at certain resistance points just by watching them do it repeatedly, but some options buyers may not know that since. So I profit off knowledge asymmetry and am comfortable with the high IV.

If I don't know the stock well (maybe less than a month or so of watching it daily) I'll just get a low IV contract.
Still, a modicum of respect for being upfront about it. And it shows they at least still consider the ethics of their actions, as opposed to turning a blind eye to it.
The regulation is fine. Its the policing.

Companies were allowed to change fire tests to make their products look better. I honestly can't see how on earth this is was allowed.

It was always my understanding that you had to submit your product to a third party for testing, and that third party was vetted.

Then there is the low grade corruption endemic in construction in the UK.

The fact that large councils have Quantity surveyors on a percentage fee, rather than a fixed fee, is a big problem.
I can say that one organization I've helped with IT for had a few associated domains for future use. One of them, an eight-letter English word followed by .net, expired accidentally due to personnel changeovers. Someone snagged it and apparently used it for a game server for one year, and after it expired again it's remained unclaimed since. (I advocated for not worrying about it, since said "future use" has never materialized.)
As a scientist, at the very least I would also need to know how many workers applaud the firing, and how many are actively uninterested, otherwise quoting that number is entirely without meaning.
> This was never my claim. I only claimed that epistemology is not an ideal starting point. Obviously, epistemology predates Descartes. Modern philosophy onward (that is to say, beginning with Descartes, traditionally, anyway) shifts its concerns away from metaphysics to epistemology. Thus, epistemology supplants metaphysics as what one might call the primary concern of philosophical inquiry.

Critique of Pure Reason is exactly about metaphysics albeit as a critique. Modern philosophy at least in the transcendental aesthetic doesn't supplant metaphysics.

> I am not surprised by this recommendation given what you said. The Kantian position is extremely problematic and your appeal to it explains your reaction.

It’s trivial to criticize anything you’re not familiar with but that’s certainly not the way good philosophy is done.

Your hypothesis on knowing presumes that we have knowledge at all and that rationality leads to truth. Secondly, it’s nebulous because “to know” is, given the parsimony of the statement. Your argument only seems logical by the ambiguity of those concepts, “know” and “knowledge”.

Thirdly, these knowing agents are often victims to fallacies, delusions, and severe hallucinations—this strong naive realism has issues noted by even the early Greeks.
Eh, it's really just Germany+, and they're a pretty productive country. For example, profit sharing is "stock compensation" rephrased and not terribly uncommon [1]. Some of the most productive companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pay with stock.

[1]: http://www.oecd.org/employment/emp/2409883.pdf
Your example of “Looks like we have the wrong order. We ordered X” seems perfectly polite to me.

You seem to have the opinion that basic politeness is manipulation. I suppose it can be construed as such but only in the sense that all communication is manipulation in some sense.
>why we read files using rewind, fseek, fread, and fwrite as if we were on a tape drive still

Not sure about rewind (is it the same as fseek(0)?), but regarding fseek, fread, and fwrite, they seem compatible with the abstract idea of "file as a series of bytes" and not particularly tied to the "stored on a tape drive" part.

What would be a modern era API for file reading, moving inside, and writing, that doesn't carry the "tape drive" heritage as implied by the author?
The Raspberry Pi 4 has a fan now – the Case Fan
Someone mentioned "At 12 months they’re likely just becoming an effective employee"...

I haven't seen a job like this in a decade or more. The last two jobs I had expected you to be fully productive in a month, and if you not had made major contributions in by 12 months (and more specifically didn't fit in with management) you were going to be let go. Letting go of employees used to be relatively rare, but I find it's becoming standard practice these days.

I can't think of a single job I've had where ICs weren't deploying code to production within two weeks and at full productivity in about a month.

Decades ago it used to be the case that you could take time to fit in, find your strengths and start growing. But the idea that you would "just be getting started" at 12 months is laughable.

Job "hopping" used to make sense a few years ago because it was the fastest way to get promoted. Now I would say it's an essential survival skills as any place you aren't happy at is likely seeing that an planning when they can start to pip you.
Everyone went to HS in my parents day; you can look up the graduation rate in the US; it was lower than it is now ~70%.

Reading Anglo Saxon is "useful" if you wish to understand the english language, and appreciate the high literature available in Old English. Sort of like reading Shakespeare or Camoes is useful in appreciating what the human race has done and what can be done with older versions of the language. If you're a cretinous boob, I guess learning handwriting, grammar and so on are also entirely optional. We can just teach kids how to thumb twiddle their phones, take birth control and twerk their asses.
My understanding of the read was to show "how" they're equivalent as opposed to how to actually construct such an approximator or learn it.

Similar to showing a problem falls in NP, you can reduce the problem down to another problem in NP and be done with it.
Technically dupe of a dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25322040
Are you buying domains for fun? you can setup email easily
The existing stored data would stay as it is. It would be automatically converted to datetime on query. The new data that's coming in would be stored as datetime.

From user's perspective, the change would be instant.
What's the way to directly interface with containerd?
2) I don't believe so.
3) The hope is you don't have to use an intermediary coin.
For me, one reason I avoid Java is because it’s what I used in college when I was a much less proficient programmer. I remember it being confusing and a lot of hard work. That association probably has more to do with learning programming than it has to do with Java but it has stuck, in my mind, somewhat.
How’d that Ethereum DAO attack go? Some folks just decided to hard fork the chain. Much trust, such governance.

I’d elect for a suboptimal government over such mechanisms any day, which seems to be a global consensus when you observe the lack of volatility in reserve currency values.
It definitely changes the bar for me. If I see someone has a long string of 1-2 year jobs on their resume, the conversation changes from:

"Is this someone with high potential who could grow / be trained into a high performer?" to

"Is this someone who can hit the ground running and be productive within a month?"

It's very possible the answer is still yes, but I'm not going to spend time investing in a more uncertain candidate, if it's pretty clear they'll jump as soon as my time investment starts to pay off.
I'm not a finance expert, but I don't think those issues are caused by the kind of money used.

People make mistakes, some of them are greedy, powerful people want to keep their power, etc..

You can't fix people with a currency.

And humans are creative, if you switch over to crypto, they'll find a new way of doing the same old things..

My government not wanting me to send money somewhere: Well, this might be a clichè, but apart from slightly limiting my freedom this prevents bad guys doing nasty stuff aswell.
Looks interesting, but it would be nice to see a worked example of finding a bug.
"Peak oil" is a term of art (sort of). It has a precise meaning, which is that as demand continues to increase, supply decreases sharply and suddenly, with very little or almost no warning at all. Price explodes by several multiples more-or-less overnight. Demand hasn't increased, it's decreased. Supply hasn't decreased sharply. Neither condition was met.

"We don't need as much oil anymore because of a worldwide pandemic" is certainly an interesting development but we don't just get to call it "peak oil" so that people who were wrong 15 years ago can suddenly feel vindicated.
Well if we're going to ignore all of the variables in this manner it seems to be doing them super well, they're still in business!
Sounds like he was rebelling hardcore against an overly restrictive, maybe typical (?), 1st generation immigrant parent background?

"“Ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life,” he wrote in the 2010 book..."

This is often what you hear from someone who has doesn't have much of a sense of higher calling, or doesn't quite know what to do with his capabilities other than go for satisfaction in the short term. And leaves you feeling empty and unsure of what your life should be when work evaporates as your sense of self?
This sums it up for me as well. The website itself is garbage, but I keep a profile on it just in case I need it down the road.
This is incredible! I found a fun graphic, and immediately was able to Expand it, then edit it to make my own variation. I've never used Micro Bot Basic ever, but it's close enough to straight programming to figure it out.

Kudos!
Using the accusative case as nominative. Ugh.
Did you mean to present an argument of some sort?
Paying US taxes doesn’t count. That’s like saying I can pay gas fees with ETH.
Doesn't sound like a gift or donation, rather he purchased naming rights. As the article states "Rather than moving to officially rename it — which contractually could require returning the $75 million gift"
For the small 124M model, it’s already runable on the CPU.

It’s going beyond that is tricky.
>I don't think it's illegal because I know a lot of people are doing the same thing.

:/
Recent discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25288341
Then the market decided that the new chain was more valuable than the original. Still decentralized. Forks are fair game.
You see money was one of the first distributed systems, it transcended languages and flags, the protocol was deployed everywhere. But this protocol of value exchange always had issues with trust, related to the double spending problem so it always required a third party. Gold is almost perfect because it is rare and recognizeable, but gold can be faked and is too heavy to carry around in large amounts also violence can come from gold and violence is a big no no for the cypherpunks. So for our traditional protocol to work we invented money printers that we trust to print our money (Banks) and monitor it for tax purposes. But now maybe for the first time in the world it is possible to have a P2P system of value exchange, no banks, kings or even governments required, the only requirement is a cpu. The new protocol offers new ways to structure our economy, it makes old ways obsolete but it has its own set of problems. Is the new protocol good or is it bad? I say it is too early to answer this, but I also think crypto-coins should be given a chance, it is good that people are starting to use this protocol it gives us real-life data to compare its pros and cons against our traditional protocol.
Seems like a compelling sugar alternative.

Though author may be confused about the glucose lowering mechanism, or at least I see no evidence allulose increases kidney glucose excretion. IMO the glucose lowering effect is via insulin response to non-metabolic sugar and a referenced study [1] also seems to talk about insulin not excretion.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02615...
You can load the 1.5B GPT-2 into a 16GB VRAM GPU...with fp16 downcasting. Still not ideal for M1 though.
yeah, I've debunked this particular line as being technically nonsense. If I were a reviewer of the paper, reaching a sentence like that, I'd return to the editor with "revise and resubmit- this doesn't meet the basic technical level of expertise we require for publication."

if you build 2X the compute capacity with current nodes, you didn't violate moore's law.
Many, many countries don't have KYC/AML laws as strict as the US. If you want specifics, I encourage you to look into it.
Static Analysis with Phpstan
The Atlantic was one of the media outlets that was drumming up fear that Houston was running out of room back in July and it never happened. Actually all of the heads of the hospital in Houston came together and said that was false reporting and there was plenty of capacity.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/h...

The Atlantic has been drumming up fear about Covid this entire time with numerous fear-mongering articles.

Just look at the headlines of the Atlantics reporting of Covid.

Everything is dire or a disaster or a death knell. Super sensationalist. The Atlantic has become the NY Post and they're probably making tons of money with fear-based articles.

https://www.theatlantic.com/category/coronavirus-covid-19/

I would love a real actual data set.

The news media is not a scientific reference to me.

It actually scares me that ppl use the news media as a scientific reference.
I can’t address many of your objections but I don’t think putting it in a van would be a problem. Organizations sometimes use fiberglass body panels that look like normal metal ones but are transparent to RF in these kinds of situations.
Anyone that knows ISO standardese knows that when a feature moves from compulsory into optional, it is a synonum for deprecated, as compilers that haven't yet adopted the specific feature never bother to spend resources implementing it.

You should read the link contents before posting them here.

"In particular, the order of parameters in function declarations should be arranged such that the size of an array appears before the array. The purpose is to allow Variable-Length Array (VLA) notation to be used."

Notation for what?

"Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) should be self-documenting when possible."

And why is that?

"This not only makes the code's purpose clearer to human readers, but also makes static analysis easier. Any new APIs added to the Standard should take this into consideration. "

On top of that, if you bother to actually read the ongoing C2X mailings, there are no plans to bring VLAs back to life, besides adopting the syntax to describe function parameters.

Most devs that take security seriously actually take the effort to know the details of the devil that we have to deal with.
Yeah that's a great point. I think we should make it a lot less risky to start businesses. You shouldn't have to risk give up earning years or career building years, to say nothing of the financial burden of raising money (or competing with people who are able to raise money while you have to bootstrap instead). I think we should do this both generally, but also specifically for women, people of color, and other groups who are underrepresented in the universe of small business owners.

Overall I think it would actually be really cool if we could get to where we think we are, where I can essentially pick from a menu of career options based on a risk/reward profile (OK not literally a menu but, yeah). But we're pretty far away from that right now; very few people are making these decisions based on that kind of calculus.
If anything, tech is breaking up the education monopoly. Giving people more choices than we previously had.
Google colab is a much better tool than a new computer for getting into ML. It's free, requires no dependency management, easy to share, and has tons of example notebooks you can reproduce as easily as duplicating a google doc.

Not to mention a Linux based workstation in the limit will have fewer headaches than mac these days. Package management doesn't require homebrew or dockerized everything, selinux is surprisingly easier to configure than the Mac security subsystems, etc.
Hence why crypto can't be taken seriously as a currency. Imagine explaining to a non tech family member or friend why their dollars have zero value now because they’re on the wrong chain.
>Trying to decide if someone with one of these conditions is actually responsible for their own actions is as much of a philosophical problem as a moral one. But it's absolutely clear that people with Dark Triad issues are almost invariably poisonous in organisations and will create extremely unpleasant and toxic experiences in a work environment.

I love this explanation so much, thank you. People tend to want to forgive their fellow human being when they realize their odd behavior is connected to just them being a little awkward and anxious or nervous, and that's great all of the time; everyone is constantly experiences both sides of this.

But when you're HR and you see abuse at your organization, you gotta realize there's a difference between having empathy and straight up rescue fantasies. Sociopaths are rare so you're rarely going to deal with them but they're easy to spot and fire when they cause workplace trouble. But people with narcissistic tendencies can and do hide behind HR's rescue fantasies to be enabled to play out their fucked up world view on their workers, and that's why we have so many psychology studies out here telling us to, yeah, just fire workplace abusers when it happens.
Peak oil has now been reached, just as it has every year for the last 60.
This mistake in this line of thinking is that innovation comes from the government.
This might be better, though. Because it lets you use the same spreadsheet functions, in the spreadsheet. It would be trivial to make a lamdha function that encapsulates several spreadsheet functions into one.
They have declared that they will not access the data.

However, Facebook makes extensive use of shadow profiles of people who aren't even Facebook customers. They could certainly add Diem blockchain data to those, as they will have access to said blockchain via Novi, their Diem wallet.

David Marcus and Mark Zuckerberg have both stated that data from Novi will not go to the Facebook advertising engine. However, Zuckerberg and Facebook's track record on such promises is that they consistently do this anyway. Then Zuckerberg apologises, then he does it again.

Just by looking at Facebook's past behaviour, you can assume that an important purpose for Diem is to collect personal information. Because everything they do is to collect personal information.
This place has been negative on bitcoin long before 2014.
It turns into a yahoo groups chat with a quickness whenever bitcoin or cryptocurrencies come up. It's embarrassing for a site that prides itself on having insight into emerging technologies and ideas.
got it thx
If you look at how they actually "translate" the fancy model to the simple one, it requires fully fitting the original model (and keeping track of the evolution of gradients over the training). So it wouldn't make training more efficient, but perhaps it would be useful in inference or probing the characteristics of the original model.
I fail to see how this is any different that Boeing 737 Max which killed even more people. Everyone looked the other way and ignored real engineering, just to make more bucks (or pounds). Sadly I think that even is the company CEOs had their heads chopped off (as was common in England centuries ago) would change the behavior of cheating to make more money.
So you are aware your dislike of Blackboard for reasons above are misplaced:

- TurnItIn is a 3rd party Blackboard extension and the school selected to use this.

- The school was also likely self hosting an under provisioned system.

I'm sure there are plenty of valid reasons for you to dislike Blackboard, but above cases are the school in question and TurnItIn.
Really depends on your definition of right. Do you mean legally? Morally? Logically?

When it comes to who has the ability to steer subordinates, managers are always right. Except if their managers disagree...
Opinions differ substantially on this point.
Ask HN: My engineer brother build DIY stuff but he has 0 community
My brother is the most creative engineer I have ever met. Maybe I'm not 100% objective since he is my brother but it blows my mind every time I see him send me a project. The problem is that he absolutely does not realize that these projects are very interesting and he could build a great community around them.

As an example, he sent me a "random" video this afternoon on WhatsApp like he usually does when he has some free time during the weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYiPEyuBkQ

I wonder if you guys agree with me that there is great potential to build a community around these projects? If so, how would you proceed? Note that he has absolutely "zero marketing skills" and I would love to help him realize how crazy it could be!
Does the government still recommend that people in highrises shelter in place when there is a fire in another apartment in the building? They did before, after this fire I found the cutesy animated videos they published explaining how you should shelter in place because fire is unlikely to spread in a highrise.

It seems like bullshit to me. At the first hint of fire in a building, I'll be flying down the nearest staircase that doesn't have smoke coming out of it. I'd not sit around in a burning building waiting to see if the fire gets worse, only to find out I no longer have any options for escape.