skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been through this on a tiny scale. I won’t mention the company but basically I believe it was acquired as a short term cash cow to finance the mother company that needed cash, with the acquisition being financed by going public.

In the short term they could raise prices and fire developers and keep the MRR coming in to feed the main business. This was a while ago when competitors were knocking out impressive web based solutions and they still had a desktop app (this is in an area where a web based solution made a lot of sense)
You might want to check what a "Fachhochschule" (University of Applied Sciences) actually is. It is not a vocational school in the way the US understands it. You can get accredited Master's degrees there, but usually no PHDs. The line is blurred though, some actually carry out research nowadays, but often in cooperation with another University.
Please go out and meet people, men, women, in real life.

People go through phases. Little children think they are dinosaurs and have pretend tea parties.

I’ve known several women that said they didn’t ever want kids, while dating loser college boyfriends.

However, when the same women met and married successful, richer, older men, the women popped out babies left and right.

People say things all the time to rationalize their circumstances.

Men and women will make babies. It’s biological drive. It doesn’t matter what people believe or think. It’s how species continue and survive.
Thanks! I noticed "PAiA" electronics sold kits of these--I remember that name from back then. Did they sell parts or other kits? Looks like they are still in business.

Also noticed "Scungy Video" :) (Do NOT search for this term in your favorite search engine.)
Now if Safari would only do the same...
Downloads can occupy some fuzzy middle ground between unknown and deterministic.

The normal case is that bandwidth throughput can be estimated well enough to make humans happy. But a broken network throws that out the window and will do its best to find ways to make your progress bar behave weirdly.

I can't remember what it was, but there was a Mac app a very long time ago (System 7 era, in the 90s) - maybe a news reader? - that would eventually hide the progress bar and show a message about bad networking when that happened.
so Chrome 94 will be released on 09/21 and Firefox 94 on 10/05 .. what a coincidence, seems like 'my version number is bigger then yours' is still a thing in 2021 ;)

anyways, I like having these aligned - one number less to keep track of
The pace of current technology seems like it is speeding up more and more. Feels like a solid prediction even in hundreds of years of not thousands but of course if there is no civilization-ending thing that happens.
I love the visualization and animation, but I think it should be specified that this is Linear Hierarchical Modelling.

I was expecting something bayesian-related given that bayesian statistics lends itself to hierarchical models quite nicely.
>Mandating high speed internet access for everyone sounds great until you look at the costs for running new infrastructure to some of our more remote, rural cities.

The same could have been said for water, gas, sewage, electric, and mail.
Interesting! I checked the comment history, which has a lot of activity. Most of it is spam suggestions, but I also spotted a few that were accepted. I guess they're also using Google Docs for its collaborative features.
> I am highlighting that there’s a stigma against women performing that role today

That is true, but there's an even bigger stigma against men who want to perform that role. Sure, you may find a very career-driven spouse who would be happy with you taking the role of the caregiver, but that is not a common occurrence. The man who does not provide substantial income to the family will find it much harder to find a partner than a woman in the same situation. Talking about heterosexual couples here, of course.
Covid-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas [pdf]
Now I think we agree, somehow.

For one, the blockchain hype train is currently used and abused by too many. It's a viable technology - at least in my opinion - but as of now, it will not "bank the unbanked", or whatever. It's way too complex and there are a lot of problems to be solved, PoW is one, scalability is another one, the learning curve is there too, and then is boulevard media who like to report on shady things, of course, putting everything in a bad light.

But! I think having basically a global copy of all data and fundamentally turning the trust model 180° is something we desperately need. All the layers and layers of auditing, risk management, risk mitigation, reporting, re-reporting, re-auditing, departments over departments in financial organizations, or the way the free-for-data model of Facebook and Google works is just disgusting to a large degree.

But, as with everything, we will see where it goes. I am strongly on the side of innovation and change. I am not considering myself a full Blockchain fanboy, but definitely more leaning towards this technology and giving it in many cases more benefit of the doubt than other people would do.

Which is good. A healthy discussion needs pros and cons.

Have a good day sir!
Bad timing, the industry is about to move towards direct imports and much simpler dependency management thanks to the evolution of JS and likewise the tooling.

If anything node modules will slowly fade away in the coming years. And not just with that node rewrite that links directly.
D2Go brings the Detectron2 object detection platform to mobile
You could argue that a hierarchical model is already multiple models. If each department has a dummy variable then they wouldn't share the same intersect. The only difference is how you interpret that intercept. The department intercept would now not be the salary of an individual with 0 experience, but the difference between the salary of an individual with 0 experience in a department compared to the all other employees with 0 experience.
I was a big believer 15 years ago, then became heavily disillusioned, and now have a pretty pragmatic view of it. It can help, if you don't know what you're doing at all it's a good framework to start. I feel like the Kanban approach where the team takes ownership of their process is a good one. There's a lot of great stuff in there about communicating as a team, and thinking about the customer.

Too often though in practice it devolves into a kind of cargo cult and the apologists lean way too hard into the "if it isn't working, you must not have believed in it hard enough" defense which is a bit too easy in my opinion. It short circuits any actual reflection and learning.

Basically, the agile manifesto is great.. the stuff agile coaches try to sell you is hot garbage. Everything else is somewhere in the middle, but Kanban is the closest because it preserves the "we are uncovering" part of the manifesto.
But if your library is mostly on the cloud it gets worse.

And how is this the best solution in 2021?
Been chewing on this idea. Thanks.

In the broadest sense, your suggestion is The Correct Answer™.

Every org should have some kind of funnel for feedback. Discoverable, transparent, accountable. Probably both public (external) and private (internal) funnels. CRMs by another name. Your notion of a GitHub repo-based issue system would leverage existing infra. Both familiar and cheap. No invention necessary.

In the cases with potential liability, it seems to me privileged access to confidential information will still be necessary. Even if that limited access is only time boxed (eg quiet periods before earnings reports).
Wow. That's awesome, I could have sworn they opposed to reproducible builds for some reason.
Clara Foods launches animal-free pepsin
I think the DALL-E dataset is 250M images. I think a possibly bigger issue is that the captions in this dataset are spread across many languages, which isn't ideal for doing something like DALL-E.
Just turn _everything_ off except the strictly nessesary, which for me is just whatever messaging app I use to talk to close friends
Have they given any follow-up to the https://chromeisbad.com fiasco?
In Europe its pretty normal to have one child. It seems only in America people aspire to have 2, 3, even 4 kids.
If I may add to your distinction between "job" and "career" -- a career can be thought of what a person ultimately decides their economic contribution to society over the course of their life is going to be. While full-time parenting is usually not counted as a career, raising the next generation certainly seems like a very critical economic contribution (among others). To this end, there are movements to recognize this contribution by paying the stay-at-home parent (usually the mother) some form of "salary" to not only fully legitimize the role of parenthood in a society that values contributions by money earned, but also to make them more independent and therefore confident by not making them fully financially dependent upon the earning spouse.
Yep, you've got to be careful with browser HTTP requests! Conveniently on this very same site I built a CORS tool that knows all those rules and can tell you how they work for every case: https://httptoolkit.tech/will-it-cors/
Probabilistic machine learning is still machine learning. If you're referring to one of the popular tensor frameworks, pretty much all of them have probabilistic features or add-ons [1][2][3]. There are also frameworks developed specifically for this kind of work [4][5].

This [6] is a more in depth look at hierarchical / multi-level modeling. The prediction section [7] specifically goes over cross validation and inference.

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/probability/examples/Multilevel_M...
[2] https://pyro.ai/examples/forecasting_iii.html
[3] http://edwardlib.org/
[4] https://mc-stan.org/
[5] https://docs.pymc.io/
[6] https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/multilevel_modeling.html
[7] https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/multilevel_modeling.html#Pred...
I find value in part of it. Dailies I find very beneficial. You get to hear what other people are having problems with, and maybe you already faced something similar. Or the other way around, when you face it you remember that someone solved a similar issue.
It doesn't. But only 20% of mothers want to work fill time as compared to 70% of fathers. 30% of mothers want to not work at all, and 50% want to work part time.

I don't think the argument here is that women make better parents than men. Rather, we live in a free society where men and women make their own choices. And women and men have substantially different work preferences after becoming a parent.

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/...
You're thinking robots.txt https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt and it's still there
>25 down, 3 up is plenty for 99.9% of internet users.

Is it? What data makes you so confident about this?

If I buy a 25 max down, 3 max up connection, what speed will you actually be able to use - it is unlikely in my experience to be regularly hit those max speeds.
Have you considered to automate backups and schedule them at night, not the least to ensure consistency?
I keep seeing it mentioned that the US agreement is being fulfilled. I've seen nothing about AZ being delivered to the US, and it isn't even approved yet.

Also, the US signed a deal with AZ in May of 2020, which would seem to put them ahead of the UK and EU? https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/astrazeneca-scores-1b-fr...
And what was the effect of those many years on global yearly CO2 production? Did it decrease?

If we are to waste time talking about polluting classes, let's focus on the big ones first. Naval transport, coal power plants. These should be regulated first.
This! Women who get into business or tech or whatever aren't "emulating men". Many are actually genuinely interested in those pursuits. A lot of women just do not want to be homemakers. Many do, sure, and it should be a viable option without stigma, but for at least half it would be hell and we should allow women to pursue their interests and desires.
Dude you are disconnected from reality. First off, you're taking the worst of a group (which exist in every group), and extrapolating their beliefs & actions as the norm across the entire group. You obviously believe this is the norm from your words.

> To them, oppression is someone challenging their claims, at all, ever.

This is entirely backwards. The right is extremely open to debate, but are banned from platforms owned by the left. Hence new popular platforms popping up to cater to them. The left is literally using every ounce of power they have to silence debate (Twitter bans, un-reported news stories from mostly left-owned media, etc). They don't even believe the peasants should be able to dictate the topics of conversation, which is why they jam narratives down peoples throat and use cancel culture to punish anyone speaking against them.

Also, what's the "faulty" logic aspect you mention in regards to a marketplace of ideas? It more-so sounds like your cognitive dissonance is kicking in once some common-sense logic is used to knock down your beliefs.
This was literally crony capitalism at its worst.

> In other words, Greensill exclusively brokers the assets of Credit Suisse’s supply chain business. Then, by some shocking coincidence, many of those assets end up financing companies funded by Greensill’s biggest investor, SoftBank’s Vision Fund — which already booked a $16.7-billion loss for its fiscal year ended March 31. Among the companies receiving the funds are car financing business Fair Financial, hotel chain OYO Hospitality, window manufacturer View and auto sales company Guazi. [1]

This was from 2020 but the bailouts of Softbank companies by Greensill continued with their Katerra bailout this year! [2]

[1] https://wolfstreet.com/2020/05/07/another-softbank-unicorn-g...

[2] https://www.archpaper.com/2021/01/softbank-bails-out-katerra...
The Key to Real AI
Postulate: In order to develop real AI you need to simulate the incentives at work in Darwinian evolution. There has never been any intelligence demonstrated in nature outside of the context of the life program to propagate genes in a competitive environment. Intelligence is a tool to solve the replication problem in life. There is no evidence it exists in other areas. Without genetic selection (memory) ML is just fancy combinatorics. Rather than re-inventing the wheel maybe we should be looking at re-wiring existing brains for special purpose tasks. For example re-wiring a mouse brain to factor large numbers rapidly outputting digits serially as toe clicks.
Or just create a system that selects from a pool of already independently wealthy candidates.
We don't need the US military even now.
But is being a start-up founder really something that men traditionally do or is it a completely new role that people of all genders can aim for?

This role can be toxic and lead to problematic behaviours that can worsen a person's personal life and mental health, regardless of their gender identity.
Very in favor of modernizing the definition, very not in favor of subsidizing any network buildout -- if a provider is not offering broadband under the new definition that is not (in my eyes) a problem the government needs to step in to fix, it's simply being honest about our nation's network infra capabilities.

Sure, we can incentivize providers for reaching certain percentage rollouts under the new definition, but history shows us we should not consider schemes to help finance those buildouts.

Internet is not currently a utility, so unless we make it a proper utility with proper regulation before handing over money, the federal government is historically not capable of resisting lobbying pressure aimed at remove the teeth from similar subsidized buildout agreements. In almost all cases the money has disappeared without significant real world improvements.

For example, using the money intended for buildout to instead pay lobbyers to re-change the definition of broadband, thereby actualizing some stated goal of "75% of service area covered by broadband", and then pocketing the difference between the actual buildout costs and the lobbying costs.

If we offer a financing without regulation, we may as well move the money straight into the exec bonus category and totally ignore improving infra
> Conventional wisdom attributes small generalization error either to properties of the model family or to the regularization techniques used during training.

I'd say it's more about the simplicity of the task and quality of the data.
As a UI framework, jank totally breaks the core purpose of the framework. All the people complaining about this issue have a good point.

However, to me, this seems like what people should have been expecting when picking up a cross platform framework. Want free cross platform? You're going to have to accept these sorts of bugs.
I believe that the up thread comments were about broadband upload speeds.

I'm quite satisfied with my 100 mbps download speed. I used to have 600 mpbs, but when I canceled my cable TV and phone service, I also switched to 100 mbps internet with the intent of raising that later if it turned out to be too slow. It's been nearly a year, and I've felt no need to raise it.

But that also dropped upload from around 30 mbps down to around 6 mbps. That's a lot more noticeable. I can't say I'm happy with that.
As much as dislike Spotify's UI, I listen to a mountain of fringe content that no other streaming service carries but Spotify has in spades, because all of the indies make sure to upload to Spotify.

I'm sorely tempted to build my own library/playlist management front-end on top of Spotify's API. They're the only streaming service I've found with an official streaming/remote control API, and with upcoming lossless support (albeit only CD-quality), their library with a tailor-made UI seems like the best trade-off I'm going to get in a music service.
> That's what I don't understand, if population growth is stagnant or declining, how is it these housing prices are reaching such heights?

Housing prices around me are directly correlated to school quality. The same house near a good school is literally 1.5x-2x the price.

The supply of good public schools is very limited. A good private school is ~20-30k a year. Figure that is worth 300k, not even counting that that over the years tuition prices will go up.

So people pay to live near one of the handful of good schools.

Seattle stopped busing kids awhile back, instead aiming to keep kids at "local" schools (IMHO to save money), so now unlike the opportunity I had as a kid (test well, get into a good school in the "right" part of town) the city is perpetuating generational poverty.

This has the effect of making pockets of the city have well rated and poorly rated schools. Previously schools were kinda mixed in quality, good programs and teachers at many different schools. Sure some had a reputation, but now the ratings are incredibly bi-modal, and housing prices follow that distribution.

Oh also in the last decade, the population has increased by 21 million. The growth rate is slowing, but it isn't zero. The way American cities are managed, it isn't possible to add sufficient housing. E.g. in 2019 around 40k people moved to the Seattle metro. 14k building permits were granted[1].

To put that in perspective, the most construction friendly city in America, Houston, approved 38k permits. (Not sure if these are for housing units, are permits overall inclusive of multi family dwellings).

FWIW Dallas got ~131k new people (US Census Bureau)

No surprise there is a problem. American cities are not capable of building fast enough.

[1] https://www.wfaa.com/article/money/economy/dallas-fort-worth...
I think the point was a billion years is quite a long time and many things we know today will not be the same. Predictions were made about the amount of horse dung that will overrun new york city if the pace of traffic continues, as an example.
Cool trick, thanks for sharing. I don't get why there isn't a suitable snscanf function that takes the buffer length as an argument and returns the number of bytes parsed?
You shouldn’t plan on relying on frozen eggs. They have a relatively high probability of not working. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/01/27/f...
I respect the honesty, and I am there with you. I think inventing something new is exceptionally harder because the burden of communication is exceptional.

I have spent a decade within large scale infrastructure, so I have climbed the shoulders of giants to see what can be. Once you see what can be, then there is the burden to communicate what you see. It's not easy, and you learn deep respect for all the previous innovations because they required exceptional communications.

Here I am, an aging man, and I've invented my thing. It's a programming language for board games that lets you build durable compute. You don't have to worry about failures at all. The machine can live forever! It's great, but I have to communicate and prove its value.

I intend to retire and tinker on it for a decade:

http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/what-the-living-document
That's a bit of a different thing. There's more obviously a possible victim in that one than with some old photo being taken.
Performance aside, plenty of classical works aren't out of copyright. My favourite composer, Herbert Howells, died in 1983; his works won't be out of copyright until 2053.
Underwater robot rises from the depths to save drowning swimmers
I like the product but the extension points confuse me. Rules, Hooks and Actions are all more or less the same thing? I never know which one I want. What's difference between a flow and a pipeline? You definitely can't guess from the terms.
Fixing this would require raising wages to the point where a single income can support a family. Until that’s the case, both parents have to work unless you’re wealthy (not a high earner; actually wealthy). I would just ask yourself who in society benefits from this situation and who loses. It doesn’t have to be this way, but we keep electing politicians who promise to keep it this way (on both sides of the aisle).

If the US had a viable left it would be different; but we don’t. Other countries have solved these problems to some degree. We need to stop acting like taking care of people and funding social programs is the next step to Stalinism (but again, think of who is saying this and how it threatens their power).
wow finally a framework i like
This is a classic example of the self-imposed limitations.

Chinese are viewing Americans as lunatic as the opposite direction, and with the equal amount of sincerity and disdain. The same applies to almost any nations and people's group.
The opponent is software complexity. The task is iterate design, to create a simple solution. Money will be made or lost depending on whether the solution is both simple and useful enough.

Scrum, management, meetings distract at best, crush at worst, this critical creative process.
I think the problems you mention start off a bit of a rabbit hole trap which most ML teams fall into.

Effectively, many problems do not have formal "correct" solutions which can easily be applied. One can spend an unbounded amount of time maintaining data-integrity or improving uncertainty handling. As you add more people familiar with this depth to the team, the "best/correct approach" becomes harder to achieve. In the end, a naive estimate of uncertainty is likely about as valuable to the customer as a formal estimate in most problem domains.

"Avoid ML" can easily be code for avoid ambiguous research oriented tasks while building an industrial project, or alternately "don't trust that a magic algorithm will solve your customer problem".