skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we were trying to describe stochastic gradient descent, this would be relevant, but we're talking about backprop (which does often use just a batch, but that's not inherent). And there is nothing about backprop that makes the kangaroo more blind than in any other form of gradient-based optimisation.
I said this elsewhere, but Uniswap V3 liquidity positions are NFTs. Are those NFTs useless?
Hey HN,

Remeet is a fundamentally different approach to meetings for distributed engineering teams, unlike anything else you've seen/used before.

To give you some context, here's the evolution of asynchronous communication tools:

Gen 1: mail

Gen 2: email (digital replica of Gen 1)

Gen 3: thousands of collaboration tools that create highly optimized experiences that weren't imaginable in a pre-digital age

And here's the evolution of synchronous communication tools:

Gen 1: in-person meetings

Gen 2: skype/webex/zoom meetings (digital replica of Gen 1)

Gen 3: disappointing lack of progress

It's hard to believe, but most of the new meeting tools are in the Gen 2 category (e.g., virtual offices).

We've made great progress over the last couple of years to optimize synchronous meeting experiences for distributed engineering teams, and there are numerous success stories.

Please check our website to see how it works: https://www.remeet.com/

I'd be happy to answer any questions here.

Cheers,

Gene
I don't think this is a good characterization. Black Swan is more about "Looking just at probability is misleading and dangerous, you need to look at severity too". I haven't read antifragile, but I don't think that statement summarizes it (also it's a completely false statement). My understanding was that it's message is <<resilient systems are those that have "fragile" components but can adapt to/ learn from failure; not those that are designed to be "very strong">>.
All compute classes have never been treated equally though. If I open an AWS account and launch dozens of instances and DDoS other customers / locations on the internet AWS will terminate my account and shut everything down. The provider always has discretion on whatever it really wants to provide service to you or not.
The US actually has fantastic food hygiene standards. I know it's a meme with some UK/EU folks to clutch their pearls over the chlorinated chicken wash but it is in fact based on solid science. It's a different approach but not invalid.

Prices vary by location, but generally you can expect to get uncooked chicken here for under $2/lb. I live in a largish city and typically pay under $1.5/lb.

I agree about the animal welfare standards, but that is most definitely not unique to us. In fact, I'm acquainted with one of the key people in popularizing intensive confinement livestock practices in the midwest US: they're German and brought techniques from there to Kansas. Likewise I've seen first hand what cattle barns are like in Italy, and it is not good.

Assuming you have access to a kitchen, you can feed yourself very well at minimal cost in the US. I loathe our fast food culture, but do not underestimate just how solid the US supermarket system is.
Your parents might consider Starlink. My mother is in a similar situation. Way out in the countryside with only very slow DSL available. Even the two WISP (Wireless ISP) providers did not have towers in line-of-sight of her property (darn trees).

She got Starlink and now is getting about 80Mbps down and 40Mbps up.

It is a bit pricey at $550 for the unit delivered and $99 a month. But when you don't have any other realistic options...
> They already have five cryptocurrencies of their own, plus an NFT system.

Pretty clear what their priority is. It's not building a good game, it's making money off of suckers.
So, I can choose to see only un-cropped images on my TL, and the author can see a preview of the algorithm's crop before they tweet -- but a glaring omission is simply exposing a crop tool to the author. The model works by choosing a point on which to center the crop. Why can't you give user's a UI to do the same? "Tap a focal point in the image, or let our robot decide!"

The blog post mentions several times how ML might not be the right choice for cropping; but their conclusion was...to keep using ML for cropping. I hope someone got a nice bonus for building the model!
Isn't this the point of bankruptcy. If this guy ends up bankrupt, it will be signal to future creditors that maybe they aren't the most prudent investor.

From the other perspective, isn't it the individuals risk to take? Even if it is essentially gambling, this is something that people are allowed to do. Why would a person be permitted to bet their life savings and max credit on black in a casino, but not some speculative coin?

Random fact: Terrance Watanabe may be the largest looser in the history of las vegas gambling, having lost over 220M over a 5 year period. He was also sued by Casinos for over 15M of credit they provided him to gamble with.
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Why didn't Ajit Pai do this?
I am in the same path, make the money and fund my own research. All other models have been perverted by existing long enough that the culture around them is very antithetic to the true motivation of the endeavor.

The only systems not amenable to this model is perhaps high energy physics or things of that sort but I'm sure some resourceful mind will come up with ideas!
For what it's worth, I believe that it's usually typed either "libre office" or LibreOffice, and so the confusion there should be minimized.

And a lot of English speakers at high-school or above level would probably be able to associate Libre with Free / Open.

I will agree that OpenOffice was a better name.
It's kinda weird to see Edge having its own auto-update system on Windows. (Which of course has a system-wide auto-update system called Windows Update.)

Makes me think of this: https://ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon...
Community infrastructure should be owned and run by the community.
I'm going through a switch to (hopefully) research. I left my job and started a PhD. I'm not sure I'd recommend it, as it depends on what you're looking for; it's a sharp pay cut during the PhD, and not necessarily with more pay afterwards.
If only we had access to the internet in order to look up things we're confused about. I highlighted ETH 2.0 PoS, right clicked "search Google" and the answer to your question is the first result.
Where is the line between allowed and banned? Mining crypto you created and researching on? Mining crypto where mining doesn't use ie. drive, ie. maybe is latency based or something else? Doing research project with your own blockchain on git or whatever?
Right, and Ethereum is effectively centralized https://web.archive.org/web/20201214170136if_/https://www.re...
I use mine a lot for reading, for work or pleasure.
I also almost exclusively edit photos on mine nowadays, as the iPad Pro works incredibly well with direct attached storage or an SD card adapter. Affinity Photo is perfect for the kind of simple editing I like to do.
Yes; certainly a politically controversial figure, but "Maps of Meaning" is, obviously, about meaning. Could also try an influence of his, Jung, but he can be a challenge to understand. I'm a bit disappointed that Taleb seems to be unwilling to even talk with figures such as Peterson or Pinker so I could better understand all of their positions, but oh well.
"Can't do math today" and "not good at math" are different.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. I bet most of them are ending up framed on walls or what have you by people who wanted it in middle school. And I bet there's way more of those people than people playing the game.
You are exactly correct.

It is plutocracy, but with emojis.
Not sure what you mean by bootstrapping society. But I do think that most people won't keep all their money in crypto accounts. Instead, some people will probably just use crypto to move a bit of money around on the internet, maybe use it as a rainy day account, maybe do a group project. It could work pretty well for that.
Anyone noticed their twitter handle @liberachat is tempbanned?
Market Liquidity for our AI model marketplace
Insurance scams would be a laugh too.

"All my assets got transferred to a random address!
You should probably reimburse me because I was clearly hacked."
>It’s not a matter of physics.

It is, and you're misunderstanding some of the basics of supersonic flight.

"As speeds approach the speed of sound, the additional phenomenon of wave drag appears. This is a powerful form of drag that begins at transonic speeds (around Mach 0.88). Around Mach 1, the peak coefficient of drag is four times that of subsonic drag. Above the transonic range, the coefficient drops drastically again, although remains 20% higher by Mach 2.5 than at subsonic speeds. Supersonic aircraft must have considerably more power than subsonic aircraft require to overcome this wave drag, and although cruising performance above transonic speed is more efficient, it is still less efficient than flying subsonically."[1]

Factoring in that supersonic airplanes are significantly heavier, have lower L/D, must spend more fuel getting to higher altitudes, still have to fly subsonic a considerable amount of the flight time/path, etc. means that it's a matter of physics.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_transport
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Does anyone know the reasons behind PIA’s actions? Is it safe to assume they are also harvesting their VPN user data?
How to use APIs with no code
Perhaps I should have led with those examples.
I did assume that people meant a decentralized distributed ledger when saying blockchain. In that regard, git is lacking replication, consensus and validation, all of which are key to a decentralized distributed ledger.

Git has some of the properties you'd want, but not all, could you implement more things on top of git to create a blockchain, possibly yes, but that doesn't make git a blockchain.

I like the wikipedia qualification for this:

> Logically, a blockchain can be seen as consisting of several layers:[21]

> infrastructure (hardware) networking (node discovery, information propagation and verification)

> consensus (proof of work, proof of stake)

> data (blocks, transactions)

> application (smart contracts/dApps, if applicable)
Hi HN! I'm Sachin, founder of Volant AI (https://volantai.org). We're building the App Store of AI. Our mission is to empower people to build with AI by using high-performing crowdsourced models from our AI model marketplace.

I was asked a question about market liquidity for our AI model marketplace and wrote a few words. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Putting adverts on the website, apparently. Some projects just fiercely want to stay noncommercial, so they will object at this. I am reminded of a comment from the time when Wikipedia was trying to figure out how to cover their costs: The bigger danger isn't advertisers manipulating content, but that people will no longer see Wikipedia as theirs, they will see it as yet another place that corporations bombard them with adverts. — Sid http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/01/02/wikipedia-advertisin...
I'm in the market for a storage server so hopefully this brings us some stock!
Thanks! let us know if we can help.
> You'll note that I didn't show up and advocate for XMPP.

Can't XMPP be considered a competitor? If so, that's like saying an oil company exec has no reason to disclose their affiliation when advocating against renewable energy sources.

It's not about whether you are advocating for or against something specifically, it's about whether you have a vested interest in the outcome which could conceivably affect your veracity, or even just your outlook and how you perceive the facts (it doesn't need to be nefarious, nobody can be completely impartial).

To clarify my intent, I'm not sure I think you should have noted your affiliations in this case, but I don't think the reason stated for not doing so is really evidence either way.
Send snail-mail online, because who has stamps these days?
> Antifragile: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

No, you've missed the point of the book (or haven't read it). It's about that some things become better in the presence of error/noise/damage/volatility. But not all things, some other, fragile things, become worse and worse as damage accumulates. And that there's no word for such a property, so he calls it "Antifragile". And then the book goes in great detail about lots and lots of examples (with the usual rambling).
or a massive troll on freenode
Given that there is a fairly limited number of car renters, I’d imagine that they share data on customers that over-use services. Such practices exist in banking, retail, and hospitality.
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So was this in the USSR? Approx what timeframe was your first supermarket visit?
Just FYI they already disallowed crypto mining a long time ago. I believe it was because it tends to attract people using stolen credit cards to rent servers.

EDIT: found it.

"there is just generally a lot of bad actors out there, even people not directly doing mining -- people who don't pay their invoices, commit fraud"
https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/jijeby/why_is_hetz...
The idea of the kangaroo being blind and "feeling around" might be a good metaphor for an optimiser which uses numerical estimation of the gradient, but backprop does not do that. At a stretch, one could argue that being blind is a good metaphor for metaheuristic optimisation, but "feeling around" on the ground is not a good metaphor for metaheuristic optimisation.

If we are trying to find a metaphor for backprop, I think we are in trouble, because the central idea in backprop is that we have to calculate the gradient for some variables (eg the north-south variable) before we can calculate the gradient for some others (eg the east-west variable).
Despite the title being about YouTube, this is fundamentally about Safari's declarative Content Blocker API being totally inadequate in the face of modern ad delivery technologies. Yes, it's fast and relatively more secure compared to old ad blocking techniques (which requires granting full access to effectively arbitrary JS), but ad tech has evolved since 2015 and Safari's Content Blocking API has not evolved with it.

With other browsers showing varying degrees of interest in declarative content blocking, it's worth looking at Safari as a warning of what declarative content blocking, if unmaintained, will do to cripple ad blocking for users.
what area/work does your company do? advertising?
While I have a similar impression (that he is overly verbose), my take from Black Swan was “even though you can put any data into the formula for calculating mean and standard deviation of a bell curve, lots of stuff isn’t actually on a bell curve, and if you assume it is when it isn’t you will have a lot more bad days than you planned for”.
Nietzsche is exceeding his KPIs here!

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book"
> A decade ago I remember reading that if you’re in the jungle and an apex predator is spotted, it gets relatively quiet, so from an evolutionary perspective quiet signals danger and induces stress. Sounds reasonable to me, can’t speak to how valid it is though.

Many animals will make alarm calls [0] when they sense a predator, sometimes in multi-species groups. A few animals have alarm calls specific to different types of predator such as leopards, snakes and eagles [0]. In my own garden, I can often tell when a cat has entered by the alarm calls emitted by blackbirds and sometimes even squirrels.

So I'm not sure about this quiet jungle thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_signal#Vervet_monkeys
RNA, good for vaccines, can also be used as a pesticide
Are your users in loads of massive federated rooms?
It’s a fair point.

Folks need to wake up to the fact that if we all end up relying on 3 cloud providers, we also end up having to live with their discretion regarding what is acceptable / moral use.

Also, this isn’t really the same as a DDOS, this is localised computation effectively. Running a hash function.
And then your coworkers try to convince you to not use that.

"So how can I reach you then [at all times]?"

They simply cannot comprehend a world in which people are (gasp) not reachable at all times and plan around such an assumption.
My sentence-long summaries:

Antifragile: be convex when applicable.

Black Swan: not all distributions are made the same.
I used to like stoic writings until I realized that they rarely applied those principles to own life. Meditations is basically a description of painful experiences even when one is a rule of Ancient Rome empire.

I would suggest to try to read writing of Epicurus instead. At least he did followed own principles as far as we know.
Most TOSes contain both a provision that they can be changed at any time and that you can be cut off for any reason (so long as it's not an illegal one) and for no reason at all.

Not saying that it's right that they do, just saying that they do.
Or you know, most apps dislike having the executable file itself replaced under them and getting into an unknowably bad state, for basically null benefits. Distros should handle multiple versions of the same program, a la nix, and programs should not optimize for random things like that.
AFAIK AWS prohibits GPU mining as well.
Don't, might make money on accident.
But why?

I have multiple accounts because FDIC (and other reasons), and different investment platforms.

Using blockchain for a slush fund like this is just LARPing. And I get the thrill of "being your own banking", I really do. But that's all it is. And it doesn't make it in any way a good idea, for anybody and everybody.
In an ideal world, it seems to me like everyone needs a different interface with a computer, whether it's a website or an application (remember those?).

Waving a wand, I'd take something like a banking website (let's say Bank of America as an example) and strip out all the cruft. A text-only interface that (maybe) just looks like a simple early-version-of-Windows application. I'll grant that Amazon and eBay require the ability to put up images, Vanguard and Fidelity most certainly do not.

What you could do then is to make them all alike, it's not like these sites are particularly different. Maybe the equivalent of an RSS feed app could run the lot.

The thing is, a deaf or blind person could ask for the same thing just with their own particular abilities in mind.

/oldmanrant
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It used to be that enthusiasts could claim "currency of the future", but a lot of time has passed and that future simply hasn't come. In fact, Bitcoin's top utility is already far behind us.

Dropping "currency of the future" does come with the challenge of coming up with a new supposed benefit, which is where "store of value" comes in. Problem is: there is no inherent value in bitcoin.
> Should workplaces cater to people who are emotionally disabled in some way?

If they don't want to violate the ADA, yes. For example, major depression can be a disability, and employers are bound by the ADA to not discriminate against people with that disability and to provide them reasonable accommodations.
What's the ugliest line of R code that still parses?
In case you missed it, a Wirecard-related HN submission from 22 days ago discusses the factors that made it possible in Germany: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26952408
There's a lot of money to be made exploiting people with no life.
Yeah, until Spotify and Apple have their way and balkanize the industry... sigh
Agreed. If you haven't read it, check out Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnema (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow).
I wondered as well and I think they're just used to calling their contributor team members 'staff', like you needed to be voted in as a contributor then you are 'staff', apparently oftc does the same thing
As far as I know they aren’t retroactively crippling GPUs. A vendor is well within their rights to artificially limit hardware to create market segmentation. That’s just a fact of doing business. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Want to mine? Buy a mining card or a piece of hardware from some other vendor.
You mean the distros, right? It’s not firefox’s job.
I work on a SaaS app in the healthcare space where IE11 is the preferred browser, and was getting worried watching all of our favorite tools begin to completely drop IE11 support (Tailwinds, Bootstrap) - effectively punishing us for the sins our customers IT orgs.

This brings me hope. But only a little. I’m sure they’ll find a way to keep running it.
Ironic; in Norway this introduction of eye tracing on iPad could be bad for those who has severe disabilities, because when it is easily accessible in normal stores you will no longer get them funded as a helping aid, and you then have to pay from your own pocket. This forward the burden on the families and dividing the society.
My only issue with this is it seems like they've secretly changed the terms and conditions without telling anyone and that people haven't agreed to and then put them into force.

I got bit by this before with a hoster when I was much younger and starting out where I put a webproxy on a web host. The web host then changed their terms and conditions and blocked my account without informing me. Then to add insult to injury they said they would unblock it for 3 hours a certain day for me to remove. I'm still salty about that to this day.
> Even worse, consoles aren't having these availability problems.

Have you tried buying a PS5 lately?
About Ntfy
can you point to these OpenLaw contracts? Curious to read.

tia.
Switched a couple of times. Its hard, initially. Switching fields feels like pulling tooth and and learning how to ride a bike at the same time. Good news is that its over before you know it. It helps if you can believe in your ability to get through the first few months. Definitely talk to someone who has made a similar switch. Just to prepare yourself mentally more than anything else. If you could share which field you are going to, maybe I can connect you with someone who went through the same journey.
the biggest irony of all: AXA was a major financial backer of Blockstream, a bitcoin development company which employed (still employs?) several of the bitcoin core developers.
You're still allowed to mine with those (or hit them with a hammer). They're just much less good at it.
I don't fault a company for not wanting to waste compute cycles, that could otherwise be doing useful work, on crap like crypto mining.
Sure, I guess those things just don't come up as much (and I will admit I intentionally avoid talking about certain subjects). But I wouldn't say that gradually erodes the friendship; we just relate over different things.
> This problem is not hard to solve when you limit physical access, i.e. in a warehouse, pharmacy, or locked room where multiple employees are responsible for checking in and out items. These solutions arose directly out of your conundrum in retail, and investigations are launched when someone discovers a mismatch between inventory and real life

If the problem was not hard to solve, there would be no need for investigations into discrepancies.

Even in extremely high-tech warehouses like Amazon, major inventory mistakes still happen. A few weeks ago I ordered a $150 midi controller the size of a license plate and received an $800 synth the size of a snowboard that had an extra incorrect bar code stuck to it.
I feel sorry for their servers rn