skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the ML equivalent of Dunning–Kruger effect? A model with a bit of data is too afraid of being wrong to be overconfident. A model with a bit more data is overconfident in itself and gets things wrong. Finally, a model with tons and tons of data understands the complexity of the problem set and once again becomes too afraid of being wrong.
Capact architect here. I think that the lack of standardized collaborative environment for capturing/representing and publishing process expertise is lacking in the current ecosystem of tooling. Part of the problem is tool & technology fragmentation, and that's part of what we tried to address with Capact.

It's early baby steps in trying to address this need, but we would sincerely appreciate some feedback!
amazing, thanks a lot!
The line is getting more blurry as time goes on anyway. There's some extremely flexible hardware out there these days, where most the ongoing development is writing software/firmware for the hardware. That software then programs the HW to do what you want, and so you get the speed benefits of HW with a lot of the flexibility of SW.
Learn the parts of the head in Egyptian Arabic
These days our editors are already doing a huge amount of parsing of our code. I know I've seen one editor, probably Visual Studio, that can determine your nesting level and draw vertical lines to delineate it.
No price anywhere I can find on that site. It costs $39 in the U.S. Mac App Store though if you want to know before trying it.
FWIW, my current Kindle is pickier about charging sources than any USB-C device I've ever owned. It absolutely refuses to charge via my alarm clock's USB port, which (with a USB-A to USB-C cable) will happily charge my headphones, portable battery, phones, and even my laptop (albeit very slowly)
My big beef with a lot of the 'leading edge' ML research is that it tends to be waaaaay too focused on classification problems, and ImageNet in particular. And, last I checked, you /do/ still fight with overfitting in classification models, by cleverly choosing learning rate schedules and using early stopping schemes, 'double descent' be damned.

You can solve classification with a hash function: Hash the image, and then just memorize which label goes with which hash. You can try to dodge this obviously dodgy solution by adding augmentation to the dataset. Then you instead learn to find a representation invariant under the set of augmentations, and learn the hash of that representation. It turns out these augmentation-invariant representations are actually pretty good, so we can solve the classification problem in what looks like a general way.

However, there are many other classes of problems where the hash problem doesn't exist, because the information density of the outputs is too high to memorize in the same way. Specifically, generative models, and the sorts of predictive/infill problems used for self-supervision. In these spaces, the problems are more like: "Given this pile of augmented input, generate half a megabyte of coherent output." These kinds of problems simply don't overfit: Train a speech separation model on a big dataset, and the train+eval quality metrics will just asymptote their way up and to the right until you run out of training budget.
Terrible news. This will hold back progress like usual. We need shorter release cycles with less risky upgrade paths, not this nonsense.
The party's over: China clamps down on tech billionaires
Aren't all the top legal jobs in the US taken by graduates of quite expensive private schools?
Does that mean it's okay?

Not trying to put words in your mouth, but it feels like you're saying the rest of the world isn't allowed to care because this is what they do.

We sanction Iran for aggressive behaviour in the region. Our national reactions to this seem a little one-sided.
Give me a neural lace with which I can stop a knife missile, or contact which stops the figurative knife missile forever, and so am I.
This could be a good or bad move depending on the details.

What is the price, what is the yield, is the debt secured by an asset, what is the risk reward.

Buying things that no else wants is sometimes the smartest move.
It seems to me that we the strongest bonds are formed out of necessity.

We bond with people in difficult situations when we need protections and are able to protect.

I've noticed friends who are born in places like South Africa, or Russia are much intenser with friendships.

My theory is that they really have to trust eachother because they have no trust in the system.

Where I grew up, trust in system is strong and it seems people don't need to rely on eachother.

It's not so simple, and of course most people still bond deeply depending on personality and upbringing. But it's why I think most Western societies are so individual.
You had me at "another fantastic insect survival story" :)

Thanks for sharing!
I think "social" media helped to kill a lot of social interaction, by making it easy to go through the motions and keep up appearances more efficiently than actually living a rich social life.

I read somewhere that given a choice between what we know is good and what's convenient, people will choose convenience almost every time, leading to a modern world that feels how a pre-packaged peanut butter and jelly sandwich tastes. It's obviously a subjective statement but I've found it explains a lot about everything.
True, because there are no externalities of fossil fuel consumption. Or at least not ones that beneficiaries today have to worry about.
Steve Job's Goodbye Speech
Perhaps we only think people are biologically lazy because we are predetermined to do so.
I think I've had this happen too. My fix is win+l to logout, then log back in.
Both hugo and jekyll use some kind of templating engine, and as far as templating engines go, react is better in a lot of cases. Especially when you can leverage its ecosystem of libraries, or the components for react you already have.
I think Scotland deserves an honourable mention here. Bachelor’s degrees are free, under a scheme called “SAAS” (Might be home and EU only). Interestingly, people from England have to pay the same in Scotland as they do in England.
Why isn't this submission titled "Sweden has the lowest tuition fees"? Why focus on Germany?
I'm definitely one of those people, but man does it make it more work to have to airgap my device so it can't squeal on me
Do they offer a class focused on the interview like Stanford? No. Can you still cram interview problems until your eyes bleed? Yes.
Side note: the design of that site is horrible. The colours, contrast, search bar which is inline with the main body all make it really hard to read for me
Everybody knows that 3rd party parts, whether for your car, iphone, or dishwasher, may not be manufactured to the same standards of quality than a genuine part. I have no problem with Apple ensuring that an AASP uses only genuine parts. If I don't want to do that and pay less, I can always go to U Break I Fix
I implemented ISBN-13 support in þe Olden Days, and Bookland always struck me as a neat solution to an annoying problem. The whole evolution is quite elegant from SBNs right through to ISBN-13. SBNs are upgradable to ISBN-10(even maintaining their check digit), and those SBNs were then upgradeable to ISBN-13 via Bookland(this time with a check digit change).

However, I also remember being annoyed at the transition. Prior to ISBN-13 checksums were a little more robust at simple transposition erorrs, which from my experience is by far the most common error on manual input. Presumably the rationale is that people wouldn't manually input EANs, and re-thinking it now I agree. In 2007 I had to rely on a hand to hold the book and hand to whack at the numpad, whereas now I use my phone and zbar¹ to scan a barcode.

I suspect I even spent some time muttering about the cost of barcode readers, or trying to figure out which bin might contain a :CueCat². How times have changed. [JNRowe proceeds to the village pond to feed the ducks]

¹ https://github.com/mchehab/zbar

² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
Pyngrok – A Python Wrapper for Ngrok
pyngrok is a Python wrapper for ngrok that manages its own binary and puts it on your path, making ngrok readily available from anywhere on the command line and via a convenient Python API.
The algorithm is definitely missing some recommendations in it's current form, but I suspect if it weren't I'd be pretty close to your description.

Edit: I just did an HN search for the few books I couldn't find with this app and was able to find comments recommending all of them. Not sure if this means I need to branch out or just that HN reads a lot..
High-yield funds invest regularly in bonds like these and they expect a good part of it to go south.

Financial Times, what happened to you.
>Where is the microSD card slot? The case design of the PineNote is fixed, making physical changes like adding a microSD card slot would raise the cost unreasonably. However, revisions of the PineNote motherboard after 1.1 will feature an internal ribbon cable connector where a microSD card slot may be attached. Attaching such a device will require taking the PineNote apart.

This attitude by the designers shows fundamental cluelessness.
> you can do first 2 years at a community college for no more than $2k/year

I'm not sure which community colleges you are going to. When my wife went to CUNY BMCC it was on the order of ~$2400/semester, so roughly $4800/year. Still not too unreasonable, but more than twice what you were saying.

Granted, this is NYC, not known for being super cheap, but I didn't think that CUNY was considered absurdly expensive either. Upon checking, the local community college where I grew up (the Orlando area) is about $1500/semester, so about $3000 a year, assuming you take summers off [2].

[1] https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/students/bursar/tuition-and-fees/

[2] https://net1.valenciacollege.edu/future-students/financial-a...
The downside of the flip buttons was they seemed quite fragile on the two Kindles I had with them, but I much preferred that over the touchscreen tap.
How do you like SKMEI? Backlight must be way better than F91W.
Yeah no problem. I can't speak to every state school but I went to one that was easy to get into and had a highly rated computer science program with a lot of extra curricular clubs that made it easy to distinguish oneself.
I’m not sure your dismissal of “saving water” makes sense, or rather, your dismissal would apply just as well to any situation where one’s personal use of water will not directly cause a shortage of water for someone else.

The whole point of recommending people to save water isn’t that one’s own water conservation will directly cause a measurable re-allocation of water to someone else. It’s more akin to moral advice, something like “act in a way that would have good outcomes if everyone acted that way.” I suppose it’s okay to explicitly dismiss all moral recommendations of that form, but it’s worth noting that this form is extremely common and not something I would call “strange.” It’s basically the same moral recommendation as “don’t butt in line even if no one is going to stop you.”

To map that idea directly onto your situation, I guess it would be something like “if 10 million people moved to the vicinity of your small river, there probably would be a water shortage that would require everyone to be conscientious about their water usage.”
I have a bit of minor frustration with how many different XML formats there are for scripture. We have OSIS and USX/USFX, both supposedly universal but really just used for the Bible and Torah.

I cannot access the tanzil XML file right now due to MobileSafari layout issues (boo). https://github.com/ceefour/qurandatabase has its own consistent DTD, but I doubt this is the only format I will find.
Unlikely after several years, let alone several thousands, right?
I'm with you. But, as others have noted, there are ways around it, even before there's a jailbreak available:

(1) Never connect the device to the Internet. There's really no reason to.

(2) Use KFX Output in Calibre, blocking access to the Amazon servers. This is a bit of a hassle but it is doable. Especially since books take hours to read, so you're really only doing the work for a few minutes to get hours of spy-free enjoyment.
I found svelte ecosystem to be much lighter than react, svelte also being much smoother to write, but sadly it's still new and doesn't have the same amount of libraries that react has.
Yes, being a lawyer is an extreme example where you need both top grades and a top 20 rated school. I wouldn't recommend that career if your parents can't pay your way as the risk of not making it into a top legal firm even if you meet those requirements is still high.
No, UTF-8 is self synchronizing... The first byte of a code point is clearly the first byte of a code point, so it's possible to tell that there was a truncated code point, as long as the next one starts correctly (if you lost two bytes in a row, you might get a mashed up code point, but that's a different loss scenario)
That's the issue. With healthcare being so expensive and strained, and especially young and poor (and the young are often poor) people not seeing doctors as often, people are less likely to have a doctor they trust.
The world is not yet ready to overcome a once-in-a-century solar superstorm
I studied in Quebec, where my tuition fees were around 4000 CAD a year. However, I also had to pay for rent, food, and a basic standard of living. That added up to around 20,000 CAD a year at the time.
There’s a related product (can’t find the link) that has a physical connection to the bike that includes a load cell that drives a motor in the trailer to keep the net force (when accelerating or braking) at zero.

In fact if you know the gross mass of the trailer you can get pretty close with just an accelerometer, but I don’t know of a commercial product that does this.
"Good results" is a subjective measure. The guys winning capitalism are a lot more likely to think the results are good than the people they're standing on.
This way Canonical can keep charging for ESM contracts... Gotta get that sweet legacy maintenance revenue.
This is why desktop apps use the Ctrl key for shortcuts. I'm not sure how that bit of common sense got lost in the transition to webapps.
the calorie is a very bad metric for human energy consumption and nutrition in general.
First, it completely ignores other nutrients like minerals, vitamins, prebiotic fibers, etc.

Second, to measure the caloric value of something, you'll need to burn it and calculate the amount of heat generated. This is not how the human body digests food.
Many types of substances can't be digested (like fibers) but generate a substantial amount of heat.

Bits and pieces of nuts and seeds can go undigested through to a large extent, depends on the size of the pieces that were swallowed, and so the body absorbs only parts of the fats, carbs and proteins in those types of foods (although nuts are very calorie dense)

We really need a new measure of energy that's suited for nutrition... The calorie is worthless.
Leaving out the private universities in a country that has (too) many would distort the sample.
That's not the link that GP tried to post.
From the article:

> Fakhrizadeh was shot at least four times by the smart rifle, which was hidden in a pickup truck a short distance away.

> Israeli operatives smuggled the weapon and its parts piecemeal into Iran before reassembling it.
Anyone have a recommendation for a digital watch with high quality pushers? I prefer a digital day-to-day, but I use the pushers extensively and they always seem to go mushy/lose responsiveness very quickly.

It’s hard to go back after experiencing modern buttons on (eg) phones. Tactile, long lasting, responsive.
Some of the speed benefits. Programmable HW can't match an ASIC in speed yet, but it can significantly outperform a general purpose microprocessor at the same task, provided the task is sufficiently narrow.
Yes, Dr. Dobb’s was the other one I consumed voraciously, along with Popular Electronics. I think my only other subscription was to MIT’s Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (which was available with companion VHS tapes showing off the research).
https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/

https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/
I just learned about the existence of KOReader. Have you encountered any downsides compared to stock Amazon firmware?
In the United States you can get a 4-year bachelor’s degree for less than $5000.

In New York City, public university tuition is $0.

You can earn ACE accredited college credits online very cheaply. I’ve know people who earned 60 credits (a 4-year bachelors in 120 credits) in a year for $150 in total. Saylor.org is $25 per 3-credit course. Sophia.org is $80 per month. Study.com is $200 month and offers thousands of courses. You don’t even need a high school diploma to get started.

My advice to smart kids around the world: Learn English, get your GED, take IELTS/TOEFL, earn 60-90 ACE credits online, and complete your bachelor’s degree in 1-2 years. The earlier the better.
This is quite useful for sound engineers and those who want to have side projects that have to do with audios.
I'll second the recommendation for LibraryThing. I wanted to be able to shelve books by LoC call number and this has a pretty good (although not always complete) lookup for most call numbers (I have learned how to generate a call number for books that don't have them and also discovered that the University of Chicago Library doesn't use the same cutter numbers that the LoC and most other libraries use).

LibraryThing's mobile app will scan barcodes just fine.

The gotcha is that mass-market paperback before sometime in the 80s (I probably have the date wrong) do not have the ISBN in them. These will need to be entered manually (not to bad with the mobile app which has a dedicated ISBN keyboard). It can also look up by the LOC catalog number (which is not the call number but rather a consecutively assigned number which can be found on the copyright page of books published starting some time in the 1960s).

ISBN, by the way, will tell you the format of the book. Paperback and hardcover books have separate ISBNs.
I use my mouse when:

* Playing a game (it requires keyboard for movement and pointer to pick things)

* Editing images
Yes, although I was a bit slower. Three years at community college, three years at UC. First job out of college was at Google as a software dev.
In Dallas we pay around $1000 / semester.

https://www.dallascollege.edu/paying-for-college/cost-tuitio...

Even twice what I was saying is a pretty low amount compared to a private university at 60k/year.
I got a job at Apple as a dropout with, at the time, only some credits from Florida State University and Valencia Community College. I've also had interviews with Facebook and Google and Amazon. I'm not going to say that the school you go to doesn't matter, but I think that having good experience tends to matter more than anything else.

It's not like I'm some hypergenius or anything (far from it), I'm just somewhat of a self-learner and tend to do alright in whiteboard interviews.
Yes, but they are testing the area because we know a settlement there was destroyed. We'd have to test random uninhabited (or at least currently uninhabited) areas for which there are no indications of anything special to get a better picture

And not even that guarantees a complete picture - what if a tsunami event erases or conceals the record of something like this? Volcanic activity? Desertification?

My point is that we can't reason about the rarity or uniqueness of these events as a main factor for accepting or refuting the hypothesis
I find it interesting that despite so many years of scrutiny these biblical stories have yet to be conclusively invalidated. It seems there's some balance between each critique and each discovery, always leaving room for faith, never 'proving' but never snuffing out.
I mean, not really. Imagine how much more information they can collect by literally observing employees all day in the office. There is no limit to the amount of information they can gain from surveillance.
Oh no my queen!
I know people with no degree at FAANG. Best time to break in is after a few years in industry when you have some work accomplishments you can point to that indicate you are a high performer.

New grads are pretty undifferentiated except for university prestige so that's a rough time to compete if you're from a less prestigious school or no school.
I'm not convinced a SAT solver will ever be that useful in practice, as finding (huge!) numbers of solutions to N-queens tends to be easy -- so a simpler (specialised) technique will usually churn through solutions faster.

While it is true that completing a solution to N-queens is NP-complete (I was an author on the paper that proved that), you need fairly big instances before the problem gets "hard" in practice (at least, as far as we showed).
This entire thread reminds me of all the issues I had programming in Clarion 8. I could write an equivalently long thread about clarion if I still remembered half the issues.

What's scarier is that at some point Clarion got support to publish software as websites... Maybe Tumblr is written in clarion.
Just ban them.

I have no problem with these devices in specialty professional fields, but an invisible camera constantly directed out and controlled by individuals who I do not know at every corner in society sounds like a dystopia. The "people taking out their phones in public whenever something happens, and even when not" is bad enough, but at least I am aware that someones taking pictures.
My take as a 90s math grad (out of touch with modern teaching): Theory is useful to show human society is stagnant.

There’s an infinite number of sentences but our ML models are having tons of “success” as society relies on finite set in daily life; those that instigate commerce.

Like religion relied on an acceptable finite set of sentences, so too does our society. We’re a bunch of weird little missionaries living in one geometric world, still believing in bigger purpose.

ML isn’t really outputting novelty, it’s spewing our own inanity at us, and helping correct some bad math in engineering cases.

We’re easily mesmerized apes.
Sourcegraph Code Search – The Developers’ Gold Mine!
Generally speaking I agree we need to force the rest of the industry into a more ephemeral mindset for infrastructure.

BUT this looks like it is only for ESM, which you need an Ubuntu Advantage subscription for.

If that's the case, then this makes sense. Let Canonical make some more money off those who are willing to pay, big enterprises are slow to do anything.
It seems like its for people who need a car, but don't want to admit they need a car.
You have options if you want something like that. Use a rolling release distribution like Arch. For commercial use, this ESM model is spot on.