skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big shortcoming of the article is that it doesn't answer this question. Why even bother?

> Is there much mystery?

There is much mystery!

Why do some network architectures work better than others even with the same number of parameters?

Are all network architectures equivalent? In the sense of, say I have a choice of feed-forward convnet vs fully-connected vs MLP mixer vs transformer vs whatever else you want. Can I take my working transformer and get an equivalent convnet that trains the same way? Or is there something special about one or more of these architectures?

Are there non-network systems that have the same properties as deep networks? Maybe they're better?

What even is the space of non-equivalent models? Right now we basically just try stuff and hope to see some improvement. That's really unacceptable. If we had theory to tell us if two architectures are "the same" (there are many nuances here, just as there are when you are say comparing two Turing machines), we could talk about the space of all models.

When things work or don't work, is it because of some property of our optimization procedure or something inherent in the network initialization or architecture?

Why is optimizing some architectures so much easier than others? Transformers are great, but they're very unstable and tricky to train. As we add layers or modify a transformer, what do we do to update our training regime?

How much data do I need to train a network that does X? Can we predict this form some property of the task and the network? What do I know that I've saturated. If I've saturated what do I need to do to get improvements from more data?

Then we get to more serious problems. There are things that networks are terrible at, like long-range inferences and compositionality. Why is this? We have some fixes to some network architectures, but how do we generalize these?

And more broadly. We know basically nothing at all about recurrent networks. We thought they were useful, but then we essentially gave up on them completely with transformers. What's the deal? Are recurrent networks special? Are they approximated so well that they don't matter at all?

This all guides us toward a stranger mystery. We know the brain has recurrent connections. Actually, the visual system in your brain has more feedback connections than feedforward connections. Why don't we need to be able to build models that have these?

This just starts to scratch the surface about what's mysterious here. We're in dire need of some guiding theory, but it remains to be seen if this is it. So far theory has contributed nothing :(
Skin in the game [1]. OP has actually done it ("CTO of a company providing heat-to-electricity plants").

Have you? Or you just read about it?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Skin-Game-Hidden-Asymmetries-Daily-eb...?
I am impressed they aren't defunct. After all they raised $3B[1] and their valuation is $2B so they are a long way away from making their investors whole. They did replace their entire top line management team it seems so maybe that helps?

A friend of mine who was approaching AR from a more theoretical point rather than a product point shared some of the physics of how many nits of brightness the display needs to produce to occlude the actual background and it is a lot. ML worked around some of that problem by shading the background think sunglasses with a 50% light reduction, which helps but then you're trying to match shading. Basically it is a really hard problem and had they not been so "out there" in their original claims I really don't think they would be so challenged in their marketing now.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap
Thanks for the comments. We do have plans for recurring tasks in the near future.

What kind of analytics do you find valuable for todo tracking? Many apps measure the number of completed tasks, which I find counterproductive.
Actually, this is how we were made.
Why stop there? You could virtualize an outdated operating system with an outdated browser.
I've had a US debit card where 3D secure was triggered.
As it has been said democracy is rubbish, the only thing going for it is that it is better than the alternatives.
The default Gallery app is functional, and there are other FOSS options such as LeafPic and Simple Gallery.

- LeafPic Revived: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.alienpants.leafpicrevive...

- Simple Gallery Pro: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.galler...

If you are looking for a hosted service to back up your photos, Stingle is an end-to-end encrypted photo hosting service. Alternatively, you can use Nextcloud to self-host. Both are FOSS on the client side, and Nextcloud is also FOSS on the server side.

- Stingle: https://stingle.org

- Les Pas gallery app for Nextcloud: https://github.com/scubajeff/lespas
> These people who don't trust masks trust ivermectin. Just... talk with them.

I've talked with them. Some of them believe as you say. Others don't. I think you're doing a lot of pigeonholing; the reality outside defies the neat discrete classification favored in internet conversations.
One could claim that the water diverted to those pesky natural habitats would be inconsequential if there were enough for both.
What is on the table then? If that is unchangeable, what is in your control when it comes to a new job?
It depends per bank; mine discontinued the paper OTP pad as well as the SMS codes, and gave me a separate 2FA device when I didn't want to use their app. I don't think banks can force you to have a smartphone yet.
She is Russian too so she must be evil :D
how they use it?
How about the biggest dishonesty - lack of admission that not everyone is at the same risk and that lockdowns have significant irreversible costs for low risk individuals and for society? Young children are not getting critical development years back. Healthy 20 somethings only have limited time to date, party and have fun before being saddled with adult responsibilities forever. Most of shattered local businesses are not coming back. While pandemic was not the only reason for BLM and Jan 6 riots, all the young men not being kept busy and receiving stimulus checks to support unproductive activities was certainly a contributing factor - and the fallout permanently damaged trust we have in each other. What of all the deaths of despair - suicides and drug overdoses? Mixed cancer diagnoses because people were scared to go to see doctor? Plummeting birth rates?

All of this adds up to the fact that optimum precautions for an obese 70 year old guy is not a same as for a healthy 19 year old woman, and individuals should have a role in deciding what's right for them. While vast majority should take a vaccine, there may be a small group for whom it's a reasonable choice to hold off. Say you are a 19 year old healthy make and your risk from serious vaccine side effects is largest while your risk from COVID-19 is smallest. Plus, you already recovered from COVID during the time Delta variant was common. Are you really bonkers for making a decision either way?

Above all, society must not sacrifice its young for those of us who had a chance to live for quite a bit already.
Source is here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360

This is a draft/pre-print version https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00652.pdf
You can't use it as a battery without large reservoirs of water you can pump into the input reservoir. Norway only has half the necessary infrastructure.
How exactly is fucking up some other celestial bodies going to help save this one?
EIA estimates 5% grid loss. Charge cycles should be >85% efficient i'd hope (battery losses & charger losses) but probably not in all vehicles. Discharge I'd expect even better. Your guestimate sounds way way off to me.

I'd also expect significant improvement over time. We're just getting good at GaN fets & SiC fets, which usually have a couple % boost to efficiencies versus classic semiconductor chemistries. Newer lower internal resistance batteries provide more power on demand and heat up less, again boosting efficiency. Where-as with cars we've had a number of historical events pushing us towards efficiency, huge incentives to make trucking or other major industries more efficienct, and yet we've seen dwindling returns on optimization investment: we're already very good at gas. Short of jumping to turbines or other radical leaps.

You also havent accounted for energy costs to store, transport/distribute gas, in spite of holding that against electric vehicles. I expect that's probably >15% efficiency loss there too for gas. We could go deeper & assess the energy inputs required to produce these units of power, a gallon of refined low sulfur highway gas versus the kWh produced by solar, nuclear, natural gas, or, heaven forbid coal at the power plant. Again i feel like gas is rapidly losing efficiency marks versus the competiton.

Off the cuff I'd expect >3x energy efficiency net.
I have so many questions about this now. For example, how often are people not distinguishing between amount of data versus number of cases?

Do we really have any sense of how "effective number of parameters" scales with network features? This article had me wondering if peoples' understanding of these things is backward or something.
> Programming with category theory. Category theory has a deep application in the study of functional programming languages. We hosted discussions for an MIT course on this topic, and encourage their continuation in the present.

What does this have to do with "saving the planet"?
Worth 5 state of the art nuclear power plants apparently...
Definitely doesn't do it for traffic lights in the US.
IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
The US has a dog in this conflict. Namely Saudi Arabia. Defunding or otherwise ratcheting down the US war machine would be a better solution.
Canvas already uses double buffering. OffscreenCanvas lets you issue draw commands from a separate thread.
"Ansar-Allah (colloquially known as the Houthis), a political and armed movement in control of North Yemen, currently has access to the Safer. As of writing, negotiations between the United Nations and the Houthis to inspect and repair the Safer have stalled indefinitely, and no long-term solutions, such as offloading the oil, have been publicly proposed."

Let's just call this what it is:

The Houthis are holding this ship hostage to get stuff/concessions/whatever from the international community. Period. There are horrific atrocities on both sides of the Yemeni Civil War and from other Gulf states, but this is unforgivable on the part of the Houthis.
I'm not so sure about internal combustion, but I think it took steam engines 100 years to start outperforming horses.

I think that that's a better technology comparison because internal combustion was able to leverage the theoretical insights originally derived for steam. There's no shoulders-of-giants effect going on for nuclear fusion, as there wasn't for steam.
Why would they build land based missiles? My understanding is that that part of the US triad is basically pork due to the capabilities of sea and air and the fact that they are static installations that can be easily targeted.

I can only speculate that it could make sense for China if their sea and air power are substantially less capable.

It's pretty amusing for US officials to express concern over an increasing arsenal when they are themselves spending over a trillion dollars on that exact thing while they deliberately provoke China over the Taiwan issue, placing US soldiers in Taiwan, which is considered Chinese territory.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-troops-have-been-deployed-i...
Yes, even for young people. Even when you look at the side-effects of the vaccine, they tend to be more common among people who get the virus. For example, myocarditis is several times more common among young people who get CoVID-19 than among young people who get vaccinated.[1] Given that everyone is eventually going to get infected or vaccinated, getting vaccinated probably significantly decreases the risk of myocarditis among young people.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02740-y
It seems to me that if you have a new dilemma of choosing to starve A or B of water, that you indeed have a shortage.
Some believe humans should strive to become multi-planetary species, e.g. to avoid a possible extinction event.
Both of these statements are false, but since you provided no rationale or examples, you'll have to wait until this executive order is thrown out like the one banning evictions. Trying to tie vaccine mandates to workplace safety is a howler (https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/572149-bidens-wildly-u...) but we will need to wait for the courts to toss this.
Then turn it off with your compiler options. Typescript never would have gained significant adoption without it. It's essential for gradual conversions from js codebases.
Slightly nerdy (and off-colour) tale
There was this native-american chief - from a Plains tribe - I presume nomadic. At any rate, they lived in teepees.

A chief could have more than one wife, and this guy had three. He decided they needed improved bedding, so he got them new animal hides.

Wife no. 1 got a new buffalo hide. Easy, buffalo were roaming the plains.

Wife no. 2 got bedding made from several lynx hides, stitched together (you could make a handbag out of one mountain-lion, but it's not enough for a blanket).

Wife no. 3 presented a problem. So the chief got onto Amazon, and ordered a hippopotamus hide from Africa, which was delivered by drone a few hours later (yes, Amazon had faster drones in those days).

The chief and his wives all slept in the same teepee; and in due course, all three wives became pregnant.

The first wife gave birth to a son.

The second wife also had a son.

The third wife had two sons.

The moral of that story is "The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides".
@dang: this should be the proper URL: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-discover-a-highly-poten...
How does this compare to other OSes?
Archaeologists uncover ruins of medieval wine factory at Israel’s Yavne site
>It’s not just at parity but actually better than Google maps.

In North America.

Google maps is accurate down to minute details in African countries.
>That couldn't have been your point. It's very easy to avoid having a gmail account.

Did you miss the part where I told you we have Google Workspace (GSuite) and I have to use it for work? What part of getting rid of that is easy? I cannot stop using it end of story.

>People here don't know you personally, or your needs. Most people don't need gmail for work.

I feel like you're not aware of the fact that Gmail is used in corporate environments through Google Workspace. You need to research before spouting off stuff that's obviously misinformed. It's a direct competitor to Office 365 and MS Outlook servers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/07/google-g-suite-passes-6-mill...
What do you mean propaganda? Trump was a fool and a shit president, and Bidens ratings are rapidly trying to reach Trumps. They both suck. Congress is a fucking joke.

I'll gladly accept your insult about not knowing anything about politics, wrong as it is. I choose not to insult you back.
Isn't traditional nuclear power, while sustainable, also immensely dangerous?
Why do we want to keep Flash alive?
I can't help but think this and other attempts at biodegradability going to lead to even more planned obsolescence. Things which used to last basically forever will self-destruct with no way to stop it; of course it'll be heralded as the next generation of environmental friendliness, but it's actually a way to keep the consumers consuming and the producers producing (nevermind how much resources get used in the production of these things...)
> the other half is radiated away as hard to capture neutrons, which are almost entirely a waste product

I thought the neutrons were supposed to take away the heat, to be absorbed in layers of water?
>A surprising number of these people poison themselves with supplements

Supplements are regulated in the US as foods, not drugs. If the makers of these supplements claim they treat, cure or diagnose any disease the claims can be censored.

>we shouldn't engage in censorship of factual information

Most of what was said about fake covid cures was not factual and/or exaggerated. The case could certainly be made that many of those promoting said solutions stood to benefit commercially and politically from spreading the false information (including many senior politicians).
Adding some more related articles. this was mostly a result of me trying to find some more useful articles to better understand and it was lost in my browsing history.

https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/

https://users.scala-lang.org/t/from-scala-monadic-effects-to...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3122975.3122977
Thinking consciously and explicitly about a skill like driving (or hitting a tennis ball) is a good way to screw it up. Obviously you have to be aware of your surroundings. But if you're thinking about when or how to press the pedals or how far to turn the steering wheel, you're doing it wrong.
Hard not to see it as a laser weapons program wearing power-plant clothes.
I'm a good person. Here is why I don't work for the tech mafia.
Yep, and they know it, and are clearly trying to use it as leverage.
We already reduced the flow of the rivers to a trickle by diverting most of the water for the farmers. Refusing to divert the last trickle and make the river bone dry is not the cause of the problem.
How Mixpanel got its startup groove back
If it’s economically viable, there is no way that this isn’t used against buyers as part of planned obsolescence schemes.
Yes I do understand that. I just hope people would put things in perspective and be a bit more rational. I think racism, bias and all that comes from people taking hard line stances on things, possibly things they inherited from their upbringing, political party, etc. If we take a hard line stance on this as well, I don't see what value we are adding. The way I look at the mask guideline was that it was a mistake but it was an evolving situation with the pandemic, so I understand why some of the actions taken, in retrospect, were not ideal.
Oh good, they're not going after https://ruffle.rs/ -- that project is a much better idea than repackaging old Adobe binaries.
200 yards = 182 meters. This definitely seems like an issue, hope you had the chance to report it. My expectation from maps is generally a resolution of about 10m.
As someone who worked around fracking wells as a roughneck, I see a lot wrong with your post.

>Majority of water used in hydro fracking is slick water. This is normal water with friction reducers added to it. Typically 1%.
This is like saying "dihidrogen monoxide is the largest component of acid rain". Technically true, but the toxin is toxic enough even at low concentrations. You wouldn't enjoy having it in your eyes no matter how much of it is water that day. This is frankly a strange argument for someone who's worked with the stuff to make, it's not quite H2S but nobody I worked with took the toxicity lightly.

>The slick water is typically reused after the well back flows.
That is what's told to the people in the office but it's not reliable. A volume of fluid is pumped down the well, the same volume is pumped back up. So long as there's no water at all downhole, you would recover only fracking fluid. Typically if people are worried about fracking, there is water downhole and no way of preventing mixing.

>If it is found there are any discrepancies they are fixed.
The payment structure incentivises the field crews to under-report those kinds of errors. Some crews are diligent and take the reputational hit of reporting a fracking blowout, others simply kick some dirt over it. From my experience it's about 50-50. And in the latter case it certainly does often land on an unfortunate farmer's field.
>"For Yemen in particular, clean water is supplied mostly through groundwater pumps or water trucks, both of which require fuel. Previous fuel shortages caused by the blockade resulted in far-reaching public health impacts: for example, clean-water and sewage systems stopped operating, solid-waste collection was stalled, and electrical-grid disruptions led to blackouts affecting hospital operations, all of which contributed to a massive cholera outbreak in 2017 [6]."

It's disturbing that the authors self-censor here. The chief reason Yemen's water infrastructure is in shambles, the root cause of the Cholera epidemic, is that the (US-backed) Saudi military systematically bombs it:

>"In the water sector, we tracked attacks on water pipelines, wells, dams, desalination plants, well drilling sites, water pumps, irrigation canals, water storage tanks, water bottling facilities, water trucks and public water utilities. We found 105 incidents in which water infrastructure was targeted — including 95 Saudi coalition airstrikes on all types of water infrastructure, including humanitarian water supply projects and warehouses."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/22/saudi-led...
Sure, but this wasn't that. This was an item that was on sale that had one left that they showed me just before I checked out. If I had just picked it out, that is one thing, but to bring attention to it is just a bad experience. They could simply start by removing anything with a single item left from the last minute sales pitch. They could improve it by figuring out the probability of an item being available.

Honestly, it's bad UX that they even make you choose a store, that is an implementation detail. I have 3 Walmarts within 5 miles of my house, and 10 of them within 10 miles. They should present them to me as a single same-day warehouse, and then they can work out where to get which items from.
I can say with confidence that this effort will not result in roads being re-designed, ripped up, re-poured, and money paid for the effort.
SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020)
Nowadays, Fennec F-Droid is usually on the same version as the release channel of Firefox, or at most a version behind for a week or so.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

Fennec also lets you install any add-on from addons.mozilla.org through a tedious process,* which is still an improvement over Firefox release/beta on Android. The only channel of Firefox that supports this process on Android is the nightly channel.

* https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
There’s a lot of original content (animations and games mostly) that only lives in .swf format. It would be nice to keep flash around if just for archival purposes.
Ok, you don't know one way or another. I'd agree that a safe assumption is that family members are not descended from a supernatural being. On the other hand, your assertion does not address any specific supporting evidence the family might muster. It would be helpful to support your counterclaim with information specific to Japanese beliefs and practices. For example, you state that the imperial family "are flesh and blood with DNA, diseases, and all of the other problems of humanity," presumably as a counter to the family's claim of supernatural origin. But does that really contradict their claim? For example, in some Christian mythologies the Jesus character was at the same time the son of the central deity as well as being the central deity and at the same time born from a non-supernatural mother. Have the Japanese imperial family claimed that they are not "flesh and blood with DNA, diseases, and all of the other problems of humanity?" Have they claimed "magical powers?" I don't know and you have not established these as claims about which to offer counterclaims. My understanding is that this form of rhetoric is known as "strawman."
Were you?
I suspect plastics may become as valuable as oil today in the far future.