skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly the number of parameters is important in itself due to the finite size of VRAM on the GPU cards commonly available. But secondly the bulk of the ops you do are scalar products (arranged as matrix muls) where one parameter means one multiply+accumulate.

So regardless of the actual net topology, number of layers etc you should see a rough scaling in the number of parameters, in an ideal case with no other overhead (you can write code that scales badly or weirdly). I didn't look at this DeepNet, maybe it will run slower like you say due to some other choice of architecture..

Also yes an architecture that requires 1000x more training iterations will of course be worse at the training stage even if it has 100x fewer parameters, but maybe the resulting inference model is much faster. Lots of stuff to consider :)
But in the long term, after new people join the company and others leave, this degrades. It takes far longer for newbies to get to know people, social ties weaken, and trust falters. Doubly so for early-career joiners, who likely haven't worked an office job before.

That's all true if you let it happen. You don't have to though. If you recognize the problem you can put resources into addressing it.
Cerebras Shows Off Scale Up AI Performance for Big Pharma and Big Oil
Stripe: "Upon checking, it appears that the concern has been escalated to our specialist who handles the concern for you."

What a way to avoid saying "problem", "bug", "issue" or any other term that might be perceived negatively in a lawsuit.
EMPs are exaggerated.
Some people also don't consider their day job to be their life mission and don't care if an issue is resolved in 5 minutes or 30 minutes if it means saving 1 hour of commute and spending more time with their family / hobbies / life in general.

This productivity fetishisation is so weird
You don't think many Americans are equally upset about all the things their government does? Bernie Sanders was just on CSPAN talking about the US overthrowing leadership in S. America. Many Americans are fully aware of how messed up their country is.

That being said, anytime anything anywhere bad happens a line of people forms to say “What about America,” as if that somehow absolves others.

Also, the Olympics have been a joke for decades. I don't even understand why countries still waste the time and energy supporting it.
Huh? From the article it seems that this was something you had to request and get approval for (with 15% denied).

Somewhere else I remember reading this would also cut your salary by 10%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzoerDljjo
> Objectively, there are absolutely no upsides to using a C-style cast.

It's shorter. I'm pretty sure that's the main reason people use it.
OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur
Effective Feedback for Engineers
The issue with DC transmission in subsea cables is that the XLPE insulation can become polarized and - from what I remember - have water drawn into it due to the consistency of the field.
Yes they still buy our oil and gas, and neither side attacks the pipeline despite the war, but I think it's a matter of time. In a couple of years Europe will stop buying our energy, but the consequences of this war (police presence, peacekeeping, rebuilding) will last for decades.
Russia refuses to launch internet satellites, pointing at sanctions
The amount of bollocks in those two links is hard to quantify.

People who's job it is to complain about how unfair the world is aren't fit to decide how we should measure the effectiveness of education and our students progress. Leave that to educators, just like we can leave the bitching to the "Antiracist Research & Policy Center".

The tests -will- show that disadvantaged children are behind, that is literally the point.
Said test results don't mean said child is "lesser" simply that they aren't at the same level as peers that score higher.
Fixing that is the job of the schools and the government (in so far as reducing the race/socioeconomic gap outside of the classroom), but they need the tests to understand which each child sits.

Hell if they -didn't- show that minorities are disadvantaged that would be a much more egregious problem and indicate the tests don't in fact test for what we think they do.
> a grounding shield (which eliminates electrical fields),

This makes all electrical fields zero... but in the ocean there may be other natural electrical fields that don't appreciate being zeroed out...
UCIe Announced for Fostering an Open Chiplet Ecosystem
Sorry, dang. This article caused a flamewar in the end. I shouldn't have posted it.
You can thank modern capitalism for the fact that you have no earthly idea what slavery is. This whole thread is insanely offensive.
Until you renounce US citizenship I would advise keeping a US address in a no income tax state, and a US bank account. Don’t tell the IRS or your bank that you moved out of the country. You don’t have to prove where you live or don’t live, just file the forms, pay the taxes, they don’t care. No one comes to the house looking for you unless you have done something criminal.

If you don’t have family or friends that will let you use their address you can use a mail receiving service (I used Traveling Mailbox for years). An attorney will usually let you use their address for a nominal fee. There’s actually a pretty big selection of services geared to expats and constant travelers, like people who live in RVs. Do some research, it’s not a big deal.
Millions of Russians turn to BBC for news amid invasion of Ukraine
Git can be immensely P2P, though there's a coordination problem that would be involved. There was an attempt at "Gittorrent" at one point, Don't know the current status or if there was ever a working prototype.
Wow cool. Sounds like semantic satiation.
Thermal paste usually lasts very long if it was applied correctly. Many coolers do spin up to maximum shortly after power on, at least for a short time.

Maybe clean the fan, but I mostly suggest to always replace it if the form factor allows for it if you open the device anyway. It may have a broken bearing, which in most cases isn't that bad aside from the additional noise. So it is strange that the notebook seems to overheat. Perhaps there is really some form of blockage which just needs to be cleared.
Don't Cancel Regular Russians
> Soviet missile submarines with Jacuzzi

I find hard to believe that. Submarines are very cramped and would not have space for non-essentials. Also Russia is not know for caring for it's soldiers (or citizens).
Armenia’s miserable dilemma
I'm not saying that you are making things SFINAE friendly. I'm just curious about a use case you have where you use enable_if on completeness. Not asking for making up a use case where you SFINAE on completeness.

> which would avoid putting (void)sizeof(It) directly inside an SFINAE context. I'm just saying you could do it this way without violating ODR or other stuff I think (unless I'm missing something).

Putting it in an alias template doesn't sidestep putting it in an SFINAE context. The detection idiom works because it can still be an SFINAE context.
Doodle has been down for 24 hours
They helped me realize that what I value about going to a good independent bookstore is curation. Not "highest rated" or "most popular" - but books I wouldn't get otherwise exposed to that an employee has selected to carry, and display.

This is something I am bothered by: if top ten lists are based on what people buy, and what people buy is based on top ten lists, where does humanity enter into the picture?

In the future we will have advanced AI like GPT-3 trained on the internet, generating content for the internet at far larger scales than humans, with that content being consumed to train the next generation of AI, like a snake eating its own tail and pushing human content into irrelevance. I feel like there’s the potential here for a dystopian novel where future humans are desperately trying to connect with another human in a giant maze of algorithmically generated conversations served up by AI bots through the metaverse.
Offshore wind is fundamentally sick no one's making money
The fact that it took the writer three months (!) to spot this problem sets up a situation (IMO) in which swearing for effect in a chat session is out of the question. It's partly on him.

Anything to do with money and tax internationally is complex, and it should be monitored at least until you know it works, e.g. put dates in your diary to check your first international customers paid the right tax?

I must say, the Stripe chat session support people are heroes when you consider the breadth of the topic area they are covering, and some of the random chat abuse they must get from confused end user customers, and I don't think they deserved the fake-swear or some of that tone.

Especially when the writer concedes he could have been productive in the meantime. Some of this stuff just goes with the territory, and they are a business, not magicians.

There's also a sandbox -- is the writer saying there was no way to find this out through testing in the sandbox?

I have had one experience like this where I got a result I did not expect on live compared with the sandbox, which came down to quirks of my sandbox testing.

Specifically to do with trying to speed up testing [0]. I was getting payment collection tested within the day, but that meant a setting that affected something that happened at the end of the billing day never showed an impact in testing; on live it always would. That outcome, I think, could have been covered in a footnote like the one that was added after the writer's experience.

The reality is that Stripe's documentation is heroically excellent (a counterpoint to the Hugo story yesterday) but their system is vast and has all sorts of complex real-world interactions. They have shown they are responsive by correcting the documentation going forward.

[0] About the only thing I wish you could do that you cannot, is accelerate time in the sandbox, to make stuff like this easier to test. I understand why you can't but this is my fantasy. A stateful Stripe Connect mock would be useful though; I had to add one to my app.
Do you have any examples or could you mention some industries?
Nice job of comparing an entire population with more history and culture than you can ever dream of, to a "monster" that feeds itself with virgins. Flagged. This is an open display of racial hate fed by propaganda.
>Japanese web design feels like walking into a casino, but western design feels like having a dump truck emptied on you.

perfect analogy

i think in general they have more of a "if its not broken dont fix it" mentality whereas in the west we seem to be "move fast and break things"
Ask HN: Team of programmers seeking freelance projects. Where to next?
Hi for the people that have outsource companies in third world countries / Eastern Europe working for US market, how did you get your first projects how do you find clients?
But isn't all this just old wine in new skins?

Is there really a difference between "labelling data" and assigning properties to "traditional" inputs (e.g. assigning tax codes, classifying new products, filing cases, managing customer data, ...)?

Is there something fundamentally unique about sharing and monitoring data during ML training as opposed to say feedback loops between trading algorithms and profit or production planning, logistics and market response?

Or to address your examples, wouldn't the same issues as in your motorcycle detector arise with any other software implementation? Hardware constraints, runtime limitations and -requirements are in no way unique to ML after all.

The same applies to your spam detector example. The same questions arise with any other software. It's all just constraints versus benefit, data quality, monitoring loops, infrastructure, and cost.

I honestly don't see anything that's truly unique to ML here.

The part that is described as "model training" in ML is just done manually by developers and expressed as iterations in engineering. I would therefore think that the skillset is very much transferable and much of the apparent novelty is just traditional software engineering and management practices hidden behind ML jargon.
Nvidia Hacker Seeks $1M for LHR Ethereum Bypass
In the first case you can simply omit "unused", but I can see value in marking it explicitly.
The Essential Vannevar Bush
In principle, if the Ukrainian people is willing to fight till the end, they could turn the Zakarpattia province into a fortress. Protected behind the Carpathian mountains and with Nato countries on either side, and given continued arms deliveries from Nato countries, Russia may never be able to take that province
World’s First Infinity Train
> Baumol's cost disease does not apply if there is oversupply of labor.

More or less purely a symptom of bad monetary policy the US stopped doing around 2018.

> See again low-skilled workers. Where are the 'rises in pay' for those working at fast-food, supermarket chains, warehouses, etc.?

They have increased significantly above inflation in the last year because we're in a full employment economy. (While other classes may have had pay losses depending on how much they spend on gas/used cars, the lowest quartile definitely hasn't.)

> Also, labor over-supply will only increase since not only immigration, but also automation will compete with workers.

If you noticed, Andrew Yang lost the election. His automation platform was a myth, caused by our previous non-full-employment economy - there is no actual situation where it can destroy jobs. Either it requires inputs, so there is work to do there, or it doesn't, so it's a perpetual motion machine. (You can tell "rich people fire everyone and replace them with robots" can't actually happen because it's basically the plot of The Fountainhead.)

Another interesting theory about the myth is that it's an accounting artifact caused by Moore's law - if we report computer production in units of computation speed, that means each factory worker is producing a zillion 70s computers a second, which makes it look like they've been automated out of a job.

Countries with less immigration and worse age demographics (Russia, China, Japan) may need to develop automation though, since they'll need someone to take care of all of our old people. We will hopefully continue allowing immigration from Africa, soon to be the only region still producing young people.
I agree. We donated an old but very serviceable Asus Netbook to my elderly relative, then went through the pain of trying to find a distro that would run on it. Prior to that it ran (strolled) Windows 7. I eventually ended up installing Porteus Kiosk which actually runs very nicely on the Netbook and has the added benefit of being granny-proof.
There's many differences between russian barbarians, and Israeli forces:

- Israel has a rich history of Palestinian attacks with many Jewish *civilian* casualties, whereas the russian aggression is unprovoked.

- Israeli forces are better prepared and better treated by its country than the russian cannon fodder with e.g. outdated food rations or poorly armored vehicles, though I don't know if that's what bamboozled meant as well.

- I could be wrong, but while not being emotionally prejudiced towards/against Palestine, Israel, Russia and Ukraine prior to the conflicts, in a heuristic sense, just estimating the severity of breaking human rights, russian forces seem to have far worse standards than Israeli forces. Likewise with Ukraine vs Palestine. In case of Ukrainians we see refugees and children hiding in bunkers and being dragged out of them by russian forces. In case of Palestine...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_b...

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Your comparison to black people is even less justified, to the point where I won't even comment on it.
Relevant: How Oligarchs use english football teams to launder money

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/9/investigation-reveals...
Using throwaway...

Chechens themselves had the same tragedy in Grozny. I don't believe these puppet soldiers have the sympathy of the vast majority of muslim people.

While there are many problems like treatment of african students, comments on TV channels mentioning "civilized" part of the world, and not having the public outcry for middle-eastern people(or welcoming arms for refugees), and the topic you mentioned. Anyone I talked to in Turkey supports the struggle of Ukrainian people.

Another interesting point is that Russia seems to be recruiting a lot from the Turkic people inside Russia. So Turkish drones are also hitting them. But that doesn't seem to change public opinion.

Overall, unfortunately, the Turkish people became geopolitical experts because of all the mess and tragedy around Turkey (Note to reader: Check the map if you don't know Turkey's neighbors). One visible metric is twitter conflict/OSINT account number in Turkish. Most people have a balanced view, but stopping aggression and civilian casualties comes first.

Another interesting point is that there are sanctions on some Turkish industries, based on secondary concerns and some lobbying. But, Turkey singlehandedly supported Europe's energy security/ general security(Azerbaijan, Libya, Syrian refugees), balanced Russia(Syria, Libya), supported Ukraine's defense industry long before anyone else.

I hope it stops as soon as possible.
If they blow up the gas pipelines that transit Ukraine, Europe would be forced to turn on Nord Stream 2, which is 100% complete and just waiting for regulatory approval. Then Ukraine would be cut out entirely. It's in their best interest to leave the pipelines alone.
I mean, in a sense you are locked into what you are going to do anyway. Even if you think you have a choice, there’s always only one action you will actually take.

That kind of makes me sad, because I’d branch down a lot of paths if I could, but it doesn’t exactly disturb me.

What waits at the end of that path, now that disturbs me.
Right. Not an electrical engineer, but isn't there something like a
counter-twisted pair (quad) that minimises EMR? Maybe that's tuned
to work best for 50Hz-60Hz?
If you reload the page the issue does go away... but only technically.

The issue is the page references a few images over http, which redirect to their https form with a permo redirect so the browser knows the new location when you refresh. Your browser also now has the image cached too so doesn't need to request it

One of those two seem to make it stop flagging the problem. I guess the browser only complains if it needs to make the request

@OP: I'd do a search and replace http://domain to https://domain and try to use relative urls where you can in future (I am aware this was probably a WordPress thing, not a you thing!) - My go-to for this is https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/ for the content side and a good ol text editor in your theme files if needed, should be good to go :)
One thing I’ve observed about my own interest in things, or hobbies you could say, is that I keep coming back to the same stuff I was interested in when I was a kid, around 14 or 15 years old.
That’s probably just me though. I’m a bit of a slow burner, maybe I’ve got a lot of unfinished projects. I’m working my way through them, and enjoying simply discovering. (FWIW some of it’s centered around game dev - I know, so common it’s almost trite).

Anyway, I remember some girl on Facebook with a tag line on her profile that said “Just because you’re an adult, it doesn’t mean playtime is over”. I’m sure she got it from somewhere else, but I thought it was a good little mantra.

Hope that helps :)
Ah, yes, the funsies of unwinnable seeds. Either the developers run some sanity checks to (somewhat try to) avoid them, or they are just part of the game(-design). Both approaches have their merits.

Even in a simple game as Hanabi [cooperative card game; if you don't know it, look it up!] this is possible. In the basic game mode this requires incredible bad luck (e.g. the three last cards to be drawn are the three copies of the red 1); it's more likely to lose due because the first copy of a card (cards 2 to 4 have two copies each) is discarded and the second copy of that card is then the last card to be drawn (which means followup cards can not be played anymore). So the strategy of strong players involves reducing the number of (useful) cards discarded. But in some of the advanced modes, there are truly "unwinnable" seeds of the randomized deck, no matter the player's luck (e.g. the singular black 1 being among the last few cards to be drawn results in not being able to score the full 25 points).

Now a computer implementation could try to avoid most of these "bad" seeds using some heuristics. But one might argue that this isn't true to the spirit of the game and as a player, one should just accept that sometimes there is a chance not to win. It's then up to the player to decide if the game is still exciting, even when losing.
Yes, go to the middle of nowhere and isolate yourself from everyone you know. Nice!! Also you need to be able to afford such a house with proper terrain to be able to cultivate every kind of food needed to live (not easy and needs a lot of learning). You can't do this by yourself also. You need more people to take care of such effort. So convince your family or friends to do the same and abandon who they know? Good luck with that! And for all of this we have to sacrifice the amazing feats of technology and go back to the middle ages because everything costs money. I'm sorry, but there has to be a better way where it's possible to have a good middle term. This that you present is no choice at all. It's almost like saying "Hey you can always kill yourself, so you do have freedom!" /s.
Maybe I misinterpreted what I did read. Is he saying that early-stage guesses that contain uncommon letters is the optimal strategy? If so, I'll go back and try to understand the specific reasoning, because that doesn't sound right.
Anonymous servers down as Russian Killnet hackers strike back
That's quite a simplified and antagonistic comment.

Data scientist have their own problems too, like crappy data (if any) and unclear business objectives. This usually means fast iteration at all costs. That's why Python or R are the languages of choice, which are not precisely the most amenable to deployment. Now, think about their KPIs vs yours and everything falls into place.
Apologies for the rather poor quality of source; the only other links I could find were either Twitter links or .ru domains.

Perhaps someone else has a better link (if true)?
Previously: Russia places extraordinary demands on OneWeb prior to satellite launch [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/russia-places-extrao...
> The bottom line is that you absolutely have to be involved in all levels of your business if you want to be successful and don’t want to be taken advantage of by the unscrupulous.

I am a highly anxious person, and it can be debilitating.

But when you're talking about taking payments and arranging the collection of tax, I reckon it's wise to treat your anxiety like a colleague. Give it the best chair; make sure it has lunch, and not too much coffee. And listen.
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