skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phrase "neural network" is itself a kind of pseudoscience, in being neither neural nor a network -- but an essentially pseudoscientific description of an algorithm better called "ensembled regression" or something of that kind.

NNs do not model the brain, and have basically nothing to do with it. I'd imagine rereading that chapter would be a good idea.
It sounds like its an internal chat app, presumably meant for business. If people were openly talking about "slave labor" and "vaccine" on any public company slack channels, I would think they'd shut it down at most organizations. I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize. I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions. Many are used to comfortable jobs where they can post memes on slack or comment on social media during the working day, but these jobs are really the exception not the rule.
This is not something that will be possible to run locally.

If you had 1 bit per parameter (not realistic), it would still take ~100 GB of RAM just to load into memory.
Let's assume the carwash has thousands of very expensive customers who generate billions of dollars for it, and many more cheaper customers that generate much less or nothing. And the crazy person is hassling some of the non-paying customers, but it costs google $1000/day to stop him, because he's very persistent. Is it worth google paying $1000/day to protect those non-paying customers or help those expensive customers?
My point stands: upper class serve more than lower class.

While that may very well be true, it i worth highlighting that the reports you are citing as evidence is looking at the years 2003 and 2006-2007, and a lot has changed, economically and politically, since then.

Also their cut off for "high-income" seems to be significantly lower than what most people would consider "upper class".
Don't the owners of twitter get some say? If you can't keep your argument with some nazi p.o.s. dialed down to an 8, why should they have to host either of you? I mean they own the platform, you and the nazi can take it to DMs on some other platform.
Are there any existing apps that use this API or another easy way for me to test this?
I wonder if AI is a technology that will move from "local producers" to a more centralized setup, where everybody just buys it as a service, because it becomes too complicated to operate it by yourself.

What are examples in history where this has happened before? The production of light, heat and movement comes to mind, that, with the invention of electricity, moved from people's homes and businesses to (nuclear) power plants, which can only be operated by a fairly large team of specialists.

Anybody has other examples?
I love that people are beginning to make this distinction. I wrote a take on it recently that I might as well share here. Trigger warning for people who don't like mystical language!

https://hackmd.io/@monktastic/Its-all-you
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This org is as full of shit as the study is. Number two on their areas of interest

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In the last decade, white liberals in America have shifted far to the left on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Ideas once seen as radical, like defunding the police and gender being on a spectrum, are embraced by more people than ever before.

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It seems trivially true that supporting parents especially at the low end of the spectrum provides them with less stress, less home insecurity, less food insecurity, more likelihood that one or both parents can spend less time at work and ergo more time with the child.

If the actual question is does giving money to parents improve childhood trajectories the answer appears to be much more likely to be yes. Attacking a study that tries to go about proving this in a probably wrongheaded and silly way appears to be attacking sidelong a strong opponent via a weak front even if the stated aim is to pick on bad studies that indeed that studies peers already debunked as if it was representative of the entire field.

Here is a fun exercise do a search for site:https://cspicenter.org covid some fun results

https://cspicenter.org/blog/waronscience/why-covid-19-is-her...

Almost a year ago they said SARS-CoV-2 is going to become mostly harmless

Then they used Sweden to prove that lock downs were pointless ignoring how much worse they did per capita than Norway and Finland.

It's like fox news went to school and got an education.
My job used to be about developing ML models for diagnostics (not vision, but other modalities). It mattered to me, it was fun and informative, and aspects of that company were a net positive.

Current job is about research in ML in general and no, I don't think it would matter a lot in the long term, but it's interesting and may turn out to be positive.
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Take a moment and imagine how Oracle would handle such an opportunity.
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Calling the 1980s the "Golden Age" of computing is a big stretch lmao
I’m trying to get my first job as a software developer, ideally working in Rust. If anyone has projects I could gain experience on please get in touch. GitHub/suchapalaver
Ikr, telecoms are a bigger problem than tech imho.
> With this year's number of container breakout CVEs, seems like an important area.

Worth noting that even basic hardening in docker will prevent a lot of them. I say "in docker" because K8s disables seccomp, which matters a lot since `unshare` is denied by docker's seccomp and is very useful for attackers in a container. If you use Docker the main thing to do is just not run as root.

If you do that much, and it's not hard at all, you are in a much better place than a default k8s pod.
YMMV as always, i.e. this might be faster/easier to implement for some use cases/companies than others.

I would argue that for most changes in most companies it does not matter if you have a full data set equivalent of Prod. Especially since it's an ever growing target (hopefully for you :)). As we can see from your use case, that can create challenges. If we were testing every little change with a complete replica of our Prod environment we'd spend a lot more money on this and would also have to wait way too long for these environments to come up. This might then drive us towards keeping a small set of staging environments running all the time and share them.

Now I don't know your specific field, what kind of system you provide, what the cost of failures in Prod would be, what kind of guards you have in your systems against a complete outage like that (e.g. can a bad query running for one customer take out your entire product or will it be an isolated incident to that one customer or a small group of customers?) etc. If so maybe you first want to isolate failures between customers more.

FWIW, I also see devs write these kinds of queries and code and we catch most of them in PRs and most people learn from this and next time they don't write this kind of query any longer. But let's say they do and we don't catch them. Can you analyze your data set and figure out a small enough example that is not simply an ever growing anonymized version of actual Prod data that would exhibit the same catastrophic characteristics for most queries these devs might write? I'm pretty sure the kinds of queries that fail on 10TB of data w/ 20M files fail just as spectacularly on 9TB and 19M files? Have you tried if they also fail 'badly enough' on 500GB of data and 1M files? How fast would it be to restore a fixed data set like that? Maybe refresh it every month from Prod if that's needed for some reason or another.

A lot of what you might actually want to try out in the end will depend on your exact system set up I would argue and it's hard to give general advice that will definitely fit.
This is similar to MDM. Sign in to a school .edu Google account that force auto provisions the device.
I worried about this too the first time I took time off to work on a startup. I don't want to imply this will be the case for everyone, but for me I found that when I went back into a more traditional job it was actually much easier to get hired and the offers were generally higher.

I think some of that had to do with the nature of the field I work in and the startup I work on. But in reality, as long as you know how to code...this is kind of the determining factor. You might have to take a job you don't like as much or something (though again, maybe not even that) but there is just such high demand for software developers that it's hard to imagine becoming completely unhirable.

I want to emphasize that my message here isn't that there is no risk, but that after doing it this risk feels much smaller than it initially did.

Even if you aren't working on a startup, you may find that if you label it as your "sabbatical" and casually and joyfully explain that you wanted to try taking a big block of time off to do things you're interested in. Some companies will find this offputting, but as many or more will find it interesting and want to hear more.

Frankly when trying to hire developers companies can't really afford to be picky anyway. If they are it's not a great sign of what it might be like to work there.
Same reason why it didn’t win out 100 years ago. It isn’t as efficient.
I am just gonna stick to Piracy. I will continue get superior service while legit payers will continue to suffer.
I've got about 13 years of photos and videos and it's still under a single terabyte. That's pretty easy to keep one copy of in Raid 1 and one remote. If I had 10x... I'd probably just spring for more hard drives and move to Glacier for backup.
> large 6.5 inch display. Put that side by side with the new iPhone SE, with its small 4.7 inch display

having smaller phone options is good, actually.
Malice isn't required if the party being defamed is a private figure. See para. 62 of the judgment: "Because the Gibsons were private figures in this libel case, they were required to prove only that Oberlin acted with negligence, not actual malice."
I agree with that but I think including "pay raise" is a step too far. Employees have the right to discuss pay, via the NRLA. That is not inherently politically loaded language despite Amazon trying to make it so.
> Gross because the lock screen insists on serving me dumb ass photos with """interesting""" factoids, in an attempt to ???

> Gross because I clicked somewhere by accident and the bottom right of my screen was filled with news snippets and some MS ads.

Yea these suck but you can turn them off.
In lock screen settings, and the 2nd one if you right click on it you can turn it off.
I don't think they could have, even then.

Competition was incredibly fierce, it just came from cable TV.

The main subscriber base for Netflix was essentially folks who didn't want to see ads, and were willing to ditch cable tv for that experience.
Isn't the SU-25 [1], a close air support plane roughly equivalent in role to the A-10 [2]?

The Su-37 had its first flight in early 2008 [3] about ten years after the SR-71 was retired [4]. If you mean the SU-27 that indeed flew in 1977 [5] but only has a service celling of 19km, much less than the SR-71's 26km.

Above top secret has an interesting thread on how you would actually go about such an interception [6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-35

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27

[6] https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread174271/pg1
> not a normal guy

I assure you some people try themselves - and I do not see what is not "normal" about it. To experience, voluntary, then grow, is the norm.
What happens if you have two accounts on the Chromebook?

Ultimately spyware has to be unremovable to do its job so you're not going to get anywhere by contacting anyone. You have to decide to use the account or not.
> That is simply not true.

It indeed is not. Had to reread the theory and I stand corrected, RS-style ECC can't detect errors in excess of the redundancy count.

> How is that not real bitrot?

It is and I can see how it can happen.

> How does it matter, beyond ruling out everything above the disk level, what the precise causes are?

It would've mattered if a drive could detect on-disk bitrot reliably, which was what the stats I worked with (also in exabytes, funnily enough) and the IEEE papers I read led me to believe.

For what it's worth, you won. Hats off.
Indeed. I would go so far as to say that it's only true kindness when it's kind to everyone. (I wrote a top-level comment here with a link to a piece I recently wrote about this.)
The advertisement part of the superbowl content takes away from being entertained. The negative impact to the consumer is being manipulated, for example, to prefer budweiser over coors because the giant horses and dalmatian puppy made you tear up. That's got nothing to do with beer.

Remove the advertisement / manipulation from the content and it's more valuable to the consumer.
Anker's business model is exactly identifying these quality manufacturers and doing the QC.

It's a fantastic, valuable service, and they do it really well.
> Let’s consider the upside: maybe the company changes! Probably not, though: whatever the criticism is, it’s highly unlikely it’s something new.

Yes, highly unlikely for anything to change at the company you're leaving. Beyond what he outlines here, one big consideration is that many companies have cult-like characteristics. If you decide to leave the cult...err, I mean company you're now considered an unreliable source of information anyway ("who would choose to leave this company where we are going to change the world!", "Obviously this is a disgruntled employee with issues." etc.). Maybe you were once a true believer in the cult's... err, I mean, company's mission when you first joined, but became disillusioned over time. Many others who remain there will still be true believers.
> I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distractions.

I find that generally the kind of person who says such things is the kind of person who has a comfortable job where they can post memes on slack or comment on social media during the working day.
This looks bad to you? Admittedly I have little experience with 3D models. As a layperson this model looks incredible to me. If the real life results are anything close to that then photogrammetry is as good as solved, as far as my eyes are concerned.
Almost all of the languages I know that do "flow typing" (TypeScript, Flow, Hack), "smart casts" (Kotlin), or "type promotion" (Dart) are fairly statement-oriented.

Expression-based languages tend to have pattern matching which provides another way to solve the same problem.

Flow typing is most useful in imperative languages where code like this is common:

if (foo is! Bar) return "not a Bar";
foo.someBarMethod();

Early returns and other imperative control flow is idiomatic and it's annoying if the static type system doesn't understand it.

In a more functional or expression-oriented language, early returns and other imperative control flow like that is rarer, so there's less "flowing" to type over.
"fratres ante meretrices"
I share this experience. It seems advanced math skills are hard to "mothball" properly. Either you keep using them day-to-day, or you'll will lose them real fast.
How much of human written history can be compressed and aproximately stored in 504Bn parameters?

It seems to me bascially certain that no compressed representation of text can be an understanding of langugae, so necessarily, any statistical algorithm here is always using coincidental tricks. That it takes 500bn parameters to do it, i think, is a clue that we dont even really need.

Words mean what we do with them -- you need to be here in the world with us, to understand what we mean. There is nothing in the patterns of our usage of words which provides their semantics, so the whole field of distributional analysis precludes this superstition.

You cannot, by mere statistical analysis of patterns in mere text, understand the nature of the world. But it is precisely this we communicate in text. We succeed because we are both in the world, not because "w" occuring before "d" somehow communicates anything.

Apparent correlations in text are meaningful to us, because we created them, and we have their semantics. The system must by is nature be a mere remebering.
I guess that the "appeal" was ruled reasonable and zuby made it back? Of course Washington Examiner will never follow up on the matter as they're well known, like Fox, to print front page knee jerks and way-back-page retractions.
While the semantic web mindset (especially the "Xanadu" inspired subsets) thought cite should always be a URL, it didn't technically have to be per the spec. (Without browser behavior backing it as a URL, it certainly didn't have any enforcement to be a URL.) In my case I think I was using it for author annotations in a more "APA or Chicago Style Manual" style at the time I had CSS like that in the style of: —Author Name from "Book/Webpage Title"

Not selectable is still a bit annoying in that case, but Author Names don't need to be clickable links and the point comes across.
I'll take that any day over CO2 emissions, thank you
503 error, must be busy now. I don't have this problem since I don't use Drive, but my guess is - whatever is on your page - it's worth a separate post.
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I'm in the WFH-and-hate-my-job group but I would never go back to the office.

I would rather shut a door and ignore my office than have to go back to commuting to a job I hate.

My day ends in seven minutes. In eight minutes, I'll be outside enjoying my yard.
> Oppressive vendor practices aside, I just don't get the laptop fixation some people have, in general.

Different people have different perspectives born from different priorities, life experiences, and constraints.

> I find it extremely hard to be productive on a laptop; the form factor is entirely wrong for concentration. Small screen, mushy crappy keyboard with a bad layout, etc.

I prefer laptop keyboards to the extent that I've used them on desktop based machines for easily ten years. Same thing with touchpads. They work better for me, both in terms to typing accuracy and reduced hand pain.

Regarding the screen, it's a bit of a tradeoff. More screen space means more screen space to manage. (I recently went from three screens to two and don't miss the third screen at all.)

The counterpoint is that I find it hugely valuable to be able to move my computer around. I've had a few desktops over the last ten or fifteen years and the common element between them is that they're very difficult for me to fit into a longer term workflow and so never get used.

> But the worst thing about a laptop was while I was working from home there was just always the temptation to sluff off to a couch or bed and zone out.

That's less an issue with the hardware and more an issue with the habits formed around the hardware.
The customer ends up holding the negative exernality with little ability to affect the upstream pipeline. By sending the waste "back up the pipe" it becomes each middle-company's problem. The point being that each company now has to consider how to get rid of their own generated waste. It de-externalizes the waste problem.

If they choose to put the waste in to a landfill, then so be it: they have to pay to do that.
I think swift combines sumtypes with flow typing in an interesting way, where if you use a guard statement it then propagates that information into future uses of the type. If I remember correctly Kotlin also does something similar.

Pattern matching and sum types help, but they solve different problems.
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It would be easier to send the garbage to the moon, Mars, or even Jupiter. With enough Delta-V we could atomize garbage on impact to the moon.
Ensemble methods have basically nothing to do with neural networks. The output of a NN is not some kind of "average" or "best pick" taken from the outputs of individual neurons. Rather, there are multiple layers each of which performs a kind of generalized multivariate regression on the outputs of the previous layer, and the parameterization for the whole hierarchy of layers is fitted as a whole. Very different.
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"What to do when the trisector comes" is very interesting and illuminating and worth reading.

In addition, I believe the article demonstrates that in these cases, the facts people are discussing and debating are only part of the picture: there is an emotional undercurrent to what they are saying.

Dr. Carl Rogers would likely argue that facts would only change their minds if they felt properly heard / seen / understood.

For example:

> One summer I went to visit three trisectors... My first trisector was... enormously pleased to see me and couldn't stop talking. He was bursting with energy and couldn't keep still... We talked about his trisection and I tried (I was younger then, and not as wise) to show him the error of his ways. He seemed to be listening to what I was saying, but none of it was making any impression.

I'm not saying "feed the trolls," only that there is more going on than meets the eye.
The 'virtual particle' non-sense (or very limited sense as artefacts of pertubation theory) goes very deep. Ask and 9 out of 10 physicists will tell you there are such thing (otherwise how do you explain Casimir effect), even at a reputable high energy lab the 'reason' for the range of interaction was given by Heisenbergs uncertainty applied to the creation of (massive) interactive virtual particles.

If it is interesting: from 10:00 onwards discussion about the reality of individual terms of the pertubation series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72us6pnbEvE&t=1367s
It serves an important gatekeeping function by discouraging low-effort contributions.
> Why should I care? I say things during an exit interview I want them to know.

With a little benefit to you (other than catharsis) and unlimited downside if you do. The entity benefitting from that conversation is none other than the company itself. They are usually not going to change as a result. And if they do, you no longer work there. So why would it matter?

You. Owe. Them. Nothing.

Corporate entities are not your friends and they are not your family. If they say they are...RUN.
What you're describing is essentially the origin story for Dart.
It's interesting that when they say "the people" they really mean "other big corps".

That is what is happening here. The FTC and DOJ are going to bat for some of the worst scammers out there. Match.com / Zynga / Fornite etc with their scam subscriptions, lootboxes and more.

Apple gatekeeps these scammers (who have free reign on the internet at large) and they flip out. And then, of all the scams online, DOJ to the rescue.