skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest just reading it carefully and noting what you don't understand and working from here. You can use chatGPT[0] and explain paper[1] to assist you. Or ask on some relevant Discord channels.

First topic: AutoEncoder

An autoencoder is a type of neural network architecture that is typically used for dimensionality reduction or feature learning. It is composed of two main parts: an encoder, which maps the input data to a lower-dimensional representation, and a decoder, which maps the lower-dimensional representation back to the original dimension. The goal of the autoencoder is to learn a compressed representation of the input data that captures the most important features, while discarding the less important ones. This is achieved by training the network to reconstruct the input data as accurately as possible, typically using a mean squared error or cross-entropy loss function.

Ok, so autoencoder means program that does:
K = compress(state)
state' = decompress(K)

You teach it by minimising: state - state', the goal is for it to learn K that's useful knowledge about data.

Next to solve: "What is Recurrent State-Space Model in ML?"

ChatGPT:
A Recurrent State-Space Model (RSSM) is a type of statistical model that is often used for time series data analysis. It is a combination of a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and a State-Space Model (SSM).

A SSM is a mathematical model that describes the evolution of a system over time in terms of a set of state variables. The state variables are typically considered hidden variables, meaning that they cannot be directly observed, but their values can be inferred from observations of the system. A SSM is often used to model dynamic systems, such as physical or biological systems.

A RNN is a type of neural network architecture that is particularly well-suited for processing sequential data, such as time series or sequences of words. The key feature of an RNN is that it contains a set of recurrent connections, which allow information to flow through the network across multiple time steps.

An RSSM combines the strengths of RNN and SSM. The RNN is responsible for handling sequential, temporal dependencies in the data, and the SSM is responsible for inferring the underlying state variables of the system. These state variables are often considered as the internal representation of the data, which is compressed form of data, the state-space can be considered as low-dimensional encoding of the data.

An RSSM can be used for a wide range of tasks, such as forecasting, prediction, and control of dynamic systems, sequential decision making, and generative modelling of time series data.

> Can you explain how each of those work in layman terms and give pseudo code examples?

....

[0] https://chat.openai.com/chat

[1] https://www.explainpaper.com/
How many Republicans are even in SF? LA runs political ads blaming Republicans for everything bad around here, but there aren’t Republican politicians. There are only Republican voters…. At some point the argument starts to look ridiculous.
It's not unlimited, it's just undefined, requiring the employee to guess what the acceptable amount of PTO is. If they aren't sure, they are likely to err on the low side to avoid anxiety over job security (especially junior staff who are less confident and more eager to make the right impression). This might be beneficial for the business in the short term, but is likely to lead to hidden resentments over time.

If it's a tiny startup with a unique social culture, where everyone is radically open with each other about how they're feeling, then undefined PTO might be fine. But in general, being vague about things like this can to lead to anxiety and resentment.

Also, simply having the policy may harm your reputation among job applicants, as it reeks of PR and mind games.
For longer drives, I can shake highway hypnosis by looking anywhere but straight ahead. Something that I could "turn on" when in light traffic and good conditions would mean I could do this more easily.

As far as "the car preventing me from doing stupid things" goes it's good in theory, but requires an excellent implementation to not suck. When driving in traffic it's basically 100% of the time that my car beeps at me when I put my turn signal on, because I'm either passing or waiting for a car to pass me when I signal. I would turn it off, but I can't do so without also disabling the RTCA which is a great feature.
As I mentioned in a different comment, gender might be necessary for the feature of displaying content that addresses you, since some languages have gender baked in, there is no genderless 'you' form like in English.

Now sexual orientation, that's a head scratcher.
False. As well there are many companies that would normally raise capital for this time and are unable to. Not just startups. Those companies hired to expand projects assuming when the time came they could raise money. Now there is no money.
There's a pricing factor to go all electric. Natural gas is still far cheaper for heating than using electric heaters.
The problem is, in this environment, where, with these new startups get their funding? At the same time it is certainly said that in bad times, the best new companies will flourish. Survival of the fittest.
Last I heard (a friend is a retired Electrical Engineer, with solar panels), there is a massive cost & complexity gap between "have solar panels on the roof of house" and "control your own destiny" (meaning you're able to run your house off-grid via solar panels).

The former only needs (relatively) simple/stupid/cheap power & control electronics. Mimic the frequency & phase of the incoming AC from the utility, and let the panels run at 100%, 24x7, regardless of in-home power usage. Any solar_output > local_usage excess gets shoved back at the utility, any solar_output < local_usage shortage gets drawn from the utility, and dealing with that unpredictable yo-yo is 100% their problem and expense.

The latter - even with no batteries - requires a bunch of complex control electronics - because solar panels do not magically put out 120VAC at 60Hz, for any load short of their maximum current power output.
It is so employers can have stats to ensure diversity in their employees.
I've been looking at them, but almost all have unusable touch controls. (My background is human machine interaction - I've never seen an acceptable stove, but induction stoves are all really bad). Since I've have to replace all my cookware as well I'm not in any hurry.
And you might lose more of them by pursuing mass layoffs!
Yes, it wasn't like this in my house until some years ago when we had a small expansion constructed and the contractor installed these in the new portions just as a standard thing he does, and said he was retro fitting the rest of the house that way too. ( We know him, friends, so we know he wasn't just trying to get extra $ out of us)

For a few minutes I thought it seemed a needless detail, until I realized that often enough people forget to change their stand-alone unit batteries and maybe deal with the the occasional chirp in an "I'll get to it" mindset until it runs down completely. Having it tied to the mains solves that because it's relentlessly annoying to hear that chirp at random intervals, and the battery is a nice backstop failover from the mains going unexpectedly molten.
The reason they take out debt to buy back stock is generally that they don't want to pay tax until later.
Seems like you are equating open source to free. No reason to do that - you can have a monetized open source product.
Yes, the advertisers definitely want to know your gender to use it for targetting.
Because of salutations also
The pet's gender one is funny (and makes sense). I don't think it deserves to be on the WTF list.
> this very race focused take distorts the reality quite a bit.

I think you might be - whether intentionally or not - avoiding considering the factual evidence here. The whole point of this map is to be physical evidence to show that there is, based on actual evidence, which you can see on a map, a strong racial bias.

Do some white people also suffer? Yes. Do more people of color suffer than white people? Yes. Here's more proof, to go along with all the other studies done over decades.
There is literally a program for this: https://usmap.osd.mil/navyRatings.htm
What’s the value?
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I received a PhD in physics so I got a solid dose of electricity and electronics.

I did help teach an autotutorial class in physics for premeds which got me to do a little more with fluid mechanics than most people but the trouble I have with plumbing is finding documentation for the details.

For instance when it comes to sealing PVC pipes I have seen instructions that tell you to "refer to the documentation from the pipe manufacturer" which is not at all straightforward for pipes that have been there 20+ years.
Hi I'm Luke, co-founder.

People are warned that an image lives on the internet forever, this has been especially true for images that are not consensually taken or shared. We’re fixing that.

We created Loti (https://goloti.com), a service that uses facial recognition to help users search, find, and reclaim non-consensual intimate images and videos using a streamlined DMCA process we facilitate in our software.

Over 10 million people are victims of non-consensual image sharing in the United States alone. Those are just the people that were even aware that their images were being shared; research shows that up to 30% of victims were hacked or victims of hidden cameras and are unaware.

Our goal is to bring peace of mind that your private images stay private.
"Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said."

Which is why the forced layoffs because of overwrought COVID fears were so destructive, and the "cure" was worse than the disease.
The only available SATA Express device? [video]
> Some of these are pretty funny, but is there really a "right" way to prompt someone for their gender?

Like a salesperson asking for my email address: why do you need to know; what is this information used for?

Optimal gender selector: slot machine game with only one pull. Your pronouns are... cherry, apple, seven. Nice.
Same, I also don't care about your faith, religion, political views...
> It's more like "disregard them at your own risk"

I'd argue that a compiler update that breaks existing code for something as innocuous as using the "wrong" variable name is a compiler bug, even if the code technically violates the spec. It is simply too late now for the spec to begin using the keywords they reserved 40 years ago.
NordicTrak is doing it too. Businesses love subscriptions, especially for one-time/infrequent purchases - if Sealy could come up with a mattress subscription model they would.
European GFCI's are 30mA, and don't false trip. US GFCI's are 5mA, and frequenty false trip.

lots of info here[1]

TL;DR: The US regulations prevent small electrical faults into things like swimming pools from causing people to drown. The european regulations will stop you getting killed by electricity directly, but won't stop you drowning if you happen to be in a pool while touching some wiring.

[1]: https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/218700/why-are-usa-c...
that's the test that makes you a Temporary Airman.
And a lot of those people have war chests from years of high TC, and can afford to self-fund "garage" startups for awhile.

OTOH, it might be that these big companies select for people who'll jump through the hoops for interview rituals and KPIs/OKRs/promotions while leaning on company inertia, and so be unfamiliar with startup-like thinking and skillsets. (I mean the kind of startup that has to ship and sell and operate viable product, until the VC party resumes -- not the kind of startup that can just play along with a VC investment scheme by manufacturing signals of "growth"/potential.)
> Because it’s mature, well integrated with Django and is a path so well-trodden

> Cron is awful for this use-case. You end up just inventing Celery

Isn't it the other way around?

Crons are way more mature, well integrated (mgmt commands don't require 3rd party modules), and extremely well trodden. Crons are super predictable, have sensible defaults and plenty of tooling. Which you will have to reinvent with Celery.

There are some benefits to programmatic crons, but the downsides are huge.
The GPT family of models shines above 100B parameters. Almost nobody uses GPT2 today. It's too weak.

If you want to go with <1B model, you use a BERT which is bidirectional or a T5 that is easier to fine-tune on other tasks.
You may be underestimating how braindead large swathes of media consumers generally are (toddlers lol). If this stuff is addictive enough its substance doesn't matter. Also engagement around this "content" (audiovisual stimulus) can be faked with the same technology.
I agree with you, as I was thinking this in November 2021 (when Netflix hit a wall in growth) that the pandemic didn't create tech company growth, it pulled growth forward. What this told me was that the growth in tech was much smaller than people had realized, and that other tech companies were going to hit the same wall within a year. I told my friends to beware of what's coming, and that mass layoffs in tech were likely to happen.

The fact that it all played out just as I thought gives me an indication I was right.
Interestingly, on the U.S. Form 1040 income tax return, when describing the relationship to you of your offspring that you are claiming as dependent(s), the only choices are "son" or "daughter".
The inclusion of this one: https://genders.wtf/gender/mrs-prof-dr/

... indicates that the webmaster has never been to Germany etc. These are titles, not genders. In some countries the titles "Mrs.", "Doctor", "Professor" pile up into one combined title. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that drop-down list in much of Europe.

Edit: looks like I was beat to it.
SCR's were the beasts of burden for DC motor control using phase angle firing when fed off AC. You can even use them in DC systems, e.g. rail traction motor control using forced commutation. SCR's once triggered don't turn off until the conducted current drops below the turn-on threshold so you wire a circuit across it using one or two more smaller scr's to apply a pulse of reverse flow current across it to force it off. Way slower switching times than IGBT mind you.
What's even more insane is when they ask for your race. I've been asked that by US based entities and I literally don't know what to answer because I've never been asked that in my country and don't actually know what "race" I am.
On a tangent, but this is what makes Python look so ugly to me, the required use of double underscores for things like equals is extremely jarring.

I have very slowly come to appreciate it as a language, but visually it will always be ugly to me because of clashes like this with other languages.
I might be wrong but I don't think GDPR limits what information you can request, it's more about how the information is handled and the need for consent to collect it.
I think a pretty tactful way to put it is "male | female | NULL", and I'm only half joking.

Many people prefer not to say for whatever reason, and people identifying as anything other than male or female aren't going to be a statistically significant minority for whatever data collection purpose you have.
They retrained and got reallocated to the new hot sectors (how many people work in tech now vs. in 2008?), or they joined the pool of unskilled labor, or they dropped out of the labor force.

The economy is always changing - new more-productive ways of doing stuff get invented, relative prices change, consumer tastes shift. Layoffs & rehiring is the economy's way of redirecting employees away from unproductive, unprofitable work and into new careers that are better adapted to the times. Your mental model of what a career looks like needs to include leaving jobs (and if you don't do it proactively, it may be done for you) and shifting your efforts into new work that is more adapted to the times.
It also really fails to provide practical solutions to the recommendations. Like the recommendation "monitor registry editing". There is nothing describing a tool or method to do anything like this. And I feel like the entire article follows that pattern.

From my experience, this is literally par for the course - describe a mitigation without actually providing any useful advice whatsoever.
This is a question that touches one of the cornerstones of the culture war, so you will hear radically different opinions from all sides of the discussion. I don't think we are at the point where we can just pick one way to ask for genders.
Even "male", "female", "other" is causing problems, as some people get offended for the "other" option (it should only be "male"/"female") and other people get offended for the "other" options (it should be "demiboy", "nonbinary", "catgender", etc.).

IMO the concept of gender is really not that useful anymore. We should only ask for sex, and if you don't need to know the sex you just don't ask.
It depends on how your components get reused.

In most organizations I’ve been in components are used in applications that share a brand identity/style. Even if there are different brands consistency matters for each brand’s look/feel.

If styling is to be consistent then it’s way more maintenance to change each component to reflect branding changes than it is to have the brand/house style defined in one place and passed into the components.

E.g. decide that all the outlines around inputs, certain boxes etc. are going to be wider - that’s something you probably want to be able to change in one place not 20 or 100 down the line. Sure you “could” find and replace for some stuff but that could easily match the wrong stuff if you use tailwind on something big/complex… at least that’s my concern looking at it for stuff beyond quick prototyping.
Is there a directory somewhere?
When Tucker Carlson says "I'm just asking", he's not just asking questions, he's spreading misinformation on purpose.

And again I repeat, since you seem to be ignoring it: he tried to quote ChatGPT to support his lack of a valid argument. Nobody comes to this site to have arguments with ChatGPT, and ChatGPT and language models were certainly not the topic of this conversation. He might as well have been quoting his cat walking across the keyboard.

He was unsuccessfully trying to use ChatGPT output to prove his point. If he had a valid argument that he thought of himself to support his point, then he would have posted it instead of first parroting crazy MAGA conspiracy theory weirdos (which makes him their tool, witting or not), then parroting ChatGPT (which makes him a fool).

Even if he frames himself as merely a self-appointed ambassador to HN for crazy liars, he's still spreading their crazy lies. And if he trusts everything ChatGPT says so much, then he can PRIVATELY ask it "I’ve read X by conspiracy group Y. I think I believe it but I want to ask others first as I think they’re crazy weirdos." instead of trying to spread those crazy lies and conspiracy theories here.

Hacker News is not an appropriate forum for parroting crazy MAGA conspiracy theories or ChatGPT drivel as fact, or whining about how you're the victim of oppression and censorship for being downvoted and shut down when you're clearly breaking the rules.

And his threat not to shut him down or else he'll point fingers and claim to be the victim of censorship doesn't matter if crazy liars will spread crazy lies in retaliation for being shut down, because they spread crazy lies no matter what you do, so his threat that we should not shut him down for spreading crazy lies because it will make crazy liars spread crazy lies is tautological and meaningless.
> This is a gimmick.

Assuming liability for malfunction is the stellar opposite of "gimmick." It's an actual SLA on a GA feature rather than pre-alpha toy tech that a certain despicable company that won't be named hoists on all public roadway users in the vicinity of their garbage vehicles.
True, and this trouble with gravity was news to the scientists of the fifties.
Generally definitions are created or changed by consensus so unless the majority change their minds nothing will likely change.
TRON – CGI Making of (1982)
> Sounds like the real path is to win a good job at a large educational institution that allows you the time off to do all the things you need to be happy

Most of the academics I know are ridiculously busy, trying to juggle teaching, research, publishing, grant applications, conferences, and so on.

> Where is the expert who works 16-hour shifts on north sea oil rigs?

Oil rig workers get a lot more time off than academics. Most work 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off, or 2 on / 3 off.
Then why are so many of them back to hiring after massive layoffs jsut a few months ago?
At this model size quality is not worth discussing. It is clearly another league from GPT-3.
Do you lose any security benefits (of Windows 10) by updating your system to Windows 11, or just "new" Windows 11 security mechanisms?
This is definitely a valid use case for gender.

However, in most applications and services, this is not used like that. The gender mapping seems to be used exclusively to determine whether the marketing emails should start with "mr." or "mrs.".
In a similar fashion, for anybody interested I've written some of my guidelines on implementing Django apps: https://www.spapas.net/2022/09/28/django-guidelines/
A law firm employee that brought litigation against Madison Square Garden was booted from MSG when they were identified by facial recognition as well. It's becoming the norm.
Not my intention; just a matter-of-fact thing. Why hasn't anyone done any better?
I very recently had a feature request that would have looked like the drop down in https://genders.wtf/gender/you-can-only-choose-one/ or worse. We shot that down, but I still struggle with the right way to handle this. Going only textbox seems more inclusive, but I think it's annoying for anyone who identifies as Male or Female to type it out rather than selecting (and you'll wind up with man/male/etc).
I guess I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Almost all the big tech layoffs I saw in 2022 came with an admission from the CEO that, hey, we did make the wrong call and we wish we'd made the right one. When people talk about past conditions, they're just explaining why the wrong calls seemed reasonable at the time.
Semi-related: As an average consumer I'm disappointed that nearly a decade of the "makerspace" has seemingly failed to produce any sort of meaningful Renaissance in small-scale US manufacturing.

I've purchased the odd 3D printed or resin cast tchotchke from small operations a few times at this point. But it's still disappointing that if you need professional quality products, you still either need to pay out the nose to have it fabbed or ship it in from China.

It seems to me the industry is very good at serving hobbyists and prototypers. But I think there is a huge market being missed out on easy-to-use, introductory products for mold tooling, plastic injection, and general manufacturing automation.

As cool as 3d printers can be, I don't think owning one scales up into a professional endeavour very well. However, developing a pretty good mold for a phone case would.