Hacker News: cyorir

New comment by cyorir in "San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn"

cyorir — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:25:00 +0000

My guess is the parent poster means residents are leaving. I know people who live in an apartment in Manhattan. The only way they can afford it is by renting out a room through AirBnB whenever they can. However, the pandemic+recession means much less demand for AirBnBs in Manhattan. On top of it, they have less work because their industry has effectively shut down from the pandemic. The result is that they can't afford Manhattan because the landlord refused to reduce rent, so they'll be moving out.

New comment by cyorir in "Show HN: Straight2Spam – Send your email right to someone's spam folder"

cyorir — Wed, 27 May 2020 23:07:19 +0000

Susie Greene: You sick fuck, Larry David! What do you think you're doing, sending invites straight to spam folders?

New comment by cyorir in "Twitter, Elliott Strike Truce That Leaves CEO Dorsey in Place"

cyorir — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:42:02 +0000

Any "Twitter is a _ propaganda channel" seems a bit odd when you consider that users choose who to follow, who to block, what topics to follow, what keywords to mute, whether or not to see targeted ads, etc. Twitter might be able to do a better job of tackling outright misinformation that spreads on the platform and they aren't always perfect when it comes to banning or suspending accounts (or failing to do so), but in general it's hard to say that a platform is just a propaganda channel for a specific ideology when it is inhabited by a diverse range of incompatible ideologies. Users tend to sort themselves into bubbles of like-minded accounts, but that is on users rather than Twitter.

New comment by cyorir in "Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax"

cyorir — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:15:49 +0000

According to the creator of PureScript:

"Solutions at the time included various attempts to compile Haskell to JavaScript while preserving its semantics (Fay, Haste, GHCJS), but I was interested to see how successful I could be by approaching the problem from the other side - attempting to keep the semantics of JavaScript, while enjoying the syntax and type system of a language like Haskell."

https://leanpub.com/purescript/read#leanpub-auto-about-the-a...

New comment by cyorir in "Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army"

cyorir — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:38:04 +0000

> Edit: at least point out why you're downvoting me, this is a straightforward answer to the question.

> which for me is a litmus test as to whether you are a "crazy leftist"

Implying that those who disagree with you are "crazy leftists" might be one reason for a downvote, for a start.

New comment by cyorir in "Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax"

cyorir — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:07:19 +0000

PureScript already has the Haskell -> Javascript niche covered:

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

New comment by cyorir in "Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax"

cyorir — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:02:03 +0000

Nothing comes to mind. Most attempts to introduce static typing into Python only do that, and not much more. Seq is an example:

https://github.com/seq-lang/seq

I think you might be interested in looking at multi-paradigm languages that use static/inferred typing and combine the functional and imperative paradigms. Some worth taking a look at might be OCaml, Nim, and F Sharp. Nim leans more towards Python, OCaml and F# lean more towards Haskell.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_(programming_language)

New comment by cyorir in "Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out"

cyorir — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 02:34:40 +0000

I don't find that surprising at all. When I looked through Upwork job postings during a period of unemployment, I saw a post from a restaurant asking for a coder. The job was to create a script to cheat in an online poll from a local magazine. The poll would be used to determine which restaurant would get an award and be highlighted by the magazine, so the restaurant had an incentive to cheat. Naturally, Upwork refused to remove the post.

New comment by cyorir in "Colorado voters are set to decide if wolves should be reintroduced to the state"

cyorir — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:34:19 +0000

That's essentially technocracy. I think some amount of technocratic decision-making is good in a government, but at the end of the day you still need that government to be informed by the needs/desires of the people (democracy, more or less). Democracy should be informed by the technocrats, not replaced by technocracy. In this case, I think voters should be listening to ecologists to understand the effects that reintroduction of wolves will have, but it's good that it's still up to the voters to decide whether to prioritize restoring the ecosystem versus making life easier for those in the agriculture industry.

New comment by cyorir in "Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything"

cyorir — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:20:26 +0000

Good question. I think they probably meant "publicly available," not "public domain." Maybe one could make an educated guess about which platforms they took data from, based on the sample outputs of their model? I can't tell, myself.

Samples here: https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...

New comment by cyorir in "Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything"

cyorir — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:12:00 +0000

To my knowledge, you can't talk to it. It looks like so far they've released sample conversations with Meena[0], and not much else. They've given a rough description of the model architecture and how they trained it, but good luck trying to replicate their 2.6B parameter model unless you can afford a lot of computes.

[0]: https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...

New comment by cyorir in "Show HN: Binarysearch.io – Learn Algorithms Together"

cyorir — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:51:40 +0000

How many problems do you have available?

New comment by cyorir in "Glial brain cells, long in neurons’ shadow, reveal hidden powers"

cyorir — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:06:43 +0000

Not so much faulty as incomplete. There is still value in a partial picture.

New comment by cyorir in "Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data"

cyorir — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:22:09 +0000

Note that on the extreme end of consumer GPUs, there is the 2080 Ti which comes with 11GB.

New comment by cyorir in "Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil"

cyorir — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:27:17 +0000

> I challenge you to find a single journalist who isn't "lying by omission".

If we're issuing challenges, then I challenge you to prove that every single journalist IS lying by omission.

A lie by omission is intentionally leaving out facts to misrepresent the truth. Another way to describe it is that a lie by omission is the cherry-picking of facts.

This differs from providing a limited subset of the facts for other reasons. You may not have all the facts yourself, you may not be certain of every fact you have, you may be practically limited by the amount of information that you can convey to your audience (perhaps because the audience only wants to read a 1-page article instead of 10, or perhaps because you don't have the time to write 10 pages instead of 1). In none of these cases are you necessarily lying by omission, as long as you choose to present facts that are representative of the broader set of facts that you have instead of cherry-picking facts to match a given narrative. You may still have implicit bias; that does not mean you are lying by omission because you are not necessarily intending to be biased.

Do you believe that every single journalist is intentionally skewing the truth and cherry-picking their facts to match a hidden agenda? I don't.

New comment by cyorir in "I'm building an open, crowdsourced database of ML models"

cyorir — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:08:25 +0000

And it's not the only one!

modelzoo.co is good for finding the best/most-used models but remains far from being a complete zoo and lacks a sufficient list of models for certain tasks.

For a while I liked the GAN Zoo which was specifically for GANs, but I guess there got to be too many GANs so it is no longer maintained.

https://github.com/hindupuravinash/the-gan-zoo

New comment by cyorir in "Five methods for Filtering data with multiple conditions in Python"

cyorir — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:11:50 +0000

My guess is that eval and query have the worst performance, since they need to be interpreted first. As for the other methods, I'm not too sure how they rank. Personally, for style I agree with the first comment on the linked page, which is to split up the conditions for readability:

  f1 = (df[“col1”] == condition1)

  f2 = (df[“col2”] == condition2)

  df[f1 & f2]

New comment by cyorir in "Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you"

cyorir — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:24:26 +0000

Along these lines, I worked on a team project in a university course to create an automated Q&A system making use of IBM Watson. We chose to focus on a Q&A system for business regulation in the state of Illinois. However, just using existing FAQs isn't sufficient. To build a corpus, we scraped several websites belonging to the state of Illinois for any information that would be relevant to businesses operating in Illinois. Then, we created sample question-answer pairs, with answers taken directly from the corpus. Using both the provided QA pairs and the rest of the unlabeled corpus, Watson trained a model to answer questions that hadn't been trained on by providing excerpts from the corpus. By ensuring that the model was providing excerpts from the corpus, we wouldn't have to worry that we were providing (too much) incorrect information; most of the time, the answers were relevant, too. Of course, you could create a similar system without using proprietary IBM software.

New comment by cyorir in "Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil"

cyorir — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:56:01 +0000

Sure. But you can still be lying by omission. Does the phrase "speaking truth to power" still apply if you are also lying by omission?

New comment by cyorir in "The Internet of Beefs"

cyorir — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 01:44:35 +0000

Anecdotally, it seems like the Bay Area LGBT community has lower overall cohesion than the communities in other urban areas I've lived in (Denver, Chicago areas). Maybe the communities differ within the Bay Area too; it seems like there is less of an LGBT community in silicon valley than there would be in San Francisco or the East Bay.