skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find articles like this somewhat offensive. Different people are motivated by different things; who is the author to make such far-reaching claims? I'm sympathetic to people who want to replace their lawns, but I also respect people who prefer to enjoy theirs. Why does this need to become a moral crusade?

For the same reason you would be offended if someone threw perfectly good food out while people go hungry. It's conspicuous consumption. Because you can do something does not mean others won't judge. If you don't care, don't care! But don't be shocked when people rally against such waste of resources (in California, of all places!), and pass laws to rectify the problem.
> > Intel probably bought 'em to work on integrated GPUs or Xeon Phi or something.

> Ha, ha. Yeah… no.

Oh? You don't think they'd acquihire a machine learning startup to work on their compute/machine learning offering in Xeon Phi?

I would be very, very surprised if Intel introduces a new machine-learning-oriented processor—though that would be quite interesting, so let's hope you're right.

> Can't be tremendously higher than Pascal for reasons of physics.

I wouldn't be so quick to assume that. Nvidia spends a lot of resources optimizing power efficiency. To think a much smaller company could match their power efficiency while scaling performace¹ is plausible, but not likely.

If anything, physics would say that it can't be much lower than Pascal, but nothing about higher. For example, the large gap in power efficiency between Nvidia and AMD's 28nm GPUs last generation. It's not correct that similar size process nodes always have similar power consumption—that comes down a lot to architecture.

> It won't have a globally coherent cache hierarchy in the style of CPUs. It certainly will have various on chip memories to hold intermediate results.

You're right, the link² posted in another comment clears that up—and you're right that it could be very good for performance, but also very difficult to optimize for.

> You're just being silly now.

You're spouting stupid shit (like that bit about physics and power consumption… not to mention the ridiculous hyperbole in your original comment) and call me silly. I'm not sure if you're a troll, an overly zealous brogrammer buying into deep learning buzzwords, or retarded, but maybe you should cut it out.

> CUDA isn't a standard, it's proprietary to NVIDIA and this isn't a general purpose processor anyway.

Which is precisely why it won't revolutionize the field at all. Deep learning is relatively locked in to CUDA.

Essentially, extraordinary claims (such as revolutionizing deep learning) require extraordinary evidence—evidence which neither you nor Nervana have shown the slightest signs of producing.

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¹ I just noticed the nextplatform link specified teraops instead of teraflops. I don't know if that's referring to integer operations, would be… unusual, to say the least, for a deep learning chip. If it is, then we don't really know what its single-precision float performance is.

² https://www.nervanasys.com/nervana-engine-delivers-deep-lear...
Lessons Learned from Benchmarking Serverless Workloads
Why it's so hard to build truly affordable housing in Seattle
In Australia those additional 20 years on the current full rate pension for a single person represent an additional AU$454,428.00 of income[1].

1. The full rate includes the supplements for a total of $873.90 per fortnight for a single person as per https://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelin...
I hate dancing. I'm not good at it, and there are much more efficient ways to exercise or socialize.

I think it's a soul-crushing timesuck, and you obviously should think so too.




Tone it down. Anecdotes about pastime preferences aren't news.
This sort of anthropomorphic intuition pump is counter production. It would be much easier to believe that a baby could do that if we designed the baby's brain from scratch to be able to.
Challenging the Status Quo in Raising Money for Big Data Startup
Well, television started as a simple signal. Its now way different. And that's ok. Requirements change over time as people realize how useful something may be.
I think it is good that this policy does not impose extreme requirements like "all custom-developed source code must be open sourced." That would unnecessarily increase the costs of procuring software - companies would start to charge a whole lot more if their custom solutions and techniques have to be publicly revealed as a precondition for accepting federal contracts.
I think there's a big question of what "allowed to" means here.

"We throw them in jail if they don't"? We don't do that presently.

What we're talking about is "in addition to anything they earn, they choose the disposition of $X/yr", for various values for X. If X is $1, clearly everyone is still working. I agree with you that the $40k figure you cite downthread is extremely likely to be higher than we can support. I think there are intermediate values that might work substantially better than $0. Based on toying with numbers that I've done in the past, my guess is that the optimum value $4k and $9k/yr (though I'm not all that confident in that and would probably want to see it ramped up gradually). If you claim that this would mean "essentially all manual labor stopped overnight", that certainly needs a citation.
Is this what DNSSEC is supposed to prevent?
Pets miss meals after auto-feeding app PetNet glitches
Methods from the pre-computer era, from well before the second world war, still in use nearly 100 years later? Is that really plausible?
I don't think raw feels, qualia type stuff really counts as information in the information theoretic sense. Nor is understanding its nature necessary for artificial general intelligence (though perhaps it is (or perhaps not) for artificial consciousness, which is not the same thing.)
Steering device for articulated vehicle Apple Patent
This whole thread I thought this is what people meant by "lawn" because I live in a rural place where this is very normal.
I thought everyone was really whiny because it really doesn't take /that/ much work to maintain a yard like this. I honestly don't understand why it's so uncommon.
Last time I write stuff while tired...
The amount of subsidies that go into supporting lawns is one reason its a moral crusade. From regressive tax breaks & water subsidies to inefficient oil payouts, its relatively simple to draw a moral argument against private suburban yards.
On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted
A source license probably also gets you the build system, or if not maybe you could throw more money at them.

But reproducible builds are a hard problem, so… honestly, I can't answer that.
Yea... not my day
Hypothetical timeline: An agent born in 1904 tainted a Soviet cipher in 1926. That agent then recruited other assets before retiring in 1973. Unlikely? Sure. Outlandish? Nah.
It's not often these days that you come across pages with such an exceedingly high content:markup ratio, and amazing how fast and readable they are compared to the typical pages of the "Modern Web".
One way of looking at it is that some robots know how to walk, and this knowledge is encoded as a string of ones and zeros on a storage medium.
I didn't know about any new effort with Nial. I'll have to check it out. The distributed and GPU parts are especially enticing to me. CUDA is wearing me out!

I have really become comfortable with J now, and I don't know if it would help me to step into a text-based APLish language. More typing for me to do the same I do in J, and I don't code for or with others, so no collaboration arguments here.
And, I can read my old J programs just fine, even years later. Most code fits in a glance, and if you are not very practiced, very little time to refresh as opposed to looking through pages of 'easy to read' Python for example.

How is Kerf [1] coming along? How similar to J?

[1] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf
Thanks, I remembered Squeaky Fromme, but had completely forgotten about the other one. Here's the history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#Assassination_atte...
Are they better than shared use spaces that are better utilized & thus much more efficient?
Wouldn't a Thinkpad be a better idea ? You can get used ones for fairly cheap.
More like that that agent, if they were involved in this 90-year-old crypto action, may later have been involved in something else (a mole in the Russian nuclear program, say) in such a way that their exposure as an American agent would compromise the result of that other thing as well (in my hypothetical example, maybe they'd embedded a remote kill switch in all Russian nuclear ICBMs, which would still be there today).
As the Prime Minister said, it was load tested to handle 1M form submissions an hour. Which is all of Australia completing it in 24 hours. The problem is everyone did it at once, so we only have ourselves to blame.

But seriously, handling 23M form submissions in 1 hour, isn't too hard to do. The 2 major considerations are: 1. How fast can we make the app handle that submission, which honestly is probably just writing to a DB, 2. How many servers so we need to scale out to do the work. You could do this on AWS pretty well, there's much bigger customers on there doing much more load. I've personally seen apps on AWS doing a sustained 1M concurrent requests per minute with less than 10 servers.

The point is, out-sourcing government IT to Companies that are satisfied with meeting the bare minimum requirements without any logical discussion about the maximum requirements, results in CensusFail.
Seems nuts. Spreading locations would allow more and better monitoring to be sure locations weren't compromised, and the ability to drop a location if it was.

Extra layers of protection aren't merely "adding to the attack surface" (although that's possible, antivirus products becoming the vector, for example.)
Which part of India did you see? There are big-ass lawns in my hometown, Thrissur, Kerala. Also, lawns covering homefronts where I currently reside in North India. I am not going to be specific, but somewhere in UP.
Also it adds plausible deniability for the times they do have some interesting McGuffin behind said curtain. "Sorry guys, it's just some moth-eaten old folders but gotta follow procedures, ya know..."
I figured Nervana was mostly dead if they were stuck at 28 nm

I figured Intel was down and out in Santa Clara without a strong deep learning play

That all changed today.

Intel has been bouncing all over the place trying to break into deep learning. If they don't screw this up, they just found their way in IMO.
You're assuming the parent advocates discouraging passionate team members which isn't fair. "Resources" and "resourcing" are pretty standard terms esp. in the agency space and with companies using contractors as an example. Not sure why you take so much offense. Perhaps you are referring to co-founders or equity owners that would laugh one out of the building?

The notion that everyone has to grind on weekends to build something successful is ridiculous. Mayer is right about hard work. But she's simplistically equating "time logged" with "hard work".

What's success in this conversation? I'd be willing to bet most the startups that go to her husband's co-working space will fail. That's based on data and more accurate of a statement than hers.
uh? https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22De+La+Soul...
White House Publishes Federal Source Code Policy, Launches Code.gov
Government agencies should be held responsible for the actions of their members. All kinds of bad things happen if they're not.
Haha that was good, but I preferred "The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any
information anywhere." ;)
Is it a waste if he or she enjoys it? With a few exceptions, California's water problems are not due to residential use, but rather over-use by agriculture, which uses almost all the water yet represents only 2% of California's GDP. If having a big lawn will increase your quality of life, have a big lawn.
If we're going for least energy, wouldn't it make sense to compare amongst languages? If it were one of my requirements I would not take Java as a given. I would also not take C++ as a given. I'd measure and choose.
Dancing doesn't exacerbate droughts.
Yeah they don't want to reveal to Red Skull that they've located the Tesseract.
I thought anything written past 72 year should ago is declassified? Or is that just for the census?
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
I worked on a project called Free Skool that's essentially the same thing. Even in wealthy, "free" countries, there are plenty of people that don't have access to educational resources, and can benefit from sharing knowledge with their peers. We had classes on everything from maths and philosophy to sewing and figure drawing. Education shouldn't be something that only happens when you have a ton of money and years of free time to spend on a university degree.
Children are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without.
> The physical configuration of a Dyson sphere is inherently unstable. It's the astronomical equivalent of balancing a pencil on its tip.

No, it's neutral--the equivalent of keeping a ball on a table.
Scenario: In 1925 an agent is deployed to Russia, infiltrates an intelligence agency, and does something cryptologically noteworthy. It is mentioned in this 'top secret umbra' document. In 1955, said agent, while still acting covertly in Russia, makes further cryptologic "contributions" to Russian intelligence agencies. In 1975 the ciphers from 1955 are still in use, and the USA intercepts information and identifies Soviet spies. In 1995, the USA feeds misleading information to those formerly Soviet spies. In 2016, the USA still cares about the misinformation provided in 1995 to spies identified in 1975 thanks to ciphers from 1955 which were broken by a long-dead agent who started work in 1925.

Seems plausible enough to me.
You should have posted that at the top level, so this could be the top comment. While the statistics are nice to look at, I have read the article you mentioned, too (was on HN a while ago) and instantly thought that metabolism unfortunately renders the whole calculation useless and wrong.
You're greatly overestimating the amount of pay pass users.
Yeah no this is knee jerk laziness on the part of the NSA. Snowden has probably already put everyone who could be into harms way.
Any physical link can support cjdns; ethernet, 2.4ghz, 5ghz.
No the agent that did something 90 years ago, was still there and did something 60 years ago. Which influenced something 30 years ago, which led to something 5 years ago and is still in use.

It's a stretch, but there could be a chain of events that they want to remain hidden. They don't want to hide what happened 90 years ago, they want to hide who did it and what else he may have done in the future or had an effect on.
This is a very neat paper, but:

1) They appear to have crafted the skeleton of a grammar as it is with their nodes, super nodes, and slot collocations. This is directly analogous to something like an Xbar grammar, and is not learned by the system; therefore, if anything, it's strengthening a Chomskian position; the system is learning how a certain set of signals satisfy its extant constraints.

2) The don't appear to go beyond generative grammar, which already seems largely solvable by other ML methods, and is a subset of the problem "language". Correct me if I'm wrong here, it's a very long paper and I may have missed something.
Growing Pressure for Transit Investment in San Francisco
Articles like these are primarily about signaling that one is an enlightened urbanite rather than an uncultured suburban troglodyte. In other words, simple cultural warfare. Even the title gives it away... lawns are "soul-crushing"? Only to pompous urban J-school graduates whose entire parasitic existence depends on the productive classes of society.
But the automated transfer switch seems to have failed

Switch? N+1 baby. Even more on critical systems. If that switch breaking can cause you to cancel 1500 flights there's a clear case to replicate the switchboard. Surely? Also, manual transfer switches are a thing too, just make sure you break-before-make.
And that's what I really mean by 'black boxes'. Yes, you can buy access to, e.g., Windows source, but that doesn't mean that what you review and what is running on your systems are the same thing. And I can't even speak to all the third-party bits that get compiled in to an instance of Windows. It's a really, really hard problem.
> You still need to have the entry point

Which will now be a short hexadecimal code that is easily shared and can't be taken down.
Maple Syrup Cartel Battles a Black Market Rebellion
Or they just had a protege, another American agent. Think starting a 'dynasty'.
The best onboarding is an intuitive product
Because it's intellectually interesting.

It's sad that a rational discussion of something so interesting is impossible here, but that's different from the story not belonging on HN.
I am inspired by the front yard landscaping of Western Portland, OR. Hardly any property has grass lawn. Grass is replaced by lush ground cover, ferns, wild grasses, flowering bushes, etc.
I'm not sure I agree entirely with you. As a startup engineer who already had some 14+ hrs work day, and when getting home have a family + kids waiting for me fill in a role as a father. I'm not even sure we have extra time for a side project for fun on the weekends. To me, being a dad is always take higher priorities.

I guess people like us will never be good engineering hire. That's fine. Standing on the shoes of a startup founders, I probably wouldn't wanna hire someone who's not committed either.

I see no exit for this. I'm preparing to be fade out by the younger blood and eventually lose my engineering value.
Would one be correct in suspecting that many classified documents are operational reports? ISTM there could be personal reasons to keep the public from ever finding out what its agents have done in secret. Look at all the shit we give public servants whose deeds are public, e.g. Robert Moses.
It cuts both ways:

And bosses should be held responsible for the actions of their companies / agencies. All kinds of bad things happen if they're not.
> From regressive tax breaks & water subsidies to inefficient oil payouts, its relatively simple to draw a moral argument against private suburban yards.

But 95% of water use isn't even residential...
> It would obviously run over the road at the midpoint of each side

This isn't going to work for three reasons: drainage ditches,
hedge rows, and power lines.

You could maybe build an irrigation system that traverses the drainage ditches on each side of a rural road but I'm skeptical it'd price out as a good buy for anyone.

You aren't gonna build one that can go through a hedge row.
Is it an AI-complete problem to do email spam classification? Why is determining if a facebook post is an ad or not so different than spam classification?
The law regulates many a thing that people might enjoy, but for one reason or another, we don't permit it.
"Lawns make droughts worse" would be a more reasonable headline.

Although fewer clicks I suppose.
Though it doesn't look like it's valid HTML https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Finfo.cern.ch...
Oh, I got one: ice dancing.
What did you mean "works great" for then? Just that your cron job works?
ReCore System Requirements
It's only conspicuous consumption if the main goal is to show off to others. If their main enjoyment is the use they get from it, I don't think it qualifies.

I don't think your analogy is a good one. It's probably more similar to buying and eating expensive food, not throwing food out.

Many problems are distribution problems, not production or waste problems.
Serious question: Why did you take the job? Assuming it wasn't your only choice or you had to get a job ASAP and took the first one (if so, ignore the rest), why?

I've made the same mistake before: Working at a place where everyone works late or at home after work, or even on weekends. Not for me—I make sure to ask during interviews about working hours and expectations.
Thanks for this. As someone who hasn't got much further than walking a stack trace and printing variables in gdb it's incredibly helpful.
And its pretty easy to start a moral crusade against modern agriculture as well, and that supplies food...
Do you have a website? Would you like to link to it (or send me via email?)
New Jaxx wallet will be first on iOS to support anonymous cryptocurrency DASH
I wanted to reply something snarky about how the web has become exceptionally bloated even compared to other technologies but then I pictured an earliest-era TV broadcaste being shown in a modern TV show in 1080p and it's comparably incomparable.

Still, a less snarky reply would be that the benefit of a 1080p image is obvious while the benefit of half a megabyte of javascript (a guess) to display some simple text is dubious at best, even if it could be used to do something otherwise unthinkable. I feel like over the course of 20 years, accessing a website has always felt equally slow/fast. That's kinda weird, since it's not all high-res images and whatnot. Somehow even the text loads slow, even the static, non-cool text. The issue is probably that these things are designed for attention span (which is low but non-zero) so whatever half a second we have available to draw stuff on the screen before people click away, we feel the need to fill with useless junk for the sake of it.

I wonder what would happen if a few bigger websites would decide to design their frontpage in a way it loads in an instant on (nearly) every user's browser out there. So people get some contrast against sites that don't. Like, making no-split-second-lag a "feature". I wonder if it could catch on.
legal limbo maybe. the digits are just fine, out in the wild where they happily roam free.
Neither is google.com: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co...
As noted in that article, you have to be a special case to be affected by parts of the mango tree. From my experience, you really have to be a special case.
Facebook will bypass web adblockers
You don't get to be one of the largest corporations in the world without co-opting the government in your favor. This is exactly what ancaps are missing.
The approach of yacy.net may be partly applicable to IPFS.

Donating resources to a "traditional" scanning search engine is also probably doable. But unlike Web, IPFS lacks intense linking and thus "citation ranking" (PageRank-like). Measuring relevance is harder.
There are 2 audio files in that list. Looks like the rest is artwork.
What does "static simulation" mean ? Probably not static analysis.
Severe sampling bias. News in the West is focused on all the bad things that happen there. That doesn't mean that there can't be a small percentage of the population that has the time and motivation to educate themselves. I've met my share of Syrians, Libyans, and Iraqi graduate students who were educated in and lived through pretty difficult times pre- and post- dictator-overthrow.
It would also, at minimum, double their costs. They're in a cutthroat industry - doubling costs would likely mean going out of business.