skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting part of wormholes is that they introduce topologies that connect two extrinsically "distant" points, yes? This research doesn't appear to do that; it seems like it just "hides" the magnetic field for a distance. The field still moves slower than light.
"Silicon Valley Bank gives us no paperless billing option for our account"

... sigh
I mean Intel is comparing their publicly unavailable product against NVIDIA's publicly available product. Now NVIDIA is replying with the benchmarks on their (as of yet) publicly unavailable product.

I think this blog post is fair game.
And its called "Silicon Valley Bank" on top of that. You would think they would be the first to adopt tech, not the last. Do banks still have any legal reasons to not allow paperless statements ?
It's all about scale.
Mine are Pastebin'd. Works fine for most writing.
The "paper" is actually the markdown source for a presentation, the ^ characters are markup indicating that what follows is a speaker's note that does not appear on the slide.

Elsewhere in this discussion, you will find a link to a video of the presentation, and I trust that if you go looking for evidence that I am a self-important windbag, you will have no difficulty gathering evidence that is consistent with your preconceived beliefs.

I'm sorry to hear that you think that if you gave a self-help presentation at a Rails conference, that nobody would come, and that if they did, they would hate you. This was not my experience at all, and I hope you learn to distrust these instincts and develop a more accurate ability to predict when such a thing would be well-received and when it would not.

One of the things that helped in my case, is that I wrote many of these ideas up in an essay seven years ago, and it went to #1 on Hacker News that day. From time to time since then, people have rediscovered the essay and it has bene positively received. Other essays I have written about Learned Helplessness and my difficulty learning to play Go have also been well-received.

To boot, this particular Ruby conference is actually not very Ruby at all, and the organizers go out of their way to invite speakers who will give non-technical talks.

So... I had inside information.
Interesting! Apache Tika is the "classic" way of doing this, and it supports many dozens of formats. Is this meant to address certain needs that Tika doesn't?
> Silicon Valley Bank gives us no paperless billing option for our account

I find that absurd. A bank that primarily serves the tech industry doesn't have paperless statements. My banks, all of which are the very definition of entrenched corporations, offer paperless statements.
AFAIK, freight companies are currently supposed to give Amtrak trains priority. I've taken the Southwest Chief (westbound) twice, and both times the worst of the delay came around ABQ where we were blocked on commuter traffic. Presumably there is no such priority vs other passenger traffic, and Amtrak had missed its time slot.

It's not so much that cities are unwalkable (he shows maps of Boston and NYC, two of the rare cities that one doesn't actually need a car). It's that most travelers aren't going to the city proper, and are going to want an automobile at the destination. It would be lunacy to tie yourself to the train's schedule, only to then have to rent a car at your destination.
Super cool! I've been using Singularity (https://github.com/hubspot/singularity) for the last year and love it.

(Also I work at HubSpot where Singularity was developed)
30 minutes to download the bank statement? No paperless billing?

so many questions about this amazing bank.
If neonicotinoids are causing a long-term decline in bee populations, why does their introduction correspond with a global increase in beehives?
Do things that don't scale!

.. like shipping paper bank statements..
How I Logged Every Song for a Year
Dokku is the greatest, makes personal projects so pleasant to manage
> That's the portion of the budget that Congress actually has control over.

Congress has control over the whole budget. Unlike, e.g., the California Legislature and voter-mandated Constitutional spending in the state budget, there are no "mandates" in the "mandatory" part of the federal budget from some authority that transcends Congress, and it is well established that past acts of Congress do not bind future Congresses, or even future acts of the same Congress.

> Furthermore the mandatory portion (entitlements) are fundamentally different - you pay into the system through payroll taxes and pay out later during retirement.

That's not entirely true. While mandatory spending does include the payroll-tax-funded Social Security and Medicare programs, it also includes programs that are funded from general revenues like Medicaid, SNAP, EITC and the Child tax credit, etc.
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> not forced to comply with anybody else hobby project

How is LI being forced to comply? It's the opposite, hobby project is legally forced to desist.
Since it first debuted?

https://www.google.com/drive/download/
> A final factor is that countries that are willing to spend money will influence what sports become Olympic sports. I don't think it is accidental that there are so many events in athletics and swimming, two sports that the US excels at. Advertising money buys events.

I don't doubt that advertising plays a role in which events exist, but athletics and swimming have had lots of events since the dawn of the Olympics, probably because they're easy to set up and they don't take a long time to run. If you were trying to get the US more medals, you might have 3-on-3 basketball, 1-on-1 basketball, 12 minute basketball, H.O.R.S.E., a dunk contest, etc.
Twitch has been trying to hire front end devs and they're failing at hosting anything more than a video stream. They should have acquired discord, but instead the two failing companies curse and twitch are teaming up
Did you see the Opera vs Edge sniping a month or two ago? I suppose Opera is probably lot less corporate than Intel & Nvidia, of course...
I see the current crop of "half-assed hybrid cars" as a necessary step on the road to EV market acceptance; Public charging infrastructure is not at an acceptable level for the average consumer, so automakers found a way to capitalize on the success of their existing ICE products and production lines, while gradually introducing electric technology in a usable-in-the-real-world package. Capitalism 101.

Furthermore BMW never claimed that the BMWi brand was exclusively EVs, nor have they ever marketed the i8 as anything but a plug-in hybrid.
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Good question: (1) open access so people can read the original research, (2) better writing therein so people will actually understand what they read, will surely help.
But they're disrupting the paperless statements industry! /s
But they asked during pregancy what their medicine use was up to three months ago. For a relatively mundane task like taking paracetamol, I think it's reasonable to question how reliable memory is at that point. Especially since this may be a stressful time with lots of things going on - I can imagine that a pill to make a headache go away is easily forgotten. Or: was that 2 or five months ago?
I'm suddenly nostalgic for the annoying buzz of dot matrix printers.
But all sports are bizarre if you boil them down in this way. They all rely on arbitrary limitation of participants or equipment to prevent them descending into a total free-for-all and becoming pointless. Its the same thing as art being about constraints - its having to deliver within certain 'arbitrary' bounds that make it a challenge and make it worthwhile.
I am amazed Discord itself has not been acquired yet. It looks like it was effectively designed to be acquired. They have no functional business, and have to be in the market. I've commented before I expected someone like Twitch to pick them up. Maybe Twitch didn't like the price?
@imaleppert Agree getting the details on the testing would be helpful. I think NV was more pointing out that Intel were putting their latest against NV's oldest. It'd be like testing a RX480 against a GTX660. What's the use of that?

@modeless the new Azure instances have M60's or you can purchase a 1080 or new TitanX which are both available (although stock has been tight).

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-n-series-previe...
Intel really wants to be completely vertically integrated and that would be hard to reconcile with ARM's decidedly horizontal structure. If they had purchased them then they'd have probably sabotaged ARM to promote their x86 business so we're better off.

It probably would have been better strategically to buy them and in hindsight they never should have sold XScale to Marvell but Intel isn't know to strategize. They just sort of blindly charged forward until they hit a brick wall then pivot and charge in the next direction. You saw this with Itanium, Netburst, Atom, and CMOS sensors. It's what they do.
I'm writing one with pure HTML5 (Cordova) actually. Too bad it needs either a Cordova container, or a server backend as a proxy, because Twitter sends out fairly restrictive CORS headers.

If you don't want to wait until it's ready, I recommend tweecha - or install Google Chrome from the Play Store, that should make Twitter automatically use the Chrome webview instead.
If you want `apt-get install foobar` to always do the same thing, just use snapshot.debian.org in your apt sources.list:

deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/ lenny main
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Looks like they are using a 2D model for the paper being imaged. This won't work for curved/folded pages like something from a book
scientific discoveries are the result of iterations upon leads and ideas, most of which require time spent doing lots of different things. Which I think is the heart of what Hamming is getting to.
Did Apple really have any choice but to sell its ARM interest?
If they added cricket to the Summer Olympics, they wouldn't be able to announce the winner until the Winter Olympics...

But seriously -- do you think they'd play 20-20 matches to make it fit? That's still almost twice as long as a soccer^H^H^H^H^H^Hfootball match.
Huge angular 1.x fan here , still using it. I'm not going to move to 2.x for a few reasons

- it's an entire new framework, the only thing in common in the name

- typescript : if you need typescript to write your framework you'll write your framework API with typescript in mind, making it harder to use with vanilla Javascript. I don't want to use typescript, at all, I'm a big fan of statically typed languages ... on the server. I'm sick of these complex asset pipelines on the client. Node isn't that fast so compilation isn't fast either.

In my book ,the decline of Angular has happened, nothing justifies a complete different framework. They could have back-ported a lot of ideas in 1.x . 2.x suffers from the second system syndrome and I see very little practical enhancements and features worth switching.
Just found this trending on Gitlogs but it was never posted on HN before. Actually noticing a lot of Chinese Repos trending on Github lately. Most likely launched on their on their own version of hackernews ;)
Donating to a http://www.givewell.org/ recommended charity is probably a more scalable way to make the world a better place.
>end to mass violence and cruelty would be infinitely more valuable than any of those things (except for clean energy).

clean energy is infinitely more valuable than end to mass violence? That seems like a bit of an overstatement.
A colleague of mine, who used to work at our country's signals intelligence agency, inadvertently let slip that he'd seen some of this while working there. Make of this what you will, but it at least suggests it's on their radar even if they're not directly involved. Which they might be. He didn't elaborate, and I didn't wish to pry.
Dropbox is one of the products that I hope it never goes away. Been using it since I got invited to beta in May 2008 and the sync is trustworthy, what can't be said for other solutions (enough issues have been mentioned already). Extended the storage with the specials and treasure hunt, but kinda wish for more flexible plans though, I'd never have a use for full 1TB.
It'll scale just fine until the bank statement needs a truck-level loading dock, pallet and forklift.
Valid points, but the i3 still has a niche in the market in that it's the only series-hybrid offering out there. For certain buyers that's enough to tip the needle, 200 mile range competitors or not.
Rust has manual memory management. Most applications where you'd use Go don't need nor want the added complexity of managing memory, ownership, learning curve, etc. It's not really a reasonable exchange.
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Before I moved to Seattle, my old three-branch credit union in Podunk County, Flyover State had paperless statements, and that was years and years ago. "Silicon Valley Bank", in 2016, doesn't?
I presume we'll see hype when OpenAI starts posting :results: rather than generic plans.
I actually disagree that Discord doesn't have a functional business. They have massive growth and many many top teams, streamer personalities etc use their services.

If Discord becomes a critical component to the content creators of the whole gaming ecosystem, there's going to be plenty of revenue opportunities.
> Realistically it's willfully naive, and practically it serves to preserve the status quo of bias in the workplace and in society.

It's willfully naive to think that witch hunts will remove the bias you seek to remove.
I'm a bit surprised that Nvidia mentioned nothing about performance per watt in their reply.
Okay so I don't agree with "don't actually commit to turning it into a company until it's working" part.

Airbnb example comes to mind where all the founders exhausted all their credit cards to fund user acquisitions and when that did not work kept trying other innovative means to keep the company afloat. If they would have followed this advice, there would not have been an AirBnB.

I agree with the part that says " entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about" and keep pursuing it with perseverance. Because then companies like AirBnB are built. Just saying.
Efficient Instrumentation of GPGPU Applications [pdf]
When I visit others, I just put a chair on top of the table. Works well for me. I do it at home too when I work outside.
> deliberate fear-mongering [should] be reprimanded.

By whom?
When pessimism works it leads to action. Hopefully effective action.

My concern with the attitude of "oh this is a temporary problem" is that it could lead to apathy. A kind of "waiting for godot" situation.
Intel’s Joule platform lets makers build computer vision into almost anything
The discussion around Optimism vs Mindset is very interesting and I am constantly trying to use both methodologies in tandem.

There are a number of ways to reconcile the two approaches. For example, one can note that much of what Dweck describes is a kind of Impostor Syndrome, where people start out with a negative impression of themselves, and have a fixed mindset about their lack of skill.

If someone has a belief that they are a terrible programmer, telling them they are a good programmer doesn't help. They simply dispute it, a well-understood phenomenon. For them, you must provide evidence to shake their permanent belief about their own shortcomings, and being specific is the way to do it.

But what if they are not already mired in self-doubt? That is another matter entirely.

Now here is something I try to apply. Note the difference between a skill related to production, and a "meta-skill," something that enables or powers other skills. One person I know told me that they are terrible at X and Y and Z in their profession, but that they have "grit," the ability to grind it out and get results relentlessly.

Note that they have a positive, permanent, and general belief about a skill, "grit," that isn't a direct producer of results, but enables results.

Another person told me that they reject general praise outright, because they know that they make a lot of mistakes in programming. So they want very specific feedback about what they did well, not general praise. You can guess what came next: They told me that they were not instinctively good, but that they could learn from feedback.

Aha! Another fixed belief about a meta-skill, learning.

And in fact, what Dweck advocates is learning to adopt a fixed mindset about the growth mindset! Another meta-skill. So perhaps, what works is encouraging fixed beliefs about skills that empower or enable the directly productive skills.

But I don't know. Unlike Seligman and Dweck, I am not testing and measuring.
This is a beautiful article. Though I've read a number of reports that the higher male variance isn't all it was thought to be, but can't find it again. There should be done interesting studies about the variance in different species whose gender differentiation is done by a different mechanism, namely where the female has the two different chromosomes.
The entrepreneur pits his willpower against the entropy of nature. Nature is huge and moves randomly, while the entrepreneur is small and moves purposefully.

There is definitely luck in nature's random movements. But the entrepreneur small purposeful movements add up over time and overcome nature.
Or that they didn't mention cost for performance. They equated 4 Xeon Phi servers to ONE DGX-1. The DGX has a 140k price tag.
my guess: somewhere lurks an AS/400
"fighting for their future" is often shooting themselves in the foot in my experience. A company I was at agreed to transition off of ARM to x86 for the next cost down revision of their embedded product. During the negotiations Intel promised libhoudini ARM translation support. Once we were committed and many weeks down the design path with development boards they broke their promise and refused to provide libhoudini. It was a really terrible position to be in because Intel was forcing us to get all our very expensive third party software relicensed in x86 versions, and we had no money for that. Honestly, we would have been a lot better off just sticking with ARM instead of buying Intel's lies. In the end, if Intel had provided an ARM option, though, they would have been a competitive solution at least instead what they were which was just a bad idea. So this insistence on fighting to get companies on x86 is not helping them necessarily.
Because more beehives are needed to keep up with the demand as bees die?
Millions of dollars a month in DMV records searches, that's the more interesting part to me. Background checks? Carfax but for the past owners of the car?
There are also quite a few databases that have schema but are not relational.
Ah, I wasn't thinking about the inflammation - just as a pain-killer. Ice, elevation, and if you can't do that, compression, have been my gotos for sprain-related swelling.
My company is with SVB because we couldn't find a good alternative that had decent rates for international transfers (US 100% remote company, international founders).

Open to suggestions...
I don't think so. I am referring to something that allows you to scale your database cluster horizontally by adding more servers. ZEO appears to only support a single server.
It seems like there is a wall in reliability with getting chemical rockets much more reliable than about 99% - 99.5%. SpaceX and Blue Origin are doing cool things, but I don't see them being any more reliable than previous generations of chemical rockets.

If an elevator could provide more 9s of reliability, that could be huge.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. It is an interesting race to the middle and either way consumers stand to win from it.

This is exactly the kind of situation that I think typifies the positive aspects of capitalism. You have two companies that each have one half the piece of a puzzle and are furiously trying to compete against each other to produce the other piece.

We will see a lot of different techniques tried and that could potentially lead to a lot of tangential benefits to the economy along the way.
> E-statement takes 30+ minutes to download because it’s huge and their servers are really slow!

They're lucky that they're able to download after all.

Some years ago I used an AmEx to order 1000+ items every day on Amazon, which after a while locked me out of the account pages of both companies. Most probably some database query in the background was timing out due to the volume of transactions.

To add insult to injury, I remember it was almost impossible to explain the issue to the support staff on either side. They kept on getting back with canned responses about what browser I was using etc.
Yep syntax is /gif <keywords>
I think in this case it's opening itself to acting as a fab for other parties... in this case, they have capacity that exceeds the damand for their x86 parts, and they have a process advantage to other foundary producers. So this could allow them to utilize the extra production capacity while they have that process advantage.

Beyond this, even for designs that don't need the most current process, it could allow Intel to use prior plants to produce ARM chips for other clients as well. It's become clear that the demand for ARM will not shift towards lower power x86, and that x86 is unlikely to meet the power draw of arm in the near term.
> Why? Some terminals support flow control via XON/XOFF, which is Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q.

Except if the app opened the terminal in raw mode, in which case the app gets the control character.
What a practical solution. We hear story after story of how hosting the Olympics costs more than it's worth and ruins neighborhoods. Here they found a place that already had many of the facilities needed, and found a way to pay for the cost of building new ones. And it even gave jobs and income to the local economy long afterwards. I really can not understand how anyone could be against this.

Of course we all wish the war on drugs would stop, that sentences would be reduced, etc. But until that happens we can't just ignore the problem. Overcrowded prisons are awful and seriously harm the quality of life for the prisoners. Additionally, even with normal population growth, you would eventually need to build new prisons. And significantly reducing the prison population is actually really difficult, as demonstrated by this interactive: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/04/how-to-cut-the...

Surely this new prison would have been built anyway. And if they had built it someplace else no one would have noticed or cared. Using it to reduce the cost of the Olympics was a very practical solution that didn't change anything.
The CIA has used torture and overthrown governments. Since the NSA is another secretive US government agency, I have no reason to believe that there is such a thing as going too far for them in an ethical sense, although of course there are practical limits on what they can accomplish.

Also, like any organization, the NSA is not monolithic. It must have various strata, various different groups making it up. It is possible, for example, that 95% of the NSA operates in ways that are relatively ethical, but that there is also a more-or-less secret pipeline of information and control built into the organization's architecture that enables important figures both inside and outside of the organization to use its databases and tools and to coordinate its operations without the knowledge of most of its employees.
I think the important take-away here is that all the major players are now in a public arms race. Which means autonomous cars are almost certainly going to happen.
I dislike that for another reason: It prevents the compiler from telling you that you're using an undefined value. Just setting vars to 0 doesn't mean that that's the right value.
The strange thing is that the response will be "OK so lets create poisons that kill all insects EXCEPT bees".