skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I mentioned a cost table. Pick a level for which people should reach and then let them chose which sacrifices they want in order to reach that.

It doesn't help the environment if someone drives 5 extra minutes to reach a vegan lunch restaurant and then 5 min back. We can look at the global scale and say that livestock production may have bigger impact, but it doesn't change the local impact that each person do to the environment here and now. We should look at what each person can do, and that include counting all actions and sorting them from biggest impact to least.
That's what I meant. It was rated for a certain load, but there was a faulty strut in the batch, and it failed well under that rated load.
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"No, its because they bought the red scare and everything that was said about Socialism and then continued to parrot that bullshit since then, which then collided with the Protestant work ethic that poisoned peoples minds into equating work and pay with personal worth."

Yes, agreed - but that (the red scare) is just another symptom of the underlying still-evolving class system in the US.

I don't disagree with what you're saying at all - I'm saying you should consider why those ideas resonated in the US while they did not resonate everywhere else.

The standard conclusion among 21st century progressives "they do it because they're stupid" is inaccurate (and destructive).
What makes it such a killer feature? Maybe I'm missing something, but I simply don't see the point.
The big problem with America is the lack of public transportation infrastructure, including high speed train service in convenient locations.
OBD-II diagnostics are mandated by law, but manufactures often connect almost all microcontrollers to that connector. This allows updating all of your firmware from one port. That can be a security problem when connected to the internet.
Maybe. We don't know how to do general AI yet, so nobody can really tell.
As a German I would say some of the negative aspects are:

* Always afraid of innovation
* Contactless credit cards are regarded as very dangerous
* Even debit card payments are bad because they cost the seller money and the government might see where you bought stuff
* McDonalds EasyOrder kiosks are mostly empty and people prefer to queue for ages to order "the normal way"

* "Only my lifestyle is the right one and others are just wrong"-mindset
* Restricting opening hours because you could just shop earlier or on a Saturday just like they do
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There are two ways to interpret what Hinton says:

a) the algorithms are unimportant because all that we needed was computation

b) the algorithms were ahead of their time

I think that it is actually the latter that is true; in the same way that electricity was a precondition for computation. Babbage designed the difference engine and the analytical engine before they could realistically be implemented, this doesn't mean the design was unimportant.
I can't possibly be the only one here who wishes articles were presented in this format, with each of the points clickable for more details, such that the whole thing is a tree structure of summarized points.
Tesla Model X Sudden Acceleration Lawsuit
I have actually, and it was terrible. Even floated crazy ideas like packaging the ~50MB engine runtime into a browser extension.

My main beef though was the fact that UE4's web rendering path is based on and artificially limited by the performance considerations of its mobile path (last I checked anyways).
It's just one article of many possibilities. Also, they still can contextualize info and filter out spin.

Incidentally, any time you post something that isn't fully saturated with the SpaceX Kool-Aid, you get a strong reaction. Look at all the comments and the downvoting over a pretty mundane detail and a common concern: Don't link to a press release. I didn't even criticize the Great and Powerful Wizard or his rocket ships.

To be clear, I don't care about the votes, but I think the overall response says more than the comments.
Thank you!

I think spreadsheets are kind of at a different level of abstraction from what I was talking about in this essay, a higher level. They're more like a data model or a programming paradigm than a memory model.
>"They will never release SSBM with netplay because then a large portion of people would never buy another Smash Bros game again."

SSBM is hardly a perfect game, I'm sure Nintendo could improve upon it if they tried.

However, I do agree they're their own worst enemy. I don't see why they would be against Project M when it was giving them such valuable feedback about what the active player base wanted.

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Project_M
Why would I want to add bricks to relationships I have no interest in? You fail to understand that socializing simply isn't high priority for some people.
How is that id in the title constructed?
Just a datapoint regarding the supposed hyping of the recent Google Translate NN switch.

Last year I tried translating some everyday text from Turkish to English. Complete garbage, you could barely understand even what they were talking about.

I tried it now, albeit with different texts, and there's a world of a difference. Now you can actually understand what the text is saying, even if compared to other languages, I would still classify the Turkish->English translation as awful. Another big difference is that the resulting English text has relatively good grammer, as opposed to the previous version which was a broken English word soup.
Can you elaborate on the second part more?

As someone who's always suspected that Camus' characters (and the author himself) actually cared too intensely because they were unable to change events/people around them, I've never found compelling proof that totally convinced me his work wasn't nihilism masquerading as meditations on the inability of individuals to alter phenomena outside of their control.
Countries like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are very flat societies as well but have employee protection and comprehensive social systems. In every company I've worked in the CEO has had a cubicle with the rest of us, including a large multinational. I can approach a minister on the street and talk to them, even the prime minister (who I frequently see jogging around the neighborhood and even saw in a supermarket).

So I don't think a class system has anything to do with it.
Yep, you're not going to cram a proper gaming PC into 160inch³. AFAIK the smallest case designed for gaming GPUs is the Dan A4 at 433inch³.

https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php
> Apple, for its part, appears to hold no hard feelings toward Pearl, despite the steady poaching of employees.

This has made me wonder, why does offering people a better option for employment than what they currently have get described with the word for illegally killing/stealing animals? Was there some concerted effort years ago to associate the two, to make leaving one company for another seem like a bad thing?
200W can be handled by two fans. Components today are very efficient.
Ask HN: Is Cloudflare reliable for MX records?
Donald Trump says 'no computer is safe'
What's the alternative formalism?
Not quiet sure conclusions can be taken about an alternative model (socialism) based on a single implementation (Venezuela), which, by the way, probably got a little bit of foreign help to fail, if you look at history..
So where in the world are there services you can pay to negotiate your bills downward without keeping them on retainer?
> but it seems to me that the proposal to eliminate leap seconds smacks of laziness

Sure, and writing software with bugs and untested corner cases is also lazy. But we keep putting humans in charge of writing software...

> Keeping UTC within a second of UT1 has important real-world uses, including navigation and astronomy.

So put the work of handling a rare, irregularly occurring event on the few who care rather than the rest of humanity?

> redefining how we measure time to cope with bad code

This is basically what leap seconds are, a redefinition of time to fit a messy reality.

So again, why the assumption that we need a messy standard that all must fit to rather than a messy process of converting a simpler standard to solar ephemeris for the few who care?
Given the population of Zurich, I've always comparing it to Boston to be fair. In that context Zurich is the mix with modern architecture. Boston has done nothing and then a big nothing for my entire life, only in the last 5 years does the seaport look like a part of Zurich, with actual cranes and construction workers.
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> you can draw a straight line from that to the anti-intellectualism that dominates our social discourse today

Really? Could you elaborate?

From my perspective, the two groups you connect seem more opposed than anything. The prevailing strains of anti-intellectualism despise what they perceive as ivory-tower academia, and the sorts of people who dabble in poststructuralism & the like tend to be the very model of the anti-intellectuals' villain. To, say, the average climate change denier, the social sciences aren't "real science", they're only good for jobs at Starbucks - and if critical theory's even on their radar, it's as an enemy, lumped in with the "cultural marxism" bogeyman.
Neural Translation isn't oversold. It's a bigger breakthrough than AlphaGo.
You can replace the T420 screen with a $45 Alienware 1600x900 screen that is allegedly plug-n-play and amazing https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4no5ak/t420_alien...

Considering doing it to my T420S :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13304280
That's kind of bullshit though, you can't claim 2 common words from the English language in order to only describe a concept many of us don't understand. I'm a software developer, have been for 15 years, I've stayed fairly awake in college during my cryptography classes, have implemented hashing functions (mentioning this because such a history already place somebody in the 0.01%) and I've never heard of "zero knowledge proof".

Not surprisingly, the link you've given is about a phrase with 3 words in it, not 2.

And while I've always been annoyed about overloads of "open source", at least that's a words association that you won't hear from non-technical folks and that wasn't in use before OSI happened. And even so, note that OSI couldn't trademark it.
Because it's viewed as a breach of loyalty. It used to be that employees were expected to be loyal to their company, and in return the company would take care of them. Things have changed now so companies don't take care of their employees anymore, but they still want to push the narrative that their employees should be loyal to the company.
> More than 50 of the company’s 80 or so employees worked for Apple at some point.

I understand how/why this happens, but as an engineer who's not an Apple "alumnus" (ugh), I would never work at a place like that. A company needs diversity in more ways than one.
It's not incredible at all; it's reasonable. Peer review should be comprehensive enough to notice if, for example, there are serious numerical errors or if the conclusions can't be drawn from the figures. That some people don't seem to even bother reading the papers is disgraceful. People have a right to know which platforms are farcical and I think the people you cited have provided a public service.
If you use Git LFS this is a good way to not depend on central hosting for replication.
Some journals and conferences have nothing to do with science, just want your money, and find customers in academics who need to show they were published and are willing to pay for it. Exposing a journal that pretends to have scientific rigor as such is a service, but says nothing about the discipline.

If you generate nonsense, tell a physicist that it's a paper on physics and have him read it, he'll say it's nonsense, not physics. If you generate nonsense, tell an avantgarde poetry club that it's avantgarde poetry, and have them read it, they'll agree it's avantgarde poetry. Exposing a scientific discipline as actually an avantgarde poetry club is important.
TB2 is akin to using one of those x16 slots that's wired to x4 (or worse, since if you're using a Gen3 x16 GPU, you'd be running at Gen2 x4, which would be an eightfold reduction).

It'll depend on your workload, but generally, it is going to be visibly slower than the "baseline" performance for any high-utilization workload.
I am also an American. While I realize that Hacker News strives for a tone that embraces the ideal of "assume goodwill", I must break with that ethos to respond to you. What you've written is the silliest comment I've seen on Hacker News in many months. In the USA wealth has been concentrating since the 1970s. We now have the most uneven distribution of wealth of any of the developed nations.

Look at the chart "Wealth shares of top percentiles of the net wealth distribution in selected OECD countries":

https://www.oecd.org/std/household-wealth-inequality-across-...

The elections in the USA are increasingly heated exactly because the USA is increasingly torn apart by divisions of class, and the divisions of class are growing exactly because wealth is concentrating into the hands of the 1%, and even within that 1%, wealth is concentrating into the top 1%, which is the top .0001 of the USA.
I can't think of any, but I do strongly believe that anyone who can come up with one should be allowed to keep their organs :)
"...a third of India is at least vegetarian. Somehow they manage to get by."

Yes; as vegetarians - not vegans. Note the parent post I was replying to, which suggested veganism. Strawman, red herrings in olive oil, say what you will, but there are many people who aren't "natives" (reference to other comment by marricks) that might struggle to maintain a healthy vegan diet, especially if they aren't nextdoor to a Wholefoods. That is more my point - not to suggest that we should feast on steak 24/7 "because Natives!". You'll get no argument from me regarding the present state of the meat industry. Big Ag can be and too often is appalling.

@marricks: Not one of the dozens of chickens on either friend's property (including the freely roaming ones no longer producing) have ever died of ovarian cancer. When I posed my questions, I was looking for answers - not irrelevant examples of extremes. The egg industry can be putrid. My friends' arrangement with chickens is certainly not. And I still struggle to see how they are scourging the Earth with their non vegan behavior, breeders or no breeders. Have we truly come to such extremes that owning a chicken and eating an egg is worse for the environment than the daily baubles of our throwaway, planned obsolescence society? Is our aim extreme, or practical? Is a vegan's Volvo better than my chicken, etc? When I do see, I'll accept it, but the question remains open. And again, I have much respect for veganism and vegetarianism. Sprats, scarecrows and fallacies aren't things I wish to use against either.
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Thank you for the compliment.

That's a good point about R and pandas.

Nowadays numpy supports the nested-record style of memory organization, too: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/basics.rec.html

Whether numpy and pandas are part of the language depends greatly on how you use Python. There are still probably lots of people writing Django webapps without importing either of them.
like Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain?
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How do you "dedupe within a single user's account" without violating "zero knowledge"?
Yeah, and even the extreme right in other countries would likely be to the left in the US, but only on some policies.
The one that is hosted in Washington (time-nw) is going away soon.

Http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
You can browse individual accounts, e.g.:

https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron
https://mastodon.social/users/Triplefox

But there isn't a feed of the public timeline which would be the most interesting one.
> Is TB2's lower bandwidth a bottleneck that would keep you from using a really beefy eGPU for these purposes?

What limits you is the power input and cooling capabilities of your TB2 box. A 1080 has a 180W TDP (before O/C), so you need to feed it up to 180We and dissipate that much heat, a Titan X increases that to 250W. TFA went with a 1050 because it only has a 75W TDP, and that could be achieved with their enclosure (by swapping out the power brick, the "out of the box" version only handles 30W TDP).

After that, it's mostly a matter of feeding the GPU enough stuff to do, giving it a small number of expensive tasks will utilise the limited bandwidth better than the reverse, which is why the efficiency of eGPU (TB2, but also TB3) increases as you increase rendering quality and the like (compared to internal) e.g. you might get 70% of internal at low settings and 90% at high.
This is really clever. I run a stash server. Is there a way to get this to run on all the repos?
Is it good practice for extroverts to be more introvert? Leave the comfort zone of being around people, and spend more time alone, because it's important to be comfortable being alone?
Where can I try Koko out?
What about these setups makes them more complicated to support than simple PCIe passthrough? Because PCIe passthrough is definitely a thing you can do currently in several virtualization implementations.

(Unless you mean you can't do it while also using it as a GPU in the desktop, which is true.)
One of the things I imagined and researched for thunerbolt was this. Unfortunately still quite expensive. Only due to supply/demand.

I hopes apple would offer an external gpu to use with their low powered laptop gpus
I know several people who have emigrated from some of the above countries to the USA, because running a small business is extremely painful (see for example France).

If you think about companies as "us versus them", where "us" is workers and "them" is giant faceless monolithic corporations, then your idea that enforcing worker protections is a high priority might make sense.

But most companies are small. I run a software company ... I am just a guy trying to get by, who now in addition to the normal-person's burden of making my life go, has to also make a company go, and that company provides jobs for 10-12 people.

If you make my situation much harder than it is, the company would cease to exist or would downscale to 2-4 people, shedding the majority of the jobs. I am not a faceless corporation, I am just a guy who wants to get interesting things built. My little company is certainly not set up to "exploit workers", especially not on an industrial scale.

Now, paraxoically, if you add a lot more friction to what needs to happen to run a business (regulation around hiring, firing, invoicing, etc), then people like me drop out, and then what you mostly have left is the larger companies who do want to exploit workers because that is just kind of how larger companies work. Plus then you lose all the innovation / energy / economic activity that comes from smaller companies. It maybe seems like not the best idea. (If it is, how come Silicon Valley is not in France?)

As an investor, I fund a small French company and I have seen some of the crap they have to deal with just because they have a handful of employees. It makes me very glad I don't live in France.
I say it's preferable to eliminate leap seconds from UTC time and treat them as part of the calendar. It's not lazyness, it's just sane design. If everything was measured in calendar time, there is a lot of inefficiency involved for anything which does not need calendar time like calculating intervals.
Setting up a QA outsourcing business on the side with a few friends. Software is everywhere and performing more critical functions as years go by. QA where I work (large US software company) is an afterthought, the developers and business guys provide quality assurance cover but of course things do slip through the net occasionally and cost of those events can be high. We looked at outsourcing QA years back and will probably again. I can see more organisations doing this. Challenge will be running this as a side project.
I think it is worth giving SpiderOak a try. I've been a SpiderOak customer for several years, and have been quite satisfied with it. The UI wasn't the best at first, but it has gotten better recently. I haven't used rsync.net for a while, but their service is great too. It just takes a little more work to set up.
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There's actually quite a bit of evidence suggesting that brains, both behaviorally and mechanistically, are Bayesian [0].

As for your second point, assuming that humans are Bayesian, there are many reasons why people would have variability in their mathematical ability, including different priors and differences in the ability to estimate posteriors.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=brain+bayesian&hl=en&bt...