skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPUs are more useful than CPUs for ML, but eventually someone's going to want to cut nVidia out of that process: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/an-in-depth-l...

nVidia is still a solid choice as VR has raised the visual fidelity demands for games and experiences, and even a 1080Ti can't render VR games at 90+FPS at max graphics. That's still a lot of demand nVidia has to meet.
No, the argument for not locking up was that he is a human being and has rights, and incarceration is a barbaric practice that doesn't work anyway (if the stated goal is rehabilitation, which it usually is).

Hard work and a great mind have nothing to do with the justification for not imprisoning him. Those come into play when considering the waste to society as a result of locking him up. I can see how the two positions were conflated, but hopefully this clarifies.
Yes, sorry, "Older BSD tools" is what I meant to type.
Yes, but that's the only way of knowing that it hasn't gone into the user's spam folder.
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Completely off topic, but am I the only won who things it's really wrong for google to have their own TLD?
"Funny thing, I gave up my U.S. passport to make life simpler at tax time." (from linked article)

It seems that he renounced his citizenship in order to avoid paying U.S. income taxes, so I don't think you can call him a "US citizen living overseas" anymore.
Thunderbolt is and has always been an Intel standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
What’s more remarkable to me is how people don’t see how easy it is to set up a clean surface identity and discrete secondary identities, and hide in plain sight.
Interesting that spec says "Windows 10 Pro Creators Update 64-bit" considering Fall Creators Update was released today.
That's a bit disingenuous though because that's not because of user choice. JS has the enviable position of being the only language blessed to have an interpreter in the browser and this decision and it's consequences are foisted upon you regardless of whether you wanted it or not.

That argument also doesn't address OP's complaint: regardless of whether everyone has JS and uses it, the page is only rendering text, why is JS even necessary? It's not a web app, it doesn't have any special functionality etc, it doesn't have any legitimate reason to use JS, but for whatever reason, we're forced to use it anyway.
Do you think I'm correct in believing terrorism is likely to increase over the next few years?
> the calculus has changed in favour of power savings and against flexibility

This has always been a trade-off. For instance even with desktops, once video handling became common we first had video decode/encode being handled by GPU acceleration. But now most CPUs include dedicated h264 (and more recently hevc) decode/encode support, eg [0].

Although it's much lower computation, hardware acceleration is also offered for audio, and I'd take a guess the reason the Apple APIs for checking which hardware supports hardware-based audio encode/decode [1] has been deprecated is now because all supported devices provide all possible capabilities.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/audiotoolbox/16204...
The important bit is getting the metaball function into the fragment shader. I'm not really a web guy, but I know you can do that with WebGL.

For a canvas with a more limited API, you can still do it if images are GPU accelerated with a composite mode like "lighter". If that's the case, you can do basically the same thing by first rendering the metaball function to an image once, and then drawing that image for each metaball. Doing it via an image introduces extra aliasing artifacts, but might get around the API limitations.

Edit: I suppose you would still want to find a GPU-accelerated threshold function for the step after that.
Does the public's anger and fear lead to questions like "why didn't you see this coming?"? Or is the public's anger and fear stoked by the very people who want to be asked "why didn't you see this coming?", precisely so they can say "ah, you're right, let's increase our surveillance powers"?
just make a separate account?
Totally fair. A case where the perpetrator has deprived someone else of their right to life is a lot less clear cut than say a non-violent drug user.
You'd probably hear the differences played side-by-side. There are few truly 'tone-deaf' people. Music is much like anything else -- capabilities (including memory for a song's tonality & chords) are increased by interest, exposure to a wider range, close study, etc.
Interesting article but I think the premise that workers are buying tech stocks because they fear automation is incorrect. Gallup found 13% of Americans thought that their jobs would soon be replaced by automation[1]. In fact you usually find more people worried about immigration than automation[2]. Maybe people /should/ be more concerned about automation but they just aren’t right now.

[1]: http://news.gallup.com/poll/216116/few-workers-worry-tech-ma...

[2]: http://news.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx
How about no key?

https://youtu.be/4niz8TfY794?t=278
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Everything is swapped from what it usually is. The main theme is swapped to minor, and the imperial march afterwards is swapped to major. Plus the 20th Century Fox theme in minor at the start!
No? Do you believe that?
It may be worth clarifying that these are not covers (which would be musically interesting, but not technically impressive like what we have here)

It's likely that most of these versions are not even reconstructed from the original multi-tracks : it's possible to get this result with nothing more than the original song audio + editing in Melodyne.

This is of course related to yesterday's story about Auto-Tune (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15483145), of which Melodyne is a more capable competitor these days.
It's useful in some scenarios, but I think the biggest benefit is debugging (something weird happened in prod? what was the database state?).

I think people try to stretch its usefulness to scenarios where it doesn't quite fit. It almost fits for historical reports, but from my experience, usually you're going to find an error in your data that you want to fix "in the past" so those old reports change, and all of a sudden datomic doesn't automagically work for your historical reports anymore.
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The authors of Wget are far from anonymous. Hrvoje started with the first version, but hasn't been around for a while now. However, it's not that Wget "lost" the battle with curl. They are two different applications with different use cases. Curl is predominantly a library, while wget focuses on being a small downloader application.

Only thing is, curl has far more contributors than wget. This is because of its licensing and it being a library. Not to mention the brilliant stewardship provided by Daniel.

P.S. I do often contribute to Wget and may be a little biased towards it.
especially if it was AI that designed it.

https://www.ted.com/talks/maurice_conti_the_incredible_inven...
It speaks to Canada's exorbitant LTE data prices that just putting Wifi "everywhere" is what is required to make a dent in mobile/community connectivity.
These pieces make me viscerally angry. It's grating like Neil Cicierega but without the glee in doing it. Jeeeez.
This was very disappointing.

Was really hoping for one giant chat that astronomers from around the world were just sharing what they were learning at an instant... ️
It seems like it could lead to a world of abundance for everyone. One potentially severe complication: if machines can make anything there's a blueprint for, they can also make all manner of weapons. What if the occasional unpredictable spree killer could fab up a crude cruise missile full of nerve gas instead of buying a bunch of rifles? Or even what if someone fabs a throng of standard tree-trimming robots and reprograms them to trim the limbs off humans instead?

Most people aren't willing to kill other people. In a world of abundance, I expect that even fewer will be willing. But the few killers who remain could have vastly amplified powers of destruction. I don't like how Marshall Brain's Manna solved the violence problem, but I haven't got any great answers of my own.
That's the main thing, I think.
They shut down Half.com not so long ago having bought it in 2001 or so for $300 million. There goes a good marketplace for books & CDs. Bad move!
1. https://www.freecodecamp.org/
2. https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/introduction-to-sql
3. https://www.pluralsight.com/ Has lots of great concise courses. You can even speed up or slow down the play back. Especially would be good to get started now, vs in a few months.
They advertise one of the non-Casper mattress brands, though. Internet mattress hipsters!

Also, two brands of internet razor. Podcasts seem to specialize in advertising things that I definitely would want to buy in an actual shop and not the internet.
> There's no evidence that their use against people is likely to substantially increase over the next few years, so it's not something that is worth worrying about

It does not even matter whether there is evidence that the risk is likely to increase or not. Plus, it is arguable unknowable what the current risk may be now or in a few years time (plus, do you really trust NK's safety in chain of command and equipment?). Regardless, no matter how unlikely the event is to occur the magnitude or the event is so unbelievably massive that is something to be worthy of worrying about.

It all comes downs to understanding that despite a extremely low probability of occurring, some events are so earth shattering, you cannot discount it by its probability of happening.

On September 10th there was no evidence an attack on New York City was particularly likely (apart from in the minds of the terrorists). But September 11th came along and changed the West and Middle East for decades.
Oh yeah, I agree with you there. I do have a few Lightning cables that have died, but I treat them as consumables anyway.

I know it supports some form of USB3, but the display out is handled by having a h264 decoding dongle (!). It unfortunately doesn't have enough pins to really support the range of alternate modes and high data speeds of USB3.
It means that when you figure out how to calculate business metrics based off of information stored in Datomic, you get to compare how your business was doing versus how it's doing now for free. Or if you figure out a customer health score, it's now trivially easy to calculate how much it changed since last month.
Citation links?
Yep, in those cases, it was almost always Google having to fight against local government and monopolies playing dirty. In this case, all 3 levels of government (city, province and country) are for this project. That's a huge difference.
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Read my post again. Someone should be able to circumvent the academic complex's monopoly on credentials, as long as they can demonstrate the same aptitude and proficiency.

At that point, as I said, the hospital training is just a formality with some exceptions. Surgeons obviously need to demonstrate dexterity and composure. Candidates need to show up to work on time, etc.
Scott Adams is a clever guy, but referring him as "the creator of Dilbert" makes the advice sound like satire :p

Also Cal Newport, MIT computer scientist, says a similar thing - do things that are rare and valuable, which he calls "career capital". I'd recommend the book, So Good They Can't Ignore you.
Eh same thing happens on amazon. I search for a bike jersey and get totally unrelated stuff.
Some sources claim the number of people who have died from terrorist activity has increased ninefold since the year 2000[1].

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-17/global-terrorism-index...
Not sure if this is a troll or not, but I'll assume good faith.

No I don't believe that to be the case at all. However the punishment or consequence(s) for violating a law (such as murder) should not involve incarceration. I am a big fan of restitution laws where the damages go to the victim, rather than the state. Obviously this isn't always applicable (such as murder where the victim is dead), and I do believe there truly are some people that are dangerous enough to warrant incarceration (although I reserve that for only the most severe cases). But we're way off balance IMHO.
Thinking that tech money can't destroy a respected hundred year old publication is naive: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/when-si...
Your assuming population response is linear, it isn't. Passenger pigeon showed us that populations can collapse rapidly below certain thresholds.
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At first I didn't think I was going to like it, but it is strangely affecting. Also, very nice guitar playing on you channel.
If you're freezing your fish at home, put it in water. I clean them and put them in ziplock bags with just enough water to cover them.

I don't have a good word for this, so I will say that it removes the freezer taste.
“Artist=President Barack Obama”
AFAIK There isn't a huge amount of literature on the subject, in part because of the lack of unification or underlying structure of the field. On the local level, there is very little expertise or time to fine tune strategy, so a plug-and-chug style of campaigning is used: In the UK this can mean - from my experience volunteering during an GE campaign - delivering letters to everyone in a constituency.

Many people working for political campaigns have blogs, which could be useful for you.

For more holistic treatments, one assumes that academic research (e.g. Papers analysing nationwide strategy) may be a good place to look: As to specific (say) Journals, I don't know.
Thanks for the honesty. Maybe this wasn't the article's fault. I am going to have a bourbon drink and see if that helps.
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The more likely outcome of a true post-scarcity society is the 90% will be house servants for the 10%.
Well thanks for being polite about it. I lost like 10 points over this lil' tidbit so point taken. I promise to try.
It will be possible to run all your add-ons in the local setup, including networking. Multi-node is essential for some use-case, but arguably is not critical for most people, yet it is coming in the future.
Depends on whom you're trying to hide from, no?

Friends and family might have a hard time tracking your discrete secondary identities, but your ISP or facebook might see it very transparently.
Building a robust process that creates a model fitting signal and not noise is very tough. It becomes philosophical for some problems, such as forecasting.

Over-fitting is dismissed as an amateur mistake when it really is an endemic problem you are constantly battling no matter how good you are.
Thank you. That's a good idea, and I will look into this. With this method, do you get an alert or email when your period is about to expire?
I could say exactly the same thing about capitalism's boom & bust cycles or the mounting problems of environmental externalities.

You might eb surprised by the relatively steady rate of economic growth in the former Soviet bloc, contrary to popular stereotypes of a collapsing economy. The wiki article below is an OK summary as a) I don't want to demand you read a long paper on the subject, and b) I definitely don't want to advocates for the authoritarian central planning approach that prevailed under Stalin and for decades afterwards, at tremendous cost to human life, liberty, and dignity. Lefty types like myself often refer to that dreadful approach as state capitalism.

I cite it here to suggest that slow & steady growth might be better than highly disruptive unstable maximum growth.
Of course, graphs of aggregate or per-capita GDP suffer from inaccuracy in that they conceal the distribution of economic benefits; as we know you can have a country that's very rich on paper and still has catastrophic poverty problems when you dig farther down into the data. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to easily synthesize data on distribution, economic mobility, the value of public goods, and so forth within a simple metric. Perhaps using multiples of the median rather than currency units would be a better yardstick, but I'm not an econometrist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union
A certain amount of compute capacity should be given with citizenship to each individual. It is fixed. You get to use that capacity however you want: some on your phone, some on your laptop. If you want to run an internet business that uses a lot of compute capacity, then you'll need to rent it from other individuals and consolidate it under your control.
You have put your finger on it. Lack of imagination is why intelligence agencies did not see Russia running influence campaigns on the same social media platforms security agencies use to target incompetent would-be terrorists for dumb stings. Hiding in plain sight is easy for a motivated and diligent adversary.
Microsoft Windows and their software is not ready for these new devices, that is the sad part of the story. One clear example is Microsoft Office not working in different DPI displays. For example if you have a ~4k display in your notebook and you plug two 1080p monitors the fonts will be blurred. And we are talking about the Microsoft core product.
I was in Kauai about 10 years back and a friend of ours who hunts goats traded with a friend for some fresh of the boat tuna. We tried a bit of that tuna the first day, maybe 8 hours after it was caught, sashimi style. It was terrible, just as our friend told us it'd be. It was super chewy and tough. Next night the stuff was great, and two nights later it was FANTASTIC!
As far as I know, the only mainstream language to so what you are talking about is Eve. And I doubt it fits the use case he described in his intro.
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So if you believe the press release/announcement (ha ha ha)...

Using Airbus's Alabama factory will mean they can build/sell planes in the US and avoid 300% duty/tariff on those, and (according to the claims) "they'll secure more orders and double the value of the program" - which doesn't seem completely implausible...

Even if that's wildly optimistic, I'd guess even just farming out the 75 plane Delta order to Alabama and saving 220% and/or 300% in duty means a _lot_ of dollars (and cynically, if they were on the verge of losing the whole program, it'd be a super tempting lifeline to be thrown by Airbus...)
The problem with farming salmon is that the food pellets salmons eat are made out of wild caught fish. Typically, for every kg of salmon you need 2kg of wild caught fish...so not really sustainable.
Read the comments on that article - it's full of hang-em-high sentiment.
One of the reasons that agencies have had trouble preventing these events is that they have the data, but they haven't connected enough of the data. That's hard to do when you are collecting completely irrelevant data in addition to useful data.

If you are having trouble finding a needle in the haystack, adding more hay isn't going to help, it's just going to make your problem worse.
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It seems like the residents don't really know what's going on and their experiences are biased by what they think is going on.

Google targeted a very specific specie of mosquito, which population-wise is probably insignificant in the perceivable number of mosquito you would notice. Aedes aegypti is a specie which generally lives in tropic environment, but was brought over accidentally. The musquitos released are also male and do not bite.
But the parent argument is that loss of privacy hasn't decreased the probability of terrorism attacks. "It's not working but lets keep doing it just because" isn't a sound argument. There might be number thrown about x many threats were stopped which may or may not be true(would still like to see numbers if someone has some reliable ones). But the loss of privacy is unquestionably true (unless I am missing something here).

How much of my personal information do you need before you can guarantee 0 terrorism attacks. If the answer is "never 0 with any mount of loss of privacy", I am not sure if it's a worthwhile goal (or a price to pay).
No but we have the other way around - C to Zig. Why would you want to go to C?
https://twitter.com/stephenniem/status/919897406031978496/ph...

Given that this is twitter the whole thing has been chopped into bite-sized chunks but if you add them together it reads something like the following:

https://tttthreads.com/thread/919897406031978496

In other words, the "research" behind the BBC article is faulty and there is no mention of allah or ali on that Viking artifact.
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That's funny, but insofar as they need to be truly adaptive they're subject to subversion. See James Cameron's in-depth studies of the halting problem as applied to the psychodynamics of biopollutant elimination.
>I get it completely. It's nowhere near as done up as say, Seattle or Boston. It's because it has an industrial past.

Seattle also has an industrial past, and more importantly, a lot of it is still industrial. If you pop open google maps and zoom in on Seattle's waterfront, essentially everything south of Yesler Way is shipping and other industrial uses. Additionally basically everything south of the stadiums is pretty industrial, even further inland.

From looking at Toronto, it looks like the Port Lands area you are talking about is pretty similar to the Sodo area in Seattle I was talking about, while your Harbourfront Centre and Bathurst Quay are more like what people usually consider the Seattle waterfront, with lots of parks and some restaurants, near what I can only assume is your downtown area?

The biggest difference that I see is that you guys appear to have a _lot_ of parking lots, and your rail lines and a big expressway appear to run right between your downtown and the waterfront.
Re: Paint.net on macOS, how do Acorn and Pixelmator (and the soon-to-come Pixelmator Pro) fare for you?