skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aw darn. My first thought was protection from knife attacks.

If that worked, you could also sell to that company making the anti-rape pants.
> then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistently user-hostile business practices

Once upon a time in the USA, and in some nations today, there was/is regulation in the public interest. Why not try it in the USA?
Disconnecting is the best thing you can do for yourself. This company has manipulated you so much that you're actually addicted to it. Just look at what you wrote. You're too invested and addicted to leave a website that willfully and repeatedly violates your privacy? You're better than that.
> The good news (for those of us that don't like Facebook) is that it seems like users are leaving it—or at least that's the picture I get from stories/comments submitted here on HN.

This is good news in the long term, but in the short- and medium-terms it means Facebook is going to get desperate and start deploying more and more dark patterns like the one the GP is talking about. Considering their reach, I shudder to think of what a desperate Facebook will look like for the Internet.
Likely DFT abbreviates discrete Fourier transforms. By now the main interest in DFT is the FFT -- fast Fourier transform, for positive integer n points, n / log(n) times faster.

The FFT was reinvented by J. Tukey, at Princeton and Bell Labs, at a US Presidential Science Advisors meeting, while Tukey was taking meeting notes with one hand and doing Fourier derivations with the other, from a query from R. Garwin, at IBM's Watson lab. Garwin said he was using too much computer time calculating Fourier transforms, so Tukey showed him the FFT. Later Cooley at IBM programmed the FFT, and Cooley and Tukey published the work. The FFT was revolutionary for signal processing, for sonar, radar, molecular spectroscopy, etc.

The sampling issue is: Suppose have a periodic waveform with highest frequency 20 KHz
(kilo Hertz, 1000 cycles per second). Then there is the canonical theorem of interpolation theory that says that can reproduce the wave form exactly from the values of the waveform at equally spaced points 40,000+ times a second, or some such (there is a detail right at the 40,000). There is a cute pseudo-proof based just on pictures!

So, for DFT/FFT, we start with those sampled values, and that's the "discrete" part. E.g., the reason audio CDs use 44 KHz or some such is that they want to be good for music up to 22 KHz. If the music really does have significant power at 22 KHz and we sample at only, say, 15 KHz, then we will have under sampled and end up with distorted music.

A computer sound card or chip has to reverse the discrete sampling and generate a continuous waveform for the audio system and speakers, that is, to analog.

There is a good start on Fourier series (for periodic waveforms) with the math done carefully in W. Rudin, Principles of Mathematical Analysis. If a waveform is not periodic but defined for all time, then we can do the closely related Fourier transform, and there is a nice treatment of the math in W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis.

Suppose we have waveforms x(t) and y(t) where t is time and x(t) and y(t) are real numbers. Suppose we also have real numbers a and b. Suppose we are in, say, a concert hall and musicians are playing x(t) and y(t). Suppose due to the concert hall, for function h what we hear from x is h(x). Then we hope and believe that

h( ax + by ) = ah(x) + bh(y)

that is, the the concert hall effect h
is a linear operator. If in addition
h doesn't change over time, say, yesterday
to tomorrow, then, presto, bingo: All h
and the concert hall can do to x and y is
adjust the volume of the harmonics! Or,
a time invariant linear system is a
linear operator and, from Fourier theory,
a convolution. Here I am simplifying
somewhat.

Well, the world is awash in linear
systems, especially for sonar and
radar. So, one of the big, early
uses of DFT/FFT was in analyzing
the acoustic signals from reflections
from subsurface layers from
small explosions at the surface,
all for looking for oil.
Your statement is probably true for strictly 3 GPUs: Vega 56, Vega 64, and Titan V. Because those three GPUs use next-generation stacked-die HBM2 memory.

Alas: an FPGA or ASIC could ALSO use HBM2 memory (although looking into the RAM types available: Hybrid Memory Cube looks like a better fit for the Cryptocoin Proof-of-Work problems).

The main issue is that stacked-memory + interposers require advanced manufacturing techniques and are incredibly expensive right now. But if the future makes this technology cheaper, then I'd expect FPGA + Hybrid Memory Cube to eventually become the ideal platform for Proof-of-Work mining. AMD really did a good job at turning HBM2 into a commodity (well, until HBM2 supplies dried up anyway).

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If you're talking about commodity GPUs, well... QDR-IV and RLDRAM3 have way lower latency than GDDR5, DDR4, and GDDR6. So I'd expect RLDRAM3 + FPGAs or ASIcs to beat any GDDR5 or GDDR6 based GPU at memory-hard problems.
What about pay per support request? I'd think the people who are desperately trying to get back their email account legitimately are going to be much more willing to pay, say $10, than a free energy crank. Presumably they could set the price at a level they can afford even if everyone and their brother use the support service.
Thanks. How does the stap language being compiled into kernel modules differ from an interpreter? Both seem to have a limited surface (unless you're doing C directly in systemtap)
The US gov't is unlikely to jack the results of $200M and 11 years of research and give it to state-controlled companies.
A platform created to addict people is now beginning to act like an addict begging for a fix?

Can't wait to see what their rock-bottom looks like.
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Oh wow, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
The natural state of an ASIC mining arms race is that any advantage forces centralization. For example, if you have the most cost-efficient miners, you can acquire more miners with your profits. Your competitors fall behind with each iteration. This forces a monoculture of mining machines as miners are forced to use the best-available miner. This leaves the entire system incredibly vulnerable to back-doors and state interference from that manufacturer.

Similarly, locations with the cheapest power force centralization of location, which forces centralization of state regimes presiding over miners.

Monero doesn't suffer from these centralizing forces as applying generalized computing power can be done with spare cycles and is still profitable at the margin. In other words, you might not buy a computer to mine Monero, but if you have one, it might make sense to use your spare cycles for mining. This gets you a widely distributed polyculture, which is the best kind of decentralization.
Instead of making it free, could they improve the speed and comfort of public transport?

I don't drive because it is cheaper, I drive because it is faster, more comfortable and more convenient (it gets me closer to where I want to be).
Used to be SWEs were so powerful that we could by virtue of the fact that replacing one costed so much

But now, where juniors are hired by the dozen and internships are now a seeming requirement (internships being a worker's first -- and now mandatory, it would seem -- induction into drinking the techbiz koolaid), where lifers are getting more and more scarce... I guess you're right :/
In this case, the owner rented out studios to artists for years, and permitted/encouraged them to paint on the walls. He also designated different walls as "permanent" and "temporary" spaces. All that points to a contractual relationship between the owner and the artists. Remember: contracts don't need to be writing.

It's also not entirely clear if the property owner was ever the owner of the art itself. There's a difference between posession and ownership, and while the former is 90% of the latter, that leaves 10% up for grabs. From this pov, the case is maybe comparable to someone finding a Picasso that someone forgot on their front yard, and immediately destroying it.

But, in general: yes, if your property somehow becomes valuable for society in some way or another, that may entail new restrictions on your use. Landmark and similar designations for historically valuable buildings come to mind. When some endangered species starts breeding on your property, you may no longer be able to turn it into a parking lot.

Property rights just aren't as absolute as people like to think, nor are they not subject to change. It's obviously in society's interest to provide for robust protections of private property because it creates incentives to own stuff, and to be productive in order to do so. But these rights are just a tool that has proven extremely useful to organise our economic activity. There are always competing interests, and societies have to find a balance that maximises total value while remaining fair to each individual.
The pole numbering also helps in things like the work PG&E has to do checking for trees and other obstacles posing a risk to transmission lines. The report indicating where the work needs to be done (for instance to cut down a tree) uses the pole number as a point of reference.
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PDF documents have tables. Documents are things meant for a human, it's not raw data, for computers to understand it you need machine learning.

Applications are not based off documents but rather the raw data (which the machine natively understands).

The transition of web from documents to a dumb platform for application software delivery is why the web is no longer the web. It is just application delivery infrastructure now. Each application lives in a walled garden and is no longer a "web" at all.
Sorry, but I only have unverified Reddit comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4me65s/how_much_ele...

(Still, it sure looks like they're correct... they're definitely silicon cells, at very least.)
Another Facebook dark pattern: they hid everybody's email addresses from their profile and showed a new @facebook.com email address. They claimed they had simply introduced a new setting letting you show or hide email addresses individually. However, it was already possible to set the privacy on an email address to "only me", effectively hiding it.
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>Warning: Probably at least 30% of the surmise in this article is wrong.

I like honest authors.
> If users aren't punishing Facebook by leaving the platform in droves, then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistently user-hostile business practices

A huge GDPR face slap could definitely help. I'm really curious to see how this plays out.
My dad was an electrician for about 40 years - one story he told me when he was training apprentices years ago was teaching them how to climb telephone polls. You wore boots that had spikes in the side of them, but when climbing, you had to keep your knees away from the poll so the spikes would dig in properly. Unfortunately, when you get to the top of the pole and look down, some people panic due to the height. And when they panic, they tend to "hug" the poll, which causes the spikes to pull out, which causes the person to slide down the poll which is pretty much a collection of splinters in poll form. They called it "burning the poll".
Berkeley is tackling this issue with a “back on the street by the end of the day” approach to prosecuting laptop thefts.

They also have a game cafe where you pay $5 an hour to sit and play board games. I’ve never seen anyone whip out their laptop instead but that would be a pretty cheap coworking option.
The most surprising thing to me is that they can parameterize a nontrivial section of the implementation space of a function, or that such a section exists that hasn't been optimized away by the compiler.
I'm going to make two assumptions: China is spying on us through these phones, and the US is not spying on the Chinese through US phones.

Now consider what real harm is going to come from US citizens using these phones when don't have any influence on the US government. Are the Chinese going to siphon the data of everyone in the country and use it to plan attacks on the government? Could be. But considering the relationship these two counties have right now, does this seem probable?

We aren't at war with China. But we are slowly giving up market share to foreign companies, which weakens our economy and our negotiating power. Really, the biggest threat to the US from China is not intelligence leaks. It's customers. Once we lose the mobile market, everything else people use through the mobile phone may follow. China's startups could position themselves to become the center of the tech world with a captive user base and tailored platform.

It could be that ZTE and Huawei simply can't be bought, and the US gains nothing by allowing China to dump cheap and powerful smartphones on the market. It's one thing to screen phones in the public sector - but nationally? I'm not buying it.
At minimum, they probably aren't trained in journalistic integrity?
It is an order of magnitude more expensive to bury utility lines under ground, both in upfront costs and ongoing maintenance costs. This is due to the safety that has to be put in place to protect the wires, and the people who may dig into the wires while they are underground. Additionally making alterations to a power system due to a growing or changing residential power needs is much harder to do and takes longer when the power is routed under ground.
In Australia we have a life extension program for hardwood poles which slides a steel formed sock/support down the side to stabilise it for many a year more after a hard life.

We had some issues with corrosive dog wee. Tar treatment sometimes works. Also steel collars to keep possums off the top structure.

In Europe there are other platforms above the transform and wire complex for bird nests. Storks, cranes all above the risky bit.

Aussie poles are made from wood which is harder than nails. Unbelievably strong stuff which years of soaking in very nasty chemicals defends from termites which are ubiquitous.
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Hello, evolutionary algorithms by themselves I am not sure and don't have enough experience with atm. In our particular context the key is the intermediate representation on which the evolution happens and the compiler behaviors it triggers. We are still far from competitive against highly tuned expert code in computation-bound regimes but we do see >50% shared memory BW peak usage in nvprof in multiple cases. This first iteration is aimed at addressing the immediate research productivity needs: no need to write hundreds of lines of framework integration and low-level kernels to get a reasonable CUDA performance. We think we are helping remove the first immediate bottleneck that are very frustrating in practice to ML researchers when their layer does not translate exactly in supported, optimized, vendor libraries.
Just make all calls to support paid per minute - it shortens the calls and removes the nutters. Adjust the price dynamically to meet demand.
Honestly I think the bigger story is Amazon's inability to handle the problem appropriately. For a company that has such a stellar reputation for customer service, they really bungled this about as badly as they could.
They do say that the product is patent pending, and the process is a trade secret. These are not mutually exclusive.
This is an interesting step. One of the capabilities that SpaceX gets if they have a network satellite constellation up is the ability to provide full orbital telemetry without having additional ground stations.

I'd love to look at the radio on one of their 'birds', there is so much cool stuff you can do in a small package these days.
If you own a building you have the right to demolish it and erect a new one. Even if you let someone put graffiti on the walls, that is not a contract to let the graffiti stay there forever.
No, you can't say it's bipartisan when Republicans have consistently sought to intentionally damage the IRS by underfunding it. They even tried to impeach the IRS chief because he wouldn't go along with their manufactured fake news scandal about the Tea Party.
Parent was presumably leaving unsaid "... at scale", aka enough to move a chunk of the hash power.
One thing I didn't put in here that's also turned out to be useful: We can prerelease things relatively easily this way too. Each deployment has a git sha, and we can have a canary/beta/dogfood version that points at an entirely different sha.
How is trustless digital programmable peer-to-peer monetary transaction not a great solution to the antiquated, corrupt status quo?
Nit: s/poll/pole/g
Probably because the gasses that the poles produce when burning are prohibited by fire code.
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All systems have failure modes; so, use multiple systems to do things that are important.
It may be the same thing as railway sleepers: they are treated with Creosote, which is not a very good chemical
First, I live in France. The practices you speak of are familiar, but legislation may be different. Second, several contractors did got hired before me. Third, the terms of the grant they seek compels them to have very few contractors. They are expected to hire en masse if they get it.

Fourth, my contractor status is actually secondary to me. More important is being allowed to work part time (4 days a week), which I'm currently negotiating.
I don't think that's right. Latencies should be better than a landline over some distances. A couple hundred miles up doesn't add that much latency, and transmission speed is higher in a vacuum than a glass fiber.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. It is a good thing for the owner to be able to willingly give up some of their rights over their property. You wouldn't consider renting a home or office if the owner had the right to kick all of your belongings out of their property, or change the lock and hold them for ransom. The reason why "using someone else's property" can work is precisely because the owner can credibly pledge not to use those rights for a time.

This doesn't mean that you own that home or office.
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Causality is backward here, really. Government debt and money are effectively the same thing. Growing government debt is growth in the money supply, which can lead to inflation.

Governments don't try to devalue sovereign debt, they try to pay off their foreign debts. For that, they buy up all foreign currency in the market, sending the value of their currency plummeting.
The coverage of Google across all of Murdoch's media outlets speaks for itself. It's not exactly subtle. Compare the number of times some minor Google story has been on the front page of a Murdoch paper in the last few months (dozens) with how often the lead story in all the other anglosphere papers combined is about Google (I'd be surprised if it was more than one or two).

I say that as somebody who doesn't like Google and doesn't like this ad 'blocking' feature.
Yes, I am intimately familiar with this as this was also part of the services that I was involved in delivering. One of the deliverables for utility clients we provided was every "fall in" or "drop in" line violation for high power transmission lines, including their "between" location in relation to adjacent poles on the corridor.

I could talk about this subject for hours so let me know if you have any other questions.

:)
these aren't marketing campaigns and a part of your subscribed service, they aren't violating anything, and aren't required to process short codes in this case.
It'd be very easy for Facebook to cross-reference multiple address books (even 1 would be enough) and create "virtual profiles". E.g. if Alice is not part of the Facebook/Whatsapp ecosystem but Bob, Charlie and Donna are, and they all have Alice's phone number (unique identifier!) on their phone. If all 4 hang out together a lot and Bob, Charlie and Donna upload a lot of pictures of all of them, and they diligently tag people who have accounts, then Facebook can probably figure out the 4th person (which face they've stored for their recognition engine) is probably Alice.

And if Alice, like the poster, never gave Facebook her phone number, but Bob, Charlie and Donna have it under "Alice Lastname", and they're all friends with Alice Lastname on Facebook, Facebook can probably be certain to say "Store your phone number, we think this is it.". Or to word that properly, "Confirm your number, although we already know this is it."
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> Do you guys know of anything similar for other (unrelated) learning subjects?

Raft consensus http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
This is something I wonder about. I'm certain they never delete anything, because in aggregate all that data is surely very valuable and will be for years to come. However, I hope that by marking it for deletion, it becomes more likely that it gets stored on increasingly distant/cold media, increasing the likelihood that over the years it gets overwritten or corrupted or some drives fail. If times get difficult, maybe they'll mark my data as low priority, and let it get overwritten to save some money. Can anyone shed some light on this - is this just wishful thinking? Is storage too cheap?

Another thing I wonder about: perhaps if some companies want your facebook data, they might pay a rate and see all current information on your facebook. By deleting your data, you've denied these lower-tier companies from accessing it. I suspect that with enough money, they could buy access to deleted posts too. But such companies are probably fewer in number.
> that there were perhaps 1000 poles out there that weren't on any of there maps

I can totally see how this would happen. When I bought my house, the power/utility lines were hanging about four feet off the ground in my backyard. Apparently the previous owner didn't care.

I called the utility company to complain, and they sent someone out with a new full size pole, who basically just shoved it in the ground in the corner of my property to prop up the lines.

As far as I can tell, there are no identifying marks anywhere on the pole. No label, no inspection, no nothing. Except a sign that says "Danger, do not put ladder on this cable", which is on the fiber optic cable that runs along the pole.
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Head to Head, does HomePod sound the best?
Pitch is the perceptual correlate of fundamental frequency. When you make acoustic measurements, you measure frequency, not pitch.
Indeed. There's probably some sort of Greek tragedy to be written about the story of tracing and Linux. Or maybe we can just go for a beer at the next LPC and laugh this one out ;)
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The question here was not "forever", it was "in the middle of the night, just before the court could reach a decision" instead of "when the building is demolished ten months in the future".
Matches my knowledge, except for the following part:

> Even if you create stuff outisde work that may be useful for the employer, the company has access and may get the rights (for a fair compensation according to the law).

Where does this come from?
> premature hard fork that rolls back some transactions. Not the end of the world

That sounds pretty bad. Especially if mucking with the hash function is now business as usual. (I.e. there's a chance of this happening after every hard fork)