skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These types of write ups (though sometimes very technically interesting) always have the "Don't you know who I am?" about them, which is very annoying.
But now the onus is on other people to create a name for everyone they might interact with regularly. So instead of each person creating one name to denote themselves, each person is now creating multiple names to denote everyone else.

And I don't really see how this is functionally any different to adding digits to the end of your normal username.
If you're paying for this, why bother traveling? If you just want to be surrounded by like-minded laptop-bound people that are just like you, why leave home?
Exactly. They are representative of what we think of ourselves as human, what we could be, what is possible, and what should be. They are just as important as any deity of old. We take cues from our idols, we listen to them and often do what they do or say. We put ourselves in the world of our idols all the time.

I think we lose the significance of ritual when we try to be "rational". For me, ritual is entirely rational. Without it we'd almost be stuck in a stagnant loop, trying to rationalize all of our behaviors without actually making any definitive action because we know at the brain-level it's "just" neurons firing, it's just "feelings". Ritual is an immersion in creative processes, providing not only stability but possibility.
I know you’re right about how this is done, but my god I’d rather have that cordon than exposure to some horrific vesicant!
This speaks to me strongly, having done this many times: "I’m still not sure I understand it; I type clear: both and say a prayer to the box model."
Chrome remote desktop is very fast, speedwise how does this compare?
Chinese Companies Shelter Themselves from Stocks’ Dive
They were part of their respective notes, I just reformatted them to be in one place in this comment :).
No. I had no idea there were sequels.
>Unless a blockchain has tremendous value (like cryptocurrencies currenly have) there is no way to sustain them.

This is not true, value is arbitrary.
Back of the envelope, a TPU costs a little more than 2x as much as a Volta on AWS P3, and delivers a little less than 2x the performance (180 TOPs for the TPU, 100 for Volta). On a raw performance/$ metric, I'm not sure the TPU is that interesting.

It might be worth it if I were willing to pay a huge amount to get back results from an experiment faster, by using lots of TPUs- distributed learning on GPUs doesn't seem easy yet.
Agreed. Bitcoin solves some problems with current forms of payment that shouldn't be unique to blockchain. Credit cards and checks are the equivalent of giving vendors your wallet's private key.
I feel like it got a little slower when they moved it from a Chrome App to https://remotedesktop.google.com as part of deprecating Chrome Apps. Other than that, it's pretty great (and simple to use). I always recommend it to people with Windows home editions, since they can't use RDP.
http://www.jargon.net/jargon/jargonfile/c/cycleofreincarnati...
How would this compare to something such as https://guacamole.apache.org/
I’ll second Seneca. I like On the Shortness of Life

Key Excerpt:

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.
Dang (and others) has a history of bias.

Here is the last political story from yesterday where he reprimanded a commenter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349565

The comment is certainly more productive than many others, but it commits the sin of calling the article "Communist apologia" and dang jumped on it. (I flagged dang's scolding for being inappropriate.)
> There is also a subgenre of books aimed specifically at new fathers, but since they are an almost uninterrupted wasteland of jokes about breasts and beer, this article will give them the attention they deserve, which is none.

Yeah... no. As a new father of a now five-month old boy, I very highly recommend The Expectant Father and The New Father by Armin A. Brott. They are a far cry from a "wasteland of jokes about breasts and beer". It's unfortunate that this (so far) otherwise interesting article is doing what so many of the books it is criticizing do... giving little attention to the fatherhood side of parenting.
Please tell me you held down the zero key accidentally ;)
Why not do both, at least temporarily? Take the job, and then when you're in a better financial position, quit and continue the startup.
Right, it's not solvable. But as I stated in the other reply, it's also unnecessary in the vast majority of systems - either failure is not catastrophic, or you only need consensus about the past, or the decision is not executed in a shared synchronised matter, or some other property that means you don't actually need to solve the actual Two Generals Problem.

I really think we need to stop citing it as a "thing", it's like the Halting Problem, stupidly strong and not necessary most of the time. Saying that something "solves" Two Generals is diverting the conversation into pointless impossibilities.
So systemd at least compiles without manual settings, and convention over configuration trends. It would be ideal if they just setup their own NTP server for the default though. I think from a practical perspective though the whole thing was blown out of proportion.
The difference is the character of the non-linearity.
New York after Paris (1906)
The only thing you have done is emphasize the need to answer his question. When he does an inter-bank transfer, why does it take 3 days for to clear?

I did something similar a few days ago, and while it didn't take 3 days, it did take over a day.
Every single baby guide book is 100% absolutely garbage. I encourage every single one of you that are about to have children to never EVER buy one. All they do is talk about the "average" baby, and you'll soon find that you and your spouse feel entirely inadequate because your baby isn't sleeping as much, eating as much, moving as much, interacting as much, etc.

What the books never tell you is that sure, there may be average numbers available, but the STANDARD DEVIATION is HUGE. No baby is average. My wife was convinced our first child had sleeping issues because he slept 2 hrs less than average. It turns out that's just who he is, he sleeps a lot less than most kids, but still at the bottom of the range of healthy. All it does is fuck with your head, so just take a cue from other parents around you.
And what happens if people are actually faking (lying) about reporting fake data?

If these government official were lying, giving them incentives to admit they are lying is the worst outcome I can think of.
Can you envision that it didn't work as intended and that it was missing on mobile? Thank you.
Does this use Apache Guacamole or is it a custom-made software?
If you really want people to donate, (this is on mobile) make it way way way more obvious than the third of four icons on the side. And I get the beer mug concept, but that still doesn’t scream “donate” to me.

Also anyone with a lick of JS experience could make this in less than an hour.

Also 4500 isn’t a lot.
You may want to include differences from [mstsc.js](https://github.com/citronneur/mstsc.js) for RDP and [noVNC](https://github.com/novnc/noVNC) for VNC, apart from those are both being free open source software while yours is closed source monthly subscription software.
Rounding the point off - hence why "Empire" was in quotes and not just written as Empire. It's not a technical empire, but is making a point (using conversational context).
Could be weeks or a couple months. I've been working on landing a number of big deals for months and all I need is 2 to come through and I'll be good.

I've already maxed out all my credit cards, cashed out my 401k, and sold almost all my assets.

The bank won't give any loans as they look at my personal credit.
If this is interesting to you, it will also be interesting to you that lenses perform the physical equivalent of an analog fourier transform, and physicists exploited this to compute wave spectra well before digital computers existed.
German court says Facebook's privacy settings and use of personal data are illegal
Capital concentration is the whole point of cities. The only economically equal and balanced settlement pattern is everyone getting a small farm.

The problem we’re trying to solve here is that people are artificially denied access to the (jobs, infrastructure, culture) benefits of concentrated capital.

If you think we shouldn’t have cities, that’s one thing. If you think they should be reserved exclusively for the people who already live in them, that’s quite another, and you’re simply creating a new form of structural inequality based on birthplace (even within the US).
a video on Agincourt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5cIzwaxKcM (ok, the first 2 minutes are a little hocky but he also does some great Roman videos) and one one archery for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDQaJKpBWgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSq5GX0G3Co
I'd be depressed too if my news feed was filled with the social dynamics of pubescent-aged children. It's much easier to understand what's truly going on in the social world when one is physically present in that world, and it's also much easier to remove onself from a toxic group of people. Every school-aged relative I have has a Facebook with nearly every kid from school added as a friend. But every friend's feed is presented by default as if you are directly involved with their shit. It's hard to remove oneself from that, especially because having more Facebook friends to a kid is very socially laudable.
You might as well have them just log in with their email address in that case, which brings you back to the original "cruel username" problem.
How do you know there aren't any secret warrants (like the ones issued by the FISA court, but international/between UK and US)?

In other words, the "rule of law" has become a farce recently - the powerful (= government, RIAA, etc) get whatever they want, one way or another.
Verizon fights phone theft by locking smartphones it sells
BTC is ASIC based now. No GPU will ever compete in the BTC realm.

Etherium is Dagger-Hashimoto, which tries to be RAM-bandwidth bound. GDDR5 and HBM2, which can achieve RAM-bandwidths of 500+ GB/s (compared to a typical CPU+ Dual-channel DDR4 with only 50GB/s), so Etherium's best machine are the cheap GPUs with GDDR5. HBM2 (Vega64 and Titan V) are faster, but I don't remember if they win in price/performance. HBM2 might win in ongoing costs due to being more power-efficient.

Monero is Cryptonight, which tries to be memory-latency bound (Ideally: executing out of L3 cache of CPUs). Unfortunately, it seems like the miners have figured out how to parallelize it, as HBM2-based cards manage to perform incredibly well in Cryptonight.

Basically, the only cryptocoin that MIGHT be worthwhile on an APU connected to DDR4 is Monero / Cryptonight. Even then, because Cryptonight is primarily memory-latency bound, I doubt that the GPU-portion would be any faster than the CPU. The majority of the algorithm is waiting for L3 cache to respond.

The L2 Cache in GCN (and probably Vega) is 512kb and shared between 4 compute units. So its too small to execute Cryptonight. As such, why execute from the on-board GPU when the CPU already maxes out the L3 cache?

Cryptonight requires 2MB of low-latency access per instance. Threadripper with 16 cores and 32MB of L3 is basically the most ideal CPU setup. But Vega64 managed to outperform Threadripper by significant margins, probably because HBM2 RAM is incredible (and there seems to be some kind of unexpected parallelization trick in the Cryptonight algorithm)
Good grief, if that was your original point you really could have phrased it better, it wasn't clear at all. That said, mea cupla: you're right that my own phrasing could have been better, I've amended it.

(it certainly wasn't directly calling him guilty in any case - people are arrested "in connection" to crimes all the time without being accused of being the perpetrator of that crime)
Iceland Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than homes (mostly renewable)
Citations are great, but in this case it does sound like a formality of posting a Wikipedia link. This is not an obscure topic, and none of us need to be directed to the appropriate resources. A request to add such a link wouldn’t be out of line, but a curt two-word dismissal certainly is. Worse, it makes more reasonable and understandable requests seem churlish when they arise.
3440x1440 user here. I needed to use an extension to play Altered Carbon in ultrawide. I have definitely had problems with netflix on ultrawide.
That's not that true. Plenty of non IMO/Putnam people have won Fields Medals.
How to Build an NLP Engine That Won’t Screw Up
Broadcom Secures as Much as $100B of Debt Funding for Qualcomm Bid
> As a species we’re drowning in tribes, cults, and misinformation for power, profit, or comfort.

I believe this is the driving motivation behind 'attachment parenting' (what a weird term) and general movements to rely on personal knowledge.
Chrome Reminds Us to Be Secure or Display Your Site Is 'Not Secure'
The Two Generals Problem is a specific problem, separate from the Byzantine Generals Problem, which is an extension of the Dining Philosophers Problem. There are other papers which advertise "Byzantine" solutions or problems, due to the references to qualities of similar problems. They are all concurrency problems, but they all have different specific criteria and solutions. You can find the related papers under each problem on Wikipedia (they are officially behind paywalls, but you can find the PDFs indexed on search engines)
My reaction too, and quite a visceral one. Does this kind of lazy projection actually work to make people care about whatever journalists feel like writing about?
Hm, not even mention of genital mutilation, that is truly diabolical side of this industry :-(
> Rather mostly China succeeded because it had a population larger than any other country

…is that also why India "succeeded"?
When our kids were babies everyone we knew here in the UK seemed to have an obsession with getting their kids off to sleep as early as possible (about 7pm usually - mostly by putting them in a separate room and ignoring them) and then were amazed that their kids woke up really early.

We let our kids stay up until they went to sleep at their own pace and then they seemed to wake up at a relatively civilized time.
Interesting.

>I thought the TCP/IP stack was years ahead of Windows, not quite comparable to what you'd find on SunOS/Solaris or whatever DEC ran on the microvax workstations.

I remember back in the day, people saying that the TCP/IP and Internet layers on Windows were not good. There was this software called Trumpet Winsock, which may have tried to make things better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsock#Other_implementations

You may be interested in "Mike's PC Jr. page" which is linked to in this blog post:

Lissajous hippo, retrocomputing and the IBM PC Jr.:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/09/lissajous-hippo.html

He wrote a TCP/IP stack for his IBM PC Jr. and is using it :)
>(that's all a language or DB does anyway)

Well, that's my point. Postgres does it for me. SQLite doesn't. I'm lazy.

Also, SQLite's largest integer type is 64 bits. That's awfully tight for some use cases.
The flaw (geddit?) in this is that deep networks are processing data from different domains, with different characteristics (which change in chaotic ways). In ML the choice was always "the simpler the better" - we used statistics and information theory to apply Occam's razor. Deep networks don't work that way and they do work well in some real domains, nature does not always prefer simple domain theories. If the laws of the universe suddenly changed designing optics would suddenly be difficult as well.
While not strictly related to computation, sqlite is a non-starter for deploying to PaaS without a persistent file system.

"SQLite on Heroku" [1], essentially: don't do it, switch to postgres.

I suppose it would work with AWS Beanstalk and EBS.

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/sqlite3
> what if there is no good formal theory to explain how it works?

We don't need a theory that is perfect. Each theory was partially wrong but still lets you make useful predictions about the world. We need useful models that let you reason about the world. All models are wrong, some are useful.

> What if intelligence, both animal and machine, is purely random trial and error and "this thing seems to work"?

Evolution could be just considered random trail and error. However until we reach the singularity, we need people to speed up the evolution process by adapting and remixing pieces that worked before. We need models for what each level does so have ideas of what to try for a new application.
I worked for a couple years on control systems software without any kind of experience or formal training. We would get source code, with some initial tuned parameters, then take our robot out into the field, and re-tune our control loops based on reality.

Here was my takeaway: an engineer has to understand the domain and algorithms involved at a deep level, or they will not be productive. Or, you will need to have both an engineer and somebody with the domain knowledge and experience.

It doesn't really matter what your problem domain is. If you're an engineer, and it's your job to make changes to a system, whether code or config, you need to understand it at a deep level. And your manager needs to understand this requirement.

Otherwise, you will be guessing at changes, so your productivity will be horrible or non-existent.
Surprised they don't mention economist Emily Oster's book Expecting Better, which is an imperfect book but takes a data-driven Freakonomics-style approach to pregnancy. I enjoyed it.

The real challenge is that there's so little good data to begin with.
There are thousands of cheap / normal homes under the Heathrow flightpath.

It's one of the smaller reasons I left London. (My workplace was under it, so I looked for a new job that wasn't.)
Read Tombstone by Yang Jisheng.
My understanding is that using SQLite is completely fine in a multithreaded architecture, but you have to ensure that the simultaneous database operations match the correct threading mode:

https://sqlite.org/threadsafe.html

I also believe that the common way of gaining performance while protecting safety is to use multi-thread mode with connection pooling. The idea being that your application can use different database connections to achieve multiple writes without relying on the overhead of additional locking required within SQLite itself for serialized mode.

Would be interesting if anybody has performance metrics that backs up what I said with data converging on an optimum number of database connections.
Probably, but there's disagreement about how to do so, and it's not hard to make the changes anyway.
Facebook personal data use and privacy settings ruled illegal by German court
Sounds like a potential DoS. Just create an delete processes never freeing the handle. And the offending process is not easily found by the average user.
Office more specifically Excel and I know linux has alternatives but they are not as good and everyone else i am working with is using/sending excel.

I excitedly installed the new crossover linux because of there office 2017 support in my manjaro machine at home and yea i guess it "works" but the experience was slow, painful, and i wouldn't call it stable.

Beyond that i find i am constantly having to put work into my linux machine to get things to run YES its a million times better than it used to be AND I WANT to run linux but its always more work.
Well two things. The company I'd be joining is run by a friend, so I'm unsure if he'd let me do both. He'd likely want me to focus on just his thing, especially if he's paying so much.

Then #2, the industry my company is in is moving very fast and is very competitive. If I slow down too much, the company might get left behind.
> Use a paper notepad.

That's what my grandpa does. After failing to find his gmail address in it, he went through the "forgotten password" process. Then, after needing it the third time, we found the old password in the notebook, which was now wrong...
> When he does an inter-bank transfer, why does it take 3 days for to clear?

They chose the cheap, safe option over the fast, risky one. I talked about the difference between net and real-time gross settlement in an earlier comment [1]. TL; DR There is a fundamental trade-off between mutability, speed and cost.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16154956#16155708
If you do, sure. But nobody has that ability.

I just mentioned, elsewhere in this thread, a couple major players in the cryptocurrency space who have proved to be untrustworthy. And a lot of people got burned in part because they believed the hype that removing the need for trust from the management of the "physical" currency is equivalent to removing the need for trust from the financial system itself.

That might have been true thousands of years ago, before the birth of finance, when everything really did run on just cash. Things are more complicated than that nowadays, though. Cash is such a small corner of the money supply in a modern economy. A few percent of the bits that people bother to try and count, and there's a lot more that goes uncounted. A distributed trustless public ledger for the cash doesn't really help with the trust issues for that stuff. Frankly, it only helps with the small subset of money for which I'm least worried about trust.
This indeed is mostly a wrapper around guac. But we did design a custom client protocol for speed.
Land in London would be reclaimed, some fresh soil is a tiny cost compared to the value.
You try that, I'll try the other way and we'll see whose baby gets into Harvard!
Seems like everyone is looking at this from a 1st world perspective where our trust in money and the financial system has worked in our favor (generally). In places like Vietnam where their currency has crashed to 0 in memoriable history a decentralized currency seems like a great idea.

Furthermore there is over 500B USD (more than global foriegn investment) sent from migrant workers back to the thrid world every year. Each transaction can cost anywhere from 5 - 15% depending on the country. Than the reciepient incurs more fees for exchanging to their local currency. This results in an enormous amount of economic waste and can be completely avoided with a decentralized and trusted block chain currency.

All of this causes incentive for the technology to persist and keep expanding. In this sense I feel the author and many commentors have missed the point. A decentralized currency is not for places where trust already exists (yet) but it already has applications where it does not.

IMO this is what has "futurists" up in arms. Just like how the internet had the potential to allow the flow of information to pass between boarders freely from the beginning but was seen as a novelty. This is becuase it was looked at under a 1st world lens where public libraries and free education were already norms. It was only when information got into the hands of those who previously could not get it did we see an explosion of ideas and progress. What if the same thing happens with money?
I'm puzzled by the phrase "differentiated performance per dollar."

Is it more performant, or less?

If it's less performant, why mention it at all?

If it's more performant, why not simply say "better performance per dollar"?
SF's Tenderloin is the same though. If anything it seems worse.