skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Lenovo here is running on Boardwell, that is the 14nm version of Haswell.

I am running on a 32nm SandyBridge, which is even older then the 2012 MBA, 22nm Ivy Bridge mentioned in the MBA post below. And due to some thermal issues, It is now capped to running at Max 2.2Ghz.

I am still trying to clean up my tabs, which is on a moderately high level of 299. Slightly lower then last weeks 380. Not all of them are active, may be only 40 tabs or so.

And needless to say, for lots of Heavy Tabs users, Firefox now runs circle around Chrome. And right now, it is using 15 - 40% CPU when "idle", but mostly hover around ~25%. And I have Ad Block and Privacy option turned on. So that helps a lot too.

These days website uses insane amount of Javascript from track everything including your mouse movement to quietly mining Bitcoins. For most people, Firefox is now very fast.

You should try resetting profile and visit the same website to see if problem persist. You should file a bug. But may be you would have try all this and know already, since you have been using it since Phoenix. I can not help.

Have a nice Day
User since Netscape era.
A CS degree, you say? What in the world use is that other than jumpstarting the first couple of years of employment? And getting filtered past people who believe it is important?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I've always seen some of these older companies as being big on hiring people from academia (and also military for some reason - it seems many of these folks have military backgrounds).
"Bailout"
This is ELI5 territory, which is cool because we probably need one of these as well.
[This became quite a rambling post, but I'm too lazy to shorten it. Sorry.]

For a proper response to this I'd need to dig up the literature that analyzed the complexity in detail. I haven't had a reason to look at that yet. In practice, we do not care that much for theoretical complexity of algorithms. It does not tell you anything really useful. For certain problems, a grid beats a BVH, and for others, a BVH beats a grid. Sometimes, switching the heuristic used for BVH construction makes or breaks performance. Sometimes, rasterization performs worse than ray tracing.

Voxel cone tracing is at its core a volume rendering technique. It requires a brute force sampling of the generated reflectance volume at each grid cell along the ray. The dynamic generation of the volumetric data is a three-dimensional rasterization step that is not cheap. And the output is only really good for surfaces with a certain amount of glossiness. I was a bit surprised that Epic axed it from UE4 before release (implementing it takes a lot of work!), but I think in the end the combined results from reflection mapping and screen space reflections was of a similar quality. It's a shame, though, that Cyril Crassin's research work went essentially unused.

This is fundamentally different from path tracing with BVH traversal. A lot of manpower and money has been sunk into the later problem in the last couple of decades. Ray intersection kernels like OptiX use every trick in the book to run fast on the hardware they are designed for - and they are really, really fast when you consider what they have to work with. Unfortunately, the hardware manufacturers are hell bent on keeping a lot of their tricks secret.

Wavelet filter based denoising really takes the rendered input down to about 1 or 2 paths per pixel. I have had that demonstrated to me in real time on quite complex scenes (one was San Miguel) - on currently available commodity hardware, too. Otherwise I wouldn't believe it. These filters make realtime path tracing work.
Rana Faroohar has been writing good commentary on this topic and big tech's broader problems in the Financial Times

From December last year 'Why Big Tech wants to keep the net neutral' - good on explaining tensions between net neutrality and section 230

https://www.ft.com/content/a06bedd2-e1ae-11e7-8f9f-de1c2175f...
Don't the matchmaking algorithms correct for this though?

If you're an "A" player and you throw a game, I thought penalties generally applied and you could eventually find yourself downgraded to "B"?
Yes. Some things are just obvious easy wins. And still I am surprised how often we choose to do differenT.

Its the same readon why I almost always immediately use vue or react. Because it doesnt cost me much (~0) but if that thing has to scale i’ll be ready
I hope this is the start of the end of all facebook legacy. We deserve on 20XX more than a full laggy PHP system as social network.
the crux of Technical Debt is captured in these 2 points

> the right balance comes with not just engineering experience, but also domain experience, team maturity/talent, market/competitive pressures, leadership, and culture.

>the project with the most amount of debt happened because of poor leadership.
unfollow != unfriend :)
the other sad reality is that on mobile, the number of people who read the tweets is arguably going to be higher than people who click to the blog, and a spam of tweets attracts attention and audience. I can't remember the study, but people are generally rather unlikely to navigate out of an app to read something, hence everything having a built in browser.
Cocoa: a plant native to South/Central America.
Why serious breaches of trust such as this don't immediately receive outside, completely foreign, third party (all of it!) investigation is beyond me. None of this should be news - it should be implied. For the same reasons PDs shouldn't "investigate" their own abuses.
Try Restaurant Mexico (Res Mex) in downtown Tempe, on Mill Ave.
Read the article before asking questions.

"This unique nearly vertical trajectory is different from the usual satellite launches that the rockets fly over horizontal trajectory "
Ditto on this! LaTex also isn't too terribly difficult, so it might be possible to get 90% the way there just by copying what's been done for the first chapters already, and then @chrissnell can do the fine formatting how he'd like it to look.
Gradient descent is already a type of evolution that converges to a truth
Vancouver and Toronto are super overheated by the influx of foreign capital.

Here's a stellar 2 bedroom house relatively near me:
https://www.blogto.com/city/2018/01/everyones-shocked-toront...
The worst such event on record caused errors of ~1 meter. I didn't think civilian GPS was that precise anyway, and that's why various schemes are used in conjunction with GPS for greater accuracy? Presumably, military GPS has similar schemes to deal with this sort of event?
Do you ear often cases of counterfeit money? Almost never because the punishment is very high and it is considered as a very severe crime. IMHO, child porn is only a scapegoat for liberticide laws. If the states wanted to fight child porn, it could eradicate it without changing any law. Even if child porn is a serious issue, I am convinced it is completely negligible compared to the number of children raped by their parents. Even stars like Woody Allen are concerned.

When I read that we should fight child porn, it means that we should give up our freedom and our democracy. Choose your fight.
The big difference is facebook could die over night - some hot new thing gets popular and facebook disappears into obscurity. (unlikely but a possibility)

Google on the other hand is not so easy to replace, it's not a popular trend, it's in the browser i'm typing on, my pocket, my map/navigation, email, chat. Google knows a disturbing amount of information about me I never intentionally gave. Facebook just knows what I tell it.

A malicious google could do a unthinkable amount of damage to society, there is little we could do if we even knew it was happening.
Well that's a myth. If you are on an HSA you can be screwed over in one big event. Likewise with deductibles and premiums for a family on other plans you can see health care costs at $10k easily. So you can't say that no highly paid tech employee is pay 10s of thousands b/c I know a few that are.
"In this Omniglot multitask character recognition task, our research team improved error of character matching from 32% to 10%"

Death to CAPTCHA
My biggest gripe with Zoom is that they have tech in place to seamlessly support open-standard connections (SIP & XMPP), but make their utmost to sweep both under the rug: SIP is $49/month/user and XMPP server isn't advertised as such and wouldn't let anything but official proprietary client connect, either.
A helper for working with temporary files in Swift
If you think understanding power structures isn’t novel or interesting, it’s surprising that you think discussions like this “remove all human agency.” Agency doesn’t mean you have the freedom to do whatever, it means you are acting in your own self-interest according to the limitations of your environment and your knowledge. When we acknowledge the agency of people in early states, for example, we are saying that they are taking part in the process of state formation, often to their own benefit, and that it isn’t just one person magically creating a state. We are not saying that they aren’t to blame when they get burned at the stake by that same state because they had the “agency” to just say no.
He even sells MCT oil at twice the market rate.
https://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Brain-Octane-Reliable-Sou...
I call it EOD explanation.
Hey don't hold back, tell us what you really think!

I wonder where you are from? Do you really think the Brits have a monopoly on villainry? Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Columbus etc., Armenia, Arab/Jewish slave trade, US disruption of elections worldwide since ever.. Is my point made?
> it's not really something you go - "yeah let's kill people for fun today"

I never said people kill for fun. When mass shooting happens, using gun feels normal. Because they have been using that weapon (gun) like it's supposed to (shooting practices and hunting) for a long time.
As far as the Feds (and some states) are concerned, all prostitution is trafficking. Did you pay for a prostitute's Uber home after your hook-up? Congratulations, you've engaged in "human trafficking". Enjoy your long prison sentence.
DeepMind – On the importance of single directions for generalization
Khmer is quite complex, and isn't on the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_numerals

Up to 30, it's got a base-5 component so, for example, 16 =
dap pram muoy (10 5 1). From 30 onwards, like Thai it follows the more straightforward Chinese number system.

The numbers in Scottish Gaelic have recently been changed and are now base 10:

https://gaelicgrammar.org/~gaelic/mediawiki/index.php/Numera...
LaTex-Mex?
Overwatch tried that. People started blocking everyone better than them. In the end, one of the top widowmaker players couldn't find a match, because everyone who didn't want to play against him had blocked him.

Actually, I'm not sure block is the word blizzard used. Avoid, maybe? The end result was more or less the same.
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do they have this but for forum email? I really want my emails from forums, groups and reflectors to look and feel like reddit's threaded replies, instead it's a disorganized mess and always has been for literally 20 years.
I theorize that humans do poorly with too much regularity and we actually benefit from irregularity, unlike computers.

In Haskell, first line would be the same without the const and the other could be

tongan = intercalate " ".reverse.map ((base !!).(`mod` 10)).takeWhile (> 0).iterate (`div` 10)

(ISTM that there must be a better alternative to takeWhile + iterate).
I get interview rejections left and right (usually in the phone interview round), and since I have been in the same period of unemployment since 2015 I feel like I haven't really learned much or improved much with interviewing.

It's pretty terrible to get little feedback but expect to introspect for fix it (My introspection itself needs work- I don't know what I don't know).
If you mutate genomes by small additive modifications to a vector of continuous parameters, then taking lots of samples and keeping the best is essentially a stochastic approximation to gradient descent. However, unlike the SGD used in deep learning, it doesn't make use of calculus and therefore requires many more samples (exponentially more, in the worst case) to get a gradient of equivalent accuracy. I.e. it's slow.

If your mutations aren't small, or your parameters are not continuously valued, or your fitness function is hard to differentiate analytically, genetic algorithms might still come out ahead.
Twitter Poll: What Would Help Your Development Team Achieve 10X Improvement?
Actually, for a digital painting program, I would expect it to be the case!

Usually, in my experience, the mascots of FOSS software were quite criticized as having too many features to draw, etc... Not easily recognizable as logos.

I have no idea whether this is valid criticism or not. But when you ask me about Krita, I think about Kiki. I can't tell what the icon looks like on the top of my head.

On the plus side, some say that we are much better mentally equipped to recognize faces than abstract figures. So, maybe this was just something not fashionable in the past few years in the flat corporate/branding/design world?
I hope so, but I'm not certain what sorts of legal precedents could be leveraged here. Uber, for instance, might try and avoid sharing non-visual recording data on the basis that it's proprietary information. IANAL but I'm very curious if companies can be compelled to share proprietary formats and tools for examining those formats or translating them into non-proprietary formats (which... is that even a thing legally speaking?) in a case like this.

For instance, if law enforcement had testimony and other warrant allowing things that indicated that a user had stored some vital secret plan in a password field what could the government compel a company to do, assume the disk it relies on is also encrypted for extra fun time

1. Hand over the physical disk

2. Hand over the disk image

3. Hand over the decrypted disk image

4. Hand over the unobfuscated (enc or hashed) string of interest from the decrypted disk image

5. Compel the company to decrypt the string if it was encrypted with a common algorithm (i.e. AES)

6. Compel the company to decrypt the string if it was encrypted in a proprietary manner (i.e. in-house custom encryption)

7. Compel the company to devote resources (how much?) to brute force a one-way common hashed string (i.e. bcrypt)

8. Compel the company to discover a hash salt assuming the company doesn't store it locally but may be able to procure it from the user to do the above.

9. 7 & 8 if the one-way hashing algorithm is proprietary (and weak) and the company raises objections that the process of breaking this string will reveal key components of how the algorithm works (i.e. the hash is just md5(string) XOR "IMMA SECRET_STRING")

10. 7 & 8 if the proprietary algorithm is not weak but the company raises objections over trade secrets for other reasons.
In some cities sending children to private school is a very middle class thing to do. It depends on the local public school system.
> I said that it is impossible for the source of that attitude to be a desire to get to what the cuisine was like before the discovery of America.

I didn't gather that from your reply. I apologise for misunderstanding.

I agree with that point. But I also don't think people are 'wanting' what it was like before in either attitude.

I think it something else, maybe a way to seem more 'culture' or a way to seperate themselves from common 'americans'? I mean i don't really know where it stems from.

Example is we have quite a few people that complains how all these 'chemicals' and stuff in our food is killing us and how they only buy organic and they won't eat this or that cause of the 'processing' and then they light a cigarette and crack open a can of PBR.

A lot of times we identify with something on a different level then is logical, I believe the same is happening with a lot of these people and 'authenticity'. I could be wrong though, but I believe we are all susceptible to this kind of behavior.
But why? If someone always has a bad game, their matchmaking is seriously miscalibrated.
Again: as sooner we start our resettlement to other star systems - the better.
If your main issue with Facebook is that it is laggy and built with PHP, then let me tell you that no one cares.
Faster WebAssembly isn't listed on the roadmap, so you are disappointed, right?

Wasm is currently considered "around half as fast as native"[0]. The Wasm design, Emscripten compiler, and browser compilers all have a part of responsibility in this, but I suspect that browser compilers have the largest share. Mozilla created The WebAssembly Explorer[1] which shows good-looking ".wat", but bloated "Firefox x86 Assembly" compared to "LLVM x86 Assembly". I hope they intend to use this tool to improve Firefox x86 Assembly.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/issues/1070

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/previewing-the-webassembly...
> If something like this happened in my country there would be a general strike and the country would be at a standstill.

That sounds too good, and too progressive, to be true. Which country do you live in?
Hindi/Marathi are not easy, you almost have to memorize the numbers 1-100.

Hindi and Marathi both have dedicated names for the tens (11, 12, 13, ...) and after that numbers are named in the reverse order of their digits. E.g. 45 will be five - forty.

_except_ the word for five will be different from the word for five in, say, 75. Similarly, the word for "fifty" in the fifties is different for many of them.

There's a lot of variation which you basically don't realize if you speak these languages natively, the variation can't be boxed into "rules" to make it easy to learn, and the end result is that you just end up implicitly memorizing it.

It's hard to realize because you basically end up modeling this subconsciously as there being multiple ways to say "five" and multiple ways to say "seventy", so the numbers seem to be following a fixed scheme, but in reality you've learned which synonym to use where.

In fact when folks talk about french numbers being weird and complex, this is often the counterexample I give.

I suspect this complexity arose from having synonyms for numbers which eventually randomly settled down, and also from having sandhi (rules for melding words together) which got corrupted over time, leading to things like "tay/ees" vs "chau/bees"

The website probably should have used the "different form"/"different word" thing it did for English. But note that the site did consider "twelve" to be its own number, not 10 + 2, which is basically what's happening here too, just extended 1-100.
> Germans bangers and mash?

Not that germans don't eat plenty of potatoes and sausage, but "bangers and mash" is a British thing.
This is a pretty awkward headline. For a moment, I thought Google was "A Key Legal Shield for Facebook".
It is followed by ionospheric hole (should be It was... holes)

A ~900km wide patch of the ion blanket around the earth became thinner. Probably in the density sense, not the size sense: there was less plasma there than normal. (The abstract measures this in terms of how many electrons they counted in that area.)

due to rapid chemical reactions of rocket exhaust plumes and ionospheric plasma.

They think the thin patch was caused because the Falcon's exhaust reacted with the ion blanket. I'm not sure how.
Sure.

Unfortunately, some bean counters don't see the value of the good ones either, though. All they see is "this old guy's making 25% more than this young guy and putting in 20% fewer hours". So they think, "we should get rid of all these overpaid older people and replace them with cheaper younger workers" - not realizing the inefficiency of doing so.

There's another side to this, which is that it's possible (even likely at a place like IBM) that long-tenured workers are eligible for pensions that more recent hires won't ever be offered no longer how long they stay. We can argue until the cows come home about the ethics (as opposed to the practicality) of cutting older workers primarily for the purpose of reducing pension obligations - which can be seen as breaking old promises.
It won't be on your phone by 2020. It is not clear whether it will ever be on your phone. The iphone 8 has about 3 million subpixels which will all have to be individually cut, tested and assembled on a display for a microled to work.

Or, alternatively, the display can be made from a whole wafer, which will cost about a thousand dollars for the raw materials and perhaps $5k for the finished display.

I know technology tends to advance a lot, but the advances required for microled to work seem really far fetched. Also, display technology does not advance as quickly as digital computation technology. Remember we have been talking about OLEDs for at least 20 years now and they are only now becoming mainstream.

This technology, if it ever works, will be for very small devices where brightness is very important but resolution is not that important. So smart glasses and smart watches. Even for those applications it is not at all certain that they will be able to bring the cost down sufficiently.
Your name in cs:go is always your steam name. Shouldn't even need a specific support team for a game to find those (if anything, that makes it worse, though).
As a reduction to absurdity, but also a very real threat given prosecutorial overreach:

Does your comment rationally questioning anti-prostitution laws “promote prostitution” under the words of the new bill? Does mine? Is any YC staff that sees this also complicit if they don’t remove our comments immediately?

Is a law unconstitutional if the threat of enforcement suppresses protected speech, namely policy debate?
To add to that, also from the article: "This is the largest rocket‐induced circular SAWs on record."
I would but the site's not responding for me.
The Earliest Stars
So the problem isn't dallas food culture. its that you dont want to drive 20-30 minutes (which is a common thing here)

Dallas has AMAZING tex mex. Dallas popularized tex mex to the world with el chico and el fenix. you are being insanely reductive. We have a great food scene.

And Dallas doesn't have very many Guatemalan spots (I wish we had more) so I sense you are being intentionally obtuse in your post.
That's a disputed claim.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19085.epdf
This misframes the argument GP was making IMO. That those are reasons to go after free speech on the internet has nothing to do with who they are going after. Everyone agrees that they should go after the perpetrators, just not everyone agrees who the perpetrators are. The street analogy GP uses is apt if you assume these internet services are just infrastructure. If you do not and assume they are like newspapers or storefronts, you might think differently.

> If we narrowly edit the law to specifically go after those cases, then it creates less opportunities for scandal later that end in much broader restriction.

We already have law to go after these cases, just not the conduits. We have to keep our eye on who the real criminals are, go after them, and we already have the laws to do it. Unfortunately the emotional appeal will be strong enough to go after others (backpage being a bad example because they may have been actually complicit). And we know these grasps for more power/authority rarely are kept at their minimum state or reduced. Want to actually avoid "much broader restriction"? Stop it where it starts.
Perhaps it meant to say that one needs a $303k/yr salary to support a $1.2M mortgage (i.e. the loan on a $1.5M house after a 20% downpayment). At an interest rate of 3.5%, that's about $5400/month. A $303k salary is maybe about right for that, considering taxes (income and property), insurance, private schools/daycare and things like "food". Wow, this can't go on.