skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a little poking around out of curiosity.

According to: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeon-rx-vega-...

Vega 64 has a board power rating of 295W.

According to the imac pro tech specs from the link you provided, it has an idle draw of 64W, and a peak draw of 370W for the entire system.

Unless I'm mistaken, that seems to imply that there has to be a good deal of throttling between the CPU & GPU to come in at that power budget. (The specs also note an additional 50W(!) of potential draw for fans alone if the imac is operated in a warm environment.)

Am I mistaken?

Not arguing, just hashing out my understanding. Your point regarding the Surface Book 2 and the 1060 makes sense. It does look like I was technically incorrect about them not engineering to a 200+ watt GPU, although I do wonder what sustained draw it can handle thermally compared to a full desktop part, and how much that would affect performance.
However, 9.9.9.10 does not perform DNSSEC validation, as 8.8.8.8 (Google), 64.6.64.6 (Verisign), 9.9.9.9 (Quad9), and now 1.1.1.1 (CloudFlare) do, so results may not be as trustworthy.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzD4tIvPHwE

What exactly am I looking at? The video itself says it's a computer-piloted takeoff, the YouTube title says it's a computer-piloted landing, and the top-voted comment says it's a human-piloted fly-by.

edit: it appears to be this flight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296
In a stallman-esque world, this is just a problem in installing custom firmware in the scanner, right?
You could do that, but nobody would think an essay was good if it were written with no transitions and mechanically started a new paragraph every few sentences.
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I wonder if another issue is that the hard surfaces of the typical bathroom would make the energy reflect more before dissipating. Even worse if the dimensions of the bathroom lead to resonances with 3.5kHz.

Bathrooms are famously reflective, producing the reverberation that makes shower singing sound palatable.
Don't you think being honest about their fuckups in situations involving death is just a massive lawsuit? You can't do that in America.
This is a choice you don't make to get. Each one might take different choices on the latency-throughput/privacy trade-off.

Given the current usage, I would say that most people value the latency and throughput a lot.
Well, right, because it's trying to put a Band-Aid over the problem that Twitter is not an appropriate medium.
>I disagree that if you can't do the job of the people 'below' you, you're not qualified to lead them.

+

> Distrust tends to lead to a lot of control and micromanagement, which imho for knowledge workers does not work.

=

To each their own, and I have had this argument elsewhere before, but I will say this: brittle organizations are built on the basis of competency; if you cannot do my job, why should I trust you to understand my issues?
Funny, I was just about to post the same video. It seems pretty easy to work on them.
How long until California requires a warning on every toilet and restroom?

(Yes, yes I'm joking)
haha absolutely.

I even noticed this with a black and white picture of some AI startup group picture google bought. It looked exactly like a band picture from the 90s. Everyone all serious looking, different fashions, the lead singer/ceo a little bit more forward and center in the photos.

Another amusing cultural thing is I remember the saying like "even CEOs of big business want to be in the music industry".

Now it is the opposite and even the biggest music artists in the world want to be CEOs.
Professor Michael Hudson, economist often talks about this. He wants the US to have a national bank which can provide financial services to the population at cost. He also often talks about the lack of infrastructure investment and privatization hurting the economy.

Basically the infrastructure can be viewed as a 4th factor of production, like capital, labour and land. Government subsidized, low cost infrastructure allows for a more competitive economy, because of lowered costs for businesses and individuals.

His thesis is that the end of the 19th century it was understood that government investment in infrastructure and public subsidy for services allowed the USA (and other countries) to become globally competitive. But now the opposite is occurring.
Data Structures and Algorithms in Go
I seem to have missed the "abandon all RSS" movement, which doesn't surprise me. I am missing That One Puzzle Piece which enables me to understand why people ditched RSS in the first place. I'd appreciate enlightenment.
And NAC to prevent oxidative damage.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2808688/
To be perfectly frank, most languages probably are.
Given the choice between losing my hearing and a slightly unpleasant interaction with a service professional, I would typically choose the latter.
I have mild tinnitus in one ear, from what I suspect was a friend screaming into my ear that she was going to the bathroom at a noisy club.

I'm relatively lucky, my hearing is still better than most, but it does suck.

I've decided I will never go to another club, and in bars I wear ear plugs. I have more to lose, since any additional damage will likely make my tinnitus more severe.

Seriously though, hearing is one of those things you don't think about until it's too late. Protect your ears.
If you want to be sure people don't try to organize things like this in the future, this is how you do it.

a) They already refunded all the money the received.

b) And now it's costing them even more money...

c) And a big portion of the problem was "Widespread cellular connectivity," which, yes, a sophisticated organizer can mitigate... But really, it's not their fault. Users "BYOB" (Bring Your Own Bandwidth.)

So, it was supposed to be fun, and it turned into a liability instead. This precedent makes it way less likely for people to ever want to do something similar again.

They're paying $75 per person, because the people didn't get to play a game when they got there.

Thanks, lawyers.

This is why we can't have nice things.
This is nothing new. The problem is that it won't change - many people, when asked about education, seem to be of the opinion that if they could endure the hardships in their youth (getting up way too early, walking sometimes one to two hours to school, cruel teachers, corporal punishment - yes this is a thing, even in the USA it's still legal in many places -, "physical education" aka "survival of the fittest") then their children should suffer the same fate.

In addition (though this is Germany-specific) the "elite" of society (which were in the Gymnasium and send their kids there too) will resist fiercely any movement to a more equal system which does not separate children onto fixed tracks so that their privileges are not being cut (or watered down, when it comes to laxer admission criteria for Gymnasien).

Parents, especially concerned and wealthy ones, are a powerful group of voters. Ideally education should be taken away from political influence entirely and given into the hands of actual experts...
It's quite hard if you take into account that machine learning needs 10000x the training data that a human needs, and Tesla is sold in 30+ countries (and used in much more).

I think 3d mapping the surrounding world correctly using multiple cameras (what humans are doing) is more generalizable.
> willfully ignore the complexities surrounding virtually every issue we face today.

There are complexities, but every issue can be simplified. I think economic inequality can be boiled down to a few key issues:

1. The Imperial War Machine: Iraq/Iraq II/Libya/et al -- very expensive, no economic return for anyone but the military-industrial complex [0]

2. Economic warfare on Mexico/et al [1] in the 1980's -> Economic Refugees

3. Free Trade -> more economic refugees (NAFTA put Mexican subsistence farmers [2] in direct competition with mechanized agriculture)

4. Cost-disease: medical-industrial complex edition

5. Concentration of wealth -> investors seeking returns for their investments.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture
Isn't that what iTunes is? In the beginning, it seemed like the concept of a podcast and iTunes were intertwined.
Google reader was introduced, made it look like it would be there forever and cost nothing, which killed any alternatives. Then Google killed reader in favor of Google+. At that point, there was no good reader, and even with not-as-good alternatives like feedly, a lot of people didn't feel like setting things up again. As a result, the whole ecosystem was knocked out of balance and never recovered.
Many young people today can't comprehend a story unless it's broken down into small texts, like a child book, twitter, or any other chat app. As this is their only exposure to text. If you are a parent, force your kids to read books!
Japan kills 333 whales exploiting a loophole
Unfortunately I don't remember where I read this, but I've once read somewhere that Apple refuses to use nvidia gpus because nvidia doesn't give Apple access to the driver source code. AMD on the other hand does.
This needs an update, but here is a study I made a while back on EDNS support and payload sizes: http://msync.c9x.org/PubDNS/
Google's AI Has Learned to Become “Highly Aggressive” in Stressful Situations
No need for ad hominem attacks. You make no rebuttals to the points made by the comment above and just dismiss it as PR. Just because something is (or isn't) PR doesn't mean that it's false.
>"The technological underpinning of podcasting is entirely RSS."

Can you elaborate on this? How are they related?
Isn't this something that you should keep in mind for all services? After all they are basically applications you have no code for, running in computers that you do not control, funded by means you individually cannot affect and owned by companies/businesses making decisions you have no say over. Any element of control you cede to others can be used in ways you may not like or want. So if you want to ensure something will continue to exist for as long as you want it, the only way to do it is to have control over that something and either control all of its dependencies or rely only on dependencies that are widely available commodities that you work with through as many open standards as possible.

For example, for web-based services, if you don't want something to go away (or be abused), then your best bet is to run a fully open source implementation of that version on a VPS (VPSes are on computers owned by others, but they are cheap commodities that you can easily replace, replicate and, if necessary, move to dedicated servers or your own machines). Personally i'd also only use simple applications with little to no (preferably no) external dependencies in case i need to pick up the development myself or make modifications.

(of course having said that, i generally avoid web-based applications altogether and instead opt for desktop-based solutions whenever possible - one major reason being control)
Aztec C[0], by Manx, cost about $200 USD in 1988. It came with a "complete" dev environment for PC-DOS (the version I have) which included:

- C compiler

- Assembler

- Linker

- Make

- Grep

- Z (an editor kinda like vi IIRC)

I remember it being able to make very small executables, which meant a lot at that time.

0 - https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_manxAztecClApr88_25693...
This is brilliant! Thanks for sharing this.
Forget about Software / Ai bugs, My understanding is there is a hardware(lidar or radar) in tesla car. Shouldn't the car should have stopped when it's hardware sensed that its definitely going to hit the wall.
9.9.9.11 is a CDN-friendly IP in Quad9.
https://kznnog.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Quad9-Intro-...
This can also happen when holding your upset child and they scream near your ear. Be careful, parents!
A large company organized an event from which they profited. Due to negligence, they didn't fulfill their promises and people suffered financially. I don't understand your issue with suing them?

To expand, there's a common perception that in the United States people are constantly filing frivolous lawsuits, but this isn't the case. I think when people hear the results what happens after lawsuits against large companies, they hear them from the perspective of companies who are sued and have a vested interested in making the lawsuit seem "frivolous" in order to protect their reputation.
It’s often a cost/risk trade off. A lot of things do fix themselves with time and if you default to going right to the doctor every time you’re injured or feel sick it’s going to cost a fortune, unless you have some kind of gold plated insurance. Some things have to be looked at right away, but for some things it’s unnecessary, and it can pay to wait it out.

(of course the above reasoning is pretty specific to the USA— could be different for people in more civilized places)
The intuitive explanation is that you really are writing down a model of the form

result = a + b*treatment + c*gender

Let's ignore the interaction term for the sake of simplicity. It doesn't change anything in what follows. The two operations I think about for interpreting this are:

1. What equation results when I fix a particular value of a factor? This is equivalent to taking a subset of the population I'm studying.

2. What equation results when I average over a factor? This is equivalent to removing a dependent variable from my model.

If I remove the dependent variable gender and look at the equation when I fix the two values of treatment, what do I want my model to look like? I think that

result = a

for no treatment and

result = a + b

for treatment is the easiest to interpret. Then a is the baseline without intervention, and b is the effect of the treatment. To get those, I make no treatment = 0 and treatment = 1. If I made no treatment = -0.5 and treatment = 0.5, I would get

result = a - 0.5*b

for no treatment and

result = a + 0.5*b

for treatment. I've messed up my interpretation of the parameters. But what contrast do I need for gender to get this? If I use male = 0 and female = 1, then when I average over the whole population (assuming that it's balanced male/female), I get

result = a + 0.5*c

for the baseline of no treatment, averaged across the population and

result = a + b + 0.5*c

for treatment. a and c are now mixed, messing up what I can interpret off the parameters. If I want to keep the baseline a an average over gender, then I need my levels for gender to sum to zero. But what happens if I use, as you suggest, -643 and 643 for male and female? Let's fix treatment to zero and look at the equation for the result for male and for female. For male:

result = a - 643*c

and for female:

result = a + 643*c

All we've ended up doing is scaling the parameter that we interpret as the difference between male and female response by 643. That would be a lot easier to use if the parameter actually measured the difference between male and female directly instead, so let's set it up so that the difference between the two levels is 1, or use -0.5 and 0.5.
> Way more thoughtful, long form content."

Isn't RSS the same content as on the publishers page or site though? Maybe I am misinterpreting you comment?
Features I've found missing from Gmail:

* A decent bulk actions interface.

* Threading

* Filter on email headers

* Apply rules based on message age (e.g. twitch "is now live" messages are irrelevant after 1 day.
Dr. Philip Metzger is a planetary physicist who recently retired from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where he co-founded the KSC Swamp Works. He now is now at the University of Central Florida -- but still a part of the Swamp Works team

-- his website
That's a bit uncharitable. The choice is rarely as clear as that. It's often hard to know whether an affliction is serious enough to warrant immediate attention. So the person must weigh the risk of delaying immediate treatment against the inconvenience and embarrassment of an unnecessary ER visit.

It will be really nice when everyone has access to a medical AI that can assess these things instantly wherever you are.
Don’t listen to them. The HN crowd wants everything to be open-source, but likely wouldn’t want to pay for anything even if it was dual licensed. This seems to be a great product, and you deserve to charge for it and keep it closed source.
Microsoft has processes in place to minimize business risk due to privacy and security problems (both usually go hand in hand). All engineers must go through regular training, and features must go through security and privacy reviews. In these reviews, systems and their threat boundaries are described as well as the data that flows over system boundaries or that are stored. PII (personally identifiable information) gets anonymized unless absolutely necessary (e.g. for a profile page). The mantra is that the engineers should trust the system to put their own data in. Then there is also GDPR which requires adding abilities to delete personal data on request, even if it is distributed into different systems. It‘s even tougher when it‘s about customer data (eg Office 365). That‘s an absolute black box, so to do ML on this data you might put training into a firewalled cloud and you might get a metric back, but there is no way of looking at any concrete data. So, MS treats the prospect of privacy breaches as an existential risk and acts accordingly. It has been this way for at least 10 years.
> No - what people are being taught instead is to never implement cryptography themselves and leave that to somebody who knows what he is doing.

The point is: what is "implement"? If I use OpenSSL (or any other crypto library with Blowfish), and I don't know about this length issue, I'm still screwed.
The statement was that you will not get better performance than memsql, not about which is cheaper.
Lisp has hard to read syntax and no static type system, so not really something to imitate.
A social network platform review
If you had a router you could make a nice wooden one.
I worked on games for the original PlayStation, and one of the requirements for release was that your title would be able to run for 48 hours without crashing (the soak test). A big issue we ran into as developers is that we only had 2 MB of memory, and unlike cartridges, you had to load all your data into RAM. Since we dynamically allocated memory, you would quickly run into memory fragmentation issues. If I have 2 MB of memory, I could have 1.5MB free, but I would be unable to allocate a 750k block because it could be laid out with 500KB free, a small block of used memory, another 500k, another a small used block, and then the rest of memory. If you end up in this position, there aren’t a huge number of good options, and several engineers started thinking about how to carefully allocate the memory so that we wouldn’t end up in that position. Instead, I found a way to fix it with a scorched earth policy. I could soft reboot the PlayStation which resets it, but avoids the Sony logo at startup. I would write the current player data into a special save game, do the soft reboot, which would launch the game. The first thing the game would do is look for the special save, and use that to skip various menus and the front end and just drop you into the game. A simple soft reboot per level increased our load times by a second or two, but safely reset our memory. Years later, after talking with other programmers, it ends up that many people had discovered this trick, and it used to get through the soak test.

As a side note, memory issues were a huge problem that is largely invisible to most software engineering. To give you an idea on how complex the solutions are, check out how Naughty Dog solved this on Crash Bandicoot:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9737156
You're confusing copyright with a trademark. You have to apply for and actively defend a trademark otherwise you lose enforcement over that trademark and it becomes genericised, however copyright is granted upon creation of a work with no need to 'apply' for copyright protection and authors can selectively enforce their copyright if they choose to do so without losing their rights over a work.
Why are you blaming lawyers instead of the company that should have been able to predict this?
Never got tinnitus from it but it does make me lose balance fast.
I don't think Zuckerberg is as actively scummy as Kalanick was. Fixing this requires being very actively ethical and I think he's just falling short. I don't think Zuck is incapable he just needed this kick in the pants to do something.
http://bgr.com/2018/03/29/apple-new-privacy-features-ios-11-...
> Lisp has hard to read syntax and no static type system,

The first is subjective, and there are Lisp-family languages with static typing.
Super interesting reading!
Apparently, the victim had complained to Tesla repeatedly that the autopilot would veer towards the barrier: http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-d...

On the other hand, if I knew the autopilot was trying to do such things, I would not use it so much.
You're right. Justify is not the right term. Explain the existence of. But mechanistic inevitability is considered justification in our culture for accepting what is and moving on. We don't inveigh against the injustice of not being able to levitate out of our seats when we wish.

For Polynesia, the difference is that in one case they used force to impose a political structure on the population. In the other they completely wiped out the population.
Do you have any experience starting businesses? Building businesses takes a set of skills that can be learned and practiced.

Your argument could also be turned around to say that you can’t be a successful programmer if you’re the kind of person who goes out and says “I want to build an app”
Oh my, that is so dangerous since it won’t know you aren’t holding the wheel if it needs to disengage.
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Agree. It's also worth noting that while they may not have the capability to do much with the information today, they probably will in the future.

I could very much see a future where with just a couple of profile names they can reasonably extrapolate which user names you would have selected in the past. Or a quick scan of your current social media content reveals your writing fingerprint and it becomes trivial to tell which accounts/posts were yours with a high degree of confidence.
An unmentioned physiological consideration, remembered from a lecture long ago...

The rapid onset of the sound is an important factor. The ear has muscular reflexes that lessen the damage of loud sounds, but only if the onset of the sound takes longer than the time it takes the reflex to kick in. The toilet tank sound probably had onset approaching that of a square wave, so this neatly evaded the reflex.

Evolutionarily, one can understand why there was no need to protect the ear from loud rapid-onset sounds... those sounds don't exist widely in nature, e.g. a roaring waterfall roars continuously. Someone could smash two rocks together right next to your ear, but the fact that the rocks didn't smash your cranium is perhaps more important. :-)
Well all that an actual autopilot (on a plane) does is maintain your velocity and heading, so if anything the name is underselling it.
They also facilitate privacy.

I never used crypto for illegal purposes, but I still don’t wish for people who receive coins from me to know the state of my main accounts.
It can still be creepy, even if it's what's required for them to operate. If they can't operate without being creepy, perhaps they don't have a viable business model.