skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have nothing against the git style subcommands, in fact I think they are great. A friendly interface would in my opinion be from the perspective of an end user. In the case if GPG the end user can have a couple of goals in mind, to encrypt, decrypt or sign data. Although you could do a lot more things, for most users those would be secondary goals.
I guess the average user doesn't necessarily know about autocrypt, ASCII armor, OpenPGP packets etc. Those users would have to guess whether they need to (do I need autocrypt? Why isn't it a default?).
To be honest I don't think the usage output is very bad in its current form, but as a start for something that will evolve over the years I am not so sure.
Tools from linear algebra can be accessible and useful to many people who don’t want to (or are not yet prepared to) prove nontrivial theorems. Indeed, a book like Axler’s should probably be used in a second semester-long linear algebra course for typical undergraduates wanting to study abstract mathematics; a gentler more concrete introduction would probably be better for students without previous exposure to linear algebra or hard mathematical thinking. For engineers or others who want to use linear algebra in practical contexts, something like Boyd & Vandenberghe’s new book might be a better for a first (or even second) course than Axler’s book, https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/

Elkies’s post is in the context of a course for very well prepared and motivated first-year undergraduate pure math students who are racing through the undergraduate curriculum because most of them intend to take graduate-level courses starting in their second year.

Those two audiences are very far apart.
>Tesla has it's own hardware platform. Anyone with an ounce of sense will know that was always going to happen because of power consumption, cost and performance

... so that they can create performance-intensive features that nobody else in the market yet has, because the off-the-shelf hardware won't allow it. Due to power consumption, cost and performance issues. And this custom hardware is being developed to solve them.

You're basically saying the same thing in different words. I mean, what else do you do with better power consumption, cost and performance other than new, better-working features? You think Tesla will sell cars to the mass market with impressive computer specs?

Apple's own custom hardware has enabled it to experiment with performance-intensive features unlike other smartphone manufacturers, Tesla is going for the same strategy.
The BEAM is a preemptive VM. That means that no one long running process can hog resources.

The BEAM was built on a principal of responsiveness since it was originally designed for telephonics.

Here's an in depth article on preemption in the BEAM that I shared with a friend this morning https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang/scheduling/real-time/pr...
Also made the switch from RSA to Duo - was like a breath of fresh air. Sales rep said that about half of their clients that had an MFA solution already were converts from RSA (not surprising really.)
I'm not sure about where this comment is pointing but I'll have good faith is it isn't a tar with one brush.

The growth of an economy is equal to it's return on capital. Balance sheets must balance. Add-in 'long term growth' as in the short term banks and other money market intermediaries make terrible terrible decisions so what seems like growth is often hidden was, well, not growth.

> What is the future discounted future value of Bitcoin? That will depend on the Bitcoin interest rate, for which there is only a transaction value, there is no yield on Bitcoin. Not yield means no return on capital.

Generalise all individuals, companies, government, across an economy (I suppose it would have to be the global economy): As an aggregate (ignoring individual credit situations, this is an aggregate), can they conceptually apply for a Bitcoin loan of B10 @ 10% annual interest and with successful growth repay B11 next year with no change in exchange value of Bitcoin (i.e. there has been growth in the real economy)?

Until this market exists, where real value dominates speculative value, Bitcoin remains a commodity of negative intrinsic value return.

Edit: Financial companies allocate capital. How well they do it is under question by regulators too. Efficient allocation of capital is really important for creating growth.. obviously. Reward for allocation of capital... in my view should be a lot less shorttermist quarterly or annual results-chasing.
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> That is nihilism, plain and simple.

I don't understand what you mean by this. What exactly do you mean by nihilism in this context?
Aren't you assuming (probably incorrectly) that all hardcore gamers rated Competition more highly than all core/casual gamers?

I'm not sure how much less weird allowing for that makes things, but your reasoning for concluding that hardcore gamers with lower Competition scores than the hardcore average make up only 4% of the sample isn't valid.

For example, if half of the hardcore gamers (around 10.5% of the sample) are above the hardcore average and half below, that would put about 81% of the nonhardcore gamers (about 63.5% of the full sample) below the hardcore average and the rest above (about 19% of the full sample).
Fourthed(?)

What's a linear transformation? I get that it's f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y) and f(cx) = c * f(x)... but what does that really mean?

Why is the dot product equivalent to ||a||*||b|| cos C? I really have no idea, I just know the formulas.
> any object that can potentially kill someone (hint: everything) is a weapon

Any object that can be remotely programmed to drive itself at high velocity into a target, yes.
Yes. All of those outlets attempt to put out unbiased news. CNN is "left of Marx"? I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic.

ps: instead of downvoting, why don't you do something more effective, and post an example of biased reporting by CNN (and something that isn't a story about a biased article that resulted in reporters being disciplined or fired)
Just use one after school. I see zero problems. Allow one to be used at lunch hour if you feel it’s an infringement not to be able to post a selfie for 8h straight?
Curiously there already is (was?) a probably eastern European chip manufacturer named Tesla (search images for "tesla ttl chips") but I wasn't able to find info on the manufacturer and if they're still in business.
> as an alternative to ads.

I didn't notice but is there ads on WhatsApp?
Mysterious dry paths on farms caused by old boundaries / ruins
...and that semiconductor wafers don’t provide a flexible watertight seal around windows, even if you crush them up and squirt them from a tube.
I know I can look this up but can you expand a little bit on "instead of a pure vote, structure discussion...".

What's the actual hard decider? Like for page edits if there's a conflict it basically escalates up the hierarchy right? If there's no consensus what happens in this admin/bureaocrat thing? Who decides what constitutes consensus?
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I tried using Ubuntu 18.04 recently. While snap seem like a good idea, the main issue I have is that there seems to be no way to know who publishes snaps. A list of approved vendors would be useful.

Sure, there are some 'Verified Accounts', and Opera has one. But the main app for Slack, Spotify, Telegram Desktop or BitWarden come from unverified accounts. And some of these are not sandboxed, like the Slack app. Having BitWarden, a password manager, use an unverified account seems totally crazy.
Ah, that slipped my mind.
Bookman is for those that like to read a lot and want a way to keep reading with discipline but don't have time to sit with a book.

Email is the most convenient way if you want to read anywhere anytime.
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I wonder what the chances are that you believe in man made climate change?

IDK, I see a bit of an issue turning energy into heat so people can get play a commodity game, most of whom don’t understand at all.
I disagree with article on so many levels. Positions where you truly code alone are rare. The issue of ownership is oftentimes issue of autonomy which is completely normal thing to seek. I heard programmers admit mistakes routinelly - except two rather toxic environments.

And so on.
If the incentive to do so was there, banks could become more energy efficient. Bitcoin, however, cannot do this, by definition. PoW systems require server farms to bang out hashes as fast as possible, and the complexity of that calculation increases as the mining pool increases. So there's more power being used than several entire small countries to perform something like 100 transactions a second. Say what you will about the traditional banking system, but it's not set up to burn massive amounts of power by design, and it actually manages a throughput of tens of thousands of transactions a second for actual business purposes rather than just making play money for money-flush nerds and criminals.
How Fake Influence Campaigns on Facebook Lured Real People
Blame the English language for making the name of 2 popular industrial materials with such similar names.
Humans are not remotely programmable.
> where I can trust the opinion/result enough to not have to research for myself

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Consumer Reports. They are run by non-profit consumer advocates, they are very careful about editorial independence (they buy all products at the store rather than accept freebies, there is no advertising in their print publication, etc), and they have labs, scientists, and scientific testing. They have a track record going back to 1936. The only drawback I find is a lack of detail in their reports; they keep it pretty simple.
As with all things Chinese, the story is never entirely clear. Propaganda from both sides of the Firewall obscure a lot. However...

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Qihoo 360 may be the owners of StartCom, and WoSign, who behaved so badly both Chrome and Firefox have decided their certificates can never be trusted again.

Got to figure that it isn't an accident that they bought a (large) interest in Opera.

And there's the confusing story of the Chinese government sanctioning Qihoo 360 themselves over privacy violations to do with webcams.

They tend to be a company mired in controversy.

(They also have the controlling share in Golden Brick Capital).

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Beijing Kunlun Tech aren't that well known in the West. They started out as online gambling, however they also bought out Grindr, and now a controlling stake in Opera.

They don't seem to have a huge amount of direction, besides blasting adverts and trying to eak out a profit wherever they can. Which they seem extremely successful in.

Successful enough that Zhou Yahui ended up paying $1.1billion to settle a divorce with his wife quite recently.

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So, basically, ownership is split between a gambling tycoon, and a company with an awful reputation around security and privacy who have a vested interest in a browser, and how they can influence the web from it.
> In the same sense that any object that can potentially kill someone (hint: everything) is a weapon. Which is technically correct but a useless observation.

It's not useless; the damage that can be caused varies by degree between things. Then you have to look at two cases - suitability for object to be used as a weapon, and the damage it can cause on accident. Unlike knives or hammers, both those factors are very high for cars.

The fact how dangerous cars is is very much underappreciated by people in general, as evidenced by the number of morons on the road. We already lose hundreds of people daily in the US alone because of this; now we're trying to add another class of drivers into the mix - algorithms written by greedy optimizers caring primarily for short-term profit and being first to market. This should give us some pause.

I'm not saying this technology is not possible or not wonderful, but I think the current ecology of self-driving efforts is unhealthy. We have a for-profit race by companies, many of which can't be trusted with getting software right, and most (all?) of them pursuing self-driving capabilities by means of half-understood brute-force black boxes the neural networks are.
>"you can't assume that power usage scales anywhere close to linearly with data usage."

As noted in the original post, its based on 5 kWh per GB of data transferred as described here:
https://aceee.org/files/proceedings/2012/data/papers/0193-00...

If you have a better method, I'd love to see it. This is back of the napkin stuff, it doesnt need to be perfect.

And using he same methods, HN is ~70 KB which is decent for a text-content site. The OP wired page is about 700 KB (but wired.com is 4.3 MB), slashdot is ~1.9 MB, and reddit now like 4.3 MB, etc. Pretty much the entire internet is over 90% unnecessary junk at this point even if you allow that the content has value.
It doesn't need to be "some orders-of-magnitude-safer-AI-driving-paradise". If it improves on human driving by 10%, it'd still save thousands of lives a year.
A few years ago, I had a medical problem (retinal vein occlusion) that had to be treated for a while with monthly injections directly into my eye. The drug used (Avastin) was originally developed for colon cancer treatment - it prevents the regrowth of tiny veins, which leads to a lot of very interesting uses.

So the day of my first injection, I went to a Rolling Stones concert with my spouse. And I don't care what sort of hardcore Keith Richards is, I'm pretty sure he wasn't shooting chemotherapy drugs directly into his eyeball before the concert!
I think that comparison is just to illustrate the computational improvements. In other words, the new system is 10x faster. As Elon said on the call, that means they can now process all the cameras at full resolution and full framerate, which can improve accuracy and therefore ability and safety... which sounds like the real world benefits you're looking for.
For people who want to use MoviePass, it matters if they can't actually use it for movies. To them, I say cancel your membership.

Yes, this breach of trust might actually save MoviePass, as they can ditch the frequent users and collect subscriptions from people who forgot about it or rarely use it.
That's halfway through highschool. I picked actual examples of sites I visited in highschool. I also played video games and learned how to hack the terminal server (a bit). But generally not in the middle of a lecture.
> Snaps and flatpaks are just a vector for malware.

That depends entirely on your perspective. If you're happy using packages entirely from your distribution and from no other sources, then sure, carry on as you are.

Snaps (not sure about flatpaks and confinement) are far better than the "curl ...|bash", PPA and other installer type vectors, even from your perspective.
I think latency makes a lot of difference when an autonomous system is interacting with the world. Take a look at this video from 2009 where they use a high speed vision system (1000fps!). The things it could do are probably unequaled even today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk

The higher the speed of the system, the less it has to predict in the future and better can adapt to unforeseen situations. It's basically using the world as a model, for free.
In case the author reads this, and in case it's possible to edit the text, there's a typo here:

> ... outlined both what
> they new for certain ...
^^^^^

There are other places that could use some careful copy-editing. Even so, it's an excellent read.
NASA’s Open Source Rover lets you build your own planetary exploration platform
It was common trope in the early days of UX to use real-world analogues to model your interactions. It was believed this would help with adoption because it would seem familiar.
> It's a lot harder to hack humans to do bad things

I'd say, it's probably easier to hack individual humans, but - like everything in computing - hacking algorithms scales well, while human factors generally don't.
Credibility is earned and lost. Question if this article would happen if the source material was Alex Jones/Infowars. There would not be an article about "British politics bias" there. It's noteworthy if they concede that there aren't sinister forces trying to steal your precious bodily fluids.

The only reason the posted article exists and that we are having this thread is that Wikipedia takes pains to be unbiased and has some expectations of being so by reputation.
Probably why this law passed.
It's an option so insurance companies compare the exact same car with and without that option.

In terms of paying attention I really doubt most people are doing this very well. I am going to be stuck in the car either way so by default I am going to be watching the road, but as long as my relative stress level drops that's a huge win.

PS: You can make your own estimates. If people pay attention sufficient to avid accidents 99% of the time the car might be in 100x more accidents without drivers assuming those drivers where perfect. Drop that to IMO more likely 75% and it's closer to 4x at the absolute best case.
I suppose. But for me, that means that it's not worth my time to contribute. I've considered it, now and again over the years, but there's just too much evidence of corruption.

Edit: OK, "too much evidence of corruption" isn't fair. It's just too politically complicated. I came out of academia. There's pervasive criticism and disputation, and indeed that's fundamental, but everyone gets (ideally) a fair chance to publish their stuff. And then, peers either pay attention or don't. But then, I left academia mainly over pervasive politics, so maybe I'm just too impatient.
I don't understand using a browser that is developed by a for-profit company which happens to be their only product. Because of current owners, I would never use Opera.

Firefox is pretty good guys. You should check it out. And also donate.

disclaimer: no association with Mozilla/Firefox in any way.
> I wonder what the chances are that you believe in man made climate change?

Is that a question? Or a statement?
> When was the last time the consumption of a Google ad lead to cancer and the eventual death of anyone?

Great logic. Philip Morris is evil because they sell products that cause cancer and death. Therefore Equifax, who extorts money from people to protect them against Equifax polluting their credit rating, and who leaks their data into the wild is not evil, because Equifax doesn't cause cancer nor death!
A search for 'nice things Steve Jobs did' is damning: watch how hard journalists struggle to find some small anecdotes of kindness to say about him. 'He came out and helped us fix my car in the driveway.' 'He gave his team inspiring speeches.' 'He protected the resources he needed from interdepartmental criticism.'

It's clear that he was a dickhead to anyone he could get away with it to, while expressing the infrequent, but still present, in
group-support, and the hyperbolic in-group praise, typical of a narcissist.

He even died due to his own hubris.
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Gotta ask, what kind of apps do you have on your phone? Flashing lights??
Ultimately its down to dimensionality CPUs (at least originally) were designed for scalar calculation, you loaded something a piece at a time from RAM and did a single scalar calculation before putting it back into RAM, rinse repeat. A GPU works in a more vectorised/matrix level way with essentially a pipeline of linear transforms on a set of data values all at once. The issue with both of these two is they still have a linear memory model, because that works for more serial lower dimension operations, usually three dimensions for a GPU maybe a couple more. Networks or graphs as objects aren't neatly linear in memory or nicely shaped into regular dimensions for doing pipelined vectorised calculations. Though the GPU model is a little closer than the CPU one. Graph algorithms its not random access or serial access either its /structured/ access based on the graphs connections. So ideally you want memory shaped and optimised for this sort of access, as well as computation well linked to utilise this rearchitected RAM. Many companies have been exploring newer architectures for dealing with ANN calculations that inherently benefit from changing the model of memory access and computation. So you can "emulate" as in reformulate the mathematical representation of a graph into a list or a matrix, an adjacency list based algorithm would work well on a CPU and an adjacency matrix based one would work better on a GPU. But neither of those fit perfectly to either model they are just dimensionally the nearest with many tradeoffs you have to make for each.
H1: Print full-width header text in your shell
I just stumbled across Weinberg's book at the library yesterday and thought that it looked good. I'm glad to hear that it is.
Thank you, that explains a lot.
Looking for a coder that can write apps and websites.
This seems like an incredibly bizarre analogy. If somebody is going into a psychotic rage because they see red flashing lights, then they would be an extreme danger to both to everybody else and to themselves. This person would need to be institutionalized until we can be convinced they're not suddenly going to go on a murder spree because they saw a blinker.

More generally though, civilization is little more than people agreeing to work in close proximity under a shared code of laws. There is extensive written evidence of this going back to at least ~1800BC, though it's certainly been the basis for practically all civilization throughout our existence. People who cannot obey these laws are excluded from society. So for instance all civilizations have banned theft, yet kleptomania is certainly a thing - people who have no need to steal yet have an incredibly strong urge to do so. Nonetheless, they will face the same consequences as any other. If they cannot control themselves, they will not remain a part of civilization.

For issues with no clear right or wrong, such as flashing red lights, there's another issue. One individual has an irrational dislike of flashing red lights, another has an irrational like of flashing red lights. Who does society choose to adjust itself to? This is yet another reason why the onus of emotional control is on the individual, and not on society.
>Your first comparison is pretty much a poorly formed Straw man, shame on you.

What is with this shaming? OP made a cogent, reasoned point. I don't necessarily agree, but it's not 'shameful'.
Using your logic this is already happening, the vast majority of money in the world is just records in computers.
Or the sadly now-defunct SkyMall. [1] It was the Weekly World News of mail-order catalogs. Though apparently there are plans to publish again.

Apparently also they were affiliated with Hammacher Schlemmer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyMall
For example, chips have flaws. Hardware designers work incredibly hard to verify that their chip designs are functionally correct, because the cost of a correctness bug can be catastrophic. With the proliferation of custom hardware designs, verification of the whole stack is even more important. It's bad from the perspective that now instead of building on top and reusing a chip company's huge investment in a verified product, there is a custom product to which an unknown level of verification expertise has been applied. Doubly so because these chips are designed for approximate workloads, so they cut corners left and right on correctness for efficiency. People should be more skeptical.