skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, also I wonder how you compare something purely state run like Russia with something more along market lines in the short term .... they operate so differently. State run can often create a pretty big economic short term bump if they wish... not sure that means much.
I totally agree with your core point. We definitely needs to be more responsible with how we design next generation computing chips. We need to think about power consumption especially in current world where climate change, power/resource shortages are looming large at horizon.
Or he wants Amazon and pretending beef.
Geez, man. This isn’t high school. Perhaps Yorick has thick skin about it, but maybe he doesn’t. Either way, what good does poking fun at it on an Internet forum do? How insensitive are you? I don’t even need to get started on how an individual deleting a production database is significantly more of a company failing than any sort of individual mistake.
I'd imagined that it was a shipping container on floats, but it's a pressure vessel (keep that seawater out) filled with nitrogen (to stop corrosion).
https://youtu.be/Y27lFsPEZ30

Tom Scott made a little 4 minute video about the topic.

Basically by letting the forrest burn more often there would be less fuel available for the next fire.

And when the fires got smaller the biggest of trees in the forrest would also be more likely to survive through the fire.

So in some forrests that’s what they do in some forrests now.
That's the author's oneliner. I don't know what that code is for either, which is part of I rewrote it in the second set of examples.

It's normal for a oneliner to be somewhat inscrutable though, since they're often extremely dependent on their inputs. Like if it's important to fetch the 3rd, 5th, and 7th column--why? You can't tell without the input.
𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢.𝔰𝔱𝔶𝔩𝔢

𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱 𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰. 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔠𝔠𝔢𝔭𝔱𝔰 𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱.
Building a highly responsive sheet view with React Native
Not OP, but- I grew up deeply steeped in a culture that prized being the best. At something, anything, as long as you were the best. Second was worthless.

In retrospect, it's just, why? Ok, so you become the best. Now what?
Thanks! I’ll look into that. I’m not a good programmer, but it looks doable :)
At a certain point it's far better to ssh into a remote xen or kvm host system that has some ridiculous amount of ram like 512GB, and develop stuff on a VM there...
That and who is really taping the line vs..... trying to hack any computer they can for whatever reason.

Seems like fax has fewer folks targeting that system.
Professor Philip Wadler has a fantastic talk titled "Propositions as Types" that introduces the Curry-Howard correspondence, some history behind it and ideas following it.

In fact it's one of my favorite talks. Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU&t=1s
As mentioned, this is a numbers game. Usually when this is deployed the cost of fighting the attackers exceeds any income the legitimate users via VPN or Tor respectively could provide.
The prediction didn’t work out so well—so far. Hindsight compresses time. Things said in 2004 and 2005 definitely bubbled up to the top after Lehman’s collapsed in ‘08 as “correct predictions of the coming financial crisis.”

If things implode tomorrow or six months or even a year from now everyone will look back at that Krugman quote and say, “The man’s a damn genius, he totally called it.” It’s easy to forget about the time period when a financial prediction was wrong before it was right, particularly when the magnitude of disruption is significant. Sometimes the time even emboldens the former position because “they knew all along.”

The one thing we do know is that markets are cyclical. There is always another crisis lurking around the corner. If you went to a cash position the day after Trump was elected you seem like a fool today. You can wake up a financial genius tomorrow. Maybe you didn’t sell at the top, but people who got out of real estate in 2005 probably don’t look back with too much regret saying, “should have hung in there another two years.”
ChipNet: Real-Time LiDAR Processing for Drivable Region Segmentation on an FPGA
I'd love this for python as I'm not a big fan of Ruby. Does such a thing exist?
Well the thing is, matz did it a decade ago when he carefully copied all these features that Perl came up with or itself carefully copied from awk and sed.
On the Feasibility of FPGA Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Don't forget 4) Companies are buying large, expensive chips because they are being used and delivering value, but hype has occluded other more cost effective solutions. See the articles about, 'you don't need deep learning' (or was that big data?)
I believe you had performance issues caused by chrome. What I'm wondering is whether all three of the following apply:

1. The problem was caused by Chrome actively spending CPU and memory cycles, not just having so much memory allocated you run low, because NUMA itself can't change memory consumption.

Caveat: It's possible the NUMA setting would also cause Chrome's ram use to be capped. If that's causes an improvement, then you could do the same capping on a non-NUMA machine.

2. The foreground page in chrome was something like a strategy guide, not something more intense like video streaming. Are there pages that are both strategy guides and intensive to calculate?

3. This happened in the last year or so since version 57 came out.
When I was in the UK I used the link network, and to the best of my knowledge never paid a fee to withdraw money.

You're right about using UK-cards abroad, which I guess I'd forgotten about, though!
Enlighten me, what's the typo?
For live video, nobody really knows how to make selling ads even work. It’s actually an interesting challenge to try to come up with formats where ad monetization makes sense for the content producer — I’m convinced they’d have to be compelling formats for audiences first.
It has nothing to do with Go the language itself. There are tools for that and lazy authors have the same problem with other languages also.
Design Flow of Accelerating Hybrid Extremely Low Bit-Width NN in Embedded FPGA
VR hype has very little to do with NVIDIA selling these cards. The primary market they are targeting with the new Quadros is offline rendering which is a pretty big market for high end CPUs and which hasn't used GPUs as heavily as you might expect until now because GPUs have not been very efficient at ray tracing extremely large scenes. I was at the presentation today and I don't even remember them mentioning VR. The emphasis was all on these new GPUs accelerating high end offline rendering for movies, TV, architecture, advertising, etc.
This is what really irks the West. China did not allow themselves to be controlled by external debt like the Soviet Union. The Chinese have not only avoided debt slavery they have actually begun to weaponize their own debt power and such that they are now the world's largest sovereign lender.
Even a corporate proxy will work with HSTS.
i haven't done the math, but the 1996 $1800 seems like more money than 2018 $2300.
Parallelism is a thing.
The command should process stdin in streaming fashion rather than slurping it all at once:

code = ARGV[0]
STDIN.each_line do |l|
puts l.instance_eval(code)
STDOUT.flush
end
Works for banks alright.
Out of interest, why are you not a fan of Ruby?
The only Volta asic so far is the gv100. They are not high yield parts, since as another poster pointed out, is likely the largest commercially available asic. They'll eventually make lower versions of that, but it hasn't been out that long.
Do you live in a city or a suburb?
Only the little grey ‘liquor store ATMs’. Most ATMs are run by banks, and it doesn’t matter which bank owns the ATM, you can get cash without a fee.
An account with a retail bank is nothing more than the plumbing from employer to landlord, credit card issuer, etc. That plumbing may include a small reservoir to smooth short-term differences in flow rate, but most Americans don't even have that. The very best a bank can possibly do for you is to minimize annoyance and abstain from charging fees.

When your short-term/emergency needs are fulfilled and you want a relationship, risk exposure, critical thinking about the use your money is put to, etc. you invest with a broker. Some traditional banks have associated brokerages (Chase/JPM, BofA/Merrill) and some brokerages have minor retail banks (Fidelity, Schwab) but the best-in-class services generally come from different institutions.

For most practical purposes, banking and investment are completely different things. That may not have been true historically, but these days the concept of interest on a deposit account is a vestigial curiosity. If you want returns, you go to the stock market.
What they were emphasising today was replacing a $2 million CPU based render farm used for offline rendering with their new hardware at 25% the cost and 10% the power usage for the same or better results. To the extent those numbers are realistic (and it seems like they are) it's going to be a pretty straightforward value proposition for companies that have render farms. This was SIGGRAPH so ML wasn't the main emphasis.
Kepler GPU die sizes were pretty small. Maxwell die sizes on the same process were much larger. (Up to 600mm2.)

Pascal die sizes were pretty small. The Turing die size is much larger on (essentially) the same process.

You’re seeing the power of improving yields as the process matures.

It’s likely that a 7nm chip with the same functionality as this one would cost more for the foreseeable future, so it makes sense to make it this big.

The BW of the infinity fabric is but a fraction of what’s needed for a GPU, so that’s a total non-starter.
Just finished - Only the Paranoid Survive & Measure What Matters
Some interesting points in here that I had not considered in a while.
Definitely one of the big advantages of the western economies is the cutthroat nature in which they think about ROI.

If something won't return a profit to a high probability, then it's not built.

Japan has seen problems with the same Soviet top-down style, where there are a lot of excess infrastructure projects throughout Japan, particularly in rural areas.

Japan avoided the Soviet implosion, but it has still gone through a large period of flat growth since the early 90's.

Deflation has been a major problem since 1991 and still is.

China could be the exception to this top-down style and find a way to high growth despite it's inefficiencies, but I am betting that it all catches up to them suddenly. Maybe not for a few years, but it will most definitely happen like it has happened to every country that has adopted the top-down Japanese style modernization.
buy the dip
Two separate Canadian credit unions I use have the exact same app layout, (island savings, vancity) so I imagine that's already happening to some extent.
While this does seem like an insiders rigged game, is that necessarily bad? Business is about relationships. It’s has always been this way and will always continue to be this way. People do business with people they know and like. While the govt is not technically a business as such, awarding a contract is still a business transaction. If the DOD know and trust people at amazon to do a good job, then why shouldn’t amazon get the contract? AWS is an industry leader (if not the leader? Somebody correct me) who obviously knows a great deal about doing a project of this magnitude. It seems to me they would probably do as good a job as any of the other candidates (which seems to be realistically azure or google cloud) so I don’t really see why this is a bad thing.

TLDR: amazon knows people at dod, they decide to do business together, who cares?
But that’s exactly Nvidia has been doing over the last 9 years???

Even for the same process, they’ve improved efficiency for the same workloads.
Transphobic may not be the best word, but I imagine if men who are supportive of MtF trans people openly stated they can do so because their SO and business associates would never assume them to be romantically involved with a trans woman, pro trans activists would have a cow about that reasoning.

I have been attacked on several occasions on HN by pro trans activists accusing me of being transphobic for trying to speak to women's issues here. I'm pretty sure such people would be furious to hear that trans individuals can make business connections that I can't make because those men would never sleep with a trans woman and this is why they feel comfortable backing one, making intros, etc.

I was openly homeless for years while participating on HN. I'm very painfully aware that there are many people here who see themselves as good people and who openly proclaim their interest in making the world a better place who were more comfortable watching me starve from afar than with risking any appearance of impropriety. I find it really mind boggling that anyone could be more comfortable with watching someone go hungry than with the possibility that people might raise an eyebrow at the idea that "maybe he's attracted to her."

In a weird way, it reminds me of Schindler's List. He was able to bring a young woman food precisely because he was a philanderer and everyone assumed he was sleeping with her. She said he never touched her.

I'm tired. I'm not sure how coherent that statement is.
Well written code in any high level language is basically Chinese to most people.
Maybe also a minor consequence of its longevity. Arguably, it's been around since 1843 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#History
I've always found it quite painful to do string escaping when using `ruby -e`
I worked with Caleb Chung (designer of Furby) on the Pleo (Animatronic Dinosaur) project. It was much more sophisticated but that was also part of it's downfall. I worked on the VM (Pawn) that ran on it's ARM processor and would have allowed for user programming of new behaviors.
Diagnosing a Weak Memory Ordering Bug
Is there some context I'm missing here?

Edit: Ok I figured it out. Apparently the author of this language Inko once made a mistake and deleted a database. Big deal.

https://thenewstack.io/junior-dev-deleted-production-databas...
In really olden times, you had to talk to the switchboard operator to connect your call. It was free of men in the middle only by dint of the fact that most operators were women.
To my knowledge, on Arch it's enabled as module, so unless some application uses Speck (which are none that I have installed, care about or know) then the module will not be loaded and do nothing.
Ajit Pai loses in court–FCC can’t kill broadband subsidy in Tribal areas
Thanks for posting this, it's incredibly informative and interesting. If you look at "Scenario 1: Professional Wife and Slacker Husband" in the California section, you'll see a situation very similar to the one I am in, just that the dollar amounts involved are lower, (I earn around $125K, invested about $10K into ex-wife's part time business), the child were both from one parent, and the genders are swapped. In my case the monthly combined spousal and child support that Dissomaster spit out was $3,300.
Yep, fair points. I was mostly replying regarding ML hype. Clearly, the value for renderfarms is proven at this point.
Aukey latitude wireless headphones
Five deep questions in computing (2008) [pdf]
Why Are Nerve Agents So Difficult to Make?
I was going to write something similar about him being young, but then decided I was being too clever on the internet.
We’re running 43 clusterio-like connected worlds here. Worlds allocated 8gb ram each. Less if we can get away with it by deleting unused chunks.
Pretty sure being able to afford food, a home, and healthcare is much more beneficial to society as a whole than having a poor underclass of laborers. But hey, maybe it’s the stuff you said too.
Toward a universal quantum computer
That’s a huge oversimplification that ignores so much

Soviet Union was still a thing. Reagan had only just started offshoring to China that would continue through GHW Bush, and Clinton.

Germany was still split.

Cost of education was a small fraction it is today. Housing costs the same and healthcare.

The world economy was vastly different.

Your parents retired as millionaires due to right time and place.

I make $200k yr. If wages had kept up with inflation, that would be more like $500-$600k/yr today.

Shits fucked
> Based on historical data, how accurate would it be to say that a recession happens every 7-10 years?

Starting with the Great Recession and working backwards to and including the Great Depression, the gap from the previous US recession for each recession has been:

6y, 1 m
10y
7y, 8m
1y
4y, 10m
3y
8y, 10m
2y
3y, 3m
3y, 9m
3y, 1m
6y, 8m
4y, 2m
1y, 9m

Only 3 of 14 of those gaps were in the 7-10 year range, and all of the rest are shorter.
Is Blockchain the Future of Social Media?
[Free Webinar] Test automation: Does your software need it and how to do it
UChicago to help lead effort to build first practical quantum computer
Yes, on INT4 tasks this chip will be faster than TPU. That's a fairly rare use case.
Google I/O 2018 App source code now on GitHub
Taleb says exactly this in nearly every chapter.
Apparently, 1996 $1800 = 2018 $2891...

But the amount of actual capability one gets from one of these cards is thousands of times more than what one could do in 1996.
You can set it up different ways, but you will definitely have to get a QDRO for splitting up any retirement accounts into two new accounts.

You can try to do the same thing with stocks, where you pay when you vest or sell, or sell on behalf of the other party, but in my case, and I suspect many others, I wanted the cleanest break possible and I settled on a payout amount simply to reduce the amount of communication with my ex-wife that would be necessary to pull this off.
Minecraft has made some very, uh, interesting performance decisions.

For example they decided to forcibly split everything into server thread(s) and play thread(s), even when you're doing single player. This made things more consistent, and sometimes helped performance, even though it broke a huge amount of mods.

While making this clean break it would have been easy to put world generation into its own thread, or even let it use multiple threads. Minecraft's world generation is inherently very parallel, and it bogs down servers all the time. Responsiveness could be improved by a huge amount by cutting it out of the simulation loop.

They didn't.
$2,891
Sorry, I do not have this assumption. Prioritizing the requirements is another big challenge.
The profitable model does not always work everywhere. For these high speed railroad, I see no reason they should be profitable as a whole.

I mean, better is better. Let's not pretend that USA can still build the infrastructure as it needs, better than China.

On the other hand, China's infrastructure project are funded by cheap labors. That's maybe more relevant than financial models. Also they have little resistance from the locals affected by the projects. Here we cannot even build apartments higher than certain number...
> It's not a "this community" issue

I disagree, by actively censoring and ninja burying important issues that don't reflect well on Silicon Valley the admins of Hn have cultivated an echo chamber of SV Brotopia, these are the fruits of that labor.
Ha, I finished reading this and thought, "reminds me of this poem I heard on This America Life". Turns out the poem in TAL is _also_ from Donald Hall [1]. I'll have to read Essays after 80 now.

1: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/651/if-you-build-it-will-th...
it may mean that, it must not.

we should be looking at the full distribution of wildfires year by year, but I'm not a US resident so not very acquainted with looking up what where
For those into modern (!) medium-level 6502 programming, PLASMA [0] may be better (syntax-wise) than Forth and better (size and performance-wise) than C.

[0] https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA
Not the parent but speaking myself, I feel the need to pick one or the other.

I'm not saying I hate Ruby. I just haven't take the time (nor had a reason to, frankly) become a fan the way I have with Python. Being similar languages in terms of both being dynamic, malleable, mostly single threaded and REPL-able they both seem to occupy the same spot in my toolbox.

Not to knock Ruby-the-language, but the one hitch is that Python's ecosystem is quite a bit vaster into fields I don't interact with (biology, physics, etc.) but also with many that I do (numpy/sympy, cli utilities and scripting, opencv, curl bindings). Where I'm at, it's most everyone's secondary or tertiary language.

Nothing against Ruby, it's just circumstance. If anything I might pick it up soon if only to access JRuby/TruffleRuby worlds which are much ahead of Jython/GraalPython.

Oh, except for function calls without (). And I'm not huge on DSLs. They seem icky but I grew to love significant whitespace in Python so maybe I'll grow to love those too.
My build:

- Intel 7700k
- Geforce 1080
- Asus ROG Strix Z270E
- Samsung Evo 960 NVMe

The process is much easier than it was years ago - especially if you can find a few people that got it working with the same motherboard.

1) Make a standard install USB

2) Run Clover Configurator on the USB with standard settings + tweaks based on your GPU and motherboard (you can find suggestions on /r/hackintosh and the TonyMac forums)

3) Install and boot

4) Tweak the Clover configuration on the EFI partition to fix any random remaining issues you find like USB or audio.
A good reminder to invest in world stock indexes not just US ones.

Personally instead of investing purely on weighed average, I tilt quite a bit towards international indexes. I'm American.
It's also the fact that you can't get rid of sexism and racism by legislating a requirement for... sexism and racism! You can't get away from being sexist and racist by adding more sexism and racism.

On top of that: you keep everybody in a sex/race mindset, you create jealousy, you give the unfavored groups an actual reason to boil with fury (not helping relations here...), and you give everybody a reason to doubt the accomplishments of the favored groups.

This is toxic.
Inference is still very computationally taxing for deep learning models. Using GPUs in a cluster for inference often proves far more efficient than large numbers of CPUs (eg; spark) but then that suffers from issues like I/O bottlenecks, memory bandwidth bottlenecks, etc.

So yeah, it's "read-only" but it's not so trivial to naively scale due to the large amounts of computations involved and often enormous datasets.
The USSR also had many satellite nations, like the Eastern European block. Moscow was known to drain those countries' resources, with little local investment in return outside of military bases.

I only have personal anecdotes to back that up having grown up in one of those satellite countries.
Porsche concept car shows off near real-time ray tracing in Unreal Engine
And yet, note the clean typography, responsive design, semantic markup, and fast page load times. ;)
>> In recent years, the company has put the probability of a recession six months out at close to 10 percent. Now, Vanguard says the chances of one by late 2020 are between 30 and 40 percent. That’s Vanguard’s highest-ever estimate for that time frame, Mr. Davis said. (A six-month forecast reported a greater than 40 percent probability before the recession that started in December 2007.)

The parenthetical was the interesting part to me. I would love to see some long-term data on their forecasts.
they used "lesson" in the quote/article when they almost certainly meant "lessen".
And this should highlight the absurdity of interest rates even being "set" in the first place.