skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did Imagination acquire Caustic Graphics?
FBI Warns of ‘Unlimited’ ATM Cashout Blitz
That's more the idiocy of USB-C than Thunderbolt itself.
I completely agree, although maybe it wasn't clear.
>...a competing state would be foolish not to try it.

Yeah, there is no way that this contract is not the largest target possible...

I am honestly fascinated and really interested in the cyber-warfare that has, is and will be going on.

Just thinking about Stuxnet/Duqu is pretty amazing - the things that are going on that we don't currently know about and the things that will happen are very interesting.

What I would like to determine, as an emergent tell of the electronic warfare between states is the true disposition between "enemies" -- i.e. we know that Iran and Israel really are enemies and assassinating targets of opportunity (stuxnet ++ engineers previously killed), but it should be telling when publicly on state denounces another (e.g. US denounces NK), but then doesnt take any back-channel actions against the state - or the reverse...
I agree that people will tend to not drive faster than what they feel comfortable at. I have even heard stories about places around my old town where they drew the lanes closer together (width and lane length) to make it feel like you are going faster to get you to slow down and it has had positive effects on how fast people drive.

However, people have vastly different "feelings" for what is comfortable. I've been in multiple different driving experiences in an awd subaru where I was going 30 under the speed limit because the weather was terrible and people were flying past me in their 2wd cars.

Shit, I even had an experience where I and literally 75% of other cars full on stopped on the side of a highway with our hazard lights on because we couldn't see more than 200 feet in front of us and people were still driving 30 mph past us.
I shit you not that was one of the scariest moments of my life because as the visibility got worse and worse, everyone starting putting on their hazard lights and going like 30, most cars turned off but we thought it was OK until the rain and fog got so bad the cars in front and behind us completely disappeared in the grey rain/fog. We drove for about a minute going like 25 MPH (I was slowing down to get more comfortable because I was freaking out) and I risked turning off onto the shoulder preying I didn't randomly ram one of the cars pulled off and we got lucky and were able to sit their until it got better.
I believe the period-correct way to combine things like this, is by imagining a beowulf cluster of them.
China is located among countries with large populations. Border disputes and historical warfares with neighbors are among its handicaps.

Looking at the world as a grand chess board, the Belt and Road Initiative is a move which China turns this disadvantage into an edge. By promoting trades with neighbors, it gains geopolitical influence, potential integration into the local economies, and friendships with the political classes.

To match this, the US needs to further strengthen its ties with the countries in question. Several of which are projected to become some of the largest economies in the world by 2050 [1]. Regardless of the extent that the projection comes true, the regions from East Asia to South Asia, where about half of the world's population live in, clearly have great long-term strategic importance.

[1] https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/economy/the-world-in-2050.h...
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It fails in place, then you replace the internals every five years as a single unit. After 20 years, you recycle the whole thing.
This deserves an upvote for the title alone. :-)
> The ability to warp spacetime to the point of violating causality, time travel, might be a death nail for a civilization.

death knell

I know you probably know this, and I don't mean any disrespect. I'm writing this for other people who don't speak English natively (I'm also not saying you're not a native speaker, just that I'm not). I don't want anyone to go away with the wrong idiom.
honestly if there it's bottom limit there should be also upper limit or no limits at all, often if not mostly 17yo it's more qualified than 85yo with their set of mental problems (it's just statistic, don't take it personally)

my stance regarding this didn't change in past 20 years and i still think it would be more appropriate to pass some general knowledge test for voters to benefit from democracy

weighing vote strength based on paid taxes (with some upper limit) it's just distant dream
It took time (in hours, and years) to get to this point, it will take time to get back. The human psyche has never been subject to this level of propaganda before, in volume and sophistication, you can hardly blame people.

I'm patient, and stubborn.
Seems like a sure-fire way to load up on pesticides. Those berries need to be washed first.
Yes they are raytracing some pixels and filling the blanks with ML/DL. I believe you could actually ray-trace everything depending on your target output. In these demos they're targeting many dynamic lights, reflections and refractions. If you were content with less reflection bounces, less lights and lower resolution you could easily ray-trace the whole frame with 166 mil rays per frame available.
As mentioned in the fine article:

> Failed projects like Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port may indeed be a way for China to quietly extend its strategic power around the world.
I read it the exact opposite. I read it as a guy throwing a literal tantrum because people he doesn’t like are allowed to criticize people he does like.

Disallowing discussion is never “making the world better” it’s quieting it for a bit while breeding contempt and violence. It’s why Trump is in office. You take away peoples voices, if anything you strengthen their beliefs.

When you push them to places where only like minded individuals hang out, the filter bubble becomes unbreakable.

Quieting voices you do not like is never a positive. Period. It’s a child’s solution. Understanding and exchange of ideas without condescension.
I think an excellent use of someone's time would be to curate a website that corrals as such old/classic 'project' webpages and protoblogs.

I would love to spend hours clicking around on the twenty-years-past internet of my youth.

I particularly miss an old game called Vagabonds Quest; essentially just a perl chatroom with basic DnD classes/leveling built in for competition.
I think it’s used to load all the geometry of really a complex scene with a lot of geometry. (Think Pixar movie.)

With ray tracing, if you can’t load the whole scene in memory, it’s simply not going to work.

Disney recently released a scene of Moana for public use. It has 15 billion primitives!

http://www.cgchannel.com/2018/07/download-disneys-data-set-f...
I do not think that @jack will have an easy time of it in the months to come. Whatever he does will cause someone to enter into frothing ragegasms directed at him and the company.

Yet, it's clear that twitter cannot maintain it's status as "the place where everybody wants to be because it's where everybody is." without taking steps to protect the quality of the experience and the integrity of it's audience.

The discomfort that Dorsey and Zuckerberg have with enforcing something like a reality principle on their platform may have been praiseworthy and of noble intent; but we're starting to understand that the second order effects of letting people undermine public perceptions of truth and validity have serious consequences that are damaging if not fatal to the society that hosts these platforms and the workers that build and operate them.
Can we stop with the "we try to make the word better" company mottos? You can't say this if you're in it for the money and trying to get more every quarter
Markets are fractal, not cyclical.
> It’s actually an interesting challenge to try to come up with formats where ad monetization makes sense for the content producer

So that would be a 'no' to jjeaf's question then.
this would have pretty big chance in China actually and they are not Christians
I just got promoted to CIO this year in a non- tech company in south east Asia. I am still trying to figure out my role. If you are interested in offering some advise or suggestions on how to be a good CIO , Plz send me an email . maxwin10@gmail.com
Click bait. Not universal. Nearest neighbour algo that works well for a family of distant measures.
Fascinating data cut:
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/8/eaap9815...
To be fair, I remember him taking that back and admitting he let emotions cloud his judgement pretty much right away. I can forgive a bad (and probably very sleep-deprived) election day take if they admit it.

Disclaimer: I'm not intimately familiar with his views, but since he's a pretty prolific political columnist (in addition to being an economist) I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff worthy of criticism.
The VIX has been steady while CBOE SKEW is at all time high of 159.03. While this by itself means nothing since SKEW has been trending upwards, it is interesting that the yield curve is also flattening.
exactly the same here, 2012 generation MBP to T480s. Never had such a nice keyboard, mechanical or not. I actually prefer it over the old T series, it got exactly the right key travel for me. I also like the case design. Light, robust and nice to the touch, has good port placement and all the ports I need without those stupid dongles.

Only problem: Windows 10. I‘m slowly getting there setting it up with WSL to be nearly as productive as with MacOS, but so far the hardware makes up for it.
A slightly odd selection of languages - some seriously obscure stuff in there, yet missing some really obvious ones.
> Toxin-free. Poison-free. Dye-free. Fragrance-free.

Artificial toxin/poison/dye/fragrance-free. You can shove as much naturally occurring toxins in the product as you like, and both marketers and regular people will agree it's "chemical-free".

And that's side-stepping the whole "artificial" vs. "natural" nonsense. 'spacehome may be pedantic in this context, but in general, he's right - regular people have their model of the world ridiculously out of sync with reality. Which is of course readily exploited by advertisers selling "chemical free", "natural", "organic" products, which are no better (and sometimes worse) than the "artificial" ones, but still command a premium price.
Is that a limited use case because not many workloads map to INT4 or has this Avenue simply not been explored because there weren’t any INT4 processors?

My understanding is that during inference, precision is often not critical, and that some workloads even work with 1 bit?
In response of retirement savings, "accumulate" generally does mean acquiring income producing assets. That's what stocks and bonds are. They just have a lower risk/reward profile than putting all your eggs into a single owned company.
Also there are very few games that use intensive raytracing right now. It'll take some time to get the libraries embedded into graphics frameworks and popular engines. I don't imagine they'll release a consumer Turing card until they have at least one game they can use to market it with.
HSR don't need to be profit individually, that's why it's funded by the government. HSR will stimulate the economy which it connected. So in a big picture, it brings a huge positive impact for the economy, just like the highway.
Textures is a big one. Film rendering sometimes references terabytes of textures.
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"but I think it indicates that the linguistic distinction between an animal and its meat is indeed at its core a dehumanizing process"

Why? I feel absolutely no emotional difference between "cow meat" and "beef", and would be surprised to hear that it really made a difference to pretty much any non-vegetarian... Further, it seems nobody has felt the need to introduce a different word for 'lamb' - it's still an extremely popular meat despite the word literally meaning 'baby sheep'...

I think it's drawing a really long bow to think it's desensitising language (dehumanisation isn't really the right word, since cows, sheep etc. aren't human). At the end of the day, I think it's just a quirk of language development...
What happens when it's cloudy for a few days and the batteries are dead?
>The logging industry will happily wipe out nice, mature, profitable trees that are robust against fire and leave behind the unprofitable brush that serves as tinder. No thanks.

That wood waste used to power electric plants across the state before cheap renewables and solar were an option.

>Electricity infrastructure probably needs to be moved back to a core government function like roadways--especially considering that the infrastructure part is going to dominate more and more over the metered part as more renewables come online.

The forests will burn as long as Federal Lands are not managed and cut like they used to be. The Federal Forests will threaten private forests and the adjacent land will be impacted.

It’s simple, dead trees need to be cut down. Invest in as much renewable and clean energy as you want but if we don’t take care of these trees the air quality will be trashed. It’s happening right now.
My first Comment!!
> People should stop coming up with such wrong metaphors. Real-time doesn't mean fast, it just means reliable latency. If you miss a cycle it needs to reboot or stop. But it doesnt mean that they are particularly fast. They are rather slow in fact.

This! In other words it is determinism. It should be highly deterministic. Most of the real time controllers even suggest to disable cache to be highly deterministic.
hah but at least, we seem to have the luxury of exploring our neighborhood at our own pace, in any direction, without capitulating to alien overlords.
IIRC in the conference they showed ~40ms+ per frame for the Star Wars demo so that would be around the 24 fps region.
No Man's Sky NEXT Galactic Atlas
Yes, they will. Not even counting cryptomining, universities and big-businesses use NVidia-powered supercomputers with 5000+ $10k cards in them, for AI deep learning or for astrophysical modelling or other things.

Previously those cards have been the ~$8k-$10k P100 or V100. Not any more.
Yeah, though a bit more complex than that. It basically allowed companies to create professional broadcast-like workflows with a Tricaster and complex setups using Facebook Live and other protocols.

When I worked at Mashable and Facebook was paying us to make a certain amount of Facebook Live content a month (a practice Facebook started in mid-w2016 and stopped in mid-2017, which was painful for the media companies that had hired out teams to produce that content), we used Vidpresso to make the broadcasts look more professional, with updated lower-thirds, easy multi-camera switches, pre-recorded playback via Tricaster, etc. I don’t remember if we used Vidpresso at Gawker/Gizmodo Media Group or not, but the software was definitely powerful for live broadcasts.

IIRC, Vidpresso was one of the first solutions to get certified to use the various Facebook Live APIs and it really changed what types of video we were able to produce.

I’ve known Randall a long time and am thrilled for him and his team that they could make this exit. This is the sort of thing Facebook should be offering its larger media customers.
It isn't as much about sincere trade as much it is about making those countries dependent on China.

Just take a look at the projects completed so far, every single time they brought in their own people and companies to build oversized unnecessary infrastructure that remains mostly unused.

When countries default on those loans, things aren't quite bright.
There are low-bit networks as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05279

That technology is now a spinoff of AI2 and UW: https://www.xnor.ai/
Don't all time-dependent processes result in dependency graphs? The only way you could have a circular dependency is if one organism was a parent of one of their ancestors, which is obviously impossible*

*actually, it's not impossible, since you could have a child transmit DNA horizontally to its parent, but this would in reality happen over a sufficiently short timescale that you wouldn't see it on a phylogenetic tree.
Why the hell would anybody want to replace AWK? It’s super fast, extremely light on resources, doesn’t have any dependencies, does auto memory management and type inference, and is extremely powerful for large dataset processing, not to mention easy to learn and program.
oh well sorry, did not catch that!
I found an old Computer Shopper from the late 1990s and had forgotten how ridiculously expensive computer equipment was - the real sub-$1000 market wasn't even a thing for PCs until 1997, and the range between a sub-$1000 computer and an expensive one was astounding even for day-to-day tasks.
What is the social network for wifi routers?
No clue what you are talking about, but, technically, human women become chimeras when they reproduce because the baby leaves behind some of its genetic material. Human children transmit their DNA to their mothers in utero to some degree.
And they know that because your PII (name, address, social) is mapped to a profile, and that profile is also mapped to license plates and Vins. So you can use one to look up the other info in either direction.
29 hours wallclock is long for a render but not uncommon.
Is there a way to interop that with MPI based tools (such as Trilinos or PyTrilinos)? I would really love to be able to write some of my unstructured mesh based simulations on something like that.
Not just competitive, but better paying. Take Taiwan and other East Asian countries—government service is desirable, high paying, and a really prestigious job. And lo and behold, their government services really do work very well.
It's a common misconception that sending something "from your email address" requires any degree of accessing your email account. It does not. The visible "From" is transmitted as a regular header and you are free to modify it at will, much like the Subject line.

Some low-level clients make this easier (say, Mutt) but most clients allow you to do so. For instance, all desktop and mobile apps, such as Outlook, Thunderbird and Apple Mail have an Accounts setting screen where you can change your "sender" email address. You can write anything you want in that field.

Online services, such as GMail, require you to have access to the addresses you wish to use as "sender", but they are the exception. Anybody can still use your GMail address as sender in their emails. (Anti-SPAM features such as SPF notwithstanding.)
Boy blaming Reagan for the 91 recession (2.5 years after his term) is a stretch. And also, in retrospect, the '91 recession was a blip, in what was largely a booming decade of growth.
I worked for a recommendation engine as a service company called aggregate knowledge in 2007 when they got their second round of funding, 25m from kleiner. It was a remarkably lousy business, and they didn't do well.

There was really nothing wrong with the concept. A little JavaScript on the page, a bunch of back end magic, the ability to use a larger data pool because you are collecting from multiple sites.... But people wouldn't pay, and the engagement of recommendations was never that good.

The secret we learned was, after a bunch of math and research, was that 'best in this category and 3 closest adjacent categories works so well in retail that a naive algo did very well.

Better than the fancy math, which once associated the Koran with the sports illustrated swim suit edition ( and vice versa ).

There is a massive data sufficiency problem, and no company with the real data would go into this low end business. Small companies can't get enough data to be relevent.

The world is 10 years later, ml is better understood, so it might all be different now.... Pm me if you are interested in further detail
Of course I want to skip maid service.

It is disgusting. They just mopped the room next door, where people are vomiting everywhere, and then they drag that mop around my room. I'll have to disinfect it again, as I do every time the maid has been in. This is such a pain. (wiping every switch/knob/handle with Lysol or similar)

Then there is theft and breakage. So now I have to lug my stuff around instead of leaving it in the room.

Then there is me. Maybe I like to do things in private that might be embarrassing. Maybe I want to sleep during the day.

For all these reasons, maid service should be opt-in. I should have to leave the room unlocked; there should be no maid key. Entry without my permission should require a boltcutter, prybar, breaching round, battering ram, or saw. (and yes, guests who needlessly cause this should be charged for the damage) For the time during which I am paying for the room, it should be mine alone.
Yes, but that's the problem: then how does the local bank get money to lend out?
I recommend alternatives, since I find runners to be intimidating to non-runners. I find it to be similar to the cycling community. Perhaps it is more about the social stress around it. Soccer can be very competitive, but in general people would be accommodating if, for instance, you are very unfit or if you're not good at it. There are no "times" and no "how many times per week".

Personally I like running a lot, but many of my friends do not. I dislike running with other people and generally avoid the runner's fad. I am not sure if my intention is clear, but I wanted to point out that a balance of activities is often (and in my case) what works for a person going through a dark time.

In my case, I can go through a dark period while at the same time exercising regularly. Someone mentioned the need for external stimuli in recovery. I think for some people, running can be overstimulation. I do think for this reason other activities are important—a good example is drumming, which after an hour or two can be a work out. If people want to achieve their goals, there needs to be a large enough pool of possible goals (which, perhaps, there is) that fits personality and physical circumstances.
OpenBSD saves me again – Debug a memory corruption issue
Want a lower tax bill? So do Apple and Genentech
This thread got me thinking and thought I'd post. Made a throw away for this as my real account can be linked to me far too easily... $ are in NZD.

32, living in down south in New Zealand. Working for clients around the world, mostly in the UK.

Making $150-180K per year.

Bank accounts
$15K in NZ
~$50K in the UK account from client payments over the last few months

Own the house we built for $580K in 2016, it has recently been valued at $650K. Have a mortgage on that of $320K.

Have another mortgage of $180K on a $260K house split with a friend when we brought a rental property at the start of this year.

Have about $10K worth of crypto, down from dizzying heights at the start of the year :D, from a $4k gamble just over a year ago.

I think we have ~$20K in a superannuation accounts, which we haven't put anything into since I've been working for myself.

Interest rates on the mortgages are 4.19% p.a.

Other than the mortgages we have no other debts. We being my partner and I, our 1 year old, a dog and 2 cats.

On one hand I feel like we're doing OK. But for the amount I'm making I feel like we should be saving / investing more.
> Disney recently released a scene of Moana for public use. It has 15 billion primitives!

FWIW, that’s after instancing, which doesn’t take up much memory. The Moana scene’s data files are mostly ptx textures, the geometry is only a fraction of it. The subd geometry might expand to be larger in memory than the textures, though, depending on if it’s subsivided and how much.