skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VA is a weird case — if we had comprehensive medical coverage for all Americans, the because-of-military costs would only be those incurred due to care for wounded veterans.

I believe that's a minority of the VA's expenditures, but sometimes it is hard to separate. For example, my grandfather receives a hearing aid from the VA — is that because of too much time spent around jet planes, or just due to age?
Bike Lane Uprising maintains data on this. Maybe it would be interesting to contact them for the dataset.
FDIC protects cash at (fractional reserve) banks. SIPC protects securities at (non-fractional reserve) brokerages. A very rich person isn't going to have enormous quantities in cash; most of it will be invested. But the risk of a brokerage losing your stock is way lower than a bank losing your cash deposits, and even that is very low. If they wanted to buy insurance against it that wouldn't be very expensive.
This is fascinating - I'm not particularly sold on this line of reasoning to begin with, having both secret balloting and the privilege to have been able to dramatically disagree with my parents politically as a child. Certainly by high school the majority of my classmates were qualified to vote.
I came to the comments to say the same thing. Quantization and hashing tricks for embeddings are cool and all, but not really important for model compression.

Rather, training companion models to prune away whole subnetworks of weight and layer combinations can allow you to remove tens of thousands of parameters from the model entirely— not wasting space on their quantized weights when they end up not being a contributing pathway to predictions.
It's not just about validating types. If B and C are implemented sufficiently differently, the compiler output for a function that takes (A|B) will be different than for the same function that takes (A|C), and both of those outputs can end up coexisting in the final executable. Unfortunately I don't know enough about the compiler internals to go into further detail.

As for manual recasting, sure, it's possible, but it's not a great tradeoff. Either you do type inference correctly and have developers crashing the compiler unless they recast their variables in seemingly arbitrary ways, or you cheat on inference and have developers getting "undefined method" errors on classes they didn't think they were using until they learn the rules. Ultimately it was decided that the latter was less common and easier to deal with in practice (just add a PlacentalMammal subclass to your class hierarchy that includes Cat and Dog but not Echidna). It's not a decision anyone is thrilled with but I think it's reasonable.
Matt/bpchaps, have you shared the results with the aldermen? I'd love to hear about their reactions.
From 3rd paragraph TFA, and unlike 1910-1950s USA,

Like the Soviet Union in the 1970s, China is coming to the end of a long labor-force boom, and hoping that an orgy of investment will keep the old magic going while stabilizing its fraying frontiers.

Cornelius Vanderbilt wasn't trying to overcome a graying America or shore up the Monroe Doctrine by building railroads in Latin America and Africa. If anything, I fail to see any justification for your comparisons between China and the progressive-era US.
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"JEDI also asks for “32 GB of RAM”—the precise specification of Amazon’s services. (Microsoft, by contrast, offers only 28 GB, and Google provides 30 GB.)"

What? Microsoft only provides 28 GB of RAM, and Google only 30 GB? I'm pretty sure neither Azure nor GCP even launched with limits that strict.
The lack of the ability to take deposits kills the FinTech Charter DOA
> Did you mean that China leads the usa in tonnage?

I'm not sure. I believe China is now #2 in terms of raw tonnage, just edging out Korea.

> And did you mean that large liquid natural gas ships aren't planning out when you said very very large ship orders aren't materializing?

The container ship business was upsizing the ships to unbelievable sizes and capacity. But it's a little like the A380 aircraft, it wasn't the right bet as local port handling capacity in many older ports isn't sized for ships and carrying capacity above some load. It turns out the overall satisfaction with those super large ships isn't there and some of the shipyards that were retrofitted to be able to build those monsters simply aren't getting the orders for those class of ships.

> Isn't there a large effort underway to put natural gas on ships, therefore undermining Russia's pipelines and also bolstering large ship production?

There are ships that can move LNG and similar fuel types. But for intra-continental shipment, nothing beats pipelines. The wikipedia article on LNG ships even mentions the DSME shipyard and some capacity and future order infomation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNG_carrier
I never liked the accumulate and pray you have enough to last model. If you don't die before you money runs out your plan fails.

Any plan that has death as a pre-requisite to be successful is not a very good plan in my book.

Acquiring income producing assets seems like a much better plan.
When people routinely park in bike lanes, the problem is usually cultural, i.e. people know they're not supposed to do it, but they decide to do it anyway.

Near where I work in Bellevue WA, they recently restriped the road to have a brightly painted bike lane, with double-white lines to make it abundantly clear that you were not supposed to drive in it. Bright red "no stopping" signs were placed on the curb. People still parked right in the bike lane.

It wasn't until they added a concrete barrier that the lane cleared up enough that bikes could use it. And of course, right where the barrier ends, people start parking there instead. The West side seems to have less difficulty understanding this.
Well it takes Pixar 29 hours to raytrace a single frame, so I would consider this much faster than current methods.
$10,000? They'll have people buy the whole lot anyways. Buy NVDA
Parking tickets aren't criminal offenses.
The problem with languages whose design philosophy is divorced from the computer
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I know meta comments are unwelcome but "nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/" is so egregious that it caught my eye.

It looks like their entire website is a huge legacy mess.

"news.nvidia.com" leads nowhere.

"nvidia.com/news/" leads to "nvidia.com/content/redirects/news.asp" and produces "Corrupted Content Error"

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because an error in the data transmission was detected.
>> Vanguard tracks data to predict the likelihood of a recession at certain points in the future.

Having read nearly the entire literary output of one Nassim Taleb, I'd like to see the results of past predictions on this one. I'm pretty sure it will show that this "tracking" carries no actual predictive power.
Hmm, I think it's a legal thing to get the right money to the right people (by affecting taxes or liquidation preferences or...)

If Facebook buys the company's IP but not the company itself, and the company pays out that cash in dividends and winds down operations, people could get paid quite different amounts than if Facebook had purchased all of their outstanding stock outright.
To the people saying he's too young to lead, it is a child who says "The emperor has no clothes." The grownups know better than to say something like that.

Sometimes, being young and stupid and not knowing that "you can't do X" is an asset.
I just assumed it had something to do with weed.
There's a 24 year old woman who's a member of parliament in New Zealand: Chlöe Swarbrick [1]. One of the criticisms of her during the election was that she's young and literally just finished university.

I think that's the wrong way to look at it. We need more fresh faced optimism in politics, rather than a bunch of old cynics. Also, if politics is only for those who have done something in their life and attained some status, you're just filtering for old white men, which is largely what the US Congress, the UK Parliament, and many other western countries' governments are made of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chl%C3%B6e_Swarbrick
I think to look at any particular war and ask that question leads to an inaccurate answer... since there are years of prep work, training, research, etc that the military conducts, then in a short period of time they expend equipment, munitions, etc during a war.

But consider, the cost of labor effects everything the military does... Everyone in the entire chain commands a higher wage than they would in China/Russia, whether they hold a gun or not... researchers, assembly line workers, doctors, etc... pushing up the costs of everything the military buys.
There are other views on the economics of India under British rule:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India_under_the_Bri...

example: * British increased the area of irrigated land by a factor of eight, contrasting with 5% under the Mughals.
The big differences to me are that faxes don't need an "account" to send/receive files, the machines are simpler and cheaper, they have far fewer intermediary technical and user issues, and their network is way more reliable. If you depend on sending and receiving documents, faxes are light-years more reliable and less complicated than, say, e-mail.

Can you count the number of times an internet connection has gone down for a business, compared to the number of times the PSTN has gone down? Unless a truck takes out a utility pole, there's no contest. And the lack of obstructions for user access removes a whole slew of other issues.
And motivation . The exposure to the problem gives you motivation to solve it . If someone randomly gave this idea, one could probably just ignore it ..
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We need more fresh faced optimism in politics, rather than a bunch of old cynics.

You remind me of when I was in my late 30s and being mistaken for someone much younger online by people who perceived me as *young naive go-getter."

I'm now 53. In some sense, I haven't changed much. :)
Or because they need to clear the older inventory a bit more
We can't commit them because mental hospitals keep getting closed.
On a related note, you can make a thermal lance [1] that can cut steel out of bacon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9dskxN10N0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_lance
I'm not sure whether this is the reason in this case, but it's worth noting that NVIDIA marketing (ab)uses the term "GPU" in a very particular way. Basically, their definition is contrived to make the GeForce 256 the first GPU ever.

> NVIDIA invents the graphics processing unit, putting it on a path to reshape the industry. GeForce 256 is launched as the world's first GPU, a term NVIDIA defines as "a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second. [1]

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/corporate-timeline...
I never knew about ZachTronics. I was excited to buy the game but then I saw your comment, which was a doubt I had in mind. Now I don't really want to buy the game. Thanks!
Removing complexity (gates) means yield goes up. My indications from being on the periphery of developing custom silicon and respinning it is that NRE is not $500k for devices that are more advanced (ie multiple sparc cores + dsp + application specific logic)
I love Zach's games, just picked up EXAPUNKS and loving it. My favorite since Shenzhen I/O, but they are all great.
When I see a $5T asset management firm making predictions of market downturn, I wonder if it is only trying to predict the future or influence it. That is, did they place bets then went on to warn everyone of impending disaster so they can then profit from it.
It turns out buying votes in Congress is actually quite cheap.
One would hope so, but not as FB would have it. e.g. internet.org. Safer to keep a tight psychological bound.
This problem would solve itself if vandalism laws were changed slightly.
It depends on doing so to work better. But a similar not-quite-as-good system could do without that feature. It's not integral.
Some people are on the street because it is the least worst option available to them.

They changed the law in part because of the horrifying conditions under which people were living who had been committed.

Having slept in a tent for nearly 6 years, I would take that over de facto imprisonment in an asylum any day. I did spend 10 days in an asylum in my teens. This is not an uninformed opinion by any stretch.
Primarily.

The major exception for me is em-dashes, which I use all the time.

There are also a few punctuation marks on a standard keyboard that don't get used very much outside of programming and other specialized contexts. {}\|

Another interesting thing related to punctuation is that the use of some punctation is really overloaded. Quotation marks in particular can mean literally quoting someone, a scare quote, an indication that something is a term of art, titles of certain types of works, and probably some other variants.
Just tried with a Raspberry Pi 0 - No luck.

"SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported"

On the roadmap, or is this just a driver issue?
Did, uh, you see my post up there about Ron Wyden?

He's a politician, and a Democrat.
Don't know about where you are, but in Ontario Canada (the only place I've gotten in enough trouble to care about the difference ;-) ), there is a criminal code and the highway traffic act. There are illegal things that you can do in your car that may be in either or both areas.

"Criminal" means in the criminal code, but both are illegal. I think that you don't have a right to privacy for either because it obfuscates the application of the law. Indeed, the Japanese government can query the Ontario government to get a list of transgressions that you had while driving a car in Ontario (I know this because they did so when I converted my driver's license to a Japanese one -- and they didn't need my consent).

I think OP's use of the term "criminal" is a bit loose, but I would be surprised if you have any right to privacy for a a fine levied due to a legal infraction. Whether or not you should have a right to privacy is a completely different conversation...

Aside: It was important to me because many years ago I inadvertently drove while suspended. I had an unpaid ticket that I had forgotten about and my license was suspended. The suspension got lost in the mail (first a postal strike and then the delivery person put my mail in the wrong "super box" -- I eventually got it months later). When I was first getting my visa for Japan, I needed to find out if this was a criminal offence or a highway traffic act offence.
Does Linux do that OOB or do I need to do some configuration?
"The bulk of major Belt and Road projects are in Malaysia, South Asia and Indochina" -- subheading of the 2nd chart

Malaysia and Indonesia control the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes which doubled in traffic over the past decade [1]. The strait connects manufacturers in China to fast-growing large population centers in South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh with over 1.5 billion people in total.

Most of the projects facilitate trades between South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. About half of the world's population live in these regions [2].

The projects to connect China to Russia and Europe serve two major purposes:

1) Energy security: Over 40% of the oil China imports comes from the Middle East [3], where it does not have much influence. Even imports from elsewhere are largely shipped over the seas which China does not control.

2) Geopolitical influence through trade and investment

[1] http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/asia/exclusive-malacca...

Also: https://www.shipmap.org/

[2] More People Live Inside This Circle Than Outside Of It https://brilliantmaps.com/population-circle/

[3] http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-15-crude-oil-suppliers-t...
You make some fine points. I may appear gullible in this exchange, but so be it. I cannot disagree with you here. Consider me won over.
If that’s possible then the first two requests should be:

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.tables

And

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.columns
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Maybe a little off topic, but I'm curious, how did you get on the board?
New accounts posting comments with links are killed by the spam filter before anyone even gets the chance to downvote/flag.
Grover Norquist is on record saying that his anti-tax stance is to get rid of most if not all of government.

Starving the beast is a major policy aim.
Well,sure they COULD build it.

But maybe that would cost 2-3-4 times as much as buying it?

Why shouldn't they instead go with the best in the world?

Presumably, the whole reason why they are doing this, is because they DID build it themselves a decade or so ago, and it didn't result in the best outcome.

Government IT has quite a terrible reputation these days. The government should instead be pushing to have the best in the world.
The nuclear arsenal is maintained with the help of a huge complex of contractors.
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OTOH you can make pretty sweeping generalizations. For example, FreeBSD recently shuffled the members of the TCP structures around to line up assuming 64B boundaries and mitigate some of the false sharing associated with locks and memory barriers (locking implementations usually cause a complete cacheline Read-Modify-Write that has to be communicated over the cache coherence protocol potentially xxx ns away). For large structures, putting things in the first or second part (64 to 128B) will generally get you cache hits due to prefetching so it can behave somewhat ganged in practice as well. If you have something designed for 64B lines that doesn't work in a linear fashion, the prefetcher may be wasting a lot of bandwidth. https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
It needs to be upside down and back to front for all the linotype operators and lead type printers to read.
This is one way to make a profit off the patient. I wonder if it would have happened if she had no insurance. Highly unlikely as the hospital wouldn't be able to milk the patient for money.

A second issue is these social workers whose main goal seems to want to remove children from parents and break up families in general for what I can only say is their own sick amusement. This is a fucked up job that gives way too much power to people who really don't care about others and often are unsuited to work with others. No one or even two individuals should have this kind of power. Removing someone's legal ability to make choices for themselves or their children should only be done by a consensus of multiple, independent parties that are not allowed to communicate with each other.

Finally, why did the DA not file charges of wrongful detainment / kidnapping against the hospital? This is not a mere disagreement. The article brushing this off as some petty doctor ignores the kidnapping and sending the police after the patient based on false statements to the police. At the very least the social worker, doctor, and nurse who contributed to this should all be fired and lose their licenses. These people should not be working on their respective fields and likely should be in jail. I hope the patient does sue but that won't prevent greedy or petty healthcare workers with too much power from doing this in the future.
You mean an ER physician who had no history of the previous hospitalization? The family had no discharge paperwork because they left AMA. I don't think they provided an adequate history including recommendations from neurosurgery, Pulm crit, GI, physical therapy, and speech therapy. Also I don't think the ER physician was going to admit a patient for an ultimate disposition for inpatient therapy either.

What I think is kind of funny is that there is a general pediatrician who was probably coordinating care and never really needed to get consent for treatment. I'm sure the neurosurgeon who did the clip got consent, GI/surgery got consent for the PEG, Pulm crit for the trach. Now this sad primary care/peds doctor is going down for not getting consent.

And one last thing, primary team pediatricians/hospitalists and their assisting case managers/social workers are not excited about long and protracted patient dispositions. No one likes to have a patient sitting on their list forever, especially one who really wants to leave and is aggressive about it. This story is incomplete without Mayo's side. I don't trust any of those comments from the medical ethicists when they don't have access to the full EMR at Mayo. I suppose they were enamored with the idea of providing a comment to the journalist.
It's important to remember that you can always make it look like you are ahead of Moore's Law curve if you are willing to spend more for silicon and the energy to power it.

This appears to be a GPU design for those applications where extreme (by mobile and desktop standards) power consumption and cost can be justified. Correspondingly NVIDIA has been trying to move into the data center for deep learning and rendering. They pushed out a lot of good research on how to do the computationally expensive parts of rendering on the server, and leave the client to do the last interactive part locally.

The market allows for this silicon giant because of the current Deep Learning and VR hype. If there were to be another AI and VR winter I'd expect NVIDIA's marketing to re-focus on power efficiency and architecture tweaks once again.
If I had the means and inclination, I might have gone through the trouble of proving my innocence. But more than likely, I would have emailed Lyft and once I didn’t get a satisfactory response disputed the charge with my credit card company. The few times I have disputed a charge, it was painless.
I like what I am doing with my current manager, we speak during stand ups and randomly in the office when chatting about life/work, if we see that something requires more attention we grab a room and spend as much time as we need or schedule a meeting asap.

There is no agenda, no planning, but active ongoing conversations. Meetings are about 1 topic and you usually don't need more than 1 thing ready (demo, pen & paper, specs, web browser with jira...). We work completely transparently too, so that helps as we can always check what's up without needing to interrupt each other.

If the company CEO asked to have 1-1 with my manager for 30 minutes randomly, I guess topics would vary, from personal life, career to probably aligning vision of the what we want to build. But most of these stuff is covered in detail in daily routine so no need for 1-1 really.

If he needs to speak about multiple topics he will tell me and if I need anything ready, but this is yet to happen.
PG&E needs to be doing a better job and California should consider bringing back its logging industry.

I get burning wood isn’t the cleanest energy source but dead trees are going to burn no matter what. I’d rather someone harvest it and burn it in a controlled environment rather than it rage uncontrollably.
Bullshit. Hire a bunch of consultants without any ability to judge which are worth the ticket, and you’ll spend a measly $10 mil in no time.