skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps not entirely useless, but certainly unscrupulous and corrupt.
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You're neglecting management costs. IT teams don't buy hardware with corporate credit cards, they have to work through pre-existing requisition processes that properly budget for the hardware, make sure support contracts are in place, etc. You have to migrate whatever workload off the server where you installed the GPU (politically problematic since Murphy promises you that your users will be connecting to the server by its IP address, or the workload is "mission critical" and can't be stopped, or whatever) and reserve the server for GPU work. If you're running something like vCenter to virtualize your datacenter resources, you need to make sure that VMware picks up on the GPU in the new machine, doesn't schedule new VMs without GPU requirements on the server with the new GPU, etc.

Comments like these (why can't I just do X?), it's like the difference between being single and being in a serious relationship. When you're single, you can do whatever you want. When you're in a serious relationship, you can't just make whatever decisions you want without talking to your partner. Well, big corporate enterprise is like that on steroids, because instead of having one partner, you have several or dozens, and everyone needs to buy in.
Make a PWA webapp of this available on the Windows store, you will find a niche to fill devoid of good podcast apps. Make service workers that allow for download/offline sync and i think you will do well. Obviously put it on ios/android as well but i think you'd find a good home with your simple design on ms store. Announce your app on neowin, mspoweruser and such too.
Depends on your use case. The more accurate models these days require lots of data with huge models. Machine Translation, Image Generation, Segmentation, etc. Each experiment takes a couple days/weeks to train, so we were encountering long stretches of constant usage.
>people have mortgages, families and other commitments. Some have social anxiety and find job hunting an impossibly scary prospect. Others might suffer from depression.

So what? Standing up for what you believe in is never easy, and almost always involves challenges like those. Imagine if Dr. King gave up because he was anxious and depressed with death threats coming in on a regular basis.

Failing to take a moral/ethical stand because you're worried you might lose money or have to withstand some social anxiety blatantly shows that you don't really believe in those morals/ethics.
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patients pay for care, not for records. If you employ a photographer for a wedding, they often insist on keeping the copyright of the photos. You have the right to use them personally, but the photographer retains the copyright.

And to avoid repeated tests, it means that this information must be shared between different healthcare organisations.

There is an argument against. Ownership implies the ability to do with the data as you wish, including removing certain parts or withholding others. This could lead to issues where a patients wants a test which is not indicated, and by providing edited records, clinicians may be misled. Similarly, would it be acceptable to delete information referring to a current HUV/Hep C or TB infection?
And what about psychiatric patients? Sometimes patients lack insight into their condition, particular in psychosis and delusions. This can persist after acute episodes, where they deny they were unwell during the episode. These patients could then remove anything referring to this section, making future care much more difficult.
Finally, medical records also refer to cases where there are legal issues. They may refer to suspicions of child abuse, or the expressed intent of a patient to go kill another. This information should not be blocked by difficulties with patients owning the data.
Permalink demo doesn't work.
What this article doesn't mention, is that Denmark is facing all these issues now, because Danske Bank's Estonian branch was used to move vast sums of money out of Russia by the people close to Russian government and Vladimir Putin himself, using the scheme called "The Russian Laundromat"[1]:

> FSB representatives served on the board of at least one of banks that wired billions out of Russia as did Igor Putin, Putin’s cousin. He was a manager and executive board member in the Russian Land Bank.

[1] https://www.occrp.org/en/laundromat/the-russian-laundromat-e...
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> Even the iPhone 7 is listed at £449, which is already £150 more than I paid for my Sony Xperia.

In my own personal experience that would be some really well invested £150...
There are about 200 countries in the world, and laws vary even inside those jurisdictions.
This problem can only be solved by legislation. There's money in surveillance capitalism, so the money will be grabbed.
Thanks for the catch! Actually that wasn't intended as a direct comparison to this machine's 1TB storage (I think I had ~2TB in the cloud). I can see how this is confusing - just edited the article.
Except that any historian of medicine will tell you that pharmaceuticals well into the 18th century were dominated by ideas of "potency" where surely things would have beneficial effect because they have powerful smells or whatever. Uses of animal excrement are exceedingly common in early-modern remedy guides.
Wow, no dual/triple monitor setup is just uncivilized.
Android (the Android Open Source Project) itself is not the Problem. It's the lock-in ecosystem that Google tries to establish with the Google Services Framework, Play Store and the like. What is missing, is an open and privacy-friendly alternative to GSF. Without GSF we don't have efficient push notifications (Firebase Cloud Messaging), a geolocation provider, a maps API etc.

Personally, I have been using microG (https://microg.org/) instead of GSF on my phone for many years now. However, that is still just a partial solution. While it does its best to be privacy-friendly and does not have any integrated tracking / analytics like GSF, it still has to use Google's servers for push notifications, thus tracking is still possible to some degree.
The author is mostly be optimizing for volume, and in a fully acoustic context I see why that's a goal. But there's an enormous amount of vioin performance that is either recorded or amplified, in which case volume doesn't matter much. I'd love to see someone optimize for tone quality and responsiveness at the expense of volume.
I use DDG as default search for little over a year now. Mostly I am quite happy with it, and do not have to fall back to Google.

But for some searches I do have to do that. E.g. searching for a HN discussion from the last week: usually no hit. Also image and video search yield surprisingly little results. This last thing is my biggest complaint on DDG.
LineageOS, and other custom Android distributions without Google services.
I've also been using ProtonMail since the beginning of last year and neither a heavy mail user, but need it still. I'm paying for it and using my own domain. Some things to consider:

1) The web UI is probably not very nice and snappy if you use email a lot.

2) No IMAP for Linux (still).

3) If you happen to be like me (a bit of an idiot sometimes) and lock your phone so you don't get access to your authenticator AND you forgot the security keys, all your old emails will be PGP garbage from now on.

4) The Android app is a bit so-so... Bugs happen.

The good parts are it works, doesn't spy on you, encrypts everything client-side and is based in Switzerland outside of US and EU jurisdiction.
I ran into this exact issue about 2 years ago about build vs rent. Ultimately I chose build.

Here's my thoughts/background:

Background: Doing small scale training/fine tuning on datasets. Small time commercial applications.
I find renting top shelf VM/GPU combos on the cloud to be psychologically draining. Did I forget to shut off my $5 dollar an hour VM during my weekend camping trip? I hate it when I ask myself questions like that.

I would rather spend the $2k upfront and ride the depreciation curve, than have the "constant" VM stress. Keep in mind, this is for a single instance, personal/commercial use rig.

I feel that DL compute decisions aren't black/white and should be approached in stages.

Stage 0:
If you do full time computer work at a constant location, you should try to own a fast computing rig. DL or not. Having a brutally quick computer makes doing work much less fatiguing.Plus it opens up the window to experimenting with CAD/CAE/VFX/Photogrammetry/video editing. (4.5ghz i7 8700k +32gb ram +SSD)

Stage 1:
Get a single 11/12 gb GPU. 1080TI or TitanX (Some models straight up won't fit on smaller cards). Now you can go on Github and play with random models and not feel guilty about spending money on a VM for it.

Stage 2:
Get a 2nd GPU. Makes for writing/debugging multi-gpu code much easier/smoother.

Stage 3:
If you need more than 2 GPU's for compute, write/debug the code locally on your 2 GPU rig. Then beam it up to the cloud for 2+ gpu training. Use preemptible instances if possible for cost reasons.

Stage 4:
You notice your cloud bill is getting pretty high($1k+ month) and you never need more than 8x GPUs for anything that your doing. Start the build for your DL runbox #2. SSH/Container workloads only. No GUI, no local dev. Basically server grade hardware with 8x GPUS.

Stage 5:
I'm not sure, don't listen to me :)
American engineers good boys. Foreigners bad boys. Gotcha
There is no guarantee that when the data is entered into the blockchain, it is the correct data.

Farmer A says "it's not rotten on sep 24 2018".

Sure, the record can't be edited ever and is publicly viewable, but that data point, if it's even correct, is insufficient.

Either Farmer A lies and it actually is rotten, or the fruit goes rotten in transport (fruit do this at different times depending on many different variables like heat and day of picking).
In late 70's and 80's we had a TV (x-ray gun) - an RCA that sat on the floor of our living room. Our carpet in the living room, which was never shampooed, in front of the TV turned much darker than the rest of the carpet in the living room over time. This was noticeable when the original RCA died and we got another in the late 80's.

I used to sit close to the TV sometimes. I enjoyed the static & anti-gravity of the screen when the TV was turned on. It was cool looking at dust particles falling into the screen :)

Those were the days!
Mark my words, these tips will be on the Goop website by the end of the year.
Contractors in London with React (which I don't do), can make 600 EUR/day. That's well over $8k/month.

It's a great scheme, and I applaud them for it, and it's a hike up if you're non-Senior, but for about 10%-20% of engineers I know it's a pay cut for 3 months. That's OK, you get to work on something awesome. Not bad, really.
Couldn't really work out why Gmail wanted to block me, yes obvs using SPF/DKIM/etc. - long trusted domain (15y), never any spam, whitelisted on client side. MS blocked it according to their third-party system because it was associated with another IP address [ie other IP was once used by same ISP] that had once had spam on it (wasn't currently blacklisted in any SBL).

There's no way to check before you build out the system, so unless you have an easy way to change IP and ISP then I'd be cautious.
> London, and other towns and cities, had a bit of a shit problem in the 1300s.

Up through the 20th century.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great...

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/when-horses-po...
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Finance makes the world go round
Not every company is a single page webapp and simple service portfolio... I work at a place with 3,000+ developers and over 700 applications - there is no way in hell our cloud portfolio would have any standards if we didn't have a robust operations/engineering team making it work. Sometimes, even when you adopt the cloud, you realize that your operations model is even more important and there is nothing wrong with that.

The real problem is believing that there is a pure model that works for everyone.
Maybe it won't affect you, but it might affect your parents, your siblings, your children.

An easy scenario I can think of is extortion.
Unless you're an H1-B worker in which case it's gets much more complicated.

In my experience, most of the H1-B workers we have are very much Yes Men when it comes to doing what's asked of them. There are also cultural factors that come into play (e.g. never admitting ignorance on a topic, pleasing authority ) and .
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My instagram feed is filled almost exclusively with cat photos, its a good time kill...
I know. I wish they had been able to go legit. As someone who went to UF (for CS) soon after they closed, I missed having a company like that in the area.
Can Sleeping in Horse Shit Cure Your Bruises? The Answer May Surprise You!
Panasonic developing two full-frame mirrorless cameras with Leica L-mount
Yeah the main use case here is training, which is much more of an offline process. For inference, you will probably want a cloud provider. Though the cost difference still holds, so maybe a startup idea.
Top of page 2: "Here is a simple example. Suppose we have a
chain complex..."

And right there I'm lost because the paper hasn't explained what a chain complex is, and I don't understand the notation. I guess I couldn't have invented spectral sequences.
Assuming that there are no infectious pathogens in sh*t, which is laughably wrong.
A privately held 100-person game studio doesn't share its evolving revenue numbers with creative staff. Why would the business owners do that, really?

Most private companies are strictly compartmentalized and keep production employees in the dark about the business side. Some startups do the "anyone can peek at our sales numbers and cash flows internally" thing, but that's definitely an exception even in the startup world.
> Quartz examined the names that were once among the top five for girls or boys and then fell out of the top 1,000. Among the eight names that met this criteria, which all happened to be girl names, Heather had the fastest descent.

Interesting... I knew baby names followed fashions, but do girl names follow fashions much more quickly than boy names? And would it also somehow be related to women's clothing fashions seeming to also change far more quickly than men's?
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A good look at France's startup scene today and what's holding them back from creating the next Uber/Google

“We set up in France around the same time as our rivals were starting in the U.S., but quickly they were raising 100 times more from investors and selling across the country,” Sapet said. “Meanwhile we were stuck translating into 20 European languages.” - Christophe Sapet (French entrepreneur)
I've found myself thinking "I'm the kind of person who should enjoy adventure games" only to buy them and just not. At all. There needs to be more systems to keep me occupied, otherwise I'll just read a book or watch a movie. I think this latest cycle was buoyed by at least a few people like me.
So by having a mortgage you justify unethical behavior? I fail to see how one creating their OWN problem justifies unethical behavior.

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
I'm in Italy and the delay is acceptable
I think the real answer to this question is unhelpful, which is: it depends.

I ran a detailed cost analysis of tier 3 onprem vs aws about 7 years ago. I included the cost of maintaining servers, support staff salaries, rent, insurance, employee dwell time etc and onprem was still cheaper. Maybe it's different now.

We put significant thought into being cheap. I think constraint can breed innovation.
This might not be the exact manifestation of the paradox, but I think it's at least a supporting anecdote.

The latest Sim City had its problems, but I definitely experienced this phenomenon in its traffic simulation. Adding more roads created more intersections which -- using a computer analogy -- created more context switches between competing cars (threads). Intersections would become clogged, potentially backing up nearby intersections. The best traffic systems in Sim City minimized intersections just as much as -- if not more than -- throughput and mean travel distance.
I wonder if anyone is going through these old texts to discover things. Perhaps rabbit bile contains something unique. Always makes you wonder... thats all for now, got a warm bed waiting for me.
Ah I see, thank you. I've also mostly left FB, keeping the account around only for events and messenger. It has become so cluttered. It really is on its last legs.
The good news just keep on coming in without end, do they? Yeah, I just noticed this too while clearing my cookies. You have to manually delete all of that stuff if you want it gone, which (in my opinion) is a major usability flaw.
Indeed.

Even if the patient died, and even if only a subset of patients are eligible, this is still a major breakthrough.

Waking up after years in a vegetative state is extremely rare.

People with ischemic or traumatic brain injury severe enough to cause a coma, and who don’t die early, end up either in permanent vegetative state, or recover somehow.

People who recover must often deal with physical, cognitive and behavioral impairments that make them prone to complications such as infection, even when they wake up spontaneously.
Websites work best in the browsers that the developers use to build it, and that will be the only way Chrome can fail.
Here are a couple of chrome extensions:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/outline-read-witho...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-outlinecom...
Yeah it's not every meal but even many of your examples are often eaten with meat. Pancakes often come with bacon, salad often with chicken, and pizza with pepperoni or sausage. "Almost every meal" might be hyperbole but the prevalence of meat in our food and the sheer volume we traditionally consume is staggering. The USDA estimates about 222 pounds of consumption per capita in 2018 but I couldn't get a good figure on how to translate that in to how much people actually eat (I think that is difficult to do accurately)
On Post-GDPR world I find this very surprising. And then again, not.
> Many people credit a small group of Microsoft employees for getting the company to embrace open source. This group grew from within as I'm told.

I've been wondering how this transition came about. Do you have more information on that (e.g. an article or a blog post that you could refer me to)?
Perhaps the (you won't be signed out of your Google account) language was something an engineer or product developer insisted on. Perhaps they figured that was their part, and that it's up to the rest of us to take 10 minutes and switch to Firefox so data-driven Google knows this was a bad idea.
> Unless you can provide some quantifiable metric to prove its “getting better” then it's delusion

This doesn't prove anything. Unless you can provide some metric to say it's not good, then it's delusion getting the better of you.

DuckDuckGo is good enough for everyday usage, for me. It has been this way for well over a year. I never use bangs.
I'll second the recommendation of Searx - I appreciate DDG, but it has noticeably worse search performance (relevance of results etc) than Google, while Searx, being a metasearch engine, provides high-quality results but still maintains privacy.
10 Immutable Laws of Security (Microsoft TechNet) (2000) [pdf]
Maybe you'd like e.foundation
It is in beta now, and forked from LineageOS.
Great read!
As an aside your hyperlink to HomebrewAIClub accidentally included a comma.
Given the hygiene standards in the middle ages, humans were very much exposed to poop of all kind of sources, so I doubt that additional exposure would be of any benefit.
Also, you don't have to be miserable. There are tons of foods that a lot of people find delicious that aren't meat. You can use substitutes (tvp or lentil/walnuts for tacos, tofu in a stir fry, etc).
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No, other things makes the world go round. Finance is responsible for the downward momentum in this death spiral...
"Only in non-North American datacenters"

OVH offers these in their Canadian data center.
Apologies, I didn't see that comment before. The target customer is large organizations and the pricing is typical for that. We'll be getting a pricing page up that explains the details. There are conditions and commitments for maintainers, see:

* https://tidelift.com/about/lifter
* https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/tasks-overview
* https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/agreement

This is a commercial transaction; subscribers are paying for value, and we are paying maintainers to help us provide the value. It is not a donation model. We think it is a favorable transaction for maintainers because it is royalty-style rather than hourly-consulting-style. The same amount of work can be sold N times.

For donations there are a number of existing solutions and we would encourage people to use them also!
There is no ecologically sound way of getting vegetable calories out of the Montana native grasslands. The best way of feeding people using that land would be raising Bison; cattle are an acceptable second choice.

But your basic point still stands. The Montana native grasslands can only support a few cattle per square mile, so it definitely does not work at scale.
Same for me. Of course the first thing I did was searching for my own podcast. :) Looks like I didn't list it in all the directories yet.
This is interesting, but is it really Hacker News-y? Regardless, thanks for sharing :)
> Even in the early days they sold BASIC and DOS before they'd even written a line of code

Microsoft didn't create DOS
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Realistically Google and Instagram aren't gonna extort anyones parents.
Something I wonder is: would we have anywhere near as much of a problem with a handful of companies monopolising the information technology industry, if we didn't have Intellectual Property laws?

People often forget that patents, copyright, etc. are just an arbitrary social construct with little real justification for their existence. Yet the overall effect they have is to make it considerably harder to start a new company to compete with a tech giant.

It may be that the problem is that we have too much regulation rather than too little.
Really, the most important thing is to control the domain, so that changing the provider later is not a big deal. I've been using FastMail and it is great, but the hardest part was moving away from @gmail.com
I didn’t suggest Zappa. Zappa is not the AWS solution. The AWS Solution is using CodeBuild.

With CodeBuild you would just specify the bash commands you want to run to create your zip file with a yml file.

But you’re already talking about using lambda so you’re already using something proprietary.

On a deeper level, if you work for a company, you’re probably learning a lot of business specific stuff anyway that’s not transferable.