skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I think the point is they shouldn't pay for the R&D or the construction of the rockets either - just pay for the launches and let the market sort out what vehicles are required.
It's not like you can hide a datacenter from aerial photos or space based photography. Giant air handling units and 1 megawatt+ sized generators are huge. You could theoretically camouflage one, but they're built in a cost-sensitive manner, it would cost millions to actually "hide" a datacenter from IMINT techniques.
Something seems odd about this story. I can see him dying in a botched interrogation or extraordinary rendition and it being covered up, or it was a successful extraordinary rendition and he's back in a cell in Saudi Arabia, but if they just wanted him dead why would it take 15 people and why would they do it in their consulate? It seems like there are easier and more plausibly deniable methods employed to do that like a "botched robbery", fire, heart attack or car crash.
I work under a contract that says my employer claims a non exclusive right to use anything I invent that could be construed as using company resources. It’s not an unfair contract, and I obviously don’t use company resources for anything I do on my own time, but the funny thing is that if they ever decided I had inadvertently used some company resource for some part of a personal project, it wouldn’t matter. I license my personal projects CC0 aka public domain. Everyone has a non exclusive right to use my work!
It's all over the place.

Fox News - screw the democrats. MSNBC - screw the republicans. CNN and BBC "try" to stay neutral but you know who's on who's side. (there shouldn't be sides; it should be the side of what's best for the country)

New car comes out? It's ugly; it's too slow; it looks like this other car.

New game? Really? Another sequal to ... ?

Even on some very specific topic forums; someone asks a question and half the board jumps down their throat. IT WAS A QUESTION. Relax.

Forget new products from Google or Apple or whomever. I don't get it; if you're an Android user, what are you doing hanging out on an Apple news website? Did you think they were gonna write about Amazon products?!? (bad example, but...)

How quickly we've forgotten about if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.

So - trying not to read user comments anymore; trying not to watch the news so much, but that's hard - you want to "try" to self educate on important topics and hear both sides. Otherwise, it's becoming exhausting and I question what we're doing as developers now a days. When is contributing our time (even if it is often for money) to build these "communities" no longer worth it.
Yeah. My 8 year old can do that “course”.
That is really funny, when are you going on tour? I need to clear my calendar so I don't miss it.
Yes. I've killed almost all of my social media, and am most of the way there with HN (which is unfortunately also surprisingly negative these days).

No TV or movies except for some older stuff. Trying pretty hard with "print" news, though my id is still a sucker for the unceasing flow of outrage stories.

Even trying to just pleasantly chat or be helpful to people seems ill-advised these days. Everyone is on edge and seemingly ready to snap at a moment's notice.

The solution seems to be to just check out, farther and farther. Spending time with nature and my immediate family. Reading the classics.
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$45 billion (soon to be 90) in Saudi money sloshing around in SV via SoftBank. Everyone is complicit.
You seem to think thinking about this way too much, IMO.

What's easier / cheaper? Paying a group of guys to just "go to X, kill him in the streets" or the whole "make it look like a car accident" route from movies? The former is easier, cheaper and quicker. I mean these people bankrolled the largest terror attack on US soil and we still do business with them, why would anyone care about a single journalist?
Why would anyone compare a modern tpu against an Nvidia card that is four generations old? The tpu didn't even exist when the K80 came out.
Since forever. Newspaper, books, TV, Radio, postal services etc... all have a cost associated and all are selective in how, where and what they publish or deliver.

Everyone is trying to influence everyone else. The question is simply what degree and magnitude you are willing to accept.
This was my experience as well. Not to mention, when you do move out, they are extremely anal with inspections and make you pay for "damage" even if you can prove that it was there before you (pictures, etc).

And not to mention the weekly inspections. There was a sergeant that used to come around the neighborhood with a ruler, measuring people's grass to ensure it was within regulated length. A friend of mine got in trouble with the first sergeant for not cutting his lawn often enough.
Congrats on the launch. Looks really slick for 3 weeks.
I don't get the joke, are you hinting at Yanni? I went to his concert a couple of months ago and he was doing a lot advertising for Saudi
The problem is that this precision comes at the expense of the vast majority of people’s ability to comprehend the agreements they are entering into. In these cases, I would argue the contracts should be void because there is no “meeting of the minds”. If someone doesn’t have a lawyer, they should not be bound by contracts that cannot be properly understood without a lawyer.
To take this idea further... Wonder if it would be possible to click/mine-bait to alternative "branch" consensus :)
Do you know where we can find some benchmarks?
Maybe I'm cynical but if I had 50,000 BTC and wasn't ultra bullish on cryptocurrency in general, I would slowly sell it off at a moderate rate sufficient to turn it into real USD denominated securities, while not flooding the market (basically pick some top-20 performing ETFs and mutual funds).

True believers and zealots will of course "HODL".
Not everything in the compute pipeline is going to be converted to fp16 operations. Anytime you are doing accumulation or exponentials, you would have to have it in fp32.

There was a good talk from NVIDIA at last years GTC:
http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2018/presentation/s8923...

Here is another relevant blog post: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/mixed-precision-training-deep-ne...

EDIT: Also not everything in the training loop is a matrix multiplication where tensor cores are useful.
> some of Neom’s advisory board members, including ... [Sam] Altman, who sat down with the prince in April, declined to comment on their involvement

I hope he comments relatively soon (I'm not criticizing him for not commenting in time for this article). His leadership has a large influence on many, including in this forum. Tacit opposition and tacit support are the same thing.
Running it through google voice will make it subject to your google 2fa.
The article is mostly wrong about breathing in the home. The dust gets on things and the things get eaten. The danger is the oral route. It's particularly likely for kids because lead tastes sweet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning
It took me a while to understand Mastodon. Although it's federated and you can mostly follow people on other instances, I finally realised that the advice they give you up front is good advice: pick an instance that has conversations you are interested in and join that one. I've been having lots of fun once I realised that it's less of a publishing platform and more of a place to chat with strangers that have similar interests to you.
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nvm, we're all good
The worst part of a synchronous chatroom is repeatedly asking for something you need now - and getting drowned out by irrelevant conversations, other tech chats, and cat gifs. Because you need the PR to finish the ticket and go home. But 2 people who are done for the day are still discussing house siding with a remote dev.
Yeah I think this is the key, privacy online is very abstract. But the sentiment of a large, evil corporation out to get you is somehow less abstract.
This is no longer the case. L4 is the new coasting position.
Why so pricey? It's not like it's rocket science ... oh, wait
Saudi Arabia also indefinitely detains womens' rights activists:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/saudi-arabia...

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=lou...

They pay lip service to modernization and liberalization (like the legal change allowing women to drive), but in actuality it's one step forward, two steps back.

There is extensive documentation on the fact the Saudi Arabia and other states in the region fund fundamentalist, Hanafi / Wahabbist madrassas in Pakistan. Where do all the Pakistani jihadis fighting in Afghanistan come from? It's been known by intelligence agencies for years.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=sau...
Ok so, wouldn't you want this situation to come up more often, where a prospective employee can get the contract changed? You said you'd rather not have this happen at all.
I think most people here are more than ok with Arbitration being an option, but what people here hate are the clauses in the contracts which require arbitration that is paid for by the company, essentially removing your right to redress in the courts.
It's becoming a logistical problem in Switzerland to have so little replacement as they've aged.

There aren't enough to warrant many centers anymore, but each closing means some would have travel further, possibly dropping out.

The US doesn't have to worry about these kinds of problems.. or about who will buy it's newly acquired crop domestically with veterans such as the one in the article coming home with trauma and addictions.

Still, a little sad for the US if Portugal and Switzerland are the first signs of European dominos -- Russian and domestic customers can't make strong demand for agriculture at US scale.. Asia is too brutal about drugs and Africa too poor..

Continued financial support for Afghanistan and less black money for operations. Is this an example of nothing is ever easy or of nothing ever goes to plan..
Your point is well taken, but I think what the previous poster was suggesting is some kind of ombudsman. I don't know that the idea is without merit, though as you point out it could be difficult to do in a way that preserved the freedom and independence of media.
Telemetry from a car is a side effect from using it rather than an intended product.
Propagandists prefer to not use the ad system - they have hoards of sockpuppet accounts to astroturf with for free, and its more persuasive if not clearly paid speech.
I think that was /s, but I'm not sure...
Same with Golang:

A := []int{1,2}
B := append(A, A...)
fmt.Println(B)

> [1, 2, 1, 2]
This is often true. There's typically "equivalent" regulations that are created by the executive branch for the executive branch. However, it's difficult to hold anybody accountable for violations, so you don't typically have any recourse like you do with a private party.
Is there a discussion thread somewhere?

There are 18 three digit hexadecimals in the puzzle. If the answer is a permutation of these, then that's just 18 factorial which is 6.4 * 10^15. That is totally bruteforcable without even thinking about the puzzle (and totally worth spinning up a cluster for).

I don't know anything about bitcoin though and 54 characters seems too short to be a private key? You can also brute force 10 more interspersed characters for a slowdown factor of 16^10 * (64 choose 10) = 9.9 * 10^15. So then it's a total cost of 6.3*10^31. Still bruteforceable but more expensive if you're wrong about it.
Lots of people took that exact same strategy at what in hindsight now looks like ridiculously low prices like $1 or $10 or $100. Those people don’t have 50,000 or often any bitcoin left.
According to the author, there will be one after someone solves the 0.31 BTC puzzle.

"I will most certainly do so <provide a solution> but at this moment the 0.31 BTC wallet is still unsolved. I'm surprised because I thought the solution to the 310 BTC wallet was the most complex one." - author
In this case it appears he had a truck but no license. Seems like taking the risk of getting pulled over and cited for driving without a license is preferable to drowning in a 13ft high storm surge, for me at least.
Not sure if the average tech person is switching (from what I see in my environment) or if it's the vocal minority on HN. I'm happy for their success although the number is still not very significant
Maybe they'll get around to it like CVS finally did and just take Apple Pay/etc.
I never understand why people feel the need to find shortcuts. It’s like reading smthg[i++] in C. It’s not clear and it could be clearer if written over two lines instead but yet everyone does it.
To add to this, I think a lot of the confusion about this stems from people not grasping how natural negative returns on assets really are.

Historically, negative real returns on stores of value were the norm. Before financial systems existed, almost all investments had negative returns if you didn’t put work and energy into them. To store value, you had to accumulate stuff, buildings or land. Most options either had high maintenance costs, were subject to risk of damage from natural causes and theft, were very volatile or required hard labor to get production out of.

Even in societies with financial systems, getting low risk, hassle free, liquid, positive real returns has been difficult for most of history. This just reflects the natural laws of thermodynamics that tell us that everything tends to decay without a constant supply of work and energy. In general, most things require maintenance to keep their worth.

The 20th century was probably the most notable exception. Because of unprecedented demographic and technological growth, positive risk free real returns were easy to find. The recency effect probably explains some of the confusion people have about this. It is possible that under favorable conditions, wealth can have positive returns and even compound into very good long run returns but it is not a guarantee and there is nothing natural about it. It may not continue forever, particularly amidst an aging and retiring population in a world no longer as rich in easy to exploit natural resources.

While people are used to get negative returns on very short term purchases, you buy fresh vegetables at the supermarket, even if they degrade over time, many can’t seem to accept the normalcy of negative returns on longer term assets. In nature, squirrels’ nut caches have a certain percentage of losses from theft and spoilage. Real returns tending towards the negative is natural even if they can seem unusual for people just out of the 20th century.
just !m works actually (same with !i for google images and !n for google news)
Bing should have been !bing and !b should have been reserved from something more useful, like butternut squash recipes.
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It still seems odd, "go to X, kill him in the streets" takes one or maybe two assassin types not 15 agents and why would you do it in your consulate? There are lots of examples of suspicious deaths that look like possible assassinations. They don't usually look like this.
There is something here that we must be missing. Mammals aren't the only animals living in the dark.
Right, but the tensor cores should be about 10x faster on the compute side, and about 2x the memory bandwidth. GEMM is usually constrained by compute, which is why the tensor cores exist.

These benchmarks are for training, so the expectation is that they are running them in fp16 all the way through. Also, tensor cores can accumulate in fp32 registers with a slight hit to performance.
You're mixing per-month and per-year.

* $300 (/person /month) -> $3.6k (/person /year) for your estimated Lyft Line.

* $290m (/year) bus salaries / $3.6k (/person /year) lyft subscriptions = 80.5k people.
Bookmarking this. Excellent idea :)
ISP here: The difference is that a (properly run, ethical) ISP is actually neutral and is paid to carry the traffic. It's paying for a service just like paying $30 a month for a POTS phone line was in 1985. Building an ISP as an infrastructure service is a totally viable business model, it's not sexy like selling "big data" to advertisers as Facebook does, but it's a plain old fashioned exchange of money for basic services, just the same as you pay for your household electrical service, gas service, and water/sewer.

Running an ISP costs money just as any other critical infrastructure service is. If you get all the way down to the OSI layer 1 of it, it costs a lot of money. There's major construction projects involved. Go do the budgetary figures on what it would cost to acquire the right-of-way and run a new 864 count ribbon cable of dark fiber from Hillsboro, OR to Boise, ID, for example.

An ISP that doesn't fuck with its customers' traffic is simply a pipe to run your own choice of communications protocols on top of. The job of the ISP is to manage infrastructure at OSI layers 1-3, the 4-7 are your problem.
And the drive to mediocrity continues.

Now everybody can serve up TV dinners Applebees/IHOP/Darden Restaurant style...
That what BitLocker is for and Surfaces come with that thing enabled by default. (let's suppose you're not being targeted by NSA for simplicity of the discussion) =)
Which part do you think is inexplicit? What do you think is the equally clear different way of doing it?

How much Python experience do you have? I find that in places where it is applicable, this syntax is clear, unambiguous, easy to read, overall much nicer than alternatives.
Your comment seems to rest on the implicit idea that different sexes, and perhaps races, have inherently different abilities - that "diversity", as the word is used in these contexts, amounts to diversity in talents and abilities. But I don't see any reason to think that diversity of race or sex is equivalent to diversity in intellectual qualities. In fact, many people would consider that sexist and racist.
> Currently contracts seem to be nothing more than one-sided weapons that powerful companies use to get vulnerable people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t and can’t afford to fight. Let’s not pretend that more than a small fraction of employees out there actually get to meaningfully alter the contracts under which they work.

A straightforward way to address this could be through standardized contracts/clauses for mass markets. In the world of software understanding is not free, and the world of ambiguous natural language legalese is clearly even worse! In a market big enough to have many parallel participants, each clause of an agreement should be selected from a standardized bag such that online reading can readily explain your rights and responsibilities.

For the most part, this is already somewhat done through state "employment law", "landlord-tenant law", and the like. But then we get the OP situation, as well as contracts that actually attempt to countermand the law - I recently had the pleasure of reading a lease that was essentially an anti-tenant screed.

From the other direction, it also would be nice to voluntarily be able to give up a currently "standardized right" - say I don't need hot water in my apartment for savings of $100/mo. Assuming it was truly consensual and not just setting up a race to the bottom - percentages quotas or the like could address this.
Slack + Trello for the money minded, works great.
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sure, but how often do people actually follow:

> React to the anonymous information unemotionally. Abusive posters will be encouraged further if they get irrationally irate responses. Sometimes the most effective response is silence.

trolls don't need a lot of food to keep posting, but i posit they at least need some.
Thanks for the background, that explains a lot about UK rail station food. Is this model also used in German rail stations?
Maintaining hegemony over the middle East has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy since the end of World War 2. It used to be about oil, and still very much about the pertrodollar, but is also based largely on the belief that should America lose control of the Middle East, the balance of world power will shift to Russia and China, and America's global economoic supremacy will be lost. Iran has long been a thorn in America's side, but Israel and Saudi Arabia are key allies in keeping the Middle east too fucked up to make their own decisions, because if they could they would align with their traditional economic partners in the east.
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Windows is much worse than MacOS as general purpose OS and much worse than iOS for cases people are using iPads for. Hardware in Surfaces is fine.

Edit: I mean quality of Windows is much worse. It may have ingenious design internally but what user sees is just awful.
If the results were less helpful than people would stop using it
> I'm failing to find out why the US would find Iran to be a threat

I can see Iran being a regional threat, and whoever has power in that region controls a major portion of the world's energy supply. However, I don't see why an Iranian-dominated region is worse than a Saudi-dominated region. Iran seems more democratic and stable than Saudi Arabia, at a first approximation, but both are brutal, anti-democratic, oppressive regimes. And IIRC the Saudis have been the primary supporters of extremist Sunnis worldwide.

How is Saudi Arabia better for the U.S. than Iran?
Link doesn't work for me.
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How the hell did a right wing organisation get the title "The People's Party"?
During that kind of an evacuation, the cops have worse problems than checking licenses. The risk was probably pretty small, at least during the evacuation itself.
Yeah. Really though I'd rather not get into that. People are already trying to take what I said farther than intended for it to be taken. I was just trying to point out how badly this 1995 post anticipated the future. It thought the problem would be a limited number of sociopathic trolls. Makes sense as something born out of the era. Doesn't correlate with what actually causes problems in practice nowadays.
If the giver was in the US, wouldn't there be some gift tax or other legal problems with doing this?
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Then the old company would still have fired them.
Yes, the Python feature is much older. From what I can tell, Python inspired Ruby, Ruby inspired CoffeeScript, and CoffeeScript inspired JavaScript to adopt this feature.
As a network engineer, this is part of why I tell junior neteng and NOC staff that there is definitely such as thing as ethics in network engineering. And train them on what constitutes ethical vs unethical behavior on the part of an ISP.

I'm fortunate enough to have admin rights over the infrastructure of a small to medium sized regional player, where the senior management are principled individuals who would not even contemplate doing bullshit like hijacking http or DNS traffic.
Nit: “tengo dolor el estomago” does not read like valid spanish to me (pero no soy hablante nativo)
>Now if the company's employee evaluation process doesn't recognize the second-order value you produced here then that's the company's problem, not yours.

I think I personally skewed too far into trying to do unmeasurable things, but I feel like it would be miserable to live on the other extreme where you only do things that are measurable and benefit your career.

Where does that thinking end? If I don't feel like finding a garbage can, should I just throw my trash on the ground as long as nobody sees me? After all, it's the city's fault that they haven't set up incentives to prevent me from littering.
I agree that they're empty threats in the general case.

They should be banned to protect workers from the off chance that somebody decides to follow through.

Explicit, not implicit.