skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, how can I enumerate them all? But here are the ones set up in the room, not counting what's not rigged yet:

Commodore KIM-1,
Commodore 128DCR,
Tomy Tutor,
Apple IIgs,
Canon Cat,
IMSAI 8080,

game systems:
Atari 2600 (Darth Vader variety),
GTE Sylvania Intellivision,
Bally Astrocade

Other systems set up that could be considered vintage:
Outbound Notebook,
Mac IIci (with MacIvory III),
Power Mac 7300 with G4/800,
Color Classic with Mystic board,
Quadra 800,
BeBox/133,
Solbourne S3000,
VAXstation 3100 M76,
SGI Indy,
SGI Indigo2,
QuikPak Amiga 4000T,
beige box DOS 486,
ThinkPad 860 (AIX 4.1.5),
RDI PrecisionBook (PA-RISC),
RDI SparcBook

and more recent:
Power Mac G4 MDD,
Samsung AlphaPC 164LX,
SGI Fuel,
Power Mac G5 Quad,
Sun Ultra-3,
Sega Dreamcast

typed on a Talos II
First, all the authors work for Calico or Ancestry. One could view this as a ‘published whitepaper’, in which case they obviously want to have their paper available broadly.

> because otherwise that likely wouldn't have happened

This is not true - there are open access fees at many publishers, and grant-funded labs regularly choose to pay these fees.
I know of a few companies that decided to stop selling customer data to data brokers due to GDPR. Now its impossible to know if you were specifically affected by exactly these companies' business practices. But if you're in the EU you would have to live a rather strange life not to be affected in some way.

One of these companies was an airline. They would share the price you paid (meal you chose, etc.) with among others, a company specializing in "individualized pricing". Meaning: if you flew business class, the telecom company might just not show you the cheaper options next time your contract is up for renewal.
Because location can be ascertained from BLE and wifi scanning, Android classifies the use of those things as location services.

So it's not exactly that Sony wants or is even asking for your location, it's Google telling you that if you give the sony app the BLE or wifi scanning functionality it wants, it would be possible for them to figure out where you're at.

That warning means they could, and so google is telling you, not that they are.
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I tend to agree. This strikes me as incredibly and clearly racist as well. They openly acknowledge which community this will target. It's astounding that a white senator (and mostly white FDA I would assume) imposing his/their will on a group of people primarily of color is perfectly acceptable to people.
That's for the actual number crunching but the real power cost is often in bandwidth (as discussed earlier in the op). If you can reliably use lower precision stuff for training, you get 4x the flops for a halving of the bandwidth costs due to matrix mult being O(n^2)
Websites, by the very nature of living in a (more or less) content-neutral browser, are better behaved.

On-page search, copy-and-paste, and bookmarking deep in the content come for free.

The back button will behave predictably.

The browser engine has had a lot of bulletproofing on it; by comparison a lot of apps are unstable.

Updates are completely automatic- no "here's a 500mb update you won't get until weeks from now when you get to a Wifi hotspot."
Ok, we changed the title to the subtitle.
I'll bite. My parents have got a ~2014 Macbook Pro and 1 megabit upload on ADSL. They're just starting to use "cloud" services like OneDrive. If a large upload starts, no one else in the house can use the 'net. I'm dealing with ~100GB of photos that only have one backup now and it's a nightmare.
And SQLite!
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The human body contains approximately as many bacterial cells as human cells: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991899/
Because I have frequently seen conspiracy theories regarding George Soros even on HN, I want to take this opportunity to point out that the organisation reporting this is sponsored by him, via his Open Society Foundation.

It's also fairly representative of their projects. In the way that, having been marginally involved with some of the work they do in Eastern Europe, I went looking for information on their sponsors with the specific expectation of finding the OSF among them.
So...don't grow? I understand the pressures of Wall Street and being a publicly traded company, but Google (or Alphabet) is in an incredibly unique situation that the founders can do whatever they want and not be ousted by shareholders. I don't know what it's like to be worth tens of billions of dollars, but maybe that should be enough?
When I’ve gone to CostCo, the only thing the people at the exit did was to count the number of items you had and to see if that more or less matched the number of items on the receipt.

That seems like the simplest possible check they could make regarding the checkout process.
i dont know very much about go, or sandboxing, but for starters, you might need to do something like: disable syscalls, disable ability to do operations that could hog resources, such as spawning more goroutines
> In most countries that never happens.

That's because the U.S.A. has three parties that have to agree to a bill.
Relaxing. Siestas. Spending time with my kid, taking her to parks, playing with her. Taking wife to movies, dinner and reading books.
When Im traveling out of the country, I just walk around at meal time until I find a spot with locals waiting in line out the door. Hop in line, watch what the people ahead of you order, and then get the same. Every once and a while I'll get something that I don't enjoy, but 8/10 times you end up with super tasty food you may not have otherwise tried.
Because rectilinear layout is well-supported ... but completely non-intuitive and artless. Options to do otherwise are painful and time-consuming and immediately run into browser incompatibilities.

Just try laying out a series of iconic buttons in a swooping curve. Or try laying out some text inside a circle ... or just making a circle, a triangle, a leaf-shape... or fitting an image between two columns of text ...

The tools to do all of this were available 25 years ago in desktop-publishing apps. Creating a beautiful page took design skills, but the layout was not done with CSS but by drawing on the page and making adjustments with handles.

Not by endless hours of fussing with CSS version xyz and grids and flexes and compromises by sacrificing original intent.

HTML layout is absurdly painful. Most people with deadlines don't have time to spend hours to make it work in one browser, switching to another browser and SCREAMING, and tossing it all out and returning to rectilinear boxes.

That's why.
Agreed. Red delicious is just a crap piece of produce. I can’t believe people ever liked them.
The ELMA LUT problem is in the log -> linear approximation to perform sums in the linear domain. This avoids the issue that LNS implementations have had in the past, which is in trying to keep the sum in the log domain, requiring an even bigger LUT or piecewise approximation of the sum and difference non-linear functions.

This is independent of any kind of posit or other encoding issue (i.e. it has nothing to do with posits).

(I'm the author)
The idea of the government (and especially the federal government) holding massive swaths of land for conservation purposes did not occur until late 19th century. By that time, most of land that was still available was in the western states, that were still the frontier then, and sparsely populated. Doing something similar in the eastern states would be far more expensive, since that land would have to be bought from existing owners at substantial cost.
AnandTech actually has a new article on Intel TDP limits out today: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13544/why-intel-processors-dr...

I would find it hilarious if this conversation somehow prompted it.

Anyways, AnandTech's position seems to be:

We test at stock, out-of-the-box motherboard settings, except for memory profiles. We do this for three reasons -

1. This is the experience almost all users will have.

2. This is what the benchmarks published by Intel reflect.

3. This is what damn near every other review site has done forever, and to do otherwise would make results less useful.

So that's why their power draw number was 170W and not 95W for the i9-9900k - motherboard vendors take Intel's recommended settings and laugh. But so does Intel for benchmarks.
Right - and FoxPro was just another dBase clone. NoSQL today is where dBase was 30 years ago.
I have a large collection of digital equipment corp. flip chips in original packaging. I suspect they'd work in dec-10, pdp8 and pdp11 contexts (before the lsi-11 at least).

Dumpster diving from behind a university computer centre..
For example, if you regularly check app A from the coffee shop and spend x amount of time in it vs checking app B at the bus stop and spend y amount of time.

I don't know the people to whom this is a valuable bit of information, but I don't know of the people who really want to know how much time they are spending in different apps either.
From my observation, in order to succeed in SEA and maybe Africa, you need to be predatory, the market has little rule, everyone is jostling to make the most bucks as quick as possible.

And Xi is not a president, don't let their wording finesse fool you, they call the Korean War "Assisting NK against the US", to this day, vast majority of Chinese believe it was the US being the aggressor invading NK.
I don't think Oracle is getting too many new customers. Their product is simply too expensive.
Strains in interbank lending markets during the 2007 financial crisis
Does anyone here use ReactOS as a productive system? Is this even possible?
It's important to note that for caching purposes, you can already run VCL (Varnish Cache Language) on Fastly's edge servers.
The Navy will follow with admiral artificial intelligence.
NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder case
For us Europeans, Scaleway is even better
I don’t think I would like to see that happening or even put to a test, but I really really doubt it would be as simple as you make it sound
If we have too many people then we may have wars and famine. If we have too few people the human race could go extinct.

Both are bad, but the second seems worse.
> You do realize that this is how access is granted to pretty much everything else in this world, and with huge benefits.

And yet several other countries have free access to national parks, museums etc.

Of course nothing is free. But the question of who pays, when it comes to public lands and public property, is a question of public policy. If the citizens decide that it is important to keep those things available to all, then it is certainly doable. Even in US we have quite a few things like that (e.g. beaches in most states). There's no reason why it can't apply to the parks.
When I looked at userbenchmark.org the i3 came out ahead. Apple’s SSDs are top notch, crossing 3Gbps. RAM is upgradeable on the mini so you can save a couple hundred, plus OSX memory management is so much better than windows you’ll only feel any difference if doing heavy video/audio/3D workloads.

For some reason a TB3 NVMe enclosure is dirt cheap, around €40, and gives you full speed access to whatever SSD you like!

I just got a mini for myself - main driver being the OS, I can’t be productive on my windows pc. Got the i5 and 256gb for ~$1200, which gives me same power as a high end 15”MBP at a quarter of the price. Mac OS is worth the €200 markup alone.
> Crime is not legal on Wall Street nor anywhere else in America.

The big banks pay fines for money laundering yet no bankers go to jail.
We replicate each tenant to thousands of servers across more than 150 locations worldwide. That's why we need to support so many tenants per server.
I'd much rather it be the playground of the lucky, than the playground of the rich. Public lands are held in common trust in the name of all citizens equally, not in proportion to their wealth. If there's not enough access time to go around, then a lottery is an obvious way to approximate equitable access.
I'm sorry, but you're simply being disingenous here. If you saw this very same video about a non-political, plausibly right leaning guy whose arm got bumped by some woman trying to take away what was in his hand, you would freak the fuck out about the outrageous injustice of punishing him because he had "laid his hand on her".

This is conservative anti-SJW fetish material right here. But because the victim was a supporter of your favorite politician...
Thanks for your work!! (And citing us ofc)

Do you think there might be an analytic trick that you could use for higher size ELMA numbers that yields semiaccurate results for machine learning purposes? Although to be honest I still think with a kuslich FMA and an extra operation for fused exponent add (softmax e.g.) you can cover most things you'll need 32 bits for with 8
It would take a remarkably optimistic view of nutrition and digestion to believe you can fabricate a balanced diet better than grazing on available real food sources. It may win on convenience for some, but I worry about the downside penalties of any mis-understanding of what bioavailability means.
At least 69% more multiply-add flops at the same power iso-process is nothing to sneeze at (we're largely power/heat bound at this point), and unlike normal floating point (IEEE or posit or whatever), multiplication, division/inverse and square root are more or less free power, area and latency-wise. This is not a pure LNS or pure floating point because it is a hybrid of "linear" floating point (FP being itself hybrid log/linear, but the significand is linear) and LNS log representations for the summation.

Latency is also a lot less than IEEE or posit floating point FMA (not in the paper, but the results were only at 500 MHz because the float FMA couldn't meet timing closure at 750 MHz or higher in a single cycle, and the paper had to be pretty short with a deadline, so couldn't explore the whole frontier and show 1 cycle vs 2 cycle vs N cycle pipelined implementations).

The floating point tapering trick applied on top of this can help with the primary chip power problem, which is moving bits around, so you can solve more problems with a smaller word size because your encoding matches your data distribution better. Posits are a partial but not complete answer to this problem if you are willing to spend more area/energy on the encoding/decoding (I have a short mention about a learned encoding on this matter).

A floating point implementation that is more efficient than typical integer math but in which one can still do lots of interesting work is very useful too (providing an alternative for cases where you are tempted to use a wider bit width fixed point representation for dynamic range, or a 16+ bit floating point format).
Chrome recently started running each site's JavaScript in an isolated process, as a Spectre mitigation. [1] Why do you trust V8's isolation more than Chrome does?

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-w...
and Sybase and ComDB...
> when you need fully up-to-date information on every query, no matter what

This doesn't require something relational, just something centralized. And not even that; consider Spanner.
We do lotteries for hunting permits in many cases. I don't see anything wrong with that. What's the point of public lands, if access to them is contingent on wealth?
I worry that people don't remember "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing" [1]...

When my tablet has a full IDE which lets me compile a new app and install it on the tablet, and share it to my friend's tablet, they will be "professional". When my tablet allows me to plug in any accessory I want without it having to be blessed by the tablet manufacturer, maybe it will be able to replace a "real" computer. (Although on this front USB-C gives me a little bit of hope, maybe..)

Those replies about how people are just grumpy that the times are changing are completely missing the point. We need to figure out how to re-focus the conversation and make people think about about the walled garden seriously.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
No paywall:

https://outline.com/Ka6xJx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA
Maybe so, but can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN?
Hey, I'd like an invite please. Also I would be interested in discussing your philosophy with you. I run a similar "startup". We have 2 apps in the social recommendations area (currently focused on maps/places). One is a mobile app in private beta atm. You can sign up for an invite once we go public here: BIBIMAPP.COM. The other is a crowd source mapping app. It's very rough atm and we haven't promoted it at all but you can find it here : mapbeet.bibimapp.com. Feel free to reach out to me on the email in my profile.
Technically speaking he's treating those as two different concepts not conflating them. But in any case, he's talking specifically about Japan which is definitely xenophobic— for example read about their attitudes toward Korean immigrants.
The nature of accessibility is in solving universal access problems. It includes blind people but isn’t limited to blind people. One of the largest areas of accessibility is solving for cognitive impairments.

The classic example is wheel chair ramps. Who benefits from those? People who have bad knees, people with strollers, people with heavy roller bags. The ramp was installed for wheelchairs but everybody benefits. If the solution were limited only to wheelchairs almost nobody would use it. It would just be in the way and be more of a problem than a solution.

If you are only solving for blindness you don’t really understand accessibility and are just in the way.
Give Ubuntu/Darch a quick ride in a virtual machine
Yeah I didn’t see anything in the article talking about how menthol is any more dangerous than regular smokes - are they?
Been exploring this idea in the app development context for a while now. I wished PNaCl had filled this role, but now think WebAssembly may take up this space instead as it has similar performance characteristics. The attraction of both these for us is that many languages can compile down to be run in wasm.
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Can I upvote twice?
The redesigns are... Illegible and hard to read.
Never mind, I missed the previous discussion of that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18418476
Pinata apples are my favorite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinova)

Honeycrisp have been on sale a lot lately (99 cents a pound a week ago)

Honeycrisp is good, but it just seems sort of hollow and doesn't really leave you feeling any fuller at the end. It also doesn't seem to have much depth of flavor. It's just sweet.
> Personally, I don't believe there is such thing as overpopulation.

Do you not believe the planet has a finite size? Because those two things go together.
Climate science? That doesn't limit growth. We'll cook the earth by continuing our same rate of emissions without adding a single person, and if we switch to something like solar we can have as many people as we want without any climate change.
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For me its the yelp reviewers themselves I dislike. That South Park episode really nailed. Oh you're a big Yelp reviewer, cool...
A paper linked from that page, "MOV is Turing-complete", is as hilarious as it is clever.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf

If you've ever wanted someone to accuse the x86 architecture of having too few registers, this is your URL.
You might like the app I'm working on:

https://getpolarized.io/

I've given up on the idea of using tablets for PDFs. I think the main issue is annotation.

I think you need a mouse and a keyboard.

This is why I stated working on Polar. I wanted to do my main reading on a laptop/desktop but sync my notes to a mobile app.

Right now the mobile sync is done by Anki but at some point I'll probably add a PWA or mobile app to sync directly.

A PWA is more compelling as it would work on ios + android of course but that requires more work.
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A dramatic fertility decline was predicted some time ago. The prediction stated the around the late 20th century population would balloon to record levels but it’s rate of growth would dramatically slow until reaching a near steady state of about 9.2 billion about 2055.
There's still a disturbing amount of software that operates on a per-core pricing model. Some of them include Hyperthread in that core count.
When we launched Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, (as Bare Metal Cloud, before we launched our VM product), our standard bare metal instance had 36 cores, 72 threads with HT enabled. One interested customer couldn't use our platform because just licensing their standard software on our platform was going to set them back some $250,000 due to all those 72 "cores". The product manager at the time mentioned there were several other customers facing that issue with their various bits of enterprise software.
>I don't know why Americans put up with that silly government shutdown nonsense.

Many Americans believe that government is useless at best, malicious at worst, and grossly incompetent either way, and that shutting it down would probably do more good than harm.
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not in CA? the dmv lady told me i had to have my physical SSN card (which incidentally wasnt listed as a requirement on their website :| )
This is scarily prohibitionist. This is not a health-related choice, only an enjoyment preference one. Whether you find the war on smoking justified or not, outright banning of flavored tobacco this way has parallels in other illegalization approaches. And when you grow your own tobacco and flavor it? Criminal.

On a general note, I find it upsetting how many people cheer these things on due to misplaced righteousness. You can disagree with smoking and even recognize its societal harms that affect you without supporting making it illegal. If only the human lifecycle were twice as long, we'd have many remembering political victories built on prohibition platforms followed by state after state banning breweries on the way to the 18th amendment.
Since the menthol cools your throat it makes heavy smoking less unpleasant and also makes it easier for a new smoker to develop a habit.

Whether there’s data to show that these effects are significant enough to justify a ban specifically on menthols, however, I don’t know.
A bit off-topic, but I remember some studies about 'under-powered' ASICs, ie. running with 'lower-than-required' voltage and just letting the chip fail sometimes. I guess the outcome was that you can run with 0.1x power and get 0.9x of correctness. Usually chips are designed so that they never fail and that requires using substantially more energy than is needed in the average case. If the application is probabilistic or noisy in general, additional 'computation noise' could be allowed for better energy efficiency.
You seem like a perfect early user for our new social places recommendation app bibimapp.com . We're trying to create an viable alternative to crowd sourced averages which allows people to discover niche and personally meaningful places and experiences. Google places and yelp are consolidation funnels and it's ruinning how we experience the world.
I just came across Smitten apples and they are also crunchy, sweet and tart like the honeycrisp.
https://www.smittenapple.com
In California even these new apples are relatively cheap, i never pay over 1$/lb
Those who complain about red delicious simply do not know how to pick them. I often pass over them if they are not hard with tight skin. Put them in the fridge and they can be great. In fact I put all my apples into the fridge, it extends their shelf life about 2-3x.