skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure exactly what you're saying. The word "where" is a bit confusing, because there are some spatial metaphors here. The final sentence has several subordinate clauses and is quite long, has referents which are quite far from their references, and seems to use the vague word "thing" in two different ways.

We agree that there is a physical, objective universe. (Why? We assume it is true because otherwise conversation is not possible.) This physical universe exists (in a physical sense). We also have a catalogue of other phenomena (silicon atom, apple, Kentucky) which we say "exist", phenomena which don't exist (magnetic monopole, dragon, The Shire), and a catalogue of intangible concepts (happiness, vector space, triangle) which don't exist in a physical sense.

But every term here, except "the physical universe," are either concepts or interpretations of phenomena. If you say that a data type does not exist because it is nothing more than an interpretation of a physical phenomenon, then my problem with this is that this also applies to computer programs, bits, bytes, silicon atoms, apples, and Kentucky. So I would prefer to use a definition for "exist" that includes data types, bits, bytes, silicon atoms, apples, and Kentucky.

I don't think there's a compelling case for drawing a line between data types and bits and saying "bits exist, but data types do not".
This generation of parents were pretty much all gamers, D&Ders, and so on. It's not for a lack of understanding. I even play many of the same games as my son and even try to get involved in the ones that don't really appeal to me.

But there is something off about kids right now is affecting them in disturbing ways (to a parent). The change is also been really rapid; it was different even 10 years ago.

It seems to me like a large number of parents seem to be struggling with it.
Plenty of games require significant dedication. Mobas like DOTA and league of legends are immensely competitive, and have deep and intricate metagames. Simulation racing games are at least comparable to motorsport. Kerbal Space Program taught me more about space craft than any class or book.

Ultimately games are no different than any other medium. Like books, you've got your Twilights and you've got your The Old Man and the Sea. Like film you've got your Transformers and you've got The Godfather.
I also recommend cable ties (the long ones that won't be accidentally swallowed).
AMP is unnecessary. All it would take is making site speed as a major factor in rankings and sites would get faster overnight.

We work with 1000s of publishers. Decisions about websites come from business and marketing, not from the dev team. Performance is a low priority unless it is critical.
Job hunting in the digital age: Your next interview could be with a robot
When will China publish their own pictures of the satellite dish, cooling tower, and woman on the moon? <snark>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkmhY_ju8o
"Type safety is the property that no primitive operation ever applies to values of the wrong type."

page 263 "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" Shriram Krishnamurthi 2003

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"Historically, people have sometimes used the phrase strong typing to reflect the kind of type-checking that ML and Java use, and weak typing for the other kinds. However, these phrases are at best poorly defined.

…

Indeed, the phrases are not only poorly defined, they are also wrong, because the problem is not with the “strength” of the type checker but rather with the nature of the run-time system that backs them. The phrases are even more wrong because they fail to account for whether or not a theorem backs the type system."

https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2018/safety-soundness.html#%28part...
I can provide some insight on this.

For me, as an older programmer, it's not about 'self-worth'. It's about sunk cost, it's about our ability to provide for our families, it's about what we are doing with our lives when we have much fewer days ahead of us than behind us.

What do I tell my kids or wife? I can't get hired because I didn't memorize enough JS functions, or the right one, or didn't grab onto the right tech stack?

This isn't about a theoretical emotional idea: it's about survival today, into old age that is coming up on me quick, about providing for families.
TL;DR

- New JIT feature that lets you run your model without python. It now seems trivial to load a pytorch model in C++

- New distributed computation package. Major redesign.

- C++ frontend

- New torch hub feature to load models from github easily
The hype and celebrity worship (even at the time) make it nearly impossible to distinguish the man from his reputation. So in the end, there are few facts you can point to, just an awful lot of opinions.

I mean, you could point to the many products he was involved in, but there are a lot of subjective opinions there too.
Research like this seems interesting in light of the increasing prominence of lithium battery applications (such as the rapid payoff of Tesla's grid battery response system in Australia). For now lithium is so cheap merely from natural concentrations (particularly in the amounts needed for batteries vs other components) that it's not even worth recycling. Standard mining may be able to keep up with demand even as it dramatically scales. However, mines inherently present environmental and geopolitical issues as well. As one of the most common elements though hundreds of billions of tons of lithium exist in the oceans (of course at low concentrations outside of hydrothermal vents), so that would create effectively an ultimate ceiling on lithium pricing and geopolitical posturing: if it ever became more costly (or more of a threat) then oceanic extraction, any country in the world with coast (or allies with a coast) would be able to go that way. If a combined plant could pull out other dissolved ions as well and better amortize fixed costs that might also be a boost.

Additionally if scalable extraction tech like this could be developed it'd work well on our current concentrated brine sources too, and while more expensive then natural evaporation it can work much, much faster. One of the pricing issues with lithium on the current market isn't due to "running out" but that the evaporation process takes 18-24 months and thus there is an inherent significant lag time in demand/supply responses. Depending on the cost, it might be worth it even for existing producers just to let them react more quickly to fluctuations without having to deal with bigger buffers.
They don't.

Along with a bunch of other network socket stuff, such as many of the tools in Kali Linux, which they have published in the Windows Store. Nevermind that a significant chunk of Kali's tools do not work in WSL, at present.
Maybe, but accusing people you don’t know, accomplished very capable people where were very high achievers even at the time, of ‘forcing’ themselves to be servile is a worrying sign. That’s not what the I got from the article, and I find it hard to see how it could be reasonably interpreted that way. I’d want to be very, very sure of myself before saying that of someone, and I find it difficult to trust the judgement or motives of someone who expresses themselves like that casually.
I too love rummaging through my bins and wondering what is possible. I think the hacker mind just works like "I wonder if X could be made to do Y..."
Just to add to this, in Matomo (Formerly Piwik. I always have to lookup their new name. It's one of the worst name changes I've ever witnessed. I'm sorry but I had to say it.) you have the ability to comply with DNT requests and even anonymize them in a specific way.
If you're interested in full stack serverless solutions, AWS Amplify looks really good. It handles a lot of the provisioning of resources and creation of GQL resolvers, etc. I spent an afternoon with it a few weeks ago and it completely changed my outlook on the future of the web and CMSs.

https://aws-amplify.github.io
> with mortality rates under 10%

More than 10%, and much more in some places or during some periods.
Besides that you don’t need the whole mechanics of the mirrors like moving and folding them. All this could be done with software. Dimming and heating is also not necessary and the camera could also be used for some part of the autonomous driving. I guess in 5-10 years many cars would have them
Remote working: the untold
It was actually a double-blunder. Einstein missed the opportunity to predict the expanding universe (and, as a corollary, the big bang). And then, when it turned out the universe was expanding, he retracted the CC despite the fact that it actually turned out that there is a (non-zero) CC, the expanding universe notwithstanding. He got the right answer, but he abandoned it because he got it for the wrong reason.
I applaud your honesty. There is a bizarre religion on HN where people think that doing well at Whiteboard/algo interviews makes you a good engineer or is somehow crucial to recruiting good talent.
Isnt VW opening themselves upto the Osborne effect by mentioning this? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect)?
How old are you? By the time I was in my teens, there was always more games, BBSes, etc. Perhaps the fact that all those things were harder to come by was an advantage but I certainly did spent my whole day on the computer creating.
A not insignificant contributor to the higher levels of hepatitis is intravenous drug use. You could also depress yourself to no end if you reviewed the levels of suicide amongst indigenous Canadians. It's genuinely shocking.

https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/indigenous-suicide-preve...
I think it only looks like the rifle is pointed at the man because it was taken with a telephoto lens that compresses the depth of the image a lot.
As a cofounder, an H-1B will be problematic so if you go that route, you should continue to explore other options while that petition is pending such as an O-1 because the H-1B petition could get denied - or just look at the O-1 now.
But Microsoft has been successfully repositioning itself as a cloud provider, it will be a few decades before they become irrelevant.
Günter Faltin Big Success with Meager Start Capital
What could "a couple standard deviations better" even mean in the context of evaluating a product?

I would still argue that Apple benefited tremendously from Jobs. How I would hypothesize the benefit came is that a product winds up being a sort-of "single thing", each part coming together to a single experience for the customer. It's a paradoxical situation because a technological device is produced by a series of experts in multiple fields and with so many people involved. In an average company, the unity of the experience tends to be lost in multiple bureaucratic exigencies.

Jobs was able to put together a single (fairly good) vision into a product by having an absolute dictatorship on over the creation process. Hyperbolic "couple of standard deviations" claims aren't necessary. Artistry still is often a matter of one person (or a very small number of people) conceiving a vision. So letting Jobs be the painter drawing with other people talents worked and was better than twenty hands at the paintbrush. But it had the problem that absolute authority can work out to being cultish and abusive. No sure if there's a solution here.
He told Wozniak that they had made $500 on a sale but in reality it was 5000 and he kept the rest. He refused to recognize his daughter for along time. He refused to give stock options to a lot of very early employees. Wozniak then made a up for it.

He was a jerk. Especially the story about his daughter is plain evil. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.
I think it should be allowed, just not encouraged
the comma signifies a lot tho. they did it because he was a foreigner, period? or because he was a foreigner and a terrible, mean boss?
Some microorganisms that produce a particular chemical as a metabolite are more resistant to its toxicity. So they use that to competitive advantage. It's the microbiological equivalent of pooping in the pool, so everyone else gets out, and you can then swim in it by yourself.

Yeasts do this with alcohol. Acetobacters do it with acetic acid. Lactobacilli with lactic acid. Other varieties exist, but their metabolites have less culinary importance.

But they probably didn't "survive" 200 years. In order to last that long, anything in the cold, dark, ethanol-contaminated bottles probably formed spores, going into deep biological stasis to await more clement environmental conditions. Not all microbes can do it, but the ones that can are considered very hardy. Yeasts tend to switch from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction in nutrient-poor environments, and the resulting diploid cells can sporify.

The question is analogous to questioning whether a human embryo that had been frozen solid and stored in liquid nitrogen for 20 years is safe to thaw out and implant in a live uterus. It's just not a big deal for us. Sporing up and waiting a few centuries before thawing out the embryos is not a big deal for yeast.
Perhaps but he wasn't rejected for bad fit he was rejected for lack of CS trivia knowledge.
'Fractal Dandelion' [Processing]
At least the updates work. I’ve lost count of the number of times Windows update has failed. Reboot loops, half-installed updates, updates conflicting with each other, and updates that killed my internet connection. At least I haven’t had an update brick my machine. Yet.

And don’t get me started on the upgrade process. Quicker and easier to drive to the store and buy a new machine.
Like insisting that notes look like a leather bound notebook?

Is this objectively worse than the current practice of removing or hiding every visual cue and affordance, leaving the user to guess what they're supposed to be doing?
I guess we won’t be seeing any coin op electric shaving machines again. http://www.icollector.com/Pitchford-Coin-Operated-Electric-S...
It depends.

AMD Zen has 4 128-bit SIMD units, while Skylake-S (and earlier) Intel chips have 3 256-bit SIMD units, and Skylake-X/SP (hereafter SKX) chips additionally have 1 or 2 512-bit SIMD units (which overlap with the 256-bit units).

Now not all units can run all instructions. E.g., Intel chips run FP instructions on only 2 of those units, but AMD can run FP instructions on all 4, so in that sense they are even.

However, not all FP instructions can run on all units on AMD: FP multiplications run on only 2 units, and FP additions run on two units - so if you are doing all multiplies, both AMD and Intel can do 2 per cycle and since Intel is twice (quadruple on SKX with 2 FMA units) as wide, then Intel is twice as fast. If you do a 1:1 mix of mul and add, however, then AMD and Intel may be tied - but then AMD is further hamstrung by only have 2 128-bit load units, vs Intel's 2 256-bit load units (512-bit on SKX) - so it is entirely possible that many kernels are limited by load/store throughput on AMD.

For things like in-lane shuffles, AMD and Intel (pre-SKX) have the same throughput: AMD has 2 128-bit shuffle units, and Intel 1 256-bit one. For cross-lane shuffles the 128-bit AMD units really struggle since multiple ops are required and Intel wins big.

So AMD's AVX-256 perf being half of Intel's is more or less the worst case, and many cases will see closer performance. If Zen 2 doubles everything to 256-bits everything will change dramatically.
> can even be spread via saliva.

While possible, is extremely unlikely. For it to be spread by saliva a) the saliva of the infected person would have to contain blood (e.g. bleeding gums) b) come into contact with an open wound in the other person (also has a cut or cold sore etc)
I have several (interconnected) thruths up my sleeve no one (AFAIK) agrees with me on. Any way to schedule an interview with Peter Thiel? :)
> I don't see why Dr. Hossenfelder is being so patronizing

This is her personality. I don't think it's productive to resolving scientific disagreements and don't endorse it; she looks obnoxious in contrast to the author's polite reply in the comments. But it's definitely her natural state, and it seems to produce a writing style that readers enjoy.

> The only way to stop popular science lit from misinterpreting/aggrandizing scientific findings and publishing what eventually amounts to false claims would be to just never publish anything provocative at all

Hossenfelder is claiming much more than that the work is provocative. She's claiming it's highly disfavored for widely known reasons that the authors do not sufficiently address. She's probably also implicitly suggesting the authors are allowing their work to be marketed directly to the lay public, who do not have the expertise to assess the work, for personal gain. Obviously you can always give alternative explanations (the establishment is close-minded, or whatever), but keep in mind that Hossenfelder is waaaay outside the establishment.
I agree that we should stop over population, but that involves developing and enriching countries to lower the birth rate. As countries get richer they eat more meat, so the problem may still remain even if the population does decline.
1. Then really no risk traveling on the advance parole.
2. Yes.
I’ve watched ride for some very challenging demanding bosses. Two in particular were very smart, very capable and I learned a lot from them. They really brought the best out of me. I don’t think either were Steve Jobs calibre though, I’d have loved the chance to work with the guy.
I think it's possible to do a good Electron-based application: Visual Studio Code comes immediately to mind (and Atom, although at least the last time I looked at it, Code seemed both less resource-intensive and more nimble). But after Code/Atom, there's...what, exactly? For that matter, I'm finding myself spending more time in BBEdit and Sublime Text these days, both of which are much faster and less resource-intensive than their cross-platform counterparts.

Is the benefit of getting your app out on multiple platforms faster worth the downside of having your app be a shitty citizen of every platform unless you put significant effort into platform-specific tweaks that make it not suck? The cross-platform editors that are the most obvious rebuttals to my observation in the last paragraph are Emacs and Vim, which have cross-platform cores with platform-specific GUI code. It seems like, if being cross-platform is important to your product/team, that old-school approach will nearly always get you much better results.
This is a wonderful story, assuming you've played Dune II. Please take the time to play Cryo’s Dune also, it deserves nothing less than a VR remake!
Headphones have been removed from iPad Pro, even though there is ample room in the case and an entire ecosystem of accessories which rely on the headphone jack.
I get it. I have taken guided trips when I have either not felt comfortable doing it myself, it was complicated/impossible logistically, or I just wanted a group. Something about a guided year-long digital nomad experience just feels odd though.
I wonder what the implications are for the large number of secondary schools that now apparently use fingerprint biometrics for school meal payments.
I'm talking about the master password of my Firefox vault or whatever it is called.
IMO, framing video games as a treat that has to be earned is likely the best parenting option surrounding video games.
Google made it so it likely will be mothballed in < 5 years or I will have to rewrite my applications when they ship version 2.0.
Something like this would be a great start. I have a feeling the industry has a tendency to try to recruit young and perhaps naive developers who might not be fully ready to appreciate all of the potential misuses (and the probability of those outcomes) of what they build, however. Or worse, have some misaligned incentives to build them regardless.
Broadcasting your terms isn't the same as the listener agreeing to it. You aren't guaranteed copyright just because you say so - i.e. you don't have a copyright on films made of you in public.
Firefox 57 is why I switched to Chrome in the first place. If I'm going to use a butchered UI, I might as well use the original from whom everyone copied. And on top of that accessibility was a nightmare.

My grandmother had glaucoma and could not use Firefox 57 in any capacity because the feature to have large chunky Netscape/Mosaic buttons was removed completely. I had to switch all her stuff over to SeaMonkey, which still had the ability to have large buttons, so she could use a web browser.
Finally on an EB-1 (yay!) but haven't left the country in years because of my anxiety crossing borders. I've heard stories of green card holders getting turned around at the border for admitting to smoking weed etc - have you heard whispers of anything like this recently? I get the difference between federal law & state law; is this the kind of thing that USCIS would have access to dispensary records for, or are they just trying to get people to incriminate themselves? I'm planning on traveling over the holidays and I'm still convinced that I won't be allowed back in.

Also, are there precautions we should take with cell phones & border security these days?
That's a really good line in the sand, and relatively practical as well. Unfortunately, I don't think it will be put into the books with all the interests corporations would have in keeping it out.
"Anything I build can and will be abused... If my technology is used for evil, I am responsible."

Well, which is it? Both of these statements can't be true. Does this creed apply to gun manufacturers? Knife manufacturers? Car manufacturers? Hammer manufacturers?
Perhaps related, right now there is a 6 month waiting list for the Hep B vaccine here in Canada.
Can we expect to see electric cars and conversion kits that simulate combustion engines? Mechanical gearboxes (or pseudo-gearboxes?), simulated noise and vibrations, exhaust pipes with simulated vapor?
That was a huge useless ramble. And anyway, it seems to focus on the danger of hyper-intelligence, not the economics of automation. That guy doesn’t have any idea what he’s talking about.
Is it really impossible that someone is so good that they have earned and deserve that kind of loyalty?
Seems like int generics are the blocker here.
Or, as PR people phrase it, to adjust the optics of tracking.

That said, I think the DNT flag being formalized is important to web development.

Previously, one of the core arguments of advertisers was "people do not care about being tracked". Individuals choosing to turn on DNT demolishes that.

Unfortunately, browsers turning it on by default muddles that indicator or intent, even if it's good for individuals.
Ok, so we're expanding from stereotyping 1.4B to an even 2B now?

Irony is dead.

Applying American conceptions of racism to Asia is ignorant, full stop.
Bootstrapping a proof of concept, or a very early version of an app, definitely is still very much relevant. Bootstrap aids in this. And I think it is widely accepted that if you have an app that you'll eventually scale it needs to be refactored out. But for that initial POC, bootstrap away!
This is not something that can be replaced with a library, anymore than a library can replace OpenGL itself.

Keep in mind that this is more analagous to a GL shader. It is not a general purpose language.
Python is not very difficult to implement [1], the hard part is making it fast. That's because every property access involves a lot of magic behind the scenes, like __getattribute__, __getattr__ and the method resolution order. And because Python is dynamically typed, that dispatch logic can't be compiled away but needs to execute every time. (PyPy's JIT can probably speed it up, but still needs deoptimization checks in case types change.)

[1] see https://github.com/nedbat/byterun for a Python implementation