skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well sure, but there are a lot of lobbying groups relying on the subsidies. Beef, pork, ethanol, corn syrup, international food exporters.

If a congressperson raises the price of the commodity they all rely on, they will piss of a LOT of money, and probably not raise enough next election cycle, and lose their seat.
I have 4 kids and they're all video game nerds. As the paternal geek myself I stood out in the rain last night so they can buy Smash Bros. Ultimate.

That being said, I have a simple approach that seems to work. They need to do something productive to earn playing time. That can be chores, homework, reading a book, a personal project, whatever. I also do a device-free day (usually Monday). The end result is they all get good grades and the encouragement to pursue other hobbies that enable their creative side.
It's a bit over my head as I don't observe anything, but it does have some interesting content on it.
Is there some sort of pytorch 1.0 migration guide or does anyone know if there is any breaking from .41 to 1.0 ?
I personally know a fair number of people that would love to have/ are in dire need of 'genetic repair', not just in the germline, but in vivo as well. Unfortunately, I think the numbers quoted are conservative. Have no doubt, the genetic revolution is just that, a revolution. We are in the early stages of this paradigm shift.

My point was more that this revolution is much larger than 'oh no, rich people will have smart kids' or ' rich people will live forever'. The example I exposed upon was that the very basic instincts of placental mammals are going to be challenged (potentially). Genetic engineering at these fidelities has undoubted potential for good for those in severe need of it. Thank God! But just like fire or quantum mechanics, it can do harm as well, and in ways we haven't been thinking about. Like, the fear of 'rich people are going to use the stock market even better with smarter kids' isn't thinking deep enough. With the genetic revolution you're going to have to first define the 'people' part of 'rich people', because that is going to become a variable.
If you really think it's Americans with the pioneer spirit these days you should spend a month driving around the US observing people then do the same for the cities in China.
Interesting although apparently still experimental. Does anyone know if Drone has good support for a monorepo? As in, on a PR only running tests for the projects which have code changes in that PR? With CircleCI the solution we use is really hacky.
The thing you're touching on here I think is also some degree of freedom for iterative and spontaneous revision/change. A searchable catalog is great when you already know what you need. A catalog is also great when you have no idea what you need, but there's a huge delay in the feedback loop with a catalog compared to bins. To empower a discovery process during creation, it helps to have "saturated space" or something akin to untold quantities and varieties of "bins".
The derision towards JS programmers is very real, but I don't think it's fair to turn it into a generalization about "these people" (being PL researchers and Haskell/ML/etc aficionados).

I've encountered enough JavaScript programmers telling me how important Node.js is, and how crazy I am for not using asynchronous programming, or for using a different language in the browser and the server, or how static typing is a waste of time and you should really be using tests.

I'm not going to say that's worryingly common among JavaScript programmers, though. It's just very natural that people who work with a certain set of tools are acutely aware of those tools' advantages.

And I've also encountered plenty of C++ programmers explaining to me how crazy it is that I'm using a garbage collector, or that I'm not compiling something down to native machine code ahead of time.

And the people in industry will make fun of the people in academia, and the academics will make fun of people in industry.
I had the exact opposite reaction. The fact that he cares so much about his own memories is under-appreciated these days. And he's not wrong—the stuff written about Steve is highly opinionated and often quite vividly written, exceedingly colored by how his blunt nature made that particular author react emotionally.
Anycast and servers all over the globe don't help with latency. You also need to keep refreshing DNS records in background and have massive cache. But the memory is limited and you can't refresh everything for everyone. So only a percentage of queries can get responses from cache. If your own resolver could refresh records in background, you would get more responses from cache than sharing it with everyone. You also won't be affected by things like server load and connectivity issues, so you'll get overall better latency with queries mostly served from own cache matching your personal profile.
> The JIT is a set of compiler tools for bridging the gap between research in PyTorch
and production. It allows for the creation of models that can run without a dependency on the Python interpreter and which can be optimized more aggressively. Using program annotations existing models can be transformed into Torch Script, a subset of Python that PyTorch can run directly.

Isn't python bytecode simple enough that it can be run anywhere?
The missing context is that people did that out of necessity. Hundred years ago 56% of Americans were rather poor. Most non-city people had outhouses in the 1940s. America’s rise to wealth has been long and hard fought. Wealth didn’t just land into our laps.

The average American family had an annual income of ~$3000 (in today’s dollars), So, yeah, poor.
Like insisting that notes look like a leather bound notebook?

I'm confident he had good ideas. I'm also confident he had plenty of horrible ideas... Just like most intelligent humans.
advertising it to everyone probably helped :)
Yes, but with potentially much better (wider) industry adoption and support.
1. Is this person still working for the sponsoring green card employer?
2. As long as the I-140 has been approved and the I-485 has been pending for 6 months, there should be no issue switching as long as the switch is to a job in the same or similar occupation.
3. See above.
4. That's really impossible to say. The marriage-based is the more certain if a valid marriage.
Truly respecting DNT would undermine Google's core business and the cash cow that is AdWords, by reducing the amount and / or quality of user activity data fed into the platform.

Such a change goes too much against the Alphabet Corporation's own self-interest and well-being for it to be voluntarily offered.

As with many things in Western Civilization, it traces back to capitalism and the unfortunate incentives it can encourage.
I don't see stacking as many people as possible on Earth as a worthy goal and therefore I am not interested in changing my behavior for the purpose of achieving it.

Your animal suffering point has merit. But what the article is talking about is simply growing enough food to feed more people, so that's what I am addressing. However, I think that this is just another symptom of the same thing. Factory farming is only necessary if we need to feed multiple billions.
SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Programming Language
> I think this is what it has to eventually be. We all have a garden in our garage.

No you won't, at least not with greens. Did you even try to do the math for the required amount of food a single person needs per-year ? Even if you go with rabbits, which are easy to raise, you can only self produce a small amount of meat per year, maybe ~150lb once you get to "scale".
I am on H1b visa and would like to take a break of few months. Is there a way to do that without going out of the country or losing my visa?
For what it's worth, I went with PostgreSQL, decided not to use an ORM but a query builder (knex.js). Knex.js gives you database migrations and is good for basic querying. It is easy to drop down to raw SQL if you need something more complex or optimized.
I agree with this. For the record, I am not complaining. :-) I just like to share my experiences of how things worked verses how they were intended to work.
That's an inevitable result of devoting the efforts of so many of our brightest to attracting eyeballs.
> What we'll prepare for is the fallout of inexpertly/incompetently applied technologies resulting in fragile, heath-compromised people by the thousands.

In other words, something that we are already dealing with as a consequence of too much fast food and video games.
The cost of The Bridge between two nations
Out of curiosity, how do you enforce this? What are your parenting techniques to steer them away from screens? How do you have your kids choose music over Minecraft, painting over Fortnite, acting over Youtube? How does the screen not win in those situations? I would be interested reading your insights. I think many parents see it as clearly as you do, but don't have the same success.
This then leads to the inevitable questions, is an Alcubierre Warp Drive possible, since one of its pre-requisites was particles of negative mass?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

>>a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created

If this matter is popping into space continuously as the author describes, it could be possible to harvest it. The question is, how much of it is popping into existence in lets say a square km of space (something we could feasibly cover with our current tech), and how do we detect and capture it.

The author does readily admit that his theory may be wrong, but useful as a mathematical tool. It's like saying "My theory may be the Newtonian Mechanical model of dark matter + dark energy, but not the quantum (read: real) theory." I sure as hell hope he is correct and its a real particle we could capture. It could open up technology we have yet to realize and get us off this rock.
if somebody likes chocolatey/Boxstarter, have a look at https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script The three together work like a charm, though it does some things much better than Boxstarter imho
Making an effort to learn about your child's interest in one of the most beneficial things you can do as a parent.
That's like saying "I'm trying to make it dark by turning on the lights." You can;'t make excuses for them by saying that, even though they are recklessly endangering other lives, they're doing it under pretenses that are false, so it's ok.
But it’s easy to produce, consume and absorb enough vitamin C.

Vitamin C also breaks down fairly easily when cooked (necessary or common with a lot of foods).

Iron is a bigger issue where non-absorption of non-organic sources can cause some GI upset.
Breaking changes are highlighted here: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/releases#breaking-changes
A big asteroid impact may do the job. Or a supervolcano.
in the release notes, there's a section called "Breaking Changes".
There are no major breaking changes from 0.4.1, and all your code should largely work as-is.
One Belt, One Road, One Big Mistake
We just focused on approaching faster to market.

Because of that, we prefer to leverage on existing open-source projects (for example, for parsing or for the IR) that are already working, than to create everything from scratch.
Being highly followed on Twitter (usually) comes as a result of success elsewhere. I recommend starting a blog and linking your Twitter. Create interesting and thought provoking content and share on social media. Give talks in-person at conferences relating to your domain.. If you put in work external to Twitter that provokes thought, people will be more willing to follow you to hear what you have to say.

Back in the old days you used to be able to really amass a lot of followers on Twitter just by posting. However, the signal to noise ratio is really bad there now, so discovery is near impossible. Maybe try Mastodon? Crypto subreddits?
I am quite happy with WSL - I might not be the target audience as my needs are almost entirely for statistics but WSL beats a vm for rstudio server and awk. You’ll hear nothing but praise from me
You chuckle at articles because you are locked-in? Sure that chuckle ain't at your own expense.
You're right, it's a her, fixed it.
China Plans to Build a Deep Sea Base Run Entirely by AI
I'm sorry to hear that.

I don't want to speak for my friend, but I would assume a phone call would be fine. Do you have an email in which he could contact you?
You do know it is just a series of tweets, right?

https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst/status/1070750717671919616
It's a hard requirement - you need to be an employee - not a contractor - for at least one year in a managerial or executive capacity. But if you are and will be in the U.S. as well, then it's a pretty straightforward process, though a slow one now, 18 months or so if you're applying while abroad.
I think it was well-understood from the start that "please don't track me" requests had no teeth, and would be generally ridiculed and ignored by the vast majority of sites with an incentive to do so.
No snowflake is responsible for the avalanche, therefore I must pile on as much snow as possible -- The modern developer.
Where can I get a save investment that pays a 4% annuity that rises with inflation?

I'm genuinely curious. My father is retired and has some savings and that would seem like the ideal investment for him.
if not we're fucked, no?
So much this. I'm a parent. I'm a game developer. I'm a former kid who dreamed that someday my parents would sit down and ask me to show them what I was doing.

You should know what your kids are playing, and what better way than to show interest in their hobbies. (And, like, maybe talk about it afterwards?)
On the other hand I recently fixed my home theater receiver with a handful of 20 cent capacitors, saving a multi-hundred dollar repair bill and/or throwing away the whole receiver. Basic electronics knowledge and soldering skill could help anyone at home. Just like being able to do light plumbing and electrical work comes in handy and will save you lots of money.
How languages like TypeScript use syntactic sugar to mimic prototypes
Every single time someone says "where was the ACLU when X happened?" (Usually in the context of a conservative's civil rights being violated) a quick search shows that the ACLU was defending that person or at least speaking out against it. They're pretty consistent in their principles, even when arrayed against liberals, as comes up from time to time when political correctness is on the line.
I got a job as a software engineer at another company. Came with a title bump and raise.
Anything receiving potentially malicious input should be untrusted and sandboxed if possible. That includes the network stack itself in high-assurance, security products. We also prefer simple, rigorously-analyzed software with high predictability. Other stuff often has vulnerabilities. Nginx is nearly 200,000 lines of code per an interview with CEO I just skimmed. Lwan, made for security and maintainability, is about 10,000 lines of code in comparison:

https://lwan.ws/

Lwan's actually small enough that mathematical verification for correctness against a spec is feasible, even though costly. Unlike Lwan, I could never have any hope of proving the correctness of Nginx. Even its safety would be difficult just because of all the potential code interactions on malicious input. Leak-free for secrets it contains? Forget about it. Best bet is to shove that thing either in a partition on a separation kernel/VMM or on a dedicated machine. The automated tooling for large programs does get better every year, though. One can use any compatible with Nginx. And still shove that humongous server into a deprivileged partition just in case. ;)

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

https://genode.org/

https://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-17...
I've heard China described as:

It's just like the United States. You've got a few hundred people who are billionaires, a bunch more millionaires, and then the rest of the "normal" upper, middle, and lower classes. Then add in a BILLION people who are living in poverty far below the lowest class.
It’ll keep scientists in the countries that do this from discovering such weapons. Meanwhile elsewhere in the world...
I didn't mean to sound like that - does allocating time come across that way?

This is something that has frustrated me - I thoroughly enjoy learning new things and these online courses and yet I wasn't spending time on these things. After work, it's a lot easier to just switch on Netflix from the couch and let it autoplay. If they had Udacity on FireTV, I would have probably used that instead of Netflix. I'm thinking this is also because I am mentally spent after work and it takes more to study vs Netflix.
I imagine it depends on the vegetarian.

And not all meats/animals are the same. I myself eat meat, but do not eat mammals. I am looking forward to the widespread availability of safe, delicious, lab-grown meats.

> the healthiest way to eat

I suspect that, for most people, the best plant-based diet is equal to the best omnivorous diet in terms of nutrition. Admittedly, it can take more effort to get your protein.

> meat can be raised in humane ways

"Humane" is a vague word. Some will tell you that slaughtering an animal at all in not humane.

> can be raised in environmentally-friendly ways

This would be really hard for many animals. Show me a carbon-neutral cow.

The ones that live in tiny spaces and eat corn have high carbon footprints because of all the farming that has to happen to feed them and all the land that is prevented from being forest to serve that need.

We don't spend nearly as much energy feeding the free-range ones, but the land-footprint needed to serve them is even greater.
Yes, as long as the reason for the break comes from you and not the company and this break is supported by the company, you can remain in H-1B status while on a leave of absence, whether paid or unpaid.
If I could be bothered (which I can't quite) I'd set up an "I rejected them" alternative: all the companies I wouldn't choose to work for because they are unethical or corrupt or produce trivial crap that's not worth making.
Instead of making the famous mountain of butter (beside a lake of milk) they now pay famers not to farm, which has its own oddities. Including discouraging of re-wilding I think, as the land has to be plausibly farm-able to get the cash.

This aside, it's worth knowing that developed countries typically throw away much less food than developing ones. Basically because Tesco is much better at logistics than a million guys trying to drive into Delhi. I don't have the link to hand but there was a nice comparison US vs Mexico on this somewhere.
An indirect function call is ~50 cycles. (http://ithare.com/infographics-operation-costs-in-cpu-clock-...)

The entry and exit cost of a syscall is ~150 cycles. (Source: Many Google hits--blogs, papers--show people reciting 150 cycles exactly so I assume there's a singular, primary source for this. Maybe will track down the paper later.)

I'd say that's comparable. Many syscalls take much longer, but that's just because syscalls tend to be very abstract interfaces where each call performs costly operations or bookkeeping, especially on shared data structures requiring costly memory barriers. That doesn't mean the syscall interface itself is expensive. Microkernel skeptics stopped arguing syscall overhead a long time ago, and proponents are no longer defensive about it.
Audio archive of the British Computer industry
> Bulldozer was a disaster

I dunno if it was as much a "disaster" as it was Intel's Sandy Bridge doing so well.

Intel's Sandy Bridge (2600k / 2700k) were HUGE improvements back in 2011. Bulldozer was a step-wider (the cores were roughly the same as K10 but you'd get 8-cores instead of 4), and Piledriver / Steamroller incrementally improved on the formula.

Bulldozer managed to increase core counts from ~4 (AMD Phenom) to 8 with Bulldozer. Sure, the 8 "cores" of Bulldozer shared a decoder and perhaps was more appropriately a 4-core with hyperthreading... but it was still a core-to-core improvement compared to K10.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/piledriver-k10-cpu-over...

But the incremental upgrades to AMD's K10 were just no match for the 20%+ boosts that Intel was doing with their Sandy Bridge architecture. Ultimately, Intel's Hyperthreads (4c/8t) were roughly the same as AMD's "8 core (4-decoders)" setup... because Sandy Bridge was just so far ahead of the game.
> Add in the tons and tons of cheap labour, with few labour laws.

> Add in the 10 hours 7 day crazy work weeks.

These advantages seem like they'll expire as China becomes more competitive economically.

> Imagine if you went to a flea market, but instead of comic books, hot dogs and used sofas ... you found all sorts of cheap, exotic component parts. Anything. Everything. For 10's of cents each.

How many types of sensors / components etc. are even conceivable, no matter how exotic? It seems like someone could replicate that in the US with a warehouse and sourcing. These things are extremely cheap in general; it's not like trying to replicate the VCs of Silicon Valley elsewhere.

> For example: 3D printers that are more amenable to 'short production runs' instead of just prototypes. Low cost / fast turnaround injection moulding. Quick turn around on smaller components. ... Doing this would take some champion leaders, maybe Cisco, or Google

This seems like a great idea; pair some small fabs with a big ol' warehouse stocked with every random component / sensor under the sun, and it seems like it would work out totally fine.
There isn't just the cost of a timer, there's also the time and effort that needs to be spent policing your child's screen time. Many families don't have a parent around the house a lot of the time.
The new JIT is very interesting. Anyone know if this is for inference only or also for training?
When it comes to quality of life perceived is real. The substitutes suck. I've tried them. If that changes then I will switch over.
>I'm no scientist, but it amazes me that people can still think with all the industry, all the forests cut down, all the cars on the road, that our planet is magical and can handle it all.

No one really does. They just have enough accumulated conflicts of interest to accepting that fact that life is easier for them to not do so.
No individual litterer is responsible for a trashed park.
100% right. They don't respect do not track because they don't believe they have to, it's in their interests not to, and they don't behave according to an ethical framework that would lead them to do things that contradict their direct short-term interests.
In Ian's case, maybe they found people with better HTML5 qualifications, or more likely they found people with the other x relevant skills needed for the programme.
I read an interesting argument over at Foreign Policy highlighting the failures of China's One Belt One Road foreign policy, and attributed those failures (and their continuation) to the increasing authoritarianism of President Xi, and the breakdown of the Party's meritocractic efficiency seen over the last 20 years or so.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/bri-china-belt-road-ini...
Thanks for the question, I have another if you don't mind. During my studies, I worked on my own startup, presented it in front of a panel at a hackathon, then was chosen to present it in the associated conference the day after. I even won a small monetary prize from one of the conference sponsors. The conference in question was TADHack Global 2016 in Chicago.

https://tadhack.com/2016/global/

Would this fill the criteria of being notable enough, or do the EB1 panels require more substantial achievements?