skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really bums me out, but I think I’m going to have to abandon Fastmail on principle. Hopefully this law will be repealed quickly before the damage to Australian software companies is too great.
I think their point was just that the legislation could be more explicit and leave less leeway in the hands of the executive branch...

Which of course is made difficult in a paralyzed, polarized legislative environment.

This is actually one of the reasons I'm such a big fan of cardinal voting systems such as approval voting. I believe that they'd elect a more diverse body of legislators, so that coalition building would become both necessary for political survival, and possible in the first place. Right now there's no true coalition building, just hyperpartisan compromise.
Sounds super cool.
This is flawed on so many levels.

1. Just because a thing isn't a person, doesn't mean it can't/shouldn't be decent.

2. That thing was designed by humans which, inferring from your post, you can ask to be decent, ergo you can ask their thing to also be decent.

3. It would make a lot more sense for the business to care in the long term, rather than the short term, that's where maximum profit is.

4. I highly doubt she actively made "the decision to let a business deep into her personal life" since most of these services are opt-in by default.

There's really no need to be so narrow-minded and out of touch with reality...
You have to wonder why the lawmakers didn't use the same logic on all other products. Or at least ags.

Corners happened again later, famously on silver with the Hunt brothers.
They seem roughly comprable. If you can get 85% scale out efficiency, based on the numbers in this post, 256 V100s would be at parity with 256 TPUs. In practice, you can get 90% scale out on Resnet with last year’s GPU and networking hardware. Network bandwidth is the bottleneck, and with better network hardware that could be improved. Maybe that’s why Google didn’t publish a benchmark for 256 V100s.

I’m also curious what the is the performance of the network interconnects in the TPU pod. I couldn’t find it documented, though I didn’t look super hard.

[1] https://github.com/uber/horovod/blob/master/docs/benchmarks....
> Sad that I'm spending any time checking the legitimacy of this post and those posting in it. Thanks advert industry for making me so cynical.

Yet another reason why I consider adverising to be a cancer on society. You have to be suspicious of everything.
We store our logs in PostgreSQL and use Metabase for visualisations & analysis: https://metabase.com/

It's still focused on SQL but the "Question" flow is quite simple, and doesn't require you to write SQL. You can, of course, write raw SQL if you want to and have those results still visualised.
I’ve been doing the same thing. Originally blindly, now I can actually see my ad interests buried in the settings under account data and all the way at the bottom of the list... but it’s there. And oh how it’s funny to see what changes the list. What’s terrifying though, is the things on the list that I have not engaged in online that only could have been added as result of verbal conversations with people who have not set up even a modicum of privacy on their devices. Specifically flag words I use in conversations for just such a purpose. As a result, I’m collecting evidence for a massive privacy lawsuit that undoubtly will occur sometime in the future which I’m eager to take part and assist in.

That aside and in the interim, a small thing we can all do if you’re concerned about privacy is to inform people when discussing such matters where to go on their devices to learn about what is known about them.

No other conversation has scared indivuals I’ve met more than showing them their ad interests.
As noted above and below, this is not full budget. Please ignore this comment.
If you publish an open letter you invite open responses. Doubly so if you do it on the Internet. Triply so if you work in the media.
I reject your implicit argument that every action is acceptable unless there is a law that explicitly makes it illegal.

It is impossible to legislate everything. People do things that are immoral, unethical and just plain wrong even if there is no law against it, and it's perfectly OK to call them out for it.
Tax this dick
I had hoped MS dumped Edge onto github.

Last week: “If Microsoft really cared about open source, they’d deprecate Edge, adopt an open-source browser, and work to get improvements pushed upstream.”

Today: “If Microsoft really cared about open source, they’d release the source for Edge.”
Go and read http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox . I've heard many lisp people reference this, which basically says lisp is so great that it is the best language which could possibly exist, and people who don't think that just think that because the languages they like are too stupid to let them appreciate lisp.
I am still amazed that after all this time otherwise smart people cannot understand that cryptocurrencies are simply fiat money with bad guarantors.

Instead of the government of the United States or China or Britain or India or some other actual entity that is highly likely to survive nearly any catastrophe or change in leadership, cryptocurrencies are backed by shady MLM hucksters who originally met on a minor and very geeky gaming BBS to come up with their scheme, and whose downline marketers hire C- and D-list celebrities to shill for them. You don't even end up with a garage full of awfully-scented soap when it crashes.
I think they are doing a pretty amazing job of controlling prices and inventory considering the recent craziness of the GPU market. They apparently sold all they could make at very high prices until a few months ago, and since then they seem to be trickling out their supply before releasing new mid range cards. I believe they have contractual agreements with card makers mandating price floors, and this seems to be working; two year old mid range GPUs are still selling at or above launch MSRP.[1]

The only cheaper deal is used (probably mining) hardware on ebay, still closing for %60-%75 of new launch price.[2] If there is really a glut, it sure isn’t reflected in consumer prices. Maybe the new big GPUs can use whatever production capacity isn’t needed yet for mid range products, and make up for lower volume with higher margins. It seems like AMD can’t really compete on efficiency right now – just price and raw performance up to whatever power limit consumers will tolerate (e.g. RTX2070 mostly outperforms Vega 64 with almost half TDP) so they can’t really compete on the high end. As far as I can work out Nvidia earnings aren't falling on low volume (yet); Q3 2018 earnings were up %2.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

[2] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=gtx+1060&_sac...

[3] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...
I just can't imagine anyone exfiltrating the data on a corporate level at any scale without raising alarms. It's just not realistic, once it leaves the board it's pretty easy to see over a network.

Now specific targeted attacks is more believable, at that point though I'd think a one off MITM hardware swap would be more likely.
HT&L is a great analogy.

For those who weren't around during the first wave of hardware 3D acceleration (circa 90s), there was a huge amount of "X brand only accelerates this and that game."

Nowadays, with DirectX and OpenGL (somewhat) winning the API war, a GPU is a GPU for all games.

It seems entirely reasonable raytracing hardware and game support follow the same path. Supported in some hardware, supported in some games. If the market likes it, over time we see fewer and fewer games that don't use it.

* Caveat: Things are a little different this time since DirectX 12 supports Ray tracing today, as far as I can tell. And Microsoft doesn't really care who wins between Nvida and AMD (aside from keeping suppliers in competitive bidding for XBox GPUs).
So what? My whole point is that discussing these sort of social "issues" in lisp/haskell community adds nothing to the discussion at hand. It doesn't have any implication to lisp or haskell, we learn nothing from these sort of comments. They're just visual noise, almost put as a bait to trigger an ad hominem comment chain.
Solar Installations in India Reach 6.6 GW in the First Nine Months of 2018
I think this is a great move. It will serve other industries which don't get the same press and accolades as SV. Also, it's just nice to see some geographical diversification in these efforts. And, plus, much better pries for housing and office space
VSCode is in particular great at TypeScript, in part because it's a Microsoft language and Microsoft IDE.
Tons of good information here, talks about exactly what you are asking: https://www.designbetter.co/
they already pay for the service they use and are taxed on tha usage. This current FCC continues to prove they are terrible at regulation or logical conclusions.
I thought this was going to be an article on the AOL Instant Messenger protocol.
Maybe Google could just license the tech to parties that would be interested in doing the hardware for the masses? Or maybe we just have to wait to see what Nvidia is brewing?
> but that you can't really monetize a stillbirth

Serving up ads that are guaranteed to not apply are a negative because it means you're giving up the opportunity to serve up ads that might actually make money.
Quit overloading the word good.
The concept of memory isn't related to consciousness; after all, we talk about computers having memory all the time.

Rather than say everything short of humans doesn't really "remember", I find it much more interesting to think how similar our concept of remembering (reinforced neural connections) is to phenomena we don't think of as alive like rivers or pheromone trails.
Good to see renewable energy spreading to one of the most polluted countries.
That's ridiculous. $140K taxi medallions are simple economics? Each $140K a company had to pay for some stupid medallion could have employed two people for a year. Medallions and protectionism just created localized monopolies that had few incentives to improve service, innovate on tech, and even provide clean vehicles. There's no other industry that needs this artificial cap, as if demand and supply can be accurately controlled for by government policy officials. What a joke.
By last mile I'm talking about the physical wire between your house and POP. Layer 1-2 none of the protocols you mentioned work on that level, those would be provided by the ISP.

The issue is city, users, ISPs can't afford to have a separate wire per ISP per house. It's extremely expensive and wasteful, because most of the time most houses will use at most a single ISP.

What I'm saying is that city should be responsible for providing the physical connectivity, think of it like roads. It would be crazy to think that every store, office etc would have to build their own roads to every house.

All what's needed is a fiber between your house and POP. What's plugged in on both ends is up to ISP. The city only needs to worry that fiber is there and it works. Same as the city needs to worry there is a road and it is usable. The city then can lease that fiber to ISP for a fee to cover the maintenance.

Off topic: I don't want to ISP to do QoS for me so if we could chose between different ISPs I would shop for ones that don't do it. I know better which traffic is more important to me than my ISP.
These systems are sociopathic. Full stop. It is in their nature.
Call me Debbie Downer, but I'm still of the opinion that real-time raytracing has yet to prove itself. Most of the examples I've seen achieve effects which have been imitated by faster, more portable techniques for years, and - for the most part - have been still scenes with static lighting, which hasn't been a problem since Quake 2.
The concept of a robotic shuttle was picked up again over a decade later with the Boeing X-37B. Being able to retrieve satellites and material from orbit has many applications in espionage and space research.
I second this. The leading edge in HCI is in VR. Imaging the new degrees of freedom from popping menus around in 3-space leads to challenges. What happens to that menu then when your avatar does a cartwheel across the battlefield. Or, how do you deal with an impenetrable, protective capsule around you character when he/she draws their sword. Is it one-way? How do you even show the capsule? How does the character get their bitcoin through the capsule to gift a poor match girl? There are no VR/HCI books, but that would make an interesting topic.
Truman started Vietnam because of anti-communist fervor? Seriously? That was his fault and not Johnson's (who was actually president at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin)? That's... a pretty strange interpretation of history.
Clearly any stock that does not price into it the eventual heat death of the universe (and hence zero residual economic utility) is the product of irrational euphoria in the market...
Probably yes, but aside from that, this tactic is moving upmarket and starting to affect the 'more valuable' jobs too.
But nvidia also have a chance at that market. Iirc there already is some minor "tensor" cores in the new cards from them.
As long as the plaintiff can establish "there is a probability that the plaintiff will prevail on the claim", the anti-SLAPP statue doesn't apply. It doesn't matter at that point why they filed the lawsuit.
ICOs were never a real use case, just a way for scammers to cheat greedy and ignorant people out of their money.
Tech crunch is not financial news, its no surprise they fix on stock price as if it was the end all, be all metric for a business.
It's not a license recognized my companies licensing software, so it's not a license to me.
Yep. For example, the cost per kg of putting something into space using the Falcon Heavy is about 40 times cheaper (per kg) than using a Space Shuttle was.
>'But our public, government-run infrastructure is total shit in comparison. After riding Japanese trains around, I get on the D.C. Metro and it makes me actively mad."

It's worth noting that many of those wonderful trains in Japan are are actually privately owned though:

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/10/why-tokyos-pr...

But I agree with your points.
TrueCrypt's Plausible Deniability Is Theoretically Useless (2013)
I can't see a reference so what I assume is this is an overview of functionality implemented in this large library so there's no particular paper that describes what they are talking about?

I ask because I usually like to "read the paper instead of the blog post", since papers are supposed to be complete and sort-of self-contained.

But I guess the glue doesn't get a paper.
>This led to the emergence of new leadership who pioneered a different strategy, expanding the exchange's traded products to include futures contracts on pork bellies and frozen concentrate orange juice

...and we all know what happened to the FCOJ market in 1983.
You might check resource limits and/or disable address randomisation (or other "security" features) since they can really eat up your (limited) address space.

Don't forget to not put the bugs in, though!
Yeah, you need to connect to your Stripe account when you create your product page on IndieHackers for it to track revenue.
Has anyone bothered to check the validity of the link / website? It looks pretty dodgy and conceals itself as a Medium blog post.......
Excellent. Power to the people.
I am playing with Metabase trying to see if there is any way for me to get a "search" on a column of table. It feels like I'm looking for a different use case.

Metabase seems excellent for building a dash board composed of several SQL based questions, and to generally have a searchable list of questions(which are internally SQL queries). But, searching for logs seems to not be one of its use cases...
I see a lot of people using it.

As someone who does python, Go and js with jetbrains IDEs, would VSCode be better?
Part of the problem is it's not obvious why you need to do this until you need it, at which point it's too late.

Reasons include: understanding how a change works (all related code in one place without extra distraction), easy to revert, easy to figure out why that code is there during a blame.
Probably because it would be challenging to tax services that are or could be located out of state or even out of country but easy to tax telecom with physical operations in state.

Also people pay nontrivial sums for telecommunication services. Easily $1200 -> $3000 per household. Taking a small portion of that money is still a lot of money. Facebook by contrast makes a lot less per user.
That's a lot of work. If you only need to build and serve a website on a local machine, Docker makes all of this work unnecessary. You can simply install Docker Desktop and spin up a Jekyll container to test your code. I'll write this up soon.
If I employ a human too stupid to not insult my customers, I would probably fire him.
Whenever I point out the fact that DDG is using Bing and Yahoo for all their organic results I get downvoted to oblivion, even when I back it up with a link to their own sources page saying exactly that. Very peculiar.
It that what's behind the "Are you having it here or taking it to go?" even when you ask for a disposable cup for the coffee?
me too. The question is phrased in such a specific way ("Modern UI/UX") that predictable answers like Design of Everyday Things wouldn't fit.

I'm saying this as someone who loved Steve Schoger's amazing Twitter moments with those UI micro-tips; I'm on the site's mailing list, so I was aware that the book had just been released.
Every couple years I’ll go read Magic Inc by Bret Viktor (not a book, just online: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/) and I always find it refreshing reminder to think about how we can design technology to help us rather than just create a CRUD interface.

‘Sketching User Experiences’ by Bill Buxton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/980280.Sketching_User_Ex... and ‘Mental Models’ by Indi Young: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/ we’re both very influential to me as a young designer thinking about process and I believe they are still both relevant.
I am not sure, to be honest. I've been waiting until everything settles down to really dig in.
Even so, it may be a good idea to take the heatsink off a former GPU mining card, and clean and replace the thermal paste.
as an indian, this bit was particularly fascinating:

> The bill was unpopular among traders, some of whom argued that onion shortages were not a crucial issue since they were used as a condiment rather than a staple food.

in india, onions are so vital a staple that the onion price is a major economic index. see https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/new... for instance.
That's why I said "lease to ISP for a fee", the ISP will of course forward that cost to an user, perhaps under extra fees no extra taxes needed, and people who actually use it will pay for it.

BTW: this is how it was with DSL. Title II has this provision, and telco companies were required to lease their lines to ISPs at a "reasonable fee" which was up to FCC to decide (this was so they wouldn't charge ridiculous prices to kill their competitors).

When Title II was reinstated, Wheeler actually excluded this provision, that's why nothing changed in terms of monopoly.
For employees this is a real roller coaster ride. If you had a industry-standard $500k RSU component over four years, four years ago, you were recently walking around with 7 million dollars, depending on your sell or hold preferences. Whereas now you merely have 4 million. On the other hand if you started a month ago with the same deal, now you have much less than the industry standard deal.
Can you point me to any references for this definition of application? I have never heard TF being called an application. I'd call it a library or a toolkit but maybe these terms aren't en vogue these days.

(Software) Application to me means quite literally any (software) work that "applies" technology to solve a concrete end-user problem.

But I guess you're just proving my point: If we use your definition of application the quoted article text is essentially meaningless since "application workflows" could mean almost anything and NVIDIA certainly isn't in the business of competing for almost anything. If we use my definition the author has just misused the term.
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No, value is much more nuanced.

Example, people can value something very highly but not have funds to buy it, someone who can afford the price easily can value something as being of little worth, but due to their wealth they can afford it.

You appear to be confusing price, ability to pay, and value.

Do look at art. You can buy a hugely influential piece of art and not value it at all, you buy it as an investment but don't care about its innate qualities, its influence on the art world (directly, only indirectly by the price that confers) or it's cultural worth.
> They sell what you're asking for... it's 2 1080's in SLI. It takes twice the power and makes twice as much heat, but you'll save $200 over the 2080ti.

SLI/CF never scaled linearly and in modern games (if they support it at all) you're usually looking at 10-30 % performance increase, for twice the cost and introducing microstuttering.
If advertising gets to the point of generating actual useful content, I like to think that's a net positive. I learned a lot from this discussion, and good content marketing actually provides a lot of information.
If you're planning on holding it long-term, absolutely.

If you're planning on holding it short-term, good luck catching the falling knife.
Read shridharama's comment here for the fix:

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1525
It has also been rolled back. I do not remember the specific case, but it dealt with the SOR requirements being extended on people long after they has been convicted and sentenced due to a change in SOR laws. The courts ruled that it did not violate ex post facto. If that doesn't violate it, then taxes definitely wouldn't either.

I think there is an applicable quote about defending scoundrels that would apply here.
I use it for Go, easy to set up and feels awesome.
I suppose you could use GIMP to prototype, but it would be a massive pain. I use Figma (free; web-based; not open source) for personal projects; if you've used PowerPoint, you can use Figma; the learning curve was very shallow.

Most prototyping tools let you export to PDF on PNG, but they usually aren't going to be open source.
This article mentions Falcor, which leaves me wondering what the future is of Falcor. It does seem like Falcor and GraphQL cover very similar ground, and with GraphQL adoption on the rise, perhaps its time to consider it the winner of the fight?

Not that's it has to be a Highlander-style battle where there can only be one, but it might be a good idea to see something of a merge/quickening here. Some of the JSON Graph stuff in Falcor would be great to see officially added to the GraphQL spec, for instance. I've seen several incompatible approaches for describing "normalized"/"shared"/"deduped" data in GraphQL and something like Falcor's JSON Graph References would be useful to have as a more official API or API extension in GraphQL.
Does anyone have any background on the author of this article?

Sounds like they make niche games I'd love to try some out. Any recommendations?
Now time to work on vscode 2, with a merge between vscode and atom.
Once as a kid, staying at a hotel, I tried to call some family staying in Room 117. For whatever reason, the call didn't go through. I glanced again at the instructions on the phone, which said "please dial a 9, then your number". So I did. The police showed up fifteen minutes later.

And while "9" is a bad special prefix, the "91" in your story has to be the worst possible in the US.