skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing to understand about Nvidia is that they use the same model as Apple: Produce really nice software, and use it to drive hardware sales.

On the driver side, a lot of the features and performance advantages of Nvidia cards are rumored to be largely implemented in software. (Think of things like having a really good optimizing compiler for shaders.) Open sourcing that code would allow other brands to copy a lot of their techniques.

On the application side, Nvidia produces a lot of developer tools (like CUDA) that are either tied to or heavily optimised for Nvidia hardware.

All this means that Open Source is largely antithetical to the way they do business.

OTOH, ATI Linux drivers went through a very rough patch when ATI decided that Open Source meant, "Hey, we can get a bunch of suckers to write drivers for us!" Everyone involved seems to have actually come out the other side stronger for the experience, and I'm very optimistic about their future.

That said, my understanding is that you are committed to Linux, you still get a more robust OpenGL implementation (ATI used to be buggy as sin) and better shader performance with Nvidia hardware/software. The situation is changing rapidly, and I would love to know if the information at the start of this paragraph is out of date.

Now that I've provided an infomercial for Nvidia: I'm willing to defend Nvidia's products, but I'm not really ready to defend Nvidia the company. Even if Nvidia's hardware beats the competition on all the benchmarks relevant to your use case, it's entirely reasonable to prefer choosing a company that is more willing to play nice with the greater community.
In the java world this gets solved with gradle's incremental build system, which uses a build cache, a user configured dependency tree, and some hashing to determine what needs to build.
>If revealing the democratic party's misdeeds hurt the democratic party and helped russia, then we agree that there is an element of complicity for the messenger.

You're still oversimplifying it. I'm saying that they were trying to manipulate people with selective, perfectly timed releases designed to achieve a specific political goal while at the same time receiving information from and potentially coordinating with foreign intelligence agents and lying about it. You're trying to refer to that scenario as "I don't know why anyone's mad, all they did was tell us about a bad thing that happened."

I agree the information should have become public. I disagree that it needed to be intentionally weaponized in an active attempt to interfere with a sovereign nation's election by hostile actors.

>Can we also likewise agree that the democratic party's misdeeds themselves hurt the democratic party and helped russia?

I can agree wholeheartedly that any time anyone attempts to game one of our election systems that they are undermining the security of the US and helping the US' enemies. I don't think the US is even close to being a perfect country, but if it were successfully destabilized to the point where it could not be fixed it would be one of the worst possible outcomes for not only us, but almost every single country on the planet.

>If so, why is it reasonable to connect "wikileaks getting their way" to a Russia/China NWO, but not reasonable to connect "the DNC getting their way" to a Russia/China NWO?

Well, for one thing, Hillary is notably more hostile towards Putin than Trump. She's also infinitely more capable of coming up with adult solutions for dealing with them. Trump doesn't even believe all of the shit that we know for a fact Russia is doing to intentionally hurt us. His ignorance might not be legal treason but ethically its absolutely treasonous. And I say this as a person that didn't vote for Hillary Clinton or Trump. I voted for a fairly liberal libertarian (as far as libertarians go which is not very progressive) that I thought was terrible, but less terrible than either of them. If we had a decent moderate conservative that wasn't a religious nut or a decent progressive I would have voted for one of them, but unfortunately that was not the case.

Aside from that, if the DNC was doing something unethical (which IMO they were), its more than fair to call them out for it.
Is Victory still in business? I thought Polaris shut it down.
Every single one and no one.

Your education increases the chance of you getting into a particular field, but doesn't guarantee it. If you are capable of exploiting opportunities - there is no field that you can't get into.
For power ratings up to 27W, only the 5V and 9V modes are required.
Did they create that F1 rule to see if better engines could be developed?
For building my (rather small) projects for Windows I use MSYS2 [0]; it uses pacman for package management and has quite a big library of ready binaries.

[0] http://www.msys2.org/
I do not want to depend on any proprietary platform, it doesn't matter if it's friendly or not.

I favor a distributed model as much as possible, that means for now having personal/projects classic websites, mirrored for instance on ZeroNet&c and source code exchanged as much as possible only P2P. It's not comfortable now but that's the sole possible free evolution path we have and only investing in it now can ease situation tomorrow.
Chirologia, or the Natural Language of the Hand (1644)
At this point, sweden has no investigation or request to interview Assange.

He was never charged with a crime, but they were satisfied by their interview 2 years ago and dropped all investigations, as was requested by the alleged victim years prior.

Also the sealed indictment allowing for Assange to be extradicted has been leaked. It is very real.
Makes sense, exciting to hear how the experiment goes.
Surely there are incentives at work at higher levels as well? That isn't "outside" the system.
Between asciidoc and emacs org mode for me, currently still using asciidoc for somethings while I work on my html export from org mode
I hold "ANIMATS" as a US registered trademark. I own "animats.com". I'm not anonymous. When I originally signed up for HN, I tried to use my own name, but it was taken.
This depends greatly on your philosophical belief of whether you will ever be held accountable for all your actions, good or bad, after you "cease to exist".
Another question is: could we beat (progress in) Quantum Computing by exploiting massive parallelism in biological computing?
Agreed. I can't tell you how many times I've been at my wit's end trying to figure out how to do something, and stack overflow had failed me, and in my desperation I start searching github for strings like "GL_ARRAY_BUFFER", and scroll through dozens of pages of results, and lo and behold, someone's half-finished toy application contains exactly the line of code I was looking for.
> Honestly, I've found that I get passes for many mistakes

I'm not gp, but I'm assuming both your experiences are rooted in the same incorrect idea: that dads are lesser/"assistant" parents, real parenting is done by (and expected of) moms.

No doubt gp probably experienced the automatic suspicion heaped on any man with small children without a plausible mother-figure around.
Sure. Here's one: https://godbolt.org/z/vWl4NE
If you want to edit and preview asciidoc files on Android, you can use Teddy Hyde (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde...) inside your GitHub repositories. I edit Jekyll blogs using it.

My book was written in asciidoc for O'Reilly. Honestly, the asciidoc docs are a mess, for example, trying to add a header to a set of documents is much more challenging than it needs to be.
"private" in the sense that only you and Microsoft can access it :)
...and a universally disastrous policy that results in higher prices, less maintenance by landlords, and less residential mobility/adaptation to changing job realities.

Outside of zoning, it is SF's original housing market sin.
Pretty much every game runs fine on my linux box. You guys are just doing it wrong.
;)
Not trying to sound smart here, but if that's your position, why did you go with Some people's brain chemistry...?
Thanks for showing interest :-)

My email is brylie@amble.fi
"Based upon what? This appears to be nothing more than wishful thinking or presumption."

Based on many things. Our tenacity, for starters. Primitive as we were, tens of thousands of years ago we already had the capacity to populate almost the entire planet, be it the lush grasslands, or arctic/sandy deserts. Now count in our current capacity. Even in the unlikely event where we "bomb ourselves" into a nuclear winter, I very much doubt we'll suffer any long term major drawback. As the time progressed we simply became more proactive and prepared ourselves for such eventuality and have bounce-back plans in place. We have technical capacity to do a lot of things here on earth, including to direct the current climate change or even to arrest it if necessary. We just had no serious reason to do that. Overall, we are mostly at "seeking our comfort" stage, not on "straightening it up" stage. If the upcoming global warming will prove to be bad in almost all its aspects, that will warrant a change in our priorities; I have no doubts about it. But as I've tried to say, maybe the coming change isn't necessarily bad. Why won't we welcome it and experience it up close? What if the current increase in planetary temperature can be used somehow in our advantage? That, I reckon, is (or should be) our defining trait as evolving civilization.

"the life on our planet has the highest chance of survival in the future" "Again, our track record speaks loudly against this"

That is because you are inclined to listen that voice and ignore anything else contradicting it. We have reservations and other means where as time progressed, unlike the other extinction events, we took responsible steps towards preserving the existing species even in the face of their natural decline (arguably, examples of this may include Kakapo parrots or Panda bears).
Aaah, the elusive V12 mountain!
This is awesome!

I used to start my repos on Gitlab in private mode before publishing them publicly on Github. A huge time saver here!
Effect of electrolyzed high-pH alkaline water on blood viscosity
> Isn't it already? VR isn't huge, but it's definitely non-zero and there's a plausible case to be made for more growth in the forseeable future. AR appears to be indistinguishable from zero right now

What are we considering AR and VR here? Pokémon Go is an AR game and seems to have a player base that’s several times larger than the playerbase of every existing VR game lumped together.
If only we’d fix structural and societal problems so that parents don’t feel as though they need to undertake a Herculean task to help their child navigate a world with few opportunities and many roadblocks.
"I'm contrasting smoking cigarettes with vaping"

How am I supposed to know that? Vaping wasn't brought up on any of the g'parents of this thread, and I don't see the relevance. Nor did the papers you referenced discuss vaping.

"smoking marijuana lowers parasite load" - I pointed out that the person you were responding to (lmilcin) was specifically talking about smoking tobacco. I wrote that the study "refers to THC smokers, not nicotine, which is the topic at hand".

If we broaden the topic to THC then I am fully in agreement with the statement that there are benefits to smoking marijuana. However, as the source NPR article says: "Of course, this result is a simple correlation. Hagen doesn't know if the THC in the men's system is actually keeping the parasitic worms at bay. And taking a few pills is a much easier way to get rid of intestinal worms." If the research scientist on the project doesn't know if it's true, why do you think it's true?

I am in agreement with the statement "workers on a tobacco plantation have lower parasite loads than prisoners". But lmilcin's posting was specifically about the effect of smoking. What if none of the tobacco farm workers smoked, while 100% of the prisoners smoked? Wouldn't that show that tobacco smoking does not have a beneficial effect on intestinal parasites? So you tell me, what percentage of each population smoked?

I am in agreement with the statement "tobacco has ... antiparasitic effects". However, the papers you indirectly referenced specifically concerned ingesting liquid solutions of tobacco. They did not mention smoking. As I pointed out, there are several mechanisms where ingestion might work while inhaling does not. Therefore those papers cannot be used to contradict the assertion that tobacco smoking has no health benefits.

You write "smoking is an effective delivery method for antiparasitic treatments".

Which of the papers described smoking as an effective delivery method for antiparasitic treatments? I have read the original publications and not found the conclusion you describe, nor do they support evolutionistx's hypothesis.

Since it's so clear to you, could you quote the relevant text from those publications which supports your conclusion?
The people who read Reddit and Hacker News don't even begin to represent the Open Source community.
Indian scientists protest cong speakers discrediting works of Newton, Einstein
The only condition where I'd see this being true is if VR leads to "good as there" telepresence, where you can feel like you're having the sort of spontaneous conversations that arise from physical presence at a workplace.

Telepresence done right would be an absolutely huge economic boon - it subsumes transportation, housing, national boundaries, and lots of education and training. If you could get the same sort of "all the web experts in the room" like you get in Silicon Valley or "all the electronics experts in the room" like you get in Shenzhen, but do so where you literally have all the experts (rather than just those who live in those cities), you'd get rid of a lot of economic inefficiencies like houses costing 40x more in Silicon Valley than Detroit.

Failing that, I see it as a niche product that'd revolutionize the entertainment industries but doesn't change much outside of them.
The site should on its homepage have a simple features table comparing it to other solutions like Markdown and LaTeX.
No no no. People with small hands don’t want large phones. You can’t take ergonomics out of the equation. You can add a small keyboard or whatever you want. Some people actually can’t use big devices. Shorter people are not a small minority for crying out loud. There’s a decision being made somewhere along the line that’s taking the smaller phone away from these people. It’s probably not an issue in focus groups. That leaves you with the other two options.
Ten years ago, JavaScript was my go to when I wanted to expose others to coding. It still is today, but now that comes with the caveat that the most popular libraries and framework require a significant amount of prior knowledge to understand and to start using.

I haven't done this exercise in a long while, but the last time I tried to start a project from the "most current and stable releases and recommendations", I ended up not being able to get anything running. In the end, I had several hundred megabytes of libraries downloaded, a complicated configuration, and a non-working application.

Today, there are toolsets to get you started with everything and produce a running application, but it's almost totally opaque. I'm afraid to use them because the first time something breaks, I don't know if I would be able to resolve the issue.

I would still rather have a decent understanding of how things connect.
I can see your point, but, at the same time, most talks, like most research in general, are incremental improvements or variations of X. You could spend first 5 minutes of the talk giving introduction to X, but if the audience does not know about it already, why would they be interested in your minor contribution?

Say, I'm computer vision researcher specializing in (non-deep learning) 3D reconstruction. Why would I be listening to talks where someone goes into some esoteric tweaks they made to the deep learning stuff? I feel like there almost should be separate conferences for people doing feature recognition/tracking, 3d reconstruction, object recognition etc., as all those fields are vast in themselves. And, once you're on such conference, it's just the experts there and you don't need the 5 minute intros any more.
Both are viable strategies. You diversify when you spend time working for startups across different sectors in the hope that some might succeed in their own area. You hedge when you work for several competitors in the same area in the hope that one of them will win in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_ionizer#cite_note-Lower-...

has old sources cited for the statement "There is no medical evidence for any health benefits of alkaline water."

are we still sure? is Essentia Water a scam?
Battery technology, the management of charge/discharge/heat etc is the "secret sauce" that differentiates EVs. Anybody can stick an electric motor in a chassis. No carmaker is going to want to give that up for an industry standard one-size-fits-all generic battery.
Git is a Distributed Version Control System. Just add another remote...
> BTW, have you looked Scala/Rust interop?

It doesn't look easy (there's no Rust ABI that preserves safety properties) and I'm not convinced there would be any benefit. The main reasons you'd want to write Rust rather than Scala would be faster app startup (and even then, scala-native or scalajs are options) or some realtime requirement that you couldn't meet with even carefully tuned Scala due to GC pauses (not a case that I'm convinced actually exists in the real world). In either of those cases a mixed Scala/Rust project would have the same issues as a pure-Scala one. Most things that scripting languages use native libraries for already have native-to-JVM implementations (e.g. media formats) and I'd sooner use a Java library than worry about an interop-to-Rust boundary. If Rust becomes the de facto standard for video codecs then I can eventually see maybe making occasional use of some ffmpeg-equivalent via JNI, but any such library would probably expose a C-ABI interface and be used through that rather than supporting any higher-level interop. (I suspect Rust is constrained by what LLVM offers in terms of stable interfaces).
npx create-react-app my-ts-app --typescript takes about 30 seconds from command to running app.

Maybe the issue people have is there is no 'js-lang.org' with one tutorial site and getting started. It's a huge community, so of course random blog posts will be a mixed bag of quality.
Marc is sometimes wrong (he thought Google Glass would be a huge hit). I think he's wrong here
Outside of a very senior employee #1, I think the point is that even achieving a unicorn valuation does not guarantee extremely early employees much wealth, at least more than you'd get going down a more traditional big co path.
I didn't realize it until I read this article, but this is what keeps me up at night and motivates me to spend so much time and effort on my children. Making sure my kids are successful adults and maintain the economic lifestyle my programming career currently affords them is why I send them to camps all summer long and martial arts classes in the afternoons to improve their focus. It's why my wife and I spent hours working on our son's application to the gifted program recently and stress them out over getting their homework done each night. The future feels uncertain and unstable. My kids need to be prepared for anything.

Are we over-parenting? Absolutely. But if I let my kids go free-range and they have a hard time as adults, the same exact people who accuse us of over-parenting will be right there accusing us of under-parenting. The same childless people who sneer at us for keeping our kids challenged and engaged are the ones who sneer at us when we give the kids an hour of screen time at the end of the day or when one of our children has an age-appropriate temper-tantrum. We parents are damned if we do and damned if we don't.
Not many people want to pay premium price for a SECOND-best quality. XR is way more expensive than comparable Android devices, and still is not the top device (XS: two rear cameras, oled screen). And at the same time, XS is just too expensive.
Are you a parent? You're never out of a job :). I'm 58, my parents are in their 80's, and my daughters are in their 20's, so my opinion in this matter is somewhat informed.
>if this cuts the knees out from under the competition

All of Github's competitors (i.e. gitlab and bitbucket) already offer unlimited private repos. This is Github catching up.
Under the hood of Formal Verification
In This Exhibition, You Walk Through Excrement
How China Flexes Its Political Muscle to Expand Power Overseas
> If you've got no use for RTX and tensor cores, those cards are very similar.

But, again, they are not. The 2060 handily outperforms the 1070 Ti for $50 to $100 less. And that's all for existing games that don't use RTX or DLSS or whatever, so feel free to ignore those additional freebies.

> I'm pointing out that it has slowed.

Yes. And I think you better get used to that. It's a consequence of the fact that we are near the end of Moore's law.

> At least I'm thankful to Nvidia gods for making the higher performance card at all available, I guess...

In this case, we're looking at more performance for less dollars, both compared to Nvidia's previous product and compared to AMD's current product.

Your only issue is the name and marketing positioning. I think that's a pretty shallow argument, TBH.
My lame attempt at clarifying DevOps confusion goes something like this:

DevOps is an analogue of Agile and Lean. Lean, which came from the Toyota Production System, doesn't just exist in one department and in one position. Saying that "DevOps is <x position> doing <x thing>" is like saying "Lean is a factory floor worker pulling an Andon cord when a product is defective". It massively understates all of the aspects of the method, and all the different roles involved, and how they get work done.

Nothing about these methods prescribes that you have to use X technology, or that there is just one position that does work in one way. They prescribe a method, and you choose how you implement that method, and lots of different kinds of people in an organization are needed to make it all work.

I started a Wiki recently to try to give some more in-depth understanding of DevOps (https://devops.yoga/overview.html). It's still pretty bare-bones, but I think you can quickly get the idea that DevOps isn't one particular thing, or one particular team, or one set of technologies.
Are you in the southeast US? A generation ago, so many investors planted trees that it's all but worthless now once you consider the costs of bringing the lumber to market. I imagine that a lot of people just want to liquidate their holdings and get whatever money they can back.
There are so many markup languages and conversion possibilities, just have a look on the to-from option from pandoc.

Personally, I prefer reStructuredText, its design feels more consistent in comparison to the ambiguous implementations of the various markdown dialects.

In Asciidoc, I do not like that lower lever headings occupy more markers than higher level ones. Visually,

=== This heading

appears more important than

== This heading

By the way, a good comparison is at http://hyperpolyglot.org/lightweight-markup
NSA to release its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool for free
Ikea’s cheap smart blinds could make the perfect lazy Sunday morning complete
Yeah, I want them compensated in some way but I feel like anything more then 10% is way too much. They're of the type that they simply want to sit back and "get rich" but aren't technically-minded and I get the sense that they don't really want to be involved.

It wasn't so much "let's start a company" but more, hey here's an idea, if it takes off, throw me some equity.
>In what world is 12.5% of revenue "irrelevant"?

Meh, just fire 12.5% of the staff. /s