skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are small children dying right now for no other reason than some people wanting to make some money. If one can, say, enjoy a movie while knowing that, why would one have to think of non-human animals as "things"?
Looking back at Postgres
Coming from a rural area, I’m really appalled at how inefficient public transit is. It’s clearly only functional enough to be used by people a) fortuitous enough to live right by public transit centers or b) people without a choice.

The last time I used transit it turned a 20 minute drive into a 50+ minute bus ride. I’m not about to trade away an hour+ of every day for the sake of being green. I had coworkers suggest biking to another route that was quicker, but that bike ride included an extra 30+ minutes of biking, had me hauling the bike on and off the bus, risking having my bike stolen (we had an enclosed cage, but people had bikes stolen occasionally) plus now I’m either a bit sweaty or have to take a shower at work (and then be sweaty at the end of the day).

I know this isn’t an easy solution, but from an outsider perspective I see why people don’t use public transit that much. It disrupts life to the point where it’s simply not an option for most.
AI for Drug Discovery: Hype or Hope? Free Events Across America
By "mobile" I'm guessing you mean laptops, and not phones.

Energy consumption of AMD's x86-64 CPUs are only impressive when comparing with Intel, they're not competitive with current ARM CPUs.
Really appreciate your feedback, I'll certainly look into your claims in the next few days.

What's your background? Have you 'been' in ML long? Feel free to give me as much details as you feel comfortable with.

Thanks!
It's a hassle. But tell myself I make up for it not having to ever make the subway trek from other boroughs. (And doing writing, I feel strangely indebted to do the time ..)

I wake most days around 8 but sometimes sleep in. One morning, I woke up to a Jack-Hammer going off about 10 feet from my head. Once up, I get going.

Drop my sleeping pack @ the Storage Unit, hop a Citi Bike, ride to gym, shower, meditate in the Tanning Booth. Sometimes I run. Staying fit / eating healthy (for the most part) is critical. From there I go to Tea or Coffee and write, write, write, check Hacker News, write, write, write, write.

Day-Job.

Once finished, go back to storage unit, grab pack. If it's raining, will head for scaffolding. If not, will go to one of my favorite spots. And from there I'll look up to the skyscraper windows, flashing w/ TV or Christmas Trees or people having dinner and wonder how the heck they got up there ;)
I'd be curious if anyone could make some clarifications on the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) article. I skimmed it, but it didn't seem like it ever got to something concrete (I could be wrong); then I looked up his book recommendation on Amazon ("Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything") and read some reviews, but they were also mostly just praise without saying anything very specific about the content.
Are Teslas fun to drive? I know they're fast but is the suspension etc. as refined as (lets say) an M3
Yeah, that's pricy. They're definitely not going after early-stage startups then.

But if you have a medium-sized data set (eg. 50+ GB), this is definitely competitively priced. More RAM, storage, compute than Mongo Atlas and Compose for less money.

Here's hoping they introduce cheaper options!
Maybe they reduce the >600miles range to 60?
So, basically, google photos's "share link" feature?
I imagine the hole is where the wooden club was inserted/attached, which has probably since disintegrated long ago.
Yes, I'm sure it's that and not additional revenue from selling the data to advertisers or insurance companies.
Well, public transit in the rest of the state is in an even worse condition than public transit in the Bay Area. HSR duplicates the functionality now provided by planes. The umpteen billions being demanded for HSR hypothetically could provide decent bus service across the state. But given the current bureaucracy, the situation feels more like "how much money would like us to embezzle and what story would you like to hear while we're doing?"

Which isn't to say I'm pro-car or pro-private-instead-of-public. If anything, a spot light needs to be shown on the clot of public-private corruption apparently controlling US transit decisions.
Yeah, along with the FDB document layer: https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-document-layer/
50GB is a really small data set.
It could also use an embedded browser and load https://m.uber.com/
Thank you! We actually did remove them, and all started with the “starter” corporation. I think there’d be more variety next time when we don’t. Also we know not to end the game so quickly now!
It takes a few extra years for new drugs to get added to the PBS, but even if they are not, there's a cap on how much 'out of pocket' you'll pay for treating serious medical conditions. It's maybe $3000 per year depending on your situation. Medicare will cover the bulk of it even if it's not on the PBS.
That's pretty interesting. I struggle to believe Tesla's account, though, given their history of playing fast and loose with facts in the pursuit of good PR. It will take a while to earn back trust.
I use PostgreSQL, unless I need/want high availability then I use master-master Percona/MySQL.

If it's someone else's money then I use RDS PostgreSQL with Multi-AZ.
Will definitely look into these, thanks!
You mean a city with higher cost per sqft compared to the bay despite having significantly higher density and no housing shortage?
Sure, but.. Would you object similarly to my saying that strawberries objectively taste better than poo? Not just 'better to me', but 'really better'. (Of course all food-taste-experiences are tastes experienced by someone, somewhere - are 'subjective' in that way.)

How is there, for example, any such thing as a good/great chef, one being better than another, if it's all just 'subjective'?

It's proverbial that there's no arguing about taste (in the broader sense), but it's also a commonplace that nothing else is worth arguing about. There are better and worse reasons for things.
> The reason Jackie Chan took all of those risks and "liked it" is because of his economic status.

I think you have this exactly backward. He took the risks not knowing they would make him an international star. I submit that he only could have done that if he enjoyed not just the fruits, but the process. Several times he describes volunteering for things others wouldn't do. You wouldn't do that if you weren't at least indifferent, if not eager, to confront the danger.
Nor do I want to deal with you, so good riddance.
I’ve been driving around less “desirable” areas in my city lately and I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend - there’s a high correlation between low economic areas and yellow lights flipping at a speed which necessitates 20mph/s deceleration. Basically, if you live in a “poor” area you’re more likely to break the law/be pulled over/incur a very sizeable fine.

It’s pretty disgusting and it’s hard to believe that traffic light engineering is so complex that this is purely incidental. It’s a trap. There’s really no other way to look at it imho. The people on the bottom who have little path out also are being systemically attacked by predatory legal implementation. And unlike pay day loan centers and pawn shops, this predatory behavior is implemented by the local government itself.
That's cool to know. I used to use 8.8.4.4 and now I use 1.0.0.1.
Ah. Sounds like a vector space. How does one select a basis?
Indeed, but it doesn't have to be that way. Frequent, low cost timely bus-and-light-rail service is possible. It existed in other countries. Portland, OR, a quite spread-out city, once had it (I don't know it still does). BART was once an excellent system and after years of neglect is still better than many.

One factor in this country is public transit is expected to pay for itself while the automobile is effectively massively subsidized.
Intellectuals and the Marketplace
Homeless people don’t have smartphones?
> But anybody can use the same inner tools that Chan did that got him famous,

What inner tools were those? From the article, it seems that it was a willingness to do extreme, mortally-dangerous stunts? Is that the lesson people should take away–forget about being successful unless you're willing to constantly put your life on the line?
Besides that AWS will charge per transaction (at 0.2 per million) outrageous given that you already pay per instance.

Correct pricing strategy needs to be per request or per instance, AWS is charging for both
I live in Campbell and work in MV. You are right, of course, but the reason is that the light rail route is ridiculously inefficient for that trip. It first goes way northeast, to Milpitas, before heading south. It's so bad that, depending on schedules, you can get from MV to Campbell faster by taking Caltrain to SJ and then switching to light rail at Diridon (but you pay more).
> NVidia doesn't have a scalar architecture in any meaningful sense of the word.

While I agree with your post in general, I'm not totally in agreement here. If you look at the context in which G80 and CUDA were introduced, it has a significant scalar dimension: for a single "thread" writing an addition between two float3 ended up being executed as 3 separate additions on the scalar components of the vector. This was, if I remember correctly, a departure from previous architecture optimized for graphic processing.
In this sense the ISA is/was mostly scalar.
We were paying $5k a month for Atlas. So while it's not 'cheap' for a hosted solution it's cheaper. And the autoscale and RR is better DR is super configurable. And then there is this line.

'Together with optimizations like advanced query processing, connection pooling, and optimized recovery and rebuild, Amazon DocumentDB achieves twice the throughput of currently available MongoDB managed services.`
I think it heavily depends on the gas station.

For instance the cheapest chains (e.g. Total Access, Carrefour, Leclerc) often don't accept cash as there is most of the time no employee on premise, and they don't want to deal with vandalism.

In general France is progressively going away from cash. Using a credit card for super small transactions like buying bread at the bakery were deemed almost anti-social a few years ago, but more and more bakeries start to prefer it for speedier contact less payment for instance.
With compressed air? No. I don't care how "not joking" he is, the power density is just not enough to lift a car for more than a few seconds even if the entire car were filled with tanks. It's just common sense. Have you ever seen compressed air VTOL on anything?

He also claims it will allow the car to accelerate "at the limit of human endurance" which would imply thrust vectoring also.

Perhaps he's testing the limits of human credibility...
I actually had to work with Python strings at the C level recently, and their approach is pretty clever. IIRC, the runtime can take any common form of Unicode, and will store it. When you access that string, the accessor requests a specific encoding, and the runtime will convert if need be, and then store it in the string object.

So it handles the (very) common case of needing the same encoding multiple times (e.g. for all file paths on Windows), while not introducing too much overhead in memory or speed.

I could be mistaken on exact details though, especially since I recall there being multiple implementations even within py3.x.
Realmax Qian is a light, fully wireless AR/VR headset with a 100-degree FOV
I remember reading that Sweden didn't want retirees to be subject to random market forces for housing. So they subsidized housing and in exchange restricted the profit when sold. So, really, the point is that we could set up systems to do whatever we want. Those who say "it can't be done" are expressing a philosophical position - while falsely claiming that they are just stating facts.
Yeah, I feel like it's a justification more than anything. I feel like people become prudes because they want something more to their desire for more alcohol/caffeine instead of the other way around.

For example, there are plenty of non-alcoholic, non-caffeinated beverages, but few with as much subtle variety as alcoholic/caffeinated beverages. For example:

- kefir
- kombucha (though it's pretty trendy these days)
- probiotic drinks

Each of those has some variety, but I can find far more variety in pretty much any category of spirits (beer, wine, cider, hard liquor, etc) and caffeinated drinks (coffee, tea). I can find maybe a dozen varieties of the above, whereas I can find at least a dozen subcategories of wine or coffee, with tons of variation within each subcategory.

I have a hard time believing that the main attraction for coffee and alcohol connoisseurs is taste/texture/etc and not the drug inside the beverage. In other words, if the drug had no effect on humans, would there be a similar level of interest?
Yes that's more accurate, it's really just the lack of inflection, which despite being a massive thing by itself, is by no means the entirety of grammar. I love Chinese grammar: the particles, the verb aspect markers, the resultative complements, they all feel really logical to me.
No, Intel FlexMigration and AMD-V Extended Migration architectures are different, and vMotion isn't supported across them.

EVC does not allow for migration with vMotion between Intel and AMD processors.[1]

This isn't really that surprising. x86-64 is standard, but extensions aren't. Eg, here's some of the new extrnsion in Zen vs Steamroller: Compared to the AMD Opteron™ "Steamroller" EVC mode, this EVC mode exposes additional CPU features including RDRAND, SMEP, AVX2, BMI2, MOVBE, ADX, RDSEED, SMAP, CLFLUSHOPT, XSAVES, XSAVEC, SHA, and CLZERO [1]

[1] https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003212
i honestly thought that was his joke
It reveals character.

And we all have the freedom and luxury to decide how we want to react to that revelation.
> any time researchers are uncertain of the purpose of an object they tend to ascribe a religious meaning to it

https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacir...
Er ya, zoning. My bad. Thanks for the correction.
If it's nearly as good as his other work, yes.
Thank you for the sympathy. Don't count me out as a pet lover though! I would have dogs and cats if I could, but I'd be huffing the inhaler constantly and I can't live like that. I make do with pocket pets, and am currently co-parent 2 hamsters.

Something you should consider however, is how your pet policy might make other allergy sufferers self-select out of working at your company. With 30% of the US population having allergies, and 10% reporting pet allergies (https://www.webmd.com/allergies/allergy-statistics), it's not inconceivable that a massive portion of people you interview would experience moderate physical discomfort during an interview at your office.

I think the intersection of development-types and severe allergies is pretty high (personal opinion from observation). Something about not being able to breathe outside or near animals makes one spend more time inside on the computer.

Pets in the office are another reason why I'm sad we don't have a better culture of private offices in this industry. Being able to close the door and equip my personal work space with a high-quality HEPA filter would make such a situation tolerable, while also allowing those with pets to keep them separate from the general population.
It doesn't matter how TPUs are different from GPUs. It matters what the two chips have in common, which is the kind of workloads you can run on them. Any good that is a cheaper and plausible alternative to another good commoditizes the latter.
From the source, Shift = Brake
I don’t see how this isn’t solved by swift having -more- streams.
I've actually gotten off at Palo Alto station a couple of times and biked the difference between it and Mountain View, and made it to the office before my coworkers, who were taking the non-baby bullet. Between accel/deaccel and loading the local train is better than traffic, but roughly equal to a good road bike.
I feel the same way about "spark joy" or the more direct translation of "heart throbbing". I rarely assign that emotion to tools or non-sentimental items which I need in daily life. Some things you use to perform quotidian or even tiresome activities like a rake, a snow shovel, laundry detergent, clothes for going to work, etc.
In order to "regulate conditions", the government must reserve the power to intervene should said conditions fail to meet regulatory minima.

Of course. Read the whole thread as if I think the government should reserve that power. My position is that the government should use such power as sparingly as possible.

There are only two distinct choices - no government power over these conditions and therefore no regulation

False. There is a "dial" here. The question is how much government should intervene. In that, there are far more than 2 choices.
What if getting a divorce is the only way a tech founder can lose control of his company? (e.g. facebook, etc)

What if u r a billionaire, and pledged to give away half your money to charity, then get divorced, and end up with nothing?

These are very pressing issues.
It's living during it that is the tumultuous part. There was an article posted here recently arguing that luddites were not irrational, they were out of a job with no recourse. It might be that every few hundred years we need to totally shit on a generation to make the future a better place, but being that generation is rather bad luck.
And how long, exactly, does the IRS allow you to pay off that $12k? Because if it's "a few months", and really even just "a year", you're proper fucked. Not everyone gets a nice $60k/yr job after their $50k loan investment, and having a $50k loan over 15+ years is manageable, whereas $12k in one will ruin you.
Long-term, we need to switch from planes to HSR for trips of 400 miles or less, unless someone can come up with a carbon-free alternative to jet fuel. Americans tend to have a warped perspective because our trains are so crappy compared to what is standard in Western Europe or east Asia.
In Brazillian portuguese, the only words ended with "n" are scientific names (neologisms?) with a latin radical, e.g. elétron, próton, nêutron, pólen, plâncton, necton, etc.

In European portuguese, while the above forms are also common, the alternatives "electrão, protão, neutrão" are often found.
> 1990's

There are many sites like that on the internet today. Ever had to buy enterprise software?
>"I don't think anyone serious about epidemiology says stuffs like that."

Pick a paper, I bet they do.
Well I'd say neither of those things. The gulf between a child and an adult is really not that wide when it comes to matters such as taste and reasoning ability.
> "I am of the opinion that when a colonised city surpasses even the UK's GDP without being granted any meaningful democratic rights, they succeeded despite your rule, not because of it)."

Democracy is often cited as economically advantageous, but as Singapore demonstrates, authoritarian dictatorships are not necessarily fated to economic ruination. Sometimes authoritarian dictatorships do better than they would have under democratic rule. The trick to democracy is the results are more consistently in the middle; it's not as likely to go catastrophically wrong, but it's also not as likely to go spectacularly well. That's why we generally prefer it; it's the same reason we generally prefer compensation in the form of paychecks instead of lottery tickets. Sometimes people who play the lottery win, and sometimes authoritarian governments are effective governments.

Hong Kong during the colonial era might be another example of an non-democratic regime actually performing well. Or maybe not, I don't really know. It's hard to run a "parallel Hong-Kong experiment" to find out for sure.
Evolutionary speaking, all the animals that care for their young or form bonds with other animals (same species) for cooperation have a higher likelihood of feeling emotions that you mentioned in your comments. Pain might be universal but things like "love", "play", "excitement", "boredom" etc. are highly unlikely in crustaceans or even fish.

So it's very clear that eating mammals and birds is ethically not okay but apart from the environmental reasons, eating sea food is probably not as bad as eating mammals/birds.
Hash Bang Null Hack: pass 2+ args when 1 allowed
If you don't see the value, then no need to pay for it.
Yeah, downvoting is totally broken on Hacker News. Seems like anything that isn't immediately agreed-with gets downvoted. I don't know where all the small-minded people come from, but they seem to have found their home here.
I didn't cherry pick - they were top result for the query, but neither did I read the sites more widely - It's which I included the search suggestion for alternative sources.
Ordered my copy a few days ago after learning about it from a talk at JuliaCon[0]. It's been a decade since I took linear algebra, so I'm also reviewing Prof. Strang's basic course[1]. What an amazing teacher.

[0] https://youtu.be/gGYcSjrqbjc

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algeb...
Those products typically go right to the end of my list.
I am interested in seeing benchmarks regarding this. I believe this is true for models with truly huge embeddings, but otherwise if your models are even a little compute dense then GPUs are faster.
https://gitlab.com/zanny/oidc-reqwest/blob/master/src/token....

You can declare structs that derive from Serde and convert to / from Json in a typesafe way.
Many of your projects have cool logos, how do you make them?
Not disagreeing with your points here, just pointing out that artists don't always get paid that much from platforms that host them. The platforms in effect suck away the network effect benefits and then some.
>LivePeer (one of 8-10 actual solid blockchain projects IMO)

Interesting.

Can anyone suggest a good curated list of solid blockchain projects?
Homeless people don't deserve water?
Critical Vulnerability in Mimblewimble Beam Wallet
Can you please elaborate? This was launched today, you had access to the new feature in advance?
Eh, by what measure? Realistically it's probably bigger than 90% of all Mongo datasets.

It's tiny if you're a massive company and it's massive if you're a tiny startup.
Just from the title, this is a book I want to buy.

I had to rapidly teach myself Linear Algebra to get through some machine learning graduate courses, and Strang's book and video lectures saved me. He has a very special talent for making complex material understandable without dumbing it down. He's up there with Norvig and Feynman for me in terms of teaching talent.

That man with a piece of chalk and a big chalkboard beats any PowerPoint presentation or video presentation using animation and whatever other technological helps you can think of.
Including but not limited to cops, sure.
MTV just kind of blends in with every other white middle-upper class neighborhood in America, it is as bland as off-brand vanilla ice cream to the end of blunting your senses. To a lot of people living in such a place is a huge mark of success... to many other people, that is the environment they grew up in and are trying to escape. See also: the movie Pleasantville.
I have a pair of leather Vasque boots with Vibram soles that are still going strong after years. The soles show almost no sign of wear (they make direct contact with pavement very infrequently).
And I came up with a block compressor based in sinusoidal circular waves.

That's actually not too far off what the DCT used in JPEG does, in that you're similarly trying to represent sampled data using a series of sinusoidal functions.

I wonder how well wavelet-based compression (like JPEG2000) would be for this data, since it's been used before in a demo too:

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/wavelet/wavelet.htm