skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea to put input energy via the mouse is nifty. Nice work!

I dont think vertex buffers are the ideal storage mechanism for lattice methods. I used Cuda to rasterize a plain buffer but I have two GPUs, the one doing the sim wasn't the one rendering. Its better this way if you are looking to run the sim 1000s of cycles per sec, but only render 60 fps. Theres a lot of extra data that could be eliminated by simply using a linear block of memory versus a vertex buffer. Depending on the goals for the sim, efficient rendering should be a lesser priority than efficient simulation speed.

Here are two very similar frameworks I made for exploring parallelizable lattice sims:

https://github.com/churchofthought/HexagonalComplexAutomata

https://github.com/churchofthought/ScatterLife
(Note: the video is of a skewed version due to hexagonal lattice coords - this is fixed in the latest commits)

To OP, you may enjoy the study of transformation between Cellular Automata and Partial Differential Eqs.

The PDF below is a gem, a good introduction to the techniques that will allow you to take any reasonable PDEs and produce CAs that produce equivalent dynamics:

Cellular Automata,
PDEs, and
Pattern Formation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cT_BU8LAaUK4KTYFfhVSpCVCmr...
Ask HN: Which bank is good with Stripe Atlas?
Like to know pros and cons
https://zenbusiness.com/ will create an LLC (I don't know what state) and then create a bank account if you want with Radius Bank in Boston. I've never used Zen myself, but they and Radius have been good partners.
Why Tiffany Doesn't Make Infomercials
You can look into a ladder GIC. You can do this to stay on pace with inflation. It won't make your profits but at least your money won't be disappearing in a chequing account. Set it and forget it basically and just let it re-enroll as you most likely won't need all your money at once. Doing this for your personal accounts is good as well, for the emergency savings money. The other alternative for your own account is to use a high interest savings account as those have a decent rate.

See what Apple does [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
Amazon have committed to providing security updates to their build of OpenJDK version 8 (called Corretto) a until "at least June 2023"

https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/faqs/

So things aren't as dire as "support stops in 3 weeks!!!". But moving to 11 isn't a bad idea anyway, since you're going to have to do so sometime anyway. (interestingly Amazon have (so far) only committed to updates for Corretto 11 until August 2024...)
i have had similar episodes of high intensity obsession to the point of counter-productivity, often around hypochondriac-based anxiety. but i've also learned a lot more about my body because of it. it's a mixed bag, to be sure, but i'm content to accept that it's part of my character and i like it.
Love the use of compute shaders and interactivity!
If anyone's interested, here's a very concise high-fidelity (3D with a volumetric renderer) fluid simulation I implemented in cuda. No frills (600 LOC), but pretty pictures!
https://github.com/PWhiddy/Fat-Clouds/blob/master/README.md
What you are saying doesn't really make any sense.

A systemically unreliable database would never be popular as its not a piece of your architecture that you can tolerate having constant outages with. And there is no evidence of MongoDB being systemically unreliable.
FitBit is one of them
Puppeteer works perfectly https://medium.com/@raphaelstaebler/advanced-pdf-generation-...
Thank you so much. I'll check out Raymond Carver, thanks for the recommendation.
Usual disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, so you should consult one for authoritative advice.

The question is whether the IP belongs to you or the company.

Generally, when you do something like registering a domain for a company you are forming, that IP would be assigned to the company, just like any software, designs or other IP that you produce in the process of establishing that company.

If you think you were not adequately compensated for the IP, or that the IP actually belonged to you and was never legally signed over to the company, you may have a claim and you might consider exploring that.
It is possible to do redefine NaN as something different than what IEEE 754 contains, but it will surprising to some users, and it will come at a performance cost because you can no longer let the hardware handle all float comparisons directly.
Interesting, how long ago was that? I would be curious to know if the WiredTiger switch ever happened, and what that support relationship looks like not given the contentious relationship between MongoDB and AWS. The old Wired Tiger Inc website[1] still lists AWS as a customer.

Then again, the relationship between AWS and Oracle is even more contentious and Aurora MySQL is one of AWS's most popular products so I don't think they are terribly worried about building on competitor's technologies.

1. http://www.wiredtiger.com/
I hate this kind of article where you have no source and no reference to anything related to the object presented in it. As a learner of Sumerian language, I would have loved a link to the transcription of the text on the object or a link to an academic paper about it.
> devoid of anything resembling culture they still look at me funny

Because it's hyperbole - it's not a literally true statement. The Bay Area is culturally middling. It's no Paris or NY or even Atlanta - unless we count Valley tech culture's influence on the world, which obviously is immense. But it has its share of museums, theaters, music venues, and good food.
to put things into perspective, two flats in the Peak district sold for HKD1.16 billion back in ‘16.

my understanding from some family friends that have been living there for generations is that the government keeps prices up by not giving out permits for development. since HK has none or very low taxes (no VAT, no income/sales tax, no min wage etc etc), one way to raise funds is via stamp duty when buying a flat. thus keeping prices up keeps the coffers full (HK runs a surplus every year that it sometimes distributes back to residents in the form of cash payments)

since my info is based on hearsay from locals, take it with a grain of salt.

sources:

https://m.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/2120677/...

https://m.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2138617/2...
Last time I checked (maybe 2 years ago?) there wasn't a good open source html to pdf workflow. Specifically page-numbers and anything else involved with paged media is a nightmare, the CSS standards in that regard are not implemented. There is "Prince", but it isn't OSS and rather expensive.

Phantomjs (and its ilk) are based on browser engines and just don't support this. Also I would love to be able to change layout or content based on where particular elements turn up.
These stations can be unmanned.
They absolutely need tensor/matrix multiply cores. Incremental fp32 improvements aren't impressive.
I didn't see this comment until just now (it's buried 2 pages down in my comment history), let alone downvote it.
Sincere question - what world changing things came out of SF in the last 10-12 years? I can count only 2 - Uber and AirBnB - which have changed my life.
Browsers now have service workers that run in the background even when the browser UI isn't loaded.
What are all those thousands "world-changing" things coming out of SF? Or do you include all the changing world for the worse things that come out of twitters and ubers?

Only in the SV bubble could one think that "disrupting the laundry pick-up industry" or some "uber for dog walking" is something world-changing

And COL-adjusted salaries in SF outdo other cities only if you happen to be at one of the FAANGs or something with particularly generous VC backing. But even for people who want to work there, there aren't enough FAANG jobs for everyone (and not everyone wants to touch them with a 10 foot pole). At the vast majority of companies pay isn't anything like that.

Not that weather in SF was all that great either.
Universal Basic Income.
This is not true. I've benchmarked it, and you can see yourself by looking at the MKL benchmarks versus cuBLAS. cuBLAS is always significantly faster.
[edit] in the spirit of not being a condescending tool to you, i'll replace my original reply with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail
More of an "mh" dude myself. It was an efficient and pleasantly humorless system. :-)
I think that was my point.

Services with "native" AWS APIs use IAM for granular access management.
Other services can only support access restrictions using the network so that means VPC/Security Groups.
My guess would be that they have so much SEO juice, that losing some traffic to Medium for their blog doesn't matter. Their core audience is probably immersed by the time they read their content, and in addition to their strong reputation/WoM where they host their blog is a non issue. Maybe they also believe a lot of savvy people searching SEO content arent googling and picking up the same blogspam that exists when you search these types of topics.
Right, but the point of the article the GP linked was that expecting a cloud company to pay for a license for add-on code... instead, they are just going to write their own versions to work with the open source parts.
I think it's awesome a company cares enough to respond to dissatisfaction. Sometimes written words can land differently for different people, but I think it's a bit harsh to judge someone's attempt at help because they assumed there's some confusion.

Sure, there are better words to use, but this outreach still puts their customer service at an A-level for me.
OT, but a sentence that struck me as weird:

> Interestingly, Wiseman clocked some of the quickest feet in Singapore, China, and Brazil — perhaps a reflection of these rising economies.

Sure, China can obviously be considered rising. Brazil; sure why not? But Singapore? That economy already rose a long time ago. The have one of the highest GDP PPP per capita in the world and have reached convergence. How odd.
and surprise Stripe will tell you that... https://bit.ly/2HhbXjZ

... they'll do anything they can to help you, will support you over live chat and email, but they're not Azlo Bank and can't open an account there for you? That sounds pretty... reasonable?
No, they're not. Straight front the horse's mouth:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl/features/benchmarks

In no case will you see it get close to 10TFLOPS. GPUs easily do this, and can approach 100TFLOPS with tensor cores.
Not really, you just need to have a look at Android, as open source platform.

Java is the platform language, followed by Kotlin, which even with all Google love of latest, there are still a few corner cases where it isn't 1:1 with Java on the platform.

Finally there is C++, which comes on 3rd, with lots of caveats given the NDK evolution and integration into Studio.

Anything else brings their own set of problems, the headache of having the NDK as entry point into Android and JNI as FFI for Android APIs.
That was 2016. With wsl ;). Oh wait, the year of gnu on desktop I meant. And the year when Linux could drop any hope of being used on desktop.
Does anyone really know how to value stadium naming rights? I know that it has increased over the decades (at least the numbers I have seen), but it just seems so arbitrary.
I think AVX512 really drives up the max power, which isn’t relevant for most workloads.
No, there are not. Top-down right-left, right-left top-down, left-right top-down, boustrophedon, "filling the available space (hieroglyph)" and that's it. I never heard of a writing system going bottom to top.
I never read Scott Moncrieff unmodified. The Terence Gilmartin penguin edition (it has been superceded by now I think) was my exemplar.

Gilmartin said that Moncreiff did some real damage to the prose, by being over-precious with his translation. That said, I suspect Proust is like Cervantes: if you don't read the original, its a pale shadow compared to the real thing.

I did like the Gilmartin Penguin. I liked his copious footnotes, and alternate chapter stuff.

And like others, I've done spoilers on friends for this book so I won't say anything. Except I think Jeremy Irons was well cast.
They speculate about all sorts of factors, such as sensory overload and the monetary value of time, trying to tease them apart, while ignoring danger.

Right at the top of the article, the photo of rapidly walking people is taken on London Bridge. That is where people were run down in 2017. Of course people would want to get through that area as fast as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_London_Bridge_attack
I lived in mainland China for over 4 years. I lost weight switching from a typical American diet to Chinese one. I don't claim to know the cause, but the standard drink with meals was unsweetened tea, not soda. Yes, the meals were carb heavy, but these carbs were primarily vegetables. Rice was always served at the end, only to fill up, if you were still hungry.

From the hundreds of local restaurants to Foxconn's cafeteria, I am sure of a few things. Compared to Americans, they eat a higher percent of vegetables and fat and less meat. For example ordering a pork dish, might actually be chunks of pork fat that Americans would never eat.

As far as sweet foods, I only observed that when I was in Shanghai. Most Chinese do not like main courses to be sweetened.
With Sears seeming to finally have flamed out, I wonder how much longer IBM has.
They are required by law to be up and running again in 24 or 48 hours (don't remember exactly) if anything happens, otherwise, they lose their license. So they have a mirrored data center in a different place. It could be cheaper to just run a full node in every office they have (100+).

They already have a database, the SFTP part is for partners they work with, other financial institutes. They haven't moved yet because it's an old system and it's expensive to write a new one. Obviously, it's also expensive to write a new one on the blockchain.

All I'm saying is it could be considered in the future because you can create a secure, maybe cheaper solution with it. I think that is something that "could" drive adoption because if companies can save money they are more likely to use it.
The sign doesn’t communicate why it’s bad. As is clear from my comment I think a lot of context matters. Also, some people don’t give a shit.

I was a bit defensive because I replied directly to a comment about someone who feeds wild animals and I wanted to avoid being accusatory and confrontational while still getting a point across.
> However, I think it does ultimately fall on the developer to know...

This person has been programming for a week. I think we can let this slide
Interesting, I just watched it and for me the limit is around ~130.
First renders of Nokia smartphone with hole-punch display leaked
On a purely syntactical level, F# has a "light" indentation-based syntax mode which can be toggled on a per-file basis, and OCaml recently got a whole syntax revision with curly braces in the form of ReasonML, which the build system automatically recognizes based on its file extension.

Neither of these adds new keywords (ReasonML switches some around, e.g. match is now switch) but maybe one of these approaches might work for language features or breaking syntax changes or revisions.
Amazon was using MongoDB without paying for it.

Do you have a citation for that? AGPL is usually not considered business friendly or a corporate "allowed by default" license, even for internal use.

Contrary to the headline and articles inference I havent seen any indication that MongoDB source or IP is or was actually being used. As you note this all comes down to API compatibility and tangled notions of "proprietary" slash copyright.
OP: In the past, edwinwee has offered this same sentiment only to later ignore me. I'm not sure if he got busy or if he's just trying to save face.

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18081918
CES 2019: AMD Shows Off Its New GPU
Of course statistics is the art to make the numbers how we like them to be.

On my case I am counting systems in production.

Using COM is a tiny portion of COM development experience.

Where is the Rust support for creating COM and UWP components, including mixed mode debugging on Windows IDEs, likewise for Objective-C integration.

If I missed that, where can I find more about it?
"Monserrat's lawsuit alleged Tesla should have had better fire-prevention measures in place."

BI doesn't state whether either person survived the crash itself (116 MPH into a brick wall) in the first place.
Sorry off topic but if I could follow one person for experience, not bring biased and knowledge of the state of the art of software tooling (and tonnes of other things... but tools are useful and not easy to find) then I would follow you. Your comments are very informative.
I think it's great marketing. There are tons of people who don't have such public outlets — or are unaware of them — to raise their issues.
> Perhaps each vector can be dynamically changing in a by principle uncomputable way.

The BERT language model does dynamic (contextual) embeddings and is state of the art in NLP.

https://towardsdatascience.com/bert-explained-state-of-the-a...
Inaccurate. This is absurd. Epigraphy is the basis of all modern NLP/NLU. Add computational epigraphy, neuroscience, linguistics and cognition. Ref: Word2Vec is based on an approach from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

""Google silently did something revolutionary on Thursday. It open sourced a tool called word2vec, prepackaged deep-learning software designed to understand the relationships between words with no human guidance. Just input a textual data set and let underlying predictive models get to work learning."

“This is a really, really, really big deal,” said Jeremy Howard, president and chief scientist of data-science competition platform Kaggle. “… It’s going to enable whole new classes of products that have never existed before.” https://gigaom.com/2013/08/16/were-on-the-cusp-of-deep-learn...

Spotify seems to be using it now: http://www.slideshare.net/AndySloane/machine-learning-spotif... pg 34

But here's the interesting part:

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab was working on an approach more detailed than word2vec (in terms of how the vectors are structured) since 2005 after reading the bottom of their patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US7987191 The Berkeley Lab method also seems much more exhaustive by using a fibonacci based distance decay for proximity between words such that vectors contain up to thousands of scored and ranked feature attributes beyond the bag-of-words approach. They also use filters to control context of the output. It was also made part of search/knowledge discovery tech that won the 2008 R&D100 award http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2008/07/09/berkeley-... & http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2005/March...

A search company that competed with Google called "seeqpod" was spun out of Berkeley Lab using the tech but was then sued for billions by Steve Jobs https://medium.com/startup-study-group/steve-jobs-made-warne... and a few media companies http://goo.gl/dzwpFq

We might combine these approaches as there seems to be something fairly important happening here in this area. Recommendations and sentiment analysis seem to be driving the bottom lines of companies today including Amazon, Google, Nefflix, Apple et al."
What about generating a Core Data model in Rust?
Do not use wkhtmltopdf for this, use weasyprint instead.

Markdown → Pandoc → HTML → weasyprint → PDF works great, paged media support in weasyprint is good enough and much, much better than in wkhhtmltopdf.
Lower the timeout from 25 to 5 and it's like Neo fighting agent smith :D
I find it hard to believe that there exists reasons to start a project with C++ in 2019 when we have rust.
[Foreign founder]

As a foreign founder. I personally went through the Stripe Atlas last month, no regrets at all. The whole process took longer than I expected but it's not their problems (passport name, pic issues...), and I have to say they have pretty solid customer service. Every time I have any issues, they replied my email within 12 hours.
And designing a Core Data model in Rust?

Implementing an XPC server or an IO Kit driver?

Writing Metal shaders?

These are the kinds of issues that I am referring to.
How Business-Critical Is Automated Testing for Websites? – Kualitatem
There are certainly some examples. However a lot of older mathematics was actually quite sloppy formally speaking.

It was the demands of early primitive and unreliable computing hardware that forced developers to focus on provable software correctness: it was the best way to find hardware bugs! Dijkstra has a great monograph on developing early interrupt handling correctly. More people should read it, since as anyone who has worked with Unix signals knows, it's easy to get wrong in subtle and nasty ways.

Edit: Also to speak to the pure math point, Dijkstra's official title after graduating was "Mathematical Engineer."
> Find 2 or more evaluation functions that share a global minimum for your problem. Choose one of those functions randomly at each step of the hill climbing.

This reminds me of the Pandora strategy where you don't every upvote anything, you only tell it no, to encourage it wandering the search space instead of orbiting tightly around a handful of songs.

Never tell people your favorite, or that is all you will get.
What of it? If hunting is actually utilitarian (i.e. for food), there's no ethical issue here. How difficult it is only matters if hunting is a sport, but that's exactly the ethically dubious part of it.

So even in that sense, using a bow is more "sadistic", since it amounts to causing suffering to a living being for the sake of more challenging entertainment for oneself.

(And, of course, a bow would be a lot more painful to the animal, even in the best case of a non-botched shot.)
A refreshing take. On the surface it seems to be common sense (focus on product, talk to customer) but the real take away is to not get bogged down by metrics and a/b testing because you feel like its some mandatory part of success. It's okay to leave some of those things to the wayside if you dont feel like it's feasible for your situation. Given unlimited resources i'm sure the author would have people tracking more metrics and running more tests.
WeasyPrint supports CSS Paged Media and is open source. Yes, anything based on browser engines do not support CSS Paged Media.
Smartphone App Uses AR to Visualize the RF Spectrum
Scaling mongodb is not easy, and may this is why AWS DocumentDB is built instead of providing an RDS version of mongodb?
How California can build 3.5M new homes
Yep, space is just IMMENSE, and this reminds me of the reason why I like exploration in Elite Dangerous so much - a very beautifully rendered space game. With a highly realistic space model, it even gets darker as you reach the galaxy edges.

Apologies in advance to the real scientists here for my naivete, however: As we know there's billions of galaxies too - it makes me feel like everything is just a big Mandelbrot set. We've picked galaxies on the top end, and atoms on the other, but is that really where it ends, or is it just the edges of our ability to perceive?
If either service really cared about musicians' well-being, they'd let their customers subscribe to artists directly, contributing a set amount that goes straight to artists, minus txn fees. In other words, what Patreon does, but intermediating in a way that makes it less awkward for artists, so they don't feel like they have to a.) beg for money b.) become content creators.
Funny thing is, Descartes was approaching it from literally the exact opposite angle. To him, the soul was all the difference between real pain and "mechanical reaction".
Nope, that uses Chromium, which does not support any CSS Paged Media.
Not all of them. I couldn't disable Chrome on my previous smartphone.