skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more difficult to accomplish with consumer products. Consumer protection laws (legislative and, to an extent, common law) limit contractual flexibility in that regard. If you sell something to the general public, it can be difficult to discriminate "business" purchasers, which is why retail arbitrage has always been a thing--a legitimate and legal thing.

The usual way to discriminate is by selling to businesses through a separate distribution channel with separate contractual controls. But to convince businesses to purchase through that channel you either need to sell into the channel at a lower price or otherwise provide some value-add. But that's exactly what Tesla refuses to do--sell through multiple channels.
Settling the Myth of Transparent HugePages for Databases
Fitbit CEO James Park talks lessons learned from the company’s struggles
AMD dropped the ball by not dedicating the sort of resources that nvidia has on the deep learning space (and playing the long, but risky move of throwing all in with ROCm). Similarly, Apple dropped the ball by being so wed to AMD.

Coincidentally I was just digging through the Tensorflow code to find where it delegates to CUDA -- an enormous task given that it is a huge volume of dependencies many layers deep -- because ultimately most neural nets entail a significant amount of simple math. It seems, and I say this in the nonsensical, overly confident way that we do when we look on from the outside, that it should be trivial making it work with OpenCL or even just a branch for AMD.
very good explanation!
Would you be open to sharing the name of your friend's company?
Going anon here, for obvious reasons.

People rationalize it two ways:
1. Whataboutism. Yeah, well, what about Google? What about Amazon?
2. Whatever, they pay me well and the perks are good.

My view is more nihilistic: Zuck is the same as he's always been. This is the same dude who said "They trust me, dumb fucks". Don't get it twisted: Facebook is about data collection and data sales. Everything else is a happy smokescreen diverting user and regulatory attention to that purpose. Connecting people and all of that handwaving is a means to that end.

You trusted him/us; dumb fucks. That's basically about it.
Rich brought to light recently how much of a mess the used Tesla experience (no longer CPO) is as well. There are two more videos, the situation is resolved after many months and Tesla execs intervening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgMTx_xFezM&t=4s

Wife and I were seriously considering a used Model S but there is no chance we'd go through what he did to buy a used car.
Many formal methods have a much simpler mathematical foundation than Haskell. For example, for TLA+ the background includes mostly (basic) set theory, basic logic, and some additional bits of temporal logic.

Some methods do require a lot more math, or different math, but I'd say your statement is false for the majority of popular formal methods.
i dont think a kindle counts as artificial light, could be wrong though.
What state retribution do you envisage?

Democracy would be in a worse place if there was no accountability.

I'm as staunch a defender of free speech as anyone, but at least take ownership of the things you are freely saying.
Looking at most of these designs, it strikes me that most of them are completely unusable for a simple blog. I just don't have that many photos for my website. It's mostly text and information. I am not sure how many people actually do, or actually want that many visuals on their site. Most of those design just look cluttered to me. They fit the high-end physical product well that requires a lot of visuals to sell, but I am not sure it really meets the needs of the average website out there today.
V.90 and V.92 both sound largely like spectrally shaped noise. Even if you give very regular inputs, the data is compressed and scrambled, then spectrally shaped and then output as 8-bit 8kHz log-weighted PCM.
Apple and NVIDIA have been in each other's bad books since the 2012 Macbook Pro incident where discrete GPUs of those devices got hot beyond their thermal specs and melted themselves out of the soldered sockets, which NVIDIA refused to compensate Apple for. I know, because I had one of those. Apple took the hit to repair those Macbook Pros even while out of warranty, even if it was ultimately NVIDIA's poor engineering. They've not worked with each other since.

2012 Apple was pretty much the height of the quality apex.
Windows Calculator Is Now on GitHub
You don't need it to run on the majority of hardware. Just need one device that runs AOSP and meets whatever other requirements you may have.
If you click through to the original PI investigation [1], it says:

> Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system.

I don't have more info than that

[1] https://privacyinternational.org/appdata
At least AMD is working hard to upstream their drivers into the Linux kernel, which I don't doubt Apple appreciate when they merge the code into theirs.
I think that's part of it. It's also a more open platform, so they have to compete with, say, Stripe or Digital River etc. on their commission percentages to get the big Windows software titles on board.
Thanks so much. Yes - great link out. We aren't just the Marvel character :) We want to reclaim the word and use 'juggernaut' to describe "an unstoppable force" (not necessarily one that crushes)
This already has been decided, and the decision was against the automakers trying to hold a monopoly on aftermarket repairs. They're not allowed to restrict parts or knowledge from third party mechanics.
No, that's a quite recent development too. Not too long ago it was normal for each household to have one earner. Now, thanks to women joining the workforce, we all work more for the same thing.
It does feel like a lot of the news are misrepresented or skewed. Take CA as an example. This was FB acting as a developer portal and the following happened (to the best of my knowledge) using Apple as a substitute.

1. Your friend downloads a slick email app from company X on the AppStore

2. The OS warns you with a big blocking screen that this app wants to read all emails from your address book, your friend clicks allow and company X uploads your friend's address book to their server for what they claim are some cool autocomplete and search features

3. Apple has also made company X to sign an agreement to not misuse the data in any way outside of what's needed for "core functionality"

Later it turns out that company X took the data from their servers and sold it to someone else which means that your email address and any emails your sent to your friend are now leaked.

Now you can be mad at your friend, company X, or Apple and I feel like so much of the focus has been on "Apple" ie FB when the main piece of criticism is that perhaps users shouldn't be trusted with a permission this broad (which had already been fixed 4 years earlier).
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Are there any stats on how successful / unsuccessful their store is?
They aren't sending the data to Facebook to improve themselves.
My grandmother had her business destroyed by false newspaper stories paid for by a competitor. Till the day she died she wouldn’t touch a newspaper.

I’ve never been the target of a journalist before, but many who have seem to find their perspective profoundly changed by the experience.
I'm not an expert on this and would love to hear from one, but as far as I know there's simply more work to be done on AMD's end, to provide fast implementations of all the operations TensorFlow, PyTorch, and others need. ROCm hasn't reached parity with CUDA.

Theano used to work with OpenCL and therefore AMD, but the support was never that great, and I don't know that many people used it. And Theano is now EOL.
> Real neural net code looks nothing like this.

This negates a lot of promise of the article. If one understands principles, but needs to know how to apply them, this statement makes the article practically useless.

Usually after reading like this goes a jump in explanations, which directs to apply TensorFlow et. al. and even, if you're lucky, explains how to do that - but doesn't explain what it is that TensorFlow does qualitatively different, which would justify putting such a phrase as a warning.
You might very well be a short sleeper.
What's the relation?
More like "the explicit fact laid out in the article is true, but its context, meaning, effect on the world, and interpretation are so sensationalized that the original fact becomes irrelevant to the narrative."

EG back in the day when the entire world lost its shit over the permissions an android app was asking for, not really understanding how a permission system for access to api's work. They seem to think they are legal permissions not technical ones.
For some reason this sounds like the plot of a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

CEO of Crypto Company...

1) Takes time off to build orphanage in region noted for fake deaths.

2) Subsequently dies unexpectedly.

3) Is immediately cremated.

4) Wife waits a month before saying "oh by the way he is dead"

5) Wife claims all keys on encrypted laptop

6) World watches as wallets mysteriously empty

7) Experts crack laptop

8) All wallets turn up in fact empty

9) $140 million disappears into the ether

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOjLuy7VoAATprU.jpg
Yes. I should not have mentioned the secondary issue of app stores. It just confused things. But it is a property of smart phones that is bad.
I have a hard time understanding all the negative reactions to this. I think it would be helpful if people separated the emotionally driven ideas of "friends" and "living together" with the more business driven idea of partnerships that acquire assets.

I wish I would have never rented. It would be a huge advantage for anyone to accelerate their entry in to buying property by combining capital early on. Yes, you and your partners have to be grown up and treat it like a business - not like frat bro room mates. Yes, there is a risk that someone will not hold up their end of the deal but that is true with any business partnership, hence the need to choose your partners wisely. The bottom line is, this is a great way for people to impact their balance sheet significantly over their lifetime by starting early.
That's a little different, because there was guaranteed money for just creating an app. If Microsoft took a 0% cut, it wouldn't be that different for app spammers - they'd still have to get people to pay for the app at some point.

Ultimately I don't think the difference between 15%, 5%, or 0% is that meaningful to an app developer. It's not going to turn your small number of Windows customers into a huge number, and 95% of a small dollar amount is not much less than 100% of a small dollar amount.
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There isn't any. This is essentially a thinly disguised ad for Gravity.
Is it really an exodus if you're moving only a few km north - in a place also usually known as the greater silicon valley.
> colonialism was an attempt to exploit other people for your own profit

This is a significant over-simplification. There was an element of this, but it was also broadly understood to be "civilizing" lesser cultures and bringing them into modern standards. There were quite a few arguments put forward that it was the compassionate thing to do. One could make a case that cultures who reject universal healthcare are uncivilized, therefore we should go in and force them to become enlightened like us.

> There is actually a difference between good things and bad things

That's quite the straw man, and also seems to pre-suppose that there is objective morality, or objective good and bad, and that the viewpoint you have arrived at is the only objectively correct view.

> there's no political body that someone in another country and I both belong to

It sounds like you are saying "it's too hard or complex" because they are different political bodies (please correct me if I misunderstand you here) so it's not worth doing. If you truly cared, would it not be worth taking over their political body to force them to be more compassionate to their people?

Perhaps another thought, what if someone in a heavily Christian southern state, who knows that they have the truth of Jesus Christ on their side (i.e. they are certain of their morally superior position), decides that New York is immoral and calloused for permitting abortion. Would you support them working at a federal level to ban it nationwide? Surely they believe not doing so is callous. How do you argue against that?

By the way, thanks for the conversation. I love being able to talk to people with different viewpoints :-)
They don't force you to do UWP any more. You can publish Win32 apps to the Store. For what it's wort, doesn't seem like lots of developers are doing it.

You can also publish command line apps to the store. Which is cool...
Death rates by suicide, drugs and alcohol reached an all-time high in 2017
I'd be interested to take the pulse of HN:

When you are looking for a new Windows app, does opening up the store even cross your mind?

I nearly always go to a web search + download first. Or if it's something dev-centric I look at scoop or chocolatey. The Windows Store is far, far behind in my mindshare.

There are a few glimmers of hope though. Python has begun to distribute via the store which is cool. And the Linux distros available are helpful in some edge cases or for a quick dev environment.
Thank you! Sorry, I don't have it for now:(
Your examples all have good reasons though.

> Why have an engine in my car that can exceed all speed limits?

So I can drive faster than the speed limit if I want to. (And I do)

> Why have a heating and cooling system in my house that can exceed any comfortable level?

Well, you shouldn't oversize your HVAC system if you want to save money. But it's nice to be able to achieve your target temp in a reasonable time period. Any system that can heat your house by 10°F in 20 minutes will—as a side effect—also be able to heat it to 90°F if you were to set it there.

> Why have lights that get brighter than I need?

Other people may need that extra brightness. You can choose dimmer lights if you want. In any case, there's a clear difference between the two choices.

> Why have an internet connection that exceeds what I need now?

Again, other people may need that extra bandwidth. If you can choose a slower one, then do so.

The point of this article is that 24/192 downloads do not improve anything. It's like having a car engine with blue anodized cylinder heads. Nothing about the performance will benefit from the color change of the heads. Or using gold plated ducts for your heating system. The quality of the air is not affected by that.

Our ears are not capable of hearing the differences when they affect only frequencies above our range. Imagine if those lights boasted that they rendered 200nm light more faithfully. That improvement is wasted on your eyes.
This is an amazing deal for Win devs and one of many needed efforts if MS intends for the Microsoft Store to remain the number one platform for software downloads on Windows.

Currently I'm seeing much more dev excitement for platforms like Electron where you can slap a wrapper around your existing web tech but damn would I love to see a renaissance for native Windows apps. I feel like Microsoft botched native Windows dev by having many and competing eco systems, some which feel incredibly outdated. It says a lot when even they prefer Electron for stuff like Visual Studio Code.
Microsoft opens first datacenters in Africa with general availability of Azure
Because you can't describe any system with just 1 number. You are arbitrarily choosing to only pay attention to the cardinality of a set. If you are discussing a vector space, there is more structure than that. This is what the study of linear algebra is all about. The amount of structure you require depends on the question you are asking. Not all questions equate to finding the size of a set.

You are like a blind man feeling the tail of an elephant and claiming the elephant's nature is the same as a rope!
Many people don't have the privilege to travel at all, so there should be some benefits for locals.
That's cool... assuming you can get in:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/28/dear-app-stores-dont-bloc...

I found out that our app was crushed after 2 weeks of development.

Basically, they won't let us in because we use Electron.

Electron is developed in part (primarily) due to Github which they now own.

TWO WEEKS I spent porting to the MS App Store only to have them just crush us ...

It's great that I can make 95% of zero...

But seriously. If anyone from Microsoft is listening - please unblock us ;)

I'm considering submitting this as a PWA but it's missing a lot of features as a PWA.
"Data / Telemetry

This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. Telemetry is disabled in development builds by default, and can be enabled with the SEND_TELEMETRY build flag."

They can't even let people calculate without collecting data, wow
I found this paragraph really stunning -- But until the concept of cave archaeology began to take shape in the 1980s, archaeologists were more interested in monumental architecture and intact artifacts than they were in analyzing the residues and materials found in and around objects. When Balankanché was excavated in 1959, caves were still mapped by hand in the dark and artifacts were routinely removed from their sites, cleaned, and later put back. Of all the incense burners found in Balankanché that were filled with material that could have provided definitive evidence related to the chronology of the site, for instance, only one was ever analyzed.

Archaeologists essentially destroying archaeological information based on the inability to see/measure it. I have never met a scientist that came across a discovery and said, "Wow, this is a huge discovery and we're not even close to being equipped enough to process it correctly, lets just seal it up again and wait." But that was what happened here. It is so amazing to get the chance to look deeply into these things with more capable technology.
I think you may need to increase that 10 year mark to 15 :p
The important thing is that the rent-vs-buy inflection point is N years in the future. If N is 10, you have to believe that your current situation will be stable for the next 10 years, which is at least partially independent of the number of years it has already been stable.

I have lived in the same place for about 10 years, so had I bought when I first moved, it would have been a good decision (only in retrospect). But 10 years ago, I had no idea how long I was going to be here. The job that got me to move only lasted 2 years. At no point during that 10 years did I ever believe I would still be here--and, more importantly, earning equal or greater income--10 years later. I still don't. The risk I face in loss of all mortgage-paying income is greater when I can't consider quick relocation to a hotter city for jobs, which is what happens when you buy an immobile, illiquid asset.

It has never been a good decision for me to buy a home. Both times I actually did buy, I had to move earlier than the inflection point, for job-seeking reasons, and take a big loss compared to renting for that same period.

The job market and housing market are inextricably intertwined. People need to live near the place that they work. If they don't have firm, stable career prospects for the next five years, at minimum, and they buy on a mortgage anyway, they will on average lose more of their money to bankers and real estate agents than they would have to rental landlords. Home-ownership is a trailing indicator for the health of local careers, not the other way around. If you don't have good job security, reasonable expectation of finding new mortgage-paying jobs quickly, or enough saved to buy your home in cash and still have some left over for expenses, you should never buy.

The middlemen all earn the most when the churn rate falls into the realm of bad financial planning. If you have to sell your house and plow the proceeds into a new one frequently, the transfer middlemen earn more. If you refinance a new 30-year mortgage every 0 to 5 years, the bankers earn more. But fewer people can really expect to have same-job-same-house for the next 10 years, and they are still buying, on bad advice issued by those who will benefit most, not realizing that they are choosing poorly.
I can understand Microsoft having an app store when Windows Phone and Windows RT were still around, but now Windows is all x86, so people aren't even installing desktop apps anymore outside of games and work-specific apps (say, R), that wouldn't appear on the app store anyway.

What's the most popular app on Windows Store anyway? I use Windows 10 every day and I've never noticed anything outside of Bejeweled, Candy Crush and other "mobile" type games.
Gasoline is a flammable liquid carcinogen that evaporates into a highly explosive vapor with an ignition temperature lower than the operating temperature of many exhaust system components.

Lithium batteries typically don't contain acid.
> only hens have dinner at 6 PM

Which country is this saying from? I'm guessing Mediterranean.
Doesn’t the UK call those council houses? And people are usually trying to get out of them.
Microsoft Is Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub
One copy on each of:

-My desktop at home

-My server in the basement

-My work laptop's external hard drive

-An external hard drive in a fireproof lockbox (server backup)

-An external hard drive on a shelf at work (server backup)

-An external hard drive in my parent's house 150 miles away (server backup)

Try prying my files from my cold dead hands.
Is there a particular reason you don't opt for lossless formats (e.g. FLAC) for your music archive? I imagine the only constraint would be space, though storage gets cheaper by the year.
People who have the hubris to think themselves immune to advertising and other underhanded methods of persuasion are in fact the most vulnerable.
NVIDIA invested heavily into drivers and libraries (CUDA and cuDNN) and other tools like TensorRT. They created the ecosystem where deep learning can be tuned and optimized to work.

AMD took minimal effort route. They just design graphics cards with some added functionality and if someone wants to write build libraries fro them, good.
My issues with the store apps are that most of them act like "apps" and not like "programs/applications". For example, they close on their own with no warning. I tried to use the store version of the Pandora app, but it would be closed when I left it paused for too long. Same with Facebook's Messenger. I don't want that. I want to be able to control when I open and close a program.
But... Facebook did expose that data, by allowing a researcher to gather data on 87 million users with no actual restrictions on what he could do with that data. The root cause here is Facebook. It feels like arguing semantics to say the narrative is "almost entirely false" because Facebook exposed that data to an individual who later exposed it to Cambridge Analytica. Arguably Facebook exposed data on far more than 87 million Facebook users - it exposed data on every single user it has.
I also found typing "Fa.." became muscle memory. I found blocking it with /etc/hosts worked for me -

https://gist.github.com/thomasbilk/1506210/2d20f47bbcca75b2f...

[edit] I was thinking about redirecting to a google image search of cute animals wearing human clothes but after a few weeks of seeing 'this site can't be reached' my habit was successfully broken