skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't deserve science award because they didn't do science or pioneer anything. They just responded to demand. They have been awarded with money.

It was the high performance scientific computing community that started to use graphics cards to perform matrix computations in the early 2000's. The term GPGPU term was invented. GPU programming pain in the ass in early 2000's. Nvidia saw some markets in GPGPU's for scientific computing. First release of CUDA was 2007.
As others have said, you cant ignore the purchase price of the research, and the buyer has that because they sell high priced drugs

...that said, it makes a good point about how the incentives work. If the govt did Xprize-like rewards for medical goals, it would work similarly: you stop paying for failed research and only pay for success, just like the examples you cite.

All told, I think too many electrons are spilled arguing over the need to pay for R&D (direct or indirect) and not enough answering the title here: "how much?" I would not be surprised to discover a dramatic reduction in prices could occur with minimal impact on results - which doesnt deny the need to pay for R&D. I'd rather people with expertise focus on how much,as well as figuring out how to shift incentives towards completeness over the current incentive for lockdown.
A few weeks ago, I was drifting off to sleep and heard my name being spoken. Extremely clear, and right in my ear.

It freaked me right the fuck out.
well there you have their true intentions laid right out in the open.. scum.
It is just an opportunity for blackmail waiting to happen.

Absolutely insane that they have passed this purely due to "think of the children" style hand-wringing when it doesn't even address the primary issues.

I suspect that the real reason is much simpler. They want to begin a formal process to tie identities to specific computers. By implementing this to "protect children" they are going to begin normalising the idea and we will see it spread to become ubiquitous for many internet services that can potentially be used in a manner that the state does not approve of.

Maybe I'm being a bit tin-foil hat but I think it is unlikely that blocking pornography is the primary reason for this. Especially as it will probably be largely ineffective, I don't think they are stupid enough for this to go unnoticed.
> Should the cost of CPUs be separate from the cost of CPU research?

Maybe not now when researching CPUs is fairly easy. But a century in the future? When faster CPUs will be very hard to invent but essential to human survival? Maybe.

Business is great at researching processes of manufacturing. Not so good when it comes to researching actually new stuff.

> As long as the cost of drugs were reasonable, we wouldn't need to have these conversations.

But they must become unreasonable at some point if they cost as much as the incentive for research for companies. Companies are most risk-averse entities in existence. It's not unexpected that they need unreasonably high incentives to take up the risk of doing research.
"be vigilant" seems to be the mind set, but I can't help but feel a system that protects from accidentally logging secrets is what is needed. Due to the varied way people log and what they log and when, it is likely unsolvable in the general sense.

We have structured logs (serialized objects as json that auto-get default fields like app name, timestamp, and such). These structures can have fields tagged as sensitive, and those values are redacted. This is still human error prone.
I guess it depends on where you are in the company. I have been under two different managers since I joined 7 years ago, and they both keep their employees on a relatively loose leash. As long as the required work gets done in an orderly fashion, we get to choose our own pacing and attack angles. Makes for a pleasant work experience most of the time.

Then again, I guess I value stability and predictability in my day job a bit more than most Silicon Valley startup employees.
How's that? Over a decent period of time (5-10 years), 8% can be obtained with essentially no work just be investing in low cost index funds.
The author’s main point seems to be that in a market dominated by landlords in which rents are rising, cities do not have an incentive to improve public services as any improvement in their quality will only benefit landlords through further increases in housing prices.

Am I missing something, or wouldn’t higher tax revenues from growing property values easily offset this issue in such a scenario?
This is less useful than it was in the 90s:

Registrant Name: PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC

Name Server: NS-497.AWSDNS-62.COM
Name Server: NS-1669.AWSDNS-16.CO.UK
Name Server: NS-861.AWSDNS-43.NET
Name Server: NS-1406.AWSDNS-47.ORG
Absolutely, but I had been programming before entering uni and got most joy out of programming related courses.

But I enjoyed my time as a physics student. Physics is an interesting field to study even if you don't end up working in it, in my opinion. :)
Ask HN: Alternative internet/communication ideas for isolated mountain towns?
I am living in a small mountain town of a few hundred people where we are lucky enough to have land lines and fiber optic which usually provides decent internet speeds.

The problem is someone keeps cutting the only line into town. Whether by malice or just incompetence is unclear, but it keeps happening and takes many hours to fix.

Most residents lose all ability to talk to the outside world when this happens. Most people are also older and retired and are likely to have medical needs, so this isn't ideal. A handful of people who usually aren't home have satellite internet, but that's it. No licensed radio operators or law enforcement or anything else.

The main backup idea seems to be directional antenna of one sort or another, but the rugged mountains and restrictions against building repeaters anywhere on the national forest ridges in the area make this solution impractical.

Has anyone heard of other ideas for some sort of affordable backup comm link to the world?
Then you definitely succeeded! Those are the parts where I learned the most.
I'm not actually trying to distinguish at all -- the OP spoke of rights stemming from nature, and, as you said, any you'd describe as such are basically theological in nature.

The thought experiment I'd run is, just like the one of science vs religion: start from scratch, look for the rights that every society has in common.

Property? Nope. Freedom of speech, association, whatever? Nope. The one I think might be universal would be the right to marry someone; I can't think of ever reading about a society where the right to marry and start a family was not a part of it. (Which we also don't really recognize as an explicit right anywhere in modern society, do we?)
> b.c

> That was the easy part. Now it gets complicated.

Haha lol'ed. These notes are amazing. Thank you!
This is a huge problem.

Prices and rents are left to "the market", but construction is not at all.
Strong rent control should be introduced everywhere and ownership for investment reasons should be massively discouraged (e.g. by strong taxation). On the other hand protection of existing landlords should be reduced to encourage new building.
Rent seeking is damaging the economy and the society and only privileged landlords benefit from current conditions.

Unfortunately most economists seem to be biased or are probably benefitting themselves, thus there is no concentrated effort to push for better policies.
It's called MongoDB. ACID multi-document transactions, here, now, introduced in version 4.0. https://www.mongodb.com/transactions
Given that it's due to the lights, with the day time image usage being fine, I wonder if that means you could simulate a (new) photorealistic nighttime view based on a day time image and post that subtly different image without breaking the rules?!

Obviously wouldn't be a photograph, so isn't going to help tourists, but might make enough of a point that they give up opposing it.
This is more because folks huff canned air to get high. The first time I heard of this was someone huffing air freshener, but canned air doesn't have as much... smell, yet still has propellant enough to get high.

I worked in a pharmacy for some years. A teenager came into the store one day, went to the stationary isle, and started huffing the canned air. Dude was a bit violent towards the pharmacist, who was checking to see what the noise was. We wound up calling the cops and feeling really badly for his mother, who was waiting in the car in the parking lot.

Luckily, most folks have canned air for normal purposes - and it seems you did as well.
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As a guy reading spy novellas I have to wonder what bigger operation are they currently doing because this feels like a distraction operation.

But maybe it's as simple as potential fines grew to worrying numbers (somebody mentioned north of $100M) and they finally decided to challenge the ban.
Until they move off of sable, their NoSQL backend for retail, calling them mostly on AWS is laughable especially considering their major prime day outage this last year was caused by sable not being able to dynamically scale up [0].

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-wh...
Unfortunately, anyone who points this out is automatically stamped as an "anti-semite". It is a brilliantly effective way to black-hole common discourse in the social media era.
I hope it was shot down in a manner that doesnt produce more space junk, which is already acknowledged as a serious problem!
teens? hell most millenials might be like that, too.

i see my friends every other month if im lucky, but i play video games with them nightly. Friends i met in college that ended up moving away, but we still hang out and keep in touch online.

i used to have one friend that lived close by but he recently moved thousands of miles away, too. so now, 90% of my interactions with my friends is online.
"..... I don't know how it works ..... however, I can certainly say that , there must be ....."

you lost me there.
Those don't modify or cache the content, only serve it to the user which the publisher approved serving it to, and increasingly with HTTPS they can't even see it. Moreover, the publisher is implicitly accepting that by being on the Internet.
Porn addiction is real and its psychological effects on kids has been studied.

This is akin to banning underage consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. Very hard to enforce in practice, but overall the right thing to do, and probably useful even if not 100% effective.
Depends on what you enjoy doing. I spent a lot of time doing magnetic simulations during the earlier period of my PhD and the reason for doing them isn't that the theory can't explain what will happen, but rather that we don't have the mathematical chops to actually calculate it, so we build little artificial worlds and try to take measurements the old fashion way.

This was certainly a lot fun, but you won't be getting any thing particularly revolutionary out of it. I remember my advisor at the time running a few dozen CPUs of our poor excuse for a cluster (built mostly by yours truly with off the shelf components) for the entire summer to add a couple of digits to the ground level energy estimate of a completely artificial magnetic model :)

On the bright side, it taught me a lot about programming, numerical simulation and optimization
Adding photo/filming conditions to places of relevance (even natural places) seem to be common (though a lot of times it related to authorization to be in the place doing the work)
Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
Thanks, we'll add to our "eye keeping" list.
Benefits of using browser Push Notifications for E-Commerce marketing
And to answer the question, (MS 2016 Condensed Matter Theory), Did risk assessment for two years, now I simulate systems of systems.
The first half of Schultz's Pour Your Heart Into It.

Even its title, similar to Kroc (his: Grind It Out).
I remember when Ventrilo supplanted Roger Wilco back in 2003. It was such a great improvement.
Elasticsearch can index documents dynamically, and doesn't require a schema to create an index. Dynamic data types for fields may not always produce what you want, but it's possible to define a partial schema for the fields that are important and let Elasticsearch handle the rest.

The query language is verbose but I would hesitate to call it a nightmare. You can always search using the Lucene query language, and SQL support is landing sometime soon.
Most people would prefer to NOT be tracked, and would consider tracking to be immoral (a privacy violation). Tracking is like having a stalker. Even if the stalker never does anything with your lifestyle habits, routines, preferences, etc, no one would consider that data to be moral for any individual to hold (and by extension any company).

The only reason we balk at thinking of tracking as immoral is because it's hugely unrealistic to combat it and outlaw it. And also because companies benefit enormously from it.
I used mongo years ago with pretty much the exact same use case and it was awesome. I moved companies a few years ago and they were using mongo as well, but for services that were 95% relational. It was awful. We no longer use mongo for anything
I posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500510 (by some former colleagues) just a few min before seeing your question
(PhD 2010 in Nuclear Physics)
I stayed in Academia, right now I'm trying to survive the first year as an Assistant Professor. Teaching is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. My research is two fold: One half of my research is focused on precision measurements of the proton form factors (proton radius puzzle, form factor ratio puzzle), the other half on streaming readout for next-gen experiments.
Higher tax revenues does not offset the problem of increases in housing prices.

You may say that housing prices is not a problem, and cities should just lean into it an keep improving public service, but if they are trying to reduce housing prices thst might be counter productive.
>you can send as many boxes as you like in parallel

I imagine that in practice the postal service may start to decline your custom somewhere around the quintillion-box mark, or perhaps even before...
Techs newly rich fuel a spectacle of excess
But that's not for the masses (if you think of setting up a tunnel).

Afaik China drops encrypted traffic intermittently to subvert this approach. And you need to rent out some server elsewhere outside the jurisdiction. One could totally dry out the revenue stream for the hoster.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/world/asia/xinjiang-china...
Various researchers, e.g. Werbos, Linnainmaa, Bryson and Yu-Chi Ho have been doing backprop in neural networks before Hinton et al. Hinton was merely a popularizer of the idea.
I think the point is that when some areas push for that, their rents go up, and some people get priced out. Either an equilibrium forms where there's a "pee+garbage rent discount" for an area, or you see migrations across the "smells like pee+garbage" boundary as rents adjust.

I suspect it has to do with the sign of the derivative of demand, where the trend is to look for better areas (overall reduction in pee, higher rent) or to look for cheaper rents (more pee).
The way I think of time management now inspired by a book I've never read [0]. I read the review for the Power of Less on the Personal MBA website, "Leo Babauta masterfully teaches the fine art of focusing on the essential and eliminating the superfluous." I thought to myself what I really cared about and what I didn't. My list of things to do everyday was becoming unmanageable.

What I do now is consider my main goal at the moment. What is the thing that if I didn't try my best to accomplish it I would have serious regrets? In my case it's completing my computer science education. Then I consider what would not be worth sacrificing in order to accomplish this goal. In my case it's things like becoming unhealthy and being a slob.

In the end I've settled on a system where I devote my morning to maintaining these things I can't give up and I devote my evenings to my main goal. I spend an hour or so exercising and make sure to tidy up before work. Once I get home I can devote my full energy to the task at hand.

Children are not recommended for this scenario.

[0] https://personalmba.com/review/power-of-less/
Soemtimes historical semi-nudes are OK, and sometimes new ones are. Sometimes, however, they are not. Folks have a lot of trouble trying to tell what will get them kicked from facebook.

As far as photos are concerned, age and "famous" do, indeed, matter. The "napalm girl" picture was banned for nudity - even when a head of state sent it out. Facebook said it would allow "historically important" works, but it still lies in a grey area. I highly doubt a new work of equal cultural importance could be posted today.
On the contrary, the system works really well. Most people pay off their debts with money come magically when they found out they couldn't fly.
Man, I remember the Mongo craze. You couldn't have a rational discussion about databases with some of the most rabid supporters. I made a comment on a post yesterday about tech having those few early and loud supporters who shut down any conversation that doesn't support their chosen technology. The Mongo craze was like that early on.
It was really frustrating not being able to look at other databases when everyone was chanting "Mongo! Mongo!" Thankfully tech has moved on to Kubernetes and React and microservices and now we can finally have a rational discussion about databases.
Metrics are great. In general, I subscribe to "don't log successes" (with the caveats such as log events tied to billing or that get passed as messages to other services).

But what if your problem only occurs at scale? You won't be able to replicate that you in your dev env. Error logs and event logs make sense in many (most?) services.
That doesn't really contradict the article. Paris city council does retain the copyright, they just choose not to enforce it and give a de-facto implied license in certain specific cases.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong re: difficulty getting prestigious post docs after graduating from a young lab in a newer field, but I think you're way overselling it's importance.

The fundamental issue is the field is not growing (very much). Each professor will graduate 20-50 students over their career, but only one will get their job when they retire (on average).
The parliament website's entry for this law at https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/digitaleconomy.... doesn't seem to list who voted for it. Is that information available anywhere?
The light display is under copyright! But that seems rather untenable. When do the photons emerging from the Eiffel tower sieze to be copyrighted? Would a reflection in a window or puddle be in violation? What about an aerial shot of Paris?

IANAL, but it seems to me a flimsy argument: putting a large, unpreventable artwork in the middle of a public space. IMHO, if you want your copyright to be upheld, the creator needs to show a reasonable amount of effort to limit possible copyright infringement.
> The reason for is just how damn good all the Physics Theory is.

> (majewski's comment below) I think you're seeing this in physics because, in terms of experimental accessibility, the low-hanging fruit are mostly picked.

I mean, yes and no. The Standard Model is amazing. But I think we're also kind of focused too much on the Big Questions, and in the arena of the not-so-big questions there are still a ton of gaps and missing insights.

Perhaps in the not-so-big questions, most of the low-hanging fruit may appear to be picked as well, but I suspect that is more a kind of myopia that can be solved by collaborating outside of our field.

Whenever I see an article these days about physics that really excites me, it tends to be a story where one or more physicists got excited about a seemingly small question, or ate a bit of humble pie and joined forces with chemists, biologists or some other field, and or both, and that working it out turned out to bring far-reaching consequences and novel insights. Same with maths, really.

I'm aware this is completely personal of course, and that there is a likely bias in that this kind of research tends to be more accessible and thus more fun to read for me, but still.
If you're his subordinates though, wasting all of your time surely ends up costing him more productivity in the end.
This is why California's property tax system, in which taxes don't increase until a property is sold, is often cited as a major factor in its housing dilemma.
The problem with that line of thinking is that it paints systemic problems as somehow more justifiable than non systemic problems, it implies they were so convinced they'd always be able to track everyone as much as they like with no oversight that they built a machine with no off switch.

But this isn't new, these complaints about privacy and tracking have been around a decade, they didn't build facebook before anyone knew the constant tracking was controversial, they built it over a decade+ knowing the whole time that they were the subject of constant criticism.

They have switches all over their site for things like turning off targeted advertising, and they have entire infrastructures for dealing with local laws, so they idea that it's unfeasible for them to remove the tracking for any reason other than they wanted it to be that way is bordering on dishonest.
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His point is that any improvement will result in higher rents, as well. The people paying for the "improvements" will be the renters. It's entirely rational that people would put up with public urination if the only other option is "paying" for it to go away (even if they might not be happy with putting up with it).
Sure. The war is over which particular possible future meaning will happen, not over the concept of change.
I think that's the other thing that happens, the transitioning to normal corporate practices ends up being a culture shift that ends up breaking a lot of people's interest in an organization. There is a reason why some of the bureaucracy exists at BigCo and people have to experience that in a culture that may be hostile to it. It also in those early stages doesn't have the years or decades of practical application of BigCo processes that have been figured out and tailored specifically to a company in question and there's just teething problems all over that make the whole effort more frustrating as these new business processes get figured out.
EU as a way to move simpler has been a great success. Maybe you don't remember the days when we had to wait 5 hours just to get through a border legally.
Personal Opinion Only.

It most has to do with freemium. Cloudflare started in the era where many were perfectly happy with "free" and had not much thought about it. Today many finally realise "You are the Product if you are not paying for it.", even if it was for upsell. But before this phase was coined or widely known, I was very wary of anything that is "free". And one reason why I was sceptics as well when Domain Registration are operated in similar fashion, I would much rather knowingly that Cloudflare made $1 - $2 per Domain per year than something being subsidise one way or another.

It also give you choices, instead of going Business or Enterprise for Minimum cache expiry time, or other features. Customer gets to decide what they want. Pricing is crystal clear and there is no need to play guess games or contact sales. Especially when everyone today are now very accustom to AWS.

I don't know how many are in the same bloat. But judging Business from other CDN competitor I guess there are few who prefer to be on metered plan. That is why I suggested a Sub Brand. Another Services offering using the same Network.
lucky them, they have not been kicked off the road to a segregated ghetto like in many parts of the "modern" world.