skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people think FPGAs have the advantage over GPUs in machine learning inference. See the Bing FPGA stuff. Mostly due to lower power operations, but also a higher level of customization e.g. optimized 1 bit math if you want it, leading to potentially higher speed or larger networks. The memory architecture of FPGAs can also offer advantages - e.g. bigger memories.

The GPU instruction set is limited for some applications because of SIMD. If the GPU threads aren't doing exactly the same thing then they stall. The FPGA can have parallel processes going on that are more differentiated. e.g. HMMs work better on FPGA than GPU.

Anything with low latency feedback (e.g. LSTMs) probably works better on FPGA.
I was a member at WeWork for over a year. The company doesn’t have a direction. WeWork seems more like a hip place to look cool than get stuff done.

A few experiences I’ve had:

1. WeWork holds lots of events like “Dog of the Month.” Meanwhile, there are empty desks everywhere and the printer doesn’t work.

2. I cancelled and no one ever followed up to ask why or try to keep me as a customer (see above).

3. The spaces are always too loud and chaotic. Every attempt is made to maximize rentable space that is never rented. American Airlines offers more bathrooms per passenger than WeWork has for its tenants.

4. I was able to cancel to $550 / month dedicated desk membership and get a year of hot desk membership for FREE thanks to a new promotion with American Express. AMEX snd WeWork should not have opened this generous deal to existing WeWork customers. This is very poor revenue management and shows the shortsighted approach the company has toward growth.
Time will tell, of course.

You might be right... but I’m pessimistic here. Renters and leasees take less good care of the items they let or rent. The clothes will have a faster velocity to the waste dump, etc. manufacturers and purveyors will cater to this increased velocity...

People are worried about drinking straws. Imagine all the new plastic items to cater to this new usage pattern...
Bullying small business owners with an army of retainer lawyers and hundreds of billions of money in the bank?

Oh, there's a LOT you can legally do if you have unlimited resources and said army of lawyers.

It might not be legal harassment. But it isn't leaving him in peace.
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“It is quite likely that, when you lived in America, you leased everything. You never owned anything, but someone else did and you had to pay for every single thing you used. That's another form of resource ownership that concentrates wealth.”

— Manna, Chapter 5
— https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
But yet, we give them credibility on political stories? That’s what makes no sense to me, we call them out on stories in which we have close experience, but we accept their stories on politics as if they were “objective,” because they happen to support our own bias. A story biased against the president: totally true, it’s “respectable” journalism. A story pushing an anti-Google agenda, “what were they thinking, this isn’t true!” People want to believe they are right and they find outlets that agree with them and claim them “objective.” A conservative thinks Limbaugh is correct, a liberal thinks Maddow is correct. It’s a circle jerk of self congratulation that leads to sharply partisan hatred. Unfortunately there isn’t a Walter Cronkite to find the objective middle.
I welcome the ban. But don't be fooled, this is nothing but a photo-op for Trudeau seeking re-election in October. I honestly doubt the Liberals will follow through with this after the election, much like the balanced budget they promised during campaign in 2015.
First, this is still the dawn of AV1 and the encoder you should be watching is SVT-AV1. You cannot conclude anything about the ultimate of AV1 encoding speed from experiences with a current version of ffmpeg.

As long as AV1 encoding (at useful compression etc) is within a small factor of HVEC, it will not be a factor in its success. License, quality, compression, and decoding speed are the things that matter.
Basically the same thing except instead of renting off the "-as-a-service" crowd they're renting off the bank.
>how would you find the names of any two brands whose bicycles have the same colour?

At first glance I thought it'd just be a group by + having followed by some sort of SELECT to get the first 2 in each group. But apparently doing that top-k in each group is a nightmare in SQL [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8748986/get-records-with...
I suspect that some people disliked Common Lisp because they worked at institutions where they were able to develop and support their own Lisps, and ANSI CL was foisted on them: "party is over, make it compatible with this honkin' document".
The City of Golf Carts [video]
Yeah the Purple Line is an exceptional boondoggle.
I think it used to be that Google encoded every video in H.264, but also encoded some videos in VP9: the popular ones. That made a lot of sense--no need to dedicate a lot of encoding power for every video when quick-and-dirty x264 will get the job done fine for >99% of them. And I assume the same will be true for AV1, where only a small percentage of videos will actually be encoded in it. So my envelope calculations aren't going to help me gain much insight.
They did not have to take a picture of that many travelers in the 90s (let alone social media which did not exist) and it wasn't less secure either. They probably never considered if their program is any useful or if it creates more harm than good.
Lithium is available in seawater. We can have as much as we want.

Seawater was also the source of magnesium for the US before China took over that market.
Experian got hacked? Or are you referring to Equifax? I thought Experian was one of the ones with better security.
Ccdwd
I actually do this. I have rented 2 king size beds, a sofa, a 200l fridge, 40 inch led tv, small ac and a dining table for around $120 per month.

In return i get complete peace of mind, free maintenance and the ability to update my furniture for no reason other than i want to.

I personally am pretty happy with renting most of this stuff but will be buying my own dtuff once i have my own house
This article describes a minor (but real) trend among a small group of wealthy young people. While some of the services described have a bit wider reach (particularly clothing companies), there's nothing THAT concerning about people with lots of disposable income doing what people with disposable income have always done -- spend it.
This is only sort of true. Keyword bidding is a black box and the highest offer doesn’t always win. There’s all kinds of Google proprietary sauce that happens to determine the winner of the add placement based on factors that determine “ad quality”.
Network Marketing Ruined My Life
Upstream Linux kernel security is hopeless at this point. You can't expect it to secure anything.
I actually agree with you and I wouldn't mourn the loss of political cartoons, but the fact that a Twitter mob can do that to a major news outlet is troublesome and scary.
So the Times was like "Hey everybody we found the problem: It's the fact that we have political cartoons?"
This is a lot different if you're making $140,000/year gross vs the typical "rent to own" market of Aaron's and Rent-a-center for household furnishings, where the consumers make significantly less than that.
Who says they have to spend 100% of their paycheck?
Renting an apartment vs owning a house is not necessarily a bad financial move. Depends on a number of factors. For instance, if you anticipate moving within a certain time frame, between closing costs, mortgage fees, commission, etc...it can cost more to own in the first 3-5 years, especially if prices are stagnant. Also, there are hidden costs of home ownership not necessarily factored in for, like repairs, maintenance, etc that are just implicitly included in rent. Finally, one can use the savings from paying rent to invest in the stock market and generally get a higher return than real estate.
Sorry but do you find this ends up being wasteful at all? I don't know how many of/how much these items can be reused, but it feels like it would promote far faster consumption than ownership.
US Prohibitions on Huawei Can Apply to Transactions by Non-US Companies
No code is smaller than no code.
It's perfectly possible to do on a coding salary... in Missouri. I did it, and in fact I still am doing it. I still have have my day job. My big expenses are heavy industrial equipment leases ($7k/mo), electricity ($2k/mo in the summer), and titanium ($1-10k/mo, depending on order volume). I mostly make pistol grips. The CNC machines run all day while I code, and I live in a camper inside an aircraft hangar at my factory. It's beautiful. I'm not an expert on LA, but I really don't think I could have made my dream a reality in that particular place.

I think I'm working class... I certainly work a lot and I go to work during the day :-)
By the account. 3 failed login attempts in a row, and you disallow further logins for 30 seconds.

This should waste less time than reCAPTCHAs. I know it's not 1:1 in terms of pros/cons, but it gets a good subset of the advantages without the key disadvantages mentioned above.
I did the credit check - I didn't have a credit score, because I didn't want one. I had existing rental history, a drivers license, and W2s (all also required for the application). I don't think my identity was in question, but maybe it was? Regardless I rented at another place that didn't require a score, it all worked out.
You mean “complement”, not “compliment”.
Gut microbiome disruptions speed up metastatic spread of breast cancer
Ah, Agliè. Is he still after Tres—on Hacker News of all places?
> The Unix tools don't work on guis.

This is more of an accident of history, there's no reason you can't have pipe friendly collection of graphical tools, dmenu is one simple example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dmenu
As someone who just recently stopped being a "landlord"...I very much agree that renters put a magnitude more wear and tear on things. The wear and tear people put on things when they don't own them...and without even being consciously aware of it.

I know now that anything rented should maximize durability while minimizing cost. Time will tell which one weighs heavier, but I'm pessimistic also, and guess that minimizing cost is overall cheaper than durability.
It is humorous you feel confident enough to write a whole opinion about what makes mountaineering difficult without knowing what crampons are, or taking the five seconds to google it. Knowledge of crampons wouldn't make your opinion valid, but lack of knowledge definitely makes it invalid.
Disclaimer: this post is very subjective and all facts mentioned here are purely my assumption
So they're beliefs not facts
The cost can not be inline with purchasing because the store still has to purchase it, have all the overhead of running a store and then over the lifespan of the item, make up all of those costs as well as making some profit on it.
To be clear - I 100% understand why people who want to do credit checks like credit scores. It's not that they have no value, it's that they have too many down sides and it bothers me that it's increasingly difficult to "opt out."
It was mocking that rule prohibiting images of their god. Mocking a stupid rule is not the same as mocking an entire religion.
I agree that many people already lived on a financial knife edge before all these rental services.

However the example of a contractor who lives an unencumbered life and saves a lot of money is not at all typical. It's similar to using the example of an investment banking associate or corporate attorney who pay high rent in Manhattan for some years and invest the rest, as an argument against buying a home and having a mortgage.

In reality, many/most people are better off with a mortgage because it forces them to save money, which they behaviorally wouldn't be able to do otherwise. Likewise, buying something and keeping it around probably prevents a lot of needless repurchases and upgrades of the same item. If you are rational the rental lifestyle can make sense in some cases. But for most it just facilitates impulsive behavior. Hence the rush to capitalize on it.
So I can lock you out of your account with 3 attempts from any IP address?
I do - furniture/equipment fire sales in 2001 and RE/cars in 2009. Next one will be a combination of everything ;-)
I would give anything for this in Baltimore.
This has been NYT’s schtick for as long as I’ve been reading it: pick up some trend among the young trust fund class of New York and breathlessly report it as a generational shift. It’s a decent ad-mover.
400k/year doing what?
absolutely a good thing.

It was a light hearted jab at the description that made it sound like something completely original and never tried before :)

I hope he does well, those tools are super useful.
I left Italy before Salvini was a thing.
Goldman Sachs isn't sweating concerns over the Apple Card's profitability
- Make this headline get clicks!
- I have no idea what I'm doing <labrador>
This is just another move from mega corps to tricking us in to paying a subscription for everything and never owning anything. Owning pretty much always ends up cheaper if you will have the item for a long time.

Renting only makes sense for short term needs. I don't need to buy expensive equipment I only use once a year so renting that makes sense but for a couch it makes far more sense to buy it outright and use it for 10+ years rather than pay constantly for it.

I suspect that even this article itself is a hidden marketing move to change social norms so people think renting is the cool new thing to show off.
Some quotes:

"nonpublic U.S.-origin technology necessary to produce a toothbrush may not be provided to Huawei by a company outside the United States without a BIS license."

"“Software” is defined as a “collection of one or more programs or microprograms fixed in any tangible medium of expression.”"

"if U.S.-origin 5D002 encryption source code is used to compile 5D002 object code outside the United States, the foreign-made object code would be subject to the EAR when exported to China"

"The prohibitions are blind to the nationality of the exporter, reexporter, or transferor of the commodity, software, or technology being transferred to the listed entity. That is, they apply equally to U.S. and non-U.S. persons."

"Violations of the Entity List prohibitions by a non-U.S. company can lead to civil or criminal penalties, or other sanctions that would affect its ability to receive U.S.-origin items"

Basically the US is asserting the right to control all trade in technology in the world, as long as (at some point) that technology used or was developed on US technology. Seems a bit excessive, and not sure why any other country would be happy with such an arrangement.
If they never had children they could have saved enough to be set for the rest of their life.
> and with almost any mobile phone speech recognition engine

My only problem with recaptcha is when audio doesn't work (google decides I'm spamming their network… sure…). Because their audio validation seems to use only one rule that says "letters where typed". So I'm not sure how being able to beat it with voice recognition makes it worse.
First, that's a bit user-hostile (and suddenly a DoS-vector; I can prevent a site's users from logging in by continuously firing bad password attempts).

Secondly, botnets can, and presumably do, randomize which accounts they try, too.
That's kind of like asking "who says they have to get student loans," great advice for any individual but not so great as a prediction for what we'll be reading about in the NYT 20 years from now.
2) isn't true at all for me. I've always loved captcha and it has become a huuuuuge annoyance as soon as I'm using a vpn, tor, a weird wifi, a non-typical device, etc.

It is so freaking slow. I sometimes lose 60s to complete a captcha.
Its hard to wrap my head around renting furniture and cloths. Most of the pieces in my house are gifts from family, many are antiques and very functional. Getting married and buying a house was all the excuse our families needed to set us up. I know not everyone has this but many do. Saved a ton of money vs buying new or renting.
I found this quite interesting. Perhaps the closest I’ve come to grasping the core concepts, even though I’ve done a fair bit of work around the edges previously.
Mohammed is not their God. The picture ban is supposed to prevent Muslims from the temptation of worshipping Mohammed (a man) instead of God.
September 20, 2021: Millions of Gmail users were distraught when Google announced today the immediate sunsetting of dynamic email. "Hahahahaha lol you guys fell for it AGAIN!!" said Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
This. And they might not put it in the basket. IIRC there is talk that dual-ownership-stock co's are usually debated on whether they go in the basket for obvious (which, let's be honest, WeWork will do, cuz it's hip).

Also, want some more downside protection but want to bet on the market? Check out Fidelity's contrafund.
Because of Amazon Household [1], you do not necessarily have to hold your own Prime membership to get the 5% back. Being on a Household Prime account is enough to get the full cash back on the regular Amazon credit card, so I'd expect the same would work here. Admittedly their card marketing websites do not make this super clear.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/myh/households
Security is relevant, it's what determines how long until you're hacked.
This doesn’t sound like the worst idea ever. If you lose your income, just say “come and get it” and you’ve significantly lowered the cost of moving/finding storage, etc. while you search for a new job.

I kinda wish I’d thought of this before a couple of bad years of the Universe deciding it didn’t much like me much. I’m sort of back on my feet (employed) but I don’t own much more than some minimal furniture, clothes, car and computer gear. The rest could easily be filled by renting.

Most of the other things wouldn’t have much resale value anyway, if I bought it outright.
In the UK: https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/guide-to-credi...
I have once handled a website being HNed and /.ed a few years ago. The issue turned out to be the default Apache config from distro, which was very ill-suited for such traffic, generating tons of processes which struggled to run on a small VPS. Switching to nginx fixed it; I suppose switching Apache to mpm_event model (or even just tuning the threading configuration) would be enough too.
Thank you, that is fascinating, as is the postscript.
Well most of these companies are startups, not megacorps.

Just like everything you should do the math...if you only plan to live in a city or apartment for 1-2 years then renting a furnished apartment (either officially furnished or DIY with one of these startups) could make sense. The alternative in my experience is buying a lot of cheap Ikea furniture that's a pain to buy/put together/toss that may or may not come out to what you'd pay renting much nicer furniture with assembly/delivery included both ways.
> The difference is that the BKR acts more like a blacklist: if you never have taken any loans you will never have a bad rating

This is how credit ratings in the US work as well.
> One thing about the inbound traffic I am getting is that it's all for direct restaurant searches (e.g. "Johnny's Diner") rather than area searches (e.g. "Newtown restaurants"); the latter is where you see the site's true value, so everyone just bounces from the restaurant page.

What page are you expecting to rank for “Newton restaurants”? And if people are ending up on the Johnny’s Diner page, why doesn’t that page include the site’s true value?
Also datascript
all the disadvantages of microservices carries to micro frontends :D
I was at the last Cleveland Browns game a couple of years ago in December. The San Diego Chargers were in town. My niece asked why there were so many Charger fans in C'town I, told her they all left in the Cleveland diaspora of the 80's when the good paying manufacturing left. They are back to see family in town at Christmas and see the Chargers play there last game before going to LA. I wondered how my life would be had I left with them. They must of done well in So Cal cause it isn't cheap to live in San Diego. If you weren't able to see where the money job's were going (healthcare) you were left out because it's the only thing going here now. My fathers generation was the last to see Cleveland's golden era.
The default position should be skepticism for everyone. Including hacker news. I know I get constantly downvoted for skeptical view points here in the comments, I wish it were not so but quite a few people here engage in bullshit. Most commonly seen types of bullshit here is, ancap philosophy, cryptocurrency advocacy, diet fads, and chemophobia.
It may not be ugly, but I wouldn't want one.

You want the weight as low down as possible. The heaviest thing is the battery, so at a minimum you want that mounted near the peddle crank. The next heaviest thing is the motor. Modern setups make the motor drive the pedal crank.

Beauty does not mean functional. cf: high heeled shoes.
I find these articles incredible, but then I remember I work and live on a Mac. And I can't wait to pay 5K for the content of one of those articles published 2 years ago.
And this is the same group that can force you to give them your social media credentials on entry. Terrific.

Edit: Wait, just social media handles/account names, not login details. That's less ridiculous. My mistake.
> Basically, it's an agreement to buy Amazon products...

Nothing about this card locks you into buying Amazon brand products that I can tell. Buying Amazon brand products have the same effect as buying non-Amazon brand products on Amazon.
Manning is currently in prison for refusing the illegal attempt to abuse a grand jury to make her testify when the grand jury has already made a charge and should have no further role.
Other languages can search more efficiently if you write a more efficient search in them, but Prolog can search more efficiently if you write a more efficient search in it, too.

"That's it. On backtracking, this generates increasingly longer lists Ls, and invokes p/1 only on lists of bounded length. Bamm! Iterative deepening. [..] asymptotically optimal under very general assumptions, and you can make it easily available in Prolog yourself. I guess mostly for this reason, the default execution strategy is kept extremely simple. When needed, you can easily implement other search strategies on top of it." - https://www.reddit.com/r/prolog/comments/47fchf/why_depthfir...
Implement your own call(), apply() and bind() method in JavaScript
Not according to a 2014 Princeton study; the US is an Oligarchy:

“Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
How did you come to that conclusion? The effect is the complete opposite...instead of a lot of people that move frequently (i.e. younger people) and buy/toss a lot of cheap Ikea furniture every year, you rent high end, long-lasting furniture that is delivered/removed for reuse.
I do agree that i could use anything (email, phone etc.) to login in those services but this "something" would be still mapped/tied to my real identity (in a previously validated way). So if it is the first time i am using DMV online service, i can login using my real identity because that is much easier than going to real world location and getting my account credentials.
> Nuance is not permitted in 2019

Also, screwing up, learning that, changing your ways, admitting you were wrong, adapting is not permitted either. It will follow you forever, regardless.
Good luck getting them to pay Macron.