skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simply having AVX512 support doesn't really tell you the whole story, though. You'd want to actually benchmark it and see how much it's helping and then how it compares to the competition. AVX512 comes with an insane clock speed penalty, so while it can still put up some really impressive numbers, mixed workloads can also end up not any faster (or even slower).
That describes things you want (and I agree that an api is a fairly reasonable thing to want), but they are not things you have the right to have just because you want them.

It may be naive to assume people will honor the desires of a website owner, but that doesn't change the moral argument - you shouldn't try to convince yourself that you're in the right just because its difficult for the website owner to enforce their wishes for how people use their system, or because everyone does it - "that's just the way it is" doesn't make it right.

I don't think we're talking about discrimination or equal access or even right to back up issues which might apply some moral right to access a site in ways not desired by a service owner - the vast majority of cases for scraping are where the scraper goes on to use that information in ways that are for the commercial benefit of the scraper and usually to the detriment of the site owner.

The arguments about data access to publicly funded information has more merit but I don't see them applying in any way to private services.

Am I missing some other fundamental right that applies here?
Those rates are surprisingly low considering that's spinning iron. I'd love to see a similar data set for SSDs.

Of course, it also depends on what you count as a failure. Is a drive that can no longer write but can still read a "failure"? Probably - but that's a considerably softer way to fail than a hard drive with a bad bearing or head.
Sounds vaguely similar to something I had. My left index finger swelled up to about three times its normal size between the lower two knuckles, and was extremely painful to the touch (going through your A-levels whilst on 60mg codeine four times a day is an interesting experience!). No trauma, it just happened for no discernible reason. Various doctors had no idea what it was, and it was still like that some months later, so I ended up having exploratory surgery on it. Turns out it was just a fluid-filled sac of some sort - nothing particularly unusual, and not really any sort of growth, it was just there and shouldn't have been. It has never reoccurred.

Side note: general anesthetics are _weird_. I have memories from during the operation of me looking on that feel 100% real, but they _can't_ be (the room had no walls for a start, and I'm looking at myself in the third person).
Probably not a top killer of children and young adults though.
Why would you use cloud if you do a lot of training? Quad 2080Ti systems cost ~$7k + electricity. Assuming two such systems are equivalent in speed to 1 TPUv3 (4 chips), owning them would be more cost efficient after 4-5 months of training (depending on your electricity costs).

TPUs do have the memory capacity advantage though (over 2080Ti).
If it's something that others will likely need and will likely pay for, it may make more sense to build it and sell to them. By open sourcing, you eliminate one major potential revenue stream for unknown benefit.
Around here (public/socialized/“free” European healthcare system) doctors are known to be paid poorly, unless high-tier specialists, so maybe you’re over-assuming.
That's awesome. It seems that Qbasic inspired many, it being included with 95, 98, and Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic#History

I'm a senior cyber security engineer and also a polygot :) Video games sound more fun, I still make some in my free time.
The QB 4.5 / PDS 7.1 compilers (linked on that site) were actually decent. Coupled with some of the ASM libraries available at the time there were crazy possibilities. I had a background/TSR file transfer utility in 1989(?) written in QB 4.5 and assembler for the fun stuff. (Never commercialized, the boss said "the computer still has to be on to receive things? that's useless")

There were numerous vertical market applications developed in QB/ PDS; things we'd call CRM today all the way to "estimate how many passes this scraper will take to build an earth dam of this size and shape" tools.

Microsoft forsaking that toolchain in favor of Windows / Visual Basic put a lot of those shops out of business.
Using UUIDs as a primary key is considered an anti-pattern from space and performance standpoints.

You should use UUIDs only when, you know, you need a UUID.
Kind of off topic, but is there a standard way to emulate a wheel with a track point? I have a desktop keyboard with a track point and the lack of a wheel is a bigger nuisance than I expected.
This is the reason why I pay for Dropbox to host my pictures. The problem with Google is often not about severe privacy problems, it's about 'you never know' and getting educated and finding the right setting is hassle everytime. Worse here is FB.
An alternative perspecrive from a physicist/enginner/venture capitalist who was named Energy Writer of the Year" in 2016 by the American Energy Society.

This paper highlights the physics of energy to illustrate why there is no possibility that the world is undergoing—or can undergo—a near-term transition to a “new energy economy.”

Among the reasons:

Scientists have yet to discover, and entrepreneurs have yet to invent, anything as remarkable as hydrocarbons in terms of the combination of low-cost, high-energy density, stability, safety, and portability. In practical terms, this means that spending $1 million on utility-scale wind turbines, or solar panels will each, over 30 years of operation, produce about 50 million kilowatt-hours (kWh)—while an equivalent $1 million spent on a shale rig produces enough natural gas over 30 years to generate over 300 million kWh.
Solar technologies have improved greatly and will continue to become cheaper and more efficient. But the era of 10-fold gains is over. The physics boundary for silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells, the Shockley-Queisser Limit, is a maximum conversion of 34% of photons into electrons; the best commercial PV technology today exceeds 26%.
Wind power technology has also improved greatly, but here, too, no 10-fold gains are left. The physics boundary for a wind turbine, the Betz Limit, is a maximum capture of 60% of kinetic energy in moving air; commercial turbines today exceed 40%.
The annual output of Tesla’s Gigafactory, the world’s largest battery factory, could store three minutes’ worth of annual U.S. electricity demand. It would require 1,000 years of production to make enough batteries for two days’ worth of U.S. electricity demand. Meanwhile, 50–100 pounds of materials are mined, moved, and processed for every pound of battery produced.

Heres's a link to his full paper: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-...

Whose argument holds up to serious critical analysis, Mills or Science Mag's?
Not per year! Says so even in the text you quoted, "reduced by the aggregate amount ... for prior taxable years ..."

It's $10mm per entity, or 10x what you paid for the stock, whichever is greater.
I really like rust, the design is great. I'm glad they cleaned up OOP and ditched nasty C++ stuff like templates.

However, I went through the book recently and I'm quite annoyed that much of the syntax differs needlessly from C like languages. It massively increases the cognitive overhead for someone coming from Java, C++, C#, C-like language world.

Rust is a systems language, it doesn't even have a runtime. 90%+ system level work is done in C-like languages. Rust syntax differs in countless pointless ways. I'm not saying it's wrong, it's just different in ways that don't matter from all other popular systems languages. Which is dumb.

Things like "fn" instead of "function" and async syntax make Rust difficult to adopt by the target user base. Why fn? Is saving 6 characters worth confusing everyone?
Anyone has a tldr? Topic sounds super interesting and I don't have time to read now.
While I can appreciate the security advantages of snap packages, I can't help but resent the fact that the output of the mount command is now polluted with dozens of lines unrelated to mounted disks.
Sounds like you need to make things easier rather than harder. They have a clear economic incentive to scrape your site and will continue to do so. Rather than spending your employees time on it, open it up as an API. If someone starts hitting it too hard, send them an email to back off.

If your only competitive advantage is your pricing, then you're in a losing game. Otherwise, you're probably better off spending your efforts on making your product/service better.
Have they been combined with NNs? If so, how?
This is great, especially for atomic update and rollback of the OS. I remember a particular painful instance of OS upgrade. I did the yum update command in the login shell and forgot to do it in a screen session. The login shell got killed after a period of inactivity, in the middle of the OS update. Afterward the OS was beyond repair; couldn't roll back or move forward. Had to reinstall.

I wished something like silverblue existed back then.
I used to be the tech lead for the sharing and permissions side of a file storage service. In my experience with designing systems, participating in user studies, trying to problem solve with coworkers, and so on, this is an extremely hard problem to solve, because (as can be seen in the comments), there usually isn’t a right answer. Different people expect very different defaults, and get frustrated and upset when things don’t match their a priori expectations. The temptation is to solve these differing use cases with lots of configurability, precise descriptions, and lots of user education but users don’t read (usually), and rarely do they understand the tricky implications of different settings. Not only that, but mistakes they make in configuration or use will understandably cause them to be more scared of using your service.

I don’t think anyone has solved access control, not Facebook, Google, OneDrive, or even Apple.
For comparison, Nature is 41.6, Cell 36.2, Science 37.2, according to Google.
Well, the author disingenuously picked starting points for his charts that just happened to coincide with major economic events like 9/11 and the housing bubble in order to advance his flawed argument. When he picks charts with starting points of 1960, 2001, and 2006, he does so to fit his argument.
I've read things that indicate they actively sweep a lot of weird stuff under the rug. I read of a case of a young boy diagnosed with cancer who spontaneously got all better for no apparent reason. Rather than investigate it, they acted like "must have been misdiagnosed."

When I began getting better when that's not supposed to be possible, my specialist scheduled me fewer appointments because "he had other patients that actually needed him." He expressed zero curiosity about how I was improving.

With shitty treatment like that and getting well on my own, when I moved, I didn't bother to get a new doctor. Internet strangers like to frame that as me being a nutter who refuses to see a doctor rather than doctors being jerks to me and me generally having no reason to see one.
>system dynamic linking made sense

I too look forwards to having to manually updated all security patches for each binary in the system.
Swift had the same ABI issues as C++, but when most packages ship as source code, it's not that big of an problem. This is precisely the thing that a standardized package manager can establish.

I think it's a bit of a catch-22. C++ projects are so rare and monolithic that reinventing the wheel every now and then. But maybe more (smaller) projects would happen in C++ if there were polished libraries for reasonably common requirements like sending a SOAP request.
For Uralic linguistics, there is the Uralic phonetic alphabet[0]. While relatively few new texts are ever created in it (partly because all the dialectal fieldwork was already done in the late 19th/early 20th century), it is the transcription used in all the standard references that linguists in this subfield still use and cite today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_Phonetic_Alphabet
There isn't a desktop any more, we might as well be trying to make Linux for the mini computer if you're chasing the desktop market.
Insects are mammals?
Alternatively, what if we structure the real world more like the game?
TLDR: They damaged a nerve in one leg of the drosophila fly. The injury was then allowed to fully heal. After the injury healed, they found the fly’s other legs had become hypersensitive through loss of the pain inhibitors (GABA).
Savage tick clone armies are exsanguinating cows; experts fear for humans
I've always found (anecdotally) there's an inverse relationship between commit comment length and diff length. Sometimes I need to go into great depth to explain why we needed to change this constant from 3 to 4, but add a 100 line new feature and it's typically something like "added new --foobar feature".
The one battery swap station was never really 'open' so much as trialled. It was a closed invite-only program, you had to book an appointment, and then come back and collect your original battery at a later date.

Saying they ran it for years is a reach, since it doesn't seem to have opened even for pilot programs until sometime in mid/late 2015[1], and was already seemingly closed in May of 2016[0].

It didn't work anywhere near as slick as in their stage demo suggested. Taking up to 15 minutes for a pack swap the first time, and 5 minutes thereafter.

There's suggestions that it was, at least in part, a tactic to get a greater share of credits[1] which Tesla sells to other car manufacturers[2].

Whether it was intended to be a real program or not is unclear, but they did give up on it pretty quickly in favour of a greater deployment of their Supercharging program.

[0] https://electrek.co/2016/05/10/tesla-battery-swap-program-su...

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1096570_about-that-one-...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tesla-sold-carbon-emissio...
A Particle Filter Demo for Robot Localization
Some two decades ago, I remember seeing a news report about a weird tight-knit community of BASE jumpers in the USA who liked jumping from high bridges without parachutes. (The reportage was mainly about how they were addicted to this activity like to a drug, and wouldn’t stop even though several members had died.) In order to make the surface of the water safer to land in, they dropped a heavy object a split second before they themselves jumped, as supposedly once the surface had been broken by the splash of the initial object it was momentarily not concrete-like hard.

Anyone else remember who this group was and has some information about them?
Are there any good alternatives to Google photos?
Being poor sucks. But the absolute best thing about earning little to no income in a year is a) not paying taxes, followed by b) not paying for health insurance. Free visits to Whole Foods might be on the top 10?

If you don't earn any income for a few years, you might even be able to add on some free housing while you're at it. That's one I've never done personally.

Of course, it helps to have some savings to draw from during this time. Because most welfare programs just look at annual income now, and not assets. They used to look at assets, but in many states they no longer do.
1. I didn’t think I made that assumption.

2. Can I have a reference re how the federal govt dictates what gets built?

3. Tax breaks are another story and I don’t know how this affects homelessness or affordable housing. References will be helpful to understand your perspective
I heartily agree with all the concerns here, but there are also business and professional development factors to consider, in addition to your present situation:

- How stable are your needs? Will your ideal setup be the same 6 months from now?

- Is this a core piece of the business or a peripheral concern?

- Which is more valuable: developers that understand the underlying theory, or developers that are familiar with the preexisting library?

- Will the act of rolling your own library make your team more valuable? Will it make them too expensive?

- How will this choice affect developer retention? Your ability to hire new developers?
I actually wrote up about this back in 2017 [0]; the general feeling in the community at the time was that it would be “right around the corner” from Intel, but that hasn’t really happened.

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/2017/will-amds-ryzen-finally-bring...
That word would be of no challenge to the current top spellers. There was an 8-way tie for victory this year because the best kids are all but unstumpable. You are vastly underestimating the level of preparation that goes into competing to win the Bee.

For that and other obvious reasons, Scripps is unlikely to open the word list to include any and all nonsensical jargon.
Am I the only person that consistently has trouble with trackpoints? Every time I try to make a large movement I get halfway across the screen before the thing decides it's drifting, tries to correct, and sets its new zero at the edge of physical travel. Then I have to take my finger off it, wait thirty seconds for it to re-zero at physical neutral, and try again, this time remembering to zig-zag so it doesn't think that my inputs are spurious drift.
Whoever downvoted this deserves to have their license to code revoked. It's malpractice to roll your own crypto.
I think the queues you mention at solve a different problem. Maybe I’m missing what you are trying to do but setting up cron is the way to do scheduled tasks on Linux.
So a reader-hole or pi-reader which "readerifies" urls on a blacklist?
This method will not work for many websites that require you to stay logged in.
Relying on an eventual consistency database sounds like a huge challenge in terms of getting absolute consistency between Cassandra and Kafka. There seems to be many edge cases that could cause the data in Kafka to get out of sync, it doesn't sound very reliable. Especially if you want to rely on Kafka for event sourcing later on, which is sounds like you're planning on in the future. For a payments company that sounds very risky.

What happens if you write a row to Cassandra but that row is invalidated because of failed writes to the other nodes in the cluster (ex. the write was QUORUM and it succeeded on the node that you're reading from but failed on all other nodes). In Cassandra, when an error occurs, there are no rollbacks, and the row gets read-repaired. It sounds like that row will get outputted to Kafka. How do you "disappear" data written into Kafka if it gets read-repaired?
Set your bug-a-salt to kill, not stun.
I believe they cut off a leg. I don't really get the part where they say they "allowed it to fully heal". [1] Maybe that was a different experiment in the same paper?

[1] - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_JUvnmUwAAj7Sa.jpg:large
- Do updates show immediately (for both directions)?

Yes, changes are apparent immediately.

- What are the limits of read/write queries?

The details are mentioned on https://steinhq.com/pricing.

- What are the limits of rows?

Details available on the pricing page as well. A thing not explicitly mentioned is that you can add any number of rows to a sheet. In append operations, the row limit is not checked.

I'll let you know the other details soon. That's something many have been asking, and I'm deciding what the default behavior should be.
Would you rather each update of said binary be dependent on the author or some volunteer? That's how you get Debian stable.. No thanks.
You’re likely being downvoted due to the pithiness of your comment, but you make an excellent point. I’ve always promoted the three Iron Laws of never implementing

1) Encryption
2) Date/time math
3) Distributed locking/concurrency primitives

All of these are of sufficient complexity to virtually guarantee that you’re going to miss a score of subtle edge cases, and the consequences thereof are likely simultaneously pervasive, silent and catastrophic.
Agreed on that front. That's really my biggest issue with snaps.
Yes. Complex behaviour and memory, ability to execute complicated tasks, and many other features are usually more common in complex/large organisms. It may not be surprising, but it's certainly non-obvious why insects would have persistent pain after injury - especially if it prevents them from effectively getting on with other tasks after the initial injury source / danger passes.
Yes! A lot of us got our start with QB. After all, we're all alike. I was immediately off to the races when I discovered Excel VBA is 98% QB. Promotions and raises soon followed, from automating massive amounts of work. Now I am very senior in the field. (intentionally vague)
Hmmm...former skydiver here, not sure your point is accurate. I don't understand why increasing your forward momentum from tracking would decrease your fall rate.

I think your assumption that drag will slow you to 120mph is inaccurate - for example, if you fall heads-down your terminal velocity is instead up to ~180mph. Similarly, I'd expect that if you track in a direction your velocity could increase above 120mph while not lowering the speed at which you approach the ground.

Apologies - my physics knowledge and terminology is very limited, but do have some practical experience in the area :)
I've explained how I and others felt like we became more "outsiders" because we couldn't follow references made my friends, coworker, and general media (how many GoT references came out in the week after the finale?)

You choose to find this incredulous and ridiculous. You can certainly do so. I hope you take a few minutes to actually consider why this might matter to many people - those references are made to build camaraderie and a sense of inclusion. Ergo, not following creates a sense of alienation and separation.

You can mock that or not, but that doesn't change how people feel.
It was certainly real stuff - less than 5 years later I was part of the team that shipped Windows 95 (but I was a C programmer before QuickBasic, so that helped)
That someone may be a direct competitor to you. Giving them access to your R&D may let them undercut your prices and make it harder for you to find clients.
Amen. This is equivalent to an attorney strongly encouraging a client to represent themselves in court.
I appreciated the section discussing the difference between “appetite” and “estimate”.
They can't afford to buy a house, or they can't afford to buy a house in SF, which has one of the highest cost of living in the world, and actually you're not getting that much if you're a non-tech person?
There are such paid proxy services that provide you with a refreshable IP pool. Unfortunately, you can't control which IP they give you at each request (or when you can, your request rate drops significantly) so they do not work with websites which require you to keep a session alive.
On the other hand, you could say the same thing about feeling pain in humans. Once the danger/injury source passes then being in pain is not good, particularly chronic pain that actually inhibits the person. We still have that though.
It's not terribly surprising, intuitively, that a large range of living things feel and remember pain.

The seeming clarity or obviousness doesn't mean it's not worthwhile to study it, test the assumption, prove or disprove, figure out what creatures are subject to it and to what extent, etc. I imagine we could learn a lot trying to explain it.
VAIO was spun off from Sony, though they still retain a stake. I don’t know how much of your previous experience translates over, cuz I honestly don’t know how much of Sony’s laptop design aesthetic was retained in the new company.

That’s just a long winded way of saying, it might be worth a fresh look, if you feel up to looking into them.
>exactly whose English should we be spelling in

I know we'll never be able to choose one, but any dialect would be fine to standardize on.