skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to the question the headline poses, inferring from people sampled in the article is: "They mostly end up in a English related academic position in school or college setting"
> not a reminder that it exists for a reason

I really don't want to reitarate what people a lot smarter than me have written.

It's not different this time - the media have changed, but so have the Kings. No matter how many messengers they beheaded , the problems that Kings had did not go away. No matter how many people we deplatform, the problems of modern Democracy won't go away either. To me it seems people are going through a classic crisis of misattributing the blame: Modern political systems like democracy are ill-adapted for an increasingly individualistic, globalized world, and the problem won't go away after they regulate the media. (BTW i can't think of any case where shooting the messenger/media worked in the the long term in the past)
Career progress in academia is mostly based on publications in top-tier journals in your field. If those journals aren't open access, you're required to publish in closed access journals if you want to (1) get a Ph.D., (2) get tenure, etc.
> Dark Crystal

Is there any white paper or something similar?
I'm not (currently) objecting to the actual MLPerf results.

I'm objecting to the fact that your marketing team (at least, I hope it was your marketing team) chose to represent 5 different GPU systems as the same color and 3 different TPU systems as another color in one bar chart.

There's a book with a chapter or two on how to reasonably compare the performance of computer systems. Given that the author (Patterson) works on TPUs, I would expect better.
You are describing institutionalization. Mandatory institutionalization is ripe for abuse, and voluntary institutionalization doesn't work when it's intended use is to serve people whose defining characteristics is inability to mak good choices consistently.
This is a great question! In our case, in MA, rooftop solar was only economically viable because of two subsides:

* New metering, where the power company has to act as our battery for free. Even if we produce more than we're using, which we do most afternoons when few of us are home, each kWh we send into the grid reduces our bill as the end of the month by one kWh.

* SREC II subsidies, where we just get money per kWh we produce.

Both of these are available to homeowners but not to commercial producers.

(We also got a tax credit, but it's possible that companies also get similar credits.)
Do Blu-Ray players allow to go straight to movie? Is Blu-Ray playback supported by Linux? I don't really know, but for a few months now I long for simplicity of owning a disc.
Yeah, that’s actually the one I was referring to. The rebuttal to it left me unsure: http://x265.org/beamr-hevc-encoder-comparison/ (it is also from a while ago, before 3.x I believe)
In the US, the NIH has a public access policy since 2008, as required by law:

> SEC. 218. The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.

https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm#753

Access the papers here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

The 12 month delay for public access shouldn't exist. Any discussion of a paper in the news tends to happen around the official date of publication because that is when the press embargo is lifted. The public deserves to have access to the original work then, not a year later. But everyone does eventually get access to NIH-funded work.
Elsevier attempted - successfully, for quite some time - to create a gate-keeping oligopoly by inserting it as a choke point into academic publishing while providing no real added value.

This isn't about copyright, because original authors are forced to pay-to-play.

In a genuine copyright market, creators are paid in exchange for exploitation of copyright.

If they have to pay up to sign over their rights, that's not a copyright issue - that's extortion.
I can vote for the people (at every level) that I think will spend the taxes I am legally obligated to pay in a way I agree with and I can follow up with successively vociferous concerns (letters < community organization < protest, etc), but at a certain point my freedom (or life) can be threatened.

Employers can’t (yet) do the same. I’m under no obligation to them to do what I morally disagree with because I can always quit playing their game.

All I can do to quit my country is uproot from everything I’ve ever known, including my family, to another country that I agree with more that will also let me in.

They’re completely different situations and I’m pretty sure we all recognize that, but I’ll add my own personal anecdotes:

Employer

I don’t like the idea of software patents or generic business patents that can be summed up with “... do it on a computer”. I created some really awesome things for an employer many moons ago that were essentially revolutionizing how people in this very particular niche could more efficiently do their jobs. What did I really do though? I put together some open source tools completely foreign to this niche, glued them together with some nifty ideas and code that I wrote, put a decent unified UI on it, and packaged it up as a virtual machine appliance for our people in the field. My company wanted me to sign the invention away so they could patent it, and were going to put in 5 different applications. It was sign on the dotted line or walk, I walked at significant financial penalty.

Government

My dad’s from Libya. I lived there for a while growing up, and all my dad’s family is still in Tripoli. They all hated Gadaffi, and with the Arab spring uprising- things were getting bad. I joined in some protests across the US asking for intervention. Welp, we got what we asked for but not what we wanted. Turns out governments and geopolitics are tricky.
Yeah, pretty similar overall. Tho Tekton is also the underlying technology for Jenkins X. With Jenkins being such a common system in the CI/CD space, I think we'll see Tekton preferred going forward.

https://jenkins-x.io/
Speed of light, and using analog form of computation.

This single piece of glass can do as many visual recognitions as physics allows, using no energy (light aside).
New election systems use vulnerable software
I cut a circular hole in some paper. It's now an AI.
I have suffered from this personally. I was a "smart" kid. I was always top of my class till 10th standard. Everybody called me smart and intelligent. The schoolwork till 10th never challenged me. But when the complexity increase with pre college courses and STEM I was lost because I never had tackled this kind of difficulty before. I went into depression for couple of years. I was saved by Hamming's "You and Your research" and Learning how to learn. I restarted believing and learning again with growth mindset.
I feel that this represents a great strength and great weakness of the Amazon model. A huge network of independent sellers allows for an untouchable amount of variety and ultra fast movement in response to trends. This sort of grey market product sourcing model allows for value creation and low prices (these people are helping match excess goods with people who value them highly). But it would be impossible (with current methods) to control the sourcing provenance of these goods from such a vast network of suppliers at such low quantities. In some categories this can lead to the often discussed issues with counterfeits. Perhaps in the future a better method of the product authentication will allow the best of both worlds.
This has been extremely useful to me while writing a (somewhat optimizing) compiler for spreadsheets. I can do subtree deduplication just by `assoc`ing into a map.
Great project, both requires and creates optimism.

Sadly, some marketer is probably reading this and trying to figure out how they can exploit the "cooperative effort and whimsical creativity" of the non-tech-driven IRL networks...
The mathematics of entanglement doesn't allow it to be used for communication.
Ok, we've deeinsteined the title above.
They don't grow old. They superannuate.
do you put your author's final version in https://escholarship.org ?

Do you ever use https://oapolicy.universityofcalifornia.edu/ ? (it's only open to senate faculty right now, be we are rolling it out for all ~240k UC employees)

Also related https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu

(disclosure, I'm the nominal tech lead for these)
How much market penetration do those have? Are they staples in the *nix world?
Indeed. If our goal us to help these folks become productive members of society (and then start paying taxes, etc.), then alienating them and housing them possibly too far away from their families, their children's schools, and suitable job opportunities seems like a bad way to achieve that.
Or arXiv. Elsevier authors can post their papers on arXiv and/or their own website.
Author of the blog post here.

We submitted multiple results using various Cloud TPU v3 Pod slice sizes to show the current achievable Transformer training efficiency at several scales:

https://mlperf.org/training-results-0-6

We're actively improving the whole TPU software stack, so training efficiency is likely to continue to increase over time.
It's not. It only looks like a large number because they are all crammed into a small public space and not hidden inside condos and houses.

We have more of an epidemic of rich people squatting in hundreds of miles of waterfront property and ruining shoreline access for the public.
Thank you, somehow the article is unskimmable and I didn't follow a single story to the end.
Failure isn’t something to be ashamed of, unless you keep failing for the same reasons. Your startup’s bankruptcy has taught you valuable lessons. If any of those lessons are applicable, discuss them.

Crap.... didn’t read past the title.
Lol I was thinking of that comment and was hoping mine wouldn't sound it like it. I'm actually happy Stein exists and think it'll be useful to a lot of people. Part of the reason I used Google sheets was because it was a 'free' DB and so I was just highlighting the free alternative.
A closer comparison would be to Argo Workflow. Tekton and Argo Workflow provide ways to declare workflow pipelines for execution on Kubernetes. Tekton focuses on source based workflows, while Argo is more general purpose.

We've been working with the Argo team to make sure Argo CD works well with Tekton, and we now have a first-class integration in the tekton catalog, contributed by that team.

Disclosure: one of the leads and founders of the Tekton project.
Yeah, I wrote about it a few years ago and it was discussed here on HN too, I think: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-us...
There are few open access journals in my field, and the ones that will publish open access charge absurdly high fees for it. I have a spreadsheet for my field: $2000 to $3140 per article, average $2690. I tried to negotiate with one smaller and more specialized journal in my field on the fee without any luck. I've also tried to find journals willing to take my paper without copyright transfer, as if commonly done for US government employees, but few journals seem willing to do that without the law requiring it.

My solution at the moment: Publish only in conferences that don't require you to transfer copyright so I can distribute my paper open access without paying anything. Yes, the peer review, if there is any, is less rigorous, but my experience suggests that peer review typically offers only shallow critiques of my work. Peer review doesn't need to work that way, but that's how it is in practice at the moment. I think review is valuable, but this makes getting good reviews my responsibility, not a publishing venue's.

This solution also precludes me from working in most tenure-track academic positions, but I believe those positions are a bad deal anyway, so I'm not too worried. Government research positions seem usually okay with publishing mainly in conferences.

If there are any other issues with this scheme, I'm interested in hearing about them.

I'm against subsidizing open access publication as that seems to basically be a subsidy for publishers and not researchers. That would maintain the absurdly high open access feeds. Instead, let's make the journals compete on price, and they'll have to compete against free (e.g., Arxiv), so hopefully this would drive the prices down to a reasonable level. I'm fine with paying publishers if they actually provide a service commensurate with what they charge. The issue is that they don't right now.
It will be ok, as students and faculty know they can simply use Sci-Hub.
EventBridge is a PubSub system with different tradeoffs and operational constraints and behaviors.

The cool new features are: (1) It allows serverless dynamic routing based on message content which auto-scales to match usage. (2) It supports SaaS partner events. (3) It supports publishing events based on a scheduled configuration, which can be used to trigger cron jobs or other system processes.

So it is just a messaging system, but one that might be more appropriate to certain use cases over using SQS or SNS or Kinesis, etc.

The article thinks that the ability to have SaaS partner publish events will be a huge deal and is a killer feature of EventBridge.
1kWh = 3.6e6 joules

1 lightning bolt = 5e9/3.6e6 = 1389 kWh

price of energy = 0.10 $/kWh

price of 1 lightning bolt = $138.90
Looks like. I expect because digital guidance was edge of the envelope in the 1960s.

Only later did performance increase enough that space hardware could be conservative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
Success is a social construct. Intelligence is a social construct.
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Preserving Internet Memes via Participatory Community -Based Approaches
So let's go to the root of this. What is it that the funding agencies value in Elsevier publications? That if it's published there it's a mark of high quality research.

Assuming Elsevier is killed off, someone else will have to put in the work of sifting good from bad. And that's not an easy problem, especially when many try to pervert the process for ideological gain.
Would be nice for them, probably not gonna happen.
The recent update on the report seems to point to an Italian facility that relates to timing though:

> Guenter Hein, Professor Emeritus of Excellence at the University FAF Munich told us, “As far as I know, it is a problem of the PTF [Precise Timing Facility] in Italy – time has an impact on the whole constellation!”
Regarding values: you can construct the same datastructure in any place, and compare it meaningfully with a datastructure from a completely different source (and you can do so efficiently). This is accomplished, as far as I know, by representing almost everything as persistent hash trees (with some implementation voodoo and shortcuts).

Beyond that, you can actually just read the Clojure runtime code. It's a bit messy but there's not really that much there.
I just got news that one of my kids Taekwondo instructors may have this. He was a healthy 21 year old male. Everyone is feeling devastated as he was so young and not completely reliant on life support for his breathing. No one knows if he will recover and it is terrifying. As someone with several kids this is really worrying.
Not necessarily. Cordova plugin compatibility was designed in from the start. Unfortunately, some plugins relied on more obscure aspect s of Cordova and don’t work. We keep an updated list of incompatible plugins here: https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/cordova/known-inco...
Not as far as I can tell. There are users whose emotions have taken this form for whatever reason, and they show up like superheroes in arbitrary scenes.

That comment was killed automatically by HN's anti-troll software, but I unkilled it last night. Maybe that was a mistake since it led to more offtopicness.
A plugin that allows customers to purchase products in one click
IIUC, the analysis assumes other systems would also be disrupted, as modern devices support multiple location services (gps, galileo, glonass).

So there isn't really a case of GPS failing while Galileo works and viceversa, it's just "everything fails" vs "something works".
Thanks for giving this analogy, It made more sense than my imagination above.

If I understand correctly, it’s the design process, not glass, that used learning. Along the same analogy, I guess the sculpture in London (glass, here), which was designed using random walk (neural nets), would be the same: the sculpture in itself isn’t “random walk”, but the design process was.

(I couldn’t recall what was the name of the sculpture. Here’s the wiki link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Cloud )

Edit: I read the other comments and it’s getting more confusing! AI, from my school courses, would be implementation of algorithms like Hill climbing where a system is online: it takes some input, and tries its best to find a solution. Now if I take the output itself for use in, say, signal processing — that “output” would be a “device” to do something and won’t be an “AI device”. Does this make any sense at all? I’d love to get some pointers on this to read.
Their freedom ends where mine begins. Copyright legislation is a legislative solution to a legislative problem, wheras DRM is a technical non-solution to a non-technical problem, and infringes upon my own rights. The latter is the real problem here.
How computers used standard audio tapes to store data
This is similar to Java's transition from a feature-based release model to a time-based release model. The first rapid release was Java 10 in March 2018.
First job?

Career advice: never bad mouth a former employer. Consider the perspective of the person sitting across the table from you. Would you want to hire someone who is negative?

Another piece of career advice: saying someone went 'retard' is not really appropriate.
Copyright is what keeps billions of people from accessing every book ever written for free.

Google really tried to do this but stopped digitizing books halfway through the worlds collection because of copyright law. It hurts to think of all the knowledge we could have shared if this had been permitted.
Their financial model is selling subscriptions, so they have a vested interest in turning the game into an extreme grind.

Elite Dangerous sells a single upfront payment with there's no subscription which has its own weird effects, they have to budget each $X sale will result in Y hours of use before boredom sets in.

I wish there were a viable in between business model such that things are neither boring to get you to quit nor boring to keep you grinding forever. AFAIK no one has tried an ownership financialized space sim. Buy and improve and rent and sell space stations and ships using real microbitcoins or similar.
AbCellera
Why would a physicist embrace superdeterminism? Present science holds the falsifiability of a theory as a necessity for its utility. Under the light of SD every experimental result may be impossible to interpret as supportive of a theory.

Free will seems to be the most difficult philosophical question. Accepting SD invalidates the scientific method's approach to learning about the world.

You may be interested in other non-local hidden variable theories as a way to sidestep Bell's Theorem & the Copenhagen interpretation.
To be fair, Elsevier has no direct say in how that funding gets distributed. This is decided by various foundations, NSF, etc., who choose to use publication in Elsevier-owned journals as a proxy for quality.

(N.b. I am no fan of Elsevier, just trying to figure out how their power can be unwound)
It's a special kind of lens or prism, and "headline-grade buzzword choices" notwithstanding, this is yet another very interesting result out of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

As others have stated here, this construction is due to machine learning whether or not the device itself has a capability to adapt further.
What I'm really asking is: how much effective compute throughput are you able to get during Transformer training relative to the amount of theoretical raw compute available?
There are ways we (UC libraries) provide access to the content still w/o using sci hub https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/pub...
The Mind-Blowing Amount of Time Americans Spend Watching TV
Whatever biological concept you're thinking of here, you're incorrect to generalize it to humans.

Our complex brains, societies, and medicine (like birth control) significantly change our mate selection. We are not antelopes.
Is there any way that propagation of polio related viruses is linked with reduced immunization rate? Like opening new "natural" reservoir for it to exploit/mutate in?
"startup went bankrupt due to reasons beyond my control"

Unless they had a position in the C suite, that can probably be shortened to "Company went bankrupt" with zero further explanation volunteered. Though it helps to think things through ahead of time and figure out how to address any questions that may come up.

The most PC thing to say would be along the lines of "Starting a new business is always a gamble and lots of new businesses simply don't succeed."
So it looks like best guess is some sort of mutated polio virus? Also seems to cluster from June to December range... I hope they figure out what exactly this is soon.
Thanks for the feedback. As more and more new ML system architectures emerge over the next few years, these performance comparisons will get even more complicated. Chip-to-chip comparisons and server-to-server comparisons are arbitrary, and it will sometimes be difficult to define these boundaries at all.

Our impression is that top-line performance comparisons independent of system size (like the comparison in the blog post) and performance-per-dollar comparisons are the easiest to understand, but we're certainly open to other ideas.
> The framing this asshole gets from the press

... is a trick that Mike Finkel used in order to make Christopher Knight talk:

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Christopher Knight spent seven months in prison for his thefts, and has chosen not to speak to any journalist other than Mike Finkel.

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There was a Doctor, a Bio-statistician, an attorney, and a radio reporter. There were 2 English related academics in the article (and one professor of Classics with a Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy), so that's definitely overrepresented, but it was more diverse than I would have expected.
So what exactly is this a picture of? Two entangled photons? I don't have the background for the full maths involved here, but there's not enough in that article to tell me why it's exciting ...
>> Considering that we are trying to automate all manual labor in the not so distant future, copyright is more and not less important to our society.

The number of people who derive meaningful income from their copyrighted work is and has been very small, and only a small fraction of that (e.g. Disney) derives a fortune by enforcing draconian copyright laws, so it's not clear if this will change in the future.

Also jobs like janitors and nannies won't be automated for a very long time, and it's not clear if the society benefits more from having yet another person writing a novel or making a movie rather than having the same person clean or take care of children.