skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some critics from ZDNet:

There is very little information about how the two types of networks, neural and neuromorphic, are trained, which is an important issue for either one separately, and even more important when they're combined. Pei and colleagues write, in the "Methods" section of the paper, that they trained the deep learning part in the normal way, and that for the neuromorphic part, they relied on a method introduced last year by some of the researchers, called "Spatio-temporal backpropagation," a version of the backpropogation approach common in deep learning.

There are also some missing details about the chip's fabrication. For example, the part is said to have "reconfigurable" circuits, but how the circuits are to be reconfigured is never specified. It could be so-called "field-programmable gate array," or FPGA, technology or something else. Code for the project is not provided by the authors as it often is for such research; the authors offer to provide the code "on reasonable request."

More important is the fact the chip may have a hard time stacking up to a lot of competing chips out there, says analyst Gwennap. The specs seem underwhelming, in his view. "Tianjic's reported 1.28 TOPS/watt [trillions of operations per watt, a common measure of performance] is similar to today's GPUs," he notes, referring to graphics processing unit chips made by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. However, the performance is "well behind more advanced architectures" of newer chips, he notes.

Gwennap's colleague, Mike Demler, concurs. He notes some inaccuracies in the paper, such as the contention that spiking neurons require "extra high-precision memory" circuits for some functions. Demler's review of a neuromorphic chip by chip giant Intel, called "Loihi," shows that such is not the case. A chip developed by startup Brainchip, Inc., also proves the claim false, he says. Moreover, since the Loihi chip has already shown that conventional neural networks, such as a convolutional neural network, or CNN, can be implemented as a spiking neuron, there's no need for the kind of "unified" chip that the Tsinghua authors claim.
I wouldn't think so. It's basically the script of the movie, minus the stage directions, and I don't think the MPAA is going to agree that's not copyrightable. There's no "transformation" there in the copyright sense that I can see, it's just a copy.
Violent video games seems to be the talking point du jour coming out of the gun rights/white supremacist media machine... Was weirdly all over fox news yesterday. Is it a genuine concern, or just a trial balloon, looking for the best way to derail the conversation this time around? You be the judge!
OK, I knew that there was something fishy about it. I thought initially that the poster was openly admitting to discriminate against gay people.
It’s not on track to be carbon neutral by 2040, but that is a much higher bar than its Paris commitment.
If your code doesn't kinda suck, you're putting too much effort into the code and not enough effort into the problem. It's weird, but important to learn.
How did you answer this question:
Do you take her to be your wife? Do you promise to be faithful to her in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love her and to honor her all the days of your life?
The CCP is throwing in the towel.. The communist Ponzi is coming to an end. But richest party members' assets and savings are in AUD, CAD and USD, so this won't hit them too hard.

Hong Kong banks will be in deep trouble when mainland borrowers stop answering emails and phones...
In NL we've got the "bijkeuken". Modern homes rarely have them, but old farm houses almost always do.

Our new house incidentally does have one, which is indeed messy, and mostly used to store kitchen equipment we rarely use, as well as all the kitchen machinery, including the water kettle and coffee maker, that we don't want in plain sight. Apart from making tea and coffee, we don't do any actual work there, though. The real kitchen is still messy, because that's where the real cooking happens.
I'm not pinning this on any group (although if we look at the rhetoric from major events in the past few years, it clearly supports doing so) but I am saying your talking points come straight from the alt-right playbook. Hate fueled rhetoric, plus making the world the bogie man for the sad displaced white boy is literally the alt-right SOP. Let's not stop pointing fingers at them as part of the problem.
What a terrible interview.

They had someone knowledgeable and interesting to talk to, and the interviewer sounds like he's failing 10th grade, and asks questions to match.
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As of 2016, almost 90% of housekeepers were women (Edit - in the U.S.):

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce...

There are probably many reasons for this, not all of them good. However, one that comes to mind is how it feels vulnerable to let a stranger explore your entire house (likely without you there), and women are perceived as less threatening.
This is like saying that human exertion is independent of having to eat, because a person can go for a walk without first planning their next meal. This appears true on a small scale, but in the long run the inputs and outputs must balance.

For really big transactions, it becomes obvious. If I borrow $1 trillion from a bank, and immediately transfer it out, the bank can't get that money a posteriori. It can't transfer more than it has. It needs to borrow the entire sum, plus the reserve cushion, from someone else - other banks, depositors, or the Fed.

To be clear, I am in no way denying that bank lending increases the money supply. The contrast I'm drawing is with the Fed itself, which really can lend $1 trillion without getting it from anyone else.
> I think this means that they will not have legislative power in the government (aka similar to USVI or Puerto Rico in the US)

This is incorrect. Not having a legislature here means not having a state legislature. They will still have an elected representative in the national parliament, unlike Puerto Rico, or even Washington DC. Perhaps Washington DC would be the most apt comparison, as in the national government governing a province.
The new title of this article is `The Fundamental Link Between Body Weight and the Immune System`
I believe it's alright as long as the product isn't necessary and just value-added. In the case of Cloudflare, that's pretty clear that it's just value-added.

In the case of water supply, electricity, phone, internet service, etc... it's not just value-added, you can't function without those, there's no alternative.
Assuming this is a serious question: You/Your group needs some serious help.

What you do about it depends on your role/level of influence in your organization. Regardless of your level, I highly recommend reading Speed of Trust (like I recommended above). However, two example roles:

If you are the CEO/key leader, there is no excuse for creating/fostering this mess. You have to address the culture you have fostered heads on. Your complaint: “But it will cost too much!”. If that is your mentality, you are missing the point. Don’t look at absolute costs, look at value, that is what good CEOs do. If you can realize $2 for $1 cost, or $5 for $2 of cost, which should you choose?

The $2 for $1 is what you realize by creating/fostering a low trust environment. When you hire folks, find the best people you can, and then enable them. If you aren’t getting good people, it is either because a) they think your environment is toxic or b) you aren’t offering “enough” to compensate them. Note: compensation is NOT just dollars. It could be flexibility, it could be the ability to work on their side projects, it can be ability to learn new skills, or can be shared vision. Take your pick. In general, after some number of x $$$, money becomes secondary. Foster a culture of trust, mutual respect, and you will get dividends.

If you are at the “lower” on the totem pole, the answer is more simple. Ask yourself: can this org be saved? If you brought this up to leadership, would they work to change the culture? If not, then it is time to pack your bags/look for a better org. If they will listen, You have to decide if you WANT to save the org. If so, you have a long road ahead, but if you can pull it off, you will gain lots of experience and will rapidly increase your marketability.

Edit:
In case it wasn’t made clear, let me make this final point for the ceo/leader: Spend the money/create the perks that allow you to attract the people you can trust, then once you get them, TRUST them. Yes, verify, but if you don’t do this, you are doomed to fail. Also, either find a way to trust the people you have, or get rid of them. It is a disservice to both you and them to keep around people you can’t trust.

One big caveat: make sure you are someone THEY can trust too.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack as an example found in seconds.

> More important, as it's not a factor in the current incident, it's irrelevant.

Well now that seems like a bad faith kind of argument. Since none of us have a time machine, surely our intent is to solve potential future issues and not go back and change the past?
I don't care about the cost of the vehicle, I care about not having a place where I can load it. Parking is next to the road, and no electrical outlets exist there. Parking at the job is a new parking garage - again without electrical outlets.

An electric car would be useful to me for about 400 km before it runs dry - that's about four days of driving for me.
The vast majority of the money in circulation is not created by central banks but by commercial banks making loans.
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> When war mongering governments like US, Russia use Cloudflare for war propaganda websites that enable their wars and killings of lots and lots of people

Do you have a source for that?
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And you, Cloudflare?

I had some respect for CF, but now it's gone.
"The 28-nm chip consists of 156 FCores, containing approximately 40,000 neurons and 10 million synapses"

I am dying to know where they are harvesting these from?

(yes, there is a pun hiding in the sentence above)
Then they're not free to operate as they please.
CDNs are not the only way to provide protection against DDOS, they're a packaged offering combining multiple technologies but there's nothing preventing you from running geolocated servers, on multiple providers, with ddos mitigation you buy/build yourself. Blocking at the DNS layer (through multi-party action I guess) is going to be an insurmountable hurdle. Wanting cloudflare or any other company to offer you prerolled infrastructure as a right is ludicrous. This distinction is anything but arbitrary.
If you compare the US to only developed countries, it is an extreme outlier with regard to violence, and that violence correlates strongly with the number of guns [1]. Gun violence in the US is rising, not declining [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shoot...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/health/gun-deaths-highest-40-...
this is a great simd resource, even if you don’t use it directly the source can be a great guide on how to implement various tricky things you often need when doing simd intrinsics programming.
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Beginning to be off-topic, but I'm curious...

The problem is, the food poisoning usually manifests after you've already paid and left the resturant.

Could one do a credit card charge-back if they get sick after eating out? (Too bad I pay using cash though, so I am SOL.)
It's not just the manifesto. Places like 8chan are positive feedback generators for this kind of extremism. Every time one of these events happen it fuels the sort of unofficial contest to see who can be the next one, to be the next hero/martyr of the community. Easy access to guns is certainly a problem, but easy access to these radicalization factories is also a significant component that needs to be addressed.
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A century ago most housewives were farm housewives. The housewife on a pre-electric, pre-running water farm could not have spent 60 hours/week on what is now "housework", since considerable time had to be devoted to caring for the chickens; collecting and packing eggs; planting, weeding, harvesting the garden; canning vegetables and fruits; helping with the milking; helping with butchering chickens, pigs, and steers; etc.

On the other hand, multi-generational households were common, maiden-aunts came to stay and help, and neighborhood girls could be hired when needed. Neighboring housewives helped out when the threshing crew arrived and a dozen hungry men had to be fed a good meal.

Baths were Saturday night and clothes were washed Mondays for the simple reason that greater frequency was impractical, since water had to be carried from the well and heated on the wood stove.
Not an issue I've dealt with during the last 10 years in production. On OSX, homebrew python + standard virtual environments + pip mitigates that completely. On the Ubuntu side, system python + standard virtual environments + pip work fine as well. Anything else?
Hm, it is very doubtful that good content is simply enough nowadays. With tons of information in the internet, "just good content" can hardly be discovered by itself. There are should be ways for target audiences to find it, share it and engage with it.
But do they propose that CNN be deplatformed?
I think they dislike this specific island used on the show because it no longer makes any sense. In the same way families would sit around the dinner table they now sit around this gargantuan kitchen island. It's the worst of both worlds: the dining room is now taking up all the space in the kitchen and this person needs to run around this ridiculous island when they cook.

An argument can be made that some kitchen islands are useful. It would be a struggle to make that argument for this particular kitchen island.

It's only touched on in the article but I find the idea that some people have _two_ kitchens, a smaller and private one in which they cook and then _another entire kitchen_ that is larger and only for show to be much more upsetting than this crazy big kitchen island.
And I also had a 3 hour meeting today with co-workers that I enjoy working with, solving a problem we all care about. That was work.

I'll be commuting home for an hour. That is work.

Tonight I'll be putting the kids to bed, then tidying up the kitchen. That is also work.

I think it is fair to say, that as an adult with kids, much of your time that you aren't doing something just for you, will to a degree be work. And that is OK. As long as you and your partner are happy with the split you have, then that is OK too.
What about France, Switzerland, Finland? They're all above the US, and don't have low GDP per capita (although I'm not sure why we're supposed to associate poor countries with more shootings).
> I would even argue the same is generaly true for europe a part for the UK.

I guess you meant:

and part of the UK

I tickled me no end though. The thought of Europe being a part of the UK, what would Farage do? :)
Lenders do increase the money supply, and in that sense create money, but I am hesitant about that phrasing because it elides the important distinction between ordinary banks and the central bank. That's why I mentioned the distinction between "inside money" and "outside money." In the spirit of your comment, I invite you to Google these terms!
8chan has been a known commodity for a long time. If it was such a valuable source of intelligence, why aren't these attacks being stopped?
We do this for our maintenance retainers... after our sites go live, we continue to provide technical and marketing services on a monthly basis. Pre-paid retainers secure a lower billing rate.

So far, it hasn't been a good idea to start out that way, even from our perspective. The problem with "projects" is that there are usually requirements on both sides, and payment + delivery keep things urgent for both sides. I hate projects that go on forever because the client can't produce things they need to or respond in a definitive manner. Holding the deliverable back is a pretty impactful negative consequence (or: motivation).

We are exploring an "agency of record" start-up engagement where the retainer plus phases may be the way to go. But it's less of a project with deliverables than agency-of-record time and effort.
> People will almost certainly drive what is cheaper, all the more so in America where consumption is high.

Which is why hybrids and small cars dominate the American market? Fuel consciousness is only one thing driving purchasing decisions, and not the most important.

Americans could well decide to continue buying cars that can go on long journeys, don't have costly battery replacement issues, and don't take an hour to refuel at a special station.
A very insightful comment in another story worth repeating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20613520

Basically, you're advocating for replacing trust with bureaucracy.
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We're all slaves man.
The Ohio shooter described himself as a left wing Satanist. Most of the school shooters had little to no political ideology. A few have been hard left leaning and some have been alt-right. It is disingenuous to state that they are motivated by political ideology as the overwhelming majority have has little to no interest in politics given their age. I don't dispute that some of the mass killings have been done out of ultra-radicalized political ideologies but the majority are not committed for that reason.
The Internet, at least in the US and probably the world, is not a public utility. It's run by a conglomerate of private corporations that have just as much rights as an individual, at least according to US law.

Cloudflare is a CDN just like many ISP's. And ISP's have had the right to control traffic how they like for decades (within reason of course based on a stipulated contract). They do not provide journalistic services, or speech services, or editorial services. They provide infrastructure. So it's not like Facebook or Twitter which are discussion areas.
It's the eternal debate: is content truly king? Can you just push awesome content out there, and get floods of traffic in?

Or is it a "If a tree falls in a forest..." type situation in that an unknown website with great content will continue to be an unknown website?

Since Google can't truly understand content quality/semantics, a certain level of marketing does seem to be needed to bring traffic in.
Maybe not, but others could refuse to peer with them.
How? They're being deplatformed.
That's where it all started... After answering that question with "yes" and realizing what was coming his way he swore to always answer with "no" from that point forward.
Both you and Vox are trying to limit the discussion to gun crime, as if knife crime or acid attacks or bombings or mass vehicular homicides don't matter. That's misleading and borderline dishonest. It's the violence that matters, not the weapon.
It's a fuzzy area. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. When we do something together that I also enjoy, then it isn't. When it's about something he wants and I'm just there because I need to be while I'd rather be doing something else, then it's a chore.

I don't think there's any way to objectively measure that.
My opinion is that in the absence of a process framework, the advantage lies with people who try to build trust rather than doing the right or optimal thing. It also makes people a less fungible resource.
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Yes, there are of course limits to bank lending. Ultimately, the limiting factor is the ability of banks to make profitable loans. The capital and the reserves will follow if the profitable loans are there.

The money lent does not go away when the check or whatever is cashed at another bank. The reserves follows the check. We're just working with more balance sheets now.

As long as the loan asset remains in the books, it earns interest which will add to bank equity.

We can keep bringing up details, but the basics remain the same. Bank lending creates money.
I must compliment the creativity of defending someone from having published nonsense by claiming that it wasn't sufficiently-scientifically-generated nonsense.

If someone not in the field can write a "middling compelling" paper in a distant field while trying to be absurd, then that still means something. If some jerk (basically) can just scribble a "publishable paper" off in some semi-major discipline while literally doing the opposite of trying, then clearly that semi-major discipline has very little value to it. We're not creating these large infrastructures with journals and university libraries and peer review and the Imprimatur of Scientific Credibility and credentialed university graduate programs and millions of dollars in grants for things any idiot can scribble down. We've got the Internet at large for that already.

If it's by design or somehow correct that peer review can't catch these things, then my opinion of the situation is even worse than if they were merely a demonstration of things slipping through a net, and peer review on any level is apparently utterly worthless.

Your defense may be superficially interesting, but if taken seriously, only deepens the problem.
While I don't doubt the right is using it as a talking point, ignoring one link because one likes it (games) while demonizing another link (guns) is not the answer to actually solving the issue and is a form of filter bubbling.
AUM was 1 attack 24 years ago. If you sum that and KyoAni, you end up with something like 50 victims in 25 years.

Do you think these numbers are even remotely comparable to US ones, where there have been hundreds of incidents only this year?
> The underlying protocols are well over 40 years old

old != broken

> In practice, self-hosting email is problematic and presents risks

Not more, than self hosting WordPress....
And it's really not that problematic to self host it. I'm very tired of always hearing how hard it is when all one needs to do is adding a few dns records for spf, dkim, dmarc and reverse dns, and it works.

> At the same time, the utility and practicality of email is rapidly declining.

Not as infrastructure, no. In personal communication, yes.

You are correct on some points, especially the power concentration. On other points we're over complicating email. We need to accept that it'll never be as "private" as some enthusiasts would like it to be, but it's a more than adequate for reliably exchanging information.
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Anyway, you're wrong about that state too. Lots of remodeling gets done there, too, without the involvement of licensed general contractors.

Not legally, which was my point.