skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No its not I live in Alaska and its clearly Republican decisions here that have led us to the situation we have. Democrats barely had country before losing it in a landslide by Republicans and having the majority of what they proposed opposed stopped by Republicans. Our centrist system has made it impossible to pass anything. Im not saying democrats are flawless but they arent the ones pulling us out of climate agreeements, supporting anti environmental policies, and refusing to aknowledge we have a problem. We need political pressure on Republicans if we are gonna pass anything useful in this country. Its kinda hard to solve an issue when you have an entire side that refuses to even admit its an issue and is actively working against you.
No, it applies to content.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323322256_Media_Pol...

e: My mistake, thought you were talking about my point, not about Twitter's policy.
You get much higher bandwidth (at lower power cost) between chiplets than if you used a multi-chip design or even an interposer.

The drawback is that you suffer a really interesting thermal problem and have to figure out what to do with the wafer space that doesn't fit in your square -- probably creating lower-scale designs that you sell.

The second drawback is that you can't really match your available computation to memory in the same way you can with a more conventional GPU. So you have to be able to split your model across chips and train model-parallel. The advantage is that model-parallel lets you throw a heck of a lot more computation at the problem and can help you scale better than using only data parallelism.

Model-parallel training is typically harder than data-parallel because you need high bandwidth between the computation units. But that's exactly what Cerebras's design is intended to provide.

You also have a yield management issue, where you have to build in the capability to route around dead chips, but that's not too nasty a technical detail. But if your "chip"-level yield (note that their chip is still a replicated array of subunits) is too low, it kills your overall yield. So they're going to be conservative with their manufacturing to keep yield high.

It's not obviously broken, but it's certainly true we need benchmarks -- but not just benchmarks, time for people to come up with models that are optimized for training/inference on the cerebras platform, which will take even longer.
Well, we can turn that argument around: if an artificial brain could be faster than a real one, does that mean that right now we have slow artificial brains that are just as good as the real ones? The answer being an obvious 'no' may help answer your question.
True. And Europe is the origin on the Fiat Multipla, which even beats the Pontiac Aztek by a mile when it comes to ugliness.
And 720p or even 480p looks pretty fine on small ass screen. I left Tmo's throttling on so I wouldn't blow through my 6gb too quickly.
Newt Gingrich proposes a $2B prize for a human Moon lander
Maybe memorising algorithms from a textbook does not translate to great system engineering and SRE skills? Who would have thought.
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I see a lot of comments looking at this from a 'X vs Y' lens and are trying to paint China/USA/Trump/Whoever as a bully, victim, or some other emotional label. In this kind of situation, I think it is important to remember that there are not any 'bullies' and 'victims'

Like most business, the rules of engagement are flexible dependent on those involved and their willingness to assume risk to gain a nominal advantage. Also like most businesses, the net outcome of increasing risk is not always in favor of the party taking the risk, however the net outcome is almost always in [someone's] favor. Thus, you can simplify the outcome of any risk into two categories: Internal Advantage & External Advantage.

-- Note: I don't use the term "disadvantage" as I prefer to force myself to think of things from a advantage/standing perspective. Any loss on a countries' part is a direct result of another country gaining some relative advantage. "What is the inherent risk with Action [X], and who gains from it?"

Now regarding the issue at hand, the recent moves between China & the United States:

China is responding to the United States assuming a greater degree of risk, and corresponding reward, through recent tariff changes.

They appear to be trying to mitigate the advantage the United States gained by their actions, and thus are responding as any rational party in this situation would by attempting to regain their original advantage. The value of the currencies is, while non-trivial from a macro-perspective, a non-issue compared to re-establishing a status quo of commerce volume and relative economic position.

The question that remains now is whether the net advantages of either nation shifts as a result of this recent exchange.
I didn't even know that had existed! MS really did have a fascinating CD-ROM portfolio back in the day.
What kind of scale are you able to achieve with this? How many captures / edits per hour?
Google only hires the best of the best.
You can pay for a fiber line with an SLA, etc. They cost hundreds to thousands of dollars a month, even in downtown areas with several business fiber providers to choose from.
Another way to think about that is that PMs spend three quarters of the year distracted by meetings with external clients, and only have summer to actually ride their teams on implementing the things they've negotiated.
The BBC's domestic news is reasonably independent, but I'm not sure the same can be said for the World Service (which until recently was funded directly by the Foreign Office).
Brain functions under electromagnetic shielding, so are you proposing some new physical force?
"Designed to thrive after fires

Like many plants native to fire-prone regions, eucalyptus trees (aka gum trees in Australia) are adapted to survive — or even thrive — in a wildfire. Fallen eucalyptus leaves create dense carpets of flammable material, and the trees' bark peels off in long streamers that drop to the ground, providing additional fuel that draws ground fires up into the leaves, creating massive, fast-spreading "crown fires" in the upper story of eucalyptus forests."

https://www.livescience.com/40583-australia-wildfires-eucaly...
Has anyone ever done a comparison to see how much overhead this actually adds? I'd be really curious to see this represented in concrete terms.
My parents got us a full blown Encyclopedia Britannica book set in the 80s. Probably cost $1000 which was difficult by how much they made. But they paid it down monthly. I used to have loads of fun thumbing through those books. There were a few index books where you looked up a topic and it would refer you to a page in one of the other books. Closest thing to the internet back then.
You broke Google. I hope you feel good about yourself.
It's not as much of a limitation as people think. One pattern is for the program to update a state every (fixed-length) iteration. You can build any arbitrary computation on top of that.
"The market", however, is not some magic entity than can fix things. The market is you, me and him and her. The market is people. If people would be talking about gab.ai as free-speech alternative to censorious Twitter, it would work as such. If people would insist that gab.ai is a neo-Nazi site where only violent psychopaths about to commit mass shooting are visiting, and should be banned everywhere, then "the market" would not fix any problems. The market is us, so if we want less censorship, we should be actively supporting platforms that have less censorship, and actively fighting platforms that have more of it.

> If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms

We're not "going" to have it. We already have it. Well, maybe not ISPs, but definitely "Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc."

> It's not wrong for Twitter to have rules to protect the weak from the strong, and individuals from the mob

When Gandhi was asked "what do you think about Western civilization", he reportedly said "I think it'd be a good idea". In the same vein, it might be a good idea (not sure, but maybe) for Twitter to have rules to protect individuals from the mob and weak from the strong, but whatever Twitter has now definitely does nothing of the sort. I am not sure if it is possible at all to have such rules, but even if it were, Twitter does not seem to be interested in the least.
There's nothing to refute when someone sets up a truism that the problem must just be people complaining.
I had access to Encarta on my grandparents' computer when it came bundled with their Windows 95 computer, but in my home I had Undersea Adventure, which came bundled with our Win 3.1 machine. Man, I learned a lot about sharks and nudibranchs.
> At what point does it become dangerous to continue to drink water ?

According to this page [0], the LD50 of water is 6 liters, so somewhere before that.

[0] https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/07/27/lethaldoses/
I don’t necessarily want throttling at the ISP level but I do want rules on what is “reasonable” for web sites on wireless. Data is expensive.

A big one: I often do what should be simple things data-wise, like tapping a link to “view article”, and am punished. Is it my fault that the obnoxious target site decided on its own to download and auto-play a huge video with sound in a floating window, none of which was requested or required!?

I have the right to squash that crap to save my data plan and battery (and sanity). That has meant installing blockers, and it doesn’t look like I’ll ever be able to stop doing so.
Coordinated activity is banned on twitter? Has someone told Twitter?
I think it goes even beyond paid vs free; the wiki model of knowledgeable, caring volunteers doing all this work for free seemed pretty crazy to all but a very few. Curated collections like Encarta and encyclopedias also tended to have very cursory entries for all but the broadest and market-focused topics. IMO a biased article is better than no information at all. In the very least it gives us a starting point for discovery, discussion and improvement. Most of what we today take for granted started with a pretty one-sided viewpoint that gained attention and inclusiveness.
https://reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/csk1z8/leaked_possibl...
> Covert, manipulative behaviors have no place on our service

While I celebrate this from them to kill manipulation, this sentence can be applied to their own bias towards conservative people who get banned and progressive don't, even saying worse things or using the service on massive organization to take down accounts. If both parties do harm, they should be take down. But both Twitter and Facebook do enormous efforts to shutdown voices. Including Google and Youtube.
Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace
Transacting $10k or more in cash could make you a criminal under proposed law
WeWork leases leave landlords exposed to $40bn rent commitments
I just looked through Jackie Chan's movies for the past few years, and they're almost exclusively produced by mainland Chinese film companies. I understand he's a Hong Kong national, but it seems that he is toeing the line for the movie industry he's working for. Considering how the Chinese have cracked down on Cathay Pacific (forcing them to fire employees who have participated in the protests), I doubt a mainland movie star could get away with saying anything else.
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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is one of those programming sayings that's very often misunderstood.

It does not mean that performance doesn't matter or that you shouldn't think about performance.

What it means is two things:

(1) It's usually a waste of time to tinker with small optimizations until you've made things work and until you've profiled.

(2) Don't compromise your design or write unmaintainable code out of premature concern over performance.

The second is the more important and subtile meaning. It means don't let concern for performance hobble your thinking about a problem.
> than it was about power projection

That part came from people singing "The Internationale" all over the world, but it started to come apart in the 1960s, and by the 1980s it had disintegrated, and so did the Soviet Union.

Ah, well, interesting times.
> I don't think you'd think the same if it was concerned potential terrorists or child sexual abusers.

Maybe he wouldn't, but I would be. In the land where witch hunts are illegal, I'm one of the three civic minded Libertarians.

Civil rights revocation should never be treated lightly. Period. Pragmatism must take the backseat to ideals in this regard, lest we end up undoing the very thing we're trying to protect in the first place.

As much as that tends to put me at odds with my own pragmatic side, I can't argue with the direction things tend to take when we cave to the urge to sacrifice liberty for safety.
not really sure what your point is so maybe you can clarify: are you saying it's ok to have a separate type of warrant for terrorists?

"traditional warrant system" is not a legal term. FISA warrants are warrants. Highly problematic, but warrants.

You may be interested in reading about how even FISA felt the NSA overstepped:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7axey/this-is-the-secret...
Sure, but Cerebras isn't just multiplying two large matrices, they are multiplying two large very sparse matrices, relying on ReLU activation to maintain sparcity in all of the layers. We already have BERT/XLNet/other transformer models move away from ReLU to GELU which do not result in sparse matrices. "Traditional" activations (tanh, sigmoid, softmax) are not sparse either.
That's not at all what you wrote above. You said they were adding things like that just to sound good, not because they truly value it. You gave travel as an example, because you (correctly) assume many women put in their profiles that they like to travel, when in reality many probably only do it every year or two at best. This isn't the case with a dog: she must value it quite a bit to put up with living with it.
Take your average $120k/yr job. That's based on a 40 hour work week, right? 260 working days in a year. Couple that with roughly 9 paid holidays, and you're looking at around 250 working days a year at 8 hours a day. 2,000 hours worked in a year at $120k/yr = $60/hr

20 days worth of PTO seems to be about the norm in the industry for when you start a new job. I'm not sure how to factor that in here. If you subtract it from days worked, it means the average person would only be working 1,840 hours a year, bringing the hourly wage up to about $65.

I'd multiply some number between $60-65 by the number of hours of productivity you want a week. 24 hour part time job? Half the PTO then, still give benefits. Should sell like hotcakes.
This is one of the most concise tutorials on how generators, coroutines and futures/promises are related (from first principles) that I've seen.

I'm hopeful that eventually promises and async/await fade into history as a fad that turned out to be too unwieldy. I think that lightweight processes with no shared memory, connected by streams (the Erlang/Elixer, Go and Actor model) are the way to go. The advantage to using async/await seems to be to avoid the dynamic stack allocation of coroutines, which can probably be optimized away anyway. So I don't see a strong enough advantage in moving from blocking to nonblocking code. Or to rephrase, I don't see the advantage in moving from deterministic to nondeterministic code. I know that all of the edge cases in a promise chain can be handled, but I have yet to see it done well in deployed code. Which makes me think that it's probably untenable for the mainstream.

So I'd vote to add generators to the Rust spec in order to make coroutines possible, before I'd add futures/promises and async/await. But maybe they are all equivalent, so if we have one, we can make all of them, not sure.
The official death toll of Pearl Harbor was 2,403. A Nimitz class US Navy Aircraft carrier houses ~6,000 sailors and airmen. If a carrier was sunk in a first strike, I'd expect a similar response to what the US responded to Pearl Harbor with. The US still has a first strike nuclear weapons doctrine. China does not. This would be bad for everyone so I do NOT want this, but am just pointing out the reality of how it would escalate.

Disclaimer: I'm spit balling as a US Army Veteran here.
My take is that many people are out on vacation during the summer months and sometimes things break (or break harder than usual) when certain knowledgeable people aren't available.
Way to go Twitter. Of course this is because they dont make ad money in China. But its a very very welcome step.
those ads in computer shopper where how you learned what was coming into your price bracket in the next 1-2 years. You saw an external 8x (!) speed CD burner and knew you'd be able to afford one within ~18 months.
We're in the UK. I think the lower bound of this from our perspective is 50%, though wondered whether it would be perceived as willfully ignoring that productivity is non-linear.

To be honest, I hadn't really considered the legal ramifications: I'm hoping if I behave fairly then I can avoid having to think too hard.
Why even make the final giant chip rectangular? I get that the exposure reticles are rectangular, but since this is tiling a bunch of connected chiplets, why not use the full area of the wafer?
I'm a CTO at a 30-ish person company and yep this is my job. Lots of development, but also handling all the infrastructure and ops for a long time (I'm able to offload more to other devs these days).

I still primarily code but also do lots of long term tech strategy like cloud? and which, as well as business planning with the rest of our leadership level, hiring, training new devs, keeping all the devs up to date with new stuff, breaking down and delegating work, reviewing code, monitoring & alerting and understanding a system that's practically a living organism and being able to anticipate trouble spots rising, planning and executing what are sometimes multi-year efforts (e.g., significantly refactoring major parts of a 10+ year old code base).

Personally, I like it, though it has its difficulties. It also makes me an exceptionally valuable person for this size of company - big enough to really need breadth and depth of experience, but not in a position to have several tech people with a decade or two of experience. Find the right company (I was lucky to) and it's a golden ticket.
But are Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index, the European Journalism Centre’s Media Landscapes Report, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and UNESCO's framework also all US government funded with studies showing they’re biased towards countries that are aligned with US foreign policy?

Missing the forest for a tree a bit here.
Who's gonna litigate them? When you hire tens of thousands of people around USA all of sudden bunch of politicians, lawyers and judges roots for you and wishes you all the best, each for different reason. I mean which prosecutor that ultimately answers in some manner to a mayor of a big city that his/her future depends of how many Amazon employees will get hired/fired, will shit in their own sandbasket and go after Besos?

Sure, if you me or Joe Doe opens an online store and have 1% of counterfeit problem than Bezos currently has, you would be SWAT-teamed, locked in jail and probably without bail too, with your finances frozen so you barely can afford a lawyer. But that's corporate America. This is business and that's how things work here in grand scheme of things when you become too big to jail/litigate.
You can put a LOT of trash in a small space. The cost of landfills is usually measured in the cost to collect and transport garbage to the landfills. Also, once the landfill is full it is often still usable after the fact. Especially if it is managed properly. Add this to the fact that quarries are creating excellent places to consign garbage.

The big problem is the cost of energy to move and bury the garbage. A lot of third world countries don't have extensive waste management networks like the USA.
makes you wonder if the tariff wars is simply a smoke screen to allow china to devalue the cnY while looking the victim instead of the offensive to the usD that it really is.
The main page for KSP2 is https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/game/kerbal-space-program..., but I submitted the forum post because one of their Community Managers collected the page link, launch videos, Q&A and more into a single post, so I thought that would work better.

Launch is scheduled for 2020.
One thing that comes to main is taht the companies should, for example, adopt the German model of having a percentage of board-level seats for representation of the employees.
Sure some people may support the Chinese government position. That has nothing to do with Twitter banning coordinated propaganda campaigns.

And China has the concept of ambassadors which are paid influencers there to assist in these campaigns. So I wouldn't blindly assume every famous actor has an authentic position.
From today's Money Stuff by Matt Levine[1]:

> So when an association of big public-company CEOs gets together and declares that corporations should serve the community, take care of the environment, and be responsible to employees and customers, not just shareholders, that might be because the CEOs have thought it over and decided that employees and the environment are getting a raw deal, but it is also possible that the CEOs have thought it over and decided that shareholders are annoying.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-19/we-loo...
Not with CloidFlare workers.
Interesting. Are the images shared from this article suggesting that protesters are destroying property and engaging in other such behavior fake or somehow being taken out of context?
The best of the best of the best, Sir! With Honours!
So, wait...is the BBC no longer allowed to advertise upcoming shows on Twitter?
> My reading on culture these days is that one can usually get away with spouting horrendous, hateful ideas

That depends whether you are in-group with the censors or out-group. If you're in, you could get away with a lot - from very base and crude language (excluding the taboo words, yes) to graphically describing and encouraging grave bodily harm, murder, rape, etc. If you're out, then you better be extra super vanilla squeaky nice.
>So quite probably no, since the BBC is an independent public broadcaster (much like NPR in the US) - it is state funded but not directly controlled by the state; it maintains editorial independence.

I don't work in the BBC but it usually works like "you have editorial independence but if you don't say what we want you'll see what happens to your budget"
It was true in 2016 when I created my account. it was also true about BoA, they allowed a limited char-set.
Something that I have been wondering about for a long time. Why is it considered to be a good thing to export more?

It seems to me that if a country imports more than it exports, it is getting a good deal. It exports stuff and gets more stuff in return.
Also, summer interns. A friend who worked at FB said outages there go up markedly when interns start pushing to prod.
Propaganda casts a wide net. It isn't micromanaged.
Microsoft Encarta taught me a surprising amount of world history and culture. Would never know what a balalaika is otherwise!
Login from incognito works for me so I assumed one of my extensions was causing an issue somehow and started disabling them. I'm sorry I doubted you, extensions.
> well if you work in Forex you know that the yuan is actually over-valued

Why do you believe the Forex industry agrees the yuan is over-valued?
Google only hires the best of the best. Looks like all of that algorithm memorizing is working out really well.
What are speed-reading apps for Kindle?