skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like every other Conservative party in the world doesnt do the same? This is my problem with these actions. They are selective based on political affiliation.

I dont care if they are communists, socialists, or the run of the mill capitalists. The only reason twitter and facebook still exist in their current form, is because the poltical establishments all over the world have worked out to leverage them for their advantage.

Politics has not escaped the disruption that other industries have suffered. Its like any other targetting advertising campaign. How are mining companies who put out poltical properganda too undermine environmental movements any different?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/08/natio...
I'm not sure I see the point. Or rather, I see The tautology. We discover something math can't explain. By definition, you can't expand math to explain it. You can try, and if you succeed you were wrong all along, in that your discovery could have been explained by math you just couldn't prove it at the time.
We know about lots of things that math doesn't explain. AFAICT there are reasonable information-theoretic grounds for suspecting that many if not most things we might want to ask about won't yield the the kind of explanations we find satisfying. Irreducible complexity is a thing, at least apparently, and among documented phenomena there is a spectrum of amenability to formal modelling. Statements expositing an 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics' or TFA's aesthetic rendition don't seem to amount to more than 'some phenomena admit simple explanations'. Much more often the best effective mathematical explanation is a lukewarm admixture of awkward cludges, or is simply non-existent.
mind bottling stuff here man thanks
> That is definitely not true. If they were to print 518,755,944,000,000 Yen (2017 estimate for their gdp) and flood the market with it (say by giving every citizen an equal share as a lump sum a la helicopter money [1]) the value would certainly drop.

Are you sure about that ? What if there is no demand ? Japan did try helicopter money, and all their citizens just purchased bonds increasing public debt, without creating any inflation or causing the yen to drop.

BOJ has been actively trying to make the yen fall.

I agree if BOJ hands everybody in the world a large amount of Yen, then the yen would drop ( initially ), but suddenly every Japanese factory would have to start churning out all types of Japanese widgets - it would roar Japan back into 6% growth, and at the same time cause a world wide collapse of demand for European / American / Chinese / Korean exports ( cars, electronics. toys ).

So do you see why other industrialized countries might not allow Japan to just hand Yen out to foreigners ? Japan would be "exporting" deflation to other industrialized countries.

Over time as the world absorbs Japanese imports / standards and abandons everything else - there would be no demand for lets say FCC approved electronics.

American students who now have access to yen might go to Japan to study programming instead of American colleges and learn Prolog.

Take this to it's logical conclusion and in a decade the value of the Yen goes up in relation to the Korean Won, Euro, USD.

Of course this is a fantasy, but since you started with a hypothetical, I had to point out how your conclusion might be wrong. Especially since this is exactly what the Japanese have been doing post WW2, the Americans post Bretton Woods with euro dollars, and now the Chinese are flooding the world with the RMB.

> but your also effectively saying that they were able to swindle 40 billion dollars from the Saudis and I say swindle because the Saudis don't care 1 bit about Japanese exports and are 100% in it for the initial return on investment.

The Saudis have been swindled already when they bought US treasuries, with QE and low yields. They could have owned assets that when up in value due to QE but guess what ? all of it was owned by Americans.

This is why the Saudis have abandoned the treasuries market, so have the Chinese ( they are spending it on the Belt and Road ).
ASICS do not support CUDA.
There is a forked tensorflow with opencl support from AMD but I doubt people will use it for this ASIC.
So how can tensorflow/cntk/pytorch use such hardware?
My take was the transmission, DC-DC converter, and 10% efficiency gain were essentially the same conversation.

Transmissions and converters all result in transmission losses. They're also more components to purchase, install, and maintain. So if they can build a motor that embodies some of those qualities, that's an improvement, even if the resulting motor were slightly less efficient (which they say is not the case).

If an electric car is using three-phase AC, then there's an inverter in there (because batteries do not come with three-phase AC). I don't believe that's as much loss as DC-DC but it's not nothing.
The graphics from the "pre-alpha" footage in their developer video are significantly worse than the trailer (although still a step up from KSP1)
Quick skimming of wiki, seems like the founder left the company during its first sale back in 2009. Then Ninebot bought it in 2015. Seems both sales were for very low amounts.

Who knows what could’ve been!
The Immersive Web Working Group
It seems like all the evidence is for this, and on the other hand there is no evidence for the materiality of the mind. The only reason people believe in mind == brain is due to their materialistic fundamentalism, just like the creationists force their theories onto science.
> I was unclear. I'm suggesting that carriers are in fact, throttling all bulk data, but reporting is focused on video.

Seems unlikely to me, but who knows ...

> Also, to the extent that this throttling provides better availability in congested area, that's a plus for users.

If you are being throttled, that's obviously not increasing availability in any meaningful sense, so, no, it's not. What would be a plus for users would be adding capacity. Not performing the contractually agreed service is the exact opposite of "increasing availability".

Overall, the problem with all of this is that it borders on fraud. There would be no problem with selling low-bandwidth plans, if that is the only thing you can offer at economical prices. Or offering the user the choice to throttle certain services so as to conserve bandwidth. The problem is that carriers kinda-sorta sell a service and then don't do what they kinda-sorta promised. And a big part of the problem is that everyone frames this as "trying to help the customer by limiting abusers", or something similar, when really, the only abuser is the carrier selling a service they don't intend to perform, because they would have to spend money to do that.

The important part is not whether some traffic is throttled, the important part is who makes the decision as to what gets throttled. If I buy 1 Mb/s mobile IP access, and then the carrier throttles my connection to 1 Mb/s, that's my decision. If I buy "LTE full-speed IP access", and then the carrier throttles my videos to 1 Mb/s with no option to opt out, it is not.
Native Chinese here. Hacker news have been a great place to learn new things to me for 5 years. But the political views on Hacker news are somewhat naive to me. It seems that the Chinese Government is always evil and wrong, but why haven't the government collapsed after so many years if there were no people supporting them?

People in China, at least those millions people who are able to cross the Great Firewall, know that democracy is generally good, but they also know that a strong central government can also be useful for certain circumstances. Most westerners and HongKongers on Hacker news have a very extreme political view, you just believe "democracy is good"(TM), protesting against the evil Chinese government is good. But can you take a closer look at what is really happening in HK and then decide what you believe?

BTW, I'm neither pro-protester nor pro-police, I think the protest is a result of economic regression in HK. You could also check my comment and posting history to see that I'm not a 五毛党.
Follow the money. When people’s actions don’t make sense, follow the money.
Those jet animations are really good.

I've found some math animations on wikipedia, some of which are good and some of which are totally pointless:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematical_ani...

Certainly I'd love to see the wikimedia foundation fund animators to produce explanatory diagrams and animations for more things!
> Maybe not as good, and maybe with less success, but Apple would have been built in some fashion.

I think different: not saying that I am right but I think in an alternative reality without Woz the time window for building a company like Apple would not exist. Apple exists because of all the rare events happening early on that where capitalized later. We can apply the same thinking to unique companies like Microsoft or Google where even the amazing capabilities of their founders and employees need a rare seed and specific time to be seeded.
Your short explanation is full of unfounded speculation, whereas my even shorter explanation relies entirely on direct evidence everyone has access to. The only reason you feel your explanation gets a pass is because you speculate in the name of materialism, which in itself is an incoherent philosophy.
Every definition of architecture I have ever heard has never really helped me in any way after hearing it except one:

"Architecture is that which contains entropy."
I wonder what the modding support is going to actually be like.

I'm the one of the two original coauthors of the Kopernicus mod (although I handed off development of it to Dorian years ago when I got my first job after graduation because I was having trouble finding time while settling into working life). Writing that mod was already difficult as hell, because while the game supported mods, there was no SDK or any supporting documentation. There was essentially a gentleman's agreement between the KSP modding scene and the developers that ripping apart the game assemblies for the purposes of making mods wasn't didn't violate the terms of service, even though it explicitly forbid such activities.

Building Kopernicus by spending days in the Mono .NET Assembly Decompiler figuring out how to override pieces of the game to make the custom solar systems was pretty darn fun though. I can't tell you how much time I spent trying to figure out how to programmatically make something that PSystem.systemPrefab would accept as a Unity Prefab object. Or the fun of learning about attributes in .NET to build a reflection based configuration system that would actually process KSP's configuration file format into said systemPrefab object.

One of the things that the modding community felt at the time was that as Take-Two starting getting more aggressive about hiding the way the internals of the game worked (it's very murky if said gentleman's agreement is still in place), and in it's place producing some documentation, that the way forward may be just making an open source KSP-style game with original content and a completely different engine as to avoid any legal problems (we'd all seen how the internals of KSP worked, so we needed to make sure to do ours entirely differently). But no one (including myself) really ever found the time to work on it or made a serious effort to do so...

If they solved the performance issues with large ships, and have somewhat more realistic physics (e.g. Lagrange points/Parking orbits are impossible in KSP), that may just be cause to drop the idea completely. I've mainly found my time spent exploring the depths of orbital integrators, Eric Bruneton's atmosphere paper, and Vulkan.
>you must come on a Wednesday, and you must be invited. Only members and their guests are permitted to enter, and membership is granted only to Parsis.

I for one am not moved to preserve such an exclusionary cuisine. Crap like this is why creative commons, copyleft, and the GPL came into existence.
I've been in a bank recently to get penny rolls.
Study finds US carriers aggressively throttle video streams
Random OT trivia, but the first turbofan to fly was geared, and there have been commercial geared turbofans in use at least since the early 70s.

It's always been a trade off of fewer compressor stages vs. not having gears. Either of extra compression stages and gears add weight and reduce efficiency, so it's always a tradeoff.
I'm unsure how - We were at WeWork for a couple of years and whilst the overally experience was fantastic we were paying probably a 10% premium in Australia for an office 20% of the size we could have got elsewhere.

I think the experience is generally worth the downsize - but if you need any kind of space - WeWork just isn't for you!
Programmed in Powerpoint [video]
It’s not a nod, so much as a consistent interface over the years. Large portions of a lot of screens look mostly the same as they did 30 years ago.
There is more to a beautiful equation than the shape of the symbols used to describe it. The beauty of Euler's identity is the relationship between 5 fundamental constants (0, 1, e, i, pi). It's simple, elegant and far reaching.

The relationship is the same regardless of the notation.
Those aren't neurons, though. Biology is different, synaptic connections have to physically fit, etc. Individual neurons serve multiple purposes, but I don't think we know if their speed is a limiting factor in that.
I absolutely love KSP, Factorio, Civ, etc. I'll just add Rimworld here into the mix, my newest obsession. It's a rare game where you can harvest people's organs. And the mod community is really good, just like KSP's mods.

So very excited about KSP2!
Hi,

Thanks for the upvotes.

Crawlab is a golang-based distributed web crawler management platform, supporting various languages including Python, NodeJS, Go, Java, PHP and various web crawler frameworks including Scrapy, Puppeteer, Selenium. Technically you can run any spider on it. It has both English and Chinese language support.

Github Repo: https://github.com/tikazyq/crawlab
Demo: http://crawlab.cn/demo

Since its launch in March, Crawlab has received a lot of positive feedbacks, especially about the flexibility and appealing Web UI. And Crawlab is evolving fast, we have developed many features through continuous iterations.
Works on the same principle of passing a current through a substance to emit radiation, it's just the electroluminescent panels use a solid material, so I think they're able to be flatter.
He didn't make the transition to executive management like most big tech founder did.

Also the first iPhone was released 30 years after the Apple 1, that's several generations in terms of technological advancement. Bill and Paul were no longer at Microsoft 30 years after the first Windows release. Google is barely 20 years old.
Front End Software Engineer
If I want exaggeration I'll read Reddit. I come here for serious discussion, and exaggeration has no place in such.
Thanks for the feedback. Actually I saw a lot of great Chinese projects on Github trending and sadly they are Chinese only. I would definitely agree they can do better by translating into English!
Aside from the high-level similarity of the "function -> state machine" transformation, Rust's is quite a bit different (and IMO both simpler and more flexible).

A C++ coroutine chooses a particular promise type as part of its definition. Its frame defaults to a separate heap-allocation per coroutine, with some allowance for elision. At a suspension point, it passes a type-erased handle to the current coroutine to an `await_suspend` method, which can either `return false` or call `handle.resume()` to resume the coroutine. A stack of `co_await`ing coroutines (or "psuedo-thread" as you call it) is thus a linked list of `coroutine_handle`s stored in the coroutine frames of their await-ees, rooted with whoever is responsible for next resuming the coroutine.

A Rust async function does things inside out, in a sense. It has no promise type; calling one directly returns its frame into the caller's frame, as a value with an anonymous type that implements the `Future` trait. This trait has a single method called `poll`, which resumes the function and runs it until its next suspension point. `poll` takes a single argument, a handle which is used to signal when it is ready to continue. This handle is threaded down through a stack of `poll`s (a "task" or pseudo-thread), and stored with whoever is responsible for notifying the task it should continue.

One implication of the Rust approach is that the "executor" and the "reactor" are decoupled. An executor maintains a collection of running tasks and schedules them. A reactor holds onto those handles and notifies executors of relevant events. This lets you control scheduling without language hooks like await_transform- you can associate your prioritization data with a task when you spawn it on a particular executor, and it can await any reactor without losing that information.

Another implication is that you have a choice of whether to a) `await` a future, making it part of the current task, or b) spawn it as its own task, to be scheduled on its own, much like OS thread APIs. Option (a) can get really interesting with multiple concurrent sub-futures (with things like Promise.all or select); it can be as simple as having the caller poll all its children every time it wakes up, or as complex as wrapping `poll`'s handle argument and implementing your own scheduling within a task.
Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Computer Chip
An app called "Guy in the Hood" that's a literal take on Daymond John's refrain from Shark Tank . It's like TaskRabbit but it only summons guys from the hood.
Well, it could be... not SRAM? It's not the only kind of RAM, and the choice to use SRAM is certainly not an obvious one. It could make sense as part of a specific paradigm, but that is not explained, and hence why I am asking. It may be perfectly obvious to you, but it's not to me.
>Add to that that Steam forces you to update games if you wanna play them

Not true. KSP has previous versions you can pin to in Steam and play just fine.
I don't think the implication was that Go does it efficiently.
the patents are pretty good reads, no hype, just diagrams
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160020652A1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160380496A1/en
Right. Besides those topics (though maybe it would have them?), Encarta also doesn’t have any facts of science or history beyond 2009 outside of whatever web updates might have shipped, and yet I’d also point out that Wikipedia is not considered a primary source, and writers of Wikipedia might have biases of their own. Third-party sources written by editors, like Encarta and Britannica would historically claim to be more trustworthy than Wikipedia, and this was countered by Wikipedia saying they had more breadth and faster updates from the community, with a wider set of viewpoints due to crowd input. Ultimately, Encarta folded because they couldn’t compete with free online offerings. I’d only suggest that... for health matters, or business ones, or well, any research at all: you should follow links to primary sources and evaluate them; you should do research with the rest of Google and private databases. Wikipedia is for summaries and the rest of the internet provides the source material. Encarta provided their own set of curated summaries with multimedia, something Wikipedia as a series of textual articles has not historically engaged in. So, there are definitely advantages to Wikipedia, but it doesn’t entirely negate advantages of Encarta or having the rest of the web at your fingertips. I sincerely hope unlimited high speed internet reaches everyone ASAP, including via space satellites, if cheap enough to use...
The syntax is concise definition of named values where the values are all anonymous functions.

True = (lambda (t f) (t))

--
Let True be the function that takes two parameters t and f and returns the first, t.
--

False = (lambda (t f) (f))

--
Let False be the function that takes two parameters t and f and returns the second, f.
--

If = (lambda (b tr fa) (b tr fa))

--
Let If be the function that takes three parameters, and applies the first parameter b to the second and third parameters.
--

Notice that if the parameter b is the True value above, 'b tr fa' will return 'tr'. If 'b' is False, 'b tr fa' will return 'fa'

(lambda (x)
(If x
(lambda () (display "It was true!"))
(lambda () (display "It was false!"))))

So it follows that this will pass either "It was true!" or "It was false!" to 'display', waving aside all the stuff you have to define that makes 'display' and STRINGS work as you'd expect.

This is where it becomes clear that you need a lazy system for this to make sense. In an eager system all three of the parameters to 'If' are evaluated and then their values are substituted into the body of 'If'. In a lazy system the expressions for the values are substituted for the parameters in the body, so only the parameter 'b' and one of the other parameters will be evaluated.

When I play around with functional languages I would just write

True t f = t
False t f = f
If b tr fa = b tr fa
ShowIt x = If x (display "It was true!") (display "It was false!")

You could also write this in (I think this is) Scheme:

(define True (t f) (t))
(define False(t f) (f))
(define If (b tr fa) (b tr fa))
(define ShowIt (x) (If (x (display "It was true!") (display "It was false!"))))

Except that Scheme isn't usually lazy.
I'm generally anti-Communist party of China, but mostly because I believe their bureaucracy is completely inept. But I have to agree with you, the vast majority of Western-based HN commenters are politically naïve, as if they just stepped out of a high school US government class. The reason is that US education, while it acknowledges the flaws of democracy, also proclaims that it is the only acceptable form of government.
400,000 cores, 1.5 kW - that’s a big chip.
I'm pretty sure I've never even heard of such evidence, let alone seen any. Philosophy is irrelevant here; what do you propose does the thinking if not the brain? Where is the direct evidence you claim?
Yep, this is Stella (someone); click on the author's tiny blue S and be rewarded with similar articles.

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/author/sst...
Honestly I find that an important part of being “productive” at my job of drawing weird comics for Patreon money is to make damn sure I take time off. I love doing this job, I’m delighted that I manage to pay my bills with it, and I still need to take regular breaks.
Tell that to the political facebook ad companies.
Is that why Trump wants to buy it?
I heard a fascinating explanation for the general belief that Unity == bad, and it has to do with licensing.

If you pay at least $300/year for Unity, you are permitted to disable the splash screen. If you do so, it is not at all obvious that your application is based on Unity. If, however, you use Unity's free, "personal" tier, your application may not disable the Unity splash screen. This tier is allowable until your game is making at least $100,000 per year.

The effect of this is that less successful, low budget, and therefore buggier games are much more likely to display the logo then polished games with multiple people working hard and a budget. Thus Unity has accidentally created a licensing scheme which causes gamers to associate them with lower quality games.
GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances