skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So with so many solutions to the same problem being made: which do you choose?

The thing is: for it to be useful people have to use it. And for people to use it nothing works better than one clear, idiomatic way.

If you have many solutions you often end up having no solution.
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No probably about it. Pre-WW1 was the first era of globalisation, of the oil barons, including the USA and pre-revolutionary China. Quite a few famous names believed there too much economic and trade interdependence to permit another war. Yet once one country started mobilisation war tipped from impossible to inevitable as the web of treaties kicked in.
Aside from the corporate bonds, how do these points differ much from other similar megacorps or investment banks?
- evaporation of the single earning household
- destruction of the middle class
- drugs and the drug war
- less kids/single kids are more heavily watched
- unwalkable neighborhoods and mcmansions
Or magic-wormhole [1]. FOSS, x-platform, Python.

[1] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
A lot of CIOs would dearly love to move away from Oracle. The cost of rewriting software that was not designed to be portable is immense. Oracle knows this, and keeps the pain just below the threshold where porting to postgres or mysql is cost effective.

I agree with the general sentiment that optimizing for extreme portability does not make sense- but there is a balance that needs to be struck. Designing your apps to be relatively SQL agnostic, or at least isolating those dependencies, makes a lot of sense.
Weapons to defeat US' carrier advantage have been long developed and deployed in the field.

The US' carriers would be sunk in the first few minutes of open warfare.

They are useless in case of open war - and only of use as a threat of war/policing device. All-out war means the carriers get sunk, first.
The "Add Playlist" example is a case of "why not both?"

One potential answer is that while two possible actions may be obviously equivalent to the designer, that is not necessarily obvious to the user. It's a classic usability problem: the designer tries to be helpful but in reality there is now a confusing variety of similar-looking ways forward, and then the user gets analysis paralysis and gives up. The mistake is often compounded by having equivalent things look slightly different, for example using different types of controls, or using slightly different terminology or phrasing.
These kind of distinctions are silly.
I'm interested to share our experience. Do you have a link to your Twitter poll? You can find my contact information in the profile if you don't want to share infos here, happy to chat!
Yes, every chip of moderate size does this. Selling floorswept chips as lower performance SKUs is very common.
My sentiments mirrored almost exactly.

Except to add that Python has issues but is clearly winning hearts and minds for a reason. It’s wonderful that an open source language has become so powerful, versatile, and widely adopted.

I’d take this era of computing over the days of ActiveX and Flash being the ubiquitous approach to releasing software.
Goldman Sachs hasn't been a partnership since they IPO'd. They just use "partner" as a title for legacy reasons.

In general, a partnership is a collection of equity owners ("the partners"). To become a partner you have to buy equity, usually sold by a retiring partner.

Sometimes "new partners" are created by diluting the stock; this is generally avoided unless the person is expected to grow the business by at least that much.
Until I see "abatement of lobbying" I won't believe any of this has good intentions.
Real-world blockchain use cases across six industries
I read your original comment as you wanting more references to 'consumer', which, of course, I found a bit odd.
This saddens me too. Recently, I traveled with my 19 year old nephew to Thailand. This guy had been so coddled by his parents all through that he had no experience of doing things by himself. Once when he wanted to go to our resort room from the beach (about 500m walk) in the daytime, he refused to do so alone. He asked me to accompany him. This was a straight line walk and I said he could ask anyone if he couldn't figure it out :-/
Model 3 was the 4th top selling car in the USA when measured by revenue, for 2018 as a whole, assuming this CleanTechnica article managed to estimate the average selling price to reasonable accuracy in January this year.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/28/tesla-model-3-1-best-se...

That's certainly not a drop in the bucket, and I think it's a stretch to call it niche as well. Will be interesting to see how 2019 as a whole turns out; with this ASP, they would dominate by revenue if their delivery numbers were anywhere close to the competition.
You could ask them the same things you ask any human, but get radically different (and perhaps very interesting) answers.

You could look at their art, listen to their music, learn their philosophy - assuming they have any of that, and that it's comprehensible to us.
I do, but only because I haven't gotten around to learning Rust yet. There doesn't seem to be all that much happening in the lean & mean with strong C FFI category (aka, the "I want to use the GPU to draw stuff" category).

I wish I could like D but I just don't, some of the decisions it made I think were mistakes.

Go's FFI story is unfortunate, and it seems too narrow in target usage anyway.

C gets a lot of rose-tinted love, but I'd never chose it over modern C++.

And... well that's sort of it, isn't it? What else is there in this area?
I'm not aware of anyone who seriously thought that in 1910. The secret network of alliances existed for a reason, after all.
This seems like a good step in the right direction. I think what really needs to change is the legal system. There is way too much protection of corporations via liability.

It's so easy for corporations to completely screw over the public, make a lot of money, then go out of business when they public wises up to it.

There are tons of examples throughout America of this. Mining companies are probably the worst.

The legal system needs to catch up this.
The best phone I ever owned was a Moto G. Cost me about $200. I currently use a Nokia 6.1. Cost me about $250 a year ago, and regularly gets updates.
It’s racism in the most direct sense. Suggesting one race in the case white people are inherently worse than all other races.

It’s not discriminatory, but racism is a belief not always an action. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Because most people don't like writing state machines by hand.
How can they do this if the connection is over TLS? Or is this regardig real time UDP video?
I think the phrase quality time emerged in the 1970s at which time the Sexual Revolution was well underway and divorce was sky-rocketing. It's really a euphemism for scarce parental time with children (e.g. a father's visitation period).
>> But Cerebras has designed its chip to be redundant, so one impurity won’t disable the whole chip.

> This sounds kinda clever to a semi-layperson. Has this been attempted before?

I think every large chip is like that nowadays. It's just a matter of degree.
Yep, it’s standard practice. The old AMD tri-core chips for example were all physically four cores with a (usually) broken one disabled. Modern AMD chips use multiple chiplets on a single board to extend yields.
It is monstrous.
But the way I read it, it is actually similar to chiplets. Only chiplets are cut from the wafer, individually tested and then combined for the final chip. Here all parts stay on the wafer and faulty ones are routed around.
This is like desktop Safari still not having native date/time pickers. Drives me insane that we still have to install datepicker libraries when the native ones in every other browser are just fine (if not better!)
Often, but not only public land. The land owner and the owner of the roaming free cattle can be different people. The fire does not care about property boundaries in any case.
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>appropriate pipes to get to where their customers want to go.

This idea is nonsensical. What if I want to go to somewhere that is three times removed from my ISP. Comcast has zero capability to force some South Korean ISP that is providing services to some website to increase their bandwidth with their upstream who is peered with whoever owns the undersea cable that is peered with the company that peers with Comcast.

The alternative is that Netflix asks for 40 Gbps to Comcast and suddenly Comcast is obligated to provide 40 Gbps to every one of its customers.

What we've always gotten with an ISP is a given link rate to our ISP. Beyond that it's always been a crap shoot.
The statements themselves have no merit. They are so nebulous, so unnaturally and uniformly connotation-positive, that they defy measurement, and therefore accountability.

They may be useful for virtue signalling. But none of the virtues signaled are particularly controversial.

They may be useful for developing more enlightened self-interest among investors and the intermediaries that vote their shares. But they change nothing about the governance structure of the firms. Stockholders elect directors appoint officers who run the companies.

Many of us have seen corporate "mission statements" or "core values" or "company principles" changed with great fanfare and no discernible effect on substantive corporate behavior. This is even fuzzier than that. This release announces a change to a kind of generalization of many corporate mission statements. Fuzzy in, fuzzier out.

In the end, I have to be suspicious. The only meaningful signal I read here is an open, united affront to the principle of simple shareholder primacy. In the balance of power, that behooves executives, who experience simple shareholder primacy as an accountable constraint on their discretion.

Business Roundtable is an interest group for executives. It is not an interest group for customers, workers, suppliers, communities, shareholders, or their representatives. It may choose to try and leverage customers, workers, suppliers, communities, and their representatives against shareholders. That has to be a far more delicate process when you're not the owner of a special class of stock that assures you stay in power.
Policyholder/homeowner fraud.
There are more details here: https://fortune.com/2019/08/19/ai-artificial-intelligence-ce...
Wind doesn't make a lot of sense when sized to serve a house, or even a neighborhood. It becomes economical hundreds of feet in the air with turbine blades the size of a city block.
It's wafer scale integration. All the major AI learning chips are probably heading this way.

That is, CPUs and GPUs are made on silicon wafers, typically 30cm in diameter, with many chips built on a single wafer and then cut from the wafer and packaged into products. The idea of wafer-scale integration is that instead of cutting the wafer, you just build all the communication between the computation elements in the wafer into the wafer and therefore get a "network on wafer", a single very massive "chip".

The reason to do this is that the lowest-energy way to communicate data is on-chip, and in major AI learning setups, by far the most of the power is spent on data movement. By making the largest possible chip, you minimize the data movement power requirements and spare more power for the computation.
The much feared cold-war era 'Missile Gap' turned out to be mostly a myth[1], based off of extrapolation form incomplete data and considering worst case over best.

That's not to disrespect the opponent; both historical USSR and present day China pack quite a punch. It warrants careful approach rather than outright panic.

[1] e.g., https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2011-05/missile-gap-myth-its...
At the time, Netflix didn't have a deal with Comcast. There was a company between the two (Cogent?) that wasn't purchasing enough bandwidth for what they were selling. If you were on Comcast and watched Netflix via an Apple TV, it worked fine because for some reason Apple TV streams were sent via Level 3.

The end result was Netflix doing a deal to connect directly with Comcast, cutting out the middleman (IIRC).
I'll put my vote in for commodity room-temperature superconductors.
Remember three core AMD chips? They were quad core chips where one core was non functional or didn't meet spec. They simply disable the bad core and sell it as a three core. Though it didn't do well as who wants to buy a "broken" quad core?
Exactly.

In the RGB additive color wheel (light) the opposite of green is Purple.

In the RBY subtractive color wheel (paint)the opposite of green is Red.

In the CMYK print color space (on paper) the opposite of green is a magenty-purple.

Then it all depends on what kind of green, it's saturation and brightness.

Color science is a thing in several industries.
Ordinary people occasionally need to be knocked back into seeing what they will lose if they keep up their present course of action. Life is full of temptations, most people are not very self reflective, and people naturally push boundaries.

In particular, textual flirting with the opposite sex is something that is easy to fall into, starting innocently and delivering a strong dopamine hit with each correspondence. The dopamine-addled S.O. can easily rationalize to themselves that they are just writing, that their privacy is suddenly Very Important, it's not cheating, and surely that's not innuendo! ("When we finally meet for coffee we'll just be friends.")

The well-delivered ultimatum, although blunt, makes the situation clear and leaves no room for rationalization: the emotions associated with the proto-affair are inappropriate to an exclusive relationship.

I've had to make this ultimatum twice. 50% of the time it has resulted in the recipient suddenly becoming self-aware and making an effort to change her behavior. As a result, I'm quite certain the current S.O. is not BPD.
It's a fact of life that more people will want to consume data than a network can support.

Is this actually true or is it just a matter of the isp not building the needed infrastructure required? Because if it is just an infrastructure issue then I would question why they choose to not expand to a better service. Is it because they can get away with providing crappy service as many people only have a single choice of what isp is available in their area? I highly agree with your final statement and it’s true people just want to know what they can count on and not play the guessing game.
And your coaches are the fraction of a fraction of the world’s hardest hard-asses.

There’s a lot of external motivation there as well. That’s three people doing a tremendous amount of work to avoid one of them crying in the corner.
Pretty much when I finished reading it I got the news that my old dog had died. We were kind of waiting for it already, but it still hurts.

The article timing couldn't be better. Definitely a touching piece.
What's wrong with GNOME? I've been using it for years, I think it's by far the most consistent and logically laid out desktop environment on Linux. In fact I think it's more usable than Windows, which is impressive for it being such a small project.
In the USA most companies and corporations are effectively feudal. This is a meeting of dukes and earls attempting to avoid a socialist revolution through coordinated PR, which has been quite effective for the last 75 years or so.

Note that most public companies have institutional investors as the largest component of their ownership; such investors tend to own all the major competitors.

GM: top 5 are Capital World Investors, Vanguard, BlackRock, Berkshire Hathaway, and Harris Associates.

Ford: top five are Vanguard, BlackRock, Newport, State Street, Franklin.

Fiat-Chrysler: top five are Tiger, Harris, Baillie Gifford, Vanguard, Deutsche Bank, FMR.

Looks like Vanguard is certainly in a position to encourage the big-three car manufacturers to work together.

Intel: Tiger, Harris, Baillie Gifford, Vanguard, Deutsche Bank.

AMD: Vanguard, BlackRock, Wellington, FMR, Invesco.

Your CPU choices will make money for Vanguard.

HPE: Dodge&Cox, Vanguard, BlackRock, Primecap, State Street.

Dell: Temasek Holdings, Dodge&Cox, Elliott, BlackRock, Vanguard.

Apple: Vanguard, BlackRock, Berkshire Hathaway, State Street, FMR.

When you buy computers, you make money for Vanguard.

In summary, Tim Buckley at Vanguard can set up a meeting with any group of CEOs at minimal notice. He doesn't actually own much of anything, but the right of ownership for a large percentage of the USA's economy is a thing that he directs.

Or maybe it's Robert Kapito at BlackRock; same deal.
Sure, that practice is pretty wellknown.

But at this scale?
Mutually assured destruction only prevents war if both parties think the other will take the “tie” of “we both lose, and terribly so” in favor of “I’ll rattle my sabres a bit to show that I mean it, but grudgingly accept a status quo, certainly if you give back a bit of what you took to let me save some face”.

The big question is whether that is still the case if the area fought over isn’t US soil.

Russia in the Ukraine already might be an indication that the answer isn’t an unqualified “yes” anymore. The USA leaving the INF treaty, thus allowing Russia to develop mid-range nuclear missiles, and even threatening to leave NATO are much stronger signals.

One might conclude that the USA isn’t as willing to go to nuclear war for invasions of its partners as it used to be.
This is very neat, but I really wish the press would say "neural net" instead of "AI". "AI" just means a computer program that has some ability to reason about data similarly to a human, neural nets are a subset of that

I guess "AI" gets you the clicks though
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Our pricing structure puts us on a different level compared to all other competitors. I confirm the Pro Tier allows for unlimited lookups, still maintaining consistent latency and stability.

Our platform is completely powered by Microsoft Azure, which allows for a huge level of scalability and stability even under high loads. Which means, we can maintain a consistent latency even under 2B requests a month.

We are updating our data daily, cross-referencing multiple data sources to achieve maximum accuracy.

In terms of accuracy, at the moment, we are using MaxMind databases which guarantees high accuracy, on top of that, we are already in the process of building our own GeoDatabase which will add even more details and information to our offer.

Finally, we already offer open source client libraries for PHP and .Net on GitHub:

https://github.com/smartip-code/smartip-dotnet

https://github.com/smartip-code/smartip-php
I remember watching the (excellent!) Tesla Autonomy Day presentation, and an analyst was asking about 'chiplets' but was met with a bit of dismissal from the Tesla team.

Maybe THIS is what the analyst had in mind! Pretty cool stuff, although I question how interconnect / inter-processing-unit communication would work.

Notably, no benchmarks in the press release...
Most of it is scanning/encoding errors, true, but the example of the high school edition of _Down and Out_ really does seem to be intentional alteration -- there's no way that rewording "Come here, my chicken" to "Come here" is a technical issue. For whatever reason, a human wanted that change.
Good thing for them that no one loses his job for supporting Democrat-approved causes.
Can someone explain to me how this is not like that episode of Arrested Development where they steal a dollar from the banana stand and then throw out a banana to "cancel it out"?
Wouldn't removing the card, putting it back in on the same machine and then doing your second hash be sufficient?
Survivor bias for sure. Lots of parents would rather have a happy child than a gold medal. Once the kid is miserable it becomes a hobby.
Who is talking about "SaS" (sic) and how is that in any way relevant? Apps are local... to your phone. Your opinion seems to be that all phone apps are a "scam"?

I can't even begin to understand what you're talking about.
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I feel like your argument about maven falls apart because google really did stop working on maven, while amazon didn't.

In other words, execs said "here are our values", employees came back and said that maven didn't live up to those values and begrudgingly, kicking and screaming even, execs agreed, or at least capitulated.

It would certainly be better if employees didn't have to remind executives of the values they committed to, but having them has still been a net positive.
C++ seems to have this never-ending cycle where it keeps introducing fixes for deficiencies that people have found a way to work around, but which in turn create their own problems...

E.g. C++11's std::move, which may have partially solved the problem of copying objects (which everyone had their own way of avoiding anyway), but introduced its own puzzles about the validity of the objects after the move.
It seems to be mostly true for most infrastructure (especially roadways), so it would be weird if it weren't true here.
Is there any proof that "the trainer was entirely unaware that he was providing such cues." Obviously the trainer has an overwhelming incentive to lie.
>That doesn't work, which is why we have the UN Convention.

We have the UN Convention because some top-dog nation states pushed for it, as a means to influence lesser states in a faux-democratic way [1].

https://www.cgdev.org/publication/linking-us-foreign-aid-un-...

When the UN doesn't vote or suggest something they like, they can simply veto it or ignore it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._ratification_of_the_Conve... (not ratified by US)

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/23/politics/un-security-coun...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/43-times-us-has-used-veto...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Elimination_... (not ratified by US)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#Non-ratificatio... (not ratified by US)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat... (not ratified by US)

So much for "making minorities safe" -- they also have to be the minorities (or majorities) certain top dogs care about.

[1] And this is not a new Trump-era thing: the US has pushed UN votes its way through this and similar means since Kissinger times
There goes Intel. Behind the curve again...
State legislature mulls fining publications that don't identify bills
Look at executive compensation trends since the "greed is good" days of the 1980s!
90s company who wrote code that'd run as executables in laptops.
When we wrote the first version of the cloud back end, we were asked to "compile" all the scripts because "as a company policy we won't allow source code to leave company network"
It's basically a warning against escapist entertainment of any form.
"We didn't reject your credit application, it was the AI" becomes "We didn't blow up that hospital, it was the AI".
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That's an interesting point, but I was confused for about 15 seconds. Maybe it's because I studied Korean instead of Spanish.
> I really think that this is only seen as degrading today, because it's not needed yet.

The point was that it's not needed period. There is no point in having people wait for hours in a queue apart from satisfying the retailer's vanity. It's degrading to the prospective customer personally standing in line, much less a mere hired agent. The economically sound move would be to price the items at a point where there is no shortage, but if the company wants to create the appearance of a shortage at artificially low prices for dubious marketing reasons then they should just hold a lottery for the opportunity to purchase rather than making people waste their limited time in line.
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Specifically, corn subsidies and the Iowa Caucus.