skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's true that training a new DL model requires lots of computation power, I personally feel that such activity mentioned in the article is more of "application" of ML instead of "research". I personally think University should move in the direction of "pure" research instead.

For example, coming up with a new DL model that has improved image recognition accuracy would mean it has to be trained through the millions of samples from scratch, which requires a lot of time and money. But I'd argue that such thing is more of an "application" of DL instead of "research". Let me explain why... Companies like FAANG have the incentives to do that, because they have tens or hundreds of immediate practical use cases once model is completed, hence I call such activity more of an "application" of ML rather than "research", because there's a clear monetary incentives of completing them. What about University, what sort of incentives do they have by creating a state-of-the-art image recognition other than publication? The problem is publication can't directly produce the resources needed to sustain the research (i.e. money)

I think ML research in the university should move in the direction of "pure" research. For example, instead of DL, is there any other fundamentally different ways of leveraging current state-of-the-art hardware to do machine learning? Think how people moved out approaches such as SVM to neural network. Neural network was originally a "pure" research project. At the moment of creation, neural network wasn't taking off because hardware wasn't capable to keep up with its computational demand, but fast forward 10-15 years later, it becomes the state-of-the-art. University ML research should "live in the future" instead of focusing on what's being hyped at the moment
Yeah, I'll be sure to filter out any Firebase jobs after reading this article.
> That verbosity isn't even a big deal as you write once, but read many times.

One of the most pernicious myths of software engineering is that it happens.
I would never upload my DNA profile, but I have relatives who do. So I am not broadcasting the info, but other family members may.

I am generally alright with law enforcement using public information like this, but it could be used against me without me ever making said data public. So I find your argument invalid.
Same, just receive the notification about the 10GB.
>You don't need byzantine fault tolerance within an organization.

Maybe you haven't encountered a need for BFT in organizations that you've observed but it would be fallacious to say "...and ergo no organization would need BFT" (round-trip fallacy). I agree that an org doesn't need BFT if:

-Their hardware never fails

-Their hardware never goes offline

-Their permission structure never changes / No (permissioned hardware or employee) ever become unpermissioned at the human layer.

-Their hardware is in critical time sync with other system all the time.

-...

I have yet to see such a system but do see many people who don't realize their DS needs. That's fine, most people don't understand the delayed costs in not properly auditing unstable logs. Someone's got to work for bitcoin in the future.
Friend worked for Kaplan during the time period of the investigation.

IQ - you know IQ tests are renormed to reflect education levels, and raw scores mapped to give the bell curve?

So an IQ of 100 in 1900 would end up about 70 today. 70 oddly enough the number used to "prove" that people in the less developed world are inferior.
I guess Turbo Boost works only for short intervals, not continuously.
They’re probably not going to convince you anyway so filtering you out at the top of the funnel is helpful to them.

I once had a founder offer to intro me to other companies if I wasn’t interested in his, which I thought was a pretty brilliant move that ended up saving us both time.
Thermal limits. Lots of cores in a tiny space will generate lots of heat under a full workload. They can do full speed in short bursts (or when only one core is working hard) but can’t sustain full performance indefinitely without damaging themselves. The more cores in a small space, the lower the clock speed they can sustain for long periods of time.
yes and no. anecdotally, I did quite well on the SAT and never did a minute of study for it.

it is certainly possible to study for it, but it is also possible to just be naturally very good at standardized testing.
No, it wasn't there from the start. The no electronics policy only started within the last two years. I know someone who has been there and has the pictures on her phone.
Or, ya know, you use XCode and it autocompletes the function signature for you.
So the only people searching these databases will be the security agencies of every country that can break in?
Do you think that mesh is tight enough to skateboard on it?
Imagine how easily one could spread a fun new kind of worm by compromising an unattended firmware download mechanism if one were so inclined. Food for thought.
There has been quite a bit of thought and writing about "you made your choice, now we choose the consequences" over the years, though, admittedly, few probably predicted the stacking of new consequences upon those previously assessed. Well, outside of the Black Mirror writer's room, anyway.
And those other cars also have postage stamp sized displays that don't let you watch Netflix nor Hulu nor live tv. Nor do they allow steering wheel integration to racing games.
I wouldn't be so quick to assume 'increase user engagement' is going away anytime soon.

It's not just a feature, it's the core business model.
The emergent norm at coworking spaces seems to be that you keep the volume down (just above a whisper) and don't talk to people if they have headphones in, as this signals that they're trying to concentrate.

Pair collaboration happens all the time in this sort of setting. These days I'm not the one pair programming, since my coworkers are a 5 hour drive away--it's other people. And they typically don't ask first.

But the reality is that if people are paying to work in an open office coworking space, they've chosen to be there and are at least somewhat extroverted. So those norms aren't likely to fit the needs of people who don't want to be in an open office.

The flipside of that coin is, I don't think introverts get to come into an open office space and determine norms for an office space they don't want to be in anyway. If a coworker communicated to me that they needed more quiet, I'd try to come up with a way to meet that need. But it's a bit aggressive to assume that I will meet your needs without you communicating them, and call me "rude and selfish" when I don't.

In the short-term, if you asked, obviously I'd just quiet down so you'd be able to get done what you needed to get done that day. But that's a short-term solution, and I'm not going to give up my productivity forever. The longer-term solution would be to help you lobby management to get you the privacy you need. Can we designate conference rooms as "quiet spaces" when not in use? Can we schedule all the meetings for one day a week so the conference rooms are not in use the rest of the time? Can we re-examine why we're not letting people work from home? Whatever compromise arises is going to come from us discussing what we both want and coming to an agreement. And if management really isn't amenable to anything that works for you, I'd probably leave the company--I don't particularly like working for authoritarians, even if the open office mandate doesn't harm me directly.
Similar experience here. No issues with getting parts.
> What do we need a 10-100 fold increase in generation for? Have you got a reference?

"The US consumes 25% of the world's energy with a share of global GDP at 22% and a share of the world population at 4.6%" [1]

This means the US consumes 5.4 more energy per capita than the average human on Earth. If you hope for a world where the non-US population reaches the same life standard as the US, you need to increase the energy production by this factor.

Now, in the US, only 38% of the energy consumption is electricity generation [2]. The rest is tranportation, industrial, residential and commercial sectors. Making the huge assumption that you can replace every BTU in these other sectors with one BTU of electricity, you would need to increase the electricity production by another factor of 2.6. More realistically, any replacement of a non-electricity BTU with some electric energy will have an efficiency well below 100%, let's say 30%. You then need a factor of 6.4.

So far we get to a total factor of 5.4 x 6.4 = 35. Quite close to the (logarithmic) mid-point between 10 and 100, wouldn't you say?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#By_co...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...

Spoiler alert about the three sex:

> Auanema sp. shares features, such as possessing three sexes: hermaphrodite, male, and female (Figures S3H–S3Q), with its closest relatives, A. rhodensis and A. freiburgensis [12].

It doesn't seam to be so unusual for nematodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode#Reproduction
Evaluating and optimizing performance on modern hardware
Amen to that. And it goes double when you're hopping around different parts of a multidisciplinary project and probably only using a given language or framework once or twice a year for a couple of weeks. These days I find myself looking things up just on principle, even when I'm reeeasonably sure I remember how they work. It just saves time in the long run.
I read this as hide reptiles and got very excited. I would love to have a way to not see photographs of reptiles, especially snakes on the internet
I think a big part of it is that most (recent) mainland expats still mostly consume mainland (i.e. censored) news media and social media, and their friends in their destination country are almost exclusively other mainland expats. Reading and writing Chinese is significantly more comfortable for most expats and mainland Chinese media has cultural appeal for them as well for obvious reasons.

It takes an unusual and frankly relatively rare amount of independent thought and personal research to believe something at odds with a reality that your entire social network accepts as obvious fact. Especially when you start from the same manufactured reality that they did. And I would guess, even among expats, speaking about such doubts of the official CCP line probably is met with significant resistance among other mainlanders as mainlanders tend to be relatively nationalistic (as a product of their censored media and “patriotic education“). Why bother with it then? Which is also a part of contemporary Chinese cultural (no doubt nurtured by the CCP) — politics are is the business of the government, not the governed anyway.

So, in short, there’s a lot of political inertia for mainland expats, not a lot of incentive to consider other views, disincentive to adopt other views, and a lot of work to learn about other views anyway (must be in English in non-work hours, learning a whole alternate history and political philosophy takes a ton of time, your network of Western friends with sufficient knowledge to discuss these topics with is probably amounts to zero). So really, it would almost be more surprising if they were flipping views — even though, personally, I’ve spent significant time learning the CCP canon and find it rather obviously holey.
Wow... if the legend for [2] is real... just wow.

Building an airport based on some scribble a dead person left behind... boggles the mind.
There's legal precedent that public figures blocking constituents on social media amounts to a first amendment violation, so that idea may actually hold water. Naturally that only applies for government officials; the first amendment doesn't (and shouldn't) prohibit private entities from curating content.

Although bad-faith dialogue disruption does happen with political and government officials too, and can be a problem (including potentially a free-speech problem, for those who are drowned out) for different reasons.
I doubt law enforcement is going to just let this go, and I imagine legislation is being designed right now to ease the warrant process for this purpose, exclude law enforcement from some protections, or to carve-out allowances within (scant) existing protections.
I get paid for it, and also get to work more closely with potential future teammates to better test the relationship.

Having had interviews at companies where it was NOT as advertised during the interview phase, I'd value that.

If I was already interviewing for another job outside of my existing one, I'd gladly take a week off to do it.

But if they were trying to get me to leave a job I already liked, I wouldn't commit that much time for it.
To be fair, you're stopping in literally middle of nowhere in a city with a population of 221[1]. I wouldn't expect much.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima,_Montana
I don't have an HEDT but an outdated Haswell i5 laptop (not an Ultra Low Voltage model at least, so it's quite fast). Last year I spotted a bug in Firefox and I though it was time to put a line in the contribution section in my resume.

The contribution experience was a nightmare because a full build of Firefox took 3 hrs and running the entire testing framework took 4 hrs, though it turned out that I needed to run only a part of the testing framework. Changing a single line and building it again still took more than 30 minutes.

That was the first moment that I wanted a HEDT in my life. It feels like devs who work with big C++ projects would want a bigger workstation because of the significant build time.
> That said, while Twitter seems to be incredibly slow at introducing new features, the trade off is that what they do push out often ends up being a good thing.

I find most new Twitter features to be worse than useless:

• "Like" was turned into "algorithmic retweet". Now I can't like a tweet without some percentage of my followers seeing it. This is also a problem when I follow others. I can disable seeing their retweets but I can't disable seeing their likes. I've had several people tell me that they unfollowed me because of tweets I liked. I've done the same to others.

• My timeline now shows tweets from people I don't follow. Above the tweet is something like, "Tim Urban and 8 others follow...", and then there will be a tweet by someone who I really don't want to follow (such as Ben Shapiro). There seems to be no way to disable this feature.

• Quote retweet is a great way to encourage flamewars. Long ago, people could not retweet with a message. That meant that people were less likely to retweet something they found inflammatory because their followers might think they agreed with it. Quote retweet means they can preface it with, "Look at what this terrible person said." That's a great way to encourage the Toxoplasma of Rage[1].

Overall, the effect of these features has been to reduce my Twitter usage. Now I mostly go there for a couple of group DMs.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
ErrorProne has a nice safeguard against this if you're writing Java code: https://github.com/google/error-prone/blob/master/docs/bugpa...

It detects if your function signature is

> foo(first, second)

and you call it with

> foo(second, first)

that is, it actually checks for variable names that are mismatched, with comments like

> foo(/* first= * / second, /* second= * / first)

as an escape hatch.
If you need this level of optimization you can always use pure C functions, which is exactly why Objective-C was created as a C extension.
It is more of a question of resources. Why do they spend time ( and tax money ) trolling the internet?

In this case, if my cousin uploads her DNA, I am not giving it away and yet.. it is up for grabs.
> Requiring a warrant for this would be like requiring the police to get a warrant to look at the photos people upload to facebook.

That’s actually not a bad idea
You've moved goalposts. Your original claim was:

A)
>It’s impossible to count how many of those abandoned transactions were successfully replayed on the new chain

now it's

B)
>nodes don't know if re-org's are happening elsewhere in the network

Claim A is false as it is indeed entirely possible:

I have a chain of height 100. It is fully synced. I am sent a series of blocks diverging at height 80. I have all the information I need to ascertain which of the transactions in the two competing chains are being replayed or have been doublespent.

Claim B is true
I think it was the issue of taking the SAT at 12, but turning 13 before the program. I don’t recall, it was almost 40 years ago. I just know my mother was pissed.
So lets say the police see your brother, and realize he looks suspiciously like a criminal they are looking for, so they come find you.

Your argument is that your brother's appearance can be used against you without you ever going outside, so it should be illegal for the police to look at people.
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And that unlike Rust Swift is often much slower if you aren't extremely careful how you use it
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Guys that claim that women aren't interested in them because they're too nice can't get a date because they don't understand women or themselves. There are plenty of nice guys that have success meeting women on their own terms. Women grow out of dating jerks in their twenties. Also, when a guy starts complaining about that, pay attention to the women he is pursuing. Are they nice, well balanced, and in his "league"? In my experience the guys who say that are chasing the female version of the "asshole" they claim is stealing all the women. Source: nice guy who has been dating nice girls for 15 years.
The policy should also require the FBI — prior to utilizing private genealogy sites — add the case details to Justice’s NamUs database and network. The FBI pretends it doesn’t exist, because the bureau doesn’t get to control it. Poor FBI.
outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:baseAddress:bytesPerRow:releaseCallback:releaseContext:colorSpace:shouldColorMatch
What? Plain sight means they could see it without even performing a search at all.

Unless you are just saying that they only claim something was in plain sight as a lie when the person doesn't consent and they do the search anyway?
I never even heard of it before now.
I've always argued that for the prices that Apple charges Apple Care should be included in all its products.

The first Apple computers I bought lasted for years and I never thought Apple Care was necessary, but since the fiasco with the 2011 MBP and the butterfly keyboards I'm not buying another of its products without Apple Care. Yes, Apple ended up doing the right thing in both cases but it took years after the problems started and a couple of class action lawsuits.
"Reading" code in this sense doesn't just mean explicit review by different people, but also as in reading it subconsciously as you scroll through your own code.

If I see a chain of numbers like 1, 2, 3, 4 my brain has to recall the order of parameters or look it up.

If I'm looking for rectangles that should be wider than they are tall, I have to keep thinking "the third number should be higher than the fourth number"

Oh and I can't just Cmd+F "width:" or "height:" either.
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It only costs $600 to plant a piece in the NYT?!?!
So basically Inception sans multiplayer?
I have experienced sleep paralysis for most of my life, I can still vividly remember the first night it happened as a small child. So I hallucinate things when I'm coming to/fro sleep.

My dreams were pretty vivid before but it was only after that when I began to train myself. But I would commonly see people, ghosts, aliens, monsters, etc. creep out of the shadows at night and touch me or just remain beside me while I was drifting off. A couple of months ago I (hopefully) hallucinated that I was visited by a succubus and it was quite tangible and vivid.
You can likely Hackintosh it with a 64 core Threadripper, WRX80 8-channel board, 4TB ECC LRDIMM and run circles around Mac Pro for half the price. Ryzen seems to work quite well with the latest macOS.
> the most important is the last bit: "are you blocked by something?"

If you've waited until the next standup to raise a blocker, you've potentially wasted as much as a day of your time.

If I have a blocker that I need unblocked to get my work done, I'll immediately get in touch with the person or team that can help unblock me. If I don't know who that is, or need help coordinating, I'll go to my manager, again, immediately.

> The status update portion exists so that your manager doesn't randomize you in the middle of the day asking about that thing you're working on.

That's what the issue tracker / scrum board / kanban board / whatever you use is for. Certainly some people and teams are better and worse about keeping it up to date, but a solid incentive of "if you keep this up to date we won't have to do standups" will motivate most people. As much as I hate Jira, if you eliminate a meeting from my day that I consider a waste of time, in exchange for keeping it updated, I will definitely keep it updated.

For special cases, the manager can asynchronously ask their report on Slack (or whatever) what they're up to, and the report can answer when they're at a natural break point.

This whole "we all need to be face to face in the same place at the same time" nonsense needs to go. People are remote, people are in different time zones, and they still need to be able to participate naturally and asynchronously.
Quite creepy that part. Actually by doing that he annihilated any sympathy I had for him doing this in the first place.
Recently picked up a 9900X and now my company's javascript app builds almost twice as fast ;)
That's like saying police shouldn't be allowed to use Google's "similar image" search because there could be false positives among the similar images.

These genetic databases are tools used for investigation to identify suspects. Once the suspect is identified, the investigators still have to build a case against them, including obtaining their DNA directly for testing against the crime scene DNA. Since all the cases I've read about the police got the suspect's DNA samples from the garbage, it doesn't seem like the genetic research itself is even enough to get a warrant for the suspect's DNA.
one bit per frame for 20+ sensors. That is some weak supervision.
Surely a rational person would care about doing a solid day’s work while maintaining their health, sanity, relationships etc.
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> Often times when engineers are blocked, they work on a lower priority tasks while they wait. Sometimes that is a good thing but other times they get off track.

Not in my experience. Most developers I work with will raise issues in Slack as they come up. That's part of what being an owner of your tasks is about: communicating issues early and often.
One of my PhD classes was a paper reading seminar that spanned most of the history of modern molecular biology, from 1959 to the present. It was starkly apparent how much worse the writing quality became around the mid-1980s and beyond. Compare the classic [“genetic code” paper by Francis Crick](https://moscow.sci-hub.tw/1024/2cfa4b970e4a1fd816ee18afa95aa...) with most modern papers

More science authors should read writing advice like this.
It would be interesting to see if Apple tries any kinds of explicit legal actions to shut it down. But this won't be seen much pretty to DoJ which seeks more evidence for an ongoing antitrust investigation. I expect them to silently implement a developer policy to fix "a security hole" without much explanations. This has always been Apple's way to tighten its control on their ecosystem and drive out any potential competitors.
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