skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why didn't they switch to Slack, Mattermost, etc rather than build their own?
They're (slowly) making this better. Starting with 1.15, there is only one tensorflow pip package, no tensorflow/tensorflow-gpu hell any longer.
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I unequivocally recommend Daemon. If you liked reading The Martian, you might like Daemon. They both read very much like a screenplay.

The Martian is a great book and a great movie, and if I didn't know which one came first I would be hard put to say which is an adaptation of which. I don't know if Suarez is in talks with anybody to get Daemon produced as a feature film, but if he's not, he ought to be.

The sequel / conclusion, Freedom, is a very different novel, but also compelling and brings a decent enough end to the themes from Daemon.
The standards get ratified years (literally) before the first implementations ship out, but note that PCIe 6.0 is already slated to provide 4 TB/s in a x16 slot.

TBH, I’m kind of surprised x32 didn’t happen in the time between PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 (or maybe it did and I just didn’t hear about it), as there are now “plenty” of enterprise-class chips that have sufficient lanes to make it feasible to saturate such a pipe, although I’m guessing custom silicon already makes sense at that level of specialization where you can do x32 if you want to without waiting on a formalized interface.
> In order for something to be fraud there has to be deception.

Not "fraud" in technical sense; more like "generous marketing".

Running an ad of a bunch of thin, attractive people drinking Coke is not fraud. It's also not very accurate either.
No web scraping needed, I offer a form on the site for companies to get in contact.
Didn't even need a notcher. I just used a pair of scissors.
In a narrow sense, you're right. But even if a college isn't directly profiting on an program, there are a couple things to consider:

- If a university is breaking even on a program but its donations are captured on a different part of the balance sheet, it's still reasonable to think of it as profitable.
- College football coaches are able to capture a huge share of the football revenue at a school in part because players are unpaid.
You forget we need network performance to be wasted by badly designed software.
> We do not have to tolerate terrible people to get results.

You are totally correct.

I see no reason to tolerate people that go around lying and digging dirt in order to defame people...

I also see no reason to tolerate people that blindly jump on rumours in order to push their political goals.

I definitively see no reason to tolerate people that seek to erode principles of justice on which our society is founded.
No, I agree with some of what he says, but he seems to get an article flagged on here every 5 minutes.

Also I'm not sure how representative of the field he is, and (speaking as somebody who shares some of his scepticism) you would think the consensus would be the prevailing tone.
I would rather this be a federal level program as often the solution would involve moving people to new states.
315B-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica
Employee Mental Health Impacts the Bottom Line
Fresh ginger tea (using a finger length of whole ginger root, minced) works really, REALLY well for nausea.
Who are these people who are taking money to be violently killed by other people?
> It would probably take more time to write something like that than write about Chomsky Hierarchies.

And yet it is not only wrong, but the answers below do a much better job at explaining Chomsky Hierarchies and other things correctly.

Why is it wrong? "Have you tried using an XML parser instead?" is wrong because HTML is not necessarily XML/XHTML. The first working draft of HTML5 was published a year before that answer, and non-XML websites existed since the 90s, so there's no excuses.

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> but IMHO that's also how you end up debugging a production bug at 3am while losing faith in your fellow developers and humanity, so I'm not sure if it's a net plus

And that's why you treat people like adults: you tell them the limitations of each method, instead of making a meme.

And btw, you can get bugs at 3am with a XML (or HTML) parser too.
In the extremely limited universe of a chessboard, there are still an infinite variety of games one can play.

Just think of the "chessboard" of all the molecules that make up the earth.

I do agree, however, that a great many people seem to have very limited imaginations, and that this limits their lives.
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In that case, I'm not interested in that use case. I'm interested in increasing efficiency and control of "producing work" on a computing device.
Not by the arguments put forth in that decision. The key bit on the Nevada law is stated in paragraph 21:

> By its terms, it regulates only interstate organizations, i.e., national collegiate athletic associations which have member institutions in 40 or more states.

Nevada made the mistake of specifically targeting interstate associations. California does not, so based on the reasoning in that decision the California law does not violate the Commerce Clause per se as the Nevada law did.
«how are NICs such a bottleneck»

Simple: when the packet data does not need to be processed by the CPU. For example a router forwarding network packets at 10 Tbit/s. The data can stay in the NIC cache as it is being forwarded. No PCIe/CPU/RAM bottleneck here.

Also, EPYC Rome has 1.64 Tbps of RAM bandwidth today (eight DDR4-3200 channels). 10 Tbps is less than three doublings away. It's conceivable server CPUs can reach this bandwidth in 4-6 years.
Agree on the speed.

Not every programming language is suitable but ClojureScript would probably work (no plans to support it right now though, gotta finish this one first!).

Considering hiding the boilerplate in the text pane.
Yes! Similarly, I find 4-star positive reviews to be much better quality that 5 stars.
The numbers I've delt with are much higher, powered-ship taking 30-40 days. In which case as slower ship increasing that by the same factor becomes 60-80 days.
> The Fed will run out of monetary tricks, eventually.

No, it won't.

It might run into a monetary-policy resistant situation (e.g., stagflation), but the Fed has infinite range of monetary policy tricks available (literally, there's no floor to rates now that the Fed has taken notice of the use of negative rates elsewhere.)
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Ford brought back physical buttons. See:
https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/17/4437310/ford-dashboard-bu...
Can someone explain the science behind why a lithium carbon dioxide battery can at least potentially store seven times as much energy as a lithium-ion one?
Is this any different? Maybe it's worse? Previously he was in charge of USA propaganda focused overseas. Now he's in charge of USA propaganda focused on USA residents:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758047287/npr-names-veteran-m...
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Sustaining the infrastructure and support to maintain electronic medical records is probably the biggest. There are so many problems with the current systems that it's hard to know where to start.

But related to the context of the article: You can't spread that cost out as a stand alone doctor practicing on rural areas. On top of this is added cost of data entry compared to old paper charts, the cost of training staff to be able to do it efficiently, and the extra time it takes doctors to keep notes and sign-off on electronic charts.

Check out some of the recent articles on physician burn-out, especially in emergency medicine, family practice, and general practice. Doctors are deciding it's not worth the hassle, financially or psychologically.

Edit: a couple of recent related articles on the topic:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/electronic...

https://fortune.com/longform/medical-records/amp/
how do you get yelled at by text?

milennials, do yourselves a favor and grow some skin. just stop to care to much!

it‘s the bloody internet and you and everybody else are free on there.

not everybody will appreciate your help. you did your best. get over it.

i cannot stand the flodding with people and their constant complaining „ugh, this community is not inclusive!!1!eleven!“.

the hell, just leave! cyberspace is big and wide and there‘s more in life!

good lord.
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The ipad doesnt, but it looked to me like Alan's drawing did. Thats why linked to the image of the 1979 spell-and-speak. Not quite the same, though with cheaper memory it easily could have been; all of the other tech was there, and plenty of real examples predate it.

All of things that made the ipad unique were incremental improvements. That is why i took issue with the assertion that Alan invented / predicted the iPad... So many other examples of tech resembling his drawing far earlier in time.
> If so, this would seem to be a pretty clear argument for wealth re-distribution

Negative interest rates are wealth redistribution. Keeping money in account would cost more money, so instead, you are forced to lend it out to people who need it (presumably poorer) for less money in the future. Thus the rich who have lots of cash lose money and the poor, who need cash, can use their cash, start businesses, and have to do less work to make their business profitable, after paying back the loan
I read the article and still don't understand how women are really prevented from working in IT in the present day unless its mostly because many don't desire to.
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The NBA tries to educate college players or prospects to focus on their education as much as possible. I think the numbers are that even if you're a Div 1 college player, you only have a 6% chance of being drafted to the NBA.
> the parser component is a context-free parser

> The Python lexer ... is the canonical non-regular, context-free language!

So we have a context-free lexer and a context-free parser. How come the total is not context free?
"I have not looked at this deeply, so take all of this with a grain of salt, but a quick scan makes me believe that this is very hyped.

Having skimmed the paper it seems the only thing the authors do and what is peer-reviewed is estimate earth's theoretical maximum capacity for reforestation.

There are few problems:

1) Feasibility: "200 GtC is a technical potential assuming every hectare of forestland on earth is increased to 100% forest cover"

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1147190442145898496

"An assessment of the biophysical capacity for restoring global tree cover provides a necessary but insufficient foundation for evaluating where tree cover can be feasibly increased. The kinds of trees as well as how and where they are grown determine how and which people benefit. In some contexts, increasing tree cover can elevate fire risk, decrease water supplies, and cause crop damage by wildlife. Reforestation programs often favor single-species tree plantations over restoring native forest ecosystems. This approach can generate negative consequences for biodiversity and carbon storage (5), threaten food and land security, and exacerbate social inequities. How restored lands are governed determines how reforestation costs and benefits are distributed."

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/24

There are no dollar signs or economic feasibility analysis in that paper. So the people who wrote it just cited some number that is not peer-reviewed and even if loosely based on previous numbers might not work at the scale.

--

2) There seems to be no scientific consensus how much (or even if!) new trees are a GHG sink on net. Some legitimate papers even suggests that new trees could be a net GHG source. (the paper does not make any new contributions to this question and I think just assumes that trees absorb GHG).

For instance, see this recent paper in Nature communications:

a) "Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10174-4

b) this recent paper in PNAS (top journal as well)

"On-going carbon uptake due to forest demography is large, but much smaller than previous influential estimates have suggested. Contrary to previous findings, these latest data sources indicate that the sink is predominantly in mid-high latitude, rather than tropical, forests.

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/4382.short"

from

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xY3iSgDRHidue8J7C/...
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I absolutely agree with this. I (obviously?) want to see solutions to climate issues, but I also very much enjoy taking several plane trips per year, both for vacation and to visit family. I also enjoy the taste of meat.

So yes, I am a part of the problem. But we've gotten into this mess with technology; why can't we use technology to get out of it? Part of the problem is that, in taking part in these activities that increase our carbon footprint, we're not actually paying for the true impact of our actions. I'd be fine with paying more for my plane tickets if I knew that extra money was going toward carbon capture, or other technologies that are in development to reduce the impact of these -- by now very common -- activities.

I'm reminded of the checkbox memes; "You are attempting to apply an X solution to Y. Your idea will not work because:" -- one of my favorite checkboxes on those, was always "You are attempting to change the behavior of everyone, which does not work". I feel like this applies to most climate issues.

Implementing worldwide population controls is a non-starter. Implementing restrictions on air travel is a non-starter. Outlawing meat consumption is a non-starter. I love that companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are trying to come up with more sustainable meat substitutes. I think they have a ways to go, but I'd be happy to switch over to them at some point. That's a great example of using technology to reduce carbon footprint, while still allowing people to have the same (or nearly the same) experiences. Can't we do more of this?

At the end of the day, people are going to do what they're going to do, as long as they can (financially) afford it. Cultural/societal change on this level, in the time frame necessary, just isn't realistic.
I think an illuminating question is what do you consider more important, fair compensation to the workers, or maintaining the sports magic? Or, even, do you care about the tension of the two at all? For example, I don't care about the sports magic, which makes the solution simple to me - pay the athletes, and whatever happens as a result is a better result, because we're not longer exploiting them.
It's the law, and most jobs can be done by both sexes so there should be equal opportunity regardless of whether one group applies more often than the other.

It's not worth making exceptions on case-by-case basis for each industry and position, especially when the final outcome could very well be affected by the initial ads.

Also ad campaigns are always optimized and should naturally show more to demographics that are responsive as they are run.
I think the goal is to get a better sense of "how much of my visual space would this object occupy if I could see it". I had no idea Andromeda would appear larger than the moon from here if I could see it with my naked eyes. That really helps me get a sense of the size.

"Wow, it's that large even though it's that far away!?"
> Negative interest rates are wealth redistribution.

So are positive interest rates, just in the opposite direction.
I suggest you examine this chart:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:65_Myr_Climate_Change.p...

Which is taken from this excellent Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

A change of 1.5C is just a nudge in the direction of historical averages.
Core ML 3 adds a ton of new operations, including control flow support.

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/whats-new-in-core-ml-3-d108d352e5...
The usual Go answer, Java boilerplate bad, Go's boilerplate good.

Java was once like Go, and ironically DisVM also had support for Java, back in those days.
Maybe the moon's gravity? Or temperature cycle differences?
They would like to plug their ears.
Levine is skeptical/amused by the nonsensical valuations but takes a more neutral stance, probably because he was never truly invested in/familiar with/cared that much about new technology and what people promise it can do. Galloway is more idealistic and Levine is more practical taking things at face value and breaking them down. They're both very knowledgeable and worth reading.
I don't know why, I thought Egan was a physics teacher.
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I am flexible about how wide my editor is. Pretty much all code I read bounds itself to some sort of limit around 80-120 characters. If there are a few individual lines that exceed the current editor width, I can scroll. I don't have to work with any codebases that have ridiculously long lines.
At the very first glance:
what is wrong with

function xxx()

instead of

fn xxx()

what are we trying to save here?

Also would be nice to do import instead of @import.
More readable I think.

Afraid to dig deeper as I do not have time to play with the languages that I can not yet use in production.
> I'd also like a proper SQL and first-class table support, but we work with what is supported by Internet Explorer 11.

If you were thinking about WebSQL, then sticking to IE11 has skipped you over an obstacle course in web standards, because WebSQL was abandoned by the browsers (for good reasons, led by Mozilla and Microsoft trying not to let SQLite bugs define the web platform for decades) and won't be supported again soon, in lieu of the much simpler key-value store called IndexedDB.

> JavaScript's lack of a built-in parser is a real bummer

eval() wasn't sufficient for your needs?
Dr. Gabor Maté theorizes that one's emotional state influences the expression of cancer in people who smoke. A smoker who is constantly in a state of emotional stress is much more likely to develop lung cancer than a smoker who is not.

See: https://drgabormate.com/preview/when-the-body-says-no-chapte...
Building a Geospatial Quant Model of Ocean Transport
If Thorium reactors ever get completed... this won't be a problem.
>Any sex between adults and minors is rape, that's what the concept of statutory rape means. He has expressed that those interactions could be mitigated by "willing" and "voluntary" actions by the children, and that in those situations there's no real harm done.

You do understand that rape can't be voluntary, and voluntary sex is not a rape?

>Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.

It's in the definition. If there is a consent, there is no rape.

Hence, Stallman is not advocating for rape.
Seen from Europe, the whole concept of college sports is just strange. What do the two have to do with each other? One is a place of study, the other is sport. Here if you want to be an athlete, you join a sports club. If you want to be a computer scientist or historian, you go to university. You can also do both but they have no interactions.
Apparently one of the ways to get a scholarship in the US to pay the high tuition fees is through good sport results. But what does swimming really fast have to do with someone's aptitude for studying biology or astronomy or finance?
In most cases, people live there because that is where their lives and family are, not because they are poor per se or "trapped". In fact, many of them are not poor by any constructive definition. These populations, while shrinking and aging, have productive lives often related to resource extraction industries such as farming and mining which are not going away. People are simply choosing to remain in the areas where they built their life.

Labor shortages are a critical problem in many of these communities. Young locals often move to the cities and rarely move back, and while automation has helped support the local industries it has not nearly covered the shortfall. Much of the working age labor that does move into these areas is either illegal immigrants or ex-convicts looking for a fresh start. Due to shortages, minimally skilled physical labor often commands 3-4x minimum wage in my experience.

It is a mistake to think that people want to be rescued from these areas. Maybe some do but most have reasons for living where they live.
Sure, but the commenter was asking if negative interest rates indicated that we need wealth redistribution from rich to poor. Also, in the recent past, we have had a negative 'real' interest rate. You'd be hard-pressed to find funds paying more than inflation on your cash.
Consoles have a user base large enough to be worth the effort.
It's pretty good but not amazing. I enjoyed it because I read the book a long time ago. I bet if you read the book recently you wouldn't enjoy it as much.
One dimension not addressed is how individual people join forces as companies and effectively turn against other groups of people.

What would happen to the economy if we'd only allow companies of 1000 people, of 100 people, or perhaps even of 1 person?
Let's add one that nearly nobody has read: We Were Gods, by Alex Feinman. https://alexfeinman.net/#wwg-details

It contains a timing attack on a MMO VR game system, described in-game through ritual magic -- and it makes sense both as magic and as an exploit.
> The one fallout of this is that there are lots of collegiate sports that will go away. They schools won't pay the money for the field hockey team so all the players can get a salary.

So, what you are saying is that the field hockey team wouldn't meet the economic benefit to the school test to determine that they were entitled to pay if rules like those for unpaid internships were applied? And, therefore, wouldn't be covered, at all?
"Usually once the growth is tapped out they now dump it on the public markets."

While this has been true for recent IPOs like Uber/Lyft/WeWork, there also has been many other IPOs where the companies have continued growing even after they IPO. Recent examples include Twilio, Hubspot, Docusign and Tableau.
When Muslims are problematic wherever they are one has to wonder whether the rest of the world is at fault.
nah, this is just the brilliant hacker type mentality (individual over team, parachute in and rewrite everything in today's cool language) type stuff that gets really annoying once you're responsible for a set of interconnected components of software that matter.

it's critical to root out these hero types lest they ruin your organization with hand grenades wrapped up as "refactored" projects using the latest language. seniors won't put up with this, and rightfully so: it basically raises a middle finger to the organization's previous culture/work, and they are now responsible for doing it... again. it's disrepectful and ought to be a fireable offense, ideally rooted out in the first few weeks when the new team member is given some slightly autonomous tasks.
Most of the time spent with computer interfaces is consuming rather than producing, though... doesn't it make sense to optimize for that use case for general purpose electronics?
400Gbps interface, or total capacity? I assume you mean per-interface. Yeah they are crazy expensive currently.
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Carol Quigley points out in "Evolution of Civilizations" that institutions over time tend to do the opposite of their initial stated purpose with football being one example:

A game called football was invented about 1870 to provide healthful physical exercise for the undergraduates on bright autumn afternoons. Seventy years later the undergraduates who needed exercise most were seated in the stands of a city baseball park on Friday night, with their flasks and their coeds, while on the grass (or mud) below, the undergraduates who needed exercise least pushed each other about under the floodlights.