skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked article makes the following claim: "the buffering capacity of the world’s oceans can absorb the sulphates without causing harm". This is a factual claim and seems plausible to me. Why do you think it is false?
Almost no one returns, but I don’t think money is the reason.
Ancient baby bottle is a 3k-year-old lesson for today’s designers
I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today
https://hyperallergic.com/395360/meet-singularity-black-the-...
I can see where you're coming from, but in the Amnesty case it's fairly obvious that the communication originates from a campaign (due to timing if nothing else) and in the Israel case it's not.

Then there's a strong argument to be made that Amnesty gets the moral high ground because their goals are altruistic.

Either way, I think it's an apples to oranges comparison.
Is there a meaningful difference between a school paying players with booster-provided money and a company doing so?

EDIT: To clarify, I mean a "practical" difference whether a booster gives money to a school to pay players or gives it to a company to do so. The payer matters to law, not to the paid nor to the practical result.
I didn’t realize this was Pete Shirley’s blog. Isn’t he still a professor?
Linear Regression with PyTorch and Python
Honestly I dont understand what College Sports is there for. If they're going to get paid its really stupid to have the athletes paid more than the professors.

I've heard the justification that the sports brings in money to the school, but if they athletes get paid that wont be much.
I would suggest doing your best to find more non-male non-white authors.
I bought a controller last week that displayed the 'one star bump'(tm)

They were 1 stars for the wireless version I wasn't buying, so you still have to drill down to see what the 1 star reviews actually say.
Galloway always predicts that every tech company is a bubble. Every now and then he's right.
I knew some athletes at OSU. They get lots of free stuff, like backpacks, ipads, etc.
RTX Broadcast Engine
Most OECD countries pay 60-100% of the price of the US price of a gallon of gasoline just in taxes[1]. It absolutely works as an incentive, and e.g. Berlin isn't in flames right now because gas is closing in on $6 per gallon.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuel_tax_in_OECD_countrie...
In theory they get a free education, but in reality the huge majority of a student-athlete's focus is on sports (at least football and basketball). Just look at the majors for athletes on the teams - almost never anything too difficult.

There are also plenty of examples of "classes" that athletes have taken in the news, i.e. University of North Carolina, and more
8 dual port 100G NICs (available for a while)or 2 dual port 400 gigabit NICs (not yet available) would out-bandwidth the memory controller on an Epyc 7742; how are NICs such a bottleneck that they need to be increased 100x to keep up when DDR5 only doubles the bandwidth?

I forget what the bandwidth of CPU cache is but I'm guessing it's not 10 terabit/second either.
If its a config file I'm not sure why you'll need comments. Comments / documentation should be in the system you'll do the config for. If your set options are that quirky / need documentation; why not explain them in a README?

But maybe I misunderstood. Can you give an example of a comment that makes sense / is required in a configuration JSON?
The solution is simple: hire more faculty, build more and taller buildings. Build more dorms. They can afford it. And if their mission was education, they would do it.
Here's a real time raytracer I wrote with first person movement to move around the black hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqnRs_xTWQ&feature=youtu.be https://github.com/fernand/schwarzschild_raytracer
My summary of the article: Most data is or will soon be trash. Efforts should be made to get to that designation as fast as possible from the moment of data generation.
Atari didn't need it either. The 1771 (or 2793 I think) floppy controller chip (a standard chip for IBM formatted floppies) does need the index pulse for the write track command for formatting. But the signal is just connected to a GPIO (I think on the 1050 drive this was fed by a timer).

This saves money, eliminating the need for the index pulse LED and photo transistor.

Reads never need the index pulse on soft sector floppies. Each sector has a header with the sector number and an "address mark" (a unique data pattern) used to detect the beginning of each sector and track.

Hmm, except the index pulse may have been used for a timeout if I remember correctly.
The Environment Variables
Vantablack has an exclusivity agreement with artist Anish Kapoor. It also isn't safe to handle, given that the paint is composed of carbon nanotubes.

Another artist thought the exclusivity agreement was shit and created Black 3.0, which is commercially available to everyone but Anish Kapoor. Black 3.0 isn't as black as Vantablack, but the artist claims it appears similarly when viewed by a human eye.
Satellite campus?

Buy up existing hotels?

The George Washington University has purchased many hotels and condos and converted them to student housing, and that is downtown DC real estate.

Works well when you pay no property taxes.
I think Black 3.0 which is around 98-99% and anyone can buy it except for Anish Kapoor
So which Cuda version and cudnn is this compatible with? Same as beta?
That's not the same. It has held up quite well, wouldn't you agree?

A lot of financial models have never, ever worked in any sense when put to use in real markets.

It is completely different. These are mathematical models predicting the outcome of complex systems, not physical laws that are observable in every day life (even if the intuition can be wrong, only work above the subatomic level etc).

There's no "unifying theory" to uncover. A lot of the research is just plain garbage. Otherwise it would be easy to become wealthy through pure academic pursuit, wouldn't you agree? But markets don't work that way, and these theories can be easily tested and fail every time.
Not only upgrading is hard, but also installation (on Windows at least). For each Tensorflow version you need a specific python version, a specific CUDA version, specific tensorflow-gpu version, and many other easy to get wrong things. The problem is not the requirements, but that it's very hard to know what versions are compatible. There are endless threads on Github of people trying to use Tensorflow but failing after spending days trying to install it.
There are DL methods that well exceed 60 fps for single-instance estimation (on high-end GPUs, especially on Turing or Volta cards with FP16).

I would also be interested in any alternative approach that even comes to the ballpark of DL performance in pose estimation.
On a different context, what're some good resources to get started with Deep learning using TF (besides the stuff Google put on YT)
There are a lot of PC/SC compatible card readers e.g. most of these

https://ccid.apdu.fr/ccid/supported.html

https://ccid.apdu.fr/ccid/shouldwork.html
If you want to spend your day working on theorem proving then get a PhD. If not, don't. You may also find another PhD subject you may like more. A PhD opens different doors even though you may still arrive at the same destination. If you are paralyzed in making a decision, you might want to start the PhD and do a summer internships at various companies. Use internships as a way to evaluate a "regular" jobs. BTW this advice doesn't mean you have to stay in this country that you hate. You may be able to get a PhD somewhere you like!
Can you explain who the Power 5 are, and what Division 0 would mean? And would Division 0 be inside or outside the NCAA? I don't get the implication of them all leaving the NCAA to create their own organization is, because I don't know the players in this 'game'.

EDIT: Answered in a jedberg reply elsewhere in this thread.
If players are getting paid they should also be disqualified from receiving scholarships and ALL the other "free" benefits student athletes receive, while still maintaining academic progress. No more free "tutors," athlete-only[0] meal-plans and dining halls, and even access to trainers, PT's, etc.

Are top performing student-athletes being exploited? Maybe, but people seriously underestimate the value of benefits they receive on campus beyond scholarship amount. And there need to be substantial consequences for both students and universities if athletes fail to graduate.

[0] These dining halls might technically be open to all students, but non-athletes have to pay steakhouse prices for slightly better cafeteria food, while athletes eat for free. These are the ways universities get around NCAA rules today.
Transsion's IPO in China Doesn't Disappoint
Though this has been discussed many times, I must say the trend of using touchscreens to replace dials and buttons on cars is extremely worrying. It’s entirely an aesthetic and cost saving decision at the expense of safety and UX.
That's pretty non-specific... what is the antecedent of "whatever"?
There is a lot of CS hidden in the Fall Revolution series, too: The Star Fraction, The Cassini Division, The Stone Canal, and The Sky Road. All of them worth reading and reading again! I am also quite surprised that MacLeod does not get much more attention! Such a brilliant author!

Want to read about a character hacking itself out of a virtual reality? An assault rifle with a built-in AI that refuses to kill? MacLeod has lots of surprising ideas and knows how to tell a convincing story.

Not affiliated, just a fan! :)
What you can do is try to prevent legislation that puts arbitrary barriers to entry for competition. If privacy is as big a concern as we think it is, over the long term products which offer privacy built in will outperform in the market. Meaning Apple and google will build in privacy into its products or risk losing market share.

The only way that will be prevented is if a law(s) are passed which prohibit google from making changes that would make it harder for telecoms and government(s) to spy on you.
Wind cannot power modern transoceanic shipping. Modern container ships are 10-100 times the size of sail powered transports. The throughput of wind powered shipping would be tiny.

Biofuels and synthetic fuels are still hydrocarbons - just carbon-neutral ways of producing hydrocarbons. But the amount of forest needed to power ocean going vessels with wood would be immense. I couldn't find global bunker fuel usage, but apparently the port of Singapore sells 50 million tons of bunker fuel each year [1]. Wood has about half the energy density as bunker fuel, so that translates to 100 million tons of wood fuel. Clearcut tree plantations yield 80-90 tons of wood per acre, let's call it 100 for simplicity [2]. So we would need one million acres of tree plantations clear-cut each year just to provide enough fuel for Singapore's fuel consumption. Trees grown for timber take between 25 to 60 years to grow until they are ready for cultivation [3]. So 25 to 60 million acres of tree plantations to provide enough fuel for Singapore. By comparison, Portugal is 23 million acres.

And this isn't even accounting for the fact that the lower energy density of wood fuels means ships will have to dedicate more space for fuel instead of cargo, thus lowering net efficiency.

1. https://blogs.platts.com/2019/07/29/imo-2020-an-opportunity-...

2. https://www.forest2market.com/blog/how-many-tons-of-wood-are...

3. https://www.arborday.org/programs/graphics/conservation-tree...
Your argument is compelling.

I'm not completely convinced, but you certainly raise some good points.

However, I do have some questions. What, exactly, is it that you say "maintains its behavior" in that way? Because from my perspective, what we have is not obviously a single thing that can be said to track across all those shifts for a given individual or family, but rather a metric that maintains a high degree of stability from generation A to generation A+1—and thus, a moderate degree of stability to generation A+2, and so on.

Furthermore, my understanding of that 0.7 number is that it's true for the US, now, not something that's static worldwide and across history.

Finally, I would note that there's probably just as much publication in conclusively proving it is genetic.
Theoretically if the podunk town is willing to pay 5x, 10x, 100x, etc. A doctor would definitely take up that. Hell, I would do software development in a podunk town for a million dollar salary. Maybe even a 750k salary.
> If sounds like the only winning move here is for the NCAA to allow paying players.

That is the end of the NCAA. If California can dictate the fundamental nature of a voluntary organization, there's really little sense for the organization to exist.
I have a fabric brush that works on that principle, such that I have to take care when using it left-handed instead of right-handed as the direction changes and instead of removing lint from my garment it puts all the accumulated lint back on if I run it the wrong way.

But this is almost certainly not the case with the floppy disk fabric. Virtually every piece of Apple software sold on floppy that needed more than 1 disk side used the flip-side of the disk, making disk-flipping and running the disk "backward" not only common but necessary almost every time you used the computer.
And future business partners, investors, advisors, etc. etc.
That would be fine if everyone accepted due to donations, athletics, legacy, etc had an asterisk on their diploma. What I find grating is they get to hide among people with no advantage.

It weakens the signal of having gotten into a top institution.
The number of operations supported by CoreML or Onyx is limited.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. Germany is not carbon neutral, 100% renewables.
That's not quite true. There is very strong social pressure in the startup scene to never question the hype machine. Remember when the Wall Street Journal first broke the news that Theranos was a scam, how VC Twitter condemned it as media jealousy and got TechCrunch to write hagiographies of Elizabeth Holmes? And then there was David Palmer pointing out what went wrong with AltSchool and everyone in VC rushing to jump down his throat [0].

This all reeks of people with shaky investments trying to contain and destroy bad news so they can dump the bag on the public.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/style/oh-behave.html
While there's lots of great features here, I'm very impressed with AMD GPU support these days. I bought a laptop last year which had (at the time) a brand new Ryzen APU, and it worked nearly flawlessly with the newest (at the time) version of Ubuntu (now with newer kernels is 100% flawless). And it seems like now they're getting support ahead of releases which is fantastic, because AMD is making some great products these days (my AMD APU offers good computing power as well as great graphics for the power consumption).

Linux on the desktop (or laptops) has never been better. Even if the 'year of the Linux desktop' might never come thanks to most everything being in the cloud and platform agnostic, I'm happy to see that Linux is still very healthy and better than ever.
Endowments really need to go. Put that towards paying for student's education instead of locking it up.
The people caught up in the Varsity Blues prosecution weren't rich-rich, like D.E. Shaw. They were merely Hollywood-rich, such that they could afford to pay a bribe equal to the price of a luxury car to bypass admissions.

Which is what the whole fuss is about-colleges would prefer to be bribed multiple millions by people like David Shaw for his kids, rather than a paltry few tens of thousands, like what the CT lawyer or Mrs. Half-the-voices-on-the-simpsons paid in bribes, the filthy plebes. The only people who should be able to corrupt the admissions process are the colleges themselves, and then only for amounts in excess of $1,000,000 paid by the gentry.

That the act of bribing one's way into a particular school is now a federal crime (the so-called "honest services fraud") is risible and out of the scope of what criminal law should concern itself with.
Is there something which has opinionated defaults where you can hack on projects without getting into all the boilerplate?

Like there is a mostly finite set of typical solved things you would want to use ML for like image classification, object detection, etc.

I find myself spending my time copying an example verbatim and replacing the csv / images with my own.
I'd recommend Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2. Another "AI by accident" novel, but one with a backdrop of mid 1990s CS as the author was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois during the time when NCSA Mosaic (arguably the first fully graphical web browser) was being developed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea_2.2
The problem is that listening habits are different than viewing habits. People generally don't rewatch TV shows (with a few notable exceptions), whereas people regularly re-listen to music. This means that a back catalog is very important in music, but not as important in TV. And since the music back catalog is owned by a collection of different record labels, music services are beholden to those labels. You can create all the new music you want, but if you don't have something approaching 100% of the music from the past, then you're going to be non-viable as a product offering.
>I have long thought the NCAA model actually does a lot to undermine/harm "student"-athletes as well

The athletes most hurt by it are certainly the football and basketball players. All the other athletic programs, men and women, benefit immensely. American collegiate sports program is probably the best in the world, so much so that I suspect that a good chunk of all Olympic athletes (American and foreign) are probably go through the NCAA program.

Basketball players have many options for a professional career. They can jump to NBA or G League directly from high school, or play overseas - so they are fine. Football players don't really have those options and their careers are shorters and their bodies are beat-up more. I feel for those guys. Those guys should be able to make money.
And I'm still answering cold emails to this day! Glad I could help and hope you get a chance to pay it forward.
> Personally, I think if someone wants to pay the way of, let’s say, 300 students to get full scholarships, so that their child can attend, this seems like a very sustainable model which benefits everyone involved.

> $37 million buys a lot of resources so arguably this isn’t taking a spot away from anyone, if anything it is enabling these universities to provide more spots to students who deserve them, potentially at zero cost.

This is very speculative. His children getting admitted to these schools might very well take away a spot from someone else unless they would be admitted anyway or the numbers of admitted students increase. This discussion is a fascinating read, arguments from all directions rationalizing this behavior and somehow making it work within our social contract.
From the article -- “The true bottleneck for processor throughput is the network interface used to connect a machine to an external network, such as an Ethernet, therefore severely limiting a processor’s data ingest capability,” said Dr. Jonathan Smith, a program manager in DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O). “Today, network throughput on state-of-the-art technology is about 1014 bits per second (bps) and data is processed in aggregate at about 1014 bps. Current stacks deliver only about 1010 to 1011 bps application throughputs.”

I don't disagree with this, but see the challenge not so much as the transmission speed between nodes, rather I see it as the 'semantics' for expressing addressing and placement. (and yes, I am a big fan of RDMA :-))

One of the things I helped invent/design back when I was at NetApp was some network attached memory or NAM. NetApp was among a number of people who realized that as memory sizes got larger, having them associated with a single node made less and less sense from a computational perspective.

One can imagine a "node" which lives in a 64 bit address space, has say 16GB of "L3" cache shared among anywhere from 12 to 12,000 instruction execution or 'compute' elements. More general purpose compute would look more like a processor of today, more specialized compute looks like a tensor element or a GPU element.

"RAM" or generally accessible memory would reside in its own unit and could be 'volatile' or 'involatile' (backed by some form of storage). With attributes like access time, volatility, redundancy, etc.

That sort of architecture starts to look more like a super computer (albeit a non-uniform one) than your typical computer. With nodes "booting" by going through a self-test and then mapping their memory from the fabric and restarting from where they left off.

I thought I might get a chance to build that system at Google but realized that for the first time in my career that I was aware of I was prevented by my lack of a PhD. And what was worse, given the politics at the time, no one with a PhD would sign on as a 'figurehead' (I reached out to a couple and we had some really great conversations around this) because of the way in which Google was evaluating performance at the time. (think grad school ++ but where only one author seems to get all the credit).

Now that I've had some free time I've built some of it in simulation to explore the trade-offs and the ability to predict performance based on the various channels. Slow going though.
Ah the memories. It turns out that Elephants do forget, especially on the second side.

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

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/remember-elephant-memory-syst...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDPbBO8jUA4
Or maybe it strengthens the signal of people who've gotten into elite schools on their own, because our meritocracy has never really been fully about merit.
Greg Egan deserves a mention here....

(https://www.gregegan.net/)
On a similar theme `Wiz`, a hacker ends up in fantasy-land where programming can create magic:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43084-wiz
No I don't think we ever heard of any consensus about that. Was that because climatology was sort of a niche field, or maybe we just didn't think about consensus as much back then?
Is the friction a result of trying to support eager execution?
> at the beginning or end of the day? or before or after lunch break?

That could work if everyone gets at work at the same time (+/-30m) or if everyone takes lunch at the same time (+/-30m), which has not been the case in most of the companies I've worked for. It'd be better at the end of the day, assuming no one does extra hours, but then it's even less useful or at least it becomes obvious it's all about status-updates.

> micro-management is if i tell you every single step that you should do, but a daily status-update is not

It's a micro-management enabler. There's no way to know if it's used to pressure someone to deliver, or to do things a certain way, without working in that team.

The bottom line is that stand-ups are of very questionable use. There are just better, more effective ways to communicate what everyone is working on, what things are done, and when someone is blocked. i.e: ticket assignments, PRs, sporadic side meetings, asynchronous communication (Slack, emails, etc), etc.
Right, but this CA change is (probably) an unalloyed good for CA, which gives other states even larger incentive to copy it -- whereas the incentives to copy minimum wage or auto emissions or other 'progressive' policies may be non-obvious or nonexistent.
Most new content on Netflix is 4K and HDR (Dolby Vision), and a ton of YouTube content is 4K due to many handheld devices recording in 4K now. HDR, on the other hand, is harder to find outside of Netflix.
These two links may be useful:
[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00187267166610...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17574422