skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,

I'm not sure if you'll get this late reply.

First of all, thank you so much for your kind words, they mean the world to me, and for your interest — which is now reciprocal, I want to hear about you as well!..

I must admit I've spent way too much time trying to answer your questions in a 'concise' manner —HN's norm— but, as usual with this topic, it proved unusually hard fo me. It's rather complex, several independent yet synergistic 'moving parts' — too much repetition and cognitive bloat for a mere comment.

Thus I'm drafting something to share and discuss the concepts, if time permits it'll be up on some website (maybe reddit, maybe a forum, maybe some blog, idk...) by month's end. I'll keep you updated, if you so wish. You can reach me by email `cosmos// a t //vcx.cx` ;-)

The gist of it, FYI:

- the satellite thing is a personal research project (in very tangible ways, the experiment is to actually do it and launch). But the endgame (think 2030-2040) is a massive swarm of ~8 billion devices or more, if you catch my drift.

- However, it's an extension to a ground network which essentially aims at being an alternative infrastructure to internet. Formally it's something along the lines of a distributed, decentralized ("peer-to-peer") mesh network, fully encrypted yadi yada.

- This network is but an "optional" medium for my original idea (in ~2010) which was, in dumb terms, a communication network (which people would call 'social network' I guess, but it's not against such existing services, it's more of a global standard / spec whose primary goals are security/freedom/privacy, interoperability (like email), and to be 'unstoppable' (in the event of war, catastrophe, etc). Going back to first principles, this 'network' is not even an application but a formal protocol I suppose. It's the kind of thing that would ideally exist as an RFC 'standard' by the IETF.

This is more generally motivated by some of my philosophical values, notably freedom, empowering individuals (in the name of progress, civilization, but also happiness, self-growth).
The person that wrote the article should be in Sales.
Where can I find these studies, outside of someone's for-profit book? Preferably in a peer reviewed form.
How do you find consulting clients?
Yes I know.

Azure also and Netflix is considering to change their CPU portfolio :). One of the latest super computers was AMD only.

But that is not the OEM market.
There was a nice natural experiment that happened a while ago where children with sufficiently high blood lead concentrations had the government perform lead abatements in their homes. And then see how much better the kids with the newly lead free homes do compared to the kids who were just a little too low lead to get these abatements but who were otherwise very similar.
> The electrons aren't really orbiting the nucleus; they are technically waves that take on particle-like properties when we do an experiment to determine their position. While orbiting an atom, they exist in a superposition of states, both particle and wave, with a wave function encompassing all the probabilities of its position at once. A measurement will collapse the wave function, giving us the electron's position

Physics will make more progress and faster than ever before, when it finally embraces that everything is a wave and that our perception is inseparable from the world we perceive.

What we usually call particles/objects are just what things look like to us when we sample reality at the sampling rate of our perception.

Our reality is basically the intersection/interaction of our perception and the environment.

Here's a cool illustration of the concept: https://mobile.twitter.com/zonephysics/status/11318628388747...

Every physics problem is a coordination problem. The coordination of different waves/vibrations.
absolutely. from my prior calculations buying hardware yourself pays for itself within 2 1/2 months. the cloud is expensive as hell. you pay dearly for not having to manage your own hardware and scalability...
We have some private alpha users, but mostly the re-usable software isn't quite there yet.

We've been mostly focused on phase 1 which is our own use of the software, but have a roadmap to get more folks on the underlying platform in 2020.
Is easy to see that the religion of someone depends mostly of where they are born, if someone is born in Saudi Arabia I can make a highly accurate claim -without knowing anything else about them- that they are going to be muslims, of course in some places is easier to be a skeptical teenager but thats a freedom of modern times with modern civilizations, but even there the religion of your parents is a pretty good guess of what your religion will be.
Nobody hangs out on facebook anymore except middle-aged/old people that nobody wants to interact with.
Five ways AirSHIFT improved their React app's runtime performance
I am not sure where you can draw a clear line on what is a meaningful relationship.

Some people decide to get married after knowing each other for a few weeks. Some of those marriages even end up healthy and lasting long term. If anything I think it’s maintaining a real relationship that takes time not forming it.
Regarding that claim - I've always thought it was kind of the opposite: all resources are natural.

It's interesting how often two statements that seem completely opposed can both be true.
Open Data on AWS
I wouldn't call Elixir/Phoenix a "top performer" in the league of Java/Vert.x or Rust/Actix (see TechEmpower benchmarks) but it does VERY well at chugging along and not falling to pieces. Its dev experience is really nice. Its missing type-safety, but, honestly, I quite enjoy messing with it.
To do what precisely? Separate the advertisment unit from the socialnetwork aspects of the bussiness? How would that work, the advertisement portion is what generates revenue for the social media product.

Usually companies get split up so they cant use their dominance in one area to forcibly move into another area. But advertisements in facebook social network isnt a separate product-its what the social network is selling
Elderly poverty was once a massive a tragic problem that both impacted the elderly as their ability to work waned, the families of the elderly who attempted to provide care, and the employment market as elderly employees tried to hang on as long as possible.

The conservative and libertarian trains of thought value individual agency above public welfare, which is a convenient point of view for people with the means to sustain themselves.
Completely off topic, but:

Why, on earth, is this comment not voted higher?

There are people posting liberal or conservative political rants. People posting absurdities about how high lead levels have no effect on a human in any case. All category of senselessness is represented in posts higher than this one at this point.

And a comment with actionable information that can help people mitigate problems with the very issue being discussed is relegated to the bottom of the stack? I don't normally complain about HN, but it really is getting worse and worse lately.
Ultimately, any rules you create tend to break down, as there is always an edge case personality that will dislike the way you worded something.

The best advice I have seen applies to regular conversation as well as code reviews:

When you see something that is confusing, incorrect, or debatable, take a stance of genuinely attempting to understand the other person's mindset before offering feedback.

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For example, asking questions in a respectful manner such as:

"Would you mind elaborating on why you chose this pattern of implementation?"

Will result in a positive conversation while also having them document in the review their mindset for posterity and further clarity of discussion.

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From there, constructive conversation and asking if they're interested in feedback/alternative approaches can happen.

This way you maintain respect and show an honest attempt to understand others with every comment and suggestion you make to a PR.

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tldr; ask questions to gain perspective before you start dictating to others how things should be done.
They could have just released x399-compatible TRs that would have been e.g. frequency/TDP/voltage limited with just older PCIex, or make it configurable. They didn't need to do that for new EPYCs anyway so there obviously was a way (new EPYC socket was needed only for >32c parts).

I planned to bump my Zenith Extreme TR with 128GB ECC RAM to 32c from this gen and use it for e.g. gaming, while investing into a TRX80/WRX80 64c TR. Now I am actually pretty upset; I'll rather invest into a bunch of RTX 8000. They went from something I was looking forward to in the past year to something I'd like to forget about ASAP, like with final GoT season... I might even become an Intel fanboy now.
The first-listed option in the account creation flow is to log in with Facebook. Since I'm trying this to get away from FB, I'm not going to do that. But then once I've created an account with email, there's no way to put in any information that would help me connect with my existing friends. Why is there no way to indicate your university, employers, or location?
You can add filters to your email to ensure that you see messages from your friends and family. Facebook hides a good portion of these messages no matter what you do.
Could you be constructive and say what, specifically, you dislike about it? Do you fully understand what each component means?
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> How can OEM's still ignore AMD

Intel has been mired in an antitrust action in Europe for a decade now, based on charges that they have engaged in

> two types of conduct by Intel vis-à-vis its trading partners, namely conditional rebates and so-called ‘naked restrictions’, intended to exclude a competitor, AMD, from the market for x86 CPUs. The first type of conduct consisted in the grant of rebates to four OEMs, namely Dell, Lenovo, HP and NEC, which were conditioned on these OEMs purchasing all or almost all of their x86 CPUs from Intel. The second type of conduct consisted in making payments to OEMs so that they would delay, cancel or restrict the marketing of certain products equipped with AMD CPUs.

(quoted from http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...)

This resulted in the levying of a €1bn fine against Intel in 2009, which was sent back to a lower court for review by the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2017. (Not on the grounds that Intel didn't do these things, but that the actions by themselves didn't automatically break the law until someone could demonstrate they actually had anticompetitive effects.)
Just a word of caution. Although this is generally true at the moment, AMD's definition of TDP has nothing to do with electrical power or heat output. It's just a marketing number that happens to come close to electrical power. Here's a very good source if you want details: https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3525-amd-ryzen-tdp-explai...
On Linux, AMD has a MAJOR advantage over Nvidia simply due to the fact that the driver is FLOSS and built into the kernel itself. This means you get full GPU support out of the box and fixes/improvements are delivered through the same update channel as the kernel.

The userland tools aren't ported to Linux however, so you don't get access to the fancy social-media-augmented gamer stuff. If you want to overclock/etc you have to rely either on a /sys filesystem interface (which wasn't stabilized when I tried it but could very well be now) or third party tools of varying quality.

As for the actual experience itself, I've owned GPUs from multiple architectures (Polaris, Raven Ridge, Vega) and I've noticed a common pattern. When the hardware is new, it's unstable. A few kernel updates later (typically over a month) they run flawlessly. To be fair a lot of the crashes/freezes I've experienced could be traced down to Mesa and LLVM. I still would give new AMD hardware time to mature though.

Performance is on par with the Windows driver package (probably because they share a lot of code). You get your money's worth. Some of the games I run on DXVK offer near-native performance.

tl;dr there's never been better a GPU driver on Linux but it's not quite ready for your grandma yet
It's not invalid, but it's only your personal experience, not necessarily indicative of broader trends. Grindr itself is a tiny slice of the MSM population.

There are lots of studies. The overall picture is unclear. And some increase in condomless sex combined with a wide uptake of PrEP could be a net positive.
A CGI James Dean Has Been “Cast” in a New Film, Sparking an Outcry
It's been an interesting year for AMD in the DIY builder space. The every man chip that seems to get recommended at every turn is the 3600X (or 3600 if you're partial to Gamers Nexus). Most of big ticket builds seem to be opting for a 3900X these days. That, however, is a fickle market and subject to the kind of fandom where lines are drawn on brand loyalty that no manner of contrary evidence will shift. As an enthusiast market, let 'em have at it. The saltiness in comment threads can be comedy gold. The day that Intel launches a 12-core + CPU on 10mm, it'll be the belle of the ball for all of the next-gen big ticket builds. Swings and roundabouts.

AMD are starting to make some waves in the hyperscale DC with EPYC Rome. The real fun starts if that progress translates into your corporate workhorses starting to opt for EPYC over Xeon in their data centres. Intel are a big company to take down a peg, and have had little motivation to innovate any more than needed. AMD also have a bit of a history of doing amazing things and then dropping the ball in spectacular fashion, which is a candle that no corporate buyer wants to be holding when they've pumped a ton of capex into a 5 year deal pinned on fleet maintenance. Intel might not be dynamic, but at least you know what you're buying into. I think that the same translates to those making the purchasing decisions for corporate users. For enthusiasts, what your machine runs on is a big deal. For everyone else, as long as it switches on and lets you get through a working day without going tits up, who cares? And if it does, it needs to be fixed or replaced before you start falling behind on work. That also trends toward buying patterns that focus on known good config.

It's a fun market to watch. If I were back in my old role, I'd be looking for EPYC solutions in my servers and attempting to wrestle a few test laptops with Ryzen 4000 CPU's next year, even if only to worry my boss.
The behavior is the same, but the situations are different. ABC is a second-tier television network struggling for survival while Facebook is the dominant social network company and is abusing its position to stifle competition.
> # Self-hosting Persona

> This approach is not recommended most reliers. Persona has a large and complex codebase that has not seen significant development in several years, and Mozilla will not provide security or maintenance updates after 30th November 2016.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guideline...

Doesn't seem like a very good option for people today...
Branding has been the bane of our existence, we're gradually figuring it out.

Luckily our longterm plans revolve around helping other people use our software under _their_ name.
We have found in database ML to be great to productionalize basic machine-learning methods. We use BigQuery ML and it saved us a ton of fussing with various frameworks, and because we were already in BQ it saved us the moving of data from database to ML cluster and back into database. We simply author some SQL and get great results quickly.
The browser has become a virtual machine that routinely executes untrusted code downloaded from the internet. The capabilities of the virtual machine will expand until it becomes native to the host system.
We don't have minimum system requirements just yet. I can tell you that we've tested it on iPhone 6 with iOS 12 and a Samsung S4 running the latest OS possible on it. We're still trying to put together a more comprehensive list.

Thanks for the heads up about the verification email!
Why wouldn't someone do systems programming for the web browser?
or a podcast ;)
Aren’t planes already designed for landing at full weight for cases where the plane needs to turn around and land where it departed?
From a tax policy standpoint it would be the same thing -- you're taxing wealth instead of capital gains. We don't do that for any other asset class.

But, if you're "investing" in a public company by buying stock, unless its at the IPO, the money isn't going to the company, it's going to someone else who owns the stock, the same could be said if you force people to sell private investments to other people.

No, I'm not proposing we tax wealth instead of income and capital gains.

I think it would actually be positive for other places in the country if companies decide to open offices outside of California to locations where everything is cheaper.
Hmmm number 3 doesn't seem like a negative or counter-intuitive. I feel like software devs (in bay area startup world, or FAANG) are usually a certain demographic and they usually come from a place of privilege where they've never had to do the mental work that's involved in communicating effectively across diverse demographics.
> Looking forward to such gigantic machines on airports, how much they would charge per flight

It's actually an interesting supposition, because whether it's gasoline or electric, it should be cheaper and more reliable to run a ground operation than to pack fuel that is expelled before anything meaningful has happened.
Intel has quicksync, which really helps with video transcoding. However it’s getting to the point where the extra cores might make it the switch worthwhile, and software transcoding is reportedly superior (not that I would be able to tell).
The rumoured AMD Nuc offerings look promising too. Interesting times after so much stagnation.
Yeah, and finally with LPDDR4x support which should, in addition to 7nm and the improvements Zen 2 has, further help increase battery life.

Not to mention that the better bandwidth (if they use a 128 bit interface like the MacBooks) should help increase their iGPU advantage.
I am yet to see any real evidence of those claims.
You really have to be unlucky or do something stupid to bend the keys. You just have to pick up the CPU and put it back down at some place without any pressure. If you let it fall down or try to force it to go somewhere - sure you can kill it. But how often do you let something fall down every day? For me it's the same probability then damaging my car while parking in a spacious parking lot - which will be even more costly. Or dropping my laptop.
Facebook and Google are considering banning micro targeting for political ads
They're technically on their 4th model by now though.
I don't really see this as morally objectionable (don't know about the law, am not a lawyer). It's interesting to see the perspective, though. Not sure what point you're making.
The latter case should be impossible if the method is private?
And cable TV and air conditioning?

"For example, in 2005, 63.7% of those living in poverty had cable or satellite television. In some cases the report even said that people currently living in poverty were actually better off than middle class people of the recent past. For example, in 2005, 78.3% of households living in poverty had air conditioning, whereas in 1970, 36.0% of all households had air conditioning." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#O...

So in 35 years, 78% of the poor had something that only 36% of households had previously.

Lacking access to necessary food/shelter/health care is "absolute poverty" (not the usually reported "relative poverty" rate https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/poverty-united-s...). And by that measure, including existing government and other benefits and transfer payments, the US poverty rate is near zero. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/09/17/americas...

I'm not saying we can't do better, but we should also realize how far we've come.
Haha, wow. I'm dumbfounded.

This is why I love HN.

I wonder when I'll ever have time to read it.
> "This concurrency model appears to be adding complexity to the system without any visible performance benefit." just screams "I think this is shit but I'm not gonna tell you more directly because we have a policy not to do that". Might be only me, maybe.

After the knee-jerk "this is shit" reaction, the slightly deeper thought is probably along the lines of "There are better ways to do this that would simplify the code (reducing the chances of bugs, makes it easier to maintain) but it would basically require a complete rewrite".

I think the challenge here is what you don't know is: Did the person writing the code just not see a simpler way? Did they iterate to this, and realize it's overly-complex but don't want to spend the time to redo it now? Do they think this is actually the best approach, and has some other merits that make it better than other approaches?

How have others approached this in the past?

I've definitely been in the situation where I had to review code like this, and I've definitely agonized over how to carefully phrase "I think this is shit" in a nicer way. If my review would really be "Sorry but I pretty much think we need to take a completely different approach and rewrite 95% of this" then I will typically have the conversation in person to discuss it, as it's easier to be clear I'm not criticizing the person and also avoid misunderstanding something (either direction). Sometimes it turns out I was missing something, but maybe there's still an intermediate way that reduces complexity but still addresses the problems the original did.
I don't think you answered the question. The way I read it was "Why can't the nuclear power plant simply vent the steam they create instead of turning turbines with it?" In order to switch off power generation, even if the reactor is still creating thermal energy.
That may be one guys opinion, but you understand the other side is lying, correct? What I didn't fully appreciate until Trump was how much of politics is theater.
So do you just close your eyes and ears and pretend history never happened, since history is mostly about rich and powerful people? Is looking at history through the "woke" sunglasses of 2019 even enjoyable? You pass judgement on an artist who painted an event 200+ years ago using 2019's latest politically correct talking points.
The real advantage of electric airplanes is simplicity of electric motors, better aerodynamical properties of a plane using many small propellers, and possibility of vertical takeoff.

Ideally when we have kerosene based fuel cells we could have small electic aeroplanes that will be much easier to control, and would allow more frequent direct flights, instead of having to collect 100s of people together make them wait several hours, and drop them at an inconvenient location.
I'm not responding to this because it seems like you really don't realize how vapid your comment is. If you want to learn more, please open a book, don't read internet forum research.
That is a beautiful font, but my googlefu must be lacking because I can't find a reference to this font anywhere. I wonder if it is one they created in house?
I've met people that are perfectly content doing mundane tasks for a set amount of time, then going home to watch TV or whatever. It's unlikely to find them on this site though...