skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are already past the point of no return. RTX 8000 is now an entry-level GPU that allows training some of the latest NLP models. Attention is spreading over to computer vision models as well, so one could expect memory bloat coming there quickly. Only large companies that can deploy thousands of GPUs in parallel will be able to compete.
> Not at all! I respect their right to do business as they see fit. I believe cryptocurrencies should be adopted as an alternative.

B does not follow A. Theres an entire universe of better options.
Even on Hacker News I’d say that the average commenter has very little to add to a discussion (I’m not excluding myself from this, FYI). Especially if the topic being discussed is “news” about a popular company (I’m sure you’ve seen “Facebook bad”, “Apple is locked down and their keyboards suck”, “Google will sunset this”). Technical articles generally get better results but only for topics that aren’t really divisive (“Electron bad”, “C insecure”).
I still don’t agree. Why these thresholds?

What if the behavior in question wasn’t marathons but instead was attempts at the Guiness Book of World Records record for largest number of people twirling umbrellas in a line while blocking traffic?

Does that also need to show an effect size relative to rush hour or generic risk tolerance of some other situation? Why? Why would it be “worth” that particular amount of risk and not something much greater (if you love setting records) or much lower (if you think it’s totally pointless & blocking fire trucks for nothing).
Which is much less waste than solar produces. We barely even try to keep the waste from solar panels segregated from the environment because it is impossible with volumes that high. It is impossible to try to keep it to the same standards as nuclear but the damage is probably about the same.

https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/6/21/are-we-...
To be honest, this seems like hand wringing about the degree of consequence for a given law-breaking act. It isn’t unfair to label someone who parks illegally an “illegal parker”. I understand that law may distinguish between different violations and establish terminologies (like “misdemeanor”) to classify them into categories and enable discussion around them and affix penalties based on those categories. But all these violations are in breach of the law and therefore illegal. If they weren’t illegal there wouldn’t be grounds for any consequence, after all.

So I still don’t see why people are averse to the term “illegal immigrant”. It seems accurate to me. The rest of what you point out - like people equating an illegal border crossing with murder - seems like an orthogonal discussion.
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The author states:

> After playing with professional Load Balancers like NGINX I tried creating a simple Load Balancer for fun.

And while nginx[0] certainly can perform in this role, another production quality load balancer is HAProxy[1]. Both can do more than this, of course.

Reinventing solutions "for fun" certainly can be educational and help others learn key concepts, but the author should clearly state what they are doing is not meant to replace production quality solutions.

0 - https://www.nginx.com/

1 - https://www.haproxy.com/solutions/load-balancing/
The Hinckley point nuclear deal is comically badly managed, and two EDF executives were so opposed to it, they resigned before the contract was signed.

All of it is down to the creative accounting of the conservative government to demonstrate that they eliminated the deficit.

Instead of financing the construction directly and purchasing the plant as "turn-key" asset, they forced EDF to take a multi-decade loan and agreed a price of electricity decades in the future that would enable EDF to pay back that loan. This doubled or triples the cost.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35741772

What's 'a ton' of pumped storage? Thats doesn't mean much. Can it can back up at least 16GWh, the equivalent of a single nuclear reactor's output over night.
I have never heard of a project of this magnitude that wasn't just on the drawing board.
No, OP is bragging about building a content delivery service, what was being distributed is completely irrelevant. For all we know it was legally purchased physical media that was ripped into a digital format to facilitate sharing the media without having to mail it back and forth.

The point is, it's not that hard to build Netflix, it's hard to get the rights to the content itself. I, and many others, just want an easier way to get access to the content. Streaming services are frustrating because the selection is limited and varies, buying digital copies is frustrating because you are still beholden to the company you bought it from to support whatever devices you want to use it on.

I have absolutely no problem with paying for content, I have a problem with being locked into a specific DRM-scheme, especially when the price is essentially the same as physical media that I could rip myself to do whatever I want with. Just let me buy/rent DRM-free content and I won't be tempted to pirate. The problem is that piracy is often easier than the legal method, and when that happens, people will prefer to pirate.

For example, Netflix didn't work on Linux for quite a while. When it finally did, I was locked in to using a specific binary blob on my machine, so I have no idea if it's actually secure. If I choose to use another platform (let's say I experiment with RISCV or POWER9 devices), I'm again out of luck with most streaming services.

Why can't I just buy an MP4 of a movie and use whatever software I want to watch it? If that was an option, I'd buy a lot more movies, but since it's not, I suffer through the crappy selection on Amazon Prime and Netflix, not wanting to build too much of a library on Amazon or any other digital video platform.
I think it's especially interesting to look at how quickly people master a brand new field too, since it seems the timespan between a new hobby getting started and people making professional quality works in said area has gone down significantly too.

For instance, my go to example are video game mods and ROM hacks. In the olden days, these communities grew quite slowly, and it took a fair amount of time for people to get to understand the workings of a new game's engine and how it could be built upon.

And you can see this if you look at Super Mario 64. In it early days, mods were really basic, and even the fanciest ones looked super primitive by today's standards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLc0rPRs3U

It then took years to go from stuff like that to more advanced original game mods like Super Mario 64 Star Road, and even longer before ASM coding became something many people understood and used for custom enemies, bosses, gimmicks, etc (like in Kaze Emanuar's current works).

Now contrast to Super Mario Odyssey. It took just months for mods to get made for that game, and under a year for fancy looking ones like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss7unbD4yHg

And even that's a slower example. Since then, we've gone from seeing modding scenes take years to develop, to seeing them a week or two after release, to in some cases seeing mods getting made BEFORE the game officially hit store shelves altogether.

Seriously, Smash Bros Ultimate got mods before the game was available to buy, all based on leaked copies posted online.

Outside of games, same thing happens in web development too. New framework pops up, professional looking sites/apps/whatever get made in the first week. It's gotten to the point that those jokes about looking for 'rockstar ninjas in [new programming language here]' may not be jokes anymore.

But yeah, the quality baseline goes up significantly quicker now.
> You go to a computer oriented forum and try to discuss about fertility issues then 95% of the comments are irrelevant.

To be clear, you’re including Hacker News in the “computer oriented forum”, right?

> In here everyone focuses on the things they know.

Haha, nope
We need to give power against robocallers back to citizens!

#wedontcallfcc
You literally listed a handful ;)
Of course if you take it out of context it fails to generalize. Why would you think it should generalize?

Nobody is saying this about [something] or [bad outcome], only about marathons that demonstrate causal impact of higher mortality rate due to traffic impact on emergency services.

It’s not a recipe. It’s weird to me that you’d even suggest such a non sequitur concept.
All of the stats about likes from the third party focus only on influencer profiles — I wonder how removing like count has affected and will affect an average user's engagement.
> Solar and Wind use ten times the cement and steel to generate the same power as nuclear.

I'd be interested in a reference for this. My intuition goes like this:

I can see wind using a lot of steel and cement for the towers (though masts built incorporating other materials do exist) and solar using just a small amount of cement and steel -- but solar doesn't produce much power for the same area compared to a nuclear power plant, so I can see that amounting to a lot of steel and cement if you build a bunch of solar in the same way you'd build nuclear power plants.

However, solar power plants and some wind power are often not far away from where the power will be used, which means that less steel is used for the electrical masts and power lines. And solar is often mounted on roofs, which means that very little structural cement is needed.

Plus... while the article says that solar and wind power needs to be replaced every 20-25 years (note: there are turbines in operation that are older than that), when you replace a wind turbine, you'll often keep the tower and just replace the turbine on the top, so it's not like you need to scrap the whole thing every 20-25 years.
`shuf` is not POSIX, so that would make this BASH.
> But another kind of damage is what they prevent from existing.

At least for VC-backed direct competition, nothing of value is lost. The business is commodity - driving people around in cars, delivering food, renting office space, offering rides on e-scooters, running under-the-table hotels, whatever. All that the insane amounts of VC enable is network effects and marketplace dominance - people don't call a pizza shop or a cab company any more, they open the Delivery Hero or Uber apps. But someone still has to make the pizza or drive the cab, which means until fully automated driving is reality, there is no direct loss in jobs.

The more interesting things are rather the "competition" that is entrenched companies... most obvious in taxis. Usually, taxis are regulated (meaning, their cars have appropriate insurance, silent alarm devices in case the driver gets robbed, and most importantly mandatory service areas and times). Uber/Lyft etc. can now pick the profitable cherries (airport transfers, drunk partygoers on Friday/Saturday) and leave the unprofitable times or areas to the regular cabs - who cannot run at an overall profit anymore as the business/hipster clientele is now using Uber/Lyft. Who suffers? Entire communities now underserved by taxis, old people (who don't have smartphones)... but no one really looks at which negative impact his/her company will have on minorities.
I don't think GP suggested that some people can't grasp the content of a mean message. GP specifically wrote, "the premise that you don't listen to messages that are too mean," and not, "the premise that you can't listen..." Usually, people would be would be capable of grasping a 'mean' message's content, but they reject it because of their own passionate reaction to the 'meanness' of the delivery.

The first thing GP suggests is that communicating a message more 'nicely' means more people will listen. So I'm not sure what your point is here independent of what GP has already written.

I suspect GP is emphasizing the importance of stomaching meanness because that's the harder (and more rewarding) thing to accomplish. It takes some effort to phrase and intone things more gently. But it takes a lot more effort to unlearn your own rapid emotional responses to someone else's tone... And successfully doing so is like having a superpower in social interactions. It starts to seem like everyone is driving drunk with respect to their own emotions: reacting instinctively when emotions are so strong that they drown out or dulled down all the other information.
Little gay black poet: 1800+ page dossier.

Civil rights martyr: 1000+ page dossier.

Bin Laden: derp. we need a whole new agency to help us "connect the dots"
I've read that you can't split up large layers to be trained on separate processors either horizontally (one layer per processor) or vertically (parts of many layers).
Wait, what, Apple? I think you mean Google?
Is that true? I would think that would be more like a wavelet transform where the wavelets are learned?
>The DB only has to guarantee what it says it supports (only store one specific type in a column).

If you mean primitive types specifically, this already is far from the case, and it's great. One "type" is great, but types can be composed. Allowing types beyond primitive types has already been a blessing for me. Getting columns of type ARRAY[some other type] or MAP[type, type] is incredibly convenient. I don't feel so strongly about the JSON types that are entering into every db, but they're certainly supported and widely used.
Could be a fun way to hunt for buffer overflows on internal shipping services. Just fill out the sender name field to just "óóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóó" and let it expand. If the parcel arrives, not vulnerable. If the packet doesn't arrive, you've found a vulnerability... somewhere...
JavaScript, by contrast,
doesn't have arrays - it just has objects, which can have numerical keys.

a = []
a.foo = 'bar' // works!

b = {}
b[0] = 42 // also works!

I happen to think these designs are both INSANE, but even if you like them, PHP has no advantage here.
Rik Arends has been working on a cross-platform IDE in Rust called Makepad [1]. It has a custom UI stack that targets wasm/webGL, osx/metal, windows/dx11, and linux/opengl. His premise (which is fairly ambitious) is to work in both 2d and VR environments. It's been fun to watch. There's a demo for the wasm target. [2]

1. https://github.com/makepad/makepad

2. https://makepad.github.io/makepad/
But those examples seem to be the result of more frameworks and tooling and boilerplate code that is already available that people can just build upon rather than delve into the inner workings and figure stuff out - rather than people learning to become experts much faster.
Tutorials on youtube are generally terrible for learning because they don’t show you any of the design decisions, mistakes, thought process etc. As if what stood between you and programming Tetris in Rust was not knowing the order of keystrokes. Udemy has (a few) authors with much better motivated examples I find.
If application and enforcement correlates with nationality because those violating the law are more likely to be of a given nationality, then I don’t think that is a problem. But I think enforcing the law to a different degree against similar violations of distant nationalities wouldn’t be fair.

That is, if 10 Canadians and 10 Mexicans crossed into the US illegally, and all faced similar consequences, I think that’s fine. If there are only 1 Canadian and 10 Mexican violators and this causes limited border patrols to be distributed proportionally between the US-Canada and US-Mexico border, I think that’s still fine. But if 10 violating Canadians and 10 violating Mexicans who were all apprehended faced different consequences, that would not be fair.
i think that's just a matter of naming – afaik PHP "arrays" are what you'd call a map/dict/hash in other languages
Had to look this up: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. The principle is also known as Postel's law, after Jon Postel, who wrote in an early specification of TCP"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
BERT is already outdated, but still useful as you need only 1 Titan RTX to retrain its BERT_large model via transfer learning.
I believe you can't know whether a message is sound until you've managed to work past/through your own strong feelings reacting to a message's pleasantness or unpleasantness. A heuristic which dismisses a message because of its unpleasantness or accepts a message because of the opposite is going to result in many, many false negatives and false positives with respect to message validity/usefulness. You can only pick apart a message's 'soundness' in the calm place that comes after emotion: where those feelings can be one source of information without their intensity overwhelming all the other information.
> internet points are surely just internet points

Except when they're used to promote misinformation and bury facts.
> It’s killing us

Perhaps there's a silver lining in that? US regulatory, trade, and industrial policy, has as an objective, spreading this diet around the world. And yes, it's a major public health issue in many countries. And yet, even here on HN, people have for example, praised TPP, with its ISDS provisions permitting companies to recover from governments, profits lost to health regulation. So as a silver lining, surely it would be even more unethical to inflict all this harm on others, if we were not subjecting ourselves to it as well? Eating our own sugary dog food.
Exactly. Since it's a community property state, maybe they took into consideration the existing credit limit they already extended to the household.
so isn't it like PHP, which doesn't have lists, only maps with integer keys?
> but the author should clearly state what they are doing is not meant to replace production quality solutions.

If you know you need a load balancer you should already know this.
> Private APIs which were used back in 10.4 when NSAppKitVersionNumberWithDeferredWindowDisplaySupport (documented here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsappkitver...) was not available.

And private APIs that still aren't available, as I noted in the second section you responded to.

> The most these headers can do is maybe help with rendering performance

Exactly. Everything I referenced was about rendering performance. I never claimed otherwise, so don't derail the argument by strawmanning JavaScriptCore vs. V8 on MacOS.

> Your point doesn't logically follow.

If you want the most speed, you want to use a platform that gives everyone access to APIs that enable it. QED.
I doubt it, it isn't like the average is going to correspond to the actual original sequence.
You, uh, might want to learn to recognize irony a bit better.

(To make it absolutely explicit: pgcj_poster is not relating a story that actually happened. They're taking on a fictional persona -- and relating a fictional story that happened to this fictional persona -- and making a facetious point as that persona in order to demonstrate that jdavis703's point makes no sense, by making an argument which is analogous but obviously ridiculous.)
Fruit != Juice
It didn't happen, he's being sarcastic.
For the articles I post there, because I haven't bothered to set up a website to host them, and don't really care enough about the topics covered to do so.

It used to partly be down to discovery too, but since then I've realised that discovery on Medium is basically non existent, and that success there seems to come down to either getting lucky with staff picks or having an existing social media following.
You’re misinterpreting what I said.

Invalidating an argument does not mean the conclusion is always false. Otherwise you could prove any theorem A by finding a single contradiction invalidating a poof of !A.

PS: Sorry, I can’t help myself... 1 + 1 = 5 therefore P != NP. Wait 1 + 1 = 2 therefore P = NP. Sadly that’s not going to fly.
Not exactly what you asked for, but https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/ does have a lot of inputs which, if given as names, would turn out the bugs you're looking for.
Unspoken premise being accepted: That the professed purpose (helping the poor) was the actual purpose. Just wanted that noted.
I quite enjoyed it when I was there and I intend to visit again, but the comments above about it having the greatest nightlife of anywhere except Miami struck me as slightly mad. Maybe there's some secret stuff that I have not discovered yet...
DIY Landline Spam Blaster
hyphens and name length can also cause issues
Some people just make music to share it and don’t care about sales, you are aware of this? ;)

>> are you really making important business decisions based on a post's likes?

Yes and no, and only no because once again I don’t care about ‘selling’ my music. There’s no ‘business decisions.’

For God’s sake, my mixtape is FOSS on GitHub...like, the original project files. That’s how little I care about sales.

It’s very very easy to see what kinds of styles of music and singles people prefer over others, or what advertising techniques lead to more listens by analyzing who likes them. It’s super logical.
Yup, and now they only support filtering as an add-on to other streaming services, which is a completely different business.

I was interested because they had a way to rent movies for $1, which I think is a fair price for older titles (I'd actually pay $2 for older titles). I feel like their business was essentially Redbox, but with a more efficient way of transferring product from one person to another, with a layer of customizable filtering on top. That seemed completely legit to me, but apparently copyright law doesn't agree.
“Trump Should Not Be Our President” Says Ex-Facebook CPO Chris Cox
I imagine it would be pretty hard to get away with airship plundering. everyone would see it go down and law enforcement would just have to camp at the crash site to catch the perps. plus other plunderers would probably show up to fight for the loot. it would be a lot less risky to just snipe individual drones as they make their deliveries.
Unless someone decides to NFC-normalize the text along the way. And it's generally agreed that text should be normalized with NFC, although there is often a fierce debate about who should do it ("not me").
Really enjoyed this article. I agree with some of the top comments, but still thoroughly the read.
>The worst part is, we can become as green as you can get in Germany,

The worst part is that Germany still burns a great deal of coal. One estimate is that worldwide use of coal causes up to 800,000 deaths a year - this is much worse than all deaths from nuclear, including the bombs that were dropped on Japan.

https://endcoal.org/health/

Even with the advanced air pollution controls on coal plants in Europe, an estimate is that over 20,000 deaths are caused per year due to burning coal. I am not sure how many of these deaths Germany is exporting every year to countries downwind, but it isn't zero.

https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-f...

A NASA estimate is that the use of nuclear power has saved approximately 1.8 million lives in the years 1971-2009.

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/

>...we are just as inhabitable, for eternity.

The Chernobyl plant would have been illegal to build anywhere else in the world other than the Soviet Union due to the chance of a disaster and the fact they didn't build a containment dome. With a containment dome, that level of disaster won't occur.
Interactions can be extremely negative without making the news.
Microsoft HoloLens 2 offers trippy, eyeball-tracking augmented reality
We don't know how much content OP had stored. Do you know how much public domain, 4k cat videos exist on the internet? I'm sure with enough storage, a proof-of-concept VPS with cloud storage could run that much per month.