skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love it! Reminds me a little of the paperclip game.
That's not necessarily narcissistic behavior. You can be a weird jerk without being a narcissist.
I predict that the slowing of Moore's law is going to make HPC and optimization in general a much more valuable skillset in the next few decades. In the past 15 years or so, we've been more or less happy to treat CPU cycles as a limitless resource, and as a result modern software stacks have a lot of fat in them. At the end of the era of free speed increases, trimming the fat is going to be a lot more important.
The pictures in the article don't work (at least for me).
Here is the wayback machine snapshot where everything displays correctly.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160718172225/http://gernotklin...
Are you implying that most of the world's trading inventory and working capital is, at any given moment, afloat on cargo ships ?
Why not just Flatpak Steam?
Could you expand on this? I've used both but am not sure what you mean by leech management
A lot of South Indian food would pass for “vegan” as well.
> How Firefox should respond here is to make ad-blocking a first party solution.

Okay, yes -- that would be an interesting move. Not sure they can afford it but it would be great.
> I don't think assuming bad faith with absolute certainty is a productive form of debate.

It’s not a debate though, Google is removing these user friendly features and sprinkling some marketing speak over their actions. It’s right to call them out on that. Also, if your job is to be the face of that marketing speak, you should expect people to question what you say.

[edit] Funding and openness are tangential. A system need not be profitable to be open. Look at open source.
> Parking could be deliberately placed far away: Cars could drop you at the front doors, then drive off and park themselves, returning to pick you up when you are done.

> This could revitalize downtown shopping districts, for example.

Or we could have that today by limiting car access to downtown shopping districts, having large parking lots outside of town and investing in public transit. This is being enacted and it's working in many middle-sized European cities.
Have you ever seen those bugs where attaching a debugger made the bug disappear?
> If everyone in the world becomes vegan, what exactly do you think is going to happen to all of those domesticated cows, sheep, and chickens? Are people going to continue raising them as pets in the same quantities, out of the goodness of their hearts? Of course not -- they would basically go extinct.

Maybe they’d be put in zoos?
As an addendum, also compare recent nationalism in Turkey and Kurdish nationalism:

Turkey is an established state. Nationalism in Turkey is a social movement for increased conformity (resulting in a rise of Islam, slowly converting it from merely a widespread religion into a state religion, and cultural homogeneity, rejecting e.g. Greek shared history and ethnic minorities). It has also fueled rhetoric strongly suggesting expansionism (though currently restricted to depopulating Northern Syria to create a "security buffer" and relocating a different, more trusted, ethnic group there).

Kurdish nationalism for decades was a struggle against Turkish nationalism (as well as Iraq, Syria and Iran), fighting for cultural and ethnic recognition of the Kurdish minority in Turkey. The stated goal was to create a separate Kurdish nation state to define and protect a shared Kurdish identity.

More recently, Kurdish politics have moved away from the idea of a nation state. Rojava, although predominantly Kurdish, was explicitly created as an autonomous territory rather than a state and as multi-ethnic, multi-religious and with all central power devolved to the lowest level (i.e. all power is granted directly and explicitly by households forming neighborhoods forming communities). They explicitly aimed to find common ground with Syria, aspiring to become a mere autonomous territory in Syria, rather than a separate state. They eschewed both nationalism (i.e. creating a homogeneous identity) and full statehood (i.e. full political sovereignty and independence).

In reverse order, these are an example of the absence of nationalism, nationalism to create a new nation state (empowering a minority in an existing state) and hypernationalism (refining an existing nation state through increased homogeneity and militaristic expansionism).
> I'm happy to let a few ads slip through ...

But should that mean letting the fox guard the henhouse though? The problem here is that the largest ad provider also controls the largest ad display platform (i.e., Chrome), and is using the latter to benefit the former.
>This could revitalize downtown shopping districts, for example.

Downtown shopping districts already solved this problem...by putting parking lots in the back or shared multi-level parking garages off to the side.

Self driving cars aren't magically going to give them money to rebuild if they haven't already.
Figures, there's a giant snow storm passing through the Northeast today :(
I’m not familiar with that. Reading about it now cheers. Looks like a “cookie clicker”
Beacon.enabled default is true, and the password manager defaults to sending passwords to a remote server. MozCo is not user friendly. Their main focus is on keeping the Google money flowing.
The Porsche Taycan is pre-ordered more than 30000 times. Most of those customers currently own a Tesla.
What is they really, really like for loops?
There needs to be some clarifying questions. I'm basing these questions on the premise that the trapped ants ate the corpses of incoming worker ants without killing them first.

(1) How did the incoming worker ants come to be in the bunker? Based on the premise, they fell into the bunker already dead.
If that's the case and if the ants were not reproducing, unless they have a relatively long lifespan, (2) shouldn't they die out overtime regardless of how many corpses fell into the bunker?

(3) Why couldn't the trap ants make it across the ceiling into the ventilation pipe--are some ants unable to crawl upside down or did the texture of the ceiling impede them?

If the premise is incorrect and the ants have a short lifespan, it's reasonable to think that the "trapped" ants are just an accumulation of worker ants that kept falling into the bunker.
> Any gaming activity seems to use no more than 8 cores max

Large numbers of cores have never been useful for gaming, but overall thread performance has. Right now the major bottleneck for high end gaming is GPUs because display pixel counts have gone through the roof with high frame rate VR and 5k monitors, but keep in mind that the current most powerful graphics card for games (Nvidia 2080 Ti) is over a year old, still costs over $1000, and is not about to be replaced yet because, just like Intel, NVidia hasn't had competition at the top in a long time. If AMD can bring this success to the graphics space, maybe that will change too.
Uber CEO compares Khashoggi murder to self-driving car “mistake”
I used to use oprofile, but I don't think it works on current kernels.

So I use "perf stat" now. :)
This Entire Article Was Written by an AI
A lot of the most interesting stuff, e.g. Max for Live and I believe the browser-based audio interfaces, is from Cycling '74, which Ableton acquired in 2017.
We'd be dying on the roads in droves because faster is always better ?
As much as I did back when we had it.

Many people love sharing stuff. The move to this ad-driven web happened because companies saw they could make money here. I'm totally fine with companies not making money and the web being driven by scientists and hobbyists.
Co-Founder of Lemonade and Fiver on how to hack creative ideation
Great job! How is it take you 10 years to take the step to do it? Any idea about how to overcome that? I question this because I have some ideas but later on I never find the time / motivation to deal with it.
I'm in Europe (NL) and get a lot of robocalls. Seems to have died down a bit nowadays in favor of fake SMS to replace my debit card but it's all the same spam to me.
Your factor of two is removed by the fact that the power is applied for half the time.

A car travelling 70mph gets to its' destination twice as quickly as a car travelling 35mph.
Because they are the inevitable correlaries of the root ideal. "The nation above all else."(Nationalism) leads to "Dissent against the government is wrong and treasonous. Obey the nation and make it great!" (Authoritarianism) and "Others are less important." (Chauvanism).
This analogy is completely broken, obviously.

But off-topic: I wonder what computers would look like if there _were_ arbitrary restrictions like that. What directions would we have pursued in microarchitecture, distributed systems, etc etc if there was a regulation capping clock speed or number of transistors, or a rule that made it illegal to have asymmetric network connections?
I apologize for giving the wrong link at the beginning.
It's now fixed
There are still problems, like protein folding, or training larger and larger deep learning models, which have nowhere near the performance you'd actually want in a perfect world. There's always going to be a bigger target in some of these domains, and it would be a shame to imagine we'll reach a ceiling in some areas of scientific inquiry because of hardware limitations.
Where else in the metropolis, after all, are there free toilets, air-conditioning and seating?

This is meant as a rhetorical question, as if those things didn't exist in cities. They don't in many western cities, certainly, but Japanese cities do quite well on all 3 counts, as does Taipei if memory serves.

Interestingly, while apparently ignoring Asian cities, the article and photos focus specifically on Asian airports. Many western ones are outright hostile to travellers. I'm thinking of just about all UK airports, but for example Berlin Tegel is also pretty awful. They're neither architecturally grand, nor do they in any way resemble traditional public spaces.
I agree mostly. But how long can engineers throw more and more and exponentially more hardware at the phone that fits in my pocket?
The article mentions Bert and links to his post.

El Reg is an IT(-ish) site, and so tries to summarize things for the general tech-y public that may be of interest.
So if all gun deaths in the UK since 1990 were also in the last month then the 2 systems are converging?
Boeing has thousands of engineers and yet they all allowed a single sensor system able to take out a plane to exist ;)
Drastically depends on the kind of problems you're working on.
Difficult question.

But look at the closest competitors and see what they charge perhaps?

For example, take a look at Cockroach Labs, or MySQL InnoDB Cluster, or one of the many database as a service providers, or whatever you think is the closest competitor, and see what their licensing terms and pricing are...
In today's world, is such a marginal progress worth the ecological sacrifices being made in its name?
On the other hand, I am beginning to miss the times when things could be done on a single core CPU...
> They want to replace API to provide better performance.

The replacement API is incompatible with what it is replacing. The supposed gain in performance is not without loss in ability to block ads.

> ad blocking extensions won't disappear. May be some will, and new extensions emerge.

Some kinds of ad-blocking is simply impossible in the new API, without replacement or workaround. No extension can implement those methods.
Reminds me of Bill Gates trying to explain the value of the Internet to David Letterman.

"Does 'radio' ring a bell? 'Tape recorders' ring a bell?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lskpNmUl8yQ
At least they're kind enough to ask.

CCPA is going to be a thing in the US soon. I wonder what that will look like.
Statistically, food animals are far more likely to be raised in hellish factory farms than in the traditional bucolic pasture or chicken run. I don't actually think raising animals for meat is immoral, but causing unnecessary suffering to improve the bottom line is.
Since AI is heavily parallelizable, it only matters that cost(as in dollars) will keep exponentially decreasing.

It doesn't matter if you can't double the transistor density of a single cpu if you can just double the number of machines. At the end of the day you still managed to double performance for the same price.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs (note: in another thread someone noted that this wiki is outdated/inaccurate. If anyone have the relevant expertise they should help edit it)
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Dev_Story. If you were able to have people automatically grab tasks that would be awesome (which I see is already on your backlog). I got to level 8, but the clicking quickly got unruly
I remember being bored. Fondly in hindsight.
Great story with many details, including technical details.

As a summary,

* The migration involved 100 employees at 14 different offices at the state of Kerala.

* At the same time there was a migration from legacy text encodings to Unicode. They used a GUI program to convert text in legacy encoding to Unicode (language: Malayalam).

* It is a full software migration to free software, including the operating system.

* They use a Linux distribution based on Kubuntu

* The typesetting software is Scribus.
> Sure, they could go on and get a PhD, but first they'll make some money; they can always come back later.

Yeah, you can totally trust yourself to not take on a bunch of financial obligations that would effectively preclude the possibility of taking on a PhD. Honest.
I’ve done a lot of other things in the meantime :), such as putting out profitable projects and books etc.

The original vision for this game was a fully animated iOS game. It only became worth doing when I suddenly had a way to make it ultra-lightweight, no graphics at all.

So my advice is to find the minimum. Less than an Mvp. Halve your idea. Then halve it again.
I see this kind of thinking all the time in hardware engineering as well, and it all boils down to premature optimization. Cost almost always is driving this.

One example is a recent project was a very cost-sensitive machine in which a small heater was copied over from another product, but no one actually verified that it was good to the required limits (just the default use case). Well, turns out it wasn't quite powerful enough but it is way too late and expensive now to fix it at the end! Also, all the engineering time was wasted to figure this out (but it often seems management doesn't count engineering time the same way as parts cost)!

I've since learned that in the beginning of a project it is critical to identify the riskiest parts of the design and try to isolate that to a module and over-spec it, hopefully with a path to reduced cost later on. But the most important thing I've learned is don't try to solve tomorrow's problems today!
Fields you need in your UserEntity
What's the difference between "Self Starter" and "Observation Training", then?
Students are taught to manipulate real numbers long before they're taught about Dedekind cuts or equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences.

For the purposes of teaching, the best approach is not always to start from the foundations and build upwards.
Forget WhatsApp, this developer built encrypted messages on Bitcoin
> Half of all detected malicious extensions used the web request API to spy on users.

And they can continue doing so because spying is passive and the passive (just eavesdropping, no modifications) webRequest API still will be there.

>The rule limit has already been raised to 150,000.

And it could be 10 billion rules. The point isn't so much the actual number, but that you cannot programmatically judge and block request anymore.

>Plenty of ad blockers will still work in Chrome.

Of course, those ad-blocker crippling changes aren't in the Stable yet, and even in Canary they are only "preview" and the old APIs still work.

>This thread is chock full of motivated reasoning and deliberate misinformation.

Yes, that's more or less what you did here.
Differentiable Programming Manifesto
Huh. I had no idea it was for sale. I'm guessing not many of those two thousand employees are in marketing...
Gpt 2 is a very interesting release from Open AI. It begs the question of what is to come in the future with similar tech and how it could change the way articles are written
Oh my gosh, I'd forgotten about the ed joke (link at the bottom of the article). Magnificent stuff.
Some problems don't parallelize well (some mixed integer programming problems) and some matrix operations. We look at the end of Moore's law with horror.
> I’d like to notify attendees via the web app I wrote

You can notify them by email, SMS or using any other messenger. There's no need to force another on your customers.

> and have it display schedule information offline.

Your customers already have a calendar application, there's no need to make them visit a web page for that. At least there wouldn't if Google supported Webcal so everyone can use their favorite native applications instead. But that wouldn't push people towards Google's services and garbage web apps.
This is annoying but if apps 'loose' unsaved data when they are shut down in the background, that is a bug in the app. They have to save data immediately as they move into the background, there is no guarantee the processes will be kept alive.
If you Buy them each multiple of the self start or the observation skill you will need to do a lot less clicking.
>I also don’t trust a non-open source, non-documented, non-auditable submission of data from my network to theirs.

Do you compile the source and replace any preshipped binaries with your own?
Do you audit said source yourself instead of assuming some mystery person in the open does?
I'm far from an expert in molecular biology but I assume most changes revert to baseline almost immediately upon return to terrestrial gravity.

Temptation here is envision a biofactory in which microgravity cells and tissues are grown in space. And then transplanted into the wealthy humans on Earth who can afford it. Endowing them with superhuman strength and intellect. A compelling sci-fi writing prompt. But we are still at the phase where we are just trying to figure out what long-term human spaceflight does to our physiology.

Personally, I find this level of Science borderline miraculous. The fact we are able to explore genetic expression in stem cells, get it to LEO labs at $100000/kg, and distribute the data instantly across the Earth is a kind of science fiction come to Life. Despite the fact it may not reflect the actual effects in living breathing astronauts working in deep space. The only way to properly answer those questions, of course, is a planet wide effort in exploration and colonization ;)
This seems like the same logic that says shooting and eating a non-endangered wild deer is less ethical than eating a cow that someone else killed for you. (Which is a viewpoint I've encountered in real life. Basically anyone who is not vegetarian but thinks hunting/hunters are gross.)

I would say that many humans have a natural empathy for suffering things, but it can be short-circuited by emotional distance (you never see the cow as anything but a ready-to-cook steak) and social pressure (everyone knows it's okay to eat cows). We're really good at finding moral justifications for things we really want to do.

(I am not vegetarian, for whatever that's worth. I admit I have the same emotional/non-logical responses I described here. But I see perfectly civil attempts at debate being downvoted to hell and accused of "virtue signalling" purely for going against groupthink, and that bugs me.)
The "library" in my school (sub 13 years old, the library was a few bookcases at best for a school of ~120 kids) had books from the central library in the town. You could look up a book, reserve it and it would be delivered next week if available (no internet then, so it was a computer with the book list and reservation cards you had to fill in). If it was not available you would get a notice when it would arrive.
Or you took your bike and drove the 5km but as a small kid that is not always an option and you'd have to get your parents to bring or help you get there. You could return all books there even if you picked them up elsewhere in the same library system. It's sort of a postal system I guess.

It didn't get used too often, but it was a nice addition to the rotating book supply that was otherwise available. And it was also a nice learning experience for us small kids about how the libraries worked and we got to use computers.
Looking over the techempower benchmarks, the fastest web frameworks are over fifty times faster than ruby/rails. If you can replace a hundred web servers with two, that matters.
Can anybody elaborate on why this is downvoted? This would be my guess as well, simd parallelism of GPUs solves only part of the challenges, you still need a general purpose data crunching machine to prepare and handle learning data.
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> That could be a big win for liveability

Somehow having a lot of traffic created by empty cars is not a win in my liveability book. Unless you're sharing the car and it's picked up by someone 5 minutes away as soon as you get out you earn very little besides some driver convenience. Instead of acting like taxis that you drive yourself, they act like limos and everyone gets to feel like they have a chauffeur to get dropped off exactly at the spot.
Guide on Taxi App Development: Everything You Should Know
I think the big issue is the quality of the fuel used, ships are more efficient then airplanes so forcing oil industry to not sell the bad quality fuel would fix this issues(they could refine it or put it back)
You had one of the best answers in this thread until the last sentence. Saying things you disagree with is not automatically "virtue signalling."
If the Google pattern holds they will decide that users are the problem because they are using GCP incorrectly and then start cutting the support budget to show how much contempt they have for all these misbehaving users and then eventually cancel the project.
My parents survived full blown communism regime and the stories they eventually shared with me instilled healthy fear of omnipresent surveillance.

And despite this, I am still debating whether wife's request for shark IQ with camera is a good addition to our household ( incidentally, does anyone know if it can be hacked, or at least its feed can be accessed? ).

I don't know. Maybe we just never really learn and are doomed to repeat mistakes of the past.
Interesting. I saw someone saying (not on HN) that they wouldn't believe global warming until insurance companies started worrying about it.
Observation means that as soon as they complete a card they immediately look for a card of the same sort.

With self starter there is a delay before they look for it (which can actually be good) and if they have multiple skills they’ll first look for cards to test, then for cards to dev, then for cards to “ba”.
CamemBERT; a Tasty French Language Model
Magic Leap probably won't succeed, but some of those experienced software and product developers likely will. Maybe ML is just a garden from where dozens of tech companies will bloom?
It’s been ongoing since Trump’s win. I can’t find the link right now, but they’ve also been bankrolling and having speakers at those weird, right wing DC conferences. And they’ve been supporting ALEC for years.

https://fortune.com/2016/12/14/google-conservative-outreach-...