skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the big issues with this post is that it is trying to sell the terms of the deal.

But the issue people have with it in the Internet Policy Community is not the terms, which we no nothing about.

It is that the way it was done is a radical departure from how decisions are normally made.

Usually you start by saying "I have a problem". In this case it would be "We don't want to run .ORG anymore."

And then you engage the community in an open bottom-up consultative process to come up with the optimal solution.

ISOC applied to run .ORG in 2002. They won a competition to run it against 10 other groups. Here is the original application they submitted to ICANN:

https://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/org/applications/isoc/

They said things like:

"PIR will institute mechanisms for promoting the registry's operation in a manner that is responsive to the needs, concerns, and views of the non-commercial Internet user community."

And:

".ORG is the home of non-commercial entities on the Internet"

https://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/org/applications/isoc/sect...

After running .ORG since 2002, and growing it to over 10 million domains under management under this promise, ISOC's Board suddenly and with no prior consultation, decided to privatize it. They took that decision in a private negotiation over less than 3 months.

That decision making process is not how the Internet maintains a stable and secure infrastructure. It needs careful decision making to ensure reliable, stable, and resilient operations.
Can you even do such a thing on earth?
Author here.

A python program continously draws 22 different faces over each other.

All faces are aligned at the eyes.

The drawing particles have three different behaviors:

1. Move randomly

2. Move randomly with 45 degree angles

3. Move randomly but attracted to the firstborn particle and afraid of being near the average position of all particles.

Go to

https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/static/images/debug.jpg

for a picture of the particles in action

Sourcecode available at

http://github.com/sloev/face_experiments
Video games are never a great comparison for raw compute performance. AMD's GCN based architectures have all been very good at compute relative to their graphics performance (recall how it was nearly impossible to find an MSRP AMD GPU during the mining boom). The Radeon VII is pretty ridiculous for compute, aided by the 1TB/s bandwidth due to it's HBM2 stacks.
It's easy to be a champion of justice and rights, until it affects income.
Unless I did my maths wrong but can't see how.

3000 courses sold at $44.50 a pop = $133,500

I guess he is big enough to not need Udemy!
I unknowingly met him once in 2002 or 2003, and I’ve just this second realised who he was.

I was visiting Microsoft Research in Cambridge writing an article for PC Format magazine, a British computer mag. They took me to see a few people to show off Microsoft Research.

There was this one guy who talked to me in his office. He got very excited about Haskell (which I didn’t know what it was) and he was also working on some Excel feature he was convinced of the brilliance of, but hasn’t persuaded the product team of.

His theory was that the only thing you know about an Excel spreadsheet is that most of your predications are wrong. My interpretation was that he was proposing a way of indicating a probabilistic range rather than a hard number.

I don’t know if this ever made it into Excel, or if indeed this was what he was talking about.

But it’s amazing to see this odd fellow I met was actually quite famous.
Oh really? As an outsider, that’s super interesting to know. Why can’t system RAM be used in Linux/Windows, or why is it able to be on macOS?
Note: You can try out Firefox Reply on a macOS in Firefox nightly: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/

Firefox removed the content that tells you this. It's odd that they did that...

My guess is that all this attention was a premature launch, and they were hoping to make news with Firefox Replay later. (US Thanksgiving day isn't exactly ideal...)
They'll ship with a sim card and connect to mobile.
I have to say this is the most impressive preserved animal I've ever seen. Looks like it died a few days ago at best.
I find it a bit funny that both comments say ‘invest’. Can we use that word to describe what actually looked like spending?
I would expect the analysis is done via FEA. Those models are not perfect but.. Suppose the FEA indicated the highest stress at the same point it failed. Maybe it predicted failure at 102 percent. In that case, doing a reinforcement that allows the whole plane FEA to reach 104 percent should really be sufficient.

I still believe in retesting, but I can see how confidence could be high without it. In this case I'd actually prefer letting it pass vs making a change without retesting since the loads are way outside of normal and it came so close. Best of course is to make the change and test again.
I realize this is a well known reference, but for anybody that wants to cry today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrVR-01w-4w
I’m definitely not disagreeing with you, but the Linux story isn’t completely horrible mostly due to IBM’s work. Though I’ve no idea if they’ve kept pace with the macOS version and tooling, it’s been a couple years since I looked. A shame, I quite like it as a language.
> not sure how writing a nice letter to Apple would help.

Tim might say yes. It certainly can't hurt to ask.
Why? If it is easy to take it, let clever people take it to have the resources for real innovations.
The J language makes trivial to solve this problem without a tetration operator:

(^~^:_1)5
2.12937
Gannt charts.
But I didn't say anything about machine intelligence. My comment is about human intelligence.
While I was playing with it I wondered whether I could somehow make it into a line wallpaper, but then I discovered that there is an app version in the Play Store that has that exact feature.
I’m genuinely uncertain as to what you’re complaining about re. AMD
> The idea that they can easily transfer people from frontend to backend tasks or have full stack devs who don't need to know two languages.

Oh, you're a poet, right? I need you to write some legal documents. You are already expert in English, so it should be easy.
Good crash blossoms are an art form, now, for headline writers. Multiple interpretations win.

The linked article exhibits several excellent ones.
You can certainly drop, or at least rename, inside a transacion. Only the rename part needs to transactional.

> it would be great if postgres would have an auto updating materialized view.

100%. Check out Incremental View Maintainence https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_View_Maintenanc...

There's been some work done on it, but it's a pretty difficult problem. If/when it comes to PostgreSQL it'll come for only very simple queries.
i get despicable "surprising early signs of <random dread disease>" sucker-traps injected into my iphone browsing ALL THE TIME. Faugh!
5 Reasons Why Ripple’s Future Is Bright
pinterest is a little like modern google.
I was thinking about the main benefit of the modern google (beyond the basic utility of the search function) and its the chrome browser. as in, you don't even need to goto google to search google any more. you just type into your browser bar.

similarly with pinterest, we know what it promises, its simple enough that they don't need to sell it, if you're visually minded you get to create vision boards on your favorite topics. For people into that, its reinforcing both their values and aspirations. The key thing that makes it usable is that you don't have to goto pinterest to use it. Once you have the plugin or extension every image on every website can be instantly plucked and collected.

The lesson to extract, or the question to ask is - how might I get people to benefit from using my site, in the context most useful to them, without them having to think about, or come find my site?
That, or schools would need to hire more teachers who specialize in early CS education. This is all assuming that CS-for-all is a good thing.
The Raku runtime is still improving, and several object creation benchmarks now outrun Perl. A low bar, some might argue. But still.

Threading can make a difference on non-IO bound tasks if you're interested in wallclock rather than CPU: for instance, `say (1..Inf).grep( { .is-prime } )[9999]` (showing the 10000th prime number) runs 22 seconds on my machine, but the threaded version of that: `say (1..Inf).hyper.grep( *.is-prime )[9999]` runs in 8 seconds. That's just by adding the `.hyper` method to the chain!
Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work:

I would look at keeping track of what substeps have completed, and only treat the user as created if they're all done.

You could roll back the successful ones if not everything worked, but you could also just let them be.
If it's not on the network why would you need firmware updates? (serious question)
So you're imagining that Tesla went to various publications and only let Motor Trend access their new product because MT consented to spread lies? What did the other media do, they turned the offer down and still keep their mouths shut about that deal?

They would all have more to gain by revealing these kind of practices (since Tesla is the only company not to buy ads in the media) than publishing bullshit articles that you didn't even read or that you can't trust because... they discussed the design with the product's team.

This makes no sense whatsoever.
I use a Sailfish phone, and Meego before that. I suppose a lot of geeks are exactly the sort of people that actually want to use all possible functionality of and software for their phone, "power users", and are most handicapped by an ideological device. Most of the Jolla and Nokia N9 users I know are not technical geeks but rather want to support a cause.
Wouldn't you prefer to talk in your mother language instead of using a new language for every country you visit?
It depends on what you want to do. Do you want to do machine learning, data science, or say statistics? Do you want to research and develop new types of databases? Do you enjoy math or at least applied math? .. then pursue a PhD. I would personally go for statistics or engineering since that will give you a bunch of skills that are lifetime skills.

An MBA would open up higher level management where you might be able to find something there. Sometimes I think med school might be worth it; we always need more doctors and you can work until you are 75 if you want. A lot of state med schools these days will waive tuition provided you serve in a rural community of that state after your residency for a few years. You definitely will get job security and high pay. I know a lot of later in life doctors for instance.

There's also entrepreneurship and starting your own company as well. Government contracts can be a way to get started.

Life is risk, but if you keep interviewing I am sure you will land something. The programming market is still expanding.
My impression on systems from the days before linux/Intel began having real SMP is that if you are willing to go off the rails completely on supporting 1-2 core machines and making every CPU available to every task, then blocking side channel attacks no longer requires all the work..

If mitigation is starting to amount to ~20%, that's roughly a CPU and soon to be 2-3, that can be told to never process directly for Userland and never tell Userland when exactly output queue contents of sensitive tasks become available. All that work essentially being free compared to running with Intel's fixes and full CPU flexibility.
> There is a reason that multicore cpus do not look like networked machines.

Wait, what? I'm looking at an image of an unlidded Zen 2 CPU right now and it's a bunch of discrete compute devices surrounding a switch. Inside these devices are multilevel caches, just like real world network systems. The central "chiplet" multiplexes access to external buses over multiple serial PCI lanes; any network engineer would would recognize this pattern as trunking. All of this looks exactly like a network.
I think the laser machine procedure should be cheaper than the equivalent physical product!

What’s the marginal cost on the machine’s procedure anyway?

Just like how I have to pay for paper maps, but electronic ones are free and better. Making them electronic cost a lot, but once that cost is paid for, the ongoing costs are less than any paper map to provide.

Currently, LASIK can be cost-competitive with soft contacts, but not when your benefits cover soft contacts and not LASIK.
I know two not-so-complex ways for dealing with this:

1. Use a persistent queue where you store what needs to be done, this allows you to ensure than an operation will eventually succeed by a leveraging the powers of the queue, you'll need to keep track of the stages where the jobs failed in order to not repeat operations.

2. Rely on the clients retrying and use idempotency, there is a nice and very detailed blog[0] about it, this works very well with your microservices but most external services won't have idempotency and you'll need to plan on how to deal with those in order to emulate idempotency, sometimes the queue helps.

[0]: https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys
How is node related to the os development?
Had more trouble with their food delivery service where the driver marks the food as delivered when its not.
Yes, I love that talk too! Thanks for posting it.
Twitter's in a good position to detect most bots. If someone uses a bot that's good enough to evade detection, I think it's ok to let them keep the handle.
Yes, that is a good point - there is a ceiling on price

But when demand spikes in their area they are also hurt because the taxi fleet won’t respond
Did you just ignore the entire article I linked in the comment you're replying to?
This is a really interesting example, hadn't heard of her before but there's a ton of lessons to model from this one.
Will look into it in more depth tomorrow and maybe turn this into a full post.
PeerTube.co.uk admin here. Your video alerted me to the fact that my view stats aren't working properly - I've had over 1000 visits today, usual is less than 100. Most of those have your video as the entry point, but those numbers aren't reflected on your view count. Thanks for being the first video that's been popular enough to highlight this!
I feel for folks who thought they were getting a decent income for life by purchasing a professional credential only to have technology-Lucy pull away the football. I understand their desperation. Who knew I should have taken Hindi instead of algo 610?
“Understand Mr. President, in the Movies Real Mobsters Plot Against Their Capos”
> the notational convenience is considerable,

You are right of course - but this is a moment in time thing. ++ and it's equivalents aren't so convenient now. One of the things that strikes me about modern languages is the disappearance of integers, and the associated integer arithmetic such as the s++ in this example.

It turns out we were using integers as a poor mans iterator, and s++ simply meant "next item please". Once we starting using "for element in sequence" to access iterators many of the integers disappeared - they are only used to represent integer things in the real world now. Just about every instance of ++ also disappeared because "next item in iterator" was it's main use. Turns out integers modelling things in the real world rarely need incrementing. So much so that modern languages don't bother including ++ or the Pascal equivalent, succ().
The lesson is so simple and it's all over the place: in the late term economic cycle, economical interest doesnt align with the ones of the individual.

Economy have to growth, create artificial scarcity, complexity, jobs, etc, and after a while this gets so easy to spot that starts to annoy, normally from this phase you end up in a global war in fact, so at least wont last! XD
This is one of the reasons I’m not excited about 5g.
Yes, the study showed that cancers were less likely to be diagnosed outside of the regular screening exams. The implication is that the added MRI detected some cancers that would have otherwise been missed during screening and then later found before the next scheduled screening.
Giving the president a tiny bit of privacy during meal time is not limiting a free press.
Craig Packer and the Serengeti Lion Project (2010)
How can his code pass code review?
Let’s say the machine costs $10m. Anyone that buys it wants a 10% return on it per year. That’s $114/hr.

Can this machine run 24/7? Sure! I can show up for an appointment at 3:15AM.
If they wanted to provide a tested therapy as an option to staff, that would be fine. It unfortunately generally seems to be some poorly thought out program slapped together by management.

My mother used to be a nurse, and they brought in some people who were apparently actual Bhuddhists of some sort. She found the whole thing offensive for religious reasons.

On the more practical front, they were encouraging medical staff to all put their hands in bowls of beads as an everyday activity. Not exactly the greatest idea given that they want to keep everyone's hands sterile, and no one washed the things.
can't we just be honest with ourselves and say we want to do it because we have an innate desire to explore and expand our horizons? I think that's a good enough reason - economics should exist to support human endeavours, not the other way around.
It is an open source project, so no copyright issues. And the op stopped paying for the domain. I don't see any legal leg to stand on here.
I'd probably rather sift through a disassembler than obfuscated JS.
PostgreSQL 12 has REINDEX CONCURRENTLY.
It definitely helps to understand the purpose of the service :) it doesn't match with my reading habits but I'm sure many others will be interested. Good luck!
I wish so much I had the ability to downvote
That's using OpenCL on the NVidia card ("Once hitting PlaidML for various machine learning benchmarks with OpenCL").

No one does for machine learning that because the CUDA path is much better.
Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
When Is a Star Not a Star? When It’s an Online Review
Just stream using a separate box connected over HDMI.
They bought it for the OS because there's software they want to run on it. I'm just asking what that software is.
Yeah I also don’t know why that’s some sort of established truth but it’s been going around for years now. It especially took off a couple of years back when a manufacturer exec (Bravia? Can’t find link now) said as much. I assume the info they can sell must be worth quite a lot of money if they can throw $50 or
$100 worth of stuff in it “for free”, where many of the TVs probably never even get an internet connection!

That leads me to another guess: manufacturers can’t have people not connect their TVs. So they’ll start offering rebates that you only get if you plug your tv to the internet.
Orbital manufacturing will pay enormous technological dividends and help take care of Earth.

If you step out of the parochial world where we happen to live on this planet, the fact that every one of our manufacturing processes is built around an ambient acceleration of 10 m/s^2 is weird and limiting. Beyond the freedom from gravity, orbital manufacturing provides for absolutely perfect vibration isolation (see LISA mission for an example).

Made in Space Fiber / FOMS is just the tip of the iceberg. Semiconductor fabs are going up there sooner or later.
The Curious Case of Erwin Rommel
Easier then writing it in another language. And you would get even better when you also know legal talk. That happened to me when I switched to full stack JS, I became so much better at JS, made it possible to write much simpler code. Doing very complex things with basic language constructs.
> I have no interest in devices I have to break into in order to make them do what I want them to do.

And that is?
I'd be really curious for anyone who's experienced at reading patents to take a look at their patent and figure out just how broad it is, because the idea of patenting "creating different fake emails for different services that all proxy to your real address" seems quite ridiculous. The reason other third-party signin providers don't do that isn't because it's a novel idea but because they have no incentive to do so (and typically do the opposite, sharing even more data about you with the service you're signing in to).
You mean they don’t just connect via FTP and edit the html file on prod? Times have changed
How Stalagmites Get Their Shape
I've keep pitching friends on the idea of "Infinite Text" (Infinite Jest, one sentence at a time in text messages).

Also, Tolstoy's 'War 'n Pieces'.

That said, a page/day via email and using public domain works seem like a better compromise.
The baseband OS is still a binary blob that you don't really have any visibility into though, right?
> borg is "the holy grail" of backups as it does everything rsync always did

I tried borg for some time for full backups from / and there were 3 things I didn't like about it:

1. Mounting and navigating a snapshot was extremely slow. Like wait a few seconds for any `ls` to finish.

2. It needed the encryption password for many things I think it shouldn't.

3. The resulting backups are very opaque.

I've since switched to making my backups by rsync'ing to btrfs subvolumes. I snapshot the previous backup and rsync the differences to the new one. I get to navigate each snapshot with the same snappiness as any other directory in the filesystem. btrfs can also instantly tell me which files differ between 2 snapshots, no matter how huge they are. I don't remember all the options that borg offers on synching, but I doubt it has the same breadth of options as rsync. So for me, rsync + COW filesystem > borg.

I am a little concerned with my use of btrfs, but I'm planning to do the same thing using ext4's reflinks for some disk and filesystem redundancy.
Bugs affecting its base functionality?
@fgabriel mentioned this below: if the network is parametrized in a certain way, then the GP evolves according to a linear equation (if trained with square loss). In this linear equation, a different kernel shows up, known as the Neural Tangent Kernel. An intuitive way to think about this is to Taylor expand the parameters-to-function map around the initial set of parameters: f = f_0 + J d\theta, where J is the Jacobian of the neural network function against the parameters. Following this logic, the change in parameters affects the neural network function roughly linearly, as long as the parameters don't venture too far away from their original values. The Neural Tangent Kernel is then given by JJ^T.

In addition to the paper mentioned by @fgabriel, this paper
[1] explains it in more detail as well, and the equations you are looking for are 14, 15, and 16.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06720
> they’ll have no choice but solve them

Isn’t that a bit like saying if you toss a 10-year-old off a boat, he has no choice but to swim?

The focusing effects of a clear goal are real and powerful. But lets not pretend that the default option isn’t death.
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The Modern Life of Origami, an Art as Old as Paper
I think it depends on what said developer is working on, and what kind of infrastructure is under discussion, no? Optimising our web app’s backend has worth, so we do it, but only to a point and it’s certainly not a major component of our workload — our time is definitely worth more than we would save on our infrastructure, because our infrastructure is small to begin with
Can anyone tell me the difference between mindfulness and just deep breathing?
Inequality Could Be Lower Than You Think
I apologize for that last remark. In fact, the first ASCII document from 1963 uses NULL!

http://worldpowersystems.com/ARCHIVE/codes/X3.4-1963/page5.J...

This got shortened to NUL in 1965.
If the footage from the Apollo missions is worthless that would support my claim beyond the point I made in the first place.