skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something is still weird with the gemm benchmarks. That link you sent has BLIS winning all around, but the absolute value of the BLIS is poor. MKL gets around 2TFLOPS on xeons, and this blis benchmark is only hitting around 30-50GFLOPS. Are AMDs hitting over 1TFLOPS anywhere?
Probably they don't consider it a hassle, because they are just used to it. Pay toilets sounds like an expensive, complicated solution.

It's not a terrible idea to carry around tissues anyway.
Not really; your equity is yours. The lien holder is only owed what they are owed.
My understanding is along the lines of, the surface of a balloon is the "fabric" of the universe: As the balloon is blown up it can expand and push things on it further apart, but the matter itself is always in the same place on the surface/in the universe (or moving slowly along the surface/in the universe). One big difference of course being the surface of a balloon is 2-dimensional, while space is 3-dimensional.
Cases like this make my blood boil. It is really depressing when state can commit great injustice towards constituents without any redress and there is no special power that can fix plain and obvious wrongs right in place (well presidents pardoning their cronys are the exception).
> The mortgaging bank OTOH is the actual owner of the property up until you pay the full contractual price and they sign over the deed.

No, they are the owner of the mortgage which is recorded on the deed until the terms of the mortgage are fulfilled. While a mortgage is a real property interest, it is not ownership of the underlying property.
Lastpass not working on Firefox v71
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Economy is a measure of the movement of money. To spend up the economy, we have to keep the money moving.

Isn't the problem hoarding?

Everyone hoards. Rich people hoard wealth. Right? Not a moral statement. Preferential attachment (winner takes all) is just math.

The problem for society (the economy): we have all this unproductive capital (wealth) lying around, AND we have all this work that needs doing, BUT it's not efficient for rich people to manage a large basket of smaller investments.

So to grow the economy, we need better strategies to keep the money moving. Progressive taxation has worked in the past. YCombinator seems to have found a new way to match investors to opportunities more efficiently.

(Sorry, being a simple bear, I don't know of any other strategies. Maybe "Buy Local", which keeps the money moving in smaller networks.)

To me -- a person who barely understands "money", finance, economics -- it's really just that simple.

Keep the money moving.
I think the issue is more that no one has previously been launching constellations of literally thousands of satellites.

It's just not a thing that seemed like it would actually happen. I can very much imagine that it didn't get a lot of attention until they actually started going up.
Page 109 is a summary specifically relating to estuaries and semi-enclosed seas. There are multiple other summaries relating to other ocean types preceding it.

From the executive summary at the beginning:

The loss of oxygen in the ocean can broadly be put
down to two overlying causes – eutrophication as a
result of nutrient run-off from land and deposition of
nitrogen from the burning of fossil fuels, and the heating
of ocean waters as a result of climate change, primarily
causing a change in ventilation with the overlying
atmosphere so that they hold less soluble oxygen, and
compounded by reduced ocean mixing and changes in
currents and wind patterns. Ocean deoxygenation is but
the latest consequence of our activities on the ocean to
be recognized. Ocean warming, ocean deoxygenation,
and ocean acidification are major ‘stressors’ on marine
systems and typically co-occur because they share a
common cause.

Then from Section 2.1, Global Evidence of ocean deoxygenation:

+ Open-ocean deoxygenation is resulting mainly from a warming ocean, increased stratification and changing
circulation which interact with eutrophication-induced hypoxia (oxygen concentration below ~60 to 120 µmol
O2 kg-1) and biological activity in shelf regions.

+ Oxygen loss is closely related to ocean warming and acidification caused by CO2 increase driven by CO2
emissions as well as biogeochemical consequences related to anthropogenic fertilization of the ocean; hence a
combined effort investigating the different stressors will be most beneficial to understand future ocean changes.
It’s not that hard to get in contact.

If you cared you could LinkedIn message a SpaceX employee. Tweet at Elon Musk. Connected with nyt or other media who’d love to run such a story.

...etc
I happen to be in Belgrade right now, and the McDonalds I've been today didn't have any barrier at the restroom. There was a keypad to enter a PIN, but the door opened without a PIN.

In Munich, there were human staff at the gate collecting 50 cents to use the toilet, and that's the weirdest McDonalds restroom I've been to so far.
I use evil-mode in emacs with the emacs lisp interface that works with Franz's Allegro Common Lisp.

I really like it, and do the vast majority of my development in it as a common lisp developer.

It's no longer support and has some bugs, so I've been meaning to set up SLIME, but a previous developer gave me a config that worked out of the box, so I've been using that.
No, they're really not.
Here's the ruling, read it for yourself
https://ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/101102in...
Amazing story of government programs at work combined with local, individual initiative. New Deal legislation making the co-op possible, Obama era $$ and the leader of the co-op deciding to make it happen.
Yeah, that's why Musk always asks people to come to him if they have a better idea. Even in large groups, or maybe especially in large groups, things can be overlooked.

He recently said in a video that if anyone can convince him an aerospike is better than their solution, he wants to know.
If people were required to give the full back story of every trivial absurdity they encountered "in the wild" the world would turn into a very boring place.
And yet, here we are, 30 years later, still increasing emissions, still using fossil fuels, still having a weak global coordination. How long do you expect this 'climate hoax plan' to take? Another 10 years? When will the 'globalists' finally take over with their climate hoax plan?
I wasn't expecting much with this title and was pleasantly surprised.

(Sadly) rarely used sql features explained with code example. Lovely write-up
Airtable is a barely-glorified spreadsheet with the barest hint of relational capabilities.

Access was a full relational database and drag-and-drop UI builder (with generated forms and views as well) that could drop down to SQL in a pinch.

I too would absolutely love a web-based Access equivalent.
I think this 1978 design was much closer to the current Cybertruck: https://archive.org/details/penthouse-1978-10/page/n139
Absolutely. To clarify my above statement (can't edit), the "we" in my comment "it's worth considering whether we want to be highly paid sharecroppers forever," is referring to we Americans/westerners/who do not live in a Georgist-like state.
SpaceBakery project to research feasibility of baking bread on Mars
It’s funny how you can’t please everyone. My take on Blood Dragon is it was a cute gimmick that was unnecessarily dragged out over 10 hours of gameplay.
I think Larry and Sergei have been slowly removing themselves from Google/Alphabet over the past several years. You're right about Sundar having a large say in the matter, but he seems focused on search and AI (Waymo is not AI - I am too lazy to argue why right now). Ruth Porat, however, has always had it out for the projects at X - and Waymo is the big one that hemorrhages money (even by Alphabet standards) and makes pathetic revenue (even by non-Alphabet standards).

The screws are definitely going to tighten, moreso than they already have. The majority of the original talent that made up Waymo left years ago - that doesn't happen when you're on the brink of an actual breakthrough that can truly transform the world for the better. If Waymo can't pull a rabbit out of its hat, it's going to the Google graveyard. This isn't going to play out immediately, it will take a few years.
As an aside: Toilet paper is an ancient, inefficient, and doubtfully hygienic way of cleaning your backside in the modern world.

Start using bidets instead of this nonsense. The TP can still be used for drying purposes.
Somewhat related, tools like Quickbase, Google Appmaker, Knack, Zoho Creator all work pretty well with non tech folks. Especially in areas like Finance, where they are already familiar with pushing Excel pretty hard. Gets rid of a lot of manual emailing spreadsheets around and tedious data collection.
It probably wouldn't take a billion years. The last common ancestor of humans and orcas seems to have been about 95 million years ago.

For reference, a billion years ago, there were no animals or plants yet.

Given that, maybe there are a lot of species that really weren't too far off from human level intellligence, but we just got there first?
To illustrate this, let's assume the GEMM used avx512 perfectly. Roughly that's 2.5e9 (clock) * 16 (ops per cycle) * 2 (FMA per cycle) * 64 (cores). That puts Intel's peak performance over 2TFLOPs, which they're showing. That's about 80x higher than AMD on BLIS...
I assume by traffic correlation you mean using packet sizes and timing to match up the data streams?
A slight correction: C-x C-e and fc open $EDITOR, which is vim by default on most machines. You can change it to anything, though.
Url Knife
>I can remember Far Cry 2 as one of the most immersing games I've ever played. It was far beyond other games from that era. Sadly, most players seemed to be overwhelmed by game, (or frustrated by bugs and some game mechanics).

I downloaded it from Steam based on these comments and the article, but I haven't even gotten to do a proper mission yet. After the opening sequence in the jeep and escape from the hotel* my character woke up in a room and was instructed to get some weapons and meds. I ran over to the weapons and picked them up straight away and now nothing I can do will trigger the NPCs to recognise I've fulfilled those two tutorial things.

It's only frustrating because I already sat through the opening sequence twice after the game crashed after the jackal's speech in the hotel the first time. That kind of thing I can always put up with. But to get out of being trapped in this room that teaches the player how meds work, I'm gonna have to do the story mode from the start again.

Game cost ten bucks so I'm not mad. I'll get back to it. But yeah, found a bug.

*(which was great - I was 10 or 11 when Half Life came out and still consider the opening train sequence one of the coolest game things I've ever seen -it's the best take on that intro concept I've seen)
> which is full of extraordinarily wealthy people paying enormous rents to live under a dysfunctional government with a budgetary shortfall of $6.3B.

The state has a large surplus and the City and County of San Francisco has a projected deficit of an order of magnitude less than that amount, and the US budget deficit is on the rough scale of two orders of magnitude larger. What dysfunctional government are you referring to?
Speaking of property taxes:

‘Dear God, help us all’: Utah taxpayers stung after home valued at [$987 Megabucks] in ‘horrific’ typo

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/dear-g...
It was as much a pragmatic choice as an inspired one; commodity pc hardware was obviously getting close to cheap enough. Others have suggested Microsoft lost money with this move, even if so it was probably still a pragmatic choice. Microsoft were entering a market that has been notoriously unfriendly to new entrants and spending more on hardware to ensure a successful launch of such an ambitious brand could be argued to make sense, with consoles able to recoup hardware loses in software revenues.

It was likely more about making it easy to port existing windows directx based games quickly and cheaply. Similarly, it granted a development stack that a great many developers would already be somewhat familiar with. All good things for a new entrant to a tough marketplace.

Presumably it also allowed them to get to market faster? Much less custom silicon?
With James Web having an decently sized mirror on a space telescope that's not as ridiculous as it once was. Still we should search for cheaper solutions first.

https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/eso1617z/?lang
I have bidets/washlets installed in my home, and the only problem has been that I now can't go back. Whenever I travel I now have to carry around wet wipes or I don't feel clean. But wet wipes are apparently horrible for the environment.

I can't win.
I'm at odds with some of traits of modern hiring in tech that are mentioned in this article. Specifically the point about having an online profile.

A few years back, I deleted all of my social media accounts except for LinkedIn. Outside of my personal blog, (which I started this year to maintain some sort of online presence and to learn how to write) I don't have a very visible online profile. The problem is, I'm not sure I want to be visible for the sake of privacy and security. It seems more and more, private sector employers want you to be a rockstar blogger, conference speaker, have many open source contributions, side projects and leetcode/hankerrank profiles. In my recent experience, trying to go from an IGO contractor to a private sector startup employee has been somewhat difficult due to the emphasis on intangibles that aren't related programming skill or domain specific knowledge. It doesn't seem right to give all our professional data to LinkedIn nor does it seem right to exclude job candidates for not having a profile. The same can be said for having a profile that is tumultuous.

The best hiring process I've been through also turned out to be the best job I've had. It was conversation with a very tight-knit Perl shop where they asked me to review a piece of their code, at the time I didn't know much Perl so I had ask a lot of questions about what this and that did. It turned into a 2 hour conversation which lead to an offer on the spot.

On the other hand, I went spent close to 15 hours going through interviews with non-FAANG company offered me a 1/3 of what I make now.
The idea that the ascent of humanity into the stars and the potentially incredible understanding of the universe we could gain would be stopped by 2019 regulations because amateur astronomers are short-sighted is just so cliche HN.
you're right, it's not perjury. it's contempt of court. it's perjury if you lie on the mail questionnaire, which is what I was thinking of.
This is an argument of nuances, but I would make the point that the design and software / firmware stages provide fundamentally different capabilities than manufacturing.

You have entire industries around supply chain assurance, so manufacturing corruption is still an issue (although usually more targeted at lower-cost, replaced components).

But as the post-SuperMicro reporting laid out, it's an order of magnitude more difficult to embed physical components on a board, in an undetected manner, that create covert communication channels. Vs doing so at privileged software layers.
I bet MacDonald's would disagree. Pretty sure they consider themselves targeted toward teenagers and kids.

Last I went there, it was filled with teenagers, typical middle school and high school from the area. Further away from the city center, the bigger macdonalds have playing area and attractions for children, to cater to young families with kids.
I somewhat value realism, the problem is the control interface on PS4/XBox/PC games is never remotely real and so I need concessions to that fact that. Something that would be second nature in real life manipulating real objects with real hands and or actually using my body and head becomes frustrating and tedious translated to the 18 buttons and 2 analog sticks of a modern controller. If I had a gun in a holster I'd know exactly where it is at all times and be able to grab it without really thinking about it where is in games I've often been killed fighting with the control system to let me select a weapon.

This is one place where VR accels. When a game's VR control system is well designed it's so much more intuitive than the non VR counterpart.

The most obvious example is you just look in the direction you want to look. You don't press and hold the camera stick and wait for the camera to swing around. Other good examples include actually ducking behind walls and looking around corners with your body instead of pressing the duck button and the peak around corner button. A good example of that is Budget Cuts but it exists in plenty of other VR games.

Yet another can be switching inventory by just grabbing things off your belt or back or arms.

I haven't tried Far Cry in VR. Usually games not designed for VR don't translate so well.
The fear of poverty keeps me "disciplined".
Maybe the reason you are getting pushback is your tactic of insults. Blowhard, HN crank squad and anti-science nuts... The best way to represent a position here is through dialog, not name calling. Emotional jabs tend to undermine your argument.
sometimes i wonder why does explorer listing 100k files in a path can take minutes.

And searching the whole disk for a partial filename? tens of minutes.

I can do both in a database on the same machine in seconds...
Preparing you for the soulless bureaucracy is probably good form-following-function, unless of course it is also helping to create that soullessness.
> Also, as a user, in most cases, I don’t care that I’m on page 317 of my paginated screen that displays me rows 3170-3179 (assuming 10 rows per page). I really don’t. The page number is absolutely useless in terms of user experience.

But what happens when you do care? There are numerous times I clicked away from a Facebook or Twitter timeline, but then want to go back to that post I was reading and comment. And I can’t, because my back button brings me back to the top of the timeline, not where I left. Pagination would have helped.
This isn't entirely a trivial absurdity. One of the biggest things I hear about traveling in China (and Japan) is that you're expected to carry your own toilet paper everywhere.

An analogy would be – someone from a non-tipping country complains about the fact that some restaurants in the US have a "compulsory gratuity" of 20% for larger parties. Sure, somewhat outrageous, but less so if you consider that tipping 15-20% is the norm in the US anyway.
What is Data Labeling in machine learning?
The name should be corrected to Vannevar in the title.
Well, the professional astronomers using large telescopes on Earth are the ones deepening our understanding of the universe. Not the greedy entrepreneurs littering the sky with Internet access satellites.
Why is it not a valid solution? It is actually a much better solution than using small low quality telescopes. If starlink is successful in a few years launching satellites will become cheap enough to allow us to launch multiple telescopes better than hubble, and we'll have equivalent of google earth with high quality images of night sky. Combined with VR why would anyone even want to use telescopes? (Maybe people who have personal memories linked to telescopes, like watching night sky with parents, but then even their children would prefer to use the VR version instead).
Here is the correct headline: "Slumlord returns investment property to bank using the simple trick of not paying property tax"
They already took over and are now trying to avoid a credibility crisis. We've been living the 1984 socialist dystopia for decades, but it is really starting to show lately.
I thought there was more to this story. I read about it before. It’s not just how the guy miscalculated interest?
The answer to your first question is: Yes.

As you say, there are some really great editors like VS Code available these days and I have used many, if not most of them but I keep coming back to Vim. The reason is that I feel so much more productive in it. I can do things with three simple keystrokes that are quite a bit more involved in other editors. And that’s pure, stock Vim without any plugins. It’s astounding what I can accomplish with the addition of some plugins.

Really, in the end, it’s just another tool that fits me well. It may not fit you as well and that’s ok. But there is definitely still a place for old-school editors like Vim and Emacs in a modern developer’s toolkit.

As an aside; I don’t know why OP was downvoted so heavily. There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking a question such as this. I have to account for the possibility that it was edited to be less caustic by the time I read it but, if that wasn’t the case, I think all who downvoted it should re-evaluate their decision to do so. We should celebrate the desire to understand something and, from what I can see, that’s all this person is trying to do.
Yes, it might be that the astronomer community didn't expect Starlink to actually happen. A lot of people still haven't learned that SpaceX isn't just hyping things up.
How Game Dev and Physics Constants Made Me Think About Religion
Right, and ensure you never can fix anything and hire generations of people who slave over the old crappola until they give up. Meanwhile you wind up with legacy code from multiple languages/language versions all mixed up like a junkyard sculpture.

I worked at a major travel company (you know the brand) that ignored its legacy web+backend for almost 10 years until our parent company basically gave us away to our biggest competitor (the tech was all abandoned as unusable) who made us just a marketing brand (also 100% of people laid off in the process). We couldn't keep up with our competitors as everything was impossible to fix any more. On the other hand the mobile team I worked with replaced everything and we were extremely agile in competing (other than being limited by the crappy back end).

It's not always a good idea to replace everything, but it's also not a good idea to live with shit either.
I don't understand the conclusion you draw from reading the paper (the full text is accessible for free from the link to the right). that there are "no" good papers studying fermented foods.

What I read is that the _majority_ of the studies are not good quality. There are very few high-quality studies e.g. double-blind randomised controlled trials and crossover studies, etc and most studies have a very small number of subjects. However, it's hard to fault a double-blind RCT for low quality because it has few subjects. Low statistical power, OK, but if the methodology is sound then the paper has merit.

Given that these studies go back a number of years and there is still no conclusive evidence for any health benefits from the consumption of fermented foods it is useful to have a summary of the current state of research.
Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF) obviously violates the 4th, 6th and 14th amendments to any reasonable person, but because the police profit from it, lawyering cognitive dissonance continues to legitimize it as legal. What it means is that innocent people carrying large sums of cash or having expensive property will continue to have it taken from them unless they are rich and have aggressive lawyers. CAF requires proving a negative (an impossibility), as well as assuming guilt, deprivation of property immediately and proving innocence later, which seems mutually exclusive with fundamental tenants of the US justice system: "innocent until proven guilty" and "due-process."

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
Too much JavaScript, too many animations, and if I wanted cookies I'd bake my own. Plain HTML or GTFO, because if your site doesn't work in lynx then it just doesn't work.
Doesn’t IFTTT use this model?