skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Incidentally, such a Tesla-machinegun would not be regulated as a firearm in many/most jurisdictions.

I'm reasonably sure that anything that can fire projectiles with more than a few Joules is a weapon in Germany.
Zig is a lot more focused on being a better C that focuses on systems stuff which winds up being good for games. Jai is focused on being a good language for games specifically and so certain highly desirable features for games (reflection, SoA, a different sort of standard library).

But all in all from my time following both for several months they have a lot of similarities. They're only slightly more different than one another than C# and Java.
Yes, that's a weird thing. Some books seem to be vanity items. But even in that respect, I find the US format weird: all books are dissimilar and are harder to fit in typical furniture.

I do prefer the look of this:
http://a52.idata.over-blog.com/2/25/73/36/Photos/Bibliothequ...

to the look of this:

https://www.archimag.com/sites/archimag.com/files/styles/art...
Facebook was selling other people's data. This is about accessing your own data. Both are about about having control over your data. There is no contradiction.
what's considered wasteful in this case?
The last recession hasn't ended for much of the US. If that's what it takes to avoid the next one, it has been a crappy solution. IIRC it was 2010 when Wall Street declared that recession over. Funny, those guys.
I see the model size is 6G - a bit larger than I thought :) 100gbit/s upstream would cost an additional 1k€/month.

The larger problem is that people didn't actually download the model, but apparently got custom server instances that got a copy of the model plus a gpu to run them on.
Ask HN: What other Hacker News like forums you hang out at?
In my experience, the discussion quality and signal-to-noise ratio in Hacker News is very high. This is definitely way above the Internet average. But I came across this forum very recently when I followed a link from Twitter to a discussion thread here. I wonder what other such nice forums I might be missing out.

Are there any other such good discussion forums you hang out at?
> I strongly dislike when a discussion disparages an entire concept when it's really just our implementation of that concept that is flawed.

You sound like one of those "intellectuals" that gets upset when you can't force your "great ideas" upon others.
Google Colab gives each user a dedicated Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU for 12 hours for free, which is super cool and presumably why the project is on Colab. But as each user spins up their own Colab instance it pulls down the 6GB of GPT-2 model weights, incurring 30-40 cents of data egress charges against the GCP Storage Bucket that the data is stored in.

60k users yesterday * 6GB each -> 360TB of data egress!

Normally, a scenario like this wouldn't involve bandwidth costs because GCP -> GCP same-region bandwidth is free, but Colab is technically not part of GCP, so the bandwidth charge is being assessed as egress to the public internet, which is pricy for that much data. Though it's probably still a lot cheaper than paying for the GPU-hours for that many users.
Putin's regime killed dozens of journalists.
The data in question seems to be open-ish data that is already broadly available from the NHS Content API (https://developer.api.nhs.uk/documentation/content-api).

The standard terms allow anyone to reproduce this data, providing that certain conditions are met. One of this involves the display of a graphic indicating that the data has been syndicated from the NHS, which is obviously not possible with a service that has no visible user interface, which (partially) explains the need for an Amazon Echo-specific license agreement.

One might object to the fact that Amazon was able to negotiate a custom agreement that is not available to others, and it would certainly be good if other voice-oriented services were able to access the data on similar terms. Beyond that, objections to Amazon having access to this data must be rooted in either a) dislike of Amazon for other reasons or b) dislike of the general principle of open data. I think it's mostly 'a', on the basis that Amazon doesn't pay 'enough' tax, but ends up turning into 'b' as the suggestion is made that perhaps Amazon should pay for access to data that is otherwise open. It's a confusing mess of an argument.
The trick being to shoot around the star I presume? That’s the only “trick” I’ve ever heard of - curious if there is another.
What societal influences? If anything society is discouraging boys from being boys and telling girls it's cool to do boy things, yet boys still end up being the ones interested in technologies that were developed by men before them like engines, cars and computers.
If the astronomer community requested it, I'm sure spacex would give them a real-time (or even a few minutes ahead of time) feed of satellite positions accurate to less than a pixel on these telescopes.
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Three Ways You Can Help:

Help by Joining Yahoo Groups so the Archive Team can Download them (easy! - this is the link in the OP here):
https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner

(That's the most needed right now so the scripts can get access to the groups.)

Help by Downloading yahoo Groups with the Archive Team's Script (not hard!):
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warr...

Get the word out/Call for Action (put pressure on Verizon!):
https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/taking-action/

Don't miss the sidebar with these links:

https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/media-contacts/

https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/contacting-verizon-directly/

https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/contacting-verizon-yahoo-stockholders/

Also, you can add these emails to the media contacts:

"Reporter Katyanna Quach" <kquach@theregister.co.uk>,
"Managing editor Gavin Clarke" <gavin.clarke@theregister.co.uk>,
"Corey Wilson & Rachel Janc; Senior Director, Communications" <press@Wired.Com>,
"Pitches" <submit@wired.com>,
"Rich Woods" <rich.woods@neowin.net>,
"Paul Thurrott" <paul@thurrott.com>,
"Brad Sams" <brad@petri.com>,
"Kate Rayford, Media Inquiries" <katie.rayford@slate.com>,
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"Susan Matthews, Health & Science" <susan.matthews@slate.com>,
"Erika Allen, Executive Managing Editor" <erika.allen@vice.com>,
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"Press, US" <press@vice.com>,
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"Pitches, Culture" <culture.pitches@vice.com>,
"Pitches, Tech" <tech.pitches@vice.com>,
"Issues" <issues.pitches@vice.com>
I have different experience: it seems a trend that the books I'm interested in (note: not fiction) are first made for hardback, then just scaled down for paperback, resulting in pages that are too annoying to read. After a few paperbacks that I've hated, now if I see that the paperback has smaller dimensions but the same number of pages I am going to order hardback.
The problem is that property laws are local or national, because it's assumed that I need physical access to your property to do anything. If I fire a rocket at your property from some other country, I would be violating all kinds of air space regulations or maybe even international treaties on weapons.

We now have a better understanding of the unintended, global consequences of small, national actions.
Seems like something Google could fix quickly.
> Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets

Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of investing billions in high-frequency trading and other adversarial financial instruments.

Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of spending hundreds of billions on new movies, despite an overwhelming abundance of existing movies.

Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of wasting enormous amounts of very talented people's time on showing and selling more ads.

Why is it always space exploration we have to sacrifice?
There is research showing male rhesus monkeys to have preference for wheeled toys

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

We shouldn't discount possible genetic influences on preferences.
I think the parallel is not exploitative pay day loans but the western credit card. China is not as developed as the west when it comes to trust and identity. This causes credit mostly to be given to a few well established and well connected identities. And leaves China with a high savings rate. Changing that will unlock further growth and spread of wealth.
Next time you can try looking it up in the browser inspector. Use RMB + "Inspect" on the font of interest, and you will find it in the "font-family" attribute.
In the US, the terminal is not brought to the table. The tip amount is written on a paper receipt and entered by the clerk at a (usually) out-of-sight terminal, usually after you've left. A customer doesn't interact with a terminal at all.
Or we could just as easily use a similar amount of money that gets spent every year on defence, the entertainment industry, or sports, to name but a few.
I started reading but stopped when I saw "succ n" and "prev n". Unary numbers are so academic and disconnected from reality that I lose interest in any paper that uses them. Lambda calculus makes me yawn too. Guess I'll be making a programming language on my own to see how far I get without reading TAPL or any CS papers :-)
To a Japanese, "Shinkansen bullet trains" sounds very odd because "Shinkansen" literally means "bullet trains". :-)

One thing that I find most impressive about Shinkansen is not mentioned in the article. It is its extraordinary safety record. There has not been a single fatality due to train accidents in the last 50 years!
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> kids are programmed

No, kids aren't computers.

It's an easy and facile analogy, because we work with computers all day, and are intimately familiar with them. That's precisely why the analogy is wrong.
This got me thinking about the economics of sunshades.

According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade the simplest plan involves a huge cluster of lightweight shades at the Earth-Sun L1 point. Supposedly it would require around twenty years of daily launches of a 100-ton-to-LEO vehicle, which used to sound like science fiction.

But soon we will (fingers crossed) have Starship, a reusable space vehicle capable of 150 tons(?) to LEO and multiple launches per day. With a claimed cost to orbit of $2 million, suddenly we’re talking only around $10 billion in launch costs and five years for a 2% solar shield, which means we can solve global warming quicker and cheaper than we can build an aircraft carrier or a new subway tunnel (let alone a high speed train from Fresno to Bakersfield).

Those are optimistic estimates, yes, but it seems odd that this solution is barely on anyone’s radar.
Yes, interesting man. I encountered him on a workshop by Bert Kappen on stochastic optimal control. It shows that there are different control strategies for different noise levels separated by phase transitions.

I checked Friston again. He now also has this article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2012.0004...

CLE = Conditional Lyapunov Exponents.

"In short, free energy minimization will tend to produce local CLE that fluctuate at near zero values and exhibit self-organized instability or slowing."

I've to study it more what he means with self-organized instability.
When you say Western, you mean American. Almost nowhere in Europe is buying on credit the norm, but debit cards or credit cards that debit your bank account directly.
> The material, which excludes patient data, could [...]

As long as this is ensured I wouldn't have a problem here. My country has the idea to force patients to share data of people in public health care. The problem is that you are forced into public health care unless you have a certain minimal income.

Amazon is building a digital health team under its vice president Babak Parviz. I am seriously concerned that my government would sell the data without even thinking about implications. Amazon basic will be extended by "basic care" naturally.

Google has its own ambitions. But overall governments tend to have the perspective that it has the right to determine how patient data is used. People should be made aware and officials made accountable. And in my opinion even prosecuted in countries where there are actually laws for privacy and data protection. Severely prosecuted, because the damage they can cause is irreversible.

Otherwise everyone should be free to share info as they like to as long as it is their decision.
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Yes, I didn't think of that. It would suck unless the whole crew was people just doing it for one day a week.
Microsoft made a lot of money from MS Basic back in the day, it was the standard Basic for most machines long before MS-DOS. This mattered because it effectively made software portable between machines regardless of what OS it ran on. An MS Basic program written on a Commodore machine would run fine on an Atari, a Superbrain, TRS-80, Apple II or later an MS-DOS machine. As a result Microsoft was a major player in the microcomputer software space years before MS-DOS.
Many of the other constellations look unlikely to be completed.
What I read from your post here is that GraphQL is safe by default and would require effort to make it dangerous while Datalog is dangerous by default and would require configuration to make it safe. I know which one I'd rather put on a server.
I'm too scared Google will charge my credit card just by opening this lab page... I've got a gaming rig, why can't I just run this locally?
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My understanding is that LTO (and thus any cross-language inlining) takes place using a low level IR where language barriers aren't relevant. The GCC and LLVM backends both have full support as far as I know. Hypothetically it's simple to implement support in a given frontend, but apparently it proved to be a bit tricky in practice for Rust (http://blog.llvm.org/2019/09/closing-gap-cross-language-lto-...).
You mean, "tar up" multiple databases across possibly multiple data centers + all related files uploaded to those groups (also possibly spread across multiple datacenters) while preserving full integrity and making sure that there's accompanying documentation on how to set all this up and run?

You tell me how much work it would be.

Compared that too pulling the plug and getting servers over to a landfill.
Credit card companies also make a huge amount of revenue from merchant fees. Every transaction carries a fixed and percentage-based fee. Often something like $0.29 + 2.5%.

Payment companies like Alipay have much lower fees to the merchant, from what I recall.
> Well still be running Unix ...

Indeed, but which kernel?!?
You can’t, this is why we used to design services based on open protocols with data portability. No service lives forever.
Wow! Kudos to the Archive Team on not giving up on this mission.
My girl was 9months when sh started acrively pushing for bracelets, fancy hats, etc.
I took her to a bike shop, an she immediately went for the pink Helmet with stars.

We dressed her in neutral cloths (second hand), we dont have a TV. Her mother does not wear juwlery or makeup.
To us this appears innate.
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> Trading is not investing

Keynes' famous metaphor is a competition where you have to pick the most beautiful women from a page of photos. The point is not to guess your honest opinion, but to try to predict the aggregate of people's opinions - the face with the most mainstream attractiveness. A speculator needs to guess what other people think, and which way the price will go. By contrast investing is putting money in something that seems to you to have inherent value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
> Weren’t they already doing the processing server side?

Yes, but they were using Google Colab because Colab will give each user their own dedicated Nvidia K80 for free. Google will spin up a new instance to back each user's Colab session, but on Google's rather than the researcher's or the user's dime. The downside though is paying for the data egress, which can be avoided if the users download to Colab from somewhere else, or download from somewhere else to their own machines that have a GPU with 12GB of onboard memory.
> a) The amount of money spent there is actually quite low, considering the wealth of the people involved, and the presumptive benefits.

The amount of money spent is not limited to legal campaign contributions. There are also PACs, media spending (submarines, astroturfing, etc.), and other ways that money can influence public opinion on some issue. You can't really quantify this, but I'd be surprised to find anyone who would disagree that wealth itself will buy political power on its own without money ever changing hands. Here is a good example of what I'm talking about:

https://image.businessinsider.com/585b1865ee14b6b2008b4b24?w...

> You could be right. But what does that have to do with QE or this thread?

QE benefits people with access to capital by propping asset prices. The people with access to capital are wealthy. Who benefits when real estate goes up -- renters or homeowners? Who benefits when the stock market goes up -- people with a wealth manager or people living paycheck-to-paycheck?

> I'm not really sure what this means. Where is the power concentrated, exactly?

Power is concentrated among wealthy people. This is true in general, but specifically I'm talking about a very small number of people who have a huge say in media, politics, etc. It is not scrutinized; the media ensures that. Yes, I think anyone with Koch-degree wealth has a huge amount of unaccountable power. There will always be inequality, but there are degrees of difference. At $5,000,000 of wealth, you might be able to get the mayor on the phone (that's a very generous upper cap on lifetime earnings from labor). With $1,000,000,000, you certainly can get a senator. For an example, you can look at the Wisconsin Foxconn debacle. [1] This is the type of leverage over government that billions of dollars can buy. It is legal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn%27s_Wisconsin_plant

It's quite easy to see how wealth inequality is corrosive: make a list in descending order of wealth inequality by country, and look at which countries are where on that list. There's some noise, but for the most part, well-functioning democracies are concentrated at the bottom.
https://www.michaelfogleman.com, discussed on HN [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14445587
Part of the issue with a design like this would be that storing compressed gases is very bulky and prone to catastrophic total failure (very bad for a weapon being abused by grunts). Gunpowder in cartridges already contains an propellant and oxidizer, and per mass you really aren't going to gain anything from going with a gas based system.

Heat management would also be a huge issue, spent casings carry away a surprisingly large amount of heat, and even then most guns are unable to sustain continuous fire rates for long. This was a serious issue with case-less ammunition designs for instance.
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As it turns out, it’s actually possible to bona fide win the game.

In my case, I was dating two girls, one was uncomfortable with the other girl, and broke up with me, so I asked the remaining girl if she would marry me. At this point, she said yes, we rode off in to the sunset and the game proclaimed “CONGRATS YOU WIN” then it saves the game for me.

I guess I could load the game and deal with domestic squabbles, having children, growing old together, but I’m not sure this training set is optimized to generate a domestic married situation comedy story.

The torrent trick works. Right now, the game can be played at http://www.aidungeon.io/
It's a 6GB download. Mid-high end GPUs are 8GB. So what makes it need 12GB? How specifically is that memory used up by various types of decompression, intermediate calculations, etc.
Ah, I was missing that. Good to know, I guess, should it ever matter.
I know Prolog (from college) and SPARQL (from hobbyist dinking around with SemWeb). I love DSLs and weird languages. I should be almost the ideal Datalog user, so how did it stay completely off my radar until this post?
Inertia. I'm connected with a series of groups and I tried to get people to move for years. It just doesn't seem anything happens except under pressure.

Also, the scripts really have been developing during this last 2 months, which is all the time they gave us when they said they'd be deleting all content. Until then, I didn't see anything that would get me all content including files/links/calendars/databases.
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Thank you for acknowledging that YAML could have been an alternative choice. But don't let such alternatives stop you from hacking your own solution or scratching your itch. If every person on the earth, stopped developing their own solution because there is an alternative that works with limitations we will see no progress in technology. It is good to develop your solution and then come to the conclusion that there is a better alternative than not having tried at all.
Loved large wheeled vehicles when I was a child. Made buses out of toothpaste cartons and toothpicks and buttons with my grandma.

Loved to go by the train station to wave at the train. Pretty sure it's all just that they move and are big machines. Didn't take much. We lived out in the country in a different nation where big garbage trucks didn't exist.
But was Cambridge Analytica really adversarial? If they used the data without the knowledge or specific consent of FB, the latter should not be blamed in principle. (And that was no the case) Although being pretty against FB's practices and business model, I have to admit that the mainstream backlash against it have been largely "politically" motivated (as in, more partisanship than ideology). So likely FB would be bashed for this specific reason anyway.

I'm open to the idea that there should be a way to interoperate without the consent or responsibility of the primary operator and no way of preventing it by them. Though I don't know about the oughts, but nowadays the desire to integrate and annotate your finance seems quaint in the light of possible data weaponization and profiling. (And institutions are trying to do it whether you like it or not, my bank does try to sort my transactions "intelligently", no thanks). I'd say I would want to do it at home on paper if at all, but people probably[0] should be able to do these thing and others if they want.

[0] Unless there is a legitimate case to be made that they endanger freedom of others.
> I don't know about yours, but my credit card is automatically paid off at the end of each month, so unless I run out of money I won't incur interest.

This, it's easy to set-up a direct debit to pay off the entire balance every month in the UK. Every major CC provider I've had a card with has supported it.
It's a very... elegant way of programming.
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I think there are companies offering controlling-excavators-as-an-attraction (or the always creative team-building), maybe there is also a market for this?
Can you describe a little more how you direct downloads to an in-zone copy?
That definition was absolutely planted. I was a teenager in South Africa in the 80s and I have NEVER heard that version before.

Pedo was a shortened version of pedophile the same as everywhere else.
Probably less. I doubt the average use time is more than half an hour. Pretty cheap advertising for the service, really.
I'm running Microsoft's Linux "kernel". WSL1 that is, where they re-implemented everything :)