skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's the reason Tesla uses cells for it's packs. They can use more advanced cells when available 2-3 years down the road for the battery packs.
I think "anyone who has to keep a close eye on their balance (so excluding most HNers)" refers to people who easily run out of money.
Pascal for Small Machines: UCSD, Turbo, Delphi, Freepascal, Oberon, Modula
nothing, we use massively Java
Both of those explanations vaguely make sense. And indeed both strategies are seen in nature.

Neither approach is strictly better than the other. It's situational.

You gotta look at how many resources are available how easy and predation pressure and probably lots of more factors.
The model has 1.5 billion parameters, so requiring a beefy GPU to evaluate the model is unsurprising.
A brief look at async-await
Spending the time to add useful display names for our tests has been one of the greatest investments I've ever done. Also, we have no need for those extremely_long_test_function_names_that_try_to_explain_the_test()
Youve got South Norwood one side and Dulwich on the other. Crystal Palace is right on the cusp of being mugged and stepping on an artisan terrier.
Inmarsat revenue: US$1,465.2 million (2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmarsat
This is one of the (many!) problems with how financial technology works in the US. Cards get an auth placed twice for the same bill (one without tip, one with tip), there's little to no card-based security in place when making purchases and customers don't get to hear about their transactions until many days have passed since the purchase.
A model 3 also has a battery pack that weighs hundreds of pounds, and doesn't have the need for large bursts of instantaneous energy a railgun would (hence the $50k capacitor bank), so average energy usage isn't very meaningful.
I fell into the trap of premature optimization, the root of all evil
learning curve, mostly
Coding practices your future self will love you for
Time to post one of my favourite internet images:

https://hips.hearstapps.com/cos.h-cdn.co/assets/15/13/980x11...
Refocus the scope of a project on specific business goals with Impact Mapping
> People seem to be paying on time and aware of their spending habits as a result.

More than 1% aren't per month, every month - and the Chinese economy is currently relatively stable, imagine a 2008 happening to those people. Also remember that some people may be borrowing to pay off the previous short-term loan - or are at the very least stuck continuously having to borrow from their future selves just to keep things afloat, each pay check evaporating as soon as it comes in. There's going to be a lot of people now stuck in a dangerous loop of dependency on these short-term loans at the best.

> I do wonder what the advantage is for using credit in China.

I think the advantage is small when compared to disadvantage. The advantage is small - you could get a good friend to lend you $10 to see you through a particularly bad month. The advantage of a friend is that they'll also tell you when enough is enough, when it's ongoing, when they believe you're borrowing for the wrong reasons.

> In the U.S. it offers another layer of security,

This is just a band aid for a much worse problem - that the average person in the US is living pay-check to pay-check, without money saved.

> flexibility

This is literally the only good reason I can think of for it's existence, but it's almost impossible to filter for these people.

> builds credit

Again, this shouldn't need to be a thing.

> earns rewards compared to using debit or cash,

The fact that cards don't earn rewards is an oversight on their part. The bank I'm with has two accounts, one is "easy access" and one is "savings". I can transfer from one to the other very easily, but I can only pay out of the "easy access" directly. If I keep money in the "savings" account for a period of time, I am rewarded with high interest, i.e. I am rewarded for saving money.

Other shops in the local area also have "loyalty" cards which also reward purchases of certain items (it helps them predict what stock they will need and to shift excess stock if required, as well as collect data about customer purchasing habits).

> is interest free as long as you pay on time

Smoking is harmless as long as you only ever do it once. The point is that people get trapped and reliant on these loans, at a cost.
Possibly the author of the parent comment was puzzled why does an AI lab not have a specialist who provisions the bare metal. I would think that if the hype died in a week, an AI lab would have other projects which require similar equipment to run.

I agree with your post in general as intuition tell me (without further details about ops situation) that cloud is a competitive fit in this scenario.
> You must be trolling... Templates in C++ ARE for metarogramming.

That's an ignorant statement both wrt generic programming (you know, the whole purpose of C++ templates) as well as the history of C++, in particularly how C++ template metaprogramming was discovered by accident after C++ templates were already implemented, widely used (see the STL), and standardized.
Carmakers should just give up on the infotainment system and simply provide a docking bay for your phone.

Last week I rented a car. I gave up on the inscrutable infotainment system and just used my phone, with it flopping around the car because there was nowhere to fix it in place.

Edit: the phones are not just better, they are constantly being improved, and the car system stays static. The phones also cost next to nothing compared with replacing a broken system in your car.
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Everest Base Camp Trek in March
I think the world would be a better place if we all took a few days on the shitty jobs.

I spent a few years doing a few days dev and a few days labouring, wading in waist deep water planting out wetlands:

https://www.australianecosystems.com.au/wetland-construction...

It wasn't easy to juggle, and taking phone calls in the swamp about dns config and database connection strings was awkward.

In the early days, everyone was part time, once the company was better established, i was a tourist in a full time crew and it didn't mesh
The main issue is that much of the global mainstream media and politicians have been co-opted by the CCP through bribes and blackmail. Due to this, your average citizen is largely unaware of the threats posed by the CCP regime. This has been made worse by the ever-increasing influence operations that have people thinking that Communist China is the poster-child of successful modern governance.
happens far too often: Fake it till you make it is fraud at a level that scales
This is fun. I grew up on the other side of the world (albeit a "western" culture), and was also amazed by garbage trucks from the day I remember. The whole lift/squash mechanism, their bright orange color (in our parts), the ease by which they lift the containers, the colored control lights/buttons on the side which the cleaners use to operate the lift, the blinkers. And made funny noises. It was something straight out of the toy shop, in full size! I wanted to be a waste collector when I grow up. My parents were keen to make fun of me because of that once I enrolled in PhD studies.

Same goes for fire trucks, I had multiple fire engine toys. But a fire truck is a rare thing to see in action in person, so I guess that's why it was easier to relate to the loud trashcan on wheels :-) .
That's why I didn't use average energy usage of the Tesla, but peak sustained power.

Yes, you would obviously need a (1-3 shot) capacitor bank, along with 1/8th of the Tesla's battery pack.
That is such a bigoted statement. Impeach now.
Figuring out these things is fairly easy: Windows is quite involved when it comes to using keyboard, so usually when I'm in a new environment I try a bunch of typical keyboard strokes to see which ones react.
Angular size?
> softcover, so it is easier to read/transport

All books get damaged when being carried on a regular basis. Pocket books especially so, because pockets can be a fairly hostile environment for stiff card and a wad of paper. Say what you like about convenience, but the larger formats do lend themselves to being treated better. For convenience these days we have ereaders though.

I personally find hardbacks easier to read on the move, because you’re not battling with the cover as much or having to hold it awkwardly folded in half or something. But they are cumbersome and awkward to carry.
Pyramid of Maslow: How This Model Will Make Your Articles Triumph
I believe that the 1.5B model weights take up the 6GB themselves. Presumably f32 weight values? Since they are all needed for an evaluation pass they will eat up 6GB on the GPU off the bat. Not too surprising that everything else can't fit in 2GB, since that's going to have to fit the entire model architecture and all intermediary values.
So I don’t have the answer here. I do like Jay Inslee’s argument for simply making mandates to cut emissions and carbon usage. Ie mandating ever increasingly efficient fuel ratings on vehicles. He says that’s an easier policy change than forcing costs on people through laws or created markets that can be undone in a following cycle.

It’s all got to be on the table and considered though. The entire energy footprint of almost all of the industrial revolution through to current needs to be undone in some way. There’s an inherent requirement on the energy that must be expended in order to do that, by the laws of thermodynamics/physics.
I have trouble understanding how Yahoo's moves are GDPR-compliant : if just one European citizen was part of the group to be archived, at least some if not all data in the group can be considered part of their personal data (as they were either sender or recipient of messages) and therefore there should be a mechanism allowing them to download that data.
Am I getting it wrong ?
There's also one in Munich, starting at the Deutsches Museum and ending at the Zoo (~ 5 km): https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/natural-scien...
It's a bit unnerving how much this resembles my own experience. Never got that PhD though, stuck with a Masters :)
While i really value the books from the US and British armies that were shared, I think "Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen Covey" is a really good book on the topic of Leadership.
https://www.amazon.com/Principle-Centered-Leadership-Stephen...
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I haven't been too close to this recently, but a common technique is called "Model Output Statistics" where the output from these computationally-intensive physical models are fed into another model, trained on historical observations and tuned to your specific risk profile and timeline. These secondary statistical models can be neural nets, or simpler models.

So you're not going to try to teach a CNN about Coriolis forces or boundary-layer mixing physics, but you can teach it that the physical model is more likely to be wrong in this situation, or that the physical model is consistently wrong in your specific location compared to your observations.
Oracle does this all the time. I was there during the Oregon obamacare exchange fiasco. They had teams scrambling to make it actually work long after it was supposed to be online. It never worked period!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon
Aren't you just moving the client to the backend here? As I understand it we are talking about how whoever needs to render the data gets the data. GraphQL vs. REST vs. whatever is still as relevant in the backend-rendered case.
This is sort of a killer example for the layperson of what ML can do, so hopefully Google will recognize this and comp most/all the data egress since it's a drop in the bucket for them, but every person that uses it can still go "Wow, Google's services allows for some amazing stuff."
Don't worry, I dropped out from it :D . My mom said:"So, you actually might become a garbageman at the end". Slavic parents...
> We have general relativity. Newtonian gravity is kept around for legacy's sakes and ease of calculation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relati...

> This is why climate change advocates are so disappointing. The complete lack of understanding of science and yet that ignorance makes them pretend they are an authority on science.

And are you an authority? I'll concur that I'm not, my field is cosmology. However, all my contemporaries in climate science seem to support the consensus, and here's a source that 97% of publishing climate scientists do [0]. They are an authority, and I think I'll believe them over an armchair intellectual trying to sow doubt on the internet.

[0] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ERL....11d8002C/abstra...
Unless your daughter never met with other kids or other adults, it's seems hard to say there's been no bias.
I’ve a few jobs around the house here if you’re looking for something to do ...
It's a database precisely designed for OLAP and web analytics in particular.
It's what empowers Yandex.Metrika.
You didn't really argue the point at all.
Every single specific thing that a differentiated cell does (which are most cells in the organism) are technically due to "epigenetics". Epigenetics just means that there are mechanisms to activate some genes and deactivate others. This is the essential core process in differentiation, as well as in many other processes in the body.
It is like asking how long do differences between your skin cells and neurons is supposed to last?
Agree that high code review latency is bad for team productivity. The best code reviews are timely, polite and actionable (not just nitpick comments about syntax).
> 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:

I'm aware of that. This is a thorough explanation of my view:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...

> 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?

QE does, sort of, inflate asset prices. It also lowers interest rates, which makes it cheaper for people to buy homes. QE does a lot of things, and summarizing it as "inflates asset prices" is too simplistic. QE is usually undertaken, in part, so that people living paycheck to paycheck can continue to receive that paycheck, rather than being fired.

> 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.

I certainly agree that there is some concentration of power. The Koch brothers and Bill Gates have a lot more influence than I do, and I would guess more than you do too. But how much more, exactly? It doesn't seem like all that much, to be honest.

> 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.

I think you're confusing correlation and causality, there though. Certainly in autocratic societies, you're going to have huge wealth disparity, because the rulers are rich. But the causality is flowing from autocracy onto inequality. I don't see much evidence that inequality causes autocracy, though.
The downtown area in Chattanooga has a pretty nice revitalization in the last few years too. There’s a startup incubator there that appeared to have decent momentum. It surprised me as a kid I lived near there in the 90’s and it definitely had a "run down ex-manufacturing town" vibe. But I’d be much prefer moving there than the Bay Area if I had to choose.
The difficulty in a lot of cases is finding someone who has a complete copy of the group. Yahoo Groups also had file, photo and database features, and archives of those are likely to be incomplete. You'd have to go through the member list (primarily early members) and find someone who still had a copy of all the messages.

The other problem is making it available - I ran a Yahoo group for many years, and have Mbox and Maildir format archives. I'm still looking for a decent web-based browser for these. HyperKitty (Mailman's archive browser) came close, but seems to require most of Mailman to be installed in order to work.

In my case, I managed to archive a bunch of groups related to amateur radio -- and I will be placing these on archive.org as soon as I have a spare moment to zip them up. A difficult-to-access archive is better than no archive at all, the important part is getting the data into a safe place.
Do you think the headlines below leave the reader with a negative impression?

"FedEx lures sellers with two-day air shipping after Amazon contract ends"

"Cloudflare goes big on serverless with new CLI, lures devs with free tier"

"Shopping for nostalgia: Toys R Us lures Michigan fans to Canada"

"A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth"

"North of Netherlands Lures Elon Musk with Billboards"

Is two-day air shipping bad for sellers? Is signing up for Cloudflare's free tier a mistake? Is Canada a dangerous country full of toys and geologist-swallowing caves? Will visiting the north of the Netherlands be the end of Elon Musk?
Generally, on a specific technical topics, smaller subreddits can be useful and can generate interesting discussions as well.
A 5.56 bullet will leave a full length 20" rifle barrel in under 2ms with something like 1500J kinetic energy, which is greater than 750kW. I don't know what the acceleration profile is like in the barrel - I suspect it might peak much higher than that.
Yeah, a PHPBB forum on a random VPS run by a random user has a much higher chance of surviving..
I live in Stockholm (close to the sun!) and never knew any of this – thank you so much for sharing, this is awesome!
I was surprised to see Texas shrinking. The media often reports of people flocking to Austin from the SF Bay Area.

Or are mostly non-tech workers leaving?
C) dislike of any advantage given to a commercial company to collect data they could ultimately sell to insurers.

So and so has a higher probability of having X or having X in their family based on the category of questions they asked about X.
The user is already providing their own Google colab instance. It's the downloads that cost them 10k$ per day and those always cost the same regardless whether the user downloads the model to their local pc or to colab.
Click the button in the bottom right and it moves at light speed.

Which, it turns out is really, really slow. Big revelation to me!
> "consequences on the epigenome"

Indeed such a stupid phrase. Any dynamic activity in the body, every process or change which happens due to dynamic actions during life is technically a consequence on the epigenome, because it requires some cells/organs to change some chemical reactions, produce more of this stuff and less of that stuff - it requires activating some genes and deactivating other genes. You drink tea - it has consequences on the epigenome. You think happy thoughts instead of sad ones - it has consequences on the epigenome... You excercise - it has consequences on the epigenome...
Don't you find it a bit disappointing that in WSL2 they're basically walking back the Linux-userland-on-NT-kernel architecture? I found this way of doing it fairly impressive - I wonder whether they will get good FS integration and performance with WSL2.
I'm curious where you'd find these -- do you have any links to Fidonet archives?

It's been a while since I looked, but I didn't find anything significant last time I did.
Yes, this seems obvious to me. If it were not, then publishers would release the hardback and paperback at the same time and let readers choose the format they preferred, wouldn't they?
You don't need everything to be decompressed all at once to dump it. You could continuously dump the memory contents while exploring the game (or having a fuzzer do it for you).
There are no AI services. Every user runs their own instance of the game.
tild.es is the best alternative but last I checked it was text only.
Is there any market to run a self sustained website like Yahoo Groups? By self sustained, I mean that there would be income that would pay the hosting costs.
https://lobste.rs/ is potentially a good one, similar focus to Hacker News and on top of that it's invite only, so quality is high. Also there's a concept of "hats", basically badges that accounts can have which are verified, it makes it easy to see who represents a project or organisation in some official capacity. There's also 2FA. I've posted a couple of things, and commented a few times but it's definitely quieter than Hacker News and sometimes there's crossover.
Predictions for 2020: What Are the Best Marketing and Technology Trends to Watch
I would think that these are more relevant:

https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-12-05

https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-12-06
I don't ever want whatever problem this is solving .
Show HN: Valohai – MLOps and Record Keeping for ML
Hi HN,

we've been here before [1] but the product has changed quite.

In the time of Kubeflow, MLFlow, and Metaflow: Valohai is a managed fullfledged platform for ML. Unlike the others, it doesn't require you to set up and maintain it yourself. And unlike the rest, it doesn't require your code to import a library that only works for python.

We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts!

Valohai in a few bullet-points:
1) MLOps
- Runs on your AWS, GCP, Azure, on-prem
- Automatically starts and shuts down your servers once your code is done (no need to manually track and shut down e.g. EC2 instances)
- Launch parallel hyperparameter sweeps (e.g. 100 TPUs at once doing 100 combinations of hyperparams)
- Works with code on localhost, gitlab/github/bitbucket and jupyter notebooks (all is run in your cloud/serverfarm, as opposed to localhost)
- Nifty features such as async jupyter execs (change code/data while previous code is still running in the cloud)

2) Record keeping
- Automatically tracks the code commit, data, hyperparameters, libraries, runtime hardware, etc (technically a reference to commit hash, docker container, data in bucket, hyperparams and all logs)
- One-click redoing of experiment with same params above
- Data traceability view (see all scripts, data etc that the model went through)
- Everything is built around teams and projects: Share projects with teams and follow progress in real-time. Don't lose what others did and roll back to what you did last Friday at the click of a button.

3) Fully managed service
- Run all job workers in your own AWS, GCP, Azure, on-prem
- Use the Valohai orchestrator (that launches the above workers) in your cloud, our cloud or on-prem
- Everything is fully set up, managed, updated and maintained by us

Try it out yourself: Create a free account, run code, experiment, play at https://valohai.com/

What are your thoughts?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13930796
> "weirdly biased"

Yeah it is.