skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know if this mega-chip will be successful, but I like the idea. Before I retired I managed a deep learning team that had a very cool internal product for running distributed TensorFlow. Now in retirement I get by with a single 1070 GPU for experiments - not bad but having something much cheaper, much more memory, and much faster would help so much.

I tend to be optimistic, so take my prediction with a grain of salt: I bet within 7 or 8 years there will be an inexpensive device that will blow away what we have now. There are so many applications for much larger end to end models that will but pressure on the market for something much better than what we have now. BTW, the ability to efficiently run models on my new iPhone 11 Pro is impressive and I have to wonder if the market for super fast hardware for training models might match the smartphone market. For this to happen, we need a deep learning rules the world shift. BTW, off topic, but I don’t think deep learning gets us to AGI.
I read on a privacy-oriented website that Wire was purchased by an American company not trusted for its record on privacy (or perhaps it was that since the company is American, their data can be read by the US govt.). I can't find it now though. There isn't anything mentioning it on the website of `www.privacytools.io`: https://www.privacytools.io/software/real-time-communication...
You don't have to go nearly that far. Even within a dense urban area, I can go up the hill 10 minutes from my house in the Oakland hills and the various small valleys in the hills have no cell service.

Now I have a Delorme Inreach satellite messenger so I can stay connected, its cost prohibitive to use excessively, however.
I bought myself a foldable bluetooth keyboard. The goal is to travel with that, my phone and security key and have all I need to do serious work, perhaps connecting to a server home for "intensive" operations. Let's see how 2020 goes :)
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And it's a worthwhile pursuit. Moxie's points simply don't make sense, and are infuriating / disrespectful to those who are working on solving decentralization's issues.

_Of course_ it will be difficult. But the same argument could be made for building a completely unencrypted messenger app. You won't have to worry about managing keys, obfuscating metadata, or anything like that.

At the end of the day, it's about realizing the importance of both privacy _and_ decentralization that our current infrastructure threatens.
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Those places have no cell service because nobody lives there, not the other way around. The number of people who would gladly live in the middle of nowhere if only there was internet available is miniscule and basically consists entirely of people who do remote work (because there are no jobs in the middle of nowhere).
That seems like two different use cases. While that helps you to tell direction, it doesn't help you navigate to 9134 Grocer Place, which is what I think most people use Google Maps for, and for which a topo map would be less than useless. Do you know people who Google Maps their way camping?
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> I just prefer to present something as part of a conversation that's happening in a place, rather than a webinar that I'm broadcasting forever to the world.

To me it sounds an awful lot like not wanting to be scrutinized or held accountable for what he says.

I also find this rather disappointing as it excludes anyone who is unable, for whatever reason, to be at his talks from hearing what he has to say. Given how influential he's been in this domain, this sadness me quite a bit.

> I have less faith in the internet as a place where a conversation can happen

This feels a bit ironic, given he's built an enterprise on enabling conversations to happen on the internet, though arguably only with a limited set of people.

> , and the timelessness of it decontextualizes.

Not quite sure what that's supposed to mean. Perhaps it's a language barrier thing, but I can't parse that into something sensible.
Did your professor point to Whitehead’s original quote?

“So far as concerns philosophy only a selected group can be explicitly mentioned. There is no point in endeavouring to force the interpretations of divergent philosophers into a vague agreement. What is important is that the scheme of interpretation here adopted can claim for each of its main positions the express authority of one, or the other, of some supreme master of thought - Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant. But ultimately nothing rests on authority; the final court of appeal is intrinsic reasonableness.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them. His personal endowments, his wide opportunities for experience at a great period of civilization, his inheritance of an intellectual tradition not yet stiffened by excessive systematization, have made his writing an inexhaustible mine of suggestion.”

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UX issues being a big exception to that rule.

Several tools I'm pretty deeply familiar with still make me feel dumb because they are user-hostile.
Highway speeds are 90-110km/h (55-70mph). General speed limits are 80km/h and 50km/h (50/30mph) depending on pop. density.

Speeds are often reduced if the road is sub par or if there have been accidents on that bit of road.

Yes. The limits are low, but definitivly not _incredibly_ low.
On behalf of everyone here, thanks a lot for answering every single question being asked. Highly appreciate it.

I have questions myself:

1. Did it reduce (TCO) costs or increase it versus using Kinesis and SQS/SNS?

1a. Interestingly, there's no global-replication with those AWS services. Why did you require global-replication with the move to Apache Pulsar?

2. Since you mention internal auth: Weren't Cognito / KMS / Secrets Manager up to the job? Given these are integrated out-of-the-box with EC2?

3. Was it ever under-consideration to roll out pub/sub on top of Aurora for Postgres with Global Replication? https://layerci.com/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/

Thanks again.
That's pretty clever. Also if you are interested (not 100% applicable because it's not something most people can do at home) there is a practice for finding breaks/partial breaks in cables using time domain reflectometry (TDM) [0]. You send a pulse in to one end of the cable and measure how long it takes for some reflected energy at the break to return. It's pretty cool stuff and you only need access to one side of a cable. I have used this in my job for finding discontinuities in large RF cables.

If you do have some electrics equipment at home (o-scope, sig-gen) you can make do it yourself [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometer

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Isn't systemd-nspawn useful for this case? It was specifically designed to replace the need for chroot on systemd systems.
Not sure what happened in the 2nd half of your post, it kind of went off the rails. But the in the 1st half, you're basically getting at the ordinal numbers. Now just drop the "philosophy" from it (which is just a placeholder, since you could replace it with anything else whatsoever and still get the same chains) and focus on the underlying structure---infinite chains of infinite chains, etc.---and you're actually standing on the threshold of some very interesting material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number
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A few games used the RAM intended for the Kickstart on A1000. The same game on A500 needed 1MB RAM.
The Midwest is Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, maybe Minnesota...anything in the mountain time zone is not the Midwest, it is often called the inter mountain west, and covers anything from inland California though Colorado.
Lol.

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/02/us-cbp-domestic-flight/
"Democracy and republics are hard, so we should all just give up and have autocratic governments"

It may sound flippant or unrelated, but I think this extreme projection of his argument makes it evident how silly it is. This is one of the reasons I switched away from using Signal, as much as I'd like better privacy on my text messages it's not worth handing that much control over to someone I shouldn't have to put my trust in. Instead I do my text messages over Jabber/XMPP with jmp.chat now and for others who have a proper XMPP address I use that (which gives me the option of OMEMO encryption which is basically the XMPP version of the signal double ratchet).

For the average user, installing conversations.im and hitting "create account" or whatever and calling it a day is good enough, so it's not even significantly harder than dealing with Signal.
There are many people who intentionally choose to act purely selfishly and not in good faith, to maximize personal gain. I met many of these types in SV, and I imagine they get much worse on wall street and in military industrial circles. Call it what you will, but these people don't have any illusions of being benevolent or fair.
How did the data not get destroyed by the magnet?
My experience is that prior to Windows 8.1 my computer was completely unusable while compiling C++ on all cores, so bad that I got a tool to limit affinity to all but one core.
I've "always" been able to do the same on a Linux system, even filling up HT threads without noticing anything. I've always been impressed by the Linux scheduler both for IO and CPU.
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True, but they do cover most of the areas where a large number of people want to be often.
>2. Harness the attention for organizational benefit where possible (Add PokeStop to increase museum attendance)

i wonder (have never played myself) whether the Pokemons can be customized according to location - a restaurant owner would pay for the Pokemons enjoying and cheering the food there while the Pokemons in the military settings like that museum would ride a tank or a plane or shoot some weaponry military ads style.
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Was this model tested for overfitting? I do not have any sense of whether the beetles that I'm seeing match some source pictures exactly.

I noticed that the transformations seem to be fast through a transition and then seemingly paused. Is this intentional or does this have something to do with the model?
It's also on Steam now!
”Or they misjudge the value that they think they are adding with their own fluff.”

This. There are some blogs that really succeeds with the story-telling. I don’t mind the stories on Food Lab for example. But if it’s just an incoherent and fluffy word salad, then I’d rather just read the recipe straight away.
No, a hypothetical option to never communicate with anybody on the network isn't "better protection" in any meaningful sense than a system designed from the outset to actually protect you when you communicate with other people.

When you say we're trying to improve I want to believe you. When you stubbornly declare "we're better" in "many ways" while actually being much worse, what could I conclude? Only that your goal is to deceive people because you're not really interested in improving. Blergh.

Back in February 2015 you did not understand the gravity of the mistake in leaving end-to-end encryption as a TODO item for Matrix and defended this decision as "Pragmatic" repeatedly. Matrix itself is a bit older, mid-2014 I think, but 2015 was the first time I ran into the arguments for Matrix. It's important to underscore those dates. I've moaned (including to his face) about Tim's choice not to do encryption out of the box in his toy hypermedia system, but that was almost 25 years earlier and whilst annoying a lot more understandable. 2014 on the other hand is after BCP #188 ("Pervasive Monitoring Is An Attack") and all that implies so there are no excuses. Matrix was a defective design on day zero. 2020 begins with a promise that it'll be fixed soon, kinda, sorta and then a retreat to old arguments about how it's all worth it for "freedom".

When I say "kinda sorta done" I am not referring to being able to send unprotected plaintext over the Internet in 2020. What's "kinda sorta done" is the basic task of sending messages between participants without anybody else knowing what was said, or preferably who by and who to. It sounds like Matrix's _ambition_ is still that in 2020 this will be the case for certain groups of participants, at least some of the time. Not everybody, and not all the time, and not yet unless you go out of your way which we know users will not do.
I think waterboarding is more common. For US citizens they're usually stuck with just solitary confinement, which is a working form of torture but is kind of slow.
With 400k cores and their 'duplicate and re-route' defect strategy, this might literally be the most challenging compilation target ever made.

While I'd be generally skeptical, it seems like the compilation for the rerouting could be done on a single low level, below whatever their assembler is, and so the could just look like a regular array of cores - just a single array that translates from i to the ith "real" core and similar structures seems like it could be enough.

Edit: I mean, if they're smart, it seems like they'd make the thing look as much as possible like a generic GPU capable of OpenCL. I have no idea if they'll do that but since they have size, they won't have to sell their stuff an otherwise custom approach.
Does anyone have a good understanding of why PyPy did not supplant CPython? I'm not familiar with it, but from reading their website, they claim it's better at pretty much everything. So the question naturally arises, "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich"?
So, this is where the founder of a "low-code" startup pops up to confirm it: "Low code" is mostly a false promise.

We have been programming computers for most of a century: 71 years this year. And in all that time, nobody has come up with a better way of telling a computer what to do than writing text in a programming language. People keep trying, of course, with endless permutations of flow-charts and rules. But sooner or later, you'll find yourself either:

(a) unable to express what you need to express, or

(b) tangled up in Cthulu's own flow-chart, barely accomplishing something that you know is a three-line `for` loop in Python.

And the thing is, anyone calling their system "low code" (rather than "no code") knows this. They know that the shiny demo can't actually do all you need. The moment you want to build something they haven't already imagined, you fall off the edge of the world. That's why they hedge, and say "sure, you might write a little code". Then the trap-door opens underneath you, and you go straight from a click'n'drag flowchart to writing a React component (or worse). Not fun.

I cofounded Anvil (https://anvil.works), and if you squint hard you could call it a low-code platform for web apps. But many valuable apps are a fifteen-line Python script surrounded by fifteen tons of JS framework. The problem here isn't the application logic - it's everything else! So build a drag'n'drop designer, and a VB/Delphi-like component UI, then get out of the way and let the author write their app logic in peace. When your users try to do something you haven't thought of (and they will!), they'll have an industrial-strength toolbox to deal with it.

But to tell someone that they can build substantial apps without writing code is to invite them to drive at speed up a blind alley.
Yeah, this technique should really only be used if, and only if, you need the drive itself to be fixed and no longer care about the contents of the drive (e.g. if it was in a RAID 1 and manually cleared afterwards).
In my experience with the priorities of police departments in general, this faith would be misplaced.

Not that a laptop or data is worth your life (usually).
I have never understood this thing about being asked to study old texts in Philosophy. In no other field that I have studied have people suggested that my first introduction to the field must be a book written decades ago, forget two millennia ago. If I want to study physics, nobody tells me to read Newton or Einstein's paper. Instead I should read an introductory textbook, whose contents and presentation are much better than the original texts.

If you are telling me that in the twenty centuries, no one has taken what Pythagoras/Plato said and has rewritten it in a better way, with modern exposition and examples and graphics and what not, I fail to believe you. Because that would mean philosophy as a discipline is not improving by building upon the works of those past, unlike every other intellectual discipline. I know this is not true, so stop suggesting old texts to beginners and start suggesting books written in the last twenty years.
In a pyramidal society it all depends where you stand. Most people function from a partial narrative, biased towards some local/invented optimum. The higher you go in the pyramid, the more conscious evil you can find. And usually you can only go high in the pyramid because you have proven yourself capable of evil.
They could be organizing protests in Hong Kong. Or be a union organizer in South Africa.
A bit baffled by this because on every axis I look this seems like a dream of a compilation target.

* No DRAM or caches, everything is in SRAM, and all local SRAM loads are 1 cycle.

* Model parallel alone is full performance, no need for data parallel if you size to fit.

* Defects are handled in hardware; any latency differences are hidden & not in load path anyway.

* Fully asynchronous/dataflow by default, only need minimal synchronization between forward/backward passes.

I genuinely don't know how you'd build a simpler system than this.
This is one of the reasons why I almost never watch stuff on YouTube. I heard people who claim that they learnt how to barbeque, renovate, take good photos etc. by watching YouTube. I’m impressed, but what I don’t understand is how they managed to either sit through or filter out this kind of chatter.
So, basically nothing particularly noteworthy about the actual product as it was built by 1 person in 4 hours. For this type of business the hard part is the network effect, so in effect the journey is barely begun.
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Hmm, not easily googled? I got something about drive-thrus but nothing actually using the term.