skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall also reading that Australia did not undertake sufficient controlled burns this year to reduce the amount of combustible fuel in the bush. There has been a lot of finger-pointing to suggest that this is because of the Green Party (and their supporters) pushing back on controlled burns. This push back has been around for some time now (2013: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/miranda-devine/green...). It has come to a head recently with arguments between the National Party and the Greens (https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/greens-polici...), with the Greens now saying they do support controlled burns.

I'm not familiar with Australian politics deeply, and I think drier conditions can make fires worse (by adding more plant matter to the fuel stores in the bush), but I think there are many factors involved, especially considering Australia has a regularly recurring bushfire season historically.
I'm afraid recursivecaveat is right. This is an insanely difficult compilation target. I think you're possibly talking about a different kind of "compilation" - i.e. the Clang/GCC bit that converts C++ to machine code. That is indeed trivial. But "compilation" for these chips includes much more than that.

The really complicated bit is converting the tensorflow model to some kind of computation plan. Where do you put all the tensor data? How do you move it around the chip. It's insanely complicated. If anything kills Cerebras it will be the software.
This really deserves more attention. As an oss contributor myself, I’ve noticed that almost no one actually reviews your source code, often choosing to blindly trust libraries simply because they’re available via the language’s package manager.
I get that from matcha in the morning. Very focused, almost driven sort of energy. Definitely a nootropic for my purposes.
I respect your decision, but I must say I think it's substantive and true, and I don't think it's flamebait. Happy new year.
The fact that they haven't is baffling. before amzn had their own logistics, the hardest part of Amazon's business (free 2 day shipping) was handled completely by them. Join up with Walmart or other mega retailers (just for brand value), and make the biggest online curated marketplace. First party sales only, no third party.

I would drop my prime membership the same day and pay up to 50% more for free shipping from such a market place.
You never know if another Amazon competitor has a larger or smaller carbon footprint.

The only way to decide who does smaller footprint is to ask your government to introduce/increase carbon tax, and then simply buy what's cheaper.
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What do you use the status bar for?
I've always wondered, did Nintendo demand that all games have continuously running soundtracks? I remember playing this game and Prince of Persia on the SNES and being really put off by these soundtracks someone shoehorned in.
My opinion:

- Boostnote attached to cloud storage or a personal NAS. Which I still don't like much (no mobile support). Or use OneNote Cloud (Or Google Cloud), but if privacy is an issue (like legal notes) then hard pass most likely.

Failed attempts:

- I've left Notion because it's not very exportable for DR and movement purposes.

- I've used Standard Notes which I loved, but it's clunky and very expensive.

- I've also tried the basics like Apple Notes, Evernote.

Overall, it's hard to find a portable solution that can also be stored online or offline with slightly better formatting than markdown. So the best option is use an editor that handles Markdown, since it is very transferable and store it somewhere easy for you. For database related functionality stick to CSV.
Not among land mammals: https://xkcd.com/1338/
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I'll add onto that and the prediction for 2020's from yesterday that meat may very soon begin to price itself out of the market with meat alternatives from Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, etc being first movers in this area could be a great investment over the next decade
Last time I checked (a few months ago) there was no access to the audio outside of the browser i.e. DRM protected. Accessing the rest of the API is presumably simple but not very interesting.
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This process happens too in Tasmania where most of that beautiful nothofagus grows. But you are right, these populations could be wiped out completely if fires increase and there's no chance for recovery - or the entire population is burnt. I wasn't suggesting that everything is okay, because it clearly isn't.
> Titular "employees" were informed that they were in violation of media policy by making comments to the media both as a named representative of Amazon and critical of Amazon without prior approval.

What does "titular" mean here? They were making comments to the press while being Amazon employees and therefore, according to Amazon, broke company policy. Luckily, giant tech companies have no right to curb employees free speech. Our world isn't that Orwellian yet.

> Which, uuh, is not what the policy says. It says "don't bring Amazon into your personal views unless we say it's OK" and "hey, probably don't be openly critical of your employer". Talk about climate change all you want!

"The new policy requires staff members to seek permission from Amazon prior to talking in a public forum while identified as an employee." So the policy requires people to not disclose that they work for Amazon while talking in a public forum. That's insane.
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My anecdote:

Around 1993 I had a Commodore Amiga with an A590 external hard drive. A big enclosure that could be connected to the expansion port on the left of an Amiga 500, containing a very precious 20MB hard disk.

One day, it stopped working. I tried everything but I couldn’t get it to work. A friend offered to take a look at it so I put it in my backpack and took the train to my friend. When connected to his A500, the drive worked lime a charm.

When I drove back home in the train I wondered what would be the matter with my A500 since it apparently made my A590 hard drive fail.

However, once I got home and reconnected the drive, it worked. No problem whatsoever.

Until two days later. It failed. You know what’s going to happen, right? Took it to my friend, it worked, took it back and it worked for two more days.

Turns out that disconnecting it, putting it in my bag, walking it around for a while worked just as well.

Turns out that disconnecting it, dropping it from 5cm / 2 inches and reconnecting it, worked just as well.

Which was what I did for the next four years or so. Whenever it stopped working, I disconnected it, dropped it and reconnected it.

Always loved the look on the face of people who witnessed me starting up my Amiga.
There was something of a hit campaign against it at one point. I forget the specifics, but it’s safe if you do your homework and buy from proven sources.
Why shouldn't there be a placebo effect? It's well documented for basically any drug, even for alcohol. Serve people non-alcoholic drinks but tell them otherwise, and they get drunk.
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And only a few years afterwards, the Acorn Archimedes (launched in 1987!) would achieve comparable or better (especially in 3D) graphics and sound via pure CPU power, with little or no custom hardware. Cool stuff, but it was essentially a dead end architecturally. Even if Commodore hadn't screwed up to the extent it did, that whole generation of machines was tied to the 68k series, and would have died with it anyway. (Even Apple could not save the 68k, they jumped ship to POWER instead.)
Any industrial scale animal agriculture has as an input industrial scale plant production. For example, most of the plant matter produced for consumption in the US goes not to humans, but to animal agriculture instead.

Any issues in plant agricultural production will be felt many times over in prices for meat (either via subsidy or at the counter) than in prices for plants.
Worth noting that Kafka is not a queue, but an append-only log.
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I actually didn't read it, so can't really answer, sorry.
That's definitely worthy of submitting as it's own thread.

Hearing about "Pournelle’s iron law of bureaucracy" was particularly chilling.
Profile says North of England, does Danish Crown have anything in Britain?
It's available on iOS, too: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/another-world-20th/id460076328
And corporations are those who decide what the "agreed upon decorum" is.
> he gets the horn

That's not what horns are for. You seem to think it's a punitive device, and I certainly would interpret it similarly to you aiming the muzzle of a gun at my chest.

Granted, I'll agree that's a dumb situation to cross the street, but your actions make it even worse.

To be clear, I mean that if everyone did what you do, going around rationalizing how people "get the horn" when they upset you rather than when your car is in legitimate imminent danger of a collision, we're mainly accomplishing two things:

1. Making driving more aggressive as a whole, associating all these little driving interactions with BLARING CAR HORN SOUNDS

2. Cheapening the meaning of the car horn for when it actually matters

The horn isn't a tool for letting out your aggression. Try screaming obscenities loudly in your car or something else fun like that.
> I don't understand what the motivations for this are

"If you’re a parent, I’d recommend you set up YouTube Kids for your child to access YouTube videos without worrying about them being exposed to content such as this"
> It will take years for China to get a handle on the disease.

Is this an issue with everyone? Or China in particular due to incompetence?
His live song Drive has 2 distinct types of overtone singing in there. Some people think he's a tad weird, but his skill is unmistakable once you get used to "do" being the primary lyric.
Agreed.

One more:

For replication across regions, do you peer VPCs via Transit Gateways or some such, or do it over the public Internet? I ask because a lot of folks complain about exorbitant AWS bandwidth charges for cross-AZ and cross-region communication (esp over the Internet versus over AWS' backbone): At 300k msgs/sec, the bandwidth costs might add up quickly?

Consequently, maintaining a multi-region, multi-AZ VPC peering might have been complicated without Transit Gateway, so I'm curious how the network side of things held up for you.
I didn’t mean to endorse the article itself, just the part about it probably being SEO-related as I remembered reading this before and just grabbed the first article I could find ;)
“Alternative landscapes” here really means exotic species that aren’t fire-propagated. There’s some evidence that exotics are protective of property in a low-intensity fire, but they’re also far more dependent on water, which is a desperately scarce resource, and many are deciduous, which adds to fuel loads.

The wide-scale promotion of non-native flora should be obvious enough as a non-starter.
Does this mean it puts less strain on a potentially broken disk in an attempt to maximize how much can be rescued before it fails?
Right, that's why I brought up the issue about the lack of warrant/court order. The agency involved are idiots and should have completely expected this if they didn't send Facebook a court order. (I've now edited my post to make that clearer.)

I'm just trying to argue that, I think, in a grand theoretical sense, this sort of behavior is not necessarily unethical of law enforcement agencies if they send a signed court order and work with an ethical contractor instead of NSO or Black Cube or whoever.
Google engineering management are all “nerds...”
It would also be important to know why. Whether someone wants to work for a company despite its culture because of the other huge benefits of the job: interesting work and pay. At different points in the career or life one may put one aspect or the other at the top of their priorities list.
https://www.caymanchem.com/msdss/14041m.pdf

Acute toxicity level 4 for Oral ingestion

https://www.ilo.org/legacy/english/protection/safework/ghs/g...

Defines Toxicity level 4 as ~ 2000 to < 5000 mg/kg

The most potent strain of "magic mushrooms" are at most ~2% by weight(Psilocybe azurescens)[0]. So according to all the de facto standard literature, a potentially fatal dose of magic mushrooms is over 3 ounces of dried mushroom per kilogram of body weight. At 68 kg I would need to ingest over 5 kg to come up to the lower bound of the LD50.

No one without an axe to grind could realistically argue toxicity is a real valid concern.

[0]https://www.shroomery.org/8700/Psilocybe-azurescens-taxonomy...
While in this case protein is just generic for 'meat', in the specific cast Tyson is taking plant protein that you or I cannot consume and turning it into a protein that we can eat. Does an oil refinery destroy oil? Well, I guess so, but that is not exactly the term that is commonly used to describe the refining process.
> so I can safely keep my passport in the hotel safe while I visit Schengen countries

Random border checks have always been a thing in Europe, a passport is literally made for crossing borders, why would you keep it in an hotel if you know you'll be doing the only thing it is used for.
Yes there is such a thing as an HTTP connection. So now you learned something valuable. Each connection consists of one or more HTTP requests. In HTTP/1.1 in practice you must complete an entire request and response before beginning another.

(Edited to add, since you did) There are two things you might mean by QUIC. Google's test protocol QUIC (these days often called 'gQUIC') was developed and deployed in-house, and has all sorts of weird Google-isms, it's from the same period as their SPDY which inspired HTTP/2. gQUIC is no longer under further development. They handed the specification over to the IETF years ago, and the IETF's QUIC Working Group is working on an IETF standard QUIC which will replace TCP for applications that want a robust high performance encrypted protocol.

HTTP over QUIC will be named HTTP/3 and will offer most of the same benefits as HTTP/2 (which is HTTP over TLS thus over TCP/IP) but improve privacy and optimise some performance scenarios where head-of-line blocking in TCP was previously a problem - probably some time in 2020 or 2021. The HTTPbis (bis is a French word which has similar purpose in addresses as the suffix letter a would in English e.g. instead of 45a you might live at 45bis) working group is simultaneously fixing things in HTTP/2 and preparing for HTTP/3.
> I feel in this case, waiting for college is too late and the improvements should be done at the grade school level. Only a fraction of the population goes to college and as such even if the education from college was perfected, it would only apply to that fraction of the population.

25% or so of the population or so attends at least one semester of college. If I recollect the statistics right. Which is.... pretty dang good.

You're not wrong in that k-12 education needs to improve. That said, people have been moaning about k-12 education for the last 200 years in the US, and, well, I'm not personally particularly keen about hunting with that dog. In part because k-12 is considered a guaranteed education, so you ipso facto have to consider policies with address the entirety of the bell curve of the population, and the stakeholders are peculiarly passionate (their kids!). College has the profound advantage in that there's some flavor of choice in it, so you can wind up executing on certain rule changes without the enormous knife fight involved in k-12 politics.

I'm not disagreeing. But I think if we spec out the political fight between "federally mandate a substantial change in learning social sciences, history, civics, & philosophy across the US by Congress" (the required subjects for a competent civic education) and "free college for all", my money is that free college for all, with a free pony too, will happen decades before the other.

> I saw numerous people who took 5+ years doing so because they prioritized fun over education. Taking minimum course loads, partying instead of studying, etc.

I didn't see that, much. There was some. Very very small proportion in my experience. I went to state schools in Idaho, mostly around the engineering departments. Business departments or frats maaaaay have had different student populations.

I recognize your concern though. That is why I think > 6 years should be a fairly hard cutoff for government supported college. 5 years was pretty common for people who switched majors or had a rough semester. 6 years was rare.

> What do you think of a shorter term solution of allowing student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy?

I'm in favor of that!
Mass market customers are just going to skip without benchmarks.

Although, at this stage, Crebras does not care about mass market yet.
Interesting, I always thought it was a drug produced in a lab from other chemicals.
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I don't understand, you seem to contradict yourself:
> It has always bothered me that I can't simply click on finder in the dock to bring up a window for the first time (as it'll only toggle what windows are already open).

I've never encountered any issues similar to what you're mentioning. It opens a new window if none are open, and shows the currently existing windows if some are already open.
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Suburbs don't have sidewalks because the real estate developers got out before the newly formed city government wrote regulations defining what a house had to include in order to be sold. Since then, it has been "traditional" to subject pedestrians to the dangers of auto traffic.
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Given a correct function that converts a JSON-representable value to embed-safe JSON, you can use it on the JSON to get your JSON.parse performance:

const inlineJSON = data =>
JSON.stringify(data)
.replace(/\u2028/g, '\\u2028')
.replace(/\u2029/g, '\\u2029')
.replace(/</g, '\\x3c');

with:

const escapedReduxStateJsonString = inlineJSON(JSON.stringify(data));

But yeah, the isolated <script> thing is usually even better (more compact in addition to the security benefit).
Ah, I didn't think of rock climbing.
This sounds eerily similar to the commonly mocked argument of "why would you care about strong encryption, privacy, and agencies spying on you, if you have nothing to hide?"
What highway? I was pretty surprised to not be on a proper motorway, it was all 2-lane highways. IIRC it was max 80km, with plenty of 70km and lower limits.

I drove Oslo Airport -> Flåm -> Bergen -> Oslo Airport. Looks like E16 / 7 / 52 were the roads involved, 968km loop.
>> That is not engineering. That’s just lazy programming. Engineering is understanding performance, structure, limits of what you build, deeply.

If I think back to my engineering school days, the definition of "engineering" for my classmates in civil and electrical engineering was to look up well defined procedures and calculations from a book and apply them. No deep understanding required to design a bridge that didn't fall down or a circuit that didn't overheat.

What's the equivalent for software? Design patterns were a bust. SICP is for cultists. It's a huge void. There is hardly any such discipline as "software engineering" yet.
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> From my experience it's incorrect to think of psilocybin as some magic pill that will magically make your depression go away.

I don't think you are accusing me of saying that, but just to be clear I completely agree with this. Michael Pollan's book also doesn't paint it as a "magic pill." No doubt some people assume that, but I don't believe it exists.

I do wonder about the accuracy of Freudian ideas, such as something in ones childhood being the cause or at least playing a role. It's certainly possible. Being raised by depressed people sucks, and there's a lot of scars that probably contribute to why depression seems to be inherited.
Well, if a better algorithm cannot beat DNN in a realistic product setting, then how can you say its better after all?

If the algorithm is indeed better, how can DNN dominates and turn into a dystonia...
That's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam and like you say, it's not the culture in the US.

Although land does need to be marked with "No Trespassing" signs in order to gain certain rights under the law.
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>Microsoft does far worse things than Google

Do they? Google makes me way uncomfortable at the moment with their pervasive insight into everything but trust us anyway cause don't be evil.

MS seems like the underdog almost in the data mining game
It works because driving is so inconvenient there.
i wonder how advertisers feel about their products being advertised through google these days