skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a lot of Dutch towns and cities new neighborhoods are designed to have a system of Wadi's [0] where rooftop rainwater is directed to instead of to the sewer system. These are usually dry, but fill up when it rains. They provide attractive green spaces between the buildings and road network where plants, flowers and other fauna can thrive.

Other cities, like Apeldoorn, are providing subsidies to decouple the rainwater drain from the sewer to let the water infiltrate in your own garden instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi
They've had that patty in India since pretty much the beginning (1996). Weird that they're only rolling it out elsewhere now.
If you're running an environment with a garbage collection and goroutines and whatnot, then you've "asked" to have those things, no?

That's it's not strictly needed in a contrived "Hello world" is rather meaningless IMHO, since very few real-world programs are like that.
No VCS will be merge conflict-less without locking files.

I'd rather not lock files.
These stats are true, but the CPU's biggest advantage is L1, L2, and L3 cache.

In particular, the 3990x, 64-core Threadripper will have 256MBs of aggregate L3 cache, and 512kBs L2 cache per core (32MBs of L2 cache). Highly-optimized kernels may fit large portions of data within L3 cache and rarely even touch DDR4!

Note: Each L3 cache is only 16MBs between 4-cores. It will take some tricky programming to split a model into 16MB chunks, but if it can be done, Threadripper would be crazy fast.

True, GPUs have really fat VRAM to work with, but CPUs have really fat L3 cache and L2 cache to work with. And the CPU caches are coherent too, simplifying atomic code. GPUs do have "shared memory" and L2 caches, but they're far smaller than CPU-caches.
Not sure I would call that consumer. Maybe single user might be more appropriate.
I remember it! Awesome.
The issue is much more prosaic than the fundamental laws of physics changing over time. On average, very distant supernovae have a different composition than nearby supernovae. As the universe ages, more light element atoms are fused into heavier element atoms and expelled into space. That material is incorporated into the next generation of stars, so stars begin their lives with less and less hydrogen, as the universe ages. If that influences the light curves of supernovae, then it greatly complicates the use of supernovae as standard candles for distance measurement.
Yup, the Microsoft Surface line has really spoiled me here. I was hoping to see more 3:2 ratio displays as a result. Not sure why but everything just went wrap around or double wide instead of a more productive A9 ratio.

I have heard rumors that Microsoft will release a display to compliment the line. I hope it's true.
He mentions (and shows) a favorite paper tablet he uses with very finely ruled lines. He found it in Canada about 40 years ago while visiting his sister. Anybody know who makes his tablets? discussion here: https://youtu.be/2BdBfsXbST8?t=2587
Ah okay. I missed half of memory channels so it does make sense now.
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Vanishingly small in number, but quite significant in terms of the number of developers working in them.
> Things like branch prediction, transactions, sophisticated prefetching all take up a lot of silicon.

Those things make CPUs faster at sequential execution.

In effect: CPUs are latency optimized. GPUs are bandwidth optimized.
Why add TCP to IP or HTTP to TCP?

It's sound engineering. Like in other systems by composing layers you can achieve the advantages of each component while addressing their costs, without creating insurmountable complexity... "have your cake and eat it too".

Particularly, the central Bitcoin system is a global broadcast medium-- necessarily for its security. Global broadcast is inherently somewhat limited in its scalability (though less than some assume). Other layers effectively add "transaction switching" to Bitcoin, radically improving scalablity and performance with their own costs which are good trade-offs for their applications.

As far as the status quo of traditional finance... If you're happy with the status quo! Use it!

(I'm going to assume you don't mean the status quo of Bitcoin--because 28kb/sec isn't something only large entities can keep up with, it adds up over time-- but even cumulatively its managable)

You could recreate the status quo of centralized finance with Bitcoin, but it wouldn't be obviously better: at least systems like visa and paypal are purpose build to do what they do. Bitcoin takes on a lot of costs and tradeoffs to achieve decenteralization.

Bitcoin was created to be money that existed above and outside of the vulgarities of immediate human politics, just like how strong encryption made it effectively impossible for some sysadmin to just read your files based on some excuse.

I think having that option in the world is extraordinarily valuable.
> These replacements were seemless to users.

Not at all. I remember how long it took for Cat 5 to replace thinnet.
... you mean this?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7neg/electric-universe-...
It's my understanding that it's sugar combined with fat that's the real problem.

I think it boils down to - everything in moderation, including moderation.
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I disagree that Git's biggest flaw is its lack of scalability. Cases where git needs to scale tend to be isolated to companies that have the manpower to build a finely-tuned replacement (see: MS, Google).

Git's flaws are primarily in usability/UX. But I think for its purpose, functionality is far more important than a perfect UX. I'm perfectly happy knowing I might have to Google how to do something in Git as long as I can feel confident that Git will have the power to do whatever it is I'm trying to do. A competitor would need to do what git does as well as git does it, with a UX that is not just marginally better but categorically better, to unseat git. (Marginally better isn't strong enough to overcome incumbent use cases)

And for the record: I think git-lfs issues are primarily usability issues, and tech improvements. The tech enhancements will be solved if there's enough desire, and as I mentioned the usability problems are more annoyances than actual problems.
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Like when I accidentally check in credentials.

/insert Michael Cain playing Homer sound: Buh-oh./
ADC = A + V + C

SBC = A - V - (1 - C)

SBC = A + (-1 * (V - (1 - C)))

SBC = A + (-V + (1 - C))

SBC = A + -V + 1 + C

I am not able to follow the mathemagic behind the third line. Is it normal algebra or its in 1's complement?
I'm surprised they didn't list testing the effectiveness of advertising as a use case.
With 64-lanes of PCIe on this Threadripper... why not all three?

Plenty of PCIe space to afford a few GPUs to experiment with your 64-core CPU. You probably can shove 2x GPUs + 1x FPGA into one box.
Cool project! It reminds me of http://haml.info
Why Do We Crave Sugary Food?
For many of us the sight of a freshly glazed doughnut can feel like falling in love and coming home to a pack of unopened cookies can feel like the adult version of Christmas morning. There’s something about sugar that hooks us and keeps reeling us in again and again. Whether we like it or not sugar has a major hold on us.

If you’re reading this it’s highly likely you understand, and have first-hand experience, of this allure. Sugar isn’t just confectionary, it’s compulsion; there is no such thing as stopping after “just one.” I mean, if one is good, more is better. At least that’s what it feels like with the sweet stuff.

We are given many reasons for our sugar cravings: pleasure-seeking brain circuits, intestinal parasites, mineral deficiencies, malnutrition, habitual behavior, unbalanced diets, too much salt, buried emotional issues, lack of sleep, stress.... and my favorite, lack of discipline. We are not at a loss for reasons for our addiction to sugar, yet knowing isn’t enough to change us or our behavior. If knowing was enough we would all be winning gold medals and gold stars in every area of our life. If anything, knowing just makes it feel worse... we know better so why aren’t we doing better? Knowing becomes just another reason for us to feel bad about ourselves.

The next step to knowing is to try and do something about it. We take matters into our own hands and attempt to turn our sugar-loving switch from on to off. This is not a painless process, and just when we feel we’re making ground something happens to throw us off and we’re on a mission to hunt down any sugar we can find and back at the start.

When we decide to target our sugar dependency, we attack the sugar itself, we clear the pantry, empty the house of all products and declare sugar the enemy. And this is fine... except it doesn’t work.

The key: target the true problem, not the side-effect of the problem.
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I pay a carbon tax already on everything I buy. Do I need to still be browbeaten about eating a steak?
Ask HN: Do you test your cognition?
It occurred to me that I may not be able to detect declining cognition over time due to age, or an incipient illness, or other general health factors. Does anyone periodically test their cognition using some standardised method, assessing working memory, verbal fluidity etc?

(I'm not talking about IQ obviously.)
Well, the main, searchable map is one click away ("Explore the Map"). But yeah, that map on the landing page that only shows where the regions are, we could simply hide that on mobile. We are really de-emphasizing the regions in exchange for the single map where you can search anywhere. I don't like the search experience on that single map, though. But it'll take some work to redo it. I want it to be more like the app search experience.

If an operator is tagged at a location, and that operator has granted us permission to notify them, then they get a daily email of any comments left on their machines. Roughly half of them take advantage of this (147 out of 299). We should probably remind operators of this feature more often, given that it's now buried in a 6 year old blog post.

My daughter's birthday is on the same weekend as INDISC! I used to like going to that tourney.
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OP and myself were discussing Kaiser as a health care plan. The ranking you showed was about hospitals not health care plans; a health care plan and a hospital are two completely different things. I also never said Kaiser was the absolute best in every area (I even mentioned their mental heath is very weak), just that their model is solid.

Here's an actual comparison of health care plans:

[1] https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/ncqa-insurer-rankings...

[2] http://healthinsuranceratings.ncqa.org/2019/HprPlandetails.a...

[3] http://healthinsuranceratings.ncqa.org/2019/HprPlandetails.a...

[4] http://reportcard.opa.ca.gov/rc/HMO_PPOCombined.aspx

And here's some research showing Kaiser's outcomes quality:
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26131607

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29625083

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30002140

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270203/

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC64512/

> It’s certainly true that primary care visits improve health outcomes, but you offer no evidence that people get more primary care at Kaiser.
Again, I worked with claims data where we could analyze primary care utilization and kaiser was significantly higher than most PPOs in our systems (and high in general). We specifically built an email targeting patients who did not visit their primary care doctor in the last year and Kaiser was at the bottom of numbers because of the high usage. There is definitely a lot more research you can find studying Kaiser's integrated approach and how it related to primary care usage. Kaiser is pretty good good at preventative care, primary care usage, and some chronic care management.

> When you need a brain surgery or cancer treatment, you’re definitely going to “feel better” having “choice and freedom” to go to the best.
Again, I've outlined research showing outcomes and quality metrics showing Kaiser is pretty solid. Their primary care usage is higher than other health plans, and there are quality metrics and research showing they are pretty good at preventative, primary care, and chronic care management. There are definitely gaps, but from a population level outcomes, they perform at or better than many PPOs given their costs. If you take a step further and look at the economic ROI of their plans, they definitely outclass most PPO and HMOs.

It's not like they have that much secret sauce, the main advantages they have are the same ones a nationalized system has (being integrated aligns incentives better).
Yeah, I agree with you. There's a big difference between impossible and beyond to my palette, the former being way more convincing. I have a feeling these are only going to improve. We've come such a long way from what constituted a "veggie burger" in the early 1990's.
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Very unlikely. They'd be the first to ship customer PC parts with AV1 decode support. But the next generation almost certainly will. Same goes for other vendors, for Nvidia post-Ampere, for Intel post-Icelake/Tigerlake/whatever the next is nowadays, etc.

Otherwise, there are AV1 decode IPs available, including a SoC or two. Plus some very recently announced set-top boxes and TVs. So you'll definitely be seeing some hardware with AV1 support shipping this year.
It should be noted that among cosmologists, electric universe is widely considered to be bunk science.
It was some smaller company, one that I had never heard about until they picked up Gmane. The name is probably somewhere in the gmane mailing list archives (available via nntp) but if Lars doesn't want to name them, I think it would be polite not to publish it here.
* Radeon VII GPU is 14.2 TFlops for $600 right now.

* NVidia RTX 2070 Super is 9 TFlops for $500

True, Radeon VII and RTX 2070 are "consumer" GPUs... but Threadripper is similarly a "consumer" CPU and commands a lower price as a result.

"Enterprise" products cost more. EPYC costs more than Threadripper, V100 costs more than RTX 2070 Super. If you're aiming at maximum performance at minimum price, you use consumer hardware.
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> Good use of manager time is to figure out what those people do differently and then have them teach their ways to the others.

What if the greats do that, and the others just don't care enough to learn, like this is a blue collar job with white collar pay to them?

They could be greater than they are; they think they're great already, but they're nowhere near the true greats on the team.

You can't make them care and you can't make them want to be great.
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Shame on the New York Times for such a bs title.

They care that he closed the store not that he took the day off.

"Man loses franchising rights after violating core aspect of the franchise brand" doesn't have the same ring to it I guess.
The following is a genuine question (not a flippant remark):

Is there any way to have those concepts be portable across ISAs/architectures. I don’t think those types of ops are exposed in LLVM-IR or GCC’s various intermediate levels (but could be wrong). I’d love to be able to investigate a language that enables a level of hardware access possible in a portable manner.
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> Which nicely explains the rising popularity of Hackintosh's, particularly among developers and other technologists.

Can you provide a citation for this? Having worked with literally thousands of engineers, I have never seen a hackintosh in real life.
If you like the flavor and texture of beef you would want it to be like beef - replied to the wrong comment?
FYI, CCN stands for CryptoCoinsNews.
Well, exciting can mean different things. I have a job where I never know what I'll be doing at 2PM when I walk in at 8AM.

AND, I am not a sucker.
Go channels have a fixed capacity, by default zero, and their main special feature (compared to just having some concurrent_queue<T> type) is the select statement, which helps devs do things the right way. Nothing stops you from stupidly locking the system, e.g. by having a thread block itself by writing to the channel it’s responsible for consuming.
A lot of people aren't fond of how much functionally is tied to Google Play Services, which is not open source
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I'm curious what will happen when we will be able to grow "just" meat (like organs), without cows/pigs/chicken (I believe that we will be able to achieve this). Will the people who refuse to eat meat now due to ethical concerns, still refuse to eat it.
In reality not fully open source:

> Android's source code does not contain the device drivers, often proprietary, that are needed for certain hardware components. As a result, most Android devices, including Google's own, ship with a combination of free and open source and proprietary software, with the software required for accessing Google services falling into the latter category.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#AOS...
The MBP isn’t even a very good example of Apple price gouging. Any other laptop that your can get for less money is likely to have rather significant trade-offs.
I wonder how this would be if it was backed by Elasticsearch.
It is hard to overstate how important the resolution of this question is to physics, and in particular to theoretical physics. The “cosmological constant problem”, that is the problem explaining the cosmological acceleration (if it exists), is arguably the most important and hardest question in high energy theoretical physics. Many theoreticians have spent significant effort studying this question, working under the assumption that the empirical evidence is solid. If this is not the case, it changes the landscape of cutting edge physics research.

There are several reasons why explaining the observed acceleration is so hard. The cosmological constant (the measure of how much dark energy there is) is a tiny positive number which seems to require a lot of “fine tuning” to explain theoretically. We can easily include it in general relativity, but our best understanding of quantum physics says that if it is there then it should be much larger. This means there probably is something we don’t understand about its microscopic origins. If we try to build a microscopic model that has this small constant using string theory (our best guest at a complete theory), we find that such models are hard to create. In fact, it is not clear that any model that includes dark energy is even valid in string theory! Any way we look at it, it seems more difficult to explain this number if it is tiny and positive than if it is strictly zero (no acceleration).

Finally, theoreticians don’t have much to go on when explaining this phenomenon besides this one single number — there aren’t closely related experiments we can combine to come up with a coherent picture of what’s happening. Combine this with particle physics, where accelerators provide us with an abundance of data. It is a single tiny number that has puzzled theoreticians for decades.
Same as always? Win10's license isn't restricted by cores, that's usually the domain of their server OS's and software.
OP asked why I am interested in Impossible Meats. I answered why I did it personally. What does that have to do with you? Eat whatever you want.
I believe you need the windows 10 “pro for workstations” edition

Edit: according to this, the normal windows 10 pro edition would suffice. I feel like I’ve read conflicting things though, so take it with a grain of salt: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
Honest question: do people who need 64 cores use Windows? I assumed these types of workstations and workloads are 99% Linux based.

IIRC windows's scheduler wasn't as good as linux's at managing these kind of paralel workloads.
Logically, that doesn't follow. Here, let me explain the joke: You claim that conservatives have healthy skepticism and yet my observation is that the conservative television news outlet continuously streams nonsense and yet seems to be doing quite well. These circumstances are a retort to your assertion.

Conversely, what? Nobody asserted that liberals possessed a healthy skepticism or that liberal news outlets don't also continuously stream nonsense.

If you'd like me to make some assertions, I'd happily do so, but if you're looking for a partisan viewpoint to attempt to deconstruct, you'll not find one here.
The thing that boggles my mind is what people casually put in their pockets.
It doesn't even matter what the SNR is. EEG is an extremely low bandwidth signal that measures average activity of BILLIONS of neurons. It's not possible to do anything significant with it. These guys are just capitalizing on hype and they will be able to build some toy demos, but never anything really useful.
In 2001, the fastest supercomputer in the world was ASCI White. It cost $110M, weighed 106 tons, consumed 3MW of power (plus 3MW for cooling), and had a peak speed of 12.3 TFLOPS.

Right now, sitting under my desk is a RTX 2080 Ti GPU which cost around $1000, weighs 3 pounds, draws a maximum of 250 watts, and has a peak speed of 13.4 TFLOPS [1].

We truly live in amazing times.

[1] Not quite a fair comparison: the GPU is using 32-bit floating-point, while ASCI White used 64-bit. But for many applications, the precision difference doesn't matter.
Older versions are possible. if an impossible upgrade is released, all prior versions become inevitable
The market price is the equilibrium of both supply and demand.

What you're saying is the fact people are buying their machines means they shouldn't change price or value proposition... because there are in fact purchases; which, is quite frankly, baffling, to me, a humble idiot.

Mercedes must think their EQC is positioned perfectly in the market with 55 sales? I now imagine Magic Leap will be leaping to raise prices with their next version?