skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neural networks are largely operating on 32 or 64 bit floating point numbers. Many millions of them. If you think how this works at the hardware level there are many little cores in a GPU for operating on matrices of these numbers. To feed a 32 bit float into one of these, it requires 32 wires - deep in the silicon.

Also note that neural networks are inherently noisy. We often insert a bit of noise into various parts of the computation graph.

In analog circuity only a single wire (or maybe two if you’re using a differential pair) would be needed to represent a noisy float.

If we had some sort of IC that could dynamically configure large analog computations, it may allow NN compute-graph computations to be improved by orders of magnitude. 1 wire instead of 32. Real noise instead of artificial.

Have people ever tried to something like an analog FPGA?
Of course it is. Stealing is taking what is not given. People can play with words and logic all day but that's it. If you take something that was not given to you it's stealing. In case of torrents, the owner of the media obviously didn't sell it nor gave it.
Show HN: Explore Deep Learning Models
Patches for Renoir based APU's appeared in kernel 5.4[0]. Looks like by the time these launch they will have out of the box Linux support which is huge compared to how Raven Ridge launched.

[0]:https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Reno...
Cardiovasc Disease-Linked Gut Microbial Metabolite Acts via Adrenergic Receptors
I've tried many times to purchase/stream films online, cash in hand, only to be denied because of various BS reasons. This is all that needs to be said about the industry and piracy.
Has anyone gone through any of these? Any standouts?
Cockpit – Web-based interface for Linux servers
> The media industry collectively thinks what they make is worth the collective cost of all their streaming services (probably hundreds of dollars a month).

Sure, they're entitled to think whatever they want. The reality is that the marginal cost of making a digital copy is near zero. Their work is widely available for free to anyone who cares to look for it. And it is extremely unlikely that the average person would ever experience any negative consequences for getting it for free.

You can think that's right or wrong or try to shame people all you want, but those are simple facts. Another fact is that for a large portion of the world, the content is not available legally even if you want to pay.

So, the content industry can learn to accept those facts and make a good service that makes some money. (Still many billions of dollars) or they can keep operating under the delusion that people should pay even more billions of dollars and get less.
This isn’t a ventilator.
Droplet infection is only really a problem within a couple of metres - SARS-CoV-2 does not seem to be aerosol spread.
That strategy might work if

1) Risk groups like elderly and sick can be effective protected while the disease spreads among others.

2) The disease provides long lasting immunity, there are no mutations.

I think the #1 is really big if. When the disease spreads, it's in door knobs and corner shops and everywhere were elderly and sick still have to visit.

Different countries are taking different strategies and citizens can compare results. Dutch politicians in the government should that they are taking huge personal political risk if the strategy fails.
Flixi – Your TV and Movie Assistant – Flixi
The best source I know of for statistics like this is the Federal Reserve's most recent "Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households" [1].
It's a survey of about 10,000 people and, as far as I can tell, is the source for many claims like "40% of American adults cannot meet an unexpected $400 expense", which has been consistently true for several years, although it used to be more like 50% in 2013. Note that “cannot meet” here means anything other than “would pay the expense in full before next month”.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2018-repor...
Looks like they’re paying for bandwidth, aka “cloud pricing.” They could probably reduce those numbers significantly, but if it’s funded by a grant why bother?
I looked on Github, Reddit, and their website. Nothing. :/
Honestly, so what? Most will not and those that do will have less car stereos to steal to get their fix.

The real problem is that some people just can't get over the fact that some other people are just going to use drugs no matter what, so we might as well reduce the total harm involved for society.
Also check out electronupdate on YouTube. He does lots of decapping of ICs just for the die shots. https://www.youtube.com/user/electronupdate
Watch multiple video news channels at once
Not at all. NZ is even less urbanised than Australia. The long-distance transit cables between cities in Australia all mostly already existed before the NBN even started.

You could cover more than 80% of our population just cabling up (literally) about half a dozen reasonably dense cities.

The actual reason is political. One side of politics privatised the state owned monopoly telco, creating a single huge, anti-competitive behemoth. That made progress with the internet stagnate for a decade. Then the other side got in, tried to work with the telco but they wouldn’t budge, and then surprised everybody by deciding to just build a provider-neutral network that was FTTP to 90-93% of the population. This was going fine - a few months behind schedule but on budget (projected at AU$44.1bn) after a few years.

But the opposition managed to convince a bunch of people in the media that it was hugely over-budget (despite the fact it wasn’t, and that all their financials were on the public record) and that a sensible solution was to stop that, and instead buy the old copper networks off the incumbent provider and spend a few billion to do a bit of an upgrade. They were “absolutely confident 25 megs is enough for anyone” and said this would cost max $29bn. They won Government, turned the network on its head and it’s just been one problem after another with huge widespread service quality issues, massive cost overruns, delays etc.

So now the cost of their “more sensible, cheaper, and quicker to build” network is nearing $60bn and finishing two years later than the original FTTP schedule (before they won Government, the party that wrecked the project promised to have it done by the end of 2016!)

So it’s just a big mess. Nobody really knows why they chose to do what they did when pretty much all the experts said to just continue with FTTP (they paid some consultants with links to their party to say their idea was great to get around that). Some say it was business links between party members and the incumbent telco, or the cable TV network they own half of. Others say it was because they had a deal with Murdoch (the leader of the opposition actually happened to have lunch with him the day before they announced their policy) because he owns the other half of the cable TV network. Perhaps it was just because they couldn’t accept that it was a good idea the way it was...
> You have to understand that the technology underlying Skype at the time was very brittle and poorly designed.
> When Microsoft acquired it Skype was routing its traffic over port 80 for example.

__I have to understand__ ?

Who is saying this? do you have any credentials / knowledge of Skype technology? My understanding is that you only report indirect discussion from "your friends who worked on it"?

Having been there, I would say quite the opposite.

Skype had pretty intricate means to bypass NAT to NAT clients. I would even go as far as saying that Skype P2P connectivity tricks were top notch, considering the incredible amount of different network setups that clients could face. Even in the weirdest conditions, you could trust your Skype client to somehow find a way to get the call through. This was through an immense collection of in-house-trial-and-error-STUN-hole-punching like techniques.

Now I can understand that for people outside of the peer to peer connectivity world, these techniques could seem completely foreign and brittle, but it's not. It's the world of internet clients we live in. It's not related to Skype, it's the route all peer to peer clients have to deal with. If you don't want that, don't go peer to peer.

> Google almost bought Skype before Microsoft did and backed out after they got a look at the code.

Where did you get that information? I had never heard of that interpretation of the story before.

My view on this is that Google considered buying Skype, but backed up because they wanted to have a cloud based service, instead of a p2p one. Microsoft was in the same state of mind, but decided to go along and migrate Skype to be a cloud service, which they did.

Now if you really want to discuss technical details and the state of Microsoft/Azure at that time, I would be pleased to do so.

Microsoft started the migration of Skype to the cloud at a time Azure was just a big beta test. Nothing was working properly, the tools were sub-par or in-existent. Nothing was reliable. You would deploy Azure services through remote desktop automated by PowerShell scripts. Managing databases was done through in-browser silverlight clients - yes, that was already EOL at the time, but that was the only way to perform DB queries with a UI.

When complaining about the deplorable half-baked status of the tooling and cloud services that we were required to use to migrate Skype, the only response was "Yeahhh, Eat your own dog food".

Thanks but no thanks.

All the great Skype engineers left in the two years after the start of the migration to Azure - mostly to join Twilio.
> In addition to that, they are going to be highly variable depending on the demographics, pre-existing conditions, and the level of medical care you are able to get.

Which is a big concern to the US, since there is no universal care. That said, I'm in Canada and the healthcare options in rural areas is often hit or miss -- sometimes just a clinic, sometimes just nothin.
Bird pauses operations in Europe due to coronavirus. (DE)
Most likely the most legitimate reason is archiving. Streaming services often offer very poor quality for even 3 year old shows that make them look like they are from 10 years ago. Meanwhile shows from the 80s look much better as long as they are torrented.
I recently came across this project when looking for a simple web interface for a Raspberry Pi (running Ubuntu). I see that it was discussed here before [1], but thought it was worthy of another share.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16445612
IBM Outages
To me, this sounds like it's outside your organization's area of expertise. That suggests an outsource and markup approach to the service: find an org specializing curriculum development and delivery, get a quote, add overhead and profit and put it in a proposal to the client.

It will be easier to find a good organization than to build a new team because the best people already have jobs that pay good rates and specialized orgs know how to recognize and attract productive talent in the specialty.

Owning problems outside your core mission is a bad idea. Marking up high priced consultants is usually more profitable. Good luck.
The movie industry doesn't lobby because "their product is so good people are stealing it". They lobby because they can, as do other industries no one wants anything to do with.

My country passed laws to have a minimum percentage of national movies showing in theatres at any time. Lobbying has nothing to do with demand.
Once all this is over (COVID) it'll be quite a relief to get back to the usual 500,000 deaths per year from influenza (according to WHO) which doesn't seem to elicit much interest normally.
A country like Colombia could implement a lockdown and stop transmission entirely. The virus would naturally die out there in a few weeks. All foreign travel would have to be quarantined but life could go on after that internally without disruption. Eventually vaccination could bring herd immunity.
Bootstrap carousels (responsive, custom, with multiple items, with thumbnails)
After only a few weeks of self-quarantine (which is nothing as I can still have most of my regular freedoms, going outside etc) its insane to think of what Julian has been put through.

It's getting to the point where even a mass murder has probably suffered less than this guy has and really, for hosting documents provided by whistle-blowers ?
Marketing Events in the Time of Coronavirus
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they prefer to leave the building empty in anticipation of a higher priced long-term lease in the future. if you're already renting space to a profitable business that was stable before the crisis, the incentives are probably to work out an arrangement with the business that helps it not go under. now if you're already unsatisfied with the current tenant, you might see now as a good opportunity to kick them out and wait for someone willing to pay a higher price.
America’s Restaurants Will Need a Miracle
That's a really good idea, I'll add it to the roadmap. If you have any suggestions for specific templates, please send them over to me (my email's on my profile).
Can’t get your head around how big coronavirus is? Look at flight data
I agree 100% with your world view but downvoted you due to the unnecessary hostility. That kind of rhetoric is not debate or discussion, it is ring-fighting theatrics to get the crowd cheering for you.
> competitions for languages, especially to develop particular solutions in a language, happen all the time.

Perhaps, but they aren't well-advertised. It's difficult to find these competitions even using Google search. Where are they???

I'd like to know what programming competitions exist for Clojure, Dart, Elixir, Haskell, Julia, Lua, Nim, and Rust. Can you point to any? Thanks.
fvwm is like the pinnacle for obsessive configuration. I spent a couple hours over a weekend setting it up and thought it was really neat. The man pages and official website are very thorough, but I found this guide the most helpful getting started:

https://zensites.net/fvwm/guide/
Well, in couple of rooms, studios and a church. Thanks for introducing me to the album, some awesome music.
We can systematically simulate integrated circuit systems and implement "software design/development automation" like Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
It is an innovative and revolutionary approach to develop large-scale software.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
Dutch "coffee shops" have closed.
I urge makers and more professionalized 3D printers to familiarize themselves with FDA guidelines[1] on 3D printing and internalize their thinking. No doubt this will slow you down, but you have time right now to prepare before the shortages begin. This will make things safer for patients, give confidence to medical professionals that you have your head in the right place, and likely demonstrate good faith in the event that the FDA comes after you (after the COVID-19 crisis ends).

I recommend reading "Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Medical Devices". Then start discussions in your professional societies to make contact with the FDA as a group and start to develop guidance targeted for the COVID-19 emergency.

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/products-and-medical-pro...
I’m with you on this, but then it should be executives and shareholders required to fully support unemployment for the workers affected by the company failing due to financial mismanagement.

Instead we see executives get out with huge severance or even just accumulated wealth, and stick taxpayers with unemployment bills.
Blender is the sole exception, but the very vast majority of the CG industry used closed source counterparts because Blender still does not compete with Maya and Houdini, especially the latter. Blender had recently made some massive improvements and that is definitely starting to change, but this is happening alongside CG artists starting to write scripts more and more, slowly becoming developers themselves.

And realize Blender hails from the Netherlands, which maintains a uniquely socially favorable version of capitalism. Projects like Blender would surely have a much harder time being pursued anywhere else.
It could be great!
Flight Tracking Statistics
Open Source Python Game Agent Framework
I wasn't linking that blog because of anything it has to say about veganism and that picture, but rather because it's proof the picture is from hurricane Harvey.
The marginal cost of a digital copy of a piece of software is almost 0$

The negative consequences of just stealing it are pretty low

Unfortunately so much software has become a thin client for a fat backend, so it’s a little harder, but all said are definitely industries that pay 10,000$ a seat for software that was mostly written 20 years ago and is patched to keep it hobbling along

They’re not really going to besides waging larger and larger wars on copyright and forcing DRM

The thing is, I don’t really “shame” anyone, but I understand when “normal people” steal movies and shows

When technologists do it, it’s the biggest WTF for me.
Blender is also used by a lot of gamedev.
They actually didn’t. German rocket scientists were smart people and they surrendered to US to avoid horror of dealing with NKVD.

That said, there are reasons why USSR was first in space. For example, USSR deliberately ignored human life cost. In particular, they seriously considered first human flight to be a failure, so they announced it publicly only after Gagarin landed successfully.
why wouldn't you just price discriminate through short-term concessions to fill the remaining 20% and increase revenue? this seems to be what most apartment buildings around me actually do.
I mean, with the dawn of webassembly, I feel as though things are going to get closed off more and more.
We've had this with flash and java applets too.
Ultimately I hope an open internet will prevail.
Otherwise we will not be able to archive things effectively. Don't get me started on accessibility also.

While I'll happily jump on the let's-bash-google-train, is there any effort to do the same thing in a non-scoped way?

I feel a set of 'web-components' would in fact be a super useful thing to have for everyone. Why does it have to be google-chrome / whatever-specific and locked down?
As an Australian I am ashamed that our government has left Assange out to dry. His actions and cause aside, letting one of your citizens effectively be tortured [0] is unacceptable.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/31/julian-assange...
Isn't a serverless ebook just an ebook?
Not if you're only running tests on people ending up in ICU and not mild cases.
> Recent versions of Perl

Make sure it's recent enough and released after 2002!
The bubonic plague killed 50% of infected and the septicemic plague killed 100%.

This one is trending towards 0.6%-0.1% so you can see why the response may not be the same given the 3 orders of magnitude lower estimated fatality rate. Yeah it’s serious but don’t kid yourself, it’s not the plague.

For instance I don’t think the UK would be contemplating just giving it to everyone young enough if it were to kill half to all of them. I don’t recall Thanos getting elected prime minister.
A notable thing for me as a very light amateur user, was that Blender (up until the recent 2.80) felt very foreign when compared to professional tools. It is an incredible accomplishment, but it had a notable learning curve, even if you had experience with other commercial 3d graphics software.
4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
Not clear what I sank to. Was yammering too far? What guideline are you directing me to? I feel that calling out this repugnant behavior is more that acceptable.
So fix your employment, minimum wage, etc. laws, too. UBI is a huge undertaking in terms of legal and social changes, we shouldn't consider it "either this change or no change".
Installing PyTorch on a Raspberry Pi-3B+ (2020 update)
I think this is actually what makes Handshake so unique compared to every other blockchain project. Rather than attempting to unrealistically decentralize everything, it’s a drop in replacement for a centralized point within the dns system - the DNS root.

Everything else will completely work the same, but giving ownership of the dns root, and moreover, the global namespace, to the people is a huge step forward and what we were always trying to achieve with ICANN but, unfortunately, could not. Additionally, the blockchain in this circumstance also makes the legacy CA system extremely outdated — no more need to trust CAs to do the right thing [1]... the blockchain is immutable.

As for this DNS and web service, since many services currently don’t support TLD level hosting (only subdomains like something.com), I put this together to ease adoption until services “upgrade” to allow TLDs! It also serves to show how names in the handshake era can authenticate without accounts which I think is simply really cool without a better way to describe it. It opens up the door for new kinds of services where people bring their own name and identity with them which I think, for HN, this has been something the whole community has been waiting for.

[1] https://www.tcdi.com/the-threat-of-rogue-certificate-authori... (many more examples can be found with a web search)
You make the assumption that we have a work and merit based society at all. I don't agree with that, but for the sake of argument, let's run with it.

Even if you have a work and merit based society, you still have to provide the necessities of life to those that are unable to provide for themselves; the sick, the elderly, the unable. This includes those that do not have any abilities your society values. If you have a society that makes good use of it's people and is able to provide everyone with a position of merit, you're fine.

But as soon as you have mass of people that are not able to work and provide merit, you've got a problem. Because you have to somehow stop them from taking what they need anyway. You can do that with police and the military, but in the long run this is not stable.

Given that I don't think that we have a work and merit based society, my conclusion is that we have even more of a responsibility towards those left behind.
click date / time saying "x days ago". click favorite.
I really wonder if he knew what he was getting into when he went down this path.
Those deaths cannot be treated effectively by the healthcare system (even under best-case conditions), and cannot be contained either because the flu is seasonal, mutates rapidly and has lots of established reservoirs. COVID-19 is very different and we can do a lot better.
Would 'approved' ventilators use multiple MCUs/FPGAs/.. and a 'voting' system so that if there are issues with one, others take over?
What effect is this going to have on torrent swarms? It seems to me that if everyone downloaded blocks in order it would defeat the purpose of bittorrent and mean the beginning would be seeded much better than the end.
imagine how many employees would be needed to support curb-side pickup at walmart at anything like the stores current throughput. judging by the number of people I see pushing two full carts through the checkout line, you might even need more than one employee for each simultaneous pickup transaction.
Have you complained to your elected official?
While I agree I think Ubi would help regardless.
And 2 months is optimistic.
To play devil's advocate, note that Google is trying to propose something to make the shadow root contents deserializable without relying on JavaScript [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/mfreed7/declarative-shadow-dom/blob/maste...

[2] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...