skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory someone in a country where their currency value is dropping goes and buys some cryptocurrency and stabilizes the value they own.

But crypto currency isn't some stable value right? Wouldn't the result be that that person who is already in a bad situation now has put their eggs in a sort of cryptocurrency speculation market?

Let alone all the security / liquidity questions.

Is that something vulnerable folks really need / should do?
i believe that the browsers fuzz your timings now which is what spectre heavily relied on. i think people thinking JS+Spectre in the wild are misled especially since 99% of people run with mitigations enabled, why would someone try to exploit it on a browser
That's only true if you limit this to conscious thought. Lots of organisms perform impressively complex calculations. The desert ant odometer is one classic example:

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/210/2/198
> The bottom-line is that no for-profit corp can be trusted with your health.

You've reached this so-called "bottom line" very quickly without providing actual evidence to support your statement.
I agree with you, but at the same time, that is worth looking into because we are already changing the ecosystem fundamentally. We shouldn't just haphazardly try to geoengineer our planet, but geoengineering out planet is pretty much a necessity unless over half of us die and the rest turn into mostly pre-industrial methods of livings.
There are other reasons, inside government, to maintain privileged information, e.g. 'legitimate secrets' and of course to protect precedent. You don't want to burn down those principles for just anything.
Noobie developers can install packages globally. Apt install python3-pygame would get the base, then use Geany as an ide connected to game.py.

Some terminal use will be needed, but it shouldn't amount to more than running "python3 game.py".
For my bachelors thesis I built a tool for playing around with and teaching KV diagrams [1]

[1]: https://thesis.laszlokorte.de/demo/kvd-editor.html
Exactly. I wonder how feasible it would be to repurpose oil pipelines and send desalinated water back inland.
>A future Constitution will explicitly support the right to be medicated/vaccinated if one wishes to be, while conversely supporting the right NOT to be medicated/vaccinated, if one does not.

No it won't because the Constitution is not, nor should it ever be, a suicide pact.
Only possible if you don't do anything novel. If you are building a website that's got all the same patterns as the previous 5 websites you've built, then you can provide a solid estimate and deliver on time.

If you're building something that nobody has ever made before, you've got unknown unknowns, and your best bet is intuition, which is inevitably going to miss the mark a bit.
that's interesting. i didn't realize numba did that sort of thing (i thought it was just a jit). i'll take a look. thanks!
Raise your monitor high enough that you have to sit upright and hold your head up to look straight at it.
> every sane sql client library supports some form of prepared statements out of the box

this is true

> they are really simple to use

this is not. The amount of boilerplate I've written to properly parameterize a common pattern like

SELECT * FROM FOO WHERE
FOO.SomeKey IN (/* user-provided list of chosen values goes here */)

is grotesque.
somebody likes Tailwind.
Isn't this just natural? That companies start off with the best opportunities and as they scale up they go after more and more marginal opportunities.
For what it's worth, I'm 34 and had to get the MMR vaccine again last year because blood titers showed that I was no longer producing meaningful antibodies for rubella. Given that the average person has been vaccinated against over a dozen diseases, odds are good that at least one of them has worn off and needs to be re-upped by now.

So that's another reason the herd immunity is so important: If enough people opt out of just getting a simple shot, then now everyone else has to go through the much larger burden of periodic retesting and re-vaccining for them to be safe.
That link should probably have been https://juliacomputing.com/industries/gpus.html, but that's rather old content. A better overview is https://juliagpu.org/, and you can find a demo of Julia's CUDA kernel programming capabilities here: https://juliagpu.gitlab.io/CUDA.jl/tutorials/introduction/
There's something very wrong in your message, practically the same bias as the vaccine "denialists".

First you establish your order of trust as:

1. Government

2. For-profit-corporations

Then you acknowledge that your actual practisting order of trust is:

1. Your gut (why is "the entire schedule frankly insane"?)

2. European Governments

3. Your American Government

The later ranking is not justified at all by your early statements.

If you trust governments better than corporations as a matter of choice, fine. It may actually be a sensible choice in this bullshit world. If you trust your gut more than governments fine, it may also be a sensible choice, even.

However, be consistent, and realize your biases.
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Mathematics is the best field for this because a list of unsolved problems is kept, and many of them are relatively easy to explain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_m...

Chemistry/materials science: room-temperature superconductivity is probably the big one. There are a whole host of problems in the energy space which would benefit from improvement; while "electricity+CO2+water => fuel" is feasible at the moment it's uneconomic. Can it be done at close to the theoretical minimum energy input in a plant that's scalable and cheap to build?

IC design: is continually solving previously unsolved problems like EUV lithography, but has struggled for years with trying to go "3D" to overcome density issues. Also, is photonic computing feasible and would it achieve lower energy usage?
> Intuitionist mathematics claims that mathematics is purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of fundamental principles existing in an objective reality. [0]

The "mental activity" part isn't strictly necessary. A constructive mathematics will produce results that are largely the same. What matters most is that mathematical objects are proven by construction, and so proofs have a direct translation to computation.
That is just absolutely not true. Hence it is an unsupportable claim. At least for the US, the CDC tracks every known case, and it is the unvaccinated that get the measles: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
This happens with splinter groups within record collector circles. I've seen LP collectors say "I would never go to the Allentown show, it's strictly 45s" and the 45 guys pick up a Public Enemy LP and you can kind of see on their face they're thinking "this is cool, but I would never buy it"
I figured out that I've implemented a real-time wavelet transform while I was doing this... :) I tried and couldn't find any good apps that would use it to display real-time analysis of sound, so I made one. Actually, I was working on the AI to generate music, but I haven't got to the AI bit yet, and decided to release this quickly, just for fun, see what people think. I think much better visualisations can be made from the output of this algo...
Yes and no. As a sibling pointed out, for some viruses it’s your own immune system that kills you.

Also being athletic doesn’t really confer a magic boost to your immune system that overcomes age. It’s better than being obese and out of shape, but it isn’t going to magically restore your immune system to that of a 20 year old.

Also, having seen videos of Bolsonaro doing “push-ups”, I’d say that formerly athletic is closer to the mark.
Think of it this way: Anyone can invent a new song, and no matter how derivative or lacking in artistic merit, they can still claim to have composed a new piece of music.(La-la-la-laaa. There, I just did it! Short but sweet.)

But you cannot just "invent" a new proof to the Pythagorean theorem. Any proof that a^2 + b^2 = c^2 will have to clear the hurdle of being demonstrably "true."
>Let's say... you want... 1%... then 5%, then 25%

Honestly though, it feels like the argument you are making here is that it's impossible in general to incrementally roll out database changes? Sure, it's definitely not as simple or easy as spinning up new cloud application instances and diverting http requests, but it's not impossible or infeasible by any means. The problem with databases is that the best solutions are always so subjective and context specific. It's very hard to write out simple, easy-to-understand, "rules," or "concepts," or whatever. Every answer, to every hard problem, is "it depends."

What are we rolling out here? Does the sproc write data or read data? Both? From the same table/schema/server/etc? Does it move data around? How much data? Do you already have read-replicas? How is data replicated to those? Do you have any parallel-write setups with eventual consistency? What parts of the higher level application/platform utilize this part of the database that we want to change? Can we spin up a new DB instance, with the new sproc, and establish data replication/change resolution with the legacy system as we are rolling out the change? Should we move everything to the new system and set up the compat piece as a _forward_ compat on the legacy side instead? etc, etc, etc.

>But actually pausing execution and inspecting data? Good luck.

There are plenty of ways to do this. Copy-paste the code of the proc into your DB IDE of choice, and execute it line by line. If the proc is using temp tables or @variables or anything else you should be easily able to instantiate those locally too and see what the values look like. Use a transaction and rollback and you can run this stuff over and over on prod if you really want to be sure of what it does. As long as you aren't locking stuff in the DB improperly.

There's also the idea of writing sprocs in a more testable/verifiable way. Maybe you have progress tracking tables with status id columns and timestamps. Maybe you split up a long sproc into phases which each write their outputs into "intermediate tables" in some sort of "processing" schema. Maybe you write things to files somewhere to be consumed by some federated monitoring system. Idk, I could think of random ideas all day here. A lot of them probably sound dumb at face value, but I really don't think any of these goals sound infeasible.
What do you mean by single trigger?

If you have been working on it for sometime, my understanding is that some portion, usually related to total vesting period minus how long you've been working on it, is vested up front. So if you've been working 2 years, then half of you stake Vesta immediately and the other half takes 2 years
Credit modelling: How to predict if someone will pay us back or not (probably an unsolvable problem)
Contra what others are saying: it's obviously not a measured increase, but an estimate based on calculated volume of ice. Assuming the paper they're referring to is this one:

https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2020-89/

What's more, the "results" are entirely based on models rather than any empirical data.

Amusingly, another paper in the same journal published a few days earlier, uses models and empirical data to conclude that 2019 was a particularly weird year rather than any ominous thing:
https://www.the-cryosphere.net/14/1209/2020/

This sort of "science by press release" is entirely unhelpful. People have completely bonkers views as to what CO2 induced warming will do to things like sea level. To the point where people (with ph.d.s in hard sciences even) have expressed concern when I bought a house a kilometer from a coastline that is 200 feet above sea level.
So far no pure GPU 2D rendering exists. Skia moves some tasks to the GPU that and leaves others to the CPU. This is the worst of both worlds because you need as much memory as before but you have more bandwidth pressure on th PCIe bus and at the same time you are waking up two devices from sleep states instead of one which will consume more power. Then you have the additional problem of security domains on GPUs which complicates things even further. I have serious doubts that GPU based 2D rendering in a way that it is done today will help performance or reduce power consumption at all.

The key word here is "forward rendering". There exists no forward rendering primitives on GPUs besides triangles.
Can systematic compositionality be achieved by a connectionist approach?
Back in the late 00s I probably had about 5 installs on one £2.50/month shared host. Granted, not getting any substantial traffic (and more to test WP after my hacky self-built PHP CMS from before).

cPanel > Install on a lot of shared hosting accounts made it insanely easy.
I find that it varies by query, and often dry will give better results. Especially if I am looking for something more than a few weeks old, or off the beaten path.

Google will often replace or ignore words in my query and return garbage.
Yep, plus the fact that certain vaccines aren't effective in every single person but it is hard to know apriori who those people are.
I suspect what's best for an employer isn't necessarily the same as for an employee. Big employers want specialisation and obedience. That's fine while the demand is there but the narrower your specialisation the less the market needs to move to make you obsolete.
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It's not an OR, it's an AND.

StimulusReflex is built on top of Stimulus, which is designed to work arm-in-arm with Turbolinks. We think that the combination of Rails + Stimulus + Turbolinks + StimulusReflex + solid Russian doll caching is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
> That's just the issue - where is the evidence for delaying vaccination? Why are we just assuming that what's worked for decades is only now ineffective and suboptimal without data?

Even if they provide no evidence, name-calling is the worst way to achieve any goal other than to embolden the support from their supporters.
When someone finds a way to use a GPU to accelerate all the code in massive react webapps, that will be the day GPU's turn from a specialists-only device to mainstream...
I'd really like to see the ecosystem move to Vulkan and SPIR-V as well. It's great to see that I'm not the only one! I think Vulkan has a lot of great moment behind it, especially since you can see some game shops porting fairly old games to it right now. Ubisoft's Rainbow 6 Siege is one example.

Kind of bums me out Apple decided to double down on Metal and not just go with Vulkan directly, but MoltenVK is probably fine to deal with that. I would have really like to see all other platforms effectively unite behind a DirectX alternative finally.
The burden on proof is on the one making claims against the scientific consensus. If they don't (they never do, or it never holds up), quack is 100% the right word.
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Fair enough, but I think any definition of "digital computer" that includes IBM electro-mechanical punch card tabulators would surely also include the Enigma, Allied Bombe and Colossus, which makes at least three feasibly large applications of computing between the Holocaust and Manhattan Project.
AWS is just not a toolset optimized for Wordpress in a SMB/Startup/Hobbyist org. And organizations who do enterprisy stuff on AWS aren't optimized for IT practices that look sane to others.

You need this complexity in an enterprise environment because the web teams don't have access to databases, and the DBAs aren't allowed to manage databases outside of the data network, etc. That's why enterprise content management exists. Big companies and public sector value repeatability and seperation of duties over cash and time.
That's a complex question, again the long answer is no. Both MoltenVK and the gfx-hal portability work (from Mozilla) allow you to run Vulkan workloads on Metal, thanks in large part to spirv-cross. I also see ~WebGL~ WebGPU on the horizon, and Apple is a very active participant in that process. Code written today to run on Vulkan, using any language that compiles to SPIR-V, will be pretty easy to adapt to the WebGPU future.
That's a pretty clever idea, well done!
the purpose of combining so many vaccines in one dose or giving them all at the same time would help to make it harder to pinpoint problems. i am beginning to realize that conflation is a primary tool used to make it much harder to resolve issues. and the primary profit making scheme is to make as much money as possible before getting caught.
> is no different than forcing a woman to take an abortion if she doesn't want it, or forcing a woman NOT to take an abortion, if she does want it.

This is a false analogy. From a health perspective, abortions only impact the mother and unborn fetus (and the impact on the fetus is debatable depending on where you land about when a human is “alive”). Not vaccinating affects those around you and can lead to extreme suffering and loss of life. They most definitely are very different.
> Non-English Wikipedia articles before the English ones

It was only recently that I discovered that each language’s version of Wikipedia is independently edited, rather than being a translated reflection of a canonical source material; and, therefore, that inevitably there will be “better” or “worse” versions of a page (i.e. more/less content, more/less fact-checking, etc.) depending on the language.

This gulf sometimes turns out to be so large, that it’s sometimes more informative to read a foreign-language Wikipedia article through machine-translation, rather than reading the one in your own language!

(I recall, in the recent HN discussion that linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musth, people were pointing out that the German-language article carried a lot more information than the English-language article. That specific discrepancy has probably been since fixed up care of HN readers themselves, but it was eye-opening, especially since the English-language version of the article was phrased in decisive terms like “scientists don’t know X” where the German article instead says “X is caused by Y” citing enough [German-language] studies to thoroughly prove its point.)

I wonder if DDG has just caught onto this trend, and is prioritizing the language of the article that has the most editorial activity. (It would actually be more work to do the opposite, now that I think about it—in raw PageRank terms, there’s always going to be a most-linked-to language-version of a Wikipedia article, and doing nothing means that that version simply floats to the top. Google et al must be doing extra work to group the “same” articles of different language-versions together, assigning them the PageRank of the highest-ranked one in the grouping, while rendering out the link+summary as that of the group-member corresponding to your own language.)
Do you have more info about being killed by the SEC? I'm curious about this because I was looking forward to a Western Competitor to WeChat.
Also worth noting that many of those moves were because the original was found to be too easy, like in SQuAD's case, rather than being too noisy.
Easier to make a whole society paperless than fix the printers.
Not sure on the customer service one either. The same logic means calling privacy policies a problem because we legally have to follow privacy law?

Warranties are there for consumer protection. Most people know what they're there for. Even if some people didn't understand it, businesses that treat warranty as "something we legally have to do" probably don't consider the confusion about warranty a problem, because clarifying it would make more people exercise their warranty rights, and hence more costs for them.

Honestly, I don't see how any of the examples, except perhaps the software engineering one, are problems experienced by businesses that they wish to solve. Perhaps I'm greatly misunderstanding.

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Edit: I think the OP may mean businesses that wish to advertise their warranty protection better explaining to users what that "end date" means, and what the warranty offers them. Which I think can be done fairly easily: look at what Apple does to advertise their warranty protection, or the warranty stickers on every fridge/washing machine you've ever bought.

Although, Apple tries to upsell AppleCare rather than advertise their legally mandated "Apple Limited Warranty" and consumer law warranties.
> One of the key aspects of science is presenting data and methodology to support a claim - this enables reproducibility.

> If we don't have these pieces of information, we're essentially back in the realm of religion: believing statements without evidence.

You have, for whatever reason, grabbed a single sentence and addressed it as if it has no relation to other paragraphs.

Why?
I think you're right on the first half. For monolithic apps, it's expensive to run on AWS. Expensive vs. the DC depends on a lot of other factors so YMMV.

12F apps, microservices, etc. are much _cheaper_ to run on AWS because you don't have to worry about scaling/provisioning/and HA/DR capabilities are basically baked in. A lambda that processes 100,000 requests/day is, on average from the teams I've worked with, significantly cheaper to run than a machine in a DC that is always up.
Why wouldn't the AWS solution be easy to port? Everything is either compatible or based on an open source software or part of basic AWS infrastructure that you likely need elsewhere.
There is a really strong echo chamber effect among online communities that promotes blind trust in authority when it comes to some things (vaccines, gun control) while decrying authority in other cases (online privacy, facial recognition).

I think a cornerstone of curious discussion should actually be understanding, rather than villainizing, viewpoints that lead a person to a cognitively dissonant state, but that is not what I observe, even among very well educated people.

I think it's concerning to have thought leaders like Bill Gates spouting lines like "it won’t be normal until we get an amazing vaccine to the entire world."[1] Clearly high-risk sections of the population (health care workers, elderly, sick) should be prioritized, but to rush a vaccine across the entire population invites a lot of risks. For some groups, prioritizing drug treatment and improved healthcare practices might be better. Or perhaps not! -- but we should be able to have these discussions without being dismissed as insane conspiracy theorists.

We all have confirmation bias, (perhaps I'd feel differently if I had experienced a COVID-19 infection) but I see articles like this as a preemptive dismissal of opposing viewpoints, an invocation of blind trust that potentially leads us to a dark place, particularly when combined with new mass surveillance vectors like app-based contact tracing.

[1]: https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/bill-gates-says-that-thin...
Great talk! Any thoughts on Intel's oneAPI?
You don't think these kinds of plans exist somewhere already?
Yes, though the MoltenVK project provides a Vulkan->Metal translation layer.
As the other comment mentioned, this is still true if you want to support legacy graphics APIs. A non-negligible amount (~20%) of Android phones cannot execute compute pipelines as they only support OpenGL ES 3.0 - compute shaders were introduced in GLES 3.1.

While it is an headache if you want to support compute on legacy devices, I do think that writing regular vertex/fragment shaders for general purpose GPU computation is an underrated pleasure as you really need to break out the coding golf toolkit to squeeze out maximum performance.
Thank you Tom. Always appreciate an original WFMU link. The number of times they've had their content ripped off and repackaged..