skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about the NHWC layout they mentioned.

AFAIK CuDNN always had optimizations for NCHW and that was one of Tensorflow speed issue when they choose to default on NHWC, plus the related issues on writing transformation pipelines.

So what does NHWC enables that is new?

Relevant in-depth discussion including CuDNN team lead, Julien Demouth, and Scott Gray who implemented Winograd convolution for Nervana Neon (which interestingly was CHWN so batch last): https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/issues/93#issu...
Johnathan Haidt has some good talks on youtube about this sort of stuff. I think he mentioned Chicago University being one that is pushing for "truth" over "social justice".
How much space does nature need? 30 percent of the planet may not be enough
Can speak first hand that you are right!
After Nasdaq-listed Luckin fiasco, China set to pre-empt financial frauds
you totally captured the emotional response I had to these CD-ROM sets... I just wish I'd written it better, but that's just it there.

It was certainly cool to decode the raw stuff myself, although Iv'e been told so many times since I wrote that to either 'enjoy' the artistic version, or get some 'better' version of these things already transmogrified... But I wanted to do it myself!

It really did feel like I was accomplishing something when I got the first image to render, I guess it's the Ikea fallacy? Oh sure any idiot can click on a JPEG but can you follow well documented steps, and use a highly portable program to let you reproduce the same images?

Either way, I had fun doing it, although it feels like I did this a lot longer than a year ago...
Before the Next Pandemic, an Ambitious Push to Catalog Viruses in Wildlife
Lambda’s programs are 9+ months.
What movie is this?
> Is there a way to connect Guitar to a remote server.

Please, ask dev on issues tracker.[0]

[0] https://github.com/soramimi/Guitar/issues
Forth Lessons
This is great! Is it possible to download the whole collection?
Honest question, what exactly do people mean by fraud? How could someone exploit a payment page?
Has nothing to do with category theory. Not necessarily at least.

Also, there is a strong intuition to free theorems that many people without an FP background will easily understand.
Interesting question. If you have a prior distribution for the space of possible functions, you can find the input that minimizes the entropy of the posterior distribution (ie. makes it more like a delta and less like a uniform distribution)
Ask HN: Why is 4G not enough and what are the use cases of 5G?
Dunno about the parent, but for me it's like getting a big, fat, ugly truck to drive to the grocery store every week.
... null separator ...

I thought I proof-read that sentence when I wrote it...
Teaching Compilers
It is incredibly difficult to read posts like this in good faith. More and more people come here to tell us not to believe facts, to disregard what our eyes and ears tell us. It is not hard to connect the dots
Successful startups aren't like bottles floating at sea, being carried to success or failure by the waves and currents.

Sure, favourable macro trends help, but the ones that succeed do so because they best figure out how to adapt to changing conditions.

Lambda School has complete freedom to change everything they do to survive and thrive in the new environment.

Let's see what they do.
In embedded development C++ is often frowned upon because in the past people used C++ features that bloated the code.

Regarding features that may not be properly optimized, there are exceptions and move semantics I guess, but exceptions are often avoided like the plague anyway and code can be refactored to get the same effect as move semantics.

Am I missing something?
No, it says so in the article that it’s a predatory journal.
Mine is self-hosted:

https://padiracinnovation.org/News

It is hosted on a 5 years old laptop that is connected to the home LAN. The home modem (Orange Livebox) and the 24Mbits VDSL connection seems to bear the load nicely. So far (two years ) it has been rock solid, no accidental down time.

The software is a modified HTMLy CMS [0]. I added statistics about users, an app for people with ALS and a proof of concept of a tool to design peptide vaccines.

I also tried to refactor the software with one and only one clear purpose by file. While this is reminiscent of object programming, I didn't feel that the gain of rewriting the whole would worth the pain.

The PHP code is edited by hand with Gedit and the OS is Trisquel Linux.

[0] https://htmly.com (not maintained since years)
You do realize that the commenter does not hold those opinions, but gives them as examples of opinions other people voice? And then people started arguing with the content of the examples, which is a bit pointless when nobody even claims their content is true.
Why do you think? ;)
Google BigQuery Unwrapped
Summary much appreciated though.
This is especially laughable, since I have seen how that works on practice: take something everyone already does, write 1000 of PhDs on that, add to academic history book, now wikipedia and voila.

If any of IT projects came from academia to the market, it's only because certain people were picked up by businesses that were onto something already.
What's the outlook for your company over the next six months? If you're going to leave anyway and further layoffs are looming in the near term, might be worth sticking it out to get severance.

I was in a situation similar to yours some years ago. The writing was on the wall for the project, but I was so sick of the job and wanted to travel so I gave my notice and left. If I had just waited two more months I would have been let go anyway with two months' severance, which would have given me a lot more travel runway/options.
Current list of words is consistent with "has an even number of letters".

What about "Hacks"? It uses only letters found in accepted words, but should be rejected because of the odd number of letters.
>Various interfaces make it straightforward for root to modify kernel code (such as loading modules or using /dev/mem), while others make it less straightforward (being able to load new ACPI tables that can cause the ACPI interpreter to overwrite the kernel, for instance).

What exactly is the "ACPI interpreter" referenced here? I am familiar with ACPI but this is the first tine I have heard this term.
I didn't say C is faster than C++, I said C++ is not faster than C and so speed is probably not the main driver behind implementing a C++-->Assembly pipeline without intermediate C.
Pretty much every development utility that I use (especially Xcode) is buggy. ST is no exception.

Like most developers, I've learned where the potholes are, and have warning cones around them.

I'd love a nicer GUI, but, like I said, my experience has me a bit gunshy about using other stuff. I've had Tower for a while, but seldom use it. It's a great app, but the GUI actually gets in my way a bit.

My favorite text editor is BBEdit. I've been using it since last century. It's kept up with the times, but has a much more spartan aspect than editors like VSCode and Sublime. I like its RegEx support; which I use all the time.
Here is a readable and simple Privacy Policy (PP) from a now-defunct search engine called Cuil (launched in 2008, shut down in 2010):

https://web.archive.org/web/20100830150424/http://www.cuil.c...

Remember that the length of a privacy policy is also a measure of readability. A company may aim to make their PP readable using plain language (rather than legalese jargon) but if that PP takes 20-30 mins to read (as is the case with many popular online services), can it really be called readable? The sheer length of many PPs is also a measure how much data companies collect. One of the reasons why you will never see a short PP from the likes of Facebook, Google etc.

https://www.designboom.com/readers/dima-yarovinsky-visualize...

Here are some other PP policies from search engines with a focus on privacy:

Startpage: https://www.startpage.com/en/privacy-policy/

DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

Here is the Terms of Use (ToS) for the BBC 'RemArc' project. The ToS is a bit too long (6 A4 pages, although spaced out in large font and bullet points) but easy to read through:

https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc/blob/master/doc/2016.09...
"Don't mess with God's Earth." ?
I listen to the same music to invoke certain states.

To give an example: most of my all-nighters during college started with listening to Six O'Clock by Dream Theater (lyrics very relatable to such situations BTW).

To this day that starting drum solo immediately puts me into focus.
I gather GP's point was that the implicit motivation was that Lambda must do a good job because they will fail if you aren't employed, but this is akin to a sub-prime mortgage taker thinking they must be able to afford the mortgage if the bank says it will lend to them because they're at risk otherwise...

whereas in reality the banks just didn't care about quality because they'd package them up into securities and sell them on.
> Nothing is ever permanent.

Nothing in our throw-away society is. It could be with some radical changes. But that's another story
The most well known TUI/CUI for git is probably tig:
https://jonas.github.io/tig/

Emacs users will always have magit, but for everyone else it can be handy to use GUI tools for interactive staging and interactive rebase.
> already back into fashion

That seems more like retro/throwback fashion (which is always a thing, in every era) than the fundamental principles of that aesthetic being incorporated into modern design (which is what I would typically consider actually being "in fashion").

Still, nice to consider we're at the point where that's what we're framing as retro. No longer is it System 1 or CRT terminals.
Check for odd or even string length?

"Above the line" if len(s) % 2 == 0 else "Below the line"
I have learned that vivid imagery, when used sparingly, helps to drive the point through.

For the record: I have never liked cut flowers as a concept, and even find flower vase the second most useless household item that one can own. But as to your snark, I actually DO refer to the high-pollen times as plant-orgy season. Not all the time, but often enough.
Are you using daemon tools or something else 3rd party?

I couldn't get them to mount on Windows 10, I ended up using MS-DOS to mount them. I've had this issue with a number of early 90's CD-ROM's that apparently violate the spec, including Microsoft Bookshelf

https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftBookshelf1991
I think the reason security on Linux is so underused is because most of the software desktop Linux users run is very well behaved (compared to popular software on most consumer OSes.) I'd be willing to bet the majority of users aren't running anything closed source outside of a VM (and most that are probably only have one or two apps.) Closed desktop Linux apps are pretty unpleasant even when they run well.

So there's little need for tools like SELinux and add to that how unpleasant they are to use and that's why no one uses them.
It's organisationally under the Safari team, as far as I'm aware.
also on criminiality this guy has some advanced things to tell us (this link is especially fun to post in forums where people are complaining: "this is a good guy, he wants us to be free from government oppression"): https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/klaus-pueschel-dna-co... (he wants to centrally store all DNA-codes of a population so the government can prevent crime...) – well, it turns out, he's just another rightwing autocrat pushing his very own agenda now as well
He's the head of emergency intake for the University of Innsbruck's hospital, one of the main medical schools in Austria and the state of Tyrol's main hospital, so definitely not some random crank.

This is the hospital you're flown to if something really bad happens while skiing in Tyrol.
We are going one step back on ageism in tech
Last year we soft-launched https://noageismintech.com here as a job board website (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252097) and for much of our surprise, we had a huge number of users commenting on the thread and accessing the website in the first week. After a month, the traffic began to fade out and we didn't know what to do.

Unsure on how to regain the traffic from early days, the website was taken offline.

Takeaway from this soft-launch: we believe ageism is a massive problem in the tech industry.

After some months without touching NoAgeismInTech, and listening to some good comments from that soft-launch, we are now back to business going one step back, finding out what sort of problems job hunters face regards age discrimination. With the correct answers and problems identified, we can then build the right solution for the problem.

Have you ou someone you know ever faced age discrimination when job hunting?
Here in the UK there are news stories everyday in the mainstream news outlets of nurses and doctors dying. Some of whom were young and otherwise healthy.
hackernews is the roastme version of digital beings.
My father always told me that American textbook authors got paid by the page. That's probably not true, but it certainly feels that way when reading them.
It is baked in the Dialer.
Knowing how long a document is, and whereabouts your current view is, seems pretty fundamental.

You may as well argue against page numbers in books.
Also, how would fraud detection work in Europe, where there is the GDPR?
> I disagree. (I continued to use the last version of Opera Presto for a few year even after it was abandoned, and it continued to outperform other browsers on both platforms - Windows and macOS, though the macOS version was a bit more buggy).

Loading my profile on Twitter leads Presto to use more memory than Firefox. (Though really that's a terrible benchmark, probably want to disable in-memory caching.)

> Let's not forget that Presto already supported a lot of HTML5 features(1) before it was abandoned. (Even today, it works surprisingly well on most websites, though it does show its age a bit). And while the last few versions did seem to be a bit more resource heavy, I attribute that to development suffering because of the upheaval in the company - morale was low as many developers were laid-off while the management was also negotiating a sell out with investors. This naturally stunted the development of the core browsers parts in the end.

In all due respect, you sound like you have no idea what you're talking about, neither with when there were lay-offs or with how morale was internally. Morale only really collapsed after the move to WebKit, nor had there been lay offs for several years prior.

The increases in memory consumption were primarily down to changing trade-offs with performance v. memory consumption, and certainly a fair number of these were configurable at compile-time (heck, Futhark stayed around for a while after Carakan was shipping on desktop precisely because it's memory consumption was lower).

> I can't comment much about this - The source code of Opera Presto is out there on the net, and it is definitely much easier to understand than the Firefox codebase. I also remember that the popular Macromedia (now Adobe) Dreamweaver used the presto engine at one point.

The graph of module dependencies was… quite something. There was a _lot_ of mutual dependencies between modules, so in many ways it really wasn't modular.

As for embeddability, I'll point out that typically there were multiple implementations of platform layer stuff across the company (heck, Core maintained an almost entirely separate implementation to Desktop for all the platform layer stuff, despite the test browser running _on the same platforms as Desktop_). You had to write a lot of code to get the browser running on a new platform.

As for all your comments about Gecko's embeddability, I'm not even going to give them a response; they've largely been covered already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it
Well I just subjectively disagree - as apparently do the legions of professional experts at multiple distinct companies who research user interaction and design these interfaces.
I had a similar experience in eighth grade with introduction to trigonometry.

The teacher put in 0, 30, 60, 90, ... on the x axis and sine (x) on y. Then they began to join them with a beautiful curve. I protested and inquired how we can just join those dots seemingly on faith. The teacher just ignored me in spite of my repeated protests.
You just scroll a tiny bit and you can see. Doesn't need to on the screen all the time, taking up space, distracting from the content which is what I care about, rather than whizz-bang user-interface elements.
> An always visible scroll bar or indicator is conceptually simpler than one that disappears randomly.

An always visible scroll bar takes up a good chunk of screen space when you have multiple of them, and it's easy to develop intuition for what's scrollable and what isn't, just like we know what's right-clickable and what isn't.

It should be an option and it is, at least on Macs.
How the Environment Has Changed Since the First Earth Day 50 Years Ago
thanks for recommending fork.dev.. just installed on windows and looks sleek! it's seems freeware.. i dont know how often does it show that popup people are talking about
(Spoiler?)

I think it's called "above the line" "below the line" because the characters in each of the accepted words don't travel below the "character placement line" that runs along the bottom of every word. I've forgotten the "real name" for this line.

Thus,

toothpaste -> below the line, because of "p"

tooth -> above the line, no characters pass below it.

Generally, if the word contains a y,p,q,g, or j, then it's "below".

Right?

EDITS:

1: TIL the name for this property of a character is called a descender[1]. (And yet I still can't find the name for that blasted line.)

2: It's called a baseline[2], thanks taylorlunt

REFS:

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/descender

[2] https://typedecon.com/blogs/type-glossary/baseline/
Nitpick: the expression is 'sleight of hand'
> Is this just speculation?

Common sense / official government propaganda:

"In addition to protecting you from injury as a driver, seat belts help you keep control of the vehicle. If you are struck from the side or make a quick turn, the force could push you sideways and therefore you cannot steer the vehicle if you
are not behind the wheel."

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/seatbeltuse....

For some reason there's a lack of double blind studies on the exact statistics of if low/medium-speed T-bone impacts disloge the driver more often with a seatbelt vs without a seatbelt, but don't let me stop you from volunteering...

> Without a seatbelt you get thrown from the vehicle when you hit something, but by that point it's by definition already too late to avoid it, and then you're just in butterfly effect land.

Many lighter side tbone impacts might simply throw you into your passenger's lap, or even just into the center of the vehicle. Are you really asserting that in such impacts, being behind the wheel of your vehicle is no better than leaving it up to chance? I don't think you're that bad of a driver!

> This is not the right comparison because the thing to be compared is not seatbelt use prior to the campaign, it's seatbelt use under a different seatbelt campaign

Fair.

> That's just a rationalization.

So is what I'm initially replying to.
There's electron, and there's electron-type apps.

Vscode is pretty snappy and relatively light to the point it's not prohibitively expensive to run it, for example.
Also felt the pain of daring to ask a 'stupid' question and being firmly reminded I'm not a techbro. Rather I'm a proud techhoe :-)
Sweden doesn't look like hell. 99% of deaths in Italy were over 65. Study after study, LA, Massachusetts, Chicago, etc. show that many, many more people have gotten COVID asymptomatically and the actual mortality rate thus far is miniscule.

Death projections continue to be revised down in the US and almost everywhere outside of NYC is far behind expected deaths and hospitalizations. NYC is sharing their ventilators with NJ because they don't need as many as expected.

At this point it is the alarmists arguing against evidence and actual data, now that we have some. It is rather amusing to behold.
What Is Chemistry
> we are still at the "those people were going to die within a year anyway" phase, and the "I am okay and have a BMI less than 30 so therefore people like me are okay" phase.

That doesn't appear to be true if we look at the UK ICU data. BMI < 30 means lower risk, not no risk.

https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports

https://www.icnarc.org/DataServices/Attachments/Download/c9b...

Body mass index, n (%) [N=4811]
<18.5 31 (0.6)
18.5-<25 1239 (25.8)
25-<30 1696 (35.3)
30-<40 1499 (31.2)
40+ 346 (7.2)

Over 60% of people admitted to ICU for Covid-19 have BMI under 30.

When we look at frailty we see that 90% of people admitted to ITU were able to live without any assistance in their day to day life before being admitted. (Although we don't know how many frail people were not admitted to ITU because of their frailty).

We know that Covid-19 is causing excess mortality in people who are not old and don't have comorbidities. We don't know yet how much, but it's wrong to say that covid-19 isn't a problem for this group.
> these types of features are necessary

No, they're not necessary. As you mention yourself in a later paragraph it can either be turned off or you can install custom keys
> You may as well argue against page numbers in books.

Actually, yes, when was the last time you looked at a page number in an e-book? They don't make sense anyway when you can resize the reader.
Hi! I'm the author, I'd love to introduce Memcode.

Memcode is an open-source flashcards site, created with STEM students/developers in mind.

I created it because other spaced-repetition sites I've tried didn't include essential (for me) functionality, such as:
- navigation via shortcuts,
- code formatting, formulas, images in flashcards,
- and easy fast course creation, with course creators as first-class citizens in mind.

Questions are welcome!
Important takeaway: the head of emergency intake for Tyrol's largest hospital says that no matter how healthy you were or how minor your Covid-19 case was, do not go diving again without being examined by a doctor who specializes in diver physicals, due to the serious lung damage he has seen in previously-healthy recreational divers who had Covid-19 cases minor enough that they recovered at home, several weeks after they were declared recovered.

(edited to add) This hospital probably has seen a higher proportion of "minor" cases in previously-healthy, non-elderly patients because a lot of the early non-Italy spread of Covid-19 was at various Tyrolean ski resorts - most notably, Ischgl.
>Radical, indigenous, feminist, anti-colonial, self-organising.

According to the BBC's laughable propaganda. Not according to any of the people actually involved. Even then there's nothing colonial about Mexican cartels stealing from Mexicans.

>The actual situation of control will turn out to be a set of family relationships embedded in the matriarchy running the town

What a bizarre notion. Why and how would that suddenly occur?
It's still a perfectly fine place to store a copy of your important stuff. It just can't be the only copy.
I don't have experience with the early Roomba models, but I am using a Roborock S50 (Xiaomi vacuum) for almost a year now and couldn't be happier. I don't have a carpet anywhere in my house and it works pretty well.

We bring out the regular Miele vacuum once every week or two to get to the spots that Roborock can not reach.

The only issue I have at the moment is that I am working from home and vacuuming takes a lot of time for these robots compared to using a regular vacuum.