skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that perspective. And I will be the first to say that astronomy is far from the extreme end of any measure of a bad use of funds.

I simply try to combat the intellectually lazy position that some people fall back on, that any questioning of scientific merit (or resource intensiveness) is an affront to the whole thing and cannot be done. It's usually stated by people who have never had to do it, or don't know how.
Aside from the fact that Elon was born into a wealthy family (which is vaguely like having tall genes, I guess?), he can discard his massive wealth at any moment with considerable ease compared to the task of somehow reducing your height from 6'3" to 5'7". He actively chose to accumulate wealth and hold onto it, there are plenty of successful businessmen who aren't billionaires or aspiring billionaires.

Are you really going to pick height as a comparison point for being a billionaire? Did tall people take their height from short people? Is height taxed?
For now it also allows you to watch age restricted videos without being forced to sign in.
> either greed

Big companies like Elon's will survive this. The small businesses won't. He's not greedy, I think the exact opposite.
Linux (In)Security
Could you please simplify (in very layman terms) what you're trying to say throughout this whole exchange
I had similar symptoms. Also in VA, same time frame. I’m going to do the test when it’s available here as well.
TypeScript. ( + ESLint, + Prettier ). It has made writing JavaScript tolerable. Classes as you expect them. With proper editor support, you get real errors, and the whole thing starts to feel more like writing code in python. It is no python, but at least it feels significantly less foreign. Its very progressive in the sense that regular JavaScript is valid TypeScript, and everything else is just a cherry on top. And it is easy to include the typing outside of the source file, so many libraries not written at all in TypeScript have typing support built in (likely by simple PRs from the community)
By now, probably everyone here knows that in a simple SIR model, the disease spreads until herd immunity is reached with 1 - 1/R0 of the population infected. But the reality is of course more complex:

On the bad side, some people get infected on the down slope too (when Reff < 1), causing overshoot. This is why even if herd immunity from recovered cases is unavoidable, it's important to slow the spread as much as possible.

But on the good side, not everyone has the same number of contacts--some people (police, medical workers, shop clerks, etc.) have a lot more opportunity to both acquire and transmit the virus than others. These people will be infected first and will recover first, providing disproportionate herd immunity. This paper attempts to model that.
Except it does, according to the governor of California.

> California Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday that state-level guidance allowing manufacturing to resume some production didn’t supersede county-level restrictions. The company had unsucessfully tried to argue that Tesla’s production should be considered critical infrastructure.[1]

Musk is talking out his ass and undermining public safety. If this is also how he approaches product design I don't think I ever want to get into a Tesla again.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/9/21253127/elon-musk-lawsuit...
I remember seeing some stuff about ultralights using an iPad app for flight instruments. That was scary enough.
> it appears that the main skill behind programming is actually problem decomposition and modelling rather than syntax

Totally. This is where declarative and intention-oriented systems shine. Take something like SQL, where, in the majority of cases, the end-user needs to know next to nothing about algorithmic complexity and can still achieve excellent performance and correct results.

It'd be neat to see a system that was actually designed toward problem decomposition. What's the state of the art around this kind of stuff?
Ask HN: Are you advancing in your career as planned?
I was browsing through my HN historical submissions and found the following one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314582. Surprised to know that I'm with the same doubt nowadays and now I'm wondering if I really advanced or just kept repeating the same patterns. Check yours :).
Many other companies and factories are open, workers are not required to show up, and if they do they're following guidelines developed from the factory presence in China with thousands of unharmed employees. This is on top of most of the state being effectively open for weeks already.

What is the ethical quandary here?
> but you haven't prevented anyone from impersonating your user on your site.

That is the whole point. In this system the hash generated on the client is literally your password. It's just to provide some extra protection for people who reuse passwords that are compromised on the server or over the wire.

>There are far better solutions, like encouraging the use of a password manager.

That might be better but your solution requires telling billions of people to not reuse passwords and use a password manager. Or you could implement this on your site and your users are instantly better off. Real users are better off if we just make their behavior safer.
It is usually nothing specific to your VPN setup or IP. It is mainly either for (D)DoS protection or Content Licensing related ( VPNs are easy way to bypass Geo-locked content). Many CDNs and services will allow you to access using only non commercial IP range
Judge Napolitano says Elon has a very good shot at winning this lawsuit.
Google Open-Sources New Higher Performance TensorFlow Runtime
Just read TFA and it looks like the Next team has a good answer for this! Glad they made it simpler.
I think the main evidence against it being here siginifgantly earlier is that we see how it spread when it was definitely here, so why wouldn't we have seen hot spots like Atlanta and New York earlier then?
Tesla is not going to have to permanently close that plant due to a few months of shutdown. That is like saying if the Bay Area had another 1989 magnitude earthquake, Tesla would go out of business.

Tesla is not even reasonably similar to many businesses that are truly at risk of never opening again. And to make this comparison is insulting to the hardworking business owners and employees that are in industries that will see massive amounts of bankruptcies in the coming year.
The duo of Lisp and Smalltalk basically define what OO means.

Javascript simulates some of the aspects of OOP in an ad hoc way by turning every object into a hash table so that properties can be tacked onto it.

It's what you implement if it's Wednesday, and the boss asks for a some sort of working OOP system by Friday.
I don't think there's any argument about standing regarding Tesla suing Alameda county without reopening first.
"Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network."

Seems like an successful experiment to me. I am excited to see what next gen tech in this space will bring.
Can I repeat my question: how to get something on-hand (like the board, the programmer and even the working environment setup) per this document http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/support/index.html

It is very strange. It is like a shop without a front to get things, but keep on trying to tell you - once you got it, you can do wonderful thing.

What is the point?
Rejection turned out great for Berkeley's top graduating senior
Greetings from Greg Bailey in Cheyenne, Wyoming where GreenArrays can say, paraphrasing Steve McQueen at the end of the superb movie Papillon, "We're still here, you Bastards!!!"

As an experiment, I will be happy to address any question that anyone might have, including those appearing in this thread, at the GreenArrays shop and lecture hall in Second Life. I propose to stand there, virtually, at 0800 PDT / 1500 UTC / 1700 CET / Midnight in Sydney, AU, on Wednesday, 13 May and again on Saturday, 16 May. The SLURL for the shop is http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deneb/80/228/27 and the name of the shop is "GreenArrays Ventures". My name in SL is GregBailey with UUID f64abbc5-7136-40db-9dd0-a174d93d8742 and I will wait for one hour before logging if no one has shown up.

The experiment will be interesting, whether or not it produces positive results. Failing that I may find time to reply on these threads, and we do reply to questions sent to sales mailbox, domain greenarraychips.com.

So, see you Wednesday or Saturday, perhaps. Advice: To minimize wasted time, kindly go to http://www.greenarraychips.com and do a little studying, or perhaps audit some of the lectures on the arrayForth Institute that is linked from the above, or preferably both.

For the questions about what is it good for, anyone who can multiply the average power of a typical edge device in the "Internet of Things" by whichever fanciful power of ten (we are up to 12 now, are we not?) the Visionaries expect to exist of those edge devices, and then contemplate the obscene amount of average power that product represents, should be able to grasp that by wasting orders of magnitude less resources, including energy, than others do, we ought to be obviously good for something there if nowhere else:)

And now back to work on a software defined GPS receiver. I look forward to meeting anyone who might make it on Weds or Saturday!

I wish you well - Greg
> If two chess players of equal skill play a match, the result is a coin flip. That doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re doing.

No, but it does mean they aren't any more skilled than anyone else on the same level. They surely cannot know what will happen next any better.
Elon is defying a local county order, not a state or federal order. That county does not have the right to infringe on Elon’s constitutional rights.

The constitution outlines the LIMITS of federal authority and outlines protections for individuals against federal authority. It is not a document FOR the federal government and the federal government doesn’t have any explicit rights.
Do you know which of the two is being used by commercial labs like Quest now?
is this not an april fool?
Bitcoin isn't resilient because trading goods for bitcoin doesn't happen, therefore BTC is reliant on people being able to purchase it using their existing government-controlled money using regulated bank accounts.
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What will happen to the workers who defy the reopening? If they will be fired, that is terror.
Trump disclosed something that he should not have done and wouldn't have done if he had a brain in his head. Not technically leaking is separate from something that did not help the country. It was a stupid action - of course not your point.
> As a Tesla investor, I support the relocation of Fremont production capacity out of California.

You've pinpointed the most important issue here. The health of your portfolio!
> Many goods and services flow between the counties.

This virus travels primarily on humans, not goods. The vast majority of human travel is between Alameda and other Bay Area counties, not between Alameda and San Joaquin.

Just because most of the milk, produce, and nuts, and packaged goods come from that direction doesn't mean that it makes sense for Alameda county to be more tightly coordinated in public health policy with San Joaquin county than its Bay Area neighbors.
Not just reading, general increase in internet use, for example they have a lot of old archived games, many official covid health pages only track current numbers so wayback machine is the only way to track first / second derivative data points etc.
Yes, I agree with all your points. I look back on astronomy as having given me, and many others, incredibly useful training, and along the way, some scientific output. (Although at the time we probably thought much higher of our own self-worth/importance scientifically than after leaving and seeing it in comparison to the "real world").

And you're right, compared to other industries/fields, astronomy gets a lot of bang for its buck and definitely produces a lot of good along the way. Most people end up leaving astronomy at some point (sooner than they thought), but go on to good things in other fields.
I disagree. I am biased since I wrote it, but allow me to defend it:

1. County says "don't open"
2. Musk says "will open anyway; arrest me"

dare definition - defy or challenge (someone) to do something

I believe the qualification stands. He dares local government to actually arrest him. Either way it will be big news and neither side can afford to back down at this point.
While Amazon struggles with demand, rivals are growing online sales much faster
This is highly regionally dependent.

For instance, when I lived in Virginia, it was relatively rare to see someone going more than 5 mph over the limit on the interstate (75 in a 70). I’m Arkansas, it’s very common to see people going 15 over (85 in a 70).
Summary of the article's recommendations:

Don't use:
- Cognito (authentication). Because: on mobile social login it isn't native. Instead: use Auth0, OneLogin, Okta or roll your own

- Cloudformation (programmatically configure AWS). Because: various complexities. Instead: use Terraform.

- ElastiCache (managed Redis). Because: expensive. Instead: run Docker Redis in EC2.

- KINESIS (queue), as a general-purpose data queue. Good for: streaming data such as video processing/uploading. Bad for: generic data queue, because its's difficult to route each event in the queue to one of multiple workers. Kinesis is meant for every listener to be assured to get the entire stream. Instead: SNS/SQS (SQS FIFO) or a queuing framework that sits on top of Redis or traditional databases.

- Lambda (server-less), to implement a REST API. Good for: Serving/Redirecting requests to CloudFront, also reacting to events from SNS or SQS by running small asynchronous tasks. Bad for: replacement for REST API endpoints, because it's too hard to work with a zillion lambdas. Instead: use a regular web framework (or, other commentators say, route all requests to one lambda and then do more routing within than lambda)

I do not agree or disagree, I'm just summarizing; although I did add in some information from other comments here, too.
Build Client-First Web Apps
Yeah it's another fabricated excuse to go to war and spend trillions. Show them a few thousand people dying then let no expense be spared.
Can you expand on "the Trump/Iran release was estimated to be pretty close to the diffraction limit"? What is this in reference to?
They have a NYC branch.

I argue that they use entirely too much sugar in their spaghetti. Not that I have some moral outrage about sugar in the stuff, but it was actively very sweet.
If you are not poor and yet choose to spend all your money, yes you can have nothing left to invest. If this is happening to you, you might consider counseling from a financial advisor.
This.

You don't want this to happen to you? Unionize.

The tech industry might finally get the wakeup call to unionize.
Presumably that's for planes that aren't legally required to carry said instruments?
Six ways to land rovers on Mars
I guess it is more information wants to be free? protecting the price of information is harder when making copies is very cheap.
I think we should keep the industrial vs. residential zoning, there is a baby in that bath water. But I largely agree, zoning laws to enforce density norms appear to do much more harm than they prevent.
Agreed. Whats so hard to understand about laws applied uniformly? We can complain that there's no avenue for fast reopening of low risk non-essentials, but to complain that policy failure means the policy is "not evidence based" is myopic.
Specifically, when I got to IV.ii Lexing of punctuators, which proposes to fix, say, the ambiguity of "*" as an infix or prefix operator by introducing the unicode symbol × for the binary operator, and so on. Even better, to get out of C++'s way with the all-important "nested template termination" token >>, you are to use what copy-pastes into this comment form as '4▷▷▷' ‽
You think by the 6th one you'd figure out some names that don't make you look like a jackass as a parent.
300k over 3 months = 4-5 million dead over a 4 year window, if you want to do the proper comparison.
> H1B is dual intent.

Dual-intent visas are non-immigrant visas where it is not a violation of the terms of the visa to apply for it with the intent of later seeking an immigrant visa without leaving the country.

If you do wish to immigrate after being admitted on a dual-intent visa, you still have to qualify for, apply for, and wait in the line for (if it is category with a backlog for your country of origin) an immigrant visa.
Eric Schmidt predicts companies will need more office space post-Covid, not less
The death-rate is flu-like if hospitals are not at capacity, and young people have a 10x greater chance of needing hospitalisation than the regular flu.

The worry isn't individual risk, it's systemic risk.
> Feel free to provide sources on flops/$ for fp32. [...]

Ok, early morning maths ... been coding for 10 hours but I try:

A Quadro 8000 RTX has about 510 f64 GFLOPS and 16,320 f32 GFLOPS according to Wikipedia[1]. It costs US$5,500.

A Ryzen 3970X has about 1,320 f64 GFLOPS according to this test[2] and 1,900 f32 GFLOPS. It costs US$2,000

Now a Super Micro board with two EPYC sockets is about US$700 according to Google.

So for US$4,700 I get a CPU compute rig with 2,640 f64 GFLOPS. Aka: more than five times as much as the Quadro 8k RTX rig -- at US$800 less.

Let's say, we are being unfair and we limit our scene complexity to one that only requires single precision (f32) floating point operations (see my reply above).
That's btw one of those "GPU restrictions" renderer developers then try to work around that I talked about earlier.

I guess I am trying to say: without going single precision GPUs can not even beat CPUs -- they basically suck.

Now with single precision the Quadro 8k RTX is way ahead of the CPU. At 16,310 f32 GFLOPS it is a bit more than four times the compute power of the CPU rig which clocks in at 2×1,900 GFLOPS of f32 precision (mind you just four times, that's why I said if you can even prove a 10x speedup of GPU vs CPU in offline rendering, I take your point).

Now looking at actual rendering time ... from launching a render to getting an image on disk .. can the GPU we're looking at ever be four times as fast as the US$700 cheaper CPU rig with this constraint to f32?

Absolutely. Most definittly. I would never contest this.

Will these constraints satisfy the needs of people doing professional offline rendering today? Definitely not.
Shoveling those scenes onto the GPU will rid you of any speed advantage as low as 4x.

Let's not even talk about electricity costs. The AMD CPU draws 35W under full load. So that's 70W for two. The Quadro 8k RTX draws 260W.
And this is not considering the AC you need to buy, maintain and power feed too cool a farm of these beasts.

People who say GPUs will hit it big in offline rendering "soon" are missing important details.

And as someone who had to bear with convincing people the other way once in his life already to prevent disaster later on a production I mean this in a very caring way.

Lastly: at that time I just talked about everyone was saying GPUs will "soon" play a bigger role. Then over ten years passed.

In 2016 two friends of mine, the lead developer of 3Delight and a famous CG researcher who works at NVIDIA were chatting over beers at my house in Berlin. And the latter guy asked the 3Delight dude why they are not investing in GPU research.

And the 3Delight dude said: "Because they asked us the same then. And ten years later we're still faster than any GPU renderer out there for the customers we target. And we don't see that changing."

Now it's 2020 and it's still spot on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

[2] https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/AMD-Threadripper-3970x...
Regrets, that was 0100 on appropriate day Sydney :)
For those who were around during the mid-2000s, is this basically another revival of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)?

I watched one of the explanation videos and it brought back memories.

My dislike of the phase back then, which I hope they've addressed now, is that while everything looked find and dandy while designing things on a UI, when something broke it was a whole heaps of generated XML no one could read.
Broken on my iPad,I guess I work another 5 years? It gets to where it wants more info and I watch the wheel of misfortune spin.
It's pointless to try to defend Musk on this website. It will get flagged and removed and no one listens to logic
Good. You atone and reform by deletion

http://archive.is/KxZff

My reply is

Judging? You project and are unqualified.

Victim blaming? OK when I'm a man? The bullied often bully, you hated men for years. Think on wrong you've done to men, you felt was justified by hatred. Yet it wasn't. I have nought for which to atone. Looks like you need to atone and reform. I have faith in you that you will and very soon.

And you did.
It's been fascinating to watch several of these pop up, especially the big three (Western, Midwest, and Northeast).

https://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/1253455955666382848
This is impressive, but at the same time can't help but notice art is kind of its way out when no skills nor time spent doing anything can be exchanged for just one click and generate art. I watched the intro video and the narrator was mentioning "no skills are needed", "anybody can do this", etc and I can't stop thinking how making art is at anybody's fingertips and yet means so much less. I looked through the generated images and wow, one and one are not bad looking, but after a few hundred images i said OK and closed the tab. I had a quantity overload. So where is the human if novels can be auto generated and have a plot and be good novels and where movies can be made in such a way too with auto generated music and dialogue and so on. You get my drift. It's cool but what is it for, art or entertainment? Is this just a phase that will go away?
It is simple cover-your-ass behaviour from low level bureaucrats.
Weather good in SA yesterday, Adelaidian, also in QLD/ACT. Go out to enjoy it. Better than texting pulled into what you don't know. Yet, maybe you comment here to defend your hypocrisy, not Colin's.
Housing vs model 3s?
Archive.org works surprisingly well as a general purpose web proxy. Just prefix the URL, e.g., http://example.com, with https://web.archive.org/save/, e.g., https://web.archive.org/save/http://example.com

The aesthetic intrusiveness of the archive.org header and footer are minimal since I use a text-only browser that has no Javascript engine.

Sometimes I get "This url is not available on the live web or can not be archived." However this happens for only a surprisingly small minority of websites.

Rarely I find that /save is unsuccessful in which case I can still find past copies using something like

curl -o 1.txt "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=http://www.example.net&fl=timestamp,original" ;
sed -i '/^[12][0-9]* h/!d;/^[12][0-9]* h/{s/^/http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\//;s/ /\//;s/\r//;}' 1.txt

The limitation with past copies versus /save is that archive.org will not usually crawl past page one on websites with many successive pages, e.g., http://example.com/?page=2, http://example.com/?page=3, etc.

Has anyone ever considered mirroring archive.org, or parts of it, to other geographic locations.

Could this be done. Why or why not.
"It is not a human right to earn a living."

The UNCHR has begged to differ since 1948. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...