skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the case now, but this does not have to be true. It's entirely possible for Arizona to meet its household energy needs renewably.
There's not enough downward pressure on rents in general.

Tax unoccupied space, and not a little. 10x property taxes for vacant units with real standards for what counts as occupied.
California is beginning to dip its ties into battery storage, however. There's a couple projects that total about 200 MWh currently, IIRC. And at Moss Landing they are installing more than a GWh soon.

It's already cheaper to use batteries than natural gas peaker plants (the most expensive form of energy). The next phase of storage is to defer or replace transmission like upgrades (which are also super expensive). After that we get into daily cycle operations like giving small amounts of dispatchability to solar or wind projects.

And just like solar, batteries are getting cheaper far far faster than anybody ever predicted. What people used to consider the absolute floor in terms of raw material cost For lithium ion batteries is dropping all the time too.

However, the challenge for scaling up renewables and storage is not technical, it's going to be political. Utilities are not typical businesses that will just switch to the cheapest way of doing things. They are excessively political, and lobby a ton in order to influence how they are regulated (and thus how they profit off a captive audience), and they have been close bedfellows of fossil fuel interests for a loooong time because their combined lobbying power is so much stronger.

Oddly enough, just as hydro won't be able to scale even where it makes sense because of popular political opposition, we won't be able to scale renewables and storage because of entrenched interests lobbying Against popular opinion (renewables are popular across all of the political spectrum).
Private equity firms now control many hospitals, ERs and nursing homes
No, the A100 has a 19.5 TFLOP theoretical peak for SGEMM[1], real world benchmarks will likely achieve 93% of that, and so the DGX A100 will be 145 TFlops of FP32 SGEMM performance or 0.145 FP32 PFLOPS. Maybe in 72 FP64 TFLOPS. FP64 is what the TOP500 benchmaks count.[2]

The 5 "petaflops" number is a creatively constructed marketing number based on FP16 TensorCore "flops", sparse matrix calculations, and then multiplying by 8x for some reason. They basically take the 19.5 FP32 TFLOPS number and multiply it by 32x to get to the claimed 624 "TFLOPS" for a single A100. 8 * 624 = 5 "petaflops". I see they get 2x by actually using FP16 instead of FP32, 2x from counting sparse matrix ops as dense ops, and 8x from somewhere else that I have no idea.

[1] https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-ampere-architecture-in-de...

[2] https://www.top500.org/resources/frequently-asked-questions/
It’s crazy how it creeps-everyone wants to be in AI so suddenly you have project managers with AI in their job title. I bet crisis was just a good excuse to get rid of some of that cruft.
I fully agree. Especially on a site that literally only has comments.
Here's a video of this happening: https://youtu.be/rwPaUma6R_k
As I said: more descriptive words.
Morris retired a few years back
I've been self-isolating for like three months now so I've been busy...

Rendering Engine Built In C++ (https://opengl.bassi.li/)

ML Models Trained To Predict Interest In Rental Units (https://classifier.bassi.li/)

Interpreted Programming Language Built With Python (https://simplescript.bassi.li/)

On a completely unrelated note: I'm aggressively unemployed and would very much welcome a remote development job. Cheers!
Prophylaxis is simple. There is a toxicity risk, and there are effects relating to bone density, (oral Vitamin D does not always do what people want who suffer osteoporosis, the bodies tendency to homeostasis can be an issue I believe)

But, in the current context some thousands of IUD should be something easy to do.

Like the thyroid risk and iodine for kids: you dont want to have to but you know you can.

Second upside: D is now indicated in depression. And its always be suspected in MS (higher prevelance in women, and in northern hemisphere dark winter economies)
Every country on earth is deeply intertwined with China from an economic perspective. Especially the US.
It’s also technically one of the easiest places in the US to provide all your energy by yourself with solar.
I think you could reasonably go a step further and require that there be at least one character before and after the at sign. And you could probably ban ASCII control characters from appearing anywhere in the address. Depending on your needs, you might even want to try resolving the hostname or connecting to the SMTP server.

In a real-world application, you don't just want to check if an address meets an RFC; you want an address you can use throughout your application. Email addresses such as `h\@x0rz@!!!` or `\n@\0` or `@` might be RFC-compliant, but they are plainly ridiculous and would never be used by a real user. Any time/effort you spend writing tests or fixing bugs caused by permitting these esoteric addresses would be better spent on anything else.
You don't understand.... the quality of conversation goes down dramatically with caps-lock and erratic speech style. And that makes the rest of us lose interest, and respect.
That myth concerns adding more engineers to a project that is already started. Of course that doesn’t mean that 100 engineers can’t do more projects than 10 engineers.
Any marketers know what happens once the 1nm name is taken? Dose it go negative, go to decimals, start counting back up or just a new naming convention?
I started taking a few bites out of a job shop scheduling solution that's been in the back of my mind for ages.

I tend to end up doing general geek stuff for small manufacturing businesses. At a certain point they always ask about scheduling automation because their one person who runs the shop can't keep track of everything any more. The existing scheduling solutions are either too far down the rabbit hole of job-shop-scheduling yak shaving to fit or attached to an ERP that's out of their price range for a while.

In this case scheduling automation doesn't have to be perfect. It shouldn't be, it's a waste of time. These users haven't grown into habits that fit an optimized solution; their manufacturing data has been treated as an arcane nuisance because it hasn't provided benefits yet. All they need is something basic to get them started on the way to better habits and improving their data while improving scheduling. I don't know how far I'll get, but it's cathartic and educational to work on for now.
My current obsession: funding for research
Hey, developer of Water.css here - I'll take a look!
Never. Be at peace.
Is This the Man That Created Coronavirus
Doesn't this assume that your program can reliably access it's own source-code? Can it? It can of course read some file containing some source-code. But assume it accesses some file which contains the source-code of some other program, then wouldn't your logic still hold the same, since from the point of your program it is simply reading some file?
As a bit more context, Huawei recently announced they'll be sending orders for 14nm chips to SMIC's new fab instead of TSMC. 14 nm is about 3 gens behind TSMC's 5nm and was starting to be produced back in 2013.
I would say that my comment applies at the aggregate level, not the individual level. Its about how the environment people operate in increases or decreases their odds of advancement.
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I don’t mean to be naive, but wasn’t it always the case that this wouldn’t go away? I was under the impression from the beginning that eventually it would be out there and seasonal like the flu.
Isn't Intel's fab always better than TSMC's? Intel 10nm competes with TSMC's 7nm
Aus is an island. The US boarders two countries and has an illegal smuggling problem. The size-to-population isn't even remotely similar, and neither are the rights allowed to the citizens.
Batteries are a bit uneconomical now but may well fall in price like solar has. See for example:

>A startup run by a Tesla veteran and backed by Bill Gates is promising to build a long-duration battery that's 50 to 100 times cheaper than lithium-ion https://www.businessinsider.com/form-energy-battery-startup-...
Soon?

http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/forum/35-ga...
Huh? Moderation is one of the easiest tasks to transition to a work-from-home model.
It's a speed thing, but related to memory pressure because if we use too much memory then the GC uses too much CPU.
Good point, on the last part. But I think the likelihood of an actual invasion of Taiwan is extraordinarily low. There's terrain and weather reasons for why any land invasion would be telegraphed well ahead of time and would be a complete bloodbath for any invading force. What is quite possible imo is an air bombardment as an attempt to force the Taiwanese government into capitulation. This would obviously precipitate a response from the US, and potentially other countries (not going to mention NATO here because I'm not really sure how useful that designation is in 2020 and beyond). So, maybe the bet is that US air/drone power is still a decade or so ahead of China's such that we'd still be able to repel any PRC attacks. And because of that, this is a gesture that signals a) they think that kind of attack is likely and b) because of (a) want to make sure they're on good terms with the American government and people. The history of US relations with Taiwan is a lot more cloudy than people really grok today, so that's my theory on why they're doing this.

I suppose that doesn't really address your broader point though, which is a good one, that Taiwan does/did have leverage in this relationship with their higher-tech fabs being located within Taiwan exclusively. R&D will still be in Taipei, I imagine. Very quickly this becomes, in my mind, a human capital question.
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What are the facts? That TSMC willingly and strategically made this move? The writing was on the wall on this one.
RSS reader following hundreds of blogs. When I come across an interesting article I usually add them to my reader.

Most original content on the web comes from individual blogs.
Obviously, this is for internal environments under one’s control. I found this bit amusing and wondered if the author had some kind of meta message here:

> Issuer: C = US, ST = GA, L = Atlanta, OU = Junk
Did you see that someone was ready to manufacture n95 masks for the us government but they declined? That type of short sitedness is hard to fix.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.nonpareilonline.com/news/spe...
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You’re happily married. You’d be even happier if you cheated on your spouse(without getting caught). Why shouldn’t you?
> AMD switched some production to TSMC because they had much better defect rates at 7nm.

GloFo outright canceled their 7nm and smaller processes, back in 2018. All of AMD's leading-edge processors are now using TSMC 7nm, though the server and most desktop processors also incorporate a 12nm IO die. The days of AMD using GloFo are numbered.

Really, though, at this point it's easier to list what leading-edge chips aren't using TSMC: Intel's CPUs and FPGAs. All the other latest-and-greatest CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and smartphone SoCs are made at TSMC. There's more diversity for memory manufacturing, and logic that doesn't need to be on a leading-edge process (eg. low-end smartphone SoCs, motherboard chipsets, SSD controllers).
Yep, I would also suggest https://learnxinyminutes.com/ to learn any new porgramming language quickly if you have experience in similar languages.
There was another reply in this thread working on something similar; I'm sorry that I don't remember what it was, or where to find it in this haystack, but you might be able to dig it up if you're curious.
This is 100% true and this actually does affect residential as well. Many real estate investors make more money from the appreciation of the asset as opposed to current rents. Reducing rent reduces the value of the property on paper because the projected earnings over time decrease.
With the right treatment Snowcrash should be fun! (e.g. J.J. Abrams or Luc Besson).

Personally, I'm holding out for Alastair Reynold's Revenger books/series directed by someone thoughtful like Peter Jackson.
Does this imply there aren’t enough employers, so that collusion among employers is feasible?
Interesting. Are they planning to use some kind of alternative energy sources for their plants?
Super, I would love to see this as we already in the early stages of building something similar but ours is pretty crappy UI. Making it slick is the hard part
Linus Torvalds said "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.".

Here's a really interesting discussion about this quote and the idea behind the above: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1631...

As a backend dev myself, I totally agree with it, but I think when we're developing full blown apps we should have the end user in mind and focus on their experience using our app more than on adopting data-driven UI design.
Author here. Cool story about odd perfect examples. That said, my post is not trying to find a way to crack the halting problem, and thereby demonstrate it is not real. Turing wrote a most excellent proof, and I stand by it wholeheartedly. I even cite another famous numeric example of a program we still do not know if it will terminate for all numbers: the Collatz conjecture.

Notice my description: "Turing proved that no general algorithm can be formulated that can answer this question across all possible programs." The operative part here is "across ALL possible programs". The proof does stop us from knowing that SOME programs will or will not halt. It only stops us from being able to determine this for EVERY possible program. My post explores a very specific subset of programs that we can prove will terminate, then asks what pattern(s) underlie such programs, and then explores the use of such patterns in a variety of interesting problems. It is this last result that most intrigued me, and caused me to write about it.
The whole "obscurity isn't security" thing is a super interesting topic. Suppose you have a static file on a public web server and you want to control access to the file... confidentiality. Many people would agree that if you come up with a long string, don't disclose it to untrusted parties, and use it as a basic auth password, then you have secured the file to some extent. And many people would claim that if you take that same undisclosed string, and make it a path segment (parent directory) for the file, then you have merely obscured the file, or perhaps secured it to a far lesser extent. The former makes it "not available to the public" while the latter makes it "available to the public, they just don't know where to look."

I call BS. These are pretty much the same thing* which is to say: an adversary trying to get the file needs to know something that they don't know, and can't reasonably guess/discover any time soon. Did you secure it or obscure it? Whatever you call it, you require a "something you know" factor.

*Obviously, there's the fact that other parts of the stack -- browser history, access logs, rate limiting, etc. -- actually treat a password payload with the respect it deserves and assume there's nothing sensitive about a URI path... kindly pretend my example doesn't have this flaw.
You don't even need a honeypot, simply ban ip addresses for some time after X failed login attempts.
> It's absolutley arrogant and dishonest to think your intelligence is inherited instead of developed,unless you are an exception.

I think it is more arrogant to assume your intelligence were due to your hard work and everyone else just being too lazy to achieve the same things.
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To be fair, Nvidia has open sourced some key libraries lately. See cutlass and cufftdx.
You might want to add some copyright notice. Even if you don't want to monetize them is better for others to ask your permission rather then lose them to hoarders and later watch them making money and you get null.
> Just telling people to apply to domain.com/jobs is pretty lame. So, basically the same door that anyone else goes through when they click the "Careers" link in your site's footer? Reminds me of when I solved one of the CTF challenges for a website only for my reward to be "We're hiring! Apply at jobs.example.com!"

That reminds me of MI5’s Coding Challenge [1][2][3].

[1] https://cixtor.com/blog/mi5-coding-challenge

[2] https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/opportunities/coding-challeng...

[3] https://www.mi5.gov.uk/sites/default/files/styles/puzzal_ima...
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I had been meaning to look into Synology more and I watched a few reviews after this exchange. Sound good except I'm not happy about having to link to their servers. But everything works that way these days :/
Their Careers search engine shows zero jobs in all of USA (270 worldwide).
There's no sure fire way to alter the behavior of a targeted government short of winning a war.
There's:

https://canary.tools/help/canarytokens

But the concept is really simple: come with any kind of thing you'd want to tripwire --- the AWS key is particularly slick --- and put it somewhere in your infra, then wait for alerts.
Counterpoint: If the PRC takes over now, they own the process technology NVIDIA and AMD depend on. They can tell the Americans to go pound sand, good luck on your next supercomputer project, and dedicate all production to Chinese origin designs - with a helping of industrial espionage for a kick start. That’s a pretty powerful incentive for aggression that would be reduced if TSMC’s operations were more distributed. So it’s somewhat balanced out.

I think the bigger problem is the assumption that Americans can properly safeguard Taiwanese IP. Anything you send over here you might as well cc: Beijing on the email.
Slick is a moving target susceptible to hedonistic adaption - crappy UI but functional is better than non-existent, I’d say release as soon as you can ...
Yep. This article from nikkei explains this very well - https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Company-in-focus/Chip-titan...

It's in the best interest of Taiwan to keep their 2nd highest GDP producing industry inside their own country. If a war breaks out between China and US, TSMC factories in Taiwan are going to be the safest place on Earth. No country wants to loose what TSMC has to offer, including Taiwan itself.
Really, that's my point: if it wasn't Plandemic, it would be PlanzzaGate.
I wouldn't shed any tears for the industry if some lawsuits got filed against misleading claims regarding transistor feature sizes. That probably won't happen because feature size isn't a spec requirement for anyone per se, but it would be nice to see on principle.
Navy Reports Describe Encounters with Unexplained Flying Objects
This is an idea I had but never executed on: Teamodoro. I like your name better! Hope you can take it to good place so I can try it with my remote co-founder : )
Seems like a play on the fact that, when given an opportunity, many people few an irresistible urge to draw obscenities. Especially penises.
> In the specific example provided. Yes, of course it is.

> Rainwater is close to pure water, drinking distilled water distroys cells in gut and causes diarrhoea, same as cholera does. Therefore this is a basic source of error in the experiment that should be controlled.

1. Where did you get this bizarre claim? They sell distilled water in stores for drinking. I've drunk it. It didn't cause me diarrhea, certainly not "same as cholera does". Cholera causes such severe diarrhea that people die of dehydration from it. There's some evidence that it slightly leaches minerals from your body, but that's a far cry from it causing such severe diarrhea that it might literally kill you.

2. Even if what you are saying were true (which is isn't), that would make it a confounding factor or regressor, not a source of error.

3. And even if it were a regressor, that doesn't invalidate the experiment. You can still draw a correlation between hydration and cholera, you just can't conclude that hydration causes cholera. Which is fine, because almost any experiment you do is going to require further experimentation to be able to establish causality.

Put another way, this experiment asks the wrong question, but asking a bunch of wrong questions is part of the process of science.

The cause of cholera has been known for about a century, so it's easy in hindsight to design an experiment that proves cholera is caused by microbes in fecally-contaminated water. But that's not how science works. In science you're asking questions where you don't know the answer, so you start by asking very narrow questions, like "Is cholera correlated with hydration?" and slowly expanding to questions like "Is cholera still correlated with hydration if you restrict hydration as an intervention?" or "Is cholera still correlated with hydration if you control for water source?" All of these are valid questions around which you can design valid experiments. You just have to understand that when you ask a narrow question you get a narrow answer. None of these experiments conclusively identify the cause of cholera--even the experiment you proposed.
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Go down to picometre. 1000pm, etc.
C’mon guys, I want to steal your work and pay you but a pittance.
What do you think about single packet authorization?
I wonder how they are going to make up for the economic reasons this isn't generally done in the US?
I've found similar headers in emails.

For example, I was setting up a sieve-based filter for Groupon emails and there was this x-recruiting header.

That was nice.
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Here is the garbage collector course from the FB engineer. http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/courses/essentials-of-garbage-col...

Garbage collector is a part of compiler technology.
Apart from your being wrong on the central fact, which other commenters have pointed out, I want to add that taking a thread into nationalistic flamewar this way is not ok on HN, even when you're right about which country is which.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines by posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait, and even personal attacks, in multiple places recently. We ban accounts that do that, so definitely do please stick to the rules from now on.
It's interesting to see what the AI does and doesn't recognize. It recognized my lame attempt to draw the Eiffel Tower - impressive, the Mona Lisa, and a (barbed wire) fence. It didn't recognize drawings of the Ace of Spades a desk calendar, the Canadian Flag, or written words.

AI is going to eat the world, IMHO, and we've just started up the exponential curve in the past two decades. Huge potential to appear REALLY intelligent.