skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we look at the kinds of things these surveillance powers are used for, it's a glimpse of how it's abused. Thanks to FOIA requests, we found that the Boston Regional Intelligence Center was using their surveillance capabilities to spy on Occupy Boston during the Boston Marathon that was bombed, despite the ostensible aim of the center being to coordinate local and federal intelligence capabilities and despite the FBI receiving a tip from Russia that the Tsarnaevs were up to something. If we want to make the world safer, we should focus on making responsible and strategic use of the intelligence we have than to grant new powers.

http://www.justiceonline.org/unaware_of_tsarnaev_warnings
Twitter Works from Home Forever
I'm leaving a comment here as a reminder too! I've been playing with open street map data to learn routing algorithms, I would love to compare notes : D
The Javascript engine is a lot smaller code surface area than an entire browser rendering engine.
I suspect that a fair number of people will be rethinking downtown all I need is somewhere to sleep housing choices when their lease renewals come up.
Would it still be an analogy though?
Even a cascading deallocation is still deterministic. It’s true that it doesn’t have hard latency guarantees, though (and true GC with hard latency guarantees is arguably more useful in many cases).
Well, if the businesses and corporations doesn't want to pay the taxes to fund it, they obviously have to fund it instead.
Oof. Double-precision is only 2.5x better, which is less impressive than 20x for float.

I still haven't found anything more cost-effective for double precision data processing (cost + dev time) than a rack full of used Xeons...
Since with Microtica you could provision any kind of AWS service the policy mentioned in the documentation is left to be more open so you can tryout fast and then when you figure out what you need the access could be reduced.

Ultimately, the user has the complete control over what access he will give to Microtica.

Since this policy was primarily intended for DevOps module, and Cost Optimizer needs only a subset of those permissions we will update the documentation to avoid the confusion.
Cost, convenience, and availability. PC gaming is still out of reach for many peie for one reason or another.
i am interested for frontend developer.
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I'm guessing that the time required to open the hosts file for reading would eclipse the amount of time required to parse it and do a linear search on the entries. I would think that the file would have to be measured in the hundreds of megabytes for performance to be a significant consideration, but I haven't benchmarked it.
This also makes it hard to find new information. The movie and moviesuggestion subreddits for example always recommend from the same small subset of movies. There used to be people who would post really interesting galleries of "Movies you may have missed in 20xx" and they were almost always movies I had missed that flew way under the radar but were great. Ir's like that with every subreddit though, they have this corpus of knowledge they refer to and won't consider anything outside of it, everyone is just parroting someone else.
Another useful skill that I’ve found helps is getting good at reading from a source and typing it as you go.
When someone’s presenting, I can quickly type something they’re showing. Usually quicker than interrupting, asking them to copy & paste and then waiting for them to get on track.

Another is if for some reason you get sent a printout, an image or something, transcribing whatever you need from it is super quick.

If it’s too fast I don’t internalize what it says, I just type, but it’s nice.

A personal story,
My grandma and my mom where both secretaries. I used to sat down on the typewriter at home for fun. As soon as I did and started typing you would hear, “back straight!, hands!, feet on the ground!”

When we finally got a computer, it died a bit. They couldn’t hear the keyboard when I typed so I had some time to slouch before they walked in and saw me.

That’s of course if I remembered to turn off/down the speakers when I booted the computer up.
To setup CUDA, I highly recommend nvidia-docker. It makes it super easy, especially if you're familiar with docker. All you need is the official graphics drivers from the NVIDIA homepage.
I believe that was an explicit conceit of the site: they're not making money via ads or "gold", they're shaping perceptions.
Density in Sweden is 64 per square mile while in NY state its 421 per square mile. However, much of the population live in cities such as Stockholm that has population density 12,800 per square mile compared to 66,940 for NYC.

If the dire high hospitalization and high death rate theory underlying lockdown was true, you would without lockdown expect worse than NYC death rates in Stockholm because it is very dense and we don't see that.

Moreover, wouldn't number of social contacts rather than population density be a better metric here? Population density is normally a proxy for number of social contacts, but NYC is in lockdown while Sweden is not.
Now that I don't have a commute anymore, I've been using the extra time to work on a full version of a game jam game I made a while ago and had good reception.

I don't have much new to show yet, but the jam version is available at https://kroltan.itch.io/farm-fortress-2

It's a strategy game focused on production chains and resource management.
Yeah, I agree - it looks good, but it is Facebook :) The auto-following is a pretty neat feature though! I might try and pick one up to play around with when they're back in stock.

The real sticking point for me, apart from the lack of stock, is that I never call anyone using WhatsApp or Messenger. I'd ideally like compatibility with other platforms. I figured I'd start with Jitsi as its open-source, and go from there

I did briefly look at how I could get FaceTime working on something, but I think it involved jailbreaking an iPhone and getting access to the SSL certs.
Why limit it to vehicles? A carbon tax allows more flexibility.
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Have you used Rust? It doesn’t have backwards compatibility with C++, but the semantic model really is very similar to modern C++, just without hundreds of the footguns.
COVID-19 forecasting tool: https://cv19.report

Time series ML model for each state combined into a US forecast. Models are generating static assets, front end is in React, everything is hosted on S3 behind Cloudflare.
https://www.musicbucket.cloud/

I'm building a google play music clone (a music locker), It's not ready yet but by the end of this month, the beta will be out.
I believe this is the dividend and curse of Web2.0. Things can be so easily mixed, matched, shared and are federated. Boundaries have been eroding in the digital as in the real world. We've lost the sense of closed group, community and with it some natural short feedback loops.

There are huge benefits to this like minorities gaining scale to be heard. But I feel a lot of benefits are of the type of taking something very good and scaling it up to a global level. What is less seen is the destruction of a lot of other good solutions elsewhere which might have had a chance to develop into something even better with a little more time. We are loosing diversity in products and ideas.

Finding ways to restore smaller scale in some areas may be beneficial but it is not clear how to make it work. Arbitrage across boundaries levels differences. The benefits of tearing down the boundaries accrue with the rule breakers who gain scale. Google+ was an attempt to stem the tide. It may have been flawed but it also tried something fundamentally hard.
Sure, if you cherry-pick a few countries (your list is basically the most impacted countries in Europe).

If you include all European countries you get a different story.

And Europe has roughly double the population of the US, it's not surprising that it has more cases in absolute numbers.
yes!!

diy stackexchange and reddit are fun places to hang out, to learn the wizardry others are using.
Because they can't do it themselves so they're projecting onto everyone else, as usual.
https://github.com/biswaroopmukherjee/condensate

I'm trying to interact with superfluids. I use CUDA + OpenGL to simulate the superfluid, and then interact with the mouse or a leap motion.
Mortgage delinquencies will exceed Great Recession levels
I think you're analyzing this from too much of a top down approach rather than a bottom up.

Simply through competitive factors they should be able to takeover, compete with, existing transit lines - initially the higher traffic lanes, however eventually costs of tunnelling will come down further, demand will go up as the value of the tunnels will go up.

In Hawthorn, California, the city already approved a tunnel to go from a main tunnel leading into the house of someone garage; https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/09/boring-company-approved... - imagine the possibilities with that and the markets it disrupts because of the convenience then possible.

Or imagine having that tunnel system connecting to the top and/or bottom and/or middle of your street - so it's a short walk away, where a scheduled driverless pedestrian-centric vehicle comes to pick you up, or you get a package delivered to you that you pickup.

Elon suggested a cost of $1 per use of the tunnels. In LA traffic, how many people would pay $1 each way (or perhaps higher during peak for surge pricing they could implement if certain tunnels have excess demand; but then they can decide if they dig another parallel tunnel and earn even more profit) to save 3 minutes 15 seconds on their daily commute (~66% faster) - like this real-life demo comparison video shows on The Boring Company's landing page - https://www.boringcompany.com/?

I think people who are thinking the Loop and Hyperloop systems are going to fail are simply ignorant, unaware of where the product is already at, and/or they simply don't have a developed business-competition mind.

To the naysayers, it's akin to them saying pedestrians will never use a subway system - and with those systems initially it was private developers who made specific lines, only for cities to eventually buy out the individual owners so they could create a cohesive system for the citizens who's economies and people depended on.

Demand for the product is what will lead to these tunnelling systems becoming widespread - conveniently Elon needs the technology for his Mars project as well - and it will be investors who trust what they already see, and their own understanding and passion for the product, who invest funds to develop the technology further to build more tunnels and develop more revenue streams.
I've been prone to long persistent coughs and colds ever since I was a kid (I'm in my 40s now)... until about two years ago... when I started diligently vocal training 30 - 60 mins a day.

It's crazy how much of a positive effect it's had on my overall health. I've only gotten sick twice in the last two years, both lasting no more than a few days. (Compared to many times a year, typically lasting 2 - 4 weeks.)

I don't know if there have been any real studies done on this, but my hypothesis is that vocal training works the whole respiratory tract, improving blood flow, strengthening lungs, and flushing out toxins regularly. Whatever it is, it's quite amazing.

Bonus, I can sing better now :-)
Memory initialization is really slow. On servers there is that, plus the fact that you usually don't want to do a fast ram check like you can afford on a laptop. Add to that initialization of the remote management, SAS/raid,... A server does a pretty thorough quality control when it boots. Also if you have a lot of mechanical drives, there may not be enough power budget to spin them all up at the same time, so they start progressively.
> it's a garbage collected, OO language, not really appropriate for low level / systems level programming

I'm of the impression that Swift is reference counted, which, while technically a kind of GC, is also appropriate for low level / systems programming (which isn't to say that Swift is a good language for low level / systems programming; only that its memory management isn't the disqualifying factor).
Nonsense and not productive in any way.
Indeed, let's break it down:

The scheme (https) is implied but isn't transmitted anywhere. An adversary can infer you used HTTPS because it was port 443 and looks like TLS traffic.

The hostname (www.duckduckgo.com) is somewhat implied by the destination IP address on the connection, and is also transmitted in the clear as part of TLS Server Name Indication so that the receiving server knows which service you wanted. In TLS 1.2 and earlier the site's certificate is also transmitted in the clear (but this is fixed in TLS 1.3). Encrypting SNI is a work-in-progress.

The path and query string are encrypted. An adversary can't discover what they are, nor can they tamper with them successfully. The total overall amount of data sent is not hidden, but clients can (though most do not) add padding to hide exactly how much of this was "real".

The fragment identifier (#foo) is not transmitted anywhere it remains only on the client (web browser).

Headers, body and so on of both request and response are encrypted, and the same caveat about an adversary knowing how much data was transmitted and when applies.
this seems to me like another opportunity for chrome to be a memory hog, specially with the extra UI features.

But I am glad to be proven wrong here. Judging by the comments there seems to be a use case for a lot of the user base.
Perhaps the wording is a bit harsh - not everywhere is a cesspool, a lot of places have bounced back, but the rust belt is particularly bad in area of opioid abuse - that is fact and very accurate.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-summari...
In a Sea of Covid-19 Tracer Apps Where Does Apple-Google Stand?
> But what about the US? If all government is corrupt, if all taxes are sin, if all leaders on the other side are traitors to the cause, the people will never respect those in charge. The people don't obey the "orders" nor follow advice.

This is a rather extremist take on the issue. You can be against unlawful orders while still obeying the scientific advisories. Take MA for example, where we have a stay-at-home advisory, not order. This advisory has reduced the average number of close contacts of diagnosed COVID-19 people from 10 to 2, while still respecting civil liberties.

The model you preach, one of trust, starts with the government trusting its citizens. Otherwise you end up with tyranny.
Lomuto's Comeback (Lomuto vs. Hoare Partitioning)
render
verb

1. provide or give (a service, help, etc.).
"money serves as a reward for services rendered"

2. cause to be or become; make.
"the rains rendered his escape impossible"

3. represent or depict artistically.
"the eyes and the cheeks are exceptionally well rendered"

You seem to be stuck on the 3rd definition (there are more, but 1, 2 and 3 cover everything we need here to see how it's appropriate based on both the server and client side actions.

The other way of looking to it is that the server renders [something] to HTML, and the client renders HTML to pixels.

It's quite common to refer to things being rendered to another forms, the term is not owned by processes with a visual output.
I am learning to spin a pen around my thumb. I am getting there. The spins are starting to be pretty aesthetic.
I remember watching this David Attenborough program where he was talking about the hunting techniques of some bushmen in Africa. They did a close-up shot of their feet while out on a hunt and they were wearing regular track shoes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o&t=3m05s

I think they might have been Adidas
I am suspecting that this is specifically targeted at the HPC market as the lack of FP64 has always been a hindrance to HPC deployment.

You have to remember that the HPC market is $35B today. HPE makes $3B a year alone from that, maybe more with Cray acquisition.

So it's no surprise that NVIDIA wants to position themselves on that market.

Plus, you have too look at the long game with MLX acquisition ( heavy player in the HPC market) and Cumulus. I wouldn't be surprised to see NVIDIA trying to bypass Intel/AMD completely and offer Direct to Interconnect device. Rather than the hybrid CPU + GPU box.
https://ipaddress.sh

Simple service to get the public IP address based on IPIFY API.

Lots of services already exist like this and my favorite is icanhazip.com. This is basically the same old service in a more memorable domain name. But it is helping me trying to learn Go and API development. https://about.ipaddress.sh/
You don't need to replace reddit with anything. We functioned fine without it most of our lives. It's time better spent doing a hobby or reading a book or even watching soap operas
Here's some actionable advice. Go to your local president / prime minister. Preferably a populist. Tell them how you see the dominance of a few megacorps as a threat to national security. This argument is especially strong if from your point of view they are foreign megacorps. Throw in something about colonialism if it would help your case. Express your wish that they do something.
No, there is not. The moderation log is only visible by other moderators (of that subreddit, you can't gain access to modlogs of subs you don't mod.)
Yes, obstructionism is just as much a part of democracy as passing legislation, there's no part of democracy that says legislatures have to pass anything presented to them
I don't have enough experience with Swift to agree or disagree with you about it, but it strikes me that there were already Smalltalk-like languages out there that fit this niche somewhat -- such as F-Script -- and Apple could have gone down that road instead of shoehorning Swift into the role.

Objective C already had Smalltalk-style message dispatch syntax, and something fairly close to Smalltalk blocks/lambdas. So it's not like existing Cocoa programmers would have been frustrated or confused.

Clearly the original NeXT engineers were inspired by Smalltalk and wanted something like it, but had performance concerns etc, perhaps there would have been performance concerns with moving to a VM based environment for mobile devices, but I think with a modern JIT these problems could be alleviated. As we've seen with V8, etc..

So I think it was actually a missed opportunity for Smalltalk to finally have its day in the sun :-)
I was annoyed so I built a Zapier alternative
If you've gone to doctors and haven't pinpointed the issue, you may have acid reflux. Try Nexium for two weeks.
Woman stalked by sandwich server via her Covid-19 contact tracing info
That’s a bit weird, he seems pretty pro privacy. I know he voted against the Real ID thing (including the version that was tacked on to a spending bill which was how it passed.)
> if all leaders on the other side are traitors to the cause

Excellent comment, just one thing bothered me: even more insipid then the above is the "all politicians are crooks" cynicism.

"Anyway you look at it you lose..."
Yes, even Mssr. Simon....
Your computer mic will be biased towards vocal range frequencies anyway. Components of the voice that are unpleasant are in the upper mid range around 3-4k i think. For smoother voices what you really want is specialised compression to get rid of sibilance (hissy s sound) and plosives (low frequency large air movement caused by b, d, p sounds) from listening to a lot of voice calls recently though I think most machines do quite a lot of this automatically. The key here thou is don't get too close to the mic as it exaggerates these effects.
I wrote a long reply to someone on the Graphhopper forum who was trying to do similar to you. This may be helpful: https://discuss.graphhopper.com/t/can-someone-make-a-video-t...

I'll probably write a blog post on how it's built though - there's quite a lot going on under the hood!

Supporting cycling is a possibility for the future. I don't think you'd want to absolutely exclude non-cycleways (as it might make many routes impossible), but you could certainly weight very heavily against them and show on the map which parts of the route were dedicated to cyclists vs which were not.
Presumably LLVM closes the gap significantly?
There is certainty propaganda and marketing hitting HN. It just doesn't have the number of eyeballs that reddit has, so the effort is lower.
It seems like the TF32 format is similar to BF16 but with 3 more precision bits (in other words, it is FP32 with 13 low-order bits dropped instead of 16).

Full adders in FP units scale with the square of the mantissa bits, so if the number of mantissa bits stay the same, they can reuse the existing units.

Since Nvidia already has existing FP16 units on die, using those units for TF32 calculations probably doesn't cost too much additional die area.
I usually try to reset things a few times a day, and get back to one or two open tabs for the task at hand.

It’s seems many people who go the other extreme don’t use desktop apps but rather have to have a tab for Jira, a tab for Asana, a tab for email, a tab for chat (or three), a tab for music, etc. I use desktop apps and keep most of them hidden with notifications off; My brain kinda falls apart when there are too many things open at the same time!
x = 0
y = 1
x+y = 0
z = x+y

What is z?
My official office (which I rarely go into) is about a 30 minute drive away. But to your point, we have another office in the city. It's not really that big a deal for me to take commuter rail in now and then (or drive in early). But it's still about 90 minutes each way.

OK for a day or so a week. But that's a huge chunk out of your day if it's a daily thing.
>The solution to Zoom fatigue is to eliminate meetings where the purpose is to share basic facts & information.
Save meetings for collaboration, relationship-building, and working on thorny problems.

Just an fyi to avoid derailing the topic...

The "fatigue" the author is talking about is not about frequency of useless and redundant meetings.

Her usage of "fatigue" is specifically talking about bad sound quality and some ideas on how to change the acoustic environment to improve it.

Whether everybody in the press uses "zoom fatigue" the same way I can't say. In any case, it's the fatigue from suboptimal sound environments is how the author of this thread's article is using it.
yet another system for managing teams and holidays :)
I have been working on a Kahoot alternative, Please find it on https://github.com/surajcm/darkhold . At work, we use Kahoot a lot to have fun tech quizzes and it really inspired me to create an opensource alternative with spring boot.It is not a complete clone (I don't want to be in trouble with copyright issues), I used some of the interesting functionalities to create a qurantine remote quiz tool. Any feedbacks are welcome :)
From the video it sounded to me that the 100s billions of triangles were from single instance geometry. The models they mention in the video are in the ball park of >1 billion triangles each (that's 12 Gb per model). So if they have 100 models of that resolution, that's 12 Tbs, and whether they instance each model 1 or 100 times doesn't matter much because the problem of having to fit those 12 Tb in triangles somewhere still remains.

That's why it seems much more plausible to me that they are not storing triangles anywhere, and instead just storing geometry images.
shrug That's the risk you take whenever you learn anything new--maybe it won't be useful.

The alternative is, of course, never trying anything new or learning anything ever again. Your call!
The "5 paragraph essay" (intro, 3 points, conclusion) is basically what you outlined but without the opposing points section, which sound valuable to include.
Is there a video or something?
The throughout is fast but nvme drives have much more latency than RAM.
https://flipso.com/ — Mix of Posterous and Tumblr. B/C 2006 was a great year.