skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a shame and a mistake that PC industry has chosen PCI-Express over the battle tested Infiniband technology as the upgrade for the PCI [1]. Infiniband offers native channel based peer-to-peer connection fabric for disparate nodes and most of of the important CPU bottleneck tasks (e.g. memory protection & address translation) can be outsourced to the Infiniband controller instead of the proprietary ASIC networking controller.

The bottleneck is not only affecting networking but GPU industry as well. That's probably the main reason why Nvidia bites the bullet and bought major Infiniband player Mellanox for close to USD7 Billions deal. The bottleneck is only just bearable for video and games but not when you have to scale the processing of big data AI and machine learning applications.

[1] https://www.mellanox.com/pdf/whitepapers/PCI_3GIO_IB_WP_120....
> no player likes walls of text

I generally agree and I don't like it either, except for Planescape Torment, because it has awesome characters and text.

> With the possible exception of visual novels

I never did understand visual novels. They aren't games, but they aren't good novels either. Plus I don't read Japanese, and judging by the (poor) translations out there, most "visual novels" consist of mostly pressing enter to skip tons of "..." dialogue.
I came to say the exact same thing.. using and endorsing slack makes them a part of the problem.
Except when he gets talking with Gore Vidal.
Well, in fruit salad 1/3 apple + 1/3 orange = 1/3 apple + 1/3 orange. I can say 3 * (1/3 apple + 1/3 orange) = 1 apple + 1 orange.

And then by way of analogy of course, (e apples)^(pi oranges) + 1 apple = 0.
Anything recently put into production has been in development for years. The decision to begin development probably happened before people were even lining up to pre-order the Model 3.

This monster of mechanical complexity is brand new as of a couple days ago. What company is going to commit the next half decade to developing it while watching gasoline engines fade into the background? Especially after watching Nissan's new engine totally flop.
That doesn't make it magically impossible for the PRC to do nefarious things of their own, which I'm sure you'd agree the FBI would gladly publicize.
The core concept kids need to know when adding fractions together is that the denominators need to be the same before you can add the numerators. Your use of units is on the right track, but I think you need to use units for both the top and bottom of the fraction:

(1 girl at table A)/(3 students at table A) + (1 girl at table B)/(3 students at table B) = (2 girls at tables A & B) / (6 students at tables A & B)

vs

(1 boy at table A)/(3 students at table A) + (1 boy at table A)/(3 students at table A) = (2 boys at table A) / (3 students at table A)
How does mathematica fails; does it returns false positive or mathematica returns "no idea how to do it" ?
Ok, you clearly believe in it. But the wider scientific community isn't so sure.
Yes, we implemented that poorly. But other countries have done it better, as my link points out, so it's not like it's the policy which is flawed. The shortcomings of our executive branch are basically the reason we haven't done any of these things well.

But one simple thing we could have done better is to pay the banks a fixed fee, instead of a percentage of the loan, which incentivized banks to ignore the smaller businesses.
It's kind of a combination of all the above. Majority of employees are working for a paycheck and they don’t really care what goes on as long as they get paid. If the person is in an executive type role then their goal is to increase revenue so they convince themselves that it’s good for the company.
go to:

https://aws.amazon.com/products/

look up your service. each service has a 1 line description that captures what it does.

eg Athena = query data in s3 using sql

i don’t really get why people cannot be bothered to learn what a service does and want to pretend they get it from the name. you need to learn the ins and out of the service. the name is the least of your worries.
> I just wonder how frontend developers keep up with that pace.

It's a full-time job. I have a cynical theory that this pace is beneficial to webdevs, because as long as they can keep convincing their employers and customers that they need bleeding edge frontend tech, they can enjoy their absurdly high salaries (as compared with the rest of the industry).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.14.20101691v...

> Areas with large proportions of Black/African American residents are at markedly higher risk that is not fully explained by characteristics of the environment and pre-existing conditions in the population.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1548/rr-19

> There are now seven observational preprints (Abstracts and links below), based on COVID-19 positive patient data, indicating vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency, do indeed factor significantly in COVID-19 severity and mortality – for example, and thought provokingly, 10 to 20 times increases were seen in ICU and mortality in Asian studies.[5, 6] One further USA based study observes vitamin D may factor in COVID-19 infection.[7] Whilst differing in, size and exact approach, results of all preprints point clearly in the same direction.

> Concerningly, vitamin D is often low in high-risk COVID-19-groups, such as, BAME including African Americans, elderly in care-homes, and the obese. Low vitamin D is also increasingly common in young.[8] Studies suggest low ‘D’ factors in Kawasaki disease[9, 10, 11] ; occurrences are increasingly being linked with COVID-19.[12,13]
Similarly, I recall a strain of malware being attributed to Chinese hackers because variable names were in Chinese; then when you actually inspect the code, it's clearly Unicode gibberish generated by an obfuscator... That is to say, the hackers weren't even trying to be misleading, it was just a result of obfuscation reminiscent of mojibake. (I read the article on Ars Technica but don't remember enough details to find the article.)

If I ever code a hacking tool I'll throw in some Korean comments for sure.
Riot Games Adds In-Game Sponsor Banners to League of Legends Esports
This.

A huge amount of stuff can and should be automated by mundane programming. Since that hasn't been done yet, AI isn't about to automate all of the stuff that shouldn't be automated by mundane programming.
Lay-offs and cutbacks in Indian newsrooms 2020: What we know
Synth Music Before Moog
I was reading this thread about Theremin. Did some related search and discovered couple of early samples of Russian music from 1920s that I think is just amazing:

Drawn sounds: https://youtu.be/Z7Zb4rso82M?t=69

Industrial music (1923): https://youtu.be/CjauwKb42d4
Ok, but you're moving the goalposts. The parent said it didn't exist at all.
> Most useful technology is created by state-funded research over decades. The private sector just monopolizes the results.

This is another gross oversimplification at best, and I have yet to hear anyone who has spent significant amounts of time in either public or private sector R&D make such a claim. Real life, and product development in particular, is not so easily reduced to catchy political slogans.
> If you divide that in half (according to your logic) there would still be 800,000 cases in the rest of the U.S. That's still roughly the same amount of cases in the next 3 countries COMBINED.

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but don't you need to adjust for population in order to make a meaningful comparison?
Division on FB started out as squabbles between friends and relatives.

And yet, here we are.
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, I think it was a case of just not thinking critically enough about what I was doing. I knew it was taking a ton of time to edit, but I thought, "Well, that's just an unescapably manual task because you can't automate finding the starts and ends of clips." The silly part was not realizing that I could batch process the clip boundary finding if I used different tools.
Care to elaborate? What are they missing?
Not when formatting is involved. stdio and iostreams are notoriously not particularly fast when it comes to formatting. So, while I don't know anything about this particular library, the 6x figure does not sound suspicious to me.

Source: have spent a fair amount of time working on speeding up human-readable log output, the performance of which tends to be dominated by formatting.
I'm not really that knowledgeable about this. But why is funding limited by geography? Or is it a self fulfilling prophecy?
The Fight Against Covid-19: Bringing Home the Hard-Earned Lessons
Very cool, reminds me of Avatarify, which is also based upon the First Order Model work:

https://github.com/alievk/avatarify
This is well put, and I've worked places where this has happened to customers. Our current domain is in augmenting humans with AI, which avoids the problem you're describing because it doesn't take humans out of the loop at all, but just makes them more efficient at what they were already doing by cutting out a lot of work. So jobs that would take an operator 30 minutes now take 10 because the AI has done most of the usual rote work.
I don't want to jump in on the topic of whether Sweden's response was correct, but there is data to indicate that there is likely some other factor, possibly vitamin D deficiency, at play in addition to social factors. In the UK there's roughly a 4.2 times higher overall fatality rate for blacks than whites, and 1.9 after controls. That isn't enough to explain Sweden's rates, but it does look like it would plays a substantial role alongside socio-economic issues.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
One example is in: https://github.com/arc80/plywood/blob/master/repos/plywood/s...

Here, only one data member is meant to be serialized. The others members are there to accelerate lookups into the first data member. (Full disclosure: that structure isn't actually serialized yet, but the Arc80 Engine which uses Plywood has similar examples.)
Honestly, I'm not sure. It seems like they cover slightly different fields, despite having some overlap. AFAIK, Darknet doesn't natively do a bunch of the image processing work that Sod can do, like edge detection with Canny, because if you wanted that, you'd just use OpenCV.

I'd imagine that based on the licensing, this is probably closer to the open-sourcing (well, sort of, since the commercial applications and GPU training requires a paid license) of an internal tool that the company is using on the backend of their own API-driven machine learning business. So, it covers some things that Darknet isn't really designed to do, since real-time object detection isn't the main area they're really interested in.
Every new Volvo model is now electronically limited to 112 MPH
> Both novels were stolen

It is surprising that as a writer you engage in this misleading usage of the English language. People copying files without your consent may be financially inconvenient for you, in bad taste, even illegal in some jurisdictions, and definitely an ass move. But it is not stealing. You can firmly condemn this behavior without using metaphors.
Facebook thrives on being able to create divides and bias among its users, good or bad.
The US successfully tested a laser weapon that can destroy aircraft mid-flight
I would explain that the "+" sign is not in the right place in the equation and write

(1+1)/(3+3) = 2/6

instead.
Hopefully! The situation will need to deteriorate further before those folks take the necessary actions though.
Fork has an awesome UI/UX
Link without paywall: http://archive.vn/YQeJY
A/B Testing Bio and Other Product Ideas for Tinder to Increase Revenue
I love the term "cyber actor". That's basically like Hugh Jackman and Jonny Lee Miller, right?
Why quarantine has made time feel so weird
Having a DEQNA was the reason they did not love their PDP-11. They were notoriously buggy. Replaced with DELQA. See http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/qbus/EK-DELQA-UG-002.pdf
Show HN: Extension to track and optimize CO2 emissions with PG&E SmartMeter API
A story about WordPerfect from an insider executive https://www.wordplace.com/ap/
Not the decentralized, blockchain-based ones.
I agree that that's an issue. I've spent many hours talking with such users (generally by email) but of course most of them don't contact us.

The goal here is to have a healthy community that's organized around intellectual curiosity. Every time we lose one intellectually curious user, to me that is a disaster that cuts into the core of the site. To the extent that people aren't here because they feel unrepresented in the community, that's a big deal. We need their curiosity as much as anyone's, and diversity—if I may use that word literally—is a must-have for intellectual curiosity to function at all. Curiosity thrives on diffs.

And of course there is a vicious circle: if they leave, then they are even less represented here. I'm open to ideas about improving this. The problem is not that it is overlooked (by us, at least). It's that the same forces that make it hard to solve in society at large make it hard to solve here, and in one respect even harder, because people misinterpret the nature of this community in the way I described above.

This discussion can be tricky because it overlaps with the ideological question, which is not the same thing. Sometimes people want us to ban everyone who expresses the opposing ideology, because that's the only sort of community they feel welcome or safe in. Even if we wanted to do that, it wouldn't work. That does not mean we don't care about inclusion. We care a lot about inclusion. In fact I spend the majority of my waking hours trying to nurture the conditions for it here.

By the way: if any of your friends would be open to it, please send them to hn@ycombinator.com. I would very much appreciate hearing their concerns.
Germany has sharply limited censorship laws. I do not oppose them more out of respect for the victims of Nazism than any genuine agreement that they do good; but I will oppose their expansion. I do not think they are useful; I think they are limited in harm.
Just for additional context several super computing sites in Europe were attacked a few weeks ago and are still down, among them PizDaint at CSCS, which ranks 6th in the world, several super computing sites in Germany (FZ Juelich) and so on. I think no-one wishes this to turn into a kinetic war, but for all we know besides the economic warfare that has been going on for quite some time, this feels like we are in an all out conflict with China.
Or rather just give the money to the author directly. Giving it to Amazon effectively means you support what they're doing.
The Manic Pixie Dream Girls of Antiquity
> If you mean that Facebook should be regulated as a utility, by all means make that argument - I think you’ll find broad support.

In this case, would Facebook become compulsory for American citizens?
Why would you you expect shopping centers to stop wanting to attract EV drivers? It's practically their dream to have everybody wandering around in the mall for an hour or more with nothing better to do than buy stuff because they're waiting for their car to charge.
In the USA, patents are explicitly mentioned in the Constitution and the purpose is to incentivize disclosure, not because the founders were worried about industrial espionage. It would have been awfully difficult for hostile powers to remotely hack our R&D facilities in 1789.
This seems very near the moral vacuity of the "just following orders" defense
I'm curious, why did you have a phone verification feature to begin with; what would've been the impact of unused accounts being created? To me it seems like the verification feature did more harm than good in this case.
Facebook. With absolute certainty.
Separate from the discussion of what is or is not counterproductive / educative, the student's mental model was wrong.

The student was taking the model for ratios and applying it to fractions. If I need to add 2 + 2, and I multiply instead, I did the wrong calculation. It does not matter whether I multiplied correctly, nor does it matter that, in this case, both operations equal four.
Climate models got hotter. Why they might be overshooting
Dr. Widegren's English website is https://henrikwidegren.se/in-english/

His music, in both Swedish and English, is very good.
I wonder why not provide source for benchmarks?
Show HN: Pond (Go) now supports configurable pool resizing strategies
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> Facebook policy chief Joel Kaplan, who played a central role in vetting proposed changes, argued at the time that efforts to make conversations on the platform more civil were “paternalistic,” said people familiar with his comments.

I think Joel was right.
For the weed trimmer and lawn mower I purchased at U. S. chain Lowes, the magic number of batteries is 3. The mower came with 2, and the trimmer with 1. The charger can charge a battery almost as fast as the mower can consume them, so the third is needed for a little slack. You could get by with only two if you're content to get a beverage between batteries.

Theoretically, anyway; with our tiny yard this is seldom tested. Which why I'm annoyed by neighbors that buy a new gas-powered mower. There is not a yard within at least a 3 mile radius of me that can't be mowed by a modern, lithium-battery push mower.
Privately owned infrastructure has good reason to be cheap, that is, competition from of their privately owned businesses. Food distribution network is much more essential than EV charging, and yet food is now cheaper than ever. What matters is not how essential something is, but rather at what cost the service can be provided. If a charging station can expect many customers use it, which will quickly amortize the capital costs of construction, you’ll see charging prices at those stations go not much higher than the operational costs. Otherwise, if the prices are high, this incentivizes new businesses to enter the market and undercut existing producers.

Lots of essential infrastructure is cheap because of competition, like for example electricity generation. There is no reason to believe EV charging will be different.

Of course, it might also turn out that while electricity costs are low, other costs of running charging business are high. If that’s the case, that doesn’t bode well for EV adoption in among people who don’t live in houses.
Note the voting on your questions as opposed to the engagement of the discourse you've started. There are a percentage of users who don't like you asking these questions and a percentage of them who want to understand what these questions mean.

Phone and cable companies do not create polarization because they carry ALL data (usually). Services like Facebook, Twitter and HN all provide the ability to modify the content, in place. This is done with automation (code) and we can expect that automation to become more aware moving forward (AI).

This ability to modify content in place by the companies produces revenue at the same time it creates the ability for some types of divisiveness to form. Humans are divisive, under certain conditions, and there isn't much that can be done about it other than education about how to stop being divisive.

Education becomes impossible when the entities controlling the channels do so in a way that prevent users changing what type of content they see (such as education about how to avoid divisiveness), maybe due to the fact it kills revenue.

Worse, the more choice you give users (free, decentralized internet anyone?), the more some users will choose to introduce behaviors that give way to divisiveness in a given group. Trolls using imagery to build propaganda filled stories.

Trolls have taken over the Republican party, if nobody has figured this out by now. Note how they use strong imagery to glue their never-ending stories together.

It's a no-win situation. The best thing to do is simply walk away from it or maybe build a personal search engine AI crawler thing that works for just you and only you.

"Here's your content, Boss." "Thanks, Sidekick!"
If you’re doing research of any significance in today’s world and don’t have an active security program looking for harmful actions by foreign intelligence your organization opens itself up for all sorts of nasty liabilities. You don’t even have to have an electronic intrusion. The PRC’s government also pays people off as the case of this former Cleveland Clinic researcher shows: https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2020/05/former-cleveland-cli...
Rumor mill has it that more recent ASRock boards, and a few others, ship with a bios option to disable the PSP.

Also, how unlikely is it that we'll see coreboot support? I'd love to see that.
Phone and cable companies are extensively regulated.
Editing plant chromosomes using molecular scissors
Can you elaborate on the consequences? Genuinely curious.
It shouldn't be, but it is. Lots of VCs won't invest outside their network and outside the range of people they can physically influence. Sometimes it has to do with sitting in on board meetings (which is increasingly less relevant). Some of it has to do with who they can pull in from their networks for leadership positions, most of which is geographically concentrated. But in an increasingly more remote-first workforce, I think that's becoming less relevant too.

Honestly I believe this article is written from a perspective that might become increasingly less relevant over time. To your point, geography matters now, but maybe much less so in the not-too-distant future.
> If that intent is demonstrable, there's no reason to assist them in their goals.

But lacking any chance of success, there is also no reason to allow their existence to spoil my goals; that is, liberalism.

I feel like some people read Popper and advocate Censorship as almost the last tool, whereas some people read him and advocate it as almost the first!
Not sure why FL was included in the charts?
“Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” read a slide from a 2018 presentation. “If left unchecked,” it warned, Facebook would feed users “more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention & increase time on the platform.”

According to the article, FB is not taking a passive role in this; they're actively trying to exploit people.
rwoodall.com - can email you more examples
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted. The people who rise through the ranks are exactly the kind unburdened by ethical or moral issues that get in the way of the business generating revenue. In fact, such folks use their short term gains from breaking such implicit expectations to jettison themselves ahead of their peers. As such, this kind of behavior is incentivized.

Those with such issues either quit or work in non controversial parts of the org.
I've been there, obviously not to the level of a facebook board member.

IMO the feeling is not really that different from making choices as a consumer ("was this shirt made by child labor?", "was the animal this meat comes from treated humanely?", etc). People tend to turn a blind eye to those questions unless something comes up that hits close to home.

To be clear, I'm not saying that's justifiable or a good mindset to have, just what I think happens.
I don't get what people are doing to break PSUs or cables. I've never fried a laptop PSU nor destroyed a cable in, whatever, 2 decades of laptops?

I am willing to accept that cables can get damaged, but I don't think a PSU outright failing is something we should accept as "normal". Unlike cables, their longevity shouldn't be related to physical handling.