skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that person can go through the process themselves to pass the arbitration, then set the bot running again.

That is not scalable, which is exactly the point.
This is a poor explanation in the article.

The basic effect isn't hard to understand: A whale is a lot of biomass, i.e. they store carbon. Dead whales don't completely release all that carbon. And whales help other organisms thrive, which is more biomass and stored carbon.

Here's a better article on the effect:
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/12/natures-s...
> any program benchmark tests

Don't think installation size or length of time taken to set up the program really qualify as a "program benchmark test", so he should be fine
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Go deploy a standard Oracle 19c multitenant database on windows server 2016, time it, then come back and post results.

I bet its pretty close to 30m based on experience.
I am still not convinced by Kubernetes, but you make a good point.
Oracle may very well want to litigate it. I doubt they care about the optics.

This is the well-known DeWitt clause, so named because Oracle crafted it to squelch database research being performed by Dr. David DeWitt. I believe these clauses should be clearly ruled as illegal, but to my knowledge they still persist. Details here:
https://dwheeler.com/essays/dewitt-clause.html
Larry loved those full banner Exadata claims against competitors in your airport terminal. A week later, they’d be gone after HP/Dell/IBM/Cisco sent the lawyers to contest.

Larry would just rotate the banner, mission accomplished, no fine with a retraction.

Since competitors make bank selling Oracle solutions and can’t publish a bmark w/o his permission he doesn’t need to litigate. It’s his ocean.
Agreed, also if my shower had a button that turned the water on for thirty seconds, I’d use it for a Navy shower
Exactly. I found the bouncing animation genius, as it always reminded me of a toddler impatiently jumping up and down for attention. Doesn't mail.app do this?
Allowing signups without phone numbers serves as a honeypot.
They own SodaStream already, and you can get syrup packages of Pepsi Max, 7up etc.
I'm writing a blog post titled, "if you think about it, hackers are kind of like AIs."
I work for a company that switched from Java to Go last year. There's still some legacy Java code but it's steadily being replaced. Though I'm not on that side of the business (backend) so I rarely interact with either language as an embedded dev.
Realworld [1] is the closest thing I know. The implementations usually have everything except the list of tools necessary to actually run and develop the app.

[1]: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
You are being divided internally by a domestic force. BlackLivesMatter vs everyone, putting male against female, isolating individual by destroying nuclear family. Putin should be last of your concerns.
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Ask HN: Ever wonder if you would be happier doing something else?
I sometimes wonder if I have an unhealthy relationship with programming. At its worst I find myself getting really frustrated and impatient when things aren't working, but even in the best of times - when I would describe what I'm doing as "fun" or "satisfying" - I feel like I'm just indulging my OCD and neuroticism by relentlessly chasing purity, simplicity, performance. I get obsessive about always making my code more perfect, to the point where it can give me a headache. And I sometimes feel like this builds mental habits that spill over into the rest of my life, making me more impatient and anxious and restless. It's to the point where I'm almost wondering if I should change career fields.

Can anyone relate? How did you cope? Did you change careers and become happier?
Ah, SLAs. It seems to me from having read quite a few standard sorts of ones for web systems or APIs that they’re a profitable racket, typically a total scam.

Simplifying and extrapolating, it seems to me that they normally boil down to this: “if our product that you pay us $1,000 per month for, upon which you depend so that you would incur losses of $1,000 per hour if it was down, goes down¹ for more than 43 minutes in any given month (half an hour of downtime is all hunky dory, right? 99.9% looks good, right?), we’ll give you back 10% of your monthly fee for every hour it’s down, up to your monthly fee (so now from minute 43 for the next ten hours you’ll only lose $900 per hour!)”.

From the ones I’ve seen, I can’t understand why anyone would pay for them, because they seem to be utterly toothless.

I mean seriously, I’d prefer to offer that kind of SLA to all users on any product at no cost: it shows I’m serious about the product and care, and practically costs little (the absolute disaster case is a month’s revenue) and can be perceived as a goodwill gesture if it ever needs to be invoked.

The idea of charging people extra just to say “yeah, I’ll actually provide the service you already paid for” rubs me the wrong way. But I bet some business types would baulk at not having this SLA line they can upsell on.

Am I being unreasonable?

¹ For some excessively strict definition of “down”, so that we might only count half of the actual downtime.
I suggest learning make. It is a wonderful language. Start with the GNU make manual.

When you find yourself manually listing the .h files that a c/c++ file includes, learn how to generate .d files (it is in the manual, but stack overflow has some better patterns).

Then, figure out how to use make to automatically generate the list of source files required to build each binary. At this point, your makefile will have surpassed the usability of cmake in my opinion.

Soon after that, you’ll think you need recursive make to deal with vendored dependencies. Instead, read “recursive make considered harmful”.

At that point, you’ll start to hit rough edges, but you’ll be well beyond a “small project”.

Next on my make reading list is the BSD ports system.

I’ve heard bazel is a decent make replacement, but I haven’t used it.

Ninja doesn’t aspire to be one, and cmake/autotools are the reason I decided to go with raw make in the first place.
Or MailMate¹.

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¹ — https://freron.com/
Why not? Installation time and disk size are two values that may be important for some customers, and measuring those might therefore be considered benchmarks.
I wrote a SIMBL plugin at one point to neuter applications that did this too much (actually, I forked it from someone who wrote it for Spotify). Trying to grab my attention in a persistent, repetitive way for something that is minor drives me up the wall.
That's not a problem. If a person is indistinguishable from a bad/rogue/misbehaving bot, it's much better for everyone to ban them.
RFC2369 from 1998 is "very new"? Funny. I guess it's either a matter of perspective.

Adoption of it doesn't matter insofar that you can use the same link in the body as a fallback, which was part of my suggestion.

"ESPs" don't care because cumbersome and convoluted multi-step unsubscribe is a selling point for the majority of people who use such systems. They have moved from simple mail based unsubscribe which was the norm for years.
> That's not a very useful comparison. Databases are made to execute queries, not to install them. The only useful metric is performance and features (and price, of course). Sure, Oracle is bloated and pain to manage, but if it works faster, provides unique features and costs less in the end, people will use it.

Initial installation may not matter much but long maintenance windows directly lead to higher costs. If every patch requires a 60-90 minute downtime, you're going to pay for that in production deploy time.
I'd be very surprised if Google or Microsoft acquired them because it would set them back close to $90bln (75% premium on market cap). Google and Microsoft IMO will give Zoom the treatment Snap received from Facebook. Imitate all features, integrate them into large ecosystem and user base, then ignore them into irrelevance.
You're right, but only for pre-Haswell chips, where al etc. are renamed separately. From Haswell onwards, they aren't, and depend on the old value. So movzx eax, al gets you mathematical independence, but not out-of-order independence. There's a bunch more detail in this Stack Overflow question (referenced in the one you linked): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45660139/how-exactly-do-...
That, and a huge ERP thing.
What about COVID-19 coverage led you to your conclusion?

Can you please share examples of specific news reports that we’re non-factual?
Cloudwatch is pretty awesome.
Tip: can be easily accessed from your app using the DDG Answers API:

https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=random+person+name+generator&i...
Let me Google that for you: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=hump...
Everyone here knows precisely what was being discussed. Me, the writer, you. Why quibble?
SUSE is reasonably popular (it's to Europe as Red Hat is to the USA, if I understand right), and SLES is (like openSUSE) RPM-compatible, making it reasonably friendly to large enterprise software packages (like, say, Oracle DB). I'd expect most people using Oracle DB to be doing so on either SLES or RHEL (or some derivative of the latter, like Oracle Linux).
Yes, most people using Python on Windows have encountered Christoph Gohlke's massive unofficial win32/64 Python wheel site at one point or another.

Not sure why the power-that-be don't just make that the official wheel site for Windows binaries.
The original comment was about how few packages and how little space Postgres takes. PostGIS is good but it pulls in a lot of extra packages.

I hate Oracle as much as anyone but this is no longer a fair comparison. If you’re bragging about how good PostGIS is, you’re no longer anywhere near a 66MB install. More like (IIRC) 5 to 10 times that.
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> Though, admittedly, it’s less of a CPU cost than minimizing the window, since that requires the view to be kept active too, to facilitate updating the live thumbnail.

I thought that was a static thumbnail?

> For example, Activity Monitor doesn’t suddenly stop using half your CPU when you hide it.

It does for me, which is why I keep it hidden when I’m not actively using it.
Saw students like me recommending some professional and texting them for grade changes.
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Seems like it’s malnutrition rather than hunger as understood by most people ... and the proposed solution is basically GMOs... which unfortunately gets a bad rap.
Feedback & technical discussions highly appreciated!
Did Indian govt respect vote in Kashmir (Hong Kong and Taiwan enjoy a lot of freedom I can’t say the same for Kashmiris who are still prisoners at military gunpoint in their own place)? Did US tried votes for black minorities if they want to form a separate country or in Guam and Guantanamo Bay or even accepted the verdict of the people of Puerto Rico and these 2 are the largest democracies. If in a majoritarian politics outcome for minority is same as China than really both systems are having an issue with protecting minorities.

Even in HN by downvoting comments minority view is turned unreadable, this is same in USA, India or China where systems work based on majoritarian politics.
> Oh, and Epstein didn’t kill himself

Is this even disputed?
upcycling is also used I believe
Bad move.

Zoom will still get hacked if the minimum security isn't enough, then they will have to blame their potential customers for their own problems while their brand is smeared.
I am no expert either, but I just checked Wikipedia on Reed-Solomon codes [1]:

> By adding t check symbols to the data, a Reed–Solomon code can detect (but not correct) any combination of up to and including t erroneous symbols, OR locate and correct up to and including ⌊t/2⌋ erroneous symbols at unknown locations

So it looks like you would have to choose between, either:

A) correcting 6 bits OR
B) detecting 12 bit errors.

No?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...
Almost all "research" I've seen in this domain is politicized bullshit. I assume even if it isn't, the ones that get air do not get it because of merit; but because it suits someone's political axe-grinding.
> It more than "looks bad", it actively stifles conversation and keeps it at probably around the "ad hominem" tier of disagreement

If it happens a lot and without a given reason it certainly does, but it isn't such a black and white issue that it has to be stopped at all costs. When someone points out very suspicious patterns over multiple names, comments, similar threads that are more likely to have astroturfing or bots etc. and mods pop in to say not to talk about astroturfing and bots because it doesn't happen, that's not helping keep the site to a higher standard.

I don't doubt it is a priority and people are working on it, and I don't think the reply here that has no examples is worthwhile, but an all or nothing attitude doesn't help, because it is the reality of the internet.
For those still on Oracle, why? Is it regulations or executives demanding certified solutions?

And if so then with so many bugs at what point does certification become a negative signal?
Wait, I can do all these with s3 and lambda at any scale - for pennies :) Will probably take few hours to set everything up with tools like stackery.io

So once again, why developers need kubernetes for? If the most simple problem becomes a habitholy mess :)
I can only think of one use case: filling out form data that you don’t want to use your real identity.

Any others?
They say they built it in 30 days but I remember an elixir job ad from last year where they were already hinting at selling directly to consumers.

Found it: https://www.pepsicojobs.com/main/jobs/206608BR?lang=en-us
That is a problem with the implementation that is simply fixable by removing the unsubscribe headers from the forwarded emails. Or marking unsubscribe links in a way that makes the forwarder remove them automatically.

Someone on the other hand was trying to wave away the whole idea of one-click unsubscribe due to this which seems to me more like lobbying towards adding another step requiring one to put their email in in order to unsubscribe (or put it another way - decreasing the unsubscribes).

So auto filled unsubscribe needs to exist. I never want to go back to the universe where that is not regulated and easy-to-use. Also in the UK there’s still loads of physical paper spam and I would hate if that was also the case for e-mails.
Right but by that metric Oracle is archaic.

Just look at Postgres[0] supported column data types and then look at Oracle[1]. Better data types means more tightly defined columns, which means fewer bugs/less defensive programming/reduced maintenance/reduced code complexity.

No doubt someone will be along shortly to tell me "you don't NEED it!" and then tell me how to hack constraints into making it act like something it is not, but I don't care. I have no interest in "forcing" Oracle to act like a modern database through repeatedly having to re-define 30+ year old common data types (e.g. Int32, Int64, Long, Bool, etc).

As a developer I /hate/ working with Oracle. It is just cludgy. I don't care how many times people point to vague indefinables for why it is "superior," it sucks to work with. Microsoft Sql Server is better, and Postgres/Sqlite are superb.

Just the fact Postgres has a date (with no-time) column means it outright wins. In Oracle, we stored them as <Date> 12:00 but that's a gotcha since it can get timezone adjusted in the pipeline (e.g. <Date> 12:00 becomes <Date> 08:00) and the result be subtly broken. Cannot time-zone adjust a real date type.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/datatype.html

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28318/datat...
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Photosynthesis uses C02 to convert sunlight to energy which is used by the organism and oxygen, as a byproduct, which is released. The more phytoplankton there are, the more CO2 is removed and converted to oxygen. It's exactly the same reason rainforests are good, there's just a shit ton more plankton than there's ever been trees, and their photosynthesis is efficient.

https://earthsky.org/earth/how-much-do-oceans-add-to-worlds-...
The latest release has multi-threaded vacuuming so it goes much quicker these days.
Easy: solve 5 captchas (all known captchas of course, not 2 knowns and 3 unknowns) a day for 2 days and you get authorized again. Next violation, solve 5 captchas per day for a week. Next one, 5 per day for a month.
Now that you’ve said it you have to make it happen!
Please add (2014) to the title.

Back then, the latest plot twist in local storage hadn’t happened: https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/apple_relax_were_not_...
My first two years as a manager
In countries with a lot of suntime, it can be as simple as a black tank/radiator outside. 3-6 months of free hot water with absolutely minimal investment.
Jesus, what a bullshit. It's not about screen size, it's about reading experience. If you think that longer lines making something easier to read - try to read non-trivial book with 100 characters width.
We really enjoyed listening to the audio version read by Chris Sohre

https://soundcloud.com/charleseisenstein/the-coronation-read...

There are multiple readers to choose from, English and German: https://charleseisenstein.org/voice-recordings/the-coronatio...
Chances are, he lives in a country where essentially saying "by purchasing our product you agree not to tell anyone how bad it is" is unenforceable. That might even include US.
In the public forum, Eliot’s stature does seem to be high. Yet I wonder how many people celebrating him are under the age of thirty. Readers over thirty are likely to have discovered him in decades past when, firstly, there was more of a culture of actual print books (Eliot’s long and intricate verse works best on the physical page), and secondly, much of the canon (and the whole idea of a canon) had not yet been so savagely criticized as white, male and elitist.

Readers under the age of thirty, on the other hand, may have grown up discovering poetry through a phone screen, and for readers who believe that favoring female and minority voices is a moral and ethical issue, Eliot’s male and privileged background works against him.

Thus, while Eliot’s stature is momentarily high because readers of an older generation with older values are presently in a position of authority and can celebrate him, I suspect a critical backlash in the years to come.
Funny, but this is equivalent to "Mathematics for Astrologists":

2+2 => You are a pair number.

Astrology is much more detailed and permutation-dependant than this.
I think it’s pretty simple. Word wrap the way a N-character wide linter would
Puppies are supposed to be separated from their parents no earlier than about 6-8 weeks old. Critical socialization time is the first 3 months of their life. (Or so. These numbers vary by region and amount of caring; I'd rather have the puppies spend more time with the mom than less.)
My bet is they’re repurposing the delivery vans and light trucks normally used to restock restaurants, vending machines and like. If they get the route planning right it’s not so bad but probably gives worse margins than their grocery store channels.
Mac Mail supports the Exchange proprietary HTTP API, while all the other clients only support IMAP. HTTP is much more efficient and seems more resilient against temporary network issues (due to the lack of a persistent connection).
> More generally, I find that some AI researchers and practitioners with strong theoretical backgrounds tend to dismiss this kind of paper as "merely" engineering.

It's just that this kind of work is more interesting as a general member of the public than as an AI researcher.

As a human being I find it really interesting to see where this kind of models can take us. I was amazed playing with GPT-2 online demos and seeing to what extent it could generate text that looked like what a human could produce. With its quirks and problems, but still impressive. And I can't wait to put my fingers on a GPT-3 online demo.

But as an NLP academic researcher (and this is not hypothetical, I'm actually one), what do I learn from this paper? What importance does it have to my research? Actually very little. You need more than 350 GB to fit the 175B parameters in memory, currently the largest GPU I can access has 24 GB (and I can access only one of those, which I use to -barely- run BERT-large). The cost of training the model in the cloud is estimated to be $12 million (https://twitter.com/eturner303/status/1266264358771757057). This is a single training run, not including any neural architecture search, bug fixing, etc. So even though for an academic researcher my funding situation is not bad at all, I'm like a couple of orders of magnitude away from being able to do anything meaningful with models of this size, and can't expect that to change for at least 8-10 years (by which point, at the pace NLP evolves, this will be ancient history anyway).

On the other hand, of course very often you learn useful ideas from papers that you can apply yourself even if it's not by implementing the same models in the paper, but that's not the case either. Here the lesson learned is "bigger is better" and I cannot train these enormous models, so there is not really much here that I can apply.

So as an academic researcher, really there isn't a lot to do with this apart from shrugging, and basically dismissing it and just keeping trying to do our best with what we have. Which is still useful, at least if we don't want NLP applications to be in the hands of an oligopoly of megacorps and restricted only to the few most economically viable languages.
You must be a Catenoid, because that's exactly what a Catenoid would say.
> I don't know why but it infuriates me when icons bounce on the dock for attention. The animation is too insistent for whatever trivial thing the app wants to let me know.

The animation is fine, it’s just that bad app developers abuse it for the most trivial things. I’m looking at you, Music.app and Microsoft AutoUpdate.app. (“You’re playing music elsewhere” for the former, which I am not but thanks for suggesting I’m trying to be a pirate; “I finished one part of a multi-part update and automatically continued” for the latter.)
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> We need to get back to looking at more creative models in both the software and hardware domains.

That would be pretty foolish, given the fact that every hand crafted model eventually gets surpassed with brute force. A better use of time would be tackling whatever you mean by "complexity of further scaling has reached geopolitical proportions". I'm not a fan of it, as it is terribly inelegant, but denying the years of consistent brute force wins would just be silly.

The best strategy for any nation with an interest in AI (be it economic or something much more skynety) would be securing two things very quickly: fabrication capacity and nuclear power, because this stuff is going to be measure megawatts - not ANN layers. Improving the efficiency of that conversion would certainly be helpful, but history has shown that to be a lower priority, just take a look at how ridiculously deep software stacks are compared to 20 years ago. I really wish the linguists had been proven right in the 1970s...
Try to disinfect the cloaka maxima that is a flooded city
My first thought was "that needs a high pressure pump" haha, which would kind of defeat the purpose. Probably still way less water usage though.
Yeah, bad tools shouldn't justify bad decisions. Build better tools god damn it.
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