skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I once worked at a company that had backups of all the data. Until they needed a backup and discovered they were not readable. Months of work were gone.
This would be much more productive conversation if someone explained what they mean by Google being in bed with NSA and shared a link.
My point is that having to act older and missing out on adolescence has nothing to do with academic acceleration. If you are 15, spending your schools time going to an educational Institution, it doesn’t matter what the level of the material is. The only reason you where in a situation where you felt the need to act older and felt you missed you adolescence was because academic acceleration isn’t accepted, so kids who do well end up being put into the social context of much older students in order to get education at an appropriate level.

Think of it this way, when adults go and take primary Spanish because they want to learn the language late in life, we don’t put them together with Spanish preschoolers, and why would we?

Yet it seems kids being a bit brighter is perceived as such an extreme oddity in our society that the only way to get access to college level education is to literally go to college. Doesn’t that just seem odd to you, even having gone through it?
> Professor Stephen Hawking is not to be pennied. This is not actually a rule, but is now widely accepted after two Robinson College students attending a Caius College formal hall were fined in excess of £50 and given a lifelong ban from the college for pennying his dessert.

Hah!
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The paper is a bit odd. It feels like a lot of things are missing:

- How are the quantized vectors used to do NNS? Do we have to brute force compare against each codeword?

- In thst case, how many codewords are there? How big is k compared to n? How does changing k affect performance?

- What architecture is used to train the embeddings? We are only given the loss function.

- How fast is the preprocessing step? If we need to do Lloyd's algorithm type iterations combined with training neural nets, this is potentially a lot slower than Faiss which just picks random landmark points.
Mortgages and pension plans are not strictly speaking an expense, you're paying towards an asset. It would be incredibly unfair if wealthy parents could camouflage their wealth just by taking out a big loan on a big house.
Can you point to a good intro on freeganism? Podcasts, YouTube channels, books, blogs?
They want to spur competition among silicon suppliers.

The industry has become dangerously too consolidated, with like of Avago/Broadcomm trying to buy themselves a monopoly.

The big semi look at big dotcoms like Google as cows to milk, obviously they don't like it.
Workarounds like that which detect a particular app running and enable a special mode are called a Shim, Microsoft created hundreds of them to ensure compatibility in new OS versions with popular apps.
The Apollo core is not open source.

There are some other pretty nice and featured 68k cores that are open source (TG68, WF68K30L etc.) but none that is really close to the features and performance of the Apollo 68080.
That's patently wrong[1]

Money quote :

"H.264 is a newer video codec. The standard first came out in 2003, but continues to evolve. An automatically generated patent expiration list is available at H.264 Patent List based on the MPEG-LA patent list. The last expiration is US 7826532 on 29 nov 2027 ( note that 7835443 is divisional, but the automated program missed that). US 7826532 was first filed in 05 sep 2003 and has an impressive 1546 day extension. It will be a while before H.264 is patent free."

(emphasis mine)

[1] https://www.osnews.com/story/24954/us-patent-expiration-for-...
I'm amazed they don't use the development costs to make a desktop Surface like the Mac Mini out of the Xbox Series X internals - may as well order more chips and spread the cost.
Microsoft is not software only, and tech doesn't only mean software as far as I understand it. Or would you say Tesla isn't a technology company?
I would be inclined to agree except people generally have low standards of performance (ofc depending on the industry!).
People also rarely care about the hand of the puppeteer, what keeps the lights on parts especially if we're talking about a prototype.
Yes, the chip team at Apple is likely worth tens of billions on their own. Think about how many companies out there that would pay top dollar to have the chip performance that Apple does. I know the ARM ISA != Intel's X86 but on a perf v perf basis if Apple-level-performance CPUs were available to the mass market Intel would be in a world of hurt and would likely have to drop prices even more aggressively than it does when AMD puts out a competent chip.
You might be thinking of the Joe Rogan podcast episode from late June with Bret Weinstein, formerly professor of biology at Evergreen State College, where the topic of gain-of-function research relative to Covid-19 is discussed in some depth.

Eric Weinstein, Bret's brother, as mentioned in a later comment, is the managing director of Thiel Capital. Eric was last on the podcast in April 2020 where there was some discussion of Covid - perhaps he also discussed gain-of-function coronavirus research which is not a new subject and has been the subject of controversy - even leading the NIH to suspend funding for this category of research in 2014 (that policy was reversed in 2017).
So if they're uncritical of CCP, then they're propaganda. If they sometimes post criticism of CCP, then they're still propaganda. Only if they post non-stop overwhelming amounts of criticism, do you think they are genuine?

If you go down this line, then there is no way any source can ever be seen as reliable, unless they completely conform to your opinion. How is this in any way a reasonable stance?

My Github history is 10+ years long, my software is used by hundreds of thousands of websites all over the world, I've lived in Europe for 25 years, I respect and participate in European democracy, and you suspect that I'm a CCP shill?

My stance isn't even "CCP is good", but "CCP is complicated, it's not what most people think it is, CCP has problems but the mainstream media representation is often blown out of proportion by 70%, more honest/accurate criticism is possible but requires a better understanding".

You say I'm posting "propaganda". Why can this not simply be "my opinion"? I was born in China, my wife is from China, I have family there, I've witnessed many things. Are you seriously saying that I have no legit opinion on my own of what the truth about China is, and that anything I say that disagrees with you must automatically be propaganda and not genuine?

With so much ridiculous, one-sided anti-China rhetoric going on, half of which can be disproven by walking down the street in China for a couple of days, the other half which is sort-of true but people like you pretending that even the untrue part is fully true and not interested in nuanced discussion, is it any wonder that I'm getting tired of that?

I don't even necessarily consider myself "pro-China". I am willing to enter genuine discussions. But have a look at this research paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3637710
People with attitudes such as yours, are pushing me towards the outcome described in this paper. And I'm not the only one, lots of other Chinese I'm in touch with are increasingly getting annoyed by all the unreasonable hysteria.

Have you been to China? Do you obtain information about China from anything other than mainstream media? What makes you so confident that you're so right and that CCP shills are everywhere?
You definition of "long time" and mine are very different. Security camera life cycle is measured in manymany years (min of 5 if not 10+). This move is very sudden for people that have invested thousands of dollars into a security platform only to be told you have 5 months before we leave out out in the cold

Not a good look for UI. I was thinking about using UI protect for myself. But their treatment of UI video customers has me rethinking that
> It's only been a recent trend, and it's more to experiment with new form factors and nudge the PC ecosystem in right direction more than anything else.

> And the recent trend is for software companies to start making their own hardware (AWS making Graviton, Echo products,and Google making TPUs, Pixel) while hardware companies move into software (Apple moving into Apple Music, TV, News).

Define recent? The Xbox came out in 2001, and they were working on media players before then I believe.
With more companies going to WFH and distributed models (even before coronavirus), I think its important for people to learn the skills needed. So I don't see why more (high) schools and universities don't do WFH at least some of the time.

Obviously there is more to university than logging in and watching a video lecture etc. But given the new normal, airs not a bad thing to have to do that sometimes...
I would be interested in seeing an actual "risk analysis" for people from different countries. While I would like no country to have my data, if China/US were the only (and exclusive!) options, I guess the actual risk of negative consequences from "who has the data" is not equally distributed.

I guess, in general, within chinas sphere of influence you are better off having the us have your data and the other way around (e.g., ending up in a chinese prison is 'unlikely' while in europe the same way it's unlikely that ending on an american nofly list or in guantanamo is unlikely while in china). The countries inbetween or people traveling a lot would be more interesting.

Unfortunately, the most likely scenario is that everyone gets the data.

edit: I put "risk analysis" in quotes, because it doesn't feel like the right word for this hypothetical thing.
Yes, I think your example is better because "// Set the value of b to the number of iterations we'll be making" is almost the same as "/ Set the value of b to 3" when the code explains that `b` is used for the iterations.
O i see what you mean,

I would assume Facebook having one successful dev advocate has many benefits:

-if FB is going to build products with React, it is in FB's best interest that there is a healthy React community constantly building new things FO FREE, so now Facebook can easily integrate good ideas/tools built for React into internal systems. I would assume this is huge.

-basically recruit smart/productive devs to FB by interacting with React community on a regular basis

-buys goodwill with dev community

-An additional line of communication into potential customers, when you have a potential sale going on with a customer, if your dev advocate knows important technical leadership people at customer that can help

But really i have no idea :)
Maybe we could get Cadence to open source 20 year old software for the 20 year old 130nm chips!
It doesn't get more ironic than this.
If I have to set RTSP and a secdonry dvr to get off-site backup why would I pay for their overpriced camera's and lose many features
Do you genuinely not understand how someone might buy an unsympathetic publication to leverage its user trust to your own advantage? It is not new, nor China specific.

You have 5 other comments here asserting the same thing.
Believe me, Democrats give zero shits about legal immigration too.
The curriculum in New South Wales, Australia, is changing to be like this.

Students of a certain grade (and thus their teachers) are currently assessed on if they have a certain competency or not. This means a student coming into Year 7 (first year of high school) is expected to know all pre-requisites and is taught only the new content. Depending on which primary school they attended, and their own learning, this can be very hit-and-miss.

Now the intent is facilitate teaching students what they need to learn, but this becomes a lot harder to measure (and to measure the teachers).

A program called "Maths Pathways" is being used in some schools, that isn't tied directly to the new curriculum but is very similar in intent.

It's a computer based program which is self-paced and focuses on progression through the different ideas rather than teaching everyone the same thing this week.
Can't get more Ayn Rand than this. She lived on social security and medicare in the later part of her life after all
> Anyone that isn't able to write modular code using the language features is going to write network spaghetti code, with the added benefit to debug network packets and connection issues on top of everything else.

This is the most important bit. To me microservices is just another way to arrange your system into module, not much different in concept to modules and packages. Regardless of whether you’re dealing with monolithic or distributed system, if your abstractions are poor, your work and your system will suffer.
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Agreed. Great concept and execution.

The "share" feature shows that it also implemented a format to serialize the typing sequence and stores it on server.

If I still write letters to friends, I'd definitely start using this from now on.
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I think at that time, Opterons was THE server processor.
Looks like you are convinced that anybody who doesn't agree with you on China-related topics, is automatically a CCP shill. Let's completely ignore my long online history too. This is not a reasonable stance. It would be as reasonable as me calling you a CIA agent because of your non-stop "anti-China propaganda" (which is actually just your opinion, misguided as I believe it is).
> And are there specific vector spaces where one ANN is preferred? Or will there be some universal approach that just works for everything?

This is a great question for research right now. Basically euclidean (and inner product) search is quite well understood, but for distance measures such as edit distance we still have no idea what the best approach is.

The most general result is
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8555102
, which works for all normed spaces.

However it is possible that people will try to just map everything to inner products using neural networks.
Yep, it's better than the one used in OP's link.
https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
Absolutely agree. My biggest lightbulb moments with testing have come when needing to do significant refactoring. Without tests, I feel aimless because it's hard to get feedback about whether the refactoring has 'worked'. With tests there's a nice, tight feedback loop. Not saying it gives any guarantees, in my experience it has dramatically increased how quickly I could improve the code - to the extent where in some cases I wouldn't have even tried in the absence of tests because I wouldn't have been confident I could improve it.
> You enjoy drinking but consider having social fun while doing so...

He's talking about drinking games. He's said nothing about being against social fun per se, just a comment on drinking games.
> they were running controversial experiments to find out how they might mutate to become more infectious to humans. This “gain-of-function” work is described in papers released by the WIV between 2015 and 2017, scientists say. Shi’s team combined snippets of different coronaviruses to see if they could be made more transmissible in what they called “virus infectivity experiments”.

It would be nice if they cited the papers, because I think they're actually talking about experiments done in North Carolina, not in Wuhan. For example, there's this paper from 2016,[1] based on work done in Ralph Baric's lab at UNC. The paper described research done on a viral strain discovered by researchers from Wuhan (WIV1 stands for "Wuhan Institute of Virology 1"), but the actual gain-of-function experiments were done in the North Carolina.

> Ebright alleges, however, that the type of work required to create Covid-19 from RaTG13 was “identical” to work the laboratory had done in the past. “The very same techniques, the very same experimental strategies using RaTG13 as the starting point, would yield a virus essentially identical to Sars-Cov-2.”

The gain-of-function research described in paper [1] would not create anything "identical" or even remotely similar to SARS-CoV-2. It created a chimeric virus that is completely different from anything found in the wild. If that virus were to escape, it would be instantly recognizable as something artificial.

Richard Ebright is not a virologist. He's one of the only biologists with any sort of semi-respectable position pushing the lab leak theory. But from discussions with actual virologists, they're pretty disdainful of him. They think he doesn't know what he's talking about, and is taking advantage of the moment to further his crusade against gain-of-function research (he's been arguing against it for years). He's been giving non-stop interviews with news media for months. Basically any article pushing the lab leak theory will quote him. But he has no actual expertise in virology, and the specific claim he's making here about gain-of-function research is false.

1. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/11/1517719113
[shrug]
> Investment stopped because giant monolith plants are difficult build and operate profitably.

They are highly profitable, they just require long-term investment to be profitable. They typically won't turn a profit for 10-20 years, but on a lifetime of 40-50 years that should be acceptable.

> I personally can't believe that people still use "public dislike of nuclear power" as the main argument why nuclear power failed.

I'm not trying to call it a conspiracy. It's well known that most early anti-nuclear-power activism was from anti-nuclear-weapons proponents. It's also clear that several big economies rolled back nuclear power investment directly due to the public perception of what happened at Fukushima. Germany was the best example of this.
> I don't think even the most undisciplined of developers just writes code and assume that it works.

What does 'works' mean? Implements this narrow bit of functionality / change? Or doesn't break all the other features it's piled on top of?

It's not a question so much of whether a developer thinks they're testing, so much as what they're trying to achieve.
Anywhere I can, as long as I can confirm the info is useful and correct.

Survival is sourcing primarily from stuff like the Boy Scout Handbook, the SAS Survival Guide, a few other online resources and a farmsteading book from the 60s-70s that I can't recall right now. That will be the v0.1 draft, and I'd like to practice some of the techniques as well to provide hands-on feedback on what's easier or harder.

Volume 2 is a vague outline, and probably needs to be combined with vol 3 and fleshed out before splitting in two (or more) pieces to research and write.
That falls into "newest consumer toys". The bulk of the IC chip is no where near 14nm process.
Oh no... Thanks for the heads up. The survey was previously embedded in an iframe, so pushed a fix for that now.
Really you don't see that influence
They're only several hundred years late - us Brits have been using yeast to clean up our water into nice safe beer for a long time!
Home user also. I will no longer be buying or recommending UI products.

Looks like I am off to find a new networking vendor. Maybe mikrotik
Yes, but does it say "in the course of your employment"?

The "whether or not during working hours/using company's equipment" part just covers the case where you are working late, etc. If your contract contains the phrase "in the course of your employment", then you can still work on a hobby project and it remains yours, because you didn't work on the hobby project "in the course of your employment" (you were not asked to build the hobby project)
I have heard anecdotally that a significant and growing number of children and young people have difficulty reading analog clocks.
Note that I meant Saruman, not Sauron. Unlike most of LOTR characters, Saruman is a very modern and enlightened kind of person striving for "Knowledge, Rule, Order", but using Machiavellian means to achieve this purpose. Maybe Sauron was also initially led by good intentions, one would have to look it up in Silmarillion.
I have seen too many badly written tests, so I tend to agree. Most tests will just fail on any change in the UUT, giving you lots of false positives. This ultimately results in fixing the tests instead of the UUT and blurring the initial intention of the test.

Writing testable code is not about dependency injection etc. It's about having the behaviour of a unit clearly defined. This can be done explicitly in text, but also implicitly by using the component in a certain way. If anything beyond that behaviour is tested, you start to defining the behavior in the testcase. This is fine, but often happens unintentionally leading to a very weird and very specific definition of the behaviour.

For example, I work on a component that generates a configuration. I know that the order of lines of the output doesn't matter and should not matter. But the initial author wrote tests that fail if the order changes, because they just check the output against a string.
I think Apple's move to Arm64 will make Hakintosh community get in deep trouble, and possibly newer devices sale for Apple's mac lines.
You don't need micro services to do DDD - you can do DDD within a Django app. I'm not a Django man myself, but a quick google shows several projects and blogs discussing it.

In essence, DDD forces you to have conversations about separation of concerns, and then being careful to stick to them. Microservices force that, but you can get the same effect with well-thought out namespaces in a monolith.
Stack the bricks with “OK Moments” rather than bet on “Aha moments”
For those of you scoring at home:

Meanwhile, "Justice [Stephen] Breyer, joined by Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg and Justice [Elena] Kagan, would have upheld the government-debt exception, but given the contrary majority view, agreed that the provision is severable from the rest of the statute," the ruling said.
I own 1 camera from them and self-host on my own network behind a VPN, I want no cloud stuff near something as sensitive as cameras in my home.

Ubiquiti have for me always felt like a hardware company that tried to do software, I'm sad I have to find other options than their NVR, but maybe that is the way forward.