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> But from my understanding of VideoCoin, nothing seems to be different there at first glance.

I did not mean to imply that VideoCoin solves this issue, just that it is, in my opinion, a clever and functional solution to one or two pieces of this very large puzzle.

> The point isn't to make it impossible for content to vanish, the point is to make it easy for people who do care to archive and share the content that they care about.

My personal opinion is that anything truly viable and useful will need to do both, at least to the extent that this can be done. I have a huge problem with content availability being so dependent on popularity (and likely also temporal factors) and don't really think a system that doesn't inherently support content longevity (whether peers like the content or not) could be considering a big improvement over YouTube or centralized options.

If I had my way, I think a hybrid approach of some sort would be the place to start -- let peers explicitly choose to mirror and help distribute content they care about, but also force all nodes to also devote some % of whatever they're allocating to the platform to mirroring anything the network has chosen to give them after various calculations intended to maximize data integrity and performance.
That's not unique to software, or the modern world at all, though.

Most people have never created the best-in-the-world implementation of anything. The math just doesn't work that way. Only one can be the best. We need to stop turning such unobtainable things into goals.
You can get replacement stickers for around $10 on eBay. Sadly the PS4 line looks a lot better with the stickers on as they hide exposed screws.
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Didn’t watch far, but got to the point where he said there were 247 questions. So maybe he skipped seven?
Then find them and quote them.

We have enough problems dealing with the noise without the ignorant and uninformed jumping in with their convenient hot-takes. I _am_ going to credential-shame them, because this is not a time when we need to listen to idiots and amateurs -- it is time for those people to sit down and shut up.
Technically it may be a reenforcement but Corona Virus has changed quite a few things and it is also a practical fact that a lot of people are stranded and cannot travel to their home countries right now that easily. So you cannot just "enforce" the law and it needs a more balanced approach by the administration. If they don't act according to the current situation, it is not a good thing regardless of what the law is. Immigration is very discretionary when it comes to these types of situations. They can always say "Hey there is this law but considering where we are with Corona, we will give you some flexibility".
First, I extract the links to the news articles by searching them on the home page or sitemaps. Then, for each article I scrap raw html and extract key things like title, description, publish date, authors, etc. Usually each news article has a schema embedded within it, so it greatly simplifies things of extracting article details.
Not the same 'died because of insufficient facilities' curve, not at all. Flattening is so healthcare capacity is not exceeded. Not-flattening has dire consequence, far beyond 'the same area under the curve'. Its the peaks of the curve that trigger the consequences.
Well the original attempt was to close to eliminate it, like many of our peer nations have done. Since we've failed at that, it's going to be touch and go so that we flatten it.
Explicit consent isn't needed if the cookies are required for the site to function. Logins, highscores, shopping carts, etc. can assume implied consent.

Only malicious activity like surveillance requires explicit consent (e.g. via a banner).
You’ve clearly never taken an online class.

Lectures are recorded, exams are usually flexible open windows
What's the perf/$ ratio for these different instances ?

I've also read that the A100 can deliver 4x the performance on some DL workloads.
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Sounds like a great way to discourage people from saying anything they think won't be popular with the echo chamber. Rewarding people with upvotes/reddit gold is bad enough, rewarding them with real money will make it much worse.
It doesn't hurt, of course, but focusing on that may lead people into thinking face coverings are less important. They are by far more important.

"We conclude that wearing of face masks in public corresponds to the most effective means to prevent interhuman transmission"

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/26/14857
Mostly not contagious, though.

1k heart attacks aren't likely to spread to 2k additional people in a matter of a few days.
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I'm pretty sure we'd be in mass hysteria too if it turned out heart attacks or diabetes is contagious.
My wife's online classes are real-time. She logs in at lecture time, asks questions with the other students. Same with section.

We're talking University experience here, which is all about engagement.
Just wanted to note that while in your county the deaths from covid haven't exceeded (yet) 1% of infected, the article you link to states that in Italy, 8% of the infected have died (even though it acknowledges that this is higher than in other countries).
Genuine related question - what is learning TCP/IP good for? When is it useful to know?
Extreme Ownership is great. I thought at first that it was going to be a pure rah-rah book about the military, but it is actually quite practical and generally applicable.
>the company doesn’t win just because it bundles, or because it has a superior ground game. By virtue of doing everything, even if mediocrely, the company is providing a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts

This is also why Atlassian is so popular in enterprises. I don't particularly like Jira or Confluence or Bamboo or Bitbucket/Stash, but they're "good enough", and the way they work together is effectively magic.
We didn't lock down for the Hong Kong flu or similar pandemics, because the damage caused by a lockdown is immense. Health damage caused by delayed cancer screenings and organ transplants. Psychological damage caused by lockdown and unemployment. Unbelievable economic damage. How to respond to a pandemic is a trade-off.

People die in traffic accidents every day. Do we set a nation-wide speed limit of 5 MPH? No. Of course not. We accept that the benefit of travel are worth it, and we strive to make travel safer because every death is a tragedy. That's a balanced approach. For mild pandemics we should also seek such a balanced approach where we protect the old and the vulnerable and let everybody else live life as normal.
Many would argue that the main benefit of studying in the US for an average foreign student is the possibility to live in the US, get some good connection in the US that could help him later and an opportunity to get a job in the US.

If the study is 100% remote, none of these benefits applies anymore, and since the quality of studies itself is comparable to many European or Asian universities, it is hard to justify the cost of US university scholarship.
Yeah, shortly after posting the question I found this coverage of the same results: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/cheap-steroid-first-...
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
> Still not sure why competitors don't have their GPU's offered in cloud services.

AMD has many GPGPUs, but while they have kind of ok-ish raw numbers, their software stack makes quite poor use of them.

Users care about perf/$, and nvidia is king there. For deep-learning and other apps, hardware without software is useless.
There are discussion websites other than reddit...

Also calling the_donald "far right" really indicates the bias of discourse online. Which is part of the problem - people are deliberately loose with language and netizens (at least on reddit) truly believe that Nazis have taken over the Republican party...
Students do all sorts of things to get a degree. Lots of folks in the working world, work at 3AM. Its not 'ridiculous', just onerous.
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The US is not the only option if you're willing to immigrate. This policy pushes talented students away to other developed Anglophone countries. Some would rather not go abroad if they can't go to the US. Much of the benefit of an F1 visa is the ability to get stay and work in the US.
The vice-president takes office. He's a retired Army General as crazy as Bolsonaro regarding social values etc but in multiple times he talked much more reasonably than the actual president about sensitive topics and he seems actually smarter, at least. He almost makes us believe he's better than the president but I think it's just a "vice-president" façade. If he also dies testing positive, then the president of the chamber of deputies takes office. If he dies, the president of the senate takes office. If he dies then the president of the supreme court takes office. I said all that assuming they are males because they are as of today (we had female supreme court presidents in the past though).
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As long as you have Excel, Sheets, Numbers etc, it's a lot more pleasant to navigate the original csv, with filters, sort, etc.
I'm currently working on something just like this.

https://www.mynexus.io

(It's 95% ready but still a WIP, so excuse any clunkiness and the lack of content)

It's a content aggregator for content creators (plus custom postings) -- Make your YouTube channel, Vimeo Vids, Twitch streams, etc. available to your audience all in one spot.*

My hopes is that once this catches on, it will become easier for new video hosting services, etc. to pop up since the huge current barrier to entry--providing an audience for content creators--is no longer a necessity. The only thing new services need to compete on it the value they contribute as a content host.

This isn't quite as technical a solution as what you described, but the current problem is that of coupling content hosting and audiences, and I believe severing that connection will bring about many improvements to online content creation and distribution.

Feel free to respond with any questions or email me (yaniv <at> mynexus <dot> io).

*The list was about to include Mixer too, but that opportunity faded away, unfortunately. Will be adding more content sources over time as they are requested by creators.
Sure, this pricing model might work, but it'll still turn away people compared to right now. News that happened a few months ago isn't interesting anymore. Most people aren't going to read that. This essentially means that the section of people that can't afford the $1 price tag won't read your articles, unless they're researching some story later.

A lot of what we have online just isn't viable on pricing models like this. The main divide you'll see is likely by country due to wealth differences.
Trump gets tested every day. Every person he is in contact with is testing before being given an audience. He knows how it works but it seems like he just DGAF about everyone else.
I use the scientific process constantly while shipping code (most of my time is spent writing fixes for large production systems that are being actively used, where a regression could cost millions of dollars). In particular, I explicitly state my hypotheses, and use positive and negative control experiments when evaluating my fix.

I often "build one to throw away", but half the time what I build is good enough that it goes into production and lasts for a while.
Nvidia has software advantage. Unlike with AMD, you have libraries and ways to build software that runs fast: CUDA, cuDNN.
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I find this ironic in that the same people now suddenly believe every single life needs to be protected were the same people who supported drone strikes throughout the Middle East when it was Obama taking the lives. Now the "other guys" are risking lives and it's politically expedient, so everyone on one side of the political spectrum just joins this chorus of every life matters sans critical thought, devoid of any want or curiosity about the actual facts.
When do you ever have that guarantee anyway, though?
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Redis in Ruby is a project I'm currently working on, so far the first three chapters are available.

The idea is to attempt rewriting Redis, in Ruby, to learn more networking, threads, processes, system calls and so on.
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I noticed this too. I had to search for 'hong kong' to find this specific post and many others. The hn voting and flagging system is being abused once again it seems.
Some logic needs to come in too though, what is the point of an international student renting an apartment in the US and taking a class over the Internet?

Student visas make good sense, allow people from around the world to come here and get an education which is better or different and have a cultural exchange... but if coming here just gets you the cultural exchange of going to the grocery store and watching lectures online that could be watched from anywhere... what's the point?

I personally have a problem with how international students are used as cash cows and then later often as a lower class of intellectual labor in labs (I have heard first hand stories of this happening, more than once). When universities have an ample supply of people willing to do anything in order to get citizenship, the people who don't have that circumstance are pushed out because of the poor conditions enabled by the many people who accept it. Career academia sucks. Grads and post grads are paid little and way overworked chasing after the dream of a rare tenured faculty position.
Well, duh.

If you could get a student visa just by enrolling in a US-based online class, that would be quite the loophole for immigration.
He's not.
U.S. is an abreviation for United States. I'd say it makes more sense not to have territories than it does to include them in a list of states.
There really aren't any serious competitors. AMD and Intel have GPU offerings, but they are too busy fighting for laptop, server, desktop market. Intel's graphics IP is just a value-add for chipsets to keep competitors out of the chipset market. Any new investment for startups is going toward ML acceleration, which is like GPGPU but with different topology for NN optimization. So to answer your Q: no one can compete with NVIDIA, so no one wants to invest there. IMHO, of course.
And if the population is not uniform (and it never is, as its a growing market and new resources have different feature sets) it can be hard to deploy some hardware-sensitive applications. We needed hardware support for encryption in our teleconferencing mix node. Had to contract specially, so we could deploy only on hardware that supported that (was modern enough).
I feel like if you’re maxing one of these clusters for an entire month at a time, it might still be cheaper to just buy one.
I would argue our relentless pursuit of data driven outcomes and return on investment thinking has skewed the way people think about other human beings. We are just seeing the impact of that now as we face a significant enough species impacting event.

Fun times.
A classic case of FUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt
Couldn't they offer a required in-class portion of their degree (INT 5001: "Let's Talk about COVID and being international students for 20 minutes") for all international students where completion is required for their degree but attendance is optional? Effectively, no one physically goes to the class, but it's enough to keep students in the US because it's not an online-only class.
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Nvidia has by far the best API/software support. CUDA is much nicer to use than OpenCL. Therefore, most software is written for Nvidia GPUs and it makes way more sense to host Nvidia.
It's another measurable, negative impact of the America First philosophy [1].

40% of the Fortune 500 companies are founded by immigrant families [2][3], so the U.S. is really shooting itself in the foot (again).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)

[2] F500 2010: http://research.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/20... (pdf)

[3] F500 2017: https://startupsusa.org/fortune500/
We have more parties than the US and are less polarised[1]. I recommend more parties, but don't see any incremental way the US could get them.

[1] but then again, we had a mid-nineteenth century religiously-motivated civil war and it only killed a few hundred people. So maybe we support a plurality of parties because we're less polarisable, and not the other way around?

(rather than having a fabric of society, prone to ripping, having a dense irregular felt of society, of tocquevillean overlapping voluntary associations, FTW?)
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Advertising has been effectively done without tracking for decades. The trick is to do filtering at the content level, rather than at the consumer level. Odds are if you don't care about cosmetics, you won't watch videos about cosmetics or visit websites talking about cosmetics. Co-locating advertisements with relevant content performs this filtering in an effective manner without requiring users to be tracked.

Perhaps tracking users is more effective, perhaps it is not. Regardless, boundaries need to be set to enforce ethical behaviour if the unethical behavior is more profitable. If that means certain companies or business models won't survive: so be it. There is always a trade-off to be made between ethics and business. After all, the exact same arguments could be made against outlawing child labor or any of the past atrocities businesses committed in the name of profit. Businesses that cannot survive ethically will die to make room for businesses that can.
> That would explain "safe spaces" to some degree -- people don't want the pressure of having someone else try to convince them of something they don't agree with.

In my experience, it's more that people don't try to convince. Hell, the people who need safe-spaces, and the people they're trying to be "safe" from, don't even share the underlying epistemic assumptions that would allow them to "convince" each-other of anything less clearly observable than the sky being blue. The latter group, the people who other people need to be "safe" from, usually just scream, berate, harass, and often resort to violence.

(Note that I've avoided identifying "which side" is which. The answer is: it depends which side is dominant in your particular area. Boston and San Francisco and Brooklyn are left-dominant. Middle America is right-dominant.)
What I'm saying is that this works great for a while. But if you want to keep it working, four years in, you still have to say No a lot.
Nothing proves that a "real" second wave will come with a similar lockdown to the first one. The first lockdown was catastrophic for the economy of some countries and didn't really help anything at all in regard to the health (best example is France/Spain vs. Germany). It seems (some) countries have learnt the lessons and now apply successfully limited restrictions (masks, social distancing, limited gathering, etc.) and this shall be the sweet spot for limiting contamination while not impeding further the economy. Arguably one shall not, again, underestimate governments for self-sabotaging themselves, but we can hope to see more reasonable measures being undertaken.
Super interesting that a member of the supreme court is in line for succession. It's not the worst idea. Say what you want about various members of the SCOTUS and their individual values -- but every single one of them at least has a sense of logic and rationality by nature of their work.
Doesnt mean it’s very likely. Scientific consensus around masks is pretty clear

Not everybody’s opinions are valid regardless of credentials
Talk about lying with statistics to make an invalid point...

Those "other illnesses" include conditions that are widely prevalent in the general population, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma (present even in athletes), etc.

Blood type A is strongly related to higher infection & death rates (~+45%).

Vitamin D levels also show up in some studies of death rates.

Moreover death is not the only key measure - large numbers of cases are also seeing serious long-term consequences, strokes, organ damage, overwhelming fatigue, etc. - especially in the young & otherwise healthy cases. While it is still early for studies, go check out "Covid long hauler" forums - you really don't want to risk this.

tl;dr: this is 50-100X more deadly than flu, more contagious, and has far more serious & longer lasting consequences in substantial numbers of survivors. Suggesting that concerns should be minimized is foolish at best.
I helped implement a consent tool in our SaaS product that has users from a lot of different regions, many of which are more technical/"developer persona", and the tool we use isn't shady (it depends on the region, but for example in Germany it is opt-in by default and the options are presented immediately rather than behind a modal).

During the initial stages we had worried that consent rates would be low, and while Germany was "low" at around 70-75%, we found that overall consent rates across all countries were 90%+ with exceptions for Germany, France, and a couple other European countries. This was consistent across both the application and our marketing website, and across 10s of 1000s of users.

So while I don't doubt that the author ran an experiment and got these results, I strongly disagree that you will get "only 9%". Specifically, these lines in the blog post:

> And if you give them an easy way to ignore your banner or to say no to be tracked, most of them will simply do that.

> Most web users will simply select “no to tracking” once in their browser and the browser will block all the trackers for them as they surf the web.

is not correct, at least from my experience, and it absolutely can't be used as a blanket statement like this. Of course my anecdote is, well, anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt, but I don't think it's fair to say that users will simply reject it no matter what, and it really depends on both context and trust levels.
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It was better than expected, IMO.
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So the alternative is... we don't punish them at all? Bear in mind, CEOs face no real penalty for criminal activity.
Yet, they continued to come over and do this. They likely had a reason. Whether its prestige, a cultural experience, available work contacts post-study or whatever.

And as for 'lower class intellectual labor', lets talk medical Residents? Years of indentured servitude post-doc. And we consider that reasonable.