skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to dismiss "Deep Work" articles for their use of buzzwords and pop-psychology, but this sort of structured language really does help drive the point home for some people.

The core concept of Deep Work isn't really controversial. Everyone knows that hard problems require focus, but that doesn't seem to stop people from surrounding themselves with notifications and distractions. It also doesn't stop many companies from burying their employees under a deluge of Slack notifications and must-respond-immediately e-mail expectations.

Once you start putting a name on it (It's not focus, it's "Deep Work (TM)"!) it becomes an easier sell to many (though not all) of the people who need to hear it. Attaching an explanation, a methodology, or a movement to something really does seem to amplify the importance.

It's the same effect that makes "Dopamine fasting" more poignant than suggesting that people take a day off of watching TV, checking their phones every 10 minutes, and browsing time-waster websites all throughout the day. They're the same thing in concept, but once you attach a catchy name and/or a semi-scientific explanation to something, many people start taking it more seriously.

In my time mentoring junior devs, one of the biggest predictors of future success was a person's ability to sit down, focus, and get work done. Many college grads are coming from an environment where their classes are neatly divided into 1-hour classes spread throughout the day. They're pulled in many directions by their phones, social engagements, activities, homework, and classes. They get in the habit of only focusing for 1-2 hours at most before going on to the next thing. Once they graduate and have to sit in one place and work on one thing for 8 hours a day, many of them struggle. If I try to lecture them on the importance of sustained focus and minimizing distractions, I sound like an out of touch old guy. If I instead say "Hey, we practice Deep Work here. Let me get you a copy of a Deep Work book so you can join us" then they're on board.

So you may not like the branding. You may not like seeing the same topic rehashed over and over again. But practically speaking, I don't care how it's accomplished. As long as it gets more people to take sustained focus seriously (both employees and managers alike) then I'm all for it.
I actually have to say that working with the FDA was easy in a way that I didn't expect. There's a straightforward process to register and get approval or an exemption - we did both. You can apply as a "small business" to reduce your application costs, which we did, and you typically hear back within days or weeks.
If you can do it that sounds like a very good strategy. We needed to be able to show mock ups of what things WOULD look like before we even start at the project so that everyone was on the same page. So we couldn’t develop functional prototypes or full working implementations to show.
Generally I think going jumbo is good for cooling, because honestly the weight for this build probably doesn't matter as I imagine it's not getting transported often.

Conversely, this is not a build for overclocking per se. However I think it's a safe assumption we are running at capacity of over 90% for multiple days or weeks even. If batches run into over a month, probably time to get a server rack instead?

It is worthwhile to note you're not going to save any money in efficiency for computation you don't use.
TL;DR: wanted to leverage GPUs for computation (but couldn't), the ergonomics of arrays in Rust for scientific computing without the use of ndarray are not good, had memory bandwidth issues to keep cache lines fed, performance of the two implementations is comparable

One of the things I find interesting is how the Fortran version is faster both with small and huge inputs, while the Rust version is faster for input sizes in the middle.
Yes, there are multiple libraries, for example:

https://github.com/clojureman/special
Sidekick embraces remote working with always-on teleconferencing
The statement "We are easing restrictions on when and how to engage in cyber attacks" is not secret. The secret part is exactly what is changing
To be fair you have to take economist's views with a grain of salt. The only thing their models really account for is money, so they often end up coming to the conclusion that whatever maximizes money is the best.
> It's not hard to imagine that Apple has contributed far more than $14bn to the community, and country

Even assuming that's the case (sounds far fetched to me), would that mean they now wouldn't have to pay a fair tax rate?
The anthropic principle?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KNtKKmcd9DsP7WuZ3/the-anthro...
What is your company policy on racial and ethnic diversity? Would you balance caucasian and non-caucasian banks?
Hey.com vs. Fastmail. A Review
It is neither 'assigned' nor 'observed'. There are countless number of animals born every day that have well-defined sex, although nobody assign or observe that. Humans are just subset of animals, so same definitions apply.

> Moreover, what you're really saying is that transgender people don't exist

This subthread is about sex, not gender. AFAIK, transgender people just have different gender that one associated with their biological sex.
Mine[0] wasn't "dismissive or derogatory." In fact, I clearly complimented the author.

I just mentioned that I have a personal aspect (not actually an advantage, at times), that sort of gives me the same thing.

I realize that people that are heavily invested in orthodoxies can sometimes consider all "non-positive" feedback to be "derogatory," but that's on them.

There's a lot of really good, decent, intelligent, skilled people in this world, and the vast majority of them manage to be that way without any mentoring from me. I applaud and support them; but I also won't insist that they meet my personal bars, and will push back, if they insist that I meet theirs (not all the time -sometimes, they have every right to expect me to meet their bar. This is not one of those times).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23846545
Right, that's what I did. I stuck with the German layout, as this allows me to use my native language too. But his means, certain characters, like brackets, are more difficult to type and thus the assumption, that everyone is using an (US) English keyboard is a wrong one.

But in a general sense, I fully agree to your statement. Learning to touch type was an extremely valuable skill to acquire and I can only recommend it to everyone.
> "a woman is someone who thinks they're a woman" which is a clearly nonsensical recursive definition

This is a perfectly meaningful recursive definition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw
(non-TF) Keras has notoriously bad multi-GPU support though (and was generally not well optimized. Case in point, the latest version just re-exports/forwards to tf.keras).

Looking at something like https://lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/gpu-benchmarks or https://github.com/tensorpack/benchmarks/tree/master/other-w..., multi-gpu scaling on 2080tis seems pretty darn close to linear. Plus, there are benefits to having more than one accelerator handy on a local workstation. For one, it's much easier to have multiple experiments running simultaneously or to run parallel training (e.g. hyperparameter search or RL episodes). Given that only the uber-expensive enterprise cards have proper virtualization/time sharing, trying this workflow on a Titan RTX will most likely be suboptimal unless you always run models that can make use of most of the memory and compute (no RNNs, no Neural ODEs, etc.)
Yes. But pipes are very, very, very efficient, and cheap, high-throughput, and has very low environmental cost.
Somewhat related:

>US May Need to Nationalize Military Aircraft Industry, USAF Says

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2020/07/us-may-need-nati...

Probably not serious consideration at this point, but the salient TL;DR: it's hard to retain talent and industrial base when there's so few engineering projects. Talent leaves if they only get to do 1 major project throughout their career. So here's busy work. Some of it might be productive. Though I'm sure has more to do with Boeing needing more dough after losing 60 orders this month, 800 so far this year.
I'll admit that the phrase "black lives matter" makes me nervous, but not because I feel like it implies other lives do not matter. I was taught to never single out a group based on race, and that it was supremely rude behavior. On a fairly irrational level the phrase makes me nervous because it goes against what I was taught was polite behavior.
Yeah I feel like the prefacing sometimes attracts a particular type of person that assumes some sort of bad faith simply because it is prefaced with something, and that obviously you're really arguing what you explicitly say you don't support.
>The trick with George Washington is he was the only president in the history of the United States that didn't want to run the country.

Johnson didn't seem to be a big fan of inheriting JFKs boondoggles both foreign and domestic.

FDR didn't want to run in '44 but felt that not screwing with a winning combination was his duty to the nation and the nation mostly agreed.

Polk called it quits after 4yr because he did everything he was elected to do.
Gorillas digestion is based primarily on fermentation of plant fiber, which is why they have a huge gut. Humans have an acidic stomach environment which doesn’t digest fiber at all. A small amount of fermentation happens in the human gut, but it can only produce a few calories a day.

Evolution has changed us considerably in the last couple million years.

We may be closely related genetically to gorillas, but our digestion is probably closer now to a dog’s than a gorilla’s.
Pretty sad how this lie has propagated and caused so much misery and frankly mental disorders. Theres no better time to be born than today, period. All the rest are ravings of a madman.
True, but there are cheap ways to get the play, exploration and exercise needed. Nutrition is overall cheap as well, but it requires time and effort that might not be available.
Thank you so much. That's great. How many kids were there in the "after party" call?
That's explicitly the stated reason I've gotten from people I know who use algorithms/data-structure interviews.
Look at the graph (or the chart on the left, I had to to understand it): the green and blue lines cross twice, first the FORTRAN version is faster, then the Rust one, then the FORTRAN version again.
If I understand it correctly, it's the CCP, which holds the same power over Tencent as it does every other company that operates in China.
I call this distinction red flag versus green flag interviews. The typical hiring process is looking to quickly disqualify all but 1 person in the hundreds of resumes submitted to any open software engineering position. The hiring process you are proposing is looking to methodically search for all of the useful qualities in the candidate pool and determine how they can best be applied at the company.

I think we can all agree someone can be a poor software engineer and not have any red flags.
Sorry about the title, I tried to keep it as faithful as possible to the source as per guidelines.
The 3840x2400 16:10 on the new XPS 17" is very nice. It was a substantial increase from the older 15" i9 mac I use for work. Well worth the extra $400 for it over the 1900x1200 version for me.
> If the people in power say there's no high-pitched sound, and the people out of power are suffering from the high-pitched sound, what is "true"?

How is the power of the speaker relevant to the truth of what they are saying?

Would the presence of a high pitched sound change if the people in power say there /is/ a high-pitched sound, and the people out of power say it doesn't exist?

The way we find truth is to measure the sound, rather than to pay undue attention to anecdotal evidence to one party based on identity.
This story broke in the early hours of the morning here. Deeply horrific stuff; my heart particularly hurts for his sister.

The manner of his death is ominous. For the sake of the people it employs and the businesses it enables, I hope Gokada weathers this.
A caveat is that if you’re going to use multiple GPUs it’s essential to get something like a Threadripper or a Xeon that has the pcie lanes to provide the full 16 lanes or at least 8 lanes to each GPU.
Currently it does, indeed. From my Slack logs, at 15:00 UTC I noticed problems. I'm pretty sure that message is manually created, at least 41 minutes after the fact.
I'm wondering, what's to gain in all this? Does switching to slightly different parts (e.g. Micron vs Spansion flash module) make the final BOM so much cheaper that it's worth manufacturing a fake Ethernet switch?

Just by taking a look at PCB pictures it looks like the counterfeiter managed to get their hands on some scrap or older revision boards and even went through more hoops (like that "modchip" design) to make them boot. Seems so overkill for a switch that goes for 250$ used - am I missing something?
Sebastian Stan(wiki):Age, Net Worth, Height, Weight, Girlfriend and Facts
Like with Moderna, if I recall (on mobile, so I can't refresh my memory by rereading it) the highest doses had some Grade 3 level fevers. So probably medium dose would be used.
I don't know much about him as a person, but I do think he makes a good argument in this video, and argument I agree with in many ways.

ML King beat women and Gandhi slept naked with his nieces to see if he could resist lust. They also led millions of people to freedom. You're attacking the person here, and not his argument. That's called ad hominem.
I forgot to add oats which is something I eat daily. 40g of grounded oats on my whey protein shake after the workout.
The article is pretty naive. It writes code against the low level API which was never intended for workflow writers and then complains that it is too complicated. He had to use the high level library (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonswf/latest/awsrbflowguide/...) instead.

It is like writing assembler code against raw Linux kernel systems calls while Python is available and complaining that Linux is too hard to use.

Look at the temporal.io samples which give you completely different view of how such code should look like. For example the money transfer sample (taken from https://github.com/temporalio/java-samples/blob/master/src/m...):

```

public class AccountTransferWorkflowImpl implements AccountTransferWorkflow {

private final ActivityOptions options =
ActivityOptions.newBuilder().setStartToCloseTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(5)).build();
private final Account account = Workflow.newActivityStub(Account.class, options);

@Override
public void transfer(
String fromAccountId, String toAccountId, String referenceId, int amountCents) {
account.withdraw(fromAccountId, referenceId, amountCents);
account.deposit(toAccountId, referenceId, amountCents);
}
}

```
> What is happening is people specifically telling others that "white people lives don't matter, as white lives"

I'm happy to dismiss that particular incident as trolling, or at least a "what did you expect the response to this to be" incident.
I don't know if they are still running the deal but Nvidia was offering $500 off the Titan RTXs if you sign up for their developer program.

Edit:

Note that they can't be used with multi-gpu builds because they (purposefully) do not have a blower configuration. Unless you can source 2080ti blowers which have the same layout or do a water cooling build it will cause thermal throttling.
>pay a fair tax rate?

They would, but you have to define "fair" first.
Perhaps I should rephrase it, didn't want to make it sound like getting vaccinated is a bad idea. It does activate your immune system though and that can make you feel really unwell. Fever is not a disease, it is an immune response. But those can still induce complications. Doctors won't administer a shot if you already have pneumonia for these reasons.
I expect this to get deleted as HN has apparently decided that pointing out the CCP is heavily invested in Chinese Tech and directing their actions is a flaggable offense.

I'm sure the next time an NSA scandal is exposed that'll get taken down immediately too... right?
Yeah, the truth is usually somewhere in the middle, although here in the UK those sort of holiday homes have become a real blight on our rural communities.
The reduction from 16x to 8x PCIe lanes is usually not a bottleneck for ML. Still, it's always a good idea to benchmark and validate the configuration, especially if you're planning to spend a lot of money on a bunch of identical systems.

As for RAM, only you can know how big your datasets are. But if you're training models on GPUs the bottleneck is almost certainly going to be GPU RAM, not system RAM.
Sounds like a twist on No True Scotsman to me.
I personally think this would lead to piracy of App Store apps. Restrictive App ecosystem protects consumers from installing apps that maybe steal their financial information but also protect developers from getting their apps pirated like the Android ecosystem. There is a reason why the app payouts on iOS are so high even though android has a much larger market share of mobile devices. I dont want to see sites like apk4free on iOS ecosystem.
> Built into these claims is the assumption that the owners of the properties offered on the platform can afford to keep them without renting then out full time, since it's supposed to be their primary home.

It's not because they are supposed to be able to afford it that you didn't assumed you would get that revenue.

We do pet sitting, we don't need that revenue, in fact, we would nearly do it for the cost (food and cat litter) if the platform allowed it, simply because we like having pets, but can't afford the long-term responsibility of owning one right now (it's also incredibly rewarding to allow people to know their cats are well taken care of during their travel). For obvious reason, that revenue wen't down to nearly 0 during the pandemic. We don't need that cash, but it did change our plans quite a bit, because we expected that revenue. In our case it wasn't too bad, but I have no doubt it can be worst for others (I can easily see people that paid for renovations expecting to keep getting that revenue).

That's also completely ignoring the fact that it's not only the loss of revenue from Airbnb that can be the issue. The pandemic had impact much greater than Airbnb. It's not because someone didn't even expected any revenue from Airbnb, that they aren't in need right now.

You don't want to help someone? Don't, I'm not either right now, can't afford that, but that doesn't means there isn't people in needs and that you will never want to help them. Airbnb added that feature on their platform... that's all...

> (how have hotels managed to get by since time immemorial without charging one!?)

Hotel staff aren't paid? You pay the fee, it's just not itemized...

Would it be better if it weren't itemized? The total cost is shown before clicking on any offer... it wouldn't change a thing to hide it better.
WTF!

That’s too damned grisly. I mean, sure maybe people snap in the heat of passion whatnot, manslaughter —it happens but this is just depraved. I hope they get the person and they get what they deserve. There is no chance for such a person to redeem themselves and join society ever again. Very sad for the victim's family. Tragic.
So police don't even know the cause of death, or anything else, but they do know they have video of the "killer"? I wish I were clairvoyant like this, but otherwise, may I never come under investigation from those people.
The focus on the cost of the victim’s dwelling is so weird. I hope when they find my body they don’t waste half the article projecting local housing policy onto me, as if it were my fault.
> It was a highlight of that month.

Just using a graph was the highlight of that month for me. (The data wasn't already in a graph.) Reading the wiki, it may have been Dijkstra that I used under the hood. (I just wanted the sum of simple paths for all leaves to the root, for each leaf.)

Cheers for us.
What is that based on? Anecdotally the folks around me right now agree a common flow is:

1. See hn link.

2. Go directly to comments.

3. Top comment is seen as counter argument to the article.

4. Discuss on premise defined by top comment (not article).

Unless there’s a way to safe for sure (ex HN weighs in with analytic data) it’s all speculation.
This is also captured in the Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Another take on the same incident: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-ori...

"The biggest consequence of the nuclear-winter debate, though, has had to do not with nuclear-weapons policy but with the environmental movement. In the short term, the idea of a nuclear winter defeated the idea of deterrence. In the long term, Sagan’s haste and exuberance undermined environmental science. More important, the political campaign waged against nuclear winter—against science, and against the press—included erecting a set of structures, arguments, and institutions that have since been repurposed to challenge the science of global warming."
Or zoom in a little...
Chromium.

I'm serious. Say what you will about the high complexity of the web platform, or the rising dominance of Chromium. It's a seriously impressive piece of engineering. Have you ever watched the Chromium build process in action? It builds hundreds of static libraries, then statically links them all into one monster executable or DLL (depending on the platform). BTW, part of what enables static linking at this massive scale is the gn build system, which AFAIK is inspired by Blaze (the internal ancestor of Bazel). So IMO that's a major point in favor of that type of build system.

BTW, to answer your point about throwing tens of millions of dollars at a problem: some problems are just unavoidably that big, especially when you factor in things that are required for a piece of end-user-facing software to be usable by the whole world, such as internationalization, accessibility, and in general, complex but usable UIs.
My main problem is guiding hyperfocus to the thing that needs to get done right now.

I have a weird anxiety avoidance that makes me willing to do almost anything, including very hard things, if it isn't the thing that is necessary. I can hyperfocus on just about anything else.

I've slowly learned to redirect back to the necessary thing, but its been a decades long path to overcome the tendency.