skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh for goodness sake -- there is no community on earth that doesn't have rules about "fashion"
You think low income people don't? Try wearing a skinny tie and cufflinks to a honkytonk in Oklahoma and see what happens.
Seth from TileDB here.

The foundational invention is the TileDB universal storage engine based on dense and sparse multi-dimensional arrays. Genomic variants are 2D sparse arrays. Images and video are dense arrays. KV are interestingly sparse arrays as well[1]. TileDB is the first solution that can efficiently model all data with a single powerful data structure. TileDB universal storage engine natively supports cloud object stores, as well as local filesystems and we natively handle the eventual consistency through our MVCC design.

On top of the TileDB storage engine we have built and worked on integrations with a range of existing computation tools and frameworks. Our goal is to make the computation pluggable and provide fast and efficient (zero-copy or apache arrow where possible) integrations to allow you to continue to use your favorite computation tools in your favorite language. A few examples are our integrations with numpy/Pandas, Spark, MariaDB, gdal and more.

In addition, we built TileDB Cloud on our storage engine, which has two more innovations: (1) easy data sharing and logging at global scale (beyond organizations), and (2) a complete serverless infrastructure for scaling out compute, very similar to the DAG approach of dask.delayed.

[1] https://docs.tiledb.com/main/handling-key-value-stores

[2] https://docs.tiledb.com/cloud/client-api/task-graphs
To be fair they probably have already done it if there is a shortage because of this reason. There is a crazy amount of coins out there.
https://pandorabox.io/

is good server if you want to begin with.
I've definitely seen it where objectives don't need to be measurable, but the results are what you measure to let you know if you're going in the right direction. Sometimes you might have objectives that look like results (like a top-line revenue target), but yeah... Good luck :)
Non-cuttable material created through local resonance and strain rate effects
The term “capitalist” was not coined by critics of capitalism. For example, David Ricardo used the term decades before Marx. Criticizing capitalism by linking it to slavery was pioneered by Marx, and accepting that point of view is Marxist rhetoric.

It is, of course, logically invalid to claim that because slavery was practiced in countries that happened to be capitalist, that slavery is capitalist. By that logic, slavery is Christian and Islamic too—even more so. I’m not interested in debating Marx’s criticisms of capitalism: the fact that we’re even having this conversation proves my original concern—the resurgence of Marxism in America. I will point out that, in contemporary usage “capitalism” assumes a free market, which is incompatible with slavery both in theory and in practice. (America got richer after it abandoned slavery, which is what free market theories of economics would predict.) Trying to link what people understand capitalism to be today, to the proto-capitalism practiced in the American south, is layering specious argument upon specious argument.
This is an API issue with TileDB-VCF. The core TileDB library supports inserts/appends/overwrites without issues and we just need to expose those operations in the TileDB-VCF APIs. Added to our backlog, thanks!
Why not? You might be the CEO of your new wannabe company, but your landlord is still going to demand his monthly rent. Bills still need to be paid. It’s unrealistic to be burning through your savings, because you probably don’t have enough.

And if you had enough money, you’d probably have self-funded your startup idea yourself, instead of having to deal with pesky VC investors.
Link to company announcement: https://www.synairgen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/200720-...
Thanks for this comment.

To repeat what I said below, I would shy away from discussing rise and decline in purely geopolitical terms. I'm more referring to internal aspects of decline -- social cohesion, creativity, quality of governance, and so on. It's possible to be in relative geopolitical decline but culturally and economically quite vibrant e.g. Austria-Hungary between 1866 and 1914, and I wouldn't say they were in decline then.

Some countries (or at least their governments) are also starting to reject the Western secular cultural template -- Turkey, Pakistan, Hungary, and Poland.
Wow, that's really cool, nice work!
> GPT-3 demonstrates that if the model is big enough, it can produce intelligent answers

You could make the same statement about a lookup table.
Yep. The GPT-3 model is so big it has overfit a lot of the corpus.
It seems interesting to try. I have placed my email there. Hope you can try it.
I appear to arguing on HN with people who are repeating Marxist critiques of capitalism back at me, so I don’t think my fears are at all irrational.

Also, see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1996/04/14/w...

> McCarthy, as his subsequent history would show, knew little about communism, on this side of the ocean or the other. This loutish, duplicitous bully, who carried, not the names of Reds but bottles of hootch in his briefcase died in disgrace and of alcoholism. Yet, in a global sense McCarthy was on to something. McCarthy may have exaggerated the scope of the problem but not by much. The government was the workplace of perhaps 100 communist agents in 1943-45. He just didn't know their names.

(Note that this was written by a prominent left leaning journalist based on declassified intelligence information.)
Installed FreeBSD few months ago and GPU was making wierd buzzing noises just like every other distro I tried on Linux (even when the fan was not spinning). When I was booting Windows or Ubuntu noises were disappearing like magic. It was a joke, I was about to make a YouTube video. Tried everything, it was a driver problem obviously. Point is I dropped it because of this and I really wanted to switch my workstation to BSD :(
> do you really think Android would grow into this dominant position at Samsung's hands? I know Samsung very well and I am 99.9% sure that it will be a miserable failure.

And maybe that would have been for the best. If we look, within a year of the HTC Dream (G1, First commercial Android phone) Nokia released the N900, an amazing device running real Linux.

We could have had Maemo instead of Android.
Some people get to focused on optimizing everything (must only drink the "best" coffee) and forget that thrre if some value in variety of quality as well.

I enjoy pizza, usually I want the heat pizza I can find. But everyone I've in a while I enjoy a pizza from Domino's as well. Yeah the quality is different, but it's not bad in the sense that it's literally inedible. It's the same reason I enjoy good burgers but also crave McDonald's every so often too. I've bought really good, hard to get beer that was $40 for a 22oz bottle, but I also like a Budweiser every so often too.

Having only the best of everything all the time is not only boring, it's expensive too!
Conversely, with kids in the southeast getting ready to go back in a few weeks, there is no way we could do outdoor classes with temps getting into triple digits with the heat index.
Science has been settled

Science can never be so arrogant. Most people probably know this but it's worth restating in a heated debate about the 'evidence': The null hypothesis exists for a reason; that is because we can not prove anything. We can only eliminate those theories which are demonstrably false.
A fully managed Apache Airflow on a cloud. From Google Cloud Platform
Daniel's video style transfer tech was used in this - it's really cool. https://ebsynth.com/
What can GPT-3 do that is useful? I can understand that it outputs text based on a prompt and some input but I don't understand how that can be leveraged to do useful things. I can ask it trivia questions but is it better than doing a Wikipedia search? Is it possible to give it a prompt of some scientific paper say and write an article about it? Or will it just generate nonsense?
You wouldn't know there was anything happening were it not for the news. This is only stressful if you let it be.
The laundry in my apartment is coin-op....
Method Member Pointers in C++
Digging in member method pointers in C++
Thanks for this comment.

I'm personally optimistic -- I think the ideas are there to avoid protracted decline and there's also an awareness which most previous civilisations didn't have.
The shell had autocomplete suggestions?
Adding my uneducated guess:

- there's some evidence that healthcare in general can benefit from deliberate less intervention by patients and medical staff [0]

- maternity intervention is notorious for intervention (historically for good reasons) yet, today, so much extra can be profited by just pre-planning interventions that are distorting incentives [1]

- pandemic has raised the stakes of leaving home, particularly visiting hospitals so people think twice before deciding to go for intervention - patients preserveer more. That includes expecting mothers.

[0] this an opinion https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/19/patien...

[1] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/too-much-too-soon-address...
This is a WOW thing! Very cool. Easy to use. Success for you.
I've found out about this yesterday. It is exactly what I've been looking for.

Really like when AWS/GCP make such solutions.
Mobian is nothing to do with Matrix.org.
(1) Reduced overhead for the company. With virtual workstations they don't have to supply and maintain a specific machine for each employee.

(2) There are many protocols that are much better than RDP for sending a high resolution display feed over the internet (such as offerings from HP, VMware, and Teradici). Also RDP has improved a lot in that regard if you haven't used it in a while.
Little known feature on Linux:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
500 companies in one country isn't diversified.
In principle, the value of derivatives can represent nothing more than the value that people collectively place on options backed by the collateral of the options and the credit of the option guarantors.

This valuation, in the event that it is not a massive miscalculation by the market, reflects the sophistication of the market in being able to incentivize cooperative behavior like contract fulfillment, through phenonema like reputation, and mechanisms like reputation feedback.

Financial credibility extending to more sophisticated contracts is a genuine expansion of economic resources, that enables more effective economic coordination. It is not a scam, and the assets that emerge from it are not 'fake' wealth.
The only time I've ever lost my wallet was out of cargo pants because the pockets were too big and loose.

I'd definitely try a pair of these trousers as I hate sitting on my phone, but I'd still want regular front pockets too for keys.
The downsides are:

1. It’s slow in number crunching, if you’re doing any computation it won’t be much faster than Ruby (and much slower than Python due to the scientific computing ecosystem)
2. The amount of libraries is negligible, many are abandoned, even on its home turf (networked applications). I.e. there is no maintained ssh server lib, whereas all popular languages have several.
3. To get the benefits of the platform, you need to deeply understand OTP. This is a serious learning curve.
4. Despite all the chest-beating about performance of Phoenix, it’s solidly mediocre on any benchmark (about on par with the fastest Python web frameworks). It’s okay, but nothing to write home about.
I entirely disagree with your interpretation :

> "OpenAI sure has the time and money to finetune their model"

This model is absolutly gigantic. In term of training it's a nightmare. I am pretty sure they don't have the capacity to train 10 of them in parallel. So finetuning on all the downstream task needs to be done basically in serial and takes forever. They might have a lot of money, but time is as important for them than for anyone else, their lab isn't at the edge of black hole.

If what you are saying is true I am pretty sure they would have reported it because it would be an extremely interesting and important result in my opinion. If finetuning gave you no advantage over a few shot settings, it would basically mean that the model already know everything there is to know about the task just from it's pretraining and any additional training is useless as the model is not learning anything.

Finally, given the pre-training curves with various model sizes, we clearly haven't reached saturation there, there is no indication anywhere that we have reached saturation on downstream task.

So, for me the far more likely explanation is that fine-tuning on downstream tasks is indeed very costly (time and/or money) even by their standard and isn't even on topic for this paper.
Ask HN: Any major manufacturer make office AMD machines?
I am struggling to find OEM AMD machines, I am only finding ones built by small companies that bought parts off the shelf (or by individuals).

I want to replace an aging Xeon machine we have (we bought it used in first place) with a new AMD machine, but not finding any major manufacturer (that we can trust they will have professional support) that sells AMD Machines.

Dell for example have AMD Machines but only geared toward cloud and HPC, being rack-based omputers or "normal" computers (ie: not a microcomputer, but not big as a mainframe).

I wanted just a tower atx microcomputer with AMD but not finding any, except for "gamer" machines full of neon and other distracting things that would get in the way of the machine being an office server and "hand me down office desktop" in some years.
That's a very confusing post. I'm not sure what I can conclude from it.
>I've never understood why the cost of that isn't included in the rent, landlords can't be taking that much of a cut from it.

Because they're a massive cash cow that people don't think about when comparing price of rent vs what you get.
Simple remote connection as they do now (aside from the terrible quality), gets tricky from a security standpoint: as far as I know, nothing stops you from just getting source file from the workstation to your local machine. Workstations usually have USB ports locked/disable to avoid this.
I imagine this solution will also help work around this...
The bar for spreading fear-mongering like this should be considerably higher than some unknown "reports out of Florida".
A quarter today is worth less than a penny in 1900. Maybe this is a good time to get rid of all coins except maybe the quarter. It is frankly ridiculous to be dealing with pennies, nickels, and dimes, worthless coins.
Before talking about side hustles, I think you can rephrase your question as "How can I increase my income", not "how can I make money on the side". The reason you should focus on that is that's likely the lowest hanging fruit in this situation. Focus on improving your salary, and then once you've done that, then think about side hustles if you want to. It's awesome that you have a job during this economic time, but 70k a year in NYC isn't enough to be comfortable and is likely not reflective of what you're contributing. There are lots of other posts on HN and elsewhere on improving your compensation so I would suggest looking around at those. How long have you been a developer? My guess is your market salary is at least 100% higher than what you're currently receiving, especially from looking through your post history it's clear you have initiative and drive. Like others are saying here it sounds like you're being taken advantage of--don't make the mistake of sticking around at a company where being compensated/rewarded for your hard work feels like pulling teeth--not saying that's the case but it's something to think about.

I would check out HN who is hiring and apply there. Going to your current employer and asking for a 100% raise might be something you would only consider once you have another offer on the table. Don't be bashful about going after another offer--depending on how young you are and when you take into account compound interest you can be freeing decades of your life up later in life. And keep in mind applying to jobs can be competitive in this market--but nobody ever asks about the jobs you didn't get later on.
Fevers cause fewer preterm births? Can you explain how that works?
Yes, this was how I was able to watch 200 Naruto episodes before there was streaming video. Good times torrenting all these RealPlayer files on my 50KB/s DSL connection/
If you're heating using electricity then it's financially equivalent. It's actually beneficial to be able to use that energy for an additional purpose (mine crypto or this) than to just burn it.
Nespresso Vertuo, which has aluminum pods, has recycle drop off points for them at certain stores (Williams Sonoma in the US).
Can a model like this be realized as a chip?

I mean, 300GB memory is crazy. But back in the days I ran full HD videos on a netbook, because it hat special optimzied chips.
That's an interesting idea. I originally wanted to post about how cool the virtual CGI workstation concept was, but what might be better still, is a system / platform where an artist can do as much as they can on their local machine, and outsource requests for preview / final renders to cloud based machines, while streaming the result back to the enduser, with some amount of lag when moving cameras around a preview.

Wouldn't want any amount of lag in the modelling process though. Even disk pauses and garbage collection can prove distracting with that kind of work.
I really enjoyed Tunnels and Trolls, reading the rulebook, playing solo adventures and copying the Josh Kirby drawings. I never did multiplayer until Warhammer Roleplaying came out and I had other friends that were interested.

As an only child I played many solo adventure books:

Fighting Fantasy

Lonewolf

Way of the Tiger

Car Wars

Choose Your Own Adventure

GrailQuest

Cretan Chronicals

Sorcery

I must have had at least 50 and got quite a lot from the library too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gamebooks
For one, because of the fact that you can't add an extra disk to your pool if you need to. GP is saying "plan better", no need to get snarky.
You have to factor in the time value of money though. Car purchase price is an immediate cost while gas and electricity are costs over the life of the vehicle. Your average personal cars only gets driven about 15,000 miles a year and thus those gas and electric costs would be spread out over decades to reach a million miles. Probably still cost effective considering the average truck isn't that much cheaper though.
I used to play Worms Armageddon back in the day and picked up Worms 3D a few years later. The 2D version always had a special place in my heart but I must have lost the CD-ROM over the years.

It’s exciting to see this game is still worked on, I’ll have to dust off the old PC and try it out again!

I noticed there is a version for iOS—will iOS also get the update?
Cool, very nicely done.

Would it be possible to add a different set of parameters that describe the physical book instead? What I mean is specifying the page size in some standard way (e.g. A3 or letter size) and the number of pages and let the algorithm decide the parameters of book thickness (in pixels) automatically.
It's odd how the article dances around the true problem: when push comes to shove, there's not enough supply to go around.

On the one hand, it's a pattern that's played out over and over again this year. Toilet Paper. Paper Towels. Meat. Canned goods. Flour. Even yeast.

On the other hand, the Fed is the sole agency in charge of US currency. It swears up and down that there is plenty of physical currency to satisfy all needs. And it can't deliver on the simple promise of supplying coins.

Trouble ahead.
The main thing about GPT-3 is that they wanted to demonstrate one-shot fine-tuning and succeeded at it.

So the model can be transformed to output part-of-speech words, dependency grammar trees or named entities in input even if training data is sparse. Similarily, you could fine tune it to produce game lore and then see how it works for that. The model easily switches to different modes of operation and achieves state-of-the-art or close to state-of-the-art performance.

It's quite funny how NLP folks tried to solve low level tasks (POS tagging, NER, Named entity relationship extraction, dependency parsing, sentiment classification etc.) to get to higher level tasks (good summarization, machine translation, text generation, question & answering) and now a single model captures all the low level stuff for free and does high level stuff so good that finetuning it to do low level stuff is unnecessary.
We (scrimba.com) actually do something similar for e-learning within programming. And it definitely makes sense for both students and as a business.

- Our videos use about 1/100 bandwidth of a video. This matters for rendering (fans running when watching HD?) and to people who live in places with shitty ISPs like in Germany

- It is rendered and thereby crisp as a Pringle

- No codec needed as we render it as html

- When you pause a video you actually have the text there, not pixels. For programming that allows you to copy and change things!

- We store the context it was recorded in (dev environment) so you can change and run code in the "video" itself. This changes the pedagogy you can do in a video to be more interactive and hands on.
This is about a CDN though, not Google.
I came to the same realization not so long ago. Most of the content being produced is pretty much deja vu. That lead me into questioning what creativity is but that I could not find anything interesting to read about the topic. So if anyone has any pointer please share.

It is exacerbated by the fact that there are so many ranking on the internet. I most often start by the top 10 and then the rest seems boring in comparison.

Platforms don't help either. There are hundreds of thousands of creators on Youtube and Instagram and they somehow manage to all produce the same thing...
Why I stopped angel investing (Tucker Max - 2015)
>The whole investigation took me 5 minutes. A Web search, a few clicks, and some ctrl+f’ing.

Am I the only one who thinks the last phrase sounds weird? I might be used to reading lots of articles that sensor words, but couldn't help reading it as "control-fucking".
(Edit: uncensored)
Is this the original controversial article : https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentali...
which was reproduced in Daily Wire???

Is there a link to copy of what got censored by facebook?

It would be good to have access to original material being discussed.
Very good idea, adding it to my to do list :)
Thanks for commenting, and sorry for that side-effect. I don't experience it myself anymore, and that may be due to exposure.

I guess to solve the issues you need to tolerate staring them in the face for quite a while!

To repeat what I said below: I'm personally optimistic -- I think the ideas are there to avoid protracted decline and there's also a historical awareness which most previous civilisations didn't have.
One great strategy is subscribing to a weekly or monthly newspaper/magazine. If it's not important enough to make it into the weekly news, it's not that important.
This is nuts. I learned Z80 as a kid and wrote tens of thousands of lines of code in it.

This isn’t just emulating the ISA, but the actual transistors. I could basically load the schematics of the Z80 on my computer and run it. That blows my mind. If Moore’s law keeps going, the simulation will be running at 2MHz in a few years and I guess I could play Meteor Mission II on it.

For some reason this really makes me feel very strongly that this is a simulator... within a simulator.
A straight copy: https://twitter.com/cobbo3/status/1026527261397344256
This is really cool. So the future video inspiration that will be built using only the code, without shooting again. Because everything can only be made with code. Cool!