skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I REALLY hate that sharing URL. Makes me have to do another click to see the actual thread with replies directly. A subtle, but, to me, important difference.
QM-as-RNG for a simulated universe has been one of my favorite "for fun" pet theories over the years. Finding whether the electron went through slit A or slit B during the double-slit interference tests just feels a bit too much like running a Monte Carlo sim to me. I know it's just my human brain really trying to find an explanation that makes rational sense but it's a fun thought experiment.

I mean, quantum fluctuations during inflationary expansion are (in my understanding) what's responsible for the tiny differences in mass distribution that led to the eventual formation of gas clouds/stars/galaxies. The negative gravity during expansion worked to keep the matter in an extremely low-entropy (highly ordered) state, but those unfathomably small quantum fluctuations were blown up by the same unfathomably massive proportions as everything else.

Universe needed that RNG.
> it didn't want to sacrifice being a good language for being a popular one

I think this is the key. The motto that you mentioned is often clarified/refined as something like "avoid 'success at all costs'".
Could a client that has all the files just advertise a v2 version via DHT, even though the actual torrent was only a v1?
A library that proposes an HTTP header syntactic sugar in Python
"Rock and roll" is an explicit reference to the sex act and "jazz" the usual male contribution to same. Mick Jagger couldn't "get no satisfaction", the Beatles asked "why don't we do it in the road", Nina Simone wanted "some sugar in my bowl", one-not-really-a-hit-wonder Hillary instructed listeners to "drop your pants around your ankles" (https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wu9Zps8vnEY), and then there's pretty much everything about Barry White.

WAP isn't the most nuanced contribution to this tradition, but it's hardly the first work exploiting the common-denominator. Its shock value largely lies in its novelty. In another 2-6 decades it will make the transition to familiar and then oldy. No predictions if it will be ranked with Simone, White, Jagger, the Beatles, or Hillary.

Not my cuppa, though I got off the pop train a few decades back.
IMHO, no, stick with Python. Of course you can fiddle with Julia but Python is used in many fronts and much more versatile.

If Python were a blocker for the adoption and development of ML, it wouldn't be the default language of the most popular ML libs.

The reason is, the high performant code is written in C++/C/Fortran. Python is just used to glue everything and provide a nice and rich interface. That's what really matters.

To me Julia is more to Fortran than Python. And it doesn't have many usages outside numeric programming.

Scapping the Web, building rest APIs, Performing Data Analysis, Automation scripts is much easier in Python than Julia or Swift.

Edit: typos
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That is true, especially if you're in a position like AMD is where they can sell every single good chip they get into a high margin server part (which is why ryzen can be scarce). But that's pretty rare overall. As a process node matures, the amount of perfect dies will go up dramatically, but there will certainly be no price drop to compensate.
I’m always afraid that if I embrace being awake then I’ll find it more difficult to get back to sleep, but I guess what I’m currently doing isn’t exactly working so I’ll have to give this a try.
To be clear, long Base32H numbers are definitely in scope (which is why the specification "recommends" a binary encoding scheme for this exact purpose, and why things like public keys/signatures are mentioned among the proposed use cases). Yeah, it'd suck for a human to have to manually record or dictate large-ish (more than 1kb / 1600 digits) sets of data, but it sucks at least a little bit less when you already know that everything can be assumed to be uppercase.
You have to ensure you don't over-engineer specifications or it will be ignored as well. HTTP requests are one thing, imagine if we were strict on HTML validation. We now have robust browsers and I am not sure if that is only a bad thing. Although it would be nice if people would check their documents once or twice.

edit: I don't think considering the principle as bad is a sensible approach as it doesn't mean to ignore errors in theory.
1. Anything and everything. It is often about my current research or an interesting tid-bit from math, philosophy, social sciences etc. It is more of a fluid knowledge base than a blog.

2. I commit to the source code a couple times a week, but keep updating posts whenever I find time.

3. I host the source code on Github and deploy on Netlify.

4. https://im.perhapsbay.es
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The indicator of reliability has always been the chain of custody. Video must be authenticated by an appropriate witness before it can be introduced as evidence.
> For whatever reason I'm more motivated to maintain something I've built myself as compared to previous attempts with medium and such. The freedom to do whatever I want, however I want is nice. I can present things simply, with little to no adornment, avoid pushing trackers and ads on people, explicitly release my content under whatever copyright I want, etc.

Totally agree. For my blog (https://faical.dev) I have a very similar setup (S3 & Cloudflare) with HTML generated from Markdown using a small command line tool I built (https://github.com/ftchirou/article). For publishing, I push a Markdown file to a repo and a Bitrise workflow takes care of generating the HTML and uploading to S3.
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Is anyone else trying to decide if you should upgrade from 1080 ti's?

I have a box with four of them which have served me well for a while now, and based on just raw performance it looks like upgrading to two RTX 3080s would exceed the performance of my current system.

I'm wondering if I should rush to sell off the cards on the used market before the prices crash and then use that money to swap over to Ampere.

Then, there's also the question of if there will be an RTX 3080 TI which will blow away the RTX 3080 and be a viable card for the next five years like the 1080 TI.

I'm really uncertain about what to do and wonder the calculus other people have done on this decision.
This is a different issue. It's not about verifying your own identity, it's about verifying the account number when making a payment to somebody else. The name on their account must exactly match the one that you entered or you get a warning.
Printing of fiat money and injecting it into the economy through big government contracts and bank loans has mostly benefited large corporations.
Because of their front row access to all this easy money, corporations and a handful of big VC-backed unicorn startups have had an upper hand in the market (see Cantillon effect) and they were (and still are) in every industry; this made it impossible to start my own business no matter what industry I went into.
Also, I did some open source work, launched a popular project and corporations got into open source too and destroyed all possible business opportunities for me. Corporations couldn't even keep their hands off from open source.

It seems that my project was blacklisted/censored somewhere because no corporation seems to have ever used my project in spite of the fact that it's very popular with startups and independent developers. I got 0 consulting contracts from any big corporations. I had discussions with some corporates who backed out in a very suspicious way for no apparent reason.

And also, as a software developer I was harmed through the ongoing bureaucratization of the tech industry by big corporations and the startups who mindlessly copy them; I've witnessed the introduction of more tools, more processes and ever decreasing productivity in the industry.

I could go on and on for hours about all the problems I've encountered and most of them link back to corporations and their upper hand in our fiat monetary system due to Cantillon effects.
What is killing Haskell, according to this discussion

* marketing failure

* lazy by default

* GHC extensions

* its weird syntax

* its obsession with monad-as-burrito
tutorials

* pretty hostile haskell-centric spaces

* not backed by a large company

* bad university classes

* tooling

* average developers are not “smart”
enough to learn it

* no payback for learning Haskell skills
https://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/numbers-stations-l...
There was a GSoC project for it this year, but I can't find any actual code: https://linkmauve.fr/blog/2020/06/12/bringing-gpu-accelerati...
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To some extend the engineering part is emerging: when a code base grows it becomes necessary to learn technics to factor it. What I find really time consuming when using a new language is searching for its API.
I'm interested in why you stuck "avoid on-call" in there. I'm about to start my first on-call rotation next month
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MIPS has excellent cores in the middle range (The "I class"). They can't compete at the high end with ARM, as high end need to be optimized for the latest processes in close cooperation with the leading fabs (TSMC and Samsung) and this is very labor intensive and so costly. So in the CPU IP world, it's ARM area. They're not the best for the very small cores either.

But in the middle, like the I-7200 or I-6500, they have very good cores and related IPs (like a coherent LLC). From last time I looked, still much more mature than anything from RISC V suppliers for example. If the I-7200 used the RISC V ISA (with extensions), it would likely be a reference in its class. Instead MIPS went with a new compact ISA that nobody cares about, too bad. Of course, the RISC V suppliers will mature over time and will at some point offer competitive or better solutions. But right now, the quality of some MIPS IPs shouldn't be underestimated. It would be too bad if this were wasted, but unfortunately it could happen. Hopefully the IP and people behind it will be acquired and the know-how will end up in coming RISC V chips. One can hope...
> So 1984 is better than what we have now?

The dystopian version? No, I don't think so. I'm also not talking about anything else but shared reality. "We've always been at war with Eastasia" is a problem itself, but it's less problematic for the country than half of the country believing we're at war with Eastasia and the other half believing we're at war with Eurasia, and both halves actively waging their wars.

> Just because someone chooses to ignore alternate perspectives, doesn't mean they don't exist.

Of course, but they're not choosing, and they don't exist for them. That's perfectly fine as long as you don't need people from multiple realities to work together, which we kind of need.
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It just randomly so happened that drive manufacturers used the meaning that benefitted them and is not really used by anyone else
I feel that you’re right - it’s increasingly considered bad practice - but I’ve not seen this conversation play out.

Of course, this often comes up in collaborative coding exercises (work, open source), so seeing a discussion on the topic would be helpful.

Anyone have a link to such a discussion?
Many visitors to the Southern UK are surprised by the ferocity and height of the tides here. The harbour where I live effectively becomes a fast flowing river twice a day, and the height of the water varies by 30 feet or more. It is not uncommon for the boats with the smallest engines to be unable to make headway against it.
True, and FWIW, I am on your side of the 'argument'. While I love the convenience of digital and sometimes wonder if things I believe were 'better' is just age/nostalgia talking, I do think there's a genuine loss of character in the world, and even sense of community, with the gradual disappearance of physical media/art.
What is the use space of BitTorrent?
They probably mean Individual Contributor, which seems to be an American term for "just a dev, nothing else".
The police can and do arrest anyone for any thing at any time, and charge them willy-nilly. Sometimes they even shoot people. In the back. For no reason.

But whatever, mate.

Arresting an obvious fence and charging them with possessing stolen properly wouldn't be a complete waste of resources like half of policing already is.
> We need to say, "This paper is fucking bullshit"

> I understand these offhandish comments work might within a community as a gentlemanly code. But these dam articles circle the blogersphere for decades.

One guess might be that stronger criticism might be avoided until a more thorough analysis/a replication attempt might be made. That reduces the possibility that something is misunderstood, and ensures strong claims ("this is absolute nonsense") have good evidence ("because the statistical tests they use are not appropriate for this data", or "because the method they claim to use does not produce their claimed results").

Curious if this is ever going to see a thorough debunking.
> Check your privileges, sweet summer child.

Please don't do this here. It is needlessly condescending and insulting..
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This seems completely ridiculous. If it was profitable to do then companies would be doing it directly at the source of emissions more much efficiently.
The first two are often:

nytimes.com > https://nytimes.com
https://nytimes.com > https://www.nytimes.com

And from there, who knows. Some websites append a trailing slash; sometimes they removed it. Some websites send you to /index.php or /home.aspx rather than sitting in the root.

Subpages may use a redirect to update a slug if there's been a title change. Or maybe the website just moved to a new format altogether and is updating old links.

I have seen examples of 4 or 5 legitimate redirects to send users to the correct place. I'm having trouble coming up with 10 possible reasons, though.
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> Being cognitively unchallenged by music or visual arts could be considered "harm".

Is being cognitively unchallenged by something being harmed by that something in general? That is extraordinary claim that would require evidence. That is not standard we apply to other daily activities. And listening to music is not even activity, it is just something you put onto environment as you do something else.

If I go somewhere without listening to music, arguably getting even less challenging sounds into my ears, am I being harmed even more?

> I know i do but anectada I guess.

Do you have anecdote of someone being harmed by unchallenging music? Anectada require anecdote that confirms one case of it happening. I see only claim itself, but no anecdote.

> The fact that you imply his argument is "cheap" or that you very quickly judge it as "bad comparison" with no more arguments than whatever you think could be interpreted as "his point exactly".

Me thinking and saying that is comparison is bad and arguing by no harm is not proving "his point exactly". He did not wrote any arguments for why unchallenging music harms listener. He avoided need to put in such arguments by avoiding direct claim, opting for implication instead. It is common tactic when people want to appeal to emotions and instincts. It is also completely valid to answer it.

It is quite literally valid disagreement with quick judgement someone else made. Also, I did not implied his argument is cheap, I said it openly.
Like I said in a another comment. To me Julia has the potential to be the modern fortran.

Python versatility is miles ahead. You can build Web APIs, Web apps, automation scrips, data scrapping and so on.

Python is not the de facto language of ML nowadays because its performance. All the underlying performance sensitive code is written is C/C++/Fortran.

Also, cython, which has great integration with python, is growing a lot and has been used in some cool projects such as aiohttp, fastapi, and spacy. So one more alternative to write fast code without giving up on python entirely.
Another organisation's guiding principles suggest an alternate viewpoint:

Individuals must have the ability to shape the internet and their own experiences on it.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
Just buy a good ITX PC. eGPU boxes often costs more than a PC, larger than one as well, while performing less than one due to TB3 link and overall clunkiness.
“Well this is interesting, this little guy is running OpenWRT. I guessed all of the normal user / password combos I could think of and didn’t get anywhere – If anyone has any ideas on how to get into this shoot me a message / comment!”
Youcould set up a collective farm, where a neighborhood essentially owns a farm.
There are surely others, but the ones coming to my mind right now:

- Agriculture: lots of CO2 are produced on-site under greenhouses by burning gas, because it speeds up the growing of crops.

- Sparkling drinks industry.
the old jquery would automatically add this parameter to your get requests to bust the cache.
They're not going to be sitting in the board room panicking about the at most few ten thousand sales to DIY enthusiasts they're losing. Especially not with shipments declining by ten or so million per year.
1. My experience learning technology, notes on books that I read and everything related to self improvement.

2. I have a reminder for every friday so yes, mostly 1 post weekly which is what I try to keep up to.

3. Github, because I wanted to learn github pages and also design a simple blog myself.

4. http://codingbbq.github.io
>I don't know what that experience looks like in a world with subscription services where there's nothing to be stumbled upon by others.

I collect physical board/card games, some out-of-print (and some just particularly fancy playing cards). None particularly "alien" (except maybe my gothic skull-festooned playing cards that play a little flipbook animation when arranged the right way), but I think someone of a future generation might have a fun time psychoanalyzing me based on what I included and didn't. I also have a couple of physical books that might catch someone's interest (I can particularly recommend "S." and "The Museum of Lost Wonder" as books that transcend the writing on the page).

I don't really have any plans to squirrel them away and keep them hidden, but it's totally plausible that in the future I pack them away as some of the games in particular aren't appropriate for young kids (a couple are horror-themed with some slightly graphic images).
... rust on tape, that is.
If you make <300k queries a month, it's free. Otherwise it's about $20 a year for unlimited queries. I have the paid plan and it's great. I haven't done any speed tests but it seems perfectly passable in terms of speed, not to mention the fact that the sinkhole functionality helps me do a lot of host-based adblocking which is really useful for phones and smart devices.
In addition there’s https://librivox.org/ for volunteer-read public domain books!
My concern with trial and error is that from lack of experience I might ruin the expensive parts (perhaps over time) or make the bike unsafe to ride.
I used to think that until I found Scala. It's easier than writing Python - I can write pretty much the same thing as I would in Python, but I have a more complete IDE and I can ask it what the types of things are. I'd never want to use a Java/C++-style language for exploratory programming, but it turns out not all reasonable-performance languages are like that.
It seems that this would only work once the bodies are pretty thoroughly decomposed, and the trees have had time to absorb the nutrients this creates. I imagine this takes quite a while. A useful technique perhaps, but I can't imagine it solving any hot cases because of that delay.
Python is a very well established programming language with plenty of support for scientific computing.
If the course authors would like to make the course accessible to as much people as possible, there are very few reasons to choose languages which are not widely adopted.
> Please, inform yourself about the war and strife that is occurring outside your own bubble.

User adamsea is informing himself, that's why he's asking a question here.
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> good type systems, immutability, compile type instead of runtime, never overwork and sleep the best I can

I agree with you on this.
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Yeah, and like Hungarian notation it is mostly useful in an untyped system (like BCPL where Hungarian was invented).

If you have a type system, let it do the work for you.

One of the most bizarre conventions I have seen is prefixing table names with "TBL_" and column names "COL_". I suspect some people just really like abbreviations.
This feels similar to the other irritating assumption banks in the UK and EU make - that you have your phone on you and able to receive messages every time you make an online transaction. Every time I want to buy something online I have to walk down the street to get enough signal to receive a text message. There is no alternative or opt-out. Infuriating.
It seems like this breaking-change would have provided an opportunity to improve compatibility with WebTorrent, which AFAIK requires a separate swarm (connected via WebRTC)
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marijuana, living alone, decadence, literature, blocking out light & sound, passion for your work. time disappears.
"Nobody" would be a better situation than we have now.

(Microsoft and Brave both depend on Chrome, however.)
I think to make a food comparison work, you need to set the reference point straight. Since your body (and your mind) doesn't require any music / movie / book to survive, the proper comparison is to food eaten on top of nutritional baseline - to all the extra things you eat above minimum survivable calories/nutrients.

This way, pop music can be correctly likened to McDonald's food: won't harm you at all, and it's one of the most pleasant things you can get with low effort. The "movies and books that can actually harm you" can be likened not to fast food, but to poisoned food. E.g. infected with E. coli because it wasn't prepared properly.

And another extra danger reveals itself: just like you can hurt yourself by overeating, you can hurt yourself by overconsuming entertainment.
1. Even though it requires precision, the vastness of the solution space effectively makes programming a mushy, tangled mess of technology.

2. End of list.
They acknowledge it :

> “there would be a need to differentiate effects from human decomposition with those from other animals' decomposition.”

But then :

> However, there could be subtle differences in how plants respond to the decomposition of different kinds of mammals.

I really think it's a long shot and the number of false positive would make the technique impractical, unless you know there's a human body in this forest and you want to exhaust all possibilities to find it.