skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh what I wouldn't give for small screen phones that do just enough on the go. I had a 6301 which had Wifi with good enough maps/email/audio that I kept using well after Android/iOS came out. Add a GPS and a better camera of the 6220 and I would have never given it up.
Germany's top virologist five days is long enough for a coronavirus quarantine
Much more than that. Even as text the difference of characters in the file and different types of line breaks makes the whole thing very tedious and error pront
From article: "Over time, cybernetics’s contributions were stripped away and reclassified as something else. Early work on feedback loops in cognition became AI. Models of the format of feedback loops became information theory. Work on feedback loops around production became part of economics. Work on mathematical representations of complex systems became system dynamics. Work on feedback loops in behavior moved over to sociology and psychology. Cybernetic theory practically founded anthropology and cognitive science."

Control theory is just one amongst many splinters, without any implied primacy of control theory.
Do children not enjoy software license audits?
Where did you land after Uber?
I love the cynicism of believing that the presidency is interfering in the deals, but the optimism of believing that it must then go towards Federal budgets and not certain people's pockets. :)
I think you're conflating 'attacks possible and thus more often seen in the wild' with 'attacks users don't care about'. People would very much care about exploits that become persistent if those happened.
Hopefully that means we will see some big leaps in performance.
This is an interesting counterpoint to scientific discoveries that found utilization some time after the discovery happened. For each of those discoveries, there were always those standing on the sidelines going "Yeah, but what is it good for?" The world has been changed many times over by such discoveries that found later application.

The EmDrive sits on the other side of the fence. We know what it would be good for so there are critics who dismiss it precisely for that reason citing wishful thinking.

I do wonder if the curious force measurements would be much less contentious if people didn't know what it could be used for. The focus would be purely on "Why is it doing that?"
Well, as your threads become less like threads and more like a future/async runtime you come closer to the advantages and disadvantages of a future/async runtime, yes.
There’s a little more nuance than that. Even if text is drawn using plaintext data there’s no guarantee that the characters/words appear in the correct order or have the proper white space between them.
Can you link to something that describes this tech?
A little defensive, no? I trust his judgement more than Mr. Random on the internets.
serious question: does anyone think this is a good idea? is there an argument that this could be a good thing?
> Also, I think they have been a better steward of Java than Solaris had been since Java 6.

Sun (the company), not Solaris (the OS). But yeah, Java has done relatively well.
I don't want to assume anything about the parent background. When I see things like "1000 applicants" I assume these are likely to be either generic roles, or well publicised roles. Even then, most of those 1000 people are unlikely to pass phone screens.

If you go for the long tail of jobs which need specific backgrounds or unusual combinations of tools, or are simply in "unpopular" or non-technical domains, there is much less competition. It doesn't take much to put yourself ahead of other candidates, but to do this well it's a long play and it make take a few moves to get into the job you really want.

Asking what you should focus on requires more context about you - what's your background and what job do you want? Are you currently failing to get jobs (and do you know why)?

I don't think anything has changed in the last five years in terms of what a whiteboard "structured" interview is. It depends on the company. It's well known that lots of places just crib from leetcode.
I think you can view biology as an advance technology that is far beyond our understanding and capability to reproduce. We don't have any of the problems you claim we would when trying to understand it.
I had a similar problem, except I had to download about 600GB (mainly from small <30kb files) from a client's s3 to on-prem. It took a painfully long-time using the AWS-CLI.

Never really found any good solutions but fortunately it wasn't urgent so it wasn't a big deal. But this should be easier.
PDFs are the bane of my existence as someone who relies on machine translation everyday. The worst is that so many event flyers and things, even important local government information will just be dumped online as a pdf without there being any other effort to make the contents available. I don't know how blind people are supposed participate in civil life here..
Funny, I don't remember IE surreptitiously signing me in to website and scraping everything I do in order to sell me more ads. Chrome is much much worse than the old "Works in IE buttons" the web used to have.
There doesn't seem to be any incentive to do anything different when the failure to deliver doesn't seem to have any punishment. You can just say its inevitable that things are bad and thats good enough.
I doubt Apple is dumb enough not to have basically a perpetual license for ARM.
>This tiny population’s presence is of huge importance, and if human activity is affecting their behaviour, human activity must be regulated.

This is thrown in at the end. Why is the presence of 30-50 adult orca distributed over 5 pods in this particular part of the ocean of huge importance?
Does Adobe even still support that?
I didn’t mean I was expecting them to nail it and am surprised they didn’t, I meant my mind was blown that they whiffed so hard that it doesn’t seem like they even swung the bat.
Bryan is brilliant, but he misses the mark on generalizations. Popular generalizations are actually pretty accurate.
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In France this is exactly the goal of an association founded in 2002, see (in French) https://adullact.org/index.php/association
There's about eleven bajillion abiotic routes to phosphine. The authors of this paper are totally crazy-go-nuts riding the hype train. Phosphine can be made from elemental phosphorus by simple acid catalysis. The atmosphere of venus is highly acidic. Venus is so close to earth that space spectroscopy could find a bunch of actually complex molecules that would imply life, if they were there. Phosphine is literally the simplest compound of phosphorus, a common element.
Optimistically, he did just reply to a cold post :-)
Isn’t the UK leaving the EU?
Yes. I think you are right. ByteDance is not selling Tiktok outright. They will be using oracle cloud infrastructure. But not sure if that will be enough for the current administration. It feels like tiktok is playing smart.
Itanium was an excellent idea that needed investment in compilers. Nobody wanted to make that investment because speculative execution got them 80% of the way there without the investment in compilers. But as it turns out, speculative execution was a phenomenally bad idea, and patching its security vulnerabilities has set back processor performance to the point where VLIW seems like a good idea again. We should have made those compiler improvements decades ago.
Please don't misrepresent my statement, I haven't demanded they give anything away for free. If you're referring to the CUDA drivers, the binaries for those are already free with the hardware. And if AMD truly doesn't care about it then that's even more reason for them to open source it, because they can't really claim they're keeping it closed source to hamstring the competition anymore.

wrt Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, and the others: I've been asking them to open source key products every chance I get. Just so you know where I'm coming from.
> impression they stopped maintaining the FreeBSD driver.

It's maintained while simultaneously not receiving any new features.
I thought the switch ran a modified form of android, but just looked it up and found this on the Switch Wikipedia page:

> Despite popular misconceptions to the contrary, Horizon [The switch software's codename] is not largely derived from FreeBSD code, nor from Android, although the software licence[7] and reverse engineering efforts[8][9] have revealed that Nintendo does use some code from both in some system services and drivers.

That being said, at least one of the Playstation's runs a modified form of FreeBSD.

Edit: add [The ... codename]
Someone did this for posts last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073) but I don't know if there would be enough overlap to do it for comments.
The problem is accessibility features are totally invisible to normal users. Someone with good intentions creates a pdf, and it works for them. They don't use screen reader tools or know how they work so they don't even realize there is a problem.
> AMD 2019 Profit (as earnings per share): $0.30 [1] NVIDIA 2019 Profit (as earnings per share): $6.63 [2]

> 4.52%, rounds to 5%, as I said.

You're misunderstanding how to properly compare profitability between two companies.

If Company A has 1 billion shares outstanding and earns $0.10 per share, that's $100m in profit.

If Company B has 10 billion shares outstanding and earns $0.05 per share, that's $500m in profit.

Company A is not 100% larger on profit just because they earned more per share. It depends on how many shares you have outstanding, which is what you failed to account for.

AMD's profit was not close to 5% of Nvidia's in 2019. That is what you directly claimed (as you're saying you went by the last full fiscal year).

AMD had $341m in net income in their last full fiscal year. Nvidia had $2.8 billion in net income for their last full fiscal year. That's 12%, not 5%. And AMD's operating income was 22% of Nvidia for the last fiscal year.

The trailing four quarters and operating income, is the superior way to judge the present condition of the two companies, rather than using the prior fiscal year. Especially given the rapid ongoing improvement in AMD's business. Regardless, even going by the last full fiscal year, your 5% figure is still wrong by a large amount.

Operating income is a key measure of profitability and it's a far better manner of gauging business profitability than net income at this point. That's because the modern net income numbers are partially useless as they will include such things as asset gains/losses during the quarter. If you want to read up more on it, Warren Buffett has pointed out the absurdity of this approach on numerous occasions (if Berkshire's portfolio goes up a lot, they have to report that as net income, even though it wasn't a real profit generation event).

I didn't say anything refuting your revenue figures, because I wasn't refuting them. I'm not sure why you mention that.
Wasn't it Boeing's jugaad that ultimately killed 600+ people? Wasn't it ultimately due to jugaad that security breaches occur because the company wasn't willing to pay extra for good quality software? Isn't my (non-Indian) manager doing jugaad when he asks me to do the bare minimum to get the work done, so that he can complete maximum number of features so that he can get his yearly bonus?
Hmm doesn't sound that much now that I think.
> Another explanation could be that an article was written to look like an Earth & Sky article and put on a google drive.

I've never in my life seen someone fake a document that good. It's close to impossible under current conditions to appear in the wild. The Russians might be able to, for instance, but there's no circumstances they would, the cost to reward is way to high.

(Assuming you mean - https://archive.is/L7MT1#selection-1846.0-1846.1)

I'd like to see the best faked document you have ever seen.

I'd suspect the best is a real document but with changes.

Total entropy of documents is very high.
> I'd consider that a critical failure of the selection process.

Me too. Unfortunately, I have no control over recruiters or the questionable candidates they sometimes choose to send in. I just have to do my best to ascertain whether the person is a good potential teammate.
> Indians have built precisely engineered monuments like the Taj Mahal

Your claim does not hold up. According to the Wikipedia page you linked and other related pages,

1. Tajmahal was commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan who was born in Lahore, Pakistan. [1]

2. Was built on Persian and Mughal Architecture. [2]

3. Was architected by Ustad Ahmad Lahori who was from Afghanistan. [3]

There are better examples that can be cited to claim that "precisely engineered monuments" exist in India, such as Kallanai Dam[4] and Peruvudaiyar Temple[5], both built before at-least 1000 years, long before the Mughals and the British.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal#Architecture_and_des...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_and_architecture_of_th...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallanai_Dam

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihadisvara_Temple,_Thanjavur
A lot of people here seem to knock PDF, but I love it. Anyone who has tried to use OpenOffice full time probably does too. We have 'descriptive text' in MS various formats, or even html/css. The problem is every implementer does things in slightly different ways. So my beautiful OpenOffice resume renders with odd spacing and pages with 1 line of text in MS Office. With PDF, everyone sees the same thing.
If life exists in Venus' atmosphere and it's carbon based shouldn't we have detected evidence of organic molecules, notably methane, by now ?
But still, they are more consumer interest oriented than their sole competitor. At least this is a big part of their marketing.
Talking share price, Apple could have gone with user data mining and targeted ad business which is very profitable, but they chose not to.
From the macOS Mojave for Users, Administrators, and Developers book:

> The Notary service will also perform some additional checks on the application. These include security checks that verify the application is doing what it indicates as well as the check for private API usage, similar to Mac App Store apps.

[1] https://www.waynedixon.com/2019/05/16/new-notarization-requi...
The best method is probably to render the PDF and use OCR.
Howdy, full disclosure I'm the CEO at BlazingSQL (BSQL).

I'm not incredibly familiar with Ares save the linked article, but we aren't a DBMS or manage data in any way.

BlazingSQL is a SQL engine, it's easier to think of it similar to SparkSQL, Presto, Drill, etc.

We're core contributors to RAPIDS cuDF (CUDA DataFrame), which is a Pyhton and C++ library for Apache Arrow in-GPU memory. The Python library follows a pandas-like API, and the compute kernels are in C/C++.

BSQL binds to the same C++ as the pandas-like cuDF. What this enables users to do is interact with a DataFrame with either SQL or pandas depending on their needs or preferences. This interoperability means that the rest of the RAPIDS stack can be applied to a variety of different use cases (data viz, ML, Graph, Signal Processing, DL, etc), with the same DataFrame.

The DataFrame also has performant libraries for IO, Joins, Aggregations, Math operations, and more.

Here is an example of running a query on ~1TB on a single GPU in under 9 minutes. The data was stored on AWS S3 in Apache Parquet. https://twitter.com/blazingsql/status/1303370102348361729

Here is an example of scaling that same query up to 32 GPUs and running it in 16 seconds. https://twitter.com/blazingsql/status/1304450203030880257

Again, think of BSQL as a query engine, that runs queries on data wherever and however you have it. Here is a BSQL user running 1-2 minute queries on 1.5TB of CSV files using 2 GPUs. https://twitter.com/tomekdrabas/status/1303824164273270789

Let me know if that helps at all (or not).
That's because they implemented egl streams, nothing has changed majorly since then. There's been a lot of talk, but no action towards unification. The ball is entirely in Nvidia's court and they continue to work together on this.
> Why not look at some of the potential bright sides to this for a more nuanced and balanced opinion?

because as a NVIDIA user of the last 20 years, I never saw such bright side when it comes to open source.
I would have been okay if the only breaking change in python 2 -> 3 was strings are Unicode by default.

But they went with the logic of “if we’re gonna break, why not break a bunch of other things and take this opportunity for a different python”

Needless to say, the folks in charge of python didn’t think things though. It’s a big fat breaking change with no real automated way to upgrade. A whole bunch of apis are now different. At my company even after a year it’s still a pain having some scripts only work in py2, while others in py3.

Python3 pulled a google.
Yes, thank you! I have exactly the same feelings, because I like the write in old versions of iWork. With a PDF, I know that whatever I export will look the same for whoever I send it to.

I sometimes see people complain about how PDF sucks because it doesn't look quite the same everywhere (namely, non-Adobe readers), but if you're not doing anything fancy is pretty much does. It is, at minimum, more reliable than any other "open" format I'm aware of, save actual images.
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Native Linux stuff is not at all native for FreeBSD. If Nvidia suddenly decides to open their driver (to merge it into Linux), FreeBSD and Solaris support will be the first thing thrown out.
Why would Apple need future ARM IP? They have more than enough in house talent to take their license in any direction they wish.
I know, right? It's finally hitting me. I am realizing how much of an asshole I've become thanks to the validation of a handful of strangers on the internet. I have caught myself commenting on things I have only cursory knowledge of and being justified by the likes of strangers. I actually believed that the online communities I participated in actually represented the world at large.

I'm not quite ready to end my participation in HN, but I'm close. I am looking back on the last 10 years of participation in forums like this and wondering what the hell good it did. I am also suddenly very worried for what sites like Reddit are doing to kids. That process of validation is going to produce some very anti-social, misguided adults.

I would rather participate in an argument map style discussion, or, frankly, just read the thoughts of 'experts'.
Apex predators are always of huge importance..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade
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> 1.6 million people worldwide

How many of the 1.6 million need to live here in LA?

> University attendance may dip, but with the rock-bottom prices

You can't compete with online prices if you have brick and mortar, hence Amazon. I would argue some disciplines still need shared spaces like medicine but even then, a lot of the learning could be done online.

Uni's competitive advantage has been certification. There are now better ways to track a candidates fit for employment that also don't require deviations into non-career focused learning like art, literature or history. These classes are not meritless, they just don't help employment.

I don't believe rock bottom prices will save the onslaught to come.
I love Graham Hancock as "ALIENS?!" smut but come on.
I don't really have an opinion on nVidia, as I haven't dealt with any of their products for over a decade; my own problem with this is somewhat more abstract: I'm not a big fan of this constant drive towards merging all these tech companies (or indeed, any company really). Perhaps there are some short-term advantages for the ARM platform, but on the long term it means a few small tech companies will have all the power, which doesn't strike me as a good thing.
Totally. I see a future where people will have edge over others when they pay for information than relying on free sources (except Wikipedia due to its scale, but still, Wikipedia is not a replacement for a proper academic textbook).

FT provides insightful commentary from finance/business side of things and their subscription is expensive - rightfully so.
I like PDF a lot. It's got its drawbacks but the universal format is really helpful for layout-driven stuff. Shrug. It gets it done.
« I spent most of the afternoon hacking away at some unsupported edge case on an unsupported platform which is inadequate for what I’m trying to do. It doesn’t work, which is clearly nvidia’s fault. »
This is what I think of when I think "innovation": a different perspective. Not lost in the weeds of details, but a thousand miles above them.
A couple years ago, I reformatted these for use with the unix "fortune" utility, in case you need oblique strategies on the command line. (I sure do.) https://github.com/threemachines/obliqueMOTD
For one TensorFlow is not a generic framework like cuda is, so you lose a whole bunch of the configurability you have with cuda

Why make generalizations like this? It's not true, and we've devolved back into the "nu uh" we originally started with.

This is trivial to do on a GPU, and is built into the library

Yes, I'm sure there are hardwired operations that are trivial to do on GPUs. That's not exactly a +1 in favor of generic programmability. There are also operations that are trivial to do on TPUs, such as CrossReplicaSum across a massive cluster of cores, or the various special-case Adam operations. This doesn't seem related to the claim that TPUs are less flexible.

The raw functions it provides is not direct access to the hardware and memory subsystem.

Not true. https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/raw_ops/Inplac...

Jax is also going to be giving even lower-level access than TF, which may interest you.

You did not give an example of something GPUs can't do. all you said was that TPUs are faster for a specific function in your case.

Well yeah, I care about achieving goals in my specific case, as you do yours. And simply getting together a VM that can feed 500 examples/sec to a set of GPUs is a massive undertaking in and of itself. TPUs make it more or less "easy" in comparison. (I won't say effortless, since it does take some effort to get yourself into the TPU programming mindset.)
In a way this is brilliant from ByteDance. Sell for the most money to a company that will never grow or operate tiktok in a way that can threaten you outside the US.
One big advantage of screensharing (e.g. with Wacom) is much lower bandwidth requirement. If kids' internet connections aren't great, it could be an important improvement.
I think this is a great point.

Our personal computing devices should have the same sort of protections and affordances that our homes have. We should have an expectation of privacy and control over our domain. We should have the rights to build, repair, and more.

If we're not leasing a phone or leasing a house, if we are owners of the phone or the house, then we should have full control to every aspect of it.
We Chose an HTAP Database over MySQL for Horizontal Scaling and Complex Queries
Indeed. It is a necessarily true model of causality.

Highly recommend Minsky's application of the theory on computation: Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines

Interestingly, Minsky went out of his way to hide the production of that project without Weiner to avoid his influence on it--whom he disliked at least at a professional capacity.

There's some part where he shows the symmetry of the machine with the environment implies they are are interchangeable and is merely a description of convenience. Of course this trivially flows from the time reversibility.