skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what is currently vaporware

Designs that are actually operating and producing power are not vaporware. The reasons those designs aren't already doing that in the US are political, not technical.

Anti-nuclear politics in the US has made people believe that every nuclear reactor is a Chernobyl waiting to happen. That was a pernicious lie even in the 1980s, and it is much, much more of a pernicious lie now. In terms of the fairest measurement, which is harm done per unit of energy generated, nuclear power, even with reactors of traditional designs, is orders of magnitude better than any other energy source, including renewables, which in turn are significantly better than oil and coal (coal is by far the worst). And with newer designs, not vaporware but actually operating today, that risk per unit of energy generated is even lower.

A sane US government policy would have had nuclear displacing oil and coal starting in the 1970s, as France and Japan did, and reprocessing the waste instead of beating ourselves over the head with a baseball bat by saying the only option was to store it for 100,000 years, which of course is not practically possible. Then we could have a meaningful conversation about how much of that nuclear base load capacity it makes sense to transition to renewables. Plus, if you really think CO2 emissions are a planetary emergency (I personally don't, but GND advocates do), there would be decades worth of CO2 emissions that the US would not have made at all. Not to mention decades worth of coal still in the ground where it belongs, and oil that could have been used for things much more productive than burning it for energy.

You say we have to go off of the "existing historical reality", and while it's true that we didn't do all those sane things in the past when we should have, that still is no argument for not doing them now. We have an obvious alternative source of base load power that would free us from oil and coal staring us in the face, and instead we're noodling about renewables that can't possibly meet the same demand requirements. That doesn't make sense to me.
Maybe. Though I suspect one of the big reasons that nobody tries too hard to eat Google Play's lunch is that they're backstopped by Google's resources, so if you actually started to succeed, Google would just pour money into crushing you until you were suitably crushed.

If they were separated from unlimited resources, it would no longer be a Sisyphean task to reimplement everything they do, and then others may sense weakness and make the attempt.

Though really that could be the best thing to happen. Let Android Corporation fail, we don't need it anyway, meanwhile everybody else reimplements Google Play Services as part of the open source project, and then Google Play evaporates and there are multiple competing stores from Samsung and Valve and Amazon and Debian that anybody can use on any Android device. And Android gets developed in the same way as the Linux kernel.
That doesn't sound right. The oceans contain several billion tons of uranium. A 1 GW(e) reactor uses the equivalent of about 100 tons of natural uranium per year. So, he's claiming the world would have ~1 million reactors.
I was wondering why GP couldn't have swapped out the hash function for one that just returns a fixed value, making everything a collision. Then it would just be a matter of verifying the system still works under that condition (ignoring the performance hit).

You could even measure the performance hit from that degraded condition and create a heuristic to warn you if something is wrong with the fast path.
Yep, I would agree with all of this.

Some Oxide folks have talked about our experiences with Rust as web backend stuff, it's linked in the post but https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/the-automated-cio/ and https://twitter.com/ahl/status/1308421852931461126 We had to build a bunch of stuff because as you say, the ecosystem isn't super mature at times.
Even in this thread people talk about RAM usage as well as electricity and I think they are missing the point: many people use company-issued laptops and when you have pieces of software constantly thrashing the CPU the experience goes to stressful levels of noise (as you described).

I'd honestly help with a Slack rewrite in a less wasteful technology for that reason alone: let people's laptops sit quiet!
Research on how to implement group movement in RTS games
He could at the very least state that his wife's political views are not a reflection of his own. Sure, it's speculation, but I would guess that, given his other questionable donations, he probably isn't opposed to his wife's political donations.

IMO this, along with a few other choice quotes from the article [0][1], indicate to me that he's neither an inspiring nor effective leader. He blames his employees rather than himself for the failings of the company, and he blames his employees for combative discourse rather than his own actions and donations. Yuck.

Sidenote, the rush to his defense in this comment section is nothing short of odd.

[0]: "It is clear that some of you are devoting more energy and attention inwards, than towards our customers.”

[1]: Two days later Cirne sent a scolding memo to the entire company, admonishing employees to work harder and warning that New Relic was trailing competitors.
I've always wanted to check out Raoul Island[1] in the Kermadecs, it looks quite lovely apart from the active volcanic lake that killed a ranger, and South Georgia Island[2] - especially after reading about Shackleton's epic feat of endurance[3] where they sailed 1300km in a small boat, then crossed the mountains of South Georgia to reach a whaling station to summon help.

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

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sa...

[3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Exped...
“The Jolly Writer” by Joris van der Hoeven [TeXmacs book extract] [pdf]
You're making the CEO extremely rich and he's donating more money than you'll probably ever make to what many consider to be the enemy, so its pretty reasonable you might not want to work for the company or the CEO anymore
I bought the Sony Trinitron from the story back in 2000 at Fry's. When the salesman tried to upsell me on a service contract I accidentally laughed in his face. It happened before I could stop myself and Sony had an absolutely incredible record for quality at the time. I used that monitor heavily for over a decade, but finally replaced it because the phosphors were starting to go and the picture was getting dingy. Still it was a great piece of hardware.
Many people cannot afford to drive and cities cannot afford to provide infrastructure for everyone to drive. That means alternative modes of transportation must be available. Traditionally, that has been mass transit. Mass transit is not the most desirable mode of transportation during a pandemic.
> But if you are truly worried about speed, surely your whole site should be behind a CDN – not just a few JS libraries?

There is an argument for being more efficient with cdn redirects. The ideal cdn'ified site ensures that all requests that are always served from origin goes directly to origin, and all requests that are cachable go through a cdn, this means seperate domains or subdomains.
This is misleading and pretty much wrong. It’s like saying the hen is a liability, the only asset is the egg. Or like saying your team is a liability and the only asset is the work they produce..
> Now that Chrome is the leading browser they are turning off targeting for everyone else, so that only Google has access to target users

What - in detail - does this mean?

Because it doesn't appear true in anyway I can see. I can still buy ads exactly the same way targeting the same characteristics I've always been able to.
Speaking of stealing newspapers to suppress the truth...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1315314371560579073.html
Who calls it illegal?
They seem to have a developer program but it requires an application (according to the site).

I used a website to transfer my Spotify playlist to Tidal before this recent change.

I hope Tidal is prepared to take advantage of Spotify’s customer loyalty bonfire. Not having a strong developer offering isn’t a great look.
A lot of the text describes the goals of, and route to, a plan. It is not, itself, actual policy.
Admittedly, it can't be justified on purely utilitarian grounds. I do own a car after all.

Part of it is that I'm just addicted to cycling. But I'm also not strong enough to be a competitive cyclist, and don't live in an area with extensive mountain biking. So I have to look for ways to make it more interesting. I also love being outdoors during the winter, so I also go cross country skiing, or just take long walks.

Surely, folks who have engaged in real survival sports would laugh at me, but still, arriving at work on my bike at -20 F feels like I've been on some kind of an adventure. My friends think I'm crazy, but I remind them that regular people go to work, outdoors, in colder temperatures, and they survive. The old saying is: "There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing."

On the other hand, my spouse has a job where you have to pay extra for parking, so she either rides her bike or takes the bus depending on schedule. Right now during the COVID, the bus service has been cut way back, so it's 100% bike for her. My kids are both college students, and don't have cars, so a bike is their only option.
They do not. And many of us hope, that they will go away. And i hope, the city can afford to invest in a separate bike infrastructure. Maybe with quicker e-bikes and scooters even.

As a cyclist i am super annoyed by cars. As a pedestrian i am super annoyed by cyclists on the side walk, ignoring all the rules. And as a car user, well, we all know how traffic jams are and how cyclists come out of nowhere. It is all being politicized at the moment.

And in winter only a few hardcore bikers put the effort to dress up to get to the office, which, in corona times, are anyways not the best place to be.

I really dislike how they created those popup bikelanes. And will redirect my vote to parties, which put jobs and recovery first. I rather walk than to support this uncoordinated nonsense. But hey, thats me. :)
Ok, we've changed the title from "Build easy animations with Julia". Thanks!

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Sorry, not allowed to count for the compensation reported to us gov.
There's nearly no market for people willing to pay to own.
We need a C-compatible Rust crate for bitfields
But wouldn't a site be faster if cachable requests go to a cdn, and no un-cachable requests go directly to origin with no forwarding at the cdn layer?
The simple answer is that humans have two channels of audio in.
What I’m fumbling to get at is that a physical experiment can tell you that your model is flawed in ways that simulation alone can’t.

If you don’t already understand the double slit experiment, you’re unlikely to simulate light in a way that reproduces its results.
I would usually agree with them - but I finally feel like I have just about enough height with my 40 incher. Not that having more would be harmful, but I'm worried that the webcam on top would start to look weird if it was higher.

Here is the 48 inch oled from LG: https://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-oled48cxpub-oled-4k-tv
> To the contrary, contact tracers in many countries have been having a lot of trouble getting people to give up the names of their contacts, or even to answer contact tracers.

Where I live people put their full names, email addresses and phone numbers happily down on on a piece of paper for everyone to see!

> "Privacy" is not an abstract generic concept.

It is to these people!
A few weeks ago I had to complete a project. That was the only technical interview I was given.

I was sent a zip file with a README, Dockerfile, and specs for the project. I had to zip and send back the completed project with instructions on how to run it and document it. I had 3 hours to do it.

Pros: Less studying abstract problems, more practical

Cons: Essentially gave up a whole evening; was given no feedback, just a "we've passed on your application".
As an American I always feel like any writing any literature about sanctions failings would be seen to be providing material support to sanctioned people, which is a crime.

This chills my speech and I wonder if that crime is actually constitutional as currently implemented. Article II of the Constitution makes it constitutional for The President and Congress to enter into treaties which may have otherwise unconstitutional aspects - such as international sanctions - but would be constitutional by Article II if the supermajority passed the sanctions treaty. I wonder if the First Amendment overrides that because it was introduced later.
I did something like that - tool for transfering Spotify playlists to Apple Music [1] - 3 years ago. It was fun project. Not sure if it still works as I am staying as far from Apple software as I can...

And there was more projects like mine on Github at the time. Spotify2AM was good [2]...

[1] https://github.com/chew-z/Eumenes

[2] https://github.com/simonschellaert/spotify2am
“Our” own patio11 has done it at least once recently.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Have you ever used an Avalung (or similar)? Or rescued someone who has?
Another example of this in the kernel is filesystems: in theory, the ext4 driver can read/write ext2/ext3 filesystems fine. And yet the kernel for years had ext2, ext3, and ext4 implementations, each later version derived from the previous. The ext3 driver was eventually removed in 2015, but ext2 and ext4 survive.
Would the neural net be useful for modeling other hardware? Or is it configured specifically for guitar amps? If so, would it be able to model something like a hardware compressor?
Also Vroom never Worked For mE
Holding him to the same standards that the company publicly advertises it has is not silencing.
I think that's misleading then, because when I buy a GPU, they make me believe I own it, when, apparently, in reality I don't.

I don't think this way of selling (or as you say renting) stuff should be considered legal.
If you don’t want to use languages that enable code reuse, then you can’t complain about repeated code
I think there is an inherent asymmetry to the problen. You can prove that something (a headline) exists when you do your message, but you cannot easily prove that it does not yet exist. You could, theoretically, use something that one day will cease to exist to show that you signed your message before that point. However, digital things (information) normally do not cease to exist.

Assuming you don't want to involve any third party, things get difficult. To be honest I think there is always a way to make a message look older.
I think you're reading the comment backwards from intent. To me this comment is just pointing that while the vast majority of the Linux kernel C it supports so much stuff it still has an order of magnitude more assembly than old operating systems that were 100% written in assembly.

Yes, apples to oranges... but interestingly so not as a knock that DOS was coded better or something.
US trusts are nothing compared to Asian trusts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
Something like this?

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/age-related-heari...

https://playback.fm/hearing-test

and

"gradual loss of sensitivity to higher frequencies with age is considered normal" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range)
Dragon Roost island in Zelda: Wind Waker is based on this feature
What's the energy consumption like for LCDs, OLEDs and CRTs? It wouldn't surprise me if using a CRT meant higher consumption. Shooting around electrons I'm a vacuum can't be cheap.
Lots of business exist only to collect "publicly available data", organize it, and re-sell it. No where did OP claim that he owned the data, and frankly "ownership" of this data wouldn't even make sense. They are the slide decks of existing, well known companies.
Agreed. I was previously getting downvoted on the basis of mentioning Trump, but that wasn't the point...this was.
In my neck of the woods, people were looking for outdoor activities when businesses shut down. In some cases it was because they were out of work, in others it was because they couldn't go to the places they would traditionally go to. Cycling was one of those things people latched on to, but it wasn't the only thing. I wouldn't not be surprised if most outdoor sporting goods saw a surge in sales. Since the pandemic has been beaten out of my region (at least for the time being), even team sports are very common.
A company's codebase is a liability, not an asset

Why not just throw it away, then?
I'll have to disagree with your defeatist generalization here: creating something with better knowledge of the problem and a lot of hindsight will not necessarily get as complicated for the same feature set. In fact the resets are probably necessary so you can get to even higher feature sets before getting so obtuse that it's a pain to move another step.

Julia doesn't even need full parity with numpy because you can trivially write your needs in straightforward Julia (in fact Julia does not have numpy, only Julia arrays). And Pytorch equivalent? Also uses Julia arrays and straightforward methods (as you can just differentiate Julia code directly). Pandas equivalent? It's a wrapper over Julia arrays. Need named tensors? Just pick another wrapper over Julia arrays and it will work on Julia's Pytorch equivalent without changing anything.

I do have to deal with Jupyter Notebooks, but they do have a lot of "real pain points" as well (it's always a pain when a data scientist gives one to add for deployment, half the time it does not work because it does not keep track of the whole execution history and need a major rewrite), but the main issue is the disconnect between the exploratory code and the production code. Julia's workflow (Revise + REPL) means I still write the structured code as usual, but every change in the code reflects in the REPL, like I'm interacting with the production code directly (and the Julia language supports a lot of commands to interface with the compiler, from finding source code to dumping the full structure of any object and even all types inferred). And of course, Julia also has Jupyter in the first place as it's name suggests, and a very cool alternative for some workflows like Pluto.jl that improves on reproducibility).

You might also want to try Erlang/Elixir, it's really amazing how you can trivially spawn hundreds of thousands of tasks that are incredibly robust even though it's a dynamic language (since you add not only tasks to do something but also to monitor and handle errors). And you can even connect and hot swap parts of the application live (as an example of superior interactivity).

I'm not saying that Python is not good, it wouldn't get where it is if it weren't. I'm saying that things can be way better, and we already have examples of it in most particular areas, but none that covers all of Python's strengths, which is why it will still be king for the foreseeable future. But I can only hope that we will get better and better tools to tackle more and more complex problems in the most simple and optimal way that we can given all that we learned as a community.
This sounds dubious, isn't it easier/more reliable to just block parts of the hardware using fuses?
A review of the Julia language (2014-15)
> where does the carbon come from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
The bitstream that's loaded into the FPGA is very, very far from anything that would look like normal code. Additionally, all major commercial FPGAs have complex facilities for encrypting the bitstream that completely hides it's contents.

So it may be possible, but the architecture of the FPGA is not documented, so you'd have to completely reverse engineer the bitstream format, and if the protection is enabled, that'd still get you nowhere.
> separate Google the company selling ads on Google properties from Google the ad exchange for half the Internet

This is where I think the Justice Department and state Attorneys General can win. I don't know why the Justice Department is rushing a case on search dominance, and it definitely doesn't make sense to target Chrome.

Go after the ad tech stack.
Ya I was just a little confused by the title "1,200 slide decks by category...". Its perfectly fair to promote your product while providing a free service, but it does raise a mental flag of "if the goal is to promote product A, how valuable is token service B?". Regardless it's good to know these slides exist and reviewing them will help a lot of people (though I pray people skip the Theranos one as something that will influence their own companies).
I really like that the AMD drivers are open source and up streamed into the kernel. However, that doesn't solve all the use cases. If I want to use newer hardware on an older distribution (RHEL, DEBIAN, Ubuntu LTS, etc) the upstreamed drivers will be too old. Distributing the driver like Nvidia or Radeon Software for Linux will still be necessary.
I bought few a cheap Stratix V's from eBay too.

Useless. The drivers are horrible and the state of the tooling is insanely bad. The vendors have no clue, Intel personnel have no clue as they don't care about OpenCL 2.0 but will still gladly charge $10,000 in licenses if you really want to go that route. Verilog/VHDL is wtf, and you still need to redo your drivers.

So much potential.

I talked to a couple companies that use these in production, they reveal that they wrote their own drivers and still have issues.

You pretty much have to be a Microsoft doing sci-fi tech to get the benefits out of these, and it doesn't have to be that way.
Apparently the avocado is an evolutionary anachronism from the time when North America was populated by megafauna who were big enough to eat the fruit and move the pit around.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-...
I believe having a document “notarized” costs about $10-$20 and accomplished something similar.
So I want to plot the data I just loaded. Since I wrote the comment I had closed the Julia window (not to make a point, btw.)

julia> import CSV (takes ~1-2 seconds)

julia> data = CSV.File("/User/orbifold/Downloads/FL_insurance_sample.csv) (takes seconds again...)

I want to explore the data. I vaguely remember there is Gadfly to do that. For some reason it depends on FFTW and a whole bunch of other packages, but the dependency story in Python is equally insane, so whatever. As I'm typing this, I'm waiting for Gadfly to precompile.

julia> @time import Gadfly (104.460307 seconds)

python> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt (~10s if you are unlucky and it has to generate the font cache)

Maybe it's a good idea to do a scatter plot of two of the fields? Let's find out

julia> @time Gadfly.plot(x=data.eq_site_limit, y=data.hu_site_limit) 0.320751 seconds

but that number is not accurate, in fact it took so long for the browser to open the result, that I had time to check the documentation on backends and see whether I'm missing something.

python> %time plt.scatter(data['eq_site_limit'], data['hu_site_limit']) 41.9 ms, a bit more for the window to open

Turns out that is not a useful plot... maybe a histogram?

julia> @time plot(x=data.eq_site_limit, Geom.histogram(bincount=10))
0.042802 seconds

It in fact again takes several seconds until the browser shows a plot.

python> %time plt.hist(data["eq_site_limit"]) ~100ms

and the window with the plot opens instantly.