skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way was the severity overstated? People are getting sick for weeks/months at a time and a good amount of people are dying.
A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
Intel's name for its CPU architecture is "Core." Nevertheless, AMD discusses its CPU cores. "voodoo" and "Voodoo" need not be the same (;
That's coming closer to thought crime
Or a personal assistant? As there's potential for rich interactive refinement, as well as learned inference.

As with Nest, there's an architectural privacy challenge. You'd like your pa to have insights like "oh, your interests on topic X align closely with other-person, so let's see, maybe you'd like thing too?". Ideally using local or trusted computes. But you don't in general want other-person's pa to know all your things. So perhaps an ecology of trusted visibility? Your pa can run parts of itself on a bonded site, with greater visibility than it would have locally, but with restrictions on what it can report back? But that's hairy and hard. So...?
> The dramatically reduced costs of infrastructure for constructing mounted tubes on pylons, with each section being a fungible, mass produced item, makes rail obsolete.

This makes no sense. The "mounted tubes on pylons" contain rails inside and therefore are MORE not less expensive than just "rails mounted on pylons," which we already have. A more complex rail does not make simple rail obsolete. Nor does it beat it on fungibility, cost, or mass production. Where are you getting these "dramatically reduced costs"?
Anandtech will have one of their detailed microarchitecture breakdowns at product availability day (November 5th).
How Not to Kill People With Spreadsheets: outsourcing gone wrong
Sure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ3oJlt4GrI

Nearly a square foot, and the water block is built into the module.
I love what you guys are doing, and I love improving the ML ecosystem, but you’ve godda understand, people see this and think “oh, ok, it’s a small difference, no big deal.” In fact it’s a huge difference.

Picture a person with one arm and without legs. Would you say they aren’t “1:1 in terms of features”? They certainly won’t be winning any races.

And unlike real people, you can’t graft on a prosthetic limb to help this situation. The issue I’m describing here is a fundamental one that everyone keeps trying to sweep under the rug and pretend isn’t an issue. And then everyone wonders what’s going on.
My MacBook has 64, don’t think 128 is an option.
I've found that religiously applying type annotations in Python helps, and using a mypy LSP plugin[1] allows for type checking as I'm writing Python code.

[1] https://github.com/tomv564/pyls-mypy
Yes of course, non gaming, dev and media work, these will be beast. I was just confused on why they were so focused on 1080p gaming performance benefits. Buying a whole new setup if you're running any relatively modern CPU would be a waste of money for gaming. At 1080 you're probably already killing it in framerate, and at 2k+ the benefits just aren't there.
Yes, and they also keep a record on WHO voted, (not how they voted except as you pointed out), as well. This information is made freely available to registered political parties.
You might enjoy trying OCaml! Most of the "necessary and hard" strictness of Rust comes from not needing a garbage collector. Once you have that, it's a lot easier to provide something rigorous but more ergonomic.
As a shareholder you may require the business to guarantee that every deal negotiated with customers and suppliers are defined on an arm's length basis or face negligence or wrongdoing.

Every holding has transfer pricing [1] as BAU, and I can assume that it is also the case for IBM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing
SARS-CoV-2 Is an Unrestricted Bioweapon (The 2nd Yan Report) [pdf]
IBM to spin off $19B infrastructure services unit to double down on hybrid cloud
The origin of the graphical user interface was actually elswhere. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environm... system had a display system with a "graphical user interface" and a "ligth gun" (i.e. pointing device) by 1958; also e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad had similar features in 1963; but these were CRT displays with vector drawings. The Alto in 1973 in contrast had a bitmaped screen and the first GUI following a desktop metapher (see e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/alto-pe... or http://bwlampson.site/38-AltoSoftware/Abstract.html).
Which ISA extensions are useful for compilation?
Dwarf Fortress: Representing dwarves graphically
Using anti-terror and child abuse to attack the right to privacy, is the cheapest trick a politician could use to dismantle end-to-end encryption.
> Getting rid of objects not belonging to the application to be deployed is difficult or impossible.

1) So don't get-rid, now where is "the problem"?

2) So only add "belonging to the application" stuff to the base image.

> … objects that have not been created or initialized anywhere in the source code … but on which the functionality of the system depends.

3) So those are objects that will always be deployed, now where is "the problem"?

> Versioning of objects and corresponding source code is difficult…

So application source code isn't just text that can be saved in text files and versioned like other text files, and loaded into a Smalltalk image in a scriptable repeatable build process?
Same for me, not 3dfx but stock losses affecting me much more than wins. So I do mostly just index funds now to remove the buy/sell stress.
Reliably rebooting Ubuntu using watchdogs
its probably just a case of they emailed support@ without a support contract, and didn't get very far. I don't think that's very indicitive of much, especially for "enterprise software".
Deposit systems are usually better when the object is reused in some way. Just to put a deposit on something that will be immediately thrown away/recycled I think creates a negative tax issue.

The side issue is plastic is wildly cheap to use and make. You can try to create tax systems that break that. But you just create resentment. A better way is to figure out how to make the other more sturdy reusable and recyclable materials better and cheaper than plastic. Reuse has the issue of re-collection/cleaning and that costs money. If you can crack that the whole market will skip plastic. Anything else tries to bend the market. It usually does not react well to that and creates undesirable side effects. The same thing happened in the coal markets with relation to nat gas. Natural gas became cheaper than coal and easier to use. Huge swaths of the energy market basically ran towards it. If something like that could happen in the plastics markets it would change the world.
Long shot, but I believe they're referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ3oJlt4GrI
We divested networking back in the ‘90s, we divested PCs back in the 2000s, we divested semiconductors about five years ago

Is it just me or does anyone else feel over the decades they've been divesting some of the best (long term) building blocks? A company with vertically integrated silicon, compute, networking, cloud, AI, Enterprise etc. seems like it could have such an edge if only they had focused those engineering capabilities on consolidated, high-margin end products.

I see the other big players going the opposite direction. e.g. Google and Amazon are building their own silicon for an edge in Cloud and AI.

So-called SexyIBM is just another cloud company without a distinguishing barrier to entry. Sure, their growth will look good on paper for a few years, but when Cloud becomes commoditized (which I think is already happening), the capabilities which could have created the kind of real innovation that opens up whole new industries will have all been cleaved away.
"Any number of cores" != "Fastest possible core design"

I also compile large, multi-compilation-unit C++ programs, and it's much, much better to have a 24 or 32 threads clocked at 2 GHZ than 8 threads clocked at 5 GHz.

The parent comment was talking about fast individual core designs, which are genuinely useful for gaming, and can't be approximated by adding more cores.
The lessons from Sweden’s approach to Covid-19
Pretty misleading title, but I think this is not an expansion of Waymo to the general public, but a getting rid of the safety drivers for some people participating in the closed-invite only preview but no longer under NDA. Seems like another incremental step forward. Google turned off the PR firehouse on Waymo over the past year, so I think many were starting to think the tech had hit a wall and wasn't ever going to be able to get rid of the safety driver. I suppose this makes me cautiously optimistic. I don't think self driving needs to handle all roads in all conditions to be economically useful.
I am not dismissing Azure. Outside of AWS or GCP, the only IaaS platform I can think of using is Azure. MS certainly has the competency to run a good competitor alongside AWS and GCP in the long run.

I was just pointing out how easily we can misjudge things based on our echo chambers.

> MS has very deep enterprise relationships, way more so than Amazon or Google and in the long run, that may be the advantage.

I think this is something even their competitors realize. That's why the current and previous heads of Google Cloud were from enterprise software companies, Oracle and VmWare.
> however the GPU ones ... I think it's going to be pretty bad compare to the RTX 30xx.

Their teaser numbers seemed to show par performance at 4k against the 3080.
I think people who haven't worked in/around IBM struggle to comprehend the sheer number of products and services it actively supports and only a portion of that are mainframe products. There are many products that have 100+ engineers on them but might never even make common conversation for how specialized they are. Additionally IBM has a high headcount for supporting those products, with 24/7/365 phone/hands-on support so that can sometimes be almost the similar number of people as the engineers actually developing the product. Since the products are so specialized there are specialized support groups per product. It's definitely easy to have 150+ people per product (especially from the heavy acquisition style they had been doing pre-Red Hat) so the numbers quickly adding up. Many of these groups have enough organization to transition to a standalone company's product team if they could replace the HR, accounting, and other company pieces.

There is certainly also consulting and other groups of people too, but they were not the majority.
I've found EasyList + "uBlock filters – Unbreak" to be sufficient in eliminating anti-adblock warnings.
As a European, this is a no shit sherlock moment for me. Who thought Google searches wouldn't be used?
Even for non-tech corporations, only those with the grayest of hair would consider IBM branding a safer bet than AWS/Azure.
I assume they all immediately handed in their letters of resignation and/or hired the candidate in as a principle engineer.

Sarcasm aside, the very fact that they ban questions demonstrates how useless these types of questions really are.

If you ban it because people might know it due to its popularity then what are you testing for? I thought it was for whether a candidate could solve the problem, but it appears to be to check which percentile of a special 'knowledge' club they belong to...
Can you offer any links? As far as I know, becoming a citizen is next to impossible.
Also, one would have to renounce any other citizenship.
More importantly-- as the use of such warrants rises unimpeded, the likelihood that your search history/cellphone location data correlates with a crime also rises.
You're thinking of WINDSTOP programs like MUSCULAR, not PRISM.
But it makes it unnecessarily hard to read and distracts from what you meant to convey.
Oh wow. How long do you wait for TTFB on HN requests?

Edit:

I'm in Mexico and the home page loads between 100ms and 1000ms.
This is easily the most outrageous title ever to be on HN. Jesus, this is just so blatantly overreaching.
> It could not deal with the heavy armor seen in the West. But many Western swords could not either. Some could because they were heavier or pointier... but that would have made them poor against unarmoured or low armored targets. You couldn't use it on horseback either, but the Japanese had longer versions for that.

That's what different sword grips were for, though. It is common to grasp a sword by the blade, in order to parry, or to use it as a kind of spear, or even to reverse the grip on the weapon, and striking with the edges of the cross-guard - as you would with a hammer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGr0aE7UQpQ
Even more significant is that it beats the newest Intel Tiger Lake by 6% at equal clock frequencies (at 4.8 GHz).

That means that AMD will enjoy a better IPC than anything Intel for at least 1 year, until the end of 2021, when Intel will launch Alder Lake.

Intel Rocket Lake, expected in March 2021, cannot have an IPC better than Tiger Lake, so it will also have an IPC slower by at least 6% than Zen 3.

Because Zen 3 tops at 4.9 GHz, Rocket Lake will have to reach at least 5.3 ... 5.4 GHz to match or maybe exceed Zen 3.
Is there ever an example of this working out well? Either for the “good part” that is kept? Or the “bad part” that doesn’t get to keep the name?

The only one I can think of is Phillip Morris International, Kraft, and Altria that all split out of Phillip Morris. But I think that was because of all the tobacco litigation.

I’ve seen this happen quite a bit and it always seems to be a sign of a declining company. IBM splitting off Lenovo and disk units. HP splitting off enterprise/automatic.

These kind of transformations just seem like accounting tricks for restructuring debt away from some parts into others. It’s curious how this split has $5B planned in expenses. That seems really high.

Maybe Google successfully bought and then shot out Motorola and Boston Dynamics. Their Alphabet reorg didn’t seem to actually change companies.
Wow I don't know they still sell the ribbons...
TL;DR An overview of how cryptocurrency works, how it is used for illicit purposes, many case studies of said purposes, and a reminder that ongoing enforcement will continue to broaden.

There’s not much new information here.
> With a COVID vaccine, I doubt it will get anywhere near the same fraction of takers as the flu vaccine.

It will if closures are lifted but vaccination is made a requirement (either privately or by government mandate) for on-site work, schooling, etc. The flu vaccine is treated as primarily a personal preventive medical treatment; while it is encouraged for public as well as personal health reasons, there is no force put behind it. But it is quite possible, and there is plenty of precedent for, public health measures to be mandated (especially a conditional mandate, like for schools, work in particular conditions--including any public content or even on-premises work) and enforced.
Notable game designer Raph Koster was involved in Metaplace and his blog included a lot of making of/behind the scenes articles and discussions from around that time, including some post-mortem thoughts.

> What keeps blocking them from mainstreaming?

Most likely it is business model. Getting the spatial model correct is a lot of work, and making it generic enough to be reusable is even harder. (Both Second Life and Metaplace flirted with idea of being platforms that other services could build on.) It's easier to get some financing for it as a "game" (it's also useful to note a bunch of Metaplace ideas came out of experiments in failed MMO Star Wars Galaxy), but it's harder to sell it as a general chat application (much less platform) or especially as an "Enterprise tool" if it looks too much like a toy or a game. On the flipside it's harder to build it as an Enterprise tool first, because the impulse to keep things sparse/spartan/"profesional" also leaves a air of "lifelessness" with not enough things to do outside of/between meetings/during downtime inside of meetings, not enough of a feeling that it is a space to "inhabit" rather than visit briefly because a meeting required it.

These business model bootstrap hurdles are a criticism I often bring to a lot of the conversations about why the Cyberpunk "ideal" of a single shared VR space (including the one most recently popularized by Ready Player One) seems so extremely unlikely in the real world.

(Aside: Ready Player One especially suffers from a lot of basic game economy mistakes and likely shouldn't have survived very long in its world for very long, much less have taken over nearly everything including education and enterprise so much as it did. My reading of the book was that the game economy directly caused a lot of the collapse and dystopian economy outside of the game, which made the book better than the author seemed to have intended as further reading and other evidence suggests the author was not aware of how terrible the economics of the game were, they were just fun ideas thrown out for verisimilitude.)
Startup Has a Plan to Build the Missing Link for Self-Driving Cars
Exponential != Super-polynomial

There exist np-complete problems with known super-polynomial, sub-exponential solutions. The stable set problem for planar graphs is an example.
It wouldn't be the first time Intel did that.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-28-core-cpu-5ghz,372...

> Unfortunately, it turns out that Intel overclocked the 28-core processor to such an extreme that it required a one-horsepower industrial water chiller.
Interesting quote from the abstract:

> ...the natural origin theory remains supported by several novel coronaviruses published after the start of the outbreak....Here, however, we use in-depth analyses of the available data and literature to prove that these novel animal coronaviruses do not exist in nature and their sequences have been fabricated. In addition, we also offer our insights on the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated naturally from a coronavirus that infected the Mojiang miners.
I would gladly take a z15 or two or three [1]. Ability to spin up any number of instances almost instantly, blazing fast speed between them... just super expensive and there has to be a business need to justify the support costs. People often mistakenly think this is old tech, but that could not be further from the truth. One could have their own massive VPS region in a box with much faster deployment of code.

[1] - https://www.ibm.com/products/z15/details
Regarding the speed of compilation, I'm not sure which if any recent ISA extensions matter.

What matters to me is the ISA extensions that are needed by the software I'm building, typically DL or HPC code. Life is easier when I can build and test the software on my local machine, without having to involve some fancy new server.
Product page
https://ouster.com/products/es2-solid-state-lidar-sensor/
No, in this sceneario it has a 1/2 probability of being right.

P(I chose correctly the first time | all doors are closed) = 1/3

but

P(I chose correctly the first time | I opened one of the other doors at random and there was a goat) = 1/2

Without loss of generality, we can say that I picked door A and opened door B findind a goat.

P(car@A | goat@B) = P(car@A and goat@B) / P(goat@B) = P(goat@B | car@A) P(car@A) / P(goat@B) = 1 x 1/3 / 2/3 = 1/2

In case it's not clear where the formulas above come from:

P(car@A and goat@B) = P(car@A) P(goat@B | car@A)

is equal to

P(goat@B and car@A) = P(goat@B) P(car@A | goat@B)
Linus Tech Tips did it with an aquarium cooler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMtvEbD2MQo

It looks like quite a straightforward setup actually. But a custom water cooling loop is almost surely a better solution.
Well, the generally-accepted term has been "salesman" for over a hundred years. Whether or not you approve, it's definitely a conscious choice.

As an aside, can someone explain why a generic "-man" suffix is taken to indicate only the masculine by some people? It's no different than using the masculine for indefinite gender, so why the objections?
Phoenix has a TON of retired and disabled residents who can't or shouldn't drive (spread out over suburbs), so it was easy to get political support for comfortable transit options that improve their mobility (and don't cost the city anything).
CD Projekt Red Dev Defends Crunch, Suggests People Have an “Ideological Nar
Since we are pulling credentials here, I have written enough of Metal, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, DirectX (5 - 12), WebGL, XNA, Unit, Java3D, M3G, PHIGS, Glide, Amiga and PC demoscene low level coding, to be able to evaluate Vulkan when going through books like Vulkan Cookbook and NVidia GTC sessions, but yeah, maybe I just don't get it.
Do you not realize how unhinged what you're saying is? "Coke and Pepsi are poisoning whole generations"? So you want to put business people in prison because they supply customers with products that they genuinely enjoy? I enjoy soda, I enjoy being able to drive, I enjoy occasionally smoking, I enjoy air conditioning my home. Perhaps I should go to jail too?

If you tell me your job, I could also make up ridiculous reasons about how you're personally responsible for starving children, or destroying the environment, or putting the public's safety at risk.

If you want regulation, pass laws. Don't go starting corporate witch-hunts by politically motivated completely unaccountable prosectors.

You can't participate in civil society if your only solution to problems is "let's throw everyone in jail for doing things I don't like!" And the outrageous unhinged rhetoric: "poising children", "killing millions", and "destroying the planet"... it's obvious what type of leader you'd be if you ever got any power.
What is the actual advantage to consumers over an Uber? Novelty will wear off, and so to survive Waymo will actually need to be better in some way.

Can anyone in Phoenix answer if Waymo is cheaper?

Is Waymo hoping people will choose Waymo for safety?
"At launch." They're rolling out the highest margin SKUs first, the rest of the lineup will fill out after Nov 5.
Yes, it's similar to the in-place row update system used by not just Oracle, but also Microsoft SQL Sercer and probably other databases.
Intel hasn't been doing ticks in years. I haven't kept track, but it's been now more like tick-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock.
Even if they 'spun off' businesses, they still have transfer pricing schemes among each and every subsidiary of Alphabet. This is just BAU for small and large organizations

[1] https://www.pwc.com/m1/en/blog/intangibles-tax-risks-opportu...

[2] https://prospect.org/economy/decisive-tax-defeat-for-the-mul...
Disclaimer: Googler

In a broad sense this information is available in the Transparency Report: https://transparencyreport.google.com/
There are only three situations. Initial pick in parentheses.

(C)GG - switch and lose

(G)CG - switch and win

(G)GC - switch and win
It's also possible to configure Firefox to natively clear cookies on exit, minus an exception list if preferable.

- Firefox > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed

- Firefox > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed > Manage Exceptions
When my eyes first alit upon it, I thought it was something to do with extended backus-naur form[1].

1 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_f...
I literally didn't even notice until these guys said it. Can't imagine how people care so much about trivialities like this.
IBM filed an amicus brief in support of Google - https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/google-oracle-amicus-brief/
You mean like a 5700X ?