skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...essential for the perception of pain in humans.

At best this shows that shark pain perception has a different neurological basis to humans. We still have no idea what sharks do and don't "feel".
Yes, it removes ONE funding obstacle because as the OP I replied to says cost increased with the 4th power of the size, but that just means you move to the next limiting factor: the neutron blanket, designing to be able to swap out the shielding, etc.

We are still VERY far away from practical fusion. The fact that we know what the current limiting factors are doesn't mean that once we overcome those hurdles that we'll have a practical solution.
Yes, that's very true, I was actually going to put that in brackets but forgot!
> The same has happened with whitetail in the eastern US, and a lot of people around here are still foolish enough to get upset with the DNR when they do a cull.

These people don’t understand that we have to manage the environment we created (removal of predatory animals that eat deer) and part of that is harvesting deer to prevent mass starvation from lack of winter food. I’d bet if you showed them footage of a deer starving to death in winter, they’d agree herd culling is more humane.
Then those requests should not be cached?
It's trite, but it's never too late to start. Certainly starting now is better than doing nothing in this case, and nuclear may be a good option. I'm not convinced that old nuclear tech is economically viable anymore compared to batteries + renewables. New nuclear tech may be. We need investment there.
Nuclear shills are shills. Look deep enough and they have a money in it or just want to be the person no one likes on contrarian day.
Thank you so much!

If you're using a native biometric sensor (like Apple Face ID, Windows Hello, Apple Touch ID or fingerprint sensors on Android) -- your biometric data never leaves your device (so we don't even get to access it, let alone storing).

If you're using our camera face verification method for 2FA - we store the selfie image that you take on Gazepass (so just a regular image taken using your webcam/front facing camera) that works as your second factor for auth across devices. Of course -- as a user you can opt out of this entirely.
Have a production outage. See the code in question is 100% tested. Scratch head a bit. Vow to fake less next time.
Majority of child sex abuse images reported by US tech firms come from Facebook
> The WIN32 version, all that we've ever released, still work. Some of the older ones may not find old servers, but the code itself is functional.

I feel you. I made pretty much this argument to a fellow GNU/Linux user (arch Linux user, if that adds anything). He started saying that syscalls are stable and that it's a gtk/GUI library problem and that if you were to, say, if you somehow loaded all the old libraries, it would work.

Which might be true and everything, but come on. That's the equivalent of pushing your hands on your ears and shouting.

Quite frankly, the thing that saves GNU Linux a bit is that windows is basically getting shittier and shittier at user experience.
Since the hash is 60 bits, a collision is expected after 2^30 tries due to the birthday paradox. So by your math this would be 12.3GB. Although this is ignoring hash table overhead, which I expect to be at least 2x. Maybe they just got lucky.
Yeah, being grounded in Cesar war as opposed to contemporary world totally makes sense.
Oh, absolutely, but the article is predicated on using the most naive brute force.
If only the author didn't use such an inflammatory title. Why don't we need a Green New Deal (+ Nuclear)?

A "Nuclear New Deal" is a myopic approach to a systems wide catastrophe which includes pollution, waste, emissions, food production, energy production, supply chains, etc. and more.
Usenet was great. A distributed database with varied and robust communications links and sophisticated replication and de-duplication features; long before anyone thought to see it that way. Persistent compression dictionaries, indexes, and query passing could have happened too.
Quite often, people seem to overestimate the performance overhead Python brings (one can take the PyTorch C++ extension example (LLTM) and create a 1-1 LibTorch implementation to see a ~10% speedup or so).

But Paul's situation is multithreaded and his analysis has numbers that seem to indicate that something is up with the GIL. We know is a limitation in multithreaded PyTorch due to any Tensor creation at the Python level needing the GIL and these models typically creating quite a few of them.

It's always easier to know how the performance impact of something is when you have an experiment removing the bits. Maybe the using the JIT or moving things to C++ gives us that, I look forward to seeing a sequel.

The advantage of involving something like TensorRT or TVM is that they'll apply holistic optimizations - they may eliminate writing to memory and reading back (which would not show as underutilized GPU, but can be a big win, see e.g. the LSTM speedup with the PyTorch JIT fuser). The current disadvantage of TVM is that TVM currently is a bit of an all-or-nothing affair, so you can't give it a JITed model and say "optimize the bits that you can do well". TensorRT with TRTorch is a bit ahead there.

Of course, PyTorch itself is getting better too, with the new profiling executor and new fusers for the PyTorch JIT, so we might hope that you can have good perf for more workloads with just PyTorch.
I don't think so, at least not according to Ocasio-Cortez [1]. It is a pretty new idea though and is probably in flux, so it may have been different in the past?

[1] https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/06/ocasio-cortez-green-ne...
Yes, my most interesting experience is from writing code that was portable between to TI DSPs. One had 16-bit char and 24-bit pointer, the other 8 and 32 bits. Of course, the struct padding, bit field packing, char signedness, etc were also different. By the way, their compilers were very good at two things: optimizing shifts and masks into bit access operations and sticking to the standard where it is the least intuitive. C was originally intended to be a high level systems programming language and this stuff would have been written in assembly, and it shows.
> First off, you can have both. Green new deal doesn't ban reactors or anything.

While that is true in principle, there is apparently some evidence that investing in nuclear energy causes countries to de-carbonise more slowly (perhaps because of the upfront costs of nuclear power stations, and the time it takes to build them).

"Researchers found that unlike renewables, countries around the world with larger scale national nuclear attachments do not tend to show significantly lower carbon emissions—and in poorer countries nuclear programs actually tend to associate with relatively higher emissions."

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-crowd-nuclear-renewables...
Ah, that's what I felt. Thank you.
But is it enough for infection? Current data say that infection through fomites is low, or even unlikely. Also the experiments were carried in the dark, so I wonder if they can be readily applied to everyday situations.

I wonder why at this point no one is doing studies in animals to see whether these concentrations equate with infections.
"Internet marketing" is full of this.

Folks start out trying to make money online, until the eventually come to realise, the only way to make money online, is to sell a product telling other people how to make money online.
“Test as close as possible to the real state” makes sense as a rule of thumb, but I’m having trouble coming up with a reason in this specific case how mocking the hash function could go wrong. Assuming your testing/mocking library is reliable, this should be testing precisely what you intend to test. I guess it’s possible that your “more real” test relies on some hidden behavior, like how your real hash function utilizes system resources, which could affect production, but I don’t know that tests which are testing things you’re not even aware of is a great thing to advocate for.
We only have one real data point as far as actual newly constructed plants in the US go, but that data point agitates against your position. At Vogtie, the government made a rule that effectively forbids consumers in the Vogtie service region from using anything but Vogtie. So no switching to using some wind farm that someone might slap up down the road from you. Material point is that regulations generally favor these sorts of plants where consumers are concerned because the government needs the plant. (Or, at minimum, has decided they want the plant.)

Not that any of it matters. Obviously, Vogtie still is a financial mess. I suppose it's probably beyond "mess". Once something's more than 200% or 20 billion over budget it's OK to go ahead and call it a financial disaster. I'm only pointing out that regulations work both ways, and when the government is trying to get a power plant built the regulations will generally work in favor of the generating entity.

The essential issue is that nuclear plants cost money even if there are no regulations at all. The required metallurgy, for instance, just costs a baseline amount of money, and there's no way to cut it down. I doubt anyone could get a nuclear plant built for less than $1 Billion even in the absence of regulations. And that's for the designs we know and understand. There will definitely be cost overruns for the newer designs that we haven't worked with in production. Investors have to be able to recoup that outlay within a reasonable time frame. So the government is actually doing the right thing by "guaranteeing" customers so to speak. In an environment free of the ability to regulate, I doubt any nuclear plants get built.
https://archive.is/BobhF
A lack of forecasting and reliance upon energy imports that are not supported by long term contracts aren't problems that are intrinsically all that hard to fix either. It just requires a bit more competence in running the grid.

California has had a history of poor management of its electric grid (remember enron?). A wholesale switch to nuclear is a vastly expensive and not terribly effective fix for poor grid management.
It's there so people understand your message may not be typed as carefully as it would be on a desktop system.
how is it "side"? you have a full time job too? are they ok with side projects?
It’s the US too. I was in a car accident with 2 bikes on the back that were unrepairable. Trying to find replacement bikes are close to impossible. Just yesterday I went to 2 local bike shops who had no stock and the bikes they do get in are pre sold, so there’s never any inventory. All manufacturers I’ve checked also don’t have anything available online. I guess they prioritize their dealers who can deal with the customer facing stuff so they can focus on more manufacturing. Even finding basic parts like a tube can be difficult! I found that the service levels at my local shop also went way way down, as they just can’t keep up with the volume. When I asked one of the bike store people about it yesterday, he just shrugged and said that it’s probably being used as a social distancing safe sport and replaced a lot of gym memberships and other sports.
So what about using Flatbuffers[1] to avoid memory allocation of the data and only have the structure allocated additionally?

[1]: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
Because consumers don’t think long term. If your console costs $600 but games are $40 while your competitor’s costs $400 but games are $60, the vast majority of consumers will choose the $400/$60 one.
Harness your intuition to make better decisions
Async code smells and how to track them down with analyzers – Part I
Not to mention that exhaustive testing only works when you already know the correct result for each input.
DOJ – International Statement: End-to-End Encryption and Public Safety
triangle of opportunity
Do you have a source for those $500 billions cleanup costs? I'm interested in what is included in order to reach this figure.
I'm glad Julia does exist. It's great to have a free and open-source programming language focused on scientific computing.

What I dislike from the Julia community is the unhealthy fixation they have with Python and R. Virtually, no comment or blog-post is written without mentioning how slow, inefficient, inappropriate, inelegant is Python or R. Somehow, the Julia community convinced itself that best way to attract more users is to constantly put down Python and R. A sad state of affairs definetely.
When one craves that trance or flow state possible in gaming, average or not, the low latency may be essential.

Relative to elite players, it won't matter.

In terms of the experience? It really can be.

We all get old. Enjoying what potential we have on the way through can be worth a little money.

"Need" and "want" can be blurred here and it is OK.
Oh good, I love a good cherry picking competition! As a Portlander, I can tell you first hand our police are regularly doing much worse than "arresting" mothers and grandmothers, they're first shooting them with tear-gas, impact munitions, then batoning and pepper spraying them on the ground. Watched it, first hand, just a few days ago.

As a former Marine, until watching our cops in action this year, I was all about them. Now I'm disgusted with them, and will do everything I can to take the toys away from these children. Until you've seen them first hand (or you are one... Just quit and live a better life), it's actually really hard to believe just how awful they are. Are cops are the "war on drugs" cops who bend or disregard every rule so they can "come down hard" and "make an example". That's the attitude. And if you think that's okay... Wait till your kid gets pulled over, or stopped for riding a bike through the wrong part of town. These people are thugs, and operate where no laws will touch them.
I've just requested my data. When I get it I'll take a look and see if it contains playlist information and either edit this comment or post a reply to myself if the edit window has closed with the results. They say it can take up to 30 days to process.
No worries, it doesn't come off that aggressive ;)

Yes, I've definitely been involved in other projects where a single core developer can do a little too much "imposing" of their will. i.e. if they happen to have a personal preference one way or another on things, they not accept or even entertain certain changes.

I wouldn't expect most large, mature projects to be this way (otherwise they probably wouldn't have grown as large or attracted enough of a community!), but it's certainly a problem with some projects.
Absolutely. Our knowledge nuclear energy production would have increased more if “environmentalists” hadn’t thrown a hissy fit over gen 2 reactor problems in the 70s.

Its 2020, and I am still breathing in exhaust of a pollution from energy production, as a direct result of their foolishness.
Yes, I've done this using libFuzzer. Supply custom mutation and crossover functions that generates interesting floating point numbers. Then let the coverage guided fuzzer exercise your code. https://rigtorp.se/fuzzing-floating-point-code/
I miss 4:3
I've used Scrivener for book writing where I've found it really useful for when I'm still fiddling with organization and overall balance between chapters. The downside is that between collaborators and editors, I need to move everything over to another format at some point. But I still find it useful in the early draft stage if I'm mostly working on my own.
I interpreted the bullet point about "tail-end consequences" as tail risk, i.e. a worst case scenario event with low likelihood of occurring. In the author's story, he mentions they only considered the likely consequences of skiing out of bounds: getting caught and getting in trouble with their coaches. They never considered the worst case scenario of dying in an avalanche.
This article is just an odd headline hook to discuss deep fakes. "Being" a deep fake actor is simply being the source media driving the VFX character. As an authoritative source on the topic, this is about as shallow as the rest of the pop culture articles on the topic - which is ankle deep.
You are right. Starting with almost nothing, the first Indian governments had a lot of scope for development. The list of institutions has had some effect on the society, and to the areas around them mainly in South India. Some of the previous governments really led to improvement (specially during Congress' Indira Gandhi's time and BJP's Atal Bihari Vajpayee's time) in certain areas.

But that is not enough. Science is still not a viable career for large percentage of the population, most of the technologies (specially commercial) are still imported, there aren't many companies in the private sector which are innovating.

Unfortunately none of the current political leadership across political parties give any confidence in this area. The current ruling party wants to live in the glory of the past and give comments about imaginary times. The main opposition party doesn't even try to promise anything better. Since Indira Gandhi, none in Congress have even tried to include science in the election manifesto in any major way. The previous UPA government was a big let down in this area. The other marginal national parties and regional parties are even worse. They don't even pretend to improve anything in this area.
That's a good counter for some of the points, although there's limits to how much you can count on it.

It's less comforting for others, like the limited amount of uranium available and diminishing returns on how to get it.
I feel exactly the same

At the same time - if you are on the Dev side it is well worth it to learn as much about marketing as you can

There is an Art and a Science to creating these Marketing Treadmills and making them work

The dream is

A truly talented dev team that can make an AMAZING product

MERGED WITH

A splendid marketing team that can really market it

*

While there might not be very many similarities, you can always learn from what people do to market and sell their product. Heck some of the best marketing strategies are used by people who have things to sell which seem completely pointless
Maybe another way to look at it is people overestimate the importance of marketing strategies and underestimate the importance of a product people really want. Lots of people spent time getting really good at marketing and e-commerce only to find the thing they were selling didn’t have much of a market fit.
> Starting again from the ground up in a shiny new language (even if the language is perhaps slightly better) is a waste of so much effort. Transitioning from Python 2 to 3 was already a nightmare.

This is a sunk cost argument. Python’s stack got us a long way, but it still falls short in a lot of ways. First of all, it is eager so you can’t build up an entire query, have the system optimize it, and then execute it for greater performance. Secondly, you can’t easily parallelize operations on the same dataframe. Thirdly, it’s poorly suited to running in a web process. Fourthly, it’s all written in C/C++, so debugging, building/packaging/installation (esp on niche systems), etc is a pain and it prevents many of the optimizations Julia and others can do natively, etc. Fifthly, the APIs were horribly designed (especially matplotlib, good grief). Etc.

I don’t know about Julia in general, but in most domains there’s a middle ground where people can have nice, thoughtfully designed tools (albeit with minor issues), and endless churn. It certainly feels like the scientific toolchain is one of those areas—fix a few of these enormous, glaring problems and then enjoy some stability.
It's a bit more complex.
Both python and julia are compiled to bytecode.

Then python bytecode gets interpreted, but I think that julia bytecode is actually compiled with a JIT compiler.

So julia is not really interpreted.
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I doubt there would be a viable market for commercial production like that, but I've seen several 3D-print-at-home options for custom cases for Pis and similar.
OMG has the uranium lobby woken up again?

Follow my reasoning and ask yourself:

1. How long should we stock nuclear wastes securely? >> Basically forever

2. What will happen if we start using more nuclear energy? >> Wastes production will increase

3. Given an increasingly production rate of nuclear wastes, and given the fact that they have to be stocked securely forever, is this going to be economically substainable on the long term? >> No

It's obvious to any child that everything this article is suggesting is economically, environmentally and ethically unsustainable.
Is that red in particular or any color that stands out? Say bright yellow or orange.
Doing (2) has some extra risk that people don't talk about very often. If you, like most people, have to work a day job, it is actually less risky to invest outside of the area you work in (using a diversified portfolio). If you work in the tech industry and there is a tech downturn, it is not ideal if your investments are also doing poorly at the same time. By nature of working in that industry, your finances are already heavily dependent on that industry and it might be a good idea to take that into account while investing. You don't want to be both investing in a bunch of AI companies and working at an AI company if we end up in a second AI winter.
My impression is that the GND is focused on jobs, social programs, and justice issues, which is great, just not environmentalism per se.

It might be more effective to expand E. O. Wilson's efforts on biodiversity to include energy policy than to try to have the GND encompass absolutely everything that's happening at the moment.
I started my career, and have spent most of it, working in places where the production network was (almost) airgapped from the entire internet (MPAA accredited facilities). I would say that the general quality of software and and robustness when it comes to dependencies is so much greater in these places. If you want to use some library, it’s up to you to get it, and its dependencies, check the versions are compatible and package it up and build it all internally. Yup, it’s work... Do you need this library? Is it actually any good? Is the license compatible with our usage? This is all basic code quality stuff that’s often completely overlooked when people can just pull in whatever junk from whatever trendy repo is the hotness nowadays. And then when that goes down/bankrupt - it’s up to you to fix something you’ve no control over.
The point of the principle is that you don't know how the mocking can go wrong. Assuming your testing/mocking library is reliable gives you one more thing that can unexpectedly go wrong.

Of course, sometimes getting verisimilar test cases is difficult enough that you judge it not worth the effort over mocking it up and dealing with any issues with the mockup, foreseen and unforeseen.
This is a fair beef.

But, at the same time, sometimes when dev-teams build a system/product named after a single short common word (Looking at you, go!), or a single letter, it gets to be hard to search for and find relevant results. (The "go-lang" convention didn't get widely adopted/used until go had been out there for a while).
Should I start a newsletter or a blog?
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