skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carpet bombing can be seen as a rational response to the V2 rocket which was indiscriminate of it's targeting of Londoners.

The British strategic bombing against Germany started with Operation Abigail Rachel in December 1940:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Mannheim_in_World_W...

Which itself followed the start of the London Blitz in September 1940:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz#First_phase

The first V2 attack against the UK was much later, in September 1944:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history
nice anecdote
Actually, the recent MathJax 3 is quite fast as you can see in this benchmark:

https://www.intmath.com/cg5/katex-mathjax-comparison.php?pro...

Still not as fast as KaTeX though.
Too complex metaphor for me. If I've understood you, the flow is not exactly the trade. That's open to a lot of distracting objections. Beautiful anyway :)
This site generates poetry on the fly and links to a python 2/3 version ;)

https://nickm.com/memslam/love_letters.html
I'm dissappointed.
Imagine the cost, in both time and work, to create all of the iron ore, coal and all the other natural resources that go into a single piece of crap sold on amazon.

If that were priced into the crap, I'm sure having some humans spend a few of their hours on repurpuosing it would make financial sense.
I've been using guitarx, it includes some tube emulation, but I haven't really noticed much of a tonal difference between them. This looks interesting, but I run Linux so it is a no go.
>If the Chinese regime has you in their crosshairs, which I remind you is right now engaged in a massive ethnic cleansing campaign

Their target are a people very similar to the Afghanis, which the US has spent twenty years killing far more of then the current Chinese body count. Those Chinese cross hairs don't seem much worse than the US ones.

>you better believe they do not have your best interests in mind at all.

Neither does the US propaganda machine, encouraging me to enlist is far more dangerous to me personally.
I once tried to write an algorithm cookbook where the network flow problem would be illustrated by a simplified human circulatory system, and its edge capacities — by the diameters of the major blood vessels (this is how I knew to look for Adachi in this paper).

Besides the diameters being different in autopsies and ultrasounds, it turned out that while the mean diameters of the arteries are generally known, as they are used for diagnosing aneurysms, no source I found cared to publish the mean diameter of, say, the left and right gastroepiploic veins.

Also, even if 90% of people have the prevalent topology of some branching of blood vessels and only 10% have other variants, there are so many branchings that hardly anyone has a "textbook" circulatory system (that is, if the branchings are independent; I have seen no study of their correlations).
That's not how that works. Traveling 100 light years will take >100 years for the folks on the ship no matter how fast it's going.
I think the whole calories in / calories out phrasing is very disrespectful towards people with genetic obesity, (EDIT:) because these people can eat the same, sport the same, etc. as other people and still gain more weight. Telling them "just follow this equation like I do" hides the real problem behind a variable and is disrespectful because things aren't so simple for these people.
That’s an interesting question. I think I would. But at the same time, I think that I would be more interested in building the next spacex than working at the current one.
Like this?
https://imgur.com/o5Po51g.png
Well duh, it's an article nicely applauding the person who just won a significant prize/recognition, if you wanted to find out more about the research you're sitting in front of a machine which can help you find that.
If they wanted to restrict mobility... why have it at all?
There was a nice story that made me realize that in John Brooks' "Business Adventures"

The one about electric companies colluding, where the execs kept telling their subordinates not to collude with competitors, while said subordinates thought it was some sort of inside joke and just kept doing it.

Funniest part is, the execs apparently did not know, while their subordinates thought they were "clearly" communicating they were.

The morale, to me, was that management, at any scale or level, really only has as much power as their subordinates let them have.

And that implicit meanings, in communication, are absolutely and deeply unreliable.
My old car's charcoal evap canister had turned solid after 20 years. This would cause pressure buildup in the tank that would trigger the shut-off when putting gas in. It was really frustrating just adding $5.

This also illuminated the SES light and, more importantly, would have resulted in a failed emissions test. Instead of spending $250 on a new one I hit the old canister with a hammer to break up the charcoal and it was all good.

Edit: Service Engine Soon
Psychologist Maria Konnikova Became a Poker Champion in One Year
Burt Herring, the author of the Fast-5 diet book, contends that doing physical activity while fasting causes the body to reach into fat reserves for energy. This seems plausible to me, but IANAD.

In any event, I've been able to lose 30+ pounds over the past several months by going for regular walks and (mostly) refraining from eating anything with calories until evening. Interestingly, I also find that my food intake capacity at dinnertime seems to be less than it used to be.
The fact that batching is faster does not inherently imply some sort of inefficiency, but rather is indicative of the fact that sequential memory access is faster than random.

I am curious what the basis behind the idea that Python is the performance bottleneck for inference is.
> Who are you to say these people need to be paid more or companies need to spend more?

I'm just telling you what H1B is.

I've been in the US on a visa myself for what it's worth.
The rabbit hole goes a fair bit deeper than this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ergomechkeyboards
I've heard that build performance is actually worse than webpack 4, if you're not using persistent caching. See: https://twitter.com/FredKSchott/status/1314220659984146432
Hot damn, that was interesting!
You're not the only one, I spent a minute thinking about a discussion explaining why the `env` way was better, I was going to have a rant about people giving contradictory advice for "portability"!
Julia makes it easier for example with functions that handle mod in the context of 1-indexed arrays (if you don't want to use OffsetArrays).

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.mod1
I never did a return, but I draw no conclusion from this statistical sample of one. I had no idea what is the percentage of returns, but I am quite disappointed by Amazon.
Crux: Exhaustive symbolic testing for C, C++, and Rust
I totally agree that it isn't a big deal in practice. It's just antithetical to one of the major theses of the course, that there is no difference between pointers and other forms of data, but instead those are abstractions that mainly exist at a higher level.

And lol, yeah, the execute indirect processors are super goofy and I wouldn't subject students to that right off the bat.
North American Aviation's 1965 Plan for Sending Apollo to Mars and Venus
I used to use Mathematica or MatLab to export image files of equations or matrices, and embed those images into my papers. I would already have those equations loaded into the software as part of the research, so it really wasn't any extra work, and ensured they were copied over as they were actually used. Why is so much time spent trying to get complex math rendering added to text editors, especially when math research may define new renderings?

/get off my lawn
Hacker Uploads Own Fingerprints to Crime Scene in Dumbest Cyber Attack Ever
> you have to fight but you can try to prevent it

It's prevented if you're stronger than the other guy. I can't think of a single example in history of a country starting a war against a much more powerful opponent that was willing to use that power.

Imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because they thought the US would be unwilling to fight a Pacific war with them. Hitler declared war on the US believing the US wouldn't fight. The Confederacy didn't believe the Union would fight, or if they did, was a match for the Confederacy.

> Do what you want to do to make it heaven or hell.

The US is a heaven by pretty much any historical measure. Military spending is 3-4% of GDP, a small price to pay to prevent war.
Writing in the non-Julia world, my standard keyboard input is set to Unicode character interpretation so I can enter math symbols (mostly predicate logic and Z notation). I can believe it. Just enough to translate the algorithm of interest is enough for it to make sense.
UK pumps still have a hole which you can push a little rod through to lock the pump on.
The kernel people can say one thing, userland people can say another.

"It compiles, it runs! No smoke tests. libc is busted? oh well, patches welcome!"
If anyone at webpack reads this, consider adding an RSS feed to your blog.
I found it dry-comedic. But then again, I could only see that one person as the Cash Cab guy.
Where would I be able to read more of this?
Last time I looked water use wasnt much more than a tomato when compared on a per calorie basis. I'd love to be shown evidence to the contrary however.
That actually is antitrust. And they broke the agreement which allowed them to even acquire them in the first place.
IIRC they didn’t quite eat people but rather ate the brain parts of ancestors steamed in bamboo if something. Anyhow it want always well prepared and 40 years thence they developed some disease, so foreigners tried to get them to stop the custom.
Cory Doctorow: ‘Technologists have failed to listen to non-technologists’
I actually did explain:

Here’s a real quote from my comment, rather than a few words out of context in quote marks:

“That seems like the logical conclusion if you think they have blood on their hands.”

It’s obvious that I am not saying they should be doxed.

But sure - if people are just reacting to a few words without reading the whole comment or what is a reply to, then they won’t understand.
That's not what she's saying she is saying systems do not have magic, their aggregate behavior is exclusively a function of the singletons. That can include their interactions.
I too maintain an old and complex ExtJS 4.1 app and I never dared upgrading the framework. I carry a big zip around and it will be that until the end of its life or when I finally decide to rewrite it using React. For such an old framework it’s surprisingly bug free though.
It's not that Python is by definition much slower than C++, rather, doing inference in C++ makes it much easier to control exactly when memory is initialised, copied and moved between CPU and GPU. Especially on frame-by-frame models like object detection this can make a big difference. Also, the GIL can be a real problem if you are trying to scale inference on multiple incoming video streams for example.
How is it disrespectful?
Configuring the modern JS toolkit (webpack, Babel, your framework of choice, Jest, etc) is such a pain. I’ve been doing front-end for 10+ years. You’re probably not a bozo.
It is priced in by the price of the item.
No, that doesn't explain. Why does blood on their hands make doxxing mandatory for everyone that believes that? Nobody has said anything like that except you.
> Let's tax the rich more and give everyone access to higher education...

Someone getting in by buying the institution a new building isn't denying anyone access to higher education. In fact, since the institution has a new building it is likely it is increasing access to either education or research opportunities.

> Let's tax the rich more and give everyone access to higher education...

30% of the US does get a degree, so higher education isn't exactly an elite marker.

[2-4 years of time] X [70% of the US that doesn't have a degree] is an enormous number of hours. If someone is not going to use it then they have better things to do than academics. The risk of most of that 70% just looking back at a couple of wasted years is pretty high.

I suppose in fairness it might work out, but even now there are a lot of people getting degrees who havn't managed to parley it up into better outcomes. But it is likely to be a terrible plan, expensive and with marginal positive outcomes.
I mean it really depends how deep you want to go. Like you point out that the classes you took are 101 courses. These are really just "tasting" courses. I'm sure if you decided to take more advanced/grad numbered courses, or unnumbered "topics" courses, you would have a better idea of what's going on.

In general, "having a deep understanding of models & techniques in full detail" is not well-defined. For example, analysis of linear regression is often offered as a full year-long sequence for graduate students in math/stats depts. Is this necessary for doing linear regression in practice? Not really, but who cares - it's interesting stuff in its own right. Most people just need just enough understanding to finish a job.

In general, the precise medium that you use to study something isn't that important as long as it works for you, but there is a good reason that there are longstanding classic textbooks that people swear by in most fields of mathematics. I do strongly feel that in the context of any mathematical subject, that there are few substitutes to the grind - doing proofs and solving problems on your own.

Okay, but just to have at least one link in my post, I want to share this guy MathematicalMonk who used to make really great videos on ml-related stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcAtD_VYwcYwVbTdvArsm7w
I have this for my small business. About 450 small "bosses" (clients). Because we don't answer to investors or board or anything we have what I call "alignment" with our clients.

Despite 400+ opinions, the pull on the team is one way: client needs.

My previous Companies has outside money, board, etc. That's three directions of pull.

We've saved a lot of time that way on investor management but our growth was limited by cash-on-hand.
How did they make sure that the entire backpack was returned, not just the tracker tossed?
Logistics pipelines are designed to efficiently flow in one direction only. At large scale if returns are handled at all, it has to be a separate system. In the extreme case of logistic pipelines into war zones it leads to what looks like extreme waste. There was an infamous case during the Vietnam war when enterprising journalists exposed how expensive stuff, the really big item being F4 Phantom jet engines, that could not be used were being destroyed on site. Some politicians got to profess outrage at the Pentagon's wastefulness and get air time on the evening news. I believe there were even congressional hearings into the case of the jet engines. There really is no other way in a wartime logistics pipeline. The cargo airplanes land one after another. All the labor and equipment is dedicated to unloading the airplane as fast as possible and loading on waiting trucks. The loaded trucks drive out the exit gate. Aircraft take off as soon as they are emptied to repeat a cargo run. Empty trucks come in the entry gate and queue up to go on the tarmac for loading. There is no room in the process for a loaded truck to enter the premise, or for an empty plane to wait around. There is no labor or equipment available to do loading in the reverse direction either. And that's just the simplified version. There are many more nodes in the system expecting unidirectional flow. The goal is to get as much stuff into the war zone as fast as possible. Anything deviating from this goal is wasteful.

The big bottleneck in Amazon's process is probably, among others, how inefficient it would be to restock individual items in the warehouse.
Seems likely you've got a defective (crimped, bent, or obstructed with eg. a bit of a rag) fuel filler neck.

The mechanism in the pump depends on a free flowing, successfully venting filler neck. If a bit of detritus got into yours and is reducing the flow, it will do exactly that. Seems more likely than that every pump handle you visit is defective...either that or the small gas tank/bladder on your Prius can't accept a high enough flow rate to work with normal pumps, though I'd be surprised if Toyota missed that.

Dropping the tank and replacing it or the filler neck is a pretty easy DIY project.
> In quantum mechanics some events are truly random and cannot be predicted. Does this mean that quantum mechanics is where you can find free will? Sorry, but no, this makes no sense. These random events in quantum mechanics are not influenced by you, regardless of exactly what you mean by “you”, because they are not influenced by anything. That’s the whole point of saying they are fundamentally random. Nothing determines their outcome.

This is wrong, sorry. Rather, QM is contextual; the response to a measurement is both influenced locally by the measurement's orientation and non-locally by its causal history.

QM gives us indeterminism. Further, if we have free will, then so do subatomic particles. It is neither good or bad, but it is how it is.
I don't have the numbers to back it up, but apparently a human on a bicycle is one of the most efficient forms of transportation available, better than any animal apparently in terms of energy per distance.
It's not a DataHand, but here's someone typing on a modern DIY version of one [1]. The side motions don't look too unnatural to me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhOIgrdeE0
Could also be that people's experience depends on how picky they are about sellers. I mostly just go for Amazon or the original manufacturer (I guess I should to the original manufacturer's site, but I don't want to find my wallet...)
> the industry that quite literally is the only reason our country currently isn't in a recession.

Why do you believe this to be true?

Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. don’t employ _that_ many workers. Yes, there are contractors associated with each, and localized impact for service workers (now surely less.)

But I’m not sure that we can say tech is saving our economy right now.

Amazon requires people to buy to increase revenue, meaning they have to have spending power already. So they have to either use savings or have income.

Apple the same. Netflix too.

There needs to be more information that Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc. are employing more people than before — i.e. backstopping what would otherwise be a crashing economy.

When you look at their numbers, that’s not the case. They’re not seeing explosive growth during the pandemic, despite expectations to the contrary.

If we look to the stock market as a measure of economic strength — and we shouldn’t — it has been propped up by lowered interest rates.

With bond yields as low as they are, investors have to put their money _somewhere_ and stocks are the seemingly appropriate risk/return for the moment. But that’s not a sign of a good economy. Quite the opposite.
If you don't actively make the real-world connections to the theory then most students will just memorize the coursework and then forget it later.

The number of times I have to walk through why linear memory access matters, how caches and branch predictors work is staggeringly high. In every single case they all knew the theory but never made the connection to how it applied to the task at hand.
Maybe 25-20% of the pumps in the US are the same.
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Why Deep Fake can be a threat to society.
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From that thread:

The benchmark is dominated by terser and SourceMap performance. What you see are different terser configurations. Webpack 4 with compress.passes: 1 and webpack 5 with compress.passes: 2. Enabled SourceMaps makes minimizing extra expensive.
Even worse because of where they grow almonds, in the California Central Valley. That place isn't as dry as a bone; bones are as dry as it.
It will have a trackball module (if everything goes to plan). The modules are still undergoing the manufacture process, the last newsletter said they are delayed and expected "closer to end of November".
The question is who is responsible for inciting violence? The people that post the messages, telegram for allowing people using their platform to post some messages, or apple for allowing an app to allow it's users to post a message. Why does apple have anything to say in this matter. It sounds crazy to me.

Or maybe, who knows, the violence is being caused by an opressive regime. Since Apple feels it as the right to interveen is it also taking actions agains the Belarus government?

Apple please let me know to which mail should I start sending the mail messages I send from my macbook, so I can get your approval.
MacOS's broken-ass filesystem will no longer be allowed to cause warnings on other operating systems, that's a feature I'm keen about!

(removal of the dependency on chokidar and fsevents)
> Do you really think most individuals in hunter-gatherer societies had true autonomy?

Actually, yes I do. It depends on which hunter gatherer society, but there is some indication from Sumerian scripts that before statecraft came a laisser-faire world, where people did not need to respond to a higher power, because one could always choose to bugger off to somewhere else.

It only works of course when there is excess food compared to the amount of humans, which is not a stationary situation as humans multiply to fill that gap.
>I'm trying find utility in the 1st comment, but I don't see the direction of causality - e.g. emergence of culture from physics (bottom up) - is relevant in determining whether something non-deterministic.

physical determinism isn't relevant for the concept of free will, that is the point of the comment.

Emergent properties of the system by definition do not exist at the reductionist level of physics, but that does not render them "not real". It's simply a category error to say that free will does not exist because constituent parts of a system are deterministic, in the same sense as saying that consciousness does not exist because you cannot find it at the level of a neuron, or that the car cannot drive because none of its parts can.

Also on the issue of causality which is important, complex systems don't just exhibit bottom-up causality, but the reverse, the system can only made sense of if one takes into account the downward causality from the macro to the micro level which explains why the system functions the way it does and that is what 'will' is in the context of a human to begin with. It's because the system cannot be reduced to bottom-up processes that it is complex, and it is for that reason that concepts such as 'freedom', autonomy', 'intentionality' and so on make sense.
Since this mentions variation of the fine structure constant: studies of the Oklo reactor, which has recently come up again at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24739302 show no evidence of that over a relevant timescale.
The JIT is hands down the best feature of PyTorch. Especially compared to the somewhat neglected suite of native inference tools for TensorFlow. Just recently I was trying to get a TensorFlow 2 model to work nicely in C++. Basically, the external API for TensorFlow is the C API, but it does not have proper support for `SavedModel` yet. Linking to the C++ library is a pain, and both of them cannot do eager execution at all if you have a model trained in Python code :(

PyTorch will happily let you export your model, even with Python code in it, and run it in C++ :)
Probably not the Safety Restraint System (SRS) light. Perhaps the Service Engine Soon (SES) light, which is often the same as the Check Engine Light (CEL).

The hammer idea is new to me. I spent several years working on cars and still like to wrench on the side.