skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They closed a loophole that allowed proprietary modules to access GPL only functionality.
There is no 100 year rule. To the extent that "N-year floods" exist, or their hypothetical water levels, that is all more of an arbitrary label than a scientifically-valid designation.

realistically they're measuring "big floods" and "bigger floods" in a way that is consistent, however the stated time frequency with which they supposedly occur is so extremely inaccurate that it does not rise to the level of 'science.'
Hi, ProjeQtOr ticks all the boxes. It integrates all the features that others have, and even more. Two level WBS : of course, ProjeQtOr does it, and even 20 or mode Levels if you wish !!! You don't have restrictions with ProjeQtOr; You can have projets with sub-projects, with sub-sub-projects (and so on) and each project can have tasks, with sub-tasks, and sub-sub-tasks (and so on). But if you want only two levels, you also can. Gantt chart ; ProjeQtOr also provides it but not only; You can have project portfolio, resource Gantt chart (not a real Gantt but very easy to read and very efficient to analyse resource planning). ProjeQtOr also provides real capacity planning calculation : you don't only draw a gantt chart, ProjeQtOr calculates it for you depending on the constraints and resources capacity (when resources are shared on several projects, it's not an easy trick). ProjeQtOr also calculates the critical path (which is in fact a critical chain in ProjeQtOr as planning is driven from resource capacity)
And all of this is easy to install, easy to use, and free.

Really, ProjeQtOr is worth a try.
Probably the miners. This is one of the unfortunate side effects of fully decentralized networks.
I feel this so much! We're hoping to roll out a "Play Now" option down the road so you don't need to plan to be free. I think finding a way to find really flexible GMs would be helpful for solving this too.
Because the consequences of fire suppression take a fair bit of time to accumulate. You don't get 30 years of overgrown dry forest 1 year into fire suppression policies.
I saw my Debian machine updating to 5.9 today, should I wait with rebooting or am I safe?
150 years and even 60-80 is a short time though considering plots in e.g. SE Asia being farmed for at least a thousand years. What would the long term for conventional farming look like?
I use delta as a diff tool:

https://github.com/dandavison/delta

It also offers contextual information as well as side-by-side diffs. For syntax highlighting, it uses the same as bat (the cat clone).
There are many graziers to refer to without bolstering the racism of Salatin.

Greg Judy and Gabe Brown being some bigger names but Chris from Sylvanaqua Farms is a good Black/Indigenous voice to start listening too.
Very, very wrong.

> In fact the very phenomenon of Technical debt arises from logic that's hard to uncouple.

No, one kind of technical debt arises that way. Not the only kind. There's another kind that arises when everything is in such small pieces that nobody can tell how the pieces relate to each other. You can easily understand each piece, but you have to go through a chain of a bazillion function calls to see what's actually going on.

> By having every sector of your program be a lego brick you are preparing your program for an inevitable future where the structure must be reconfigured.

This is like economists, who have correctly predicted nine of the last two recessions. Sure, you're prepared for when the change comes (if you can find where to make it - see above). You've also prepared for all the changes that never come. That's rather wasteful.

> Because you cannot predict the future of your program. Coupled logic that seems correct now may need to be uncoupled in the future.

Sure, it may. And when that happens, we'll decouple it. And in the meantime, we'll enjoy the coupling that, at the moment, is the correct thing.

See, this is all in the context of SOLID, the very first piece of which is "Single Responsibility". We don't couple things on a whim.
Yes, that's always been partly BS. IKEA has a range of qualities of course, but let me tell you about the shitty, shitty particle board kmart? shelves my mom bought in the 70s and moved 5-10 times with over the years. Around 2005 we'd had enough and drug them into the parking lot, and did an "Office Space printer job" to them with hammers.

Was cheap as hell and supported heavy books and CRT TV for thirty years. The durability being too low wasn't the problem.

Maybe if you're in a refurbished hundred year old house and it deserves some dignified antiques sure, but for the rest of us IKEA is just fine. We even have a 15 year old very cheap Lack table in the corner.
I cheated on Lichess--once.

Story:

I got paired with someone rated 400 points higher than me (no idea why).
The dude was destroying me, but somewhere in the middlegame, he let his guard down and exposed himself to a mate-in-one. For once in my life, I saw the mate and I won.

The dude was FURIOUS. He immediately asked for a rematch and I said I had to go. Then the insults came ("chicken shit", etc.).

He even messaged me a few times over the course of a few months (same kind of name calling) and challenged me a few times.

Eventually, I thought, "You know what will really upset him? If I accept a rematch and win again."

So, I accepted one of his challenges and I used a computer. Obviously, he lost and he was FURIOUS again.

Not my proudest moment, but I enjoyed it while it was happening.

But yeah, regular cheating just kind of takes the joy out of the competition.
5 years old and not a peep. That sounds about right.
I'm not an expert on Xilinx's stuff, but Xilinx's 18-bit x 27-bit multiplier DSP48 architecture still seems quite awkward to me.

https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp...

True, a systolic processor can be built out of these components, but I doubt it'd be anything as fast as a proper matrix-multiplication unit that NVidia is putting out. And that's after the complications associated with FPGA programming.

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Xilinx's FPGAs are a combination of LUTs (4-bit or 6-bit look-up tables), Routing, and "DSP Slices" (prefabricated multipliers). The bulk of your math is still going to be performed in the DSP Slice.

Where FPGAs win is that their LUTs and Routing tables allow you to create custom high-speed glue-logic between these DSP slices. But when it comes to something like a regular Convolutional neural net, the routing is very straightforward.

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I'm not really a deep learning expert. I know that FP16 seems to be pushed by NVidia. This INT8 stuff seems odd to me (there's no way INT8 gets the same dynamic range as FP16), but I'm also not really sure if the dynamic range is needed or useful in deep learning applications.
I think (and, again, I'm absolutely not an expert) that a fundamental difference between the two is that from our perspective gravity "effects" particles with 0 mass, while the electromagnetic field does not effect particles with 0 charge.

So a photon, which has 0 mass is still bent by gravity. Everything that we've observed that moves through spacetime is bent by gravity. That's why we say that gravity is a warping of spacetime itself, where electromagnetism isn't.

If you tried to build the "general electromagnetic theory of relativity", then 0 charged particles wouldn't follow a straight line on a geodesic of spacetime. With gravity, everything follows a straight-line on the geodesic of a curved straight line, regardless of its mass.

As to why such a difference exists between gravity and electromagnetism, that's well above my pay grade.
It's hard on puny humans. Computers went slowly from "no computer can play even a decent amateur game of chess" to "supercomputer can play at grandmaster level" and then picked up speed. Now we're at "laptop with $99 program can destroy all humans".
haha fair point. what do you think would be a better title? (or what made the title a bad one)
I know Nvidia is not very good for OSS, but when you’re doing a lot of ML work it’s just simply so much better to be able to use Nvidia’s toolkit, it’s just so much more mature and better supported.
Are you sure noveau is not being used?
Thanks for the mention here (im the cofounder of Codeanywhere). Would love the feedback. Thanks!
> I hope the upcoming discrete GPUs from Intel [1] and ImgTec [2] are competitive, because Nvidia desperately needs more competition.

What we need is a stable driver API in Linux.
Get ready for the real fun when that aquifer runs out.
Good luck FinCEN, you've now just forced mixers to go dark. There's no killing them.
How did you discover that toxic mold exposure was the cause?
I think we must have very different expectations as to what a contract violation is.
Good managers will take the opportunity to learn more. Either there is a way to aid those who made the estimates, a way to help the people doing the work to get the job done, a need to relax the schedule, or some combination of them.

The goal is to get the work done on time and with the resources at hand. Micromanagement is often a hindrance to the goal, so good managers avoid it.
That sounds to me as if going after the maker of a knife that was used in a murder if they can't find the killer.
On my ThinkPad I've just disabled the Nvidia and purchased a usb hdmi dongle (pretty low profile, little more than a standard hdmi cable). I leave the Nvidia off permanently because it's the only way I can have a laptop that supports multiple monitors and doesn't fucking chew through battery. I couldn't give a toss about graphics performance, this is a work machine so I'm not playing games on it. Fuck Nvidia, and fuck Lenovo for making the Nvidia necessary in order for the hdmi port to work.
Nvidia will keep working though WSL2
https://youtu.be/0iLD9uAdq4M
Fyi, I looked into where the attacks came from. 99.5% China, no joke. I blocked whole B networks from China, and wouldn’t you know it - less break in attempts, less vulnerability scans, less SMTP spam. By orders of magnitude, night and day difference.
Friendly reminder your GTX 1080 is more powerful than "Deeper blue" (not deep blue beat Kasparov, but deeper blue, which was a heavy upgrade) so unless you're better then Kasparov any kid could beat you through cheating.
The DOJ just released a report that explicitly says that use of privacy coins like Monero is a "high risk activity" and "indicative of possible criminal conduct".

https://cointelegraph.com/news/doj-says-use-of-privacy-coins...
No one stated that they wouldn't have representation. The OP posited that the people responsible would never be arrested
Open Sourcing the Porting Assistant for .NET
New Zealand Lego Map
Then it should be treated by IRS as foreign currency (with transactions under $200 exempt from reporting). Now it's treated as property, where you have to report every transaction on sched D, even buying a coffee for $2.
Thank you for mentioning Realmz. I played a demo sometime around '97 and have been recently been hoping to find it again, but could never remember the name of the game or developer. I'm glad my search is finally over - looks like one of my projects for this weekend will be finding an OS 9 emulator.
Governments could certainly compel exchanges to not list Monero or other privacy coins.

But even if they compelled users to list addresses of the coins they own, the nature of Monero makes it very redundant. It would be ineffective and a waste of time, and it wouldn't stop users from exchanging it.
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> Go back another hundred years and you'll find that there were.

Which is my point. Modern industrial forest management figured out how to fix this problem. There were economic incentives for lumber, and cooperative regulation allowing controlled burns + underbrush clearing by loggers solved the problem. Industrial humans allowed there to be more trees, not fewer.

Everybody else in the world is experiencing the same global climate issues as California, and yet California's burned acreage over the last 2 decades is out of control.

There are direct policy consequences of disallowing controlled burns and underbrush management. And it's California's fault. People in the southern Central Valley have been complaining about these policies for decades. And it's because once all the Bay Area's pollution and fires get swept downwind, those people have the luxury of breathing it as it stays in the basin.
The legitimacy of those networks are definitely still in question. I remember during the 2015 primaries, CNN got the nickname "Clinton News Network" because of the incredible amount of bias they showed. It seems to have only gotten more extreme (on both sides) since then.

Not to say that it was an ad hominem attack. The comment above was extremely relevant and got to the point.
Made in Germany, Co-Opted by China
A pipeline is all about coordinating between teams / departments. So a single person probably doesn't have much to gain (the main value would be the benefit of rigor / tooling, sort of like using git for your own local projects). A small team might though, particularly those who work on short films.

A single person making a YouTube series though or something might find a lot of value in the structured asset pipeline, publishing new versions and so on. But most of the production animation/film tooling is quite heavy weight.
I think that generic programming wasn't really a thing until Stepanov with the STL in the 1990s. There may have been glimmerings of it, but I know of no actual, significant implementations before that.

Corrections welcome...
I understand the frustration to some degree. Part of me even agrees with it.

However, what I don't see is that nVidia should have any obligation (ethical, legal or otherwise) of any sort to provide a Linux driver at all. The demands of Linux developers and users alike seem particularly entitled.

Linux is the only mainstream kernel, free or proprietary, which doesn't have a sane and supported driver interface. And while I can see some of the justifications for it, I think after nearly 20 years they are starting to wear a little thin. The way other out of tree subsystems, like ZFS, have been treated is appalling. Deliberately using the GPL as a cudgel to beat other projects into submission is just plain nasty, and to treat other open source projects this way is spiteful and unnecessary.
I think their strategy is called "proctoring".

No one strategy is sufficient.
Agree, as a non-American I read the WP, the NYT and in Germany stuff like the Sueddeutsche. When I watch US news, aside from late night stuff which became surprisingly good at this, it is left-leaning, e.g Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes. i can't stand CNN. And yes, i am aware that the mentioned TV news shows are a lot opinion. But I do also get the same news from European sources, so there is a balance. I reall do have to stop watching that stuff after the election it is nauseating, but pretty damn important, not just for the US.
not sure what use your cashed out earnings will be once they confiscate them after they lock you up

governments have years to come after you (and in many countries: the rest of your life)
You’re skipping the idea that there is such a thing as the eigenfunction of the derivative.

Because taking the derivative is a linear function, a × e^x is its own derivative for any constant a.

That means, for example, that e^(x+1) or e^(x+π) are their own derivatives, too, as those are different ways to write e × e^x, respectively e^π × e^x.

e^x just is the ‘simplest’ of those functions (ignoring the most simple one: f(x) = 0, but that one isn’t representative for all the other ones)
>- The laptop had emails on it that were previously not public

Not public no, but in the posession of Vlad since January as reported here: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/478090-russia-hacked-u...

>- The laptop had pictures of Hunter and family that were previously not public

I hear Jennifer Lawrence is part of the Ukraine scandal now too.

>- They have Hunter's signature on the drop off receipt

As already established, Vlad has Burisma's emails, so we already know he has Biden's signature.

> - Hunter's attorney requested the hard drive back (they have the request in writing)

Yes, Hunter's lawyers would probably want access to the fabricated evidence used to attack his father. That doesn't make it authentic.

> - The FBI subpeonaed the laptop

The fact the FBI investigated and didn't pursue Biden is evidence the material is not reliable.

> - The DNI himself says it's not a Russian disinformation campaign and that there's not intelligence saying it is

Ah yes, Trump's political appointee thinks Trump's personal lawyer is doing the Lords work. I'm so surprised. The ranking member of the houes intellgience committee disagrees.

>- No one in the Biden campaign has denied the laptop itself is genuine (only that they couldn't find a meeting on the books that matches the one in the email)

Because the ownership of a laptop is not the scandal, it's the fabricated Russian-sourced smear campaign is.

>By the way, he guy at the computer store came forward as to why he got in contact with Rudy Giuliani. He went to the FBI with the info and got stonewalled by them. Sensing they were covering it up, he decided to become a whistleblower and went to whoever would listen.

I'd love to get into the process by which a blind computer repair person trusted Rudy Giuliani more than the FBI.
Rdrview doesn't actually use Firefox internally, it's just a rewrite of the Readability.js library.
Microplastic release from feeding bottles during infant formula preparation
Open source is great, but AMD is not a good example of how to do open source right. AMD's drivers are often not usable in released kernels until many months after hardware is released. For example, AMD is just now adding initial support for their new GPUs [1]. From what I have read, good support for AMD's previous generation is only now getting to distributions.

Intel on the other hand typically has their drivers in released kernels long before their hardware is released. Intel's New GPUs haven't been released yet, but they first started adding support in early 2019 [2]. I can't find it now, but I remember hearing a story about Intel removing drivers from the kernel tree for some hardware that they cancelled.

If you want to use a modern high-end GPU in Linux, your only real choice continues to be Nvidia. Their drivers are not open source, but at least they work at launch (except maybe with a 5.9 kernel?).

This is why Intel entering into the high-end GPU space is so exciting. Soon we may have a high-end option with good open source drivers while the part is still high-end.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/02/18/intel...
Thanks, and lots of good questions.
I guess it's both a new language and an interface. It's certainly not based on any others. I did write a bit about the thinking behind it here https://letset.ch/why.
Im not quite sure whether it will be a commercial product yet it would be nice to be able to spend my time working on it but I have to pay the bills somehow. If I can I would like to keep it free to use and possibly make it open source.
Perseverance, James Webb ST, TESS, all come to mind. The common thread is that we're finding there's a lot to look at locally and with much higher fidelity than ever before, including Mars, Enceladus, and small bodies like Ceres, and bodies we've kind of written off, such as Venus. Even the Parker Solar Probe could fit this pattern. And that's not even including the stunning work in asteroid co-flying. The breadth of breakthrough research being done close to home is remarkable.
When interfacing with Twitter Support feels like interfacing with the TSA
Yes, so they stop getting away with license shenanigans? The kernel is GPL, this surely isn’t hard to understand for Nvidia lawyers.
I was thinking of two more in this vein, but I'm not actually sure about the history of their derivation, so I'll pose them as questions:

Was simulated annealing inspired by actual annealing (heating and slowly cooling metal/glass to toughen it)? Or did they just name it annealing after discovering it?

What is the relationship between thermodynamic/statistical entropy and Shannon's information theory entropy (E = -p lg(p))?
Another thing I find interesting is that quite a few of the people working on Voyager have been there for 30+ years. I really enjoyed this article about Voyager and the people who work on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engine...
I have no problems with iOS to iOS and iOS to Raspberry Pi. Compiled it for Raspberry Pi myself.

For the self-compiled one I initially set up the dependencies in the wrong way and the connection wouldn’t work, but I got help on the Gitlab page.
Probably not. If there is a hole in the wall, you'd expect that it's gonna be fixed at some point, and not claiming it's a feature of the wall.

nVidia probably saw this coming, but doesn't care that much to proactively work on it.

Most of those running ML applications don't have to update the kernel very promptly, and they only have to wait until mid-November, according to nVidia. This few months of delay couldn't possibly hurt nVidia to any meaningful degree.
Tyler Cowen (from Conversations with Tyler) does a variant of this, but a bit less creepy than that sounds :).
Good call on the relative links -- just pushed a fix!
Mine sounds like walking on the floors of a 200 year old house if you shift your weight even an millimeter. That was after three moves. My Ikea couch collapsed recently also after three moves (as in the bottom detached from the back violently and permanently).
I was diagnosed when I was 30 (A1C of 13). After maxing out pills (7 a day between Metformin, Glimperide, Onglyza, Invokana), I went to multiple daily injections, and then a pump with CGM. The pump is life changing as far as getting better control. It still isn't perfect (latest A1C of 7.5), but it makes a big positive difference.
It’s one red flag we learn about in our mandatory anti money-laundering training every year.
IMO something like Apiary [1] and running the blueprint as a mock server is even easier.

[1] https://apiary.io/how-apiary-works
So, let me plug my favorite tea place, Sancha Tea Botique. I loved them when I was still in India.
Planting. Compost mixing is a good idea though.
No obligation, yes. Nvidia are messing things up for Nouveau and don't upstream their own driver. So Linux users don't have any obligation to use Nvidia either ;) I'd say good riddance, AMD and Intel are doing a good job.

Also, imagine Linux didn't enforce GPL. Would Nvidia be more motivated to upstream their driver? Not in the least. They don't care about GPL. What they want is to have a leverage over the market and charge more for industrial usage, by forcing usage of the blob on their terms (which upstreamed driver would prevent by giving ability to use the hardware to anyone on any terms). That's their whole motivation in this as far as I understand.
Look into TMS, it has helped me a lot.