skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad was a welder and HVAC technician by day and a bit of an intellectual by night. He was all over expert systems in the late 80’s. I can distinctly remember him excitedly explaining them to me and I just couldn’t fathom what was interesting about it at all. Then in the early 90’s he started pivoting to neural networks.

Then he got killed at work.

I didn’t hear about neural networks again for close to 20 years, but I can attest at least someone was stoked about them back then.
At the risk of going in circles, let me try to explain one last time:

All modern GPUs already have HW-accelerated encoding, including integrated Intel GPUs, and Nvidia and AMD dedicated ones.

Despite that, HW-encoding is not used that much by video professionals because CPU encoders produce better compression given enough time. You only have to do compression once, while the video will be watched who knows many times, therefore there is no real point in making your encoding faster if the file size goes up.

Your HW encoder is absolutely useless for anything else. It does not make your FX rendering faster, and cannot be used for any other codecs.

Even if say, your HW matches CPU-based encoder at first, it is fixed and cannot be updated unless you buy new HW which takes millions to design. Meanwhile any old dev can contribute to x265 and figure out new psychovisual enhancements that will enhance the quality while minimising the file size.

Specialized HW (i.e. ASICs) has been in existence for decades, yet despite that, there are very good reasons as to why we still use general-purpose CPUs (and GPUs) for most computing applications.
Mine was from OneProvider. I think they're resold Online.net servers.
They used to say 'cycles are free', because, for a long, long time, Moore's law would bail them out.
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Well, originally published in 2004 but latest updated in 2019.
>https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16214/PerCore-1-5950X.png

Yeah comparing TDP is meaningless even within the same processor. The 4 core workload in this table uses 94W and the 16 core workload uses 98W. There is also an anomaly at 5 cores where the CPU uses less power than if it only used 4 cores.

If you tried to derive conclusions about the power efficiency of the CPU you would end up making statements like "This CPU is 3-4 times more power efficient than itself"
> ... but just wanted to point it out.

Exactly this. While I get your sentiment, and your assumption is correct, I'd agree to disagree that "one discrimination is worse then another", because (for me) it always boils down to how each individual experiences the discrimination.

One simply cannot state that "your discrimination is not as important as mine".
They deleted lots of others as well.
The signatory verticals will justifiably feel marginalised by Google. It's a fair point that Google can do as they wish on their own portal, but with them driving ~95% of search traffic in a number of countries as well as ~50% of website referrals typically coming from search engines, they have huge leverage over not just their markets, but every market.
I don't really feel like there is that much more boilerplate with C# than there is with TypeScript (although I do like TypeScripts's ctor shorthand that creates members for you from ctor params).

C# 9 also brings top-level programs, which essentially eliminate all ceremony for the entrypoint[0] - an app can now be as simple as:

using System;
Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");

[0] https://dotnetcoretutorials.com/2020/08/30/top-level-program...
WRT ADHD support, I can’t say I believe this. With our medications being on controlled substances lists, and all the (ironically incredibly ADHD unfriendly) hoops we have to jump through just to get those meds, it’s kinda hard to believe that everyone else in the world is somehow worse than that.
Were those success stories of actual benefit to society?

Both companies had notoriously terrible business practices and were for the most part loathed by their own customers.

In the '90s, Sprint was somewhat famous for rampant billing errors to the tune of 4 or 5 digits and then fighting people in court for it.
after 20+ years of linux, besides the possibility of upgrading the machine itself ( add more RAM, swap the ssd ) which is less and less common even with "ordinary" laptops, and the hefty price tag, i really don't miss anything else...
Heaven is a Place online where you tell us what you want to do
>Apple gives their OS away, but in theory you can only run it on their hardware.

If you don't understand why this isn't free then I have a bridge to sell you.
Hydrogen mostly does not have neutrons. You have a lot of those.
It's even more visible in non-English speaking countries. In Poland: first everyone says Java as Yava and after a while they start to switch to a proper English pronunciation. Many times it divides amateurs from professionals, but I wouldn't really know, because I don't work with Java.
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A 1000 line YARN lock file for something that would be roughly 20 lines of bash is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
"It is not possible" is an overly strong claim. But the options I can think of are not great.

Uploading an entire list of cached resources probably isn't feasible (and probably not possible or a privacy concern).

You could maybe do a bloom filter but probably still have privacy concerns.

There is a solution that mostly works. You can use cookies! A simple solution might be setting a cookie for the app version when you respond. On the next request you can avoid pushing resources that haven't changed between the client's last version and the current one. Or you can even try to set cookies for each asset, however I'm not sure that is a good strategy.

But this is still not perfect. The presence of the cookie doesn't mean the resource was ever downloaded (maybe it was aborted partway though?) and things can get purged from the cache and the cookie has no way of knowing.

You can also try to do out-of-band info. For example storing in a database which resources the client has downloaded before and a bunch of heuristics to determine if they are likely still in the cache. But at the end of the day only the client knows that.

So the TL;DR is I'm not sure this is possible. You are looking for `required resources - cached resources` and since `cached resources` is sensitive and probably much larger it is way easier to do this computation on the client.

So TL;DR it might be possible but is very tricky. The current state-of-the art isn't anywhere near a perfect solution.
Both are tremendous works. I grew up on Swedish literature. Very fond memories of the entire 'Bullerby' series.

>The antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever

True words especially in the middle of our moral panic.
I periodically use the takeout service and selectively copy to the 1TB of storage I have on OneDrive (which comes with an Office 365 subscription). Having my digital stuff backed up on two cloud providers is enough for my capacity for risk. I used to make a 3rd backup in Dropbox but don’t do that anymore.
Politics isn't as important as people make it out to be. Perhaps people identify too much with their nationality via political leaders. With the exception of lockdowns, political outcomes rarely interfere with daily routines.

As for the ease of living abroad, once you have a source of income everything else tends to fall in place. Many countries are happy to have you if you are self sufficient. The article lists expensive options for citizenship and residency permits before concluding that expatriation is impossible.

I agree with the laments about the rise of the passport system. However the hyperbolic tone is off-putting. Likewise for the standard issue anti-capitalist tirades and slight of hand misrepresentations.

>...the loudly pro-inequality magazine The Economist.

>And despite capitalism’s promises to provide all the lifestyle choices you could ever desire, few of us have the option of trying our luck elsewhere if we want.

Most expats I've known burn out within a few years. Eventually they can't cope outside of their previous environment either socially, culturally or economically. Everything is possible for those who are driven and able to adapt. If anything, the remaining freedom within the capitalist economic system makes this possible. For those who can't adapt, contribute or support themselves, what else can be expected of a foreign country and culture?
There has been a lot of churn in the "Microsoft.Extensions." packages, and the docs aren't always up to date for those.

Overall though, I have to agree that the .NET docs are very good.
> Featuring an 8-wide decode block, Apple’s Firestorm is by far the current widest commercialized design in the industry. Other contemporary designs such as AMD’s Zen(1 through 3) and Intel’s µarch’s, x86 CPUs today still only feature a 4-wide decoder designs

This is one place where the 64-bit ARM ISA design shines: since all instructions are exactly 4 bytes wide and always aligned to 4 bytes, it's easy to make a very wide decoder, since there's no need to compute the instruction length and align the instruction stream before decoding.
You have to file your taxes every year, but he shouldn't have to pay anything unless he makes over about $100,000 per year.
For much of the world, which still needs a lot of work, posts like this are nothing short of well written fairytales.

Africa has been struggling with building roads for possibly millenia. Still struggling today. Will struggle for the next few centuries I gather[0]. And yet, if you live in a huge metro, the idea that something as ubiquitous as tar and paving would be cause for struggle is nothing short of absurd

India is one if the fastest growing developing countries and yet, close to 50% of people still burn biomass to meet their energy requirements[1]

[0]-https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/september-2002/bui...

[1](https://earthjournalism.net/stories/millions-die-as-most-ind...)
The chip's ability to run at sustained load is a part of its design also. Precisely because modern chips has to throttle in order to meet power and thermal envelopes, we should be looking at sustained performance as a more accurate measure.

In a majority of cases, burst performance only affects things like responsiveness, and those things should be measured instead for a better reflection of the benefits.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I went to download my photos today from Google Photos after reading about the end of the unlimited storage. The interface is incredibly annoying. It split them into 2GB zip files, which is fine, but then it takes multiple clicks to get each download to start. Oh, and then it logs you out every 5 minutes so you have to re-enter your password.

It's pretty clear they were not super concerned about making it a user-friendly process.
Must have been astonishingly slow in the first place.
In my experience, Microsoft and PC laptop manufacturers still haven't figured out how to make a trackpad that works as well as a 2008 era Macbook.
Just make face-masks acceptable to wear.
This is great. We need to declare this mandatory globally. Those anti-science types that refuse should be denied access to any public building, shopping, etc.

Such a program is our only hope to bring down population levels to more sustainable numbers.
On the positive side, this probably means that the average man will marry a woman in the top50% of the romantic relationships he has had in the past. So you can focus on that thought. :)

Of course, this is possible because the average man will have far fewer relationships than the average woman. So in the end the numbers for this imaginary couple will look like:

For the man: He will marry then number 2 mate out of a total of 5.

For the woman: She will marry the number 10 mate out of a total of 15.

Obviously the numbers are totally made up, but you get the point.

So be positive! When you will settle, your mate will probably exceed your expectations.

Disclaimer: I am also a man.
A man who climbed the Eiger's North Face (Anderl Heckmair, 2005)
The first thing that came to mind was "All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"

But yeah, all the things you mention. I think it's conservative but not unreasonable to use as a rule of thumb that your net take home is about half of what a 'naive' calculation would net you. Especially in the beginning where you need to reserve a certain part of your revenues as a buffer for economic downturns; 6 months at the least, better a year. Back in May/April, it was the contractors that got the boot first. From what I can tell in IT they've mostly rebounded, but in previous crises that didn't happen so soon.

And you can either choose to work with a middle man, who will take a sizeable cut of your revenue, or do your own customer development, which takes a lot of time. Yes there are people who work for the same customer months on end for many years, but a) that's dodgy from a tax perspective, and b) in those cases you generally don't get to charge e1000/day.

All I'm saying is - grass is always greener on the other side. Yes as a contractor/consultant you'll make (a lot) more as a programmer in Europe, but not as much as the proverbial e1000/day rate makes it out to be.
Why do you give up, because other people know more about you, than you thought?

Maybe giving up on the "nobody must ever know", but maybe not in general?

There are still quite some steps from here to 1984, despite people dramatizing.
Most games played by most players are on iOS & iPadOS, and macOS Big Sur will run them on your MacBook.
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The opposite is true - the .NET5/Core runtimes have optimisations that aren't in .NET Framework CLR.

I haven't come across a package that isn't available for .NET Core in at least a couple of years, I think.
Get faster internet.
Take your laptop to a google campus and download on their wifi.
Set up a VPS and download and manipulate there.

Plenty of solutions.
We see it over and over again: a single big win, in this case ali baba, can make up for tons of mistakes and then some .
No, a programming language like C have both a syntax and an execution model. In Turing-machine terminology, it has a set of symbols and rules for processing the symbols. This is why you can reason about things like the halting-problem.

If you only have a set of symbols but no rules for processing the symbols, you don't have a machine, and you cant meaningfully talk about "termination".

INI does not have a defined execution model, so it is not a machine the way C is. A particular implementation could read the data into key-value maps but it is not required to. E.g. it could just search through the file for a specific key. Or it could do nothing.
I experimented with Opal and Volt several years ago. It was nice but I didn’t really have a use case since I don’t do much front end development. I am primarily a Lisp developer and Ruby is close enough to being a Lisp.
I'm not even taking into consideration de 2030 part.

But yeah, I generally agree with you. Especially in this:

> But the idea of "I own nothing" cannot conceivable extend to personal items like clothing. That doesn't make any sense ... maybe you wouldn't own tools that are too expensive/specialized to be almost-free.
Yes. On every version.
By the way, it is much, much, much easier for an American to emigrate somewhere (few exceptions aside), than for anybody anywhere in the world to immigrate into the US. I always wonder how Americans, who generally have a strong opinion on emigration (whether pro or against), are generally not informed on how the entire process works.

The main reason Americans decide not to emigrate, is that the US is actually a fine country and a good place to live. There are a few other good places to live, like Western European countries, or maybe Japan if you can handle cultural differences, but the difference is not that much that it would be worth of getting through all the hurdles to move there. Nearly everywhere else, the quality of life is much worse.
git has a similar feature built in: https://deepsource.io/blog/managing-different-git-profiles/
"Let's move to"... time would have already run out for us centuries before reaching the technological level enough to us being able to move a significant portion of mankind elsewhere. And far more time will take to significantly terraform (at the level of being able to stay outside any tightly closed construction) any other planet.

And if we will live in a totally manufactured environment, the space itself (around Earth or Sun). Asteroids may provide the base materials for that kind of space habitats.

But, again, we might have run out of time already. Survival in a world with diminishing food (because compromised agriculture or fish resources by global warming and environmental destruction) will become a priority, and the civilization may not be able to sustain a strong enough space program able to do that kind of colonizations. We must try to fix what happens here before thinking in going (in such scale, at least) elsewhere.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_conditional_includes

Is a lot easier then what you came up with.
> I just don't uncritically accept them, let alone act as a volunteer copyright-cop for them.

It seems like you are implying I am. When all I'm trying to do is make sure musicians get fairly paid for their work. So yeah, I'm not super concerned about playing music loud in my car as you sarcastically suggested I should be.

I am concerned about joining a music platform where something I purchased can be shared for free to millions of people with the musician getting nothing.

If there is a service that pays musicians directly and cuts out ASCAP and RIAA, then even better.
Sharing is okay if ultimate owner is one single customer and it rents /reverse rents it to every other customer. Therefore, he has a say in how it is used and how much, at what price etc.

Sharing is fine as long as ownership is not gone.
BNW world is designed to be pure meritocracy.

It really does make you think about their world at the end. And its not really evil oppressive world like 1984. Its just purely mechanical construction that to us look like dystopia.

I agree we are and are heading is technological aristocracy where tech is used to keep people in line. Divided over crazy theories, societal issues and squabbling over leftovers.

Just give them youtube and they come up with the 'hidden truths' and then they fight with secret kabals and 'morons' who don't see the signs.

Meanwhile amazons googles and other industries are literally squeezing all small business out of existence.

Do you think an Amazon Town could be created where all you shopping has to be done via amazon but you get 20 or 50% off. How far are we from that reality?

What I would disagree with is that the people who push this system forward are far from short-term thinkers, vengeful, insecure. They schemed this system up long time ago and look for every angle to push it ahead.

How quickly 9/11 from tragedy was turned into patriot act opportunity?
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You'd be surprised

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Here's a view from a higher level...I spent 25 years looking after network infrastrucutures...infrastructure uses up a lot of headspace. The work is never finished and the alerts never stop. If you are good in the space you are shown respect as others don't usually understand what you do. However you are looking after something which people just expect to work.

What helped me was doing something totally different at the weekend. It's no accident I re-landscaped my back garden by hand and built two sheds. You will never get a light breeze blowing in your face, the sound of rustling leaves, in infrastructure. Doing something different made me happy.

Don't wreck your brain either trying to understand everything. Become good at what you need to know. Technolgy is awesome but there are paradoxes. When I was in datacentres I used to think about the great damage I could do with a pair of children's scissors on fiber optic cables. This somehow brought all the awesomeness of the modern world down to a level I could undertand :-)
I think that on the contrary, .net core already had much better performance but less support for some desktop windows stuff, and .net 5 actually added most of the remaining features back.
> You want a cofounder who is going to work on the relationship and and stick it out with you, not one who is going to bounce whenever life gets hard.

AMEN! I could not agree with this statement more. If people had a firm grasp of this concept, the divorce rate will be even lower or maybe some might even decide not to marry in the first place cos they are too self-centered for that level of sacrifice.
Last I checked Google didn't sell data to anyone either. I'm also interested in the claim that Apple Maps collects less data in this respect - they both report your current location for traffic analysis and have your day-to-day movement option available (the same that powers Find My Friends on iOS).

Are you sure you're just not rationalizing Apples collection? It's kinda important to be realistic when it comes to privacy and not be mislead by loud marketing.
Thanks for the feedback. And yes we're learning and iterating on pricing. I think the key will be fair usage policy and resource limits that allow people to scale with their usage. We'll also work on additional pricing tiers for larger teams which I think will be more appropriate. Theres a lot we can't do on $35/user/month. But it's a start!
> - no AAA gaming

I thought Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, etc. were all pushing streaming gaming services that will run on any hardware with a decent internet connection. I would imagine the hardware video decoder in the M1 chip would allow 4K streaming video pretty well.
This is a great looking tool.

What I have been doing by hand for some time is putting code for different customers in different directories and having a conditional in `~/.gitconfig` to determine what config applies there:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects-private/**"]
path = ./.gitconfig-private

[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects-client/**"]
path = ./.gitconfig-work

Then in .gitconfig-private or .gitconfig-work I have all the usual gitconfig settings that apply, for example the [user] section...

Switching to the right directory thus automatically changes the settings.
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This is interesting. The things you list as problems are the same set of things we tried to solve:

- automatic compilation that is fast

- sourcemaps work

- decoupling of packages to help compatibility

- automatic tsconfig management

I wonder if you would have a different conclusion with these things taken care of.

I agree that TypeScript makes it easier to have functions with complex parameters - because they are now documented and more understandable. So yes, this demands more discipline on the API designer to keep APIs simple.
Also, in several countries that I know of, there are websites (the one I have in mind is by a union, but I've seen others in the past) that list out in excruciating detail what sort of costs you need to take into account when setting your (minimum) rates. It varies quite a bit by country.