skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if you meant that as a nod to Ripcord.

Slack has, to put it mildly, plenty of money, and gave us a 300MB bloated client. Ripcord is a payware alternative client made by a single developer.

Things seem to be precisely backward.
Milk Street Kitchen is the absolute best periodical for recipes and cooking in my opinion.

https://www.177milkstreet.com/

Its by the same founder of America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Illustrated, which is another respected publication. However, Milk Street recipes tend to be simpler, less fussy and more internationally inspired. Everything I have made from them has been an absolute winner. They also have an outstanding high quality TV show free on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpGcoQ4AmidJSpDUXPZoq8A
I mean sure, I get that it's a QoL thing and that some people care more than others - I'm not arguing it shouldn't matter to anyone, so much as saying I have trouble grasping what specifically about it does make it matter to those who value it highly, I guess.
It's acceptable to use tools to increase diversity of candidates for open positions, because those candidates must still satisfy the position's threshold requirements and compete on whatever criteria the hiring company has set forth internally for the position.

It would not be acceptable to base the ultimate hiring decisions on sex or national origin.
Having worked there in an entry-level customer-facing position, it is very much a company that looks great from the top half because you're standing on the backs of the bottom half. Also it paid so far under the market on salaries for that role that even cashing out on options _years_ later didn't make up the difference.
So in the trunk lid example, the energy that helps raise the lid was stored in the spring from the last time you shut the lid. The gas spring provides resistance on the closure, and assistance on the opening.

With this wheel, the energy that goes into compressing the 12 o'clock spring must be provided (partially!) from the expanding 6 o'clock spring, plus additional energy from the cyclist to cover the mechanical losses in the system.

I don't see any left over energy that can be used to help with forward propulsion. Maybe on very rough terrain it helps out by trading forward velocity with assistance up a bump, then trading the gravity on the other side of the bump to push forward again. But that's a far cry from the claims being made on the page.
That's not the way I interpret 're-inventing the wheel.' I don't see it as the next gen thinking they are smarter, but rather questioning the assumptions built into the last gen. Mainframes vs Distributed (cloud, kubernetes, etc) systems have different behaviors at different scales and are useful for different kinds of applications and business sizes. A perfect example is the startup economy. I can spool up a service for a few hundred people essentially for free, but still have the ability to scale if things catch on and I need to serve hundreds of thousands. That same scaling using old technologies would be a lot less smooth.

I mean, even if we do assume each new tech fad is mostly driven by hubris, if the results benefit the ecosystem, which cloud undoubtedly has through democratizing scalability, so what?

As far as the secret keeping of industry, I don't by that at all. I've worked for a diverse set of organizations, and every single one of them wanted to either trumpet their own practices to build clout with developers, or utilize knowledge in the public domain so that talent was easier to find. If anything companies avoid having secret sauce in their infra at all costs.
Big 1D FFTs also take a lot of memory by themselves (i.e. 2^28 takes 2GB just to store complex data). Multiple smaller batches can be used in ML applications for example for big kernel convolutions. All learning can actually be done without transferring data to CPU. In computational physics iterative processes or PDE integrators can do their algorithms independently of the CPU.

About using simple time per iteration as a benchmark. I used to have this type of benchmark before the last update (see: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DTolm/VkFFT/f7c8c45717006c...). As you can see, it is not really that informative, as you can't really compare smaller times to big ones here. The layout I use now doesn't make any assumptions about algorithm yet still provides very informative scaling - just by looking at it it is possible to jusge wether techinques like register overutilization actually work. Another important thing is that it can clearly prove that the problem is bandwidth bound and compare at which size VkFFT/cuFFT swwitch from 1 to 2 and then to 3 stage FFT algorithm. It also allows to detect wether algorithm deviates from predicted result.
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I think SRS comes in handy for things where you need to be up to speed now and do not have time to learn through repeated, natural practice.

As an airline pilot I’ve had to learn new aircraft a few times over the last 5 years. The airlines can’t afford to give you 100 hours in a simulator to drive in every little detail. You have to spend time in the manual using rote memorization to be up to speed on things before you’re out in the world operating the machine.

Learning by doing is my preferred method as well and it has its place. Just trying to point out that sometimes rote memorization, and tools to make it easier, are an important piece of learning something new.
I don’t disagree with you generally.

Luckily for the nuclear industry, the engineering capability still exists in the US to design a whole plant, and a lot of the manufacturing base still exists. Big US nuclear players have had a base load of domestic upgrades and international new plant jobs that have kept these capabilities alive.

But for construction, we really are awfully thin on specialized trades. Welders, especially, are _always_ in short supply.
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Guessing at plausible answers:

- Nbdev started right around the 1.0 release of jupyterlab, and it might not have been on their radar

- Nbdev came out of fast.ai, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were using a ton of jupyter-specific features already which weren't supported by jupyterlab
Exactly. For example, the phrase "bad guy" could apply to a man or a woman. You can't just change that to "bad girl" and keep the meaning. "Bad girl" means something else entirely.
This is how I feel about Flutter today. Seems like a cool paradigm on the face of it, but they never feel native nor do they feel like a WebView or what-have-you. They're in their own uncanny valley.
If you're starting you should use Python and when you have a more solid grasp you can switch to Julia. That's mostly due to the fact that there are much more tutorials and resources for dl in python.
The modern ones will compile to webassembly.
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 has eMMC.

Jeff Geerling benchmarked it and found it faster than his fastest SD card: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-compute-...

It's definitely not NVMe fast, but it's perfect for average workloads.
> we've come closer together as a group

Why are you confident that this feeling is shared by your employees?
The memory palace technique is not a silver bullet to permanently remember things. Sure it is fun at first. Eventually, you will have to review your memory palace periodically otherwise you will forget it.
I would say that the CISC philosophy is about lowering the complexity at the software level to raise it at the circuitry level while the RISC philosophy is the inverse. Philosophies that you can apply not only to CPUs but also to virtual machines. Today ARM SoC are adding more and more ASICs (AI, RayTracing, Photo post processor, GPU, ...) so instead of dealing with a complex ISA you now have to deal with multiple simpler ISAs.
Not the case in Kate's usage, but there's also the precision thing: 1.65k means 1650 +/- 5, whereas 1650 or 1.650k means 1650 +/- 0.5.
I've generally been of the opinion that by the time it becomes available to me (I'm not in an especially at-risk demographic, not a healthcare worker, etc.), I won't be part of the "first round," and we'll know a good bit more about the safety of these vaccines than we currently do (which is already a decent bit as I understand it, given the size of these trials).
I'm going to pivot. Here's the hierarchy of naming methods from best to worst:

succinct + relevant > relevant > succinct + neologism > neologism > irrelevant existing word
The benchmarks might not take advantage of Metal, but they take advantage of modern drivers.

If you want to know just how much of a disaster NVidia GPUs are on Mac OS, you can test them on Windows vs Mac OS and you will notice a huge difference.

It's so bad that people were working on OpenGL to Metal translation layers.

The 1050Ti is indeed much more powerful than the GPU in the M1, as even on OpenGL, where it is generally 30% slower than the competition vs on DirectX, and even though it has to deal with horribly bad drivers, and even though it's extensions are not fully supported on Mac OS, it stays competitive. And Apple does not have the knowledge to be competitive with AMD in GPUs, not even remotely close.

If you want to look at raw performance, we can. The M1 GPU does 2.6 teraflops. The GPU in the PS5 does 10.28 teraflops.

The PS5 is, in raw performance, 4 times faster than the M1 chip.
> Things changed when I found out about the existence of the applied psychology category.

Really? That's the epiphany? Um, okay.

Reading is like wine--you need to figure out what suits your palate. I don't understand why teachers don't assign way more short stories to read. This is how you figure out "Hey, I liked that story, what else has that author done?"

However, the real trick to reading is to realize that "Yes, the books you are assigned to read in high school really ARE crap."

"Tale of Two Cities" by Dickens is a wonderful book buried in a sea of irrelevant chapters he got paid by the word to write. "Tom Jones" is basically a 1749 soap opera. Anything modern (<30 years) is almost guaranteed to be crap. (Norma Fox Mazer was big when I was in school and was complete garbage in my estimation. A funny story was I unknowingly told her this to her face when I was in 7th grade--don't ask teenage boys what they think as they may very well tell you the unvarnished truth.)

Books that are interesting for a teenager to read are probably 1) lowbrow (ummm, what's wrong with that?) 2) controversial on some axis and 3) quite often outside the level of the average English teacher to comprehend.

I suspect that Number 3 is the worst offender.

"Caunterbury Tales" is satire and needs a teacher who can point things out (Why does a "chaste" priest have the symptoms of syphilis--a sexually transmitted disease? Erm, that's a touch controversial, no?) Anything having a slight science bent is just completely beyond most English teachers--so sci-fi simply isn't on the menu (even though you have stuff like "The Forever War" which is basically an indictment of the Vietnam War). And, heaven, help us, if the book has even a hint of human sexuality about it GASP--especially if such hint isn't precisely mainstream.
That's not what it was. "ncr" was "No Country Redirect".

When you were in a different country (e.g., India), and you typed in google.com out of habit, it would recognize your IP-geo and redirect you to the country-specific domain (e.g., google.co.in).

If you really just wanted google.com for whatever reason, then you'd type google.com/ncr. It then wouldn't redirect you based on your IP-geo, and you'd stay on google.com.

In other words, google.com/ncr _always_ redirected you back to google.com. Then, and now.
I've done both. I haven't used nbdev, but it looks like it addresses many of the drawbacks notebooks have, from a software-development perspective.
yeah, it's not as fixed-cost as I'd hoped
Words tend to come up again with varied enough reading. It's built-in spaced repetition!
Personally I wish they'd add an m2 slot and scrap the SD card.
It really is the bottleneck of the whole system.

But they walk a fine balance with PCB space, backward compatibility, performance, cost and user-friendliness.
I think the way btrfs manages physical volumes is better. With btrfs, I can slowly buy drives of different capacities and add them to the file system one by one. I don't have to plan ahead of time like traditional RAID and ZFS setups. This is excellent for home data storage!

The only thing that holds it back is the lack of proper parity support. Anyone has an update on that? The kernel wiki says it still has problems...
Lol, I think we are arguing the same point.
Ms Wayland-Smith seems afflicted with self loathing over the fact that she is white. What a shame; we should all be comfortable in our own skins.
>is it a new environment, or is it an extended Jupyter Notebook? It looks like Jupyter Notebook to me. Why not Jupyter Lab?

Neither? It doesn't change the features of jupyter notebooks, and its not an improved/expanded UI like jupyter lab (you could use nbdev with jupyter lab). Its utilities and automation to make package/library development a better experience if jupyter is where you write your code.

From https://github.com/fastai/nbdev:

"nbdev is a library that allows you to develop a python library in Jupyter Notebooks, putting all your code, tests and documentation in one place."
Exactly. It's "reasoned", and it's easy to think that reason is everything worth thinking about. That is, after all, reasonable.

But a huge swath of human activity isn't reasoned. A lot of human activity is spent just sitting around wondering what it all means, trying to live a "good" life, and wondering for that matter what "good" even means. Those are unscientific questions (or at least, we lack anything close to a science for discussing them), but it doesn't make them unimportant.

Those are the questions the "continentals" are usually working on. In my opinion, they're at their worst when they're trying to sound analytical about it. The more rigorous they get, the more they make it clear that they're actually pretty bad at rigor. Derrida is the most obvious example, and honestly I have only the word of his defenders that he's somehow trying to undercut rationality rather than simply being a charlatan.

In the end I treat the continentals the way I treat fans of soccer: I'm glad you're having a good time and finding meaning in what you're doing. That's worth it. But I'm gonna get irritated if you insist that I must find meaning in it as well. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but the harder you insist the less interested I get.
Do you make jokes like, "I'll bet $1,000 that 2 of the next 3 people I treat will die?"

Because that would seem to be setting yourself up for some perverse incentives.
I’d bet she was probably thinking about resistor values while writing the title! You would always say 1.6k resistor and not 1600kohm resistor
Not being fully memory safe but assisting in it, is the way to go for the broad scope of applications imo;
I've always been so interested in Darwin/iOS/macOS internals yet I can't find any good resources.

I find it so interesting how they use that OS across all their devices.
I was affected by this. I appreciate them putting out such a thorough breakdown of what happened (and why).
This is exactly the reason I think Richard Nixon’s 1973 plan for “1000 nuclear power plants by the year 2000” would have been so impactful for us. It’s hard to get good at only building a handful of something.

e: I misremembered; it was actually 1000 by 1980
History of De Cecco Pasta and Why Brass Dies Are Important
Newsletter post about the history of a grocery aisle staple and the innovation that makes it so much better the similarly priced alternatives.
That isn’t just Texas even as far north as Kentucky and the Southern bits of Illinois and Indiana people use y’all.
Fun fact: Ken Silverman of Ken's Labyrinth later went on to work on the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D and other games.
So? You probably haven't heard of 95% of the languages that has existed and exist. They're niche languages, just like the VM they run on and this doesn't mean they're half-baked like JavaScript which you've heard of.
This resonates with me, I like solving problems in chemistry and physics, like I like calculating stuff. Biology on the other hand was pure memorisation in high school. That's why I elected to do chemistry for my A-level and not biology despite doing always doing slightly better in biology before that. I just really disliked rote memorisation.
Insisting on getting paid for work is very different from insisting on owning a scarce resource in order to force others to pay you for it as much as you can squeeze from them. They are moral opposites, one is about not being exploited too much as an individual and other is about exploiting everyone.
I didn't necessarily mean that they would be breaking procedure -- I think it's more likely that the procedures won't be very rigorous. I doubt that procedures for vaccination will be any more rigorous than the procedures for ensuring compliance with mask wearing.

As far as this being unethical -- maybe it is -- but since when has that stopped anyone? There are people still being forced to go to work sick because they have no way to take sick leave without losing their jobs.
why do we get to generalize mRNA vaccines, but not SARS-Cov-2? We've known about coronaviruses since the 1960s, we've had MERS, SARS, and other more recent ones.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html

I don't think we have long term information on either SARS-Cov-2 or the vaccine...
Interesting article, but ultimately feels meaningless. Am I going to go out of my way to support politicians who agree with these two author's views on urban warfare, when the world faces so many real actual problems?
FF uses more memory on my system than Chrome now..
To the first question: Yes. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects

It's not as attractive for managing nuclear accident risk as you might think, as nuclear is already struggling with cost competitivenss even without HVDC lines, and risk reduction per buck of other safety design features are better.

But it's brilliant for eg hydro (for obvious reasons), wind power (because 2000 km away it'll be windy when you have local lulls and vice versa) and solar (2 time zones worth of distance balance out production/consumption peaks nicely).
Scientists race to find 'warm' Covid vaccine to solve issue of cold storage
I think we may be talking about different things. My first reply was based on my understanding you saved results in spreadsheets.

breck wrote:

>I would always save my experiment results so they were ready to analyze in spreadsheets (and other vis tools).

I should have elicited further before making assumptions. My assumption was that you were referring to results of training machine learning models. Is this correct?

If my assumption is correct, how do you go about training machine learning models?

Also, one question concerning your "scare" of "Throw away your spreadsheets"... Do you mean that you'd like a tool that exports results to spreadsheets or something in that direction?

I think we are addressing different problems, and a large part of that is due to assumptions I have made earlier.
I recently checked out Catacomb 3D when I stumbled across the name while reading Fabien Sanglard's book on the software architecture of Wolfenstein 3D (which I can recommend wholeheartedly)

That, and Hovertank 3D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertank_3D
How Should We Think About the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence?
What do you use for that? I looked into it, and none of the alternatives sat well with me. They all felt like impositions on the build process that would make debugging harder.
> My dad was able to get a quality DSLR for $50.

No he wasn't.
> who was raised in the Islamic world and comes to the States and converts to Judaism can never stop being a Muslim?

No, according to GP, insofar as that person believes in the sanctity of the individual and human rights etc, that person was Christian all along, no matter their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, or what they think their religion is.

A thesis I disagree with.

Frankly, I find these redefinitions of common words somewhat annoying, as eg. in one of the earlier talks of Jordan Peterson with Sam Harris, where Peterson insisted on defining "truth" as "that which confers long-term evolutionary advantage". No, that's not what truth is. Just invent a new word for it.

Similarly, one can easily say that today's Western secular societies hold many values dear that arguably arose in Christianity (see, I just did!), without then adding that those secular societies are not, in fact, secular, but religious.
This is the correct answer. I've copied BBC BASIC games directly to a Pi running RISC OS Pico:

https://www.bencollier.info/projects/electronics/emulation/f...

To reiterate, the Pi can be made directly backwards-compatible with 8-bit games from 40 years ago. It's wonderful.
That's why you don't build two plants you build 20 or 30. France's nuclear project built 34 and 20 plants of 900 MWe and 1300 MWe classes of plants respectively which make up the bulk of its reactor fleet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Techni...
The flavor and style of respect is what makes it Christian.

Most who claim "respect for universal human rights" as their motto actually have a belief system that's heavily influenced by specifically Western sources. When the rubber meets the road, their biases, blind spots and points of emphasis will reveal this.

Someone from a different cultural tradition will have a different set of biases while still believing in "universal human rights". Up to and including which rights are more important when they come into conflict.
They save a lot in bandwidth costs by offering a smaller binary to most users.
> like women from emerging countries are somehow fundamentally unable to stand out in existing pipelines

The fact is that there aren't many women from emerging economies in the pipeline of a typical remote company. This is what we are trying to change. These companies use social media, linkedin ads, other famous job boards to attract talent. But still the outcome is not much different.

By listing on HerJobs, companies can also reach a different demographic that is hard to reach(typically for a company in US or Europe)

Agree that there might be people who use this with not the ideal intentions. But we have to start somewhere. We also try our best to vet companies, not just candidates.

> A less patronizing solution would be to figure out why women from emerging countries are underrepresented in existing pipelines and address those factors there.
This is exactly we are doing. Currently the community consists of mentors(both male, and female) and helps applicants identify their talent gaps and train them. These gaps are not necessarily technical - but cultural and language gaps.
Ha, the other day I was looking into how to report the page, and decided it wasn't worth the effort and probably would never be seen by a human. The power of HN!
>Because most players don't want to play as someone who captures people for slavery, or invades a monastery by slaughtering all of the monks inside.

The slavery I can understand, but the violence is kind of what makes Vikings a popular character archetype. I can't imagine wanting to play a Viking protagonist in a "realistic" setting without the pillaging and bloodshed. That's kind of the draw.
I don't think it just coders, I think it appeals to a lot of people who do a non-physical process for their job. It's nice to be able to build something physically with my hands, and not just edit a giant software codebase that makes some pixels change colors and conveys information, but otherwise has no physical world consequences.