skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's the only conclusion that can be drawn. What you're describing is simply a lack of education on the matter - there could have been a program to help these people out rather than just assume a monopoly will do a better job in the long run.
I think I want to become vegan ... again
Square Kilometre Array Org: Corrective measures needed re. ‘mega-constellations’
Is there a mispelling in third line of the Cherokee wording on the page? The word "kipikiskwewininaw" is spelled differently on the third repetition in the Cree script.
Ground News marks HuffPo as living solidly on the Left: https://ground.news/interest/25781bef-fab9-4951-8bff-5926d11...
How is 42 still funny, even to boomers?
Yes!

Hopefully I can clear up the discussion a little:

Q: Does reference counting 'use' less RAM than GC?

A: Yes (caveats etc. go here, but your question is a good explanation)

Q: Does the M1 in and of itself require less RAM than x86 processors?

A: No

Q: So why are people talking about the M1 and its RAM usage as if it's better than with x86?

A: It's really just around the faster reference counting. MacOS was already pretty efficient with RAM.

I'd like to propose tokamak-teapot's formula for hardware purchase:

Minimum RAM believed to be required = actual amount of RAM required * 2

N.B. I am aware that a sum that's greater than 16GB doesn't magically become less than 16GB, but it is somewhat surprising how well MacOS performs when it feels like RAM should be tight, so I'd suggest borrowing a Mac or making a Hackintosh to experience this if you're anxious about hitting the ceiling.
Ok. English double meanings - great for jokes bad for comms!
Give the executives slow ass old computers imo. Problem solved. Or just tell the devs the ceo has a core 2 duo.
Does it though? Where I live there are probably three different supermarket chain stores within about 500m, so easy walking distance. If I expand that to 1km because I feel like biking a short way, there'd be dozens of more shops and probably a few more different brands. This isn't even including the multiple non-chain ones. There doesn't seem to be any risk of a food desert here.
During the second half of the XXth century, the US did more bad than good. Again recently the intervention of the CIA in Yemen is unjustifiable. There is a tragic irony into thinking a libertarian country so violently interfered with others people affairs, and with so many of them on all continents. Most of the time favoring the establishment of a dictatorship.

It is also funny to think that Trump, to my knowledge, did not engage in undercover or open military operations, whereas Obama, who passed for a dove certainly was not one.

Anyway this is an era coming to an end. Let see what China will do with its superpowers when it is the 1st world economy. For sure it is already quite rough with its neighbors. Will its thirst for commerce refrain it to bomb other countries? Will it be technological bombs instead?
Exactly, sometimes we underestimate the power of a streamlined process.
Fixed link: https://datasketches.apache.org/docs/Quantiles/KLLSketch.htm...
Wasn't it the case that they used to prevent touch interactions until the animation finished? I remember moving to iOS from android in 2017 and being really annoyed at that, but they fixed it in like iOS 11 or 12.
Thats an american site perpetuating the American delusion that centre right and right-wing are left and right.
I really don't understand why all media outlets shill this story like it wasn't just a few riveted plates of sheet steel. A dozen people could carry the materials to build that thing by hand.
This happened just 3 years after the US handed West Papua over to Indonesia on a silver platter. Today, in 2020, the genocide of the West Papuan people continues.

https://international.ucla.edu/institute/event/1786

https://twitter.com/FreeWestPapua

https://twitter.com/VeronicaKoman
It's actually both. If you want to wrap your head around it, you can read this article (https://bit.ly/ForestAdmin-architecture).
What a ridiculous title and claim. It obviously means nothing so what are people suppose to think of it? Just be impressed and stupefied at the same time? The important missing detail that took 6 paragraphs to get to is "1 million fluid cells".
AWS Wish List for re:invent 2020 – “day one Cloudformation support”
Great best practices, if you want your users to absolutely never come back to your site.
Sites created like this, perfectly ilustrated by this one, look like shit and the instant loading time won't save it.
It's not 1995 anymore and pure text websites with no animations will make users leave faster than your website manages to load.
Even sites like Medium which focus 99% on text need to look good, otherwise they're useless.
If I wanted to have pure text thrown at me I'd pick up a book, not use the Internet.
Heh, I've imagined a message like:

"Your task has started and is processing in the background where it can't be observed. Please wait."

[OK]
If we plotted potential for environmental impact(Y) vs moral agency(X), beavers would be up and to the left, orangutans bottom right and humans up and to the right (beating both on both axis).
I highly doubt this. Another example would be Nvidia, where after 20 years open source drivers are still worse than closed source ones.
Hypersonic anti-ship missiles are a hot topic these days, maybe this is related.
This sums up my position much more eloquently than I could have done it.
And if they didn't, food would probably be a lot more expensive.
Whether HuffPost was popular in India is besides the point.

To provide some contrast, the same govt amended a law originally designed to prohibit foreign funding of political parties and changed it to allow funding from local companies which have more than 50% foreign ownership.

So basically political parties can indirectly accept foreign funds through above loophole which the ruling party itself created but news organizations cannot.

“ the controlling Bharatiya Janata Party government passed a retroactive amendment through a 2016 Finance Bill that excludes from the definition of “foreign sourced” contributions from local companies even though a foreign company owns more than half their shares, provided certain direct investment requirements are met”

Source: https://www.loc.gov/law/help/elections/foreign-involvement/i...
I thought that quote was from Pablo Picasso.
Agree completely.

I don’t know that the “Apple tax” moniker is really fair anymore, either.

The machines have always commanded a premium for things that enthusiasts don’t see value in (I.e. anything beyond numeric spec sheet values), so most critics completely miss the point of them.

There’s a valid argument to be made that they’re also marked up to higher margins than rivals even beyond the above, but I’m not sure if any end user has really ever eaten that cost - If you buy a MacBook, there has always been someone (students) to buy it back again 3/5/10 years down the road for a significant chunk of it’s original outlay. That doesn’t happen with any other laptop - they’re essentially scrap (or worth next to nothing) within 5 years. After 10 years I might actually expect the value to be static or even increase for its collector value (e.g. clamshell iBook G3s)

The total cost of ownership for Apple products is actually lower over three years than any rival products I’m aware of.
I suspect you mean they come with two channels on a single chip, which is not the same as two ports. Channels access separate bits of memory. Ports access the same bits of memory.
Imagine 2-in-1 where iOS and OSX lived alongside each other and you could switch between them like tablet mode on a surface pro. Just let them be independent of each other imo.

I’d be up for that since I currently use an iPad and a win10 laptop.
I agree with most of your comment but the final paragraph is a bit ????

> if farming in the Western world wasn't heavily subsidized, it wouldn't exist in the Western world

It probably would change, but it's weird to suggest it would stop existing without governmental subsidies. Most farming in the West is either intensive mass-production of commodities or sectorial, high-margin goods like wine. For the most part, agricultural subsidies are helping small businesses in sectors where they aren't really competitive (mostly by making the taxpayer or the consumer pay the difference, but that's another story...). Again, not to say subsidies are wrong per se, but I don't follow your reasoning there.

> The reason for the farming subsidies is to have internal food production in case a war prevents sufficient food imports

???

Most Western countries (with the possible exception of the US, I don't know) aren't agriculturally self-sufficient, nor it is a goal for them to be. In case a war broke out, energy supplies would be a much more pressing concern, especially for Western Europe.
The UK internet is worse because of forced competition. British Telecom started plans in the 1970s to roll out fibre optic connections to every household in the country. BT were even going to manufacture the fibre themselves. But the Thatcher government decided that competition was a good thing so shut that down and instead invited cable companies to lay competing infrastructure. A small handful of companies accepted the offer and proceeded to lay infrastructure during the 90s to compete with BT. They installed infrastructure only in highly lucrative towns and inner cities where cable runs are short and easy but subscriber counts are high. No rural infrastructure whatsoever. None of them have laid any infrastructure since the 90s and by now they have all merged into one company which has been rebranded as "Virgin Media". So much for competition.

So what we have now is primarily a copper infrastructure with zero to two fibre backbones to choose from depending where you live. It's a shambles.

The big mistake was not recognising that the physical infrastructure is a natural monopoly and, like any monopoly, should be state owned. Just like sewerage, electricity, water etc. it makes absolutely no sense to have parallel infrastructure. The UK shows that while it is possible, you make great sacrifices in the name of "competition" and "free market".
Wikipedia page on that is heavily biased, this was covered by OpIndia and Swarajya. Anyways that doesn't matter, as Tahir Hussain himself accepted his hand in the violence that played out.

The irony is that no Muslim got evicted due to CAA, and yet the radical Muslims caused so much violence, and then people like you come to HN to spread that propaganda of Hindutva bad, Modi bad seeking god knows what.
Technically it's more the time that the acceleration is applied for, but I see what you mean. I used to work as a weapons engineer for the Dutch navy and they were quite involved at getting the Vulcano (https://www.leonardocompany.com/en/products/vulcano-155mm) rounds working at the time. IIRC the larger caliber rounds were subjected to about 40.000g at peak acceleration though you could vary the amount of powder so actual acceleration varied. The HW guys had all sorts of trouble with exotic problems like getting the chips to stay attached to the solder pads etc.

Totally agree that the SpinLaunch system does not seem sufficient to get a payload to space though, let alone if it also needs to bring propellant for circularizing their orbits.
Vulkan can be used for compute, although I would guess that few applications support that.

For pre Pi4 boards, there is an OpenCL implementation.

https://github.com/doe300/VC4CL
Wait a bit for market forces to do their work. I'm sure the others will follow suit

Edit: the article is from 2018. Lidl has announced recently that they plan to have that for their organic eggs starting in early 2021 and their free range eggs until end of 2021. Source: https://unternehmen.lidl.de/pressreleases/2020/200714_lidl_e...
You can run k8s on VMs too. It doesn't require a provider managed service.
I believe Rupert Murdoch, who is Australian became a US citizen to take ownership of US television stations. He seems to have a significant influence here (as well as Europe and Asia). So crazy enough for established procedures.
> Non-Exclusive: You hereby grant and will grant to Competition Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission, in any media now known or developed in the future, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to you.

This is from section A subsection 1 of the competition rules, just for your information. Competition sponsor is Jane Street obviously. If you manage to build a model that can generate returns that would be sufficient to them, you rather trade with it yourself, or use it as a proof-of-work for recruiting interviews.
Given that this article is from 2018 - does anyone know if this spread to other countries in the mean time? (And for bonus points: to the Netherlands?)
Charles Spence at Oxford University has done a lot of work on this. It turns out just changing the colour of the plate impacts peoples perception of food.
What are you talking about. It's an amazing tool, sure, but "it" has no intelligence whatsoever.
Sure but skyscraper gardens are not harmony with nature. They’re misguided hubris.
TSMC 3nm fab nears completion
>> trying to make a plane that looks like all the planes designed by humans [..] I'm sorry that's not a task you consider interesting

> Trying to create text that looks like text written by humans? Is that really what GPT-3 is designed to do?

My understanding is, it's designed to attempt to "understand" the inner structure of text written by humans, and to create new text using the same structure based on its "understanding". "Understanding" is only defined as the creation of a probabilistic model - it doesn't "understand" any meaning, only the structure of sentences and paragraphs, Yet, such a mindless machinary can demonstrate a wide range of interesting behaviors.

Using the plane analogy: If you feed the airplanes designed by humans throughout history into GPT-3, GPT-3 is able to produce an original design of convincingly-looking airplanes of all nationalities and types. For example, if you say "1960, turboprop, Britain", it gives you one, and it's also capable of mixing things, such as putting a jet engine on a biplane, or designing a hypothetical WW2 Allies plane using Axis military technology. If you are lucky, some of the planes come with semi-functional systems. Some might be able to ignite its engine before it explodes, and few are even capable of taking off before it explodes (and some are unable to take off, but if you put them in the mid-air, it may be able to travel for one minute before it explodes). And it's all done under unsupervised learning, and without any domain-specific knowledge on Newtonian mechanics, aerodynamics or aviation. All it needs is an astronomical number of blueprints collection.

To me it's an impressive achievement, even if it doesn't understand how to design airplanes.
> you need to decelerate objects.

Not if you aim it directly at the sun.

> The total amount of radioactive waste on the earth is about the size of a swimming pool

The HN nuclear apologists are so tiresome.

No, every nuclear plant has more than that.

Fukushima has acres, so they're dumping it in the ocean.
I'm not really convinced nor reassured by their supposed tests to prove the physics will work. The test involving the iPhone? That's like saying "well, a marshmallow can withstand 1g of forces without being crushed therefore I can build a 3 story apartment building out of them".
And the remaining 19% surely fill out the remaining 10%.

Power laws everywhere.
Can you quote where it says this is a different functionality? The statement from Amazon says it's none of their business.
Signup doesn't work - https://share.getcloudapp.com/04uNeZbN

neither with email password or google oauth
Egg laying hens are bred for different traits than the ones for meat. So the male chicks of egg laying hens would probably grow more slowly and to a smaller size than ones bred for meat. Thus their meat would be more expensive.
> The problem is, without some kind of firewall (e.g. WAF), our application has to absorb so much traffic, and that's the issue. We need to block it at the edge.

I think you need some high performance ingestion code.

One day somebody is going to load test or misconfigure their site. Or you'll get a really big client. Or somebody will get Reddit frontpaged or slashdotted. Blocking huge volumes of traffic isn't always going to be an option. You should be able to handle it.

I would get off all this "sexy" stuff like lamdba and SQS and build some old school battle boxes at a co-lo. Run some extreme performance framework like Actix or Vert.X built to handle giant piles of traffic. A single box with those frameworks and a 40 gig line can handle millions of requests a second.

Use counting bloom filters synced between boxes for IP blocking. This avoids saving IP's and is needed to prevent ram exhaustion attacks anyways. Use two layers, one for individual IP's and a second for blocking subnets with lots of bad actors in them. Block for ~24h by using dual sets of bloom filters in a sliding window with 12h overlap where IP's get added to both. When a filter is 24h old, discard it. This needs to be done because you can't remove items from Bloom filters, they saturate over time.

On these super boxes you can do filter, blocking, batching, and dedup. Then send the data off to wherever for further processing.

You mentioned not wanting to use Cloudflare because they're a competitor. That's fine but I would take a look at their blog. They go over the tech they use for mass data ingestion and filtering, and it's basically what I just described.
> language purist

Maybe I'm in a minority but calling anyone using type annotation "language purists" seems a bit of an extreme classification.
It’s still a death trap.

Did they even physically modify the plane, by adding additional redundant sensors?

The problem is that the plane suffers from a design defect. Which Boeing tried to fix with software, by using a faulty sensor, that had no redundancy. Which then got certified as safe by the FAA, because they are corrupt and in collusion with Boeing.

Fly the plane at your own risk. Make sure to buy a spare coffin on Black Friday specials.
That's a really neat way to harvest valid email addresses.
It's not just population density - you need economic opportunities.

For instance, most large languages in India are dying off quite rapidly even in regions with high speaker density, since the Indian state and people prefer a discriminatory class system that privileges a foreign language. There are very few opportunities for non-English speakers, either educationally or economically. Normal speech has turned into a crass pidgin of English and the local vernacular; schooling has turned 'English-medium' entirely, thus creating a generation of idiots, fluent neither in English nor in their own native languages.

The Indian state being essentially the same as the colonial British Raj, will never tolerate empowering the natives of India, even if political cronies have and will continue to give it a sense of legitimacy by appealing to ethno-religio-linguistic rabble rousing.

See,
http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/
We aren’t everywhere though. And the parts you can see and fly over are the parts with people, that’s where we put airports.

When you say we should limit human presence to 50% (of land?) that implies enormous development.
Both have the same problem and Polya mentions it in his paper. Both are to various degrees incompatible with technology (printing press, keyboards, teletypes, text mode screens, CLI, screen readers, etc.).

The reason the printing press became so revolutionary in latin alphabet using countries even though paper, printing and movable type were invented in China, is because it is very easy to make a machine that uses it. The English alphabet is more or less a common denominator of all other latin alphabet-based languages. Any non-latin/greek/cyrillic script is very hard to adapt to the various forms of technology throughout history.

But both papers illustrate a very real problem. Mathematical notation is horribly, infuriatingly, idiotically overloaded. And, no, context is not enough to divine the meaning. There are plenty of examples where a symbol is used for multiple meanings in the same paper or the same lesson.

My opinion is that the cause of all these problems is a very brain dead decision in math to allow adjacency of symbols to signify multiplication. This results in no longer being able to use multiple character names for things (variables, constants, etc.). And this is crippling. It results in the use of modified characters as symbols, use of characters from other languages as symbols and now the proposal of use of emoji as symbols. Because why not, emoji are plentiful and are now easier to input, store and display than ever.

The same issue (diversity of names) was solved by almost all by having mandatory separator characters(space, tab, comma, semicolon, etc) that are not allowed in names. Imagine a programing language where it is impossible to tell at first glance the meaning of something like "TotalWeight". Is it one variable? Is it Total * Weight? Is it TotalW * eight? Is it Total * W * eight? Is it T * o * t * a * l * W * e * i * g * h * t? We can rewrite this last one as aeghilo(t^2)TW . This is mathematical notation. And it will not change because it is entrenched.
Thanks I should have read the article.
Sorry, yes I mean they won't know how to say them out loud, which makes discussion hard, whereas they will know snowflake or fire.

Heck, I teach graph theory and I keep forgetting the damn names mid-lecture.
But unfortuanately(as a side effect?) policies like this hinders the operations of goodwill nonprofits like Amnesty International[1].

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/amnesty-to-hal...
Repeat for pretty much every technology that is "in fashion" at the time.
They apparently tested spinning everyday objects up to 10,000g, which is great, but I wonder if they thought about bending moments induced when the thing is suddenly released.
So the question now becomes: what will they use to make pet food?

Given that in US (for example) there are 160 million pets and a cat eats around 200-300 grams of meat everyday, which is more than half of the global World population have at their disposal.
A video card is many orders of magnitude more complex than a touch pad
But do they change the deer's behavior in beneficial ways like wolves?
On recent Apple Silicon CPUs uncontended most atomic operations are essentially free - almost identical in speed to the non-atomic version of the same operation. Reference counting must be atomic safe whether using ARC or MRR. On x86 systems those atomic operations impose a performance cost. On Apple Silicon they do not. It does not change how much memory is used but it does mean you can stop worrying about the cost of atomic operations. It has nothing to do with the ARMv8 instruction set, it has to do with how the underlying hardware implements those operations and coordinates among cores.

Separately from that x86's TSO-ish memory model also imposes a performance cost whether your algorithm needs those guarantees or not. Code sometimes relies on those guarantees without knowing it. Absent hardware support you would need to insert ARM atomics in translated code to preserve those guarantees which on most ARM CPUs would impose a lot of overhead. The M1 allows Rosetta to put the CPU into a memory ordering mode that preserves the expected memory model very efficiently (as well as using 4K page size for translated processes).