skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I am not referencing people who are homeless. I haven't said "you can tell who is abusing the system at first glance." either. I think we generally agree though. Thank you for the conversation.
> which will do wonders both for their and Arm's brand.

Apple’s brand, yes, definitely. Arm’s brand? Not so much.

Apple have made a very concerted effort to ensure that when the public thinks of the M1, that it is an Apple chip, and not an Arm chip.

I imagine that Arm isn’t too thrilled with that.
> By far the most numerous, annoying, and belligerent tourists are going to be the drunk ones, but the Netherlands did not crack down on alcohol consumption.

This is the most conspicuous thing about drug policy in most countries.

In particular it's conspicuous because alcohol (famously) impairs judgment of all other drug-decisions. The main premise of AA is that alcohol is the ultimate gateway drug and cause of relapses. (I don't endorse AA's literalism and AA's attitudes about cannabis border on a crime-against-humanity IMHO. They are so powerful and they have done, and continue to do, SO MUCH DAMAGE by maintaining that old garbage. Founder of AA was a psychonaut anyways. Sigh.)

I'm from an opiate-epidemic-plagued state. My family's been affected, every extended family has been affected, every close friend has been affected. (Affected like -- 1+ members of that/their family having severe addiction problems.)

And you know what's the most consistent factor in the relapses? Alcohol. It's there every time. This is anecdata of course but ... we are lacking hard data that can displace the anecdotes many of us have. Alcohol abuse is so widespread that we can't really control the variable (seemingly).

</rant>

@pmoriarty, I really, really appreciate your comments on this thread. Looking forward to the readings that come from the sources you've linked.
It is absolutely impossible to overstate the success of Kimetsu no Yaiba. In October its 22 volumes were the top 22 selling manga in Japan. It was more than a quarter of the entire manga industry this year.

https://twitter.com/Josu_ke/status/1333457420547452930

And yeah, despite being released only in a single medium-sized country only in the local language, it is the 6th highest grossing film of the year.
> China could have locked down travel from China that might have helped.

See [1] and [2] for fact checks on this point.

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel...

[2] https://danielabell.com/?s=Ferguson&submit=Search
Evolve Bank & Trust will probably be the bank most of these funds sit in [0]. With this partnership, and their Mercury Bank partnership [1], they've positioned themselves very well. For a small bank out of Memphis [2], this is quite impressive.

[0]: https://stripe.com/treasury#request-invite

[1]: https://mercury.com/

[2]: https://www.getevolved.com/contact/locations/
Although that is a bit overreaching of an expectation in my opinion, I agree it would be good if Yann was a bit more explicit.
Haha ok, you seem pretty pessimistic about all of this. Have a nice day though!
I think the Golden Gate Bridge is massively overengineered (although nobody really knows) because materials engineering wasn’t super advanced back then.
> "Microsoft, at least, has Windows running on ARM, but it doesn't have Rosetta"

I thought that Microsoft's emulation efforts were hampered by Intel making threats, e.g. "Intel recently made an unprecedented public challenge to Microsoft and Qualcomm that basically told the latter two companies: if you ship an x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) emulator, we’re coming after you.", from https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2017/06/16/intel...

If so, the blame for that really lies at Intel's doorstep as well.
According to the Wikipedia entry...

> The NSF made the announcement on November 19, 2020 that they would decommission Arecibo over the following few weeks after determining the safest route to do so with a safety exclusion zone immediately put in place.
I have a lot of respect for Raul Pal, but when he talks about crypto you start to see his limits in understanding. He still thinks governments can't ban crypto if they wanted, he is very wrong about that. He also thinks that governments would allow a crypto to rival a state currency.

The most likely success story for crypto is it will be only for banks while regular people will be banned from owning it. There is simply no way a government will allow irreversibly hackable assets in the wild. There are no limits to the damage entities can do with anonymous GDP-scale wealth.
I know, many languages are. Why would that directly influence the efficiency of the compiler?
> she literally told her group to stop working.

Where did you read that?

in the email shown,she told a listserv called "Women and Allies" to stop writing docs that are an attempt to better the situation in terms of diversity, equity, inclusion as writing those docs are like pissing in the wind in her opinion
Why not create an index on user_id, time? Why do you need a unique reference back to the row? We find that they're often (though certainly not always) kind of meaningless and/or unnecessary for timeseries workloads.
This is all Nolan movies. You've got to go in expecting not to be able to understand what they're saying.
I know what it means but have no idea how profitable it is or whether those profits are guaranteed or fleeting. Best I can tell it's like any service (business, not investment): depending on demand and competition, you can make money for a time, then stop at some point. So far that has never been an issue for people investing in the global stock market (i.e. the global stock market persists even as individual stocks, sectors, industries, even whole countries have crashed in the past).
This isn’t having a beer with your buddies and spitballing plans. If you email your employer saying give me this or I resign, the employer can accept your resignation simply by saying no to your conditions. It’s grade school logic. They called her bluff and that’s why she’s salty about it. She signaled her intention to resign and due to her behavior with her reports, Google doesn’t want more of that on her way out so she got cut loose immediately.
In those cases you have a set of test data that you use for development and testing. It's not like you can attach a Visual Studio debugger to production either.
Despite word of coming vaccines, the company decided to put the entire 2021 slate on HBO Max after consulting with epidemiologists.

If you care enough about the future to pay experts for advice, you get different answers than e.g. those to which nightly news viewers are subjected. Like Dr. Michael Mina said recently on the Pivot podcast, "Since May, the vaccine has been a month away."
Yes exactly. Or toddlers, who cause much more damage than pets. Good luck charging people "toddler rent."
A review with bite. "Read the biography.. but its not very good"
MUCH appreciated!

> You can also checkout where journalistic prizes go.

I had never thought of this. It seems like a great technique for international/interlingual research, in general. Thanks for suggesting it!
I'm well aware of that. But this was not a (submission) peer review situation. From everything I've seen (not a complete picture of course) this was a process entirely separate from the peer review process of the conference she was submitting to. That still makes it a situation where her paper was apparently reviewed (and possibly by peers) but it certainly doesn't have the same semantics in which anonymity is warranted/guaranteed.
It would be wonderful if normal schools would provide optional advanced lessons in many subjects!

Among other reasons, it would be wonderful, because some kids are exceptionally talented in one area, but some of them are exceptionally talented in two or three different areas. Currently, if you are talented e.g. in art and math, you have to choose between a normal school, art school, or math school... but there is no option to get advanced art and math.

(Advanced lessons are better than skipping grades, because skipping means "the same thing, only faster", while advanced lessons could also be "deeper". I don't have a good example for this, but imagine that normals kids spend e.g. one month learning about squares and one month learning about triangles... then the faster option would be only three or two weeks learning the same information about each... while the deeper option would be also learning one month about squares, but learning more facts about them, and then one month learning more facts about triangles. Except, it's not just more facts, but also more connections between the facts, etc.)

Also, it is great if kids exceptional in one subject can interact with kids exceptional in other subjects. I have seen great school projects, for example a computer game where the code was written by a computer science talented kid, and the pictures and music were created by their artistically talented classmates. More impressive than a typical computer game generated by math school students, where the physics engine is awesome... but, no offense meant, the aesthetics is usually quite meh.

Finnish schools seem to provide more flexibility to students; instead of everyone in the same grade following the same schedule, you have some freedom to choose classes. On the other hand, kids exceptional in one subject are typically encouraged by teachers to focus on the remaining subjects, rather than further improve the one they already excel in. The culture values balance, not extremes. (I was told so by a Finnish student.)

And perhaps if we use more computer education in the future, it would be easier (and cheaper) to allow different students progress at their natural pace. Instead of normal and advanced classes, we could have literally each student proceed at a different speed... at a computer. And teachers could then provide consultations, individually or in small groups.

Unfortunately, the same prejudices that people have against schools for gifted children, also apply to talented classes. If your dogma is that no one is really different from others, then no one is allowed to be different from others even for one lesson a week.

There are also technical problems, like if you have 40 kids in a grade, then if their talents are on a bell curve, you get 1 kids exceptional in math, and maybe 2 more half-exceptional kids, and the rest is normal or bad at math. You cannot make a separate lesson for 1 kid or 3 kids; and splitting the class 20:20 will not provide that 1 kid what they need.
I'm using this pattern on my projects for my customers.

One of the reason is that my team knows only SQL things, they don't have time to install other programming tools on their machine.

So, just install postgresql and code the logic you want !
I didn't say "small". Streaming can certainly allow a movie with a $1m-10m budget to turn a profit. I am mostly worried about the mid-budget standalone movies that are targeted at adults. Movies like Arrival or Knives out are recent examples. I'm not sure streaming works to the same extent for a $30m-60m movies like that.
Without commenting on the gymnastics (I'm not qualified) the big issue for me is about actually having the machines in the market. Some of the Ryzen laptops seem to be impossible to buy and who knows how much TSMC capacity AMD has (after the Xbox and PS cores) plus how much and for how long have the PC laptop manufacturers already committed to Intel.
The big companies I have seen did indeed pay well. But I would not quite say that they used the law as intended. The hiring process for highly qualified contributors I've sometimes seen was more along the lines of:

1. Evaluate resumes and interview candidates, both US and foreign, practically without taking into account national origin and visa status (With the possible exception of national bans / not eligible for visa due to past deportation, etc).

2. Once decision is made, let the immigration department figure out a legal way to get the person hired a visa (through H1B, internal transfer, whatever).

3. If the H1B process prescribes advertising the position to US applicants, that will be done, but the decision for that particular job has really already been made (then again, big companies are constantly hiring, so maybe US applicants get considered for other suitable jobs).

So while I don't think these companies, in general, are trying to get cheap labor, or discriminating against US applicants, some of the provisions of the law (giving strict priority to US applicants) are only being followed in a ceremonial way, and, giving the fluid nature of job characterizations in the industry, are probably near-impossible to follow in a realistic way.
> If I buy a company, I literally can choose what to do with its earnings. That’s the point of valuing businesses. You’re not buying the stock. You’re buying a portion of the business.

I used to think that, but then I saw what happened to TSLA this year. I don't think that these markets are as different as you think they are.
Snapchat’s Spotlight is a big gamble for the company and creators
It's so funny watching a dysfunctional industry take 10 years to catch up with the obvious.

The next interesting point will be the obvious consolidation and licensing wars when customers get tired of maintaining 4 or 5 streaming licenses.
> The myth of 1x, 2x, and 3x being "preferred" is just an Apple-ism

And a GTK-ism.
You're joking, right?

2020 is a year where SpaceX flew humans to space for the first time ever on a commercial vehicle, we created and started to distribute a vaccine for a never-before-seen virus in under a year, and we began to hook rural people who've never had access to high-quality internet up via a constellation of thousands of micro-satellites in LEO.

Sure, not everything is rosy, but we're still capable of some impressive feats of engineering.

Oh, and AlphaFold made an incredible leap in protein folding prediction. Like, a true "paradigm shift" in one of the most historically intractable problems in biology.
In my own case the linked web site won't let me see anything because I'm using an ad blocker, which is one of the tools that makes the web usable.

If they don't want page views, that's fine by me.
I'm partially sympathetic to this point of view. I agree that Timnit will ultimately be fine, despite what she is going through right now. I also agree that Google should ultimately do whatever it wants in accordance with its determined corporate policies.

However, you really should read https://abc.xyz/investor/founders-letters/2004-ipo-letter/

Anyone who recalls this letter should be able to muster sympathy for those who have joined Google with an activist mindset. Google is supposed to be different. Google is supposed to be for people who want to make the world better. Sure, maybe it's all just so much branding, but this is how Google (and by extension many Googlers) styles itself. This news is more evidence that Google is really bad at living up to that image - as idealistic/lofty/unrealistic as it may be - where it counts.

And any way, Timnit isn't toxic. She is upset with the status quo of equity among genders and ethnic groups in her field, and she is fighting to improve it. This is naturally unwelcome - and perhaps comes off as combative - to anyone who is satisfied with the status quo, but I would not call it toxic.
Sawdust can be a great media to grow mushrooms on. There are species that prefer hardwoods vs softwoods so you might have to do some research. Oysters generally eat anything.
haha yeah I wasn't able to buy my coffee this morning with my gold bar so I threw it away. worthless metal amirite
Easier just to change the law.
Nothing is "100% guaranteed". There are lots of reasons that the returns of investing in index funds using DCA may dry up, or even fall over the long run—for instance, it's not inconceivable that a significant enough market downturn could bankrupt a lot of Fortune 500 companies, bringing the indexes down significantly for a long period of time. Even though these types of scenarios seem extremely unlikely, it's incredibly inaccurate to say that any such returns are "100% guaranteed".
I think the point here is that if $BIGCORP makes some unpopular compensation change that affects many employees (e.g. reducing the weighting of performance in the pay formula, reducing base pay relative to RSUs, etc.), a union would give employees a way to push back on those changes and/or negotiate for some other concessions in return.

Actually, I imagine a $BIGCORP workers' union to be much more involved in this kind of negotiation than e.g. in demanding that wages be flat with no room for pay increases based on merit, which is the usual FUD that anti-union folks roll out in these conversations.
Presumably the rent is the same whether it's just you, or you and an autistic child.
> Yes, nurses, doctors, etc may not get paid as much as a FAANG engineer a couple of years out of college, but they are still often needed.

Doesn't that mean nurses, doctors etc. should be paid more, rather than the reverse?
No babies on flight would be awesome. No more screaming.
Yeah, I’m ignorant and flowers can be planted by anyone, so great conversation. If you really want to have discussions with people maybe try not to focus on meaningless pedantry.

Your side of the argument is ad hominem. I’m ignorant. OK, great, what’s your point? I should rethink tulips. Why?

You don’t actually make an argument yourself; sure I spouted off some things I think are generally bad because my statements imply you’re not going to find long-term returns from that type of “investing,” but are you not also spouting off some points of your own?
Linux should be on it shortly, running in a VM environment.

That won't satisfy the purists, but it should satisfy the practical in most cases.
Did you say that backwards? On my lap, the screen of my laptop is 17"-20" from my face. At a desk, the monitor is usually about 28" from my face.
Porsche-certified mechanics, are rare though.
Corridor Crew did a fun and interesting video[1] on how good the eye is.

In it, they have a segment on frame rate[2], where he mentions that the neurons can only fire about every 13ms, or about 75 FPS. But, the important point, they're not in sync like a computer screen is. This means the effective update rate for a group of neurons can be much less.

[1]: https://youtu.be/sPpAXMH5Upo

[2]: https://youtu.be/sPpAXMH5Upo?t=252
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing :)
...have you looked at it recently? It's a MASSIVE suite of services, tools, and capabilities...https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/
> Well if you thwart union formation and legislation by using communication to persuade people that you're right and to vote for your side, that's called democracy.

That's neither here nor there. The point I was disputing was the idea that changes in mass communication technology gives an advantage to unions.

However, to your point: your phrasing "using communication to persuade people...to vote for your side, that's called democracy," obscures some important distinctions. If your success at persuasion stems mainly from the greater power you have to project your message (e.g. via wealth), then that's arguably not actually very democratic. That's pretty easy to see when greater political power is used (e.g. the CCP suppressing dissenting voices and successfully persuading the people with a thick blanket of weakly-opposed propaganda), but there's a similar dynamic when one side can greatly outspend its opponent, since wealth is a kind of power [1].

For a union vote, the employer typically has both greater wealth and greater political power: it can blanket the workplace with anti-union messages and require employees to repeatedly attend anti-union "education" sessions during work hours (which is typical before a union vote), while the union organizers have much more limited access, and must try to reach employees outside of work.

[1] this is an area of tension in liberal democracy, where trade-offs need to be made.
Sure, but then why have a market for hundreds of coins? We dont have a public market for all the craigslist wannabes because they are not relevant at that level.
I stopped going to theaters after visiting Alamo Drafthouse and literally every person around me was carrying on entire conversations during the movie. My wife asked after the movie was over, "Why didn't you fill out the card and turn those people in?" I replied, "You think they're going to believe me that every person around me was talking? When it's one person, they're the asshole. When it's everybody but me, I'm the asshole."

If a theater chain that prides themselves on throwing people out who talk[1] can't keep people from shutting up then I have no hope it'll ever change. What was once considered extremely rude is now considered commonplace, apparently.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs
> x86 is no more "Open" than ARM. Pinebook and Raspberry Pi both use no bullshit ARM setups.

They're ARM SoCs, meaning that you can't just download the Ubuntu ARM ISO[1] and run it on either device like you could with an x86 ISO and an x86 machine.

To run Ubuntu or any Linux distribution, you need to use images that were specially crafted for either SoC.

This is because ARM SoCs use custom bootloaders and don't have hardware on enumerable buses. Each SoC model is essentially a unique hardware configuration that needs an individual Linux port.

ARM servers are more similar to x86 machines in that they use UEFI and have enumerable buses.

As long as machines are shipped that use ARM SoCs, Linux support for all of them will be quite difficult to achieve[2] compared to x86 machines.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm

[2] https://elinux.org/images/a/ad/Arm-soc-checklist.pdf
The test in the opcodes level is incomplete as for X-Y it accepts ~(X&Y)
Nothing new, engineered, or special about it, that's a bog-standard Dutch accent.
Mark Rebillet is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRpUr5iQPIY
Or, say, the Federal Reserve Bank could issue electrodollars.
Financial or banking capabilities, I think
Isn't it because it is a SoC?

I found the following article enlightening:

https://screenrant.com/apple-silicon-m1-mac-macbook-chip-soc...

Edit: ignore that previous link, way better is the one mentioned by another poster:

https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-32...
> The worst part is that there was a path for you to be professional and achieve your goals, but then I guess you don't get to bask in Twitter's righteous indignation that way.

IMHO we don’t really know if that part (achieving your goals) is true, or not true.
I'm not very familiar with the norms of corporate research. Is it normal for corporations to give their researchers tenure-like freedom to publish anything they want? I assume that top researchers (who have their pick of institutions) will choose organizations where they can be relatively free. But what do you mean by "fair academic criticism"?

If a company publishes only papers that clearly advance its interests, but the research is sound and independently reproducible, does that bias really lessen the perceived value and quality of the research?
Not sure I understand your comment.

Many things may go wrong, interference from another hardware thread running on the same core, context switches, cache associativity shenanigans, and more.

But still, if you prefetch, switch a co-routine so that other one is spending their 100-500 CPU cycles doing something else, then switch back — I would expect statistically significant performance win, at the cost of code complexity.
Whoops, that's a good point. I guess the accounting works a bit differently in that case?
That headline, as written, is a real missed opportunity.