skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These folksy farmers pretend like they're part of rich heritage of humanity - the dairy farmer through the ages supplying people with a healthy and necessary drink. Dairy production is just another demand created in the modern world by marketers and little to do with actual nutrition [1].

The dairy farmers in this article try to portray a peaceful relationship between farmer and cow, yet 99% of dairy in the US is produced in factory farms quite different from idyllic pastures [2]. More like what we're seeing in China with multi-story pig farms [3].

I think economics, environment and consumer behavior could easily wipe out the dairy industry, except that it's an integral part of food/industrial production. You obvs don't have a cheese industry without dairy, but you also don't have a source of male cows for the veal industry, a source of bones and other parts for the myriad other uses like adhesives, filtration (bone char filtration makes sugar white [4]), chemicals, textiles, etc.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/4/19/8447883/milk-health-benefit
[2] https://www.livekindly.co/99-animal-products-factory-farms/
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/18/a-12-sto...
[4] https://www.journalofnaturalmedicine.com/sugar-companies-tha...
Being skeptical of the motivations of those who write and lobby for regulation is not overly cynical - it's a recognition of reality.

The less skeptical we are, the more self-serving regulation we'll get.
There is a reason that the people with the most aggressive social policies tend to also be the least in favor of federalism/local politics, because of this exact problem: people will just leave.

If your system makes life worse for a certain group of people, you either need to prevent that group from leaving altogether, or ensure that there is no place that they can go to. If you iterate this to the logical conclusion, you end up with something like "globalism."

In this particular case, this is mostly to do with not wanting to live in places with strict lockdown policies, high rates of homelessness and criminality, while simultaneously paying much more in taxes and living expenses, and seeing few of the benefits of being in an urban hub while doing it.

But my point stands: don't forget how quickly people will be willing to upend their lives at the very moment their existence is sufficiently worse than it would be elsewhere. And when you target the wealthy, you target the people most capable of moving anywhere else.
Wow, good for you, that is awesome.
That’s an interesting point, but I don’t think it’s a matter of trusting one type of organization more than another.

I think we (Americans) don’t trust either without cause, and there’s more corporations than governments so there’s more opportunities to find corporations, actually scratch that, businesses, big or small, that we trust. But by default, I think we trust both about as far as we can throw them and businesses we do trust, maybe only slightly so and in a largely transactional manner. The question is whether we are getting value for the money, not whether the businesses and owners are trustworthy.
I at first thought you were just free associating. But no, if I search Google Shopping for "fleet", it's enemas and suppository laxatives: https://www.google.com/search?q=fleet&tbm=shop

That is definitely not the best product association.
Two issues - the page is not ssl. My router flags a javascript loaded on the page as malware. The js is xxxx.cloudfront.net/tracker.js
Good question: there will continue to be a lot of EU nationals subject to the GDPR living in the UK. Including Northern Ireland!
Reading the review says to me that, given that I have never been able to sell myself on the plus-sized models, the regular Pro model is almost as good for most purposes. So if I buy one of this year's family, that's probably what it will be. Of course, I have plenty of other cameras so this is a supplement in any case.
I permanently left NYC this year.

The combination of high taxes, corruption, and incompetence really wear on you after a while.

I'm all for high taxes in service of a strong social safety net and a well-run, modern city. I am happy to pay them. But I can't help but feel that my taxes were being outright stolen and squandered in this city.
That's okay, you spurred me to donate.
No, at least not in the semi-democracy systems that are in use today. In most western countries the citizens are allowed to vote on a portion of the people that create and run the government. It varies between countries but even in those nearest a system that resembles democracy the citizens don't have much power over what happens or who most of the people running the system are.
The "lost income" is more than 485000 USD per person?

About 3.57 million people left New York City this year between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7 ... Some 3.5 million people earning lower average incomes moved into the city during that same period, the report showed.

[...]

In Tribeca, a wealthy neighborhood in downtown Manhattan, residents who left this year earned an average income of about $140,000, Walle said. The typical person moving into the neighborhood earned an average $82,000, he said.
> I predict that the global dairy industry will be cut by half in 10 years.

I could have maybe let this go if you'd said "will have stagnant growth or have declining demand relative to the population", but cut in half? Where do you get such a grandiose proclamation from?

I wish we could bet money on that, because there's really no chance of this as long as the demand continues to exist. Where exactly do you think the demand is going to go?

As long as it exists, the industry will do what it can to ensure the product is inexpensive enough for us to buy; as long as it is inexpensive enough it will be the product of choice. The alternatives are not actually yet produced at sufficient scale to replace dairy, neither are they cheap enough, and there's no guarantee they're actually more sustainable at all (consider the long supply chain to get me some soy milk, vs the farm -> bottling plant -> grocery store pipeline that keeps the entire chain within a single city and its outlying agricultural areas in much of the first world).

Don't get me wrong - as someone who has become increasingly lactose intolerant as I age, I'm totally in favour of continued development of alternatives, but let's face it: it's not cheese you're eating, it's not milk you're drinking, and it never will be. You're fighting against thousands of years of co-evolving the dairy industry and our own bodies to be able to digest the bacteria in cheese and yogourt, no doubt helping the microbiome in ways we haven't begun to understand yet.
> I don't see a pro-authoritarian bent in the comments in this thread. What I see a lot of is people pointing out that the definition of "journalist" is very very loose in 2020, and that has an effect on the arrest stats.

This itself is an authoritarian tendency that is increasingly alarming me lately (a feeling that started after 9/11.) I think we're going to see "journalist" becoming a licensed profession within the next 20 years, which is a commonality amongst all authoritarian dictatorships. When people start talking about who is or isn't a journalist, and identifying ideological opponents as not journalists, the only outcome is a media that is defined as legitimate by how loyal it is.
This could be great to integrate in git-bug[1] if/when kanban get supported. This would be the fronted and git-bug would be the storage/collaboration layer.

[1] https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/
>Why should we sympathize with a minority of rent-seekers?

I don't really think this is about sympathizing with rent-seekers.

Cities invest in infrastructure to cover anticipated service delivery well before it's due, and the financing for doing so is a multi-decade affair. Before you complain, this includes things like providing running water, roads that are paved, etc. Really core essential pieces of making a city work.

If your tax base moves to suburbs or just plain leaves the city, the city is still on the hook for those payments, so it results in dramatically cut services or increased taxes on residents.

The flight of some of the tax base incentivizes the flight of many, resulting in further cuts to maintenance contracts, preventative work, and the general crumbling of infrastructure. Sometimes this can be gracefully managed by planned downsizing and renegotiating deals with vendors and financiers. In other cases, this doesn't occur and the city simply... dies. While the US is very young and doesn't have many large examples of this, Flint and Detroit come to mind.
In a lot of ways, city infrastructure investment is a ponzi scheme with one layer of abstraction.
> Sorry, but I don't really trust the "anonymized" very much. Why should some company I've never heard of have access to my cell phone location data in the first place.

Not sure how the second follows from the first. There is a company you've never heard of which access to your cell phone location data. In fact, hundreds, and they buy and sell them in commodity marketplaces just like corn or pork bellies. They sell the data with your name attached for one price, and as anonymized aggregates for a much lower price.

Unacast is just saying that they bought the cheaper anonymized version for the purpose of this analysis. Whether the data are real or not is another matter altogether.
Maybe not in a browser, but in VS Code with custom extensions — definitely happening already.
There's a fallacy in your question if you think that any of us who work on HN determine anything about what comments show up here. That's a function of the community and is way beyond our control. Literally anyone can make an account and comment.
With "dumb" i wish to debase and defuse the pretentions of the intellect.

And I dont mean your intellect. I mean the thing we call "reasoning" towards which we can draw our awareness.

This is in some profound way, quite dumb. It seems smart for all sorts of reasons: in particular, it is furnished with concepts that have taken millions of years of cultural evolution to develop.

An ape, such as us, absent this cultural context would seem precisely as dumb as it really is: very dumb indeed.

We misattribute our reasoning with these concepts for their inherent intelligence. This intelligence, which we might call conceptualization, is not a congitive process. The real intelligence is animal intelligence, it's the bedrock of our cognition which is always outside of it; and cannot be observed from within.

> Thus, a "body" is just a part of the AGI,

Not at all. A body is just the place the world changes. It's the thing in direct causal contact with the world; whose effect is a kind of painful restructuring. eg., the bike rider learns to ride a bike not by "evolving his cognition", but by the structure of his muscles changing.

(Indeed, by his eye swirling differently in its socket).

It is this restructuring which is an essential aspect of conceptualization (whose effect we see in consciousness).

I strongly suspect that this kind of restructuring is necessarily organic: it is growing differently given the impact of the world. I am open to other systems which can evolve their physical structure in this way, certainly, i do not think sand qualifies.

re Political Correctness

Correctness = straightness, fit
Fit = environment-body "matching"

Political = other bodies wanting from me, my wanting from them

political correctness = criteria for the fit of my body with other bodies as we want from each other

In being a criteria it is a "concept about a concept" and therefore its heavily on the psych-side of psychomotor, ie., it is a kind of regulating mechanism on reasoning (specifically, reasoning about my fit in an environment of people).
There is a lot more porn on Youtube and Facebook, but we never heard of Visa and Mastercard cutting of their credit card services to those 2 giants.

Pornhub is an easy target especially for those leftist activists and extortionists who make lots of noises in the "respected" media outlets.
> How the physics work in this case?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32371934/

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.19.20071779v...

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaBLKKXJt4

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcnTNQG1_WkZ5h7go3B0Ntw/abo...

This about page looks... not so trustworthy.

"SECOND OPiNION!!" -- Capitalization and punctuation taken from page.

> Sweden, Florida, South Dakota

https://www.mediaite.com/news/sweden-once-heralded-for-avoid...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-dakota-covid-kristi-noem-...
Yeah, we never see examples of small teams disrupting large markets with entrenched competitors. I'm afraid with taxi medallion regulations, we'll never see any competition in that space.
American companies can also just stop raping their users and adhere to the GDPR. Facebook seems to have no problem doing that where it's required.
I think you might be missing the main point of the argument. It is not that users owe or need to sustain facebook.

It is that most users may prefer keeping FB and targeted adds, over losing FB and taking down targeted adds.
Oh yeah I agree with that, I was just arguing that especially because the US had more unrest it makes even more problematic that journalists got arrested.

That's a symptom of the fact that the establishment does not want the press to document what it's doing, to the point that it's arresting journalists.
Negative compared to what, though? A fictional imagined experience? Other kinds of dating? That's not a fair comparison.
Nothing changes now, parity is maintained between the EU and UK versions. However, this had to be done now because Facebook needs to allow time to make the transition and ask UK users if they agree to the terms again now they are separate from the EU.

They can't wait to do this because as soon as either the UK or EU changes their laws (may happen in a month, may not for years), the terms would no longer be valid for one set of users. Facebook would end up in a situation where its terms are invalid for millions of users potentially for months.
The US tax authorities disagree.
They would simply have to move a bunch of frameworks from /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks to /System/Library/Frameworks, remove signature checks, and provide documentation.
This is pretty much the worst response possible. Hard bounces mean that email delivery services are going to start automatically removing, or at least stopping delivery to, entire slews of email addresses.

A lot of clean up is going to be needed as a result of this.

To add some more details, when using a 3rd party email delivery service, those services will either black-list or just outright remove email addresses when they get a hard bounce "email address no longer exists" message back.

Some providers make re-adding an address after a hard bounce a non-trivial task, since after all, the authority on that email address just said it doesn't exist.

This is going to be really ugly.
NFL Week 15 – Leave the Kickers at Home
I took it to mean that the "cop's boys club" is racist, not all cops.

But if you want to see real world examples of racism in policing, talk to a handful of Black men and ask about their experiences dealing with the cops. You will very likely hear many stories that you have never heard of happening to white people.

And the individual cops don't have to be racist for the -system- of policing to be racist.
How will SpaceX’s Starlink increase the trend to work-from-home or do remote work?

If you can develop software, or write your blog, from a remote island, at the edge of a (dormant) volcano (aka: extreme remoters), then why not? Or from any rural farmland area of the country.

Just video call into your daily Zoom Standup Meeting.

How’s the latency of it?
I was unclear: get to a point in a bash script where I wished I started out in Python.
I’m deploying it (prom, alertmanager, pushgateway, grafana) on native hardware via ansible and it’s not difficult. Not Loki (yet). It’s all just go binaries you fire up with systemd with a single config file.

I find it harder to deploy reliably on kubernetes with persistent volumes etc.
How do you define credible? Someone that releases information that you agree with? His videos are often releases of what Antifa publishes and rarely of his own recording (mostly because he has been violently attacked in the past by them). Stop excluding sources because you don't like the information...take in as much data as possible and make your own conclusion. When protestors are going into residential neighborhoods and causing conflict with people that are minding their own business...or throwing fireworks or other projectiles at the police...you can't say that's not happening and is contrary to the truth.
I wonder does any of them have proper Windows support, i.e. DirectCompute?

CUDA is NVidia only and vendor lock in is bad for end users. Both CUDA, OpenCL and VK require large runtimes which are not included in the OS, software vendors like me need to redistribute and support it, I tend to avoid deploying libraries when I can.
Someone posted but then deleted an interesting comment about certain open source projects (OpenSSL possibly?) simply ignoring documentation contributions.

The comment was something like "it was easier to get the documentation published as a printed book than to get the project to accept it."
> There is no such thing as "EU citizenship".

You might want to check what the Treaty on European Union (Title II, Article 9) says about that:

"Every national of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship."[0]

It is possible to possess a citizenship without owning any legal documents that mention that fact.

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Consolidated_version_of_the_T...
The database dump is coming. Busy week.

Also, at the footer of every document is a link to `$0/contributors.txt`.
Your attribution is there: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Certif...

There will be a record of every contributor who submitted a revision to the non-archived content in all locales.
Kiwi Browser let install Chrome extensions :)
> You can link to videos alleging "police brutality" but none of them that I've ever been linked to show such a thing

You've never seen the Rodney King video?
Theres not an infinite amount of rich and successful people 1% of NYC population pays 50% of taxes. These people aren't replaceable.
Does this take into account federal loans and grants for infrastructure spending which is higher in urban areas? Probably not. Does it take into account that many left leaning states like NJ have completely bankrupt pension systems that will need to be rescued at the federal level? Probably not. Also looks like NY scores 38th on gov dependency out of 50 which isnt exactly great. And going back to national highway system assistance, Cali has got to be #1 in receiving federal funds.
Looks interesting - what stands out to you?
Same issue here
Accurate neural network computer vision without the 'black box'
I am very skeptical that Facebook has ever acted in their users best interest. The EU privacy laws and the GDPR are a clearly beneficial law to citizens, protecting them against hostile companies.
Google those _mm512_... intrinsics (they are part of GCC) to see what they mean. The code you pasted is converting single-precision floats to half-precision floats, and storing the half-precision floats to memory, 32 at a time. That's filter packing, which happens during initialization (and never during inference)

I agree, if you don't know anything about how convolution is implemented (filter packing, data packing, matrix multiplication, sum unpacking), you could be lost. But it's very shallow compared to a JIT or CUDA library scheme, and a knowledgeable ML performance engineer would have no difficulty

The inference function (at the end of the C file) is a series of blocks, each block corresponding to a convolution or other complex operation. It's straightforward to see which, by looking at where the weights come from (a field in a struct that has the same name as the layer in your graph)

If you use perf top (for example) you can see which convolution was most expensive, and why. Does the shape of the tensor produce many small partial blocks around the edge, so the packing is inefficient (a lot of tile overhang), for example? You can see that by glancing at the code and seeing that there are many optimized blocks around the edges. As a rule, if NN-512 generates small code for a tensor (few edge cases) you have chosen an efficient tensor shape, with respect to the tile

Or you might find that batch normalization is being done at inference time (as in DenseNet), instead of being integrated into the convolution weights (as in ResNet), because there's fanout from the source and a ReLU in between. You can see that easily in the generated code (the batch norm fmadd instructions will appear in the packing or unpacking code)

Is the matrix multiplication slow because there are too few channels per group (as in ResNeXt)? Easy to see in perf, make your groups bigger. Are you using an inefficient filter shape, so we have to fall back to a slower general purpose convolution? You can easily see whether Winograd or Fourier was used

And so on
This, I suppose, is unexpected. It reflects a similar fate of a lot of technology plays that grew fast.

I would like to reflect however on this comment in the article -- "The truth is that the Periscope app is in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has been for a while. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen declining usage and know that the cost to support the app will only continue to go up over time."

I understand how a startup madly codes and adapts to get to something that "sticks" with the user community. But where I get lost is how, in the process of acquisition and integration of a startup's technology into a company that is nominally not a startup, how is it that you go 5 years after acquisition and NOT retire the technical debt? How does a VP of Engineering oversee the integration of a startup into their domain and not spend the time it takes to reduce the operational costs of maintenance to as close to zero as possible?

In today's world of BigCorp adding features by buying HotStartup, how can they not follow through an actually make that new tech a feature? If a feature is not getting anything new, it should take zero engineering resources. If the plaform's on which it runs change/update, there can be documentation on all of the platform features used, and how, a build system and a regression system, so that you take the code out of the box. Port it, test it, put it back in the box and go away again. Same thing with bugs or CVEs.

When I was at Google it amazed me how many pieces of infrastructure were 'hot messes' in the sense that the people maintaining them didn't really know anything about how they worked, just how to run a test and revert if they broke. But there was no senior leadership pushing to understand the component interfaces and how the 'fleet' was at risk or interconnected. Just a bunch of fiefdoms. And inevitably people who kept things complicated so that they were "irreplaceable" for their own job security anxieties.

If you are an engineer and you start moving up into senior leadership roles, understand that this is your job. Not to be be the whiz kid that just came up with a billion dollar idea, but to be the careful, thoughtful, strategist that makes sure the billion dollar idea doesn't eat all of its revenue in operational costs.
Side note: Love the 2010-era web design. Wtf happened? Everything got bloated, buttons got huge and whitespace took over the screen real-estate.