skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just don't overestimate the effect of the data location. You have other tools as well, including controlling more tightly what information you share on platforms like Facebook. Now surely, they do track us regardless, shadow profiles, like buttons etc.

Also on the other side of things, does it harm me more if a foreign government holds information on me, random Joe, or if my own government holds the same info? Which one cares more about the info and might have incentives to abuse it? What if China has a profile on me? I'll most likely never enter China anyway. I don't live and work in the US, why would them mining my data be so dangerous?
Unless you are rich, then poor people are the problem.
For all of the reasons free exchange may be happening less so now GDPR is the least of worrying issue facing website owners.
The same arguments apply to FOSS, and can be addressed by all such pre-existing essays, arguments and flame wars. Again, this is just FOSS logic applied to documentation; the fundamentals are still the same.

Anyways taking FOSS money-making strategies, some can be applied here:

selling the tree, not the text (ala SaaS)

Justifying consultancy service based on writing/maintaining (ala redhat, technical bloggers, etc)

Selling the potential for more books/writing (ala patreon/Kickstarter)

Being paid to write because someone or a community needs it (ala corporate-backed OSS developers)

But anyways the monetization strategy doesn’t really matter, since the crux of the argument is that for FOSS to really be complete, the manuals need to be included in that definition; which seems to me entirely correct. Whether FOSS is a viable strategy in the first place is a separate question, but one RMS has spent a few decades making a case for, and a lot stronger of a case than I’d have given him if I heard him blathering on about it when he started
In justified text, depending on the order you should get either a line one space short (zero-width space after no-break space) or a line indented by one space (zero-width space before no-break space).
Just mistakenly disputed a transaction because of this. I have been working with a mediocre freelancer who didn’t reply to my list of remediation items.

When I followed up today, I got the “this email account does not exist” error from Gmail and proceeded to dispute on PayPal.

I only found out through hacker news that this was a Gmail bug.

Google, I expect a follow up retraction of the incorrect error messages. It’s one thing to give a temporary error. It’s another to say “this email account does not exist”.
Whatever you're using to transform the arxiv taxonomy, it's wildly mixing up the category names and descriptions.
Anybody remember Iris?
On my site, I wanted the non-emoji version of on a button, so I had to use U+FE0E to force it to not be red on some browsers.
Same thing in Portland. These are anarchist criminals who should not be tolerated, not protesters. And fake press creds are a running joke.

At 11:30p.m., some individuals lit two fires on the north side of the building, including the awning over the main entrance. Again, warnings were issued via loudspeaker that the incident was a riot and that all persons must leave immediately to the south and east, and if they did not they were subject to arrest, citation, and the use of crowd control munitions including, but not limited to, tear gas and impact weapons. Officers had to quickly move in to put out the fires before they could spread. More arrests were made. During at least one arrest, officers had a crowd surround them and hit them with umbrellas and other objects. They were able to pull an arrested individual away.

As officers tried to disengage again, people with "press" printed on their outer clothing were seen throwing rocks at them. A rock struck the windshield of their transport vehicle, cracking the glass (photo).
Great point. And potentially email delivery services that have auto-suppression lists to protect reputation, at least they might be able to remove entries on behalf of their customers.
We use Victoria Metrics in Prod for more than 6 months. It is very reliable and scalable. Victoria metrics handles more than 2B+ series in our setup without breaking a sweat.
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Interesting response. And spot on from the technical integrity side. It’s also more fair to email providers as a whole to treat them all the same and respect their error messages. I mean, maybe there’s even requirements in some jurisdictions to deal with the address not found error in a specific way. As an email sender I think I’d prefer the message get auto re-sent after Gmail comes back online though.
I'm really enjoying the game on PC, it runs reasonably well on my GTX 1070. I'm staggered how many bugs there are though. I run into one about every five minutes. So far off the top of my head:

- NPCs floating in space

- NPCs walking through solid objects

- NPCs randomly spawning in view

- I have a gun that wont fire if I use a scope on it

- I have another gun whose model disappears in car chases

- Some objects have meshes that duplicate (cigarette floating in space while the character is also holding it)

- Randomly getting flagged by the cops for a crime when im literally just walking around with my weapon holstered

- Quest goals not registering/having to repeat certain actions

None of these are like a huge deal, sometimes it's even really funny, but dear god is it incredibly buggy.
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Apple shouldn't be allowed to collect data either.
Everything you're saying here is reasonable/plausible. But it's not at all what the linked article says; it says that there was 40% turn-over of people leaving and entering the city, which is absurd. The first sentence is literally "Millions of people have moved out of New York City during the pandemic, but at the same time, millions of others with lower incomes have taken their place". Not moved within the city, moved out of the city, and being replaced by other lower-income people. That is all completely made up and wrong.

I'm not misrepresenting you; rather, you're misrepresenting the article. The article is indefensibly wrong.
Evidently you either have not, or you have made some fairly basic errors in interpreting the data.
It goes to show that making up a character is a permanent change in human history. Several thousand years later, we're stuck with their characters! I wish the emoji committee would stop adding things that are clearly passing fads like burritos and hot dogs. We're going to have to support this for the rest of human history, please show a little restraint!
That which is unique, breaks
Sounds great - do you have a blog or repo describing your setup?
Wikipedia for context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet
> How does Australia function?

By mining huge amounts of raw resources and selling to their near by neighbours as well as the rest of the world.

The U.K. doesn’t have access to any useful raw materials apart from perhaps coal.

> How does Japan function?

Through massive government borrowing. Their debt is 223% of GDP. Now it hasn’t really bitten them yet, but it’s increasingly looking like it’s gonna be a serious problem for them.

I’m not either of those options is something I would pick for the U.K.
CloudFormation. The UI is lacking critical information about the resources that CF operates on and it's been like this for years.
You started this intentionally inflammatory argument with the following unsupported statement:

“ Your app shares a lot of data with a third party”

You then proceeded to move the goalposts so far that now we’re talking about wether or not an app is free?

Listen, if you’re going to start an open-source/libre/data wants to be free argument, that’s your right, but don’t start it with fake accusations of privacy violations.
There is one place where you can guarantee your information and exchange of ideas is easily seen, paying little to no money.

Comments.

Comments are the final frontier. Why do you think I never bother getting a personal blog website off the ground? Because the traffic it gets pales in comparison to the audience I get from writing comments. This comment for instance might be seen by several hundred people, all within my target demographic. How many people might see my longform blog content? Maybe dozens if I'm lucky. I've never really written a meaningful blog post, but I've probably written a novel's worth of comments.

And because comments aren't really written for monetary gains, they are one of purest forms of writing left on the internet today. People still write comments liberally and openly, speaking their mind and even voicing unpopular opinions, because they don't give a shit about what Google thinks. Google doesn't read comments. Say the quiet parts loudly.

Maybe someday there will be an age where you can be certain almost every comment you read is already bought and paid for by some corporate interest or a guerrilla advertiser, but fortunately we are still not there yet.
Perhaps Gmail is just being discontinued ;)
It's kind of amusing to a chemist, since in "silver halide" the silver is the interesting part, table salt is a halide as well.

Makes sense though, because if you're a photographer it's the only use of the word "halide" you're ever likely to see, and "silver" is the unevocative part of the name.
One interesting place this hits is with ISO and ANSI standards.

Let's discuss a not so hypothetical situation. You are a (free) developer trying to get your crypto library FIPS 140 certified. You want to do this because it is the US Federal standard for properly implemented crypto and it is hard to use in the Federal space without it. Ignoring the fact that you need a third party lab to validate your work, you quickly hit a documentation problem.

FIPS standards are publicly available on NIST. That's great. But they in turn reference lots of other documents and expect you to follow the latest version of those documents. That is fine as long as other NIST documents are referenced. However references to ISO and ANSI documents do slip in. Each of those documents is a few hundred dollars a piece. You must comply with the contents of those documents in order to be certified. As a free developer, you now have a non-free documentation problem.
Why is this sort of practice so common with video game studios but not elsewhere in the technology industry?
The goal of NN-512 is efficient neural net inference on inexpensive, CPU-only cloud compute instances

For example, a Skylake-X cloud compute instance costs $10 per CPU-core per month at Vultr, and the NN-512 generated code does about 18 DenseNet121 inferences per CPU-core per second (in series, not batched)

In contrast, GPU cloud compute is almost unbelievably expensive. Even Linode charges $1000 per month, or $1.50 per hour (look at the GPU plans: https://www.linode.com/pricing/#row--compute)

As AVX-512 becomes better supported by Intel and AMD chips, it becomes more attractive as an alternative to expensive GPU instances for workloads with small amounts of inference mixed with other computation
but not all at once
What do you mean? Parent comment was inflammatory by slandering anyone who works in an entire profession with no basis. Asking him why is not inflammatory.
The comments can be so funny on HN sometimes. You built something and committed to it for a decade. That’s so freaking cool! Take all feedback with a grain of salt. You’ve been around longer than most apps that launch on Show HN. Keep it up!
It's enough that you understand that others have that view. You don't make the rules. The view of others shapes the incentive landscape.

Things aren't zero sum, but our psychology has developed for a more or less zero sum environment. There was no exponential growth or constant innovation in every generation in those times.

It is valuable to learn what drives people and what interpersonal forces elevate some strategies and suppress others.
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Yeah I did the tutorial, but found it very basic.

Really looking for something that helps better explain how to fit quick hacking into broader combat. I have really progressed beyond pings and optical reboots, which makes me feel like I’m leaving at lot on the table, but the games hasn’t really expressed what that is.
Yeah, it turns out there's a lot of money to be made from people who don't have a good grasp of the fundamentals. We got a marketing email from Huggingface recently about their ML-models-as-a-service offering: https://huggingface.co/pricing

One of my colleagues asked if it might be better than creating our own infrastructure for that. I ran the numbers for one of our recent jobs, feeding a million tweets to two ML models to see which worked better. That would have cost about $1800 on Huggingface. Using AWS spot instances, it was maybe $25 for us to run ourselves.

Of course, we can do it at that price because we are paying for engineers and plan on classifying enormous amounts of text, so it works out for us. Plenty of other people probably should just use Huggingface. But I can't help looking at that 70x markup and think, "Fuck me? No, fuck you!"
That's generally DNS tampering by backbone providers (Centurylink and Verizon in the USA).

Use dnscrypt.
Let's hope that active periscopers will see this as an opportunity to explore other, better mediums, like e.g. peertube, rather than simply return to youtube.

(I'm looking at you Scott Adams!)
It is a bit hyperbolic, but both the EF, E and Nikon G mounts have been essentially fully reverse engineered as far as driving a lens. The issue is that the communication to the body of some information isn't fully understood yet and might never be, which prevents third-party lenses as well as adapters from working properly.

If you were to make a camera that is fully open, maybe even modifiable on the info it sends to the lens and what information it wants back, then you would get aftermarket adapters for Canon EF (you could also make one yourself with publicly available info). Sony E would be a tougher nut to crack, but there is a fair bit of info already out and there are already E mount adapters feasible.

So yes, maybe trivial is hyperbolic because of the Sony E mount, but very feasible.
I was once to CD Projekt here in Warsaw, almost 20 years ago. I got a defective Baldur's Gate CD and got option to have it mailed or take it in person. As me and my friend wanted to play very badly we just went for a free HQ tour:)

They were very nice about it.
That’s backwards. The “system” quite obviously has no racial element. It’s possible (but uncommon) for racist individuals to get jobs as officers, but absolutely nothing about “the system” itself is racist.
Return of the oppressed – cycles of inequality (2013)
Are these libraries ever useful in non-deep learning applications? It sounds like Theano is a bit more general purpose, but why would I ever need it outside of a deep learning context?

I wonder if it could be used for something crazy, e.g. setting up a graph that generates shadertoy-like images on the GPU.
Meaning has drifted over time, and in present usage "lol" usually means something more like "heh" - an expression of mild amusement.
For my comment’s purposes, I assume if this was possible with a flag or config setting (and the code path existed), it would’ve already been done. Doesn’t seem like they can, so they should’ve pulled the handbrake and gone “full stop” without throwing everyone’s mail away (hence blocking incoming connections and let the mail sit in all of the external MTA queues).

Another option would’ve been to accept everything with a very lightweight smtp ingest service, journal it all, and play it back to the full frontend after their code fix was pushed out.

Not an SRE so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just some thoughts from my time in a similar role and similar pain points (but thankfully not at this scale)
Might also be affecting GSuite/Workspace emails.
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> How many families have been split because of Facebook radicalization of conservatives? Mine for one.

I am willing to bet your family is saying the same thing but calling it "radicalization of liberals" it works both ways
Stream is a rolling release. As far as I understand it, you can't say "update, but only critical fixes within a release". If they update a major version of something, your options are: update it, or stop receiving fixes for it. You won't be able to both get those fixes and not do major version updates.

Kind of like Fedora rawhide, but more stable.
Check the usernames. I am that person.

Your argument amounts to little more than victim blaming, and does nothing to help those who don’t have the knowledge to protect themselves.
Something like this? https://www.videogamesage.com/topic/762-super-tilt-bro-for-n...
I play PC with a pretty good rig (RTX 2080S and i7-9700) and performance has been fine. I do struggle to hit 1440p60 at high settings in certain scenes (driving in populated areas etc.) but the game has been pretty bug-free for me at least. I had some bad crashes on D1 but after the 1.04 patch I had no problems at all besides a single isolated animation bug where a single character's glass would hover six inches to the side of her hand. Maybe this is just me?

I've been loving the game. I completed it and am starting my second playthrough. Honestly, my only complaint is that it's too _short_, and I think CDPR took comments about the Witcher 3's long length a little too much to heart. I would not have complained for a second if it was double the length or more.
Christmas, new console releases, new graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia, and a pandemic. Take the pandemic out of the equation and it is still extraordinarily rare to have all of those events at the same time.

Weigh the costs of having a bad release against the costs of missing these extraordinary circumstances. It’s not hard to see why they made the decision they did.
+1. Twitter's timeline """solved""" [0] the content recommendation and scalability problems in forums and mailing lists. The large newsgroups in the late 90s Usenet were already unreadable (unless you have an elaborate filter), but all Twitter needs is to ask their users to follow people relevant to their interests.

[0] Of course only partially "solved" with many limitations. Just like how Twitter's predecessors Reddit and Hacker News "solved" the same problem by voting with their respective limitations.
> Don't you think it's exactly the high taxes that give space for corruption and incompetence?

No. We know what causes corruption - lack of oversight. Its why you see very little of it in the federal government, but that same oversight is also why federal projects are expensive. Everything must be documented and accounted for.

As far as incompetence in government, that's easy... smart people can't stand being constrained by rules designed by people that aren't as smart as they are, especially if those rules reduce productivity and stifle creative solutions.
It can as well be Google, just the paid Apps version. Zero time to get used to a different UI. I suspect there must be a solution to easily migrate all your tags and filtering rules. (Tags are the killer feature to me. Outlook sort of has them but they are less flexible.)
Oh, didn’t see the date. Perhaps one should add (1996) to the title.
I think many programmers often lose empathy from too many long hours of deep problem solving and never really get it back. A therapist for instance once said that John Carmack had little to no empathy for other human beings.
Now who is making things up? You’re either knowingly lying about the assault by pretending he claimed a milkshake injured him, or you’re very misinformed. And no, he has nothing to do with atomwaffen or any other hate group whatsoever. You know that white supremacists don’t accept gay vietnamese people right?

Partisan, interesting epithet though. As if you yourself and virtually everyone else, especially antifa, isn’t partisan?

He seems to repost videos recorded by antifa people (which irrationally upsets them). There is no need to trust him, the videos are there, as are the mugshots and arrest records. Which definitely show a theme.
Email sender here (on behalf of about 2.5 million domains). We noticed the issue and mitigated it by transforming the 5xx error into a 4xx error so that messages to Google are re-queues instead of being permfailed. But even with this intervention, the ticket volume was insane...
Any decent software employer in the US will have good insurance that basically guarantees your max out of pocket health expenses won’t exceed a few thousand dollars. That doesn’t really account for the difference.
A new sense of direction with Live View
Mission statements and slogans are rarely to be taken at face value...
There's a difference between preventing american companies from violating these rights abroad, and actively protecting those rights everywhere in the world. i.e. one is a lot easier to enforce, since the US gov has jurisdiction over US companies.
It's only briefly mentioned, but learning to read music is quite similar in terms of brain function to learning programming. It's symbolic, logical and structured.

My university went so far as to allow students with a bachelor's degree in music to directly enter the computer science master's program.
CERN invented the text format of a webpage. I think that is roughly 0% of the R&D required to make the internet work as we know it today.

This is like me developing a text rendering app on my laptop and claiming credit for the work of hardware engineering companies like Intel, Apple, etc.
Think there's a bit chicken and egg with that one. Back in the day Google relied on DMOZ (and perhaps relies on Wiki a little nowadays, WRT knowledge entities). Search (and social) rely on signals to indicate that something is of relevance... you're sort of implying that the monopolies and their single perspectives on how information should be ordered is satisfactory for us right now.

Sometimes there's 10's, 100's or 1000's of pages/sites that are relevant to what we are searching for. All I'd say is that if we diversified the way in which we search/discover new information a little bit more, there's less reliance on a platform or a single algorithm- to me that sounds healthier.

It is totally worth remembering that as much as the likes of Google and FB control a huge share of browsing time and clicks, their algos don't make them the arbiters of truth and information discovery. Sounds quite daft to say it but that is pretty much what the reality is of the modern web- if the portals don't want to rank you, you aren't seen.
They are. Lots of numerical code benefits from GPU and lots of numerical code benefits from derivatives. Simulations, solvers, numerical optimization, good old fashioned statistics.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I acknowledge that there may be a market for CPU-only NN tasks.

I think a thorough benchmark, either by you or by someone else, will only help your case, by giving a clear picture to those who need to make a decision.

Fun fact, GPUs are massively under-utilized during NN training. So it's quite possible NN on a good CPU might be only slightly slower.
I hope you'll reconsider your position because it greatly benefits your employer.

You don't have to be your job.
I wish you well.
How can you claim you don't like a game but also complete it twice in the space of about a week?
Agreed! I really like how they’re not trying to act like their products are going to revolutionize computing and destroy Apple — they’re just “we made some cool devices for hobbyists that are totally open, have fun”
I am not sure anyone aside from a tiny minority of hardcore libertarians believes that "since they're a private platform they should be able to do what they want" is a valid argument.
AWS has always made the expert “UI” first priority by providing APIs and tooling. The on boarding experience for those who hadn’t transitioned to devops yet seem to be a much lower priority for AWS. I find the opposite to be true for Azure and GCE.
AWS launches CloudShell, a web-based shell for command-line access to AWS