skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addressing your last sentence, I am actually a GPU programmer by trade. GPUs are my specialty, and much of my professional work has been in Nvidia's CUDA

But AVX-512 is a real step forward, if you look at the price/performance ratio for real-world workloads. So AVX-512 is the focus of NN-512

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). It's really hard to keep that GPU saturated, which is what you need to do to get your money's worth

An AVX-512 Skylake-X cloud compute instance costs $10 per CPU-core per month, or 2 cents per hour, at Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/). It's easy to saturate that core

Think about it this way: a GPU is really just a cluster of SIMD units with fast memory. A GPU thread variable is just like a SIMD lane, and a GPU warp variable is just like a SIMD vector register

Nvidia's SIMD pseudo-instructions are called PTX and they are like a 1024-bit version of AVX-512. An AVX-512 core is like a general purpose CPU with a 512-bit GPU core built in

So paying for a single AVX-512 core is like paying for part of a GPU (16 threads), plus the general purpose compute you need to keep that GPU part supplied with work
It depends what kind of company. The company I'm at is a consultancy, so you're (ideally) mostly working on billable customer projects - you are not going to get away with disappearing for a day. And when you're not on a customer project, you are on a 7-week countdown to termination, and are constantly asked by random people what you are doing.
i mean, there are surely differences in what people consider hateful, but in the case of voat there were open calls to “complete” the shoah, so i am not sure this is the community on which to stake your claim.
“your app will fit on two Heroku Standard 1x dynos and one Standard 0 database”
Sorry to disappoint you, but your company crappy interactive training videos will still exists. They will simply be upgraded to another player, but their horrible content will still be the same.
spacecraft already have trouble venting waste heat without the burden of attempting to mine bitcoins
A website with flash didn't mean the entire website was in flash, there was usually a mixing of html sometimes server side code. The browser is the best place view flash for those reasons.

The browser is the only place for it.
Local Facebook group is asking questions about parked car
tl;dr If an employee needs to be on-prem and can't/won't get vaccinated, they can be terminated.
This idea seems really similar to Detour, created by Andrew Mason and later acquired by Bose: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/24/bose-acquires-andrew-mason...
> The difference is that they classify an "aggression" as equivalent to cancelling, and they have a very expansive definition of what an aggression is.

Well, yes, that's one hell of a difference. Their definition of "aggression" is basically expressing any disagreement with their ideas, because they're totalitarians and totalitarians can tolerate no dissent. The symmetry is thus false. This would be a bit like saying that China and Japan had a defensive stance at the outset of WWII, but that Japan merely had a much looser set of criteria for what constituted Chinese aggression than vice versa. I'm sure from the Imperial Japanese perspective, they saw themselves as defending their way of life, even though they were obviously aggressors to all other parties.
But liable to what end? What international jurisdiction will force China to “pay”?

America destroyed Iraq on lies, but what has that liability cost them?
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You don't have to sell me. I've had Javascript disabled by default for a couple of years now. I love it. I'm a technical person. I can handle (and have the patience for) fidgeting with settings to get sites to work.

My non-technical friends and family can't do that. Trying to impose that upon them would just frustrate them (and, for my family, increase tech support calls to me).

All my banking and insurance sites are useless w/o Javascript. Squarespace sites, Twitter, Imgur, don't work worth a damn without Javascript. I just gave up and mostly gave Google properties a pass to get Youtube to work. (I don't use Gmail so I have no idea how bad it would be.)

A site better be pretty damned compelling before it rises to the level of getting opened in an unconstrained browser setting. I just end up not opening a lot of stuff (or just closing it again when it lights-up "NoScript").
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On SW, they don’t charge baggage fees. They don’t charge change or cancellation fees up to minutes before departure. Their staff has always been more cheerful and humorous than AA or United or really any other carrier than maybe VietJet.

So I don’t know by what standard you are evaluating them as no better, but by both the objective and subjective standards I propose, they are better.
The VPN game is a grift. It's based on using fearmongering to sell services people don't need without adequately explaining the tradeoffs and risks. I lump it in the same category as multi-level marketing scams, and it's not something Mozilla should be involved in.
To be a fair comparison wouldn’t you have to include all the energy used to train “your” brain through generations of evolutionary training? Your latest model is like taking an already trained BERT model and adding a few tweaks
Flash was using actionscript which was ecma262-3/4.
It's only childish if the virus wasn't lab originated. If it was from a Chinese lab, then the best defense is a good offense.
No, you’ll have to go back to IE under windows XP. Hopefully in a VM.
> Baltimore is #11 on a list of most violent cities in the world[1].

If the police were better at their job I imagine more people would be willing to look the other way. You don't get to violate people's rights and fail to keep them safe.
www.gaffologist.com

Maybe it'll make money yet. I dunno. Search for homes for sale in Ireland by proximity to fibre broadband, schools, cycle routes, train stations, and proposed infra (new metro route, cycleways, etc.) and by site area. Ended up buying myself a dirt cheap thatched cottage an hour from Dublin by train on a few acres with it and figured I'd see if others would benefit from it.
Are you suggesting that people should not be able to hunt for wild foods? Or that they shouldn’t be able to sell what they catch or kill? Or something else?
> I learned BBC Basic. When I got to university I found it hard to unlearn line numbers.

The problem isn't learning BASIC, it's learning it (or anything else) exclusively for a long time. I learned 8-bit microcomputer BASIC first, too (several different dialects). And then, within a handful of years of being exposed to BASIC, I also learned some Logo, quite a lot of Turbo Pascal, DOS batch programming, and probably one or two other things I'm forgetting at the moment. None of them were really hard transitions, but I was learning them when I had a concept of programming but not a completely ossified one from long and exclusive exposure to a single language family.

> Any talk of BASIC being useful is nonsense.

Of all the many languages I learned before learning assembly, unstructured BASIC did the most to prepare me for assembly, so I think it was quite useful.
But this (escape from a vial in a lab) isn't a strong claim, or at least no stronger than the alternative (the virus escaped from bat in a a wet-market)- why is there no outcry against the wet market hypothesis?
Can't you install an older version of Windows (like 7 or XP) to use older deprecated software? At some point we need to let the old stuff dissappear from main branch
I'm not convinced having a reward function isn't suffering in a sense.

But then again, I subscribe to the idea of philosophical zombies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
People don't play billions of games to train. I think we have a mechanism to eliminate irrelevant inputs, focus on what is important and then we have the abstractisation and generalization tools. Then we can reuse same modules in our mind to play RTS games that are more complex then chess.

Anyway do you disagree that ANN are just a search/function approximation ? Or you think that when you played an RTS for first time the brain already had itself trained from genetics or previous experienced playing in the sand and you could win on the easy difficulty level without any training on millions of games.
Ah, I get it now. Thanks! I'll edit my comment above.
>Probably our most surprising finding to date: COVID-19 has likely originated in a lab. A probabilistic analysis shows the proximity to a major coronavirus lab and anomalies in the genetic code are too unlikely for SARS-CoV-2 to have developed naturally.

They're stating the facts of the results of the probabilistic analysis, not the facts of the actual situation. Their only comment about the actual situation is that it's "likely".

I can see how it could be interpreted in the way you suggest, but if you read it from the perspective of discussing the probabilistic analysis, I don't think they're intending to mislead. But, again, I also don't know how strong the analysis is. It could be that the analysis is weak, in which case I still wouldn't think the tweet is likely deliberately misleading, but simply wrong.
An ominous warning that you no longer own your computer, or the inevitable consequence of you never owning this proprietary software in the first place?
I can see that mining is a good incentive to look for excess energy in all kinds of places and make use of it. That's a capitalistic motiv, finding solutions to derived issues, when something else is at the core of the problem. But anyway.

B$ still looks ridiculous, let me explain.

* world electrical energy consumption: ~25000 TWh [1]
* bitcoin energy consumption index: ~77 TWh [2]

Bitcoin today consumes as much as 0.3% of the total energy available on this planet.

That's fine, if half the world would use it and would do meaningful things with it.

What is it actually used for most visibly?

As a betting ground with galactic momentum, a technology promising to be the solution to everything, and just outrageous claims that only the bovine left to be excited about.

It's not that the algorithms and data structures are not cool, the certainly are - but we can do so much more today with technology than this.

[1] https://www.vgb.org/en/data_powergeneration.html?dfid=98054
[2] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Someone just posted the CNN story, which is not behind a paywall.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25586922
http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

The data is only as recent as 2018, indeed, but I don't have any reason to suspect that they've corrected course. It's an especially bad look when they're also laying off large swaths of their staff.
And, therefore, a cert is about as meaningful as a coffee or two.

Someone not attesting the validity of the data served from their site is, effectively, lying if they provide a cert.
Browsers can attempt to improve Javascript performance because it's an open standard. And 2d rendering performance, and 3d rendering performance, and whatever else.

The only people who could improve the Flash plugin's performance were the people at Adobe working on it. And, well, Adobe just doesn't give two shits about performance of any of their tools unless they absolutely have to.
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> Well, nothing I suppose, except BaseClass cannot then be a template

template <class T>
void myFunc(List<T*>){
static_assert(stuff about T that you want to guarantee at compile time);
}

See here: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/type_traits

For a list of common functions used for compile-time type checking.
Some people want appliances, others want tools. For the people who want an appliance-like computing experience, this type of curation is exactly what they signed up for. For people who want a tool-like computing experience, then managing their own security situation is part of what they've signed up for.

Neither side of this dichotomy is wrong (I know it's technically a spectrum...). While you sound like someone who views their computer as a tool, plenty of people don't. And I'm sure there are things in your life from which you expect an appliance-like experience as well, while other people may use tool-like versions of that same basic concept.
Maybe not at the beginning of the pandemic because of all the unknowns. Over the summer though? Yes. We know how the disease works. If we can keep grocery stores open I'm sure you can put up plastic barriers & enforce mask wearing in government offices. The DMV is open today (as other other government offices that can't work remotely).

Again, I'm not saying this is a perfect system, but it should be sufficient to significantly cut down fraud. If you want a system that scales better, you have to have a reliable national ID system but Americans historically have been very loathe on a functional version, instead using social security numbers for that which fail on many many fronts.
Wow, I just had flashbacks to homestead.com sites.
Amazon uses this tactic themselves! They did it with the high capacity Amazon Basics AA batteries. The community pretty much verified they were rebranded Panasonic batteries manufactured in Japan. Then, after a few years and thousands of 5 star reviews they switched the batteries out for Chinese manufactured batteries. Check for yourself: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-High-Capacity-Rechargeab...
Yes, it is an awful style of writing!
Yes. Violent crime is down. Even in Baltimore[0].

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/take...
An oft overlooked factor in acceptance of AVs is that the evolution of technology from driver-assist to autonomy will alter perceptions:

First, human drivers using driver assist will become safer "drivers" even though the added safety is properly the result of the technology that is evolving toward AVs. For example, it should become very difficult for a human driver to hit a pedestrian or cyclist. Not impossible. Just exceedingly unlikely to be the fault of the driver.

Secondly, driver assist will habituate drivers and other road users to the performance characteristics of AV technology. The upshot is that AV technology will not be benchmarked against the way drivers and other road users behave and perform today. In some ways the expectations for incrementally better safety will be higher. In other ways, the "flavor" or road risks will change in a way that converges on how AVs perform.
How many clams are needed? Where do you get them?
As the author states - this is an issue for some really complex models - where the complexity, reusability and iteration challenges approach code.

Most models do NOT take that many tabs, you can build a toy model near instantly - the production line from finished model and output to publishable material is a few shortcuts away.

Having an analyst, write that same thing using Jupyter? From an accounts perspective? Man, I’d want to see it in a spread sheet. It’s just simpler, or more familiar, to debug accounting information in a spread sheet.

The idea that we are going to see all those analysts pick up code - over excel - is possible, but I’d say less likely.

I’d suspect that the idea of python inside of excel, is a winner. But given that excel is working with its own data model and data tools with power BI, or with their new Lambda function, I’d say they are also working to keep people happy within the excel ecosystem.

Interestingly, this is a version of the Bloomberg terminal debate - the terminal does everything, any upstart can only do a small part of the BB offering, allowing BB to always be relevant if not dominant.
The same was reported last year. ML could offload lawyers, doing many tasks done by them. Not better, but faster and for sure, spending less energy.
Totally agree. I have an iPad app that runs an embedded http server, so that other clients on the same lan can connect to it. Making that into an embedded https server would be a big hassle.
Is it accurate to assume the target audience is only Dutch-speaking people? This is cool but I haven't wanted antique maps of the Netherlands specifically.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Ruffle[0] yet.

[0]: https://ruffle.rs/
Sure, that's much better.
Very impressive actually, do you know if the poles and ropes are all on private property or is it allowed to have them on "public ground"?

Judaism never fails to impress me since since I discovered the YouTube series from Peter Santenello about hasidic jews (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTmrCLeidc&list=PLEyPgwIPkH...)
Government have always made a show of power when it comes to groups that stand up to the status quo. While this article (or the government for that matter) hasn't told us what groups are 'extremist', or what that even means, let's not forget that Martin Luther King Jr. and his entourage was also the target government force:

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/federal-bure...

> Hoover continued to approve investigations of King and covert operations to discredit King’s standing among financial supporters, church leaders, government officials, and the media.

> Hoover told Attorney General Robert Kennedy that Stanley Levison, one of King’s closest advisors, was “a secret member of the Communist Party” (Hoover, 14 February 1962). In the following months, Hoover deployed agents to find subversive material on King, and Robert Kennedy authorized wiretaps on King’s home and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) offices in October 1963.

Name any group that's effectively stood up to the status quo, and I guarantee it has a bloody or violent history behind it. This extends to labor unions as well, our history is full of this stuff, sadly.
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> No zero-copy for networking? Forced internal heap allocations with only this arena feature after a decade? Sorry no. Protobufs isn't useful for serious network applications.

That's a bit harsh. Protobufs deliver smaller wire size than any of the newer "zero-copy" formats. And many receivers of zero-copy formats will... copy the data into some internal representation. If your protobuf implementation delivers classes that are good enough to work with internally (store in maps, forward, etc) then you don't really lose something; instead you gain, due to no manual conversion layer.
People don't understand statistics. If the vaccine is even 99% effective, some number of people will get COVID after getting the vaccine.
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I feel like saying "more nuanced" is misleading. It doesn't change the answer to "is it FOSS?" from "no" to "maybe", but rather to "no, but...". Defold's license unambiguously does not comply with either the Free Software Definition or the Open Source Definition.
A lot of comments are focusing on safety via driving better. But with self-driving vehicles, can't we make the layout of the car safer, and thus accidents cause less harm to the people inside?

For example, right now because we need to see the road, I assume there is significantly more danger from the windshield vs. a padded back on both sides of the car with passengers facing each other like in a train car.

It seems likely that we can make self-driving vehicles much safer, even with the same number of collisions, by just changing the layout.
Clicked, saw “This developer does not collect any data from this app”, bought.
See the link in my previous reply below.

You've had to manually "Allow" it for a while, if a site needs it.

But it's really Adobe dropping support of it, who announced it in 2017.

http://web.archive.org/web/20170726000124/https://blogs.adob...
Doesn't that rapidly become impossible if you don't already have the installation media? Where would I get a (legitimate/safe) copy of Windows XP at this point?
I have a very simple one: a bookmark to a web page that calculates the number of weeks until my 80th birthday.

GF does not like it at all, but it works very well for me.
I get what you are saying. Keep in mind I'm just saying this would be how we look for causation, not whether it makes sense to actually do something about it.

> That seems the opposite of high. High would be 1 in 2 or 1 in 5.

I guess I'm thinking of how we'd view a side effect in medicine. If 1 out of 1,000 people who had the problem the medicine was supposed to cure were likely to die or cause a death when taking the medicine, it would seem like a high number of deaths. You'll routinely see side effects of things that happened 1 in 50,000 cases being listed as possible side effects of medicine.

> If the effect of everyone playing video games is 1 additional crime per 100 000 people I don't see the problem

Whether this matters probably depends on what violent thing they do. If it is an additional Columbine type event for every 100k people, that would be much less acceptable than one additional instance of verbal abuse by someone in a disagreement at a bar.
That's slightly different depending on the country i.e. we have Trump on record confessing about doing both to woodward over the phone but it's not like it came from a US lab.
plenty of humans are raised but not educated. So let's educate them to do the other things that machines can't.
Black people protesting for equality wasn’t terrorism in the 60s and it isn’t today. The fact that FBI might treat it as such is a symptom of the exact same racism they are fighting against. Literal nazis aren’t treated as hostile as these movements.
interesting service! Some unsolicited ideas: this sounds like the kind of thing you could take to blogs or newschannels to tell the kind of interesting story: "imagine getting locked out and then getting conned! locksmiths can be shady sometimes, but people really need them, so we make it safe."

I imagine you could find places that would do an interview of you or let you write a short guest blog post to get links back to your domain and drive up your domain's authority for the keywords, and also to directly drive traffic there. Locksmiths and landlords might also be good sources of traffic over time. Or a homeowner's association!

It also might be interesting to experiment with a kind of 'locksmith insurance' model, where you pay a small monthly fee for the peace of mind that a locksmith will be dispatched if you need it -- up to a limit of say 2/year or something. I can pretty honestly imagine paying for a service like that, at least during a normal year where I leave my house every day. Landlords or property management could also then 'sign up' with you on tenants' behalf, as a service available to their apartment, making their own lives easier too.
Where "disruption" means "waste a bunch of time and money for people to rebuild something that worked perfectly fine until the entire platform it was built on went belly-up"?

I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially if your budget is next to nonexistent.
That was a neat detour into reinsurance. I wonder how the main thrust of the article holds up generally. My experience in trading/finance is that Excel remains extremely preferred for last-mile use (i.e. for writing and reading reports). Whereas the data science ecosystem has been adopted to develop research platforms and manage the data into (what ultimately becomes, for most users in the organization) an Excel sheet.

I don't see this changing any time soon. I think Excel was always strongest for last-mile use. Excel is extremely powerful when you know how to use it correctly, and I routinely see people match or exceed the productivity of programmers using it for specialized use cases.
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If it's proven that wet markets are a breeding ground for novel viruses, then yeah, clearly they should be banned.