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> Not just because it's directly profitable to be pro-developer, but because it helps their long term image, culture etc.

And thus is indirectly profitable.

> That's quite an extreme-end of capitalist way of looking at it.

It's only extreme if you can show that companies routinely take the moral stance even when it impacts their short- or long-term profitability. Is Microsoft good now despite its best interests, just because it decided to take a moral stance?
what if it was OS but not FLOS?

Non-commercial open license, but the original author(s) would still retain full right including commercial.
The drugs have a huge negative effect on well being, and that is not just because they're criminalized (though that is part of it).
For the most part, yes. Lots of the harm comes from the fact they're not legal and cheaply available. For example, heroin, I would say nearly all the harm comes from the fact it's not legal. Overdoses are prevented because they can happen in safe places where people will notice. I've even been told of a story where people thought someone was having an overdose and they were told to go home because they couldn't risk calling an ambulance, I was told this story by one of the people telling the person to go home, so I believe it. The crime that comes from heroin comes from people trying to make money to buy heroin. Considering tobacco is more addictive, and we have way less crime to buy tobacco, it seems logical to assume crime would drop if drug addicts didn't have to spend 20-30 a day on drugs. Then you have the violence and anti-social behaviour which for most drugs is non-existent.
TPB also has the advantage of age. Their last decade has been quite stable but back in the day they would regularly go down and people would make all sorts of witty comments questioning the competence of the operators. It took them a lot of work to get where they are and they also had/have a different scaling curve than a social network.
I play an economic simulation game. Every time I see an asset explode in price (inflation) I am thinking "I should get into this industry and produce the stuff that is going up in price". High housing prices are a strong demand signal, meaning more houses should be built. It's really unfortunate that it does not happen enough.
Imagine talking to an ancient philosopher who strongly believed that the everything in the world was made of Earth, Air, Water and Fire. Explain electromagnetic waves to them.

They might end up saying, "so EM waves are invisible like Air, but they move around like Water waves, so really EM waves display Air-Water duality?"

That's how stupid the idea of wave-particle duality is. When you upgrade to a better model of the world, you have to drop the old concepts, and start anew with new concepts.
That's an indication that the US needs to fix their laws about wrongful termination. It's unrelated to "censorship".

Of note, the current president and the party that nominated him, many of whom are complaining about this current situation, is in favour of "at will" hiring, whereby a person can be fired without reason.
Hard to say because I have auto sync set up to keep my PDFs up to date which runs every 15mins. And Wifi is mostly on. But with that and moderte usage I may need to charge it between 7 and 9 days. But you can probably do optimize the settings more (after what time does it disable wifi when it started sleep mode, when does it start to shit itself off, front-light adjustments, etc.)
That is an incredibly specific and quite honestly massively weird line.
> Wars end up with those best at surviving surviving. The ones best at getting allies to protect them, the ones who keep their children alive even at the cost of thousands of others' lives, the ones who groom an ally to throw themselves on the grenade, the ones who climb the power ladder and then use that power to keep themselves safe from the conflict…

Yes, natural selection at the civilization level. Those survivors will be the ones to write history and continue the species’ civilization.

Civilization gave rise to the warring forces and allowed them to come into power, and those forces in turn shape civilization.

> it’s certainly not in the “good” category.

Our sentiments don’t matter to the grand picture, which has been painted by thousands of wars and continues to be.

War is certainly not a natural calamity. It’s caused by millions of humans who willingly want it to happen, so maybe we “deserve” it, to be sentimental.
At first there was gaming culture (clans, leagues, events, lan parties, modding, communities, etc).
Now there's "watch someone else play" culture. Really shallow and self-oblivious like with much of the rest of the web.

(I know some things have survived, but certainly not grown proportionally with internet user base)
So California is basically on par with Germany? Yet all I hear from Americans is how our tax rates are high.

A lot of those "taxes" are also not going into the government's budget. They are used to fund specific services exclusively.
> Some would say that porn is the best method to express their opinions and ideas. For instance, if I may want to express what I find sexy, a picture is worth well more than a thousand words. Sometimes, I may opt for a (pornographic) thousand words. There is immense complexity in at least some pornography, and some feminist philosophers would contend that porn is the best medium (on a variety of metrics) to convey the idea that women should be subordinated. I don't agree with that reading, but there a many points of view.

And some would say the assassination of a politician is the best way to express many political ideas.

Again, if you wish to follow this logic consistently, you must essentially abolish the concept of crime.

> The idea is that porn also expresses ideas and opinions, not that porn is pure and good by light of doing just that. Murder is also expressive, but it causes harm. Whether porn causes harm is very contentious.

So indeed — you make a distinction on whether it cause harm or not, not on whether it be an opinion or not.

Is it now your claim that one only enjoys freedom of opinion if the powers that be consider the opinion, or the means by which they are expressed, not harmful?
You already help to finance things for drug addicts, though - and provide similar things for people that aren't actually addicts but sent to treatment because they got caught with drugs. Or worse, you are paying for jail and punishment for folks that decided they wanted to do LSD twice a year. Or get high on the weekends.

Also, I do not have to accept your opinion. Not every opinion is valid nor should every opinion be considered. For example, I can ignore anti-vaccine sentiments, white nationalism, and serious flat earth bs without investigating further.
Recommend you take a break from the news then.
“Yes but”: the Sex Pistols were already “sold to”. Arguably even Elvis was. It’s just that generations of the past got to coalesce their chosen canons over a few years, because of physical limitations of media distribution that allowed for critical elaboration and recreation; now show-business is just another “business at the speed of light”, like Gates predicted, so trends get created and vaporised too quickly to properly decant into homogeneous subcultures. By the time you’ve learnt to play the guitar or your ProTools, your cult band or DJ is already passé.
Agreed. Rather than a built-in screen I want to see a simple slot for a tablet with an app that is fully integrated with your car. The screen will be outdated within a couple of years and is a waste of resource. Really wish people designed products with longevity in mind.

Edit: just realized this is probably what Apple will end up doing.
I assume it’s a superlative “cat’s paw” - OP is saying that he thinks the judge has appointed family members as her own functionaries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_paw
Bitfinex and Tether have to submit documents to the New York state attorney general about their financial relationship.

These documents are due no later than tomorrow, January 15.
BTC price goes up and this storry apears again and again. All I can say this guy pretends to be cool. His bitcoins at dump. Oh Yeah Man, right so cool. If you want to be famous you have to make up something like "I could use money in fight with covid-19". Sure that hard drive in a time capsule not getting rusty waterproof and can hold from -20°C to +56°C
You still need people to discover your page which means Google, social media, or advertising.
If you can get away with using the less feature-rich esbuild, you'll see 10x faster in compilations at least.
Not easily, no. Doing so is a big kludge, rather than being part of a system actually designed to offer useful security measures.
Which is kind of sad, isn't it?

Doesn't that mean that a lot of people will never be on the receiving end just because they did not win the teacher-lottery (arguably the chance of getting such a teacher is rather slim)?

Shouldn't our systems be more robust? (Not talking about normalizing these effects down, but creating a better environment for everyone, using these effects en masse)
Flagged for false/clickbait headline. This essentially has nothing to do with Parler.
It's also a proven fact that man and chimpanzee share a common ancestor.

Might we start rounding up all those who claim otherwise?
The WRT54GL was $60 in 2006[0]. That's about $75 today, adjusted for inflation. It's $40 today.

That's a price drop, hoss.

[0]https://lifehacker.com/turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router...
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IIRC when pirate bay was founded what they did was not against the law in Sweden. It was only after immense pressure from the US that it became illegal.
Having been a programmer through the 90's, and watched Microsoft (and Oracle, et. al.) through their most malfeasant years, I'm very cautious about giving companies the benefit of the doubt. However, the fact that Apple is leaving hundreds of billions of dollars on the table by NOT monetizing their aggregated user data does seem to indicate that their will is strong here, and that "they" mean what "they" say about privacy. The kind of money they AREN'T making from this move would try any mortal's soul.
Could you elaborate a bit more on what you tried when you stepped out of your comfort zone?
That's how these people operate.

You claim to value something but you are not maximalist, therefore there are exceptions you tolerate.

A demagogue that doesn't value it at all but he/she confronts you about your imperfection and demands to you to be a maximalist or you are a corrupt lier and claims that he/she would totally be maximalist about it.

You accept that you are a "fraud" so you oblige to the demand of this person and the value you claim to hold is now a value of someone who doesn't value it at all.

When you transfer the power accept that the demagogue has higher moral ground, the demagogue can drop the claim and do it's own thing.

A good example is Turkey's Erdogan. He was banned from politics but he suddenly decided that will of the people is the highest priority, he was a flaming democrat and he was right that it's not right to ban him from politics. With the pressure from EU and USA his right were restored and Democracy began to flourish in Turkey up until he had enough power to not to have to deal with this.

Fast forward today, He actually tried to steal elections(made the elections canceled, then he lost again with higher margin then proceeded to remove power from the office he lost) and whoever seeks support from EU or USA is labeled as traitor.

It's simply sad that the trick works so well everywhere.
There are many more recordings in the BNF archives linked by the article.

There are even recordings of people speaking latin and Esperanto in 1912. Fascinating stuff!
Instead of arguing back and forth, how about a test case instead?

Pretraining BERT takes 44 minutes on 1024 V100 GPUs [1]

This requires dedicated instances, since shared instances won't be able to get to peak performance if only because of the "noisy neighbour"-effect.

At GCP, a V100 costs $2.48/h [2], so Microsoft's experiment would've cost $2,539.52.

Smaller providers offer the same GPU at just $1.375/h [3], so a reasonable lower limit would be around $1,408.

For a single BERT pretraining, provided highly optimised workflows and distributed training scripts are already at hand, renting a GPU for single training tasks seems to be the way to go.

The cost of V100-equivalent end-user hardware (we don't need to run in a datacentre, dedicated workstations will do), is about $6,000 (e.g. a Quadro RTX 6000), provided you don't need double precision. The card will have equal FP32 performance, lower TGP and VRAM that sits between the 16 GB and 32 GB version of the V100.

Workstation hardware to go with such card will cost about $2,000, so $8,000 are a reasonable cost estimation.
The cost of electricity varies between regions, but in the EU the average non-household price is about 0.13€/kWh [4].

Pretraining BERT therefore costs an estimated 1024 h * 0.13€/kWh * 0.5 kW ≈ 57€ in electricity (power consumption estimated from TGP + typical power consumptions of an Intel Xeon workstation from my own measurements when training models).

In order to get the break-even point we can use the following equation: t * $1,408 = $8,000 + t * $69, which results in t = 8,000/(1408-69) or t > 5.

In short, if you pretrain BERT 6 times, you safe money by BUYING a workstation and running it locally over renting cloud GPUs from a reasonably cheap provider.

This example only concerns BERT, but you can use the same reasoning for any model that you know the required compute time and VRAM requirements of.

This only concerns training, too - inference is a whole different can of worms entirely.

[1] https://www.deepspeed.ai/news/2020/05/27/fastest-bert-traini...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/gpus-pricing

[3] https://www.exoscale.com/syslog/new-tesla-v100-gpu-offering/

[4] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Well, the US GNI is also higher than that of every European country minus the microstates, Norway and Switzerland.

Partly because even though productivity is comparable, Americans just work more (longer hours, fewer and shorter holidays), partly because the system is just more efficient: single market, just 1 language, great centralized soft power that opens many doors.
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The scale of communication has changed. There are simply too many people in major cities for handing out fliers to have an impact.
Is that supposed to be a dig against MySQL, or did you just miss that in the list?
It is fascinating how fast accents change. I have recordings from my childhood (30 years ago) and you can hear a definitely different accent! Today only people born in small towns speak like that, but I had never left my city by that time,
Free speech the idea involves any censor, not just the government. What distinction did you have in mind, if it's not that one?

Assuming the person being censored is a liar helps your argument, but it doesn't really line up with reality at all.
let's see.. toyota has been around 83 years, tesla 17

27/83 = .33

3/17 = .18

Yes, the math checks out. The 2017 model is only 18% of the age of tesla motors, while the corolla was 33% of the age of Toyota.
This is also noteworthy because it's the first time (presumably only in French) that we have a recording of someone listening back to their own voice and reacting to it. The interviewee clearly recognises their own voice, and is surprised at how heavy their accent is!

It must have been an odd feeling - like looking at your reflection for the first time!
The heated plasma from compressing the atmosphere as well. I guess the progression of events and the carthage is similar to the relativistic baseball.
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He probably doesn't want that kind of deep learning (not in the AI sense), he wants to have fun.

Having fun is one of the most powerful forces in human history. Not always for good.
That's what the lawsuit says. I couldn't find first-hand details of what the police officer put in the report, but there are several theories [1] and videos [2] showing it can be pretty difficult even with blunt object tools. The absence of available time due to the raging fire definitely couldn't have helped either.

[1] https://virginiatech.sportswar.com/mid/12654629/board/vtloun...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0AlomPlAY
Also, we currently have a real life case study to learn from in Portugal though I haven't been staying up to date with the latest results on that approach with resulted in more decriminalization of drugs across the board.
Car windows are pretty difficult to break.

The front window is made out of laminate glass so that it won't shatter on a heavy impact (or simply a stone chip) and spray the occupants in the face with glass fragments or shards. Even if you crack it, or manage to make a hole in it, it's pretty difficult to get through it, and certainly difficult to make a hole big enough for a person to fit through.

The side windows are made out of tempered glass, also known as safety glass, which when broken shatters into tiny pieces rather than large shards. However, it's really difficult to break. Blunt force often won't do it: you need quite a lot of force concentrated on a very small area. This is why glass breakers have quite sharp points and are often made of tungsten: it allows the to focus the force so that the glass will break on impact.

It's possible the officers involved simply didn't have anything suitable for breaking the glass, and very likely that the occupants didn't.

(Which reminds me: I've been meaning to put glass breakers in the door pockets of my car for ages. Must do that.)
There is a part of me that thinks this was always Parlers aim (or at least an acceptable outcome). The whole point of parler was to cry about censorship while engaging in censorship. Now it's been shut down, all the more reason to cry...
Germany takes care of that problem by not supplying a kitchen or any white goods at all when renting an apartment. Of course, exceptions apply and some landlords do offer an EBK (fitted kitchen) when renting.
The common excuse is "billing is heavily distributed and every product does it differently, so it's impossible to implement limits", but yeah, you're probably not the target audience.
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> We don’t have apples-to-apples benchmarks

We do: https://mlperf.org/

Just run their benchmarks. Submitting your results there is a bit more complicated, because all results there are "verified" by independent entities.

If you feel like your AI use case is not well represented by any of the MLPerf benchmarks, open a discussion thread about it, propose a new benchmark, etc.

The set of benchmarks there increases all the time to cover new applications. For example, on top of the MLPerf Training and MLPerf Inference benchmark suites, we now have a new MLPerf HPC suite to capture ML of very large models.
If it's less than the cost of an apple developer account I think that people would buy it. But I guess Apple would eventually ban it.
Is Hacker News inserting links to Work at a Startup hiring posts?
Recently I started to notice that the Hacker News front page contains hiring posts linking to Work at a Startup, https://www.workatastartup.com/, also part of YC. The posts appear on the front page (with 1 point), but cannot be upvoted and don't contain comments or a discussion. Visually, the posts are identical to other posts (except for the voting buttons).

Just curious: did I miss an announcement about hiring posts being inserted on the front page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=workatastartup.com

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&query=workatastartup.com&sort=byDate&type=all
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I guess the irony is that jQuery is indeed written in JavaScript, so whatever you set out to do is still "feasible to do in vanilla JS." With that said the main difference is of course that there's far more people involved in maintaining jQuery than there is on most people's individual codebases. Personally I try to make do without it, if nothing else than because it forces me to learn JavaScript better.
Wow, I didnnt know they switched to chez scheme as the default backend for Idris 2. I know Edwin was impressed with the speed of Chez and the overall quality of the implementation, but I never heard about the switch to it as default.
This (hiring ads for YC companies) has been the case for many years.
They're great devices even with the stock firmware, but their wireless drivers are quite dated (no wave2 support, no WPA3, no 802.11r/k/v). They do have a beta package with wave2 support but it's not supported on the low RAM devices like cAP / wAP AC.
you didn't reply with a procedure. You cherry picked one example, and argued one point.

So other than making proactivesvcs the arbitrator of misinformation, what process do suggest to replace the status quo?

I would describe the status quo as: everyone is allowed to publish information unrestricted. everyone else can review any information and either ignores it or amplifies it.
The more people who have critical reasoning skills, the better the system works.
Everything you ask for can be done with actual controls or are done automatically for you.
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More miles = more vibration and temperature changes
The long-term trend in Germany has been a movement from rural to urban areas, and immigration from outside of Germany to German cities. So if you had an apartment or house in a city you are sitting pretty, not so much if you had the same in a small town or village.
> Some people are arguing that the should be, that they should be treated as the equivalent of a modern town square

A modern town square isn't a free-for-all zone either. Try to go and shout "fuck <n-word>" or raise the arm to the Nazi salute in an area where people of color live and you'll be lucky to escape with a minor beating.

Town squares are a form of societal self-preservation too - unruly elements get dealt with, either by the people themselves or by the police.
"Man spends £210 million on lesson about backups" isn't such a good headline.
Separation is still recommended.

Storage encryption can be attacked differently than a running system.
For me it was quite the opposite. In 2014 I was so angry with the banking system just taking away money from Cypriot pensioners, I wanted to get out of it as soon as possible, and get into a system where I can verify that I'm the owner of the asset.

I went to Bitcoin and gold, but later got rid of my gold reserve, as it is manipulated even more heavily than Bitcoin price.
Nice. Does build on OpenBSD. :)
What's too high? Alcohol is heavily taxed in the nordic countries with a single beer costing 10-20 dollars in a bar. A single long-drink can be 20-40 dollars. There are still plenty of bars and people getting drunk.
Yes, there is home brewing but it's not what the young kids do to have fun and get drunk.

You can read about the taxation and the effects of a tax cut in this paper from 2018,
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Sugar is a fuel and it just slides right in to the tank. Try it.
The M1 can only address 8 GB with its NPU/GPU.