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> My impression from reading the paper is most of the other optimizations (custom kernels, contiguous memory, checkpointing, etc) are orthogonal to the partitioning stuff

This is true, I include them as examples of the amount of engineering work involved because using the partitioning as an example would require recapitulating their blog post :)

> But they seem to emphasize that this isn't what their partitioning is, and that's the part that perplexes me the most. To be specific, I'd like someone to explain how their magical zero-redundancy data parallel (termed ZeRO-DP in the paper) works and how it's different from from model+pipeline parallel, and their paper is awfully sparse on that.

Again, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/deepspeed-extr... is a much better resource on this. There really isn't any magic going on, nor are many of these ideas (checkpointing, model state sharding, bucketing, JIT communication of new states interleaved with compute, etc.) new when considered in isolation. ZeRO is data + model + pipeline parallel, but optimized to the nines and actually usable as a production library.
I think of philosophy of the art of words and ideas, just like literature is generally the art of words and stories. But, for historical reasons, many people and most philosophers claim philosophy is much more than this.

Spinoza was convinced he was "engaged in the pursuit of truth", as the article writes, and he probably thought he had built a logical proof of the existence of god. But his concepts are fuzzy, so his reasoning is unprovable, and his apparent rigorousness is not at all scientific. Many philosophers disagree with his theories, and none of them are wrong or better or worse than Spinoza, since there is no way to refute or evaluate philosophy.

Apart from these points (proof, progress, consensus), there are many indices for classifying philosophy among the arts. No one would claim to be an expert of a philosopher without reading and studying his book and articles. But, if the substance was more important than the form, it should not matter. One can master Gauss' mathematics or Einstein's physics without reading the original works.
> you can still create an infinite number of IOUs on gold

This is why Islam, Judaism, and Christianity prohibit interest. That closes the door on exploits like this.
Nah, it already works that way. Your credit rating is basically a black box ML model.
A decade is a long time, long enough for the entire tech stack of every self driving platform to change completely.
Can't see the site because it's down but it's highly unlikely this remake uses all the same components in all the same packages as the original. The Atari 800XL would used entirely through hole components and its unlikely all the chips are still available in DIP. So there will at least be a little change to accommodate modern packages. ( I suspect)
Including the claim that Minix is running on modern Intel CPUs behind the scenes? This is referenced at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
I’m an American that had to work in Israel for a couple of years. Israeli banking is weird. For example I was often asked by my banker (Hapoalim) to hand write instructions/permission to do something on a piece of paper, take a picture of it with my phone, and text it to him. It’s hard to imagine a salty Chase Bank rep back home asking for this. Israel is this strange combination of first world and third world improvisational organized chaos mentality.
Yes. Bypassing the kernel cache is a major optimization used by virtually all databases that are serious about prioritizing performance. It won't add anything to the top end of database engine performance.

However, there are plenty of databases that do not prioritize performance which could benefit, including most open source ones.
Probably because the people developing these clients aren't being bankrolled by multi-million dollar companies with private interests. The previous poster was correct; Matrix is a protocol, and so your performance really comes down to whatever client you're using it with. Element is a web app, so it will inevitably be pretty slow. If you want a client that won't slow down, look into Fractal, a GTK Matrix frontend written in Rust. If that doesn't iron out your performance issues, you just have a slow machine/connection.
That does fit very well with the American conservative viewpoint, yes.

What are the consequences of making that acceptable, I wonder?
> negative income tax, drug legalization, prison abolition, etc.

Under what interpretation of the word "neoliberal" do any of these things fall under? Especially the last two; find me a single person claimed to be neoliberal who supports either.
> "Apple is complicit and profiting from piracy by selling phones on which it's trivial to install pirated games".

I'm not seeing any of these headlines with Android
The policy link is broken
Doesn't that make it even more like Software Engineering?
What you're saying makes sense, but then you have to talk about words like "action", "agent", "punish". In my definition it is predicated on the idea of a person making deliberate action, yours is that an occurrence has a negative effect on people and so it's cause should be negated. Even if morality as you use it applies even without free will, the words you are using to describe the scenario imply another word, "decide". Without free will, can one be an agent without agency? Is an action an action or simply an occurrence? Can we even examine morality? We must decide first what to punish, then decide to punish. Or are these behaviors in some way predetermined as well? Was it predetermined for us to ponder whether this conversation was predetermined or not?

Do you require the ability to make decisions in order to adapt to changing conditions? Without free will can we even talk about game theory? I mean, we can talk about whatever we want, but is the concept valid any longer?
Or maybe centralized services like GitHub should not exist?

And internet should be back to BBS days where public content are moderated by volunteers in each community separately?

Now I think section 230 is not a necessity for an open internet. It just changed how internet works by making centralized business easier.
That's what I was thinking. Perhaps this shows just how disjointed Lenovo is as a company - there must be two very independent departments that know nothing of the others motivations.
The deaf community seems like it retains its protected class status, even when their members refuse cochlear implants.
>China doesn't have the power to censor Western expats on Twitter,

Yes, they do, directly and indirectly.

Directly: Li-Meng Yan, the Chinese virologist who blew the whistle on covid in December 2019, but the Chinese government covered that up. She defected to the US, and published a research paper critical of the Chinese government, and Twitter banned her account.

Indirectly: How likely do you think it would be for the chinese government to renew an expats visa if they were doing activist work like the chinese activists who got dissapeared for reporting covid deaths on Github? They didn't even let a WHO investigation team into their country for almost a year
I mean obviously there are ads, but if my friends post something, it's at the top of my feed, and I can scroll through only content that my friends post (and ads).
IME mixed DPI under Windows is a mixed bag, with behavior varying on an app to app basis. For instance Telegram (Qt) can’t deal with being moved from one screen to the other and will look either tiny or huge, but most Win32 and WinUI apps work just fine.

This distinction doesn’t exist on macOS for the most part, even “foreign” UI libraries will appear the correct size when changing screens.
I think the point of the post is that repealing section 230 would not help with “fairness” on the platforms. The arguments in the post are pretty strong imho.
I think of them like paying for a signed, numbered print. On that left it seems reasonable. The prices, seem less reasonable.
sure, what about TXT records then?

seems dangerous that anyone who can modify the root of a webserver content can impersonate security contacts/pubkeys.
If china suddenly grew legs and walked away, I'd rethink what I knew about animal life - but why deal in this particular counterfactual?
Probably needs an FPGA to replace the Atari custom graphics chips too.
I would take this with several grains of salt.
Relevant: http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
And it's just a misunderstanding. I think it was Perlis who said, "We don't know what the programming language of the future will look like, but we know it will be called FORTRAN."
A switch with increased pixel density and some other improvements seems almost certain to me.
That only applies for non-integer scales. If you run at clean 2x or 3x everything is drawn at native scale, unless the app doesn’t support HiDPI in which case it’s drawn at 1x and scaled up.
That is a great question, and while I don’t know for sure, I think a relevant anecdotal observation that stands out to me is that many languages which do have first-class multidimensional arrays also have one-based indexing. And I would speculate this in turn is because most people who wanted matrices badly enough to make them a language feature wanted to do linear algebra with them, where you generally also want one-based notation since that is how all the equations in textbooks and papers are written.

So a language with multidimensional arrays is in a lose-lose position of having to choose to either satisfy the linear algebraists at the cost of alienating general-purpose programmers who want to do pointer arithmetic, or else satisfy the latter while alienating the core demographic for multidimensional numeric arrays.

Personally, I’m fine with (or even slightly prefer) one-based for my own scientific computing, despite starting with C, since it really is more elegant for linear algebra, and I have never found myself needing or wanting to do pointer arithmetic in a language that does have good multidimensional arrays — but clearly it is still a major turn-off to many others.
There's something to be said for the notion that, in the modern world, anyone who is a "professional philosopher" is just incapable of doing the kind of "here's how you should live" work that dominates early Western and Asian philosophy. Among modern professions, the only ones that can bear the legal liability of such a line of inquiry are in the health sciences.

In this sense, philosophy professors cannot be doing what Socrates thought he was doing, except while teaching. But, as a rule, teaching is not considered the "productive work" of any professors. The "serious" work of academics is to produce tomes and articles, and to manage their citations like investments.
As they say, most safety regulations are written blood and banking regulations are written in lost gold.

Pretty much every regulation is there because at some point someone figured out how to steal money from someone else, and the regulation prevents that. I don't really think there can be an in between.

You either have a totally unregulated market like Bitcoin, where it's incredibly easy to steal from people with absolutely no recourse (not even the courts), or you have what we have now where your money is "safe" and if something happens anyway you can be made whole through the courts, which would then lead to new regulations to prevent that thing from happening again.
Wouldn’t that imply that no philosophy is true? I think of it as the search for truths that we can’t empirically prove, contrasted to science and math which are purely logical. But math and science have their bases in philosophy through universal laws and propositions, which are unprovable but necessary.

Art is more concerned with human experience and seems like a different thing.
The 30-60% chance of death is the infant mortality rate, not the risk of mothers dying in childbirth.

If women had even a 30% chance of dying in childbirth, it would be very difficult to maintain replacement levels of birthrates (as each woman, on average, needs to have 2 children).
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Because in a democracy, effectively granting the legislature the power to print money and hand it to citizens is fraught with some pretty obvious conflicts of interest.

(yes I know the Fed is “independent” but it is the tail on a government dog—the two are separated only in name)
There's no broader debate to be had, you're simply being an apologist for someone who cannot be redeemed. At every chance at multiple places in this thread you try to play down his actions, and at every point you're offered decent explanations as to why he's worse -- I'm starting to consider you a bigot lightly couched in academic reading.
Do I guess correctly that your organization doesn't value clean services initialization, solid services dependencies management and reliable log handling?

Well, there must be room for such organizations too. It's a colorful world after all.
It's perfectly reasonable to not distribute on Apple platforms. Many companies choose to do this, and have for decades!

The viable alternative is a web page. But yes, if you want the security and performance supported on a native Apple platform, you have to play by Apple's rules.

Harm to companies isn't harm to consumers.
Interesting, in software world I’ve always heard/used build/buy rather than make/buy, and I’m guessing that comes from construction industry as a lot of traditional software PM methodology was inspired by that world. If you Google ‘build vs buy’[0] (no quotes) all your top results are software discussions. If you Google ‘build or buy’, it’s all about housing. [1]

Make-or-buy seems more a term for manufacturing industry/SCM. TIL

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=build+vs+buy

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=build+or+buy
Six Secret Easter Eggs in GitHub
This explains why non integer looks so good.
Your solution is also not conceptually different from having inline styles. In fact it's even closer to inline styles than Tailwind, since Tailwind is able to enforce consistency.
Only you set a whole forest on fire every time you buy a print.
For sure. bitwarden implements the Bitwarden API so they tend to get around to all these features. It's just worth noting that they tend to trail upstream.
The Spanish had already been defeated nearly half a century earlier and the Royal Navy supreme. This is completely wrong and the Civil War didn’t start over religion it was over ship money (the King not consenting parliament to raise taxes.)
Yeah, this was demonstrated greatly in the Navalny/Bellingcat investigation of his poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhi6jts97I . They bribed the appropriate providers to get phone call records and could see how the agents would be ringing each other and up the chain of command around the time of certain events. If an "enemy of the state" could do this, imagine what the state, or the owners of the data, could do.

Funny as if saying "just the phone numbers and not the names" should make us feel safe, Facebook already asks for your phone number, and could correlate your data that way.
The head going one way, and the body another.
That's cool, but Mish is an activation function while SGD and AdamW are optimizers. Apples and oranges.
Woosh :)
I feel like with food "it's food, but in beta, so you might not get what you think you're getting" really shouldn't exist... and what exactly qualifies as beta is confusing all by itself.
Yes, it's been a while though (a decade?), since I last looked at it. I will have another look to re-familiarize myself and to see what they've been up to, thank you for the pointer.
In Seattle it’s the opposite. Retirees are a minority at these meetings. Young urban or leftist activists are the majority, for example socialist housing advocates and homelessness advocates. They are well organized, seemingly have tons of time (potentially jobless?), and are aggressive, often staging protests outside city hall hearings and ensuring anyone else is shouted down. In many cases no one else is able to sign up on time to even speak, because the organizations these activists belong to are very disciplined about brigading the sign up page right on time. And who’s missing? The middle group - people with families or jobs.
> especially if I have a bug bounty program that attracts low quality bug reports

IMO security.txt provides value for when you DON'T have a bug bounty program. If you don't already have a 'front door' for how to send you security information, you're not going to get it.

Also, I would put some money on someone finding a show stopper bug like shellshock/heartbleed/deserialization-bug-of-the-week/etc and contacting folks from their security.txt in sync with their public release sometime within the next few years.
Oh, that's a nice thing. I still remember carefully appending underscores to names to thing to make C and FORTRAN talk in gcc/g77.
Sure, I take your point that I'm thinking about it the wrong way legally.

But I still maintain the idea is bass-ackwards morally and legally problematic.

If mum believes the false Facebook meme she's a victim. Yes passing it on passes on the harm, but honestly I also think that doing detailed research into every meme before passing it on is an unrealistic expectation. Almost a decade ago I passed on the meme about Mr. Rogers being a sniper with x number of confirmed kills and always wearing sweaters to cover his sleeve tats. Exactly how much money should that cost me? In many way these memes are the natural evolution of "old wives tales" that have existed for centuries. Probably all of human existence.

And from a tort perspective I'm still not sure this applies. Part of the harm from tort comes from the fact it's repeated. If I tell people X bank is financially insolvent, it catches on and there's a run on the bank I'm certainly guilty of something, but I don't think the people who passed it on in good faith are. Rather the fact people were passing it around is evidence of the tort, not additional torts themselves (but IANAL of course).

And even if passing on a meme is a valid micro-tort in this scenario, now my mom has been materially harmed by whoever shared it with her. Does she now sue them in her own micro-tort lawsuit and the whole thing bubbles up like some kind of legal reverse ponzi scheme? It seems like all of these micro-suits floating around and sure to create the exact problem the original comment is trying to avoid.
In honour of Pi day: the Spigot Algorithm (Haskell edition) [pdf]
In my opinion, the problem with MINIX3 is that as a product it lacked focus. MINIX2 was excellent for education. MINIX3 led to great research. But if you want to maintain a software product with a small team, you have to have a clear idea of what features are essential for your product and then make sure those have excellent support.
> There is, therefore, a natural limit to how fractional your reserve can be and keep trust over a long term.

The point is that both fiat and gold sit in a system of debt powered by trust. If you're theorizing a natural limit to the smallness of reserves, you might as well be theorizing a natural limit to the amount of money that can be printed.

edit: it's certainly physically easier to have no reserves than to print infinite paper.
Probably just "chain of evidence" to make sure there were no misunderstandings or something. Never had to do anything like this .
A cognoscenti! It was Akiban.
This - my parents phones keep getting updates after purchase. They never updated their cheap android (or maybe updates lagged badly and there were none). People are our paying EXTRA for Apple gate keeping pretty happily
Stating "there is no way to refute or evaluate philosophy" while then going on to do the same seems incongruent.
Facebook is still on iOS. Zoom is still on iOS.
Hilariously bad colour choices. If you're talking about colour these are good examples of how not to do it.
Printing money (at the current scale) only started in response to the GFC.
I think there's a good case to be made for amending 230.

230 was written for a pre-algorithmic feed age where user content was displayed in a fixed context setup by the provider. The provider chose the frame, the user the painting.

Now users send content to a machine that is constantly making new frames to better match the pictures it is given. The picture is still the picture - still made by the user, but the site bears more responsibility for its presentation because its 'framing' is based on the contents / reaction to the picture. However, I do not think a total transformation has occurred. Choosing how to display the picture doesn't change its contents.

Writing a law that sensibly engages with the huge diversity of algorithmic strategies would be difficult even for skilled legislators (if only we had some!). Maybe the answer is in formalizing shadowbanning in some way?
such a tragic insane pity that fido2 keys can't be used on the web for this purpose.

webauthn fits a different use, of the browser managing keys for the user, outside the page & the server's view.

and webusb explicitly blacklists fido2 keys &c.

madness that our security devices only use is to identity us securely (and in a way where afaik we have no ability to clone identities, &c, by design. scant, limited powers over these devices), and not to protect our content.
Badum-tish! Or rather, Sosumi sound
I don't think it's a revelation that lots of ultra wealthy people hide money in offshore bank accounts, as well as other means.

I'd say many of them are literally hoarding it.
Sure, that solves the problem, but is still very verbose and doesn't really help with consistency by itself.

At this point one has to ask themselves if they're "avoiding inline styles" (or anything that looks like it) for a true technical reason, or just because of cargo-culting.
Yeah my 800XL's memory chips blew a few years ago and it was really hard to get new ones. Though ebay helped me out.

But I think the custom ones will be even harder as they were completely custom design. Like POKEY and ANTIC.
Yes, please. Switch to FreeBSD. Every FreeBSD developer knows what a terrible idea SystemD is.

https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/rice-the_tragedy_of_s...

Joke's on you.
The Meritocracy to Feudalism Pipeline
Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma
You know you are reading right wing rag when they reduce every issue of the day to and argument for private capital.

In this article, which frankly is argued less well than an average Reddit comment, the unattributed author suggests only free markets and science can save us and so we should give up on government and the arts.

yawn.

No mention of course, of the public money involved in vaccine development, the publicly funded logistical expertise and good will involved in administering the vaccine, nor (of course) the neo-liberal Capitalist policies that prevented effective restrictions being enacted, thereby prolonging and increasing the severity of this awful pandemic.