skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Google, their site doesn't mention "FDA" or "USDA-FSIS", both of which regulate parts of the lab grown meat process as of 2019. I assume they'll need some sort of approval to actually sell the stuff in the US.
Much better article from anandtech at https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...
I don't understand it. It takes months to get even minimally productive and years to decades to grok your code base. You would think that companies would be dying to retain programmers and blacklisting anyone who leaves any company in less than five years.
From the language specification.
It seems like you typically want a balance of memory size/bandwidth to compute ratio for typical deep learning applications.

The 40GB of SRAM probably has tremendous bandwidth (it could all be updated every few cycles!), but the memory size is very small compared to the amount of compute available.

However, maybe a different way of looking at it is that this chip will allow the training steps on deep learning models to take a fraction of the time as a GPU. Perhaps what takes 1s on a GPU could take 10ms on this chip.

So, this product may be effective at making training happen very fast, but without substantial model size or efficiency gains.

That's still ground breaking -- you can't acheive this result on GPUs. You can't achieve this result by any parallelization or distributed training, either. The large batch sizes in distributed training do not result in the same model or one that generalizes as well.
I think the whole concept of usb c/tb3 is flawed, cables should be inside the computer not outside. I have a fairly simple setup: 2017 Macbook Pro with two TB3 ports, a Dell monitor, an external SSD, a TB2 soundcard and a wireless usb mouse, because a traditional mouse works better in VMs than a Magic Mouse. This setup worked perfectly with a 2015 13" MBP: the HDMI port supports the Dell monitor, I connected my soundcard to the dedicated TB2 port and I still had two USB3 ports for my mouse and the external ssd.
Now comes the revolutionized & courageous setup with two TB3 ports:
First of all I had to buy a USB3 dock. That's ok but still 50 euros down the toilet. Then an Apple issued TB2-TB3 adapter which was another 100 euros. But then I figured I can't connect these devices at once so I've had to buy an Apple Issued Digital AV Adapter for another 100 euros. We are already at 250 euros and the fun part just starts: If I connect my Dell monitor and my soundcard (even turned off) at the same time the monitor starts to flicker and the soundcard starts spitting out dirty electrostatic noise. Yes, a good old ground loop! So now I can't listen to music with my soundcard and have my monitor plugged in at the same time. I can't use my wireless mouse because the wireless dongle is too far from my USB3 dock. I can't use my external ssd reliably because every time I put my Macbook to sleep it disconnects in a way that i have to phisically reconnect it. Every fkn time. So I thought, gee I just have to shell out another 300 euros for a Caldigit TS3+ and all my problems will be solved, right? USB-C ecosystem: hold my beer
The statical noise comes through the TS3+ as well plus it heats up my Macbook to a completely pathetic degree, so it throttles. Because it has to be thin too. TDP is just stat for nerds. SSD is still unreliable and the dock is still too far from my mouse to have a stable connection. In the end I spent 550 euros on completely useless environmental waste bullsh*t that shouldn't exist at all.
I get what Apple and the whole industry had in mind with usb-c but it is flawed by design. It has to be reengineered from the ground up.
They were fighting a war. How come it's only the bad guys that can be murderers in a war?
This happened when I tried to buy in cash (without a mortgage).
How different are they in numbers?
Please...

The gang of thugs possessed the Ring of Power, stolen from its rightful owner, and capable of killing millions; it’s like a nuclear bomb!

If some gang of trespassers snuck into your dwelling with a nuclear bomb, I think “shoot first, ask questions later” would be the order of the day.

The only character that seemed to have his shit together was Sauron. Even Sauramon agreed the safest thing to do would be to peacefully return the ring to its rightful owner before anyone got hurt...
It sounds like a lot but it almost isn't? Like this is ~50x bigger than an Nvidia A100, and the A100 pulls up to 400w. 50 * 400 ~= 20kW. So in terms of thermal density it's in-line with existing GPUs.

That said, I'd be fascinated to see the cooling solution. Is it just a massive copper heatsink & a boatload of airflow? Typical approaches of using heatpipes to expand the heatsink won't really work with something this big after all. Or is it a massive waterblock with multiple inlets/outlets so it can hit up a stack of radiators? How do they get even mounting pressure across that large of an area?
Recently, I had an exam through ProctorU and thought I'd try to reclaim some privacy using Windows Sandbox when I learned that they utilize TeamViewer to take full control of your computer. This was not allowed only because parts of the control panel were disabled and they couldn't verify that I had only one monitor. I used a mirror to show them my laptop and desk but that was not sufficient. Spent a lot of time that weekend just trying to take the open-book exam.

I really hope that universities will consider their students before adopting this type of software.
From reading the article, they just for some legal reason need a person on board the ship.

So maybe people could volunteer to replace them on a rolling schedule.
Lots of reasons the government should be in that business.

And artificially pushing people to invest in income vs capital gains will increase bond/guilt prices.
Pretty much any federal agency you have heard of has an investigative dept that employs federal special agents. These are law enforcement roles with the same training, authority, and responsibilities as investigative agents in the FBI, etc.

They were created to meet the specific law enforcement needs of each agency. Dept of Education agents investigate misuse of Dept of Education funds, for example. The Postal Inspectors investigate illegal use of, or threats to, the mail system.

After 9/11 a lot of these depts got new infusions of resources, and instructions to do a lot more information sharing. There was a feeling that the attacks of 9/11 could have been prevented if existing disparate info had been better collected and collated.

So it’s not that surprising that these agencies will seem to stray out of their lanes. If Postal is monitoring broadly for threats against their systems, but sees other concerning info, they are supposed to share it.

This is all intended to be explanatory; I’m not saying that it’s how things should be.

I will say that personally I have fewer concerns about programs to monitor public content on the Internet, than programs that seek to access, monitor, and store content that people intended to be privately communicated to other people.
That may be true in terms of possibility but not relatively. Compare it to the situation on mobile, where you're lucky if you get any choice at all about what programs open which files.
I enjoyed that. Found the issue almost immediately !
Will any developers involved in this horrible scandal ever will be held accountable for their work?

I wonder if the developers who were responsible for such a bug-infested piece of software realise their work has destroyed people's lives? (They presumably never met the users of their software.)

Do those developers even realise it was their incompetence that caused untold misery? Or are they completely detached from the events in this scandal and see themselves as simply cogs in the 'system' and thus blameless?

Developers are often quick to point the finger of blame at others (usually management). But this cannot excuse what those developers delivered in this case: software simply unfit for use. The end consequence was the ruin of many lives. Meanwhile, the developers face no consequences.
Just give them a date so they shut up. Whatever date, is fine.
Food distribution and emergency services typically get taken over in good part by the military.

Necessary food production is generally outside of cities.

All Healthcare except for what is immediately necessary similarly is not needed, same for vehicle repair and so on.

Keep in mind, this is only for a very short period of time. You don't have to deploy anywhere near the population needed for a sustainable organization.

For the US for example, there are 55 million "essential workers". 11 million of those are in agriculture or restauration (so either outside of a city or dispensable). 10 million are in finance or residential/commercial facilities services, most of which is preemptible for a few weeks. 4.5 million are in governmental services which can largely either be done remotely or preempted for a few weeks. Realistically you're looking at 25 million or so when you cut down on everything that isn't necessary and have the military take over a lot of the work.

If you want to see what thay looks like, you can look at the Wuhan lockdowns and to a lesser extent various strict lockdowns in third world countries.
Maybe going against the grain here, but I'm not on principle opposed to the death penalty. There's lots of strong practical arguments to make, like the fallibility of the court system, but yes, I do believe that there are some crimes (of mass bodily harm) for a which a state could rightfully determine to forfeit someone's right to live. My sole moral objection to the death penalty is that no one should have "end someone's life" as his job description.

However, my version of the world in which the death penalty would be admissible is a lot different from what we have now. In that version, a death sentence would never be executed on first conviction; the verdict would contain a suspended death sentence, more or less. After serving time, a criminal could be put to death only when convicted a second time for a similar offense. I'd also want to see the burden of proof reversed for that punishment: not only must the crime be proven in court (not by plea), but the government must show it provided adequate support and rehabilitation to avoid relapse.

That would be the only world in which I would defend the use of capital punishment. I don't think I'll ever see it happen.
There was no need to burn two cities. The head honchos could have been taken to the test(s); with the possibility of surrendering earlier with less territory lost to Soviets.
For what it's worth, most modern food animals and plants are still capable of producing natural offspring and sustaining life on their own. GMO presents some interesting challenges, but the main thing is that modern offshoots of wild organisms are bred to produce these outcomes, but they are bred, which means that they are within the range of variability of the population in question, even if they're out in the bell curve a bit.

I think there's a significant qualitative difference between cheese, for example, of any variety, and "processed cheese" which is designed to mimic cheese properties but make it uniform over time and region by substituting simple chemicals (i.e., reductive by definition) for ingredients which came about by co-evolution in our ecosystems.
accessible link for nojs clients:

https://archive.is/Bb1Aw
It's great to see contributions from NVIDIA in the mix (the USD importer https://developer.blender.org/D10700) and geometry nodes are interesting as well as they enable a Houdini-like workflow for Blender.
How can the future burst? It's like saying medicine will burst or physics
I think that's a poor example.

First off, doing such a moving experiment with only your own funds is a lot harder than if you had billions to millions of dollars to do it.

Secondly, people won't be trapped inside on Mars and will make regular, if not daily trips outside on EVAs (we may need a new acronym as there's no "Vehicle" here.)

Thirdly, a lot of hardware will be outside the "container" including the power generation from nuclear power or solar energy. (Likely nuclear powered sterling engines that have already been demonstrated in subscale versions.) (This contributes to the difference in funds point on my first point.)

Fourth, even though you didn't mention it, I'll add it here to preempt a counter argument. The radiation risks are overstated. Radiation on Mars is at least half that of being in space because you have radiation from one half of the "sky" blocked by the planet itself. Also while the radiation levels are certainly elevated, they're likely not going to kill you. Any long term colonies are going to be mostly underground anyway. (Or more likely simply buried by shoveling dirt on top.)
Yeah this is one of the first things I install on a new machine along with zoxide
> Your workers are under threat from poorly made postal bombs that could easily blow up during processing

How does that threat compare to threats the post office accepts for it's workers such as being killed in traffic accidents?
A lot of food processing isn't strictly necessary. People can be expected to cook or live off existing stock for 2-3 weeks if they do not work.
It won't work with the LG Ultrafine 5k, which requires a Thunderbolt connection to run at full resolution, and behind-the-scenes is a tiled pair of DP1.2 displays.

It ought to work with a DisplayPort 1.4 5k, though there aren't many of those.
They should have done this a long time ago. Sharing photos in a non-attachment format with close friends is a feature I wish iMessage had. I hope they borrow a little from Google+ circles. Android support will also be very welcome.
Apple isn’t the greatest at usable software interfaces, but I quite enjoy the thought they put into the interactions.
Lots of sentiment today that the USPS is way out of its zone of expertise in doing this -- and that is possible.

But it's worth noting that the USPS has had its own legion of postal inspectors going back to the 19th century, when they were a (comparatively) huge part of the U.S. government, and the FBI, etc. did not exist.

Some 1,200 postal inspectors are still around, and they play important roles on federal prosecutions related to mail fraud, drug shipments, etc. There's a good Wikipedia entry on it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspectio...
The postal service, as a Constitutionally-mandated requirement of the federal government (though the post itself is a private company, responsibility for ensuring there is a post and that it works is Congress's), is some very old and very serious law and enforcement.

The Postal Inspection Service traces its lineage to 1772; the FBI to 1908. USPIS being separate from the FBI is one of those quirks of American enforcement, like how the Secret Service is responsible for physical security of the President and other political figures... And financial services.
Very interesting review, thanks for the read! If I may, I've had some different experiences.

I work for one of the biggest supermarket chains in the US as part of the team implementing an invoice processing capability for the enterprise to utilize. We literally take in thousands of paper/non-digitized invoices a day, and in our testing have found Azure's Form Recognizer (AFR) to be very dependable and confidently accurate. I have also professionally used Google Form Parser and ABBYY's OCR engine, but not it's cloud offering.

> it's also the only service fast enough to be part of a synchronous pipeline.

I assume what you're talking about here is exposing the processing capability and response as part of a tool that is utilized by a person. While maybe as a one-off edge case, we've never seen the use in building for this. When talking about form processing the real goal of any enterprise is to get the invoice data into their system of record where it can be validated, addressed, and maintained. This does not require a "man-in-the-middle" approach wherein the user submits the invoice and then expects the results to be immediately returned so that they may...what, put them in the system of record, right? We've found that the "time to affect" workflow is the same regardless of whether it is hand-keyed or as the result of an AFR response to be programmatically submitted to the system.

> requires a custom model to be trained before extracting data

This is simply not true. AFR provides quite a few pre-built models[1] that we have found to return confidence scores consistently above 70%. To put that in perspective a human averages 66% accuracy when performing data-entry of this type[2]. Sure, they don't necessarily provide for invoice line items (which requires much more complex key-value arrays and matrices) they can be utilized to capture metadata on an invoice that can then inform on how and where it may be moved along in the "processing" flow.

We've also found that building a single, "monolithic [custom] model" able to address our specific vendor invoices with more finely tuned value returns has been fairly easy to build and maintain.

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/fo...
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07475...
Where? Here in Montréal a 1000sqft house is in the 300k+ range.
> Cultural norms... have permanently shifted.

A bold statement, especially to be made whilst the pandemic is still ongoing. Maybe put a pin in that and revisit it 5 and 10 years from now.
Protection isn't 100%, so the best way to protect the most vulnerable among us for everyone to get vaccinated. There are also a small number of people who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons, and having as many people as possible vaccinated helps protect those people too.
> On average, the length of the number required to point to the digit will be the same length as the data you're trying to compress. It would be 0% compression in the long run

Worse than 0%. The average position of numbers 0000-9999 in pi is 9940, for example.

I believe ideally you'd want a De Bruijn sequence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence - "optimally short with respect to the property of containing every string of length n at least once") but even that won't get 1:1 compression.
That's the most ridiculous response I didn't expect to read towards my comment. Of course, all precautions should be similar to the existing process of having euthanasia. No coercion or manipulation present while the decision comes from the person, and a doctor or nurse trained in euthanasia would be doing the evaluation(s) of the person requesting it. Currently, people are receiving euthanasia for intolerable medical conditions and without anyone finding slippery slope imaginary scenarios that people write as fears.
A friend of mine who's working on installing multimedia systems on luxury yacht told me a recent story today: a woman came from Florida to work on a yacht that was called by his owner to some place. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to her she had COVID. all of the 12 crew members went sick; the boat stopped at Malta, and 2 stewards died. As the ship was late and stranded, the owner simply fired all of the remaining people onboard, sick as they were, because he wanted his boat back. Then, the lady, stranded without resources in La Valette and probably under crushing guilt committed suicide.

My friend knew several members of the crew.
Why do you think skin color is the driving factor? People normally consider each other aliens even if they have the same skin color.
What would "100 - 1000 engineers" even be doing?

The story starts off saying that the work's being done by analysts:

> The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.

, so it sounds more like they've got some folks browsing social-media.

Granted, a lot of the post-scanning would seem better done by bots, and stuff like sentiment-analysis could help classify posts for human inspection, so they'd probably want to hire a few engineers, but why hundreds? And why 250-500 kUSD/yr for such mundane work?
I don't know, expert systems haven't been so hot lately...
Interesting discussion. Just a comment about the size o Golang binary. In the post example it uses standard fmt library. fmt by itself, adds several megabytes to a binary when compiled. Removing it would reduce binary size.
I have an old tribal rug (Turkish/Afghan?) that has a "evil eye" (but a good evil eye...) weaved into it in order to break the otherwise perfect symmetry of the design.
I meant contact lens, as I thought that's what you were referring to. Contact lenses wear out and need replacing like ADHD pills, while eyeglasses do not.
yes. in order to receive investment, you will have to sign a form that defines the terms of that investment.
Not at all!

7 is actually a lot more subtle, I didn't get it at first. They're putting some files on some signal phones, somewhat randomly, and only those which seem like they've been in active normal use since before this disclosure. So likely none of the devices Cellbrite might own for testing, and no device Cellbrite might buy in the future, but some random set of existing devices in the field. And there might be multiple such files, so even if Cellbrite find one they can't be sure they've got them all.

Now assume these files are (as somewhat implied) exploits that cause the falsification of data in all current and future reports issued by a given Cellbrite device.

That means that if a Cellbrite has, after this point, ever scanned a phone with Signal installed it might be issuing false reports.

THAT means that there's a reasonable doubt in any evidence obtained by the use of a Cellbrite device, going forward. That gives an easy out to defense attorneys in the US, where Cellbrite devices are used by police to gather evidence.

Any defense attorney can now argue that evidence obtained from a Cellbrite shouldn't be admitted in court, since they don't maintain forensic integrity. This essentially spoils Cellbrite's entire business in the US (and any other country with similar standards for the admissibility of evidence).

So Cellbrite has to find ALL the exploits in their system, and be very, very sure they've not missed any. Because defense attorneys will then try to call that into doubt. Etc.
Omnibus podcast episode: https://www.omnibusproject.com/324
HN folks complain all day that their computers and phones changed since the 90s.
You should try out out presto sometime :) .
The advantage would be to have a program on my computer that would negotiate prices with providers and manage latency and redundancy. This could of course also be solved if storage providers, as a group, standardized on a single protocol (creating a commodity industry.)

I'm not sure there's a huge difference between that and this, other than anonymity for providers (which is the major critique of this blogpost.)
Having worked on a pre-Fortran77 code base, names are a big fucking deal. Half the code was written before variable names could be longer than six characters.

The pendulum is swinging back from the overreaction to that, Java's famous AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean. As awful as that name is, I will take it any day over L(IH+GV).
Given the blades are spinning at not too far off from the local speed of sound, the blades would explode if they hit the ground I imagine, similar to helicoptor crashes on Earth.
Thunderbolt mode over USB C is basically a direct PCIe connection along with DP.