skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird that as the temperature lowered your count was doubling but then you strategically omitted 120, 121? It’s not a “flex” that it was hot (??)

I love these programmer types on HN that are always looking for some way to tell someone they’re wrong.

I know, let’s spend a few hours to plot every day it was 120, 121, 122, 123 on a chart, debate the role of “feels like” temperatures, debate what all the time means, and then we can have an Internet panel decide if 130 really does seem like a particularly hot day for someone from Palm Springs.

And by the way, since you’re so smart, how is 123 “no where close” to 130?
My home server using a very similar configuration (same CPU, a lot less potent network) is what enables me to work from home, making a living, so the cost of electricity is compensated by the gas saved on commuting. I am also in process of adding solar to my house, covering a lot more than this server.

If people use old servers in the kilowatt range consumption for fooling around having a server in the basement is questionable, building something with low power in mind is nothing to complain about.
> only professor I heard of that was attacked

How did that end, if it's not too weird to ask

> normalizing the lab scores between different reviewers

Sounds like a good idea to me :-)
Not yet (and hopefully never).

If you do have kids, there may not be an immediate attachment and that’s ok too. I was attached but everyone is different.

I did just realize the monthly price of day care is more than the price of a small private plane, so it definitely changes priorities. But I would rather have a kid than a plane.
SOHO = Small Office/Home Office

ROBO = Remote Office/Branch Office
Kids take your time. Like, a lot. Almost all of it, and sometimes more than that. It's easy to resent the lost time. It's easy to try to carve out some time for yourself, but too often it gets carved out of the kids' needs.

That's what I regret. Not the kids, but my selfishness with my time and attention while they were growing up.

If you're going to have kids, have them. Go all in. Don't withhold yourself from them.

(The opposite can be a problem, too. The kids take almost all your time, but they can't become your identity or your life. That leaves you becoming the little-league parent who's yelling at the coach, or the parent who can't let their kids be adults once their grown. But the way my selfishness showed up was in trying to keep my time for myself.)
Seems like the natural corollary to defund the police. People who can afford to do so will hire private services.
Yuck. I hate how expensive transformers are. You can see it clearly in transformers vs gans; GANs can generate a frame in about 20ms, whereas it takes seconds or more to make a frame with transformers. It’s not even clear that it’s necessarily better quality.

That said, I doubt we’ll be able to make an RL GAN, so maybe this is the best way. Though now I wonder how well an RL GAN might work…
Who said GPL?

If you copy something from a BSD licensed software you should credit them.
At least in PNW the service isn’t 900/40 any more, it’s advertised as “1.2Gbps” and the profile actually seems to be 20% over that, I’ve seen 1.5Gbps or 170-180MB/sec downstream performance recently. Upstream is still <= 50Mbps and otherwise agree with your comment that the U.S. is falling behind in price-throughput on domestic internet services versus many other developed nations.
Furnace Creek in Death Valley is actually decently shaded by some of the most prominent mountains in North America. I wonder if the air temperature would be higher if the sun hit the area earlier.

Sunrise is 5:39am, but it's actually in mountain shade until 6:14am. Sunset is 8:07pm, but it's actually already in mountain shade at 7:43pm. The mountains cut out a good hour of direct sunlight.

Here's an interactive map if you're interested: https://shademap.app/#36.4344,-116.85894,12z,1625922915384t
A book "Minimal Perl" used to be referred to often in these discussions but I never hear about it any more. It was teaching these kind of tricks for command line magic.
I'm curious about how much easier it is to optimize compiler time for macros rather than templates here. In theory they wouldn't be all that different, but in practice it doesn't seem so
Not necessarily: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/105166/symmetry-...
Bill Clinton used to use three words to advocate, usually with the same first letter. For instance, in a recent speech, he warned that the opposing candidate would “blame, bully and belittle” and that he would be "denying, distracting, and demeaning". Of course, Biden's slogan is "Build back better".
"Die out". Everybody dies eventually. It's just a long process waiting for science to progress by funerals.
You mean like this?

https://golang.org/pkg/

Notice that when you look at, say, the `io` package and are reading the documentation for `func Copy`, that the code supplied for the functional signature links the type declarations. Just follow the links to jump to a given interface to explore.
Someone archived it too, eventually. Looks like archive.is/archive.today rewrites links to URLs it has archived.
Not disagreeing, that's kind of what I said. However it's still chugging along just fine and works well enough for basic applications (like 99% of applications?).

What features do you allude to if I may ask?

In any case, one can't solve any of these "problems" by abstracting over this API ;-)
Personally I'd cut them a bit of slack on this, with covid going on I can't imagine it was a good idea to get a bunch of people together in a studio for a cover photo. If it's actually representative of what's in the report... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Happy to answer q’s on redpanda
> I bet the coal and oil execs were grinning like Cheshire Cats while eco-radicals laid waste to the prospects of the US nuclear industry in the 1970s.

Or when Germany shutdown their nuclear plants and ran more coal after Fukushima.

* https://www.wired.com/story/germany-rejected-nuclear-power-a...

Gas seems to be planned to fill an upcoming gap:

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-27/germany-s...
So what's the big deal here? This is no different than any chartered university police department, transit infrastructure police, port police or govern department specific security force. All those forces exist for no reason other than to prioritize calls that would get laughed off or a "we'll get to it when we get to it" response from a local or state police department.

The rent-a-cops employed by the company named in TFA have little difference from government rent-a-cops performing the same duties beyond who's letterhead they get their pay stubs on.

Frankly I think allowing security forces to have police powers is crap loaded with perverse incentives and ripe for abuse. But also I see no reason why being buddy-buddy with the .gov should get the above mentioned types of security agencies law enforcement power while a private security force securing a private facility cannot do the same. Rent-a-cop is rent-a-cop. Either they all get to arrest a hobo for peeing in a corner or none of them do.
The last astronomy cast is also about technosignatures.

https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/ep-612-the-seti-renaissance
It's just par for the course for generic-ass buy-a-job franchise schemes. McDonald's afiak has pretty close management of their operations to counteract this expected behavior.
> the pain feels like it is coming from a non-existent limb does not mean that that is where it is actually coming from.

So uhh, what exactly is pain? Is it the feeling? Is it the physical damage? Is it a warning about damage? Is it the fear of damage (as in broken hearts etc.)?
Their shop/restaurant opening times are still totally useless though. I live in Stoneybatter (next effectively 15 min walk from the city centre for those not from Dublin) and I’d estimate that at least 1/3rd of the correct waypoints, opening times, and associated data in the area is from me slowly correcting stuff over the last few years.
Me and my wife went to the Sistine Chapel a few years back. You can't take photos in there, or in many other notable tourist attractions, without purchasing a license. Thinking about this story, does that also make sense?

I'd like to think that the model/subject should at least be able to assert their moral rights over the use of their image. Like, threaten to prohibit organisations from publishing images containing their likeness.

Wouldn't that be an adequate defence against a tort of this nature?
Did the author forget that we had this entire "NoSQL" period that lasted well over a decade, where SQL was the worst thing ever, and everyone kept coming with the superior alternatives to SQL?

What happened?

What happened is many of those NoSQL products started adding SQL syntax and features to their databases, others disappears, and yet others specialized into niches where they don't compete with SQL RDBMS at all, which remains the primary database paradigm and language.

So those are the facts. If someone still believes they know better, put up or shut up.
> Agreed on pdqsort being 3x slower worst case on "killer" input, but it's my understanding that's why it's not being used to replace std::sort.

This is just not true. Introsort (the current std::sort in all C++ compilers I know of) also has 'killer' inputs, and will switch to heapsort twice as slow than than pdqsort does in those. Worse, the libc++ implementation of std::sort has a quadratic killer sequence that I found 7 years ago, and it is still not fixed: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20837. In my opinion there is no good reason that pdqsort is not adopted yet as std::sort as it is faster for many patterns, faster for random input and rarely if ever slower.

In fact, pdqsort is the standard unstable sorting algorithm in Rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.sor...

Note that any deterministic quicksort variant that does not spend a lot of time on choosing its pivots will always have some 'killer' pattern that forces it to use its fallback algorithm (or worse, go O(n^2)), as you can always
shuffle the input array such that poor pivots are chosen. What pdqsort does is shuffle things around so that those 'killer' patterns are a lot less trivial, and are not as likely to occur in real-world input. For me determinism was very important so I didn't do it in https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort, but note that the variant implemented in Rust uses non-deterministic swapping and thus it is impossible to force a 'killer' input against it.
We've spent years in R&D mode working on the data model, the query language, APIs and architecture to make sure that everything clicks together to create one vertically integrated, cohesive, and language agnostic solution. Everything in EdgeDB is optimized for DX (while not sacrificing perf or type safety), and as far as I know there's no other database company out there which does what we do. So fingers crossed, our attempt at evolving relational databases will be successful.
If I had to guess, to get driver to favour uber over lyft etc, so when you open the uber and lyft app and compare, there is always an uber closer. That's just a guess.
Apple maps has a lot of weaknesses, particularly the search along route limitations that I bump into all the time. Mostly in the US it's "good enough" though.

BUT when I started seeing so many obvious advertising things going on in google maps the writing was on the wall. Lately the advert items started looking an awful lot like my starred places, that's some dark patterns I'm not going to put up with.
To me, this entire piece reads like goal-post moving and lacks understanding of the field and was incredibly premature.

> I am confused as to why they continue to spend so much time on building Deep RL systems that beat games with clearly defined rules and point systems. I think everyone gets it now, with enough time, money, and computers almost brute forcing every single possible action, Deep RL can beat almost any game.

Right, before AlphaGo, superhuman Go was decades away. Then it became obvious and therefore easy. He brings up a laundry folding robot almost as if discrete games can be trivially applied to robotics. If you think about it for one second, Shogi, the game that AlphaZero solves with the largest action space has 10^5 actions. Consider a robot with 3 joints that can move in any dimension motors. Discretizing the continuous action space into 10 buckets yields an action space of 10^9. Something AlphaZero will never solve. In that sense, the entire analogy is a straw man and everyone in the field knows. This doesn't even touch the fact that 10 buckets would be useless for fine motor control.

Since they published this, there have been great advancements in learning action embeddings for robotic tasks. With a couple of expert examples, an algorithm can learn to open a door effectively. That's not that far from folding laundry.

Personally, my entire PhD thesis attempts to solves the exact deficiencies they raise. Simply put, the work goes on. Instead of saying that the field is useless, try to understand and contribute to it. At the very least, give technical reasons that it is a dead end path.
> Between katsu and tenpura, the Japanese are expert at fried food

the japanese aren't a hive mind
Which gcp services run directly on borg? My understanding is at least bigtable, cloud sql and other dbs are within “hidden” VMs. I think loadbalancers and storage are exceptions but same is true for aws (except the classic elb probably)
Me watching this video makes me think i'll see full, conscious hard AI in my lifetime.

You can never really point on the evolutionary timelines and say, 'That's it! that's when consciousness arose. It's obviously going to be the same with AI.

When AI rises to the point where it is obviously conscious, there's never going to be one key technological breakthrough that put it over the edge. Like the fall of rome or anything complex really, it will be a collection of things and a backwards pointing measure of when it actually occurred.

Jeff hawkins has some extremely interesting thoughts on AI. His book 'On intelligence' is one of the best books i've ever read.

These aren't entirely his thoughts butThree things; some ability to move around your world (e.g. cyberspace, robots), perceive the world (Vision, data,dumps, training data, supervised learning, deep learning) Some mechanism with interacting with the world based on motives and desires.

What happens if a non-sudo'd trading bot, with a wallet starts trading on the blockchain? Seed it with capital, have it access some smart contract, and delete sudo on both the smart contract and wallet.

it's not doing anything too 'sophisticated' but it is a) able to 'Die' by it's wallets balance to hit zero. b.) has a 'motive' to increase it's total coins.

pre-programmed, yes but also is ingesting data from oracles and acting on that information.
Maybe because some of us old Lions have no illusions
and we do not "...anthropomorphize the lawnmower..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s
even higher, I've been in Wi Spa in LA that gets up to 231f/110c
How to Promote Enlightened Debate Online (2018)
Thanks for the explanation, that sounds really interesting.
Not sure it kept the w on the words where ON dropped it but apparently it did (maybe)? There's a reddit thread with orð>worð/uorð but not much more. (And they use warg instead of ulf so...)
Fargate isn't a competitor to Cloud Run (I wish it was) because it doesn't scale to zero in between requests and scale back up again when new traffic arrives.
In London the parks were full, the ice cream shops were open, and if you think anyone was having their exercise limited to one hour a day you're unfortunately subservient. I have never worn a mask, and I have been on multi-hour rides around London without seeing a single mask. Dog walkers were all stopping for chats, people gathering at duck ponds for chats, parties continued to be had. My condolences to Manchester, it seems to have naive understanding of how the world works; stand up or get stepped on.
What's the alternative? Allow snakeoil? Now insurance has to cover it, incentivizing the creation of more ineffective drugs? Trust in efficacy is critical.
I have found (US, Canada, UK) that Starbucks like most chains responds to the local competition. Where there's good coffee available in quantity, they hire baristas who drink it and know what they're doing. When there's few options, youthful customers or lots of tourists they go with the colored drinks and the coffee sux. I have also found that outside the US (possibly outside of N America), there's less sugar and more taste involved.
Does Google check or care what is on there? That would make me nervous.
In a discussion like this ‘reach’ and ‘impact’ are the critical axises that have to be discussed. Both Fox and CNN websites might have the same article if you Google the specific thing but one of them ran it in the front page for 24 hours while the other put it as link number 100 after you have scrolled down and clicked more a few times. Millions of Americans will see one of those articles while maybe a few hundred Americans will see the other. I wish there was some kind of service that provided access to measurements on the reach and impact of different topics by the different news agencies, it would be illuminating on their individual biases.
Without PPS measurements its hard to say how good this is. 1.488MPPS is needed to saturate a gigabit connection and that usually needs some tricks like poll mode drives/dpdk/etc on commodity hardware.
It handles them just fine. Any single EdgeQL query always compiles to just one SQL query under the hood. We wrap nested hierarchy levels subqueries in array_agg and our binary protocol is designed in such a way that unpacking the results is very fast.
Anecdotally: I've been taking 500mg of psilocybin 3 days a week before sleep. Sleep better/don't wake up in the night, feel more rested in the morning, in a good mood when I wake up/easy to get out of bed.
I've used the app Arc for the same purpose: recording my location all the time even when not running so I know where I've been. But Arc has an excellent privacy policy: all location data stored and processed locally. This is a compromise: local processing means the app can be slow, but IMO the privacy aspects far outweigh a sluggish UI.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arc-app-location-activity/id10...
> I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature.

Fargate can be scaled to zero. Also, have you tried the CLI? [0]

[0]: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli
I’ve never used perl, but i love concise bash 1-liner wizard incantations. What are some examples of things it’s handy for?
Where Are All the Cheap x86 Single Board PCs?
Weird, this seems like a strange hill for right to repair to die on.
Shade, even sunlight, isn't what makes death valley so hot. It is the valley part. Adiabatic cooling/heating as the air moves up and down the mountains is what makes the valley floor so hot. Take away those mountains and you loose that heat engine.

https://www.geographyrealm.com/geography-facts-about-death-v...

"The confluence of several topographical and geographic factors have resulted in some of Earth’s highest air temperatures. Solar heating of the desert floor, the movement of warm air from adjacent areas (known as advection), adiabatic heating as air descends the ranges west of Death Valley, and the trapping of air in the valley all contribute to scorching temperatures. "
Lots of effort and it changes you for the better (in my case) so worth it.
I don't know. Societies globally agree that human babies are born prematurely and take some 16..18+ years to mature enough to take care of themselves. As an anecdote I've had both tobacco and alcohol before the legal age. Never really liked either.

My context was adults. Of course babies mustn't have the right to operate heavy machinery unsupervised, among many other things. But once society declares a person fully grown, they should have all the rights.

I'm a bit of an individualist. I understand why society, like an ant hive, would like to control some/many aspects of its constituents. But I also think that freedom isn't a mere cost, but is actually a portal to a better world overall.
The Sistine Chapel is not a public place; they have the right to control what people do inside it (subject to the law, of course).

Also, moral rights do not include the right of a subject not to be photographed in public. Moral rights (to the extent they exist in Europe; they don't exist in the U.S.) are about rights the author of a work possesses that transcend economic rights, such as attribution and to be free of derogatory treatment.
Moving Forwards, Moving Backwards: A Tool for Life
Yeah, I work on on-device audio, so definitely agree on the expense problem. In audio we've now got a few different approaches that work really well for sequence modeling, and we're constantly finding cool ways to make inference run faster.

Reframing reinforcement learning as sequence modeling /should/ make it possible to reuse (m)any of the approaches we use for audio, including GANs. Generative audio is nicely analogous to RL problems : There's complex state and interesting predictive distributions, which shift subtly over time, and you need to combine short-term good behavior (good individual samples) in a reasonable way to get good long-term behavior (matching melspectra).
In the northern hemisphere it follows the winter solstice.

In the other half of the world it’s the start of summer.
It's interesting that you know SELECT being first is clunky, without understanding why.

SELECT in SQL is clunky because it comes before FROM and JOIN. Do you see FROM or JOIN anywhere here? No.

The collections you're selecting from are literally written before the fields you select.

The real WTF for me is this claims to be a relational database and you can't join seemingly.
I’ve only read about that online. I’ve never seen this happen in my six years at Amazon. In my experience we have the opposite problem. There are a lot of folks who are extremely talented in interviewing and whiteboard elegant solutions. But they fundamentally can’t or won’t deliver results. And what I’ve seen on Amazon is it’s really difficult to let go of someone once they are hired. But in my experience a lot of managers struggle at having hard and difficult conversations. And so you’ll see an engineer on the team who doesn’t pull their weight but the rest of the team picks up their slack.

I fundamentally don’t believe that Amazon is letting go of talented engineers. Can some individual manager be terrible at their job and screw up? Yeah absolutely. But as a company, it’s extremely hard to find talented individuals. And then once you bring them in you have to invest in them and ramp them up.

Having said that I worked on really hard problems at Amazon. Not everyone can or wants to solve those kinds of problems. I was successful because I enjoyed it. That’s where my priorities were. And there were other times where I struggled. Sometimes trying to solve a particular kind of problem or sometimes not having enough clarity, or realizing that we haven’t broken down a problem.

But then there are individuals who just don’t have the ownership. If you have a not my problem kind of attitude, I don’t think you’ll last at Amazon very long. Eventually you’ll be let go and then you will be bitter about it.

As an aside, you won’t ever hear about all the engineers at Amazon who enjoy doing their work, who enjoy the teams that they’re on, who have a really good relationship with their leadership teams. But you’ll hear the most loudest and vocal feedback from the people who are the wrong hires or they had a bad manager who messed them up. In the latter case I don’t think it’s a systemic issue. And to be honest, the positive stories don’t get the Readership or drive the outrage
Those were afair not even relational systems. So doesn't apply here. The article clearly states so in the very first sentence.