skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, for music at least. Spotify/Apple Music provides anything I could want. But my tastes were never niche to begin with.
What if there is no climate emergency .. and we reduced fossil fuel pollution & improved air quality for all, stopped destroying forests, rivers, lakes and oceans, stopped the massive decline in fish & animal species, reduced drought by restoring the water tables, reduced drinking water pollution etc etc .. all for nothing?

https://medium.com/thoughts-economics-politics-sustainabilit...
Keep going. What does that say about the reported IFR that’s used to justify lockdowns?
Global Offshore Wind Turbine Dataset
Yeah you'll make a lot when you own everything and people haven't figured it out yet.
MagTek Payment Device SDK Integration API for Software Developers
‘any time you make a decision‘ is a discrimination between choice A and B.
Those numbers are crazy. Why is the stock 1.5% down today given the news?
Certainly less than thirty billion

I think there are people whose jobs are to determine the appropriate punishment for criminal actions. They might be able to give you a tighter upper bound
My question is, how would the cost structure works. Can I now hire an actor that looks 90% like someone I have in mind, and then Deepfake it to look 99.9%, and save on actor's cost?

It works when you are trying to do that on actor that are no longer with us, but what about actors that are still alive?
"It is the curse of kings to be attended
By slaves that take their humors for a warrant"
I always like Six Colors’ charts for these results.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/07/apple-posts-81b-quarterly...
It's so sad what white supremacy makes people do.
I don't often debate the topic with skeptics, but one tactic one can use is to position the problem in the larger framework that is the absolute environmental disaster of human civilization.

Meaning, you can hardly deny mass deforestation. Wiping out the vast majority of wildlife and most of its habitat. The emptying of the oceans, desertification, pollution, plastics, over-population, over-consumption, the list goes on.

With this I mean to say that our entire way of life is unsustainable regardless of climate change. We have to radically change our ways in any case.

Most people intuitively agree that we are holistically unsustainable. Few would argue against it. This doesn't necessarily make people an advocate for change, but it's a start.
Also nobody says 1 kilokilogramme (1000 kg).

This isaid, the mass base unit in SI is really the kg, even if g would be natural (and indeed people will say 1 g instead of 1 millikilogram).

I was always annoyed by kg being the base unit (and I had to drag this suffering throughout my PhD in physics) but this thread opened my eyes on the possibility to use "compensating" prefixes on the kg (millikilogram to say gram) - it is a shame I did not think about that before to drive everyone crazy :)
For small project and simple full text search requirement, try this generic parser: https://github.com/freewizard/pg_cjk_parser
I think they can probably outright buy TSMC barring national security concerns for Taiwan. Market cap is $570B for TSMC. Of course that would never happen but interesting to see how much cash AAPL has.
Maybe you're thinking of Russell's teapot, which is the idea that the burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims? That's specifically for unfalsifiable claims.

Or maybe you're thinking of the burden of proof concept from jurisprudence? That is a high standard because it keeps innocent people from having their lives destroyed.

The IPCC reports [0], predicated upon the anthropogenic theory of climate change, predict a lot of people will have their lives destroyed, and the theory specifies the mechanism which will determine the magnitude. You and I as agents in democracies (I'm guessing) can help determine that magnitude - maybe whether it's millions of families displaced and destroyed or hundreds of millions.

I think the philosophical stance we should apply is the precautionary principle. If we're unsure of whether or not it is harmful that our activities are changing the composition of our atmosphere, of our oceans, and of our soil, we should at least, as a precaution, reduce the rate at which we're changing our environment.

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
> When should I choose FastAI.jl vs fastai?

Unless you're following the course, you probably shouldn't use either.
It is strange, because the workers know that any slight uptick in productivity is going to be captured by Nadella and fellow 0.1%ers.
Some other examples: immutable records and tuples in JS, records in Java and C#; pattern matching in Java and C#, stage 1 in JS; algebraic data types with sealed classes coming in Java, and used a lot in Rust.
First, I think it can be both, and second, it's important to be careful around the common fallacious defense for shitty people where the implication is that they should not be judged or experience certain ramifications (legal or social) because "it's all just trolling", "for the luls", "you can't take what he/she says seriously", "it's your fault for getting offended", etc. There are certainly arguments to be made one way or the other in these cases, but one standout damning feature that's common to a lot of them (including this one) is that of public reception. If you encourage something, all that matters is how likely and severe the consequences of that are, regardless of whether you were "just trolling". If you're a famous and wealthy person with a cult of personality and a politically divided following (or even if you just hit a couple of those notes), it's your responsibility to not offer people thousands of dollars to get hair from your enemies, even under the (conveniently subjective) guise of sarcasm/joking.
Great, I hope I will be able to quit Hacker News!
I am pretty sure my IT department is transitioning to Nexenta which is an illumos.

Company before last was using some Solaris+nexenta.

Samsung has an enormous smartos deployment that would rival all of Azure. (Based on what I learned about Azure)
Why abolish patents rather than just fix their implementation? Patents are very important. Without them, incentive to bring things to market falls as all your hard work of designing and creating something can just immediately be taken and reused by others. This encourages everyone to sit around and wait for others to make something first, and then punishes the one who does. Why not instead rework patents so that they have to be used continuously to be upheld or increase the stringency of that aspect of them?
Fortunately, df(a x)/dx = 0 when f = C for all a.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-cloud-offers-...
AMD’s Q2 2021 revenue grew 99% to $3.85B on market share gains
"As far as I can tell, there's no other record of any other natural phenomenon on this Earth (climate change related or otherwise), that has been consistently recorded, in writing, more-or-less annually, for the past 1,000+ years. "

We don't need humans to record something in writing. Evidence from physical processes can be used to infer historical climate and temperature, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleothermometer as a starting point.
Nobody cares about the technical definition of an obscure political philosophy.

Everyone knew what they meant, when they were talking about "Anarchy". And we dont care about the irrelevant political movement.
Given the evidence slam dunks are not needed. The situation is so clear only delusional (or highly uninformed) people convince themselves there is still soubt about it
Apple is that company that sells phones, and they won’t be able to keep growing.

That’s what I’ve heard for over a decade.
I'll disagree with the other poster. MOBA games, particularly Dota, have a pretty high threshold of entry compared to RTS. You've got 100 something heros, each with 4+ abilities. Then you've got basically as many items, half of which have an active of some sort.

That's a big initial bite to get down.

I played Dota for at least a year until I finally felt like I even understood the baseline. The skill cap on say SC2 is indeed as high as you can take it, but learning the tech tree and counters is comparatively trivial. It's not that Dota is chess or such, there's just a huge volume of material to get through.

But that's also what makes it so rewarding. Dota is the only video game where I feel the same sense of accomplishment when winning as a game of go.

I think the world is wide open to a new awesome RTS game. Just, no one has thought up something good enough.
Anyone who'd like to tell me what I got wrong?
Honestly, not really. A lot of the core issues that we'd hit were solved years ago (eg. multiple DB's for a read replica, JSON in the DB). I think it's one of the big benefits of using standard "boring" tools, that they do most everything we need them to do. We're not anxiously waiting on a new release, we're happily using new features implemented 5 years ago when we need them.
Google Cloud's 2021 revenue is larger than YouTube's 2020 revenue. Nobody gets bored of $18B ARR that's growing at 50%/year.

I've been seeing rehashes of this comment for ~2 years at this point, and it just gets more unreasonable with each quarter. When will this tired meme die?
I think it was Nova on PBS that did an episode on studying weather systems created by fires, focusing on fires on the US Pacific coast.
Did they try rotating the camera 180 degrees?

I can understand how this might be confusing. Like a mirror track in Mario Kart, it would make the map feel totally different.
I think one of the main tenants of allyship (I'm comfortable having weirdos call me "woke" for using the word allyship) is being accepting when told you did something wrong, and working to cultivate relationships in which a person is able to _simply_ say "I didn't like that", to which that feedback is taken seriously and responsibly.

I mostly think the argument "Well men will just start treating women and minorities will start being treated like radio active objects" is cultivated and pushed forward by men that aren't willing to hear they did something wrong. Binary thinking is _the problem_. If you make a comment with good intent, but it was taken poorly, the fear is you'll be labeled as a bad person/sexist/whatever. In reality, if your intent is good, and your response to being told you did something wrong was "I'm sorry, I won't do that again", nothing else really has to happen.
Doesn’t Apple already own machines? That’s what they usually do. They buy machines and let other companies operate them.
Could a Helium Shortage Derail the Tech Boom?
>And that's fine, keep your ICE car.

In any change there are always winners and losers. It does strike me that some people here are in for a lot of pain when the inevitable change comes along.
Capping CO2 released may reduce air pollution due to burning, but it won't do very much about the water tables, except by improving the climate.
The first programming course at Oxford is FP. It makes some sense: (1) sometimes diving into something helps (especially with support from tutors) (2) it gives those with existing programming knowledge something new to work with and (3) functional programming concepts are generally helpful, so it’s still useful in other spheres.
In many systems, the mean really does summarize the whole. E.g. kinematics works just fine using the mean point mass for solids (i.e. the centre-of-gravity) in place of the whole.
The numbers are reported after hours. But it's also down an additional ~1% after hours (as of now, at any rate). Perhaps the guidance is not strong?
I genuinely have no recollection of what my parents did at my baseball games or practice. In general they were loving and very involved as parents, so I'm sure they were watching when I was at bat. But I was just focused on the game.
There’s RED: https://interviewfor.red/
it was randomly handed out to 10% of servers today.
That sounds _really_ good, and kind of blows a big hole in a lot of arguments against universal health care. I pay more than that monthly for relatively basic medication and that's _with_ pretty good employer-funded insurance
In which algorithms is the random number generation the bottleneck?
Hey, you might be able to answer this: if someone who wants to learn naval architecture deeply (but not for a career), how should they go about it?

I'd love to design ships as a career, but as you said, there isn't much work, but why not learn for the sake of learning?

Also, aeronautical engineers, I'd love to learn that too. How to go about it?
You pay less than your competitors for your branded ads via quality score. But yeah, it gets competitive.

You should see how much PI lawyers pay for AdWords - it's bonkers. Hundreds of dollars per click.
> Sexual assault in the United States armed forces is an ongoing issue which has received extensive media coverage in the past. A 2012 Pentagon survey found that approximately 26,000 women and men were sexually assaulted that year; of those, only 3,374 cases were reported.[1] In 2013, a new Pentagon report found that 5,061 troops reported cases of assault. Some are optimistic that this increase in reports is indicative of victims "growing more comfortable in the system".[2] Of the reported cases, only 484 cases went to trial; 376 resulted in convictions.[3] Another investigation found that one in five women in the United States Air Force who were sexually assaulted by service members reported it, for one in 15 men.[4]

> A survey for the Department of Defense conducted in 2015 found that in the past year 52% of active service members who reported sexual assault had experienced retaliation in the form of professional, social, and administrative actions or punishments.[5] In addition to retaliation against soldiers remaining in active service, many former service members who reported sexual assaults were forced to leave after being discharged. Reasons for discharge included having a "personality disorder" or engaging in misconduct related to the sexual assault such as fraternization or (prior to the end of don't ask, don't tell) homosexuality, even if the homosexual conduct was non-consensual.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_S...

I would say that the punishment seeming severe is mostly a display.
All I can see is another dark pattern in GDPR avoidance (note, doesn't help a bit, this is still illegal since it is opt out instead of opt in and doubly so since it is next to impossible to opt out).
> The West didn't have land hungry pre WW2 Germany next to it.

Not sure if this is sarcasm, but I'll assume it is not.

France and Poland send their regards.
I took the time to read the PDF you linked to and in terms of actual evidence all I found was a some hand-wavy article by a German reinsurance company. Surely there is some better evidence than this?
Former director of homeland security Janet Napolitano has actually stated that she avoided e-mails, and did everything in-person of via phone calls (presumably to avoid documenting her actions and motives).
Wow - this is amazing work. Great explanations, wonderfully useful animations, and plenty of detail to keep even the most curious interested.

Well done!
I think if we get to the point where they are trying to get people to switch their cell phone or internet plans - they will do more traditional tv/online advertising.

That being said - I don't think a successful one-time advertising push by a completely new field speaks to the long-term benefits of it once they (presumably) become established.
This. I love my disagreeable friends because having robust dialogue is fun for most of my ilk (although it is interesting that women have told us they (mistakenly) think that we are bitterly arguing, which makes them feel uncomfortable).
> but in many other similar circumstances they give the option of buying Application Assist Processors. That takes the work away from the main processor.

zAAPs, zIIPs and IFLs are exactly the same hardware as main processors. The difference between them is purely at the licensing level. The firmware sets a flag saying "don't run classic z/OS workloads". z/OS sees that flag set and then will only schedule "new" workloads (such as Java and XML) to that processor. Actually there is an undocumented API you can use to schedule any (enclave SRB mode) workload to the zAAP – IBM keeps it under NDA, and ISVs have to agree to obey IBM's rules about what workloads are allowed to run as part of that NDA. (One ISV, Neon, started selling a tool to run an arbitrary workload on the zAAP, called zPrime, IBM immediately sued them, and Neon settled the lawsuit in 2011 and agreed to drop the tool). Other operating systems, such as z/Linux, ignore that flag completely and to them a zAAP is just the same as a normal main processor (CP).

> It is possible that IBM will offer some custom zAAP optimized for running the AI workloads.

Yes but that wouldn't be a zAAP. They do have hardware accelerators for various functions (crypto, compression, sorting) but those aren't zAAPs (or zIIPs or IFLs). Crypto acceleration is CPACF (extra CPU instructions on main CPUs) and Crypto Express (external accelerator card). Compression hardware acceleration is zEDC. Sorting hardware acceleration is the Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort.
Socialism is a perfect system. I mean: socialism is probably the system that God uses to rule his Angels in Heaven. It has only one tiny flaw: in order to work it requires the society to be perfect as well, and most importantly completely selfless. But for less than perfect societies capitalism works better, because it can turn people's flaws (i.e.: greed, ambition) for the common good.
> We'd just snapshot AMIs to keep OS dependencies fixed

This is a good solution, but I would not call it easier.

Using docker container feels like installing an app on my smartphone.
I choose the version and it will always work like I build it at date x without an additional system.
Works for every programming language with every dependency out of the box.
Python, Java, Javascript, GO, Ocaml, C, ...

> How containers are deployed varies wildly between prod and the local machine

I just brought a product of my company to Kubernetes.

Run helm upgrade --install . -f dev-values.yaml for dev

Run helm upgrade --install . -f prod-values.yaml for prod (of course you need the secrets there. Jenkins has them).

My laptop does run an environment with all components of the prod env.
Something like email and sap services are of course mocked, but everything else?
All on my machine. Why not?

I can spin up a new test environment for customers with new settings on the same day.

> Both your apps now have different "ubuntu" layers

We use a base image that does change not that often. Even if: no problem, the registry is connected via 1000 MBit/s and zero-downtime deployment does its magic so I don't even notice if it takes one or two minutes.

Another thing: my node (or VM) libs and the libs of my software should not be connected in any way (at least for me). I want to patch my nodes and my software independently. Different software should also not be bound to libs of another software.

> All the items you listed under k8s are things I had before it

- How do you easily scale up? Including starting new machines and spinning down machines that are no longer needed

- How are multiple software parts executed on one host?

- How do you do fail over?

I know that everything can be done without Kubernetes. With enough time and money one can create large systems that do this.

I spun up a new Kubernetes cluster and ported our product (already containerized) on the cluster in about three months.

Really: I also love the classic dev ops and have a proxmox server at home, but Kubernetes just solves many problems at once in a short time.
Anonymity is not disingenuous. If you want to be super scrupulous about this, choose a pseudonym that is clearly not a real name.
The issue appears to be that it updates that JSON file isn't re-written in atomic way
Monte Carlo simulations - i.e. pathtracing...

Generating well distributed random numbers with low overhead is quire important for that.

It's not the bottleneck, but it is very important.
Listing capacity in Wh rather than MJ is fine, but many batteries are rated in amp-hours which isn't very helpful unless you also know the voltage. This is particularly annoying when it comes to "smart batteries" such as this USB power pack[0] where you have specs listing "10000 mAh" and "5 volts", but the actual capacity is around 37 Wh because they measured amp-hours at the internal battery and the battery voltage isn't exposed to the user. (Yes, the product description halfway down the page does say "10000mAh/3.7V" in small print if you know to go looking for it, but this isn't noted anywhere in the title or the "About this item" section at the top.)

[0] Example: https://www.amazon.com/10000mAh-Portable-Charger-Stylish-Com...
That’s cute but it should also list “what if we kept developing countries in poverty (by denying quick and dirty industrialization that we ourselves enjoyed) for nothing”. The problem is hard because there are hard decisions to make.
This should be a "challenge" (if those are still a thing), to be performed by anybody who believes that the issue doesn't exist. Create a female account for some online game and see how much fun you will be allowed to have with it.
A couple questions I have after skimming the paper, so forgive me if they were answered somewhere in the 54 page manuscript:

They mention in A.3 that they explicitly reject dynamically generated training worlds/games that collide with their evaluation sets, but do they ensure that dynamic training games are sufficiently "distant" from their evaluation sets regardless of whether or not there's a direct collision? If not, you might still end up training on something quite similar to your test dataset. Figure 27 kind of suggests that might happen for some games given that the vast majority of the held out games have relatively poor transfer performance but a few are really good.

Speaking of Figure 27, while the reward looks good it would have been really nice to show some examples of what these "zero-shot" games look like versus the fine tuned version. Is the gap in the reward between the raw vs fine tuned version significant?

Wouldn't we expect the internal state representation to be more definitive in classifying the state of the agent during the simulation as the agent moves around the environment? From their examples: Figure 20,21, and 22 it almost looks like it either flags the state as "early" or "success." Not sure we're getting the expected performance out of it.
Hermitage Museum Mints Leonardo, Monet, Van Gogh NFTs to Raise Funds
Self Sabotage: Why Doing the Right Thing Results in Failure
Is there anything you can do in Perl, that you can't do a cleaner way in another language?
What was lost then?

What didn't we lose?

Do you require water to function? How about food?
Can you explain more about Chicago lacking “a certain reach to the higher levels”?
Not really following your example, but let's say I hired them because I wanted to have someone to play multiplayer games with in the office. I give them money, and we both have a good time. The question is whether it's discrimination or not. To spice up the (highly hypothetical) example even more: I don't really need to hire anyone but I'm rich and want to be surrounded by friends so either they get hired to play games with me or the job isn't happening at all. No-one is missing out on the job... but could it still be discrimination?

Also, whether I trust them or not does not seem to matter according to your sibling comments.
We swapped most of our linux and vmware platforms to Triton and SmartOS and been loving it ever since. Obviously there's still need to run linux in bhyves due to some specific software (e.g. docker) but generally services are on either lx-zones or smartmachines. It just works.
Citizens as well as the party must always come first.