skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was necessary to move away from Lua to stay relevant within the machine learning community. Python was a natural choice because there was Theano and TensorFlow.

PyTorch could make use of the best API ideas from the other frameworks (also higher-level like Keras). And it was executed well. All these core principles of easy debuggability are indeed very important to win developers. Clean code, understandable code, flexibility, these are all very related to that, or mostly the same thing.

It's easy to get bloated, complex and complicated for a successful framework though. I wonder how PyTorch will look in a few years. I also remember the first TensorFlow releases, where the whole source code was also quite easy to understand. Then TensorFlow added more and more things, and many different types of APIs, starting to deprecate some earlier things, etc. The PyTorch internal code is also already much more complex than it was initially.

One reason JAX is now popular is because it again started with a fresh API. Despite being based on a new kind of idea of code transformations, which seems nice and powerful.

When looking at these developments, I really wonder what the future will look like. It's good to have new ideas and new or improved APIs. It's also good to adapt things for new kinds of hardware (GPUs, TPUs, maybe other neuromorphic hardware later).
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A high vaccination rate prevents the spread of the disease. Yes, if you have a consistent rate of spread, then the more people with the vaccine, the more likely mutation is to survive. However, if the virus can't spread in the first place, it's chance to mutate is near zero.
>EDIT: As a follow-up, I found this history of land & tax policy in Denmark going back to the middle ages to be quite fascinating and might be a useful point of contact for this sort of thing: https://bibliotek1.dk/english/history/centuries-of-experienc...

Tangentially, there's a remarkable painting of a tax collection in medieval Denmark:

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

("Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361", by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist in 1882)
Thanks! I'm already allergic to a lot of stuff, so it probably is related.
I always figured that game makers didn't do this because it wouldn't actually be fun to play with. Reminds me of when I played Medieval: Total War and spent most of my time dealing with uprisings. Like, do we want to deal with regulation bloat that causes greater infrastructure costs, so you have to pay billions to build a big road or whatever? Can you account for a Whiskey Rebellion sort of scenario in a SimCity sort of game?

Plus, most of these are predicated on the idea that you're the supreme despot. People can protest if you increase taxes, but they can't vote you out/execute you in public and put in new leaders who knock down the tax rate.

Maybe it's the difference between Kerbal Space Program and Galaga. There are certainly markets for both, but less for the former.
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That Azure VM only has 4 cores, not 8 cores. 1 vCPU = 1 hyper-thread (not a physical core). 4 cores * 2 threads = 8 vCPU. Yes it's easy to get a used quad core laptop with 32G for $700
Very few people want to “throw out” homeless people.

The reductionist vitriol is common, but unhelpful for a productive discussion.
There's a fallacy of composition and awareness here.

Individual users:

1. May not be aware of how data are being used. (In fact this is a virtual certainty.)

2. Don't appreciate the immense power of data in aggregate. (Something that is close to Facebook's key commercial advantage.)

3. May be exposing data on other users, who are not participating and/or don't consent to particupate in such data hoovering.

I'd argue that Facebook can also make exceptions, and that good-faith, well-reviewed research projects, particularly those aimed at independently assessing manipulation and propaganda efforts on the platform, are a case I'd strongly recommend. But to say that Facebook has no right or obligation to decide is false on its face.
> Since we are omnivores, perhaps we should eat a variety of everything in moderation.

That's even worse. Moderation is meaningless except in retrospect - in this context it just means the correct amount. It's not even the moderation fallacy - if I eat from 1-3 hamburgers every day, moderation doesn't tell me that I should be eating 2 because it's in the middle.

At least the "mostly plants" part of the yuppie diet cliché takes some sort of falsifiable stand. I can know for sure that I eat mostly plants, I can never know when I'm eating "moderately," or "not too much."
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It wasn't rushed under Biden, at least in the sense that it didn't skip any steps or ignore trial data (the whole vaccine process was as quick as possible under both Presidents, of course).

There was a real worry that it would be maliciously rushed under Trump.

Imagine this: Trump guts the FDA leadership and installs fringe scientists. Those scientists then skip steps, ignore trial data, and push out the vaccine.

If you think that was a far out possibility, then you're likely right-wing. The Scott Atlas situation alone should convince you that this was possible, let alone everything else about Trump.
I have been mouseless for over 30 years. (The office being the exception but I still use it minimally.)

The issue is not speed, it's control. Precision, if you will. I can automate repeated tasks with the keyboard. Doing that with the mouse is beyond awkward; it's counterintuitive.

Mouse is for interaction. Keyboard is for automation.

(Obviously for some tasks, e.g., ones involving graphics, we need a mouse.)

Is automation faster than interaction. You tell me. Try doing everything your computer does by hand. I will give you $50 million for your efforts. Then report back with your discoveries.

Generally no one (seriously) programs a computer exclusively with a mouse. A keyboard is used. Surely, there must be a reason for this.

Of course, the "tech" company model of the world needs users to not be programmers. The mouse is taken as a signal "we have a human on the line". Automation is taken as a signal "it's a bot". Truly, the only significant difference between the two is that it is far more difficult to manipulate, analyse and serve ads to "bots" and charge advertisers money for it. Users who can program the computer to automate tasks can escape online advertising and tracking in ways that others cannot.
That would be weird if that's what she was wanting, but I don't think that's a fair assumption. Nowhere in the article does it say she's trying to force the city to throw the homeless out. It does say:

> Todd’s lawsuit accuses the city of allowing the encampment at the 101 overpass on Gower to remain for a “substantial amount of time,” creating dangerous conditions for pedestrians and drivers. The city also did not post signs warning drivers that there would be “excessive foot traffic” in the street due to the encampments, the lawsuit said.

She might be hoping that the city will move the homeless people elsewhere, put up signage, or possibly even come up with their own solution.
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I can totally relate to this, especially the hacked Magento build part and "you won't leave until it's done".
Good lord, that was my life for so long.

I've had the opportunity to meet a lot of junior devs and I'm envious of their jobs. It was a lot wilder and messier when I started but I now see juniors in more developed, mature roles than me. I can't help but be envious.

The real trick is to not get burn out and lose your love for the industry.
surely attaching an onscroll handler would also work and be less intrusive?
Is ray-tracing the iterative improvement that requires we keep buying new graphics cards every two years for the foreseeable future? Perhaps nVidia has found another avenue to keep selling chips to gamers at a normal cadence post moore's law. Obviously they have no trouble selling chips for crypto farms or AI applications however it seems like game performance stays acceptable on older cards longer than back in the 2000's and early 2010's
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I seriously don't know what the solution is. Enlighten us?
So these people should be wearing masks then? Sounds reasonable to me, not sure how imposing masks on vaccinated people helps.
Being in that business, I think I remember them working on a goofy sort of film recorder.

Didn't they have that shop in Richmond in a bad part of town?
Assuming that the rate of occurrence of talents is constant, less population means less intellectual / scientific / technological capacity, too. This may end in a decline in military might, and eventually erosion of political independence.
The rising interest in remote work is largely an American phenomenon and an important trend to understand for its long-run impact on US productivity growth. The bottom line is that remote work is here to stay; workers hate commuting. The increasing popularity of remote work combined with new technology should lead to higher US productivity than the last 2 decades.

This is a story about commuting and the increasing popularity of work-from-home, and we will start with an anecdote
Converting the quantum model into a classical model as the limit is taken of greater distances is an explanation of why we don't see quantum mechanics in our daily lives. It shows that no extra dynamics are necessary to "kill" quantum effects on macroscopic scales, because within the laws of quantum mechanics, it is already explained.
I'm not meaning to take sides here, but there are very real assertions being made that at the very least vaccination lowers the statistical probability of death to <1%, which is obviously seems like something we can verify with admission and fatality data.
Maybe children want social media, and if you turn scratch into a no-fun place, they'll quickly find another site to talk to friends on?
How about...

4) You recognize this as yet another crisis that the government is using to unconstitutionally increase its powers. 9/11 and the Patriot Act and Iraq/Afghanistan being a recent example.

This stuff happens again and again and yet somehow the default position is “convince me why this is a bad thing.”

History education needs more funding, and fast.
Part of the fraud triangle is rationalization. People who commit fraud often believe they're justified in doing it.
The problem is that batteries themselves don't have a concept of "full". Measuring the state of charge in Li-ion cells is not easy as the voltage curve can be quite flat, so you have to use all kinds of heuristics to determine what a safe charge level is.
The country I’m in right now, Hungary, seems to be doing as you suggest.

They have about 75% vaccinated I think (a mix of just about all the vaccines available anywhere) and there is no mask mandate nor proof-of-vaccine mandate as of a few weeks ago. (Airport might be an exception, I haven’t been.). Interestingly it is also against the law to require anyone to NOT wear a mask — and I see about one person in 10 with a mask on the tram, usually none in the shops.

Border controls to neighbor countries are very light so there isn’t really anything preventing the unvaccinated or for that matter infected from entering the country.

I have no idea how this will turn out, I personally expect a big new wave among the unvaxxed in Europe after the summer, but if you’re curious what happens with an implicit policy of leaving the unvaccinated to their fate, keep an eye on Hungary, especially when the cold drives everyone indoors around October.

(And there were a LOT of restrictions before the vaccination rate went up, but unlike Germany nobody was out protesting against them.)
I think we are talking about two different things. If you are talking about logic, formalism and objectively verifiable things, sure, I totally agree with you. But I am talking about principles that should govern life. Unless you pivot to a Higher moral Authority, I am just taking things to their logical end and saying morality is arbitrary and no amount of philosophy will change that.
> One of them still doesn't have their sense of taste and smell back, after nearly 3 weeks post symptoms. They describe being brain fog, and tiredness that they didn't have before, as well as an "itch" in their lungs when exercising that they didn't have before.

They'd might want to look into the I-RECOVER Protocol for treating Long COVID:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover...

https://youtu.be/ZCYM2HW2Ayw?t=321

Also there's emerging data suggesting Long COVID symptoms are being triggered by the reactivation of the Epstein Barr Virus.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233978/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAmH7IpUpbI
If you were guaranteed some perpetual income if you were unable to work for any reason (including getting fired and just not being able to find a job) I think it'd be a great model. In the US I think the model is too risky given the huge salaries and our collective precarity.
>They don't seem to be able to grasp that maybe there are different viewpoints in this world

You mean like you're doing?

Kettle, meet Pot.
That stuff is research/science, not engineering.
I'm just using the VAERS data. Trust the science.
No - on a local level, people of goodwill from both parties can do meaningful good for all our citizens.

This doesn't have to be a R vs D issue.
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This focus on the immunocompromised is so strange to me. Bad flu season? Nobody really cared about them. Bad cold season? Again, nobody really cared about them. Yet covid comes around, the vaccines are produced, and suddenly everyone keeps talking about the immunocompromised. At some point, we have to just tell those who are immunocompromised that we're going to reopen society, and they have to be responsible for managing their own risk.
Trump isn't running for CA gov, not sure what you're referencing.
This article does a good job explaining how PyTorch gained an advantage over TensorFlow. The 1.0 release of TensorFlow with graphs and feed_dicts was a little clunky but made sense. After 1.0 the second-system effect took hold quickly. Eager mode, Keras, TFX ... it all started to look like a mess.
Documentation is in the README.md at:

https://github.com/redcrafter/verilog2factorio
> Minority communities have the lowest vaccination rates.

Do we know if this has more to do with unethical bosses not allowing paid time off to get vaccinated, or more to do with echo chambers about vaccine safety, or something else?

There's definitely overlap between these, of course (an anti-vax boss might create both of these problems in their workplace).
It's not (only?) related to leap years. It appears to be related to the month of April and some other weird stuff.

-- leap year 2012:
2019-01-31 to 2012-01-30 --> 7 years 1 day
2012-01-30 to 2019-01-31 --> 7 years 1 day

2019-01-31 to 2012-02-29 --> 6 years 11 months <---- Weird stuff
2012-02-29 to 2019-01-31 --> 6 years 11 months 3 days <---- Weird stuff

2019-01-31 to 2012-02-30 --> 6 years 10 months 30 days (2012-02-30 does not exist)
2012-02-30 to 2019-01-31 --> 6 years 10 months 30 days (2012-02-30 does not exist)

2019-01-31 to 2012-03-30 --> 6 years 10 months 1 day
2012-03-30 to 2019-01-31 --> 6 years 10 months 1 day

2019-01-31 to 2012-04-30 --> 6 years 9 months <---- April (any day in April)
2012-04-30 to 2019-01-31 --> 6 years 9 months 1 day

2019-01-31 to 2012-05-01 --> 6 years 8 months 30 days
2012-05-01 to 2019-01-31 --> 6 years 8 months 30 days

-- non-leap year 2013:
2019-01-31 to 2013-04-30 --> 5 years 9 months <---- April (any day in April)
2013-04-30 to 2019-01-31 --> 5 years 9 months 1 day

I stumbled upon it while testing some JavaScript time and date frameworks and wanted to use Wolfram|Alpha because I was somewhat confused with the correct interval between two dates.
>Just get your shot instead of playing armchair epidemiologist.

I've already had covid in 2020 and recently had another antibody test which still showed a strong response...
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Huh, in what way was it off by a factor of 10?

Population of USA is 330M [0]

2,854,838 registered deaths in 2019, which is 0.8% of the population, or about 8 in 1000 [1]

As of December 31 2020, around 400k people had died of covid in the USA, but let's just be conservative and pretend 600k people died in 2020. 600k out of 330M is 0.18% of the population or about 2 in 1000 [2]

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat...
We've looked into both, in GEO it would be just moving to graveyard orbit, In LEO there are large objects in the 1100 km range that we'd like to bring down to ~400km before going back up.
Maybe they would move elsewhere if people stop catering their food? I agree the city has a problem, but to me she exacerbates it (and OP on this thread seems to agree)

ahh the downvotes with no reply have begun, is this reddit now?
Yes, totally — we are only as healthy and as happy as the least of our neighbors. If I had to forgo two day shipping or driving in order to bring down traffic crashes, improve air quality, etc. that seems like a totally fair trade-off. The alternative doesn't look all that good.
I'm sorry to be so dismissive, but...

This is the stupidest thing I've read this year, by a long shot.
Not even remotely true.

Vaccines reduce ones chance of acquiring a Delta infection by a significant margin (not as high as previous variants but still significant). Even if you assume just 50% effectiveness in preventing disease (which is very conservative), that dramatically lowers the R-value and slows spread.
What is your definition of 'unit of time'? Neither 'month' nor 'day' have fixed durations (the latter due to leap seconds). So why should we consider 'day' a unit of time but not 'month'?
OK so we are on the same page. If every private business requires a vaccine, the people who don't want to get vaccinated can just do something else other than go to businesses.
It sounds like "relative claim frequency" is a weirdly expressed ratio, ie Charger owners make fire claims at a rate 2.88x that of the average across all passenger vehicles.
I haven't heard anything to the contrary, so I'll assume that's true. But as far as "serious illness" goes, I'd say it's pretty serious once you're admitted to a hospital.
I see. Thanks. I take it thermal differential between battery and outdoor air won't work for some reason?
Hospitalizations in the US have increased 400% since the beginning of July, and in NYC specifically[1], they have doubled with steep positive rate-of-change.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-trends.pag...
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> NVidia's offering involves being kicked off if you stay connected too long.

8 hours, which is a pretty decent gaming session. You can reconnect just afterwards anyways.

> but Stadia is likely to join Google's list of discontinued products

Highly unlikely, they're spending tens of millions to get EA and Ubisoft's catalogues on Stadia.

In any case, cloud gaming works, sells, and is very useful for some subset of users, even more so with the ongoing global chip shortage. I have both Geforce Now and Stadia and I'm very happy with them. Playing on my laptop and TV ( with a Chromecast) is great. Playing from my phone in a hotel room is a fun experience. Stadia even makes financial sense, because there's a free version ( at 1080p/30fps), you only need to buy the games ( which you would anyways regardless of the platform), saving you hundreds of (insert currency) in the process. The paid one is 10 eur/usd/month for better quality and some free games. And if you're the type of person that wants 4K 120Hz 60fps, this isn't for you and isn't the point.
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What would be the point of making a voting system secure when you don't need identification to vote?
The FDA did approve the vaccines under an emergency use authorization. Hundreds of millions of people have been vaccinated without significant deviation from expected outcomes. What do you expect final FDA approval to accomplish?
I wonder how much of this is free trial abuse like https://therecord.media/crypto-mining-gangs-are-running-amok... and how much was real trials?
-I recall having read of at least two incidents where Norwegian firefighters simply dumped a truckload of sand over the burning vehicle.

This happened in places where simply leaving it to burn out wasn't an option.

Crude, but effective, apparently. Massive heatsink+depriving the fire of any oxygen not supplied by the decomposing battery.
With millions facing eviction, it is really sad that many people still see the homeless as needing drug counseling to fix their homelessness. It couldn't be that the cost of housing has skyrocketed and now in many places it costs upwards of $1500 a month for rent in a small apartment and the punishment for losing a job and falling behind on debt is having to pay even more for rent or just not being able to have a safe place to live. Makes you wonder if drugs is the cause of homelessness or if the way people treat those facing economic hardships often results in drug usage.
That is low for an off-road vehicle where civilisation could be quite far away. My Suzuki and Chevy off-road vehicles are calibrated the same. My Buick thinks low is 24 miles of range.
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> You still need a physical machine to access "the cloud", so don't you still have all the expensive problems related to managing a fleet of PCs, but now you have to do it x2?

Microsoft Intune/Endpoint manager is actually pretty easy to setup/enroll laptops. Autopilot takes a bit of work, but it does get you to the point where IT doesn't have to do anything on a new laptop shipped to a user.

Ultimately if you don't want your users doing much on their laptops you can make it pretty simple to manage them.

> Is data security so important that some companies are willing to pay 5x hardware costs and 2x maintenance costs for it?

It really depends on the industry. Most folks aren't doing this because security isn't a priority.

Some firms may not survive a data breach, others might incur tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in costs (directly and indirectly) for one large breach. These folks do care and will spend whatever it takes because it's got a business justification.
> Because of the encampment, you couldn’t walk on the sidewalk. You had to walk on the street,” she said.

Does not logically follow. LA is a big place; you can choose to walk completely elsewhere, unless someone is telling you to go the unsafe route at gunpoint.

> she and another person, a homeless man with whom she was walking

So she is knows the blockaders. Effectively, her friends blocked the sidewalk, leading to the alleged problem and incident.

Wow, good friggin' luck with the suit, lady.
> Very few people want to “throw out” homeless people.

you clearly haven't met californians
Not to mention the adults who want to but can’t take sick time in case they feel side effects.