skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of our graduate students is thrilled about this paper, although he tends to do that with any new CS advance that seems sensational and that we barely understand (we do bioinformatics). He said that it stood to reason that if it can mmult 100GB/s/core, then we could matrix multiply 12TB in a minute!

Could you translate into practitioner-level language what are the practical limitations of this method; specifically, what would the error rates induced by approximation be under some practical scenarios, when would it make sense and not make sense to use it, etc? There is a complex equation in the paper describing the theoretical error bounds, but I have no idea whether in some practical scenario multiplying some normally distributed variables, whether that would mean a 0.1%, 1%, 5%, 10% error.

Personally I think it only makes sense to use this kind of method in some real-time algorithm where speed is of the essence, the downstream results of the mmult are themselves used in some other approximation (like many ML applications), and emphatically not to make the process of drawing biological conclusions from painstakingly derived data a few minutes faster for the analyst.

I fear that you have made an impressive, but dangerous, tool to people who don't know what they're doing.
We should not consider the US to be a good sample, given the sky-high obesity rates.
They don't state what chain system they're comparing it to. Given the coverage in the article, their base case may be a three+ wheeled cargo bike with a long / complex chain run.

In those cases, a complex chain run results in significant energy loss compared to a regular two-wheeled bicycle.

Back when I bicycled, I first noticed this when I added recumbent bicycles / tricycles to my "fleet". The two wheeled recumbent had a long chain and guide wheels. The three wheeled recumbent had a long chain, guide wheels, and guide tubes.
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I imagine he, as a teenager, doesn't have a "main house" of his own; the allotment is a way to get out of his parents' house during the warmer months.
How does that not mostly arbitrage itself away? i.e. import two as you say and stick one on eBay or whatever's popular?
You also have the experience of setting up a network in a "professional way" that you can use on the job, etc. Also, maybe OP just enjoys the process / finds it fun?
I mean, that makes sense. The immigrants are there to replace all the missing kids (as well as unskilled workers).
>I've read they already have (relatively crude) bio-weapons that can target specific genomic sequences. The data they are now getting will allow them to improve upon it dramatically.

Do you have a source for this claim?
This is awful behavior, and I'm not trying to diminish that in any way, but... Who sticks with the OEM software? One of the first things I do with any x86-based system is wipe the drive and install a fresh copy of Windows or a distro of choice.
I'd consider waiting a couple weeks. There's several rumors that the redesigned Mac Mini is coming soon. It should have an 8 big-core (and 2-4 little cores) variant and probably up to 64gb of RAM as options in a much smaller package (most of the M1 mini was empty space because it reused the x86 case).
> Exceedingly few people have that much cash on hand.

Minimal comfortable retirement at 65 requires is what, ~ 1M USD in assets? What the FDIC rule implies, is you can't do this in cash. So obviously, inflation makes it stupid to do that in cash, but even without inflation this FDIC rule basically forces you into playing the wall street game (aka subsidizing rich people) in order to retire comfortably. Think about that!

Of course, in our economy inflation is real, too, so pretty soon they are going to have to increase this to beyond $250k even.
Nova is an up-and-coming new framework http://novaframework.org/
The fact that enhancers can be transcribed is quite interesting. I’m not sure what’s the function of these transcripts though. It seems like the transcription is terminated prematurely once RNA pol realizes it’s not a functional gene.
So in short, the audit is an advertising stunt and will say nothing at all about the security of the actual product.
Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, what do you suppose the decisions makers could have done in the moment that would have persuaded you and other contrarians that they had a plan worth following, or at least worth trying?
I'm no hardware expert, but I gather the USB2 subsystem had failed, and that required the motherboard replacement. Made sense to me.
So what you're saying is all study designs are acceptable. All study results should be trusted. We should trust studies that can't be replicated, because "something about translating London into Paris".

What you're describing isn't science. If you want psychology to be held to a different standard, then that's fine. But then you can't call it science.
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Meson is a big improvement over CMake to be sure, but it doesn't solve the fundamental issues. Same paradigm, nicer syntax.
> use of money is not the same as the marginal utility

Yes, but as I said above, in this case having use is defined relative to promoting your own satisfaction as a consumer.

I think you are trying to tease apart "utility" vs "use", but to have utility is the property of having use. It's a question of what the utility/use is in reference to, and for economists, that utility is in reference to preference satisfaction by the consumers.
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In order to rollout a whole new ID system you'd need so way to validate the identity of the recipient before you gave them a new one. Presumably the easiest way would be just to turn in your old ID card, which many people don't have, per the previous comment.
That's why I said "thought to" instead of "proven to". There is enough evidence to show that aluminum in drinking water accelerates Alzheimer's [1], while the antiperspirant is hypothesized, but not proven or disproven yet.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/152/1/59/139168
The approach seems two-pronged:

1. Those who are aware of VPNs but have the money and would like to support Firefox can do so by using their product.

2. Those who aren't very aware of the vpn scene can trust a relatively more prevalent name in Firefox while still getting a reliable service and giving them money.

It's not ideal from a value perspective but I don't feel like it is egregious.
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> I can't see this succeeding when the laptop I have to assemble myself costs more than a prebuilt laptop with much better specs.

I mean, if all that mattered were specs, we would all be running desktops at full desktop-class TDP. Or laptops made out of cheap bendy plastic with the latest CPUs.

Ergonomics matter, build quality matters, and for some the ability to adapt and upgrade is also part of the spec.
I've uninstalled Docker Desktop and installed podman in WSL2. So far I haven't had a problem.

Granted not everyone can do this if they have a dependency on the Docker ecosystem, but as someone who just used Docker desktop to run and build containers on the cli or via Ansible, podman is nearly a drop in replacement. As a bonus, theres no docker bridge IP conflict I need to worry about.

Edit: Alternatively, this also looks comprehensive: https://dev.to/bowmanjd/install-docker-on-windows-wsl-withou...
College as is practiced in the United states is a front to move money from the people paying for tuition into the pockets of administrators and little more.

That needs to stop
I challenge the premise of your question. Steve Huffman is able to do what he wants even to the point of altering statements made by someone else's account in an unpopular sub. [1]

He's no different than the mods that are lambasting him. If anything I'd say what's happening now is a consequence of his two-faced approach to free speech: "we're for free speech" when its in his personal interest and "we've never been a free speech company" when it doesn't. The most recent rule changes regarding who's defined as oppressed are a testament to that. The mods have simply copied and amplified that strategy by brigading or blockading subreddits they don't like using autobanning anyone who has posted in them.

In short Huffman (as well as Ohanian) has done this to himself.

And in my opinion it's good to have reddit alternative sites. Since Victoria was canned and Ellen Pao went on her crusade banning subreddits left and right (supposedly at insistence of Huffman and Ohanian), at least once every year afterwards there's been a massive purging of subreddits celebrated by a large swath of users until it happens to them or a sub of their political affiliation. While some might not like Voat, Ruqqus, Saiddit, etc. for their own personal (usually political) reasons, it would be hypocritical for someone to believe its wrong to splinter off into more specialized Reddit-likes when Reddit itself, massively gained from the Digg Exodus.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/
You wrote: "destructively over-burdensome"

How do you feel about my suggestion of 50% inheritance tax without loop holes and minimums? It should decrease inherited wealth by greater than a geometric rate.

If any Germans / Austrians / Taiwanese / Koreans / Japanese are reading this thread: Can you comment about how to handle inheriting a family business than is worth more than 1M EUR? (They are all famous for "Der Mittelstand"[1].) My point: When you begin to add exceptions, 1M EUR quickly becomes 10M EUR and 100M EUR! Idea: You "pay" the tax on a family business inheritance buy guaranteeing payments to national tax authority / treasury as long as the business is open. (Assume business does not go bankrupt!) You can discount the future cashflows and get a present value that appears as a debt on the company balance sheet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
Taste.

I realize this is unsatisfying to many, but there really is no other choice. A strict empiricist has no way of knowing whether or not art is good. In fact, a purely empirical worldview will find it hard to have art in it at all. There's no way to distinguish subjective from arbitrary.

If you do accept that taste exists and that subjective != arbitrary, we can move forward and discuss it without expecting externally verifiable tests for it. If you can't, maybe you shouldn't believe that art exists at all... or that we can gain any knowledge of it if it does.

Substituting price or popularity for quality is redundant. Just think in terms of price or popularity, and forget about quality. Calling popularity quality just because it's easier to define or measure muddies things up, whether or not you believe in taste.
Digital TV in Belgium now includes unskippable ads, including in recordings of those shows. The reason why people switched to digital TV subscriptions, of course, was to be able to skip those ads in the first place.

Apparently Netflix can afford to offer a wide variety of content for a small monthly fee, without any ads, and spend money on content creation; but digital TV stations somehow don't make enough money off of subscriptions which are an order of magnitude more expensive. Economies of scale, perhaps?
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And again it's the normies that suffer this abuse from these companies and it's not going to stop. Yes we can use custom roms, esoteric ADB hacks etc. to stop this abuse but your average consumer? They can't. Their devices they trust a significant part of their life with gets invaded by these sick marketing people thinking it's somehow conceivable for this to be OK. And there are developers out there that comply with that, that indeed help them. It takes decades for legislation to fix these issues, until then it is our duty to stop this where ever we can.

Please stop helping these sick corpo fucks. Do not implement this shit, do not help them abuse their customers against their will. Remember all those ethical dilemmas presented in Star Trek? Remember the evil Admiral ordering Captain Picard to do something against his conscious? "There are times, sir, when... men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders."[0]. Remember these lessons when they ask you to abuse the privacy and freedom of their customers and DO NOT COMPLY!

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> The result is esentially the same, but the way you get there contains an extra step and it is this extra step that is the source of the vast majority of (rare) adverse reactions. Blood clots etc.

The blood clotting issue was found in the Adenovirus vector vaccines, not the mRNA vaccines.
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Lenovo left a sour taste for me after they pushed a BIOS update through Windows Update on my daughter's Flex that bricked the device (in the middle of a school-week, while she was doing online school).

There were dozens of reports of the same problem from other owners of that model, yet they refused to acknowledge the issue was theirs or offer any self-serve option (I remember most laptops nowadays can re-flash the BIOS from an attached USB with specific format and layout, but I presume they saved a couple of cents by removing that feature from the Flex models). Luckily the laptop was still in warranty and I got it "fixed" after 6 weeks, but will never purchase another Lenovo product again.
Will there be an option for a different keyboard?

It's been some 10 years since everyone seemed to have settled on the "chiclet" style keyboards, to my own sadness
I listen to a lot of progressive metal/math metal and they basically live and die by music theory. While I am not the most musically educated individual, from my listening experience it allows them to defy the listeners expectations. Without this structure the complexity of their music would be closer to grindcore or something which is more chaotic.

Using music theory they can understand why certain composition works and then use the listeners intuition against them to subvert those expectations while still providing something coherent.

An example is something like Bleed by Meshuggah. Most people assume it uses some complex time signature but I am pretty sure its just 4/4. Periphery will have pieces that sound 4/4 but are actually 6/8s. Basically most time signatures (if not all, idk) are effectively extended 4/4, so they can create a riff that eventually hits the 4/4 your internal clock expects to hear but in between you can't necessarily find the pattern.

But like you said, music theory tells you all the rules so you can break them. It's sort of like any other set of rules. You need to understand why they are there so you can understand the right why to subvert them.
That's the downside of such integrated components. The upside is cheaper manufacturing, cheaper less assembly, less power draw, and less physical space.
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Yes, I also thought the GP comment was strange. The picture I had in mind was this, which seems to be what William Gibson intended:

http://www.sensesfive.com/wp-content/uploads/tvstatic.jpg

Not that author intentions matter at all.
Regulation exists to prevent doing things the bad way, not to prevent doing things altogether.
A reasonable point.

It is, however, much easier to say it of a service that has a history of flailing around about how and what they want money for than one that has a consistent history of not being surprising.
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> I usually can […] overcome my urges and make a conscious decision to behave this or that way out of some logic

But what made you make that decision instead of a different one (or none)? You generally have no choice but to make the exact deliberate choice that you make in the given moment.
I think that the Twitter thread is less about bias from datasets used to train ML apps and is more in reference to the application of biased ML apps that are supposed to identify criminals (which have been historically bad at identifying non-white individuals apart from each other).

I feel as though the general message that the tweet threads author is trying to convey isn’t very clear. I wish they would clarify what they mean.
What is this, if “time taken” was a minimum wage job? This analysis seems weird…
mRNA vaccines deliver mRNA to the target cell, via merging a lipid bubble into the cell membrane and dumping the contents into the cytoplasm. The mRNA is then translated into a specially designed variant of the spike protein that is embedded facing out of the cell membrane. As it happens, the physical details of embedded protein translation means that the spike proteins never see the cytoplasm at all, being restricted to the endoplasmic reticulum.
> What do you mean by saying punishing them?

Taking agency away from them, by forbidding behavior you deem inappropriate.

The most effective programs are the conditional cash transfer ones and they are extremely successful in bootstrapping families out of poverty even in the poorest places of the poorest countries, right? For the Brazilian one I am most familiar with, it was estimated that for every dollar invested in it, 2.5 would return to the government as taxes in 10 years.
note that the FDIC was created AFTER the Fed, so you don't know that the reason isn't that "the fed fucked things up and created an economic environment that necessitated the FDIC".
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I got tinnitus in both ears after first dose of Pfizer (got a very strong reaction in general, was feeling sick and weak for about 3 days after first shot). Been hesitant about getting the second because I don't want it to get worse.

Interesting to read that I'm not the only one with this reaction. It's been 5 months now so I also assume that its permanent.