skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From earlier discussions here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643551 "10,000 global variables"), Toyota's conservative, arguably antiquated approach to software architecture wouldn't necessarily prove reliable as that software evolves.

Trying to assess whether thousands of global variables are still playing nice during a major rewrite to accommodate a new chip would be definitely be difficult and time consuming!

Not that a fast-and-loose approach is ideal, either.

Writing reliable software in the context of an organization is hard.
And AUTOSAR is a nightmare of a framework where it's nigh impossible to understand what is going on because of the crazy abstractions.
In addition to that, it's certainly not a 'glitch'. A genetic glitch would be a (possibly short-lived) mutation which is still in the 'beta' phase, so to speak, or else a harmful side effect of an otherwise beneficial mutation (e.g. albinism). This is a paradigmatic example of an ordinary useful mutation which persisted because it increased fitness.
You and I disagree about what is necessary to have a compelling “metaverse.” I do not think that 3D graphics, or even 2D graphics, are a requirement for creating a socially satisfying and rich online multiplayer universe. There’s a reason that RuneScape still has a huge following, and that some people still play MUDs even though there are higher fidelity environments available.

It sounds like you are working to enable VR based massively multiplayer games with very low energy/compute requirements. I absolutely applaud you for that. I think it’s awesome. It just doesn’t match your original claim, that performance better than js is necessary for creating a viable game in 2021.

Possibly you meant 3D/VR MMO, but that’s not what I took you to mean when I first responded to your comment about js as a viable engine for communal game building.
The risk of contracting COVID at all? Maybe. The risk of harm from COVID as serious as a head injury? No way.
I don't think you can overdo it when it comes to Jansci

“There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann” — George Pólya

“von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us.” — Edward Teller

...One afternoon around 4:50 p.m. John von Neumann came by and saw what Fermi had on the blackboard and asked what he was doing. So Enrico told him and John von Neumann said “That’s very interesting.” He came back about 15 minutes later and gave him the answer. Fermi leaned against his doorpost and told me, “You know that man makes me feel I know no mathematics at all.” — Enrico Fermi

”You know, Herb, Johnny can do calculations in his head ten times as fast as I can. And I can do them ten times as fast as you can, so you can see how impressive Johnny is” — Enrico Fermi again

“One had the impression of a perfect instrument whose gears were machined to mesh accurately to a thousandth of an inch.” — Eugene Wigner

It goes on and on...

https://superintelligence.fandom.com/wiki/John_von_Neumann_(...
Nothing in the neolib Anglosphere and its colonies. We grant power by skill at the accumulation of money (which we call a meritocracy - a religion with credit as merit and cash as grace), so Facebook is only answerable to its corporate peers. Those are the people it can't piss off.

In other countries, there are power centers awarded by other than cash accumulation. Xi, Putin, and MBS aren't particularly worried about Facebook.

Europe is the only place making an attempt, but that's because they have a post-WWII extra-capitalist social consensus sponsored (and enforced) by US military spending. Any real flexing by the US, and Europe either backs down or turns to China.

This article is typical Guardian legislative fanfiction, where we pretend that rules are put into place based on how well they might work to achieve liberal philosophical aims, rather than by power. If any politician or movement amassed the power to do any of these things, the Guardian would devote all of its energy to attacking them.
I did not expect that the search for XSLT would be behind the content truth gateway.
I mean... who cares about the reference, these people are gonna be imminently employable anywhere. The only thing on the line for them was _this_ job, which they probably liked, but doing a good thing and risking something you like is just courage.
Have you looked at any vehicle from the past 3-5 years? I own one with drive by wire and you can feel and hear it reacting to variables when you push it to the limits (either in inclement terrain or on a closed course). The linked video has specific video examples from production vehicles as well.
Masks protect others, not just the wearer, perhaps even with an emphasis on the others. That might create a stronger social pressure for wearing a mask, and avoidance of stigma might compel people to wear one even in situations where it doesn't actually do much.

There may be lots of other factors in play considering that these kinds of choices are largely social, so this might not actually be the reason the students make those choices, but that's a fairly obvious difference.
And you have bike thieves screwing your wheels loose for whatever reason. Bike theft was a big problem at least when I was at Stanford years ago, and my front wheel once came off when I was biking (thankfully I was wearing a helmet). Guy at bike shop speculated that it was the handiwork of a thief, who might have been interrupted mid act.
I love when people ask me a question, and then someone tells me that's wrong because I had a different response than theirs. It's not a "what's your opinion" type of question. It was a simple yes/no question directly targeted to the reader. My no response in no way suggested that nobody else anywhere ever should no longer receive mail. The response I received was just trying too hard to twist things.
Yup, it's used widely in end-of-life care here in the UK (I remember my mum once saying to me, when we were discussing euthanasia, that there's no doctor in the country who hasn't 'accidentally' given a little too much diamorphine to someone who was on the verge of death and in pain).

It's useful, but I imagine it's tainted in the US by the association with street heroin - somewhat curiously, since fentanyl apparently hasn't been tainted by its recreational associations.
Biking could indeed be even safer in the Netherlands if people wore helmets:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neur.2020.0010

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...

Arguing that it’s a small optimization is one thing, but that doesn’t mean it’s “not needed”.
Helmets mess up your hair.
I wrote,
"teach at various levels of college from community college to R1"
Very nice. This is gentle like movie dinosaurs are "cheeky lizards". I'd hate to see the "Turkish prison BDSM porn" version.

I'm looking at graphics code, again, from a "I know enough C to shoot myself in the foot and want to draw a circle on the screen" perspective. It's hilarious how much "stack" there is in all the ways of doing that; I look at some of this shit and want to go back to Xlib for its simple grace.
In this case we are just witnessing the dot-com period of electric vehicles. Everbody and their grandma wants to place bold bets on a few companies. It's (hopefully) clear to investors that most of these bets will fail but then again a few might pay off really well.
hey you forgot 5g
With Python it is about the ecosystem. Although jupyter is second only to Excel in ‘programming model not fit to purpose’ you can get it done w/ pandas, sci-kit learn, pillow, etc. Maybe I am crazy but I think it is fun writing async clientservers in Python.
There's an incentive for chip vendors to not standardize since it makes migration hard and drives vendor lock-in. The CPU cores are one part but equally important is the peripherals and external featuresets.
But you look like a dork. And what about your hair?
Thanks! I’m a JS dev who happens to be very interested in getting into graphics.
Strange anecdote: I once organized a workshop on reasoning about uncertainty and one of the attendants was a health official working on bike accident statistics. According to her, if going solely by the statistics, helmets would have to be prohibited in our country because people riding bikes with helmets had a significantly elevated risk of grave traffic accidents in comparison to those without helmets. Of course, she also said that you really couldn't use the statistics in this way and we agreed that it seemed likely that helmets could prevent serious head injuries.

Still, it was an odd finding. Presumably, people with helmets drove faster or more carelessly but she did not have any evidence for that at the time.

Edit (just in case): 1. I'm not an expert on any of this and it's just an anecdote. 2. I recommend wearing a good, certified helmet.
Connection Machine / Thinking Machines Corporation use of "scalar-like SIMD" was around in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Look up *Lisp, the parallel language that Thinking Machines Corporation used. You can still find *Lisp manuals today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp

Intel implemented SIMD using a technique they called SWAR: SIMD within a Register (aka: the 64-bit MMX registers), which eventually evolved into XMM (SSE), YMM (AVX), and ZMM (AVX512).

Today's GPUs are programmed using the old 1980s style / Connection Machine *Lisp, which is clearly the source of inspiration for HLSL / GLSL / OpenCL / CUDA / etc. etc.

Granted, today's GPUs are still SWAR (GCN's vGPR really is just a 64-wide x 32-bit register). We can see with languages like ispc (Intel's SPMD program compiler), that we can indeed implement a CUDA-like language on top of AVX / XMM registers.*
I don’t like it because I don’t enjoy JS. Node itself seems great, it just needs a large standard library and mandate some form of Typescript. Even if it had those changes I’d stick to C# or take a look at Elixir.
I completely agree with you. My comment was made in regards of removing plastics for your health. Not a comment on capitalism or equating individual action to system reform.
I remember watching A Faster Horse, a documentary on the Mustang. There was an interview with an accountant type at Ford who pointed out a three cent difference in part cost per car multiplied to millions of dollars at their scale. A $1 part might have given him a heart attack.
This is the same story as every other large government initiative. Wasteful and often counterproductive to the stated goal. Trees plant themselves, ya'll! If we stop cutting them down they'll do fine.
Well look at Erlang/Elixir. Async everything is fine if your language is immutable and has preemptable execution.

You just write code, and the system figures out how to break things up.

But that’s a system that was designed from the ground up to be async. In JavaScript it was added after the fact, and you as a programmer have to deliberately annotate your functions to be aware of what is and isn’t async.
Just curious, what non toy drones these days use wifi for their control link? I've been in the hobby drone space for 5 years and really have only seen cheap toys drones use wifi (due to limited range).

I know DJI uses some communication method built on top of wifi but is it the type that is susceptible to standard wifi based attacks?
IG have over a 1bn users now, they had 20-30mn at time of acquisition. Maybe FB felt they were a threat, but it's definitely not a given that they would have been equally successful alone.

Whatsapp, OTOH is a completely different issue and probably should have to be divested.
If it wasn’t for async everything your web browser would be locked up and unresponsive half the time. It’s one reason why Electron rules the roost…. Look at how often conventions GUI apps go out to lunch.
Hey,

I am the person you are talking about!

Glad to see you like it, thanks for posting here!
Indeed, when someone points out "you cannot do that because...", I feel the urge to point them out to what was happening on 1960's hardware and how much their watch outperforms a Connection Machine.
I was suggesting that useless ICOs or similar vaporware crypto projects are rarely considered crimes in most countries.

The ICO typically gives you a shitcoin in exchange. You technically get what you were promised. It's just that the utility for said shitcoin never appears, but that wouldn't count as a crime.

Making a blockchain-powered cat food company and raising tons of money from investors without delivering anything is not a crime either, that's the expected outcome for 90% of startups.
I’d like to add to your points

4) Graduate programs are indeed different from Post Graduate programs. Before your doctoral degree, you were given a question and asked for an answer. Perhaps sometimes, you were also given questions for which known answer existed. In your doctoral degree, you will most likely come up with the question and the answer. That’s a shift of mind, you may need time for adjusting.
Thought experiment: what if we looked at wearing a helmet as a choice the same way that anti-vaxxers would say the COVID-19 vaccine is a choice? If so, should people who choose not to wear a helmet while bicycling be subjected to the same social and economic consequences as people who "choose" not to get vaccinated?
Here in Japan you’ll literally see people alone in their cars with a mask. Maybe half the cars that pass have a masked driver. Obviously it makes no sense, but again if you need a mask where you’re coming from and going to, it just fades into the background.
The lack of bad anecdotes on that page combined with the fact 13k people daily ride their bike on campus would only serve to make me not feel like wearing a helmet there...

Yes that first story is unfortunate but I'd bet she just wasn't that great on a bike
Lift tests are these things: https://www.facebook.com/business/m/one-sheeters/conversion-...

They are essentially what one needs to measure incremental ROAS of one's advertising.

Now, there are obvious caveats (online, tracking etc) but they're much much better than what's available for other platforms.
> How has the architecture evolved to make the A100 significantly faster?

Oh, very much so. By way more than an order of magnitude. For a deeper read, have a look at the "architecture white papers" for Kepler, Pascal, Volta/Turing, and Ampere:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=NVIDIA+architecture+white+p...

or check out the archive of NVIDIA's parallel4all blog ... hmm, that's weird, it seems like they've retired it. They used to have really good blog posts explaining what's new in each architecture.

You could also have a look here:

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index....

for the table of various numeric sizes and limits which change with different architectures. But that's not a very useful resource in and of itself.
Facebook thinks it's the company to "fight election meddling"? Is this the same Facebook that meddled in the 2020 US presidential election by suppressing the distribution of a factual news story because the facts were embarrassing to the Biden campaign?

What next, is Bill Cosby going to tell us that he's an activist for women's rights?
Also https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
Is there any Open-Source digital preservation systems for 3d and animated 3d data such as .blend (Blender) or .gltf (GLTF2).

Bonus points for non-AGPL so I can connect a proprietary system over the internet to it and have the archived data be free and libre.
"to the erosion of culture and livelihoods of a nomadic group called the Gujjars"

Ok, I object to the use of an environmental term here ... a lot. It's a false metaphor, used for charlatan effect by the writer trying to be "creative".

Global warming will likely displace, at a minimum, 2 billion people in the coming decades. Want to know what erodes culture? Displacement of entire societies and civilizations.

I count myself a liberal, but this kind of liberal hand-wringing is very counterproductive. Eggshells will be broken in attempting to avert climate change., and handwringing over animal grazing over land that very likely was deforested for that purpose (and for subsistence agriculture)...

This isn't about "culture", that usual NIMBY roadblocks, of the liberal version this time, to block necessary economic and political change.

While the article highlights obvious management problems (wrong species, wrong timing and tree management to ensure it takes root, perverse economic incentives), reforestation has enormous potential as one of a hundred necessary simultaneous fronts of the climate effort/war.

We need reforestation. Carbon capture. EV transition. Energy efficiency. Strong carbon taxes on fuel. Olivine. Reduced meat/artificial meat/fake meat. Better agricultural technologies and techniques. New cement manufacturing processes. Nuclear. Solar. Wind. Energy Storage. Geothermal. Telecommuting. Tax changes to incent urban concentration rather than suburbs. Biofuels/algal fuels/synthetic fuel from carbon.

But above everything will be change, experimentation, adaptation. Which everyone hates, produces winners and losers, and will exact a human cost, even though that real cost will be far less than the potential cost, something humans are absolutely awful at understanding.

I guess what is most concerning is that global warming requires global coordination and cooperation, but the future will be one of climate wars and resource wars. I wonder if we have but a couple decades of a window for policy cooperation before things fall apart because of stresses from global warming and things descend into madness.

So what's need is humanism, but not some junk like "we need to preserve this small tribe's outmoded economic basis!!!" for, what, anthropological purposes?

Happy Saturday!
It is not, but US run services dominate in much of the western world, so western internet users have to abide by US rules.
Ok. That was anticlimactic

(And in general, the web archive is a bit hypothetical since downloading saved websites is disallowed according to their tos)
Interesting site, thanks for it. I wonder if something similar exists for the EU bailouts.
They are banned on planes and such. You can’t even really layer them since the second mask under would break the seal.

The theories on mask wearing are different there and here, or perhaps there is just more flexibility. Since China has such a low infection rate, the difference between an in-coming or out-going filter probably isn’t going to matter much.
> Now would be a great time for facebook employees to leak everything.

They're working on stopping that:

> Facebook has also moved to stem future leaks.

> One Facebook researcher said a colleague was contacted by the legal team in the past week and was asked about a research report that he published more than two years ago. The legal team appeared to be hunting for any potentially incriminating research that might be shared with reporters, he said.

> His manager had advised him not to run any queries searching for specific terms on his old work or do anything that could appear suspicious, he said.

> Now, he said he was told, was a good time to take a vacation.
That's a pretty prejudiced thing to say
Not wearing a helmet does not affect people around you.
Or people with more dangerous routes are more likely to wear helmets.

There's also some data to suggest that drivers are less careful around cyclists with helmets, e.g. passing them with less distance.

Somewhat related, specifically in the context of requiring helmets there's also arguments that people dislike them enough that the reduction in cycling happening would have worse overall effects than the injury reduction.
https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-compute
In nvidia land, `nvidia-smi` is like `top` for your gpus. If you're running compiled CUDA, `nvprof` is very useful. But I'm not sure how much work it would take to profile something like a pytorch model.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-pro-tip-nvprof-your-h...
I think you chose a few wrong examples, power steering and brake assistance (simple depression from the engine) were a thing much before electronics became ubiquitous, as well as central locks (just a bunch of solenoids), the issue is much more with safety-related systems like ABS and engine (and pollution) control.
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Angeldust, my 'fast and efficient' video game was on the HN front page for days in 2019:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858226

I now present the first, native, optimized build for all Raspberry Pi models that you can help test. It's fast, efficient and beautiful. You can play this forever, without DRM or limitations.

Thanks to amazing feedback from HN, I've added great features to the game over time, available on all operating systems:

– control remapping
– pasting text (from password managers too!)
– energy saving
– quest rewards
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I'm allowed to have an opinion even when it is unpopular. Thanks though.
> It's just imprisonment

I think you misunderstood my comment. I was countering the claim that positive rights (such as the right to healthcare) cause slavery (for the doctor). In the context of TeeMassive's comment, he was implying that doctors would be forced to provide their labor to patients if the government declared a right to healthcare. My comment about how the right to childhood education does not cause slavery was referring to the teachers point of view, ie. that the teachers are not enslaved.
If my fund uses a thing for order entry, deposits, and withdrawals, but not for hosting (and indeed hosting for trading servers is not even for sale?), normally we would call that thing an API.

I guess the "hosted validators" thing is reasonable to call Coinbase Cloud though.
I haven't had a chance to watch this video yet, but the best video I've seen on fusion plant design came out in the past few weeks. It's titled "Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion by 2040".

https://youtu.be/JurplDfPi3U

It really nails the feel of the fusion engineering community I've been in. Little things said in passing in this video don't show up in public facing videos (such as a reactor needing to be primarily heated via ECRH) yet are regular topics with experts.
I wonder if the government could create a regulatory AI that could be applied to social media companies. As laws and regulations change, the AI would just need to be updated and it would enforce them automatically on the companies.
Is a part of the problem that the chips they are depending on are so trivial and small that you would end up losing more when cutting it up on a smaller process? I guess there is a limit to how many chips you could put on a single wafer even if the chip was only a single gate?

Maybe the old nodes are efficient enough for the chips they need. Then again it would make sense to update designs frequently enough to stay at nodes that have plenty of capacity, perhaps every 5 or 10 years or so?