skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sweeping generalization can't be made with one word -- there has to be some context which applies that generalization to the totality of the overall subject. Unfortunately, neither of the words you capitalized are absolutes or sweeping generalizations, they're individual words within long sentences representing a totality of a targeted subset.

There ARE MANY categories of games where the mechanics are PURELY REPETITIVE TASKS, such as Bejeweled. So when I say there are "huge swaths of the gaming industry which are based ENTIRELY on repetitive tasks," I'm not making a generalization, I'm talking about a specific subset of the gaming industry which is literally defined by repetitive tasks.

And when I say "all of those gamers" are happy playing games they enjoy, it's because they're literally enjoying the games, otherwise they wouldn't be playing them. That's not an "absolute" being applied to the entire population, it's a comment on how people like things that they like and will spend money on those things, as evidenced by the billions of dollars spent on those particular game categories.

Neither of my original comments were difficult to comprehend, and your trolling is unwelcome.
The marketing material is cool and all, but article form is just easier to discuss and quote.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17054/amd-announces-instinct-...

TL;DR: MI200 presents itself as 2x GPUs to the OS. Together, they push 47.9 TFLOPS double-precision AND single-precision (yes, FP32 does not seem to benefit. So AMD is focusing a huge amount of effort on maximizing FP64 performance)

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Anandtech points this out in a cheeky paragraph:

> This gives each GCD about 1.64TB/second worth of memory bandwidth, or as AMD likes to promote it, a cumulative memory bandwidth of 3.2TB/second.

So 3.2TB spec isn't wrong per se, but its definitely modern marketing at work. It doesn't look reasonable for a single-kernel to ever get more than 1.64 TB/s, but GPUs are parallel machines, and we can reasonably expect multiple kernels to be executing across the two GCDs in parallel.

But this MI2xx series will function more like two tightly linked GPUs, rather than a singular GPU-instance. Fortunately, most GPUs deployed today on supercomputers are 6-GPU or 8-GPU clusters.

So this "two GPUs glued together" package is just what the supercomputer world needs. This was tried years ago for video-gamers, but the latency just was too much. But supercomputer workloads have ways around latency (mostly by just... not caring about it because it takes 2+ weeks for a lot of calculations to run)
Here's another data point.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories/zg...

#1, #2, and #5 are MacBook Airs. The only Windows PC in the top 50 is #39, and has 4GB RAM, and 128GB SSD.

Although I really don't think that power users would always be better served with a 16GB RAM Walmart marketplace specials. RAM and storage space are important data points, but the types of machines made specifically for bargain-basement prices often sacrifice other important design features -- particularly anything qualitative.

I have family that was recently screwed by one of these marketplace sellers. They bought one of these marketplace laptop with great specs, later to find out that it didn't ship with those specs from the manufacturer, the marketplace seller modified it with crap parts and relisted it. Now it has parts not subject to the manufacturer warranty and the performance of those parts is really bad.
If someone built a google scraper that ran that second query in I'm Feeling Lucky mode and just injected that image in place of any pinterest ones - I wonder how quickly they'd rise to internet prominence.
Not to take this into the realm of pedantry but unless you're referring the the United Kingdom, I should point out the country acronym for Ukraine is 'UA'.
Ask HN: Learning pathway for deep learning/machine learning/AI?
Currently a masters student in physiology, in a non-technical lab. But would like to learn the technical skills required for understanding and applying deep learning (etc). I often see DL/ML/AI applied to fields such as radiology, dermatology, cardiology, and it would be great to not only understand this kind of research, but also be an active participant in the future.

As someone with a limited technical/quantitative background (currently learning R for a biostatistics course), what would be the ideal approach I should take to learn DL/ML/AI?

From my search it seems that there are two ways of approaching the learning roadmap/pathway:

(1) Practical approach: learn the right tools and apply them to the problem at hand.
(2) Comprehensive approach: understand the mathematics behind DL/ML/AI so that you have a greater understanding of the tools.

I think many researchers in medicine, especially if they're coming from clinical backgrounds as opposed to Comp Sci backgrounds, use this practical approach. This approach would be more feasible for someone like me, whereas learning all the required mathematics would probably take several years of study (on top of my other responsibilities).

Ultimately, what steps should I take? I think Step 1 would be to learn Python. I am already learning R, but I see Python used more frequently.
> Were violent European revolutions against their monarchs all terroristic?

Unfortunately the answer is something like "yes but we don't want to speak about that because it makes us feel uncomfortable" most of the time. Thing is western society has been doing well the past 20/30 years regarding civil-war like violence at a large scale and for a hard to fix issue, and no one wants to talk about how or why but everyone wants to believe days of violent civil uprising are long gone.
It’s a defense against authoritarianism, concentrations of power, and abuse of that power. Blockchains are early implementations of distributed authority.
> I don't think we need to blame Pinterest for having indexable content.

That's a bit reductive. I agree Google shares some blame, but Pinterest engages in some pretty serious black hat SEO techniques. This is well documented (and sadly not covered by this article, despite its title).
They're visible on Flightradar24. Look at the north Atlantic, there's usually several of them at any time. The satellite sourced data uses blue icons on the map.
Comment if you are interested and lets connect
And yet they manage to move forward. If you timeline any major Chinese city going back 50 years and see what has been achieved during that time, well, it's hard to argue with results.

Don't get me wrong, I do understand there's a lot wrong with Chinese politics, their system of government, human rights, etc. There is no perfect society anywhere on this planet. Not justifying any of it, just stating the obvious.

However, when you look at a place like the US, you have to slap your forehead and ask what we are thinking. The "we" being voters, of course. We hand over the reigns to people who would be ambulance chasers and used car salesmen and expect good results? That's not even fair, ambulance chasers and used car salesmen are probably better than the people in politics.

I don't want to sound partisan, because I am not. You look at people like AOC, Schummer, McConnel, Trump, Clinton, Obama, Bush, etc., etc., etc., and you really have to ask: Are these folks truly a representation of the best this nation can offer. I would be shocked if anyone intelligent though any of them (and the rest) are. Garbage-in, garbage-out. Simple as that.

Simple example: Go back N elections. Say, n=15, that's 60 years. Dig-up videos and speeches. If you can hold back your projectile vomiting, watch a few. They have been promising solutions to healthcare, education and myriad other topics for decades and decades. I can understand that things aren't as simple as they might seem from behind this keyboard. That's a given. But, 60 years and we are still saying things are broken? What the hell have these people done in 60 years?

Simple: In a conspiracy-theory world, if you keep these issues alive you can use and reuse them election after election to divide the population into groups on on either side of the issues and get votes. If you actually fix problems you have to work hard for other things to get done. It is far easier to make promises and then drop people on their heads after you get elected. I know this is a cynical view, but the proof is in the pudding as they say. The fact that, decades later, we are still saying that everything every politician always runs on is broken means these people are not doing their job.

If you think about this from the perspective of any other profession it becomes obvious. The difference is that outside politics these kinds of negative results get you fired.

Getting back on topic. We need to become rabid supporters and exceptional builders of nuclear power or we need to forget about the utopia of a fully electric transportation system.
Most laptop insurance policies don't cover theft. Likewise with car insurance. You might have better luck with your renters or home owners policy although if you are getting actual cash value with is pretty common you will be getting a value that may be substantially less than you paid for it.

Buyer beware.

Most loss via theft is the result of user error. Setting something down or leaving it unattended where its liable to be stolen like in your car. Fun fact did you know that there are scanner apps that will use bluetooth to tell exactly what car has the $2000 laptop in it so they can break the correct window.
Signal has access to more data than they would like you to believe. Each account at Signal is identified by a phone number or an UUID. This account also contains a [list of devices](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/c21eb6aa5098...). Each of the devices has some uinteresting metadata assigned to it, but more importantly it links to a specific Android or iOS device through the [push token](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/c21eb6aa5098...). This gives the authorities a link to an account at Google or Apple which then of course contains much more data.
Thank you for sharing my work! I hope you like it.
> Even those of us who are actively migrating applications are stuck with web forms, netfx and dotnet core 2/3 and will be for years

Well, the job market is pretty hot right now so I hear.
"...the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts... It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person."

~ Solzhenitsyn
1. The conversion of airplane gas turbines to power generation which have about 1/10 the capital cost of the steam turbines used for coal and nuclear plants. (People still quote the cost of coal as if it was a benchmark but it has been uncompetitive since 1980. So much in energy research is like a stopped clock.)

2. A wrong model for what causes nuclear accidents (e.g. the pressure vessel doesn't burst, instead the power goes out like it did at Fukushima.) Existing plants and new designs had to be retrofit -- U.S. power plants went through post-TMI and post-911 upgrades, but Japan did nothing.

3. Racism and islamophobia. When Pakistan got the bomb the fear of proliferation exploded, putting an end to research in new nuclear reactors (which could have a gas-turbine based cost structure) and sustainable nuclear fuel cycles. (e.g. it's possible to not just use Plutonium as a fuel, but even destroy the most pernicious fission products.)
Yes. I had been thinking the same thing through the various zillow threads here recently: none of the construction contractors I know would ever work for a corporation. Unless they were starving, which they are not.
I doubt it. It would mean Zillow had some type of insider knowledge regarding interest rates or the macro economy. We aren’t in a 2008 scenario either regarding subprime. Perhaps they have an insight that no one else sees?
Apologies if this is off topic -- but I am constantly impressed at some of the things I find that come from inria.fr. I first came across them when learning OCaml. Seems to be a top notch university.
>Everyone I know who switched to remote work moved out of city centers and into places where both rent was lower and quality of life was higher.

That's precisely my point, they're raising rent prices where rent was cheap - remember that construction isn't following growing demand, the supply of houses is the same.

>What exactly leads you to believe that fleeing tech hubs and urban centers leads to higher rents?

In the case of Portugal it's not tech hubs that are the cause for urban centers to have high rents, that's purely Tourism in our context. AirBnBs wiped a bunch of the supply, then pensioners and rich people that want to have houses in an European capital without paying London/Paris prices.

Hell for 500k they can buy an house and even get a EU passport after 5 years. Where else can you get this deal?
I mean, "never ever" is extreme. But the point is "does leaving a game easy to pirate, vs making it hard to pirate, actually decrease sales".

And unfortunately it's kind of impossible to test that.
“Erwin Griswold, who had been the Dean of Harvard Law School, had the theory that he knew which people were geniuses. If he approved of them, they would certainly do good work over time, and therefore they had to write nothing.“

https://volokh.com/2011/10/02/justice-breyer-on-tenure-stand...

“The highest form which civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another. That’s the way an operating room works at the Mayo Clinic.”

https://fs.blog/munger-operating-system/
What are folders, if not tags with nesting capabilities? Not like they physically exist on the disk beyond some text & file data
That’s Israel’s forward-deployed cyber warfare units for you.
No, I don't think so - assuming they had user feedback to back up their decision. It's sort of similar to a convienence store specifically stopping stocking of Nestle brand waters over customer complaints.

It'd be a lot safer of them to just ban the behavior though and create a rule.
> full_page_writes=off <===That's a maybe

My understanding is that ZFS CoW makes torn pages impossible, so it's safe to turn off full page writes.
>The filler small talk content isn't the substance, it's the launching point for those more substantive conversations.

While that's certainly possible, it doesn't need to be a launching point for anything.

It can just be an offhand remark, a chuckle and a reply and off you go. Not every interaction needs to have some sort of agenda or goal associated with it.

At least that's how I see it.
Is it possible to load ".NET Framework" assemblies into ".NET 6" applications?

(We have a lot of .NET Framework libraries, shared between different applications, and a complex dependency graph between them. So I'm wondering if it is possible to migrate away from .NET Framework by starting with the executables and working our way down the dependency graph.)
This is a good link - I used an outdated term, he uses the term 'data dignity' now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHt98WE5FxU

My summation of the idea is that data is very valuable and will be more valuable in the future, but that because the value of a dataset goes up nonlinearly with its size, only the wealthiest will have the means to extract (significant) value from datasets in the future. This will cause massive societal inequality unless the people who create the data are guaranteed a piece of the value created by companies with the server farms necessary to actually create value out of the data we're constantly producing.
If you want to entice people and give them a clear career path, a union could do that ( ot that I'm totally sold on a union). Pay, skills, levels, treatment, hours, etc are all over the place, and are often times unfair.

I'm 10 years in with an MS, and I have no motivation. I haven't seen any of the work really pay off. I don't have a clue what the future of my job looks like (I realize I don't have a career). I've witnessed so much political BS and unfair treatment. It's no surprise that people don't want to join this field. I hope my kid finds a better field, although I admit that I don't know what would truly be better (maybe judge or prosecutor since they are paid well and have tons of legal protections).
The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down
Back in the day (grumble grumble) this was grounds for being delisted from google entirely.
The issue with many terrorism designations, such as these, is that it allows for the evidence of such designations to remain secret. It is great for banning organizations you do not like based on innuendo. It would be better if the evidence was made public and could be judged -- when it isn't you have to wonder whether it is being hidden because it can not stand up to scrutiny.
You ask first if this someone understands the very basics correctly.
The mix of sources for electricity in Germany in H1 2021 was like 41% renewables, 26% coal, 17% natural gas, and 12% nuclear.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
F# is the reason I'm investing in .Net. So far it's been an amazing developer experience.

For internal admin tools I can throw together a windows form app in C# much quicker than any other system I've worked with. I'm pretty new to the eco system so to it's amazing how fast you can get up to speed.
Storing nuclear waste is a problem, but seems somewhat exaggerated. We have been doing it quite successfully. Waste reprocessing drastically reduces that amount too.

Renewables + batteries, why not. This technology is not at a stage yet where we can use it. There are literally no “guaranteed power on demand” facilities from renewables+batteries.

Nuclear technology is mostly old and boring by now.
This is old news, but I just noticed that "M1 Max" sounds exactly like "M1 Macs." Mac computers with M1 Max processors are "M1 Max Macs."
I don't think it's realistic to assume that there will be a very large number of tiny Matrix servers that stand out. It's far more likely that there will be a couple of big ones and some midsize ones that most people use. Each of them can obviously become a target, but they will be in various different jurisdictions and it's easy to create new ones linked to all the rest of them.

If you think that E2EE is not under heavy political fire then please read what our governments are demanding from tech companies. This is not limited to companies that are "choosing what is communicated and by who". On the contrary, governments are demanding that companies monitor what is communicated and by who:

International statement: End-to-end encryption and public safety

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-sta...
I don't think that it even is in senior developers' self-interest to claim that their skillset is infinite transferable, as it has the very obvious corollary that their skillset is worthless. The whole idea is much more appealing to the business side who wants to pretend that developers are fungible.
HHMI grants are unusual, in this respect. The grant is to an investigator over seven years, not to specific a project. They have to have demonstrated significant research in the usual funding system to be eligible, though.

https://www.hhmi.org/programs/biomedical-research/investigat...
I think there is a feedback loop involved. Someone wanting to sell their home will likely look at the Zestimate to help them set an asking price. And then tack on a few thousand for negotiating room.

Zillow monitors the offer amounts by potential buyers, and if any are above the current Zestimate, that signals the algorithm to raise the home's value, even if the sale hasn't closed yet. This then becomes a "comp" for the neighborhood (since other realtors will check their site) and influences nearby sales.
Not correct to my understanding, and somewhat out of date information.

I do suggest looking at the natural beekeeping literature, for example :

https://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/natural-bee-husbandry

this source frequently documents populations of wild/feral, multi-year, mite resistant, hives.

And also - there are plenty of beekeepers around, including myself, with multi-year treatment free hives of bees.

However, mite resistant bees in commercial style un-insulated frame based langstroth hives - not so much.
In my country and some European states .NET is far more popular among devs than Java.
Depends mostly on the region and what is taught in universities. The two most popular unis in my country all use teach .NET in the final years of studies and a lot of professors are MS MVP's.
> However the natural follow-on question is did AOL actually get $10B worth of value out of owning Netscape.

I suppose that at this point it is lost in the digital accounting noise, but I bet there are some people left who saw it happen and have a perspective on it.
I don't think that opening is there. Tcl may be a terrible scripting language, its usage is not a factor in the value of this or that EDA tool.

If a startup wants to displace an entrenched tool from Synopsys or Cadence, the underlying algorithms (millions of lines of C++ code) must be better. (And once that happens, they'll be acquired by one of these 2.)
Pretty sure it wasn't drone footage. The FBI has a large fleet of manned fixed wing aircraft they use for surveillance.
Good chance for me to mention the excellent book ‘Cosmos and Culture’, again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25566085
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I only have a limited understanding of nuclear reactors, but IIUC these would have produced nuclear waste, which we currently don't have any long-term storage plans for.

We currently have an inefficient long-term storage plan for it - store it on-site.

We had an efficient, cheaper long-term storage plan (Yucca mountain) that failed for political, not technical reasons.
Not a logo, but a "seal". The distinction makes sense, since the intricate design would not work well as logo I think. I found it beautiful, but obviously it's only "news" because of who created it.
In 02006 Aaron described himself as "something of a free speech absolutist": http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/becausewecan

So I have my own justification for freedom of speech: because we can. Human freedom is important, so we should try to protect it from encroachment wherever possible. With most freedoms — freedom of motion, freedom of exchange, freedom of action — permitting them in full would cause some problems. People shouldn’t be free to walk into other people’s bedrooms, take all their stuff, and then punch the poor victims in the face. But hurling a bunch of epithets at the guy really isn’t so bad.

Freedom of speech is one place where we can draw the line and say: all of this is acceptable. There’s no further logic to it than that; freedom of speech is not an instrumental value. Like all freedom, it’s fundamental, and the only reason we happen to single it out is because it’s more reasonable than all of the others.

Close readers will note that this theory doesn’t quite live up to my own goals. By laying freedom of speech’s provision on top of our reasonable ability to do so, I suggest that freedom of speech could be taken away if providing it became unreasonable. But I think this is the right choice: if people really, seriously started getting hurt because of freedom of speech, it seems right for people to take the privilege away. But, to be honest, I can’t even imagine how that might be possible. Words just don’t genuinely wound, they’re always mediated by our listening.

I do worry that people might try to stretch this justification — say that continued free speech might destroy the war effort, or the government, or civil society. But I have no problem destroying all of those. It’s only the destruction of actual people that I worry about.