skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they stored the actual model they could simply change the game and ignore what the ledger says. I still haven't heard a good use for NFT's apart from investment/scams because the simple fact you still rely on some party honoring what the ledger says. Exactly the same thing as CSGO skins, just a better marketing move.
Old Boys’ Clubs and Upward Mobility Among the Educational Elite
A History of Busy Beaver Hardware
This is a little bit reductionistic.

You can slightly the alter the claim to "most software engineers don't actually know how their code works at a level that's relevant for them to make good software" and it becomes solidly true.

Most (web) software engineers don't know anything about assembly, CPU cache, virtual memory, or pipelining, and application of knowledge of those things would change web applications from their current abysmal levels of performance to something acceptable.

Very, very rarely is knowledge of the microarchitecture, microcode, transistors, or physics necessary to make modern software reasonably correct and performant.
The spooks hate the light. Now that the spooks control not only traditional media, but also social media, it's very dark.
Interestingly, even the depth buffer is wrong if you interpolate Z linearly, but it's such a subtle effect, it's almost imperceptible.

IIRC games back then also used to do perspective-correct interpolation every 8 or 16 pixels, and linearly in between, which is a good compromise (you always have to interpolate U and V, what they wanted to avoid was the division, which is more expensive).

I've written about this here, https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/1..., including some detailed examples of how the math works. Very fun topic :)
China is their number 1 market to expand. If market cap is to go up, China is instrumental there.

If anything, continuing to manufacture in China is likely required for that market expansion. Otherwise I feel they would have started to diversify to other, less politically tenuous markets.
Then fine the shit out of him, install a watch to make sure it doesn't happen again and let him keep doing things he's good at.
Intel's cost is designing the circuits and the means to etch them, not buying the sand.
Code search typically does not need many (most?) full-text search features like TF-IDF, stopwords, stemming, tagging, etc. It's a categorically different domain.
If you double your highways and traffic stays as bad, your highway system is delivering twice as much transportation.

That is a clear improvement.
You’re conflating two things. Feudalism is like slavery: taking credit for someone else’s labor. Automation removes the need for labor. Automation has almost universally led to quality of life improvements, not revolution.
> pulled of the completely absurd task of putting a man on the moon and then returning him safely to earth, in less than a decade

At a congressional allocation level, this was all pork, too. The vast majority of this project went to politically-connected contractors, subcontractors, etc. Not much has changed, except for one critical factor:

We were competent in the 20th century. All of the engineers, machinists, metallurgists, and yes, even management of the Apollo project had a job to do. Their personal political opinions, sexual proclivities, or social media clout had nothing at all to do with accomplishing the mission. And so, it got done.

We're not that people anymore.
A service plan in the US probably does cover a larger amount of total area than on in Romania, though.
> (not that the British and French were any better; they just imported their slaves from elsewhere).

I should point out that the Spanish also imported slaves from Africa in prodigious quantities. However, instead of doing it themselves, the Spanish crown let out a single contract for who would be the sole importer of slaves into the American colonies (the asiento)--and all of the major maritime powers of Europe were vying to win that contract at various points in time.
1. Arguably, the HTTP + HTML web failed. It was designed as a pemissionless hypertext document language, yet more and more of its usage gets rid of every single one of these properties - non-hyperlinkable applications that beg for permission from large monopolies to post something.

2. Success is not the only metric of worth. Nuclear power has "failed" despite being the only reliable solution to meeting the base load of a power grid vs fossil fuels.
> So will any company, when threatened by China

Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch, Dropbox, Medium, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo?

https://en.greatfire.org/search/alexa-top-1000-domains
Google and Mozilla seem considerably less concerned about efficiency than Apple and Microsoft are. Safari is well known for being easier on the battery than Chrome and Firefox are on macOS, and pre-Chromium Edge had similar efficiency margins over Chrome and Firefox on Windows. I’ve heard that even Chromium-Edge tends to outperform its competitors on Windows even now.

This starts to make sense when you consider that for Apple and Microsoft, end users are the customer and bad battery life is going to have implications on number of devices sold. For Chrome and a lesser extent Firefox, the “customer” is instead web devs, who are more interested in a constant stream of new features than they are efficiency.

That said, both browser vendors and site devs are responsible. It doesn’t matter how optimized the browser is if a site loads tens of megabytes of dependencies and is written with expediency and cheapness in mind only.
> Isn't this well in the penny wise, pound foolish territory? I might as well try to fart less.

Agree. Carbon emissions from client computing is probably a blip in terms other sources. Wasting resources (ie. cash spent on developers that could otherwise be allocated elsewhere) is counterproductive to the goal of reducing emissions as fast as possible. That's why I'm much more in favor of a carbon tax than random propositions that attract attention but have questionable efficacy (see also: plastic straw bans).
"I was just thinking this morning that Intel segments their market by the class of person that is their customer."

Just about every company in the world that sells things (including AMD) engages in market segmentation.

A classic - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

It has nothing to do with the "class of person" -- that whole notion seems pejorative in this context -- but maximizing how much you can extract in the aggregate.

In the case of Intel, for years (decades?) they were their own primary competitor. They wanted to be sure that for a given customer they could extract the maximum amount possible, and they did this by gating some features (ECC, AVX, etc) to try to avoid business customers deciding to get by on "lesser" processors. And the simple truth is that the overwhelming bulk of consumer products will never, ever have an ECC relevant error event, which is how businesses managed to get by without it.
US infrastructure spending is heavily cost-constrained though. Your argument would hold up if we were building loads of new infrastructure at enormous cost, but instead we are not building enough because the costs are too high.
> The car went through a dealer and was sold certified pre-owned; and it was sold as not having those features.

Was the car sold to its original owner with those features enabled? If so, it's effectively the same as the original story reported, meaning that Tesla expected to be paid twice for the feature.
groups.ycombinator.com redirects to Google groups.
The second paper cites the "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can
Language Models Be Too Big?" paper that got Timnit Gebru and Meg Mitchell fired from Google. It must be pretty galling to get fired for a paper and then have the company that fired you cite it a year later.
It's in the URL. Technology.
No representation without taxation. PR residents don't have to pay US federal income tax, and most of them aren't willing to pay that price to get the political benefits of statehood.
Seems like a step towards singularity.
From Film to Tech – Mia Sibala
It’s also about a defense of the west and western liberalism over China and the CCP authoritarianism.

It’s Google leadership capitulating to the (imo naive) politics of its workforce to not work with the USG, while continuing to support the governments of adversaries (because largely American politics ignores the plight of people in places like KSA and China under a weak kind of moral relativism).
Game Dev Guide for Alder Lake Performance Hybrid Architecture
Hey all,

Quick/friendly reminder that this is a dangerous conversation to be having in public -- there is no telling what will happen to old comments in a few years (or decades,) when the disruption is further along.

Quite serious. History tends to happen when you least expect it to.

Personal web history, doubly so.
I think it was this article that's most relevant? https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs...
One nit:

> With Rust, you actively have to fight the compiler to cause memory leaks.

Memory leaks are not considered unsafe in Rust[1]! They're actually an important part of Rust's lifetime semantics: intentionally leaking memory is both safe and equivalent to producing a `'static` out of thin air.

You probably shouldn't leak memory as a matter of practice, of course, but Rust will happily allow you to do so in 100% safe code.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56108074
It was a bad idea 25 years ago, and still its a bad idea. I will never forget the day our company fired two brilliant marketing guys just because the Alexa ranking of the site dropped 100 points.
Intel has released an optimization guide for video game developers for the Adler Lake platform.

I think this will be interesting to any optimizing programmer out there.

Interesting notes:

1. P-cores and E-cores exist in a weird big.LITTLE architecture. The E-cores are off on their own, hanging off the ringbus.

2. E-cores share an L2 cache (!!!) in a Zen2-like cluster of 4-chips per L2 cache.

3. CPUID is going to return different results as the program shifts from P-cores to E-cores and back.

4. Bitwise operations with carry seem to have differing functionality (!!) between P-cores and E-cores? Strange... I wonder why Intel did this.

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Strange architecture. Hopefully it works out for Intel.
> Official support, doesn't mean it doesn't work

For Ryzen CPUs (ones without an iGPU), they don't fuse it off, and as such it can unofficially work.

For Ryzen APUs (parts with an iGPU), they fuse it off, and as such it will never work there.
Unless we have widely available pre-trained models with generic knowledge that is easily transferable. Such a thing is obviously difficult, but it isn't impossible if we're talking about the future.
turn every linux computer into a component of a supercomputer
Its commendable, but if you look closely https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/mv-ddr-marvell/... its not all "open". I think there is a fair amount of discussion about whether poking a bunch of random values into random registers is "open".
Ask HN: Data Catalog with SQL-To-Text. Will it help business users?
Hi there, my name is Igor.

I am testing different ideas in data governance space.

Sometimes business users have problems with data trust - a dashboard looks strange and they don't know whether it's a technical problem or a business one. They want to understand, how particular metric is calculated. Usually, these metrics are calculated via SQL, so I think SQL-To-Text might be usefull here to automatically generate descriptions and explanations for dashboards, reports, etc.

Do you think it's a big and important problem which is worth solving? Will natural language processing (SQL-To-Text) really help here?

Any thought are welcome :)
All of these programmes, NCAP, EuroNCAP, and others like them around the world, are entirely advisory.

The government makes rules for what you can sell, but the safety standards involved are much less stringent than you'd see in these advisory programmes. In some cases the same test centres are used (since after all they have the equipment) but the tests done are way easier than for say EuroNCAP.

For example it has been years since the point where you weren't going to get anywhere in the advisory tests without airbags, but most places they aren't a legal requirement for new cars (there is often a rule saying they must work if they are fitted but no requirement to fit them).

The funding is very different. For your car to be legal to sell new (at volume) you must pass the government tests, including in many countries a single destructive (ie writes off the car) test, and the government won't pay for that. If, say, Volvo, decided it wasn't interested in the UK market now that they're non-EU, it needn't submit new Volvo models, and then such new models just can't be sold in the UK no matter how safe they obviously are.

In contrast the advisory tests are voluntary, often a manufacturer will pay for their products to be tested e.g. they might say to EuroNCAP, "We made a new mid-range family car, you can buy a basic model for about €40k so here's €40k" and then EuroNCAP buys a suitable model from a dealer (this avoid the scenario where a manufacturer ships the tester a specially hardened test vehicle) with their €40k and runs tests. But they don't have to pay, if Volvo decided they hate these tests, and won't pay for them, but they still provide cars for government tests, either the advisory test outfits buy the cars with their own funds or they don't test the Volvo models any more, but either way they are still legal to buy.

I mentioned above that volume matters because of destructive testing. If you build your own car, from scratch, in most places the government says OK, fine, nobody does that, and obviously it's probably a death trap, but clearly there's only one of these we can't very well destructively test that one, so long as you meet some very basic requirements (e.g. no ludicrously over-size vehicles, nothing that's obviously going to kill other road users) you can drive that, although you may not be allowed to sell it to anybody as a car.
I didn't really understand #6? Expand?
Since the 80's all pinball manufacturers have sought licenses by default and used originals as a "B-theme" if the license falls through. This is the case because it's still a manufacturing business - it needs to be a functioning physical object first - while the theme is a marketing feature, one that needs quick draws for players and known quantities for operators. A license derisks both, so it's nearly obligatory for new games. But if you look at the virtual pinball space it's almost the opposite. While a handful of studios(Farsight, Zen, Magic Pixel) have done licensed reproduction simulations, over the years there have been far more attempts at original IP, since it's all software.

Even Stern has done the occasional original, e.g. Whoa Nellie, Striker Extreme. But it's very clear that they have a formula and don't deviate much from it - the experiments are left to competitors like Jersey Jack and Spooky. Pinball in the past decade has been defined by collector's market dynamics, a generation that, like with retro gaming, wants to buy for the home. So the new games are built more like home games than operator games - lighter builds with less serviceability, price discrimination features (different models with minor elements added or removed) and more of a focus on sheer quantity of elements - ramps, lights, toys - than one or two "centerpieces". It's only going to last as long as that collector's demographic does, after that pinball may go dormant again or find a new way of expressing itself.
From the article, Istanbul gets things built a lot cheaper, partly because:

> Whereas Boston might only build one new transit line every few decades, Istanbul builds dozens.

Seems like building dozens of times as much would even more effectively "fund people who vote for people who vote for infrastructure." So why aren't we like Istanbul?
>> “You guys know that at least 250 of the people terminated were working an average of 2 hours a day while clocking in 8 hours+ a day in the payroll system?” he wrote.

Putting on my investor's glasses, I'm wondering why he can't schedule for 8 hours worth of work for his employees. My experience with software is that there's always something to do (and it can very well be training and learning new tech!).
Pointing out someone else's hypocrisy isn't an inconsistency. If someone says doing business with a military is unacceptable and then proceeds to do business with a military, they're a hypocrite. That's still true even if the person telling you this does business with a military.
IMO, you’ll never get a social retirement system funded to pay for a median household replacement income in retirement. The average social security payout for recipients is around $1500/mo. The max is around $3100/mo. Median household income in my state is ~$6800/mo. You would need to double social security to pay every 2 average recipient household 88% of the median income. You would need to quadruple it to pay a single recipient 88% of median.

Plus, not everyone wants to work to 67 (full retirement age for SS for most workers today). Then, not everyone wants to drop their spending down to that of a median income household.

Combine those factors and social retirement systems aren’t going to be the solution to stop people from saving and investing privately to supplement.

I can’t see social retirement ever being funded to the level of a middle-class retirement; I think it’s a useful safety net to ensure people who worked their whole lives but didn’t save privately don’t starve, but dramatically expanding it is mathematically difficult to fund.
That's like saying that ABS gives you a false sense of security because you can stop in situations you wouldn't be able to otherwise - but obviously the solution isn't to get rid of ABS, it's to learn where the limit of the system is.
It's not just vote-buying, it's also buying support for the project. They cite an example where some transit stations started simple and became more and more complex. I've seen this happen with local transit projects where basically some NIMBY or supposed "community group" shows up and places all kinds of demands that wildly increase the costs of the project. There is either a lack of appetite or a lack of authority to tell these groups to fuck off, which results in enormous cost overruns.
The rural South wants a lot of things it probably isn't going to get. Most of those jobs will be automated away or low wage and low security Amazon warehouse kinds of employment.

If they're expecting lifetime security on the assembly line with enough money for two cars in the garage and a pension with a gold watch at the end, it's not going to happen. That's not how the world works anymore.
Not even that — seeing how cheap Starship launches would be per kg of payload (I've seen a figure of $10), we could as well build a huge orbital station and just manufacture and/or assemble arbitrarily sized stuff in there or even in space. No atmosphere, and especially pesky oxygen, to deal with, no contaminants to keep out, no gravity to fight against. I'd imagine that any scientific and fabrication processes that need a deep vacuum would also greatly benefit from being done on a space station.
> because they react to whole genome of virus

Why do you think that?

A genome codes for protein production. T-cells are something like a Unix grep for protein sequences (instead of character regexes) with their grep argument a memorized protein sequence to recognize in the wild.

So it's some sort of dumb luck if the entirety of proteins, specified in a genome's blueprints, would happen to have t-cells assigned to recognize all of them.
Slightly different in the AMD case as the Ryzen Pro are the same socket and not really much more expensive (eg, https://www.amazon.com/Ryzen-4750G-Processor-3-6Ghz-Threads/... ). So as a consumer you can make a fairly straightforward value prop tradeoff there. Well, you could except AMD throws in the complication that they no longer sell APUs directly to consumers, not officially anyway. These are all technically "OEM only" parts.
That strongly depends on where the saved developer resources (which I think are frequently overstated, but that’s another topic) are allocated. If they’re put towards squeezing more ad dollars for example, that’s still a net loss environmentally.
btw. aeb systems are basically working perfectly that they are mandatory in new cars in europe starting in 2022?
(btw. lane-keeping assistance and warning of driver drowsiness are mandatory as well in 2022)
National Academy of Sciences Has Ocean Plan to Cleanup CO2
This may require more thinking on our end but the way we design Jules is the usual SSA form. The idea being it's easier to reason about it (and prove things) when every expression has a name. It's a bit of cheating of course but makes our life easier. We don't discuss how surface Julia (or subset of it), which is more expression-oriented, can be translated to Jules, because we have only so many pages, and also it's not all that interesting, I think.
How would they collect the 10% fees?
Their cpus are manufactured in Taiwan, which is kinda China. Those bleeding edge components are important to excellent performance of their products.
There have been lots of complete games built targeting the web browser.

Crosscode is pure HTML5 according to the devs. No webgl at all. Games like Quake have been ported to run in the browsers (and did so ~10 years ago).

I'm sure there are a lot more complete games out there targeting web browsers, but it isn't immediately apparent that's what they are using. A lot of the newer games I play feel like they are running in a web browser.
I live in the UK, the new rating is definitely already here, seen it in shops and online.

As a simplest example - Bosch dishwasher, not long ago this was A+ rated, now it's E rated, at one of the biggest UK DYI stores:

https://www.diy.com/departments/bosch-smv2itx18g-integrated-...
I've seen these cynical rants many times, but can you back any of the claims up with anything substantive? For example, that there is no difference between parties? It's important, because it disarms us; if we don't differentiate between the more and less corrupt, we can't improve the situation.

There is greed and corruption in the world, but that's not all there is. There are plenty of people who want to do a good job, who want to achieve things for society. More precisely, everyone has a little bit of all those things, and we have the free choice of what we pursue, the greed or the good.

The US ranks pretty well on the scale of corruption. It's a good way to get voted out of office (recent phenomena not withstanding), or go to jail.
I was about 25 when I tried to trademark General Magic and was pissed to find out I was not the first. General Products was also taken; guess there are a lot of Larry Niven fans out there.
It's location dependent. Apple Maps shows some areas with different size or labels only when you're inside China.
Hi, cool paper! semi related questions:

What do you think of JET.jl?

Tension between Method ambiguities and desire for traits or multiple inheritance is something discussed in the community. Has your group given any thought to this?

Thanks !
You can overfit your data by coming up w/ a model that is very specific to it. Consider an n dimensional data set where one variable is a boolean.

A researcher might notice that the True and False cases are different enough to warrant their own algorithms. Say they now fit a lower dimensional line to the True and False cases.

They've just performed gradient descent but the grad student was the gradient. It's a common joke in CS/ML departments.

(This is an obviously simple example, but the point is that hyperparameter tuning and algorithm selection _are a part of your algorithm_ and the data you're looking at while doing so is part of your training set)