skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Somehow, similarly bad numbers were achieved with 56 cores working with disjoint parts of 512 GB array

Oh, that's not NUMA at all, now that I'm more carefully reading your post. NUMA would involve a "copy" step, ensuring that those elements are in NUMA-local memory before reading.

Much like how in GPU-programming, you have to worry about the physicality of memory, NUMA-aware programming you have to memcpy data to the right location before it achieves high speeds. Each of the 56-cores needs its ~10GBs in "NUMA-local" memory _BEFORE_ you start the benchmark.

Yeah, I realize this isn't practical. But... who ever said that NUMA use cases are practical? Lol. A lot of cases, it makes more sense to just take advantage of infinity fabric for simplicity (although its slower, its definitely more convenient).
Eh.

The Western business model is espousing a stance separable from genuine outrage towards a particular belief. It works. Everyone that matters gets that.

The faux outrage here is only because Vice publicly espoused a stance, so its an article hoping for hypocrisy to be news. Vice didn't have business there for 3 years after they made that stance, did they ever say it would be permanent? It is an easy standard to rationalize compliance with.

The Guardian asked for a comment and actually got it! Vice was available for comment! Vice didn't even know what the issue was and just responded with accuracy "We opened a commercial and creative office in Riyadh earlier this year", lol.

The article could just as easily be fishing for controversy with the Chainsmokers for performing "in a regime that commits human rights abuses". A swing and a miss, Guardian!
Probably not. Steel rebar is used because it is ductile, that is it stretches and fails gracefully, which complements the brittle nature of concrete.

This material is likely brittle, probably similar in overall behavior to graphite.
Not all codecs were ported at the same time, and then not enabled by default, and when enabled by default it was platform dependent, for others where it worked FF was eating all possible CPU resources and videos were glitching. I remember this as I was using Debian and I was active on /r/firefox, where this [1] link was posted 10 times every day

[1] https://www.youtube.com/html5
Then it’s a trivial feature that you can simply ask people if they want to enable rather than opting them in when they opted out.
I hope that's not their perspective, because that perspective would be wrong. There are entire subdisciplines of control theory devoted to sensor fusion, and it's not particularly new. Rule 1: More information is better. Rule 2: If the information is unreliable (and what information isn't?), see rule 1.

Some potential improvements are relatively trivial, even without getting into the hardcore linear algebra. If the camera doesn't see an obstacle but both radar and lidar do, that's an opportunity to fail relatively safely (potential false braking) rather than failing in a way that causes horrific crashes.

Bottom line: if you can't do sensor fusion, you literally have no business working on leading-edge AI/ML applications.
I know obituaries are mostly non-critical (we can leave for another day the decision-making process about which non-critical obituaries to publish, and whether there is a preference for non-critical obits for certain types of people). But this bold contradiction deserves mention in the article. It's about death squads.
I will say this...

If there's an AI that when given inputs can create a super efficient program that calculates the right outputs, it would be an AMAZING tool in programming. The few times I need to write such functions, a ridiculous time saving would occur and let me/other engineers focus on the test cases.

Will such a program actually solve the need to have engineers? No.

Will such a program actually assist engineers with things that a computer can actually be really good for? Absolutely. 90% of the time a solution is good enough. The problem is when we need to optimize, but that's okay, we can have humans take over and figure out if the AI did something that could be improved upon, or if the problem space needs to be changed.

Point is, its a fantastic tool. Yay. Now let's figure out how to make practical usage of it.
Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery
Yes but it's clear that the article is not talking about this. It's talking about things like The Hobbit compared to LOTR. The latter is a classic, the former has aged terribly, in a big part due to awful CGI
Broadband groups seek waiver from IIJA ‘Buy American’ requirements
The problem is this view continues to view software engineers as people that write code, that's not what my job is, it is figuring out how to solve a business problem using technology, and getting people on board with that solution and updating and refining it.

This viewpoint seems to me to be very similar to the idea of 3rd generation languages replacing developers because programming will be so easy, it isn't about how easy it is to write code, I function as a limited mentat taking all the possible requirements, tradeoffs constraints, analyzing them and then building the model, then I write out the code, the code artifact is not the value I add. The artifact is how I communicate the value to the world.

This doesn't make programmers redundant anymore than Ruby, PHP, or Java made developers redundant because it freed them from having to manually remember and track memory usage and pointers, it is at most a tool to reduce the friction of getting what is in my head into the world.

I control the code and whoever controls the code controls the business. I posses the ability to make out the strands of flow control and see the future state of the application. For I am the Sr. Software engineer and I have seen where no Project Manager can see.

Apologies to Frank Herbet I just finished listening to Dune.

EDIT:

I got off track at the end but my point is that no matter how good the tools for developing the code are, they will never replace a software engineer anymore than electric drills and power saws replace home builders. It merely elevates our work.
Garamond is very nice, but will always be associated with Apple for me; i avoid it for that reason.
>Notice the color differences. Every movie now takes place as if it were in The Matrix, appearing in deep greens or blues or in gray shades, like the complex colors of the world have been bleached out.

Could this reflect that we as a society have progressed towards a more advanced state? Maybe we have reached a more 'real' reality, a bit like Quentin Tarantino movie characters. As a consequence, the movies that we are watching now look different.

>There's the realer than real universe, alright, and all the characters inhabit that one. But then there's this movie universe. And so From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, they all take place in this special movie universe. So basically when the characters of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, when they go to the movies, Kill Bill is what they go to see. From Dusk Till Dawn is what they see. [1]

[1] https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a41379/que...
This sounds super cool! I was (mentally) toying around with an idea like this a few weeks back, maybe this'll teach me something.
Simon Peyton Jones does his presentations in comic sans, but I probably wouldn't use it for running text.
I'm curious, in that case what properties do make steel interesting?
The users in question never opted out, their domain admins opted out of a different feature.

And the corollary equally applies: it's a trivial feature with no privacy impact, why require opt-in. I don't want to be spammed with opt-ins every time every app I use adds a trivial new feature. I'd be clicking a dozen boxes a day.
Automated approach to extract security policies from software
This is correct, but a Render CLI is planned: https://feedback.render.com/features/p/render-cli

If you have the time, please share in that thread what you love most about using CLIs for services like Heroku or Render.

Also, we just released a public API which was a dependency for the CLI.

- API announcement: https://render.com/blog/winter-release-new-features#an-api-f...

- API docs: https://render.com/docs/api
I don't think you read my comments. If anything it looks like you just skimmed through them.

I explicitly said my success is a function of passion, hard work and LUCK. I have no problem admitting that part of my success is luck.

However equalling luck with privilege makes absolutely no sense. In your dictionary if I play poker and get a lucky hand I am now privileged.

What an utter nonsense.

And for the record I have absolutely zero problem with paying high taxes. Again, if you read my comments you'd know I come from a poor family. Government support was sometimes all we had. I fully support offering safety net for the less fortunate but can see you already made unfair assumptions about me.
This would be awesome if it works. Though I tried and waited for a while with no match - I suspect it’s a proof of concept to judge demand. Would be better if I could actually read HN while waiting, might make people willing to keep waiting longer on mobile.
Thats a good meditation. I think the winters were more driven by research dichotomy, for example Marvin Minsky's critique of the perceptron really slowed the research by 10 years. Advances made thus far have too much commercial relevance that companies invested dont look like they are gonna stop soon.
But its a valid point. Looks like there is more upside being in subsets of computing like quantum computing, web3, metaverse etc than being a regular front-end engineer
This is actuslly the part where other tractor companies should be stepping in and eating Deere's lunch.

Why aren't they?
What you're saying is the orthodoxy among designers.

The author of this article is saying they disagree with that orthodoxy.

I don't think it's helpful to just repeat the orthodoxy without saying more.

In particular I'd be very happy never to see the claim "people only add settings because they're shirking their job of making a decision" again. I don't think it's true, and I think it's impolite to make such a claim without justification.
That is the equivalent of flying a food processor.
It isn't well known, but LibreOffice can be simplified to about the point of Google Docs by selecting View > User Interface and choosing Tabbed Compact as the UI variant. There are actually 7 UI variants that can be selected.

Of course having so many different UI variants is also added complexity...
NUMA is part of the reality. There's lots of modern computing that doesn't acknowledge reality, but that doesn't tend to do good things for performance.

Communication isn't cheap, and implicit communication makes it hard to tell what's expensive. Reading from a pointer could be from L1 cache, or it could be from a pci-e card attached to another socket. The code looks the same, but the cost is radically different. Organizing how your code operates in memory to avoid cross-numa and cross-cpu in general isn't always easy, but it's required if you want to get the performance you paid for. OTOH, smaller nodes get this for free: my dual core desktop 'servers' don't have to worry about NUMA and don't have a lot of cross-cpu contention either.
Odd. We've been using DO App Platform with Web Sockets in production for over a year and haven't had any issues.
I recently read that the big suppliers of farming equipment have divided the land so to speak and aren't operating on each other's turf. You buy from whoever has a functional supply chain in your part of the farmland; if your tractor breaks, you need to get it fixed quick, because nature doesn't wait. Can't wait for some small startup or chinese supplier to send parts or technicians from the other end of the country.

It smells like a cartel to me. Either way, it doesn't seem easy to compete in such a space.
Niche opinion, probably, but I think they took a hard wrong turn not later than 3.0 (yes, that long ago) and never recovered.

Here we have this bug that's "not in telemetry" (strictly true) but for which telemetry increased the severity/blast-radius from "partial failure for many users" to "complete failure for most users".

But FTP—an actual feature for users, unlike spyware "features" that keep some chart-readers employed—had to go because that's too risky to keep. OK.
As a comparison against traditional unix pipes (or even sockets), how does DBUS handle sending/receiving a lot of data? I always got the impression DBUS is more for notification style message passing, not actually for sending data, so you'd send a message saying "fetch the data from this socket" rather than "here's a bunch of data for you".
A caveat that I considered adding to that statistic but left out due to brevity:

30% is likely over-estimating because there is likely some # of people that still work on Heroku but labeled themselves as Salesforce employees. There are also probably a higher number of people that work on Heroku part-time so also label themselves as Salesforce.

A tool like your suggestion could probably help but it would include folks that transitioned to a different part of Salesforce entirely.
Actual journal article from Nature (Edit: requires sub, look one comment below for an ungated version): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04296-3

(Not on SciHub yet but the figures provide some useful info)
Has their been a study on the effects on our medical systems if Covid-19 had spread thru the population much faster?
Can it be made transparent? There's a comparison to the strength of bulletproof glass, but if this can also be transparent...

Also, how does this affect the recyclability of current waste plastics?
I find it difficult to create a censorship model that can distinguish between "nuanced counterfactual take" and "contrarian falsehood". I think a lot of people already know this is a problem (e.g. censorship of the Wuhan lab theory).

I am fairly biased though -- I would rather 100 dangerous falsehoods get shared (even if it results in a lot of people believing wrong things) than a even 1 true fact get censored and that puts me in the weird position of often defending people and takes I disagree with and dislike.
Your "booger cars" (I like that term) are very annoying. I refer to the "rub them off" as using the third car to "set a pick" a la basketball.

The kind of driver that especially irritates me is the one that hangs out in the passing lane, driving slowly either at or under the limit, and then when you when you try and get around them, you can't without doing +20 over the limit.
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YMMV. The LoTR troll was fine for its time and holds up okay imo, though maybe that's also because it was released the year as the horrid-looking troll from Harry Potter.
The Book "Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi" by Koen Vervloesem is excellent imho. His approach centers around mqtt and he shows how to connect ZigBee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth and 433.92 MHz devices. He is very into security, showing how all communication is secured via TLS. He also shows how to setup VPN so you can access your home automation system securely from outside.
https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/dd/d53/tutorial_py_depthmap.html
> extending their power beyond their jurisdiction

US companies inject all sort of trackers and spyware into browsers of EU citizens and you talk about jurisdiction?
I think you may be thinking of FindFace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace
And one way or another you're going to end up measuring money eventually. Unless you are exceptionally altruistic, the only way to avoid selling out is to align incentives from the beginning. In practice this means forcing yourself to compete directly with alternative implementations, by building on open protocols. I'm not going to trust my time to your altruism.
have you tried b4artists (https://www.bforartists.de/)? It's a fork of blender designed to make it easier to use. I'm not sure how good it is because I bit the bullet and got used to blender but I know how you feel.

IMHO, the thing that makes it hard is that everything, everything is context dependent. A lot of operations depend on where your mouse is, both what panel it is over and even how far it is from the objects. Which is weird and counterintuitive. Once you learn it, conciously or unconciously, it's very powerful -- dragging to scale something in blender "feels" a lot more accurate once you latch on to the idea that where you start the drag matters. I'm not sure that tradeoff is worth it, but they have been putting a lot of work into the UI and it is improving. At least they finally let go of right-click select by default.
I see a new enterprise paradigm in our future, with hordes of consultants jockeying to 'enable' enterprises to downsize their development costs. All that is needed is a new role: auto-developer operations.

This new role promises to cut costs without losing any developer velocity, in fact it increases velocity (see carefully chosen, unreproducible productivity paper on arxiv). It accomplishes this by allowing an auto-developer to guide an AI to generate code in line with industry best practices. Hype!
interesting that even 70 miles are an issue. does the "modem" check GPS or is it really that selective?
Wealth gap list here. Sort by 2019 Gini. You will find US at the worse end of the spectrum (#4) and Singapore is at #64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...
Will it always be a Grafana Cloud only offering?
> If and when there is sufficient evidence that they can't, I expect things to change.

Why should I let Tesla put my life at risk if they're not sure it can be operated safely?

The burden of proof should be collecting evidence that they are safe, not waiting for data soaked in blood before pulling back.

Any other company wouldn't be able to pull off this kind of scam like Tesla is doing.
But doesn't love Osama Bin Laden, although Afghanistan certainly suffered more from US involvement than the US has suffered from North Korea, whose people it killed millions of.
The article says he’s exploiting known (ancient) vulnerabilities
It is not like that. People are allowed to do things, but they voluntarily cede the right to do them by agreeing to the terms of the contract, when they buy the hardware and services. So the role of the regulation will be actually to forbid certain types of contracts, that limit the right for repair, not to grant this right.

Also, the right to repair may mean different things: it can forbid exclusive contracts with spare parts suppliers, so that you could shop or repair elsewhere. Or it can regulate the price and availability. Or it can allow you to manufacture replacement parts on your own. The first option would be an equivalent of antitrust regulation in the vendor-specific ecosystem, and it seems pretty reasonable, because it will create a market where it did not yet exist. The second option will be economically destructive, because it would replace free market with planned economy. The last option may result in creating a black market of pirated parts, actually harming manufacturers which invested in R&D.
Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims
Some folks are just not TradeMarksters. They'll teach you that Intel makes processors that implement x86 and amd64 instruction sets. You can Google things on DuckDuckGo. They'll blow their nose on the Kleenex that they bought from GenericPaperProductsCo. At some restaurants in the US South you'll have to let your server know what kind of Coke you want: cola, lemon-lime, or the Doctor one.
Beside several USB dongle options there is the RaspBee II module for the io header https://phoscon.de/en/raspbee2
Do we? Or is that just nostalgia. I'm in the younger generation but as a kid watching Star Wars, it didn't care. Now watching it I see janky models on sticks and wires and a puppet for yoda barely moving his arms.

I think it's the suspension of disbelief. Star Wars at its time was phenomenal for its VFX and SFX, but CGI in movies nowadays is saturated, so it feels less impactful to us
Also steel is 100% recyclable. If I recall correctly, most steel used today is recycled.
New material that can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy
Would be great if the author included some actual real life examples. This is why I find Chomsky so convincing. He usually presents his argument with lots of evidence.
I like how he mentioned the fixes he did to BSD and even though they were cosmetic and man pages fix.

I always spot those small things, but I always feel silly submitting them on github since sometimes they feel so minor.
Alignment is going be a giant industry and will also include many people not originally in Stem. The humanities and “civil society” will both have their contributions to make.

It’s likely that alignment jobs won’t themselves be automated because noone will trust AI systems to align themselves.
Nature is asking for a subscription, so here's a version on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2103/2103.13925.pdf
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Right, that's what I'm saying about the race to the bottom. I'm sure you could find a corporate builder (perhaps even the same corporate builder!) to build whatever project you're talking about for 3 times the price and it will be significantly better quality. It's easy to lament the way the market has trended, but are you willing to pay 3 times more? Probably not.
It is an April Fools Day joke. They forked GCC and made one commit on April Fools Day 2021, and haven't touched it sense.

Compare:

Ada++ -- https://github.com/AdaPlusPlus/gcc/commits/master

GCC 10 (history from April 2021) -- https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commits/releases/gcc-10?af...
True. He may not even exist.
> I’m not a Zionist per se but I get it

Why not? I mean if you're not a Zionist you're basically pro Israel being dismantled, because Israel is a Zionist state.
You can say you're a Zionist in the 67 borders, or anything of that sort, but I don't get what's so hard in acknowledging Israel's right to exist. I get that it pisses off many progressives, but still. They'll get over it.