skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I missed this paper https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0... when doing my own feature map compression research: https://liuliu.me/eyes/reduce-another-70-memory-usage-for-de.... Thanks for point it out!

2. Otherwise, most of these are obvious optimizations. One widely popular optimization (that I consider non-obvious) is ZeRO-Offload, in particularly the gradient sharding scheme (although once learned, the sharding itself is pretty straightforward, just a bit chatty). One thing I think undervalued these years though is Alex's "One weird trick": https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5997. This scheme is much convoluted but very effective when training large MLP. It is not popular probably because a). the implementation is non-obvious; b). large MLP fall out of fashion quickly, and the computation shape for transformer looks probably very different from the MLP its originally trying to solve (with 4096 activations per layer).
> I wouldn't be surprised if, under EU law, a griefer in a video game who tells you to "Go fuck yourself!" isn't guilty of "Asking someone to do something sexually online."

I mean, we're not too far off from that in the West generally

https://alphanews.org/wisconsin-school-district-accuses-stud...
Thank you, that certainly gives me a lot to think about in this area.
I would be highly suprised if he doesn't have the right to distribute his work in a small scale non-commercially, especially as part of the process of creating that work.

You have made a huge and baseless assumption that there was any copyright infringement happening.
Some aspects of member states' sovereignty have been "temporarily loaned on a permanent basis" might be a good way of putting it. As evidenced by the UK withdrawing.

More of the former than the latter.
I can easily change it. I simply pay them £69 and get it changed. Maybe I’ve found the loophole? Or maybe they’re really bad at planning obsolescence?

To me this is no different than when I pay for new parts for my car. Could I do it myself? Maybe, but I’ll happily pay someone who knows what they’re doing to do it properly. If a bush wears down is that planned obsolescence? Should I be outraged after 60,000 miles that I have to replace it?

I’m actually old enough to have owned phones with removable batteries. Guess how many times I changed a battery? 0. All the way from the 3210, t68i, P900, Note II and a bunch I’ve forgotten and I’ve never needed to change a battery. I’ve had maybe 4 Apple phones with non removable batteries and never needed to either.
Argh, there's a typo there, we expect 20-30TWh/year in 2031.
Yes, you have to manually insert yield points. Exactly the same as with every cooperative threading system, including Lunatic and Rust's native async/await.

Kind of feels like we need user space preemptive threading somehow.
It’s all unraveling including how shitcoins fed into BTC/ETH and meme stocks for two long years.

But the SEC is hellbent on scapegoating Robinhood. I truly don’t know why we even have the SEC. They consistently fail to address egregious market flaws.
That would make sense if:
- There weren't other methods to prevent tampering
- Governments didn't want anti-corruption methods without having admin powers to exclude themselves.
There's a bit of history here where condensed matter physicists enjoy finding analogues and porting over mathematical ideas and theories applied primarily in higher energy particle physics. See: the humble skyrmion that started its life as a doomed particle physics model.

The rub here is calling is a Higgs MODE and specifically not a higgs particle.

The scientists aren't really at fault here, since it looks like within the field the Higgs mode is well understood and the main aim of these paper is other scientists.
Are the exchanges local, or is he doing an international money transfer from the exchange anyway? Trying to find where the value offered by the crypto is, but every way I can see for this to work still involves an international transfer.
Is this actually a problem with tesla marketing? Or is it a problem with people being dumb? An aircraft autopilot will happily fly you straight into a mountain. It just holds altitude and bearing. Everyone I know with a Tesla exclusively uses autopilot on the highway in between exits. I'm pretty baffled as to how some people think it's fully autonomous driving, and I'm dubious as to how culpable Tesla is for that ignorance.
> Germany managed to replace almost half of their generation in 2 decades: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-renewable-powe...

Still, only 16% of Germany's total energy consumption comes from renewables:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

If Germany wants to replace all uses of fossil fuels for heating, transportation, industrial use, etc, with renewables, HUGE investments remain.

In particular, giving up the ability to smooth out variations in production without the use of fossil fuels will be extremely costly, unless the cost comes down by at least a factor or 50.
My statement is mostly based on the assumption that a large part of their revenue is based on microtransactions, for which satisfied customers are key. Therefore if I stop playing due to the loading times, they effectively loose money since I certainly won't buy any in-game money with my real money. But you are of course right that I have already bought the game.

Regarding the management: If it takes >5 minutes on top high-end gaming rigs to load a game and if your loading times have become a meme in the internet, I think a somewhat reasonable product manager should ask their developers to at least invest 5 minutes in figuring out why it takes so long (that's probably about the time needed to figure it out given the tools the developers have) and if it can be decreased in a reasonable amount of time. I was just amazed by how simple the problem actually was for an issue that has led me and many others to stop playing. (And I actually really wanted to play, but I just didn't want to look 15 minutes at loading screens for having 5 minutes of actual playtime.)
Did The Guardian also check the results of other search engines before publishing this?
This is true. I have tried to maintain the same type of "great people" in my forum. It's a lot of hard work and it's been costly to maintain over the years. It is also admittedly very limited in focus.
The problem with running the numbers is that the actual numbers for nuclear are basically unknowable and most governments have given a taxpayer insurance that covers this unknown number "in blanco".

This means that most of the costs that will be caused by operating a nuclear power plant are not included in the costs of operations, and therefore not in the "price per MWh" or similar numbers. We don't know what this number is but we do know it's a very large number, and by removing it from the resposibility of the plant operators it represents a very large hidden subsidy for nuclear power.

Chernobyl and Fukushima are the familiar elephants in this particular room of course with he most recent estimate for Chernobyl passing 600bn usd in 2016 (and counting still of course and for the forseeable future) but I like to use the Asse II salt mine in Germany as a more digestable example.

This mine was used to store nuclear waste in the 70s which turned out to be a very bad mistake that has to be fixed in the coming few decades. The cost of this project, (estimated to be at least several bn euros) is not added to the cost of nuclear, it's just charged to the current taxpayers. The power plants that generated the waste stored in this mine are closed long ago but they keep costing money decades later.

Nuclear seems cheap because we're paying for it with credit cards issued to our grandchildren.
http://IndieWeb.org/POSSE to a rescue.
Are they bringing root/jb detection to the web? Hell no
A few months ago I found Stablegains. I asked myself, “how is this possible?”, “why is this backed by YC?”.

Started digging around. Read their TOS and Privacy Policy. Analyzed their relationship with the Anchor protocol.

Then I found screenshots of the founder’s notebooks and code. Showing deposit amounts…

At that point I knew this wasn’t about actually delivering value to customers if they were so sloppy with their security.
> But fission is the only answer we currently have for baseline power that doesn't involve burning things.

Patently false. The sun shines 24/7. This (besides power satellites) offers other possibilities like a world wide connected grid. Even if you are a proponent of nuclear you will also need that, as i assume you do not want to put reactors in every country.
The GPL is a very simple agreement.
I put my time on this and made it free and open to anyone.
You do the same, and we improve the whole world because of it, it certainly worked for Linux, and I think its why Linux is way more successful than BSD.
Without the blockchain consensus mechanism, how else can you guarantee the log has only be appended?
For those of us maintaining any of the billions of lines of legacy code that runs the majority of IT... nope. A lot of use cases can be covered by the web ecosystem, but a lot can't as well.

This seems to be a common fantasy or fallacy of developers under a certain age (I too far from that age to guess). I suspect because of the amount of dedication required to keep up with front-end technologies.

The reason it's so complex is because it's a bad fit. Soon enough everything will be WASM and we'll be right back where we were in the 90's with the "thin client" vs "thick client" debate.

The good part of it is that there ARE some problems being solved. WASM is a good start on trusted computing, and that's not going to go away ever. Unless that other fantasy of my generation (X-Gen) comes true - post-apocalyptic societal collapse. Not sure that could be called a "fantasy", maybe "collective nightmare" is a better term for it.
> It wasn't buying an equity, it was buying a token that was the same price as the equity. Buying the token had no effect on the upward price of the equity

Sounds like a derivative to me. That is also a type of security.
I'd say this is more true for C vs C++. It has been my experience that the interop between C and languages like Ruby is much easier, the tooling is usually much better (just use ffi!), and the complexity is less (since that is what we're aiming for right?)
I've been WFH from a new job for a year now. Before that I was WFH since 3/2020 at a job I had been at, in-person, for 4 years.

I have met most of the dev team that I lead. One person is out of state so I've never seen him, the rest I've met once. I haven't seen anything that I could consider a drawback to not being in person with them, or having seen them for more than the few minutes that we've actually met.

FWIW, I've been in this business for about 30 years. I do embedded systems, so occasionally I do have to go into the office to get updated hardware/fixes for broken stuff/etc. But on average I'm not in the office more than 1-2 times a month, rarely for more than 4 hours at a time. Granted this may change if I move to a project that has physically large systems that I can't take home, but for the last few years it's worked just fine for me.

I mean, this morning I took two meetings while sitting in the Service waiting room at a car dealership. The convenience can't be beat.
Will U.S. debt cause a global collapse?
A lot of early studies on piracy suggested that it actually promotes sales more than it removes them. It's just that this is mainly on the side of the less famous musicians, artists, etc, because it gives them more reach (in the case of music people were less likely to try out their stuff if they only had a limited budget to buy records and little opportunity to listen to albums beforehand). It's mainly the biggest mainstream acts that see reduced sales.

Personally I don't have much of an issue with that. Of course, this was before streaming was a thing so who knows if the effects of piracy on sales have shifted again as a result of that.

And then there is of course the angle that we're artificially limiting supply of digital goods anyway, but that's an entirely different can of worms.
>Tesla gets called out because their autosteer is so good at lane keeping, comparatively speaking.

Yeah, Tesla gets "called out" because their technology is so good, not because their implicit marketing claims the cars can drive themselves.

There are full time shills whose entire focus is demonstrating on YouTube how the cars can drive themselves. You don't think that has something to do with this? Arguing "That's FSD this is Autopilot" misses the entire point. Elon has 100M followers on Twitter; go scan through any thread. People think they've solved FSD, people think they have humanoid robots, people think he already owns Twitter for crying out loud.

So, yes, if Mary Barra got in her Chevy Bolt and told a reported the car can drive itself and someone died doing the same thing, I think GM would be held to the same standard.
Yeah, when you're nervous you kinda feel like you need to have an answer immediately and deliver it quickly, but you'd be surprised not only how long you're allowed to pause, but how slow you're allowed to talk.
If someone robs a bank and $100 falls out while they get away that you later find, that makes robbing banks noble by your logic?
I don’t understand this whole ‘tar the son with the (perceived) sins of the father’.

Does this logic mean that if you have the misfortune to be born into a family that has the capability to perform it’s root functions more effectively than others (providing education) your achievements are worth bunk because you don’t have a story of adversity to overcome?

Don’t get me wrong I lean left, believe capability is evenly distributed and opportunity isn’t, but how is this a useful slight?
Though protocols are not law. You can have non-conforming implementations. If these are popular enough (potentially due to $proprietary_thing) then people will just use them. Other services will need to decide if they want to continue to interoperate.
> There is not many people who have the guts to build a simple straightforward step for step script

I don't think it's that easy. Building simple software is very hard, and often takes several iterations to ensure you even understand the problem. Most developers are under time pressure, and stop as soon as there's a working solution, even if it's more complex than it should be.
> but have EU member states abandoned their sovreignity in exchange for having a sovreign EU?

ehhh, kind of?

> is the EU a treaty union like the UN or a federation where members are subject of the EU?

its not exactly a one-to-one comparison with anywhere, but its easy to find an individual country's head of state or representatives saying - in a positive way - that they have given up sovereignty for a stronger many country union.

additionally, the top EU court is still coming into its own, with its recent rulings over the last decade being more analogous to the US Supreme Court's "Marbury v. Madison" moment, where it kind of just noticed its finality and gravity and actually exercised that. But one key difference is that the ECJ is not simultaneously an appellate court. So national courts are still silo'd in their own country's processes, with the additional ability to weigh in on ECJ decisions and rulings. While the ECJ deals directly with union law.

so, its happening. but kind of.
No - but like...the key feature of blockchain is that you can design a system where you must do that to make a change. If you're running a 'centralized'* (let's say 'administered') system then you can just change the database with your admin credentials. You could swear up and down that you threw away your admin credentials, but you can't prove you destroyed data. Blockchain systems can be used to create systems where you can prove that no entity has admin powers. I am extremely skeptical of how useful that is - but it is unique.

* blockchains are centralized; just in a different way
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Sure, I'm expecting a statement more along the lines of "Here's how we attempted to do due diligence and failed (and thus failed in our responsibility to fund investors)" rather than accepting fiduciary responsibility for Stablecoin.
> Doesn't look like it adds much of anything to the Apple calendar

Cron also runs on Windows. No idea if Windows comes with a calendar.
Hotel Bibles are still a thing, but probably not for much longer
Radio signal coming from another galaxy detected by scientists
in general, if you're solving the same conflict over and over it's because of a common conflict resolution misconception / poor choice.

let's say you have commits a->b->c->d

you go to merge and there's a conflict in "a" and instead of taking the choice that would be the precursor to "b" you take a choice (or manually change the merge) that is essentially "d", because that's what you want that code line to look like eventually anyway.

now when git goes to apply the transform from a->b the "a" shaped code it's looking for isn't there because it's "d" shaped, and then when it goes to apply the transform from "b" to "c" ... same problem. and then "c" to "d" ends up being a no-op.

So, if you are resolving the same conflict over and over. Stop. abort your rebase. restart the rebase and when you get to the first conflict in that place make a choice that will help find what it needs to make the next transform in the chain. Do NOT jump ahead.

pro-tip: open up a 2nd terminal. do git log that goes back beyond all your commits.

then when you hit a conflict in the 1st terminal you can `git log -n1` to see what one it has finished applying. then diff between that commit and the next one in a different terminal using the hashes in your git log. this way you can see what's coming and how far you are in the process. and run diffs using the hashes to see what transforms are coming up.
I dare you to prove how; the only verifiable account is that he had enough privilege to immigrate to Canada with like $1,000 to his name. He took student loans. People who knew him back then characterize him as almost pathologically frugal.

The "elon and his brother walking around with emeralds in their pockets" thing is a story straight from 1 interview with his estranged father and verified by nobody. The nearest verifiable records show lifetime earnings from the mine of ~$400k before tax.

What's more, elon's dad was elected to local office on an anti-apartheid ticket, which was a bit of a dangerous move for him.
Do neglectful people turn on cruise control and then rear-end other cars in their Volvos and GMs? I'm going to guess that there's plenty of such instances, but they're not as headline-prone as crashing Teslas. Hence, why this data would be useful for comparison.
Yes, and going into a public chatroom and being asked to "show boobs and vagina" by some rando certainly qualifies as "being asked for a sexual favor." This is how you manipulate statistics.

There's shockingly high stats, and there's ludicrously high stats from another planet.

20% isn't just high. It's so high there's no way you were walking around without noticing.

98% of people have been attacked before their 30th birthday. Really. They've been shoved, slapped, called a slur, publicly called incompetent and/or had items ripped out of their hands.
Do you mean that you ignore the unique BT MAC address and track instead those tiny signal deviations that hopefully make each device unique?

Cool!
> why stay in a company where I don't have anything other that money to gain?

Unless you're the founder or equally invested, don't be fooled - companies do not care about you.
> CmdTaco was right about the iPod at the time

I didn't say he (or the statement I compared to his) were wrong.

I said they missed the point of what was important for impact.
Busybox is not a rewrite of coreutils, it serves a completely different purpose.
Is American democracy still doomed?
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FWIW - all of the prices listed on sso.tax look to me like reasonable amounts for anything that can call itself a business in the western Europe or the US.

One can view it as the SSO-enabled offering being a product, and the SSO-less option being a demo. Which, let’s be fair, it really is.

So, would you advocate the removal of the SSO-less trial discount ?
I’d probably agree with you were it not for the fact that the “planned obsolescence” happened 18 months after the release of the iPhone 6S, but they then went on to give it a further 5.5 years of software updates. Maybe someone at Apple didn’t get the message?
There's literally an LA rapper called "Lil Xan"
> Solar is near-useless in colder areas, where you want to use the power for heating in the winter.

Heating is super awesome with renewables. As you can store heat in an well isolated home. Yes you need capacity for that but heat pumps well a lot with that.
It's both, and unless you have a solution to eliminating stupid people, then the tech needs to be regulated out of the market so innocent people don't get killed on the roads due to this stupidity.
A number of things really jump out to me:

* How are "sexual violence" and "childhood" actually defined here?

* Most people who I know who were victims of sexual violence as children were victimized by other children around their own age, in person. Very often it was a sibling, cousin, or neighbor. I don't see automatic CSAM detection actually helping this statistic all that much.

* "2021 global study found that more than one in three respondents had been asked to do something sexually explicit online during their childhood". Again, what defines "childhood"? When I was a teenager, I was having phone sex and video call sex with other people my own age. That would classify me as having been "asked to do something sexually explicit online" as well as being the other side of it.

* People with disabilities are at a really high risk of victimization in a lot of different forms.

This "Reasons for and objectives of the proposal" section conflates a really large number of things (Document is http://www.marinacastellaneta.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/202... ). It treats the following items as all being effectively the same thing with the same solutions:

* Minors being sexually abused online.

* Minors being sexually abused in person.

* Minors being sexually abused by adults.

* Minors being sexually abused by other minors.

* Voluntary sexual activity between minors of the same age.

* The victimization of disabled minors.

It also abuses statistics by considering all sexual activity of minors to be effectively the same (16 year olds showing each other naked pictures of themselves being the same as prepubescents being abused sexually by adults) and using statistics that include real world abuse to justify digital surveillance that won't even help reduce a lot of those numbers because the crimes don't even happen digitally. Even if this was 100% effective at removing all CSAM from the entire internet, how effective is that expected to be at actually reducing childhood sexual abuse? I know abusers consume CSAM, but in the absence of CSAM, are people going to be less likely to actually abuse children? Are people who abuse children now going to stop, and is it going to somehow prevent new abusers from starting? I honestly don't know the answer to this, but I'm skeptical to the idea that this has anywhere near the benefit that the proponents think it does.
Russian tech giant Yandex removes national borders from Maps app
When cost reduction comes along, human nature will cause people to circle the wagons and protect their own. Depending on the office culture, being remote might result in being left out of certain crucial social groups.
Like most things, it's pretty obviously not black and white.