skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are hardware requirements to run this?

I see the mixture model is ~ 300 GB and was trained on 256 GPUs.

I assume distilled versions can easily be run on one GPU.
I was actually just sharing this site with some coworkers last week as an impressive example of 3d activity visualization done right!

Map nerd and FKTer here working in a very similar space, I have a ton of questions!

I'd love to hear a little bit about how the camera positioning works. It seems like there is some fairly clever stuff happening under the hood to (1) maximize the amount of trackline in view so that that it is not obscured by terrain and (2) smooth out the camera path so that it doesn't jitter around even when the gps track is irregular.

Is this a completely bespoke rendering implementation? From the look of things, you're definitely not using mapbox-gl-js or leaflet. Are you even using ThreeJS, or is it just all raw webGL under the hood?

Finally, where are you sourcing your DEMs? AWS Terrain?

(small nit: It seems like you may be missing imagery/data attribution on your map, or do you have a license that allows for un-attributed use?)
I decided to grunt it out via a course on Udemy and the ramp was worth it. The software is great!
'Off the charts' chemical shortages hit U.S. farms
Sometimes these auction houses appear to be in on the fraud. Especially when dealing with rich clients that they don't want to embarrass. They would rather a fake be sold back and forth between clients than admit they sold a fake in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Rodenstock
We have a full list here (copy pastable): https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2... and Table 1 of our paper (https://research.facebook.com/publications/no-language-left-...) has a complete list as well.
For me it's hardware nested virtualization but I'll be waiting for the M2 Pro.
Still people are gonna keep saying that China pollutes, and not that the US pays them to pollute because the US consumerism is off the charts.

One good thing about the coming of the Facebookverse is that USians then won't need to buy new clothes every week in the real world.
> You'll have a completely different set of people from one to the next

Yeah, sometimes, other times there's overlap. That is kind of my point, they're encouraging chasing people off to new places because their channel operators could be worse.
sms and email are insecure-by-default protocols. Gmail/imessage extend them which necessarily will create vendor-lock in when the extension relies on some centralized service, the extensions are private, and the implementations are closed source.

Matrix fixes this, but only in the sense that they replace the whole protocol without reverse compatibility.
I gained a deeper understanding of what it truly means to be inclusive. Every language is unique just like everybody and making sure content works for all and including as many people as possible is really really hard, but through this project i'm hopeful we are taking it one step further
It's definitely not just weight - I ordered two different sizes of high-visibility mesh vests (basically almost weightless) and when I went to return one, Amazon told me to keep it. I think it was about a $10-12 item.

The only other time this has happened for me was with some wine glasses; one out of the four in the package (single stock unit) was broken and they said I should keep the item. I guess in general they're not interested in receiving broken glass returns.
I believe that this is a key part of a sustainable future in terms of climate impact but I really don't know if we have what it takes to pull off a project of this size. It's interesting that it seems like these type of large infrastructure projects were more on schedule and feasible a century ago.
yes. I've considered getting an rx-6400 to switch.
Do they have bike-by shootings?

But actually I'm really curious how the transit modes of a country impact its crime.
Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

This is a huge step forward for iPhone users. Look, I get it. From the typical HN perspective, this potentially looks like a lot of hype. But many of you aren't looking at from a high level.

In the world we are now living in; even what's happening in the United States right now, being able to protect yourself from well-funded, determined attackers for the average person couldn't come at a better time.

There's a huge gap between Fortune 500 executives, government officials, etc. and regular people in terms of the resources available to them to prevent state-sponsored attackers. It doesn't take much these days to go from a nobody to being on somebody's radar.

If you're a woman seeking an abortion in a state where it's illegal or severely restricted, you could be the target of malware from your local or state government or law enforcement. In Texas, you can sue anyone who aids and abets a woman who attempts to get an abortion for $10,000, which is enough to get someone to trick someone into installing malware on a phone.

No, it's not China or Russia coming for you but it doesn't take much to ruin someone's life.

I don't think this is virtue signaling or marketing hype by Apple; if anything, this is right in alignment with the stance they've had on privacy for years. Even for a company the size of Apple, putting up $10 million to fund organizations that investigate, expose, and prevent highly targeted cyberattacks isn't pocket change.

At the end of the day, this is all good news for user privacy and security going forward. I also suspect if I lockdown my iPhone, my other compatible devices using the same Apple ID will also lockdown. No IT department required.
El Salvador is a USD-based economy and does not have their own currency. This means they're at the whims of the US Federal Reserve, which they have representation with. And any USD reserves that are abroad can be seized by the US, as Afghanistan ($7B seized) and Russia ($300B seized) learned recently.

Bukele is promoting BTC as a way to attract talent and capital, and also to modernize El Salvador's economy. Similar to how Africa skipped landlines and jumped right to mobile phones. It remains to be seen how effective that part is. But, either way, it gives El Salvador some more independence from the US and sovereignty in a world where alliances are shifting fast.
yes, much better
Gotta trust somebody at some point? Otherwise you have to live off the grid in the woods eating squirrels and mushrooms
> Common Lisp is only hot-swappable when you're not running a binary, at least from what I know of SBCL.

Which is false.
TOR is no magic bullet
Another nit, there was never a mistake with ending sentences with prepositions, it comes from Latin where you can't do that but John Dryden in the 1600s wanted to bring that to English, but no one really cared.

Ironic, isn't it? (I say this jokingly, I get your irritation with pedants, sometimes I feel the same way.)
It's marketing and you ate the hook, line, and sinker.
Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotional intelligence means
anyone big like samsung, lg, or apple? I'd love to see those articles and teardowns.
I want deniability. After watching the videos from Ukraine of Russians pulling out citizens from cars forcing them to unlock their phone with guns to their heads -- I want a way to hand someone a phone, unlock it, and STILL be protected. I want my private things in a volume with deniability. Trucrypt was close.
What then? Use SMS?
Facebook and Twitter have banned a lot of "misinformation" that was actually true (or at least not demonstrably untrue).
We release several smaller models as well: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/nllb/exampl... that are 1.3B and 615M parameters. These are usable on smaller GPUs. To create these smaller models but retain good performance, we use knowledge distillation. If you're curious to learn more, we describe the process and results in Section 8.6 of our paper: https://research.facebook.com/publications/no-language-left-...
And tools like pdftotext...it effectively breaks that.
It takes effort to understand this stuff. Don't worry: that's normal. If you want to understand it, treat it like anything else you want to learn. Make notes, review them, and prepare before the meetings.

A simple way to begin is to start a cheat-sheet. Names, projects, dates, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, etc etc. Bring it each time and keep it updated.
The success rate of law enforcement shouldn't be a determining factor on whether something should be illegal. I've never heard anyone say "everyone speeds, why is it illegal" or "cocaine is easy to get, why is it illegal"

As to crimimals and gun, at least for mass shooters -
77% of mass shooters obtained their guns legally [1]

As to the effectiveness of a ban-
In 1996 there was a school shooting in Dunbane (uk) that led to 16 deaths. Stricter laws were enacted next year Most handguns were made illegal in 1997.

Later "According to data compiled by the University of Sydney’s GunPolicy.org, the U.K.’s annual rate of gun deaths per 100,000 people was 0.2 in 2015, versus the United States’ rate of 12.09."[2]

Maybe it would take longer here, maybe it wouldn't be as effective but we know laws don't stop 100% of the crime but it helps

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/p...

[2]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1996-dunblane-mas...
It's definitely tin-foil-hat level. Obviously if you're a spy you're gonna have to have next level stuff, most of us aren't Jason Bourne, even we'd like to think we are.
Right.

HN is not representative of the average person, or even a standard cross section of society. A elevator has to be legible to an 8 year old child, an 80 year old retiree, someone who is blind, a person who is deaf, etc.

When designing for such a broad audience, KISS (keep it simple, stupid)
https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html sort of gives you that, syntax works with threads or processes.
Didn't linkedin lost a lawsuit related to scraping https://www.zdnet.com/article/court-rules-that-data-scraping...
Bitcoin also famously forked into BTC and BCH. And Ethereum Classic is still ticking away printing blocks. Forks are a feature, not a bug.
Being friendly is inclusive and generally a winning strategy compared to others.

The underlying source of the Politics of Python and associated perceptions stems from the core team's culture of not being "friendly".
> You are paying extra for everything since the cost of return losses is built into the price - you are paying "return insurance" whether you need it or not.

I've heard this before but it always confuses me. Stores always charge the amount such that (price per widget)*(expected number of widgets sold) is maximized.

Put another way - If stores somehow managed to eliminated returns with no other side effects, would you expect the price to drop?
Correct, but historically the price had been stable and predictable.

Imo you're just trading "beholden to the usgovt" with "beholden to miners, whales and wall street" plus wild price swings. Former or latter may be preferable for certain reasons, but for fiscal stability or day-to-day use the choice seems obvious to me.
I was able to find this without much googling:

https://www.geekwire.com/2013/duane-campbell/
Moderna is doing clinical trials on updated versions of their vaccine: https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/Moder... https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/Moder...

However the FDA has said that they may not require trials for new versions of the vaccines to get them out faster.
These are bad faith arguments. I'm not going to touch this anymore.
> Why not just sell discounted "non-returnable" versions

They do. It's called a final sale. Clothing retailers do this frequently. Some are more strict on this than others. Bonobos, for example, often advertises as final but will accept returns (YMMV basis).

What I'm curious about is sizing. Buy three pairs of the same size pants from Banana Republic and you'll get three pairs that fit differently. Their deviation is sometimes extreme. Same with Levis and others. You would think, in an online shopping world, that this would be the lowest of hanging fruit. I can't believe the cost of QA is greater than the costs of returns and reputational harm. Shopping online for clothes is just madness, and it's common to buy multiple items of the same size (or next size S and M) just to be able to return the ones that don't fit. Sometimes you may fit in S and an M from the same brand. Just different SKU/factory/batch. It's a total crapshoot.
This is one of the examples we keep in mind and that's also why we can't 100% trust public dataset labels. This motivated us to train a Language IDentification system for all the languages we wanted to handle in order to build the monolingual dataset. More details in the paper ;) Or here, if you have questions
Besides what other commenters mentioned, it is also the longest running revenue source for Apple.
Agreed, but remember that if you are thinking about betting against Tesla that the market can stay (much) longer irrational than you can stay solvent. There is a quote from the early 20th century: "Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon."

When VW stocks went through the roof due to a short squeeze a few years ago, a very conservative German billionaire named Adolf Merckle saw that VW's stock value was ridicilously overpriced, so he decided to bet agains the stock. But the stock price went further up and stayed there long enough to make him lose all of his money. He then committed suicide.
Chef’s Fable
Neat! How do you know this?
I'm gonna bet that Illustrator is gonna need that switch flipped. Thanks!
What does that even mean? Is there any fiat currency system you can point to where elite insiders don't get special access to the money printer before us plebs do?
Wow, the euro is just about at parity with the dollar recently. That's a big markup.
I'm skeptical of over using microservices but I don't quite understand how they make an app "incompatible with logging".
> Currently I'm in a bunch of servers, notifications everywhere

Discord's default of "notify me on every message" is its worst anti-feature, IMO.

Other than that, I like Discord.
> I think Zig, D are examples of this niche but syntax wise they don't completely look like C.

This is technically true, but someone that likes writing C while wanting a few extra features would mostly be able to write the same C code they always have if they stick to D's betterC. (I'm not familiar enough with Zig to comment on that.)

Edit: Should also add that D now compiles C code, so a C programmer could continue to write C as they want, write a few D functions where those features help, and compile them without writing any binding code.
Same situation with mine. Even had to have the battery replaced after showing errors, after a whole ordeal to have it covered under warranty. I suspect this was related to the constant overheating.
Unless you design the FPGA inhouse and make it in your own Fab how would you know it's secure? Taiwan and Korea owe the US a lot of favors...
For me the 'more' button doesn't work properly so that's a bummer.

But breaking designs with too much text can really lower the perceived quality and the readability and navigation. Often you would use a technique like that to preserve a 2d aligned grid/table/cell/matrix/cards like design, where the overall structure is really more about seeing things in context and in relation to each other. Having uniform spacing really helps there. If you break the 2d alignment the overall structure becomes wiggly and distracting.
We think it's important for AI to truly support everyone in the world. A world where AI only serves a subset of the population is not ideal. In machine translation, this means supporting as many language as possible at high quality. We also imagine a future where anyone will be able to communicate with anyone else seamlessly; this also means solving translations for all languages.
From the article

> In theory, developing nations like El Salvador are ideal candidates for cryptocurrency adoption. More than half its citizens rely exclusively on cash, rather than credit or debit cards. Some 70 percent of households have no bank account and nearly 90 percent do not use mobile banking. A digital payment platform could be a way to make the economy more inclusive and accessible.
>>> why not a stablecoin?

Berkeley Labs hypothesizes a "thermodynamically" stablecoin. If that experiment fails, there may be no hope for defi ;)

‘Holy grail’: Researchers create physics-based cryptocurrency

https://www.dailycal.org/2022/06/20/holy-grail-researchers-c...
If that's the case, I'm going to convince myself that I'm doing my immune system some good exposing it to such horrors in minute quantities..
Perhaps it was a performative example of how satire works.

Or maybe it was just meant to be a humorous comment. Why. So. Serious?
@Twirrim How would you rate the user experience of the concurrent.futures package compared to the golang `go' keyword?

It is architecturally comparable to async Javascript programming, which imho is a shoehorn solution.
Like shipping channels in the ocean. You can't see them until a boat cuts through the water leaving a wake. There's no evidence left behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ&t=18s (gibberish warning)
I don't disagree at all. But the context of the comment I was responding to was specifically about whether this would be enough to justify a high conviction bet on AAPL stock.

Even if this model sells like hotcakes (which I'm sure it will), and even if that isn't priced in (which I'm less sure of), don't really see that having a large enough impact on overall earnings to move the needle on the stock. The reality is that small differences in the next Fed announcement probably will move AAPL to a much larger degree than this product.
Chaebol
Almost nothing you've said here is correct.

The Unix philosophy has very little to do with desktop fragmentation and everything to do with the fact that unlike macos and windows: it's not that commercial an endeavor. A common employer is a main reason many work on someone else's ideas when they can just work on their own ideas.

Even when there are commercialization efforts: investment and adoption circular. The challenges are much much bigger than just the desktop fragmentation.

See: ChromeOS. Investment can solve these problems.

Similarly, Fuchsia is a much bigger effort about the future of operating systems and not about just desktop environment quirkiness. Again, they have ChromeOS for that.

Don't get me wrong, I agree this all hurts Linux adoption, and as a user I wish it were different.
The guns are obviously a huge part of it, but there are enough data points within the US and when compared to other countries with high gun ownership (Switzerland being the favourite example of the gun lobby) that it's clearly not just the guns. Even if the US didn't have a problem with mass shootings it would still appear to the rest of the developed world as a country with major issues that don't typically occur elsewhere (Trump, covid, supreme court rulings etc. etc.). But the guns is probably the easiest problem to solve physically, even if it's politically impossible.
> However, we can create serious bottlenecks when it comes to moving memory back and forth between the CPU and GPU. We’d have to learn what kinds of models would take advantage of this, we have little experience with GPUs as a team—but we may be able to utilize lots of existing ND-array implementations used for training neural nets.

Indeed, moving memory back and forth from CPUs to GPUs has an overhead. There are ways to mitigate this though! I vaguely remember that one of the patterns in reducing this movement was to keep the data in the GPU as much as possible. I haven't kept up with the latest tech in GPUs off late. When I first played around with CUDA, ArrayFire (arrayfire.com) (no affiliation) was a promising library, and might be a good fit for your GPU prototypes?
Agreed. It's one of the few CSS related blogs I'm subscribed to via RSS.
I get the comedy but now I'm wondering why he ordered a pair of chinos if he doesn't plan to get out of the shower.
How did you learn to identify such people? I think I have a hard time evaluating these things personally, I don't find anyone abusive/toxic. Maybe I'm just lucky?
History has repeatedly shown that being able to print money is a critical tool during financial crises. No one likes their money being debased, but they like economic depressions even less.

There is a reason that nations have abandoned the gold standard.
Are people actively looking for ways to be offended? Internal teams at EA getting hurt over a tweet that's totally forgettable and even at it's most memorable it's just lame.

It seems like someone at the top needed to post in their slack, "shut up about a stupid tweet and make something memorable." The last thing employees need to do is watch their companies Twitter. Except for outage notifications (which always come late) nothing of value is posted on a company Twitter account.
> In fact, I'm not sure it's possible to log into an iPhone with your Apple ID and not have an iCloud backup immediately fire off

You are correct there’s a bit of dark pattern going on here, but it is possible (to the extent the code does what it says of course). To be extra sure I have a custom lockdown MDM profile to disallow iCloud backups, as well as a number of other nefarious things like analytics, and whenever I get a new device, I first DFU restore it to the latest iOS image to ensure software (post bootrom) isn’t tampered with, then activate and install the MDM profile via a Mac and only then I interact with the device and go through setup.
> to replicate slack

IRC replicating slack. The irony. old-person grumble
> as Afghanistan ($7B seized)

This is because the Taliban is a terrorist organization that captured the capitol, not a government. You don't give $7bn to al qaeda, ISIS or lashkar-e-taiba either.

You can thank Trump and Pompeo and their plan to withdraw 100% of US forces by a fixed deadline for that (removing all support for the afghan government's armed forces), and Biden for going along with the foolish plan.
I think scale of this is a bit bigger than most of what we actually did in Europe a century ago, as the who-pays-for-cross-border question was even harder then. The closest fit anywhere would probably be the USA interstate network.
Twitch/TikTok/YouTube is the "move to LA and do foodservice whist waiting to hit it big" of the current generation. You don't actually make any money doing it, but you think someday you will.
I ran in to this with ::-webkit-progress-bar and ::-webkit-progress-value. Also it turns out you can't animate them, so I had to put the animation on the progress element and manually inherit it on the tree of psuedoelements to get the animation I wanted working.
I think you're misunderstanding my comment.
I kind of want to turn it on and leave it on. I'm assuming since it's a "mode" that I can turn it off when I need to, do what I know is legit, then turn back on again.
Ethereum is not Bitcoin. Ethereum just showed the world Botcoin's unique value compared to Ethereum and the thousands of crypto projects so often conflated with Bitcoin.

The 2017 Bitcoin scaling wars proved that one can't simply change Bitcoin's consensus rules by majority control of the miners. I think at one point 80% of the miners were in favor of large blocks, yet they didn't have buy-in from the rest of the network participants (developers, regular users, merchants, exchanges).

Bitcoin has really robust decentralization.
Hey Mickey, another happy reader here. One question, looking at your site, I see mention of an "Emacs 28 edition." I've got v3 of the ebook, is there an update version from here?
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