skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to say tbh. Could be infinite, could be zero.

In classification batch is going to help a ton (including stability) and you may not even get top results without a high batch, so infinite in that case. More realistically, consider that batch also helps with GPU I/O. I/O slows things down quite a lot, so if you're moving stuff in and out of the accelerator a lot then you can easily be I/O bound.

For generation the conversation gets more complicated. For GANs the smaller card could do better if you can fit a proper batch size there (probably not tbh but often closer to 16 or 24 so that may be better here). Here distributed tends to help more. For VAEs, Diffusion, Autoregressive, etc are more stable and can also hugely benefit from large batches.

So the truth is an unsatisfying "it depends." I know that may not be the answer you're looking for, but it is the real one. It takes a lot of work and tricks to scale (as anyone working in non-ML HPC will tell you very similar stories about scaling). But also note that the clock speeds aren't as big of a gap as you note though the memory gaps are.
what is wrong with using ventoy?
‘Data is’ or ‘data are’? The FT has a comment
The solution to that is not taking the freedom from everybody.
I'm a noob to DS&A, but I'm writing a little add-on for Blender and have come up against BVH and kd-trees. What makes one more popular for 'within objects' and the other for 'between'?
It doesn't really prove it at all. Because there's so few segregated cycle lanes (I live in a part of town that has some, but they're only in certain places along wide, higher-speed roads), cyclists just mostly stick to sidewalks. This causes lots of interactions between cyclists and pedestrians, which has led directly to the requirement for liability insurance that I mentioned before, because of so many pedestrian injuries.

Basically, cyclists have a choice: take roads and risk getting hit by cars, or take sidewalks and risk running over pedestrians. The risk to the cyclist is FAR lower with the latter, so that's the rational choice to make, and that's what they've done. Getting hit by a car is easily a death sentence; hitting a pedestrian can cause serious injuries, but that's rare, and usually the risk is to the pedestrian.

If you really want safety for everyone, you need to separate all 3 modes of traffic. It works ok here much of the time just because people are tolerant and non-confrontational, the car traffic is rather low-speed (unlike America), there's no that much car traffic in the first place (no place to park! So much of it is taxis and delivery trucks), and a lot of the streets are really narrow (also leads to low speed for cars).

Personally, I stick to sidewalks unless there's a cycling lane, or the street is so low-traffic and low-speed that I feel safe on it. So little residential back streets are fine, but the big boulevards, forget it.

IMO, I think that, at least in my area, they could do better just by painting cycling lanes on the sidewalks, and educating people to use the appropriate lane (cycling lanes for cyclists only; too often I see careless people walking in the clearly-marked cycling lane), and also by widening some of these sidewalks where possible. They could also stand to put some of the roads on diets to make wider sidewalks and cycling lanes. Maybe levy some more parking taxes to pay for it.
The New Zealand government is working on a central bank digital currency but it has requirements for AML and terrorism funding so they refuse to make it anonymous. I'm sure most governments are similar. They just need one reason like that and then they can poke around in people's spending for whatever reason they want. There'll always be some bogeyman that the general population or international pressure leads them to track people for.
> It would take more time learning how you start a React or Angular project…

That time has has already been spent, because you hired React developers. They will be fastest by pulling in React. Really, the argument could end here. Yes, there is overhead in using it, things can get out of hand, but they do not have to. If they do get out of hand, would vanilla web technology have prevented that?
I'm no Java enthusiast but this screams for source.

I'v always thought it is how iOS manages threads vs in a way Android cannot. But all that info is from more than decade ago, so things may have changed. Can anyone chime in to explain?

To this day iOS feels snappier, perhaps lower latency input/output or something. Am saying as someone who uses and prefers Android and currently using Samsung Galaxy S10 phone (flagship phone line)
Did stockfish use any tech from alphazero & co ? or has it managed to catch up keeping itself "pure" ?
As mentioned in the article, Datomic is a database that uses Datalog as its query language:

https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/query/query.html#why-datalo...

(Some ten years ago worked at a startup that used Datomic. It seemed to work great, although the only queries I ever needed to add to the system were simple copy-paste hacks of existing ones, so I never got to dive into Datalog.)
We're talking about a highly contagious disease. I've lost my entire sense of smell (I used to be a quite good amateur chef before that, cooking for friends all the time, now that's gone) and I'm exhausted instantly when I do anything physical now, struggling with tasks that I used to do easily before.

I'm not going to have any sympathy to people who intentionally and knowingly bring that upon others.
Your philosophy is plain wrong because if you want to be in Apple ecosystem and you wanted a rugged phone, you would not get one without a case. And that's reasonable because a lot of cases would make a phone rugged in a modular fasion

> PS: Everyone I know who has a protective case on their phone has broken the screen at least once. Typically they just get it repaired for ~$100 and then... they still have their unblemished pretty phone again, which they put back inside an ugly case.

That's just simply not true. I regularly hang out in a circle of rollerbladers who use their iPhones in the worst conditions, where they would most certainly not survive for even a week if not for cases.
Another problem with Clojure-based Datalog is performance. Yet another is you are pretty much tied to the Clojure ecosystem. And I don't really like the Clojure-fused Datalog syntax either. These pains spurred me to write my own: https://docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/ (FOSS), and so far I'm satisified with my own work.
Discussed this morning on More or Less for those who have access:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001j41z
actually it is not the original code of alphazero , the original code was tensorflow/TPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_Zero#Training and this code is in JAX
That should be illegal, they should use the same rules as for food packaging.

For a 1kg bag of flour bought in the EU, that would be

- On average, you should get at least 1kg of flour

- No bag should be less than 985g

- Packaging does not count

For a USB stick, that would be

- On average, the actual capacity must be no less than what's advertised

- For a given product, the actual capacity must be no less than what's advertised, within a small margin

- Only usable capacity counts
Do you realize it was an arbitrary status based on arbitrary decision by arbitrary politicians based on opinions of arbitrary scientists?

You may also analyse the currently available arbitrary data. Then you may realize that the status was indeed arbitrary. There is not even correlation, let alone causation on infection outcome when comparing arbitrary countries and states whose arbitrary politicians arbitrarily decided to listen to a different set of arbitrary scientists.
This is an excellent write up, thank you
I have the hope that recent revelations about censorship, and the problems with the covid vaccines on all levels have alerted people that their rights and interests are under attack globally. Good to see one of the few directly democratic countries move into that direction, with regards to possible mandatory centralized digital cash systems.
It's not knee jerk thinking. Even turkey has nominally strict building codes because of all the previous earthquakes. And it s not like it s running out of land to build. Nobody in this region thinks it could possibly be a good thing to skirt building codes. Earthquakes are frequent enough to be constant reminders of it
Can you email me at smca@stripe.com?

We support a bunch of AI businesses on Stripe and I'd like to take a closer look. (What you're describing doesn't sound unsupportable to me.)
The impression I get (from friends, I’ve never lived there myself) is that London is great if you are rich (discretionary money/time) or young snd single (discretionary time with low expenses). For those in the middle, workers with families, its a slog with low enjoyment.
Again, just what I've heard.
So stay out of crowded areas. Rearranging an entire society with these sorts of measures is lunacy.
Just fixed this, thanks for feedback.
It's clearly stated. One is 16 billion bytes, the other is 15.4 billion bytes.
I can't say about the others or all cases, as don't have the bird's eye view or ever have been a moderator, but do know that significant sections of threads can be removed (censored?). Recently I had made a comment in the "The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34775549), that comment and others just vanished. My comment wasn't flagged. Just an entire section of comments (before and after) seem to have been removed. In those cases of heavy editing, for whatever reasons, there is nothing to link to for readers to see.

Additionally, when a thread is shadowbanned/ghostbanned, there is nothing for other readers to see as well. Only the creator, yourself, or possibly moderators can see. The public will not be able to see, so links to it serve no purpose. I'm just saying what I have personally observed, so don't know all the history or the behind the scenes. If something doesn't publicly exist anymore or is not accessible, there is nothing there for other readers to make up their minds about.
They use neural networks since Stockfish 12, but not in the same way that AlphaZero did:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Stockfish_NNUE
Does Monero fit the bill?
The problem is not dystopian control. Societies are much to chaotic to keep that up. Even in china it fell apart and does fall apart. People rebel by withdrawing the will to life in such a society.
Dystopian totalitarian states burn themselves out in one way another. Some final act is usually some futile war against a neighbour, before turning into small substates fightin one another.

A tokken represents the value of what a society can do for you.
When that shrinks and all those billionaires, become just paper factory owners. Thats were the hurt is. What does it matter who and how you hold that weimar paper money fort.
The 32GB and 64GB SanDisk variants are actually cheaper on Amazon than the 16GB one. Yes, the advertising is misleading, but OP could've saved money and quadrupled his space if he wanted to.
I want to prevent a cashless society as well, while not being a dictator, war criminal or international criminal.
and better algorithms
Every single freedom ever has restricted the 'counterfreedom'. Freedom from slavery restricts your 'freedom' to keep slaves, freedom to live restricts your 'freedom' to kill, and so forth.

Perhaps I should have worded my reply differently. SSPL restricts your freedom to run the code as you wish. The AGPL does restrict your 'freedom to not share the code', but that is not one of the four software freedoms as defined by the FSF.
Sure but that's been true for decades. The question is, what's new? Here in Taiwan it's business as usual. Twenty years ago, "idk about buying property, what if the PRC invades?" Ten years ago, "what if the PRC invades?" Meanwhile earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc, causing disruptions here in Taiwan and everywhere else in the world.

So what's changed today that makes a PRC invasion more likely than a major earthquake, which we already just live in peace with the possibility of?
There's an interesting bias I've noticed on HN where a lot of people still believe AlphaZero is the state of the art in computer chess, when that hasn't been true except for a short while after the release. AZ still gets posted and upvoted today while newer improvements in other engines are discussed far less.

I guess it's because AZ came out of Google?
Stockfish now uses a neural network in some situations. Last I checked, it uses the classical, fast, tactical search and evaluation for active, tactical positions, and uses the network for quieter, more strategic positions.
In Europe, you could probably write "the next gin" instead, because that seems to be the alcoholic beverage du jour at the moment over here...
I think that only needs some time to get used to. ACC is less awkward to pronounce than AWS at least.
Bizzare that democracies can't/won't regulate this.
Nice analysis.

It would be interesting to see comparison to Intel LBR.

Also would be nice to know how profiling unwinding is done on Windows (maybe someone knows how to summon Bruce Dawson).
Not sure this kind of cipher would hold long against the FBI.

Reference for those who may have missed it a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34437937
I don't disagree. Similar issues exist with most digital technologies though and that doesn't stop their adoption – outside of the situations you describe digital solutions tend to be more convenient. I mean I'm not going to stop using Google Docs because one day I might not have electricity.

I think if you live somewhere where you're concerned about the government your best bet isn't physical state issued currency, but owning commodities like gold. I'm not sure your concerns are specific to cashless, but digital solutions generally.
For an illustration of your point, have a look at the Light Switch design in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWZwCrhwLew Over time, the designs become so much simpler.

(I just link to this video because it has good views of old switches. For understanding the background, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrMiqEkSk48 is much better.)

For another instance of designs becoming much simpler over time, also have a look at how firearms work, especially pistols.
Datascript is the open source analog for Clojure, ClojureScript and JS: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
It still takes effort to switch and there may be an issue with the original payment provider retaining your funds.

Payments are a critical part of your business and it's a disaster to be switched off at zero notice.

Yes, the obvious mitigation is to support two providers, but that can be a big investment when you want to integrate with your book keeping, fulfilment systems etc.

And if customer service was a bit more proactive then people wouldn't have to come to social media to flag when they have been treated unfairly.

I'm happy that people have an escalation path through social media noise as I've had to rely on it myself many times.
> That's the fun with these sorts of doubts, if we assume nothing, then we can form an argument for anything.

We can form a counter-argument to anything, to be precise. :)

It's very hard to analyze ourselves only from our own consciousness. Especially since the consciousness itself is very likely an illusion [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
Good one ^^. Sadly not from my family even if he is one of my prefered philosopher.
I wonder how you see global warming having an impact at all here?

Yes, Dennard scaling seems to be over, but Moore's law is still alive and kicking.
It only stutters the first time the shader is used, but modern games use a lot of shaders and they are more complex. In modern APIs it is not just shaders but a combination of shaders and state.
If you have some proof, then just leak it to the Indian media. They love scandals. I don't think they are in bed with Modi. Not every supreme court judge is willing to do favors for post retirement benefits.
You failed to understand the meaning of his comment on the political structure.

Basically it comes down to this: The easiest way to gain the favor and unquestioning loyalty of citizens is by antagonizing an outside power. All missteps can be excused by evoking the enemy. The need to justify policies that are usually politically costly drops sharply. Coalition building becomes irrelevant. The best part is, that the feedback loop of attacks between opposing states, verbal or otherwise, keeps the system running indefinitely. Take the lazy, incompetent and corrupt governments of Abbas, Netanyahu and Hamas for example. This is politics on easy mode.

You can identify dozens of examples of this dysfunctional dynamic. Some are internal, like in Belgium or Bosnia, others external, like Serbia vs Kosovo or Azerbaijan vs Armenia. The reason Erdogan, possibly one of the worst statesmen in world history, has clung on to power, is that he can antagonise both the Greeks and the Kurds.

It's inherent to the geopolitical system and there is little that can be done about it.

There's plenty of Musilm-majority areas in India that Pakistan could have made a fuss about, if Kashmir had never existed.
Is “DO documentation” in this instance referring to the knowledge base of (usually really poorly written) tutorials DO got people to write for them by offering them very paltry sums as some sort of SEO play?
Of course there are other reasons to avoid a purely cash-free society, but couldn't the Swiss government just limit the transaction rates/fees like the the EU?

> caps interchange fees at 0.2% of the transaction value for consumer debit cards and at 0.3% for consumer credit cards;

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-...
Mostly PowerBI, plus a little bit of the "operational analytics" movement, which is essentially an anti-dashboarding phenomenon. Example operational analytics tools that aren't dashboards but that can be used serve a similar purpose are Get Census, Hightouch, and Grouparoo.
Your comment is not relevant to this post.
The issue is that you cannot directly pick one of the outputs using the entropy, you have to use some kind of probabilistic algorithm to traverse the state space and find valid output. When the PRNG's cycle is smaller than the output space then the output distribution is obviously non-uniform. This might seem like inconsequential observation with CSPRNG, but depending on how exactly the state traversal works, such constructions can have real output spaces that are several orders of magnitude smaller than cycle of the used RNG. (to the extent that when used with (CS)PRNG with 128b state the output bias is observable from practical amount of outputs)
/r/politicalhumour are having a field day with this.

Trump guts safety requirements

Unions object

Biden smashes Union's ability to strike etc

Unions proven right and half of Ohio have their pets die...
Shift Conference is coming to US
Tech industry let these actors have too much power, they can cut any business at their will. Web3 is the answer, I hope it is. Matter of time before they get replaced.
I think they were looking for the amount of CO2 realesed during the mining, manufacturing and distribution of the CPU chip.
A brick through the correct window does wonders for democracy
> And a machine that operates at continuous intervals is of course impossible to model on a Discrete Neural Machine in polynomial time (integers vs reals categorization).

Not necessarily. If you don't want to model every continuous thing possible, you can do a lot. Just look at how we use discrete symbols to solve differential equations; either analytically, or via numerical integration.
I’ll bite. If we want to be pedantic, England is not a country, but obviously we mean uk.

It is difficult to prove this one wrong, without knowing how many years back you would accept before claiming it is from another country. I suspect all the other drinks could be traced to have origins in another country as well. This is further complicated by the fact that going back enough in time the country might not be considered the same country.

I will try with this brandy: Rush

https://www.brightwellvineyard.co.uk/ourshop/prod_7108518-Ru...

If not, Tesco finest cognac I think fits the bill :) and we can settle on it

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/295693637
> Elon fired a principal engineer last week because the engineer had the temerity to tell him that fewer people wanted to read tweets by the increasingly unhinged Musk.

This is false. What actually happened:

> “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions,” Musk reportedly said.

An employee tried to claim this figure was organic (which is obviously fantastical) and was rightfully fired.
It's not really a question of what it's used for, but what it's used with.

Training on all the Old Masters and all public domain art? No problem.

Training on people's work posted on the internet to which they retain copyright? Not fine.

Training on Microsoft's own huge codebase for their tool, and calling for voluntary authorizations from the public? Fine.

Hoovering it up with not so much as a by your leave, effectively creating a license filter that sells the output as copyrightable?

Well you know.

(edited for tone, I get pissed about this...)
Wow, I can’t believe the HN audience is so accepting of stretched layer 2 as a solution. It’s almost as though we’ve been invaded by middle management.

Stretched layer 2 is almost always a mistake.
While I generally agree, practically it's probably not a huge difference compared to what we have now.

Most people keep their money in banks, instead of cash. So if the government wants to target you they can already do it, no matter if you have a few 1000 in cash or not.
Stockfish has added neural networks for evaluation, much simpler than the large networks in MCTS engines, and efficiently CPU computable. The technique actually originated in a Shogi engine and was later ported to mainline Stockfish, so there's no direct inheritance from AlphaZero in that sense.

The search algorithms have been incrementally improved, but still follow the same Alpha Beta and a heap of heuristics approach.
It’s hell of easy to prevent transaction. You publish a wallet blacklist and prohibit all exchange services from processing tainted bitcoins.
AFAIK, the moralizing comes from higher up (Banks, Visa, Mastercard), instead of Stripe themselves.

Alternatively, it could be a category of transactions that eventually almost always see high fraud (e.g. kids paying for essays using parent's money, parents reporting the transactions afterwards).
> I must report their engineering is simply spectacular.

I agree with your observation. Let me add my own anecdote: We were practicing a low-pass over a grassy runway with a cessna-150 when the door opened on its own. (It seemed to be a thing with that plane.) We got a radio call from the ground that they have seen something fall out of the airplane. We quickly checked everything starting with the engine instruments, when my instructor realised that his iphone which was previously wedged between his seat and the door is missing.

We landed, tried to find it but couldn’t. Days later a glider pilot spotted it during a landing. It got back to my instructor and turns out it was in perfect working order. (Altough i don’t remember if he had a protector case or not.)