skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious, how did management respond when the progress slowed

did they revert back to the old method, did it deteriorate so fast there was no way to stop it, was the team not very important

what happened ?
Haven't seen that one, yet. Thanks for sharing!
This is great, but I'm not seeing anything about how to apply, or really anything about the application and selection process at all. Is this by design?
Not sharing their source code with the Linux kernel project, like AMD does. Instead, NVIDIA keeps it close to their chest, providing users only their binary driver. This sometimes causes failure of graphics after kernel upgrades when the kernel changes too much.

In the past they prevented people from running consumer GPUs on Xen systems.
I don't know if it was edited since your comment, but Mozilla VPN is in there (with an arrow pointing to Mullvad)
Are there other companies that distribute closed source kernel modules that this could have implications for? Or is it just Nvidia?
Several people got confused about this. It doesn't go according to weight of the vehicle but rather ground pressure of the vehicle.

So if you add more axles or more wheels or make them wider all these things can reduce the ground pressure.

A very easy way to compare between vehicles is to check the PSI that you fill the tire.

Trucks can fill up the 90 psi in some cases while cars are closer to 35.
50% upfront payment for one-off projects. That's usual with design work. There might be some push-back but that's how I start the conversation. Unless they came from person recommendation to me.

> How will you ensure that he pays on time.

Could be any gender of course.
Even with a charging station the extra space is minimal compared to the larger size of parking space you need to park an SUV rather than a normal car
Will the name Twitter ever go away? Maybe people will refer to it as X, but I can't see people stopping referring to the posts as tweets. It would be like if someone bought the Kleenex brand and changed the name to X. Some people would indulge the corporate move, but most people would continue to use the old name.

This is especially true because there's not an easily-derivable verb from the new name. If Musk had picked a name that could be easily 'verbified', it would be easier to see how people might make the change.
Graphcore-research/unit-scaling: A library for unit scaling in PyTorch
I suspect that, in the US, there's a pretty strong bias to maximizing the comfort for the first and second person rather than being able to squeeze one more passenger in.
You can see both the old and new Eastenders set on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6583379,-0.2755948,240m/data...
The old one has now been demolished though
https://archive.li/aj2sE
I'd imagine you can get some amount of information from a first name as well.
> If it was GPLv2 alone, proprietary modules would probably be infringing

I'm not so sure, at least in the US. There were several cases in the '80s and 90s or thereabouts involving video game cartridges which might be relevant.

The consoles back then did not have memory protection or multiple address spaces or user/system modes. The ROM in the cartridge simple appeared at a fixed place in the address space, and typically the firmware in the console would do some system initializing, then call an entry point in the cartridge.

The code in the cartridge had full access to the hardware and to the firmware in the console.

The console manufacturers wanted to control the cartridge market. Among the many ways they tried to keep third parties from making compatible cartridges was copyright. The firmware in the console was copyrighted by the console manufacturer, and the code in the cartridge (in most cases [1]) extensively called into that firmware.

Since the third parties had figured out the firmware by reverse engineering (usually in violation of the console's license) in many cases they even called into firmware code that authorized games did not use because that was not part of the firmware's API.

My recollection is that the third parties won in most of those cases.

[1] I believe that there were some third party games where the game maker had not been able to figure out how the firmware worked but they did know how the hardware worked, and so they made their cartridges completely take over. The console firmware was effectively just a boot loader for them.
This is definitely true for some self-described environmentalists, but probably not the ones who actually are activists. When gas prices were high during the pandemic I mentioned how awesome this is to people who usually worry about climate change, but only a small minority shared my enthusiasm and the rest was incredulous how I could be excited about high gas prices. (I genuinely was excited)
They start with raw data collected at the event itself. A lot of games have statisticians who collect not just the scores but gather data on every play/at-bat/etc. Even high school games have those; it's often the official job of some student.

That does have enough information to make an article. In the early days of baseball, a radio announcer could receive the stats continuously and narrate the game, with a bit of imagination.

Some of the examples look as if they got nothing more than the box scores, and used AI hallucination on other sports articles to generate a bunch of generic verbiage out of that. (To me, as a non sports fan, that's what most sports writing looks like anyway. I have no idea why people want to read that, but there is a market for it.)
Compared to 4chan, kiwifarms admins take a more active role in directing and encouraging harassment towards specific targets. it's a lot easier to tie the illegal activity to the site's owner. and the cops don't do shit because internet harassment is a seriously under-prosecuted crime. even the EFF admits that. the only route for victims is to follow the chain of upstreams till they get one that isn't in league with kiwifarms. (kiwifarms' hosting provider is even posting in this thread spreading the same untruths the kiwifarms admin says)
I'm curious, where are you getting the GPUs?
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your phrasing, but the vast majority of the CO2 released from natural gas comes from its combustion in its end use case, not incidental CO2 released during extraction from a particular field.

The vast majority of methane is burned in power plants. The CO2 can be captured at the stack, and pumped into the ground. If one million m3 of methane is burned, exactly one million m3 of CO2 is produced, not more, not less. It does not take a lot of energy to capture the CO2 from the smoke at the power plant. It may take a lot to capture it from the air, where it's very diffuse, but the smoke at the power plant is just CO2, N2 and water vapor. The N2 can be taken out of the equation by oxy-fuel combustion [1].

Adding carbon sequestration to a power plant is expensive, so one wouldn't do it without some carbon tax incentives. But it's not exorbitant. To be specific, the EIA did a study on the capital cost of various power sources [2], and here's their results:

- coal without sequestration: $3700/kW; with sequestration $5900/kW

- nat gas without sequestration: $1000/kW; with sequestration $2500/kW

- wind: onshore $1300/kW, offshore $4400/kW

- solar with 4h battery storage: $1800/kW

Coal seems to be out of contention, no matter what subsidies you add. But natural gas power plants with sequestration are not that bad. The price of solar and wind is obviously contingent on location. Solar is not going to be very competitive in Maine, for example. So natural gas with sequestration at $2500/kW is definitely an option vs solar at $1800/kW if the location is not California, Arizona or Texas. But why would anyone consider this as of now, if they can just do it for $1000/kW? If the government changes the incentives though, I don't see why large scale carbon sequestration would not be viable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxy-fuel_combustion_process

[2] https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...
I still chuckle a bit when people get anti-scrum, because I've been around long enough when agile/scrum was the disruptive thing.

Of course in practice agile/scrum/whatever has turned into the same cargo-cult nonsense that the original promoters of the ideals were fighting against.

One thing I thought was interesting was:

> First, the most common jobs among the people who told me I was wrong were "Agile Coach" and "Scrum Master." They feel very strongly in favor of Scrum, but I'm not sure why.

It seems funny to critique people's job titles when the poster's Twitter profile reads:

> I teach Machine Learning and run http://ml.school

I mean loudly critiquing a mainstream practice in a flippant way is pretty much the textbook approach to bring attention to yourself and establish as an expert in... teaching people about these topics. It's content marketing 101.
> I was, however, not ready to publicly declare it until I received tenure as it seemed too risky

Risk of what ? Seems a bit exaggerating.

> There are at most five tenure-track faculty who belong to OBC category among all the faculty members in North America's "top" 50 CS departments

> What evidence do I have to support my claim?

And then continues to show castes of faculty at IIT.

Am I missing something here ?
> someone holding themselves out as a business does not have the right to arbitrarily refuse service to anyone

Sorry, but with respect: you misunderstand the Civil Rights Act and its peer legislature.

CRA and its peers carved out specific categories in which service, if provided at all, must be provided, more or less centered on intrinsic properties that do not impact or reflect the content of one's character. That carve-out is as exceptions to the default common law sense that any company may choose to refrain from doing business at any time. That's the bedrock and we make exceptions.

A cop was recently refused service at a bakery because they have a no open weapons policy (https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4174109-san-francis...). "No shirts, no shoes, no service" is pretty bog-standard recognized restaurant boilerplate. In most states, bartenders can kick out someone who's dressed like a Nazi. And in HE's case, their terms of service refuse use of their services for illegal activity. In their opinion (and this could, perhaps, be tested in a court of law), this includes providing service to a company that is allowing illegal activity through its network and looking the other way ("data laundring," if you will).

You're right that green is green, and that generally serves as a practical counterweight for abuse of this privilege. But the privilege stands, and if a company decides the money isn't worth the loss to reputation or anything else they value, they may, with few carefully-carved exceptions, leave it on the table.

It's a high hill to climb to justify why we should stud these ground rules with an additional civil rights exception for the likes of KF. What societal benefit? Because it's pretty easy to see the content of their character, and their state of being isn't intrinsic to them and inextricable from their character ("just stop being cyberbullies").
I had become honestly cynical of their actions in the past, as they felt hype-driven and externalities-blind. Yet I don’t see how this grant could become rapacious. Hopefully it is an attempt at cleaning the brand which can work as making amends.
I had a student in my class who wrote about being from a "low caste" background. So when a friend hosted a woman from India on her podcast who said there was so caste discrimination in India I spoke up about this. The podcast guest said that the fact that anyone in the west mentioned caste discrimination, even within western tech companies, was an act of racism against Indian culture and reflected colonial judgements. My friend, who is very, very woke, agreed. I was so annoyed. Thank you for bringing this up. Such discrimination has no place!
Amazing. Those are really solid 1st picks. A huge chunk of the organic experimentation relies directly on them.
Brain implants guide speech-disabled person’s intended words to computer screen
Don't VCs basically chase everything because they only rely on 10% or less to succeed but, that 10% needs to have at least 10x or more profit and then they do another round?
Personally, I think it just sends out mixed messages. "We focus on privacy, but you can only use our instance if you sign up via Google/Facebook". Definitely weird.

I'd rather they simply shut down their instance and replace it with a list of community-maintained ones.

BTW: it's not anger (at least in my case). Mostly just disappointment.
A chance for a better route. When I connect directly to Hetzner's storage boxes I generally get about 10 Mbps. When I go through a local VPN I get about ten times that.
The movie came out the same year all my friends and I graduated a Software Engineering degree.

I love the movie, but damn it hits close to home and I never know if I should laugh or cry.
Still not sure what you're getting at.

I don't disagree that the drivers could benefit from a few extra people looking at them... though I doubt that many outside AMD is looking at the Radeon drivers. There's no harm in NVIDIA opening their drivers, but they won't do it, nor do they like that the kernel developers are saying that users are on their own if they do load their proprietary drivers.

Now what I originally tried to address was people defending NVIDIA, because their work depends heavily on things working as they currently do and what they are looking at now is an ever so slightly more uncertain future.

Edit: Oh I see, you're confused about "if the thing that powers their products suddenly taken from them", is that what you're thinking in terms of authorship? I'm referring to having the drivers taken away, feature, performance, whatever the negative outcome could be in the mind of those defending NVIDIA.
> The event will feature the creators of C#, Java, Perl, Python, TypeScript, and Smalltalk in a conversation about programming language design

Weird...I could not find Larry Wall anywhere.
> Apple isn't too annoying

I find Apple to be too annoying for my tastes. Less annoying than Microsoft, but that doesn't mean much.
That's on the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City, next to Hollywood.

It's on the tour when they aren't filming other movies there.

Amadeus filmed there too.
No just religion.
SUVs aren't made for off-road [0], the functional ones are made for poor road conditions. Subaru has targeted that market segment quite successfully with light, low-cost cars with AWD and high ground clearance. In some parts of the US, especially the western half, an AWD with high ground clearance is often a practical requirement due to the geography and weather risks even if you never go off-road.

[0] The original "sport-utility vehicles" were built for off-road usage and had 4WD but that hasn't been true of almost anything marketed as an SUV for decades.
What could vegetarian by birth possibly mean
Makes sense. Apologies for taking your suggestion so literally.

Your intuition is correct. It's one of the few times we get to use the fourth power so it is aptly named The Fourth Power Law[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
Shocks to the system: Don DeLillo’s novels of the cold war and its aftermath
The solution to all such complaints about property taxes is to have very little tax for people's primary residence, and apply high taxes for all other properties they own.

This also has the effect that being a landlord is disincentivized, and property prices have a downward pressure which allows more people to become home owners.
How to Spot an Incompetent Leader (2020)
That's a hot take if I ever heard one.

Since you take a stance against social engineering, would you agree to completely defund the road transport network, given that it is acting as a massive social engineering operation in favor of cars?
It's interesting to note that there's particular emphasis on "removing censorship from LLM outputs" given a16z's investments outside the AI space in some ideological social media companies.
The US does not buy exclusively giant mega-cars because of some poorly implemented regulation.

A giant car is a status symbol in America, and basically necessary if you don't want to be made fun of by your more conservative friends, oddly, seeing as the EPA and other environmental regulation was explicitly a conservative effort.
You don't. Because you can't. Those illegal things are going to exist as long as there is a market for them. All you can do is ensure that the general public who doesn't wish to partake isn't exposed to it without looking.

Basically, you don't want your grandma finding the drug list or hacking tools unless she's specifically trying to find it. But it's going to exist, so let it exist (or rather, try if you wish but it's futile). Similar to tor hidden services and i2p eepsites.
These claims are based on a non-careful reading of the GPL.

First, the "System Libraries" exemption also names explicitly the kernel.

More importantly, this exemption has nothing to do with determining whether some work is covered by GPL or not.

The "System Libraries" exemption allows a GPL program to be distributed together with "System Libraries", without providing the source code for those "System Libraries".

The GPL only claims to cover a work that is distributed to others ("conveyed") and which includes a GPL program that is "combined with it such as to form a larger program".

The GPL is not applicable to programs that use interfaces provided by a GPL program, but which are distributed independently of it to the end users, for instance kernel modules or shared libraries.
Yes, all digital interactions I have with the government, like renewing my license or paying a parking ticket, are generally very quick and easy. Filling out my taxes is not particularly fun, but that isn't the IRS IT department's fault, and the actual act of submitting them online is again very quick and easy. I have also had very good experiences with government public datasets (examples at https://catalog.data.gov/dataset).

At my job I use APIs from the EPA and EIA, and they are stable, well-documented, and generally pleasant to use. I can also email an actual human with questions and get quick responses, which I can't do with Google. I have no concerns about the APIs ever disappearing because the PM got bored or wanted a promotion, or because they couldn't extract enough money from users.

I think whoever manages these services would do an excellent job running a mapping service or Places API, although obviously it would be hard to get traction now that Google Maps is so established.

Some of the features that make Google Maps useful, like GPS and public transit arrival times, are already based on government services.
> I'm more of a nub guy and that works perfectly

I'd never had a PC with a trackpoint before the hp, but I can't get used to it. How do you configure it? I find it's either uncontrollably quick, or slow as molasses. I like the idea of being able to drive it without moving my hand to the trackpad.
Good ol' dual-booting still works, and I'm currently using it to switch between Windows, Arch Linux and NixOS.
the scaling effects and deflationary nature of technology are much better-established than those of humans driving large, expensive cars.
> I don't see what's grifty about it... fans who will pay

what
> The terms of the Pixel Pass were for two years, and paying the subscription for that time would pay off your Pixel phone. Early cancellation meant a big final bill for the remainder of the phone cost. That won't happen here, though—while new signups are no longer allowed, existing users will be able to finish out their two-year term. The end of the term was supposed to mean re-upping with a shiny new device, but Google now says, "By the end of the 2 year term, you can’t upgrade to a new phone with Pixel Pass."

But you do get a 100$ off coupon for your next pixel.

The jokes literally write themselves at this point.
You're right, it is open source. As such, this doesn't violate user freedom since if Nvidia, the user in this context, don't like this, they can fork the kernel and change the behavior however they want. Of course, nothing compels anyone else to use such a kernel.
For me, the single most disturbing is when I see ads based on casual conversations my phone happened to pick up. Such as mentioning a piece of software I used to use a decade ago, and seeing ads for that software daily for a week after. Another, is the first time I saw a calendar reminder to "leave for the airport" not that I set such a reminder, but gmail had received the receipt for my airline tickets. The most disturbing is seeing a product on Amazon, where "your friend purchased this", fortunately it was a switch, but can only imagine something more personal being the case.

At this point, I have ublock origin, privacy guard and run a pi-hole at home. I use wireguard through home on my phone so that it forces the vpn's dns through pi-hole. On top of using Brave on my mobile device. I'm tired of it. More tiresome is the number of sites that are actually broken, especially purchases without the tracking events. More companies should ensure that their payment flows work without the tracking in place. When I have worked on consumer facing applications, I always tried to make sure the fallback display without ads and the workflows were friendly. No gaping holes where an ad would be and no waiting on tracking events for checkout flows.
Despite the hope for a more democratic China in the 80s being mostly dead, contemporary China must still reckon with the immediate economic disaster being an military agressor and being sharply cut off from American trade would entail. By slowly decoupling US-China trade, we remove that economic risk for Chinese strategists, making agression more viable.
Yep. I have come to love Scrum for the dysfunction it provides as a remote employee. I can sit in the background and do other things while not being expected to achieve anything.
Interesting I wasn't aware of this system to side-car content. I will definitely check. But it makes storing long logs and content in DB an even better choice. (unless you need a CDN ofc)
Many of these management techniques require a well-run shop to work well. They are not forgiving of riff raff and institutional dysfunction, and may even magnify dysfunction. So yes, they CAN work under ideal conditions, but ideal conditions are too rare, especially for non-IT domains who don't understand & value IT management.

Borrow the best fitting ideas from each methodology, but don't obsess on them.
Don't they realize the DMCA has interoperability exceptions for this sort of thing?
> Commerce is not the right to arbitrarily deny people services you have freely offered either

Yes, it generally is in the US. Legally, there are a small number of narrow exceptions in public accommodations based in historically widespread societal persecution, but those exceptions would not be necessary if the general liberty you deny were not the rule, and even those exceptions which have been established in statute have not-infrequently been narrowed or limited by the courts for infringing on speech, press, and association rights when applied beyond certain limits.
GM miscalculated what COVID would do and made mistakes. Having information isn't always enough to make the right decisions. All we know from COVID is GM isn't perfectly able to mitigate issues, but they still try.
In 2001 there was text and plenty of it. However, there was no a/v streaming anything, no social media, no fast twitch multiplayer games, nothing honed to a sharp edge to slice away our attention.

I should have said "MY" internet connection was shit. I thought that was easily implied. I had dial up over a shared phone line. Additionally I convinced myself that there was nothing of entertainment value on the internet so I could get my work done.