skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another technique is to prioritize the start and finish but not in-between.

The problem with techniques like these is that it's almost impossible to fully generalize them (e.g. in the case of intermediate frames, if some of them are really wrong then you get sudden clipping or jumpiness).

So if your 'fast' technique only works for a certain set of parameters, then you have just introduced an implicit dependency into your system: things are fast enough while the app looks like X, but go a bit beyond that and it suddenly breaks.
People at 12 years education today are less capable than people at 12 years a few decades ago. Long-time university lecturers dismay at having to teach first-years in basic skills they used to arrive with.

I can't find it now (at work), but on youtube Brady Haran interviews some lecturers on this topic - one pulls out an A-levels engineering exam from the early 80s, and the questions are dense paragraphs expecting you to apply learned knowledge. Then he pulls out the A-level paper for that year (2013, I think) and the first question is "pick the correct picture that is hydropower", with four pictures of different power generation mechanisms. Easily answerable by anyone who didn't do the course. "The questions get harder, though?" > "Yes, but not substantially".
Ivan is a compiler guy, and I've always seen a huge impact of "compiler guy" thinking on Mill -- in a much smarter way than how "compiler guy" thinking sank Itanium.
You forgot:

5) Intel really likes their technology, but they do not want to license it so they decide to implement tweaks around the Mill patents.
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It being popular you say, implies it's good? Wouldn't you have to instead weigh the good results vs. the bad results to know the net value to society?
The fact that the Masters in CS and presumably this degree both require having a traditional bachelor degree as a prerequisite seriously limits their usefulness and their reach.

Are there any similar tracks that do not have this requirement?
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As someone who's ridden, and crashed, a Boosted Board in light rain, I wouldn't recommend it. You have to be very diligent about avoiding metal things like manhole covers and light rail tracks. The board also gets pretty gross with road dirt.

I'm more excited about the swappable and extended battery.
> The only reason to use them is some form of conspicuous consumption, signaling how cool and wacky u are

Disagree.

1. Sometimes the sonic characteristics of tapes DO complement the music. Typically for genres other than popular music or symphonic/classical/orchestral music (where absolute fidelity is king).

2. Physical media as opposed to digital media is, for some/many, inherently gratifying. It is a more multifaceted Thing, an object with a mass and volume and cover -- far more features than a typical audio file might possess. This point might not resonate with some on this forum (especially those interested in minimalism/efficient living), but ask around and you will find that for some people, this makes a dramatic difference.

3. Cassette tapes, as opposed to vinyl records, were extremely easy to produce in small quantities or at home (VHS tapes also have this property). This means that you can find many interesting/unusual cassette tapes (or make them yourself with relative ease). There are many recordings only available on cassette, and others very challenging to find on media other than cassette.

Especially in our world of information hyper-availability, there is a satisfaction in enjoying or creating a tape that only a couple people (or maybe even only one) have ever heard. Some might point to this as a core tenet of "hipsterism," but I argue this isn't about conspicuous consumption, it's about appreciation of novelty (which is a core aspect of... intelligence/pattern recognition capability) and history/unique narratives.

EDIT: looks like the article actually makes the same points that I did, but expressed differently and with a bit more contemporary context/narrative content.
The quality control came last in the process, so when they 'finished' not long before the delivery date is due, QA gets a ton of political pressure to not make the date slip.

That's why test-driven design is valuable -- you iterate while testing.
Its been a field of study for decades, though, with pretty minimal success. Every hot field gets applied to it (genetic algorithms being the hot stuff 6-10 years ago). I wouldn't worry yet.
Let's say I want to make a new shazam using deep learning. I, as the DL researcher, would be tasked with coming up with the neural network architecture. Once I'm done with that, now what? I now need someone to build the entire app, UI, UX, database, etc. That's what programmers have been doing all along! Now you just have another API (ie DD or TF-serving) to integrate.
Doesn't WET stand for "Write Exoressive Tests"? I didn't think it was anything negative
The problem with vinyl is it degrades every time you play it and you have to be very careful handling it so you don't get fingerprints on it.
Of course, some important kinds of productivity aren't measured at all, or just barely. If I buy a video game today, its virtual territory is much bigger and more detailed than a decade ago, but that increase isn't reflected in economic statistics. Nor better resolution on TV, etc, etc. What's easiest to measure is whatever is most obsolete or traditional, which is to say, whatever isn't keeping up with the times. I'm not saying there aren't other losses, however. Years where wages went up by 4% in the U.S. were common until Reagan took office; they've never happened in all the time since - in fact raises of 2% are rare now.

I wonder whether goods becoming more durable in general is an influence. Cars last a lot longer now than when I was young, but they aren't as easy to make. It's easier to churn out shoddy goods than long-lived ones; as consumers insist on better quality, the "same" item takes longer to make.
That's not entirely true, OpenSSL also gives you something in the middle - the "Envelope Encryption" functions like EVP_SealInit(). They're just not widely known (and still allow you wide latitude in choosing obsolete primitives).
Still, there'll be a lot of video uploaded 10 years ago and never watched again.
What's with all the downvotes? I am myself full-blooded East India, so I am within my rights to call out my own folks. Explain yourself.

Oh wait, the Politically Correct liberals are crying "Racist!". Never-mind.
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All countries with the highest GDP per capita are small:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

You need to get to Norway before you see a reasonably sized country.

If what you claimed was true, the US would be on top.
Programmers do not do everything by hand right now. We have compilers and libraries and frameworks. There is a HUGE stack of automation that involves basically every step between you typing characters in a text editor and you executing code somewhere.

Did FORTRAN reduce the need for programmers by offering a compiled language?
> Has there been any attempt to orchestrate an income based repayment program? This could be implemented in a variety of ways, the most popular of which is taking a percentage of your income after graduating.

Yes. In the US, this was reasonably common before student loans.
In games, everything works in frames. Usually, AI, animation and physics can be completed in a single frame. But, it is very common to pipeline graphics to a separate thread that runs a frame behind everything else. The GPU frame and display frame (multiple frames on some TVs...) are pretty much impossible to eliminate.

Ideally, a game would sample input multiple times per frame, go with wide parallelism for every step (very difficult for graphics until DX12/Vulkan came along), start some GPU work before physics is completed, render in less than 1/60th of a second and the users would enable no-processing "game mode" on their lag-optimized TVs. But, that's all not common practice.
I love MiniDiscs.

DAT is where it's at, though.
Precisely.

Look at all the 60 year old used vinyl records that have survived and are still just as playable to this day. There's tons of them floating around. On the other hand, it's much harder to find even a 30 year old used CD that still plays fully and without error.
Well, my source was:

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/9-things-you-may-n...

"When Newton was three, his mother wed a wealthy clergyman, Barnabas Smith..."

"In 1705, Newton was knighted by Queen Anne. By that time, he’d become wealthy after inheriting his mother’s property..."

Newton's mother died in 1679, when Newton was 37. Principia was published in 1687.
My understanding of the idea is that they plan to move the weights up the hill by train, but then unload the weight. That way, with just one car, you can move multiple cars' worth of weight up the hill. Now, this bottlenecks you on how quickly you can store/release energy, and you have to store a lot of cargo containers in a possibly small space, but even moving 4+ cars' worth of weight per car brings the total stored energy capacity up to that of a smaller stored-hydro plant. Not to say this is necessarily cheaper than stored hydro, but it at least costs a lot less in terms of excavation.
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>What matters is that theology matters

Don't you mean religious studies, more than theology? I think these are pretty different.
Thanks for your comment.

This is the kind of thoughtful comment I come here for - it's given me some ideas to go research on my own.
They said S3 was $0.03 per GB, not their own storage.
The links to money laundering are fairly clear here.

https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a...
A 30 year old tape may simply coat your playback head with iron oxide, snap, jam, or have lost its label as the glue has failed.
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At a minimum, you'd need to spend a stack of cash verifying that the EULA of the cloud compiler didn't include a "ALL UR INVENTIONS ON THIS ARE BELONG TO US" clause - would be only prudent given how intent the company is on planting its flag in IP.
You can often get something started with ~10000 examples. It's very problem specific though.
I think you have a point here. Newton seems to have been encouraged in his mathematical/physical pursuits by several people early in his career, when he was studying and, later, a young professor at Cambridge.

This kind of slow work and accumulating recognition (by a series of Cambridge alums up through the Lucasian professor at the time, throughout 1661 to 1672) is not really well-described as a "bet".
What the hell is Demand Generation?
I often think if this would make people like you happier:

A spark icon next to the search result that would take you to the AMP page if you want to just read something without navigating to a whole new website and the behavior of clicking to a search result is the same as before ––or vice versa, an icon would still take you to a website.
For a less ad hoc approach to reducing storage costs, I suggest looking into the ZFS filesystem. Compression is completely transparent in ZFS. Once you enable compression in ZFS, all of your files will automatically be compressed when written, and decompressed when read.

I am currently managing a Postgres cluster with a petabyte of data in it. We found ZFS to be a great way to reduce overall storage costs. We just switched our machines to machines running ZFS, and we were suddenly using 1/3rd the amount of disk space. Although it took us a while to learn all of the gotchas of ZFS, it wound up saving us a huge amount of $$$.

(As I understand it, ZFS would not have helped in Flickr's case. Since JPEGs are already compressed, ZFS would not have provided any benefit. Flickr was able to save storage by using an ad hoc compression algorithm.)
Did you consider that higher time on site may be a false indicator? It could be your users being forced to sit and wait for complete page loads. Or time spent trying to find the real next page link.
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S3 is an example the reader might be familiar with, they use their own storage and haven't published what that costs for them as far as I know.
The neighbor's house next door also has air conditioning. Why would the hut have to be louder than that?
Semi-OT, but does anyone know how to make the new Netflix high-performance React-based TV UI stop playing selections automatically while scrolling through them, when you pause on one for more than 3 seconds?

What possible reason(s) would they have for doing this? Doesn't initiating playback of a title cost them money for bandwidth and/or license fees? It's just plain infuriating, in a first-world-problem kind of way.
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But you're right. In the end it's impossible to tell for sure. The claim made is not fully substantiatable.
Pigs use mud to avoid sunburn.

« Some people have gone so far, especially with show pigs, as to slather sun screen onto their pigs when they know that they will be out in the sun for a considerable time and they don't want them to get dirty with mud. »
-- http://petcaretips.net/pigs-sunburn.html

You could also just keep your pet pig indoors all the time.
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Added "GPS" to the title because the original headline is insufficiently descriptive.
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Why cant we do all at the same time? There are different people and interest groups who work on these issues.

The goal is to have a secure and open hard and software stack, all the way from the CPU to the top.

There is clearly interest in a more standardized fully open ISA and that why it exists. There now other interest groups who want to build hardware for it, and others who want to build stuff on top of it.

The people who work on open source firmware all suffer from the close source parts and all the unknowns of the software, and even worse they suffer from the multitude of hardware. Getting some consistency into this space with bottom up open standards can only be good.
Its easy to drop into your pocket when you buy one at a show, try dropping a cd or vinyl record into your back pocket lol
Here you go: http://archive.is/Ui0Ap

Courtesy /u/Vusys on Reddit from /r/netsec
Again, you're welcome to disagree. We're talking about game development in particular, not Lua in general. I've used Lua and almost always look to it for scripting in game engines I have built.

It's telling that all the major game engines and a large portion of papers and talks disagree with you. If Lua was the solution to data-driven development, people wouldn't bend over backwards looking for solutions like entity component systems. Lua is nice, but not suitable for most professional game development as a primary language. As such, it makes it completely unsuitable because Lua data, especially things that depend on runtime state are utterly useless.

Your shipping comment also makes no sense in this context. Tons of other languages have more games shipped than Lua. There aren't too many people relying on Lua for composition and data-driven development in games, because it doesn't work. Even Lisp doesn't work in this context putting speed and other things aside, because of so many reasons I've already listed. Code in the context of game development is not data by the definition of data I am referencing.
Pretty much[0]:

> After working with Apple over the holidays, Consumer Reports now says that the problem was caused by an "obscure" Safari bug specific to page caching, which the publication disables when it runs its battery tests. To test battery life, Consumer Reports sets laptop screens to a specific brightness level and then loads a series of webpages in the laptop's default browser (Safari in this case) in a loop until the battery dies. Apple suggests that disabling browser caching for a test like this doesn't reflect real-world use, but it does make sense for a synthetic test—users will continually read new pages rather than visiting the same static pages over and over again, so Consumer Reports wants to make sure that its test is actually downloading data over the network rather than simply reading cached data from the disk.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/01/consumer-reports-will-r...
Not only is One-time pad proven secure, it is also obvious without any knowledge of math.
Unless it's waived...

http://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/12/us-senate-panel-b...
Yeah this is a nice connection. Note however that there has been much less success in using perturbation in language. The fact that inputs are discrete makes it harder to apply some of the tricks in the adverserial image work.
I suspect so. A lot of references to relatively ordinary music-world people and phenomena, and then there's this:

"Also last year, the National Audio Company — the largest cassette tape manufacturer in the U.S. — saw a 20% increase in its commercial tape duplication business (this doesn't include blank tapes or audiobooks), according to a company spokesperson. This continues an upward-sloping trend for the Missouri-based company, which did more business in 2014 than at any other point since its factory opened in 1969."
do you really think all art should be universally accessible and as convenient as possible? do you really think you can have meaningful experiences with that mindset?
Fred Chow, who's great at compilers, expressed the opinion that the Itanium added instructions for many things that were already easy for compilers to deal with. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement. Mill appears to do a lot of stuff that's actually helpful to compilers.
Even the authors of the only compiler that had ever implemented it (EDG) said that it was a lot of work for little benefit and pushed for outright removal without deprecatation.

Modules eventually, more than 20 years later, might be a better solution.
So much vitriol - this is the sort of argument that could probably be represented in a relatively simple argument graph that highlights which contentions are in dispute, and which rebuttals are unaddressed. Instead it sounds like a lot of energy is being invested in irrelevant strawmen, probably on both sides.
Is this something we can expect in consumer hardware, i.e. Intel and/or ARM, anytime soon? I'm out of the loop for this one.
What are the big new features of C++17? C++11 seemed like the last big change - I think the only reason I bother using "-std=c++14" is for "make_unique".
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What does "complete" here mean if the standard itself isn't yet complete? Or are complete and finalized not necessarily the same?

"Because the final ISO C++1z standard is still evolving, GCC's support is experimental. No attempt will be made to maintain backward compatibility with implementations of C++1z features that do not reflect the final standard"
It'd guess it was a combination of not being patented (they tried to protect it as a trade secret instead but it leaked), the general ease-of-application of stream ciphers, and the fact that RC4 in particular is so easy to implement you can easily memorise and bash it out in a few minutes.
They just postponed the inevitable. You can't optimize significantly forever. They will have to start getting more storage soon.
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I'm a hardware engineer and I downvoted you because your comment is shallow and uninformative. The "Von Neumann bottleneck" has nothing to do with digital vs analog hardware (rather it's about the separation between storage and computation) and the idea that analog computation is the way forward requires a much longer argument before it's even surface level plausible.
I strongly agree with this. The other day I was searching something on my phone and stumbled upon the result in Reddit, which was using AMP. I clicked the result, the AMP UI was loaded but the content area had an ever-spinning loading icon. It was frustrating, I thought maybe it was my ad-blocker on iOS, so I disabled it and tried it in Safari's Incognito mode. No luck...

After 5 minutes of diverting from my main task and try to debug what is wrong with this, I gave up and just removed the AMP URL prefix to head for the actual Reddit website (not sure how a non-poweruser would figure this out). There was simply no other way to reach the information I needed from the Google Results page which did not let me leave the AMP page.

Either Reddit was broken at the moment or something with AMP or something with my mobile client. But the web is supposed to "just work" and Google is seemingly breaking that with AMP. I am certain it helps some people reach to content easier with less data costs but if only it "just worked".
I know you're joking but there is still a reason for a speed limit.

Tyres/brakes/everything are more likely to fail the faster you go, and unknowns like animals coming onto the road and weather will always be a thing.
Maybe a 1GB USB stick?
cassettes degrade as well
According to Parkinson's Law, data will always expand to fill available storage.

We may have petabytes for rack, but 4K videos are coming.

wiki.c2.com/?ParkinsonsLaw
If the sonic characteristics complement the music then write it to tape during production before transferring it to a medium with accurate sound reproduction. You don't need every listener to have their own tape hardware (which might not suit the music as well as your own).
> The author's theory is completely
> unsubstantiated ... Seems a bit
> lazy

This was going to be the case from the point it became clear that The Spectator was the source. It's basically Breitbart, only written by the very articulate and urbane. Surprised he didn't manage to get a jab at THE MUSLIMS in there somewhere.
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>You could put around 50 MB data on it, which translates in around an hour of high fidelity music (Opus codec or HE-AAC)

How on earth are you supposed to play that back?
The fact that you could easily record onto cassette was a BIG bonus. I really liked minidisc for about 2 years, but it was gone in a flash.
Because you would have to insulate the water. This instead stores the heat as stable, chemical, energy.
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> do you know if gpg embeds a header in the cyphertext ?

$ file /tmp/something.gpg
/tmp/something.gpg: GPG symmetrically encrypted data (AES cipher)

It has to, otherwise you'd have to know and use exactly the same options when decrypting. You could always strip it manually if you don't want this...
People don't want to just listen to music, they want to interact with it, own physical objects, and curate their own collection of music. The dominance of digital and streaming has left a gaping void in this, and this is a reason why vinyl has taken off – you can hold it, you have to interact with it to listen to it, it arguably sounds better, you have your own little art collection, and you have to put in much more effort to find and obtain it. CDs offer a similar experience, but it's too similar to digital to be worthwhile, so cassettes have taken off because it's a cheap and easy way for labels and artists to sell something physical. It sounds bad, but it's interesting to listen to and if you want to listen to a higher quality version you can find it online. (and if you can't, the choice of tape as a medium was intentional by the artist)

It's weird to me whenever the move towards analog is written off as some vapid millennial/hipster trend. The dominance of digital and streaming services has stolen this experience from us, and we are fighting to get it back.
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