skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For training networks, designing en efficient chip is a scary proposition.

However for inference tasks, low precision GEMM (as you said) goes a long way and better than what you often get. That's why chips like Movidius' Myriad are getting popular and are more similar to DSPs than neuromorphic designs.

I agree that Intel's neuromorphic group doesn't get it, but other groups have taken neuromophic design principles that lead to efficient designs. For example, TrueNorth is very low precision, has great data locality, and though it was designed over 5 years ago can still use modern convolutional networks only imagined afterwards [0]. But its silicon implementation is not very brain like.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08270.pdf
Please do not compare the very extraordinarily high standard of living that almost all American young people have, with the terrible plights of those living under Soviet regimes.

I have so many relatives and friends that came from 1960's E. Europe that would wave their fists in the air in anger :).

You have excessive opportunities, wealth and freedoms compared to anyone in any Communist state, from any era.

On my last visit to Poland, speaking to a lady about my age, she mentioned that when she was young, they only had three kinds of ice cream: chocolate, vanilla and pink ... because the government mandated that 'anything else was bourgeois' (!!!). And they were the 'rich' Warsaw state! The Bulgarians had no 'ice cream' at all!

You have access to all sorts of education, lattes and cappuccinos, you can make any kind of art you like, you absolutely buy a vehicle (ok, so you can't buy a BMW?) - and if you live outside of an expensive city core - housing is actually relatively inexpensive. The average house price in the USA is $189 000. That is NOT a lot.

"Living standards have declined. Personal freedoms and privacy have retreated. Politics has grown more authoritarian. Science is being rejected rather than advanced. Education has stagnated.
"

All 100% false.

Material standard of living has increased in every measurable way. Internet, apps, smartphones, access to information, medical drugs and treatments, the amount and distance of travel, the number of entertainment options, clothing options, food options ... it's all considerably better.

Personal freedoms are effectively what they were in the 1980's there is no real material change, other than now you have the power to communicate with anyone in the world - at any time. This was inconceivable to most people even in the early 1990's.

Politics is considerably less authoritarian than in the 1950's and 1960's wherein there were very rigid moral codes for almost all matters of conduct.

Have you seen a 'soup kitchen' line from the 1930's? All the 'homeless' men are wearing suit jackets, overcoats, proper hats and shoes! To wear a t-shirt and jeans back in the day would have been akin to 'wearing your underwear' outside. You would wear a suit and tie to work - call people 'Mr.' and address women by 'Mrs.' or 'Miss.'.

Women could be secretaries or work in factories. No abortions. Almost no divorce.

We have more researchers and publications than at any time in history.

A higher % of the population is finishing high school, and considerably more are going to University than ever before. In the 1960's maybe 12% went on to college, now it's past 30% - and the numbers of those doing 'something' post high-school is near 60%.

Hey, 'life is hard' and it's never going to seem easy - but don't take for granted how easy life is compared to almost any time in the past. We do some things 'worse' but most things 'better'.
Their protocol is derived from Signal's. I don't know how close it is. Maybe just the name, because Moxie does not like independent reimplementations.

Wire also got a favorable audit recently.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/10/messaging-app-wire-now-has...
Or wait until some conglomerate lobbies hard enough to make software patents last as long as the copyright on Micky Mouse.
I would wish that the whole (disk) I/O mess would be cleaned up. It's just laughable how broken that is across operating systems. And it's supposed to be the back-bone of most operating systems as well.

Also, memory management. Only in very recent years proprietary APIs surfaced in Linux and friends that allow to leverage some of a modern MMUs capabilities (which is good). Meanwhile we still have stupid MM semantics like fixed / non-reversible allocation commits.

> The database people would love to have well-defined semantics like this.

Yes. Yes they would.

Right now there is no way in no operating system to actually do asynchronous disk IO. You can do an equivalent of write(2) asynchronously, at least on Linux, Windows and I think SunOS, but in all of them it's not really asynchronous; they will run extent allocation synchronously which can -worst case- mean multiple disk read/write cycles. This of course means that for many applications that could make use of async write actually need to use threads and queues for doing it.
TL;DR: Money will not make you happy, lifestyle will.

I was exactly like you - work, exercise, sleep, repeat. In a big dirty city. Got so fucking sick of it.

Solution:

1) Work remotely. That, by far, was the best decision in my life. I didn't have to sacrifice a penny. I just told my employer I'm moving to a tropical island, and they agreed to continue my employment. From then on it was just coding and once in a while meetings over the phone. No more boring daily standups. No more daily dumb meetings that waste hours of everyone's time. Just make sure you produce quality work.

2) Stop working altogether. I was making good money for years, in the $200-250K range, and I never spent it on stupid shit like expensive cars or expensive restaurants. I saved up enough, and I haven't worked in two years as of today. Well, I haven't been employed for two years, I work on my own projects that I enjoy. If you live frugally, $100K will last you 5-7 years in a cheap area, or even more if you move to Asia.
FuseBox: a bundler that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS
Similar to you, I am 27. I worked at facebook seattle making 315k a year, I left after 8 months I do not recommend it. I work now with much greater autonomy at a smaller company for half the pay.

I would recommend cutting your work hours and using that time to develop things that you find fulfilling.
> This is a problem for literally every source on Earth, and persists even among the most prestigious newspapers, books, etc.

That's true but practically meaningless. Some sources are dramatically more reliable and accurate than others. I can't completely trust my 4 year old nephew about physics, nor can I completely trust a leading physics text book, but that doesn't make those sources similarly reliable.

What we're discussing here is where Wikipedia falls on that continuum. I agree with the GP; there is so much deception by omission in WP that I don't trust it. For example, I was just looking at (American) football player Peyton Manning's article; it completely omitted a major sexual assault/harassment allegation, one about which there was a court settlement, book, major news coverage, etc.
Yes, it's apparently shocking that even internet companies work in exactly the same capitalistic manner as pre-internet companies.
The true dystopia is edotopia (edo = here in greek)

- huxley: forcing on people to pretend to be happy and calling trolls everyone emitting a critic CHECKED
- orwelian: the cloud & IT jargon is so 1984 I will not start on it: CHECKED
- PkD: media manipulation and institutional lies: CHECKED
- Kafka: well, because of scanners the stamps on my files get erased, and they ask my originals they loose, I will say personal CHECKED (and no Pratchett optimism to save the day)
- Gulliver's travel: very underrated scifi dystopian precursor, but CHECKED too.
- Vernor Vinge/Heinlein: conservative schlerozed regim where birth gives wealth and power: CHECKED

SciFi as a critic of the modern world was born in the XIXth to overcome censorship (Montesquieu, diderot, voltaire, swift). The fact that once again fiction is more critic than intellectuals is a bad sign.

The fact that it is obvious unemployment rate are ~25% in OECD (canada and USA included) when you take into consideration all the people that cannot pay for food, rents, heath without social help even when they have a job is WTF.

And the fact people think that poverty, corruption is not their problem is really a new dystopia and it's there upon us.

Fear edo-dystopia more than mytho-dystopia.
Well if you could point me to an unbiased source trying to argue the other side of this question, then sure. I really want to know both sides of this issue and it's nearly impossible to find someone separating the quintessential geek love for Google and geek hatred for Oracle from the facts of the case other than Mueller.

Honestly I'm all for liberalizing copyrights and fair use but it makes me mad to see Google going around ripping off everyone else's tech and then claiming fair use when they get sued. The fair use defense is not meant for multi-billion dollar multinational corporations that tried to shirk licensing by violating copyrights.

Furthermore I find it particularly hilarious that everyone thinks Google fights against copyright with the purest of intentions when it seems transparent that less restrictive copyright is in their direct business interests.
Ever since Deep Dream came out, I have occasionally found myself exhausted enough to start hallucinating eyes/insects/tentacles/etc in anything I look at hastily. And when this happens, it's an immense comfort to be able to say "oh hey I'm just tired and my brain is running its own Deep Dream".
Microsoft probably wouldn't mind Oracle winning.
Worthwhile piece of history whenever this comes up: http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/Events/Cherok...

6 months in when the south was winning
Well, I feel like I'm just reiterating what everyone else is saying.

1) What's with the preoccupation behind making 300k?

2) Would finding a less stressful job, even if it paid the same, make you happier?

3) It sounds like there's some other underlying issues to address here. Maybe finding some work-life balance would help you address your unhappiness with other parts of your life?
I think that you're probably looking for a finite state machine. There are a number of libraries for this, so have a look around and pick one that looks good. I haven't used it myself but would love to hear about other people's experiences with them.
As someone who has made "the big bucks", let me tell you - it's overrated. At least, in the fashion in which people generally proceed once they have capital.

The thing is, most of the time one finds that expenditures grow to match income and capital - you have shinier toys, a bigger box to keep them in, and the ratio between income and expense stays constant. You find yourself constantly levering up, reassessing what it is to be rich, aspiring to loftier goals - all of which are just a slight rotation of the hamster wheel.

I finally reached the conclusion that the only winning move is not to play. Sold up. Went frugal (feral?).

I'm now travelling the world marvelling at how far how little can go in some corners, and considering the next move. Subsistence permaculture up a mountain is looking appealing at the moment - and the capital outlay is tiny. I can retire, at 32, and enjoy living.

130k is a lot of money, but so is Seattle. In much of the world, it would be a fortune that you could live off for decades, not a year.

Ultimately it comes down to what you want in life. Money is gas in the tank, which can take you places - but like gasoline, having a lot of it sitting around does little for you - how you apply it is what makes the difference - and even if you have no gas, you can still walk.

So - the question is, what brings you happiness? Not money - many think it does because there's a gap in the chain of logic, whereby the means somehow become the ends, but if you think about what you want money for, it might reveal that money isn't actually what you want, but you've spent long enough in the pursuit of it that your true goals have been left by the wayside.

I can't pretend to have the answers, but I can say that I'm having the time of my life on $20 a day, living in a van.

The other thing that has opened my eyes is that I'm not alone in this conclusion. The more I wander, the more I meet disillusioned entrepreneurs who have likewise sacked it all in to be a vagrant.

I write this sat on the terminal moraine of a glacier, watching a little bird slowly edge closer to me, and the shadows creeping over the mountains. The air smells like moss and honey.

You can't buy this, but I feel something I thought I had lost - happiness.
In terms of success with women, I can empathize a lot with that. I used to be extremely unsuccessful with women and I hated it. Eventually I had enough and made a conscious decision to improve my dating life. It took over 5 years to get there, but after putting in a lot of effort by studying material and grinding through failure after failure, my success with women has increased by orders of magnitude.

If you want to date women, earning a lot of money is not the right approach, nor will it actually solve your problem. In fact, trying to attract women by a display of wealth is one of the worst things you can do for yourself. Your problems with dating women come down to two things: (1) lack of confidence and (2) lack of understanding of what women want and how they feel.

It's a very deep and complicated topic so I can't explain to you everything you'll need to know in a forum post, but I can point you in the right direction. The resource that's been most helpful for me in the past year has been Coach Corey Wayne. You can find his material on his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/coachcoreywayne) and his website (https://understandingrelationships.com/).

His website looks real janky but trust me when I say that his material is the ground truth for understanding women and dating. I've read his book 3 times and am going to read it another 12. It has literally changed my life and I feel so insanely lucky to have chanced upon it last year. I recommend it to every single guy I know, whether they're single or married. If you really dive into what he teaches and, just as importantly, practice it out in the field, you will see results.

If you have any further questions, feel free to email me (contact info in my profile). Good luck.

edit: why the downvotes? He mentioned that he's not happy about his dating life.
Go grab some self help books. If you don't know where to look, start with something generic like https://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Purpose-Selection...
> Plenty of philosophy articles are also very poor

Try the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; it's amazing and authoritative, written by the experts. And free (but takes donations!). You'll never look up a philosophy topic in Wikipedia again.

https://plato.stanford.edu/
List of Quantum Computing Simulators
I kept receiving notifications from an app called "Messenger" which is not accidentally also how the SMS app in stock android is named.

Facebook Messenger came out first.

Facebook (2011): http://web.archive.org/web/20120310004637/https://play.googl...

Google (2014): http://web.archive.org/web/20141112233236/https://play.googl...
Do 'Neuromorphic' chips do anything useful? At least neural networks have well known utility, but afaik, neuromorphic (i.e. heavily simplified models of neurons that one only hopes - but cannot prove are correct) have no useful applications - or even theoretical functions.
I usually just do the opposite. I mark everything up knowing that somewhere a cut will be taken.

If you have to pay me cash, then I just make more on that transaction.
If only this had to do with patents. Oracle is claiming breach of copyright - which lasts over a hundred years.
I remember reading a book about Gunther Guillaume, an east-german spy in Germany. The same feeling resonated throughout the book, the job is, as you said, secretive, but mundane. Interestingly, I would expect people that choose to go into this line of work to know this, since most all realistic books and media leave show how utterly lonely and boring it is. On the other hand, I guess there are spy handlers ane their life might be more... exciting?
I'm not sure if it's a valid test -I'd think that a better test would be to identify if there is a significant positive change before/after use of DMT, without telling anyone of the use.
What do you mean "structure of repetition"?

Premises which are already accepted are used to conclude further ones.
React on a Node (express) server is a simple and powerful combo.
Linux is mostly POSIX compliant. It has layers on top that are not POSIX, but that doesn't mean it is not POSIX or that you can't expect your POSIX apps to work on Linux.
The US has surprisingly few restrictions on satellite imagery until you get below ~50cm resolution. Beyond a short list of nations/groups that the US has strict export controls with (e.g. N. Korea), there aren't any restrictions at all on who can be sold imagery. Other countries (e.g. Canada) actually have considerably more restrictions on collecting and selling imagery.
supports CORS?
Thanks for the documentary link!
I also interpreted it as "PayPal is not a payment method" when reading. Legal statements shouldn't rely on out-of-contract context to parse
Russia Reportedly Considering Handing Over Edward Snowden as “Gift” to Trump
I hear what you're saying. It's worth noting this person is tired. Hard to say what their motivations would be if they weren't tired. If they had no ambition, or desire to change their situation, they wouldn't have submitted this post in the first place.
Buyer insisted on PP. I needed the project / money and did not wanna cause a problem. I asked buyer many times to wire / ACH the money. I kinda "had" to accept PP. Im not a rockstar. Can't demand / insist my preferred method. But there is a happy ending. I still have the gig and now they pay with stripe. ;-)
I see. Thanks. The first one seems relevant only for people in the USA, but inability to change fingerprints is something, I guess.
>> Someone did a really crappy job of phrasing.

Legal work is an area of life where one should not apply Hanlon's razor by default. Not one comma or period in that work went unscrutinized by highly compensated executive talent at PayPal and any ambiguity you find is deliberate. Assume malice.
once code goes through the Android build pipeline to produce an Android Application it cannot be meaningfully used in the context of Oracle Java

Android apps typically have an MVC-like structure where the UI uses Android-specific APIs, but the model is straight Java. As an example, I created an Android game and later decided that I wanted to make a level editor as a desktop Java application. I was able to reuse the model code in Oracle's JDK with no changes, even though I didn't have that use in mind when I originally wrote it.

a full packaged Android App cannot meaningfully run on Oracle JDK

That's true of any platform-specific Java API.
This is a very good point. Oracle (or any other platform owner) may not be suing you for license violations now, but give it time...
Unless you love middle of the desert, move. The world is full of beautiful and interesting places.

If you want to meet people, meet them. Meetup.com.
Loosely defined, it's various chips that implement simplified computational models of neurons, and some plasticity functions. They are usually simplified because going into the greatest detail (modeling hodgkin-huxley type channels) would require too much computation. In the neuroscience community there is not yet an acceptable model for a simplified neuron so everyone picks some spiking neuron model or they make up one. Even less is known for plasticity functions.

I believe the idea is that if you simulate too many of them, something useful will happen.
> They took not just the signatures but their semantic meaning

What's the difference between the signature of an API and the semantic meaning?
I don't think that the articles addresses the real problem with POSIX/SuS. The fact that SuS does not deal with GUI is feature, also there are no OS implemented complex syscall multiplexers on top of ioctl() for that, such multiplexing happens in hardware. (Try stracing glxgears, with my radeon it calls ioctl quite heavily, but only uses two functions, both of them are essentially "wait for interrupt from hardware")

What I see as biger problem is that current Single UNIX Specification is that it essentially has nothing to do with UNIX. On the list of certified conforming systems, there is Solaris (which does not implement all the optional modules one would expect from something that _IS_ derived from SysV), z/OS and bunch of embedded RTOSes noone ever heard about. And if you look on what is required and how underspecified some things are, you can make "Certified UNIX" out of MS-DOS by rewriting the userspace tools and writing libc with "POSIX-ly correct" syscall names.
All of those things actively affect others' wellbeing when put into public policy. And a democracy gives the masses the ability to put those beliefs in public policy.

Would it affect you tight away? No, but in a Generation our children contract more disease, less of them go into stem fields because of the distrust and dissonance that has been spread, and the air your children breath becomes more polluted.
Making a priority of becoming rich isn't enough. People who put "becoming rich" above anything else risk corruption.
DIY project: my 1.5TB bamboo USB SSD disk bay
I don't find many articles talking about how AI integration in the industry could lower the production costs in many markets, that would allow consumers to be able to buy products cheaper, so they could work less to be able to pay basic stuff.

Also it would allow people to be more capable to scale multiple tasks, for instance: instead of being a taxi driver you become the manager of a driver less taxi.
huginn is a great project, by all means keep using it! The need for Beehive originally stemmed from our local hacker space, where we wanted to run a little daemon for 'home-automation' tasks, with the ability to control it via IRC. huginn was just too much of a beast for our Raspberry Pi and so we started hacking away on Beehive.

It's certainly a lot lighter, younger and less feature-complete than huginn - but it's also a lot easier to deploy and maintain in comparison. It's written in Golang, if that's your cup of tea, and really easy to extend.
Or, things get the homeopathic label when they really aren't homeopathic at all -- they use it as a synonym for natural, or non-medicinal. Which is what I want sometimes. But I never want anything that is homeopathic, because to me that means fake.
You could check out the YouTube community. Might be more to your liking.
> "It is a big, overt statement that the contributions of those people are no longer respected."

That's the crux of your argument. In this case, when talking about Calhoun College and the concept of "erasing history" it's not that the concern that Calhoun's name will be lost, but rather than part of the identity of the college and all the events tied to it will be.

It's easy enough to think that a name change will be "simple" but it's the question of how you refer to events in the past, how you get the community to reflect this change, and how you are able to respectfully honor the history of the college in the light of this change, without making everything that occurred in the past seem like an error or portrayed in a negative light.

Yale's choice to go forward is something that I'm proud of as this has been a point of contention in our community, but it has also spurred new questions of how we deal with the identity and history of the college.
The belief that a particular quack medicine is effective may have cost Steve Jobs many years of life.
Serious question: Is LaTeX used outside academia these days?
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