skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they had no competition, so no desire for higher performance. They can easily remove the GPU from Kaby Lake, use that transistor/thermal budget for 4 additional cores and add 128MB of L4 cache for a monster CPU.
Huge Tesla/Musk fanboy here, but I have no idea how they've gotten away with marketing decade old lane-keeping technology as autonomous driving to customers. Already resulted in a couple of deaths. It's clear from this video that the car didn't event attempt to avoid the upcoming obstacle, while the human driver in the pickup-truck ahead had no issues.

And somehow, stage 4/5 autonomy is a year away?
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Because it was resolved in a few hours without any further fallout? (Pun definitely intended)
I bought one of their laptops years ago and liked it; I eventually bequeathed it to a sister-in-law, who seems to like it well enough.

I probably won't buy their stuff again, because I only run Debian these days, but I think that they're a decent company and I recommend them to folks who want to run Ubuntu.
Ouch. If it's having trouble keeping pace with the E6-2670v1 that's not good. That's an 8-core chip from 2012. You can get them on eBay for $75.
Sounds awesome. Now the real question, what's the path to mass-production?

If they can pull it off, it'll be a huge game-changer.
You can keep track at https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/#addons
What then are "UNIX things".

This could be either a no-true-Scotsman, or a tautology. To solve this, you'd need to specify what UNIX is good at.
Look into the ARMv7-A/R PMSA (protected memory system architecture) for more details. ARMv7-M does the same thing.
I don't see any job postings that look like "Backend / big data" at the jobs URL you posted. Did I miss something?
I used to always be excited about new battery tech, but let's be honest: we see nearly these exact claims ALL THE TIME, and they never come to market.

I don't know what's to blame, but I'm to the point of "believe it when I see it."
and cheap credit in Europe! Make it happen!
Why should he re-architect his system and introduce some Amazon-specific dependencies like S3 just so he can give Amazon money? How much development time and money will he spend trying to make his setup work on AWS? How many new bugs will he accidentally introduce in the process? How badly will moving to cloud storage via S3 affect his performance v. having the files on a local disk? When S3 outages like the one that happened two days ago occur, will his customers be understanding of his decision to move into the cloud for funsies?

It's really amazing that, when faced with clear evidence of the expense involved in moving to AWS, you suggest that he prepay for a year of service up-front and redesign his application just so Amazon's bill doesn't look so egregious anymore.

My experience aligns with his. We moved from racks with 20-something boxes to EC2 with 100+ instances. Our monthly bill was 80% of the cost of the hardware in our data center.

How did we solve this problem? Why, move to Docker and Kubernetes of course! Over a year of manpower has been devoted to that task. What kind of savage would ever return to bare metal in this enlightened age of expending millions of manhours redoing stuff that was already working perfectly well?

If you want to autoscale, autoscale on the cloud and keep your primary nodes on bare metal. There's no need to start forking over millions of extra dollars to cloud providers to host all of your infrastructure.

Cloud has some unique benefits, but it should be used for those unique benefits only. There's no reason everything has to be moved there.
Is it just me or is Goodenough an amusingly paradoxical last name for an inventor?
Yes - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778676
The rule was approved last fall. Unless it was caught up in the Trump regulation freeze, it's going into effect in 2019.
I remember submitting all my websites to DMOZ.

I got one on there, and I did notice a spike in traffic, mostly from third-party directories that used DMOZ's data.

I hadn't visited in probably 10 years. I noticed they redesigned it, it looks good!
Actually it has not.

> UPDATE 2/3/17 4:00pm: The Nintendo Switch's day one system update has launched, and there are reports online that installing the patch with the Joy-Cons attached updates the firmware on the controllers, resolving the de-sync issues. Is this really the case? Unfortunately not. We've updated our console with controllers attached and re-run the battery of tests detailed below. In all cases, the range and consistency of the connection of each Joy-Con remains the same, and the left controller still has demonstrably weaker range than the right. Eurogamer has contacted Nintendo several times now concerning this issue, and we still await a reply.
This looks like Norton Commander for DOS and subsequent clones. I always liked this two pane layout. This is nothing new.
Almost twenty years ago, though.
AM4 only has pins for dual channel I think.
Internal transfer is a great path to this. If you can't get hired in stack A, but can in stack B, get a job somewhere that employs B but is short A.

PMs will often take any willing candidate, and in no time you'll be "one of the employees that does A".

I've accidentally transitioned from a product designer to a front end developer, even against my will, at least 4 times this way. There is no chance I could pass any serious front end interview, but I'm well enough equipped for the boring realities of the things that need to be updated in prod.

Once you're in the door, you're measured against the realistic "what needs to ship" bar, not the bright and shiny "we only hire the best" bar.
I'm not a materials guy but can this "shatter"? What does this mean for applications that need IP67, battery compartment stabilization?
Awsnap! http://dilbert.com/strip/2008-02-15
I'm scanning the paper really quickly. I'm not a chemist but I do know a thing or two about batteries and the standard caveats apply here:

When they say 3x volumetric energy density, that is the actual energy density, which is energy per liter (normal density is mass per liter). Normally people use energy density to refer to energy per kg. Because this is a solid state battery, it is much denser than normal batteries (which are roughly as dense as water). Solid state batteries are smaller but much heavier and this is no exception. It is 33% the size of a lithium battery, but for the same energy it's about 2.5x heavier. Weight is still a much bigger problem for batteries than size- batteries are much smaller than the exhaust, engine and transmission of a car, but also much heavier.

The main limit on specific energy(kwh/kg) for this battery and for solid state batteries in general is voltage. Li-ion is 3.7v nominal, this battery is 2.5v nominal.

1,200 cycles may seem low, but it is actually very good; around 3x the life of current batteries. This cycle life is the time to degrade to 80% maximum storage, at a certain discharge depth and speed. Current batteries only last 300-400 cycles at their specs, but last tens of thousands at 30% depth of discharge.

Problem with the above: in this particular battery, the chemistry breaks down very strongly after it reaches the end of life. Normal lithium does this too, but not as strongly. This stuff may potentially last longer, but it fails much less gracefully. Not in a dangerous way, but in the same way as a normal car often does; once its broken it'll just work worse and worse until it is barely limping.

The temperature capabilities may seem irrelevant, but they are actually a decent problem for li-ion and are the reason lead acid is still used in cars.

Another interesting possibility for glass solid state lithium batteries is that recycling would be very easy. In organic batteries the electrolyte burns or reacts pretty much no matter what you do, but with glass you can plate and unplate cells. Unfortunately due to specific energy, polymer solid state electrolytes are much more likely than glass (also much cheaper).

Edit: IMPORTANT NOTE: this is NOT a fundamentally new type of li-ion battery! Solid state batteries have been around a while (glass, ceramic and polymer), and have specific advantages but low specific energy and power. This particular implementation is a bit higher power and possibly lower cost, but it's just a little blip of progress. Solid state batteries are a good candidate for the future, but they aren't there yet.
8 lanes per GPU is plenty, the performance diff with 16 is ~3%. Games will run faster with SLI setup on Ryzen. Why do you even need SLI, 1080 Ti will be good enough for 5K gaming.
> These days I'm doing less but doing it better.

On Linux or OpenBSD?
Woah, thanks for this link, never heard of Cupheads before but now it's a definite day one buy.
Most of the value I get from Twitter, Instagram, and Whale is from people I don't know in real life. Facebook is the only social network for me that's mostly real life friends.
A fantastic article for those thinking they might be "over the hill" :)
TLDR: Don't ask for irrelevant information. It helps you make a biased decision.

Asking about hobbies needlessly introduces bias into your interview process. The hobby(ies) of candidates is completely irrelevant. One may respond saying "oh, but we just want to make small talk," but it's that small talk that is the precursor to bias to begin with. All things being equal, you would prefer someone more similar to you.

> Our findings indicate that people are more willing to give to, share an office with, commute with, and work on a critical project critical to their advancement with individuals who are similar to them selves (Self) along a particular identity dimension than with individuals who are dis similar (Other) [1]

[1] http://conf.som.yale.edu/obsummer07/PaperBen-NerKramer.pdf
Ask HN: How do you manage your cloud architecture?
Preferred cloud platform? Why? What tools have you found work best for managing consistent deployment and security? Is there a best practices guide you generally follow?

I guess I'm just curious what the state of the cloud looks like among the HN community.

Disclaimer: I work at a cloud automation startup, but I'm really just asking for my own understanding of the landscape.
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it's a joke. Last sentence of the article is

> The provocative tone has been used just to attract your attention.
That makes sense - I would imagine a purchase agreement would lock you into product warranties, service contracts, and so on. You might end up in violation of your contract if you send the robots to someone else for maintenance.
Yup. And for that mercy the engineer is going to be that much more careful, and loyal. I would be, that's for sure.
It looks a lot like the early days of commercial radio.
> Nobody ever deploys kub alone in production.

We do. I work at SAP, and we run our company-wide OpenStack on pure Kubernetes on CoreOS's Container Linux. [1] We do use Docker (the container runtime) because it comes with CoreOS, but no other Docker product as far as I'm aware. I've been working with Kubernetes for quite some time now, and honestly don't know what else you would need on top of it (except for some Continuous Integration tool, of course, but that's already a staple of any well-organized agile team, no matter the platform).

[1] I mean the API and orchestrator parts, not the customer VMs themselves. These sit on traditional hypervisors.
Sure, there aren't many practical uses right now given the cost besides some niche ideas, but...

1. High cost and lack of experience are not reasons to not work on the technology. For example, quantum holography or other experimental storage ideas are also extremely expensive. Doesn't mean we shouldn't push research in the area.

2. We are reaching limits on how effectively we can continue to increase densities on conventional storage. It might not be this decade, but it's coming. This is why people are working on many different experimental technologies.
Remember that's quantity 1.

You can get huge concessions in Intel kit in quantity, particularly E7 stuff.
The batteries shipping today are considerably better than the ones shipping 10 years ago.
i love this brilliant idea, i have always needed something like this and as substitute i've been using two browsers.
...very much so. The minimum market cap for S&P is 5B, Snap is currently 6 times that.
Weight is certainly a major factor in moving vehicles. Could this have more applications in something like home energy storage?
Jennifer Widom Named Dean of Stanford School of Engineering
These new discoveries and inventions are years away from market, but to say, that they never come to market is just not true. Why do you think our phones are getting thinner with longer battery life? They are certainly coming to market, but to introduce something this new in your consumer grade products would increase price by likely $1000's, to very few people you'll need to build plants, and production lines.
And he's still got Windows XP running in his lab, based on the photo. An interesting juxtaposition.
A big % of the shares purchased at the IPO price came with a requirement to hold the shares for at least 6 months. The people that bought on the open market today can sell whenever they feel like it. Not having that requirement is worth something. That explains part of the delta.
SessionGate – Secure Session Management using Redis (module)
I don't think scarcity indicates anything more than a supply-demand imbalance. Some people buy products in this area just to resell even if they don't actually want it. It's tough to make an apples to apples comparison when one company artificially limited the early supply while the others didn't.
Driving has resulted in innumerable deaths. In most cases the auto-pilot feature increases safety. In a very small number it decreases it. Life's about trade-offs.
Can someone comment as to what kind of payday this IPO translates to for say the 30th engineer hired by Snap? (I realize that this is impossible to answer accurately, and that there is still a 4 month lockup)
A lot of the author's criticisms are about UNIX utilities not gracefully handling filenames containing special characters. But seriously, who puts a newline in a filename? Instead of wasting time writing scripts that meticulously handle all possible edge cases, I'd much rather fix whatever broken process is putting control characters into file names.
You say that its just to throw people in prison for refusing involuntary servitude on the basis that that service is necessary for the existence of the state that the individuals rely on. Now what I wonder is why the state would be in a position to need to use threats to inspire its citizens to serve.

Perhaps it doesn't want to pay sufficient money to acquire the individuals its needs. In effect it is saying that it ought to take a minority of the citizens freedom rather than take a little bit more of everyone's money. This is pretty despicable and it ought to just raise taxes to pay sufficiently.

Perhaps it lacks the moral authority to inspire service even at any price. In that case it ought to reexamine WHY its citizens have lost faith in it instead of using force.

Lastly perhaps its facing an existential threat that can neither be ignored, nor dealt with otherwise.

You blindly suppose that the state deserves such service and neither examine whether it really does nor if it could acquire such service without trampling the rights of its citizens.

It speak like a dangerous nationalist and your attitude concerns me.
You mean the way they defend some of the numerics in rust?

yeah, totally have never seen that...
What lies above JSON or S-expressions, XML? Or some binary format?

If I had to guess, I'd say the issue with JSON and the like is how to deduce types (and the limited types available) combined with the issue of special characters in names and strings.

XML goes a long way towards fixing that, but at the cost of a lot of extra bloat. A binary format with a nicely defined header might work, but those formats tend to not be so good about inserting stuff.

There is something to be said in favor of plain text. If all solutions suck, go for the simplest and most flexible solution.
The "Car needs service" indicator on the dash screen is an under-statement, isn't it?
As GP says the answer might be "I don't have much time for hobbies because I'm looking after my old, blind, parent".
Benvenuto Cellini’s Encounter with the Spirits (2013)
Sad to see you go, but I appreciate the feedback. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Yeah, it's not a direct quote. However, that is how I interpret the sentiment that those who fight the cloud will be fired. You suggest that's an unfair interpretation? You can say "cloud may not be the only option" all you want, but "those who oppose cloud will be fired" ensures that somehow, everyone in your organization will believe the cloud to be a supremely good option. :)
Judging from that video, it seems they don't spend a lot of money on advertising.
Hmm, the article mentioned nothing about the weight. For a medium sized quadcopter, 3 times more energy (given the same weight) means as long as 3 hours of flight time which would make all these drone delivery dream come true.
The author of this article shouldn't be apologizing for Tesla. The car should work to avoid hitting stuff. Period.

"The footage shows that the Tesla needed to merge or change lane in order to avoid the barrier – something the Autopilot should never be left to do without the driver intervening."
They are entertainers. And that's a full time profession. The way they make money is by plugging different brands, and that's the only difference.
Man this is great news! I can't wait to build a new overly powerful rig with these new chips from AMD. Sweet!
You can check out ReactOS which works like Windows but is open source.
A comment that I think is relevant in a community of startups that often, explicitly or de-facto practice age discrimination:

This engineer is 94 years old. Few, if any, SCV startups would have hired him. Yet, here we are, he might have just developed the key technology to push electric transportation through the hockey stick curve past the inflection point.

Three times the energy density, many times more cycles, no shorting, high charge and discharge rates. Yeah, this is more than just about laptops and cars, this is about planes, boats, trucks and ships.

Think about that before you reject a 50+ year old. Experience has real value.
I have put a note in my calendar a year from now, and a year after that to read the story about how these laboratory curiosities could not be made in production quantities.

Something I would really love to see would be a solid state battery that exploited the fact that we can draw silicon features at 7nm. How about a couple trillion equivalents of a FLASH cell which we can drain in rows or fill in rows. Sort of a bucket brigade of capacitors at that point but it would not have any recharge issues and since its just charge flying about no dendrites to speak of. At some point I predict that will become a useful way to build energy storage devices.
Reasons to bur lg g6
> The main limit on specific energy(kw/kg) for this battery

I believe you meant kJ/kg.

kw isn't even a unit, that would be kW.
I own a 2015 Razer Blade 14 and am overall fairly happy with it, just be aware that it is a gaming machine first and foremost, and as such has very mediocre (~5 hour web browsing) battery life. This is compounded by the notoriously bad power management on most Linux distros, and there are some minor driver support issues (mostly due to the NVidia 970M). I ran Manjaro on mine for a few months before going back to Windows 10 after Windows Subsystem for Linux came out, mostly for gaming reasons.
You are pretty much forced to show up and provide a convincing reason why you ought not to serve beyond that its trivial to get out of if you don't want to be part of it.

Its also essential to our justice system and usually a very small burden.
How to dispatch a Redux action with a timeout?
What if their answer is:
"Oh, well I go out every afternoon doing door-to-door proselytizing for the Jehovah's Witnesses."
"I go straight home because my wife is expecting our 5th child."
"I spend most of my time studying for the Citizenship test."
"I spend my time at the VFW."
"I used to do X, but since I got hurt..."
"I sing in the choir at my church."
"I make YouTube videos to support LGBT causes."

For the vast majority of people, things that are a "protected class" are so much a part of their identity that it is even incorporated into their hobbies.

The crux of the matter is, though: It's none of their business! (quite literally)
"GCC is a useful benchmark not because it is unoptimized, but because it represents a real-world work profile that is otherwise poorly represented in SPEC."

Sure, in that sense, but you also don't want benchmarks that are trivial to game by performing optimizations to them.
:)
>Conscription is straight up slavery. I don't see any way around that. //

Which person owns you in your analysis of that being slavery? Or is being owned by another person not a part of your definition?

In a democracy, you're a slave to your own country, effectively. There are people making decisions on your life, all the people voting in the country including you, no?

It may be wrong, just doesn't look like slavery to me.
Will America Forge a New Political Consensus? With Peter Thiel [2017 Video]
Wind Waker is a phenomenally designed game, sadly rejected by a lot of people around its release due to the Spaceworld demo in 2000 [1] that left people clamouring for a 'realistic' looking Zelda title. Thankfully over time it has become regarded as one of the best Zelda titles.

I think its graphic style will continue to hold up far better than some of the other titles well into the future. The fact that we can look back at the Spaceworld demo and laugh at how dated it looks is proof enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvE3yJv3fm0
Why do you exclude political views?
Correction: 99.999999999% is not the chance of Google loosing your data, it is the chance that Google will cancel any new service or features that you use. See: reader, plus, etc.
Actually, i feel like I can.
I feel like browser vendors were perfectly happy ignoring literally everything the W3C said for years.

So exactly whom does it have influence to?
Until you start expecting them to pay the prices those premium services would require.

And that's not getting into how the drivers might tank their ratings over time for inconveniencing them by being disabled.