skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The TPU only operates on 8-bit integers" The 8 bit part is fine, but integers?
what the hell. that's a new one for me
That's a decent use of audio too. Even though it automatically plays it isn't offensive or jarring. Also it goes very quiet if you switch away to another tab.

Not sure how it was accomplished, but is another very nice touch to an impressive display.
You know the strange thing is, I actually do have mental health issues, but not because of this post, because of working my ass off so hard.

However that does not excuse these kinds of comments.

The original joke was actually funny. Did you read it? Maybe you need to "See a shrink" for being so dang rude and insensitive.
You'd think the IRS would get involved- creators robbed of income means governments robbed of income tax.
The full extent of Windows 10's data sharing is slightly alarming
New in Helpmonks: Open Tracking
If "forward passes" means inference (as opposed to training), then the post says the first generation targets that. I don't think they say anything about any future generations (other than they're working on them).
And what's amazing is that it was built on 28nm. So TPU 2.0 could increase by another 2x in perf/W just by going to 14nm (most likely) - even more if it's built on newer processes than that.

Intel's latest chips will be even further behind compared to the next-generation TPU than Haswell was compared to TPU 1.0.
I have a Diploma of College Studies (Canada) in Multimedia Integration.

We learned how to create animations, how to render 3D models, how to do videos editing, how to do web front-end (advanced css + js), how to do backend web programming and how to create native apps.

It's a lot easier to be good at css when you actually learn it from teachers.
If Tor is too difficult to use, people won't use it. Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras had to dedicate a significant amount of time to get Glenn Greenwald to just use TAILS, a plug and play Tor operating system. Someone like that is not going to use Whonix, even if maybe they should be.
23 things AI computers can do better/faster/cheaper than you can
Political decisions based on obvious facts. Great that we agree. :-)
Honestly there is a lot of hypocrisy here in this thread. How many of us work for startups that either collect data on users usage of their app or rely heavily on the data Google/FB/Twitter etc have mined?

Answer: Probably all of us.
> Although not 'Hollywood Accounting', Jonah Hill

The comment is about Hill taking less (a lot less) to be in a Scorsese film. That seems like an entirely reasonable tradeoff. He wound up with a second oscar nomination out of it. It's also a move that no one would bat an eye over if it was to do some artsy indie film.
I'm pretty sure my dog would kill me if he thought there was a quarter tablespoon of peanut butter inside my skull.
Last year I started using rclone [1][2] to upload photos to Amazon Drive using the "unlimited photos" tier included in Prime. Soon after that offering was given another interface to the same backend -- and that other frontend, "Prime Photos" [3] would automatically turn on ML-scanning on your photos on first login. So I nuked everything, flipped the setting to "off" after a few days, and uploaded everything again.

In January 2017, the last time I logged into either interface, both of them were still accessible and surfaced the same content [4], but I don't know if the two products are going to evolve separately in the future. Using a solid alternate client like rclone, I'm able to sync up my current photos to Amazon Drive on a schedule.

This is a good solution for photos especially if you're already paying for Amazon Prime, but does not address video. I'm experimenting with Backblaze's B2 as one of the least expensive object storage providers, but after doing some napkin math it may be cheapest of them all to get Backblaze's unlimited backup service for $5/month (= $60/year), which then solves both my document and media backup issue in one integrated go, as opposed to having to piecemeal from comparably- or more expensively priced cloud storage vendors and have to devise and maintain separate backup strategies for each.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398303#12407606 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398303#12407606 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321503#13322296 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321503#13322631
Nvidia has shipped a couple of INT8 inference cards as well:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10675/nvidia-announces-tesla-p...
That's funny, because I thought the format is absolutely horrible. Can't glance back and forth, very little text is visible and it makes me scroll a lot. I'm perfectly capable of clicking on images if I want them larger.
https://www.online.net/en/ods
It's this mindset that makes me want to support Red Hat as a company. As good as the Fedora 25 experience has been for me, I'd love to see Linux laptop vendors (especially Dell) make it an installed option soon. Maybe CentOS laptops would make more sense for them from a sheer "stability for support sake" experience.
Those limitations sounds awfully similar to that of an FPGA..
You're right, I forgot. But it's much less organic and dangerous in general. In EQ for example enemy healers would help allies without actually joining the fight.
It is raining today
They're still better than the x = x + (y+=(++x)) things I've encountered in school assignments. I've always wondered why knowledge of what ought to be akin to undefined behavior is a good thing, excepting "idioms" like

do {...} while ((line = file.read()) != 0)

which one no longer understands after a week away from the language robs you of a short-term mental model of the language's quirks and evaluation strategies and what-have-you.
Very much so. B4 can be run near 100% because of strict admission control and optimized routing to maximize the use of all paths. It's much harder to do that on peering links where the traffic is bursty and you don't have control over the end-to-end latency and jitter. SDN isn't a magic pill for this, but it can most definitely lead to better performance and higher utilization than Ye Olde BGP Traffic Engineering.
We do eat dolphin. Mahi mahi type of dolphin, I buy it at Costco: it is good.
Really? How much did the person watching at home pay?

It's not absurd. I don't like it, but it's not absurd.
The P50 has an optional 4K display, it's a pretty awesome machine.

Linux friendliness is another pro of the thinkpad family in general.
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This is a real issue that hurts real people. Kudos to Facebook for finding a decent way to address this issue with kindness and empathy.

My sole concern is the potential this has for giving the copyright world the "take down and stay down" super-DMCA notice they've been chasing for a long time. Now it's been shown to be implementable.
From the paper:

> if the TPU were revised to have the same memory system as the K80 GPU, it would be about 30X - 50X faster than the GPU and CPU.

Is it "hard" to interface with GDDR5/HBM? Layout challenges? Or do they need the capacity more than the speed? Why wouldn't they have used faster memory than DDR3?
This seems like a necessary next step in the iconoclasm of western civilization. Like all social and cultural norms of our era, marriage must be called into question. We (society) will question its value and determine whether or not its purported value still exists. I think it does, but the only way to really convince most people is to remove it and see what that does to society. The same goes for gender, democracy, religion, and other structures we take for granted in the modern world. They will first be destroyed, then either rebuilt with greater purity or discarded altogether. These changes may be harsh, damaging, or even violent, but that's the course we've all chosen (not me personally, but the modern world in general). These changes will happen, so I am not surprised to see these results.
That's like saying "so basically it's a chip". Well yes, it is a chip.
Most accelerator-esque chips are often considered some kind of ASIC. CPUs are not ASICs because ??? ... never heard a good reason there. It's a fuzzy (but not fluffy) term.
"This first generation of TPUs targeted inference ..."

Makes me wonder if there are more recent generations that target training.
Does this mean that Ubuntu is moving away from Mir, to Wayland?
More than 15 years ago, I worked for a Linux services company that competed with Red Hat. We sometimes saw them or were invited to see them rather negatively (as the competition), and I particularly remember that an ad agency that wanted our business once shipped us a box containing a burnt red hat (!).

Time has shown that Red Hat really knows what they're doing, on many different levels, and they're the most successful free software business in history.
In Hong Kong, Horlicks is usually on the menu at traditional Hong Kong restaurants along with milk tea, iced tea, coffee/milk tea, Coke & Coke with lemon. It's served through out the day and boy is it tasty.
1440x900 resolution, 128GB SSD, 1.6GHz dual-core i5, 8GB RAM.

Plenty of go for web browsing, compiling embedded code, and LaTeX, so long as you don't need to run 20 virtual machines, do video encoding, or play games.
Sounds like the traditional british class system already. Are you sure you dont have a king or queen?
Wow.. I see where Mr. Shuttleworth is coming from.

I'd like to state that I'm a happy Ubuntu user, and have been using Unity for the past few years and have generally found it to be a good ui for the desktop. I know many many others fall in the same bucket.
I've found over the years that technologies don't build resumes, results do. If you can say that you designed, implemented and tested software for $COMPANY's $PRODUCT resulting in $NUMBER successful product launches worth $N million in revenue, it doesn't matter so much what the technology used was. My resume used to be a laundry list of platforms and languages, but it was not as effective as when I re-wrote it to focus on business results. Now that I'm more focused on management, I don't even mention the technologies I've used, except for what I'm current on (current job).
Whales are delicious, too. (I had Mink Whale in Iceland. Tastes like good beef.) I expect most dolphins to taste similar.
Yes, my dog loves cheese. He will kill for cheese.
Problem Solving with MiniZinc
Right. The Jonah Hill example was about "no leverage" inside of a larger comment about Hollywood Accounting. Jonah himself didn't suffer from Hollywood Accounting -- unless he did sign one of those "net points" deals of which he gets ongoing residuals of $0 that the public doesn't know about.

An unequal power dynamic between the talent and the studio means some actors accept deals such as Hollywood Accounting, or SAG minimum wage, or possibly both.
Ubuntu will use what upstream GNOME uses, which means Wayland for the compositor.
Presumably it has been white-listed just about anywhere as enough confused, angry or bemused students complained via other channels.

Also, I remember how we initially didn't check the auto-generated user names (part of first and last name) for obscenities or other unfortunates.

One of the highlights I still remember 20+ years later is a poor sod who was pervo@stud for a few hours; luckily we spotted it before he started using the account.
I think this is a cultural misunderstanding. An employer might tell me what to do while I'm at work, working on something that creates value for the company. Communicating with third parties out of work, when I'm not speaking for the company - I don't agree, unless it's actually illegal or harassing etc.
I was going to say as well. It seems like if caches are the bane of sequential processing(CPU) then routing has to be the counterpart on the parallel(FPGA/ASIC) side of the equation.
Mink Whales are delicious. (Just out of ignorance, I would assume dolphins probably taste similar-ish?)
> A lot of science fiction probably works better as a mini series or full TV series...

If only animation automation got sufficiently good and economical enough that long-form (40+ hours) video storytelling was practical for more stories. I sometimes wonder if there is a Sapir-Whorf-style equivalent hypothesis for how we exchange our stories, where the storytelling modality (starting with just the time length our formats allow, but going much further afield with complexity management/expectations, formulation of models, etc.) shapes how our aggregate civilization thinks.
Arianna Huffington Leads Crusade to Deal with Uber’s Scandals
Ubuntu 18.04 to Ship with Gnome Desktop, Not Unity
It is protracted because it happens almost everywhere on the internet (at least where people are pseudo-anonymous).

Bullying doesn't have to be targeted. A student who constantly walks around school halls indiscriminately slamming shut open lockers and pushing people out of their way would surely be labeled a bully.

It's abusive because of the context.

I fully agree that representations of hate presented in an artistic, clever, funny, or thought provoking way should not be stifled because their place in the conversation around preventing hate and evil is important.

But I think it's a long stretch to call the swastikas in /r/Place artistic, clever, funny, or thought provoking.

A sibling comment mentions: >Honestly, in this case it was probably mostly representing rebellious teenagers who love to offend the easily offended, not nazis or nazi symphatizers.

A very simple way to send the message that their "one off, untargeted, pixel art" of a symbol commonly described as "highly offensive, disgusting, and discomforting" is not "artistic, clever, funny, and thought provoking" is to have it removed.
Fukushima Daiichi 1 just go a ten year life extension in feb 2011.

A few days later it was a multi-billion-dollar wreck.

Not at 'end of life' obviously does not mean 'safe to operate'. 'end of life' is also not a fixed date. Once the initial 'end of life' date comes, the owner will see how to get a life extension. Fukushima Daiichi 1 had an inspection, some upgrades, got the life extension. Following month this was one of most costly decisions ever made in industry.
Rant Follows:

The state of interviews in tech is, for the most part, abysmal. You either end up with language trivia which tells you nothing about somebody's ability to reason about good solutions to problems or you end up with some contrived white-board problems that simply show you the candidate spent a decent amount of time on leetcode/careercup/etc and nothing about their coding style, design choices, etc.

I've found that the best compromise is a two layered approach. Offer a straightforward collaborative coding question or hackerrank test to weed out anyone that's clearly incapable of writing code. Then have them complete a short project that you discuss with them at the onsite interview. Make sure the project requires a nice number of data structures, etc. You can really grill them about design choices, tradeoffs, what-ifs, etc. In my experience, it becomes immediately obvious if they know what they're talking about. Sure, it's extra work for a candidate. But in my experience anyone that actually wants to work there seems to prefer it over fast-paced whiteboarding.

I remember two interview experiences at "big 4" tech companies where I was given two fairly involved algorithmic problems and only 30 minutes where I proceeded to write as fast as I could and finish with only minutes to spare, despite knowing exactly what to do. Then I was grilled about SFINAE in C++. The whole experience left a very sour taste in my mouth, despite the nice comp they offered.
We will be able to speak with dolphins within 40 years because of augmented reality. 20 for the hardware/software foundation and 20 to raise adolescents who are adapted the augmentation.

The only reason we haven't been able to communicate with them is we haven't found a good mutually comprehensible input medium for them. HMDs could be it, positional audio might help. But either way VR as a metaphor for UI will get researchers thinking in new ways about input as we go deeper into VR ourselves.

Presence will be the Rosetta Stone for animal language. "You are here and this is happening" is orders of magnitude harder to ignore as an atom of communication than a computer screen on the wall of a talk.

We will be able to record entire naturalistic experiences of a dolphin, and then give them an AR keyboard to play back arbitrary slices of it in sequence, and do the same for their friends.

Early dolphin language will look like hip hop music or poetry in structure (a pastiche of samples), and we will quickly find out whether they have the neuroanatomy for grammar.
> Stalker and Solaris are brilliantly imaginative masterpieces

But definitely not science and hardly fiction (as in fiction books).

They're in same category as Twin Peaks or Lost - an unencumbered and hardly explained flights of imagination.
There's a game called Fruit Ninja where you can do this.
The fact that this looks as amazing as ever on my JS disabled browser is well...amazing!

Would love to hear the story behind its development. That kinda CSS would be pretty tedious to write.
Wow. This is a real shock, it wouldn't be out of place for April 1st.

This is good news for linux on the desktop. Not that diversity isn't good, but Unity has been stale for years while Gnome has been progressing, but suffering from the fragmentation that Canonical caused.

Hopefully this will result in more contributions upstream, which will benefit all linux distributions. This was always the main complaint with Canonical.
Humans were already pretty handy with wood, leather and stones. No underwater species has made it that far.

(No idea whether there's any wood equivalent underwater.)
Maverick Iceman.. SRSLY?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi

Mahi-mahi is a fish
Art Buchwald won a ruling in 1990 that he should be paid on the gross profits of a movie. This contemporary article says that the decision was "likely to force sweeping changes in the way Hollywood negotiates its contracts and does its bookkeeping", but I imagine they just closed the "loophole" through which Buchwald won.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/22/movies/buchwald-gets-damag...
Interesting survival technique, if I can assume it is. The octopus in question dies but the dolphin who tried to eat it does also. Serves as a warning to dissuade eating the species/order as a whole. Same as poisoned toads in that regard, just a little more zombie-like.
Unpaid internships are a lie told in industries who undervalue their hiring pool.
2014 MBP (15"). I've never seen machines with the same build quality as Apple, and the trackpad is really excellent - smoother than anything else I've used. Display is also fantastic.

I love this machine, although Apple's direction makes me want to switch to something else like a ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
I believe this is pretty old one or more years.. also it doesn't work on firefox.
Microservices: Mono repo vs. Multiple repositories
I wonder if it would be a good idea that if the SRI detected a modified javascript file that a warning should be presented to a web user when this occurs?
The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment service Flattr
VMware shifts away from public cloud hosting with sale of vCloud Air to OVH
Clearly "no one" is an falsehood. Besides the ethical vegetarians, there are a fair number of us who are troubled by pigs in particular.

Whales and octopuses, I think, also fit the "animals we know to live in threatened conditions" criteria many of us apply to deciding who to eat.
The situation with Python string formatting
The most deadly text-related sin I guess in any presentation, is where the text displayed moves the focus of your audience away from you and the topic. I've seen enough presentations where the speaker is usually just re-reading the text on the display. That to me is not presentation, but rather becomes a reading class.
A metro in Google-speak generally refers to all of the peering locations in a given city or metro area, not specifically a single IXP.

For example, if you look at the PeeringDB entry for AS15169 (https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/15169), for the London "metro" there's public peering available on LINX at 3 different POPs, and private peering available at Digital Realty, 3 different Equinix POPs, and 2 Telehouse POPs.
Vaquita.
you can get that in koreatown in LA as well (probably elsewhere too but that's where i've had it). the taste is pretty subtle but it's weird that it squirms in your mouth.
Facebook revenge porn to be blocked from reposts
We only have three people in the house. So all three of us could watch live tv simultaneously with Sling. Hulu gives us errors once in a blue moon if we try to stream from multiple TVs, but for the most part, it hasn't been a problem. It's also not usually a problem with Netflix or Amazon Video.

But all this is a moot point if you don't have unlimited data. You might not end up saving.
What Makes Us Red Hat
Love how HN is turning into Reddit with all the downvotes lately. Raise a legit issue, lose 5 internet points. Downvotes are toxic.

It said I wasn't on Chrome... it should have said, "You're on a version of Chrome that doesn't support this..."

Telling me I wasn't on Chrome was a bug... or at best really poor UX.
Works just fine in Firefox minus some animations.
Are people really using models so big and complex that the parameter space couldn't fit into an on-die cache? A fairly simple 8MB cache can give you 1,000,000 doubles for your parameter space, and it would allow you to get rid of an entire DRAM interface. It's a serious question, as I've never done any real deep learning...but coming from a world where I once scoffed at a random forest model with 80 parameters, it just seems absurd.
In my experience, trusting five year old documentation is a huge risk in and of itself. Having been in the position you put forth, you can use the documentation as a road map of the developer or architect's intent at a certain point in the past, but you have to start reading code in case it was changed and the documentation was not updated.
I wonder why they didn't take the time to typeset it properly using, e.g., LaTeX. I'm hoping that the arXiv version will look more professional.
Well HBM requires integrating the memory into the chip, presumably they didn't have the manufacturing capability or didn't want the spend required on a first version.

No idea on GDDR5 vs DDR3, maybe they didn't like the latency of the first.
Would it matter anyway if it is all digital?
> I can't stand the heat ... of Apple's stuff

>I usually run my X250 with throttling turned on, and TPFanControl to keep the temps down so the keyboard stays nice and cool.

How come you are willing to look the other way (even going so far as to install third party software) when your thinkpad is overheating but not when its a macbook?
> This is all in the 'basic' level, which you can't disable.

Incorrect. Please stop spreading this misinformation.

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-co...
I've thought for years that all actors and artists need tip jars. Ones that go directly to them and no one else. It would be a nice way to support the artists you like, knowing it goes directly to them.
Latest T460S. My first non-Apple laptop in years. Super tiny, super fast and solid... ESC key. You know, luxuries like that.
Note the "think" in my statement. I have no evidence. I just can't fathom Microsoft actually thinking pre-installing Candy Crush on Windows 10 provides a net positive value to their customer, more than the company King Digital. With its psychological scammy IAP scheme. Or maybe Microsoft is just in on the IAP scam. Either way, its the first thing I removed when I installed Windows 10.