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The roundworm C. elegans has one of the simplest nervous systems of any organism, with its hermaphrodite type having only 302 neurons. Furthermore, the structural connectome of these neurons is fully worked out. There are fewer than one thousand cells in the whole body of a C. elegans worm, each with a unique identifier and comprehensive supporting literature because C. elegans is a model organism. Being a model organism, the genome is fully known, along with many well characterized mutants readily available, a comprehensive literature of behavioural studies, etc. With so few neurons and new calcium 2 photon microscopy techniques it should soon be possible to record the complete neural activity of a living organism. By manipulating the neurons through optogenetic techniques, combined with the above recording capacities the project is in an unprecedented position to be able to fully characterize the neural dynamics of an entire organism.
Someone went to prison for stealing $31 in candy bars [1]. At least he only got 2 years: he faced life in prison.

1: http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2016/07/candy_thief_an...
Your comment reminds me of the bit of the magician, who I believe was David Blaine, that puts a needle through his arm. No real "magic" involved there, he literally spent months impaling himself to build up the scar tissue necessary in order to stab himself in the hand and other appendages without bleeding. Even if you know the medical possibilities behind it and that something is physically possible doesn't make it any less impressive.
So do VMs and that was a "solved" problem years before containerization took off.
It's unlikely to be performance art, and if this isn't fraud it's gross negligence. Does anyone know of any British legislation that refers to the sale of these types of products?
I must be number 10 then. No connection to Google, just don't think hearsay is helpful/interesting.
Rewatching the films recently, the only explanation I've thought of for the machine's barmy plan is that they must be bound by the three laws or feel some kind of deep obligation to us, even after we made the entire world uninhabitable. Why else would they spend so much time growing us, feeding us, simulating for us, allowing the One(s) to save humanity repeatedly, and why else would they initially try to simulate paradise for us?
I'm glad the dupe check isn't better, as it is undeniable that reaching the front page here is about luck just as much as quality.

This story is just as interesting as when it was first submitted, yet this submission is way more popular.
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The method of which they produce the fetuses is never explained in the franchise, and considering they'd want to maintain genetic diversity it's probable that they simply harvest gametes from mature humans in the power plant and incubate an embryo.

There's also the whole "cycle" thing that's apparantley gone on for 6 iterations, allowing humans who reject the matrix to leave and periodically cull them was a solution to widespread rejection of the system that would have affected entire crops of humans. It's hard to do that if they don't have physical bodies to escape the system in the real world.
The idea with Kubernetes isn't necessarily that it can do resource allocation more carefully and more intelligently than a human ops person, but it can do so at a level of automation and speed that a human can't.

Pods die, Kubernetes spawns new ones. Server goes full, Kubernetes spawns new node. Server runs out of disk space, Kubernetes evicts nodes until everything is good again. Server goes down, Kubernetes shuffles all the pods over to a different node. And so on. It does this at a scale of hundreds or thousands of machines. The utility it brings also applies to small clusters. You don't remove ops, you just flatten it into Kubernetes' operational model.

Equally importantly, Kubernetes also brings a declarative deployment model. You have the same with Systemd, but at the node level. Kubernetes is a bit like Systemd at the cluster level; its "units" are pods declared in YAML/JSON files, but unlike Systemd they run on any node the cluster, and are subject to a resource allocation model that includes things like persistent storage (e.g. AWS EBS volumes). You don't get anything close to that with Systemd, which is much more analogous to Docker.

I haven't heard anyone ever claim that Docker brings reproducible builds -- why would anyone assume that? What Docker give you is reproducible deploys; build once, deploy many times from the exact same image. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?
> You get the benefits of a database, with the performance of RAM!

One of the benefits of modern RDBMS is that they make extremely sophisticated use of RAM, and all levels of fast to slow storage below that SSD / RAIDs / slow single spindle.
Time to wake up – Congress manipulated by fossil fuel dollars?
They should hire him back to get some of Uber's secrets because of his duplicity. That was the joke.
> Conservatism has always been about reinforcing the position of existing elites

The elites play both sides of the field. Why wouldn't they?
The idea is that we're entering the late stage capitalism phase of our civilization. Like, we went though antiquity and modernity and post modernity. There was a colonial period and a reconstruction. Pre and post ww2.

They're all hard to define and poorly scoped, but there is something to each of the ideas, or people wouldn't talk about them.

Anything I could say to define 'late capitalism' would detract from the point though, because any tech person can find a million nits to pick on any point made about even relatively precise subjects, and late capitalism refers to trends in something as diverse as global society.

Just try and think for yourself, "If we are living through such a thing as late era capitalism, what characteristics of our world are relevant to that label?"
"... Triodos is unusual in that it ... lends out less than the total of customer deposits entrusted to it, subverting the fractional reserve model."

What? That's pretty much the definition of fractional reserve banking. You accept $N of deposits from customers. You lend $0.9N. You don't have enough liquid assets (e.g. cash) to pay pack all depositors in the event of a bank run.
This article misses the fact that review can touch on design decisions that are likely to lead to higher costs in the future, anything from bugs, unreadability, support requests, etc. Most of these kinds of decisions aren't defined by "industry standard" in some document somewhere.
The criticism is only about the crypto, which is weird and historically unsafe (and not on by default).

Other than that it is a great app. Some of us just think the bar is e2e by default.
I always wondered how they benefit from this...

Balance sheet valuation of the property? Accepting a lower rent might require a write-down of the asset, perhaps even putting the real-estate investor under water if they're leveraged?
The JavaScript situation is grossly exaggerated. It's doing very well. It's just that the people who aren't productive are also the ones shouting the loudest on HN. Meanwhile, a lot of people are being very quiet getting tons of stuff done really efficiently. (Source: Me, very happy React developer who is so glad we're finally out of the terrible "wilderness years" of server templates and jQuery.)
I work at Google and had a proprietary side project approved despite explicitly stating that I might make money from it. It's not a billion dollar idea or anything, but they didn't automatically say no. Meanwhile a tiny open source project I wanted to keep maintaining got denied rather rudely. I don't understand the process, but it is possible to get an approval. However the fact that you are supposed to ask for an approval to live your own life in your free time does kind of suck the soul out of it.
However, these models are largely big black-boxes. There are a lot of things we don’t understand about them.

I'm getting kind of sick of this "deep learning is a black box" trope, because it's really not true anymore. Yes, it's a black box if you just use "some data and 20 lines of code using a basic deep learning API" as mentioned in the article. But if you spend some time understanding the architecture of networks and read the latest literature, it's pretty clear how they function, how they encode data, and how and why they learn what they do.

Because neural networks are so dramatically more effective than they used to be, in so many domains, it's true that we don't yet have a good understanding of optimal ways to build, train, and optimize networks. But that is exactly why there is so much excitement -- because there is a lot to discover, and a lot of progress that can be made quickly.

I agree with the author that fundamental physical and geometric approaches are still relevant and useful, and have been somewhat ignored recently, but the fact remains: If you and I as individuals want to maximize our personal impact, and capture as much value as we can while working on interesting problems, deep learning is an excellent field in which to do that.

It's kind of like we just discovered a nice vein of gold, and the silver miners are like "yeah, but we don't know much about that vein of gold and how long it will last." Which is true, but in the meantime, there's a lot of easy money to be made, and ultimately, both types of resources are important and synergistic.
Can consul create change log trails to keep the auditors happy? Some of us are working in environments that require more rigor than a pet project.

Not throwing stones, a serious question. Made a few decisions to favor log files and change control systems vs a web app that had ACL's but no real auditing or change control mechanisms.
>Famously, WhatsApp supported 900M users...

I am not an expert but I agree with you.
Follow up question: why is this not more common? why don't other companies emulate WhatsApp?
>If readability is important start penalizing sites with bad readability indexes.

That's relatively easy to do when you're Google and you develop both a browser and the most used search engine; not so much when you're Mozilla and have no apparent mean to apply pressure to websites.
I tested it with Visual Studio 2017 and it seems to work correctly there as well.
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Funny how we revere this guy, but if we replaced him with an anonymous programmer and changed it to working with out source control we'd probably be admonishing him for being a clueless idiot.

>considering the tools and the computing power we have now, but the complexity of software is also pacing at the same speed

I really don't think complexity has increased since the early 90's. How we interact with computers is fundamentally the same now as it was then, with multi-tasking probably being the last major improvement. A good, simple to use green screen application would be (almost) functionally identical to a good, simple to use web application.

Most of the additional complexity seems to be coming from either attempts to remove it or attempts to improve efficiency. I think they've been largely unsuccessful in their aims and now we just have complexity.
It's easy to detect and delete these accounts...just as easy as it is to create new ones!

It's a cat and mouse game...and sometimes it makes more sense to watch what the mouse is doing vs trying to catch it :)
How many houses have unisex bathrooms with stalls? I know it was popular on Ally McBeal, but how many of these exist? Or am I just sheltered and unworldly?
Private equity for a company like DE Shaw is pretty fun and fascinating.
I don't dislike Kubernetes, in fact im a (very minor) contributor and regular user and am a member of the federated kubernetes workgroup. A small group of microservices very happily lives on Kube in production.

But, for the sake of the argument:

> Pods die, Kubernetes spawns new ones.

AWS ASGs also solve for this, as does every other cloud provider at the infrastructure level. For applications, systemd and any init system can restart an application when it crashes...

> Server goes full, Kubernetes spawns new node.

I assuming you mean utilization - again, ASGs/CloudWatch solve for this as do every other cloud provider (if they didn't a few minutes worth of Sensu plugins and good-to-go).

> Server runs out of disk space, Kubernetes evicts nodes until everything is good again

Right but this can and has lead to disaster. I got paged for bad response time and found out the issue was that containers were being evicted and pods were going critical because _all_ hosts were filling up on diskspace and there were no healthy nodes on which to put pods. This due to one bad service writing out tons and tons of log data). Had that been dedicated, I would have just gotten paged for one full disk and fixed the problem when it showed up instead of waiting for a bigger issue. This is super fixable in Kube (and was - that service now has its own volume and still lives in kube) - but my point is that it's a problem for everyone.

> Server goes down, Kubernetes shuffles all the pods over to a different node.

This effects response time of user facing applications as new 1GiB+ containers are shuffled around (I know, thats an unfair example). ASGs and Cloudwatch solve for this in a saner / safer way.

As for the reproducible builds, it was in response to the article which says:

> The ‘repeatable builds’ argument is the most interesting to me, in part because this is the same promise that java made in the 90s (write once run anywhere).

You may be correct that Docker doesn't promise this explicitly, but it is a big misconception. Additionally, `tar` solves for "reproducible deploys"...

I'm not an AWS employee, just figured I'd use a common cloud as an example.
As someone working on what amounts to fairly trivial applications in the enterprise, it's amazing to see engineering efforts like this take place over nearly 20 years of in-flight time.
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THANK YOU Humanism NEVER meant Atheist anything till just a few decades ago. Stop destroying the meaning of a word that goes back centuries just because you don't want to use the word Atheist. Thank you
it's not too different from what Facebook does.
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I believe that this takes us to a dark place. I fear that social currency is going to be the end of humanity. The price of verifying that every member is an actual human comes as a great cost to society. Social media should be fun and goofy, but if this continues, it is going to double as a passport soon (it almost already does)

Then you will be no one if you do not have a Facebook account.
How could you take the time to complain about this article while there are children starving in Yemen?

Being given the choice to read someone's thoughts on improving people's lives isn't exactly oppressing you.
A similar thing for NSW: $25k without revenue or up to $100k with revenue.

https://www.jobsfornsw.com.au/how-we-help/start-ups

I haven't looked at other states, but the Australian states are competitive enough that what one does the others often follow.

Edit: Victoria: https://launchvic.org/funding-guidelines
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Should I be able to sell you a car, have you pay for a car, have you come to collect the car and then tell you there's no car?
I think you're kind of missing the author's point.

> My feeling is that the "perfect" abstraction of reality to geometry is actually a very high order function that we don't fully understand.

You don't need a perfect abstraction of reality, though. All you need to do is get close enough to catch up with humans or outperform them and you've solved most of the hard problems in computer vision. Fortunately--at human scales, which are the only ones you need to care about for computer vision, reality behaves closely enough to a pure Euclidean space that you're fine. :)

The author's primary argument seems slightly more nuanced, too, than just "It'd be nice if we could use old techniques".

Basically, they're claiming that if you can build geometric understanding into the ML model, you will get significantly better results that just naively plugging and chugging away with raw data. That's an empirical claim that can be validated by researchers--either it will give a significantly improved performance on well defined problems (stereo vision, etc.) or it won't. Vision is one of the research areas that have developed pretty good benchmarks over the years. :)
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Terraform is great, but requires N number of definitions for each DNS record. (where N is the number of DNS providers).

I believe OctoDNS abstracts multiple providers so you just define a single DNS record.
If that will be the case I take a USB stick or preload my device with what I'll need
The last example on this page https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/decorators.html
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This is more meant to be an incentive for people to bring (back) an already successful venture to QLD, not a way to get seed money.
If it does this for multiple authors, then it would be invaluable for cases where different composers are handling different aspects (such as if one composer is focusing on percussion and another is focusing on wind instruments, as is sometimes the case when composing music for marching groups).
Even with your proposed checks there remains a high probability to just get silent application data corruption, not crashes.

Regarding faulty components, that is one part of ECC's job, but the other part is correcting the regular bit flips that happen with nominally operating DRAM.

Flagging faulty components is more useful than you propose. There are not that many places where this corruption can occur, so being able to rule out RAM is very useful. The example you used, CPU caches, is actually already covered by ECC in most CPUs, including reasonably recent x86/amd64.

The tradeoff would be more worthy of thought if ECC was much more expensive
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I can't imagine having the patience to wait 2 years(!!) to upload everything. It took about 24 hours to backup my internal 750 GB drive to Backblaze... At that point I'd just build my own system that uploaded to Glacier or something.
A meta-comment on this: had this been a bug in VC people here would shit on Microsoft and their non-compliance to standards, not caring and so on and so on. But since it's in GCC, people are discussing a language feature.
When you throw and exception, C++ compilers add RTTI for those classes even when RTTI is separately disabled. You cannot call dynamic_cast and type_id but the generated code is the same.

I don't really see this as much of an issue given you have to have this RTTI to catch the exception properly.
UNIX like is not the same as being UNIX.

UNIX is married with C by design, just how browsers are with JavaScript.

Actually you are right in one thing, if Redox offers POSIX support then it needs to sandbox them.
I've really been enjoying it also, we're so far past the expected lifespan of this mission every new picture and reading is a gift; well done to all involved! We get things right sometimes! The software onboard remains a bit of a black box though; I'd really love to know the software architecture of these things...

I'm not too up on the capabilities of Cassini, but considering how long it's been in action would I be right to guess we're not going to get any kind of 'steaming video' of the final dive? Some pics will get picked up before it meets its end in saturn's atmosphere would be great anyway!

I'm hoping we can find enough out with Cassini's swan song to get interest up enough to fund lander missions to Europa and Titan (if we can work out how to totally sterilize things, right?) but I don't think anything is on the cards currently..

Wishlist stuff: I really love the pics; but having HD video streams from twhat he next gen of craft will be would be so amazing, I really hope we get there someday...

I'm very much looking forwards to the James Webb scope when it gets launched too!

Edit: You can see some pics here [0] and one of my favourites [1].

[0] : https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/raw-images/
[1] : https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGF...
My apprehension was that the computer vision community has been suffering some serious cognitive dissonance lately because here they spent all these years mapping problems to feature spaces of manageable dimensionality, backed by theory saying that proper assumptions must be made to reduce the search space; and then comes these deep nets, hardly tailored to the problems, and out-performs algorithms with decade old history of fine-tuning.

Despite this, I don't think anyone disputes the potential of a good set of assumptions. Instead I think what deep learning has thought us is that we should reconsider what these assumptions should be. While geometry might well be the first kind of language a toddler learns to think in, this should probably not be confused with the rigorous geometry of Euclid. Quite possibly we have some spatial relationships such as the affine transformations hard-coded in our brain at birth, but this does not mean, for instance, that one is therefore necessarily ever able to to draw a house in correct perspective.
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This is a puff piece designed to puff up Telegram. If you look at, say, Instagram it is growing rapidly. Specifically to Facebook, the issue is 3 pronged:

- Disassociated Graph. The truth is the friends you had in high school and your family are all great but it is highly likely you don't share a lot of things in common with them. For example, your love for kayaking and the outdoors might resonate with no one on your graph. Instagram, and other networks like it, you build graphs based on interest. If your Instagram account is about the outdoors, it is highly likely everyone else will be outdoors people as well. That's more rewarding.

- Bad Content. Graph aside, the content is terrible. The feed is full with click-bait articles, and fake news. You actually feed bad after spending any time on Facebook because you know it is was a waste.

- Ads. A good chunk of your feed now is full of ads. Terrible ads. Instagram, for example, is a relatively clean interface.

I would say Facebook is clearly on the decline based on the above but to say all networks are on the decline is false. Instagram has proven otherwise and there will be other networks, in the same Instagram vein, that will grow quickly as well.

Lastly, all of these networks and messengers have one glaring flaw. They isolate you. President Obama touched upon this a week ago. They do little to connect you with your surroundings and I would hardly call any of them "social networks." They don't connect you to your neighborhood, your city, and the places you frequent the most. It is pretty shocking, but most Americans now only, on average, have about 2.5 friends they see regularly in real-life and most people don't even know who their neighbors are. It's sad.
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Funny they went for the white man / asian woman pairing in the ad. I thought that trope was kind of offensive?
that's closer than some people
Hong Kong has a monumental waste problem
Then you shouldn't use Tinder. Okcupid was trying to do smart matching between people but apparently everyone is lazy nowadays and prefers swiping on photos rather than reading.
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