skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another potential source of friction I've wondered about regarding getting research workloads running on TPU2 is the heavy reliance of most of the popular DL frameworks on CUDA and CuDNN; I don't understand how one could port those libraries to a drastically different architecture such as this. Some DL frameworks have made overtures to OpenCL but it has not typically been a top priority [0].

Could this instead imply Google is working on its own library of low-level math primitives just for Tensorflow, and if so, how long would that take before it's competitive performance-wise? At any rate, having to support a different computing platform / API would be another blocker to general adoption.

[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22
Aspiring autocrat.
Indeed, I needed subtitles on my first few viewings of Trainspotting.
I think it's not so much the weight of the pilot but how requiring a pilot effects the upper bound of 'delivers per day'.

- Pilot can't reasonably fly more than 8-10hrs a day Need at least 3 pilots per aircraft for 24/7 delivery support.

- Pilot needs a salary, drastically increasing the OpEx of each drone (vs. "just maintenance and electricity")

- Ability to train & hire pilots limits total fleet size.

- Pilots require insurance, which is likely a nontrivial amount. (depending on regulatory environment, of course)

Imagine being able to build 1,000 drones in a factory. Can you as easily hire, train & pay 3,000 pilots? Probably not.
> >This has been true of so many Kickstarter projects, but has hit hard goods especially.

People with software backgrounds sometime struggle transitioning their skill set to hardware problems.
Often the hardware problems turn out harder than expected.

As someone with an EE/hardware background, though, I am deeply impressed at the efforts that succeed, sometimes surprisingly well.
Please define "serious jobs" for me, because I can think of plenty of jobs that require 40 hours a week, regardless of if they are "serious" or not.
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The ultimate goal of deep learning is to remove the need to transform input.

The traditional computer vision pipeline works like this: you preprocess the image, featurize it with features like SIFT, and then run an SVM classifier. However, this pipeline is totally beaten by end-to-end neural networks.

Same will hold true for other domains. As long as we've discovered the right architecture, aka. the family for f(x), learning still boils down to training your models.
Too bad I've never heard of them.
You could replace this whole article by saying "facebook is a private company and they have all your data, from posting and messaging as well as their cookies". Its just a bad idea at its very core. All these examples are trivial, who cares if they fake endorsements and track your location? Its like building a house out of sand and then people point out that a chunk fell off here or there. Its a house of sand, it was a retarded idea to live in there from the outset, of course chunks are falling off -- the whole thing will be in peices soon. Because facebook is an anxiety enducing and artificial experience, users will start leaving. Users who seem to need facebook in order to stay up to date with their friends, and who seem to have an interest in watching other peoples kids grow up (?) such as the one poster above me (and whos post will inevitably remain above mine) will stay -- but they will be the minority. Kids will stop signing up and at some point there will be a leak and the death of facebooks public image will finally be complete after starting years ago.
Get her bandwagon out of my bikeshed
I won't even use my model M and I have a personal office (that I usually leave the door open to). It's loud as hell. I'm skeptical nobody cared.

But typing on a model M is pure sex.
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Agree, great experiment. Thanks for sharing the point total.
The "work ethic BS" built the economy which is the reason you came to the US for a job.
He writes well, he's succeeded and failed at his own SaaS business, and he's generous with his advice.

For people considering moving from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur, his comments add value.

Plus he lives/lived in Japan, which - in the eyes of the true geeks on here - grants him bonus points ;)
Here's my theory: most people don't actually understand what having access to your data means. I learned this some years ago when I wrote a little tool that surveyed the people connected to my uni's computer lab (using ssh and who).

The whole project was just for fun, and one of the things I did was logging the names and times of everyone who started a session. I then told about this to some friends, who were like "cool!". But when I showed them the actual data (rows and rows of "this person was on this machine from this hour to this hour"), with real names, they freaked out. Showing them the data they didn't learn anything new, since I had already told them exactly what I was doing. But it wasn't until they saw with their own eyes the real names and times that they actually understood the implications.

And this wasn't your run of the mill facebook user, it was computer science students. So I can understand perfectly why people don't care about online privacy: people just don't get it by being told about it. They have to see it.

So show them their usage logs, and they will understand
I need large mouses to not get hand pain, and the sculpt mouse has been the biggest mouse that I've found that fit that criteria for me quite well. It's even bigger than the mx master.

I haven't found a larger traditional mouse yet.
He writes:

> Contractors are too free; they fear only the law. But employees have a reputation to protect. ...

What! Contractors definitely have a reputation to protect too! Good luck getting contract business if everyone knows you're likely to walk out on them mid-project. Word gets around.

Contractors are not necessarily cheaper. Employees are not bound to stay -- most employment contracts are "at will" in all states that allow it. There are lots of intangibles, such as institutional knowledge, personal reasons to stay or leave, likeability of the firm in question, compensation, etc.

The truth is you need to have some slack so you can handle demand peaks. You need to have management that can handle turnover. You need to be able to hire quickly. Making employees your "slaves" is not really an answer to any problem.
I've never understood why people assume that sort of investment is going to be going to the housing market in particular, especially when it goes along with complaints of absentee foreign landlords and unoccupied housing. Surely even if you're fleeing instability you still want to make the best investments you can, and refusing to rent property or investing in already overactive markets rather than somewhere else is just leaving money on the ground. I could definitely be wrong, but I suspect many people assuming otherwise have neither data nor theory to back that up.
Unity is cross-platform, I don't think it would send the right message. I think they can take the company public
> You say "I am sensitive to privacy and secrecy. I will fight for it every chance I get" but then contradict with "I willingly share my life on facebook and enjoy the content shared with me".

This is not a contradiction. Someone with privacy has the right to decide what they do and don't want to share publicly. Like you, I am concerned by how Facebook is used, and some of its societal implications, but this sort of extremist attitude helps nothing.

> Unfortunately for the average user (and even very advanced users) leaving Facebook altogether is the only option to maintaining secrecy of any kind. FB updates ToS far too often and nobody bothers to stay up to date with it.

This isn't true at all. While Facebook is somewhat sketchy about changing their privacy rules, if you don't want certain information made publicly available, you can just not put that information into Facebook (and yes, that includes Messenger). Any non-technical person can understand this.
The title is clickbait-- I read the article and it's not worth reading.
The reason Pascal's wager is bullshit is that it rests on two assumptions to convince non-believers:

1. Infinite badness of hell;

2. Infinitesimal possibility of religious truth.

Reasoning about climate change doesn't really involve multiplying infinity by zero. There is more evidence to back up a non-zero chance of catastrophe, and we don't have to rely on inifinite badness to make action worthwhile. Finite badness does the trick just fine.

Unlike Pascal's wager, the question of climate change action is rooted in knowable quantities. Unfortunately, a lot of these are still unknowns to a degree, and a lot of misinformation exists, making it difficult for non-experts to keep up.
Interesting -- I didn't know that enormity originally meant something very large _and_ bad or morally wrong -- but the GP's meaning is generally accepted today.
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Well, it's really just an extension of gossip, blame, scandal and shaming that has been around forever. There would need to be a major social change first. Otherwise, even the perfect tech solution would just force this bullshit to move somewhere else.
Its a well-known fact companies monitor and will answer/address issues brought via social media to avoid possible meltdown. Be it Twitter, Amazon or Newegg.

Have you seen any of the photos from Amazon clients of Anker while their unit blew up?? I had the same issue (thank God I was home because their adapter was behind wall and within seconds curtain caught fire. Had nobody be home I would be going back to the rubble). I emailed Anker photos and haven't heard from them for three months, until I decided to go back on Amazon and gave them 1-star review (I barely spend time reviewing anything). That finally got their attention.
There's also the bonus that if we switch to renewables before sucking every drop of chemical energy out of the earth's crust, the leftovers will be a nice gift to our great great grandchildren if we accidentally destroy civilization and they have to bootstrap it from scratch.
Depends on density. Bush pilots are cost effective vs roads in some areas, bush UAV could be one pilot cheaper. Much like mobile connectivity turned out to be cheaper than landlines in places with weak existing infrastructure.

An actual cargo cult would be able to maintain the necessary infrastructure on one end of the trip.

PS: cargo UAV cults might be how post-scarcity would look like if wealth keeps concentrating in a few high tech hotspots.
Second this, room emptying looks impressive, any way to talk with developer or any open source implementing similar thing?
I've seen the concept mentioned in writing from the 1800s, and you can probably see it even further back. I don't know if it's that modern ;)
HTML version here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/16-341

The page starts with the syllabus (a summary by the Reporter of Decisions), but in this case the opinion is not much longer than the syllabus.
Yes, but the UN projection takes that into account. Not to imply that any projection is perfect, but they are working with a lot of historical data.
> We can find them a new place to live just as slowly and just as easily.

See, for example, the current state of migration from Syria, Iraq, and Northern Africa. Slow and easy, right?
It's really nice for the small hobby projects I do. Small native executables is great.
Rclone banned from Amazon Drive for having the encrypted secrets in code
Reminds me of the Mulberry harbours from DDay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour
I agree that REST isn't a spec theoretically, but in my experience when you talk about building a Restful api you tend to be actually agreeing to use the HTTP verb spec, which is what I don't like at all.
I think he would love to be one in the same way he is probably in his companies. Thank God he is not very good at it.
Project Baseline Android from Verily (Alphabet/Google)
Thank you Joeyaiello for your reply.

I understand your reasoning. I like some of your proposals. For example I'm all for making it easier to sign scripts, for example. Yet I feel that the possible solutions that you mention ignore the fact that you can bypass this "security" mechanism can be bypassed with a simple BAT file.

Why do PowerShell scripts require more security than a BAT file or an executable? Are users really safer thanks to the ExecutionPolicy check? Or are they simply worse off because people will either use less powerful BAT files or completelly opaque executables? At least with a PowerShell script you are able to inspect the code if you are so inclined. By pushing people to use executables instead they are less likely to know what changes will be done to the system.

If the problem is admins accidentally double clicking on unsigned scripts, by all means show a confirmation dialog (if the script is not signed) when a non signed script is _first_ executed. Actually, do that for BAT files and perhaps even for executables as well. But don't do it (by default at least) when someone calls a script explicitly from a command line or from another script. IMHO that would really make us all safer and would make PowerShell a real replacement for BAT files.
This guy works at Slashdot by the way. Nothing worth stealing in their servers, methinks.
>In those countries, the literacy rate is around 95%. Imagine 5% of people around you are illiterate.

That's high! 95% literacy rate isn't really worth mentioning when many countries are in the 30-40% range

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_...
The good news is that almost all cheeses have not effect on blood glucose levels!
Which is good incentive to make some, money that is.
...he's not saying tech hiring is beyond criticism. He's saying this person's opinionated talk smacks of entitlement. Which it does when compared with the rest of the working world outside of the SF tech bubble.
> I guess facebook does make it easier to email things to family and friends - but it only does so with the user's consent - you have the option to make your friends list private.

An ex-boyfriend wouldn't know the name of his ex-girlfriend's parents? Wouldn't be able to recognize them in the profile photos?

> But your friend also seems to have made a poor decision in allowing someone who is a creep to take very personal photos and videos of herself which could cause enormous humiliation.

He's likely only a creep in hindsight. And many things you share with people have the potential to cause humiliation. Opening yourself up to others is dangerous - but necessary.
Correct. Not saying anything more than that. The BeamVM/OTP is a better fit for long-running high-concurrency fault-tollerant systems. That's what it was designed for.

I have not switched to Elixir/Phoenix for my other web development. I still use Django for that.
Off since, I don't remember--roughly 2011.

1. Did not delete my account, an attempt to guard against someone impersonating me there.

2. Deleted all content I had stored there. Obviously I don't believe FB actually deleted it, but I figured their soft delete is as good as it will get.

3. Asked all FB friends to kindly ignore my account, not to tag me or post pictures of me, and that if they saw activity from my account they can be assured it was not from me.

It did not bother me at all not being on Facebook, and still does not. There seem to be no drawbacks whatsoever. When I read about people feeling that their lives would be ruined and that they have no social life without FB, I kind of just shake my head.
Download your Facebook history.
This is kind of the idea of Fullfilment by Amazon (FBA). You send your stuff to Amazon in bulk, they keep it in their warehouse, and when you sell an item, tell them where to deliver it to. You can use it even if you don't sell on Amazon.
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yes, they have to be because they said "This is especially entertaining because they'll melt really poorly designed USB supplies :)"
It's also an incentive not to incorporate/operate low margin businesses in Texas.
Trust me, when your office mate is chomping down on watermelon seeds, no one cares about your Model M.
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Sure, but the timing is suspicious. The editors at The Guardian aren't above giving a Tory proposal a little push if it's in their interest. Besides, Labour is proposing essentially the same thing.
I sympathize with your goal, but you can't legally enforce journalistic ethics. And yes of course Fox is often non-factual, my point was one can be misleading with nothing but the truth and they demonstrate that constantly, stopping them from lying isn't going to stop them from misleading their audience.

The solution to bad speech isn't to ban it, it's just for others to put out better news. However, people don't seek out real news, they seek out confirmation of their existing beliefs so no amount of fair and accurate fact based reporting is going to change that, they'll still seek out whatever organization offers them confirmation of their biases whether it's called news or not. Fox is popular because it lies. The audience doesn't want real news; they want to believe what they believe and have it confirmed, nothing more.
I meant to provide a citation for the claim that Sun was in favor of copyleft. I'm basing this on the 2007-08-09 blog entry [8] by Rich Green, then Executive VP of Software at Sun [9], which uses the word 'copyleft' explicitly. Some choice quotes from [8]:

Throughout this journey, I've slept well at night knowing that Sun has done our utmost to balance the priorities of open source communities along with the responsibilities and obligations that we have with the myriad of enterprises, individual developers and consumers who have invested in the promise of "Write Once, Run Anywhere". The choice of the GPLv2 license was and is key to this balance, because it takes away the potential for a closed fork of the code, ensuring that we can all maintain compatibility. (...)

We knew when we chose the GPL and the free software model for Java technology that we couldn't satisfy everyone's desires. This is the case for the Apache Harmony Project at the Apache Software Foundation. The Harmony Project has applied for a license to use the JCK under the JCP's Scholarship Program for qualified not-for-profit organizations. Sun has offered Apache Harmony a license to use the JCK and the Java Compatible logo at no charge once their implementation passes the tests, and were even offering free support to help Apache run the JCK. But because the Apache code is not governed by the GPL, and does not require code sharing by any entity using or modifying Harmony, the terms of this license are the same terms under which Sun licenses the JCK to commercial entities that build their own independent implementations of the Java SE platform. As was made clear in their open letter to Sun, the ASF is not satisfied with these terms. (...)

For what it's worth, I completely understand why there is disagreement. There are fundamental principles and goals that separately define the GPL and Apache Software Licenses. Unlike the GPL, the Apache open source license does not require innovation to remain in the open. Java technology governed by the Apache license could be altered by any organization -- commercial or non-profit -- and rendered both incompatible and inaccessible to the community. The trust and value of Write Once Run Anywhere could not be upheld. (...)

We believe that copyleft is both unambiguous and instrumental in fulfilling goals of both communities and commerce. (...)

[8] http://web.archive.org/web/20080207222133/http://blogs.sun.c...
[9] http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3625901/Ric...
Maybe Gruber's comments about AMP's scrolling implementation were hypocritical (or naive, at least), but this isn't the biggest problem by far. Considering that Apple addresses what needs to be fixed in terms of how the web behaves on its browser, there's no reason for me to be unable to search for text on an AMP page or scroll back to the top on I tap the status bar on my phone.

I know, those are native platform affordances that the web doesn't need to care directly because iOS is not an open standard. But neither is AMP.
I guess it depends on where the "third world" stops being third world (beyond the original definition of "any nation that isn't aligned with either NATO or URSS"). If third world is used as "developing nations", not every country that would fall under that label is necessarily a failed state. Not all Latin American countries are Venezuela, and not every county in California is San Mateo. In LA and SF I've seen huge amount of people in homeless encampments, to the point where family from Latin America pointed it out, and where European family and friends were completely horrified.

I completely understand your point, and a rich person in the US is in a better situation than in other countries, but I wouldn't say that the poorest among the population US are _that_ much better than in other countries. My guess is that the people pushing for the view "parts of US == third world country" might be looking at the top of the list for those countries, while you and others that seem against this comparison are looking at either the average or lower half of countries considered third world.

I personally found it horrifying to see a Lamborghini waiting for the traffic light to change while a legless homeless veteran coughing up blood was on that intersection asking for food. Worst part of it though, is that once you live in that environment, very quickly it fades in the background and turns into "just the way things are". Poor people in this country have access to more goods than poor people in other countries, that's true, that doesn't mean that services are up to the task for them.
You still shouldn't blame the victim. The problem here is the perpetrator. He probably would have found some other way to embarrass his girfriend even if she hadn't allowed the pictures/videos.
If anything, what's alarming about this more than anything is that Facebook are now becoming the first responder. The concern is what happens when people start to trust that Facebook will do good in situations like this and then fail to do so for some reason or other.
The half-sunken SS Atlantus used to be quite visible off of Sunset Beach in Cape May, New Jersey. It's been steadily sinking over the years and not much is visible from shore anymore. Here's a view, probably from the sixties:

http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/atlantus/postcard-bre...
Same experience here. Great customer service and the updated USB C charger I got was fixed (wasn't sending data on the old version)