skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A single V100 board is vastly smaller than a TPU module with 4 TPU chips.

The closest comparison in terms of size would be 1 Volta DGX-1 (8x V100s) compared to 2 TPU modules (8x TPU2 chips).

Volta DGX-1: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...

TPU Module:
https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...

And for completeness, this is the size of a single V100:
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34446...

You can see that 8x V100s are still more computationally dense than 8x TPU2 chips. Density is a very important factor in datacenter design.
I would argue it's an important but not the most important thing for VR/AR given what I've seen from consumer feedback. The most important based on real world talking with consumers is a tossup between FOV and latency.
> You can plant crops much closer to each others using an hexagonal pattern.

A traditional seed drill, for crops that can be suitably planted with one, plants rows 7.5 inches apart and spacing within the row is even closer. There is really no room for a human to comfortably exist within that space without tramping the crop. I'm not sure I understand how a hexagonal pattern opens up space for a person in that circumstance without reducing the growth area?

> And s sprayer only spray, it does not harvest anything.

For many crops you're not concerned about, even desire, wiping out the entire plant.

> They actually make UAV sprayer, though...

Certainly. Crop dusting has been a thing for as long as flying has been a viable human achievement. Although with larger and larger machines on the ground able to have a smaller and smaller footprint relative to the working area (and precision technology ensuring that the machine obeys an exact footprint), the practice seems to be going out of favour.
He was initially excited about Clojure, as a Lisp enthusiast, but as I recall he had a clash with the community about the direction of the language.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/JiK-WLFT65M/spBka_gs...
I think that the government actually is making a profit at this point
The beauty of the Nexus 5 is virtually everything is replaceable and an easy DIY project. Sure, you may not be able to get every part OEM, but I've extended the life of mine several times now (including replacing the entire rear housing) as it's still the best phone I've ever owned.
This is exactly key. In GMP pharmaceutical manufacturing, you have to spell EVERYTHING out - chemical compound, the manufacturer, the batch. I'm quite surprised that the nuclear industry doesn't follow the same level of rigor - there ought to have been some sort of SOP document for which sorbents to mix with radioactive nitrates.
That's the age old question - what if Facebook copies what you did, in a week? Like they did with Twitter or Snapchat?

By the time they copy you, you're already big. I don't really see the problem as long as the tech companies don't hoard the information and spread the knowledge - which they are doing with initiatives like OpenAI and many more.

The big question is, what happens when they invent AI that builds its own programs and exponentially accelerates? Who needs startups at all then?
Personally, I would gift them a basic Chromebook. Technical support for relatives is a bottomless pit otherwise. :P
A single V100 board is vastly smaller than a TPU module with 4 TPU chips.

The closest comparison in terms of size would be 1 Volta DGX-1 (8x V100s) compared to 2 TPU modules (8x TPU2 chips).

Volta DGX-1: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...

TPU Module: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...

And for completeness, this is the size of a single V100:
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34446...

You can see that 8x V100s are still more computationally dense than 8x TPU2 chips. Density is a very important factor in datacenter design.
Brazil political crisis deepens as President Temer taped arranging bribe
Sure, I suppose we could tax rental income higher, and incentivize rational decisions to sell investment property.
This means that I can host my own Firebase-built web application myself? It'll be just as fast as if it ran on Google's infrastructure (assuming machines are the same)?

Is this kind of an insinuation that Google plans to drop Firebase soon and leave it to the open source community to take care of? What are Firebase's revenues like?
Sure, but I'm not asking about the right to use it. I'm in a technical community where maybe someone can explain me why I should try it instead of going on with my company successful utilization of GitLab. I believe it must have some advantages and I'd like to know about them.
So, the industry will move back because collapsed economy has driven down costs?

I think more likely is that more complex manufacturing will come in as infrastructure and skill set is more in place. Also improved economy leads to better education, supporting service industry.

Clothing industry may have left India and China, but both are better off now.
Congrats on another great release, Nim team.
Letting healthcare become a truly free market literally means having people die on the streets from preventable diseases if they can't afford to treat them.

Most civilized nations have decided that they don't want that kind of thing a long time ago.
I did this beta program for Android N back in the day but had to revert because, uh, Pokemon Go didn't work on it. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm still playing.... but can anyone confirm whether Pokemon Go works for them on the Android O beta?
The problem with Quantopian, many current robo-advisors (including some with large valuations) and other market-related fintechs is that by and large they don't seem to have anyone who has had real success actually trading automated quantitative strategies at a serious hedge fund or tier-1 proprietary trading group on their founding teams. I've seen successful VCs, well-known academics, market gurus, people with a background in some aspect of running a mutual fund and all manner of other people who seem like they should be good, but nobody with an actual track record. I've seen people who worked on technology at hedge funds but the technology group at a hedge fund builds what amounts to plumbing like clearing, reporting etc, not the actual trading technology, certainly nothing that can actually impact PNL.

Jonathan Larkin at Quantopian comes closest to what is needed and since he joined Quantopian has certainly had good success, but even his experience was more along the lines of recruiting and risk-managing portfolio managers, not actually running a large book. He certainly helps Quantopian but Quantopian is coming from a place where when it was founded, I personally had to explain what selection bias meant to John Fawcett and despite Jonathan Larkin being there, they still seem to be making some pretty basic mistakes in how the platform is setup.

Spending a few years working on a tier-1 automated trading desk is absolutely essential because, what is deployed at those firms (and what you are competing with) is years if not decades ahead of academia and the rest of the industry and you learn more in a week of working on a successful trading desk (which only happens if you demonstrate a lot of not just academic aptitude), with people sharing knowledge available nowhere else than in a decade in academia or anywhere else, even other groups at the same firm, potentially sitting 10 feet away from the trading group. I'm not suggesting people steal IP or anything like that but you do have to have sone sense of what the state-of-the-art actually is if you are going to claim to have developed something state of the art.

I suspect it's going to end up like the search space, where the space will be taken over by the second generation of firms that nobody has heard of who decide to do things differently from how investment management is currently run offline taking advantage of their knowledge of how mutual funds including index funds are picked off by sophisticated traders.

Interestingly, Igor Tulchinsky at Worldquant and his team who are a tier-1 trading shop have basically been running a very successful version of what Quantopian hopes to become without a lot of hoopla or publicity for years, decades if you include the time they were doing this as an independent team at Millenium.
Is that on Pixel, or on Nexus?

(there are some claims that there's a difference for that particular option)
Have you seen Venezuela lately?

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of money to steal.

The end result of your logic is basic income. Which is, no matter how useless you are, you still get food and shelter. Food and shelter is not a human right.
Nice. I still prefer the Partitas for solo violin...
Thanks +1, didn't know that.
I would not have expected to find my same definition so common as to be the top comment.
It's exceedingly unlikely that a State insider would talk to TruePundit, which was virtually unknown before this story, instead of WaPo, or Fox News if they really had an axe to grind.

The WSJ has a record of having anonymous sources whose stories pan out. TruePundit not so much.
Another discussion with more comments (that didn't use the article title): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14363424
The parent comment posted in that thread, so I assume he has read it. While I read parts of the comment thread earlier when if first came up, I searched some key phrases and couldn't really find specifics other than the SO link you already mentioned. There was a lot of discontent and general ramblings about Google support being terrible, but I saw more people praising the paid support options and support in general for paid products than giving concrete examples of being burned.
Ah, but I'm not saying that Ivy/Oxbridge grads make better employees all else being equal (in particular salary). I'm specifically saying that on a financial/job hunting basis, it makes more sense to pick a prestigious university and "useless" degree than a "useful" degree at a non-prestigious university, in aggregate.

When you are on the other side, other variables come into play. For example, elite grads might be generally overvalued and for the same money you can get a much better community college drop out (who is on the tail end of his own talent distribution), because the market undervalues his skills. This is something that comes up a lot in the Valley and the last team I've personally hired was about half no-degree and half not-famous-degree, so you can guess my position (we hired based on technical capability and more or less ignored CVs).

Whether or not I agree with you on Goldman and McKinsey's intrinsic value adding capability, I have observed that people doing a stint at either are basically guaranteed nice employment for life, fast track to the best management jobs, get a premium on hiring, and so on. Which is what the OP was concerned with.
So the standard library doesn't rely on GC semantics anywhere?

As I recall, that's the main problem with D: the standard library basically requires GC. Your code might not require it, but the library is always there. On top of that, it's just too easy to accidentally involve GC by using reference types.
$30-40k a year

Put another way, distilled to an abstraction, that's 30 students assembling in a room, to be lectured by one person, for maybe 6 or 9 hours, 4 or 5 days a week, for two 15 week semesters, at that price. [0]

So one full classroom is possibly a million dollars for 30 weeks of talking, plus textbooks, times the count of the course catalog and all scheduled blocks for the entire school.

Quite the budget, to share what is hardly the undivided attention of a supposedly nurturing instructor.

One could afford to be waited on hand and foot, for four (50 week-long, 40 hour/week) years, for the same price. I'd almost wonder if a private apprenticeship is more valuable, but then again, how to broker selection for who takes you on? Or do internships prove that this is all so much education theater after all?

And this says nothing about how little adjunct professors make (very often less than $30-40k a year), which further compounds any negative interpretation for these kinds of arrangements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_credit
But why? Animals eat animals, and death is just part of life. Should humans really need to transcend what has been part of our nature for so long because we developed empathy for animals or should we stay close to what we have been all this time. I think that's very much open for arguing. Should we start preventing cats from eating birds? Should we replace every animals diet with vegetarian alternatives?
Do you have concrete examples of how it's advertised, then? You saying "it's common" and implying somehow kids all know about it in such a way that causes them to have a connection is a very bold claim and generally would require proof to back up.

As a kid growing up in Yaletown, I had never heard of pods of orcas coming that close, nor that it was possible to watch them. And I grew up in Yaletown for close to 15 years.
Worksnaps integration with Basecamp
The last paragraph makes the whole article seem like an advertisement:

"That made last month feel like an opportune time for Caitlin Farrell, 34, and her husband to buy their first home, a 1,500-square-foot, two-bedroom house in Sacramento. Ms. Farrell, who works as an education policy researcher, got her home loan from SoFi, a start-up online lender that moved into the mortgage market last year."
Oh man, totally missed that part. For some reason I thought it was preferable to keep original title. /concede
Wait, Excel had this built in since 2013!

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-AutoFill-and-Fl...
Julia 0.6.0-rc2 new language features
I have no idea what point you're trying to make with that tidbit.

The US demonstrably does not have the "large majority" of universities as was claimed.
I'm sure there are some founders who make that mistake, this discussion being one example, but I didn't make that mistake, and the startups I've advised (all first-time founders) didn't make that mistake, you basically won't find any "guide to founding your first startup" on the Internet advocating that mistake. I have a hard time believing that it's common.

I see from your profile that you're a startup attorney, so you probably have seen a LOT more deals than I have, but to a certain extent you probably remember the messed up ones more than the ones that used boilerplate documents.
No middle class malaysian citizens.
And then in the very next sentence he says “Water could be the most abundant source of hydrogen if one could separate the hydrogen from its strong bond with oxygen in the water by using a catalyst.”

"Sensationalism and poor science communication" is not the half of it. He's lying outright.
FYI, it's not adjusted for inflation so in real terms we're likely under the peak.

The article talks a lot about debt with no mention of the income supporting it, which is a glaring oversight for any kind of financial analysis. All I can find quickly are median real numbers through 2015. It's not pretty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
The parent comment literally said arguably, as in, can be argued and is based on personal choice.

And, although I'm not the commenter, it doesn't read anywhere near it trying to imply Kryptonite is a replacement for Yubikey. They were replying to someone comparing it to the 2FA PAM module, and explaining it's more like a smartcard or Yubikey in that it stores the key, rather than add a second verification outside the key.
I'm not affiliated with them, but you think seriously about Django, you should take a look at the book https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django...

I still have the 1.5 edition, but it helped me a lot. I'm think about upgrading. Do you recommend?
Ask HN: Firbase Alternatives at scale?
What firebase alternatives (eg roll your own AWS soln) are running in production at scale?

(ie real time 1 to many json pub sub)
Let me apologize in advance for neglecting to sugarcoat this feedback:

This would benefit in a major way from a pass by a designer / UX person. The first thing I noticed (and the reason that I won't even try using it) is that it's significantly uglier than my terminal. GitHub has set the bar for Git web UX at "pleasant enough to look at all day" and this falls way short of that. I struggle, probably more than average, with spacing and layout; but I am one dev and they are the Apache Foundation.

It's also hella slow: it is to GitLab as GitLab is to GitHub.
Opportunity.
Extension functions as mentioned are extremely useful. There's just some functionality you need on different types of Android classes (especially views, activites, and fragments) very often but it really isn't worth it to subclass it since not all views or activites need all of the functionality.

The improvement to findViewById was met with tepid applause today because its hardly used anymore due to there being a lot of better options. Kotlin's Android Extensions for the most part has completely eliminated one of big use cases I had for the data binding library, which was refactoring a view where an id and/or the type of view changes and also not needing to constantly have the xml open to directly compare which ID I need to use. I assume its also true for people using a tool like Butterknife. The autocomplete in the IDE could use a little help but its still great.

Anko makes the awfulness of dealing with SQLite on Android almost bearable, although I've only briefly experimented with it. Creating views in code also seems like it is a much more pleasant experience with Anko, although I also have only briefly experimented with it. My day job had me creating fairly complicated views where a preview was absolutely needed, but a lot of apps don't have that complicated a view hierarchy and would probably benefit.

This is just off the top of my head without even looking through the codebase or at my experiments.

Edit: Forgot to mention being able to write an async task like

async() {
val thing = ...
uiThread {
method(thing)
}
}

Is just lovely
Wait, so does this mean Trump did a good thing when he fired Comey?
I keep being unsure if people say "can do" or "can't do". They're mostly pronounced the same, so you have to infer from tone and body language.

It hasn't caused any major problem for me yet, but I expect that day will come.
I can't answer this question, but just to put it in context, the United Nation'a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, put together after World War II, is a truly beautiful document. I had never read it or really knew anything about it, but if you read through it, it's an absolutely inspiring vision of humanity and of a world that one day might exist. It's wording is concise, clear, and beautiful.

Here's the foreword from the most recent published copy:

"The Universal Declaration promises to all the economic, social, political, cultural and civic rights that underpin a life free from want and fear. They are not a reward for good behaviour. They are not country-specific, or particular to a certain era or social group. They are the inalienable entitlements of all people, at all times, and in all places — people of every colour, from every race and ethnic group; whether or not they are disabled; citizens or migrants; no matter their sex, their class, their caste, their creed, their age or sexual orientation."

And here is the original document:

"Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."

Sorry not to hijack this thread and I know you technically said Bill of Rights, which is also very inspiring, but I feel like less well known in the US."
Please don't use code blocks like this. They force horizontal scrolling for long lines which makes your list of points very difficult to read (if not impossible on mobile).
"Victim blaming" is a phrase designed to shut down discussion. Why are victim's actions always beyond criticism? In this case, the victim fully documented his opsec mistakes, which is often very difficult to admit to, and likely learned from them. And I think we're all better off having read his account of what he did right and what went wrong!
Bless you for defining "AFGAM" - search engines weren't helping, and I was trying to put things like ML and AI in for context.
Is this Slate article incorrect: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/dispatches_from_the_w... ?
The caloric content of food isn't arbitrary, it's measured by a process that can be independently performed by anyone with the right equipment and get the same result. There's no similar process for deciding if artistic content is appropriate.
I asked this question on reddit a few days ago!

My basis was I wanted something like Charles Petzold's "Code" from 1995 which is the BEST way to understand computers.

The recommended book by far was..."Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers".

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/673yxa/best_book_for_...
There is no reason Mac/Linux apps should need root to install unless they are installing something like a kernel module.

I have ~/Applications and ~/Library which is where anything I install should go.
So in your opinion having accurate visual recognition/identification is the final human technology? We can stop now?
Google to launch a jobs search engine in the US
Is there a better way to create a bullet list on HN? I googled and found this. Still time to edit.
It's not particularly hard to add malware to an already compiled binary, without access to the source code, is it?
Bach's entire oeuvre is incredible. I'm curious to know what this particular work has to do with HN though?
What do you think about Make School in comparison to Lambda University? They seem to based around the same concept of paying the fee for training through salary repatriation.
Yes and no. Many of the MOOCs provided by the likes of MIT, Stanford, Berkley, etc, are not watered down. For lesser known providers the quality of content is less certain.

I think a standard in terms of grading would be a huge win.
In this case the attacker actually guessed the names of the git repos based on knowlege that the owner of the attacked computer was a Panic employee. The attacker guessed the repo names was Panic software names. So it was a very manual process indeed
Eternalblue exploit for Windows 8/2012
Older spinning rust may not be much faster than 35 MB a sec sustained
It is a critical review.
More context here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466731

With replies directly from Rich Hickey regarding Steve Yegge's "yes language".

Steve is certainly no stranger to Clojure.

Edit: also of interest in the discussion, Clojure is now #50 on TIOBE's top 50 list of languages. Notably OCAML didn't break #50 (or Common Lisp). I don't put much value in those lists personally but it does have economic value.
I bought my Nexus 5 in 2013. It's still running pretty smoothly. Every time I see an app render using the N5 frame, I chuckle. It just reiterates my thought that I made a good choice when I bought my phone, and I like that feeling.
Apple had a version of this problem (45/45/10).

After much less time than 18 months, Cofounder Ron Wayne cashed out his 10% of Apple for $800. Are you at peace following Ron's path?

One other point is the notion that you're in the process of raising $500k. I, like many of us, have been in the process of raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for many years, decades even. Most years, there was definitely process but the only result was a donut between the $ and the k.

We don't know your finer details, but there's a good chance the entirety of the firm is valued at zero and so is your sunk cost of time. So it's not worth stressing over what percent of zero you manage to walk away with. Keep in the loop, slack off if you must, and pick a better moment (better than immediately before your hard work pays off) to walk away.