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Do games actually load any faster? I went from a Samsung SSD(I think the 850 pro) to an Intel nvme ssd, and load times in games didn't seem much faster. I definitely notice it when booting up VS though.
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ThreadRipper has 2 CPUs in its MCM, and Epyc has 4.
You seem to have it backwards. The article is about how long-awaited changes to India's broken court system has produced economic growth and prosperity, and reduced the burden of stagnant, failed companies.

This is almost an ad for investing in India.
Besides the obvious battery life and water-resistant depth, what is the functional difference between that $1400 watch and the $20 Casio I just bought for my girlfriend?
Why is not easy to get things done?
No, the end state is clear. There is no reason to believe that speech synthesis will not terminate in speech indistinguishable from human speech, and once it reaches there, it's game over for this approach. There is an attainable end goal.

Part of the problem you may have realizing that is that human speech is not a point in the speech space; it's a range. If you are operating in the real world, that range is further expanded by the real-world noise you will encounter.

The fact that the synthesizers have access to the heuristics being used by the detectors merely accelerates an already inevitable process. We have plenty of other reasons to want great speech synthesis.

I'm not "extrapolating" from anything. The direct analysis is easy and obvious.
I agree with you, but also your comment made me think about the absurdity of how most people perceive banking. I.e. "if a bank does it to be profitable, it's bad; but if somebody else does it, it's OK".
They should do the same for software companies that produce software for the governments, with the requirement to open source the software.
This isn't a very convincing argument, being devoid of any data. To wit there are:

* 167,740 taxi drivers and chauffeurs

* 834,780 light or delivery service truck drivers

* 1,550,930 heaver and tractor trailer trucker drivers

* 606,990 automotive mechanics

That's 3.16 million people who would be affected. I couldn't even get a count of the number of auto dealerships, much less the number of auto sales people. My assumption is once self-driving cars come to pass a large number of people are going to stop owning cars and simply hail a self-driving car when needed. I'm also assuming self-driving cars are going to be all-electric cars and therefore have a 1,000,000 mile life expectancy with far fewer visits to the mechanic due to its simpler design and far fewer parts. Since I believe people will largely stop owning their own cars then cars will be purchased in fleets so there won't be as much need for auto dealerships. Finally, this isn't even taking into consideration that with less car ownership comes decreased demand for auto insurance and its agents. Not to mention claims adjustors, auto body workers, car washes, auto parts retailers, etc., etc., etc.

Mark Andreessen addresses none of this. Just a bunch of hot air and hand-waving.

Edit: data obtained from Wolfram Alpha
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This article and a similar one about India are on the HN front page right now. In addition to simply taking advantage of people in countries with political problems, there is also probably a trend of wanting to divest some investments to alternatives out of the USA, England, etc., to smaller countries with huge natural assets. I don't think it will happen in the short or medium term future in the USA, but someday our economic system will pop due to the debt of government and individuals.

I took my assets out of the US stock market in 2007 and avoided some pain, and a few years later when I wanted to start investing again, I diversified a bit more to international funds. I understand the desire to do that now also.
web looks fine but repository are not so responsive
Intel lowered their prices with the release of the 18 core for 2000$. Before AMD became competitive again you had to pay 1700$ for only 10 cores or go for a 3000$ or 4000$ 18 core Xeon.

EDIT - of course there are also Xeons between 10 and 18 cores, but it should show that you had to pay much more to get 18 cores, or only slightly less for much less cores.
Interesting, was watching the video on the new MS Surface Laptop at the end, I saw 4 gig of Ram and shut down the page...
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>32 cores
>128 PCIe lanes

Well shit... what am I going to do with this pair of useless Xeon E5s I just bought?
Very true.

I just think there should be an intent argument specifiable to the library to indicate that the duration in question refers to an event that has happened in the past.

In such a scenario, the library should mark the duration as happening "just now" and possibly flag a warning or raise an exception.

The reason I say this is that, humanly speaking, "Your message was sent 23 seconds from now" is amusing at best to developers who know what's happening (negative time delta) and linguistically confusing to general users ("was sent" vs "from now").
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Yes, of course you can. But if you are part of that system, then you can't Godelize it. In order to Godelize a system, not only does the system need to be circumscribed, but the thing doing the Godelizing has to be outside of the boundaries of the circumscription.

Let's recall the original argument:

"a mechanist formulates a particular mechanistic thesis by claiming, for example, that the human mind is a Turing machine with a given formal specification S. Lucas then refutes this thesis by producing S’s Gödel sentence, which we can see is true, but the Turing machine cannot. Then, a mechanist puts forth a different thesis by claiming, for example, that the human mind is a Turing machine with formal specification S’. But then Lucas produces the Gödel sentence for S’, and so on, until, presumably, the mechanist simply gives up."

When you are presented with S there are two possibilities: either S includes you, or it doesn't. If S includes you, then you can't Godelize it. If S doesn't include you, then you might be able to Godelize it, but if you present your result to the thing that S is supposed to be a model of -- indeed as soon as you interact with that thing in any way -- then S is no longer an accurate model of that system because now it is interacting with something that, by assumption, was not part of the model.
It is a difficult situation, but then again, revolutions are tough.

I'm not sure about this debt package, but I'm betting this was issued by the Venezuelan government to fund some real assets, like oil rigs or whatever. If that's the case, then the capital is still there, one just must make sure it generates profits.

A worse situation would be if the gov't loaned out the money, put it in suitcases and ef'ed off.
Your comment reflects what I heard last week from a friend. He's a PE (Professional Engineer) working with a large power utility company, and his company uses software that, in his words, "really sucks".

He was telling me this because he got a job offer from a startup, where they wanted him to be the subject matter expert for an application they were developing for power utilities.

It's a good offer, and he's tempted, but he's not sure if he can fit into the software/startup culture. In addition, he felt that the developers were looking to use him like a reference book - he got the impression that the founders saw software as the answer to everything, and that they didn't see power engineering as a particularly hard domain. There was (in his words) a distinct whiff of "developers are the cool guys".

This turned him off somewhat. So he's not sure if he'll take the offer, and I'd say he's leaning no.

Just an anecdote to illustrate the clash of cultures.
Isn't the main problem with ARM the lack of a standard hardware architecture that supports of-the-shelf pc components?

Every motherboard has it's own size, it's own closed bios supporting only some kinds of memory (if at all, due to on die memory of most soc), which is fine for embedded use but leaves a lot to be desired if you try to use it as a "desktop pc" replacement.
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Interesting. The Afroasiatic languages are attested from long enough ago that the date of their divergence can be estimated at ca. 10,000 BCE or earlier, orginating probably somewhere around the Red Sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages

Sub-Saharan Africa was marked by the Bantu expansion some time later, with Niger-Congo-speaking peoples expanding out of West Africa between about 3,000 BCE to 500 CE. This at best just takes Bantu speakers to the very peripheries of the Egyptian sphere, the modern slave trade and maritime trade with East Africa are probably likelier causes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion
USA pulls out of Paris climate deal
Scala's future is very unclear, pick Kotlin instead.
I can totally agree about relative timestamping in both directions (past+future) - my argument is more about the UX of situations where you're canonically referring to a past event.

So as not to spam with my reply to a similar comment, I'll link it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14452335
If by "based on gold" you mean "our forex reserves and balance of trade with the world are lopsided because of our voracious appetite for imported gold", then maybe it's almost halfway accurate.
> screwing around in a browser-based programming sandbox (there are tons), is something only wealthy people with college educated parents can do

Having the free time with access to a computer to "screw around" on and knowledge of the existence of browser sand boxes are absolutely tied to class.
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People seem to have an easier time accepting patches on capitalism (welfare) than a conversion to communism (cooperative ownership of the means of production).
And yet, the current MBA groupthink trend is that remote workers are scum and must be dealt with accordingly. Insane.
I think interop is not hard, but F# still enforces functional way over imperative. Write imperative code on Scala is easier then write imperative code on F#
What I wrote is fine. You have a rewrite that is not fine. For a better rewrite, there is a toolbox. Somewhat new X is in the toolbox. But the box also has a huge collection of other tools.

If you have a real problem and some data and need a tool, then the odds that X is your best tool are low and, instead, one of the old tools is likely better.

What old tools? The shelves of the research libraries are awash in them. There are books and journals, rows and rows of them.

How to know which tools to apply? Need an education in the associated pure/applied math. Uh, the old tools are mostly not from and not taught in departments of computer science.
Here's a more up-to-date link http://httpwg.org/http-extensions/cache-digest.html
They just see that the oil price will go up. Since Venezuela is a monoproduct economy, they will get better and be able to pay their debts. No politics here.
Well, it did give the opposition a podium that they didn't otherwise have. I would guess many of us wouldn't have thought about Venezuela today otherwise.
It's basically the same for modern cars in the US, too.

I lease a Toyota Corolla and bring it in for the regular maintenance every 6 months, as instructed. They only change the oil every other visit, or roughly every 10-12k miles. The other visits are just inspections and tire rotations.

The maintenance guide says the oil should be changed every 5k miles only if driving under "special operating conditions":

- Driving on dirt roads or dusty roads

- Driving while towing, using a car-top carrier, or heavy vehicle loading

- Repeated trips of less than five miles in temperatures below 32°F / 0°C

- Extensive idling and/or low speed driving for a long distance such as police, taxi or door-to-door delivery use
I think the issue is that the enforcement happens in the West, and not so much that it happens. There are big law firms that stand to make a lot of money from the litigation. Furthermore there is likely a contractual obligation that this be litigated in the West. All of which incentivises buying up dubious debt that needs to be run through the legal system, basically it pays twice... see (mjfl's comment above)

Furthermore, in the context of western exploitation/interference with these countries' economies, many of whom have not had recourse to a judicial process for reparations - your notion of what is rightful or fair is perhaps too narrow.
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Yes. They've been hosting it outside of their production infrastructure for several years.
How does that work? It isn't just an empty repo titled "status" that you try to load to see if Github is down, is it?
This. I have been on contracts where "butts in seats" was a metric--they had to have the appearance of moving the ball on the project even though it was in the early stages and there was nothing for the developers to even do yet. I hate those deals.
People here don't get that if your work depends on how you present it on some talk, it worth nothing.
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Yeah, I have a hard time imagining this working. If anything, I'd like to be able to get back to working the 8-6 days I could before I was doing school dropoff in the mornings.

It's not like there's any dead time, for me at least, although it probably varies by industry. Back when I was in finance, we needed to be around whenever markets were open, if only to be able to run one-offs and answer questions for the traders.

In tech, there's always more to do. The bulk of the hard stuff isn't raw programming, it's doing the data analysis to figure out where problems are, trying to come up with experiments to run, documenting them so you don't repeat yourself six months later, and so on. On top of that, there's whiteboarding out ideas with people, teaching interns and more junior folks, meetings with aligned teams to share knowledge, manager-stuff (1:1s, planning), writing up docs (also to share knowledge), trying to learn how something works, etc.

I don't think I can manage more than a few hours of raw code time myself, but that's a pretty small slice of the things that need doing.
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Sure, but right now the electric cars are entering the market by storm - and soon we will run out of places to charge them. Those odd few places around the city centre that offer charging are not longer enough. This is a problem that needs to be solved long before autonomous vehicles are even a thing(not to mention that many people will still prefer to own a car)
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And thinkpads.

I used it to add X11 autorotation to an X61 tablet. No spin animation, but it was a cool one-day hack nonetheless.

The fun part was that the orientation analyses was done from a shell script, and actually worked 100% of the time (unlike so many phones)! \o/

The insane part was that DRM/KMS on Linux is 1000% crazy and I had to patch the kernel to stop poking the backlight on every. rotation. event, grr. (I had to do it in the kernel - I basically killed DPMS - because X11 libdrm is utterly incomprehensible.)
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Ah, the multiple verticals angle is where this starts to make sense to me. This app might be well-secured, but the dept next door might have something worse, but this way if the DB's compromised via theirs, the data's safe, I guess?
Interesting.

To me, Windows has eclipsed both MacOS and Linux as the best dev environment. It's caught up in shell and the whole ecosystem of tools completely blows away what exists on MacOS and Linux.

Windows is also a lot better than the other two in keyboard shortcut support.
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I found myself on the verge of quitting Facebook a few times lately, but two things keep me from doing it. A) Messenger. Too many contacts tied to that. I've solved this with the standalone apps. B) Events. In the last two years I've found so many events from Facebook that I'm scared for my social real life if I'll quit. And no, I've tried to stay away from it as a trial and I've missed amazing nights and concerts.

I currently have no solution for B). Does anyone know if there's some app that singles out the event section of Facebook? Is that even possible with Facebook's APIs?
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Mechanical computers are the future at the molecular scale: http://www.nanoindustries.com/nanojbl/NanoConProc/nanocon2.h... [Eric Drexler: Rod Logic for Molecular Computing]
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But Threadripper compares to Intels i9 series. Xeons competition is Naples/Epyc, which has 128 PCIe lanes in a single socket.
Source here: https://github.com/europeana/europeana-portal-collections
What stops Maduro from issuing a bond for $1000 and selling it for $100? After all he knows he'll be dead or in Switzerland when the bond matures. He just cares about the $100 now.
Unless the user is using Safari, in which case it'll likely waste bandwidth.

Also, I don't think servers give us the correct priority control to replace inlining. As things currently stand, if you spend bandwidth sending the body of a page over pushing the critical CSS, you'll be slower than inlining.
> A remarkable instance of the presence of mind in a female occurred. The Serjeant's wife, during the confusion rolled up the Government dispatches, intended for Macquarie Harbour, and actually succeeded in bringing them safe off in her apron !

Interesting times indeed.
No idea, seems measuring these trends is easier than finding the underlying causation. Perhaps enough young people have seen the state of the local heroin addict and thought, ok so that's not really a good option either.
No. I'm neither assuming nor showing that the human mind is a machine. All I'm showing is that the Lucas-Penrose argument that the mind is not a machine is invalid, because it glibly assumes that the human mind is capable of Godelizing any possible mechanistic model of the mind, and that is not necessarily true. If the mind is a machine, then it will not be able to Godelize a mechanistic model that includes that mind as a component. The best any given mind can do is construct the Godel sentence for a mechanistic model of some other mind. But that does not show that the first mind is not a machine.
It's a recent shift. I found the link where I first read about it.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/27/5-facts-abou...
I have mentioned to others on HN many times--don't wait until the tail end of your life to do the things you want to do. Practically every low hours boat and low mileage RV has a former owner who "waited too long."
You mention that becoming a lawyer is a useless thing. My (very far) removed perception has been that lawyers are in demand and tend to live relatively comfortable lives. It seems that many on the web also think so.

Is that generally the case? Or is it usually more parallel to your own experience?
The new Windows 10 on ARM will run emulated x86 apps, so no changes needed from developers. Windows RT required UWP-only apps.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171

As for "never reaching the same performance" as desktop Intel/AMD chips, I would say that depends. It's not that they can't do it with ARM chips, is that nobody has bothered to do it until now, because there was no point with so few UWP apps. The market would be way too small. What would be the point in making a Core i7-level ARM chip just for the Surface RT? The risk would be too big.

But now that Microsoft opened up the PC market to ARM -- truly -- ARM chip makers can begin to make some real desktop-class ARM chips. Chips that require 15, 30, 45, or even 90 watts of power.

But I do think this will happen gradually over several years, because first they need to see how ARM chips work under Windows 10 this time around and how people accept them. Then if that goes well, they need to start designing those 15-90W ARM chips, and then start selling them.

Someone like Qualcomm needs to be sure that if it does design a 90W ARM chip that's highly competitive with a desktop class Intel or AMD chip (at least in terms of performance/dollar), more than 10 million people will buy it.
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The latter is what happens on an unstable government that thinks its going down. Poeple scramble to get the last piece and get out.

IT might not happen with this, but it might and being south american, its likely.
That's a lot like deer in the US after Bambi. They used to be a nuisance. Now we think they are cute. If you live in a place with enough of them you may start to realize they are a nuisance.
(I'm an experienced functional (Haskell) programmer)

I have no interest in F# because I don't want to work in Windows (and the dotNet platform in general).

Yes I could probably make F#/dotNet work in Linux, but at that point I have Haskell, (and SML and OCaml and Erlang). Net, net, in my dev/deploy environment, F# confers no benefit (as compared to the alternatives)
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Maybe even better bins if the rumors are true, which put the 1998 X at 3.5 ghz for 16 cores (and boost on single core to 3.9 ghz).

But I believe it only when I see it. Especially since the rumors said Threadripper will only have 44 PCIe lanes like Intel, which as we now know was false (and was weird previously because Naples has 128 PCIe lanes).
Ah, so the high-end ThreadRipper would contain the same chips as a high-end Epyc, just twice as many, and likewise for the lower-end variants, I guess? That makes sense.
When you go to the store and buy anything, do you know what is patented and what is not? Do you know every patent that covers every part of your phone? Do you know what parts of any of these things you can copy? Patent Law is just like that- 'academic' as you describe it, I suppose.

(I realize none of those things self-replicate like your seeds... but I think my point still holds.)
> I think the issue is that the enforcement happens in the West, and not so much that it happens.

Well face it, it either happens in the West or is not happening at all. And it's not like some obscure footnote, the arbitrage conditions are fully disclosed beforehand.
If they go long these bonds they are nasty speculators who are betting on the fact that Venezuelans will bleed themselves to repay. If they go short the bonds they are nasty speculators who are trying to make money on a country going bust. At this game it doesn't matter what they do, they will get this sort of reaction.
That would turn into a grind pretty fast--if it can't charge up in 20mins. it's a no-go long term unless it's in your garage (or someplace else you want to be).
Haha, this is pretty fun.

Will you be sharing the source? I'd love to see how state is stored on the back-end.
Because they built it in C# by hand and had already spent too long on the wrong method, when R can do it 70 times faster?

It's not a neural network, so everything would be hand coded TF operations. It's unclear how that would be quicker than gradient decent.

I'd be more interested to know why they didn't try the learning-to-rank implementations in XGB or LightGBM?
Not that we'd want to start a flame war or anything.
There's a whole Wikipedia article on this, interestingly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Turkish_peo...
Sell them for almost the purchase price to the people who still think Intel is the shit.