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Skylake-X certainly would have existed regardless of Ryzen, Intel wants to sell these chips to Google/Amazon/Facebook as Xeons. The idea that this uarch is a reaction to AMD is absurd, this uarch has been on the roadmap for years and at most was pulled forward a few months.

People will attribute anything one of AMD's competitors does to fear of AMD - 780 Ti, 980 Ti, 1080 Ti, Skylake-X, you name it. It's frankly a little comical given the actual amount of competition AMD put up with Bulldozer and Fiji/Polaris/Vega against Haswell/Skylake and Maxwell/Pascal - which is to say, hardly any. NVIDIA and Intel both have their own yield strategies and release schedules that are largely independent of what AMD does. Intel and NVIDIA are tweaking prices and specific launch dates - that's about the extent of AMD's impact on their competitors so far.

(although Intel is definitely paying attention to Threadripper/Epyc now, and will be pushing core count up on consumer chipsets starting with Coffee Lake and presumably Cannonlake as well)

The real problems with Skylake-X are chipset cost, power consumption, shitty partner boards with insulators on the VRMs, and TIM. None of those have anything to do with a "rushed launch", all of those are issues that have been slow-boiling for years now.
That would help build a case for mitigation, but it would still have to undergo the entire scrutiny process.
Why so much sugarcoating? Feedback was straightforward. I didn't see any aggressive words. Most of out PRs are to the point.

Sometimes the big problem I find is that in some companies people are just scared of each other that they fail to communicate.

Best places where I worked: people were to the point, they had healthy debates even with strong opinions.
> What does advertising have to do with fake news?

You need surface to display ads. Fake news is this surface and Google/Facebook take a big cut of their revenue from it.
I am astonished by your comment. In no way would Mars assist the earth whatsoever economically or as a safe haven. The purpose of spending billions upon billions on an off world reservation where you could never go outside or produce anything productive for the earth is not worth it.

IMHO the moon is not boring it would be vital if we take mining for metals off world and perhaps discover new ways clean up out carbon issues and economic disparity.
Heard this story on the way home, made the drive hard trying to hold back the tears.

Off topic but I have two healthy daughters and a healthy wife. When I was with my wife giving birth in the hospital it was a terrifying feeling knowing much of it was out of my control. I can only imagine what these husbands went through watching their wives die right before their eyes
I think there is a lot of consumer psychology at play here. What you said will work very well in a country such as Singapore where people predominantly stop at a mall/supermarket after work. Beyond 7 PM all the roast chicken from the supermarket shelves are gone.
In the US, I don't see this as a practice. I mean you just drive home from work or these days use ride sharing. In either case stopping by is a hassle. Am assuming a supermarket can mimic BA's recipe and packaging.
What bothers me about BA is not the supermarkets but the management's unacceptable ways of hiding actual customer acquisition costs.
I think the guy just doesn't like suits. I don't wear a suit in Australia because it gets too hot, but in winter I love wearing them. You look sharp and feel good for it. I guess not everyones the same.
I don't see that anyone suggested that.
... and privately owned. Which helps a lot in this case. That said, if they are successful at duplicating the Blue Apron model effectively then I expect that would be sufficient "proof" for the shareholder driven grocery chains.
Never be a programmer in a suit (because you will be discriminated against by other programmers).
The peer review system is broke because this manuscript was published? You seem to be arguing two opposing ideas. More rigorous peer review, be that on a pre-print server (comment box) or during publication (suffering the drawn out process), would've prevented this paper from being published. Many journals welcome post-publication review, like this response, as well. There are reasons why the peer review system is broken, but this doesn't seem like one of them.
The beautiful thing about UTF-8 is that a lot of simple seemingly-ascii algorithms will will work correctly with unicode: as long as you define "correctly" in a way that ignores complicated unicode semantics.

And we can often do that: for example a programming language could just ban non-ASCII characters everywhere but in string literals.

But sadly, we do often need to care about all those complicated unicode character classes etc. And if we are talking explicitly about Unicode, then by default we should be considering the whole standard, not just the bits we like.
The post asked for sources. Presumably to facilitate research. The post did not ask anyone to relitigate anything.
You could potentially make your engine, or whatever is burning fuel, more efficient by itself, if it is no longer required to drive a transmission and can run at any speed. Add a battery, and that enables you to do more stuff, such as regenerative breaking.

Congrats, you got a hybrid now (not unlike a Chevy Volt).
There are people that don't feel addressed adequately as neither man nor woman? I thought we had some man that want to be called woman and some woman that want to be called man but a third option I never heard. Which is? Should they be addressed the way they want or should people dismiss this immature behavior?
Minor in CS. If you want to go into tech, it'll give you a major head start above the boot camp grads both in terms of hiring and as a starting point for further learning. And yes, tech is still a better career bet than the majority of the alternatives.

Major in something that will help you learn critical thinking, learn about how some other aspect of the world works, and become three-dimensional in your intellectual perspective.
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"The Hadza seek out the same animals and plants that humans have hunted and gathered for millions of years"

In other words, 'whatever was in reach that could be stuffed into the pie-hole.'
>Foreign Postdocs studying in the United States are desperate for a Green Card. They peer review as many papers as they can as quickly as they can to prove something or other for the purposes of a securing a Green Card. Some of these foreign postdocs do a good job, many do not. A

I have never heard of this. No-one knows if you review a paper, it has no bearing on your job security or your visa status, this post is baffling
I'm ignorantly guessing Intel always keep something in their back pocket ever since AMD's Athlons bested Intel's P4, just in case AMD ever tried to wrest the frown back. Or, I would, anyway.
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I thought I was the only one who came to that conclusion! Reading the book in the middle leads to a bunch of "ohhhh... That makes more sense now" moments.
I previously worked at Nine (their digital arm, formally known as Mi9) building their VOD platforms which was an amazing experience of great project with great developers and designers. Made friends there for life.

Now, I'm at an airline (well, at a digital agency who are at an airline) working on their new inflight wifi product. It's pretty interesting, talking to all sorts of APIs onboard the plane, super optimising the site so its still fast to run over a satellite connection.

Yeah, Sydney isn't San Francisco - that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Jobs still exists, but most of them are in stable companies. If you want that 'startup life', go move to SF.
>Currently HumbleNet implements 2 modes:SEND_RELIABLE and SEND_RELIABLE_BUFFERED.

No unreliable messages? Isn't this practically just recreating TCP on top of UDP if you can't opt out of reliable sends?
This implies that you know all the relevant attributes of the items you're recommending. For something like music, books, or movies, there might literally be thousands of them, most of which are unidentifiable, any of which might differ in importance from one item to another.

I built a collaborative filtering system (http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/morse/MORSE.html) and didn't have to worry about who directed a film, when it was released, where it was filmed, its budget, who starred in it, or what its genre or plot elements were. All the relevant information was implicit in how the people who saw it rated it out of ten.
>why can't they switch to actual x-rays, which we already seem to be really good at producing?

The energy level is unnecessary. The lithography process does a "step-down" via electromagnetic lensing which determines the feature size. This becomes exponentially harder to do as you decrease wavelength (i.e. increase energy).
Well one thing Tesla has going for them is that they have way less parts per car when compared against traditional ICE based drive trains.
Don't forget Lootcrate--get cartoon junk sent to your house every week for some reason.
I'm working on this subject too and it is exciting to see others trying to fix it too. I'm focusing on CS education/software development, which I guess should be easier to learn online.
Quake 3's code is open source but it relies on proprietary assets that you must get from buying the game, but they could make a freely-accessible web version of OpenArena (it's a free open source game that uses Quake 3's code and game mechanics with free assets).
> Beyond 7 PM all the roast chicken from the supermarket shelves are gone. In the US, I don't see this as a practice

Think it depends where you live. My nearby grocery store makes/serves fresh pizza, take out dinners (different each night), the usual rotisserie chickens (that are all gone by 7), in store made sushi (to order if you're there at the right time), has an asian and american hot bar, and provides a drive through grocery pick up service.

I did BA some in the past, but now I have a bunch of recipes and just order the ingredients online and pick them up at a drive through on the way home. It's cheaper, and almost as convenient. The store will also deliver, but I'm okay saving the fee since it's so easy to pick up.
> The correct response to receiving a PIP, probably in most SV companies, is to start looking for another job.

While you are almost certainly correct about this, particularly from a pure risk mitigation standpoint, it's also somewhat self-fulfilling.
Is, this that revolutionary? I'm pretty sure a few companies out there in tech give you a week or two of training before you get any assignments?
That it's not a place where citizens are continually expected to take part in the adult equivalent of pep rallies and declare their undying and unquestioning school spirit.

Oh, wait, I must be thinking of Canada.
any point, yes but you'll have to play catch-up with the main chain. suppose you want to take over all the chain starting from 2 weeks ago. even if you have 51% of the network, you're at a disadvantage already because your chain is 2 weeks behind, and the main chain is constantly advancing. you only have a 1% speed advantage over the main chain, so it will take ages for you to catch up (almost 4 years to be exact, assuming the hashrate stays constant). keep in mind that getting 51% is hard as it is because it requires you to either double the current hash rate (ie. you add hashing power equal to the network's current hash rate) which is incredibly expensive, or hack 51% the pools which is easier, but also likely to be noticed. in either case, once the fork occurs, alarm bells will go off everywhere and every competent exchange/payment processor is going to shut down all withdraws/deposits until the situation is investigated. once it's discovered that a malicious actor successfully attempted a 51% attack, the price of the coin will drop to 0 and your efforts would be wasted.

if all you want to do is crash bitcoin then you'd have achieved your goal (albeit at a huge expense), but it's certainly not a good way of making money.
I hear very frequently that Tesla isn't a car company, it's a tech company. Mostly because they want to value Tesla stock like a tech company (very popular, high valuations, high profit margins), not a car company (cyclical sales, lower profit margins, heavily regulated).

But whatever Tesla is now, eventually if it sells cars it has to turn into a car company. It has to deal with things like logistics for spare parts, repair facilities, dealers (or whatever way they choose to sell cars). The fixed costs as Tesla goes on are only going to go up because of the legacy they are creating, as cars last a while (hopefully a long while), and need to be maintained/repaired, if only because of accidents.

Tech, on the other hand, usually means you don't have to worry about physical manufacturing. You don't have to worry so much about supply logistics, travel and transport costs, inventory, etc. Once you build the technology, at least with software it's easy to mass reproduce (especially with digital distribution and no physical media) at low overhead and sell at a reasonable price, sometimes direct to the user (higher profit %).

Now let's talk about another case study of a consumer discretionary company that uses tech a lot, Amazon. Amazon is leveraging tech to help the front end and the supply chain, to provide lower prices and easy shopping to people. By making a great website, they encourage people to find and buy more, attacking the "browsing at the supermarket" theory of impulse buying with their own impulse buys. They are using technology to do logistics cheaper, lowering prices to gain market share.

Tesla, and car companies in general, move a lot slower because people aren't buying cars every day. Do I think Tesla could turn into a great car maker? Sure.

But just because there's a new space (EVs) doesn't mean that current companies will own the space going forward, or even the leader today. Tesla is using its startup-ness to try to get there, but will they get over the hump of actually turning profitable while making cars? That's the big question, and if the futures earnings are in the stock price, that's a bet I'd rather pass. (but wouldn't short either)
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Some of the dynamic needs also could be static some day. Comments are easy to generate a json everytime, search is a little more difficult.
Iterators are the main place this is difficult, but as steveklabnik says the compiler can tell you the return type.

However, this will get better with the introduction of "impl Trait", where the return type will become `impl Iterator<Item = (i64, &[i32])>` which while admittedly long is better than what you'd have otherwise. It's definitely a known pain point.

In practice writing Rust code (full time!) I don't encounter this issue much because I rarely want to split an iterator chain across multiple functions, and iterators are the main place the types get long and hairy. Although I've heard it's really bad with Futures, but that's why "impl Trait" is coming.
> I walk to the store and buy groceries and then walk home.

Right, exactly. Some of these replies are incredible! Absolutely if you live somewhere more remote you'll need a car, but for people in urban areas...?

I've lived in several quite different cities over the last decade and haven't owned a car the entire time and have managed to buy groceries just fine. No Amazon Fresh or eating out regularly required...
I don't quite get the point of this article... If you like wearing suits, then go for it. A suit makes you no worse and no better as far as strictly technical skills go. Almost any employer has a fairly liberal attitude towards programmer attire. No one expects programmers to look like they just walked out of a NASA control center during a moon landing.

However, a suit (or the lack of one) can affect how people think of you. Its always good to be aware of your choices and how they affect other's perceptions.

One other comment, as far as the suit thing goes, It can look very different, depending on what look you are trying to go for.Do you look like a famous actor between movies? A rockstar? A Houston oil mogul? English professor? Southern gentleman? Mafia hit man?

Personally, I like suits and some formal elements mixed in with casual stuff, too. But I'm also an artist, with blue eyes and long blonde hair and can pull off a movie star look. T-shirts and crappy jeans are ok, too, but I got tired of looking like a college student. Personally, I like looking good. And, to be totally honest, I get a lot of compliments and I like the additional attention from women.

Also, sometimes it's appropriate to go for sameness. Suits are goid at formal events. Weddings and funerals, for example.
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The backup is to simply add a structure over your roads and put solar on that. But, IMO that's just an implementation detail. We have plenty of land for all the solar power we need any time soon without impacting farming.
I felt compelled to downvote due to the tone of this answer. But I'll try to resist that temptation.

Objectively speaking, someone who does not have a family can work more hours, not necessarily produce better work. But they can, potentially, as long as the "extra" hours are also focused on work. Not sure how long that is sustainable.

I'd like to ask this: if we need to kill hundreds of thousands of people to try to save the human race, are we even left with something worth saving?

It is not clear to me that workers need to sacrifice themselves to death in order for us to survive. There is no evidence of any impending catastrophe that would require such sacrifice.
I thought HRM had a very odd skill curve, started out very easy and then got difficult quickly. I think overall it's too hard for somebody who isn't a programmer, and there aren't enough hard problems for a programmer. And once the problems got hard, it seemed more like work and less like fun. And a lot of it seemed like busy work since there were so few instructions.
I do not think this is correct, at least for most of the sub-fields of computer science and physics. Prestigious conferences and journals invite only well known researchers to review, who are mostly professors. Few post-docs get invited. Each paper gets multiple reviews (3-5), and conflicting reviews get discussed making the review process quite rigorous.

Reviewing a paper is mostly charity and gets you nothing in return, except the fact that when you submit a paper, someone will do the same. It does not help in the Green Card process at all, or boosts your academic credentials.

Regarding overworked professors, they are allowed to delegate reviews internally to students to ease the time they have to spend.
While true, the more women you get into tech the more than can end up at the top in tech. The more women at the top of a tech company or working in VC, the more diversity we have at the top which (hopefully) leads to the sexist men at the top being held accountable by their peers.

If that can happen, then there will likely be a decrease in abuse towards new comers in the field. Yay!
>Tesla is a technology company that also happens to make cars. Ford is an automotive company, that also happens to make technology.

From 2007: "Apple is a technology company that happens to make a phone. Motorola/Nokia/Palm/Blackberry are phone companies that can easily copy Apple's technology and execute better than Apple since they know all about making phones."
You linked the same article twice, btw.
If someone (regardless of their avocation) wears their clothes well, I treat them with more respect than someone who looks like they have a sink full of dishes at home. It's an indicator that a person has their act together. Not at all foolproof but important when first impressions matter. BTW, the "suit" in SV is just a polo or a logo shirt and Bonobos.
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It is just rebranded UX Design, and a pretty oversimplified version of it.

A few years ago, Google leadership initiated a "Product Excellence" initiative, the cornerstone of which was identifying and measuring CUJs, with the specific goal of improving UI/UX execution. This was because the UX of a lot of Google products was, well, not great. Implementation quality was low, in many cases because engineers were building what they wanted and not what was specified or designed. After all, it's an engineering company and this is ingrained in the culture. CUJs were a tool to rally people around building the right things at a high (enough) quality.

I'm not sure why they created new terminology. Either way, it was mostly effective. I wouldn't call most Google UIs "excellent" but they are at least passing usability benchmarks now.

An added side effect is that this methodology, like design sprints, created a new thing for evangelists to evangelize at Google and beyond. Hence the article.

Source: Grouchy Googler.
Semi-related, and with all due props to GOT: Check out the first couple of episodes of Michael Wood's The Story of China on PBS. The Westeros plotters were pikers compared to the real history of Chinese dynasties.

http://www.pbs.org/story-china/home/
You can drive one off the dealership right now because no one else wants to. GM doesn't have the capacity to make anywhere near as many electric vehicles as Tesla does right now.
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> I've never been outside of walking distance of a small shop for food shopping

I'd be interested to know whether a typical person's idea of what "walking distance" is has decreased or not over recent years.
"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."

- Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching
If you're an anomaly, then my wife and I are, too: that was exactly our experience. We were already pretty decent cooks, but in a bit of a rut. We used Blue Apron as a way to push ourselves to try new ingredients and new recipes. Once we felt like we'd been exposed to most of their repertoire and settled on which sorts of dishes worked for us and which didn't, we stopped.
So sad. I think that this is one of the areas where the advances in machine learning in recent years can actually save lives. In medicine, the overlooking of subtle and not so subtle clues because you are focused on something else that grabs your attention is probably one of the big causes of these preventable deaths. Computers are wonderful in that they can always be analyzing and putting together patterns even when humans are focused on something else. My hope is that in the near future these systems will get deployed throughout the healthcare system and save many lives.

On a different note, one of the most important things for doctors to develop is a "gut feeling" of badly sick vs sick vs not sick. Some of the best doctors I worked with had an uncanny sense that there was something terribly wrong with the patient, even when the lab data, etc was not very alarming, and by acting quickly prevented all sorts of complications.
OCI = Open Container Initiative

(I think. I wish the README would have made that more clear.)
Sia could probably run on Bitcoin or Ethereum, but that's not relevant to the question. Blockchain smart contracts enable file contracts and other features that make Sia work. The smart contracts determine how hosts are paid, what happens if they lose files etc. Everything just works without any central authority or payment processor because of the blockchain.

https://support.sia.tech/knowledge_base/topics/why-do-you-ha...

To the first question: "Sia" doesn't have to defend anything, because Sia is software, and not a legal entity. The developers have no control, authority or ownership of the network, and thus are not legally responsible for the contents. Individual hosts are responsible for the content that they host, and will have to respond to legal queries and remove illegal content.