skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: A distributed "nano-processor" [1] architecture with a bunch of neat tricks to allow the "nano-processors" to coordinate with the help of a master processor.

It looks like it could have potential if they come up with a sensible paradigm to progam it. Unfornately it looks like they're trying to shoehorn C into an architecture that's wildly different than C's original target. [2]

I don't really see this taking significant market share from FPGAs/ARM in its current state.

[1]: they use the term ensemble but that is unintuitive

[2]: http://cva.stanford.edu/projects/elm/compiler.htm
Could someone explain why we need more SF? It's cold and damp. Why don't we make more San Jose?

I used to live in SF for the sex. Now I'm in SJ for the weather. Question: why can't we just have sex in San Jose?
Command-F for "race" returns 0 results. If you have a point, please try to make it.
Would you please stop posting only unsubstantive dismissive comments here?
How has it been a curse so far?
Robots for the poor? (2016)
one without advertisers. Check out the No Agenda Show (podcast) -- they analyze all new sources to help you discover the real news w/o the bias.
But _why_ use TF when you have PyTorch which is just as powerful, runs noticeably faster for most workloads, _and_ is easy to understand? What are you gaining by using TF these days?
I'm a Googler.

The way you decide whether to trust someone or something is whether someone you already trust trust them. So the question is: who do you trust and how far does your chain of trust go?

For me, I need to trust my coworkers. And I do. And I trust that those coworkers will report misbehavior internally such that I can see it.

And from what I know, I trust them to look after my data. They have everything: search history, location history, email, photos of my daughter. I am not a product. I am a leaf on a human-indecipherable neural net that shows me a particular ad.

Companies don't care about people. Companies aren't people. People care about people. I do not think Google The Company "wants" anything in any way you can moralize good or bad. Google The People want to do right by users.

So, the question is, do you trust me? :)
The receiver likely doesn't have an accurate enough clock to reliably detect a quick (a tiny fraction of a second) replay attack if it can't hear the original transmitters due to intentional interference; most GPS systems would treat any differences between internal time and the time from the GPS data as a sign that their clock is drifting and needs to be adjusted, and it should be that way because their clock is inaccurate and drifting.
Of course not, they want the best return for Google, and you'd have to be deluded or knee deep in KoolAid not to know that. Google isn't a public service or charity, even if we want to pretend that it is or use it that way. What Google is, even more than Facebook or Twitter, a massive exercise in gathering personal information and then attempting to monetize it.
Yes, but the opponent will only see a largish region, probably [a few 1000 km big UPDATE: from other comments here, it seems the region can be much smaller], where the GPS is off and the opponent would usually already know his location to that precision.

Still it might be a worth-while excersise for the NSA -- not so they can target Putin. But to provide one more signal for when he makes some unexpected, hush-hush trip to some central Asian republic or some-such.
From the article:

“Together with MIT Press, we will enable the patrons of every
library that owns one of these books to borrow it online–one
copy at a time.”

Looks like Archive.org will be hosting it, but you'll have to go through a library to access it. It's an improvement, but not freeing the books entirely.

EDIT: I can't figure out a pattern. I can check out some, but not others with no discernible pattern. No connection to a library, just my Archive.org account.
>Is it self-sustainable if food/entertainment isn't included? I say yes, because as humans we enjoy a diverse range of food than our own ecosystem anyways. So I don't think importing food is a bad thing.

This is not sustainable. Setting up an island that constantly has to have food and people shipped in and people and trash shipped out is going to be a loss sustainability-wise compared to just living mainland and using renewables there.
One thing that a grid depends upon is all the transmission and distribution infrastructure. This is an incredible expense, but it is amortized over a very long long time.

On the mainland, investment in that infrastructure has gone in a cycle, I think we're coming off a decade of very large investment after a decade of 5x less investment in that infrastructure.

What's going to replace the expansion of transmission and distribution will be storage. It's often cheaper to buy storage at today's (relatively high) prices than to continue to size the transmission infrastructure for peak demand, rather than something closer to average demand. It's that peak demand that is the most costly to serve, batteries help with this immensely. In NYC, Con ED is delaying $1.1B in substation upgrades through the use of storage:

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/coned-seeks-efficiency-distr...

And on the smaller scale, in Arizona, a community that's growing is getting batteries rather than upgrading the transmission lines:

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/aps-to-deploy-8-mwh-of-batte...
Tensorflow is more documented and talked about right now which is why more people will be interested in it
If your only standard for trust was previous trust then you would never trust anyone and your chain of trust would never grow, but you know that right? More realistically you establish trust through a process over time and you repeat that process to some degree ad infinitum.
"scrum master" is the one that really grinds my gears. Ive pretty much stopped doing all the jira nonsense and let my productivity speak for itself. I've been left alone about it.

Others here have more thoughtful opinions on the whole thing. I'm just kind of annoyed about it all without the energy to try to formize what's wrong and why. Just let me engineer.
Retiring Obnam
For someone who claims to be an aerospace engineer, you have a shocking lack of understanding of redundant systems.
>Empathy also affects which products are built in the first place — why, for example, Silicon Valley has spent more time building apps for expensive food delivery than for decreasing hunger.

>“There’s no cool technology toy that teaches that there are different religions around the world and it’s O.K. to be tolerant.”

I think the author is confusing "problems that exist" with "markets that exist", since both of those are more philanthropic endeavors than they are profitable businesses.
Not a NES game, but HAL Laboratory used a Twin Famicom-based system to develop Kirby's Dreamland (GB) using just a trackball as an input device: http://sourcegaming.info/2017/04/19/kirbys-development-secre...
Can you explain why that isn't sustainable?
I'd read it too, but I'd be very keen on a decent German version too, as the failure to push to the beach is less well covered.
Yes, depression as a consequence of losing everything in your life an being bedbound while no one can help you does make sense.

However, this is only after CFS strikes, it is not the cause for CFS.

There needs to be a clear distinction that CFS does not have psychological cause and the current research points that way as well.
No...

Are you claiming that meeting Elon would be intimidating and the 'threat' of that would prevent people from reporting injuries at all?

For anything even remotely serious that seems unlikely to have an impact, if you're injured enough to need medical care I don't think that "management will find out" is going to dissuade you from making whatever reports you need to get medical care.

Or do you mean he is intimidating the managers into taking injuries seriously? In that case, yes, I guess you could call it that. But I definitely support that sort of intimidation.
I think the proper response to the Google manifesto is to say that women don't always choose to become programmers, but when they do, they're pretty good at it.
Analysis paralysis goes well with bikeshedding when people who are not into the technical details are involved in the decision making process and start arguing about not-so-relevant details.

I'd like a situation where the affected people give input and management decides who shall be involved in the decision making and delegates the decision and parts of the execution to those people.
Will you make a PR to just update someone's code comments? How searchable would it be?

It's sad that stackoverflow documentation project is being sunsetted, but it was probably too ambitious a project. The original post suggest something much smaller.
90% toxic: "It's pretty obvious a comment will be toxic if it contains "asshole" in it."
The ainu where law-suited out of existence by PETA for Iomante?
Hah! I also learned French in High School, but then much later in life I learned Dutch. Now whenever I go to France and try to speak French, Dutch words push out the French words in my head, sometimes too fast for me to stop from actually saying them in the middle of an already dubious French sentence. It's quite infuriating.

Usually I do still know the word in French, but the Dutch words are always so much closer to the surface.

I love living in Europe :)
Valgrind type thing I wonder?
Oh, then it really seems to work.

When you said "crashing for 7-10 day", what does that mean. Did you have a lot of pain and fatigue unable to get out of bed for a whole week and were you completely recovered after that week again?
Everyone has to try to live green, and we should admire and strive to surpass the ones who take it to an extreme.

We know from statistics and economics that the rest of the world will want the same standard of living as the west, and that they will reach there at somepoint. There for it's very important to deprioritize things that are inherently not green in our culture and make green living a status thing.

Transportation, food, clothing, communication and work are all things that has to be reconsidered to be green.
Recently had to standup an OGS cluster for mac os sierra.
Took me a day to get it built and deployed where it takes 15 minutes with any Linux I know of.

The worst three years I've recently experienced was supporting a dual OS (linux and mac) build/deploy for a highly complex proprietary scientific modeling system.
Interestingly, Swiss German might not be context-free: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/Biblio/Papers/shieber85...
The World at War documentary series has a good episode about dunkirk.

One of the small boat captains describes picking up soldiers from the beach on dunkirk then getting back to sea, where they were met by a UK frigate. The frigate offered to take the soldiers to let the small boat go back to the beach(as was the plan) and the captain said "no chance mate get your own soldiers we're off back to blighty"

Some great lines in that series
Short answer, not really.

It looks like this is the source for the claims:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

This is what the paper says:
"Total family income is the measuring stick used to determine levels of affluence achieved. This is defined as taxable income of head of household and spouse, taxable income of other family members of the household, and transfer income of head, spouse, and others."

Based on what I know about US tax, you don't have to pay taxes on the first $500k in gains for your primary house (if married), and inheritances usually aren't considered taxable income.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/capital-gains-and-your...
https://www.hrblock.com/get-answers/taxes/income/is-your-inh...
Not a degree sure but many e.g. XSeries and MicroMasters are at the level of diplomas.
I don't think he was implying that it was his only standard for trust, but as you establish trust in certain people over time you also grow to trust their judgement and part of that is giving a benefit of the doubt level of trust to people who have earned their trust (without having to invest in the direct development as much).
Didn't John Carmack use structures rather than parallel arrays even in Apple II assembly? Source: one of his old .plan files, reproduced verbatim in _Masters of Doom_

Edit: Found it online here: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast...
Ahh. Perhaps I misunderstood the parent comment?
Well I can't speak to other people's actions, only mine. When a story is small and it's submitter is of medium karma it doesn't take many flags.

I have had many arguments with the mods over my years here and we still have our disagreements, but I don't see them nuke things often.

I see vote and flag manipulations a lot.
Because it's a version of the No True Scotsman fallacy. You're not doing "true" agile, they would say.
A new volcanic province: an inventory of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica [pdf]
Actually, if engines fail at altitude there's much lower risk than you'd think. Even in the case where the damn engines fall off the plane (yes, this really did happen), there's surprisingly few if any fatalities.

Complete engine failure is mostly risky in two situations, over water and low altitude. Ask Sully about having both happen at once and still no deaths!

(Edit to add sources)

Commercial flights with engine failures in the past 30 years w/o fatalities:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_855
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapag-Lloyd_Flight_3378
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines_Flight...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

Commercial flights with engine failures and fatalities (one fatality, a flight attendant):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Indonesia_Flight_421
For specific issues, I've found Khan Academy to be quite useful.
I don't see any possible way that you can do recruiting as a side gig. The good recruiters I know are all about building relationships on both sides -- companies and potential employees. I've met some for lunch or in their office. They go out to meet with their clients -- the prospective hiring manager.

And recruiting is all about the long game. You may keep in touch with someone for years before you have the right opportunity at the right time for them.
Thanks for the explanation, links and references. I found a few free ones (one is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590188/) since I don't have a subscription for Nature.

I'm still not sure where to draw the line between Google, its managers, larger society, and general ethics, in this case, or how to distinguish 'collective altruistic punishment' from 'selfish punishment to forcefully protect interests against challenges'.

One thing I'll note is that the case at hand would be the same if it weren't collective, but was only one (probably relatively powerful) person trying to protect themselves from a challenge. A second thing: that the article was a different object when it was widely circulated (not just the same object treated by a large group versus an earlier smaller group).
A long time ago I started using Obnam when DreamHost allowed 50GB of free backup server space via sftp. Obnam could manage "dumb" remote sftp endpoints as well as encrypt, de-dupe, and periodically purge old data.

After obnam got slower and DH dropped the back-up service I started to search for alternatives and stumbled on attic. I ran attic in parallel for a while before its development went stale and was forked to borg backup[0]. Borg backup and obnam run on for my daily backups, but soon it looks like it will be time to retire obnam.

I'll miss obnam, it was one of the first "simple" back-up utilities that had the features I wanted (de-duped, encryption, history purging, integrity checking). It's too it never evolved to something easier to scale and maintain. I like to think it has given rise to other tools like borg backup which now have a seemingly scalable community and software design.

Thanks for your contribution Lars, you set a high bar for other backup utiltiies and I certainly think the ecosystem is better because of it.

[0] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
the goal is off the grid and environmental sustainability...
That font..brings back nice memories
Make File in Python: spacetechquest
spacetechquest.com/languages/make-file
That man wants to make that game so bad.
Yes! He's basically Mr. Rogers for adults!
This post is from 2013, maybe add this to the title?
It's a concept completely wrong in a lot of details starting from the premises.
Their primary objective is to build a tunnel for 100M$ a mile saying that currently a tunnel costs 1B$ a mile.
And as I linked in a previous thread London crossrail is already on that price range while boring full-size tunnels for underground trains.
So I'm not really sure what they are trying to accomplish here given that the crossrail is already cheaper for tunnels with double the size of the ones than their are trying to build.
Gotcha. We didn't have TVs in bedrooms in my parents' house, which is what I figure our TV deficit stems from.
Not another Monkey Island game (unfortunately). This is from 2013. After that Ron crowdfunded and built Thimbleweed Park (www.thimbleweedpark.com), an old school adventure game using some (not all) of these ideas. I played it and it is just as great as the best old ones.

From time to time Ron complains that Disney wouldn't sell him the rights to Monkey Island. The only reason I believe he doesn't build one more.

Edit: he kept the verbs in Thimbleweed Park and compromised a little in the tutorial (there is an easy mode).
Unfit and unsuited do not mean exactly the same thing. In particular, I can't say that the manifesto said that women are unfit to work in tech. Damore didn't say and he didn't mean that. I can and will say that the manifesto said (not quoting here) that women are unsuited for tech. There's sufficient difference between the two words to drive that truck between them.

Unfit: not of the necessary quality or standard to meet a particular purpose
Unsuited: not right or appropriate.

When you quote, quote accurately, especially if you put your quotes in quotation marks.
Jira is just a ticketing system with a lot of fancy (and optional) features built on-top of it. Or are you asking specifically about the Jira Agile feature?
I agree that there's a trade off between detailed documentation and flexibility, but I think regularly leaving out details to allow for frequent changes can be a red flag. Unless your project is new and in beta, you probably shouldn't be changing things that often. After all, even if your documentation is sparse, users are going to start expecting certain behavior just from using your project.

You can also tweak this tradeoff a little. If you explain up front that what you're describing changes a lot and don't put it in the official documentation [0], you can be somewhat detailed and still have room to change.

[0]: Think a wiki or blog that your project maintains.
A Mathematician and an Engineer attend a lecture by a Physicist. The topic concerns Kulza-Klein theories involving physical processes that occur in spaces with dimensions of 9, 12 and even higher. The Mathematician is sitting, clearly enjoying the lecture, while the Engineer is frowning and looking generally confused and puzzled. By the end the Engineer has a terrible headache. At the end, the Mathematician comments about the wonderful lecture. The Engineer says "How do you understand this stuff?"
Mathematician: "I just visualize the process"
Engineer: "How can you POSSIBLY visualize something that occurs in 9-dimensional space?"
Mathematician: "Easy, first visualize it in N-dimensional space, then let N go to 9"

[1] http://www.math.psu.edu/tseng/mathjoke1.html
This is a claim that is constantly repeated in linguistics but that makes little sense. It would be very odd if the brain needed something as ineffective as _language_ to think. Language is itself a result of our actual ability to think. Most likely we tend to narrate what we think, why the brain does this is unknown to me.
I can't seem to find the kickstarter link.
Sounds like he got to do most of those things in Thimbleweed Park - https://thimbleweedpark.com/
I could care less whether the recruiter knows the tech stack, all they need to know is what is available, the salary the potential compsby is willing to pay, and where I am in the process. If they can match keywords it's good enough for me.

The hardest parts about looking for a job are knowing what's out there , knowing whether anyone is interested once you submit a resume, and what the salary range is. If a recruiter can do that for me, it's a win.
Just commenting on the discourse - I actually agree with you that GP was needlessly harsh. That said, given that sentiment, your comment would have been a lot more effective if you left out your last sentence.
The quote given clearly requires one of three things be true:

(1) Thiel opposes capitalism,

(2) Thiel opposes democracy,

(3) Thiel opposes women holding the franchise.

The piece in question seems to choose #3, which is the most natural reading, but I think #2 is plausible as well. Thiel clearly supports capitalism, so it's not #1.
It seems likely that many existing positions are moving quicker than planned to need a tech-experienced person in that role.

10 years ago just having a technology "system" to run pieces of your business was enough to say you were doing something.

The shift in the last 4-7 years of managers in HR, Payroll, Finance to be literate in not only using business software systems, but manage, administer, and even implement and integrate them is leading towards one eventuality.

HR and other managers today are rarely technical or detail/data driven, and the world is becomign a data driven world first consisting of business technology / software systems that manage the details of the business.

Mix the two together and a disconnect is forming.

I experienced a payroll and HRIS implementation recently where the managers are having a hard time keeping up vs people who are natively into using and building systems as power users. It was just boring and plain old Payroll, not anything remotely to do with technology hiring.

As someone who consults in this area, I see the technology/detailed gap widening and then being filled in with people who have either picked up, or transferred from technical skills.

This pattern exists with accountants, and other professions too. The wizards of Excel have a chance to grow towards systems and processed based thinking, where folks who can't organize and make excel productive for them will have a much harder time.

Managers today simply do not have technical experience of how systems are designed, implemented, or work in detail, let alone know how to build them, or hire for them.

There is nothing more entertaining than a recruiter looking for a .NET developer (which means someone who can use all 31 languages of .NET).
Baby steps. Having Archive.org host a canonical copy forever is a huge leap forward compared to losing digital content to the ages.
As a developer this is exactly what I want

That's refreshing to hear. I've done both jobs, and I'll tell you what I've observed: if you were to go over to a developer and say "there's a bug in the program" they would look at you as if you were an idiot. What program? And when you do what?

But that same developer will go to ops and say "the server is slow", seemingly entirely unaware that the person they are talking to supports hundreds of apps running across thousands of servers. I think many developers are in for a bit of a surprise when they discover DevOps means "you do ops too now".
Pollution on Skin Leaves Plenty of Damage
Read the article. Beginning to think this "lets kick the crap out of Uber" is going a step too far. It has an internal unit run by former Met Police officers for crying out loud?