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There is some R&D required, but nothing very fundamental.

My point is that the technical challenges are pretty minor compared to the rest. Nobody believes what I am proposing is impossible. There might be a discussion if it can be built in 2, 5 to have a full scale reactor that could be commercialized.

The real point is that this could have been done 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago or at any time. The issue was never a technical one.

If the government made a serious push including regulatory changes, action by national labs and copy the NASA approach to commercialization I am certain we could mass produce these things in under 10 years. Once you mass produce reactors the energy production capacity you produce is quite unbelievable. It dwarfs everything else.

> current manufacturing

My point about manufacturing is that reactors are not more complicated or need higher tolerances then rocket engines for example. SpaceX is producing rocket engines for 2M a pop at a rate of more then a 100 year. Boeing is producing far more complex air planes for 200M a pop at the rate of 1 per week.

It is far easier then producing all these wind, solar and battery plants. The needed scales of production are multible order of magnitude different.

A mass produced nuclear reactor will produce between 100-300MW, while most wind turbine produce around 3MW while being just as hard to produce and harder to install.
Society also pays the Realtor 6% and the sports betting website 10%. Just because a transaction has historically occurred at a given price doesn't mean it should continue to be worth that much in the modern services market.

Accounting and law firms shouldn't be worried about automation just yet when frat stars are still being paid $140k/yr out of college to make powerpoint presentations.
As a former GCP Networking PM, I'm very proud to see this capability finally making its way to the public. Congrats to you, Aspi and the rest of the team for making this happen!
This is how it works in Germany. Tuition is (almsot) free, but you get an allowance (up to aprox €850 IIRC) every month, if you and your parents don't have a high income. In most German states you a) only have to pay back up to €10k of that and you only have to pay if you make more than a pretty high number that I forgot AND you have a graceperiod of several years before you even to start paying after you leave uni. Consequently, I know nobody who has difficulty making payments.
B2 has retrieval cost, the first 10GB each month is free.
Minimum congestion with GCP seems like a great QoS parameter
The linked paper talks about CNNs in its abstract, so those were probably trained with such samples and thus have that knowledge baked in.
> Access to food, clothing, and shelter are NOT fundamental rights

This is not true. Food, water, education and shelter are fundamental rights under Article 21.
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Exactly. In the very worst case, if local storage is to be used for storing password, it should be stored with asymmetric cryptography so that encryption is done with public key, but decryption can only be done with private key which is stored in the server (And not on the client). With a proper key rotation scheme, this could be an OK solution.
I kinda expected an article about how startups treat underage tech workers.
Powerthirsty psychopaths of all factions unite against the puppets marching of on theire own.
Actually it's eigendecomposition of A'A and the SVD of A, is it not?
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/how-india-reg...

AFAIK, the government has not attempted to prosecute anyone for using stronger encryption, and other government departments/organizations have made conflicting recommendations, especially when it comes to online banking and capital markets. Barring new regulations that clarify the government's position, the status quo is that ISPs cannot apply strong encryption themselves, but are not obligated to prevent their users from doing so.

At least one ISP has gone beyond this mandate and tried to block the use of stronger encryption by their customers[0].

[0]https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/07/indian-is...
attacker who might have gained access to same domain privileges through code injection.
Being white means that you have a higher probability to be born in a developed country too.
STEP ONE: DON'T SHOUT.
It does not need to be on-site. In a liquid fuel reactor one could do batch processing.

Some startups actually propose to produce reactors with the fuel inside and then recycle the hole reactor.

Chemical plants might be a pain but its far easier then doing isotopic separation.
>ZFS is very much in a grey area, and in turn, a huge turn off for many.

There is a grey area in distribution, there isn't one about using ZFS. Even the FSF, the group who believe the CDDL and GPL can't be distributed together, say "Privately, You Can Do As You Like."

https://www.fsf.org/licensing/zfs-and-linux
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> more importantly for adoption than Python being a general-purpose language is that it is already relatively widely adopted in various industries as a tooling language. For good and bad, universities today are very keen on providing skills with immediate relevance to employeers

Maybe I phrased it confusingly but you're saying the same things I thought. I don't mean "go after" in a conscious/targeted way. I meant "it evolved towards taking over". And "immediate relevance to employeers" is provided by being a "general purpose language" (like in "look, you can quickly wip up web apps, general server admin scrips and even excell plugins with it"). And "tooling" mostly equals "general purpose" in my book: there is no clear definition of "tooling" it's about "glue code" that needs to do "a bit of everything" to tie things together... so you need a "general purpose" language for tooling.

(Now I see that maybe some people use "general purpose" as in "you can write anything from device drivers and OSs to web apps if you really want to" but this is "systems languages" in my terms or C and C++ and the newcomers Rust and D. But by this definition even Go would be very far from "general purpose"...)
Actually fuck sites that have a modal popup on window mouseout. Great way to get me to not return.
The art is to provide a clueless playboy to take the fall, so whoever has also monetary gains can sneak off in the storys background while a exempel is statuated for moral reasons.
I wonder how many disengagements per unit of distance your average human has...
They just wanted to make an example out of him.

Usually these frauds get sent to minimal security prisons or are under house arrests. But they're burned from doing business forever afterwards.
The funny thing is that the real health issue of MSG is rarely mentioned - it makes unhealthy food taste better. It is not surprising that we have evolved to appreciate the taste of protein. However when we add something that imparts a strong taste of protein while actually containing very little protein to food high in fat and carbohydrates then people may end up eating more of those.
In my country, arbitration is NOT legally binding. That said, the court ruling is often the same but much more onerous costly and time consuming. Thus arbitration rulings are accepted 9 out of 10 times.
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Thank you very much. I checked Wikipedia for Knuth-Bendix and will try to get hold on the book.
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> The right to free speech, conscience, affiliation , assembly and other political freedoms mean we need to tolerate and protect the proverbial nazis’ rights to try and spread their politics.

I'm not convinced I know how I feel about this. I want to believe this is a false dichotomy. Can we have limits in polite society?

I keep thinking of the paradox of tolerance[1], which states, in brief, that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Traditionally, a university's function was to educate students, not to make them employable. I spent years in graduate school learning the obscure details of my discipline, but I didn't take classes on how to get 22 year olds jobs.
I had to google and scan images to find the pair, but I use Panasonic RP-HJE355 (in-ear). I bought a random pair in an airport but I still use them 2 years later every day.
I could understand this as an interchange format. However for it to be really useful it should be accompanied by a GUI tool that allows you to only draw diagrams which are unambiguously representable as ASCII. Then you could use the tool to draw comfortably and only use the text as an evergreen format.
Why not Aye.js? IYKWIM
So, basically, this has opened the door to debate about the legality of collecting biometrics, but we still have to wait for official rulings to see if a stop is put to collecting that data under the Aadhar umbrella?
Score seems to work on some images but did not work on my dog's photo - how do you guys evaluate the accuracy?
That is how I understand it, yes.

This is a 'high level' ruling, which unlocks the 'deadlock' on the cases about the legality (or otherwise) of biometric collection via Aadhar for specific government schemes.

The Attorney General's argument that citizens have no fundamental right to privacy has been invalidated/overruled/whatever-the-correct-legal-term-is, by the constitutional bench. He (and his team) have to find new arguments now. [1]

The lawyers of both sides on those cases, now have to proceed on the assumption that privacy is a fundamental right. The pro-govt (so pro -aadhar) side will likely argue for 'reasonable restrictions' on the right. The anti govt side will likely argue that such restrictions are not 'reasonable' and that aadhar violates fundamental rights (or so my lawyer friends tell me [2]).

[1] Tangential: The AG who made that argument has retired, and there is a new AG who will appear for the government.

[2] They are probably oversimplifying, so I can get the gist, the same way I would if I had to explain some complex programming to them. I'm not a lawyer. :-)
Closed GPU drivers are made by the companies, which have interest in graphic cards being sold, and not sueing linux users.

ZFS on the other hand is owned by Oracle which has no interest in people using linux, nor ZFS if it's not on their proprietary stuff.
I was super keen to switch to GCP (for cost saving etc) but this mirrors a lot of my experiences. Deploys to App Engine took 20 minutes, not 2 minutes, and I have absolutely no faith in their firewall settings actually working. I have no idea what the problem is, but it's basically impossible to boot a Rancher master node on Compute Engine. Even with all ports open. In the end I just bailed on the platform as a whole, and I'm moving to a hybrid approach on smaller providers like Packet.net and Digital Ocean.

And I would have been totally fucked over by that Postgres connection limit when we went into production, I'm glad I dodged that bullet! I hadn't bumped into that when playing with dev environments, and I haven't seen that limit mentioned anywhere.
Well, there are two big factors why this happens:

* Most big companies simply won't need that very specialized know-how for longer than the project duration. So it's better to just overpay a bit for the duration of the project and then cut off all ties to the worker.

* Finding good people to work on important projects is very difficult and entails lots of money/time effort. (Either to find people or to train them.) A consultancy or engineering services company guarantees that the people they send are qualified. They also guarantee that they will provide replacements for people who quite or get ill. They might ever provide a project manager, QA people etc. that make it all much easier for the customer.
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As one of the 'pointless' admin staff at a British Russell group university, the article seems to be overly hammering home the authors point which has to be partly to do with the book 'Bullshit Business' that he's trying to sell. I don't deny that there are issues in the university system here in the 'United' Kingdom, but I feel he's overhyping issues to get clicks and sell his book.

As several previous commenters have noted, we have a some what dysfunctional market, where most universities charge the same fees. For students you're still picking based on courses and reputation. You can't really pick a cheaper 'no-frills' university. This marketisation has leeched into the central university services, where we're turning everything into a product to sell. Not much of a market when academics have to use us. We are very cheap, it's not like we've got to make money. Obviously if you got rid of that, you'd be able to remove some staff. You'd still need quite a few to meet the legislative demands which are required of universities these days.

There are definitely some truths in the article. Not everyone needs to go to university. Certainly there are some students who are getting massive amounts of debt for very little gain. Universities do chase various league tables and other such measures (some imposed centrally) which does require lots of data gathering. Large amounts of data require staff to deal with that data. Students do really like shiny new buildings, so universities go on building sprees. Again a poor NSS (national student survey) can potentially reduce students and thus income. But to be fair, you'd want things to be nice when you're paying £9k per year for your fees alone.

REF and TEF aren't well liked by academics, so I'm quite sure a lot of them would be happy if they were dropped. It's unsurprising that the article is penned by an academic and one of his main suggestions is the dropping of REF.

The USS pension scheme deficit is probably misleading. If you want some detailed reading around that, then Mike Otsuka's articles are good - https://medium.com/@mikeotsuka
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Backstory:
https://medium.com/@thomas/popurls-goes-hvper-2867b1b6b2bd
The iron ore made China pay Australia lots. But the iron ore wasn't preventing any downturn. Just the opposite: commonly countries that rely on commodity exports have crazy volatile economies, since global commodity prices are volatile.

Give your central bank some credit!
Most people don't realize that what is popularly known as "deep learning" has actually been around for over 50 years now. The big gains are really the result of having additional computing power to throw at the problems.
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Just to add there are students too. I was an international student until last year and made less than $20k in Boston. I had 8 GB of RAM, it wasn't plenty, but it was just enough. I definitely would not have preferred to use Atom then, as the benefits over Emacs weren't worth the trouble I would have had otherwise.
That'd be a nice feature. Creation to Shipment handling logs. Know which field(s) you food came from and what lots/etc.
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True that there is an expectation of the many non-academic needs of students is also well served. In Norway, this is done by an organization separate from the university ('Studentsamskipnad' or Student Welfare Organization). It is responsible for housing, health- services, food et.c. Students pay their semester fee (<100USD) to this organization (no tuition). Possibly this helps for keeping focus on academic needs in universities, though I don't know whether it helps or hinders organizational bloat.
In Germany, it's impossible for employers to tell their employees not to talk about their salaries. It collides with §2 of the German constitution.
> * ECS: Two containers can not use same port on same node. Anti pattern to containers.

That's solved if you use Application Load Balancer instead of ELB classic for your ECS service.
I should perhaps have expressed myself more academically:

The banking crisis might have caused a recession, but what turned that recession into The Great Recession in Europe and the US was too tight money: nominal GDP just fell off a cliff.

India was further away from the dreaded 'zero bound' on interest rates, and never had any problem generating enough nominal GDP. (India's problems are with the real part of the economy. So they are producing too much inflation.)

The Fed and ECB also have clever people. They still made mistakes--especially when evaluated with the benefit of hindsight.
"Luckily, we at The Times recently decided to move all product development to the Google Cloud Platform"

Great decision. Google Cloud is doing all the right things on their PaaS.
We use automatic scaling with warmup requests enabled and haven’t run into any issues when migrating traffic to newer versions. We also still use the “original” SDK which allows you to deploy and migrate traffic in two separate steps.
I’ve noticed challenges with the time taken for the load balancing around AppEngine to reconfigure when pushing new releases. Did you have any trouble with that?
Thank goodness someone did it.
If I know that Canonical can't legally distribute ZFS in whatever format to me, and yet I use Canonical's distribution of ZFS, isn't there a legal risk there? After all, it would turn out that I have no license to use said distribution of ZFS as such a license was never conferred to me by someone with the legal right to do so.

Generally speaking, courts would probably give me the benefit of the doubt if I had no reason to believe that they couldn't distribute it to me - but as I knew they couldn't (the issues with ZFS and the Linux kernel are well-documented), and I knew I'm using it, they'd probably hold me in violation of copyright.
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Nowaday you would often run containers with a container network(flannel, calico, etc.) that assigns an unique IP per container thus avoids conflicting port mappings regardless how many containers with the same port run on a single host.
That's the least messed up part, if you dispute the validity of the ninth and it is also the first to explicitly state that the previous list is not exhaustive, then clearly your position is consistent...
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We have trained our model on public photos which were popular/trending at some point of time. We fed these images to a deep CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) which started to recognise features that made photos popular. What we realise in the process that these features do change with time so we have added a temporal component to our training set to ensure our model is relevant.
It is currently optimised more for human photos and travel images so maybe in our next iteration, we can predict pets photos as well.
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Consider that most users will be careless, because running a filesystem to them is as exiting as any of the other dozen OS services. Having a corner case like this in RAID1 to me is like having a corner case in encryption...
That I immediately run into this case on my first btrfs RAID1 problem, makes me think that there is a steep slope downwards to this corner.
Enterprise customers care much more about stability than features. Backporting features is always easy, if you consider the amount of work needed to have enterprise level guarantee on their quality. Weeding out bugs in features is much, much harder.
As lots of people already pointed out: there is more going on than just a smart upsampling technique.

See section 4 of the paper - they train on a set of 3d models from some 'ShapeNetCore' dataset, from which they generate sample inputs (renderings of the model with randomized viewpoint and lighting) and corresponding target outputs (voxelized model).

They train specialized networks for different classes of objects 'aeroplanes, chairs and car', so reconstructing on all classes at the same time probably still has some issues.

An interesting point about their use of this coarse-to-fine progression that the article omits: they do the same trick for training their net - first train to predict the coarse voxels, and when those work start predicting the next level.
But do they grow on btrees?

Filesystem joke, hilarious I know
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> I would recommend looking at XFS. It's a very old filesystem but has a lot of quite modern features (and it performs better than ext4 for several workloads).

I would second this. XFS is great. A few years ago I moved from JFS to XFS for bulk data storage because JFS is pretty abandoned these days. No issues at all with XFS, and never lost any data.

Just make sure it's right for you before you use it (e.g. you cannot shrink XFS volumes as you can ext4)
Everyone seems very focussed upon Debian in this thread, even though the thread started out discussing all distributions.

It might be worth everyone's while remembering that Debian is not the be-all and end-all here, even though it did have a massive hoo-hah. The processes in other distributions were markedly different.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11834348

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/debian-systemd-packaging-hoo-hah.html
I would disagree with this assessment. Most folks I knew when I lived in seattle were indifferent to how you moved around with some exceptions (gas guzzlers were always frowned upon but this was also during the highest gas prices). I used to drive then took transit when my car was hit and no one really thought anything of it either way, most being surprised I hadn't gotten another car.

Outdoor stuff was also not really forced or brought up other than offers to join or use equipment, which was very kind.
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Minor correction - HBO Go is still in-house at HBO. BAM runs HBO Now, the OTT service.

Source: I work at BAMTech.
They still do.
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Well I've never had that on Android here in the UK. I still have to ring my EE voicemail and listen to messages one by one. Thanks for the info.
Which is all completely besides the point?

Reverse engineering and reimplementing the semantics of another vendor is obviously very much the opposite of "inventing random meaning", but rather "implementing a de-facto standard", and as such obviously helps interoperability.

But that in no way justifies the first vendor inventing that de-facto standard in the first place, whithout wich there would be no need for anyone to reverse-engineer and reimplement it.

If all deviations by browser implementors from the formal standard were reimplementations of deviations by other vendors for the sake of better interoperability ... there would not be any deviations at all.
SVD is the decomposition of a matrix into its components.

PCA is the analysis of a set of eigenvectors. Eigenvectors can come from SVD components or a covariance matrix.

source: http://www.eggie5.com/107-svd-and-pca