skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans consume 0.7-1.3 kW per capita. A network of these chips scaled to human brain capacity would consume around 10 kW. It is really not a big difference. Our robot overlords are going to be quite efficient!
I guess Citizens United doesn't just apply to citizens.
Apple in ‘urgent’ need of finding iPhone OLED supplier besides Samsung
Future Interconnects: Gen-Z Stitches a Memory Fabric
> They could have done it in Java, C# or Go.

Maybe. But I think with much greater difficulty. None of Java, C#, or Go has the built-in distributed processing capability of Erlang.

The last time I looked into it, WhatsApp's infrastructure consisted of 256 2-node clusters, each node of which was capable of supporting between one and two million concurrently open TCP sockets. The 2-node clusters were combined into (IIRC) 16 "islands", some of which were geographically remote, and each of which communicated with the other using a distribution protocol written by WhatsApp in Erlang.
Can you limit evaluation to N reductions?
"socialism" may have been the instrument, but why did the AMA use it to scare people out of supporting Truman's plan? Because they felt the plan encroached on their power. That's why the AMA advocated for expanded private insurance---as a bulwark against government takeover of medical care. So it may be that the "P" word is more important: "protectionism".

See http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/christy_ford_ch.htm...
Picked up that habit from P.G.Wodehouse's comrade Psmith.

A harmless affectation. No real socialism involved.
Obsolete is a pretty strong term, as is the date:

"Come 2032, not all cars will be ultra-low emission, but Scotland hopes that the majority will either be powered purely by electricity or have a hybrid option."

Good goal, bad headline.
There are laws against foreign nationals to provide a "thing of value" to a US political campaign. This is obviously a difficult thing to tease out. My source on this is Eugene Volokh, a law professor and First Amendment attorney: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

The fundamental question then is: was this intentional on behalf of the foreign agent to provide a "thing of value" to a US political campaign, and/or did a political candidate or campaign solicit this?
The small student population at Olin affects the founder rate in a more pertinent way than sample variance: because they only need to admit 100 students, this group of students can be of a higher average quality than if they needed to accept 1000+ students like Stanford/MIT. As an analogy, if YC were to 10x the number of startups they invested in per batch, they'd certainly expect their average return to decrease, because the last company they accept will be less likely to succeed than the first or tenth.

If you really wanted to measure how Olin's teaching compares to that of MIT/Stanford, vis-a-vis startup founding success, you could have the other schools "draft" a team of 100 CS students at the beginning of their freshman year, and measure the founding success rate of only those 100 students.
They've also helped millions of people get affordable AIDS medication.

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2016/jun/15...
Why would Facebook discriminate where ad $ revenue is coming from? Twitter, Instagram, doesn't matter, money is money.
It's a non-issue and you're really wasting your time responding to these attempts to suggest "both candidates were as corrupt as each other" in the 2016 election:

"Nonetheless. looking at the Clinton Foundation’s donor list, Saudi Arabia gave between $10 million and $25 million. But the foundation reported the Saudi money in December 2008, and the amount hasn’t changed since. Clinton Foundation spokesman Brian Cookstra pointed out that Saudi Arabia did not give to the foundation while Secretary Clinton was at the State Department."

Why people genuinely believe we should focus on this, rather than Donald Trump's ongoing business ties to Russia—and all of the blatant lies about it—I'll never know.
Lawyer credentialing exists because individual clients are unable to vet lawyers otherwise. Same with doctors. In both cases, the consequences of getting a quack doctor or lawyer can be disastrous... death or imprisonment, for example. General contractors can cause quite a bit of damage to your home so they often have to be licensed and bonded, electricians can cause fires so they're licensed, and bad plumbers can do plenty of damage to your house too. All of these people are likely to be hired by private individuals.

A bad programmer could rack you up AWS charges, or leak your clients' credit card numbers to an attacker, or other things like that, but these are just financial losses for businesses that don't do their due diligence (nobody's dying, going to jail, or having their house burn down).

> Moreover, have you also considered its benefits?

I don't think the benefits have been adequately explained to me. Maybe I could consider them if you told me what they are.
He hasn't managed to make it work - it kernel panics for him.

He mentions that fb noticed significant performance improvement [1].

You should see improvements in some cases, ie. when you can do zero-copy transfers (avoiding kernel->user and then user->kernel data copying), in other words when you pipe data from one socket/file to the other socket/file.

[1] https://netdevconf.org/1.2/papers/ktls.pdf
That's probably true, but there's very little evidence of donations to the foundation being used to elicit favors, and there's a smidge of evidence that such attempts failed. Example:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-clinton-donor-chag...
A fund run by their daughter...

http://time.com/3736221/chelsea-clinton-global-initiative-hi...

...that has been accused of sometimes using the foundation as a type of slush fund...

http://nypost.com/2016/11/06/chelsea-clinton-used-foundation...

...and doesn't always do what it promises...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/hillary-clint...
That kernel patch sets off some alarms. Dozens of goto statements and many of them are not the common C exit/cleanup idiom; backwards jumps are frequent and following some of these functions is difficult. tls_sw_sendmsg and tls_sw_sendpage have 8 and 5 goto labels respectively.

Ew.

Might all be brilliant and flawless, but it's not obvious.
I'd also suggest daily rate or weekly rate as alternatives. Seems like a better unit to bill consulting services in than hours or months. Easier to sell clients 20 days of your time or 4 weeks of your time imho. It is easier for companies to budget x days or x weeks of consulting services with fixed daily / weekly rate.
My understanding is no, this is legal. But this would be illegal if a U.S. political campaign knew about and facilitated these ad buys, as then it would be a contribution. Source: https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml#Pro...
If that were what this was about, it would all be a bunch of papers and op-eds discussing the evidence. And it's nice that you can link to some of that, and I wish this controversy was all just ding-dong of evidence, counter-evidence and the interpretations thereof.

But it's hard to see the linked article as anything but a fig-leaf, when the centre of the actual controversy is an attempt to sack Prof Wax, on the grounds that her arguments are morally unacceptable.
I've had the TV for ten months now, and bought it from a local shop that I like (Richer Sounds).

I have an ongoing complaint with Samsung, hopefully they'll see some sense.

Until then they're on my blacklist and at every opportunity I'll make it known that their products have ads built in. It's a pity, as the TV is great in every other regard.
From your link:

> In particular, MINIX was chosen as the basis for the operating system (previously, ThreadX RTOS had been used). Now ME firmware includes a full-fledged operating system [...]

Woah, did I read that correctly? That there is a version of MINIX running inside of the Intel processors of presumably almost every modern computer with an Intel CPU that has Intel ME in it? If so then that's insanely cool! I mean I still dislike Intel ME itself and wish I could disable it easily and without risking damage/destruction but the idea of there being a version of MINIX running on my computer right now is quite cool.
FSFE+-+Colaborar+-+Información+para+traductores
At that point you're just arguing that capitalism has never existed, so perhaps you should use another term for your "true Scotsman" version to reduce confusion when talking to people who use the common definition.
You shouldn't be alarmed about people being psychopaths, because as you see empathy doesn't get you very far. To reliably care about the far future, it has to be a rational decision, not an emotional one.
how do you change a social system without modifying its values? values lead to actions leads to change etc.
+1 for this use case!
From the article:

"Of course we are always free to dispute each other; Wax’s colleagues could certainly have written essays or a collective essay debating her claims and pointing out flaws in her reasoning, but when is it morally and professionally appropriate to issue a collective public condemnation of a colleague?

"I think such collective actions are only appropriate when colleagues have clearly and flagrantly violated their professional duties. I mean things like data fabrication or taking bribes to produce dishonest academic papers desired by a trade association."

Well, that's just your opinion man.

This is one of the key claims of this article, and it has no support. Why is a collective response inappropriate here? Why should those students and professors who disagree with Amy Wax not band together intellectually and through collective speech? Why is a collective response only appropriate when someone is clearly and vagrantly violating their professional duties? The author is making a very extreme assertion, but does it as an aside.
As Czech myself, I prefer to believe the theory of several clever guys tricking someone important to buy a nonsense book of secrets, splitting the spoils, having a good laugh. Resonates well... Heidrich called us the Laughing beasts for a reason.
>Malignancy wasn’t simply about cells spreading; it was also about staying—and flourishing—once they had done so.

>In the field of oncology, “holistic” has become a patchouli-scented catchall for untested folk remedies: raspberry-leaf tea and juice cleanses.

why some "juices", or more specifically just plain baking soda in a glass of drinking water, may actually help - at least for mice it doubled survival chances here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834485/figure/...

(it is pretty logical - metastatic invasion is based on acidic dissolution of ECM (which is collagen mostly) and cancer tumor local environment is acidic as a result of increased glycolysis and the resulting increased lactate production, so increasing the pH of the tumor environment naturally impedes metastatic invasion)
But trying to empathize with someone who is going to live thousands of years from now seems like designing software based on speculative requirements changes. You end up with a custom DSL for a custom rules engine and only 2 rules ever got written with it. Except that predicting what humanity will be like in 1000 years is harder than predicting what your software will be like in 10 years.
The Federal Election Commission would have something to say:

"The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them. Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment." [0]

The definition of "foreign national" is quite broad.

How this works with regards to PAC contributions is unclear to me.

[0] https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml
My dogs sneeze a lot when they are really excited or ready to play. I wonder if that's a related behavior.
Charging fixed price per whole project might not be a good idea. Software projects usually never finish completely in a certain predefined deadline so it makes it very hard for you to plan and price your services.

There will always be issues that will delay the project that you couldn't have predicted and priced in at the start, requirements will often change during the project, there can be new feature requests which will further push the deadline.

Much better to instead sign a contract for fixed amount of time (6 months of consulting services for example). You will work on the project for the time defined by signed contract.

A month before your contract ends sit down with the client and estimate the current state of the project and see if additional time will be needed in which case you can negotiate contract extension. This approach is much more agile actually so most clients would prefer it I'd imagine.

Clients can keep extending your contract by 3 month chunks if they need to. If you finish everything early clients will easily find you some more work while they are paying for your consultancy services. If not you can have short notice period in the contract like 1-2 weeks so contract can be cut short.
Pretty snarky when we all know the lines are blurrier than your comment suggests.

Here's one example where the Clinton Foundation provided access to government officials by corporations seeking favors: http://freebeacon.com/issues/emails-clinton-foundation-donor...

Denis O’Brien has a checkered past of journalistic obstruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_O%27Brien

Access. The Clinton Foundation sells access, from which the Clinton family benefits.

I don't see the Gates Foundation pulling this, do you?
Could anyone point out the boundary between the open-source Mesos / Marathon stack, and the commercial DC/OS? The official documentation (https://docs.mesosphere.com/1.9/overview/what-is-dcos/) doesn't make it clear. What capabilities does DC/OS have that are not available in the open-source portion of the stack?

> As a distributed system, DC/OS includes a group of agent nodes that are coordinated by a group of master nodes. Like other distributed systems, several of the components running on the master nodes perform leader election with their peers.

This just sounds like vanilla Mesos masters and slaves. DC/OS "runs on top of" that, but what is it actually doing? Is the DC/OS another service that just enables the Mesos masters to initially discover and replace each other? Could it not be replaced with Zookeeper or Consul? That seems like a small piece of the puzzle, what would make it the one expensive thing, while the rest of the system is free? Is the overall stack actually shareware, rather than a community of independent open-source services?

The reason I am so curious, is because after running a small demo a year ago, the Mesos stack looked really promising. The only thing holding me back from proposing a large scale trial, for comparison to our sprawling Heroku/ECS/EBS setup, was the feeling that I was not understanding a crucial part of the architecture, and not understanding the pricing, if that is even applicable (couldn't find price info anywhere! How do I quantify that part?)
When they publish hateful garbage like the following, I have no interest in their supposed technical prowess:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/us/texas-storm-federal-ai...
The lower the efficiency of a system the higher employment and the more capital is spread around, making everyone better but making it very difficult to aggregate wealth.

Public infrastructure is exactly that...public. It is isn't taxed.

More money would be available for loans with higher velocity. Venture capital already has extremely high velocity...that's why it is even possible for extreme high risk investing to be profitable in the first place.

Where the penalty would be applied to businesses, banks, investment firms sitting on CASH or near cash assets doing nothing. Put those assets to work or tax the hell out of it.
He's also playing a super nitty 16/12 game. I'm guessing he was just grinding rakeback at those stakes.
I agree that humanity is astronomically more important than anything else we know, but your argument for why isn't very good. Humans are just as much an artefact of statistics as stars, but with complexer patterns.
You'll change your mind about it not being your car the first time you get into one, it takes off, then you're like "sniff...sniff...ohgodwhatzatsmell", suddenly realizing some drunk person puked (or worse) in the back seat area.
Don't forget that property prices were also inflated by foreign buyers looking for a safe place to put their money outside their governments' reach, and that this practice was encouraged by the outgoing government (probably the current one as well).

Also, another issue is that you can cause a housing market crash and financial crisis by abruptly increasing the rate when household debt is at a high.
I think I'm the one that made the confusing statement to begin with.

Your clarification is more in line with what I meant.
Hey, one of the cofounders here. You're exactly right - we're focusing on younger people who don't necessarily own credit cards but still need to travel. Rather than making a generic micro-loan platform, we want to target one very specific vertical and make the experience really smooth.
Because foreign agents buying political ads violates US federal law
Using Android's Secure Enclave
I guess I can sort of understand the sentiment of not caring much for the individuals of humanity, but there is a difference between that and not caring about humanity as a whole, as the species, as the beings that, as more time and generations go by, understand more about the universe and find ways to do what was previously thought to be impossible. Doesn't it excite you what humanity might accomplish with more time? Doesn't it disappoint you that they might lose everything they've accomplished through millenia of work simply because of carelessness of previous generations?

I believe humanity could survive longer if people only cared enough to prepare for disasters they know will come, even if it's multiple generations into the future. This is like humanity is one big human procastinating. Some things can only be accomplished if you prepare for them with time.
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Components aren't open source. Still waiting for the new hdfs package to be released see https://github.com/mesosphere/hdfs-deprecated/blob/master/RE...
Ya, it's definitely a spectrum. NZ is far from the most homogenous, and certainly there are divisions within the Nordic countries. No arguments from me there. But I think its fair to say that the US is more diverse than either of those two places, and that comes with benefits and it comes with problems. My point though is that it does have consequences, which is something that seems unfashionable to point lately.
Even in Denver it looked like perpetual sunset on Monday & Tuesday afternoons. Today is slightly better, but I still wonder if it would obscure any potential aurora.
This problem was actually solved, but almost nobody uses it. Safe variants of most of those string, memory, io, wchar, stdlib and misc functions are defined in the C11 standard Annex K (finally after 9 years), but nobody is using it, and rather propose to keep using known unsafe variants like the truncating versions with an n. Like snprintf and not the safe variant sprintf_s.
glibc, bsd, darwin, musl, newlib: nobody cares to implement the safe bounds checking variants. They solely rely on the compile time size checks, which fail to check any dynamic boundaries.
Only Microsoft, Android, Cisco and Embarcadero implement the safe libc functions.
I recently took over Cisco's safelibc (MIT licensed) and extended it to more platforms, all C11 api's, and an improved testsuite. And boy was I surprised to find so many missing API's, upstream libc bugs and wrong API's everywhere. Flawless were only musl and the BSD's. But musl is lacking with it's errno and of course zero C11. Only ReactOS has a proper testsuite for their libc. Glibc is somewhat ok, but I still find crashes daily.

https://github.com/rurban/safeclib

So why is nobody else implementing C11? I'll write a blog post when I finished my C11 efforts. Maybe at least FreeBSD will take it then.
Dear TekMol,

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Unfortunately, all of our employees read your post and they agree with you and they have all quit to follow their bliss and have left en mass for Chiang Mai until they can "figure out what that means."

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- And any and all sundry job that aren't cool enough to be in an TV commercial

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Further, we encourage you to consider the implicit flip-side of your argument that, to paraphrase, one can only be happy or have a meaningful life if one does what they love. The incredibly insulting inference being that people who don't do exactly what they love can't possibly be happy or have a meaningful life.

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Cordially,

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NOAA 30 minute aurora forecast:
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I'm completely dumbfounded how everyone has missed that the simple problem of scoping in CSS is naming.

I work with Vue and Stylus. You already have to give your JS components a name. Your styles can use that name. I don't need my styles inside the .vue files. I just keep them in a separate file: /styles/components/foo.styl. At the top of your Stylus file you give the name of the component (.foo) once. Even further, you can prefix it (.my-foo). That's the namespace. Then all your styles can be written under that with a methodology like BEM. Now you get scoping AND you can still load up your variables/settings first, via a main.styl. Otherwise, if you put styles in your .vue files then you need to remember to import variables each time. Also it becomes an issue to discern which classes in the component are from you and which are from a vendor (ie. Bulma, Boostrap). Then think about libraries. You can't work with styles that are in the vendor's .vue files (without adding more specificity). I wish that library would have provided me its separate SCSS/Stylus styles instead. Am I missing something here Rich? (btw, love your work in Rollup!)
While it's good that you have an ethics page: https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/, it only has two ethical guidelines:

* Spread awareness of this technology

* Your digital voice remains yours

I would feel a lot better about this if you also had explicit ethical boundaries, for example disallowing users impersonating someone else, e.g. Donald Trump, Barack Obama. "Your digital voice remains yours" sort of sounds like you won't use/share my digital voice with others, but doesn't directly address whether bad actors can maliciously impersonate someone who hasn't registered with Lyrebird.