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They're different approaches to solving the same problem (improved throughput with lower latency and jitter). The major thing they have in common is that they both dedicate hardware to the problem.

With respect to AWS, in the historical "enhanced networking" case Amazon dedicated hardware by offering SR-IOV capable NICs. SR-IOV is a well understood and effective technique for approaching bare metal performance for virtualized environments, but it tends to lock you into a particular vendor, if not specific model, of hardware. I gather ENA does something a bit different, but I don't know the details.

In Google's case, we dedicate hardware to the Andromeda switch in the form of processor cores (the "SDN" block in the linked post). This allows us to be flexible in terms of NIC hardware while presenting a uniform virtual device to guests, in addition to simplifying universal rollout of new networking features to all zones/instance types.

Both approaches have tradeoffs, although I think even with ENA AWS hits ~70µs typical round-trip-times while GCE gets down to ~40µs. Amazon's largest VMs in some families do advertise higher bandwidth than GCE does currently.

(I was the tech lead for the hypervisor side of this launch — Jake, the post's author, leads the fast-path team for the Andromeda software switch)
FWD15 gets 15% off, which basically negated the price of shipping for me.
It's not whatabout-ism. The question was why is Saudi money accepted. Human-rights violations is totally irrelevant. If it were a leading concern then companies couldn't accept American money either. SpaceX basically couldn't exist. Humans rights is about political power nothing else. Saudis are already dancing to the USA's tune so the US doesn't roll out the human rights and democracy trope. Instead they trade.
The new Alias IP stuff should help with that (though I imagine there will still be some iptables shenanigans left, so I'm not sure how much it will help)
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While the conversion from points/pixels to em is not fixed, it is fixed for any particular font. As the pixel and point sizes change, so will the em - they're directly proportional except for any font hinting your browser might apply.
No, its time to stop pretending that the "tech industry" is some sort of champion of freedom and goodness. There is nothing inherently good about tech or the tech industry. Governed properly, platforms and services like Twitter and Google can be valuable tools in creating and sustaining a free and open society. Nothing about their behavior suggests this is the case. Virtually every tech company has crumbled without much hesitation when put under pressure from authoritarian governments from China to the United States. Not only are these tech platforms quick to acquiesce to the requests(and threats) from governments, but they have proven just as willing to engage in shady and subversive practices to support their business model (and those of their advertisers and clients).
> But why would any of that result in color, pleasure, etc?

Because it doesn't exist in a vacuum, it exists inside an agent, that is inside the world. And the agent has to achieve a goal, to maximize utility, by learning to act intelligently. This creates a complex value system for states and actions. The values are used to select our actions, and we experience them as "qualia".

So colors and pleasures are just sensory experiences accompanied by their action-values. In the end it's all a game, and qualia is generated by the game. We're mistakenly searching for qualia in the brain, while it was all around us, in the game itself. The brain is but one part of it.
> Apple did not break a law, so law enforcement cannot hold them accountable.

I thought the unstated assumption was that the law should be changed, which is certainly within both the letter and spirit of rule of law.
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> As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number.

I don't like it either, and it looks especially bad when coming from someone with little experience. Occasionally I see someone working as a junior developer and putting 4/5 stars in Ruby, 5/5 stars in CSS, 3/5 in JavaScript.

I feel what these people mean is that they are most proficient in CSS, then in Ruby, then in JavaScript, not that they're experts in CSS, but this is not obvious.
"The cyclist actively undermined the freely and fairly elected President of the United States and the only person with a credible plan to make America great again. That's a big step beyond supporting a set of traditions that go back thousands of years and had majority support in California at the time."
AFAIK for GLB to work with GKE (via GLBC) I would still need NodePort service that routes exclusively via iptables?

FWIW I also look forward to IPVS in k8s 1.9 that should improve this slightly.
Back in the 70s when I designed TTL circuits, the rule was to do the math to work out all the worst case timings. The design was done with the expectation that any part could be replaced with a faster part, and the design would still work. (Because parts got faster over time, not slower, and the slower parts would become unavailable.)
> ultimately they are trying to create a plan to secure the future of real people

I think you have a point in general, but let's not take the proclamations at face value.

> The Saudis haven’t tended to try and influence their investments, they are mostly a silent investor so far

Do we know this somehow? Beyond a doubt, if they have power they will use it.
> It just allows the instruments to mimic the movements of your hands

So it's more of a waldo[1] than a robot.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator
Replied to a sibling, but I believe our latency is currently coming in under theirs. Their largest/newest VMs advertise higher peak bandwidth than we do. The latency difference would certainly be most directly visible in microbenchmarks, although HPC applications and those relying on in-memory databases are also likely to see practical benefit.
You’ve been able to boot Macs over a network connection for many years… here's an example using a Linux machine as a netboot server for a Mac: https://www.blueboxmoon.com/wordpress/linux-based-mac-bsdp-a...
It never really panned out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS

Here's a real exploit instead. Audio-only attack revealing RSA private keys in GPG!

https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/
> it is is so happy to compromise those values.

I'm reminded of the "values of the carphone warehouse [of which there are none]" bit.

Employees have values. Companies have employees and assets. They are a moral compromise by their very nature. Big (public) companies especially, have little interest in being "ethical", as by their sheer size, their economical duties are enormous.

I do believe this would dwarf any concerns short of... Well, what issue can you have that's big enough to risk the livelihoods of thousands or millions? I can think of none.

(I'm trying to describe things as they are, not as I would like them. The lesson is that to change the way companies behave you have to change all of society. In my humble opinion, "values" are the result required for homeostatis, and almost never the motivators.)
Yep, I'm on VPN right now, and I'm blocked.

But thank goodness for the Internet Archive! (FWIW, I've donated several times, it has helped me out so many times)

The article of interest is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170920090047/http://www.otherh...
Because the comment section gets terribly one-sided and emotional.
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I created a bookmarklet, for the same reasons, which downloads a handful at a time.

https://gist.github.com/chamakits/a0980ea8ce4d085426525df142...

You'll need to click it a couple of times since I on purpose made it download a couple at a time. Or you could put a really large number on the variable if you want, or call it from the console after running the bookmarklet.
I kept my old computers from the 80's to today. A couple years ago I tried to fire them up. None older than 10 years would come up. Some would crackle and belch smoke, others weird POST errors.

Oh well.
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https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple...

https://www.engadget.com/2011/08/04/apples-hold-on-metal-cha...

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2848283

> When Apple's iPhone4 was nearing production, Foxconn and Apple discovered that the metal frame was so specialized that it could be made only by an expensive, low-volume machine usually reserved for prototypes. Apple's designers wouldn't budge on their specs, so Gou ordered more than 1,000 of the $20,000 machines from Tokyo-based Fanuc. Most companies have just one.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_38/b41950584...
It is (or was) on the official recommended leisure reading list for 7-10 year olds in England. More recent lists seem to put it for 11-12 year olds. ("Key Stage reading list watership down" is what I searched for, and sometimes it's stage 2, otherwise 3.)

I think I was 7 or 8 when my mother / English teacher gave it to me.
Could you imagine the guy who wrote this article in a bar with Satoshi in 2008 telling him the whole project should be abandoned because of this issue?

What's funny about bitcoin is that there are all kinds of ways it could have failed, but it didn't. The government could have kicked down the door at any moment with all kinds of trumped up legal stuff, but they didn't. What happened?
The claim GP was responding to was a "never" claim, not a "not if it was just to bank $250MM without any specific allocation for it".
Interesting.... Its very difficult to think about works of cells... if god is there... he is so great of creating lifes...
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> I thought Star Trek was considered Utopian, at least inside the Federation.

In my comment, I'm implying that any universe where we don't figure out AI, where humans are still in charge is a sort of dystopia.

To be absolutely clear, it was a poor attempt at a joke. Many of these observations can also be read in a positive light. But I do think that in a lot of ways you can see darkness in the federation.

They haven't figured out AI and still have humans in charge of menial tasks, humans who aren't particularly good at those tasks compared to a computer.[1] I mean, sure, exploring, sending people to explore is great, but they also send people to fight, even when the battle is existential. They still have humans in charge, even though those humans are still only slightly less corrupt and petty than we are.

They also apparently still have huge issues with racism even within the federation. This is the second part of the comparison; I have recently learned that my own society seems to be rather more racist than I thought it was. I have learned that progress is way slower than I initially thought. Star trek reflects this glacial progress.

[1]Apparently, they have bans on enhancing those humans, even though they have the tech to do it (see bashir's storyline on DS9) To me? this seems like the worst kind of waste. To have the technology to make us all brilliant, but to leave us all as dullards.
You mean like Stuart Russell, who literally wrote the book on AI? You mean like the Google Brain team and OpenAI, who are actively researching how to control superintelligence? I can't help but notice that the people who aren't alarmed by the consequences of superintelligence are people who haven't bothered to read the arguments.
> [Russia is] a capitalist society so their interests are mostly aligned with capitalist societies elsewhere.

Clearly their interests are not aligned with most capitalist societies, including the ones in Europe, East Asia, and the U.S. Russia overtly calls these nations their enemies, those nations see Russia as a threat, and Russia regularly threatens them militarily and interferes in their domestic politics at an extreme level (short of war).
thanks, nicely spotted tweet!
In order to check a correlation we test it's causal predictive power in new situations. Causation has a special property that it can be used to simulate the future, while correlation does not.
I've been an observer an impacted neighboring resident for a development in my neighborhood (fwiw I'm pragmatic about these things and have a cooperative relationship with the developer).

Can attest that the council's and committees are 95% old people. And tbh the workload burden to review a development proposal is pretty heavy, and you'd basically have to be semi retired to want to do this.
Yes it does. I had a USB Image of the OS X Installer I created some years ago. Was not able to install it (since the certificate expired). I had to reset the Systemclock to something like 2015.

But I guess they don't expire like iOS updates do.
That is true, but realize that those are the people that stay in their comfort zone and repeat the things they already know.
I'm tired of updating my CloudFormation templates with the new instance types every month.

Can AWS provide CFN template with all valid instance types, that I can import in a CFN?

Maybe some other programmatic way as an API or CLI, i.e.:

aws ec2 describe-instance-types
Emacs org-mode HTML export + ob-ipython could do it for you, with some configuration...
Google leaving china might be an example in favor of my point...the moral decision there may have also been the profitable decision.
Gov money is better spent on fundamental science and research than small business loans, well at least in the sense that if a private investor is very interested in an investment, that means it's too safe for the government. The gov should provide a different role than private money does
I can speak to _significant_ performance improvements when upgrading to React 16. Like night and day performance with minimal code tweaking. (Basically add prop-types package and remove any references to React.proptypes)
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Does accepting investments from Saudi Arabia represent a compromise of those values? Are Saudi Arabian investors attempting to limit diversity, tolerance, and freedom of expression?

I fail to see how accepting investments from Saudi Arabia is selling once's soul or compromising on those values. If anything, the fact that Saudi Arabia is diversifying its investments and becoming invested in the economies of Western countries is likely a driving factor of their latest pushes towards more egalitarian (but, relatively speaking, still backward-as-hell) values.
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Have you considered reinforcement learning as a paradigm that can explain the interplay of subjectivity vs objectivity? Artificial RL agents have perception, values, and can act in the world, learning how to maximize utility. They have a subjective view of the world given by their perception and value system (past learned). I think RL opens subjectivity up for examination.
This seems like engineering for engineering's sake. From the author's description, this was a pretty superficial refactoring that may or may not have been for the better.

It seems like a bizarre decision to spend time migrating to a new system / tool that provides no immediate benefits. A thorough refactoring of their codebase seems like it would have been a better use of engineering time.
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You’ll join SnackNation as a member of the Engineering discipline of the Technology team. Technology is a multi-discipline team with diverse goals. We work together to share knowledge and provide inter-discipline support to ensure the team collectively crushes their goals. We recognize individual achievement and we celebrate as a team.

As a member of Engineering, you’ll work closely with your Product Manager and fellow engineers to understand requirements and design well thought-out solutions. You’ll also foster relationships throughout the company to have direct contact with your internal users and those closest to our external users. We primarily work in Ruby, Python, and Node and host our systems in Heroku and AWS. Engineering operates on nine day sprints, with the expectation that all commitments are consistently completed during those nine days. On the tenth day, we demo our work and then you’re left to fill the rest of the day with whatever you feel is most important. Code is managed and reviewed in GitHub, work is managed in JIRA, documentation is in Confluence, communication is through Slack, and we’re big fans of JetBrains tools. TeamCity is the best continuous integration software, so we lovingly use that to keep us honest. We also love open source and encourage contributing back.

We believe in the right tool for the job, so we have closed source systems that keep our business running smoothly such as Salesforce, Zuora, NetSuite, and ZenDesk. You’ll work alongside the administrators of these systems and integrate with them via the SnackNation API.
Such a wonderful book, I read it every single year for about twenty years, until I misplaced my copy. There's a beautiful walk that takes one by Watership Down and Nuthanger Farm. Recommended: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2009/jun/07/watership-dow...
PoC||GTFO has released multiple issues with polyglot data files (mostly PDF and ZIP).

I just realized that - in order to circumvent the slow hosting server - the authors could have put it into a Docker image.
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Would it be okay if a cyclist had raised her middle finger at Pres. Obama? If we want to restore civility to our politics, we need to hold everyone to high standards.

No matter what you think of Trump, he holds the Office of the President and that Office should be respected. If you are angry with him for whatever reason, then the most effective way to channelize your anger is every subsequent election where he or his supporters are on ballot.
Why now, New York Times? Just after Saudis started to clean their house.

What's your point? This article cannot be accidental.
The US and Eritrea are the only two.

In practice, the US has tax treaties with most other nations that permit foreign taxes paid (on income that would be taxable federally, so not on wealth taxes) to be taken as a dollar-for-dollar credit. That means that any country with a lower tax rate than the US will generally not increase your overall income tax bill. If you owed $X to a foreign country and $Y to the US for work done in the foreign country, you pay $X to the foreign country (regardless) and if Y is greater than X, you pay $(Y-X) to the US.
>of course the whole "you can't actually fly a drone here without calling the 5 airports in the area" rules tends to put a damper on things

I could be wrong, but I bet there's a reasonably large market for 'inside only' selfie drones. If you look at who is posting on youtube, most of it is filmed indoors.
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At SnackNation, we take snacking seriously. We’ve partnered with many of the most innovative brands in snacking, inspired by their drive to create healthier options for everyone. We also take technology seriously, and we’re looking for experienced individuals to help our growing, talented team of technologists build the future of SnackNation and bring that same level of innovation to help us deliver these snacks across the country. As a subscription company shipping snacks to thousands of companies throughout the US (from startups to Fortune 100 and everywhere in between), we have many moving parts that all work together so each office receives the best snacks at the best time. The Technology team at SnackNation is the glue that brings everything together. We’re a service oriented team aimed at driving the success of our members and our employees with thoughtful, robust, reliable solutions that save them time and simplify their workday.

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Engineering @ SnackNation

You’ll join SnackNation as a member of the Engineering discipline of the Technology team. Technology is a multi-discipline team with diverse goals. We work together to share knowledge and provide inter-discipline support to ensure the team collectively crushes their goals. We recognize individual achievement and we celebrate as a team.

As a member of Engineering, you’ll work closely with your Product Manager and fellow engineers to understand requirements and design well thought-out solutions. You’ll also foster relationships throughout the company to have direct contact with your internal users and those closest to our external users. We primarily work in Ruby, Python, and Node and host our systems in Heroku and AWS. Engineering operates on nine day sprints, with the expectation that all commitments are consistently completed during those nine days. On the tenth day, we demo our work and then you’re left to fill the rest of the day with whatever you feel is most important. Code is managed and reviewed in GitHub, work is managed in JIRA, documentation is in Confluence, communication is through Slack, and we’re big fans of JetBrains tools. TeamCity is the best continuous integration software, so we lovingly use that to keep us honest. We also love open source and encourage contributing back.

We believe in the right tool for the job, so we have closed source systems that keep our business running smoothly such as Salesforce, Zuora, NetSuite, and ZenDesk. You’ll work alongside the administrators of these systems and integrate with them via the SnackNation API.
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because americans are too cheap to invest?
I don't subscribe to either (and I'd venture to say neither does westoncb). My view is that both are flawed interpretations of reality. Both dualists and materialists assume "objects" to have some sort of independent existence and the argument between them is that the former claims there is something else that also exists while the latter claims nothing else exists. However ask yourself, what sort of existence test can any object (or concept for that matter) pass without the subjective knowing of it? The moment an ontology presumes either objects or subjects as the core premise of reality, it is already one step removed from it.