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The Vega64 GPU that AMD just released has 4096 "threads" operating at one time (actually in flight), with up to 40,960 of them "at the ready" at the hardware level (kinda like Hyperthreading, except GPUs keep up to ~10 threads per "shader core" in memory for quick swap in-and-outs). Subject to memory requirements of course. A program that uses a ton of vGPR Registers on the AMD system may "only" accomplish 4096 threads at a time, and maybe only 5 per core (aka 20,480) of them are needed for maximum occupancy.

Its a weird architecture because of how each "thread" shares an instruction pointer (ie: NVidia has 32 threads per wavefront, AMD has 64 workitems per Work Group), so its not "really" the same kind of "thread" as in Linux pthreads. But still, the scope of parallelism on a $500 GPU today is rather outstanding.

All of these threads could potentially hit the same global memory at the same time. I mean, if you want bad performance of course, but its entirely possible since the global memory space is shared between all compute units in a GPU.
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> H1-B is designed to just be a pool to temporarily fill labor shortages in the US. It's not intended to be the path for PR hence why it's admittedly arbitrary.

I think that is incorrect. It is expected for F-1 students to move to an H1-B (which allows intent to immigrate) and then move to PR (usually via an EB)
Or maybe, now hear me out, there wasn't a reason or motive to have bots propagate pro-Hillary hashtags. Almost seems too simple to be true.
> this shows the human mind is not an ML algorithm.

not necessarily.

Humans have a lot more knowledge about contextual information that today's ML often misses. For every "image" you classify you use a LOT of side data. That side data has also been acquired through learning.

Even if your actually saw a 1,000,000$ check or a 200 km/h speed limit, you'd know it's probably nonsense. Based on your life experience so far, you know that there's no way that mom just gave you a 1,000,000$ check, or that the city decided to turn that small residential street into a racing track. An image classification ML algorithm doesn't know any of that.
> If you have the ability to modify the check why not make it actually look like it’s for a 1000000 dollars (ie even to a human).

Plausible deniability? "I don't know why it took $1 million for a $100 check, look the check clearly says $100 on it, I didn't edit it. Must be a bank glitch."
The sweetspot was mid 90s to mid 00s. We had the benefit of the web without the all-encompassing corporate control. It was a more open and freer place back then. But as the internet got more popular and with more corporate/government involvement, the standards were lowered to accommodate the lowest common denominator.

Less free speech, more control, less privacy and more ads.
For those not actively tracking Canadian funding programs, the supercluster shortlisted proposals are:

https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...
Revolutionary technology coming from a company which is lead by top veterans. I am sure they will be very soon up in the top. Well done guys!
Greece is like 2hrs flying from Romania so pretty to easy to go to holidays to. And awesome.
The issue is that anyone with an investment strategy capable of earning consistent returns of over 1% per day, will (i) have no difficulty raising capital by offering much lower payouts to their investors (ii) will maximise their personal profit far more easily by paying out only a small fraction of returns to investors, and retaining the rest to reinvest for themselves rather than offering 1% a day returns and stupidly generous referral schemes to try to attract more funds to "manage".

Of course, the reality is that nobody earns rates of returns like this at any scale whatsoever except by robbing Peter's new funds under management to pay Paul
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Gornaya Shoria megaliths [1] maybe? But they are not man-made.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gornaya_Shoria_megaliths
Just put enough satellites so it's statically very likely that one will land on land. (Although I don't see the point of this project)
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No one believes that banning Nazis from Twitter is going to magically make them go away, but it does remove a platform for them, or at least hinder their ability to use it.
"After the age of forty, all of us, even the athletic, lose about eight per cent of our muscle mass each decade, with a further fifteen-per-cent decline between the ages of seventy and eighty. "

This has not been my experience. I have added pretty substantial muscle mass between the ages of 48 and 55 with fairly conventional weight lifting and diet with no PED's. My back squat has gone from 185 to 385 (pounds)and my deadlift from 265 to 465. 40 seems way too early to start packing it in.
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Ridecell (YC W12) is hiring Software Engineers for Autonomous Driving Team(Auro)
It could be this:
http://www.labsix.org/physical-objects-that-fool-neural-nets...

It is impressive, but that came out a couple of days ago and is not reviewed yet, as far as I can tell.

It’s not obvious from the URL but two of the authors were interns at Google, which could explain why they describe some aspects of InceptionV3 as white-box (because it's not clear if they have re-trained it themselves).
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I regret mentioning VPN. Most people don't VPN with their phones, it's possible, but most people don't. They use their phone to access their company e-mail and sometimes other services which are open on the internet already. It's a small amount of traffic compared to the cost of trying to maintain an entire separate network just for some one-off use cases, forcing people to sign-in, register their devices, maintain the network, etc.

Of course there are special cases for tablets and such, but you'd treat those differently than someone's personal phone.

If they were given a connection "straight out to the internet" then it's even more bizarre to require strict regulations about their phones.

I see no advantages to letting people's personal phones on a corporate network.
That seems like a very specific and comparatively small time period that doesn't really stack up to the attempted scale of claiming that a considerable portion of revenue is used to destabilize middle east states.

It gave them plenty of funds for sure (and only for a limited time) but saying it's a significant enough portion to the point of lending credence to the claim being discussed? I have trouble buying that without a source.
This is why I hate papers and love blog posts: they're less formal, to the point, and you bet that if they claim there's code, there will be a link.

That said, looking for "Asynchronous Ratcheting Tree" in Google, I find this paper and a bunch of irrelevant stuff. You'd think it'd be in the readme of the Github project if there was one. Looks like it's just academic.
I'm no chemical engineer but I believe silicon and silicone are two different things.
> If you have the ability to modify the check why not make it actually look like it’s for a 1000000 dollars (ie even to a human).

Humans are harder to fool. But some bank apps allow you to deposit a check by photographing it. Such apps would be fairly easy to attack.

If you limit yourself to making 100$ checks become 1000$ checks and not 1,000,000$ checks, you might even get away with it.
> In books, I do like scifi but they recommend a bunch of books with spaceships shooting each other on the cover - not what I have ever been interested in.

You're making a huge mistake by judging a book by its cover in this case. The copy of the Foundation series that I had as a kid was very space opera looking too, and I've seen gaudy covers on everything from Dune to Kim Stanley Robinson. For Sci fi in particular, publishers have an incentive to trick a large chunk of the audience into thinking that its Star Wars-y, and there's not much incentive in signaling the things that you or I would get out these books.
Some reasons:

- more efficient representation

- thread safety

- security (defensive copy)

- validation

- logging

- debugging

- backward compatibility
on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15609807
Eckhart Tolle on not always having to fill up the present moment (Twitter, etc)
Canada also has about 1/3 of its population living in the area around Toronto and smartly realizes that if they want any kind of serious development of this massive mass of land they have, they're going to need outside help.
Echo this.

If there is ever something that looks nice and shiny but will invariably cause me grief in getting working, it is written in some interpreted language (Python seems to be a particularly good at messing with me) that want everything to be in some very peculiar way.

And this trend of every new language coming with its own package manager is troubling me, as it means that developers will be even more lax about documenting their dependencies...
No, because that matches on the HTML attribute (aka the defaultValue property in JS), not on the current value of the input.
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> It's all bullshit and I can't stand it anymore...

For those of us in Southern California, even if electric cars aren't "carbon neutral", they are still a win for two reasons.

1) Electric cars that are stopped don't burn energy. Now, with the new engines that can turn themselves off and on quickly, that's becoming less of an issue, but there is still some amount of idling in any combustion engine.

2) The pollution involved with electric cars is concentrated, industrial point-source. This is FAR easier to mitigate than the diffuse, individual pollution sources represented by combustion cars.
There's good information at the Daily Kanban.[1] They describe what corners Tesla cut, and why it backfired. "Tesla has not yet built a Model 3 using the automated tooling", says one of the people from the company that builds the automated tooling.

Normal testing and tweaking time for a new body assembly line is 6 months to a year, and before that, sections of the line are run in test at the supplier's factory. Tesla skipped all that. It didn't work out well.

[1] https://dailykanban.com/2017/10/source-tesla-responsible-mod...
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I enjoyed reading it, and grasped meaning in it. What would you call your comment?
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Congrats on the gains! Though of course you are just an anecdote. But I'm curious how much of this muscle mass loss is due to biological changes vs lifestyle changes.
It's actually close to $50k before you owe that much after standard deduction... $100k would be closer to $18k taxes.

Also, you don't need to take it all one year. Tax credits carry forward up to 10 years.[1]

[1] Disclaimer, I am not an accountant
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So sorry to hear this. My thoughts to everyone, it is a very difficult day.
> We have no atmosphere of innovation because our salaries are garbage compared to the US. This is the problem, every single time. Most of my Canadian graduate friends work for US companies, some remotely. We literally do not have economic reasons to stay here. No amount of lip service will ever transform 100k into 300k.

Being a Canadian who moved to the US because the salaries were far higher than what I could find at home, I agree with the sentiment.

However, I think it's a bit more complex than: low salaries lead to no atmosphere of innovation. It seems to be a bit of a cycle. We have less competition than the mega tech centers in the US which leads to lower salaries, which leads to brain drain, which again results in less competition, and this is a cycle that continues. To break out of it, we need either a.) more competitive salaries, or b.) more companies to form, or move up to Canada. I can't see a.) happening unless there's a motivation to do so (why pay more than you have to?).

It seems to me, this is an effort to attract large companies such as Google and Amazon (perhaps for HQ2) with the hopes that this might lead to the formation of other small companies and startups splintering off of large companies. If this were to happen, and Toronto became a larger tech hub a la Seattle or the Bay Area, I would expect salaries to go up. I'm holding out hope that Canada will be able to increase its tech presence, and thus result in higher, more globally competitive salaries, but perhaps I'm being too optimistic.
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All content creators are stroking their egos.

I'm sorry, but I still see nothing "hostile" about them choosing one medium over the other. You might have a slight inconvenience, but that's it.

If you don't like things being in videos, then write written content to compete with it. Otherwise, stop with the over the top exaggerations and feelings of entitlement from content creators.
Of course they are, thanks for the correction!
SPICE software kept popping into my mind while I read this comment.
> This is interesting, but means very little to me as a heavy user of Docker.

I'm quite certain that the security issues with containers mean quite a bit to you as a heavy user of Docker. The very first line of the article establishes this baseline, re:VMs enjoy better isolation properties. Those properties used to entail higher overheads, but not so much now.
Well it does say 'all of us', so a single anecdote does disprove it. I think the original commentator was pointing out the sloppy writing.
Thanks Chad, the feeling is mutual. I'm actually going to Lille again in 2 weeks, I can already say that it won't be the same without you and Jess there.
"Star Trek" as an abstract concept across franchises has always been a few things. It's always been about interesting, and generally likable, characters and a backdrop setting of extensive space exploration, a galaxy full of many civilizations and so forth. That's a comparatively small but still important part of Star Trek. Star Trek has always been a kind of anthology project similar to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone, except it has used a constant cast of characters and setting, which makes it easier to get to moments that have more significant impact on the viewer. You already know and are invested in the characters, and their different traits can be used to help tell the story. This is both the weakness and strength of Star Trek, leading to some of its worst but also some of its best stories, stories that show what literary SciFi is capable of achieving. TOS episodes like The City on the Edge of Forever, TNG episodes like The Inner Light or Chain of Command, DS9 episodes like Far Beyond the Stars, etc.

Additionally, Star Trek has always had a strong set of progressive values (peace, reconcilliation, cooperation, honesty, etc.) and has used its story telling to further those values. It put a black woman and a Russian man on the bridge of the Enterprise during the height of the civil rights fight and the height of the Cold War. It's pushed progressive causes for decades, even when it was risky to do so within the confines of the television studio system. There was an episode of TNG that tackled issues of homosexuality and gender identity in the '90s, for example, and of course there's that famous interracial kiss on the original series.

The new Trek seems to be substantially in the same vein here, though it's still a bit early to make a definitive call. The diversity of the cast is very nice to see, and the mixture of "episodic anthology show" and long-running plot is pretty well done and keeping with the tradition of Trek going back even to the original show. It'll take more episodes to see how good the show is ultimately, but so far it's doing pretty well.
But the provinces Canada most needs to develop right now are probably far less desirable to most UT & Waterloo grads than a move to the US.
A few minutes earlier ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613275
Wow, this should reignite the Chomsky vs Norvig debate. This is the kind of science Chomsky wants.
Especially when what they really voted for was cutting the corporatists' taxes and regulations. It is one of the greatest tricks of modern propaganda that the super-pro-corporate parties have turned around the hate of corporations onto the, umm, less-pro-corporate party.
Thanks for giving us a shot, Sir_Cmpwn! Sorry it didn't work out. Glad you're finding some success ... here's to more! :^)
This metric is without targeted anaerobic exercise like weightlifting. Decreases in hormones and neurotransmitters result in the body maintaining less muscle mass, even with aerobic exercise.
Is this the media consumption version of the efficient market hypothesis?

The argument sounds like, "If Comcast was such a bad company it would have failed on its own already."

Could there other forces at play that would explain how video as a format might succeeding despite not being preferred by users?
I don't understand why these questions are being downvoted.
enforcement consistency is the point of the discussion, otherwise Twitter can proactively or retroactively label anything 'spam' without describing how they [or their algorithm] arrived at that conclusion.
> Some formats don't need to be read as plaintext by the average person.

Fair point, and in fact, I'd go further - most of the time most people, do not need to directly edit or view most files in most formats. Even if you took 'most' to mean 99% or higher, I'd be comfortable with that statement.

Where I differ is that I think the essence of the argument is really whether or not a binary file format offers enough value to be worth entirely eliminating the direct edit/view possibility for everybody all the time. Even if it's not a common case, it can be game-changingly useful when you need it.

Just to illustrate, you give three examples, and I have counter examples for each:

> Would the average person edit a .svg by hand? No, he'd use Adobe Illustrator or anything else.

I've modified bounding boxes by directly editing SVG, as well as read SVG directly to analyze some plots a library was generating for me.

> Would he edit a .docx file by treating it as a zip archive and edit content.xml? No, he'd use MS Word/LibreOffice Writer...

I've done this recently to extract out embedded documents on OSX (where the native versions of Office do not directly support this.)

> Suppose Sqlite used XML/JSON instead of binary files, would you modify them with notepad?

HSQLDB can use text based SQL scripts to store data, and I've modified and edited them directly for several reasons.
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Why would a business host a APK directly when they can just utilize Google's infrastructure for free? Likely you would have a lot of users mistakingly download the APK if they saw the link and get confused as to why it's not working like all their other apps, whereas downloading from Google Play Store works seamlessly.
>Tesla seems to be taking the opposite approach to Apple here. In my observation, Apple drives its suppliers extremely hard to achieve the quality it requires.

Apple earned this right by helping those suppliers get off the ground. With introduction of iMacs/iBooks (~1999) Apple helped build wireless card manufacturing plant in Taiwan from nothing ('few dusty rooms' at their modem supplier manufacturing facility). They did similar thing while shopping for Camera supplier, instead of going with someone established like Sony Apple chose Taiwanese bottom of the barrel volume suppliers (Primax/Micron) and grew their camera module divisions with each iteration of iPhone.
Bingo. @Permit go back and read it again.
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Yes, I thoroughly agree with all you've written.

As someone who indulges in more than his fare share of young/poor/previously separated/criminal issues/substance abuse problems... I attempted to capture that in my somewhat more terse "Having said that, it doesn't necessarily mean it was all a complete waste." Thanking for expanding on that where I was laconic.
TL:DR get on processes that grow exponentially early if benevolent or kill them in infancy if harmful.

Hardly earthshaterring epiphany for anybody that has played turn based rts in the last 30 years
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No. The story is not just there to hold your attention. The story actually matters. The story provides the context, the reason you should care about the topic being presented. Boring presentations are often that way because the presenter make mistaken assumptions about shared context between themselves and the audience.

If I tell you, for example, that Cody Bellinger committed an error in the first inning of yesterday's game that fact in isolation isn't very interesting, particularly if you don't know who Cody Bellinger is. If I tell you that that error set the stage for the Astros winning their first world series in their history suddenly it becomes a lot more interesting.

A more technical example: if I tell you that Edwards curves have complete point addition and doubling formulas that fact in isolation isn't very interesting. But if you know that having such formulas enables you to build cryptographic systems that are more resistant to side-channel attacks, suddenly it's more interesting. (Assuming, of course, you know what side-channel attacks are. If you don't, then I have to be explicit about more of the story: there are attackers who want to break into your secret stuff, and one of the ways they do this is by looking at things like how long your code takes to run under different circumstances. Notice that now we have all of the elements of a good story: a protagonist, an antagonist, conflict... )

This is a fundamental feature of human psychology. Humans don't care about things for their own sake, they care about things that help them to achieve goals. Once you have a goal, you have a person who is trying to achieve that goal (i.e. a protagonist) and some reason they are at least temporarily unable to achieve that goal, and hence some agent thwarting their ambition (i.e. an antagonist). The antagonist doesn't have to be another human (c.f. Moby Dick). Often the antagonist is the laws of physics. But there is always a story behind anything that anyone cares about.
If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed?

Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
I'm definitely looking forward to where this research takes us. I'm curious if there have been any efforts to create a muon-like transmitter that would add more flexibility to the sensor system. Is there something about muons that prohibits this?
It's pretty easy to estimate if you know - as I think most of us do - that 2^10 = 1024 ~= 1000

8^9 = 2^27, so 1000 * 1000 * 2^7 = 128,000,000.