skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this object indeed exists, it being a covert US government agency project is highly likely.

So, in my opinion, one arm of the government is being funded to investigate the covert operations of another, without the former knowing about it.

Like in many narcotics themed movies and TV series inspired by real events, the DEA spends considerable time and effort, only to find the CIA masterminding an operation
I went through the following sources, and assuming that there is no lying involved, I'm having some difficulty explaining the observations:

1. https://theaviationist.com/2017/12/17/u-s-department-of-defe...

2. https://fightersweep.com/1460/x-files-edition/

The difficulties:

1. Multiple corroborating observations - radar contact, two sets of aircraft crews visual observations, one set of FLIR footage

2. Very high acceleration and deceleration - powered descent from 80K feet to 20 feet in a matter of seconds; high G turns and acceleration, BUT with no visible high temperature engine exhaust visible on FLIR footage. It's possible to mask engine exhaust and it's possible to achieve very high G's, but I can't imagine how to achieve both simultaneously.

Theories:

Assuming that there is no lying involved, based on (1) we can safely assume that there _were_ actual physical flying objects in the area. However, before we go off-Earth, I think we should look at propulsion systems that do not rely on thermal expansion of gases.

1. What if it's just an extremely powerful electric propellor based drone?

2. What if it can achieve burst acceleration by releasing compressed gases (which actually reduces temperature)?
US dedicated server
That’s not a very good way to compare though is it? If 500 of those pesticides target pests that don’t damage cannabis, why should those pesticides be allowed to appear in lab testing of cannabis. It makes sense to limit the number of pesticides allowed to ones that actually help.
I dont know if this is what has been done, but you would hope this was a factor.
I wish them well, but they're doing hobby robotics.

They claim to be at the level of Waymo/Tesla/Uber/Cruise, etc, but a quick glance at their github shows sub-DARPA Grand Challenge levels of technical development.
Hah! Quite.
being compared to FIFA... not a good thing
In the US? Depending on the district sued: absolutely. That shouldn't be the case, but it 100% is.

Unless there is a rigid legal definition for "datacenter", lawyers are allowed to argue that because the EULA specifically used the phrasing it does, that means nVidia has a definition that they have not made plain in the same document, which is grounds to void the clause. They are also allowed to argue that nVidia must produce a definition of "datacenter" which thanks to case law means that then becomes the official definition used in future court cases, something that nVidia would really not want to be responsible for.

It's an amazing bit of "did you actually think this through?" when you actually look at the ramification of an EULA clause like this.
> I heard some people like CEO of Dropbox started counting approximately how many days they had left on Earth

source?
Yes, but the Pentagon official they interviewed is saying he believes that extraterrestrial UFOs exist:

> I hate to use the term UFO but that’s what we’re looking at,” he added. “I think it’s pretty clear this is not us, and it’s not anyone else, so no one has to ask questions where they’re from.

So it's not really misleading. I think he believes that aliens exist and have visited Earth.
Will consider it!
Ludicrous! Why the world keeps going back to Saudi Arabia for hosting secular events and donning UN leadership positions on it is a mystery. 2018 was supposed to bring us flying cars and AI manufacturing, not a fatwa bleeding into sports!
I love throwing out code. It makes me feel clean. :)
I’m not sure that added aggression is what commuter traffic needs.
Decent options that aren’t cars would seem better.
So let's assume this is real for a moment. It's either the "breakaway civilization"[1], otherwise known as the secret space program or it must be the Strugatsky's "Roadside Picnic"[2] scenario.

In support of "Roadside Picnic", if they've been hanging around all these years and just making the ocassional look-around and flybys without landing on the white house lawn and asking us to join the Interstellar Federation, we must be extremely unimpressive. Basically, life is common in the universe. We are a somewhat interesting tourist attraction and pit stop on the way to alpha centauri or whatever, but not really that special. They get here, pick up water and air maybe, take some pictures, some dna samples and fly off to wherever they were on their way to. Everything we have here they have in a million other places all around the galaxy.

The breakaway civilization seems more plausible if one assumes that travelling interstellar distances is flat out impossible though. However, there could be a mix of the two...

Now if this is all just a bug on the windshield "swamp gas", I understand the downvotes, but otherwise please tell me how it's not one or the other given the evidence.

1.http://www.theeventchronicle.com/study/breakaway-civilizatio...

2.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
Is this article paid advertising by Xiaomi? It feels very suspicious
I’m not denying that. I’m saying that anything over 100ms is meaningfully deficient, and anything under that is nice to have but not distractingly bad.
I have. If the quality or the product isnt the correct one, it goes back.

I don't have a contract with Nvidia to begin with when buying cards. The driver EULA is hardly a contract.
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Minor correction:

In the section about converting a vector of strings into integers the article says that the Result returned from parse() is converted to a bool via Result::ok(). However, Result::ok() actually converts the Result<T, E> into a Option<T> which is what filter_map() expects.
I will work for you if you allow remote worker
I have to say I disagree with you on the AMD/TensorFlow point here, Adam. Your previous points are completely valid. Nothing of note will happen in 2018, I expect. But by early 2019, maybe - if AMD (or Intel) gets their act together on the software side of things. I don't think the "community" will do it for them. Buy maybe a big player like Amazon will have had enough of Nvidia and support an open alternative. Although we support Cuda in our version of YARN (Hops Hadoop), I expect we'd add ROCm or OpenCL or whatever - if it was a serious alternative. That would happen quickly. The problem, of course, is that we would want great support in TensorFlow first before we do that. Data scientists need a seamless transition - including from a performance perspective. For us, that also means support for distributed deep learning (Ring AllReduce over infiniband). I don't expect that will happen in 2018, and could take until 2020, if i'm being realistic. That means when AMD finally get some good DL libraries, Nvidia will still have one-up on them with distributed DL (reduce training time linearly with more GPUs).

The other wildcard i haven't seen people mention here is the Neural Network Processor (NNP) from Intel Nervana. The hardware has potential. As long as the software doesn't force us to use BigDL, it has potential.
PlaidML seems entirely geared towards inference (I only see batch size 1 anywhere). Training is important.
About 9-to-1 in just about every industry.

Retail isn’t growing, but it still accounts for 80-90% of sales in almost every industry. Online sales will probably overtake brick and mortar… in 5 to 10 years—in the US.

Amazon is big, but only
really in he US. And only certain verticals. And only typically among affluent urban households.

That’s why their stock has always been so high. Amazon has, and still has, massive growth potential. When you get everything from Amazon you assume everyone else does. But the reality is that you (and I) are an extreme minority.

You forget how many people pay cash in the US. And how many people international have shit or extremely poor/expensive mail service. And how >3 billion or so people live in countries with import tariffs that are 40% or more. And while internet access is prevalent, buying everyday items online is not. It’s really easy to lose sight of how the vast majority live when you live in an urban area and work at a technically progressive company.
why do you think Microsoft gives VSCode away. Seems to me they are quite committed to it.
AI will certainly be sold as hype by NM because Infosys isn't the leader, or has little chance at mastering and benefiting from AI from a revenue/profits perspective.

And the whole socialistic preaching from billionaires is getting old. Maybe Infosys needs younger, forward looking blood on their board
Why does the desktop experience have to be different? It's the web. If you're building for a browser, you failed.
I won't mine hanging around, reading your book, and testing your patch
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Would you allow someone to work with you ??
I think GP is referring to a slew of current trending languages which are partly functional and have lisp-style macros.
> how little sense it makes economically at this point.

Please elaborate.
Quasar (Vue.js framework)
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He probably is. But he is also a troll.
First, the last traded price doesn't change by bids or asks, only trades. So you can spoof with passive orders, but that only affects the "midpoint" and never the "last" price. The article discusses painting the tape which means trades.

Second, outside of a "last look" type of market, no market participant can identify the time "just before [their own] order is filled". Can you identify any Bitcoin market where last look is in effect? It would be plausible (it is common in spot FX markets) but clear evidence would be available.
2-3x? Try 10x. A lot of those living in million dollar homes purchased in the 70s at sub 100k prices, and are still paying based on that valuation. Or their children are, since Prop 13 lets your kids inherit the right to pay 1/10 the property taxes as newcomers.
I can't find your email.
You mean your algorithm is too flaky. The hardware is fine. A V100 won't fix your convergence problems.
Any time there's perceived market failure (or suboptimal outcome) in a democracy, voters will try to legislate alternative outcomes. There's nothing bizarre about it, it's been going on for a while now.

And not even cities, but towns of 10,000 have these kinds of issues where there's only so much physical room for them to grow and everyone there asserts the right to a view, so there are height restrictions for buildings. And then they also realize they need people who aren't millionaires to be teachers, waiters, plumbers, lawn care, and so on. And they can't all live in town, so now they live in the next town and commute, leading to traffic problems and a need for regional public transit, and all kinds of really obvious classist side effects.

You either want to live in an aristocratic homogeneous society or you want something quite a bit more diverse and less walled garden than that. And for sure not everyone is in agreement. Hence there's a problem and there's arguing about it.
This is a classic example of real option valuation[1]. As others have pointed out, holding out could mean that the owner could charge more later on. The right, but not the obligation, to lease or sell the property has an intrinsic value which can be modeled using different option pricing methods. So long as the value of the option is greater than the current leasing options, then the owner should keep the property vacant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_options_valuation
For me, it's always been select/reject/detect. Even though I know about find_all, it always seemed like the odd one out.
Throwing out code is easy, throwing out hours you've spent investing into something is hard (e.g. learning, promoting, developing, money, etc).

These aren't technical issues with technical solutions, these are issues relating to people's egos and their willingness to throw out acquired skills and effort.

For one example, you could go from being the biggest expert in that area to being behind others just by turning against a technology you've helped spearhead. I've seen it happen (and people resist it who knew they'd gone down a dead end).
I will stop you from attending your funeral.
Are there plans to add sane UI idioms to Blender?

3DMax, Maya, 4DStudio, SketchUp, FreeCAD, ...basically all other 3D tools nowadays (since Win95 btw) have common UI with normal menu bar and common shortcuts and mouse-control.

Blender is still stuck in the early 1990s Unix UI chaos. Even Gimp has nowadays better UI than Blender.

Blender might be the best open source 3D modeler, etc. but it has a nightmarish completely non-standard user interface.

Why can't Blender devs add an UI and mouse control similar to 3DMax/Maya/4DStudio/SketchUp/FreeCAD??
this is the hacker news title I have been waiting for my whole life...
If you don't pay for them and need a product is it really a purchase?
Huh, we've fixed that in Argentina, because supermarkets have to label the price both by unit, and by a standard measure (eg: kg / litres).

So the price tag on toilet papers will display the price per metre, and the price tag on coffee has the price by kg.

This makes it trivial to compare same-quality products, and also trivial to compare across different stores.

Note that they MUST do this by law, so all supermarkets (and also wholesalers) do this.
Perfect! The economy slows so a landlord can't find a tenant so they hit with triple the sales tax!

I'm sure that won't depress real estate value at all.
The next best thing to teleportation is living across the street from work and having an instant commute. No public transit can compete with that.

If you legalize housing next to work, then you reduce the amount of stress on the transit systems we already have. It's just plain more efficient.
Did you show this story to different people? Can other people see that different people?
There's definitely a lot of arbitrage opportunities. BTC on GDAX has been at a 1k-1.5k premium over most other exchanges (although the gap has since closed a bit)

You'll often see korean exchanges having a 1-2k premium as well, but it's not easy to arbitrage since the korean govt has a lot of rules regarding money laundering and money entering / exiting, not to mention you'd probably need a korean bank account.
Use an user agent switcher the get around the mobile-only restriction.
Recently I’ve got a problem that Heroku stopped my sites (I’ve got 6) because I’ve had used all free dyno 1000 hours/month

It was very confusing for me WTF does this free dyno hours mean?

I couldn’t figure out it from the docs so after speaking for a couple of hours with the support I finally got it and want to share how to get maximum from Free Heroku accounts.
Being whiny about downvotes doesn't excuse how dull and meritless your post is. People go to prison for all kinds of reasons, your blanket statement contributes nothing to the conversation and does not address the reality of gouging the loved ones of prisoners who are only trying to have some level of basic human contact, such as letters or phonecalls.
Plot twist, playing chess is considered as "haraam" (forbidden/degeneracy) according to most Sunni Islamic clerics.
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Legal recreational weed should be as easy as craft beer.
That may be true, but this system punishes the families trying to support their loved ones as much as it does the prisoners themselves.
> simply putting my points and pointing out the wrong facts

An argument should be judged purely on its content. No matter who says it or what their motive is.

However it is reasonable for someone to be suspicious given that you had to create a new account to do that, and you are so vocal in this story.
While I usually love this kind of obscure information about old games I just couldn't make it through this post. I find the humour really awkward and unfunny. It's something I could have looked past if there wasn't more of that throughout the text than actual information about the subject matter.
So it's not just my imagination. My 2014 MBP feels reasonable, but my 2017 XPS 15 (top spec) Linux machine feels way, way slower. I've wondered if I somehow made poor choices in my Ubuntu config (maybe so), but now I realize it could just be in the hardware.

This reminds me of the current state of the web. There's been such a push to add more and more to pages, largely without regard for performance, that many sites take 10+ seconds to load the first time on 4G or wifi on a new, top spec Android phone. This is one area where Apple still has one of Steve Jobs's best contributions - an attention to user feel and perception. As much as I prefer an Android, iPhone just _feels_ faster.
> I believe the situation was bad but manageable before Obamacare and it became unbearable for many small businesses due the the ever rising costs of employees’ healthcare.

Business under 50 employees are exempt from the ACA rule requiring them to provide healthcare. I doubt many small retail stores have that many employees.
We should collectively redefine what we are trying to preserve. You recognize that increasing density allows more people to live there without encroaching on the wilderness. As a bonus, increasing density also makes walkable neighborhoods more viable, so more people can live without cars.

But many voters believe what we should preserve is the single-family home, built environment that some developer created long ago. Then the number of people per unit of land is restricted: homes near economic activity become playthings of the rich, and any new home that is affordable is taking away wildlife habitat and farmland.

In short, their stance is understandable, but it is sociopathic.

https://www.sfhac.org
This is looking at the problem through the lens of science. Science has given us such remarkable advancements and debunked so many lies that it is natural—especially among engineering types—to hold it up to as the gold standard for solutions to broad problems.

But when it comes to personal issues, especially behavioral or psychological ones, there's a good chance even the description of symptoms is not consistent between individuals. Whatever facts and metrics doctors and researchers have available are far removed from the subjective experience of patients.

A more useful lens IMHO is the belief that one can change ones own thoughts and behaviors. I'm not claiming it's universally true, but I'm damn sure if one doesn't believe one can change then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is not an excuse to judge others for not always being the best person they can be, it's merely meant to give a little bit of self-empowerment. I acknowledge it doesn't work all the time, and it's all too easy to twist into self-flagellation, but claiming some agency in ones own life experience is something that can help a lot of different people in a lot of different ways.
"Selection" is responsible for all good outcomes, including the entire course of natural history that led to your comment. Natural selection got us mitochondria, eyes, legs, thumbs. Sexual selection gave us a brain capable of reasoning about itself. Machine learning is just the next step in that progression. It's amazing that the culmination of 3.7 billion years of selection is a mind that can come up with elaborate ways to cast aspersions on the selection mechanism that spawned it.

You know why I love machine learning? It's immune to anti-intellectual fads. It speaks the same truth that children do. While you can make an algorithm spit out the answers you want, you have to explicitly train it to do so, making the selective blindness and hypocrisy we demand crystal clear.
"disgraced transparency organization Wikileaks"?

Did I miss something?
Opioids are the leading cause of death for under 50s
Windows manages just fine, symptoms of crashed GPU driver are black screen for couple of seconds until you get your desktop back.
By inhaling it, it's absorbed directly into your bloodstream, through the lungs.
The GDAX FIX API has higher rate limits. :)
It's also 99USD/year in Argentina, but we don't get the fast shipping US/India gets.
We're also a "poorer" country, I'm not sure what they base their prices on.
Is that a new feature? I’ve definitely purchased things on alexa in the past with no pin. It did ask for a verbal confirmation before pulling the trigger but no pin was required. But I don’t think I’ve purchased anything in a while so I don’t know if it’s changed.
Move to a new city in a different country and get a new network of friends and you'll change
"It's not us, and it's not anyone else."

I might take this more seriously if the guy said "It's not any humans."
I work with HackerOne as an employee of a company with a bug bounty program. We're pretty sensitive about pissing off submitters. We're pretty strict about honoring our scope. Even if we know about a vulnerability, if we haven't specifically excluded it then we usually pay out (except duplicates where we have already paid out for it). I've seen many submitters respond with something along the lines of "thanks for the quick payout, I'm going to spend more time on your product".

We want submitters to spend time finding issues for us. Thats why we set up the program. It's important to our brand that we don't have security issues and we recognize that a few thousand dollar payout to HackerOne is much cheaper than the potential legal bill if we were compromised.
But it's merely pointing to a lack of identification on the part of some flying objects! I'm rather looking forward to something more exciting.
It’s a PR-driven interest piece, like a lot of what Wired and similar publications publish

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Still vacant!

I've heard rumbling that something will go in there, but nothing yet.
Yes, this. And 10 minutes a day may be more like 2 minutes or 5 minutes for some people, or like once a week. OP mentioned that you need to find a reason (paraphrasing, sorry); but with that reason, you can change something, and small changes really do add up.
Data sources? Evidence? Anything at all to back this up?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-new... That seems counter to you point. Got more than rhetoric here?
Couldn't Nvidia add the same clause to their product's license (instead of the driver's one) and thus having it enforceable even if you use some 3rd party drivers?
Here you go: https://gizmodo.com/julian-assanges-secret-dms-to-donald-tru...
I'm referring to the GTX 1080 running FP16 at 1/64th the rate of FP32: https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-...

"GeForce GTX 1080, on the other hand, is not faster at FP16. In fact it’s downright slow. For their consumer cards, NVIDIA has severely limited FP16 CUDA performance. GTX 1080’s FP16 instruction rate is 1/128th its FP32 instruction rate, or after you factor in vec2 packing, the resulting theoretical performance (in FLOPs) is 1/64th the FP32 rate, or about 138 GFLOPs."
It's not a start - we're way into that situation now. But things are getting worse. This is legal-level restriction. If they wanted to be complete assholes, they'd tie the driver to an on-line service instead, like almost everyone on the IoT market does these days.

Not sure what's the way out. The market doesn't and won't care (that's exactly why they're doing it), and you can't legislate things as vague as "don't be an greedy asshole", which is what all of this boils down to.
Formal Verification is truly needed especially on this.