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As a US Veteran and a US Citizen... if exposing truth hurts US interests - maybe US interests deserve to be hurt?

All politics aside (as if that's possible), we should always strive to learn and expose truth...
A lot of things including very good development speed, very good debugging capabilities, very good meta programming (making your own tools) etc. Try out Pharo.org for example.
UK government websites were caught cryptomining. It could have been a lot worse
From what I see, the issue really isn't the ideology, it's the tone and/or substance of a post that really matters. "of course there is insider trading, duh" is significantly different from "Spoiler alert: Central planners' plans fail to materialize." The latter uses a speech pattern used in clickbait to illicit an emotional response, and the phrase "central planners" is a politically charged amplification of the actual situation.
That's not who the parent is talking about - who was on the UK side, the person who retired and caused their email archives to get deleted.
Also, Gary McKinnon in 2012.
> Are you thinking of WebSQL?

Yes, exactly, but Web SQL uses SQLite as the backing store. IndexedDB is its own thing, a standalone key/value store, nothing to do with SQLite.
Or they could just sign up at one of the numerous free email providers with a different username. Stripping the + suffixes is only providing one thing - pain for the users that want to use it.
Who would you put the blame on?
I did a small contract in the home of a member of one of the richest and most renowned families in the world last year, a beautiful pad in West London somewhere... right under the flightpath of flights descending into Heathrow and helicopters regularly buzzing a nearby heliport.

I found it odd that on the one hand I was in one of the poshest homes I'll likely ever find myself, and how miserable I figured I'd feel not being able to enjoy any outside aspect of it, were it mine.

This is my direct personal experience, and how it affects the 0.001%. May I ask how personal your experience of City of London airport is and the horrors it impacts upon its neighbours, or are you simply regurgitating the widely-publicised leftist whinging that was surrounding the topic a year or so ago?
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The general idea was to leverage Nim's capabilities, either as implementing core parts of standard libraries in Nim (which is very easy to do) or possibly by partial compilation using the Nim meta programming mechanisms.
This whole situation is a laugh at the "democratic freedom" situation that we live today.
At least in some countries ruled by a dictatorship there is no such hypocrisy.
Im assuming .+
“Everyone” is not going to have an embassy aiding and abetting you; and any diplomat or spy worth his/her salt already has procedures to skip the country.

The principle is a fig leaf on top of a political issue. This situation will not change until a different party gets in power, carrying a different view of the UK’s relationship with their traditional military allies.
The author asserts that removing intermediaries (with blockchain) is a solution to a non-existent problem, as there are a lot of trusted intermediaries.
There's SQL.js: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/
I don't know a thing about China's city planning. How is it relevant to the conversation?
This reminds me of enterprise fizz buzz. If you haven't seen it, it's great.

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Yeah, I would say he's not. It seems that he's got an interest, but it doesn't look like he's actively doing anything in terms of actual research. The big give away is the vagueness of his argument; heavy in fallacy and opinion on cryptocurrencies but light in actual content on blockchain.
This is a new thing. Google also has Nvidia GPUs. these are new custom designed ASICs google has designed for certain ML tasks.
I really appreciate the minimalism of this approach. Going to give this a try, thanks for sharing!
Work on the Olympic stadium was halted a few months before the Olympics too
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counterpoint: putin is willing to befriend enemies for pragmatic reasons, as is WL.

i believe that this is actually the case rather than longstanding collaboration based on WL originating as a russian intelligence program. anything is possible, of course.
P3.16x benchmark is ResNet-152, TPU cost of $200 was for ResNet-50.

Tensorflow benchmarks show ResNet-152 resulting in 2.4x lower throughput than ResNet-50. [0]

[0] https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/benchmarks
SQLite has been ported to the browser via Emscripten. I’ve seen it used in a couple niche projects (generally those that revolve around the SQL language), but I don’t remember it being a standard or even a primary use of SQLite.

[0]: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/
Keep in mind that what you linked refers to TPUv1, which is built for quantized 8-bit inference. The TPUv2, which was announced in this blog post, is for general purpose training and uses 32-bit weights, activations, and gradients.

It will have very different performance characteristics.
I think most definition of technology don't have "advancement" in it. It literally means the "science of craftmanship". So primitive technology is neither an oxymoron nor a paradox. Certainly, not a logical impossibility.
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> to remove intermediaries

And the miners who do the proof of work are not intermediaries in any sense? Do you trust them?

At least in the traditional banking system you know who the middlemen are.

For reference: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184427-one-bitcoin-group...
I think the downvotes are not earned here -- devops as a way to work is relatively new, so one could say all of it is modern. That's where the question is probably headed.
A better comparison would be the f1.16xlarge[1] instance @ ~$4/hr. It comes with 8 FPGAs (12 Gbps link) and 64 vCPUs.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/

Edit: I'm genuinely curious about why this comment is getting downvotes.
They = me. I suppose you did it when Spry was still called Ni?
Whoops, I misread, added edit.
Perf per watt matters to Google but not you. You should only think of it on a perf/$ basis, right?
Interesting. On my machine, Razer mouse drivers (RzSDKService.exe) seem to be leaking 2 handles every second.
>"You should exercise for 5 more minutes" via Alexa/Siri/Home in your earbuds while exercising.

To me it sounds terrible. It's no secret that work-out length and level of intensity hugely, hugely depends on your mental state at the moment. For instance I recall good old days when I tried impress good looking ladies in my gym and easily pulled/pushed heavy weights that I wouldn't do normally(how silly it was!). Another example is if I face some minor issue that I am worry about(annoying neighbours, upcoming promotion, et) I can't work-our efficiently enough, even being in the perfect physical shape. No fucking Alexa/Siri/Home can detect that. And if one day it is able to do that then it means that the AI just took over the world. Thanks, but I will continue my silly-no AI-most effective approach to the healthy life!
When I first read Satoshi's paper [1], I read it as a solution to the Two Generals' Problem [2]. The problem concerns itself with multiple parties coördinating and communicating over an untrusted channel.

The blockchain got distracted by finance. Modern settlement and clearing is efficient. It's perhaps the most efficient part of the financial system; it is certainly the easiest to upgrade. The difficult stuff, the messy institutional knowledge, customs and tendencies, are unaffected by protocol choice. That's why the same behaviors which plagued the unregulated banking system plague cryptocurrency markets today. People are still people.

There are many systems which require a trusted group of people to reach a consensus in public. (Libor is an example [1]. Notaries appear, prima facie, to be in a similar category.) Immutability is of dubious benefit. But a simple, public consensus mechanism beats checking sundry private APIs and blog posts (how a lot of this is done today). Unfortunately, this class of use cases is negated by a "currency-like" token value.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem

[3] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/libor.asp
A reason in search of a problem. Intermediaries in finance exist the same way that lawyers exist - to translate technical gibberish for you, and to bear some burden of the risk if they do so negligently.

As pointed out in the main text, the blockchain doesn't truly remove the intermediary, it just switches it from the previous intermediary to the underlying blockchain code + governance structure, which is subjectively a higher risk intermediary, at least right now.
I have a strong suspicion that the minimum process size on Windows NT is 64kB (between kernel and user pages, for Intel platforms anyway). So if you didn't treat a zombie process as "just another process" for management purposes you'd have to start having all sorts of exceptions in some very base level code (page tables, scheduler, system statistics and reporting, etc etc) just to clean up after other people who can't or won't code properly. I just can't see a kernel engineer agreeing that this was a sane thing to do (I can image how someone with a temperament like Linus would respond!).
I haven't heard about that, can you please provide a link?
Kubernetes on KVM: `minikube start --vm-driver=kvm`
Sarcastic finger quotes?
> Containers didn't become a popular tool because they don't add value. The use case for them has been clear for over four years now

Well, yes, they did become popular despite not providing anything
substantially new. The main value of containers is that programmer who works
with network now doesn't need (initially) to understand how to configure the
network, which is a dumb idea by itself. All the other things added by
containers boil down to distributing a tarball with whole operating system, so
you can run that in a chroot.

From where I stand it seems that programmers didn't want to learn how to
build, distribute, and configure software with OS packages, so they invented
their own binary packages system.
No, binary floating point doesn't work at all. Decimal floating point can work if the representation is large enough.
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It is a problem, I share Andreas Antonopoulos view on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPyMUfNyVM

Edit: read the response wrong
The author suggests stripping the part before doing the uniqueness check. This does not mean that the username (email address in this case) would not be allowed.
We are talking about more than just IRC though.

Plus at risk of repeating myself, I'm not arguing against users names on the whole; just systems which have user names that cannot be changed
This situation will not change until a different party gets in power, carrying a different view of the UK’s relationship with their traditional military allies.

I’m not sure the PM actually has the power to do that. Assange is wanted right now for skipping bail. No government is going to pass an Act declaring that not-a-crime.
That will happen as soon as Excel implements an SQLite import feature.
No one is saying education and legalization will end addiction. Rather, it could make it safer and lead to less overdose deaths.
> One of Snapchat’s biggest criticisms has been that the app is too complicated to use.

> While the majority of Snapchat’s young userbase could navigate the product just fine, older users struggled to comprehend the layout.

Ok, so younger users are better at adapting to new and unusual interfaces.

> Hundreds if not thousands of teens lost their streaks, some of which had been maintained for hundreds of days, because they were confused at how to send snaps using the new interface.

Hmm...
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yet another site which asks for your email before showing you anything.
Just one page telling how incredible this is.
But not even a page about the authors/makers and how the magic (not plugin required) works.
The finite property of Bitcoin and the fact that you can trust said property and the fact that control of that property is decentralized is reason enough for blockchain my friend.

Gold will never be as measurably scarce.
No it isn't. You don't get addicted straight away, you have to work at it.

Just like cigarettes, you have one and don't like. Tastes foul, gives you a headache. But if you persevere, smoke 1, then more then more. Then after 10 days / 2 weeks of daily smoking you are starting to get addicted, same for heroin. You use it once, and if is any good, you are sick, violently so (vomiting, not dope sick), but persevere for 1-2 weeks the addiction will take hold.

Addiction tends to happen more with heroin, because people who would tend to trying it have other issues on in their life to give them the impetus to keep on trying it.
Heroin addiction is 90% looking for or doing something to get more. It’s an incredible time sink. It’s impossible to have a meaningful life like that.

What medically administered heroin does is allow people to get that time back so they can rebuild their lives. Once they see that things are better, they become more successful when finally coming off of it. Even if it takes forever, they are still productive members or society instead of a drain.
Unless it happens to suit whatever goal the host state wants to pursue.
sub infix:<d> ( $count, $faces ) {
(1..$faces).roll($count)
}
# from this point on the language has changed to have a
# new infix operator

say 5 d 20;
# (13 5 3 3 14)

The Rakudo implementation also has macros and Slangs which are more powerful, but we want it to have a better interface; so they are not part of the Perl 6 spec yet.
Reliable is probably a better word for the goal than trusted transactions.

You aren't supposed to have to trust blockchain, it's verifiable all the way down.
In this sense, GP's references to "sanctuary cities" and "illegal immigrants" are also strategic: they betray an obvious bias towards one side of this debate. (This is leaving aside the barely coded racism - and, ironically, questionable grammar - of their other statements, such as "You're only as good as who you surround yourself".)

I see no problem in providing a counterbalancing perspective. After all, it can be simultaneously true that these people have immigrated illegally and that they are among the most vulnerable. Issues like this are complex, and there aren't easy answers. To wit: what about US-born children - do we now split up families in service of proving a moral point? What about the opportunities for children in diverse schools to learn from other cultures and viewpoints? There's also the longstanding "no human is illegal" debate.

(As you may have guessed by this point, my own bias is globalist / humanitarian. I'd argue we have a moral duty to help those in need, and that it is fallacious to argue this necessarily takes resources away from others because that presumes economics, aid, etc. are zero-sum games. I also think, in a practical sense, that many of our laws around residency, immigration, etc. ignore the reality of an increasingly mobile and globalized world, and that the sooner we can transcend nationalist bullshit the better. Finally: I believe that American prosperity has had a net extractive effect on much of the rest of the world for the past century, much like the colonial empires of yore. Moral / reparative dimensions of that aside, it certainly creates a less peaceful world.)
Unless the flight paths converge at the end.
I think everyone is expecting mining to fall and they don't want to invest the R&D and create the manufacturing , build the hardware and in the end it won't sell. Mining seems like a gamble so I would personally not risk it, if they want the miners can buy the regular GPUs
5 days later and this project has more than 1,000 stars.
This is not funny anymore.
GPUs are much more complex (general-purpose) and therefore cannot be optimized beyond a certain point due to timing requirements and PVT (process, temperature, voltage) variations. In other words, the more stuff you have on an ASIC, the more careful you have to be ensure a margin of tolerance for variations.
DigitalOcean hands out /124s. Then they realized that blackholes were hitting multiple droplets (VMs) at once because people blackhole entire /64s, so their solution was to block ports on IPv6 instead of doing the sensible thing and handing out /64s to the droplets instead.
I really like that AnandTech's print view is just the same layout but everything on a single page.
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Right, my bad. Weirdest thing though, you'd think that they would at least preserve any and all emails related to a case that is so strongly in the public eye.

And for the longest time the UK was if not outright promoting the idea that the Swedes wanted the case to be continued definitely not denying that and claiming that instead the UK was pushing things forward.
This is really cool but I still agree with ryannevius. Interactive charts would be more accurate. When I think dashboard, I think of a live feed of data with various tools for analyzing it.
The arrow storm is probably a myth created by war writers.
I'm not knowledgeable in this area but isn't the problem "trust"? Trust is a risk. Probably a safe one but a risk nonetheless. If you have the ability to remove trust from the equation, why not pursue it?
There are so many services with domain ownership validation issues. It's honestly an extremely hairy problem.

Handling all the edge cases is extremely challenging to do so with good UX

When a customer validates ownership do they keep it forever? How long? Do you rescan for txt records? How often? Do you handle customers leaving gracefully? How do you handle new customers re-setting up their domain on a new account?

It's a big mess and it's a lot better to do what cloudfront does and give customers a unique name to CNAME to
Is it not more accurately a fight against sprawl and call to increase density in city cores?
That is known as the Li Keqiang Index. As you might know Li is the current premier, but he has been made pretty powerless by Xi.
Part of the point of SB 827 is to reduce CO2 emissions from transport by building at walkable density and increasing demand for existing mass transit services. Building a house in Mojave does none of those things.
Arbitrary-precision numbers. DBs like Postgres support them, as do most languages (e.g. Ruby has BigDecimal, Python has Decimal).
I wonder what percentage of people only hold Bitcoin through an exchange. Bitcoin seems to have proven that people want intermediaries.
tensor processing unit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit
It would for the second user whose address resolves to the same result from the “uniqueness” check.
It's way easier to write a script to generate thousands of variations on the same email address than to sign up for a thousand different accounts. I've actually been bitten by this bug before... or rather, my company was bitten by an affiliate who neglected to sanitize their emails this way and someone was able to create thousands of gift cards in our system.

Having said that, in development, it's super nice to be able to create addresses with +'s in them.
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Could thier army not be composed of 1,000 technically inclined cyber-scammers and 10 "proper hackers"?
The main portion is 6h of train against 1h30 of flight. Door to door is a few more hours in both cases.

I understand the feeling. I hate flying too, in particular cheap European airlines. Gotta admit that there is an inflection point though, maybe around a thousand kilometers, where trains are struggling to keep up.
OP mentioned a decimal data type, which in postgres can have a very large precision: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/datatype-numeric.h.... Not the same as a floating point.
Perhaps they would be used in a cord drill or pump drill? https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/cord-dr...
Oh, I forgot about sleeping. Indeed it's the paramount and it's the most difficult part. Sleep at least 7hrs per day, use the ear plugs and the sleeping mask, don't take sleeping pills and stay away from taking melatonin in capsules. Stop drinking liquids at least 2 hrs before going to bed. Use the anatomic mattress and pillow.
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Isn't it right of any government to grant sanctuary, though?
I totally, 100% agree with his central point: I don't see the need for untrusted intermediaries, with the essential caveat of "yet."

One place where blockchain clearly makes sense is Bitcoin. Or Bitcoin did make sense to me until the developers kneecapped future development and transactions fees soared and there are too few transactions allowed for it to become a useful ledger for everyday use of a large number of people.

Other cryptocurrencies solve that weakness.

But the spate of blockchain startups don't make much sense to me. In particular, in energy, I see it as a bunch of clear snakeoil. The startups that are most honest about this use less-competent executives' FOMO on blockchain to get their foot in the door, then say more honest things like "Ethereum doesn't make much sense for energy trading with your neighbor."

Because with energy, like with most things, there is already a trusted intermediary, and trying to cut them out of the deal doesn't actually mean you trust them any less. They still have control, and power, and you still are giving them your trust.

Blockchain may be useful in other situations, but it really remains to be seen. It's very interesting tech that seems like it could have applications all over the economy beyond currencies, but I think we may just be at the peak of the hype cycle and all these will come crashing down in a big dose of reality soon.
Are you gonna commute from Mohave to Santa Monica for work every day?
The proper way to handle this is fixed-point representation (whether the DB natively supports this or not). E.g., you won't find floating point fields in binary protocols for any of the major stock exchanges. A typical scaling factor is 10^8, so if the exchange wants to tell you that the price is now 101.27, they send you an int64 value of 10127000000. You may then choose to take it further and store e.g. in 128-bit decimal.

Of course, there's an issue of how to handle mul/div (i.e., rounding/truncation), but that's a separate question -- at least you'd be making decisions yourself rather than relying on how IEEE-754 floats work.

Some DBs like PG, do, as a matter of fact, support decimals natively which makes things quite a bit simpler.
Is this a joke? I really can't tell if you're being sarcastic.
> the username column is not literally the key being joined on

That's exactly the point though. If you join on the username than allowing emails/usernames or whatever that identifier is to be edited is very hard. How you identify the row to auth against is literally the point of a username.
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Do much deep learning training with the FPGAs?
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