skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the atom is glowing. Not very brightly, but enough so that the camera can see it.

The human eye after all can see a single photon. A single atom can emit a single photon, so it's not such a stretch.
Isn't hard to figure out when you've only got one ion in the trap: https://www.physik.hu-berlin.de/de/nano/lehre/quantenoptik09...

Heck, you can line up ions in a row and take pictures of those if you'd like.
> the rationale that makes them confident that this is only a single atom

Nothing photographic, as I understand it. The atom is positively charged, and is suspended in ultra-high vacuum by electric fields. Effectively they're "weighing" it, by measuring the total charge of whatever is suspended, and knowing (from the ionization energy?) the charge on one atom.

It should be noted that this is similar to how Millikan first measured the electron charge back in 1909.
Try https://github.com/tinspin/rupy/wiki/Storage it stores each value (not column/row/table or database) as a single JSON file! Make sure you "mkfs.ext4 -T small"! ;) Upside is tar+gzip compresses the db 100x!
One of the authors here, happy to answer any questions.
From the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2514041 looks like the Britney Spears tutorial in semiconductor physics is at http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.html
Why are the flights so cheap? Do they actually turn a profit at these rates?
16k unread emails? What a waste of time. My inbox is only filled with messages that are critical (KoT waiting list for example). Everything else gets replied or deleted immediately. Tasks go on to do lists for scheduling.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Wells and septic systems are so common that I would struggle to believe they're a "trade off".

Where I grew up (on well water and a septic tank), people couldn't believe that city folk pay for their water, and what's more, that they pay to have it go down the drain!

A septic tank costs ~$5k and will last for 40 years. Over the lifetime of a septic tank, my city water bill will have cost me $24,000.
Well, latency is never going to change, no matter what plan you use. You can't really sell a faster speed of light....
Fair enough, thanks for the clarification!
Yeah, "State rights! (unless inconvenient to our ideology!)"
how are refunds handled - I mean does paddle handle it ?
It's worse that that. Not only does FB as a company get paid per eyeball, the individual managers get paid per eyeball. Inside the org, the incentives are perverse.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-...
Hey, thank you for the reply. Very interesting insight into living without a car in the US!
one kind hearted criticism, the video on the landing page goes fullscreen when i click play which is really annoying.
GDPR is a new law that's not even codified in most of the EU. FB is an USA company.
> Point is that the UK government already has a tax regime. It has no incentive to fine Facebook so much there's a risk of it leaving.

Do Facebook have a presence in the UK? I thought they were headquartered in Dublin? Do Facebook pay tax in the UK? News to me.

> The ICO already said that it doesn't intend to use its big new fining powers under GDPR anyway, as there's no need.

Citation very much needed. The ICO will follow the law. The ICO is using it's DPA powers already. The

> The EU is desperate for cash

The EU organisation is handing rebates back to members at the moment...The UK just got one. Or perhaps you mean countries in the EU. Germany has a budget surplus, so I don't know what you could mean? you sound bitter?

> But that said, hopefully the UK will repeal GDPR eventually a

It seems extremely unlikely that the UK wont retain 'regulatory alignment'. This is actually part of the agreement over NI border? This will also be a prerequisite for a trade deal, and the UK will cintinue to make CE marked goods or they would not be able to sell them

> long with associated EU nonsense like the cookie law.

The EU is already on this one[0] What other 'nonsense' consumer protection law do you want undone?

[0]https://www.carpedatumlaw.com/2017/01/goodbye-cookie-banners...
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IMO it's the ecosystem of Rails, libraries and tutorials etc. Rails has a huge community behind it and it's quicker to get an MVP out there.
Yes, that's probably the right way to implement this, but it is still more complex.

No one on this site will have problem with that UI, but I personally know people who have issues with much simpler things.
I have been using Instagram from 2011, with less than 100 subscriptions (mostly friends). Uninstalled it last month because of the compulsive story checks and the new messy algorithmic feed. Now I get there from iPad once a week.
You can't fix something that is specifically designed to get the maximum information from people. However if by fix they mean make it even sneakier about how it gathers personal information then I guess fixed it is.
LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC
It's absolutely Trump's doing. He is -more- than happy to oblige. Don't act like he's been bullied into this and he'd be much happier if we went all electric.
No, but I have to comply with the GDPR. The first thing to understand about the GDPR is much of it is quite vague, and is essentially a framework for rule making for 30+ privacy regulators. See eg legitimate interests where you are supposed to conduct a balancing test between competing interests with very limited guidance on what a reasonable balancing test is. Second, these lazy morons haven't issued final guidance approximately three months out from the deadline. Now, there is some guidance, but there's no hard cap on the distance between working and final guidance. How they expect companies to comply with that is obvious: they don't, and will use the opportunity to fine them. The ICO has been quite explicit about this; I don't have quotes on this laptop but one of their senior staff basically said that grace periods are not part of their regulatory strategy. Grace periods are apparently only for the regulators. And that's the ICO, one of the more reasonable regulators! The french regulators, who aren't particularly reasonable, are no doubt anticipating the influx of cash.

So if you're a company that is relying on some mix of legitimate interests and consent to service your customers, market, and perform outbound, it's very difficult to understand what the rules are. And this is worse if you are an American company and therefore probably don't have a lead regulator and will have to attempt to comply with the (almost certainly) conflicting rules as decided upon by every privacy regulator instead of just one.

Much of the GDPR is quite reasonable (besides the DPOs, ie employment program for EU lawyers) -- privacy dashboards, the ability to delete data, SARs, etc. But it's wildly unreasonable to not have final regulations in place.
Jung's IC Op Amp Cookbook comes to mind, though that might be more basic than you want.
Take 100 sword bearing barbarians and form them in a circle shoulder to shoulder facing inward. Take 120 legionaries and form them in a circle inside the barbarians circle, also shoulder to shoulder but facing outward. The legionaries circle can't hold 120 men, or even 100, it's likely closer to 90, so the other 30 legionaries have to wait inside the circle.

So now it's 100 vs. 90, each of the fighting legionaries on the circle has to fight the man in front of them, while avoiding a thrust from the extra men along side them. Meanwhile the other 30 wait, listening as their comrades are being slowly killed.

But it never begins as a circle. Instead the solid line of legionaries is outflanked, barbarians rush around them causing panic in the rear lines at both sides. The men at the end of the line are butchered quickly, they can't fight the men in front of them while being attacked from the side.

So masses of romans at the ends of the lines were killed and the survivors on the ends ran back behind the center of the line until they formed a tightly bound ball of men, those buried in the center unable to fight, while the now greater numbers of their opponents are free to attack the outer line from all directions.
Please stop breaking the guidelines all over this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From the perspective of the US company, then it's not them getting fined so not their problem. And if the EU wants to fine its own companies for buying adverts, they can go right ahead and do that. Doesn't seem very practical for the local economy though.
Is this the whole thing? https://www.c-plusplus.net/forum/p1223938#1223938
> So I go to ATI/AMD's website and find the driver package, but it turns out to be a tarball full of .debs with zero instructions on how to install or enable them.

You should have read the friendly documentation! I have AMDGPU running on 16.04 after running an install shell script (amdgpu-pro-install) in the tarball, as spelt out by the docs.
> > The ICO already said that it doesn't intend to use its big new fining powers under GDPR anyway, as there's no need.

> Citation very much needed. The ICO will follow the law. The ICO is using it's DPA powers already

You can see how few people ICO impose fines on already, and that they have never imposed the maximum fine.

UK regulators really do take a light touch approach, aiming to get companies to change behaviour.
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> But for some reason everyone is comparing a cluster of 4 TPUv2 chips to a single V100 chip.

I agree that some people are doing that. Marketing, I suppose. But that comparison is explicitly not the point of my parent post. I'm comparing the "shapes" of the chips -- specifically, the compute/memory and compute/memory-bandwidth ratios. These ratios stay the same regardless of whether you multiply the chips by 4 or by 400.

The point I was trying to make is that V100 has a higher peak-compute-to-memory(-bandwidth) ratio than TPUv2. This much seems clear from the arithmetic. Whether this matters in practice, I don't know, but I think it is relevant if one believes (as I do, based on the evidence I have as an author of an ML compiler targeting the V100) that the V100 is starved for memory bandwidth.

> In lieu of any available data, I'm going to continue to assume that each TPUv2 chip is roughly comparable in terms of power & die size to each V100 chip. If this was grossly wrong, I would expect that all four would be condensed into a single chip, which would dramatically increase the performance of the interconnects.

I'm sure Google's hardware engineers operate under a lot of constraints that I'm not aware of; I'm not about to make assumptions. But more to the point, as we've said, things like die size and TDP don't directly affect consumers. The questions we have to ask are, how fast can you train your model, and at what cost?

Just as you don't like it when people (incorrectly, I agree) insist on comparing one V100 to four TPUs, because that's totally arbitrary (why not compare one V100 to 128 TPUs?), I don't like it when people insist on comparing TPUv2 to V100 on arbitrary metrics like die size, or peak flops/chip, or whatever. So I disagree that we could resolve anything if we had more info about the TPUv2 chip itself. None of that matters.
I read on the Guardian that only the most recent Eurostar train model will be used for compatibility reasons.
That assumes that the more people Facebook has in a country the more important that country is. I think the wealth of people in a country / block plays an important role in that consideration. And EU countries are far richer than most other countries.
No problem at all - thanks for sharing your perspective. It’s helpful to know that grocery stores themselves are responsible for those markups, not because it affects the value that the service creates for me now, but because it impacts how the service could evolve in the future. If Instacart is currently subject to higher-than-retail prices, there’s even more room for it to potentially benefit from setting up its own warehouses, relationships with wholesalers, etc.
GDPR has been there for 2 years [1] and will start to be enforced come May. Facebook has a presence in the EU, since they're selling data about European users to European companies. Therefore they need to comply with European law.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj
I'm imaging that the process of "magnifying" objects through photography has to degrade the true representation of the object. Kind of like expanding 1 pixel to cover a 500x500px space. In that sense I wonder how clearly we can ever hope to see an atom.

Obviously the technology and intent is impressive, but will we ever be able to see an atom more clearly or is it simply too small to be seen without Photoshopping in the details?
Why thank you mr rhetorical... If you are interested go have a look for yourself i'm not a walking audio system design book. In fact, I challenge you to find the inverse instead - empirical proof that the amp specs the author is measuring actually correlate to better sound quality.
As mentioned in another reply, the actual laws will have to be implemented by the member states anyway. So the text for each country can vary and can be more specific.

As for your strawman that I somehow argued to abandon all law: I won't deal with that.
Sane defaults are easy to set in this scenario so the average user gets the same behavior as today but those people who want more control can still do so.
This is nuts! I've been working on something very similar to this for about a year now. You have no idea how happy I am to have a little competition, hopefully it'll push me to finish :). I'm going to have to look at your core library and compare differences between our implementations. Really excited to play with it as well but I don't have a mac machine near me right now. It looks fantastic!
I must admit that I've not followed the case all that closely. But, assuming that the document does not lie, this part looks like a huge problem:

> "Evidence shows that even the most highly ranked rival service appears on average only on page four of Google's search results, and others appear even further down"

I think this is a death sentence for any website whose that previously depended on unbiased search results. I remember reading sometime in the past that virtually all clicks go to the first two results, third and fourth barely receiving any, and other pages not even visited.

Combined with the fact that google supplied 90% of all search traffic it looks clear that they were starving their competitors.

To be honest I'm also skeptical of any open source, (hopefully distributed) social network from ever coming into existence. But I'm equally sure that what FB, and google, are doing with information about me is not the way to go. They are earning money with the information they are endlessly slurping up about me in any way they can. Rarely with my _informed_ consent. And if this is how the EU fights back, I'm all for it.

Off topic/related:

Like the bait and switch they do with youtube. I've had an account there for ages, long before social networks were a thing. I've got content up there, 2k video's that I've liked and would like to be able to keep visiting. But it has happened a number of times where I was forced to 'accept' the changes to the TOS. Youtube does not allow me to download my liked video's easily. Apparently what they are doing is not illegal, or maybe the courts have not caught up to the things like this yet. But it does create an adversarial relationship, therefore I dislike youtube, and loathe facebook and google these days. They are constantly taking steps to my disadvantage.
> Just make your content available, easy to obtain and people will pay for it. It's that simple.

No, that's just easy from a consumer perspective. But it's not simple at all from the business perspective. Making movies and TV is expensive and complicated. Getting them to break even means a lot of careful work to maximize revenue and profit from a variety of revenue streams. It means dealing with a lot of players that are trying to maximize their own revenue and profit.

Things can and will get better. But not by ignoring the essential complexity of the domain.
Well, it's not that - before that law was introduced, you could simply ignore the country, since it's about digital downloads. If all you cared for was getting a payment, it was not unusual to have the transaction list in the forms of e-mails. Now you need much more information.
They had the Air Force bomb it instead
Analyze this photo instead: http://content.assets.pressassociation.io/2018/02/11175054/f...
You can see some of his papers here: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?filter%3DAND%28...

Or http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4074017/

and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030402080...

Unfortunately, these seem to be behind a paywall.

Here is one that might be more relevant: http://bonneville.ipac.dynixasp.com/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=...

His work centered around control systems, but he was very heavy on numerical methods.
I'm curious to know how they managed to get a single atom there in the first place. I'm assuming it's not with atomic tweezers?
You just told the credit agencies that there's fraud on your account but now need just a one time exception to break the freeze. Just think about that from the agency's position.
Subtitles are literally just the scripted dialogue in textual form, so the copyright would belong to the studio (having purchased the script from the screenwriter).

Translated subtitles would be copyrighted by the translator under a derivative license from the studio owning the film.

Subtitles of the type you suggest don't currently exist as standalone products; the level of detail and information you are describing would require the subtitles to be part of the film itself (see e.g., Atomic Blonde or John Wick for good examples).
Movies and TV shows are a lot less watchable now. I'm not really as excited about the new block buster as I used to be. Maybe this is the perennial "I'm getting old and don't realize it" but I also understand box office and movie revenue to be down. Definitely steaming is a big source as well
In the Loop (a recent talk about the browser event loop, by Jake Archibald)
IBM can't patent anything if none of the inventors sign on. Copyright can be the same.
I enjoyed the three-body trilogy, but stuff like this

> his science fiction, which situates itself at the diamond end of the ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ scale (‘hard sci-fi’ has a lot of science in it, ‘soft sci-fi’ doesn’t), demonstrates a knowledge of particle physics, molecular biology, cutting-edge computer science and much more besides

and this

> The best bits in his books are set pieces that would be hallucinatory, or surreal, were it not that everything is described with such scientific authority.

is just ridiculous. There is nothing in Cixin's books indicating knowledge of those subjects. All he does is spray sciency buzzwords on fantasies which are not only surreal, but also quite obviously impossible.
I think demise of Instagram is bit far off.

I'm traveling the world right now and observing people on the street and a lot of people browse Instagram more than any other apps.
I've always wondered how companies like Amazon and Apple with piles of cash justify not giving raises or passing laying off people. I understand that you want to be smart with your money but if I'm on the business end of this decision it probably hurts more than getting laid off from a company that's struggling and has no other options.
Suppose I put up a website hosted on a server I own in a non-EU country. A person from the EU visits the site, I gather their personal information, and I sell that information to a non-EU buyer blatantly in violation of EU privacy law. I have no offices, bank accounts, property, service providers, subsidiaries, suppliers, customers, etc., in the EU.

> You do realize the EU can stop or confiscate the money that is transferred to you from European customers?

I don't have any money being transferred to me from European customers.

Unless the EU has a treaty with the non-EU country me and my site are in that provides for the enforcement of EU fines in this area in me or my buyer's country, how are they going to actually enforce a fine against me?
No, the enforcement is through the national "supervisory authorities" such as the ICO. Most of the enforcement process is through national courts and the ECJ is only for the final layer of appeal. This very article says "German Court rules ..."

> voided the UK's opt out of new human rights related legislation, despite a very clear paragraph in the treaties saying they did not apply to the UK.

[citation needed]; did you read this in the UK press?
It matters when defining parallel work distribution. Unless memory bandwidth is homogeneous across the whole board (i.e. each TPU on a board gets 600 GB/s to its peers), we can't do model parallelism across ASICs efficiently, and must fall back to data parallelism. Which is fine, until you run into limits on maximum batchsize (e.g. up to 8192, as FAIR was able to manage [1] with some tweaks to SGD).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02677
Health, education and development are absolutely necessary. And these three are very expensive. Also a parent should have a decent amount of savings because you never know if your child is going to have health or mental problems. If he turns out ill and there are no savings, just saying oh sorry I can't afford stopping your suffering is not an option.
I would love an option like "do not show anything from this contact unless it is original content, or at most share of an original content". That would remove 90% of the crap from the feed (i.e. the "viral" part).
Somewhat ironically, as it's the--presumably soon without the UK--EU we're talking about, but you're basically objecting to a Common Law system. Admittedly, in modern times, there's a lot less practical distinction between civil and common law jurisdictions than there once was, but nonetheless common law is "the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes."
Awesome, thanks! Do you know where I can find the other submissions? Particularly "In a kitchen far far away..."? It looks astounding!
When (and where) I was studying CS programmers were quite unglamorous and had famously long working days. I obviously didn't mean it literally but I was trying to make the point that the grind was (is?) a very real part of the job.
only real freedom is financial. Americans don't usually like to preemptively create rules and regulations that could hinder innovation or hurt businesses.

What good is your privacy if you are poor.
I've been fairly happy with it on Linux, but it still drives me crazy that despite paying for a 4k plan, the best I can view in my browser is 720p. I'm guessing it's a piracy prevention mechanism, but I'm not sure there's much value in this as it's released in 4k on torrent sites within an hour of the release.
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Surprised nobody has mentioned a different, sort-of competing model. Here in Nashville (and I assume other locations), Kroger offers ClickList[0]. Basically, order ahead of time via their website and select when you want to pick up from the store (w/o leaving your car).

It doesn't have the convenience of delivery, plus you typically have to order a day in advance, but it seems like the benefits would be that a) the people doing the picking are employees of the store, b) you're unlikely to not have a deliverable order, and c) you're probably out anyways and can schedule around your pickup.

Maybe this is more valuable outside of bigger cities, but I see people using it all the time around here. I haven't used it myself quite yet.

[0] https://www.kroger.com/topic/clicklist