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>David Patterson

Surely, he is a top cadre, and an accomplished academician. The number of his students serving on CTO level jobs is in double digits.

The fact that Google went so far with cadres, and said to be throwing high six digit salaries even on people who came to the unit fresh out of universities clearly signifies the extend of their efforts and commitment. Their intent seem to be to bang money on it until it works, no matter the cost.

>Hardly clueless and inexperienced...

I never challenged the technical expertise per se. I'm saying that a generic web/dotcom/clickfarm business can't be normally turned into an engineering company of an inherently different nature, regardless of how much money will be banged on the exercise.

People say that for the past 5 years, the TPU unit was running effectively, like a research institute of some kind: regular workshops with academicians, amount of research works written exceeding the amount of code, and so on.

TPU unit people did their job splendidly, but Google's managerial unit that authorized the whole affair seem to me to be having hard time wrapping their mind around the question on how and what to do with it.

On the other hand, Ren Wu, being originally a semi engineer, had a very clear idea what he wants from the very start: off-the-shelf i/o ip, axi bus, wide registers, sram fifo, directly register fed matrix multiplication units, and predominantly synchronous operation. Voila. No talkshops, company being turned into research institute, or six digit salary cadres what so ever. The chip might well be a one man project.
Unfortunately for your hopes, it looks like the goal of this process is to be able extract rare earths from the coal and still burn the carbon. That would make coal more viable as a fuel, rather than less.
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You're describing one of the other points he makes in this: as bad as you think for profit education is, it's worse.

Austen has been railing against places like University of Phoenix, etc for a while as what's been discovered about them is just nuts. The stat that stood out for me was that at one point they had a substantial number of recruiters (thousands) but exactly zero job placement staff.
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Quoting from another top-level comment:

"If anyone needed another reason to avoid GPL software here you go. I thought the whole idea of open source was to avoid litigious assholes."

The FSF would be disinterested in the spread of this sort of thinking. That's a good reason against letting bounty hunters loose.
I've done this as an adult and what worked was Schaum's plus online videos. The idea that you will work through long textbooks is not realistic. Also an algebra cheat sheet esp the common algebra errors. Quick Calculus is also a good book.

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/cheat_table.aspx
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You can even get Slack for Windows in 32-bit, although I suspect you'd hit the nasty 4gb limitation pretty quickly
On the other hand, all of the above are also reasons why - one could argue - the mobile market is going to be commoditized more and more.
My experience with Android is the opposite, it's gradually better and faster with every release.
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I am probably missing something here, as usual, but this does not really sound like a clear win. Is the Linux community effectively enforcing compliance with the GPL? I sort of understand how someone could see individual litigation to be a threat to the ecosystem, but doesn't that assume that we value usage more than compliance? Isn't it also a threat to the ecosystem if developers decide not to contribute because they feel their code will just get stolen for commercial profit?

Maybe this makes more sense if the vast majority of kernel developers are commercially funded and not volunteers.
The joke is that rock that deep underground has no ecosystem.

It may however be involved in the water table, which is always critical.
Ask HN: Success stories in recovering from psychosis?
I'm recovering from a recent psychotic episode where I was hospitalized for about three weeks - suspect reason is drug induced, modafinil and MDMA. I'm currently on 4mg risperidone and am worried I'll never return to my former ideal self, which was a 9-5 Django programmer. Does anyone in the tech sector have any success stories of recovering from a psychosis, especially tapering off of antipsychotics like risperidone and getting emotions/affect back? I've found I'm fairly functional again already - I set up G Suite for my parents today, but I am not getting into a flow state like I used to.
Ctrl+C is even easier.
I have disliked the arms race against middleboxes since the beginning.
I suggest reading about how Gaddafi's came to power, who financed the Italian _anni di piombo_ or checking where the biggest US military bases have been built.

I guess they just happened to be there because of the nice weather.
All I want is a single socket CPU and a motherboard that supports ECC/isn't total garbage. AMD has said it's on the motherboard manufacturers, and I haven't been able to get a straight answer as to whether ECC works as it should on motherboards that support Ryzen - https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/80wpd1/ryzen_2_ecc_sup...
We do have blackout curtains, as they're called here. The trick is getting them to go to bed when the sun is shining bright.
I guess pot cookies and cup cakes wouldn't have quite the same effect :P
Are they pricing it for the pop ? Seems like the valuation will be between 7B and 8B, well below 10B of the last round.
For those who want to try it:

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From the article:

> Current marijuana users had significantly smaller waist circumference than participants who had never used marijuana, even after adjusting for factors like age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical activity levels.
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What difference would it make to anyone if they added "...and yeah, we could fix it, but we don't see it as worthwhile" to the end of the post?
Depending on your device, installing an aftermarket ROM can range from "easily accomplished from initial query in a search engine to ROM installed within 1 hour" to "I am stuck in a nightmare of poorly written, contradictory forum posts written in a mishmash of languages with lots of instructions that say 'this is easy, but WARNING COULD BRICK YOUR DEVICE'." Who has the time or patience for such confusion?
For me: WeeChat (running in a screen/tmux) + Glowing Bear (webinterface WeeChat frontend).
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My understanding is that the bypass will not be tolled. According to Stockholm Citys own webpage [0] 'Ingen trängselskatt planeras på Förbifart Stockholm.' = 'No toll is planned on Bypass Stockholm'. However, our politicians are well know for their ability to change their minds :)

[0] = https://vaxer.stockholm.se/projekt/forbifart-stockholm/
The school should partner with one of those "we invest in you in return for 1% of your life earnings" hedge funds.

That way it'd have easy access to short-term capital needs like this.
> Even though I do my best to follow licenses, I may be making a mistake somewhere.

There are plenty of resources available on how to comply and how to setup a process to minimize this risk. Simply dump all the versions and licenses of third party software you use to a file and accompany your distribution with a written offer to share the source code or links to their official repositories if they are unmodified.

> If I heard a case where was sued for $1M to a GPLv2 software, I'd strongly consider moving over to a propriety product and pay $10 a month to mitigate my risk.

You're considering this from the perspective of an end user? Let me clarify that the limitations of GPLv2 kick into effect once you distribute software. As far as respecting copyright goes, you can use GPL software and modify it freely without any legal forethought. It's when you distribute such software that you'd get in trouble by not also sharing the source code.

In fact, this is better for the consumer, who will be able to use the bundled GPLv2 licensed software without buying the product.

> Remember that every uninstall is one less user, which is one less incentive to maintain the product, and once that gets close to zero, it's game over.

This implies that the amount of users is the only incentive when it really is not, For one, some users are more important than other users. Companies like Intel, Google, IBM, SUSE, Red Hat and AMD are important users in that they also make significant contributions to the kernel for their own benefit. There is a huge incentive for these to contribute back even if they don't need to distribute their changes because getting it into the mainline kernel simplifies maintenance. Whether some Shenzhen set top box that violates the GPL uses Linux doesn't make a difference. If anything, their continued illicit use detracts from the credibility of the license and discourages contributors that give a hoot about people respecting their individual property and the overall philosophy of free software. Then, particularly for smaller projects than the kernel, there are the individual contributors who are usually users of the software they contribute to.

I think you've maybe made the connection "users == customers" where there is none. In those terms, companies that ignore free software licenses are simply pirates.
Yeah, but did you spatter your classmates with your fountain pen? A good flick of the wrist threw ink ten feet at least. I should add that a) this was an all-boys school, and b) it was in the early 1970s, ergo everyone wore clothes made of synthetic fabrics that washed clean.
> I'd like to know if these people also smoked cigarettes.

While that seems like an obvious factor, I'm sure there are other factors too.

For instance, people getting high on cannabis probably won't drink as much beer or other forms of alcohol. This probably contributes to a generally lower weight.
The last company I worked for used small channels for this issue instead of going 1:1, which was more or less reserved for private talk
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Alternately: http://zork.net/~nick/shazbot/README.html
Yup but a project like this would have an empty issue tracker this one not so much ;)

(which doesn't mean that it's a bad project or that I wont use it. it means that I will probably start to work on it)
Wanted to respond to this for a week but been home, sick as a dog and didn't have my HN credentials. This is spot-on, and next step IS a mill :) It's a bit scary how close you got. hehe. I updated my post with the last few pieces on the electric side now.
I also recommend avoiding unnecessary libs/frameworks for any code that you expect to run for a long time without change.

I do this at work when writing small services in Go and it works out well. Some have been running for three years now without being touched yet there is no code rot and anyone can easily pick it up.
>The percentage of the working age population who have attained a postsecondary education has skyrocketed over the past 50 years, but incomes have remained stagnant.

Your numbers are out of proportion with every single statistic that measures salary of a college graduate vs salary of a high school graduate.

Maybe incomes have remained stagnant because the overall income is dropping nationwide and college graduates are the ones keeping the average stable.

Suffice to say your statement is not accurate. Education shows massive economic value.

However, EVEN if it didn't show massive economic value, exposing young people to a variety of ideas and perspectives before they enter the work world gives them a solid foundation to make decisions and critically think about life is massive value in itself.

Human beings are limited by the information in their heads and don't typically seek out new information voluntarily. Education gives them new information to reason about the world with.
But what about the branches? How does that work?
For me it was the reverse. Parents that grew up poor and saw college as the way out but didn’t understand dynamics beyond that, so it was, “Go to the best (most expensive) college you can, study anything at all, and you’ve got it made” which is either OK advice or terrible advice depending on what college that is and what you happen to study.
I'm a huge fan of increasing our freedoms. But truth is there are things a lot bigger than even a few humans together. e.g. a vulcano breaks out means you can't go on top of the Vulcano without dying. A big corp or government wants your data, they will get it one way or another. So the goal of freedom cannot be reached. You always depend on something.

However, that doesn't mean one shouldn't try to keep power over ones own life by accepting to work hard for it, by accepting to not use some maybe-nice-but-exploitative things, etc, by spending money and votes on people and projects and politicians who fight for freedom of everybody.

I feel at work Slack is really the right thing, because what you produce there is not free anyways. My company owns the data I produce at work. So why shouldn't they own the chat logs (and pay for it)? For opensource and spare time projects certainly IRC and XMPP are the way to go.

Therefore I'm not really pissed with Slack, but with the people who choose to use Slack for things where it's clearly not the right solution. It's a Sisyphean decision, though. Because you can't really make people not let themselves be exploited, especially if you try to give them freedom. The pain is that most people decide, totally freely, to sacrifice their freedom for a quick feeling of comfort.
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The Computer History Museum has a youtube channel with a lot of material on it. While it's mostly old material (oral histories from people who were movers and shakers in computer science in the 40s and 50s), it has a lot of re-uploads of technical talks from more recent conferences too. (For instance, they hosted some transfers of VHS recordings of Alan Kay lectures on OO at some mid-90s conference at Sun.)
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Intel Capital is another branch and not known as a leading VC firm. I don't think you can connect their achievements with Intel itself.
Also added a firefox version. Opera doesn't allow changing new tab page so nothing for opera :(
Me too, I was wondering how anyone would know. This is actually about the management of secrets.
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I think what's wrong with that is assuming teachers even can teach your child things that even you weren't good at or can't even remember. Parents seem to think teachers can do things they can't do. But they're not magicians. They're normal adults with textbooks. Many times they're not even experienced in the subjects they're teaching.

Teachers have to teach 30 kids at a time, who all have different backgrounds and lives. They can't possibly give them all enough individual attention and time. And somehow they're supposed to get them all to surpass all the factors holding back each specific kid in a myriad of ways, to succeed at the same material, at the same time, at the same pace.

They have to be babysitters, disciplinarians, counselors, role models, and educators. And then they get yelled at by parents or lectured by administrators for not keeping up to this standard. It's crazy. It's one of the reasons so many teachers quit within five years. It's one of the reasons it's so hard to find good teachers. And of course, they never pay them accordingly.

If it weren't for the fact that teachers are idealistic and want to help children learn, we'd have a nation of morons, because only desperate people would subject themselves to this career.
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The Image Capture app on macOS is surprisingly good at this, and one of the things I really miss on Linux and Windows, so this is neat to have.

It’s also interesting for me to think about how this is a generalization of converting a scan to black and white for clarity :)
Why not buy a server board? Edit: Its on the motherboard manufacturers not really the chip makers.
>Replace "having start" with "having to start". And maybe replace "solve" with "remove", which might be a better fit here (I'm not a native speaker).

The latter half of the sentence is still incomprehensible.
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I remember reading the bit about asking his "is there a doctor in the audience?"
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It means that you can use the Pi as just a display (instead of as a display and an amp at the same time).

Normally, when you plug the phone into the Pi, the phone won't play audio anymore. Instead, it asks the Pi to play the audio for it. Normally, that's a good assumption because it's connected to a dedicated head unit that has an amp. Now with this DIY RPi thing, we broke that assumption: the Pi has a bad DAC and doesn't have audio input (and the performance is janky now at times for unknown reasons).

I was just tipped by Emil, another developer who got really deep into hacking this. He told me that there are ways for the Pi to say "I'm not interested in helping you project the audio, you just keep playing whatever you normally play." So now your phone only projects the UI/maps to the Pi, but still routes audio/Hands-free directly to your stereo through BT. A benefit of that is you can use your handsfree, buttons/controls built into your steering wheels fine if your car has native Bluetooth.

That workaround has some problems with Chinese phones we realized, but works OK for a couple of Nexus/Pixel we tested.
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Gotta admit, as a workaround for the deficiency of "doesn't have local client logging", that one's really funny.
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Because they are a waste of time. Either they're ours or something else entirely. If these were "little green men from another planet", we'd have figured that out a long time ago and we'd all be a space-faring species by now (maybe we already are?). I want to believe but perhaps this whole phenomenon is a mirage...sure, evidence of "something" but maybe not what we think at all.
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Another possibility is that they were indeed, correct -- we did use many CPUs to perform the work, even though it is the nature of the work (running end-to-end tests on browsers, simulators, and devices).
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I agree that Go makes infrequent use easy. That was part of why I went for python over perl; I just didn't use perl often enough for it to stick in my head. There are similar issues with Haskell, just because of all the many libraries of abstractions and operators to memorize.

I still don't see why dependency management has everyone so up in arms for Go, though. Especially for infrequent use, it's hard to beat just copying the lib into your source tree and re-fetching from git every now and then.
I don't think AR is really going to take off until we have something closer to true AR glasses. The real power of AR is in contextual computing, that the system surfaces information as you need it / as you change your view.

Contextual: you look at a flower with your AR glasses and it tells you the species.

No Context: you look at a flower and a dancing hotdog appears on it.
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There's an argument to be made to have these types of phones with the exposure of the Vault 7[0] program.

If they somehow come away from this(they won't), this would be some great advertising. "It's so secure that the head of an international drug cartel uses it".

[0] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
I tried Civilizations AR a couple of days ago. Great app.
See the details in my comment. The same way you would require authentication and/or signing on any request, on any modern platform. Not doing this is poor form.
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Facebook is bad, Twitter is way worse. "<your friend> liked a tweet from <someone you don't even know>". "In case you missed out on <friend>'s tweet". "<your friend> like a tweet from <another friend of yours>". "Recent tweet from <friend>". "<friend> liked your Retweet." "Highlights from <friend> and 10 others." I figure it's only another few years before every tweet shows up as a notification...
Then why not say they belong to the french, they were there even before the brits?

As far as I can read Las Malvinas were occupied by spanish and british forces, then the brits volountarily abandoned the place[0]

[0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands#cite_note-FOO...)
It's nice to finally have actual syntactic sugar for tuples.

Now if only we had Rust-style destructuring.

EDIT: I think we do. This makes things a lot easier.
I thought it was odd that a single application would even hit the limit. Then I realized Electron.
Get him professional assistance. I gave up and walked away when my friend did what yours is doing. He was totally alone Don't know if he died or what. Have regretted it for 40 years.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. One thing I tried to do is not just document what I did, but also my intentions when I did it. That's one thing I learned from the Dolphin project.
Tekui is a great project, I wish there was something with comparable integration to other small languages such as Nim et al. Years ago I tried it with DirectFB output on an old A10 board (Hackberry IIRC). I was never able to sort out why the screen was shifted left (or right) by several dozen pixels, probably a bug somewhere, but performance on that limited processor was fairly acceptable.
Yes! Helping my dad with point and click games is a very fond memory of mine. Especially Rama (game based on the books by Arthur C. Clarke)

I should try getting it to run again sometime.
I thought it was perfectly understandable, but here is another way of putting it. By "going through a command-line interface" I mean that you have to start a new process, and hand over all state as command-line parameters (because it's a new process).

This can be impractical and error-prone, especially if you add shell AND make syntax on top. From within a decent scripting language (e.g. Python) instead, you can simply use the convenient built-in data structures (e.g. list/tuple of str) as command-line parameters for subprocesses.
While that use case is certainly an example of a convenience, I don’t think it passes the “mission critical” bar.

I can’t think of any way that emoji reactions would be mission critical unless they are part of an API that can be used for automated execution of tasks. But maybe that sort of thing does exist?
Channel tunnel was extremely soft and in places wet ground, mostly chalk. Comparatively quick to bore through. Blasting would have either wrecked the ground structure in too large an area or gone "splat" instead of "bang".
> Your numbers are out of proportion with every single statistic that measures salary of a college graduate vs salary of a high school graduate.

The original article gives the $10k figure and a quick Google search suggests other sources agree with it. But really, the exact figure is irrelevant. The fatal flaws with that way of measuring income remain. The numbers don't really matter here.

> Maybe incomes have remained stagnant because the overall income is dropping nationwide and college graduates are the ones keeping the average stable.

I don't think the data supports this. Incomes are stagnant for even the lowest income group. Unless you are suggesting that college graduates in the lowest income group are responsible for keeping that lowest income group afloat? If that is the case, what should we take from that? Why are college graduates in the lowest income group in the first place if college attainment leads to higher incomes?