skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what's happening.

A decade ago, IBM had 130,00 staff in the USA and very few in India.

Today, IBM has 130,00 staff in India and it refuses to say how many are left in the USA.

It's not really a question of saving a bit of money (20%, say) on American employees. IBM is just shipping jobs to India at a terrific rate because the cost of employing Indians is, in comparison, very very low.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ibm-shifts-center-of-g...
Make America protectionist again?
The last presentation on Power at Hotchips left me with the impression that "Core" in IBM terms is 9/10ths marketing speak and whatever Power might have that their engineers might think of as "cores" probably has little to do with what their marketing people are telling their customers and software vendors who do their licensing "per core".
It cost $375 million to retrofit the plant to support building the Q30: http://infinitinews.com/en-US/infiniti/usa/releases/infiniti...

That's in line with what the parent comment said; it's not cheap at all do add a new vehicle to an existing assembly line, and it's not worth it for low volume production.

Infinity also sold over 25 thousand Q(X)30s in 2017, so it's not as low volume as talked about in previous comments, either.
Arizona air isn't very humid, to my knowledge. I'd be curious to see how much this device can gather in gulf areas. It might be very useful in somewhere like Saudi Arabia, where expensive desalinization plants are pretty much their only source of fresh drinking water.
There are lots of ways, depending on what you want to calculate.

Here's a fantastic book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Reckoning-Calculating-Without-In...
Does that mean it doesn't boot?

I will concede one point: it was not easy to purchase. I prefer to host my personal site on Power hardware; I started with AIX in the 3.2.5 days and I ran Floodgap on an Apple Network Server 500 for the better part of 14 years. I wanted to get a POWER7 to replace it in 2010, I budgeted $15k for it, and IBM wouldn't take my money. I couldn't find _any_ IBM VAR who would do an end-user sale because I wasn't going to buy the service contract.

Eventually I found a reseller who was more than happy to take $10K of my budget for a decent 2-year-old POWER6. It had a backplane burp a couple years ago but otherwise has been pretty damn spiffy.

I'll concede IBM has to do a lot more to get these systems into people's hands to achieve a critical mass and it certainly wouldn't hurt to make them cheaper up to a point, but the systems are out there, and you can get them (and find them).

As a postscript, in my current job (a large local government agency) I was in the CIO's office one day and the regional IBM salesdroid dropped by. Just to needle him I told him this story and he gave me his card and told him to call him with any parts requests, any time. I still buy from the reseller, though. They've earned my personal business.
Somewhere, there's an engineer saying to him/herself "we could use a low-energy CPU in this design, but there's no point because its power consumption is insignificant compared to the display".
She has a car which is far more practical for her suburbian situation. But I doubt she’d have a problem taking it herself due to safety issues.
Source: http://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/cyber-attack-hits-...

Press conference: https://twitter.com/Cityofatlanta/status/976920585434423296
That’s fair. It’s the narrative that counts. If you look like you’re a good investment then you might be asked to explain but, at least, you’ll probably have the opportunity.

If your history says risk then you need something special to counteract it or you won’t get the chance.
Who’s at Fault in Uber’s Fatal Collision?
https://www.thebalance.com/why-are-so-many-competitions-void...
Great post, but what is the solution? System generated tokens authenticated somehow? I'm very much a noob here.
Don't want to jump into the fight between DL and Genetic algorithms, but can somebody explain their experience with the music paper, demo, and work? I personally am not impressed...Are you?
Its not unexpected, but still alarming given the recent news on how and the extent to which third party apps are mining your data/sending targeted ads/manipulating people with data that's given for a benign purpose like inviting friends from your contacts (Trojan horse).
Slack forms safety engineering team to reduce outages
Great minds think alike! I just found that same link
Is this really surprising to anyone? I'm surprised that this information as available to download, but I'm guessing that's not because Facebook wants to provide it (there's probably laws in New Zealand which force this?).
Hollowed out middle America probably appreciates it versus everyone else getting the consumer excess from cheap goods from china. Keep the globalism.

It pains me to say I agree with this action.
did something similar with features like upload,view files before download and file creation time (shameless plug :P ) https://github.com/kamilkabir9/LDrop
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This looks like some nice code examples, but it's worth pointing out that Spacy's website has really well-written documentation with plenty of code. For example, their page on generating word vectors:

https://spacy.io/usage/vectors-similarity
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Further reading:

"Anonymised" data on internet users obtained for "research"

Relationships between industry and academia

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/22/facebook-gave-d...

Self-regulation

Patents on protecting communications (see FN 18)

https://gking.harvard.edu/files/LazPenAda09.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html

Data from 12 million Facebook users

"There are legal obstacles to making the data available" (see Acknowledgments)

https://www.misrc.umn.edu/wise/papers/1b-3.pdf
Thanks! https://bulma.io - check it out.
Well, there's nothing stopping my friends from mailing their personal address books to ads companies.

I assume that my name and date of birth are already public domain. They are listed publicly when you register a company. Insurance companies already share that information around anyway.

My issue is when Facebook sells my entire internet browsing history.
Good notion, pointing the Kolmogorov complexity.

Yeah. You have a function, so basically a long array of numbers, and you want to find the maximum. If the data in the array has some structure, like it's sampled from a sine wave or something, you can use some strategies to find the maximum. Like gradient descent, or binary search. Something.

But if the array is filled with random numbers, looking at other arrays elements give absolutely no hint on what might be in an array element you haven't yet looked at. So there doesn't exist any more efficient strategies to find the maximum number, than linear or random search.

And the space of all possible functions mostly consists of discontinuous functions that are, for all purposes, just samples of random noise.

This is all NFL theorems say. I really don't understand how they got be such a big deal.
I believe these type of algorithms work really well for stocks but not music, GANS work better for music. What is your take?
I'm using a quite similar approach, a kanban board implemented as an org-mode agenda to manage both my personal and professional life.

I'm really happy with this method, as it's avoids overplanning and too many open tasks. Those were two pitfalls that I experienced using GTD.

Also, org is really flexible, so it's possible to implement a variety of workflows. And it has excellent facilities to put stuff quickly into your inbox: org-capture and org-protocol.
Every time somebody else burns a hole in the ozone layer I wonder if they did it over their home or over mine. Somehow I don't expect to be pleased by the answer.
Norway plans to buy electric planes, mimicking green car success
I second uberconference. The audio conferencing quality is great, users have the ability to share their screen, and there's a call in number for people to talk over the phone. It's not videoconferencing, but for most meetings I think video is unneeded. It's free for up to 10 users, which is more than sufficient for most meetings, and $10 a month after that is pretty reasonable.
They end up looking like botched plastic surgery. Every EV outside Tesla is an abomination.
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We ran into this same problem trying to build and run a data management platform on it... IDK if you want to try what we built, but it's a hell of a lot faster and less cumbersome. We went from 30 ES servers down to 4 Pilosa servers.

https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa
It's ambiguous anyway what "only measured in the millimeters" refers to. You can measure any length you like in millimeters, like the distance to the moon. Perhaps they mean less than a meter?
It's ugly. It looks like a prop from Tron, and that movie was a flop.
Wonder if this will impact buying cheap Arduinos on Aliexpress.
Can't recommend use-the-index-luke.com more. Wonderful resource.
Xilinx has prepared some marketing material regarding latency: https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Xilinx-reVISIO...
Slack releases a new policy that lets bosses read employees' direct messages
The myth of authenticity isn't killing Tex-Mex. Economics are. The increasing advantage of corporate chains over mom-and-pop restaurants, the increasing cost ratio of mass-market factory ingredients over local meats and vegetables... it's just plain cheaper and more profitable to build another Taco Bell or Chi-Chis than to keep Grandma's restaurant going into a third generation.
Walmart is the biggest employer in the US. Won't this affect them and their customers, and by extension their employees, negatively?
* Atlanta city government systems down due to using outdated, insecure software.

At which point do we simply say “systems susceptible to most types of malware are unsuitable for critical work”?
While I'm sure some of the specific practices used by scrum teams are valuable on personal projects, the broader notion of Scrum for Personal projects seems strange to me.

Scrum gets it’s name from rugby. During a rugby scrum, the entire cross-functional team works to move the ball down the field. If there's just one guy, he isn't in a scrum, he's just sprinting. Besides that stretched metaphor, half of the key statements in the agile manifesto are about collaboration and working with people. Having “Agile for one” doesn’t really make sense.

While planning ahead and doing retrospectives is definitely a good idea for personal projects, doing those things doesn't mean you're doing scrum.
It's power throttled by design. I don't think it's heat throttled. I'm sure Intel could push for higher power or optimize power to allow full bandwidth performance, perhaps there isn't a strong demand for sustained, full-width vector execution, yet.
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Quite sure e-Golf, Leaf, the electric Kia all a good match.
Number keeps changing. Was $50 billion on Bloomberg this morning.
I just made "viking" bread with my son as part of his homework, and I have no illusion that the recipe I found is authentic either, but the first recipe I found had potato flour in it...

"Authentic" viking bread would have been made with hand-milled oat and rye, with some wheat; to date you can see much more oat and rye harvest in most parts of Scandinavia; but just as you point out, potatoes are today also seen as an essential part of an "authentic" Norwegian diet and is a part of most dishes considered traditionally Norwegian.

Even more amusing to me is that while porridge is authentic in that respect, the most common modern types are not: rice porridge is certainly quite modern, yet it's pretty much considered as authentically Norwegian as you can get to have rice porridge served with butter, sugar and cinnamon, with both sugar and cinnamon being "modern" introductions.

And it was first a few years ago I learned that most of the Christmas cookie traditions we have are less than a century old, with ironic ones like "fattigmann" (literally "poor man") being introduced in the 1930's in a cook book where the recipe including more eggs than the average 1930's family consumed in a year, and so not actually spreading until much later.

Christmas traditions in particular, now that I have a kid of my own, has driven how that "authentic" and "tradition" usually really for the most part stays consistent only a generation or two. What my son is growing up with certainly has some parts in common with the Christmas celebrations of my childhood, but it has already morphed drastically, both in terms of traditions and even the food we insist is very authentic.
I believe we called that, "2003 engineering decisions."
Thank you for the reply.

I have had repeat customers through the service I work for. It's a completely different ecosystem and doesn't translate to external clients. I like working for the service and I don't plan to leave it, but I want to also develop outside clientele.

Assume that trying to get clients outside that platform is a recent effort that I haven't pursued too hard, in part because I don't know how.
As an Australian this is what we've had to deal with for decades. We don't produce much pollution but the hole is largely over us and giving us skin cancer.
How will this help "hollowed out" America? Is the promise that West Virginia will become the next Shenzhen?
What I do is write the query that gets me the data to answer the question that I need no matter how crappy. And then using the engine and statistics and maybe diagramming out the relations between tables and the indexes try to refactor it to be better. In the end what matters is that the data returned is right. Optimizing after you have that makes most sense in my head and that's when you can go off and feel confident in doing so ( because your deliverable is done, the correct data returned ) and research more "advanced" sql to get your query better.
Seconding what you just said, and another thing is that the cost barrier to entry to developing x86-64 software on a very current Linux platform is almost zero. If you are a curious 15 year old who wants to learn Linux stuff you can get an older Core 2 Duo desktop PC for free, or almost free ($20) from a number of recycling places and install the latest debian-testing AMD64 on it. Put it on your home LAN, ssh into it, and start doing whatever you want.

I know of companies that regularly throw away second generation core i5 dual and quad core systems with 8GB of RAM.

The same software you develop on your $20 headless desktop PC can be easily moved over onto a $15/month KVM virtual machine somewhere in hosting. Or onto a used $250 1U server that you can pay to colocate somewhere for $65-100/month with bandwidth. All x86-64 platform.

The massive, massive economies of scale for x86-64 platform stuff are going to be very hard to get people to move away from unless there is an amazingly compelling reason. The ability to cannibalize random recycled computers to make one working computer out of "free" parts is a big thing for the developing world.
Millimeters over what area, though?

[Edited]

It could be any, if the device depends on area. The more area you use, the more water you get. Weather report often uses litres per square metres. One meter high per square metre is a thousand litres, so one mm would be a litre.

Edit: in the article I read: These small, initial test systems were only designed to produce a few milliliter.

So it's much less :-)
Just as a reminder: it is now year 21 after Prius.
Maybe this suggests that an effective use of current (i.e., 99.9%) autonomous driving implementations would be a captain and co-captain type of scenario, where the car only responds to commands that are the same from both drivers, like a logical AND between driver inputs (within some tolerance, and filtered, etc.).

What if the promise of autonomous driving tech isn't to make human drivers obsolete, but to make human drivers nearly perfectly safe. What are the chances that an engaged human driver and an autonomous system would both, simultaneously give the same incorrect or dangerous driver input to a car? It's not as sexy as robot cars, but seems like a significant development over the current situation. Also, it seems like a viable way to test on public roads.
Most taxis can't do wheelchairs, either. No-one blames the taxi driver.
I think you've been downvoted a bit hastily because you didn't agree to the "forced subsidy" that came in the form of taxes. One reply caricatured your stance as if you said you didn't want to pay any taxes at all.

More importantly you should have read the article until the end. It mentions that the program pays for itself. In other words, the government spends less by providing this housing to the homeless, because the savings due to medical/emergency services are _larger_ than the costs of providing the housing.

From a pure money perspective, it sounds like they cost less to society when they are provided housing, so your concern is somewhat moot if you only look at the monetary side of things (which is, I believe, the angle you were concerned about).
girl?
...and from now on I will start calling it the "Echoes of Smoot-Hawley" Tariff.

For those here who don't know, the Smooth-Hawley Tariff Act, signed into law around a year after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, is widely considered to have exacerbated the Great Depression of the 1930's.[a]

If I may quote George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."[b]

Hopefully this tariff and China's retaliation will remain an isolated incident, without significant repercussions for global trade. One can hope.

Ignorance is a scarily powerful force in world affairs.

:-(

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Ac...

[b] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana
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Gradient descent: Run the neural net, evaluate the fitness function, shift parameters in the direction of the derivative of the fitness function.

Genetic algorithm: Shift parameters in a batch of random ways, evaluate using fitness function, keep the best.

There is nothing more fundamentally 'creative' about one than the other; these are both just attacks on the problem "here is this function, find parameter settings that get higher scores in it".
In what space? What types of jobs?
What? Middle America probably benefits the most from cheap goods because they need to buy them. "Everyone else" are the ones who can either afford to be brand-conscious or are too poor to buy anything.
Yes, this is exactly what I'm saying. It should factor in, but AFAIK doesn't.
Looks cool!
The demo link in the README is broken, that should probably be https://ej2.syncfusion.com/16.1.24/angular/demos/#/material/...
News usually reports on rumor and calculated leaks before any official announcement.
I don't want to mean that this is "novel" at all, I played a lot with genetic programming like 20 years ago. However in my opinion genetic algorithms and genetic programming are not the same thing, while closely related: genetic programming is using genetic algorithms as a search strategy to find a way to write a program in order to solve a problem. It is more closely related to reinforcement learning in theory, you just have a problem, a fitness function, and you provide no hints about how to solve it. Note how this is fundamentally different than having already an algorithm in lack of good parameters, which is what GA does. When such parameters are computer instructions, things start to be semantically interesting. However there is a big difference between reinforcement learning and genetic programming: the second will output a program that can be simplified and understood. NNs are much more opaque so even when they outperform known techniques, what they do is not clear. A more practical example: 20 years ago I wrote a GP framework based on a simple stack language (so that programs are always valid, it's an alternative to use S-expressions). Then I used it in order to generate a new hashing function to minimize the collision I had in my hash table. The output of the GP was a code snippet that I could understand, translate into a specification, re-write in C. It effectively invented a good hashing function. You can see everything as an optimization problem, but at the end of the day if the output of a GP is similar to the output of a mathematician that you hired to write a better hash function, well, this is kinda questionable if it was just optimizing or if while doing it the program invented something.

Also note that in the 90s things produced by genetic programming went patented, because they were novel algorithms.
> Is this really surprising to anyone?

Does it matter?
Didn't expect a Chi-Chis reference on HN. For what it's worth, "A combination of bankruptcy and hepatitis drove the chain out of business" in 2004.

http://journaltimes.com/news/local/glad-you-asked-what-happe...
Remember the 2013 Snowden leaks? Google doesn’t have to knowingly expose their info on you, it may happen against their will. Or unknown to them. Even if Google is an altruistic organization, it’s dangerous to have that profile data remote.

I hope that local computing can get strong enough to do the same types of assistant type usefulness through local AI and peer to peer sharing. This will also estimate travel time, recognize appointments, etc etc. Open source to the rescue.
Maybe, but the scale here is gigantic, and it will take a lot of work for humans to make an impact. Consider that a single cumulus cloud can weigh 2 million pounds(that is, 900 cubic meters of liquid water).

If you were going to be worried about things like this, wind farms will probably pose a bigger problem than water collection, unless we start building large cities in the desert relying only on air moisture collection.
Transatlantic trade war must be blamed on protectionist EU not on Trump
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Technical debt is kicking the can down the road. What you're talking about is mostly just a feature overhaul. The modifications the previous tenant made were technical debt.