skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They definitely aren't charging 10X for it, it's very much in line and competitive at the Xeon level in terms of pricing, and they shine for certain workloads, especially with the new interconnects (CAPI, NVLink). POWER8 was harder to find, but the performance characteristics were good (in my experiments). And now the software is better (more solid ports) and cost is down. I'm eagerly awaiting the chips to hit this year and trying to find access to some.

Plus IBM licenses the design these days (through OpenPOWER), so several of these players are building their own chips, boards, etc. Someone could inevitably enter the low-end market but lower-end devices have thinner margins and a lot more competitors.

Even right now you can get real chips to go on a board on pre-order, just under $400 (TALOS II preorders) -- the mobo is the pricier part, but part of that is likely due to the BOM choices on that piece from Raptor Engineering. A smaller form factor motherboard (maybe with 1 socket) could land in the sub $2000 range for a whole mobo+cpu -- which is certainly competitive with similar HEDT/workstation prices[1]...

[1] I just dropped $1,500 on a 1950X threadripper and associated mobo earlier this year, so this price range is certainly alive and kicking, IMHO.
What modern BMW uses plugs that aren't pregapped?
It's also fair to say that some people subconsciously go well out of their way to treat every vague similarity as part of some broader conspiratorial case that Firefox is trying to clone some other browser in general. Even when the products still ultimately look, feel and behave so differently that it's clearly not the case.

In fact it's painfully obvious that Mozilla isn't at all trying to "clone" Chrome, given that their recent Photon UI design looks less like Chrome than their previous Australis UI, all things considered. Not to mention that even their own Chromium-based products are drastically differently from Chrome, and they've just confirmed in this post that they intend to even move those over to GeckoView.

As such it's a very silly and tiresome argument to hear, and since the rest of the comment didn't seem very interested in having a conversation or adding to the greater discussion, I'm not surprised it would just get downvoted.
Wouldn't it have to be a specific instance?

Also, What's the definition of know?

Someone somewhere in the organization knew?

you have reasonable processes in place to catch activity?

how does slang, metaphor and euphemism play into it?
We're talking about 4 lanes in the same direction.
By "another GPS" do you mean a different satellite in the same network, or a different GNSS?
I've built an AR headset with a normal backlit LCD, fresnel lens, and a semi-transparent mirror. Not great but it works.

You can certainly build a DIY projector that way. Building a high quality projector is hard but a crappy one is very simple. If you jam an LCD between a light source and a lens at the right distances you will get an image. Slide projectors, camera lenses, magnifying glass lenses, even those fresnel page magnifier lenses work.
Quizzes aren't really great at the college level. They waste too time--and you already don't really have enough time to begin with.
Best way I can think of explaining it: The Equifax breach was more of how you're identified, whereas with Facebook it's more of who you are.
I think that the entire concept of The Establishment, UK class distinctions and the whole class war movement that accepts the basic premise, amplifies it, then reflects the image back, is one of the most successful long running dīvide et imperā strategies in existence, so why would I ever go along with it?
A reverse image search turns up what appears to be the photo used as the background for the picture in the article, so yes, it seems to be a mockup.
Electric cars have an order of magnitude fewer parts than an ICE car. This ripples all through an established automaker's revenue and production models, from service contracts, supplier partnerships and agreements, dealer networks, warehousing and fulfillment, and so on. There is probably a lot for an established automaker to untangle, some of which they'll be sued for if they try to follow Tesla's route.

With that said I don't think it's the reason BMW is not ready to mass produce electric, and I take them at their word in the article. If you're going to break into the electric market it's going to take a lot of money to shoulder past the three marques that got there first (Tesla, Nissan, Toyota).
> Just find a new employer?

Umm, yeah? You do have a network of professional contacts whose bosses are constantly hitting up for personal references, don't you? There is still a shortage of qualified tech workers, isn't there? The world didn't just change overnight because IBM is laying some people off.

Okay, you tell me. What social contract do you think should be on offer here? Because it sounds a lot to me like, "Give me everything and hold me accountable for nothing."
I did that for a while, actually. I was using cloud9 from a variety of (low-storage) netbooks. It did require a persistent network connection, but it was remarkably functional even on extremely tenuous wireless links. It was nice to have a dedicated workspace+vm for each project, without having to store everything locally, and the workspace was always exactly how you left it, even the running or half-typed terminal commands. I'm not sure I want to work that way by default, but it's quite practical, and potentially even preferable.
We're being paid a week of salary and healthcare for each year worked so it's not too bad

A month per year worked is the very minimum of “reasonable”. You are being royally shafted.
> Just to echo on the search for authenticity, many places in the US will serve food at a higher level of quality than many places in the country of origin.

Pretty sure it applies neither for French or Italian cuisine.
It's a fair complaint from the student / customer's perspective, though, because university tuitions are constantly increasing for no apparent increase in value.

That universities pay the TA's beans isn't the customer's problem.
I think a related problem is that many university educators have a pretty abismal understanding of education itself. For some of the, the notion that leaning tools shouldn't necessarily be assesment tools is rather suprising.
Different, but not better IMO, since Facebook solved the friend access problem in 2014 but Google apps still have this issue today. Moreover, Facebook can push updates instantly since it's a web API-- I hope Google has some way of changing this without requiring a full OS update.

Also worth considering, Facebook is all about social and preference ("like") data, but live location is something you can get as a mobile app and a lot of stuff can be inferred from where you live/work/visit.
Hi - with GitHub everything is configured automatically. A future feature may implement this for BitBucket as well, but you can get a similar experience today by manually configuring the component parts (mirroring, webhook to GitLab on commit, add a script to push the pipeline status to Bitbucket).
There is a guide here on how to do that: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ci_cd_for_external_repos/bitbu...
Grade by completion. Maybe 50% of questions right rounds up to 100%?
It's not unusual to see stores which have signs on their washrooms stating that they are "for customer use only".
Sure. MtGox, a PHP site, got hacked just a handful of years ago because its creator decided to write his own encryption software.
The Personal Side of Things
You mean, like HAARP? Not saying it is a weapon. But it certainly has the pedigree to perceived that way, from a program & pop-culture standpoint:

https://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-...

* Note: University of Alaska fairbanks appears to have taken over HAARP and converted it to a "Fee based" research center -- much like a radiotelescope at other academic institutions I assume?
I am in the exact opposite situation right now : how do I find a C system freelancer ?
"Haven't really found any good way of integrating the Gitlab-CI with Github"

Sounds like that is solved.
They should be flagged in the phone screen.
> Finally, as educators, we also hope that the accused student can learn difficult lessons about ethical behavior in the classroom rather than the workplace.

Suppose that technique X can actually deter students from cheating 100% of the time.

So we apply technique X to intro class Z that has 300 students.

Now we have an intro class of 300 non-cheating students who sit quietly and listen to an instructor for an hour a week.

Then those non-cheating students sign in for a more reasonably sized class section of 40 to sit quietly and listen to a graduate student for an hour.

Finally, these non-cheating students take tests and do assignments written in such a way that the amount of grading time does not put the graduate students over the weekly allotted work time for their TA-ship in their particular program.

Ballpark-- by what percentage would one say the quality of the learning environment has improved by employing technique X?
Does VW already know how to make electric vehicles? How many would they sell relative to their total sales of existing ICE vans? Is it worth starting up an entire new business for one customer?

I think this can be explained by VW just deciding its not worth it rather than saying VW is trying to suppress electric vehicle development.
who are more concerned about protecting their political standing than accomplishing good work.

Managers and bean counters you mean? They always seem to be spared the axe.
Indeed, food gets remixed worldwide. The gyros I get in Chicago are almost identical to the kebabs I found in Britain, except that the British variety has a wide variety of sauce options, including ones more commonly associated with curry, such as tikka.

Tikka masala, on the other hand, was invented in the UK and has made its way back to India.

Food would be boring indeed if ingredients and techniques strictly stayed in one place.
Personally, I found Google much easier to replace than Facebook. In the case of Google, I started using DuckDuckGo, and it's been fine. There are alternatives for maps and email too.

In the case of Facebook there's a lot of peer pressure which keeps people on the platform. To leave Facebook (for most people), your friends also need to leave with you. Unfortunately, while this is slowly happening now, people seem to be flocking to platforms also owned by Facebook -- Instagram and WhatsApp.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
It's a fair point.
> I can see China running with ARM and POWER, ditching Intel entirely.

I thought they had a thing for MIPS64, at least in their supercomputers.
This is science!, therefore, metric system. Also GPS navigation errors of 1 mile would have been something you would have noticed.
If you build it, they will come: The Eden Project
I mean that Uber, being a very shady company, has a large incentive to 'sterilize' the language. The person becomes an 'object', the person driving the car becomes a 'rouge employee', the cruddy software and cost cutting becomes an 'undiscovered malfunction', the burden of safety on the AV manufacturer becomes a 'shared breakdown'. Responsibility and humanity start to get stripped away via the word choices used.
He had his wife's income so likely the family made more that 300k. As a successful physician, they may have pulled in more than 500k total.
Why Science Should Not Be Used to Create Policy
Used spark plugs are going to have a bigger gap.
> "In fact, "build it yourself from scratch" is an anti-pattern in my opinion."

In the context of getting things done, that is sometimes true.

However, as an employer, I want to know that you:

1) have enough knowledge to build it from scratch if you have to, starting with analyzing the problem and ending with a coded, tested, debugged, and working solution, preferably at least somewhat optimized.

2) have enough knowledge to be able to read the code that you might want to use in [not building it from scratch] and assess it's value, considering A) whether it will meet the actual need, B) whether it will do so at a lower cost than writing it in-house from scratch, C) whether it will meet or exceed performance parameters, D) not introduce more problems than an in-house solution.

3) make a well-informed and reasoned decision between #1 and #2, and not merely be a copy-paste monkey.

Doing copy-paste as a regular practice in school eliminates all three of these capabilities.

In short, school is different from work, and you need to adhere to different practices.

edit: format
That participant's video / audio quality degrades rapidly. As far as I understand it, appear uses point-to-point webrtc connections for each participant. Another issue I've run into is that sometimes, I can hear/see a participant better than others on the call (I guess because of the way it handles connections). Overall though, the room url and the lack of login needed is super convenient, despite the occasional call quality issues.
I'm kind of shocked Netflix is going down this route, for some reason I never expected them to stoop this low.
m is standard for meters

mi is standard for miles

--

Good ask.
US added 700,000 new millionaires in 2017
I agree, the car is not even close to prime-time
Civilian devices can use two frequencies as well, they just don't for cost and complexity reasons. The new L5 frequency has been available for some time and new devices supporting it are coming out this year. There are also multiple augmentations users can use to increase their accuracy to even greater levels than military users: https://www.gps.gov/systems/augmentations/
An overview of Proof of Work based blockchain consensus protocols (part 1)
Come on, you can buy a load of ARM 64 bit development boards starting from just a few tens of dollars. There is no problem at all getting access to ARM. And from there you can scale up to Cavium 2 or Amberwing which have Xeon-like performance (better than Xeon in some ways). If there's a problem with ARM I'd say it's still the lack of standardization, and also very few mid-range servers.

POWER is nothing like this. There are no development boards at all, for anything less than $thousands, and the real servers have great performance but sky-high prices.
At least one study been done to see how responsive a passive "driver" of an autonomous vehicle can be. The study concluded a person that is required to intervene with an autonomous vehicle is no better than a drunk person.

It makes sense. If the car is able to get you from point A to point B 99.9% of the time without an issue, are you really going to be paying attention that one time when a person walks out in front of you and the car fails to respond appropriately? If the vehicle enables people to not pay attention, they aren't going to be attentive.

I'd be willing to bet almost every driver that gets to ride around in these test vehicles thinks the job is awesome because they get paid without having to really do anything.
You can stop using Reddit. That will drive down their advertising revenue.
That's nothing compared to women who read the news, sports, etc. on TV, most of whom have to get breast implants. And yes, it is the older women with thicker torsos who have to do this to preserve their "feminine" appearance. Young women can often get by, just by being slim.
They are referring to Genetic Algorithms. There was a theory called the "building block hypothesis" but no one could prove it (turned out it was impossible to prove). The field was sort of run on hand waving for several decades.
> For FB, can someone explain to me what was the actual damage, was it just personal information about you?

FB allowed apps to access data about the user (who authorized the app) and their friends (who did not need to authorize the app).

The kind the data FB has can be used to reveal a lot of information about you (e.g. age, where you live, etc.) and this information can then also be used to derive things you haven't told FB -- such as estimating your income or predicting your SSN [1].

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975
They could extract pictures. In the future, once more devices have AI chips on board and maybe there's an API for seeing what's in the pictures, too, with ML, I could see developers abuse that, and extract all sorts of relevant info from people's phones.

Regardless of how dangerous Android permissions are or aren't, I do agree with the larger point that Google is scared about what will happen to Facebook, because it knows those regulations or even a "privacy revolution" that may come in the wake of this will impact it, too.

It's probably not even just this one event that will hurt Google. This sentiment has been growing over the past few years. If Google hasn't noticed it growing, then they are out of touch. If the anti-privacy trend continues, it will be bad news for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and even Apple (which seems to be backtracking on some privacy features lately).

I do hope that at the very least the anti-privacy trend pushes companies to limit data gathering and use new privacy-preserving tech that doesn't allow them to look at the data at all. And I hope they do that before it's too late (for them).
However, it does not seem to work in most cases that I've found. I was super excited when it arrived, but I'm still hunting down the domains of auto-play videos and adding them to a blacklist manually.

The choices seem to be "document user gesture", "user gesture is required", "no user gesture is required", and "default". There needs to be a "never autoplay any media"
What senior tech execs wish they learned earlier in their careers
No the base price is $35,000. They simply haven't started letting anyone buy the $35,000 versions yet. You can say this is a failure on the part of Tesla. But this is not the first time they've had a lower end model that was planned but not immediately available upon production. Case in point when the All Wheel Drive Model S was announced, they didn't make non-performance versions available for several months after.
> It will be 1% or less.

1% is like 10 million. More like 0.001% or less. I know many non-tech people using FB. I don't know any of them who considered quitting FB because of such concerns and it's unlikely they would. I mean, they can feel concerned or even outraged about FB shenanigans - just like when they hear yet another politician has been caught stealing millions or harassing employees or selling his vote to the highest bidder - but they don't move to another country because of that.

Otherwise, your bleak picture seems to be entirely correct.
I can't tell if this is self-promotion or trolling.
Hm, then I feel like students might do the minimum passable work. Which, to be fair, is pretty close to optimal for the real world.

Maybe that's the trick - make the requirements for passing good enough that the minimum still requires learning and engagement, and then just grade on a straight pass/fail.
That's indeed true for the default interface implementation, but I believe for nullability it's just compiler warnings. At runtime, nothing will be left in the IL for this. It just isn't possible to do that and maintain backward compatibility
Release notes: https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor/releases/tag/0.1.0

Blog post and tutorial: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/03/22/get-start...
Re: Netflix -- will this feature have control over media embedded via EME?
Post an open-ended comment on a popular Hacker News thread and watch the messages roll in? ;)
Very cool

Is there any documentation around the DOM integration? I'd ideally like to use this to drive a canvas so I don't have to write really complex calculations in JS
What puts me off are the narrow wheels. I know they are necessary but they give the car an almost comical look.
Edit: I see clearly now in the top-level comment you mention self-hosting

Ah, my apologies, didn't realize you were self-hosting GitLab vs using GitLab.com. Yes, this is the case for self-hosted instances it is part of the Premium feature. On GitLab.com is is available for free.
Not sure if you missed it, or I'm misunderstanding you, but he wrote:

> Give them homework and "grade it" to give them feedback

which addresses your main point.
It's also super comfortable inside, compared to the Leaf or the Bolt.
Neither humans nor robots can treat everywhere like a crosswalk. We human drivers see pedestrians standing on the edge of the road all the time, often getting ready to cross. If we slowed down every time we saw that, roads would flow poorly. On the other hand, we do slow down when we see people poised to cross at an actual crosswalk, and the law demands we do that.

Right now, live humans are better at reading the body language of pedestrians than machines are, and this is an area of research.

My suggestion is that mapping places where people are likely to cross allows you to dial up your caution in those locations. Not to dial it all the way up to what the law demands in legal crosswalks, but not to have it at the most basic level. Of course, once a ped enters the roadway, you will dial up the caution.

On 45mph roads, peds know to expect cars not to keep them safe. You wait for a long clearing in the traffic and you run if you have to. On low speed roads, we cross even with cars coming, expecting them to see us and react.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_plants_of_Mesoame...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exchange
But it is worse. Over 12 million Ras Pis have been sold, I see them just lying around on developer's desks all the time.
I don't think I've ever even seen a bootable Power system.
Do we have some data on how thin the margin is for entry level subcompact cars? I was always under the impression that cars are sold at the "market price", regardless of production costs which usually meant at much higher price than production costs.
Great privacy is already here...it's just not evenly distributed yet.

I think that sort of statement applies here. Some people have known about what this data can be used for and truly understood the implications of it for a long time. Those people are also the type of people that have stopped using Facebook years ago. Most others are just now starting to realize it.
"Like Deep Learning (DL), EC was introduced decades ago, and it is currently experiencing a similar boost from the available big compute and big data. However, it addresses a distinctly different need: Whereas DL focuses on modeling what we already know, EC focuses on creating new knowledge."

What utter nonsense. Genetic Algorithms do exactly the same thing that Deep Learning methods do: optimize a function for a particular criterion. Genetic Algorithms are useful when taking gradients is not viable, as with RL methods - and RL methods can use Deep Learning! Seriously misleading.

Also, this: "Remarkably, although several human-designed LSTM variations have been proposed, they have not improved performance much—LSTM structure was essentially unchanged for 25 years. Our neuroevolution experiments showed that it can, as a matter of fact, be improved significantly by adding more complexity, i.e. memory cells and more nonlinear, parallel pathways." - this is not at all a new idea? How can you even pretend what you're doing is novel.
Then perhaps the world needs to stop caring so much about the assement part of a university.

That would be wonderful if more people were able to focus on the learning, and less on the grades for unrelated subjects that don't matter for your job.