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OMG, looks like „permanence“ is now to blockchainers what „web scale“ was to MongoDB fanboys.

Now if you were so kind to explain to me what about modern, distributed databases isn‘t „permanent“?

Permanence is the very definition of a database‘s job. If you really want to make extra sure it‘s permanent, give write-only permissions to the DB user, make backups and if you want to allow mutations, enable change data capture.

Now if there only was a way to short blockchain technology as a financial asset...
But in terms of comparisons. That metric is really difficult to define for a roadway or an entire network of airports and the transit systems that connect them to cities.
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Hitchens has a section on Buddhism in God is Not Great[1] wherein he discusses some violent atrocities in which Eastern Buddhism has taken part (Japanese Buddhism during WWII, for example), as well as the malevolent sex acts forced upon female practitioners.

Worth a read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Is_Not_Great
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Call me old school... But what about meeting a friend for a coffee or dinner? And then getting validation that way?

Rhetorical questions probably. Because Facebook has reduced all that friction. Being connected and getting validation gives you that same dopamine hit you get from connecting with someone in person...multiple times over.. and you can do it from your smartphone
There is certainly a lot of hype around AI chips, but I'm very skeptical of the reward. There are several technical concerns I have with any "AI" chip that ultimately leave you with something more general purpose (and not really an "AI" chip, but good at low precision matmul):

* For inference, how do you efficiently move your data to the chip? In general most of the time is spent in matmul, and there are lots of exciting DSPs, mobile GPUs, etc. that require a fair amount of jumping through hoops to get your data to the ML coprocessor. If you're doing anything low latency, good luck because you need tight control (or bypassing entirely) of the OS. Will this lead to a battle between chip makers? Seems more likely to be a battle between end to end platforms.

* For training, do you have an efficient data flow with distributed compute? For the foreseeable future any large model (or small model with lots of data) needs to be distributed. The bottlenecks that come from this limit the improvements from your new specialized architecture without good distributed computing. Again better chips don't really solve this, and comes from a platform. I've noticed many training loops have terrible GPU utilization, particularly with Tensorflow and V100s. Why does this happen? The GPU is so fast, but things like summary ops add to CPU time limiting perf. Bad data pipelines not actually pipelining transformations. Slow disks bottlenecking transfers. Not staging/pipelining transfers to the GPU. And then there is a bit of an open question of how to best pipeline transfers from the GPU. Is there a simulator feeding data? Then you have a whole new can of worms to train fast.

* For your chip architecture, do you have the right abstractions to train the next architecture efficiently? Backprop trains some wonderful nets but for the cost of a new chip (50-100M), and the time it takes to build (18 months min), how confident are you that the chip will still be relevant to the needs of your teams? This generally points you towards something more general purpose, which may leave some efficiency on the table. Eventually you end up at a low precision matmul core, which is the same thing everyone is moving towards or already doing whether you call yourself a GPU, DSP, or TPU (which is quite similar to DSPs).

Coming from an HPC/Graphics turned deep learning engineer, I've worked with gpus since 2006 and neural net chips since 2010 (before even AlexNet!!), so I'm a bit of an outlier here having seen so many perspectives. From my point of view the computational fabric exists we're just not using it well :)
How could it be a "goal" to have incorrect code?
agree because paying 19$ for this product is not worthy. as telegram already provides telegra.ph which is free of cost. FOSS with donations is a perfect monetisation strategy.
Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
I've noticed this too: builds are faster on Linux (I assume because of the longstanding perf issues with directory traversal on Windows), and some of the GUI elements on Windows are blurry, apparently because of Chromium issues with High DPI that are outside Microsoft's control. I imagine some manager at Microsoft rips his hair out over this, but their loss is our gain.
I like the idea of using VS Code for my C and C++ work but last time I looked at it I lost interest looking at the length of the setup page for tasks.json and all that to get a C++ build toolchain configured. Is this still the case? Why can it not be more automatic like pretty much every other editor for supporting GCC or cl.exe?

What is your setup? Is it system wide or do you configure it manually for each project/workspace/folder?
Case in point: Prince. The man is extremely wealthy and yet succumbs to counterfeit Vicodin laced with Fentanyl.
He intends to step away from Tesla, but he doesn't think now is the right time. His vision and leadership are necessary to get Tesla to the point where the Model 3 has taken off -- after that, he'll hand over the reigns and focus on other stuff (SpaceX, Neuralink).
None of this is new information, just another FB hit piece - likely paid.

I'm sick of people trashing facebook when they can only wish for the data collection ability of the NSA. Oh, and there's no opt out there.
I'm aware.

Making a chip and making competitive chip are two different things.

When Nvidia enters the market with specialized chip it's likely on completely another level in bandwidth, energy consumption and price per flop performance. They have so much more experience with this.

* https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk...

* https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/04/10/ai-drives-rise-acce...
GM had inventory >> demand, Tesla has demand >> inventory. Durant micro-managed; Musk both has obvious tendencies there, but also just broadcast a memo directing employees communicate directly, without going up and down a chain of command. And, as noted in other comments, Musk took over the company from its founders — like Sloan, and unlike Durant.

There’s ingredients here for a Tesla:GM and Musk:Durant story, or for its opposite.

To make the argument compelling, I’d want a justification for including only the similarities while omitting these differences. Without this, the comparison seems ad hoc.
I leave vscode open basically 100% of the time and use notepad++ for quick edits. Vscode having slow startup doesn't affect my support of it at all
The very next graph moderates that statement: “Fortunately, he added, no model insists that the out-group must be exterminated or otherwise eliminated from the scene. “It’s possible to treat the out-group with mild dislike or even grudging respect,” he said. “Cultivating in-group distinctiveness does not require that the other must be killed.”

And look: you’re giving the perfect example of such “mild dislike”! Quote: “The dirty lenses of journalism”.

I agree that xenophobia is somewhat rare among “hackers”, but I don’t think you can easily deny some ingroup/outgroup dynamics in this scene. Social sciences and the liberal arts are routinely ridiculed. “The media” is constantly treated as incompetent (see above). And misogyny is somewhat common.
Websites like this want traffic from Google. To get indexed by Googlebot they have to show the bot the article text, and Google's anti-blackhat-SEO rules mean that you have to show a human clicking through from Google the same text that you show Googlebot. So they have to show people visiting through that route the article text too.
You could drop that to $1118 by buying further in advance; check August, for example.
Do you have a time limit in which you need to complete your internship (for instance I did a 9 month internship before my final year of college).

Here is the deal: you are an intern. You probably aren’t instrumental to their operations. I say go for your new gig if it’s a guaranteed hire. That’s capitalism. Don’t try to negotiate with your current company. And don’t burn bridges (you arent). Just simply say you have another opportunity you are going to pursue, and submit your 2 week resignation. Thank your current company for their offer and time (since in reality you were probably costing them money). Best of luck!
Are you suggesting Musk selling suitcases full of coke to fund Tesla?
I wonder why that is. In plenty cultures and traditions they're treated as less capable or less trustworthy or less honest etc. Even in Bhagavad Gita women are said to be somewhat comparable to children and lower in the spiritual game than men.

Are you playing on hard mode if you respawn as a woman? Is spiritual practice or reaching enlightenment harder for women? Modern studies seem to indicate that women seem to be more prone to neuroticism or hysteria and being clouded by sense pleasure.
As the world becomes increasingly unbound from geography more people are going to have friends outside of the "lets meet for coffee" radius. I think it's arrogant to the extreme to suggest that people should go back to giving up on their connections just because you've made a judgement about a company's business model or privacy tradeoffs.
Most top tier tech all.have their working solutions for these. It's a matter of turning into product and moving the industry mindset.
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I don't understand psychedelic culture, admittedly, but I can't wrap my head around why you think it's anti consumerist. Drugs are being bought and consumed, right? Isn't that the core of the culture? "Do this one thing, that costs money, to improve your life." I don't see the fundamental difference between that and purchasing any other product.

Thanks for saying why you downvoted, anyway.
Probably accurate, given the renaming of the British North America Act to the fraud of a name, "Constitution Act of 1867".
tl;dr Guy who had researched Soylent got targeted by ads for one of their competitors, called Ample, and uses that as a basis as to why you should delete Facebook.

Really? My guess is that he wound up on a page with the FB pixel as a result of a Soylent search. Ample was likely running a Lookalike audience ad. It doesn't take any sort of deep knowledge, illegal/immoral data processing, or any other of the nefarious things he is implying to make that connection.

Let's remember that Ample didn't actually ever have this guy's data. An algorithm on Facebook's side said "this guy lives in San Franscisco, has lots of friends in startups, and has searched for articles related to Soylent before" and showed him an ad based on targeting parameters setup by Ample. This is all data that he voluntarily gave to Facebook. Unless he clicked on the ad and then voluntarily entered his personal information into the Ample's site, Ample does not and will never know anything about him, including whether or not he ever was shown their ad.

If you want to avoid this kind of thing, unfortunately deleting Facebook is just the beginning. You'll have to never search the internet (all sites that you click on from any search engine know what you were searching for when you click over), turn off all cookies (which means you can never log in, anywhere), and disable javascript. That doesn't even begin to address the elephant in the room: your ISP knows just about everything you do.

The genie is out of the bottle. Referrers are sent by browsers. The Internet works by first connecting to a network provider, which means they know everything you do. Even in the world of SSL everywhere, DNS queries provide a very telling map of your behavior.
Almost all sites rely on cookies at least for login purposes, and those can be used to track your behavior. Just want to disable third party cookies? Go ahead. How long will it be until a service shows up for sites to band together and correlate their first party cookies with info about your IP and achieve the same mission?

So if you're worried enough about your privacy to delete Facebook, then it's hypocritical of you to be reading this message on the Internet at all. You should not be accessing the Internet if you do not want to be tracked.
Quite the contrary, the Russian government is obsessed with Telegram. Ruasian Ministry of Foreign affairs even employs Telegram chats from their website.
There seem to be two different senses of what an "engineer" is. In one sense, it is "someone who has trained as an engineer", and in the other it is "someone who does engineering". Elon Musk fits the first, because he has trained as an engineer, but does not fit the second, because he is currently employed as CEO. I fit the second, because I am currently employed as an engineer, but do not fit the first, because I was trained as a physicist.

If you are arguing semantics, please take care to understand that not everybody has the same definitions of words as you do. Without the context of how you interpret words, your posts will fail to convey reasonable information.
This doesn't take up an enormous amount of shop space, can be used on arbitrarily large workpieces, and probably requires far less calibration and maintenance work. I have a 2' x 2' CNC router and can easily think of usecases this would be better for. A 4' x 8' CNC router is sure as hell not going to be cheaper than this thing.
That has fewer brackets to colorize.
That's not the only issue they face. Tesla is on a downward spiral and can't make money off a 35k base model. They owe a lot of money to creditors and all it takes is for one of them to recall the debt owed and other creditors will follow. I'd strongly suggest reading this article:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-19/more-hilarious-fac...
In that vein there are many people who believe Apple’s* most important hire was not Jony Ive but Tim Cook. Tim built the machine that allowed for the type of manufacturing and logistics execution you see at Apple today.

* I say Apple’s hire because Jony joined during Steve’s gap in tenure
A mini spanner product in what sense?
Forgot to add. The built-in excision API is similar to crypto shredding, in that all the metadata is retained, it's just the values themselves (in Datomic's EAVT structure) that are removed. So a lot of metadata is still retained.
Could this not be more with Pensions than just ageism? I'm going to make the assumption that perhaps older IBM workers had generous pension packages. Human living longer, more costly, etc.
This was an absolutely fascinating read, the paper isn't too dense for a layman to read and understand. Finished reading the paper and it definitely makes space travel seem more within our grasp.
Why do people go to extremes about Facebook? Every single submission I see here on HN, and most of the comments as well, are either about using and abusing Facebook for every single aspect of their lifes or about eradicating it from the face of the Earth.

Is this part of the American culture? I'm from Europe and while there is a lot of people sharing every single thing on Facebook here, I would say that most of the people never really post or follow stuff on Facebook. People don't really care that much about the social showoff. Most of people use Facebook because it is really convenient for contacting other people and organizing events, and that's it.

Can't you just use Facebook when you find it convenient and then just move on with your life?
Is there an easy way that Nvidia can cripple their graphics targeted cards so they can't be used for GPCPU?

I'm thinking back to strategies like the 486SX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX
You're talking about the Web PKI. Moxie is not talking about the Web PKI; he's pointing out that mobile apps don't need to rely on the Web PKI, because installing an app already involves deploying a trust anchor (the app itself), and you might as well exploit that to bootstrap trust with your servers rather than using CA signatures.
The internships aren't required for school and I didn't get them through the school's career center.

I also updated the post that I haven't actually started working at the internship yet.

Thanks for your feedback.
To play devil's advocate, an intern with a Pulitzer (or similarly prestigious award) on their resume is going to have a lot of job opportunities.
It's just not how the majority of subs shook out, unfortunately.

Oh well.
That's why I still maintain that the Volt is the best engineered option out there. You get the best of both worlds with the problems of neither.

I put gas in my car, probably once every 2-3 months without a work related trip...and that's with me driving about 70 miles a day give or take.

A hydrogen/electric version of the Volt instead of gas/electric would make a lot of sense IMO.
Also in the Philippines: "How Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon with a Little Help from Facebook"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-07/how-rodri...
Sounds more like the dark side of Tribalism than of Friendship. I suppose it's all in how you decide to define things.
Flying circus indeed
Yes. They call this excision[0] and it leaves an Audi table hole in the timeline which lets you attach metadata like why there is missing data while still removing the data.

[0] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/excision.html
Actually it seems like the image is actually that way for some reason...
Still completely insane.
This doesn't make sense. Do you have the private key for Facebook's Digicert-signed certificate? No, you don't. So what difference does it make whether you get certificate trust from Digicert or from an anchor installed along with your mobile app?
More like, together we are strong, now we can take on an enemy.
Agreed.

I deleted my FB account 6 years ago. 2 years ago I went for an eye test at a local opticians. Yesterday I received a letter from them saying my test was due, even though i've moved since.

For clarity - i'm in the UK and have removed myself from the edited electoral register. So who matched my data and gave my new address to the optician?
I am visiting a small town in Texas near the border, I am living here with a friend for few months (originally I live in NYC), and Facebook is really the only place where I can find info about local restaurants and events. There is no delivery.com here and google maps often list places that were closed. I have never used really Facebook but I am finding myself now this being the only option to connect with locals online.
But why order them to be scrapped? That costs the Air Force more than just striking them from inventory, recovering the GFE and letting Northrop deal with them.

Both the UK and Canadian governments issued similar orders ( TSR2 and CF-105 ) but in those cases it was spiteful destruction to prevent a subsequent government from reinstating the programmes.
Good to see such articles from western writers, as the same content from anyone with a Chinese heritage would be easily labeled government sponsored propaganda (most of it is, but that's not the reason to dispute their validity).
Worth pointing out that you can charge an EV from a standard power outlet, even American 120v sockets - this is how I charge my Leaf.

It takes longer, sure, but it's rare that my car will not be at 100% in the morning if I leave it overnight.
I keep hearing good things about VSCode. If I weren't essentially married to emacs I'd definitely try it out. I'm not sure I'd recommend emacs to everyone at this point, though I think it remains a really solid choice of editor/OS for people willing to get over the learning curve and put up with a bit of clunkiness.

Re the git stuff though- one place that I'm pretty sure emacs is the uncontested champ is in git integration via magit. I'd be inclined to recommend using emacs as their git interface even to people who want to use a different interface for everything else. It is that good, and IMHO the only git porcelain that is strictly better than the standard git porcelain.
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"but because it's like fighting climate change with conserving energy at home; primarily a token gesture that will change nothing."

It's funny how you don't see second or third order effects coming from this slight change in behaviour.
This kind of reporting is becoming an endangered species.

It requires a lot of man-hours, and isn't as profitable as the minimal effort required to regurgitate whatever the latest sensational scandal is.
I’m not saying that Sloan didn’t do wonders he clearly did what I’m saying is that it’s hard to estimate if without WW2 would he had the opportunity to achieve the same outcome.

“During World War II, GM led the largest commercial-to-military war production effort in American history. In 1942, the company converted all of factories to produce $12 billion worth of airplanes, trucks, tanks, guns, and shells for the US military.”

Before the US got into the war GM supplied a 3rd of the trucks used by the Wehrmacht.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Blitz
>"in some forms (HPKP) it's also a ransom mechanism ..."

Is this ransom as in "ransomware"? Can you explain how pinning and HPKP are a ransom mechanism?

>"TOFU approaches which worked great for SSH in practice turn out not to suit the way ordinary users interact with the Web."

How are they different exactly?
Can you give us an example where manual loop unrolling would be desired over a for loop?
I think the relevant question is more, is it morally defensible to quit a (perfectly suitable) internship, due to the grass being greener somewhere else?

The company now counts on you being there, and most like have started planning, executing and incurring expenses...

Personally, I think no! I would never go back on a promise to show up. Think about it the other way, how would you feel should the company dump you because they found a better candidate? (I know that the company most likely is unable to do that, but companies just a bunch of people, and getting dumped sucks no matter the setting).

And how knows if you later internship is actually better?

I can think of at least a couple of interesting things, that internship will offer you, that the "better one" will not:

- most likely work with people who have actually worked on the same codebase for a decade or more.. that gives a different perspective that then rushed "consumerism" of modern devs (oh, that legacycode is already four weeks old, lets scrap it and reimplement it :)

- It will most likely be a very balanced place to work (senior as in "more experienced" working in enterprise world usually have better working conditions that cool upstarts - and often better pay too, not for your internship though)

- It might surprise you how little of the new hype-driven development is actually new.. That might again change your perspective!

- You might end up liking it there and have a job for the next decade. Bouncing jobs every 6 months due to running out of funds and not getting paid gets old really quickly :)

Personally I work both with newish backend technology (I tend to stay 3-5 years behind on purpose to skip learning stuff that is dead within 24 months). But I regularly work on a three decade old system written in an equally old language (that most people have never heard of), and it is not as bad as others expect...
i act this way. i go to facebook maybe once a month when i need to contact someone but don’t know their number. i think people like me just don’t comment on this stuff because they don’t care.
You’d be surprised how dire the situation is in most newsrooms, and how petty the competition is.
This billion dollar fine is like a small change for them. Warren Buffet has a lot of exposure to this company and he has been influencing to let them go for a long time. Go figure!