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Can people actually buy these? My brother is the biggest user of SnapChat I know (dozens of posts a day?) and wanted a pair, but had to wait for me to travel to NYC to buy some for him at their temporary store. It was either that, or follow some web page in hopes that a random track showed up somewhere within driving distance.
While not being a job perse, for me it is getting married, moving around Europe while having a bunch of kids around and sticking to our two person contract since 25 years.

I have done some really really cool jobs, met amazing friends, made a bundle, lost a lot but the most rewarding project is and remains the partnership with my SO.
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And the integration with Amazon was underrated. It’s nice to search your files and always see some great product promotions without having to adjust knobs as you aptly put it.
I thought about this when Bank of America stopped offering loans to gun manufacturers who sell assault-style weapons to civilians - my first thought was, well, there's a market opportunity for a "startup" bank.
There are certainly tradeoffs with IQ. There one allele that raises your IQ a bunch but has a good chance of causing you to die early. And if you had a domesticated species of human I'd expect that that might hurt intelligence. But given that humans' primary competition has been other humans and given that this is true the world over I expect that IQ would be roughly equally valuable everywhere and so we shouldn't see big differences, genetically, between populations like you do with adaptations to other sorts of particular environments.
As a slightly pedantic aside, I prefer Kent Beck's observation that the triangle is time, scope, resources, with quality independent of those three. Of course, quality can be sacrificed in the short term to improve time or scope, but the impact is so gruesomely negative to their long-term prospects that it should simply never be done.

Resources as a leg also lines up with the observation from The Mythical Man-Month that adding resources to a late project makes it later. (I have experienced this directly.) So resources are rarely mutable to a significant degree; you have the team you have and the budget you have - and you really do not want to see what happens when you suddenly get an unlimited budget!

So I tend to phrase it as every project is either scope-bound or schedule-bound. One of those can flex - which one? If you can't flex either, you will probably fail.
Saw this from Deepmind and thought I would share here as found interesting.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...

Suppose to be using 16k samples a second through a NN which seems hard to believe. But gets you a pretty incredible result.
Have you never used a WiFi memory card for DSLR cameras? It works exactly the same way and it’s pretty good.
The problem with sane defaults is that everyone seems to have their own idea what the default should be.
I used it for a year with no case and didn’t drop a call once ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A review of common sense. Stop using things built on top of junk. 30 years and still working on building an OS, great we'll be doing this for the next 100 years as well.
With a 30 minute commute, you are home at 20:30 and can stay up till 02:00. Same hours of freedom, just on a different time.
I'm still annoyed. It really clamped down on the culture.
I don't even have to say it five times. As long as I go to bed knowing what time I want to get up, I very reliably wake up exactly 10 minutes before that time, as long as I've had at least 6 hours of sleep. The challenge is, if I don't "need" to be up at that time, I'll often roll back over and sleep for several more hours.
Not really stylish, as the article wants you to believe. But under-water capable is pretty cool. Either way, I've never used Snapchat so I'm not the target audience.
Excellent! Thanks for these numbers, I wanted to see exactly this kind of benchmarks! Do you plan to try different benchmarks with the same setup for different problems, like semantic segmentation, DenseNet, LSTM training performance etc. as well?
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I've been in Shenzhen eight years now as my primary home and work location. Long enough to get trained to turn around and look before I step left or right.
The only thing I'll add to this is the benefit of working with a metronome. With 88 keys and 10 fingers there is a lot pianists can get distracted by but when you strip it down to RH/LH eighth notes starting at 30 bpm you can really focus on generating a time feel!

A guide you say?! Funny you mention it this is what I've cobbled together for my students over the years. It's about time for me to give it another pass to further refine it but it is a reliable path towards basic keyboard proficiency. Let me know what you think.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15UObA9KnJ1Q6Lymz3QBulSFm...
Yup, but your original post said replication isn't available yet. I think you meant persistence.
To be honest, most of us working "cognitively difficult" programming jobs make far less mission-critical things than your average trade shop.

Backend service goes down? Welp, a few million people can't tweet, or view cat photos, or watch videos off YouTube for a bit.

Weld fails? There goes a bridge, or maybe an office tower, airplane engine, power plant, etc.
I hate to tell you this, but you're probably going to have to commit to writing less code.

If you're managing a team, your time is probably better spent doing that stuff - going to the meetings, helping the others developers, etc.

My current manager seems to be in the same situation as you, and he tends to pick out the shorter, less critical stories to work on.
I always considered Apple's keyboard superior but after using Macbooks (pre-2015), Apple Wired Keyboard and Magic Trackpad II for about 3 years I got severe case of RSI, I'm basically unable to write using their keyboards, never tried post 2015 ones in Macbooks though (and they're supposedly even worse?).

My symptoms are non-existent while touch typing on cheap keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches.

Using Apple feels like hitting concrete with my fingertips.

I think they're doing something REALLY wrong here and have been for some time now...
I want my desktop to just work. Actual window manager should have multi desktops, keyboard shortcuts, focus follow mouse etc, and on a laptop an icon to select wifi hotspot, and an icon for volume.

That's what Ubuntu gives me, that's why I've used it since replacing Debian testing in 2006.

3,500 servers on 6 contents can't be wrong either, with all our software distributed as debs, it just works.
What? Doesn't that condemn all OS offerings? And progress?
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Ths situation is quite simple, today developers have no clue how data structures work in memory and this is a typical case of it. Any C developer has knowlidge about this, but if you are floating in space and can see actual memory just as a blue planet far away, this is the result. But I bet someone will say that garbage collector would solve the issue :D :D :D
The purpose of life is to live. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21RwqnB8GrE
Seconded I just want to install and get work done. I don’t even change the wallpaper. I use xubuntu, not ubuntu though.
well, Europe (in general, because I don't know the specifics off the top of my head) regulations require(d) changes to hood/bumper/front-end designs to improve pedestrian survivability during impacts.
Yes, but it is equally true that it is intelligible if you only have letters in one case and no punctuation. Nevertheless, most of us would not consider this acceptable.
If no one is likely to sue it's a moot point.
Are you sure you actually have to work 8 hrs?

I thought I had to work 8 hours, but then I had a problem with my neck/shoulder that caused me to have to do an hour+ of physical therapy exercises at home each morning, and i started coming in to the office later in the morning like around 10 am.

I found that I could still get my work done and do well. I worked 10-5 all last year while taking hour+ lunches and still got promoted and everyone was happy with my output.
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I have started to make games. I have teached myself Unity and started making casual games. Most satisfying thing about game development is presenting something fun to people and getting positive feedbacks as return. I have learned a lot in terms of game dev, gamification, monetization, publishing during process.
How much detail do we know about the TPUs' design? Does Google disclose a block-diagram level? ISA details? Do they release a toolchain for low-level programming or only higher-level functions like TensorFlow?

EDIT: I found [1] which describes "tensor cores", "vector/matrix units" and HBM interfaces. The design sounds similar in concept to GPUs. Maybe they don't have or need interpolation hw or other GPU features?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture
What was wrong with mint exactly?
With utf-8 digraphs can be actually shorter in terms of bits than diacritics :)
Every day I wake up and talk to engineers who are having trouble getting noticed either because they have untraditional backgrounds (non-STEM degree) or because they just don't understand how to market themselves or network.

The conversations are amazing, sometimes sad, but very motivating because it reinforces how broken hiring is and how much good could be done by helping engineers to better connect to one another.

Finding this mission was important for me because I had worked on purpose-driven teams in the past and I knew that's what made me happy. Best of luck finding yours!
Well, I told you why I don't use Ubuntu.

Debian... The initial reason I switched from Debian to Ubuntu was that Ubuntu included non-free drivers out of the box.

Up to Debian 8, I tried it on the desktop on every major release. And every time my wifi did not work out of the box. So I would have to get a cable to finish the installation or make some extra medium with the non-free drivers. And then I'm "Nahh... I'll stick with a distro that has the non-free drivers included right away".

I have not tried Debian 9 yet.
Disclaimer: CTO Sense Health here (http://sense-health.com/)

We make apps to help people with depression and have our apps actively used by a small team in the biggest mental health care company in the Netherlands.

It is one of the most fulfilling place I have worked at because I get to meet actual patients and psychologists and get to know how much impact we have on their lives.

One of our patients messaged us one day saying how they would not be alive today had they not found the therapy with our application. I cannot express the feeling this brings in the team.

We are always looking for great tech talent for remote/on-site positions too BTW (specially React and React Native)
I found this pretty fascinating and I'm looking forward to hearing the theoreticians chew it over.

A question I had was with the API that's been chosen. The `nursery` is chosen as the reified object, and a function `start_soon` is exposed on it. Perhaps in other parts of the library there are other methods exposed on `nursery`? If not, in some languages it seems like the `start_soon` method itself would make more sense as the thing to expose. In use, it might do like this:

...
nusery {
(go) in
go { this_runs_concurrently_in_the_nursery }
go { this_also_runs_concurrently_in_nursery }
// make a regular function call passing it the nursery's `go`
some_func(go)
}
...

And elsewhere:

...
func some_func(go) {
do_something()
go {
nursery {
// This nursery is within the outer one.
(go2) in
go2 { do_stuff }
go2 { do_more_stuff }
}
}
}
...
Why doesn't Ubuntu (and many other distributions) change to a rolling release model. Having switched to Arch, though admittedly the installation process is much more elaborate than of Ubuntu, once you customise it to one's preference, it is much more convenient to keep upgrading individual packages as they are evolving.
How about spending the same amount of money to build cheap usable glasses for blind people. No we are too ego washed to try anything that benefits humanity.

As long as the geeks shout innovation on cheap money we'll bank on the idiocracy of the masses.
You heard right- they do t just get harder though.

They get far far more random- often times you only have one or two possible moves, or you have one okay move and a couple useless moves near the top of the screen. That turns it into literally a slot machine.

So it becomes absolutely a matter of trying 20 times, and the game only gives you three free lever pulls per 24 hours.
Vast majority of people, technical or not, do not want to sit there and fiddle with their OS. They want it to just work, and have a consistent experience, from one release to the next, so they can get work done, or view pictures of their grand kids. The number of people who want more than that is a statistical rounding error. HN and other forums like it, have such a huge echo chamber, that they lose site of reality.
I also want less customisation. I don't change configuration of my software unless I can possibly help it - waste of time. I don't even change my desktop wallpaper. So there are people like us - possibly a lot.
I really liked unity as it was always stayed out of the way, doing just what you asked, nothing less, nothing more.
The Status of “The Right to Be Forgotten” in the United States
In light of the recent episode of "Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington," I've seen/heard some suggestions that we need a "Right to be Forgotten" in the United States. Are there any groups/agencies (EFF?) acting as a coordination and rallying point for pushing this in the United States?
"The Last Man Who Knew Everything" (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/books/review/david-n-schw...

"The Last Man Who Knew Everything" (2006)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/20/featuresreview...
What's your population density compared with a large city?

If roads took up zero physical space, I'd agree with you, but the perverse thing is that as population density goes up, you not only have more people on the roads (requiring more road), but you also have more need for living space, stores, and office buildings (all which take up space, giving less room for roads).

As it is, comparing it to a small town is meaningless.
And the same applies to "shop" workers, which can mean anything from retail to machine shops. You seem to have employed a rather narrow interpretation of that term, an interpretation which perhaps is culture-specific, but whose context is not specified in the posts that started this thread.
I don't think autopilot is included to improve their current product, but rather to give them a head start on full autonomy. I think the reason they've rolled it out is so they can crowdsource the testing of their software. I'm just speculating here, but I would guess that this has allowed them to collect vastly more test data than uber and waymo at a fraction of the cost and liability.
Do you really think Zuckerberg is personally concerned with the "Rare disease - UK" Facebook group to the point where he personally will wipe it out arbitrarily?

What if this group was in Reddit and all of a sudden the mod, on a whim, locked all the threads? What if this group met in the local community center and the building owner, on a whim, decided to sell the building to someone who didn't want such groups to meet there?

Someone has to be in charge of a "single communication network". If your community owes its existence to it, they are at their whim, and in a way, that's the cost of doing business. This isn't unique to Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg. If the community is strong, they can find a way to overcome such whims.
> Maybe that says something about differences between the two industries, or maybe that says something about how society has progressed in the past two decades.

I think it says more about how little friction there is to click a button, spend money, and get a loot box vs walking to the store with cash in hand to get a physical pack of cards. Sure, I could drop $100 on a booster box, but it still required that I had the money in hand and had to physically go somewhere to get it. Those cards also took up space and had to be kept organized to keep track of valued vs non-valued cards. It took a lot of work to get that hit of dopamine, whereas now a 15-year-old kid can sit down at a computer and within 30 seconds start dumping tons of money into loot boxes.
Two pages to monitor if you want to jump on 18.04 as soon as possible:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2018-April...

http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969

(No affiliation beyond being a user for about 4 years.)
'Breathtaking homicidal violence': Latin America in grip of murder crisis
It seems like none of the dumb GNOME warts were plastered over.

There's still the idiotic, screen-taking-over activities menu (because, yknow, it should take 3840x2160 pixels to show a fucking app launcher. Did nobody learn from Windows 8? The GNOME devs are officially more hard-headed than Microsoft - an achievement of some note)

There's still the swipe-to-unlock desktop

There's the default Apple scrolling behavior

The author said it best:

I spend every day in a state of permanent quixotic hope that eventually humanity will comes to its senses and realize that computers and mobile devices are different kinds of technology with different purposes and different usage patterns.

Seriously, GNOME is a touch UI. The large buttons, the swipe mechanics, everything. Except nobody uses GNOME on the mobile devices it appears to be made for!
> You have to disconnect your phone from WiFi to connect to the glasses' WiFi to transfer data?

I'm guessing that since most people will be using these outdoors, losing WiFi won't be that big of a deal
As far as vantage sites to observe what's occuring, it's not a bad one. Some skills are transferrable, if you consider them well.

Timing societal collapse is even more fraught than timing the market.
They haven’t learned anything.
I disagree, some kind of driving still can be useful. Of course like anything there always be some risk involved. Even when the death do happen, you can still learn from it.
I'll take an Amazon integration that I can disable and that helps Canonical finance Ubuntu over an unprofessional security model any day.
Glassholes v3? I can't help but feel there's something deeply wrong with a world that voluntarily signs up for and actively participates in creating a surveillance state. After all the stories, we still haven't learned anything.

Whatever happened to Privacy Visor? As stupid as I'd look walking around with those crazy glasses, it seems like it's becoming the sane way to live.
Organising a two-week student event, over New Year's, for about a thousand students.

Got about two hours of sleep per night (admittedly caused in part by my refusal to skip the parties). Had to carry heavy equipment during the day, then suddenly write a major speech to defuse an ugly situation.

Complete mental and physical exhaustion. Great team. When we meet now, it feels like a Veteran's reunion. Everyone on that team has been looking for something comparable in their day jobs since.
I honestly don't understand why some people seem to be interpreting "shop" to mean "machine shop". It could also mean retail, so the category is much broader than you imply, and the risks and costs of failure in this broader category are much lower than software that typically affects hundreds to thousands of people, even for lowly software jobs.
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> Ask a French speaker with no knowledge of English to read this comment aloud "phonetically" and see if you can even recognize the words.

As a practical joke, I once asked a French speaker (who spoke English well) to read this aloud:

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit
Tout gai de Reguennes.

He was the only person in the room who didn't understand what he was saying.
Lolwhat?!! Are you even aware about state of Russians in Ukraine before invasion and especially in Crimea? They were aggressively removing teaching Ukrainian language in Crimea for the last decades (same in Donbass) to the point of nonexistence. Whole Ukraine was predominantly Russian speaking and maybe still is.

And as for "racism" - after invading 4th independent country in last 30 years and occupying its territories Russians have somewhat "bad" reputation and justifiably so.
To be fair to him, that's not exactly a direct quote so not really fair to pin it on him. He thinks some will go down below where they are now, which is a bit more of a specific view.
It doesn't have to be junk science to be morally repugnant. Lots of things would be administratively useful, and aligned with everything we know scientifically, yet evil.

This is a great idea, morally: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
But as you know if you've ever watched the Olympics on TV, "created equal" here isn't a scientific fact.
Second this — I like Compiz but the ccsm & gnome-tweak-tools tandem/overlapping configuration is a nightmare. Preferences must be imported/exported via GUI and they (frequently!) import improperly. Ccsm itself is a maze of dialogs, icons, and navbars that I dread to use.

My customized GUI really needs to be consistent across my machines, and Unity makes this impossible to guarantee and automate. Just give me an .rc file, text-based configuration is my favorite part of Linux.
Everyone uses %CPU to measure performance, but everyone is wrong
"Business as usual, eh, while Rome bums. "

I think this version is from a faulty replicator.
I would expect them to post to Snapchat as you take photos.
tesla is the poster child for a bubble, so I do not think this alone is evidence as a hit article on tesla.

To me, best case scenario is Tesla sells more cars than Ford. What does that mean for the stock? as the case with all stocks with this kind of hyper PE ratio, the stock has to go into no growth territory for like a decade as its earnings grow to match its stock price.

that means the best possible case for tesla stock is that it will stop growing for about 10 years, bouncing around the same price.
What OS are you using and what projects are you working on?
With privacy, unless you solve all the problems you’re just cutting heads off a hydra.
Because rolling releases give you a terrible choice between constant upgrades all the time (read: resource and network usage and reboots), and if you don't, a high likelihood of something breaking when you finally do that pacman -Syu.

There's nothing wrong with snapshot releases in a distro focused on usability and stability.
I would add route 53, S3 and easy of setting up security groups as killer features. Plus the ability to take a snapshot and boot an instance from it, awesome API, elastic IPs and reliability. I’ve had 8 instances across 3 data centres, for 5 years, with a single hardware failure where I’ve had to take action. Their shit just works.