skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RBMs have a native probabilistic output (the output is a distribution you can slice), but vanilla neural networks don't (the output is a vector). Is that right?
That article led me to the page on Cherry’s site about their “analog keyboard controller”, which promises no scanning latency. “Analog” suggests to me that each key has its own power-of-two-ish resistor value, and the controller can just look at the total resistance to see which keys are pressed. Does this seem plausible? If so, it could be a fun way to build a DIY keyboard.
Not everything has to be "look at what I did in the trendy language of the week".
That 10 Gigawatt number is the 'nameplate' number, not it's actual production capacity. The nameplate number assumes the panels are in 100% perfect sunlight 24/7 - typical production numbrees range from 10-20% depending on location, weather, air pollution, and time of year.
End to End encrypted does not mean the messages have to be stored and retained encrypted and inaccessible. I imagine the responsible sysadmins have figured out something to follow retention laws.
I am with you.

Comments like this indicate nothing but a demonstration of the ad hockery defense of familialism, which is increasingly becoming common here in HN for some reason.
Unfortunately, in a classist society no one wants to do what they perceive to be "grunt work". The good news is that there's a natural equilibrium that will be met as the waves of graduates see their ROI decrease, save for those who attend a handful of elite universities.
Ford is phasing out sedans in North America
I know multiple people who have told Google recruiters that they are not interested on the basis of their famously drawn out and disrespectful interviewing.

Of course, Google is one of the top names in tech and has already employed some luminaries many developers would love to work with, so I'm sure that they get some leaway to treat their interviewees poorly, but for people with other good options, there's not a lot of appeal to being sucked into one end of a very long, very painful funnel.

Having said that, Lazlo Bock has some interesting things to say about hiring in an organisation like Google.
Never a problem with any of the Thinkpads I've had, mostly Debian.
With the macs? Dead batteries because of bad firmware, dead chargers because of horrible cables, 19hs upgrading the OS (each try), finally, dead motherboard. Not falling for it again.
Megacity one...
Hydro with a reservoir is a good peaker, which often happens to be more plentiful in roughly the same areas where solar and wind are also abundant.
Do you feel like WhatsApp is not polished?
> paycheck validation meeting

First time hearing this, and makes total sense. Seen my share of these people, mostly PMs and non-technical managers. And then there are those who send a slew of emails just before 5 PM and go home with a sense of accomplishment...
Do You Know What Selective Attention Is and Why It Matters?
Facebook organic reach down? Building a mobile-first FB ad platform for SMBs
As you guys may know, organic reach of posts has reduced due to Facebook focusing on milking the maximum monetization potential of their platform.
I am building this for pages who want to spend between $200 and $2000 per month on ads. For me, the focus is mobile.
AdEspresso costs $50-$100 per month, and is quite feature heavy. It is not suitable for you if you fit the $500-$2000 budget. My platform will be iOS and Android based, which means that you can design and share on the go. The features I have in mind:

Auto-Optimize: Add multiple copies, images and it'll auto-optimize which ad works best

Auto-Scale: Set an ROI, max budget and target sales. It'll auto-scale to that volume while keeping constraints in check

Interest Groups for niches: Have a niche in mind? You can buy interest groups from other winning ad-sets in the same niche to use in your campaign.

Design videos fast: Design professional looking slideshow videos on the phone.

What are your business goals for your page? What's stopping you from reaching them? Tell me more about your problems and let me find a way to help you.
From their linkedin?

> TrustLeap, the security division of TWD Industries AG (founded in 1998), protects digital assets with cryptanalytically unbreakable technology (safe against unlimited computing power as it is proven mathematically that no key leaks can be exploited).

Riiight.
Bringing up cadbury as the gold standard tells more about her bad taste in chocolate than any inherent flaws of capitalism.

Even at walmart you can get a ghirardelli dark, or a lindt 90%. Cadbury--even UK cadbury--is a chunk of sugared grease by comparison.

https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-11294
I was approached by some Google recruiter for a very specific engineering management role based on my background. I also thought the same about that general pool thing before that.

The process seemed quite different from what I've read here about the Google software engineer recruitment process.

(After a few phone calls/interviews I realized this was not a position I would likely enjoy, all things considered, so I told them I thought I was bad fit because of A and B, but please keep me in mind if you have another opening that's more suitable.)
I've found that the biggest contributor to make more money (beside right time/right place) is being exposed to more things that alert me to new industries and opportunities.

College can do this. So can changing jobs. So can travel.
It might be useful for those reading this thread to include location perhaps? In as so much you might be comfortable.

Might also be useful to give some idea of skill set previous job too so people can average themselves appropriately as I think that’s the intent here is to gauge where it hurts the most for this to happen and perhaps what skill sets might be seeing it more?

Maybe I’m wrong so I’m open to suggestions on improving this discourse
AMD does not have its own fabrication process. They spun off their fabrication business as GlobalFoundries in 2009.
Knew this would be Alan watts without clicking on the link. Not disappointed
High paying trade jobs that have the highest risk of injury and death.

Automated construction will start in the next 10 years.
Curated stores are fine and can indeed improve quality, but it'll be a tremendously sad day when they'll be mandated by law.

Adding a 30% tax and central control on all software just because we believe users can't be taught to not install random crap is a very bleak outlook indeed. Freedom is sometimes messy, but almost always worth it.
Committee push Zuckerberg for evidence after FB CTO fails to answer questions
I was just thinking about this. Even as an engineer (which I consider to be a trade job where it helps if you go to college), my social status won't ever approach that of a seasoned doctor, professor, and maybe lawyer. Even if I get up to L7, it's just not the same as perceived by society.
Recently laid off at age 48. Less than a month later, had multiple offers with better compensation. Still in tech sector. Two years ago we switched from PHP to Go, which definitely helped.
My grandmother used to make awesome blueberry dumplings (вареники з чорницею) which were served with smetana (a type of sour cream) and they were wonderful! My teenage-girl cousins would make room in their diets to just a piece - I can only imagine the willpower needed! The blueberries were locally picked from the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine and very fresh.

Next up in Eastern European and Middle eastern cuisine - Cabbage rolls!
to fulfill my curiosity
Crimea happened, in large part because Ukraine was moving away from Russia.

This is playing with fire.
Weekly Command: Fuzzy finding everything with fzf
The places I saw in Prenzlauerberg were cheap. Can’t comment on averages as I wasn’t looking to invest in the general market, just get a place for myself.
How is it planned obsolescence?
From the 2nd paragraph:

We understand the whole project is going to be released entirely open source (other than the operational bits)
– development is well under way and an early proof of concept is already circulating within various government
entities.

But if it has interop with the matrix, you should just be able to use Riot.
They do not need to be explained under the parent's rubric, because that's describing the provision of public goods by large organizations. FSF, EFF, and Wikipedia are small organizations and operate differently. Which the linked book covers. Even in its precis, had you bothered to click through.
Obviously responding to:

> Yes, I'd much prefer that Google and the carriers both have the opportunity to read all my communications instead of one or the other.

And I'm saying, regardless of the current implementation, just because it's an open standard, doesn't mean it can't be encrypted -- either in-transit or end-to-end.

Asymmetric cryptography, e.g. the TLS standard, is an open standard but secure (re: encrypted).
We just interviewed a series of laid off 50+ principle software engineers (all from the same company). After the interview, all reported back they had multiple offers and chose to work elsewhere. Keep in mind these were engineers with very specific domain knowledge (which we were after).
Meaning behind the script-less “Knight of Cups” movie
50k/year is high paying? also, construction seems more prone to boom/bust cycles. the outlook looks good though considering the pent-up demand.

you can make a lot of money in the trades (really, a lot) if you open your own business though, but that's a whole different skillset.

edit* 50k in seattle
You can play with settings and see what works best for you. I don't get notifications and only read messages when I'm done doing my stuff or when I'm about to message a coworker.
AI in Observability: Splunk takes a plunge
Not really true. American chocolate is an acquired taste, but it's supposed to taste like that. Companies deliberately add butyric acid to make it taste like Americans expect.

A lot of people don't like it. A lot of people do.
curl? O:-) Matrix is intended to be simple enough that you don’t even need an SDK unless you really want one.

which java sdk did you try?
Carpenters, plumbers, electricians? None of those jobs seem particularly dangerous, and you can't get an assembly line robot to make a house call.
I have always thought that one of the best non-college requiring jobs in plumbing. It won't be outsourced. When people have a plumbing emergency, they usually prioritize getting it fixed as fast as possible over cost. In addition, it takes only a few tries of "do it yourself plumbing" to convince a person that they would rather pay someone than deal with leaks.

It is a shame that we push an expensive college degree on people who will end up getting paid less and having less job security.
From what I've see of automated construction (US, China, and Europe) That still takes people, but people are doing safer things now (running machines instead of climbing ladders)
A few key points that these articles usually miss.

1. $50,000 is not enough money to become a homeowner by yourself and not nearly enough for upward mobility. Missing 4 years of college and the ability to mingle within your peers is a significant part of the rising cost of college. There are articles that show womens preferences towards men with similar education levels.

2. When you account for the health hazards and potential issues down the road with your joints and other components of your body, the pay isn't that high. Cost of medical coverage continues to rise and I'm not sure that going into the trades or into business for yourself in general is a valid path for the majority of high school graduates.

3. There are high paying skilled trades, but they have caveats of their own. For example, underwater welding, is not only extremely dangerous, but also, very likely, seasonal and not anchored to any one location, requiring someone to be constantly mobile.

4. What matters isn't how much the job pays compared to a state or national average. It's whether it pays more than the median for the radius where the tradesperson will be operating.
Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
I had the blog post open on my mobile for the past day and this really explains why my phone was acting up.. It's gotten noticeabley faster right after closing it.
Trade skills are a great field to get into, with caveats.

First, construction in general is a pretty up and down industry. Construction booms don't last forever, and in general you need to 'follow the work'. This is great if you are young, single, and willing to chase the high paying jobs. Not so great if you have a strong desire to stay in one spot.

Second, trade jobs are usually pretty tough on the body. After a couple decades of work your body begins to break down, assuming there are no workplace injuries to put you out of commission sooner.

Third, workplace conditions are on average undesirable. Outdoors in the heat/cold, or indoors in tight spaces or high places. It's tough sell over companies that glorify bean bag chairs, nap pods, and free beer on hand.

Fourth, there's a social stigma around trade skill jobs. Blue collar jobs have gained a reputation of being jobs held by slackers or the less fortunate. Unfortunately, wearing workboots carries a stigma that wearing a shirt and tie/'startup' attire doesn't.

Fifth, and this one may seem like a silly reason to most, the drug testing (for marijuana specifically) is a huge barrier of entry. From a safety perspective, it makes sense. But for better or worse, marijuana use is becoming more socially accepted while work places (and in particular trade jobs) are lagging behind the times. Removing a marijuana screen from standard workplace testing would help revitalize the employee pool.

Sixth, and this is arguably the biggest one, four year degrees are seen as a status symbol and are being sold to use as such. They are Big Education, and are pulling on all the right strings to keep the tuition/student debt machine running. Advocating for trade jobs is in direct competition. They have enough players in their pockets (donors, alumnus, politicians) to keep the money flowing in the right direction. Selling someone on trade school/work is hard when it is seen as the less optimal path towards 'life success'.

All of these observations are based off my fathers experience as union based pipe fitter/welder for >30 years.
bottom up programming is actually what a lot of jr developers do when starting out their careers and i would advise against it.

a top-down approach would be clean and simple and the complexities are hidden away from interface:

User.create(data)

whereas, a bottom-up would be look like you just hacked things on top of each other:

create_user( validate_user_data(format_user_data(data) ) )

but, i do know lisp kinda forces you to code that way, so pg's article may have a lot to do with that.
There are only 32 such fuses.
Mozilla Hubs is a super-simple social chat room for robots
Storage and transmission are both self-fulfilling prophecies based on market economics. If it's cheaper to store or transmit clean renewable power than it is to use expensive coal or nuclear plants, the investment will be made (I discount distributed/rooftop solar for this argument, but it is important to note that distributed solar reduces the need for transmission).

Transmission lines are currently being bid out and built to bring cheap East Texas and Oklahoma wind to load centers [1]. An enormous amount of lithium battery manufacturing capacity is coming online worldwide to satiate EV manufacturing requirements. Those facilities will also produce stationary storage.

[1] https://www.elp.com/articles/2018/02/miso-taking-proposals-f...
The only downside to these kinds of jobs is while they’re in demand now there is zero guarantees they will be 10 years from now

I think trade jobs have the highest long term stability risk IMHO but this is based on anecdotal evidence

Sever folks I know when from the mid 2000s (post crash) learned trades from plumbing to carpenters to skilled machining. Only the skilled machinist has not been laid off at least once nor had to move for where they live to get work (or travel more than 20 minutes)

My engineer graduate friends? Never even faced possible unemployment
It's quite funny to just search "nasdaq index" on google, then switch to "Max" and see the graph.

You see a quite step growth starting February/March 2016 that doesn't seem completely rational.

Also lately, you have a kind of plateau with some hiccups.

I've the feeling that the bubble will burst withing a year, and next year or two, most tech companies valuations will be halved. But it's only a feeling, I've no deep rational behind it.
> About 1/2 the cost for similar performance.

I would expect a dedicated accelerator to need at least a 5-10X advantage to outweigh all the other infrastructure and ecosystem costs.

GPUs are more useful for a wide variety of data-parallel tasks, and many more NN frameworks work on top of CUDA than work on the TPU.

In terms of horizontal scalability, nvidia has been rapidly iterating on increasing both memory and interlink bandwidth (including NVSwitch [1]), while each 'TPU' is actually 4 chips interconnected so likely has less upward scalability.

Also note that the tensor cores on a V100 take roughly 25-30% of the actual area. If Nvidia wanted to, they could probably easily make a pure tensor chip that beat the TPU in performance, could be produced in volume on their existing process, and also had full compatibility with their entire stack.

All in all, a 2x price/performance advantage for a hyper-specialized accelerator is basically a loss, just like how nobody installs a Soundblaster card anymore, how consumer desktops don't run discrete GPUs even though integrated graphics are a few times slower, or

[1] https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/04/04/inside-nvidias-nvswi...
Everyone in college isn’t cut out for medical school or law school. This is neither controversial nor a judgment against us laymen. Not everyone in high school is cut out for college either. People working the skilled trades make a comfortable living. An awful disservice perpetrated by the education establishment is sneering at vocational training as a fallback option for losers. The skilled trades are entirely honorable.

Thinking of it in economic terms, labor is not a homogeneous factor. We are not interchangeable cogs in some machine.

Shunting anyone into vocational training — or into a college-bound track, for that matter! — because of ignorant ideas about anyone’s “place” in society is evil and wrong.
>High paying trade jobs that have the highest risk of injury and death.

I'm curious as to what 30 years of sitting, programming, drinking cool-aid will do to health vs 30 years of lugging steel... Trawler fishing, I agree - v.dangerous, not good for you!

>Automated construction will start in the next 10 years.

Possibly, maybe - but more likely 20 or more; and emphasis start.
Not according to the statement from NVidia quoted in this article: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/27/nvidia-limits-data-center-us...

It applies to both GeForce and Titan.
I laughed so hard at this. Thank you.
I tend to sleep very well, regardless of screen time or caffeine intake.

However I think this has mostly to do with the fact that I don't sleep enough and my mind/body cherishes what little rest I allow.
"In all, some 30 million jobs in the United States that pay an average of $55,000 per year don't require bachelor's degrees, according to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce."

One wonders how much they are paid in high CoL places like the Bay Area.
If engineers started making the same amount of money as doctors, then it would.
Its probably pretty close to the average starting salary of college grads without having to be out of the workforce for 4 years and paying tuition.
I think it's actually elevator mechanic, but I agree with everything you said
And this is somewhat okay. Though in my opinion there should be some way to lawfully intercept, this brings us back to the same dilemma as with private messaging.
Who considers 55-60k "high paying" especially when the job contains potential life threatening risks and other health issues.

I wouldn't do much of that dangerous and exhausting work for double that pay range and I would still make less money than I do sitting at a desk now. I can put in <35 hrs a week, run errands during the day, work from home in my underwear, meet friends for long lunches.

I do think there are downsides to the office life though. The politics and games of course. There are also the issues of needing to make sure you take time for your physical fitness. Its easy to forget or slack off on that one.

I think the reality here is that those jobs are still majorly underpaid for the work involved when there are alternatives around every corner.
Title should be "I like UK Dairy Milk". Nothing wrong with that if you love powdered milk.

By the way, the connection between Hershey's and Cadbury goes way back to the founding days. There's a fascinating book called "Chocolate Wars" by Deborah Cadbury that chronicles that time.
I would trade every line of JSX I've ever even looked at to work on something like that.
All these latencies are well below 50ms worst-case. For me, those are perfectly fine for typing. While it is obvious that high latencies have an adverse affect on typing, there certainly is a "good enough" threshold. I find it very hard to believe that you'd be able to see any difference in typing with 2ms and 20ms latency. The article even implies that terminals with higher latency might cause RSI, which is damn close to fearmongering. The article also claims that the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines require 10ms latency, while clicking that link shows "0.1s", which is much more reasonable. And just to be clear: I'm strictly talking about typing. I do not question that in other areas latencies have to be much lower than 50ms (like mouse movement, music making, etc.).
Are you on engineering or sales/manegement?
What's your basis for such a strong claim?

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/ has data if you want to make a statistical argument.
And GPU space, too.
Nacker Hews
Since we are looking at entropy with respect to class (whether we want to eat or not eat), entropy for blue & kit kats is 0 as we don't want to eat them at all. So there's no randomness.

They are included in the IG formula but since they are multiplied by 0, they don't have any effect.
It is actually pretty high for an individual earner. According to this (https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/) which is sourced from the Census Bureau, it's at approximately the top 25% of earners in the US.
It's almost like Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and Object Pascal never existed, yet many applications were written (and are still written, in the case of Object Pascal) in all of them.

It's the same thing with the XBase languages like dBase, Clipper, and FoxPro.

I'm not sure if it's just poor research skills with such articles, or just a general ignorance of PC software development history, but these languages and products were an integral part of the PC revolution.
One of my interview questions:

Interviewer: What is the difference between a mutable and immutable string?

Me: A mutable string can be changed. A immutable string cannot be changed.

Interviewer: Nope, think mutations. Mutable string can be mutated.

Me: Mutated? Altering DNA?

Interviewer: If you don't know this there isn't any sense in asking more difficult questions.

Me: Floored.
People are trying

https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos
https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop

But without top-level standardisation effort it will not work.
This isn't the only possible (and not even a likely) outcome of walkability, lack of need of cars, and localization. It's just exploiting the quirks of the SC engine to max out population with a lot of commentary slapped on to it.
Stumbled across this when doing a web search on my username.