skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife mentors a young single mother who is working to finish her GED. Her GED program provided her with a laptop: an old Thinkpad T430 running Ubuntu. She would have been just as well-served with a Chromebook, but I'm sure the Thinkpad was cheaper (perhaps free) for the organization.
> anyone who actually uses or trusts autopilot is basically forfeiting their life.

Worst of all, is putting in danger other people's lives who happen to share the same road with this type of Tesla drivers.
You can buy it from the app or their website.
Are you serious? Don't you ever heard about policies of Russification?
No, Tesla is just such an illustrative example.
Any news on Powermac build?
So far only very few details are disclosed. Here are two presentations:

https://supercomputersfordl2017.github.io/Presentations/Imag...
http://learningsys.org/nips17/assets/slides/dean-nips17.pdf

For the last version of the TPU, Google provided more detail, e.g., in this paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04760.pdf

Hopefully, Google will publish something similar for TPUv2, but I have no knowledge whether or when that might happen.
I'm a native Brit and I would definitely call running a sport, I wasn't aware that it had a competitive connotation at all.
IDC Innovators: DevOps Code Release Management Software Tools, 2018
The chart has 6.7 per hour for 3186 images Google and 12.2 per hour for 3128 AWS.

Or maybe reading it wrong?

That is close to half has much to use Google is it not?

BTW, The TPUs are also about twice as fast also.

Sounds like Google is pretty far ahead of Nvidia. Which really just makes sense as Google does the entire stack and just going to have the data to optimize the silicon.

About half the cost is hype?

I want in the cloud and not have to deal with updating, etc. Would think most are the same for anything of any scale. Could not imagine any longer building up rigs and dealing with all the issues. Plus much harder to scale.
This seems like evidence both ways. For nurture, because the training was successful, and for nature, because Polgár was himself good at chess.
The maintenance costs of a combustion engine on a vehicle is significant compared to an EV, which is why a battery electric vehicle is superior to a hybrid if range isn’t an issue (ie fast charging and/or SuperChargers).
I live in Iceland. It's a small country, only about 350.000 people live there. Close to 250.000 are eligible to vote. The most satisfying software project I did was a Voter Assistance Application that got used by around 70k users before the 2013 parliamentary elections.

I am currently working on a program that predicts Alzheimer's progression from the data of a standard EEG. I am quite sure that it will change the lives of many people. I still think wistfully about 2013 thou......
You should just get a UPS. The APC-Back-UPS-350 runs my 4bay nas and my iMac for about 650 sec. Thats fine for me. If only I use my Macbook and the nas I'll get around 5500 sec. This combined with the time to drain the laptop battery is good for me.
"Sane and tested defaults with no customization" is not realistic, because the expectations and use cases are different for every user.

It's also particularly dangerous, since it leads to the "my way or the highway" GNOME mindset, which, in the extreme cases, entirely removes features without the option to enable them back, because... customization is bad.
Not particularly minding this since the area was settled by Swedes in the late 13th Century, and a trading town established as "Helsingfors" in 1550 under the rule of King Gustav I of Sweden. The new name "Helsinki" -- a Finnish-sounding modification of "Helsinge" -- was chosen in 1819 under the rule of Tsar Alexander I as part of the Russian occupier's process of erasing Swedish presence and influence in Finland. The city had fallen to the Russian invaders in 1808; a new town name of "Alexandria" was considered in 1812; maybe you should demand we call it that, and write the name in Cyrillic.

By the way it's "It's" in English.
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I love Gnome for precisely the same reason you like Unity.
You can't control peoples feelings.
Last time I tried Arch (about a decade ago), I gave a command to update packages. In the update, my NVIDIA card was moved to be supported by "nvidia-legacy" rather than "nvidia"... Of course, I didn't have legacy drivers installed, so the driver failed pretty badly (it was assigned to NVIDIA in my xorg conf). X wouldn't load, and because several aspects of X changed in the update, I had to spend a few hours figuring out what when wrong.

The point of the above (possibly out of date) story is that when I say "update", I want a minimal chance that something serious changed. I don't mind fiddling around with Linux, but I want it to be on my terms (like a lazy Sunday). Giving the user a choice between "update" and "upgrade" allows me to specify when I want to apply major changes.
> the data you typed in the internal search

Your problem is that you viewed it as an internal search, when it was designed and advertised as a global search.

If you want to argue that the global search should have been an internal search, that's fine. If you imply that the search was an internal search, though, then that's misleading FUD.
Ford to end almost all US car sales, focusing on SUVs and trucks
Technically Korean characters are composed of smaller elements that have pronunciations, so for learning purposes you can essentially act like it is an alphabet. The biggest challenge is distinguishing between consonants that sound the same to English-speaking ears... but the writing system can't help you with that.
I noticed this too. I wrote a WordPress plugin to trigger a TravisCI build when I publish a post and this works great, but it takes 5 minutes or so to publish a new version of the site. For me this isn’t a huge deal, although waiting 5 minutes to fix a grammar issue sucks, but for some this is going to be a bigger deal when they’re used to being able to make changes instantly.

I noticed that the Gatsby WordPress plugin hits every endpoint on your site to build the graphql data store, you could probably modify it to just hit the ones you need. Additionally I feel like there should be a way to do persistent incremental builds. At least there should be a way to cache the graphql stuff. Maybe a incremental webpack build plugin exists.
Their hardware is fine. Their software is starting to get good too now. They're finishing MIOpen, a set of CUDA compatible libraries with which you can use Tensorflow (TF uses the builtin CUDA libs too, not only CUDA itself, as does CNTK). ROCm provides a CUDA implementation for AMD systems.
The Benjamin Franklin Papers
This "kind of autonomous driving" is absolutely deadly, by definition. It's never going to work well.

Instead of just speculating, the NHTSA did an actual study on this, and they reached the opposite conclusion. They investigated crash rates in Tesla vehicles that had the original autopilot hardware installed, both before and after autosteer was enabled via a software update, and found that autosteer reduced accident rates by 40%.

When Tesla talks about how much lower their accident rate per mile is compared to other cars, that's kind of statistical bullshit, since there are plenty of other uncontrolled variables that are in play that could affect this besides the cars themselves. But in the case of the NHTSA study, they were looking at the same drivers in the same cars, and the only difference was that one day a software update came out and enabled autosteer, and suddenly accident rates went way down. That's pretty damn convincing if you ask me.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2016/INCLA-PE16007-7876.pdf
Nope, John Deere (tractors) has been doing it for ages and the farmers are trying to fight it.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pamkqn/watch-trac...
Stop signs are shitty and inefficient traffic calming measures. Call your pd but then hang up and call your city planners and ask for better road features, e.g roundabouts and other physical features

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2011/04/26/to-get-safer-streets-...
Your observation is undeservedly sitting at the bottom of this thread :P but it is quite an important one:

In the authors comparison of the language features the relatively new `let` feature would now move one of the scheme features into the "shared with JS" subset, making it overall look a lot more like scheme...

I suspect there are some other new shared aspects as well but I don't comprehend the language feature definitions well enough to say confidently.
Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
Yeah, it's been quite scary how many novice devs move into space and just copy-paste code. And they charge money for that "expertise". And they actually getting paid…

Also, those who discover those bugs afterwards get paid even more in the end. Sad story.
Because servers.
I think you can start laying the groundwork for programming concepts in early childhood. Code.org even seems to have some resources for those of Kindergarten age.

https://code.org/educate/curriculum/elementary-school
Just press enter to get to the password prompt without using the mouse.
What about tractors? See John Deere:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pamkqn/watch-trac...
React Native – Design Systems and Styling Strategy
A coworker and I took 2 weeks to write an Excel add-in that communicated to an AS/400 backend, many years ago.

I was the one to train our first customer (CFO at a carpet manufacturer), who after being shown that they could get fresh data in their spreadsheet each month by copy/pasting a column and updating the period value, physically pushed me away from the keyboard and just went to town. Turns out he was spending 2-3 days each quarter copying data over manually for his reports to the board. The ability to use Excel's charting features meant he could now get it all done in an afternoon.

That little app has now become the focus of the entire business, with versions for Lawson, Oracle Financials, and various other ERP, etc. packages, providing employment for almost 100 people.

I wish I'd negotiated a percentage. ;)
Happy to hear the benchmark is useful to you! We'd love to try different setups and further models/networks. On the other hand, such benchmarks are a LOT of effort (which we underestimated it initially), so we'll have to see.
If you have nothing in it why would you stay when things get tough?

How can you ask investors and employees to invest in it if you aren't willing to?

If you can answer those questions and still keep a full salary then your all set.
Confirmed. Best results can be had by starting with the Ubuntu Mate distro which has the rpi omx and mmal optimized ffmpeg out of the box, else steps to compile exactly right were time consuming.

Here’s a gif of RPi streaming through a CDN which itself is fast, showing timestamps, using janky ffmpeg I built (aka. Worst-case): https://twitter.com/iSpoogeDaily/status/986681611600084992?s...

Tuning is ongoing, learning as I go. Thanks for client buffering pointer.
I wrote this up to share some things we've learned about how to reuse your styles in React Native, closer to how you might do it on the web with SASS/LESS.
Culture and habit are stronger than suggestion.
Van Jacobson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking
Defeating Electron
New A.I. application can write its own code
pacman -Syu was always a dangerous ride in the past, but the last two years it hasn't broken anything for me, ever.

I upgrade all packages about once a week.
YouTube’s Plan to Clean Up the Mess That Made It Rich
That's a bizarre technical choice, isn't it?

I bought a $28 smart outlet. You open up the app, press a button on the outlet for 5 seconds, and they are sync'd. You add your WiFi password. Now, obviously the outlet is stationary, whereas your glasses move with you. So you'd think you would sync to your phone with bluetooth, and let it do the uploading.

Oh. The article. It does sync over bluetooth. 7-second press of a button. Makes sense. Where did you see that you have to disconnect your phone WiFi?
> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY.

I use this all the time when working with several monitors. Just press Alt, click somewhere onto a window, move this window to a different monitor, smash window to the top of the screen. Bam, instant monitor-switching of full-screen windows.

(And yes, usually I use keyboard shortcuts for this but when the hand is already on the mouse then this is the best way to do it)
> Connor and his neighbors put up “No Through Traffic” signs.

Is this legal?
It's more a comparison of AWS vs. Google Cloud pricing than Nvidia vs. TPUv2.
Yeah the first edition was terrible (I used mine for about 10 minutes) and this doesn't look any better. I would love some nice life-logging glasses for filming my nephews, the occasional bike ride or sunset. The market is filled with very low resolution cheap units, with no actual good options from what I can tell... actually just googled it, these are both interesting:
https://www.vuzix.com/Products/Blade-Enterprise

https://orbiprime.com/
This, I guess

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/linux...
12 Best Books about Blogging to Improve Your Blog (2018)
KDE is sane these days, and separates mobile and desktop UIs too!
The old ones have been listed on Amazon since at least June though this doesn't say whether they were in stock

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Snapchat-Inc-Spectacles-1-0-Sung...

Their initial release was admittedly sad. Made them extremely difficult to buy and then it turned out they lost $40,000,000 on unsold inventory.
By far the most fulfilling work I've done is the seven games I've created for the Ludum Dare game jam. I love creating the art and music for these even if I'm not very good at it. I also love the period after the jam where you can play everyone elses games while people play and comment on your game as well.

I'd love to pursue this hobby further but usually come home from my enterprise dev job feeling exhausted. I've considered getting a job in game development but it would likely result in a serious decrease in salary as well as a significant increase in time spent at work.
Have you checked out Google Clips? I've heard good things about it, though I haven't tried it out myself: https://store.google.com/us/product/google_clips?hl=en-US
For me, it was working on a solo project for a large charity in the UK. They were releasing a service in 18 months time that hooked up to a bespoke API, and I was very keen to ensure that we built something robust and simple.

It was a lot of hard work, and throughout the project I had felt that things weren't going to go well. The deadline for certain bits was pushed back, and I overheard some moans from one of the junior devs about how things were set up, but we persevered. After spending time with the client, I had the feeling that they had severely underestimated the amount of load they'd receive, so much of the architecture was built around clever caching, and reducing load on the API. I also wanted to keep things really basic, so that anyone could take over the project and build on top of it.

We made the final (hard) deadline, and the site went live. We went to London to meet the client on go-live day, and we sat there watching the usage stats, and initially thought that there was a mistake when we saw 5000 concurrent users on the site over lunch. They were getting millions of users a day, and IIRC the site was paid for after two weeks. There were some issues, and we got a bit scared when they said they had to set up a brand-new call centre to deal with website issues, but at that scale we discovered that this call centre was dealing with less than 0.1% of users, so everyone deemed the project a success.

It was a fairly typical project, but it was great to be able to lead a project from start to finish, and to have everyone happy. Most importantly, it was the first time I actually felt proud of my dev abilities. I could finally claim to have built something that loads of people use and rely on.
I built this about a year ago as a quick intro to teach myself a little bit about Ethereum Smart Contracts and Solidity. It's just a simple "poll" that emulates a Twitter poll. It could be a great starter for React developers or Front End Developers to learn about Ethereum. I'd also love any feedback, suggestions or PRs. I think this might have potential as a boilerplate for getting started with Ethereum apps, with a few tweaks.
Yesterday, I finished converting a bike shop to Ubuntu Linux only.

They are ridiculously happy because:
- device drivers actually work
- they don't have to worry anymore about viruses
- they can use old machines without trouble

So yeah, zero customization - but a way better experience than Windows.

So, your crowd not only exists, but got me a new bicycle!
Ah ok. I better go do some more revision then :D
Eh, a billion dollar company has a marketing department that said they should go for a second try of this.

They probably studied it, asked customers to try it, etc...

Lets see what a billion dollar company comes up with. If nothing else, it pushes innovation a little forward.
I’ve already cracked this with Nest cameras around our house. When something cute happens I tell my Google Home to take a note with the time so I can go take a clip later. Very poor showing from Google that this isn’t already integrated — would love to say “Hey google save a clip of the last 3 minutes from the bedroom camera”
or just start typing your password
This will probably get flagged as being non tech, but yea. Duh.

I've been reading The Dictators Handbook recently and it does a good job of explaining this situation. You help those that will keep you in power and give you the resources you want. Every American president will help regimes who will give them support and money, so they can pay their supporters (all the people at the top in DC) and then they use what's left over on the people. Democracies tend to spend more on people ideas, because there's a larger set of replaceable (voters) in the selectorate.

It doesn't matter if a leader is doing what is good or not good for the people. The chief goal of a leader is to get in power and stay in power. They have to pay off all their supports, or keys to power. If that involves things that are unsavory. You censor it. In democracies, you just make sure your supporters include the propaganda (a.k.a news) agencies.

If a leader does something that helps the people, like in Libya where they gave people free education, free power, housing subsidies, gas subsidies; but do so at the expense of their supporters (not playing ball with America in the oil trade), then the leaders get take out, given fake trials, killed and the propaganda networks demonize them. It's not hard to demonize them, because all leaders must be corrupt to get into power; so you can always find something to speak to that corruption. Lest we forget that Obama gave America over to the health care industry, killed thousands with predator drones and was the first president to spend every day in office at war.
As far as I know, they have not released the methodology behind that data. There are a lot of doubts as to whether it is truly showing the benefit of autosteer (in the autopilot sense) and not just the benefits of the other safety systems that were enabled around the same time.
They've recently connected DTLA and Santa Monica via trains and I don't think the 10 has improved at all. The problem is that most everyone prefers to drive and the only thing limiting their willingness to drive is traffic itself. Thus, traffic will never get better than whatever the masses deem acceptably bad (and their tolerance seems ludicrously high in LA).
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I once wrote a packaging script that saved 2 man weeks of recurring work. Not the swankiest or the most challenging job I did, but it was immensely gratifying, since this time was directly billed to customers. So yes, fixing small non-critical issues can be very rewarding.
To me, the circular video format is an amazing new feature. Now no longer you need to worry about how you hold your phone, and your friends can view it in any fashion they'd like to.

I wonder if they built a proprietary video codec for this or whether they were able to adapt an existing one to circular content.

Also, people are used to spending hundreds of dollars on nice sunglasses, it is clever to go after that spending. $150 for sunglasses merged with a gopro is amazing.

I'm not a big snapchat user but I respect them very much for shipping this product.
If you have families you might be able to play the angle that your company has values and should be family friendly. And you want to work with people that share those same values. And that's how your going to attract better talent.
Spectacles record for 10s only (30s if you press 2 more times) and do not let you record in 4k or change FPS. Hardly a good fit as a GoPro competitor.
Principles shouldn't depend on price for applicability.
Strongly disagree. If Google is able to offer at about 1/2 the cost using their own silicon versus AWS using Nvidia that is all about the silicon difference.

But we also have the V1 TPU paper and can see the TPUs are able to use less joules per inference compared to an older Nvidia architecture. Was not that close. Just makes sense Google V2 TPUs would do the same.

Hope Google does a V3 TPU and then will share a V2 TPU paper like they did on V1 of the TPUs.

What is far more impressive of the TPUs is

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

If really doing 16k a second through a NN and at a price you can offer generally now that is incredible. I want this paper even more so.
I would definitely consider the "nursery" to be a newly created device (threadpool/reactor/...), where the resources used by the functions run in this "nursery" only has a lifetime requirement equal to the nursery.
do you have to connect to the GoPro's wifi network?

I just don't get it... Let me plug the camera into my laptop (or phone through bluetooth I guess) and set it up to connect to My home wifi, or my beach house's wifi and I'm done.
This has been known for some time now
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Again, you're arguing a point I've not made, and I seem to be poorly communicating that large stories with complex dynamics, often with unsympathetic or marginalised victims, and or which challenge cultural narratives or established powers, and most especially, challenge the reader's well-being without offering a clear solution or course of action, are poorly represented.

There are a few studies of news content and coverage. The Tyndall Report looks at prime-time news coverage, overview available online. The PEJ News Coverage Index looks at TV, radio, talk radio, and print for selected national sources, though it's not. The Vanderbilt Archive similarly has national news data (and content) dating to the 1960s (summaries/headlines online). Local TV, radio, and print are a whole 'nother barrel of fish, though notably a major staple of Los Angeles (and many other regions') live TV coverage is ... vehicle chases.

Much of the coverage is both, yes, negative, and non-substantial. Commercial, entertainment, sport, celebrity, "weird", and otherwise trivial matter.

But not, as a rule, matters of serious existential import.

http://tyndallreport.com

http://www.journalism.org/news_index_methodology/

https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-high-spee...
Why the lock-in?
fyi, page breaks under firefox latest (mac os x)
https://imgur.com/a/hZAsalA