skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe there is maybe there is not. His point is that there is no hope, and that is false.

The man spent his life in metrics indicating that trend, which made him pessimistic. It's fair. If you see somebody drinking, smoking, and eating burger all life, your wouldn't have much hope either, but to somebody who have just heard about it, not watching it, it seems a "severe" judgment.

> Please tell me all the cases in human history where large amounts of people voluntary restricted their energy use?

> Carbon growth comes from the developing world, and we can do nothing to restrict that.

You could have used the same argument about slavery not so long ago.

"Humanity always've done it. All our achievements used slaves. Our lifestyle is based on slaves. Please tell me all the cases in human history where large amounts of people voluntary restricted their use of slaves ?"

Then we did it this one time.

> If you want to voluntarily starve yourself of energy, go ahead have fun. However suggesting it as a solution for a global problem is a non-starter. Even a western person starving himself of energy will still use many X more then most Indians. An most Indians would like to use as much energy as westerners.

"If you want to voluntarily starve yourself" are such strong worlds. There is a lot of margin between eating meat every day + running all oil engines + changing phones each years + everybody having children... and living in a cave.

Beside, if you have 10 men in a cabin in Artic, and everybody must either poop on the floor or get terrible cold and poop outside, people may poop on the floor for a while. But it's not sustainable. Sooner or later somebody will have to say that they should all go outside. Or find an alternative. And your argument is pretty much "you go first".

> All I have said about the status quo is that it is actually saving millions of peoples lives and giving them a higher standard of living. That is often ignored and it should not be, because it misses literally the biggest improvement in human welfare in world history.

Yes. And now that we've done it this way, we know the price of it. We have the feedback and the scientific knowledge to understand the system we live in, the consequences of exponential growth in a finite system and what our needs are as a specie.

Some very intelligent yet with nothing to gain from it are saying that we are doing very badly. They said it clearly, loudly, respectfully, repeatedly, with strong arguments.

There is nothing more they can do.

It's now our job to act on that.
Actually there's an interesting statistical phenomena where at the very top of a hierarchy, the correlation between success and the factor that generally drives success becomes low.

For example if you look at NBA players, you'll see that they're on average quite tall, but also that height only has a weak correlation with 'basketball ability' in that sample. That's because those people were already heavily selected on height; and all the not-that-tall people in the sample compensate with the other things that make them good at basketball.

So if you want to look at how useful IQ is, you should be looking at the average IQ of successful people vs average IQ of unsuccessful people, and not how successful people are in a relatively high IQ subsample (i.e. all surgeons).
Would you be willing to share your white-list? As well as your "consumption-flow" for digesting it?
I Co-created a free MOOC for teaching IoT to non-technical people¹.

It was a lot of work, specially trying to use an accessible language (our target audience was students from 10yo onwards, although most enrolled people were college students from non-STEM areas), but it absolutely paid off.

The most rewarding part was receiving the feedback from students after the course's ending. They said things like "I can't believe I'm understanding this", and "Weeks ago, I never imagined that such a thing [IoT] even existed, and now I understand how it works".

So, for me, education is one of the most rewarding experiences.

¹http://codeiot.org.br. The course is in Portuguese, but versions with Spanish and English subtitles will be available in next semester.
"I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library." But also consider being on a deserted island with a library of all the books ever written (including manuscripts, etc.) and the lifespan to read it all: it's both an exhilarating and frightening thought. The library as a prison of the mind, trapped in other people's thoughts. For a writer the best book is the unwritten one, e.g. the blank book that Winston Smith cherishes in 1984.
You know I specifically said "machine shop" in my original comment so I'm not sure why you're talking about retail.
25% for rent in London means you'll have a lot of money to spend. If you spend 25% of your salary of $2000 on rent on the countryside you'll live off $1500. If in the city you can make $5000 but spend 50%, you'll still have more, even after higher other costs in the city. Sounds like an extreme example but in the UK, London vs. countryside further North has those differences.
That is true. But the cost of running is where all the cost is at really not so much in making the chips.

Yes I can say it is a lot cheaper. That is what this article is all about.

You can do about twice the images per dollar using the TPUs with GCP versus using Nvidia with AWS.

Or what am I missing?

BTW, Google has released to the general public. What are you talking about?

"Google’s AI chips are now open for public use"

https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/12/googles-ai-chips-are-now-...
No it isn't. Again, switch can build irreducible control flow, match cannot. This code

switch (x) {
case 0:
while (i < l) {
s *= i;
case 1:
i += 1;
}
}

cannot be rewritten with a simple match. You'd have to reloop the CFG.
Try it. Mounted at floor level the Nest footage does a pretty good job of capturing the moment.
Mostly GNOME is to blame for this.
Snap Spectacles
I had switched to Wayland and it (sort of) supports fractional scaling system wide. It did work, its just some things end up being blurry (fonts are blurry) and that was too much for me. My temp workaround is using font scale at 1.4. Its good enough but I miss not having to worry about it with Wayland, especially with multiple monitors that have different resolutions. Some day Wayland support will be better, but I don't see it anytime soon.
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Personally, I think "duh" is the perfect sentiment for this. What governments, ours and "corrupt" ones, are really doing behind closed doors vs what we're told by our media is vastly different. The hysterics over the latest Syria gassing and the Russian hackers epidemic are just the latest examples in a long line of using the media to manipulate public opinion and keep people fighting among themselves so they never find out what's really going on. And those that do peek behind the curtains, brand them conspiracy theorists. Works like a charm.
UI is simply terribly hard. And the open source “bazaar” model also happens to be at its worst in UI work. You kinda need a dictator with taste to get UIs right, and the Linux community has neither dictators nor taste.
I like the idea of these, but Snapchat is unusable now – and I'm saying this as a fan of their esoteric UI. Their app has become stupefyingly bad, primarily from forcing a ton of random celebrities and tabloid content into the stream of people you intended to follow. It also grinds my modern Android to a halt pretty frequently.
They reimplemented it. Jim Clark mandated it IIRC
Indian States info – 29 states and 7 union territories of India
> A government in its own currency can never go bankrupt.

Zimbabwe would like to have a word. I bring this up not to be snarky, but because that was the thinking of the president at the time - he once asked "Have you ever heard of a country that collapsed because of borrowing?"[1]. I suppose he said this before the hyperinflation kicked in.

1. https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/217314...
Article does a terrible job of explaining the differences between this and v1. I got:

- yellow ring is gone

- you can click photos

- exports are always HD

If this is the entire list then I dunno how snap plans to sell them any better than v1.
I have 5 computers (1 notebook, 1 desktop, 3 servers) on Arch, and I update daily. The twist is that I have a cronjob that downloads all the packages in the background, then pings me via XMPP and asks for confirmation to install the updates, and if that succeeds, asks if I want to restart any services or reboot the machine (in case of kernel upgrade). That whole thing takes me about 1 minute per day.
>else autosteer was already so good in 2016 that it made fewer mistakes than humans.

No no no no no! The NHTSA report says nothing about whether Tesla's system is safer than humans. In that study there are two buckets, one which is total Tesla miles in TACC-enabled cars and then after the update total Tesla miles in cars with TACC + Autosteer and they calculated on airbag deployments. Human driven miles are going to dominate both of those buckets and there's a reason the NHTSA report makes zero claims about Tesla's safety relative to human drivers. It's totally outside the scope of the study. Then add in that some researchers who are skeptical of the methodology and have been asking for the raw data from NHTSA/Tesla have yet to receive it.
And anyone who keeps up with congressional hearings and discussions or even watches C-SPAN from time-to-time knows that there are multiple sides to any decision that gets made. We have a democracy made up of various representatives, and parties, sometimes competing on issues. Even the currently ruling majority being the same party as the president doesn't guarantee that a certain decision will hold.

On situations of global conflict it's even more complex. We have to negotiate with our allies and with organizations like the UN and NATO. And move within the confines of various agreements and deals we've made with other entities. And take in different intelligence reports and strategic assessments.

The modern world is more complex than we want it to be. But overly-simplified perspectives of it aren't always helpful.
Windows has a few tricks that are nice.

One feature I miss from it is that if you drag and drop something from a windows below another, the one from which you drag the item from doesn't get focused and doesn't raise to the front.
> terrible QC of systemd

I haven't had any problems with systemd. YMMV?
Started an open source project Miranda IM. Even though I didn't work on it long, it's cool to see the project is still active 18 years later. I continued to use it for a long time, but I no longer use any instant messaging which is kind of sad in itself.
I got the same test for an SRE gig just a couple years ago. Amazon fizzbuzz'd me on the first coding test before I even went on-site. I know both have very stellar hiring reputations and employ a ton of smart people but from my "man on the street" experience, it felt more like a test of answering the right questions than a test of skill.

the best tech interview I've ever had was at a company that didn't make me write a line of code, instead preferring a lengthy conversation about coding. On reflection it was a far more grueling test of knowledge than "implement a hash table in C, you have 35 minutes".
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A notebook is not a gaming desktop is not a server.
I'm only a chapter in on "The Influential Mind" by Tali Sharot, but the op-ed as influential makes sense. Mainly because a good op-ed should explore the given issue with some balance (i.e., present and identify with all sides), and draw its own conclusion.
Because of how weird Windows users look at me when I just close the lid without turning the computer off. I've even gotten comments how "you shouldn't do that". Or when they ask why I don't plug the laptop in (this was more true a few years ago). Or why I don't use a mouse like a "normal person".
> Pretty sure getting into Ethereum is easier and fairer than getting into Stock Market.

Robinhood offers free trades on anything in the Stock Market. Literally free, you can't beat that.

> There's also a law that requires you to be big capitalist before you can do early big investments right?

That's not the stock market. That's venture capitalism. The stock market is literally open to everybody with an internet connection from a variety of well trusted sources (RobinHood, E-trade, TD Ameritrade, Vanguard, etc. etc.) and a variety of pricing schemes. ($0 for Robinhood, although it seems like their execution is not as good. You get what you pay for afterall)

Furthermore: the stock market is regulated. The National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) system in the USA ensures that everyone in the USA pays relatively consistent prices, or at least more-consistent than BTC / ETH. Unlike ETH or BTC, no one is going to steal your money Mt. Gox style as the SEC is a strict watchdog.

You get no assurances with Eth or BTC. Coinbase has different prices than Bitfinex. And some of these exchanges look like they're running scams (ie: Bitfinex's support of Tethercoin).

I think more "plebs" have been burned by Mt. Gox and other such failures in the cryptocoin marketplace. Its a hugely unregulated, and highly risky market. Cryptocoins are just not mature enough for mainstream speculation yet.
The problem with core banking systems is that they're nearly important to test. There's no distributed system, you always need one single source of truth for the whole bank (the ledger). Moving part of that is only possible if you keep shadow accounts in the old system. That's also why live migrations aren't possible and need at least one night downtime.
Your problem is capitalism, subset: private property. The idea that essential mass communication infrastructure can and should be owned and fully controlled by its owners, and that outweighs the wishes and intent of fully a quarter of all humans alive.

I simply disagree with it.
> munged up shitty titlebar/toolbar hybrid

I agree on this one, mostly disagree on the rest. I use Pantheon, which solves the above mentioned problem.
TLS 1.3 Handshake: Taking a Closer Look
^^^ This needed to be said. I feel lucky that 95+% of everything I need can be done in terminator and/or firefox. For that time where the window manager is needed just something basic and familiar like XFCE or a plain old windows start menu. Success is measured by the quickness of getting the job done and staying out of the users way and reinventing the UI wheel repeatedly works against that
I recently hiked in the US during 3 months and i had exactly this same feeling. My body quickly adjusted to day/night cycle and experienced this post-hike depression feeling. I'm also wondering if it's related to light because at the end of the hike when I was back to my house i would always stay awake until 3 to 4am during several weeks and it was really hard to recalibrate my sleep cycle.
They have added a tab with subscribed content where all the tabloid content not is (except if you subscribe to it)
I'm an Arch user, and I absolutely disagree. Installing Ubuntu requires no knowledge of how a terminal works, what hard disks are and why they are partitioned, how DHCP works, etc. etc.
Yes it should, but it wont.
The UX is missing signifiers to tell me what affordances the system offers.

This seems to be a universal challenge with language interfaces like Siri.
You can give a chance to Slax: http://www.slax.org/
It's like answering riddles for a troll under a bridge.
The chemical weapons were destroyed well before Bush claimed that WMD's were a good justification for invading.
They did that because they'd caught the one-size-fits-all virus which made them yearn for Ubuntu phones and Ubuntu tablets. Those ventures did not really come to fruition but the side effects still show. Given the prevalence of touch-screen laptops it wouldn't surprise me if part of this idea actually does find a niche to settle in on convertible devices.
"Doubt"
I have and lost all messages (got them exported so can still search for them). Not optimal but I prefer it to FB messenger where it's much harder for me to access my data.

I also think the switch Android<->iOS is solvable, probably just an edge case and they don't think it's profitable to do.
I recently launched Seeker (https://seeker.company). It's amazing to see people launching their own job boards and getting paid for it, I love it. Also, made it all by myself and launched it solo, it's felt great.
My girlfriends has 3 (2 laptops, one tablet) and one phone, and she isn't even a geek.

But let's be real, people installing arch don't have "one computer". Not the ones around me anyway.
Working for my wife in her startup.
And yet we invaded the same country. Heck of allies we are.
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An interesting general query:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q="the+last+man+who+knew+everything"...

https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q="the%2...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="the%20last%20man%20who...
>For the V100 experiments, we used a p3.8xlarge instance (Xeon E5–2686@2.30GHz 16 cores, 244 GB memory, Ubuntu 16.04) on AWS with four V100 GPUs (16 GB of memory each). For the TPU experiments, we used a small n1-standard-4 instance as host (Xeon@2.3GHz two cores, 15 GB memory, Debian 9) for which we provisioned a Cloud TPU (v2–8) consisting of four TPUv2 chips (16 GB of memory each).

A bit odd that the TPUs are provisioned on such a weaker machine compared to the V100s, especially when there were comparisons which included augmentation and other processing outside of the TPU.
I had a WRX and was at 125k and seeming fine (no head gasget / oil issues) but it was hit while parked and totalled.
Show HN: Coverage-targeted testing with Erlang's Quickcheck
Yes their current dollar range is slightly more exposed to volatility given it’s price range. We’d all wondered whether they would get a perk after the rounds of flack Intel’s received.

From the little research I’ve done though I’m unsure whether their new CPUs really compete with Intel. Any anecdotes here?
Besides that, the lack of available alternatives will almost surely depress your wages.
This is nonsense. the clickbait title is "New A.I. application can write its own code". What the code really does is to fill in function bodies based on parameters you formally specify: http://www.askbayou.com/
This looks really cool and i'm glad someone is working on this.
This is definitely a service I'll be keeping an eye for.
They don't require it but some of the ResNet-50 implementations can make use of it (e.g., the ones in the Docker containers on the Nvidia GPU Cloud). But even the ones without seem to scale to 4 GPUs pretty well. This may be a different story for 8 GPUs and larger/deeper networks, e.g., ResNet-152.
> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY.

Because it's a handy gesture.

> you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin' smart phone.

Yeah, that's pretty stupid.
I made an app that uses computer vision to help people track what they eat with computer vision. I'd love to have these if they opened up an API so that we could make the experience 100% passive.

Right now our users still have to pull out their phone and take a picture when they're eating and it turns out that a lot of people forget to do it.

I'd also be interested in something like the spectacles but as a small clip on camera that I could stick on any glasses / my shirt. Google clip is a bit too big.
The article links to a site[1] where you can interact with the system. That site also features a "How to Use Bayou" page, which contains a succinct description of what the system actually does:

> You can think of Bayou as a system for assisting a programmer who is using Java APIs. A programmer interacts with Bayou by writing a draft program — a Java method with “holes”, or missing blocks of code — and supplying some clues in a query about how these holes should be filled. Bayou’s job is then to fill these holes with code in a way that will, hopefully, match the programmer’s intent. More precisely, Bayou infers a probability distribution over the set of candidate completions of a given draft, then returns the top-k programs from this distribution.

The supported terms in a query are:

- an API method call that the generated program should use, or

- an API data type that the user wants the generated code to use.

An example "query" that they provide:

/// call:readLine

Calling this "an A.I. application that can write its own code" is ludicrous. The end result is basically a difficult-to-use Intellisense.

[1]: http://www.askbayou.com/

[2]: https://info.askbayou.com/how-to-use-bayou/
A counterexample to that is the many other DEs done right: Xfce, Cinnamon, etc.
Tronical Suing Gibson for $50M
Avalonia is not stable and is in beta. I would not use it for production.
I don't think that's necessarily true but can't help but still agree with you. There are tons of wonderful DSLs and niche languages out there, but with terrible interfaces to other languages that want to do more with it. In my case that's mostly R and Minizinc, but I know there's plenty more with the same problem.

But it doesn't have to be that way. SQL is a domain specific language. Regex is a domain specific language. They take different API strategies: one goes for ubiquitous and standardized interfaces, the other goes for direct embedding. But they both prove that it's not necessary to write everything in a general purpose language.
Who would pay for this?
How does that timeline work?
So far today it's at $11.08, which puts it back where it was at on March 22. So yes, it's a 30 day high, but only just barely.

I love AMD and I'm rooting for them, but the stock price isn't the news - it's the unexpected sales strength of the Zen architecture. Don't expect Intel to take their success lying down.
Yes, you can. The problem starts when "you" are a large company -- NVidia restricts "datacenter" use of consumer GPUs (see previous HN discussion of that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983587 ). A single Titan V is somewhere in the 90% range of a V100 at less than 1/3 the cost, and a 1080ti, if you can find one, likely offers a slightly better price/performance spot. 4-GPU training may suffer due the lack of NVlink, but not enough for it to matter too much. As you scale, though, the lack of NVlink will hurt more. And, of course, all of these things come with a capex vs opex tradeoff, and a sysadmin vs cloud tradeoff, that will appeal differently to different situations.
"The cost performance ratio reflects this."

But the TPUs are half the cost per this article?

Plus Google does the entire stack and can better optimize the hardware versus Nvidia. So it seem Google can improve faster I would think.

If there ever was a huge advantage doing the entire stack it is with neural networks.

A perfect example is Google new speech doing 16k samples a second with a NN.

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

Do not think Google could offer this service as a competitive cost without the TPUs.

This new method is replacing the method that was far less compute intensive so to offer at a competitive price requires lowering compute cost which suspect is only possible with the TPUs.
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