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How are you ascertaining that there is no reason to upgrade?

I went from a Nehalem i7 3.20GHz extreme hex core, to a kabylake i7 7700k 4-core, and it's a night and day difference.

In every one of my use cases my 7700k outperforms the older CPU.
great read. thanks for sharing
Wow, it sounds like you’ve had a fascinating career. You say you may have just been lucky to get in on the ground floor as it were, but would you attribute your success to any other habits, behaviors, or personal qualities?
You are angering yourself based on a fallacy. Why do we only need to focus on one area and not others at the same time? It’s not like there’s only one person doing this and they need to pick and choose where they spend their effort. All of us can and should do what we can, that makes a difference locally. A single person of course cannot clean the rivers in Asia, but they can reduce their own production of waste. A saved straw is a saved straw, no matter where on the planet you are. In case you haven’t noticed, we live in a closed ecological system.

Food manufacturers use plastic in packaging because it’s cheaper. That’s it. It has nothing directly to do with hygiene, though that might also be a benefit. However, many worry that plastics can leach into the food and affect it, so it’s not used for altruistic reasons.
I only work on interesting technical problems in my free time. Nobody's really willing to pay for open-ended research.

(Luckily, interesting technical problems in computing don't actually require resources, other than time, and their interestingness is their own reward, so it's not like I need or expect anybody to pay me to work on them.)
I always liked McKennas theory that the mushrooms arrived from outer space via spores.
When that happens, the browser would have turned into a general purpose VM running apps via WebAssembly with WebGL/WebGPU for rendering, thus becoming native as well.

The writing is on the wall with the ongoing efforts on .NET, Java, Go, Unity, Unreal and who knows, someone might even port Flash to it.
Show HN: Spell – simple, remote GPU execution
We'd like to introduce HN to Spell, which is a tool for easily running ML/DL jobs remotely. As Deep Learning has grown we see engineers and researchers struggle to incorporate running on GPUs into their workflow. So we built Spell to be the easiest way to get code running elsewhere - like the bash '&' operator but for remote machines.

Sign up for an account at https://web.spell.run/waitlist, which includes $300 in credits for GPU time. There's a waitlist, but we'll be approving accounts as they come in.

Here are some of the features we really wanted and built into Spell:

1) We don't want you to have to modify your code for it to run remotely. Particularly so it's easy to clone something off github and run it with one command

2) Waiting for data to upload/move is one of the biggest time costs. So we built a single remote filesystem so you only need to upload data once. It's also a simple interface that everyone already understands

3) Tools should be highly efficient and reliable. Machine learning needs more tools that are sturdy enough to use everyday and build whole pipelines around. So we spent a lot of time making sure our infrastructure is solid

There's plenty of documentation (https://www.spell.run/docs), including a 30 second quick start and guides for running some common models. We also wrote a series of medium posts (https://medium.com/@spellrun) where we reproduce as much of the work presented at ICLR as possible with a few commands.

Thanks for reading. Questions/feedback welcome!
The OP states: "When it’s time to send an update to the state, XOR it against the previous state, .. and send it." and this is not going to work if the previous state just isn't there.

It would be easy to fix: add a base-version number to the update. If the client doesn't know about the base-version it knows it must not update its state, but rather fetch a full state again or something.

Your suggestion "make sure there is a safe base version available and then send a diff against that" makes a lot more sense.
So, they can't sell that, as the GP is proposing, or they generally just don't under the current economic system? Because I'm pretty sure Dean Koontz does a variation of this, where he outlines the story but someone else actually writes the book, and it's published under his name.
"Delivery dates have often irrelevant but very simple to understand impacts. Good and bad solutions have dramatic but very difficult to understand impacts."

https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/things-i-have-l...
There's no real justification for anyone having that right. The device manufacturer/website owner/etc does the work of creating the data, yet you think it's yours?
This. I work primarily with very small business owners. Early in my career I was all about open source and rolling your own. Lessons learned over the years (maintenance, compliance, shifting standards) and I now almost exclusively recommend using a third party provider.
This is being a little extremist, no? I'm consistently asked to give estimates, and I mostly give estimates that are accurate within sane expectations.

I think what's missing here is that I can predict how long something is going to take when I talk with the managers/feature-planners about what the feature is. If I feel I have a solid understanding of the requirements, which pieces of code it'll touch, etc - then I can give a reasonable estimate.

Now, the bigger the project the more difficult this becomes. Details I've missed is always a possibility, and that just stacks up the bigger the project is.

So I think being specific in this type of discussion is really important. A feature that's going to take 6 months to implement is insanely tough to estimate, and very likely to have a wrong estimate. A feature that takes a week can pretty reliably be accurate within a day or two, in my experience.

I'm not defending management in these sorts of things.. I think it's our job to not only give estimates, but include understanding about the expected validity of that estimate.

All estimates are worth while though, your post makes it sound like they're not. You tell me you need a feature that's going to take 12+ months? It's so hard to predict that it's laughably wrong.. but that's still insanely useful. Why? Because now the management knows it's highly unlikely to be a 1 week, 1 month, w/e feature. It's big.
I've been using Termux to run linux software on a chromebook for about a year now.
WWDC 2018: Apple's Software Chief Details How iOS Apps Will Run on Macs
No. The whole secret stargate agency, the one in all those bunkers, was a creation for the series. The original movie didn't involve a giant secret operation. It was a basic take on the whole 'ancient aliens' concept. They expanded everything to make room for the series long after the name. I think gate was more to do with star trek and wars, but by that same logic the government program could be named after trek and wars. The people picking names for secret government programs like to play jokes. They are all scifi geeks too. See Skynet and Reagans Starwars.

I'd be 100% behind calling the new 'space force' the Starfleet. There is no harm in making a name fun.
> I mean, I too used to enjoy reading email in a terminal. It felt fun twenty years ago. Over a modem connection. But I really don't think we can go back to it, and even less should we romanticize it as if that was "the true old days."

Why? I've used mutt as my primary email client for 12 years now. I get that most people aren't interested by that, nor am I trying to tell you you should do it, but I'd at least like to point out that it's fully possible, and I have no problem dealing with HTML mail. I have yet to see a killer feature that would move me away from mutt---or an incompatibility of mutt that causes enough of a problem to switch.
nothing clickbaity about it! The title describes the content well. the main body of the text is indeed what the title suggests (even if the the introduction was a bit long for my taste). I get what you mean though. before reading the content the title sets off some bait-alarms.
It's not like building a building - if it were, we could just schedule it down to each detail. We would be still all be using 'waterfall'.

I hear that it doesn't work that well for buildings either, as you end up with people in the field detecting bugs in the plans and having to improvise fixes without input from the designers.
It's often data about you, in which case it's linked to you in which case it falls under GDPR. This crash data is definitely about you, as general driving data would be. Your home's temperature won't be, so GDPR indeed won't apply there, but GDPR is a good first step. (I mean, EU already had it since 1995, but in USA it would be a good first step.)

I agree that your proposal would be a good extension. Or at least that it should be the default, and you'd need to sign for being okay with not owning the data. Or that those devices contain warning stickers.
The basic summary of the Stargate program is that a U.S. Intelligence agency got wind of a Soviet "psychic spying" program. They laughed, said, "stoopid soviets", but then had an oh-shit moment: what if it works? WE DONT HAVE AN EQUIVALENT PSYCHIC SPYING PROGRAM.

Thus, to perform a proper threat analysis, the CIA went to the Stanford Research Institute [0] (separated from the university in 1970) and gave them money to perform a threat analysis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International

Later it came out that the soviets weren't actually doing psychic spying, it was something of a mis-translation - 'bio-information transfer' would have been more appropriate.

Ingo Swann was the artist who helped put this CIA program together. In the 1960's (?) Mr. Swann had done experiments with some parapsychologists in NYC, and was pretty good at getting information at a distance.

I went to two of Ingo's talks in Las Vegas (2004/2006). He said the government's intelligence agents always hated their research program with a passion, so they had to get results from the very beginning. Mr. Swann said the Government spook's work is predicated on secrecy. When humans have the ability to retrieve information at a distance there are no secrets.

When the Soviet Union went away, the spooks said, essentially, 'oh thank god we can finally get rid of this damn program'. When the first media reports came out, the CIA's official response was something like, 'we spent 25 years studying this and we're 100% sure we never got any results whatsoever.'

Ingo's website was http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/ - this now redirects somewhere else, but the old site was cooler (check archive.org?). According to Mr. Swann, four of humanity's "superpowers" are memory, imagination, intuition and the "telepathic transfer of information". They are superpowers because they "transcend space and time as one major category of activity, and energy and matter as another major category."

Put simply, for there is no other way to put it,
the superpowers of the human biomind are defined
as those indwelling faculties of our species
which can transcend space and time as one major
category of activity, and energy and matter as
another major category.

The full extent of our species faculties of
memory, for example, transcend the known laws of
matter and time, as do the faculties for human
imagination. Memory and imagination, therefore,
are among the many superpowers -- although they
have not been identified this way within the
prevailing wisdom of the Modern Age.

In addition to memory and imagination which are
universally shared by all specimens of our
species, the several formats of intuition and of
the telepathic transfer of information are also
very broadly shared.

In 2004 Mr. Swann told me not to spend $100 for a used copy of his book: "you'll find a copy". 12 years later I found the prophesied copy at the annual VNSA booksale [1] in Phoenix - it'd been miscategorized as 'adult/erotica', and the people with scanners (looking for valuable books to resell) hadn't found it.

[1] http://vnsabooksale.org/
I really wish people would put more effort into making sure people don't waste time instead of endlessly trying to make development more predictable. In my company there are a ton of inefficient processes and other things limiting productivity (noise, teams spread out over entire building, developers having to do work that would better be done by qualified tech writers, lack of adequate onboarding, lack of decision making constant changes). Instead of addressing theae management keeps on doing status meetings and planning.

I think they would be much better off if they made sure that their people have optimal productivity and then see how quickly things can be done. I guess that is exactly what scrum originally tried to address...
If the solution to a problem isn't perceived as being good enough (eg people think an algorithm is hiding things they want to see instead of showing things things they want to see) users will often state they want the simplest possible alternative. In the case of a timeline that's everything in the default time series order. Essentially they're saying "The algorithm isn't working, so remove the algorithm and show me everything."
I don't remember the last time I clicked on an ad either. But there's definitely been times when I'm looking to buy something and I google a company I know offers that product—often through advertising.
The really interesting thing to me is how recently those experiments were conducted. I find it somewhat mind-boggling that the US still searched for witches in the 1980s.
Why complaining to a bot made me a more loyal customer
Well-regarded tech book publishers include:

- O'Reilly (huge)

- APress

- MIT Press

- Manning (https://www.manning.com/)

- Packt (https://www.packtpub.com/)

The best way to choose is to look for books similar in style or audience to what you want to write and talk to the authors about their experience. Your experience will be largely determined with the particular editor you work with, so try to get feedback about them. It's also better, when talking to a publisher, to have a warm intro from a fellow author than to cold-email.
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Why did you get a device with a physical keyboard when you only needed a tablet?
Wow, a code name and a logo for behavior that is basically by design?
Are you saying that it's a bad thing for Tesla to defend itself with its collected data?
Unless your product is an online store, don't code an online store.
> but there are also lots of well-solved problems that will.

Certainly when you're writing a double-linked list a third time you can estimate how long will it take you. The problem is that in real life you never solve sufficiently the same well-solved problem. Feature details, matters of integration with other pieces of the system intervene - and in practice those errors introduced by new circumstances are significant comparing to predicted time. So the practice may be sound, but it doesn't give the desired results, like predictability of required time.
> one shouldn't use it as a guaranteed safe rate

of course not - there are no certainties

> It included massive bull runs that may not be repeated

it also worked through times like the great depression; on aggregate it's amazingly resilient

> A lot of research has predicted lower real rates of return

This is a SUPER-important thing for making your own FI models!
That is certainly their idea, PWAs on Windows Store are able to access UWP APIs.
Tesla's privacy policy is worded to allow these kinds of disclosures:

https://www.tesla.com/about/legal

> Tesla may transfer and disclose information, including information that may or may not personally identify you, to third parties to comply with a legal obligation (including, but not limited to, subpoenas);...to verify or enforce our policies and procedures;...to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable; or to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of our products and services, Tesla, third parties, visitors, or the public, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
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Did you do that in an agency as well? I mean it's one thing if you are developing a product, but telling your clients "the project is finished when it's finished and we won't be able to tell you how much it will cost you until it's finished" doesn't really fly in my experience.
Probably not as much as they should be.

I wonder if anyone's written an single-click-install integration for Discord, or if it's against policy. If not, I wonder if anyone's written a client-side app that's easy to run and configure.
I arrived at a very similar spot after having spent about 10 years in tech. Many of the jobs I'd found myself in seemed to be comprised of busy work, or work that didn't actually contribute much to society as a whole. It was pretty disheartening, and I'd jump from position to position, looking for something "better".

Eventually I decided that my world was going to be of my own making, and that I didn't want to spent it unhappy. If anything was going to change, then I alone was responsible for initiating that change in my life and my perspective.

I ended up quitting my job and going to Europe, where I worked with traditional cheesemakers. I learned how to make cheese, milk and to take care of livestock. When I arrived back in NA, my wife and I moved to a more rural location, bought a small herd of livestock and began building our own dairy. For me, working with the animals, and producing these rustic, old-world styled cheeses brought a lot of fulfillment to my life that I hadn't found elsewhere.

It's now almost 10 years later and we've just expanded our operations again. Our production will likely be 4-5x what it was when we started, and we have an incredibly supportive and dedicated customer base that love our cheeses. Being able to talk with them, make them happy, and get their feedback on our cheese is one of my favourite times of the week.

The last 10 years have held some of the most challenging periods of my life. I've had to learn and master entirely new skill sets - marketing, plumbing, veterinary skills, MacGyver'ing equipment to work for just another day before we can get it fixed properly. We've also had our share of the bad times - in farming, the unexpected happens frequently, and we've teetered on the financial brink a couple times. Certain aspects of what I'm doing now have also become, "just a job" - I don't really want to scrape livestock poop in the pissing rain, but someone has to do it. (And sometimes that turns out to be someone we hire to do it for us.)

I still pick up the odd tech contract during our slow periods, though those are getting fewer and further between. Turns out that tech wages pay for things a lot more quickly than farm wages, and a 2 month contract can pay for some shiny new farm equipment much more quickly.

I often joke with my wife that our decision to strike off on our own and start our own business was either the best-worst decision or the worst-best decision in my life; I just haven't picked which one it is yet. :)

Link to some of our cheeses and ladies: https://imgur.com/a/VC2aire
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Also model A may be something like "Standard Model w/o sterile neutrinos", while model B is "Standard model w/ sterile neutrinos". My understanding is these will be supported by all the same previous evidence.

In that specific case, no, a number of existing experiments appeared to confirm the "w/o sterile neutrinos" model, so it was assumed that was correct. Just one older experiment fit the "w/ sterile neutrinos" model; that has only recently been reproduced successfully, so now that model is back on the table. But it's still possible that it's just a measurement error.

And anyway, if you want to include prior info there is a principled method of doing so: Bayes' Rule. The method described here is indirect, obfuscated, qualitative, and open to all sorts of bias. In general it seems inferior in every which way, why has Bayes' Rule been rejected for this purpose?

Good question, I don't know! I wonder if some of the LHC people commenting here can talk about the reason for sticking with Frequentist over Bayesian statistics?

I suspect this gets into some pretty deep issues around the philosophy of science. Are we looking for the "correct" theory, or just successively better approximations to reality, or what? I don't think you can easily say "the Standard Model is incorrect" -- we know it's incomplete, hence incorrect, but it also fits experimental data incredibly well, so it must be a close approximation to some level of reality at the very least.

(edit to clarify: what I mean is, I'm not sure how you set a prior confidence on "is the Standard Model correct?" in a Bayesian sense, since we already know it's partially correct and partially incorrect.)
> why would Tesla hide this type of data from their customers so intensely?

To give them the benefit of the doubt:

* Do you consider this diagnostic data to be highly personal, worth protecting heavily? (Does it include GPS?)

* Do you trust your engineers to properly verify the identity of a person before granting this potentially highly personal data?

* Does your legal department trust your engineers that much?

* Do you have the resources/desire to lay out a foundational system of getting that identity verification and granting that data?

If you answered "No" to any of those questions, you might very well want to say "We will do it if it is required of us by a court order."

While it is unideal, it's not nonsensical.
Looks like his site is a bit clobbered, there's an archive.is copy here:

http://archive.is/7i5l

You'll likely need to do an "inspect element" over the annoying AdChoices bar on the left and delete its containing div.

Back in 2000-2002 I was lucky to work with a team that leveraged XMLHttpRequest (it was an internal corporate thing for a customer so we could get away with only supporting IE) to build single page apps before much of this stuff had a name.
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looks neat. whats the terms if i wanted to use it for commercial purposes?