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> I wish AWS would release a new generation of "i" instances, with the same large amount of local storage as i3

I figure they can't. [Economically, I mean.]

I always figured the "local per-instance storage" on most instance-types was actually not literally local, but rather a set of disks allocated from a per-rack iSCSI disk server. (The host "wastage" if this wasn't true would be quite large.) The "i" instance-type hosts—especially the ones for the large instance-types—were likely just making a claim for the entire disk-server of their rack (leaving the rest of the rack to be schedulable only by instances that need no instance disks.)

Since iSCSI and "bare metal" don't go together, on Nitro, you'd actually need to build instances with real physical reserved disk pools that the hardware can see. That may even mean putting the disks inside the computer (shock horror!) and thus needing complex 2Us that need to be "recycled" (= having the still-good stuff fished out of them when they die) and may need to be opened up by ops folks for more than one reason, rather than just having "throwaway" compute blades + equally "throwaway" hotswap disk pools. In such a 1990s-reminiscent setup, i3.metal seems like a sensible upper bound for how big such an instance could get, economically.

Maybe you don't need the 2Us; maybe you can build the disk pool as something like a disk server (i.e. a dedicated PCIe backplane leading to RAID-controller daughterboards? something something Thunderbolt?) That'd lower the TCO of these host machines a bit, but it'd still be questionable how much usage such instances would get—and when they're unscheduled, despite the disks being a separate physical box, those disks would still be unavailable for any other instance to use, even ones scheduled to machines in the same rack.

(Or maybe they could get really fancy, and have a disk-server rack that can present itself as a RAID controller over PCIe, such that, most of the time, it can just be a disk server, but when it gets reserved by a Nitro-i-instance, it can switch off its Infiniband cards and switch on its PCIe client interface cards, and moonlight as a RAID array. If AWS does get bigger i-type instances, I'd wager that this is what they would have built to achieve that. That or custom RAID controller cards that present Infiniband-rDMA targets as if they were local NVMe devices, and don't allow host configuration, only BMC configuration.)
I don't think there is a plan to kill Huawei. Look at what happened to ZTE, they were not killed.

Also, look at what Huawei has done in the past to Nortel, Cisco and Motorola. If anything, Huawei's past is coming back to haunt them. It seems their leadership have sought growth and profits at any cost, whether legal or not.

Whatever happens, I don't think Huawei will disappear. Perhaps their leadership will learn from this and they'll be more sensible with their actions in future.
I also imagine it to be real.
To be fair, some other things also happened at Chernobyl.
This feels like something Rand Paul would dig up. It's pretty much the ultimate example of stupid, meaningless regulation. Gotta protect that crucial onion market. Definitely an enumerated power.
I think if the public knew what was really going on they would be much more concerned about Huawei. Western companies are getting bombarded by cyber attacks from china and the companies hide these breaches because it would be bad PR for it to get out. A network device isn’t a commodity, the manufactures can place backdoors into them that are almost invisible. I don’t think the WTO is equipped to handle this. They can’t even handle the IP theft lawsuits against china.
Computers are a procedure, not an object. You can build a computer using people, paper, pencils, and a list of procedures to follow when particular instructions are given.

Computer science and the construction of computers are virtually the same thing. Making a computer was never a challenge; making a faster computer always is.
it's already deployed. Ring has the best facial recognition team is Eastern Europe. it's shitty software but amazon's working on integrating rekognition with ring's own tech. over 80 police departments currently use the product to track 'suspicious people' as flagged by users or their AI.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkgpw/smart-door...
GitHub freedom of speech tested: eeeeeeeeeee repo is most trending on GitHub
Link: https://github.com/trending?since=weekly

E repo was shut down by GitHub on account of spam. Several angry developers fought back by making it an even larger repo and are currently trending in order to send a message to GitHub.

Is this a violation of freedom of speech?
Right. The author seems to think she has the right to find work in "her chosen field."

Anyway, I think Slate's strategy is working fine. The outrageousness of this piece is what compelled me to share it here.
This feels incredibly broken to me. The 'how' should not change often, because it enforces rapid change on anything which depends upon it.

Any system inevitably acquires dependencies. Maybe it's fine to break those dependencies if you're building some public website where you can always have the latest version of the code running, but if you've got customers who depend on having a stable build which was initially branched three years ago and you still need to build, run and test that, you damn well better have a consistent and stable mechanism for dealing with that codebase which spans multiple years. Your ops and QA people will hate you otherwise.

Our own approach has been to pull out the coarse-grained operations and have an 'environment' script which examines the version it's working with in order to spit out relevant details. The 'porcelain' scripts are never allowed to change their API in any breaking fashion, and their behaviour is adapted based on the environment's output.
Uyghurs are more or less half East Asian, half West Eurasian though ethnogenesis is long enough ago that they’re fairly thoroughly mixed. Naively you might expect they’d be half as likely to match Han. It’s probably lower than half but I’d be very surprised if it was less than a quarter. There are six loci that are important for transplant rejection or acceptance though there are hundreds of alleles for those loci[1]. And there are almost certainly more Uyghurs in “re-education camps” than any other group at the moment. If there are ten times as many Uyghurs imprisoned as everyone else combined but they’re 1/4 as likely to be a good transplant match there’ll be 2.5 times as many Uyghurs harvested.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_compl...
一个 Demo 入门 Flutter-CocoaChina_让移动开发更简单
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668536
This one will sort itself out. Once sea levels rise high enough, the mine will be submerged and the fire will go out.
> I think it would have ended there. But some grumpy programmer in NYC of course decided to reply "People. Stop replying-all!" One would think being a programmer he'd be smart enough to reply to just the people who had unintentionally spammed the whole company. But no. He spammed the whole company.

It's probably because he felt that he was in a position of expertise and authority that he tried to pre-empt the problem by telling everyone not to reply to the list. One last message to all, then the problem would be definitively solved, or so the logic would go.
South Korea is a good example maybe of a country that was happy to become technologically advanced and wealthy without trying to dominate its neighbors, and who was willing to buy into international systems of rule and trade.
There are more transplant operations in China than are consistent with rates of organ donation. Far, far more. What’s your alternative explanation?
Having also lived in the USA all my life, several rounds of checking in if they can get anything else, refill drinks, and/or clear plates are also common, though not universal (and better—read, roughly, more expensive—establishments will do much of that without asking and so interrupt less for the same end result.)
Link: https://github.com/trending?since=weekly
In this particular case, you could also just use the equivalent units of c-msec.
How about "Which Side Are You On?" by Florence Reece? Both Pete Seeger and Billy Bragg have great renditions.
C# was the first language after Visual Basic 6 that I learned the most seriously, and after .NET Core I got the most excited about C#. I love that I don't have to reach to Java anymore to go cross platform, or wonder if Mono will support my .NET project or not. In fact, thanks to .NET Core they made .NET Standard so I know if and how my project will run on a modern version of Mono.

I also love that people are doing write ups about the source of .NET Core and it's internals.
To be honest I would be very interested on web-applications that connect to Gitlab services
Biologists call this "honest signaling." Cryptocurrency advocates call it "proof of work." Essentially wasting resources to prove that you can.
The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: GoPro Hero
That could work =).
I did exactly the same with the loop and net send when I was 13-14 years old. The school was connected to the city's network somehow so the IT department was not very happy. They figured out it was me but were nice enough to just say "if you ever want to test something like that again, just check with us first" and I got an internship with them the following year. I'm very grateful for their gentle and pedagogical approach.
I really like Canned Heat's Woodstock version of 'A Change is Gonna Come'. It's been covered by a variety of amazing musicians though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3doBiU6nN0k
I'd be curious as to any correlation with sugar and/or refined oil intake.
Senior author here, I'm happy to answer any questions.

We just released source code:
https://github.com/rtqichen/torchdiffeq .
This includes PyTorch implementations of adaptive ODE solvers that can be differentiated through automatically. So you can mix and match these ODE solvers with any other differentiable model component.

There's already been a bit of follow-up work, turning Continuous Normalizing Flows into a practical generative density model:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01367

And now we're mainly working on 1) Regularizing ODE nets to be faster to solve and 2) getting the time-series model to scale up and extend it to stochastic differential equations.
We have some cheap furniture on the front porch which they can hide the package behind which they usually do.
Can't find a Android download link
The N train was the "3am Disney Sing-a-Long" after the bar on my friend's ride home to Queens.
Once you've got an "in" into knowledge work (particularly finance or engineering), you can use large portions of your day job for learning things. Basically 100% of my job (startup founder) consists of learning new things, as did about 80% of my previous job (Google search engineer), as did nearly 100% of the job before that (startup founder). I did have to do some grunt work at my first couple of junior software engineering positions, but still managed to save 40-50% of my time on the job for learning new stuff.

I learned ElasticSearch for my current startup, for example, but I didn't deliberately set out to learn ElasticSearch. Rather, I set out to index all the forum sites on the Internet, and it was the best tool available for that, so I just learned enough of it to go build my index. How much time did it take? Probably a lot more than 30 hours, and I still wouldn't say I really "know" ElasticSearch, but I know enough that I can run load a big corpus in, run search queries, and get useful data back out. That's pretty much all you can expect given that ElasticSearch is a moving target - hell, 5.0 had barely come out when I started learning it and it's on 6.5 now.

There are 2000 hours in a typical work-year, and 8760 in a calendar year. That's a lot of time. 30 hours is a drop in the bucket for it - 10 hours over 3 weeks will get you there. I'd just give up on learning everything (you will never succeed in that, new knowledge is being generated faster than you can learn it) and focus on continually learning within domains that you care about.
> Every dollar-denominated investment incurs inflation risk, including any sort of cash account like a dollar saving/checking account.

You're right, inflation risk isn't particularly relevant when comparing treasuries vs checking accounts or cash. Those are all exposed.

> For example, while they're growing, every withdrawal will be matched by a great amount of deposits. So they'll always have the cash in hand to satisfy withdrawals.

Ha, if we can just assume they'll have money pouring in faster than withdrawals, even when markets experience turmoil, there's very little to worry about! I don't know exactly how sure we can be about that - or at least, for how long.

> Absolutely. I would keep an emergency fund in an FDIC-insured bank account somewhere else.

Wise, and it sounds like we're on the same page. All I was arguing is that there is some risk here that's being glossed over by selling it as just-another-checking-account-except-you-get-more-money. Maybe small/unlikely risk, but you're not getting 3% for free. You can always just go buy some IEF or TLT or actual treasuries too.
Wikipedia claims they account for 3% of CO2 emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_seam_fire (at the end of the intro paragraphs)
I don't think you can prove they have a minimal distance between them, just maximal. Thus, any data stream may have always came from a single country, you can only impose an upper limit.
I recommend you check out this book:

“How to Read and Do Proofs: An Introduction to Mathematical Thought Processes”

https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Proofs-Introduction-Mathemat...
Being in a relationship doesn’t mean you have to pay attention to each other constantly. Some people read books/magazines/papers before sleeping, and some others do stuff on their phones.
In my opinion (as a non Haskell user) pointfree style is less readable than the using the normal lambda syntax. In the latter I see at least for each step the amount of input parameters for a function and how they are used. With pointfree style I would need to look up which parameters a function consumes, and what the previous step actually delivers. Type systems at least make this safe, but I still think readability suffers, and the only gain is a bit smaller code.
It wasn't in 2018, but a couple or three years ago, I bought a brand new unlocked Android smartphone for well under $100, and it did everything I formerly used my Nexus for.
We built our own because it was about the same work to use an api as it was to just build a canvas solution. Inline pdf signatures are a little harder but we will be building that next. The first build literally took a few days. I understand paying $50 a month for docusign but it's baffling why anyone would pay $50k or $100k per year for what is essentially a feature.
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I feel like the usual suspect for “algorithm” is the code that decides exactly how to shuffle your non-chronological social media timeline around, or the code that decides what to queue up to autoplay when the video you’re watching ends.
Their treasury approach is probably very risky.

Usually you want to build a tractor (recurring deposits to a reference rate) at the 7 or 10 year treasury, to ensure that you have a stable supply of available deposits, and a short term rate too to handle "hot money".

You make money on the spread.

I really don't see how they are funding their interest rate.
Contrary to popular belief, other people have rich inner lives, not just you. I know it's gratifying to think you're in an exclusive club of smart people, but you're really fooling yourself.

You're like a half-step away from the "NPC" meme.
What I'm excited for in Visual Studio 2019
Poor now, wealthier once they have brand loyalty.
Oh you can, even in America. The best service I ever encountered was at Jean George's in NYC.

It WAS a Michelan-Starred restaurant and our two-person bill was $800 with a $200 tip!
To be entirely honest, I feel sorry for anybody who can't leave the socio-politics out of music. I mean, for me personally, music transcends all those things. Yes, context is important if you want to understand why a song/piece was written the way it was written. But beyond that, it is a little naive to try to bring cultural appropriation into music.

Especially as someone from a country whose traditional music isn't exactly known at all, I would be more than happy to have anybody "culturally appropriate" it.
Yeah that's using opacity, e.g. there's an image of a blue horizon that gets tinted red.
Alzheimer's is starting to be referred to as Type 3 diabetes that the correlation between metabolic syndrome and the disease is incredibly high.

I wonder how much this has to do with the relative uptake of carbohydrate sources and in particular refined sugars (namely fructose) in the typical diet. It seems the more that we learn, the less good refined vegetable oils and the level of fructose intake in people's diets is. I'm not convinced the amount of refined grains people eat is particularly good either.

However is seems that sugar (fructose specifically) and refined oils (linoleic acid specifically) are particularly bad in the increased quantities since the early 1900's.
A Gatsby Source Plugin for Pulling Data from Dropbox Paper
As much of a musical elitist I am, I still find this list to be fairly balanced. Why do you not like it?
If the SPIC fails to cover the cash balances to the coverage limits, the financial world as we know it stopped existing.

This are cash balances, not money market funds or any other funds.
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https://www.facebook.com/theIfIWere/videos/2354655354820851/?modal=admin_todo_tour
Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses
It's not gratifying, it's depressing. And I didn't say anything about "just me" (I meant a portion of people and I don't know how big or small it is) and also didn't say I myself had always been consciously self-aware nor that I easily manage to maintain self-awareness all the time. In fact I wish somebody would explain this idea to me a decade ago so I would wake up and develop the skill&habit of conscious presence and critical perception of subjective reality earlier, my life could have made much more sense and less struggle for me and whoever I've interacted with then.
How high-resolution photography is changing the way we look at art
All the new class shit is a hack by people determined to turn JS into C#.

And that's not a bad thing. As long as JS is effectively mandatory for front end development, it should be approachable and familiar to the widest possible developer audience. I'm hoping for a WebAssembly future where you'll be able to pick your favorite esoteric functional language and have it transparently run in the browser. But until then, it's better for JS to look like C# than Haskell.
The Bosch Project
On the flip side protein in particular is very sating, and protein + fat (in the absence of carbs) has a much lower insulin response. So a higher fat diet with protein sources will have an increased satiety.

Calories do count, but hormonal response is a primary factor.

Edit: it's worth noting that a certain amount of fat is absolutely needed and is sating in and of itself.

Personally, I don't think the amount of fat you get (in terms of calories) should be lower than the amount of protein you consume, and should come from better sources excluding refined vegetable oils (which are everywhere). My opinion on this is somewhat based on the relative amounts of fat to protein in sources where you get protein naturally. I also feel that not getting enough fat is a big factor in gallbladder dysfunction and stones.

A lot of my opinions are just from common sense, observation and a lot of reading on relatively recent diet and nutrition shifts, and feel levels/extremes can vary based on general health, metabolic syndrome indicators and outright diabetic progression.
I'd ask those who specifically work with animal welfare issues about the problems they face, why those problems exist, etc.

Then you can hopefully discern an area where your expertise could lend a helping hand.
It's very hard to unionize. I ran a pizzaria for about 10 years and was the owner operator it for another 5. The employment length of tipped employees typically is around 6 months. With people coming and going so quickly, it's hard to develop the bonds that allow such organizing.
Safeway has had their own grocery delivery for years. Why would they need Instacart?
They don't necessarily have a living wage and many hold down more than one job. But in general yes they have state provided health services.
It's quite easy to accomplish this by simply rsync'ing to a btrfs volume, and then taking a snapshot.

Furthermore, you can take advantage of rsync ignore files to exclude things you don't want to back up.
Interesting project!

Is there a writeup on how you architected the project to share 99% of code? I'd be really interested in reading that! From a skim it looks like React + React Native.
Sorry, I misread original comment I was replying to. I don't think we're at disagreement after re-reading the first part.
My wording was a bit harsh. The git repository hasn't been very active, but not dead.

The C extension is mentioned in that video as a priority but it sounds like some of the other priorities are being worked on (maybe there's funding for spectre mitigation work). Anyone who wants to use BOOM outside of research is going to need the C option because that's the standard for OSes. They said it's nice not to have to maintain a fork of Rocket Chip, the same will be true of not needing to recompile everything without C.

It is more active than I thought.
https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2018/03/06/on-the-semiotics-o...

> term “Judeo-Christian” was coherent, useful, and defensible. In general, I take a very skeptical view of the term, because I think it misleads the public as to the nature of some important facts and dynamics in the history of the West.

Not the OP. The term Judaeo-Christian is dumb because it implies some kind of equality in the contribution of Jewish and Christian thought on morality and law in shaping the modern world and the world views of those living in Western society. It’s an American idea, a product of the post WWII consensus where the major religious traditions in the US had been operationally been Pritestantised[1]. In reality the contribution of specifically Jewish law or philosophy on the West rounds to zero. It’s certainly no more important than the Muslim contribution and few people talk about Abrahamic morality. Maimonides and Ibn Sina both made contributions to philosophy that are foundational, and situated from their culture. While many, many Jews have contributed to Western culture the fact that they are Jewish has no real impact on that influence. Spinoza’s philosophy shows vast intellect and voracious reading but Jewishness? Not so much.

[1]http://www.gnxp.com/new/2009/08/29/we-are-all-protestants-no...

For the book length treatment read Protestant Catholic Jew, Will Herberg

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo36...
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Your explanation reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/_Qq6dQwLh1s
I'd add a manual tiling window manager, Emacs, Firefox (with Tridactyl) and a terminal.

My WM of choice is StumpWM (with XMonad-like shortcuts on Super) and my terminal of choice is simply xterm running Bash.

This setup is incredibly minimal and efficient in all respects.
I don't think this is a violation of any fundamental rights. They are spamming and therefore they were blocked. I don't really see the argument against Github wanting to maintain order.
Hey there, I started this slack channel as an attempt at a little community where we share goals, progress and hold each other accountable. In my experience, having like-minded people along for the ride always helped me tremendously.
What's this have to do with potentially self-aware fish? Did I miss something in the article?