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The college I went to in Eastern Canada does this, I'm employed after a two year diploma based program, rather than a 4 year CS degree
This is pretty cool. Love to see a Vax chip next ;).
Am I the only one who wouldn't trust a Mustang or Challenger above ~120?
Objectively, they don't seem to be in trouble, they seem to be expanding. The stable ecosystem with documentation aimed at beginners is the product, and it's a popular one. It's not as performance-dependent as you might think.
I believe they're trying to market to the general public. If Apple stores are good at turning heads from how they are designed, then it makes sense to apply that design to their own store. It's about getting people inside.
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This reads like a political hit piece. The author uses anecdotes from a handful of people involved to predict the future and say that there won't ever be 13K employees. Based on that prediction of the future, they surmise it was "disastrous" to offer them tax incentives to bring the business to their state.

Basically, if you've ever read an anti-Trump article on CNN / WashPo / etc. trying to downplay one of his accomplishments, you've already read this article.
Why do they even need money? How long have they been in business, and why aren’t they turning a profit?
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VirtualBox creates .vdi files. Looks like there is no easy way to mount them.
Those complaints sound like CRUX issues not ReviewBoard. Looking at multiple branches is not in scope of ReviewBoard at all.
Exactly this. Conscious information processing constitutes only a tiny part of the processing within the brain. Real computational power of the brain is in the order of petaflops to exaflops 1).

On the other hand, AZ used a lot more than 1E18 calculations of training to beat human level play, so that part is also wrong. In fact, the total processing power of the 5000 TPU's used are in the order of 1E17 operations per second.

Still, since 1E17 flops is comparable (within 1-2 orders of magnitude) to the human brain's raw capacity, and AZ could reach superhuman level in GO in less than 10 hours, that means that AZ can be seen as more efficient than human brains at GO (in terms of learning rate/calculation, not necessarily per watt)

This should also not be surprising. After all, GO (like chess) is a very abstract game, far removed from the tasks that the biological brain has evolved to do well.

For tasks that the brain does well, such as pattern recognition in the environment that humans live, the human brain is still much more efficient. A human can learn to drive a car in 10's of hours, while AI's still require millions of hours of training, and they still end up inferior.

So, in the end, the title is correct (and also common knowledge for anyone following this development), even if almost all of the content in the article is way off.

Was this a high school essay?

1) http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/04/07/brain-chip/
The journey from first concept to first laps of an F1 car
Definitely check out patio11.

Maybe check this out also for better awareness of HR "power dynamics" (most arguments still apply for juniors in the current market):

https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/trouble-hiring/
As I understand it, host and guest can not see each other on the lan. So I think neither is possible.
I agree with this sentiment, but I do think that the RPi Foundation is going to have a hard time improving from their current state without breaking backwards compatibility, because they made some decisions early on that no longer make much sense today.

The big ones, in my opinion, are the write-limited, slow SD card interface, the microUSB power connector, the 1GB maximum RAM, Ethernet that shares bandwidth with USB, and ever-increasing power requirements.

I think the Pi Foundation wants to churn out more new units by increasing the CPU speed, but with the super slow SD interface and the capped-out RAM, performance hasn’t made significant improvements in a long time.

I also think it was a bad decision to not focus on open-source software with the Pi. They have been including proprietary user space applications forever (Mathematica, for instance), the GPU boots a proprietary ThreadX operating system that has DMA and complete CPU control, and the thing requires lots of binary blobs to boot. The education aspect (particularly as a low-level programming platform) would have been made more accessible without such an opaque boot process.
Chunked video over Websockets (or chunked transfer) and scaled out WebRTC are just hacks. Browsers need to support proper low latency video streaming. There's a reason Skype and Zoom use desktop clients. If you are wondering, WSAM is not the answer, you need proper access to the hardware decoders, especially on mobile devices.

We had pretty good low latency video a decade ago with Flash but of course with HTML5 you don't need Flash </sarcasm>
My theory is that, instead, the brain is a super-duper complex neural network with some differences about how the update of the weights happen :) Let me explain:

Albeit true that our brain is much slower than a modern CPU in terms of ops/s, every neuron is connected to up to 10000 other neurons[0]. And we have something around 100 billion neurons in our brains. This means that the number of synapses is between 100 and 1000 trillions.

If we assume that every synapse can be considered like a "weight" in a neural network, we have a model that is much much bigger than anything developed to date. Moreover, the topology of said neural network is not a simple stack of layers, but much more complex like a super intricated residual network.

Finally, the brain is not using backpropagation to update the mentioned weights/synapses' strength, but instead is based on how often said synapses fire.

[0]: http://www.human-memory.net/brain_neurons.html
SCP from Guest to Host
McKinsey’s three horizons model defined innovation now no longer valid
I'll be missing Google+ because of the multiple places one could duscuss topics:

- general gardening

- chilies (two different groups)

- photography

- Linux

- etc

You could follow peoples posts in those groups without havin to read what those people wrote about politics.

I've started blogging again, as write.as/eriki, and I'm researching hubzilla, mastodon and other options.

But I will be missing Google+, the layout, the streams that seemed to be made for me and not made to show more ads (I can't remember seeing a single ad on Google+ btw.)

One IT group has moved to mewe.com BTW. That site seems promising (just like WhatsApp did before Facebook bought them :-|, but I am still optimistic )

And to all Google+ haters, congrats, you won. As did Facebook as there is now one less option to choose from.
Working link : https://abcnews.go.com/US/animal-clinic-rescues-frozen-cat-s...
Totally depends on the cop and prosecutor.

The US tends to have much more lax laws than Europe when it comes to minimum punishment but reserves the right to screw people hard if it wants.

In most states if the cop doesn't like something about you they can make 20-over (which BTW is normal traffic speed on a lot of highways when they aren't clogged with traffic) a misdemeanor which can carry all sorts of penalties if the prosecutor wants to throw the book. There's also "catch-all" violations that are vaguely worded that they can nab your for even if you're doing nothing (at which point it's basically up to the court to decide WTF to do).
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Completely agree, unless it's under the pretext of launching in China?

I don't see how that happens though unless reddit abandons some of its principles
Why wouldn't you trust a car built to drive comfortably at those speeds?
The human behavioral and cultural adaptability to the environment is really impressive and it makes many psychological findings local. With technological and cultural changes some results may apply only to few generations before they go away.

Think children growing in warzone or poor and violent environment. Their behaviour as adults is often sexually more promiscuous, aggressive and their impulse control seems to be less than 'the baseline'. They show trust issues.

How much of that is just damage and disorder as psychology seems to assume, and how much is adaption to survive and procreate in an environment where lifespans are short and life is uncertain. Maybe childhood stress and stress hormones trigger survival strategies that work well in hard environment. They are maladaptive only in the culture and safety of the developed world.
Is this the Chinese government directly targeting a source of "inharmonious speech" instead of just trying to block it?
they'll hire a new CEO to take the flak, then quit in disgrace with a huge parachute payout. remarkably effective.
It might be tricky from a standards point of view, but as a user of the language, I don't think I've ever had an issue with how it handles overload resolution. Every once in a while you get an "call is ambiguous" compiler error, but I've always found the "ambiguity" to be reasonable and easy enough to fix (by making generics explicit or using an explicit cast). It's also a very minor bummer that you can't overload on return type, but that is A LOT to ask of a language.

Generally speaking, I've found C# to be a very pleasant language to work in, by far my favorite in that particular "lane" of computer languages (i.e. annoyingly object-oriented enterprise languages, like C#, Java or C++).
Reddit as an idea died with Aaron Swartz. All that is left now is a corporation.
Definitely. You could probably buy another car that would reach 150mph for the price of the overhaul alone, but in an ordinary supercar you wouldn't be the topic of a random internet thread about the fastest clocked speeds in TX. ;)
In our startup we moved away from Alembic to using plain SQL files for migrations, which (in our experience) is more robust and allows more control over the actual migration process. We wrote a simple migration manager class that loads a YAML config and a series of SQL files from a directory. Each migration is defined as two files of the form "[number]_[up/down]_[description].sql" and tied to a DB version, the YAML config specifies the name of a version table that contains the current version in the database. The manager then reads the current version from the table, compares it to the requested one and executes the necessary SQL files.

Alembic is great for many simple use cases but we found that for a production system it often isn't easy to maintain compatibility between two different DB systems like Postgres and SQLite anyway, as that would mean either adding a lot of feature switches and custom logic to our code or not using most of the interesting native Postgres features. Therefore Alembic offered very little benefit over a plain SQL file in terms of functionality and in addition made it harder to generate correct migrations in some case, as the auto-generation process does not work very reliably in our experience and some things are buggy/inconsistent, e.g. the creation and deletion of enum types. In addition, we found that it's much easier to write complex migration logic (e.g. create a new column and populate it with data from a complex SELECT statement) directly in SQL. Last point is that we can of course execute these migrations using any programming language / tool we like (for example we also wrote a small Go library to handle the migrations), which is a nice bonus.

That said we also heavily use SQLAlchemy in our Python backend code and like it a lot.
That depends on how you configure the networking for the VM.
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As I understand it, it's hard to monetize shady websites using anything except shady things like adware. Look at 4chan and it's perpetual struggle to get advertisers.
> Surely this is down to the individual employer?

In theory, yes, In practice, nearly every single US employer has this somewhere in their contract automatically by default -- the only way a company doesn't, is if someone explicitly got it removed.

Also, in much of the US, the clause is enforceable, so companies have basically no incentive to remove it.
And what about those `reselect` wires?
And that `connect` and `mapStoP / mapDtoP` stuff?
Doesn't that "bother" you? Or you just mentally "pack" it into the verbosity basket and ignore it?
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Based on commercial te in this thread, clearly these dealerships did something shady or bought a list from someone shady. If Facebook was concerned about user experience and ad quality, they would detect cases like this and block those advertisers.
Try getting a publisher to accept a book about a future world that's somewhat cleaner and more convenient than today. I can't wait for the movie version.
It's like you need to grab Plato for a search and rescue mission to the cave.
What’s the lie exactly?
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They should have area for group meeting area to host regular meetup / learning tutorial sessions for hobbyist and students.

Also a lab/work bench where anyone can plug and play different components together and experiments, measure voltage, signals with an USB oscilloscopes (make with PI? ).

Volunteers can come in regularly to demo, share info, organizer classes.

Instead of just shelf full of the products - it should also have area where it run a lot of the interesting projects found on the web AI object recognition with YOLO2|3, PI self driving car, etc
Count your blessings, every US and Canadian work contract (hell, even some contracting/consulting agreements) I have ever seen or signed had a no-compete and a clause prohibiting you from doing anything else than working for your employer.
I'm not sure that China is significantly more prone to censorship than Reddit, if at all.
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> I didn't have any interest in history in HS.

I blame your teachers.
entity created in a 'culture'?
its not the culture that bans free speech, its the government's policy.
does that mean every american company agreed with USA's war on drugs or democracy in oily deserts policies?
Yeah I work in the office next to them, same floor same building. And previously worked for Arm. And I have a friend working at Qualcomm just down the road from me, too. Quite a small little world here :)
> But they have already lost their performance edge by 1990.

Sure, but they had a robust community of gaming and software developers on their side. Hence why they should have pivoted to the lower-power niche of the market - that's precisely where their pre-existing community could still be a decisive factor. High-end systems (x86, PPC) were a whole other ballgame, even in the mid-to-late 1990s. The console space is even more proof of this - mass-market consoles in the 1990s and to some extent the early-2000s were a lot closer to the 3DO than to anything based on x86 or PPC.

Also, nitpicking but Doom itself was "originated" on the NeXT, not on x86-- and the NeXT architecture was quite comparable to Amiga both technically and in its focus on the multimedia space. If anything, it makes a better case for Amiga having lost their technical "edge" at some point.
It wouldn't be the first time companies abandon or reinterpret their principles.
But you can't target demos for users not in your contacts? That makes no sense.
I’m not sure if you’re operating under a shocking lack of perspective of what “censorship” means or a shocking amount of ignorance of what the PRC gets up to.
Too short text for that topic. Container world certainly needs a lot of storage problems resolved. So, why do containers not need this? What part of it do containers not need?
$600 is $200+ more expensive than dozens of Airbnbs you can look up right now. Just sounds like you just weren't trying to live frugally.
I'm pretty sure youtube-dl just invokes ffmpeg in the background to extract the audio for you; all it means is that you don't need to remember the exact ffmpeg commands.
> It’s quite surprising that 35% of Python users don’t use any testing frameworks and are presumably not testing their code.

That's some olympic-level conclusion jumping there
Grakn (Grakn.ai) offers a strongly typed graph database that is open source :) (disclaimer: work there)
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What's your basis for claiming that Chinese "culture" supports suppressing information? Last I checked it was the Chinese government (a minority) in order to consolidate power.

Claiming an entire people's culture is based on the actions of their government is flawed. What if we applied the same standard to the US and other Western Nations?

PS - Does anyone else find the undercurrent of subtle anti-Chinese racism on this site disturbing? I'm not even from East Asia and I find it deeply distasteful. If you posted some of this stuff about any other nation (or race), it would be [Flag] dead in minutes.
We agree on the fact it's a hard problem and i don't label react as a bad product. Plus, it's a necessary one given the way the internet is evolving.
If I remember correctly, I believe the JetBrains / IntelliJ / PyCharm brands of the sponsor were very visible when taking the survey.

That might have influenced significantly in the selection of the Python users taking the survey: why answer a survey setup and sponsored by a private company you are not really familiar with and that you don't necessarily trust as a result?

There is also a second selection bias: the people who follow the PSF and the official python.org communication channels are probably nerdier than the average Python programmer. This is reflected in the OS statistics. The survey results suggests than 53% of the Python users do not use Windows at all.

On the scikit-learn online documentation, after removing the mobile traffic we have: Windows at 61%, macOS at 23% and Linux at 15%.

On stackoverflow, the primary OS statistics are: Windows at 47%, macOS at 27% and Linux at 23%.
You open a shell on the host, and then `scp guest:path/to/file target/path/to/file`.
You're saying that you are able to return stuff more easily than in the US? Or that there is more of a customer support culture in Europe? I have lived in the US and currently live in Germany, this is demonstrably false.
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That makes perfect sense. The published studies are a sample of 'study-space' and that have outlier significance. Replicate published studies and their significance likely returns to the norm.

Journals are filters to cherry-pick 'study space'. By the way they're constituted, they publish new studies that have overstated significance.
Exactly. Male real wages have been stagnant since 1973, and that's without considering the situation around health care, where costs have risen much faster than general inflation. Counting health care, male real wages have declined noticeably since 1973. Meanwhile, returns to capital have grown dramatically. This is precisely what you would expect in a weak economy, where the workers necessarily lack bargaining power. In a strong economy, the percentage of national income going to workers would increase, as it did from 1935 to 1973.
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https://xkcd.com/1491/
That was down to management though. If they'd been bought by someone with more interest in what engineering were prototyping, I think it could have been saved, even that late. Even prospered with an engineering dept that had a budget.

Dave Haynie has written extensively on the C= suicide (as he describes it), I think there's even a few posts on Quora. Lots that might have kept the edge were started, even prototyped and announced to developers.

Course once developers start migrating away, it takes far more effort to get them back, if at all.
The scariest thing I noticed was the 166mph (15 year old) Porsche was apparently in heavy traffic?!

Also a bit concerned that lists like this gaining publicity may cause the problem to get worse. Some may see last year's "high score" as a challenge to top.
Weeelllll... isn't that what the Culture series by Iain Banks was about - a vision of post-scarcity utopian future?

As for movie version, I'd wager Star Trek, at least up to Discovery, was similarly about a vision of a better society (to the point that, as I discussed with few of my friends and colleagues, for a lot of us it has subconsciously shaped our political thinking: "Is this law / action on the path to Star Trek future, or not":)
A healthy chunk of that is probably folks who work somewhere where you can't/don't have time to write tests, and keep up with it on their own so they are current when job searching.
That's why starred-review sites have mostly reverted to thumbs-up and thumbs-down. The biggest trial of Likert items in history has spoken.
Yeah that's what I've noticed, too. In Cambridge we have a Tesla store in the main shopping centre, which is just a Model S and a Model X on display in a small room with some people that talk about it. I don't think they actually make any sales there, it's just for marketing purposes.
Are Mac revenues so largely dependent on developer habits, or are they maybe more a function of consumer habits?
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To be fair, is this not at least partially the fault of the employer for not ensuring that they had adequate cover?
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While I agree wholeheartedly about the fact that USB is a disaster for interconnect, CAN is a mixed bag.

The fact that CAN systems are limited to 8 bytes a transaction is a blessing and a curse. If everything can fit in 8 bytes--and generally broadcast--then CAN is awesome. It is fully differential. It has a really good autobaud algorithm. It has CRC and bit stuffing to avoid too many 1's or 0's in a row. It automatically retries under most conditions. It has a specified arbitration algorithm if two devices attempt to grab the bus.

If, however, you start needing bidirectional transactions or transactions larger than 8 bytes, it's not so good. And, one of the big problems today is that secure channel setup almost always requires bidirectional exchanges larger than 8 bytes.

Under most conditions, nowadays, you should probably reach for Ethernet, first. There is a reason why practically every standard (Ethernet, HDMI, USB-C, Displayport, Thunderbolt) has converged to 4 matched pairs for data transmission.

The single condition nowadays that would drive you towards CAN is truly deterministic, hard real-time timing.
Anyone else think the inference from "not using automated testing frameworks" to "are not testing their code" is a little unwarranted?
A government is a reflection of the people it is comprised of.

Whataboutism is not a valid means of argument.

Questioning the actions of a group of people is not racism.
I grew up in Carson county. 166mph isn't ever really safe, but the Texas Panhandle is flat (I mean seriously flat) and I40 is a pretty well kept highway. If your going to go 166 on public roads, that might be one of the best places to do it..

I will add 10:22am there would've been quite a bit of traffic (relatively speaking) and highway patrol loves hanging out on I40 (as it's a major drug corridor).
IIRC 8088 mph has to go to great lengths for the timings to line up, using cycle counting instead of interrupts for timing, among other hacks/shortcuts. I'm guessing that typical 386/486 CPUs were powerful enough to not need this level of optimization.
166mph is ~267km/h for the international guests.
Wouldnt/shouldnt there be concerns about political influence and meddling? Russia and china are both always finding ways to do so.

Reddit influences the urban population hugely.