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Seems to me like it would be a good idea to have a tool (superoptimiser?) that can take your simple code and rewrite it with intrinsics, which you then check into source control. So you have a doFooGeneric and have the tool generate doFooSSE, doFooSSE4, doFooAVX2, doFooNEON and select one at runtime (like Intel's compiler does) or at compile time. Since you'll only run the tool infrequently, it can spend a lot of time trying to find the best vectorisation.
Cmd-Shift-/ triggers menubar search too, which lets you just type the name of the menu entry you want and hit enter.
Maybe not quite what you have in mind, but I have tried saving trained Keras models, loading them with Racket (a modern Scheme language), and implemented the required runtime. My idea was to encapsulate trained networks like ‘functions’ for use in other languages.
A poor choice of names imho. When I see "magic lantern" on HN I think of something totally different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software)

"Magic Lantern is keystroke logging software developed by the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Magic Lantern was first reported in a column by Bob Sullivan of MSNBC on 20 November 2001[1] and by Ted Bridis of the Associated Press.[2]"
Yes, this is a serious underappreciated problem. Before we had fossil fuels we were entirely dependent on inefficient biomass for comfort, survival and transport.

And the production of coal from all but the shallowest mines requires pumps. One of the first uses of steam engines was ... pumping out coal mines.
Americans do both. I love homesteading, hunting, fishing, outdoors cooking and outdoors eating videos.
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I’ve never seen our intrepid free speech crusaders bring up Mr. Salaita.
> the alternative is substantially worse

There’re other alternatives than Windows. I’ve been using Linux near-exclusively on my personal machines for almost two decades now, and I’m quite happy with it. Then there are the BSDs.
You don't have to "dick around" with CSS isolation problems with web-components, it just works. React is where you are dicking around.
I'd be stoked if you did, It would be interesting to see how the program would look in Rust.
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I had a situation like that years ago. I stuck around long enough to build a very comfortable cushion, quit, and then spent the better part of a year afterwards being very picky about jobs and eventually landing the most rewarding, most purpose-filled job I ever had.

Honestly, it's a luxury very few people ever get in their lifetime: having enough experience and enough of a financial cushion to really connect with their sense of purpose without worrying about daily expenses. If this job gives you that, I'd highly recommend taking advantage of it if you can.

On the other end of the spectrum, staying at a job like that will eventually whittle away at your sense of purpose as you mentioned, and what's the point of having all that cash if you spend most of your waking hours feeling useless? Not to mention how quickly your skillset will become stale if you lose your desire to improve. At least that's how I looked at it :)
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Given that phones comes with FaceID for cheap 3D scanning, and the level of object recognition that comes with deep neural networks these days, I'm curious what major obstacles remain?

Surely pads on robot fingers can ensure soft and distributed enough pressure? Is it something to do with holding the stem with one robot grip while pulling the strawberry? Is it pulling apart parts of the plant systematically to find the strawberries in the first place? Or the fact that the plant isn't rigid like a tree, but that the location of the strawberries depends on how it's being held or pulled apart in the first place?

Also curious what the break-even point is, where even if it collects less strawberries than people do, it still winds up being cheaper.

Kind of bummed the article doesn't go any details at all except for avoiding the half-eaten ones.

I picked strawberries as a kid (we'd go to the local orchard) and it was so much fun, but I can't really remember the mechanics of it.
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Telling people with anxiety or depression to "relax" or "just be happy" is pretty insulting.

A person with asthma or a broken leg is usually not told to just breathe or just go for a walk.
I just use Calibre for organizing and editing metadata. To read i just use whatever epub or pdf reader. For me , Calibre does everything I need. Every book organized by group, then author. Every book with its book cover. If it doesn't have one Calibre can generate for me etc. And on top of it all, Calibre generates a neat folder structured with everything properly named. When you have hundreds of books it is a must.
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From the article: "Issues with the way the new chip synchronizes timing causes dropouts and glitches in the audio stream. (It seems basically all USB 2.0 audio interfaces will be impacted. This of course unfortunately leads users to blame their interface manufacturer, but the fault lies with Apple.)"

As someone who works with a lot of pro audio gear on the Mac, I can say that it's hard to describe what a show stopper this is. Glitches and dropouts are a catastrophic problem for almost anything involving sound, and they're right: If you're having those kinds of problems, you run immediately to the interface manufacturer.

Still, I'm not sure many people using pro-grade audio interfaces (mine cost almost as much as the computer itself) are still using the USB 2.0 bus. Thunderbolt has been pretty enthusiastically embraced by the industry.
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Honest question, is this a common use case for regular users? To get a book by publisher and date? I have no idea who published most of my books, let alone the date.
I'm curious about your semantic analysis process. Do you employ a particular threshold for neutrality, or does the team provide input?

No doubt neutral reporting is advantageous; personally I would find it helpful to also see both a highly positive and negative take. Coming at a topic from both high and low may, imho, improve accuracy of comprehension.
I think it was explicitly designed as an "ML Language" from the ground up already. Do you mean packages like Flux and KNet?
Business focused and reasonable price usually don't go together.

Anyway, you had Blackberry which was well regarded in the business world. But they are losing to Apple and Android, and now a Blackberry is just another Android smartphone. They still provide physical keyboards though.

On the consumer side, you had Windows Phone that tried to compete with Android. It was actually a nice OS, coming from a companies that did smartphones before Apple, and with one of the best regarded manufacturers at the time (Nokia) on their side. It didn't work.

The other alternatives include the Samsung backed Tizen, and now Sailfish OS.

All that to say that we had some attractive alternatives, backed by major players, and yet, no one wants to leave iOS and Android, even when provided with a compatibility layer.
This blog post is utterly overwhelming.

“Become as efficient as I am – just follow these 100 easy steps!”
Of course they are just like religion, law, right and wrong and on and on. You can tell what is real, and what is all in Sapiens' heads - ask your dog. They know what real is.
Only new accounts, one of them strongly promoting a new product.. seems fishy.
The internet depends on politics and the military too. Don't be fooled.
Julia is a very nice language. Still, I would not use it for a large project with many developers: similar situation as Python.
"After decades of research and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, a breakthrough in fusion reactors is made thanks to a youtube video of a grape in a microwave."
It seems like people are comparing current Apple products with a mythology of Apple products that never actually existed -- an invented fiction where in the past the hardware and software was the height of perfection.

Every Apple device and software product ever has had a number of issues, many significant. As you mentioned, however, the competitors hardly do better -- the litany of absolutely devastating faults with Dell devices I've experienced (paramount being that they never lasted more than a small fraction of the promised battery life) makes Apple look untouchable.

Apple should do better. For one MBPs should have something better than a cheesy 1 year warranty, especially given the fears about keyboards et al -- it essentially forces an AppleCare+ purchase. But the claims that this is a deadly direction seem dubious.
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This sounds like a great use case for AWS -- as cheap insurance. Just setup a VPC and VPN and if you have hardware fail just spin up an instance in AWS until you can replace your physical hardware. Pay $40/mo or so to keep the VPN active.
AFAIK it was designed for long running processes, not for quick start up time. On the other hand, I don't find it that slow for experimentation on the REPL.
Which mbpro are you referring to on the GPU upgrade? Ive not been keeping up. I will add that the T2 chip seems to be a solution looking to create a problem. I had a lot of grief with my iMac Pro and the T2 chip causing kernel panics. I had to re install Mac OS and that seemed to resolve it for the most part. I use my imac pro for audio so Im thankful I have a thunderbolt interface. If I had spent that 5k for a space grey paperweight I think I would be pretty furious.
Can someone explain to me why anyone needs this? I once had to try to use it with some weird Intel SOC but I gave up. So...Real question.
I'm sure if there is no data from Google they get it from the cell provides, or they _also_ get it from cell providers, but Google is definitely going to have much richer and detailed information on an individual -- if they have it turned on.

I bet in 7/10 cases they do.
How does the science on this compare to the science which got us the 40 hour work week? There seems to be a lot of anecdotes in the article.

I'm not sure I could gauge my productivity well from one day to the next. There's too many variables. There's other people, luck, different issues, strengths, weaknesses, shrimp gumbo, BBQ shrimp, shrimp soup...

I do know I give it my all during the week and I crash into the weekend. It's invigorating and exhausting at the same time. Getting over a rough week seems to take as long as getting over a bad hangover. Two days for sure, and sometimes I need a third.
I felt the same way. I actually used the similar words to describe my office workplace "nothing real happens here". I quit though and thank god, it was miserable. You're absolutely right that people aren't meant to sit and stare at screens all day.
Rest in peace. Hopefully the Republic of China can manage to resist them.
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There have been many Google threads on HN where people complain about irrelevant results lately. I've made it a habit to always browse through the first 100 results or so because the first 10 just aren't good enough anymore.

Here's one particular Google SERP that just blows my mind:

https://www.google.de/search?q=500+Euro+Kredit+Sofort+Aufs+Konto&start=90

https://imgur.com/a/Djtjlt4

(It's a German search for "500 euro instant cash". On page 10 there are results about recipes, motorcycles, a chess online game, as well as sports and music news. Not a single loan related site.)
Since when was studying a 'nostalgic fantasy'?

In the UK, libraries are something like social centres: unemployed people go there to read; retired people read the daily papers; people without the internet at home come to use the computers; children come after school until their parents finish work.

It's important that there are public spaces like that. It's a lifeline for some people.

But most public libraries in the UK are, for those exact reasons, very poor places to study.
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Being stuck in the system without a diagnosis or effective treatment is very scary and maddening. Going through the medical system is a big fear of mine.
Even then, they had pretty detailed plans worked out for many, many scenarios. It doesn't mean they weren't co-existing well or that anyone thought it was likely. Making a plan is so inexpensive compared to the cost of responding to some event without a well-laid-plan, that having a plan is hardly what I would call regarding them as a potential enemy.
poo-poo, people will insult your sensibilities using whatever language you choose, the "problem" is not them, or the language or its idioms, its you.

If you write ML code for money, you are a pro, the end. Python is not perfect, but everything else is worse, far worse. What is the product that falls out of a ML pipeline ? ML pro-tip: its not hand-crafted artisanal code.
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I mentioned witness testimony as somewhat legitimate simply because it is opt in in nature.

The rest is assuredly not opt in.

This is the very basic argument: if I don't opt in, you do not have a right to my private affairs, details, papers, movements or discussions with others.

If you want to argue we live in an imperfect world full of grey areas and need to sometimes give up some general privacy for the greater good and safety of the people then do so, and I will likely agree with you on a lot of the justifications to concede that privacy.

Just don't for a second think that those individual concessions instantly justify all others. That like your original position is just far too many logical fallacies to even begin to unpack.
Another year, another strawberry harvesting robot.

I've worked on agri projects that looked into the feasibility of this, though we never attempted to pick anything. The reason strawberries are always the fruit of choice is because they're a high value crop. They're also a relatively easy fruit to identify based on colour, and the way they're grown makes them relatively easy to segment against the surrounding foliage.

The main issue is cost. Several projects died in the UK (see http://ict-agri.eu/node/36238) because the end-users i.e. big growers didn't see there being value for money. So no, cheaper is not happening. And this is in a country with Brexit looming and a heavy dependence on season labour; though I don't know if we have a shortage, only that British people don't want to do it.

https://www.southeastfarmer.net/section/fruit/robots-arent-r...

From the article:

> The robot rarely hurts the produce. But as of today, one robotic apple-picker costs at least $300,000 — too much for most budgets.

In the UK the money is in high value glasshouse crops like berries and tomatoes. One issue is you would have to design the entire glasshouse to optimise for robotics. Ever tried to drive a robot in a glasshouse? The floor is often bare dirt or covered with polyethene sheeting which gets caught in whatever wheels you choose. Outdoors is another matter. A lot of harvesting robots just rip up everything which is.. one way to do it. Bear in mind that indoor agri is usually fairly automated already, certainly with regard to climate control. Europe, particularly the Netherlands, has this down - absolutely enormous installations.

There are lots of strawberry startups. Agrobot (http://agrobot.com/), a Spanish company, looks the most promising and I think you can actually buy it. Their technique is also very simple and avoids complications with robotic arms. There's also Dogtooth, Octinion, and more..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43816207 (Harvest CROO is also mentioned)
Without specifics, I have to say my experince says your numbers are invented at best.
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Many years ago, I worked as a proofreader for a company that had us keep time sheets for billing purposes. As I recall, my boss said that I charged about six hours of every eight, and that this was above average. I don't remember much idle time in there--perhaps some of it was waiting for proofs to be ready.
I have ancestors who were bakers. Unfortunately flour dust in the air 24/7 can lead to asthma and COPD, so that part is not all roses.
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"it's easy to be distracted" reminds me of what Cal Newport seems to like pointing out.

In "Deep Work", Newport also suggests distinguishing between 'shallow' and 'deep' activities. 'deep' = 'requires extended period of focus / attention'. Shallow = e.g. replying to messages.
-- I think an important point is: even without any of these distractions, you still wouldn't be getting more than 3 hours of deep work each day.

Albeit, not all work is deep. Meetings can be valuable. And not all the "unproductive distractions" given in TFA are bad.
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That's probably because you're buying them year-round at supermarkets instead of in the summer at farmer's markets.

Strawberries are extremely, extremely perishable.

Ones that can be grown year-round in California and survive shipping to New York need to be larger and harder to not turn to mush, there's just no other option.

But here in New York, in June and part of July (only) you can of course buy delicious local strawberries that are everything a strawberry should be. Usually at orchards or farmers' markets -- local supermarkets usually don't carry them, I'm not sure if it's because of logistics (they really need to be sold same-day or next-day in the worst case) or because farmers don't want/need to give a cut to a middleman, or both.

So I don't think robot picking will change any of that.
We've all been there. I would bet that after a year of sitting in traffic, getting cut off by people texting and having to hold your pee for 6 hours for less pay that software will look pretty amazing. I think that is why it is so important for everyone to have a hobby that is not software. We all need a break from life and something to look forward to. Most devs would be happier if they just treat work as work. Turn off email and slack and all the other nonsense when you aren't at work. It can wait until tomorrow. Spend your free time taking care of you.
> The tricky part is the are a number of different valid march flags for x86 and ARM that support SIMD.

Sure, but if you're writing software which works on AMD64, you can see prettymuch every autovectorization opportunity that exists on other platforms. Most of the autovectorizer functionality in gcc and clang is platform-agnostic, AFAIK.
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> probably just a bank account number/sort code.

Dude.
Each country has their own way to sort stuff internally.
For instance "sort code" is not something you find in countries like Spain (I have a bank account there; sort code is something found in the UK).

Nor are they found in this country. Here, we have what it's called CBU (Uniform bank key).

Again, when you go to a bank branch, _IF_ there's any relation between your bank account and a SWIFT account, they never tell you that information

And, considering that even in the cases you agree to do the transfer, you do not do that to a bank account in the SWIFT system that belongs to the branch but to a bank account in another country, I doubt we are integrated.
Recently, as I was doing some deep cleaning in my study, I found a warpgate map in my files that I made in the late 80s. I had forgotten all about Tradewars, so that brought back some memories.

I lived in a small town, but there was a service available at the time, a sort of modem gateway network with nodes in a lot of smaller towns. It was a subscription service. Connect to it via a local call, and from there you could dial out to most major cities without paying long distance, and the local node proxied connections over some independent network. It was limited to 1200 baud. I can't remember what it was called.

When I went off to school, I ran a local fidonet point, which basically was a sub-node that could connect to a full fidonet node and collect mail and group messages, and hang up. I could then read and respond at my leisure.

Compuserve eventually replaced Fidonet for me, well before they offered Internet access. I had one of the old numerical IDs.
The headline is a little alarmist. I read the plan and the plan completely acknowledges the one country, two systems principle.
I have a feeling this would vary depending on the person. Someone with big stressors outside of work may benefit from the shorter work week. Others may outperform them on a normal week. Just speculation.
The author doesn’t describe himself as stuck in the system at all. He has a diagnosis, it sounds like many doctors have tried their best to remedy his symptoms and found something that somewhat helps. If anything, he seems grateful for the medical system.
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I share your experience. But, I've recently read a book, The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater, a psychologist, wherein he argues that your brain does not crunch anything in the background, and only does what it focuses on.

However, the situation you outlined still occurs because you can get stuck in a certain paradigm (e.g. "this name that I can't remember definitely starts with 's'"), which you effectively reset, in addition to simply returning re-energised. Still a good argument for breaks and less strenuous working hours.
What science got us the 40h work week? It seems to me we just went from making people work as much as humanly possible to less and less (to 40 today in the US) as workers got more power through unions.

I don't think science was much involved here.
Minor note: Wikipedia says that the size of New York state is 141,300km² (54,555 sq mi), so New York is almost thrice the size with less than one third of the population.
There wasn't really science that got us the 40 hour week. That was just the compromise organized labour arrived at in the early 20th century after blow back from unconstrained work weeks (there average man working in 1900 was estimated at 60 hours weekly).
NVidia is adopting ADA/Spark for autonomous vehicles work [1]. It's service-proven, compiles to C/C++ speeds, and is safe. I learned Turbo Pascal in college in the 80s after Basic, C and assembler in the late 70s, early 80s, and I am attracted to languages like Haskell, Julia, Lisp, and J/APL, yet after toying with Spark, I think it is probably a good fit to do safe, ML at C/C++ speeds. It would be easy to hook it into all the C++ of TensorFlow too.

[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/05/adacore-secure-auto...
I just want to thank the author for going the native route. It's rather refreshing.
> The future of agricultural work has arrived here in Florida, promising to ease labor shortages and reduce the cost of food

There is no labor shortage. There's a bunch of growers whining about having to raise wages to attract workers. Even 25$/hour isn't that great if you factor in the opportunity cost of seasonal work.

Raising prices and going out of business are valid options for entrepreneurs. That's how the market allocates resources. Unprofitable work is inefficient.

> He pays his workers between $10 and $14 hourly. They’re mostly local folks.

> “A lot of Americans have become lazy,” Carrigan said. “They want a paycheck. They don’t want a job.”

More like a lot of Americans have better things to do than doing seasonal work for 10$ to 14$ an hour. Good for them!
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