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Okay, so I like ROCm but... I just don't see how AMD can strategically win here.

NVidia has Tensor-cores. NVidia GPUs literally have an assembly statement that performs a 4x4 FP16 matrix multiplication, while AMD hardware at best can perform FP16 dot-products. (which... is still greatly accelerated and pushing 20+TFlops, but no where near as fast as the 100TFlops that some NVidia GPUs are putting out).

What's cool about AMD GPUs is that they have better general-purpose compute numbers than NVidia. An AMD Vega64 is over 10TFlops with 480GBps HBM2 RAM and is priced under $400 now. Vega64 is a few years old, but its still a behemoth in compute power.

Radeon VII is still around 10-TFLOPs (specified as 13.84 TFlops), but has 1000GBps HBM2 bandwidth and 16GB of RAM. Radeon VII is an absolute monster in parallel compute and only costs $700. Since many problems are Memory-bandwidth bound (163840 hardware SIMD threads of execution uses up a LOT of memory bandwidth), the +memory bandwidth on Radeon VII is quite practical (YMMV of course: it always depends on your specific workload).

Crushing a Terrabyte of memory bandwidth per second is a huge amount of memory bandwidth, no matter how you look at it. Memory-hard problems will almost certainly want to execute on the Radeon VII.

ROCm is a decent programming environment to unlock this "general purpose" compute power... but Tensorflow is simply going to be in the bag for NVidia due to those 4x4 FP16 Matrix multiplication instructions.

Hmm... its still nice I guess for AMD to catchup. But I feel like AMD should maybe focus on other compute problems where they can better demonstrate their advantages? For example, OpenCV probably would run better on AMD hardware than equivalently priced NVidia hardware.

I understand that there's a lot of hype to Deep Learning, but the compute world is bigger than just that. There's a lot of problems out there, and AMD GPUs seem better (!!) for a lot of these other problems. But there just isn't very much discussion or marketing that points this fact out.

If AMD worked on optimizing OpenCV, or maybe some other libraries, for the ROCm platform, surely they'd beat NVidia in price/performance. AMD's hardware is pretty kick-ass, the main issue is the amount of programming effort you need to put forth since AMD's software stack is just very far behind NVidia's CUDA environment.

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Maybe AMD could show how memory bandwidth can become a unique asset in some workloads? The specs are downright amazing, the benchmarks prove its possible. Its just a matter of playing with the hardware and figuring out what problems that 4096 SIMD-ALUs + 1TBps memory bandwidth can crush.
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Trust between US tech and the @DeptofDefense is what got burned down. Trust is key. There has been a concerted effort to break that trust to weaken the US position. The US is more resilient than that, and tech is smart enough to see through it. DoD will restore trust. It's time.
Stealing JWTs in LocalStorage via XSS
That’s how I read it, too. “This is to writing what a bicycle is to surfing.”
It's a shame they sold out so quickly to US investors (I think they are even officially incorporated in the US now?).

They could have become Europe's largest software company, instead they chose to follow the money.

To be fair, I guess significant European investment is still hard to come by these days.
That the US deficit is not going to be paid for by selling debt to people around the world, it is going to be paid for by the federal reserve creating money and giving it to the treasury.
I think he underestimates the wrath of a market that has judged a market sector unpopular
If I'm ever sent a resume that lists employment at the CIA, NSA or DOJ, it's going straight into the circular file. Red flag that they lack morals.

Since the CIA won't allow past employees to list their work experience, their taint has leaked onto anyone ever employed by the State Dept or govt contractors as well.
> his phobia of plants

Taking in mind that there are dozens, maybe thousands of photos of him on internet smiling near flowers, pots, pots over tables, cut flowers, taking photos of wild flowers, or posing relaxed on several jungles and forests, my congratulations to Mr Stallman for having overcomed his botagnuphobia so well.

This is not what you would expect from a real phobic person IMHO, so I wouldn't discard still that is just another stupid rumour (or perhaps some female students are overreacting badly to a rumour?).
This is indeed the case, the rumoured advance was around $100k.

Also, it's entirely possible that there will be ways for the publisher to never repatriate profits from sales abroad and/or translations.

This is just petty stuff from petty bureaucrats.
Even if this is true, there’s a moral dimension to what you invest in - do you really feel okay about making money off of fossil fuels?
I Made a PHP Script to Backup Stack Overflow
They clearly didn't. If he actually had provided evidence, it wouldn't be defamation. But it seems difficult to argue "just an opinion nobody would take as fact" when at the same time you claimed to know detailed facts about the case. They can't really argue "Everyone knows Elon Musk can't be believed when he makes claims about facts".

It of course also pokes massive holes in the current strategy, so who knows what their plan is.
Yeah but C130s fly into Moffett quite regularly. Past few tuesdays I've been able to see them down in Los Gatos at the high school track, either on approach or flying away.

Come to think of it, today's another tuesday...

It's definitely pretty cool to see them fly over when you're going over the hump on 101.
And you get good credit by proving to banks that you won't run off with their money. In fact, they will loan you $1000s each month at 0% interest if you pay it back the next.
https://outline.com/PXEkVu
> After years of projecting big profits from student lending, the federal government now acknowledges that taxpayers stand to lose $31.5 billion on the program over the next decade, and the losses are growing rapidly.

Most civilized countries offer free or close to free education for their young population instead of trying to profit off of this segment of the population that barely knows what it wants out of life. If they can do it, I'm sure we could. How about bailing out the people for one and ending this for profit loan system once and for all? How about investing in the future generations of Americans for once instead of trying to profit from them? Or we could continue on the path we're on and see just how much worse things get for the masses here. I wonder just how much they will put up with.
> I give you tax money to do a good job

In a democracy, sure.

In a dictatorship, you give them tax money because they said so, and they’ll do whatever the hell they want with it, because they aren’t accountable to you in any way.
Not sure about that. 2 out of 3 Amazon Basics speakers I bought (cheaper, USB powered) died within a year. And none of the Amazon Basics USB cables I've ever tried support quick charging properly.
Yeah, that’s the problem. They should be separated.
Something even more pernicious about social media: if you build an audience there, you're trapped. You can easily convince yourself a lot of people care about what you say right up until you link to something more substantial off the silo.

The ActivityPub fediverse is a lot better about this, but even there I might get one visit to a linked page for every ten boosts.

Getting people to look at a website in 2019 is hard. It used to be easier. I could get 1000 people to look at a blog post on just about anything. Now all the eyes are on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, and you can't pry them away. You might get lucky and land on a long tail keyword that Google ranks you for, but search traffic is unpredictable even if you go out of your way to research keywords.

I get 140k views a month and tons of retweets/likes on Twitter when I'm active. The website has a few posts with some search traffic, but nothing like 140k.
Well, if you want to use Ephebophilia, you need to establish primary sexual preference, not simply sexual interest. Setting that aside, however...

You talk about colloquial definitions, but colloquial definitions vary. When you say "pedophile", I indeed think of sexual desire in an adult for a child (usually preferential desire, but I suppose it doesn't have to be such). However, "child" in this context (as well as most others) refers to a pre-pubescent minor. So, when you say "pedophile", it conjures up imagery of some middle-aged adult and some 10-year old (or perhaps younger!). Same goes for terms like "child sex-trafficking" and "child pornography" --- these all conjure up images of pre-pubescent children for me. Given the reactions by various people on HN (and indeed my perception of the views of people in my bubble of the world), I don't seem to be alone in this.

Teen-sex-connesieur is ridiculous; I don't think anyone would actually suggest that. But the words you are using carry connotations for many, that you don't seem to be expecting. If these connotations do not match what you are trying to communicate, you might consider some adjustment to your language. Perhaps "teen" "underage" or "minor" would be more suitable words here (I would lean towards the first or second, personally).

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P.S. And yes, while I do see a difference between a 25 year old and a 16 year old in terms of sexual maturity, I also see a dramatic difference between adult interest in a 16 year old and adult interest in an 8 year old. So I don't think "pedophilia" is a good blanket term to describe adult sexual interest in individuals below the age of 18.
> Mandarin as a shared language does not mean eradicating Cantonese

Mandarin is a dialect, just like Cantonese.

China has been actively trying to eradicate Cantonese but mainly backfired. In Guangdong, no less.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou_Television_Cantone...

So yes, it is assimilation when you force your dialect on others.

> most Hongkongers are ethnic Chinese and share much of the same cultuRe

I beg to differ. Mao destroyed a lot of cultural relics during the Cultural Revolution. Things that used to be wide spread such as idol worshiping is no longer seen in China and only in Hong Kong. Hong Kong resembles more of the traditional China culture than China does today.
He's probably right that there are much more effective ways to focus resources & energy, but you'd have to believe that markets and elasticity don't exist to believe the impact is zero.

If you reduce the pool of investors, the cost of access capital goes up. This means companies that would start a new fossil fuel project will have to give up more money to get investment or loans. Most projects will be unaffected, but this will be the difference between some marginal projects happening and not happening.

This is pretty basic economics, though perhaps Gates has a reason in mind not to believe this will apply.
More exactly geothermal energy heats and lights the greenhouses in winter aided by automation and a drive to more self-sustainability given during volcanic eruptions was imports may cease.
I have a few moldy old blog posts but nothing worth linking to, sorry. I should probably take the time to write up a proper screed.

Meanwhile, I'll try to explain where I'm coming from.

Briefly, it makes sense to me to get paid to write software to solve some new problem; but once it has been written, I feel it would be venal (at this time in history) to refuse other people the use of it unless they give me a set amount of money. It costs me nothing and adds value to their lives, presumably, so why wouldn't I let them copy and use it for free?

(It also makes sense to me to pay for support if I need it, and not to use software I can't repair myself if support is unavailable.)

In more detail, I see automation as having its highest goal in the transformation of civilization to a better mode. Technology doesn't solve the human condition, but it does alter the set of daily problems with which we must cope.

Bucky calculated that we would be able to work for two years and then retire having paid for our living expenses for the rest of our lives in those two years, and this by sometime in the 1970's. The catch is that we have to align our technology with our needs efficiently.

He said:

> Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime.

In this scenario your problem is what to do with your free time, not how to get paid for writing/maintaining software, eh?

Restrictions on copying bit-patterns create an artificial scarcity and delay the arrival of this techno-secular Golden Age. That's why I call it regressive.

It is foolish to predicate your business-model on prevention of copying of data (software or media) because then you set up an open-ended source of additional overhead (cost of DRM) and bullshit (DRM).
"increase engagement up to 27%" What's the low end of that statistic? Is it negative?
You could always borrow money for lunch, secured by your car?

The thing about financial instruments is that they scale infinitely better than "real assets".

It's like seeing Amazon, Google etc. spend so much on cloud computing, and then asking if real computers are valued less than virtual ones.
Why would the global community tolerate this, especially when the United States consumes much more than most countries?

Seems like a recipe for WWIII.
> Is there a reason why I can't, say, sell equity in my car to cover the shortfall?

This is what a loan is. Look at the assets and revenue someone has and give them money if you think they can pay it back. You could reconstitute that situation as thinking of it as selling the equity in your assets and future profits and then buying it back in installments.

Companies try as hard as they can to minimize the amount of money just sitting around and not doing anything. They accomplish this with frequent short term loans that smooth out the noise in their cashflow.
I don't disagree with you - Most labor laws in this country are horribly skewed in favor of the employer
Well, I can understand the need to publicize stuff that might not go unnoticed. But I definitely scratched my head at how the US postal service was doing major, ostentatious sponsorships of cyclists on the Tour de France, and was like, "uh, are people really not aware that the Post Office is a thing?"

Edit: Side note, I remember a slashdot thread from a while back that mentioned the "Word of Mouth Marketing Association", and someone was like, "um, what? Isn't the whole point of word-of-mouth marketing that it's not organized by some committee, top-down?"
No. We are in a negative interest rate regime (never happened before), and in the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution (never happened before).

The best indicator for a recession is the stock market, all the rest are clickbait news for eyeballs.

I firmly believe that tech would actually not enter a recession at all, since it is the only part of the economy that is growing.
Cybercrimes sextortion and Revengeporn, What to do if it happens to you?
I really enjoyed the look of your site and hope you don't trade it in for another cookie cutter site like so many others.
http://arewegameyet.com might help
We do the same as other people replying, we’ve got a few shared channels with a major client, and alongside that internal channels related to work for them. You do have to be careful you’re in the right channel before letting rip about that one person at the other end everyone dislikes, but otherwise it works fine.
I considered them when Crashplan threw me away. I've really liked what I see of Backblaze as a company, but sadly their services come up short for me.

Personal is cheap but too basic (keeps file versions for 30 days only, no backup on external drive/NAS). B2 is seems to be too expensive for my 1TB of data.

They also lacked a data center in EU, learned my lesson with Crashplan on that one, though I hear that is about to change.

Currently I've settled for Acronis True Image. Not exactly the same, but more options, faster to get things running again after a proper HD crash (tried that a few times already) and they're cheaper than B2.

But yeah, had I been a customer, the price hike would have been totally fine.
The first amendment does protect you from being sued (legal judgements are government action), but the scope of that protection in the case of defamation may not be as broad as Musk wants it to be.
This, I would believe is a false hit piece that is trying to protect coal, oil, and gas.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-ox...

"It has become the largest such campaign in history: funds worth more than eleven trillion dollars have divested some or all of their fossil-fuel holdings. And it has been effective: when Peabody Energy, the largest American coal company, filed for bankruptcy, in 2016, it cited divestment as one of the pressures weighing on its business, and, this year, Shell called divestment a “material adverse effect” on its performance."
Did you try doing your Rust dev on Mac? I've built Unity plugins in Rust and have been able to load and unload them without crashes, but I've only tried on a Mac.
> I think a lot of people are forgetting that the guy has 20 years of public comments like this.

The honest reaction to being forced to recognize that the absurd accusations being thrown at Stallman are absurd, entirely made up, and without any link to what he actually said is not to try desperately to move the goal post.

Stick to the facts.
That would be amazing. I’m tempted to switch back to in-browser Slack just so I can write a Chrome extension to do this.
My educated guess is that the localization data for every language is pretty massive, so per-region downloads can include the text for their region without dragging along a few extra megabytes of text/images for other regions. If you swap regions after installing it can probably download on-demand.

Historically reducing your download size by a couple megabytes has had measurable positive impact on conversion rates (from webpage visit -> install) so I expect this tradeoff made a lot of sense in the past even if it's less important now.

EDIT: One other thing worth note is that there's zh-CN and zh-TW, and I can imagine the Chinese government being very irritated about the idea of their release having separate Taiwan loc text/images baked in since according to them Taiwan doesn't exist. Major software like Windows has already had CN-specific releases for this (among other) reason(s).
private institutions, and mostly at their whim and discretion
Why is nobody concerned about the next 100.000 years lasting ice age which is already overdue by roughly 4000 years?
OTOH: my understanding is that most (if not all?) 4chan janitors are recruited from 4chan itself, so they have a pretty good idea of what they're getting into.
Snowden "...carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over"

What was released (and how), and what we learned are two separate issues. As a U.S. citizen, it's preferable that the subjective legitimacy of what best serves public interest is not in the hands of ONE person. That's why we care about what was released.

While a portion of the leaked documents might positively benefit society, who is to say the net benefit in total was positive? Call me naive but I'm unable to make the call either way, even after having read through the revelations.

Leaking that info was sure audacious but not worthy of a get-out-of-jail free card or a thank you IMO.
A lot of (or even most) members of totalitarian organisations are "average X", good neighbours, church members etc etc.

I'd suggest to read some Arendt.
The title says "overnight lending market", so clearly someone is borrowing for liquidity needs.
I'd be happy to see soya, wheat and corn subsidies die altogether.
Calculated Risk has a good record on these calls... really.
He says not this year.
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2019/09/update-predicting...
Missile Defense Madness: Myth of Perfect Patriots, Magic Thaad, the ICBM Shield
>young women

children*

>sugar daddies

abusers
There's an efficient markets reason to believe this. Say you have some estimate of the value of all future earnings of some business, and then a group of people divests and pushes down the share price. The future earnings haven't changed, so this pushes down the P/E ratio and makes the stock that much more attractive to buyers who aren't divesting. It's just not possible for it to have that much price impact.
You forgot <blink> and <marquee> (and some sick midi tunes)

Thanks to CSS animations, you can recreate <blink> and <marquee>.

I use it to recreate the Amiga's Guru Meditation Error when I'm debugging web sites.
"I fear plants; my enemies will share my fears, because I'm Potman!"

I hope he never has the occurence to disguise as Poison Lenny in the next halloween, My poor heart couldn't afford more jump-scares.
You can - they are called pink slip loans.

The challenge with real assets is they are hard to value, and hard to sell quickly. Therefore the interest and fees charged are higher (also people prone to need short term loans using their car as collateral are also very prone to not pay these loans back).

These financial assets can be calculated, sold, more purchased, etc. in known quantities very close to instantly. Standardized financial assets are very easy to move or use in large quantities for these reasons. A 5 yr US Gov't bond is a known quantity.
He was under a deadline, and then gave the files to journalists to decide what they thought was in the best interest, and then those journalists ran everything they were going to release by the DoD beforehand.

What more should he have done?
You're making the same old arguments that gets debunked over and over again.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/19/washin...
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/941723524175187969
Investigation of senior RCMP official stemmed from disruption of Phantom Secure