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Has this resulted in any increase in uptake of their GPUs? I'm usually the one to praise The Economist for covering technical subjects without embarrassing missteps but this:

Its gpus—which provide 3d graphics for video games and, increasingly, the computational grunt for trendy machine-learning algorithms—go up against those from Nvidia, whose revenues last year of $11.7bn were nearly twice those of amd.

seems wrong to me. They've been doing perfectly well in HPC tasks in supercomputers. And their CPUs have been doing great. But as far as I'm aware most machine learning work that moves away from NVidia moves to custom silicon rather than AMD GPUs. For the sake of openness I'd very much like AMD to start becoming a more popular option though.
I disagree on the documentation front. I find the docs hard to use, and missing things.
Sad. On the plus side they had "46 years of total bliss". For perspective, some people have to dine alone their entire lives.
If they worked in a factory, they would have lost a full day of productivity. If you make your own performance metrics, you can create the results you wanted. What a load of bullshit.
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It's a classic misunderstanding between "academically viable" and "operationally viable".

The military doesn't need to get an A+. It needs to win. Anything else is a bonus.

Which is why the A-10 is a better plane than the F-35. One shows up and BRRRTs the opposition into a fine red mist, when you need it to. the other makes it pilot motion sick as soon as they put the helmet on.
> In the concentration camps, IBM's code for Jews was 8. Its code for Gypsies was 12. General executions were coded as 4, death in the gas chambers as 6.

I was aware that IBM played a role in the Holocaust, but didn't know the extent to which it resembled any regular government software contract today.
If you don't mind sharing (even if it's cmd line), I'd love to explore.
Reinventing the smartphone? That’s about as innovative as WeWork.
I was astounded how much better I was than my classmates at coding, testing, debugging, etc. I attribute all of it to the 25 hours a week I spent at work.
So, how does browser fingerprinting work. Does it basically look at the 1) IP and 2) Browser Agent pair for near uniqueness?
Sorry, I've only just seen this. Your breakdown doesn't reflect what happened here. You would be correct if all B had said was "Support X".

What we saw above was:

A: Claim X

B: Support X, I've observed Y.

C: Support Y too, please.

In this particular case, Y was arguably the inverse of X but it was nevertheless described as having been observed many times, but without any sources.
Worked for me just fine.
How is productivity measured by Microsoft in Japan where they have huge market dominance and therefore could actually fire most most of their workforce and still generate as much business, resulting in gazillions % of productivity improvement?
The words OpenSSL do not even appear in this article. Are you thinking of OpenSSH? If so, it does not apply to it.

Originally OpenSSH depended on OpenSSL but it doesn't do that any more if you use chapoly and curve/ed25519.
I actually gave up on Godot early last year because of frustrations trying to get basic in-or-under-documented things working. Even simple things like getting 2D sorting working correctly so that sprites overlap correctly was surprisingly hard (documentation said to enable y-sort flag, but in reality there were some gotchas that took me a long time to figure out). It’s a nice engine and it’s constantly improving, but it’s not really as user friendly as people make it out to be (or at least it wasn’t in early 2018, it might be a lot better now on that front). I even contributed to GDNative so I was somewhat bought into it, but in the end it wasn’t worth it for what I wanted to do. I’ll probably check it out again in the future (for now I’m too busy with non-gamedev stuff)
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>>Stuxnet was embarrassing, not amazing (2011)

Stuxnet worked. Deal with it. Of course, for obvious reasons, it would be traced back to US/Israel and not to a kid in his mom's basement.
Because it's PR fluff since no metric was actually shown here?
What about consumerism? Things like going to the mall, Center Street, your nearby strip mall, huge grocery store, and amusement parks. All these things have a distinctive North American flavor and are quite homogeneous across the US and Canada.
You should define what you mean by wealth. What does it mean that you will loot wealthy people? Will you eat shares of a company for breakfast? Will you burn cash in stove to warm your house?

Wealthy people control resources. You can take control from them, but it will not create more resources. One, fundamental resource is human labor. This resource will decline in proportion to the total human population whether it will be controlled by wealthy people or not.

Someone will need to physically do the work that needs to be done around old people. And there will be more old people, than there will be young people.
This is great. And it’s basically exactly what Stripe 1.0 was :-P
Lots of things from browser settings to what plugins you have.

These guys will tell you how unique is your browser fingerprint

https://amiunique.org/fp
You cannot destroy the incentive structure for economic activity (financial rewards) without catestrophic consequences. People don't pull start-up hours so that their neighbors can prosper, they do it for themselves. When you take away the possibility of great rewards, you destroy the incentive to add great value. See the entire history of collectivism.
Pipelines that don't spill boatloads of oil?

I remember many complaints that the pipeline was shoddily built and was using sub-standard materials.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/08/25/what-is-w...
The most people get used to it, the more I would expect "Thursday" to become the new Friday and you should expect to quickly end up losing the benefit of that additional day off as laziness takes over.
Not necessarily. There's no way to know how much entropy is put in to the mix—it could be quite a lot.
how should I as a person in late 20s deal with the fear that every piece of evidence suggests my generation (and subsequent ones) will be totally screwed in the future

Consider that late-teenagers and 20-somethings successfully "dealt with the fear" of the Great War, the Great Depression, WW2, the Cold War incl the Cuban Missile Crisis and others, assorted oil crises, acid rain, holes in the ozone layer, Chernobyl, more economic crashes in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000's... And every time, the world didn't end, and most of them lived to a ripe old age and life itself generally improved. I get that the things on your list seem terrifying but that's because it's the first time you've seen anything, in a few years you'll look back and realise that there's always some ongoing "end of the world" panic and when it doesn't happen, they'll dream up another one, either to sell you something or trick you into voting for them.
finally..they get a break.
I suspect they mean someone who is aggressive in terms of their initiative, not their communication style.
Their "protect" camera line doesn't work properly unless it can connect to the internet.

Now this...

What company's hardware should I buy instead for Linux friendly AP's and cameras?
Slightly more expensive to the energy companies, cheaper for the countries the pipeline travels through and the people who live there.

I'm not seeing a downside.
Yeah, the elephant in the room here is that they have no explanation how productivity is measured, and if they shouldn't create a lag model because you don't expect every single employee's performance to be directly & immediately related to the day the day sales of the group.
You think it’s better to move out of cities, build highways and own cars?

The earth likes it better when we don’t sprawl.
fingerprintjs readme does a good job of explaining it: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2
So the same question for your company. Why is the only during the summer? A staggered every other Friday off has always been something I’ve hoped would become mainstream year round. It isn’t that progressive of a thing to enact since its staggered/every other.
Not sure I follow sorry.
I always wondered, why not a stronger inheritance tax instead of a wealth tax? It would seemingly accomplish the same thing but seems fairer since the heirs didn’t earn the money in the first place.

To head off the main critique. I think either tax could be equally gamed by the rich.

I don’t necessarily support either but I’ve been wondering why Inheritance taxes aren’t really being considered.
Then considering moving to cheaper rural places where in 2019 all three are easily available.
Latest iOS and iPad OS are the buggiest of any operating systems I’ve ever used...
Enthusiast: 4h for the coolest component C, 1h for unnecessary but fun stuff. The rest of components: A, B & D glued from duct tape in 1h.

Quality of C: excellent, quality of the final product: nice demo, but falls apart when exposed to wind.

Professional: 2h for C, 1h for A,B,D each. 1h for testing. Quality of A,B,C and D: good enough. Quality of the final product: gets the job done, withstands winds up to the speeds required in the specs, plus some margin.
What kind of things would you have it provide?
Wouldn’t people be comparing to their peers outside of work? Most people don’t get any Friday’s off. It would be pretty wild to start wanting Thursday off so much when no one else is getting Friday off.
The OP does not mention that as healthcare improves, the average retirement age increases. This might not be enough to solve the problem of the collapsing pyramid, but it is certainly a factor. 100 years from now, we could be living in a world where people retire at age 80 or 90.
When looking for open and hackable alternatives, I stumbled over OpenHAK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1222384528/openhak-the-...

Too bad the Kickstarter didn't succeed. If you wish it did, leave a note in the forums: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openhak-beta-testers
"economy" here meaning efficiency (repeatability, time cost to produce)
> I remember this particular data point being refuted by cars becoming more and more streamlined.

This hypothesis is commonly offered as a possible explanation, but it's not a refutation and doesn't seem to hold up against evidence.
Full article is behind a paywall :-/
This is very timely. I've been working for about 3 months now on a utility that transforms mp3's to midi files. It's a hard problem and even though I'm making steady progress the end is nowhere in sight. This will give me something to benchmark against with for instance voice accompanied by piano. Thank you for making/posting this.

For an idea how this project is coming along:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/toccata.mp3

Yes, it's terrible :) This particular file the result of the following transformations:

midi file -> wav file (fluidsynth)

wav file -> midi file (my utility)

midi file -> wav file (fluidsynth once more)

wav file -> mp3 file (using lame)

Of course it also works for regular midi files (piano only for now). The reason why I use the workflow above is that it gives me a good idea how well the program works by comparing the original midi file with the output one.

But I did not yet have a way to deal with piano/voice which is a very common combination so this might really help me.

Possible applications: automatic music transcription, tutoring, giving regular pianos a midi 'out' port, using a regular piano as an arranger keyboard, instrument transformation and many others.

Having fun!

Edit: I've done a little write-up: https://jacquesmattheij.com/mp3-to-midi/
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+1 for the economist

Also, try the FT.
Very neat. I built a virtually identical internal tool for Blockmetry. A couple of tips from experience:

1. Add other browse extensions, and you'll see a big difference between their effects. Defaults matter a lot in this space.

2. Compare mobile vs desktop. Getting mobile emulation to be good enough is a bit of work, but worth it IMO.

Based on internal usage, the typical web page will load 35-45% faster with uBlock Origin installed.

My email address is my profile if you want to compare notes or whatnot.
Depending on how you measure it could be allowed... the diameter of the sphere could grow faster than the speed of light without any component exceeding c because you can grow at near light speeds in two directions.
Do you know of something superior?
My company implements an optional every other Friday off. Somewhat surprisingly, Thursday hasn’t really become the new Friday. In fact, the people who choose to work the full 5 days tend to get more work done on Fridays, since fewer people are around to interrupt them. The people who take those Fridays off are generally happier and still pretty productive on Thursdays.
We have every other Friday afternoon off during the summer. It’s a nice perk and as far as i can tell no productivity is lost. People seem happier though.
Hah. Nah, I meant someone who is extremely thorough and catches many thing proactively that would otherwise be bugs that are difficult to track down.
In the 60’s, the boomers were socialist hippies, and now they are conservative Republicans?

The millennials now complaining about inequality, will become conservatives as they age and acquire wealth.

As a gen-X (who’s generation just put their nose down and worked), I hope the millennials grow out of their mentality of victim hood, as they have a larger voting block.
I believe you are right. Tech evolution has always been our saving grace, from the discovery of fire, to the invention of agriculture, ships to conquer new worlds, etc. I don't see the end of the world - I see opportunity, lots of it.
Proved his own point
worked at ubiquiti before. the first thing I was told is that, "customer first", "customer first".

I never realized customer-first means violating GPL and call-home.

openwrt or vyos are good alternatives, however, both got minimal community support(sharing code or donation), especially openwrt, which is used by big vendors like tplink or xiaomi but they neither have contributed any code, nor have they sponsored/donated anything to the projects they making huge money on, they're just bad-ass parasites.
I caught Vodafone and Telekom in Germany injecting headers.
The former for shady cooperations and tracking, the latter for cache screwery. The latter did dns modification to turn nxdomain into a navigation help, a site that looks like google but everything is ads.

Vodafone CPE equipment saves all mac adresses ever present in the local network and unassociated wifi client macs in the air and sends them back as part of diagnostic data.

Edit:
They also DNS Censor popular warez sites and libgen
Something missed in the article and most of the comments is the degree (or certification) provides a broad roadmap of, at least in theory, the entire topic.

I spent several years doing BGP and related router support; when I passed my CCNP I was forced to learn a lot of interesting broad topics ranging from multicasting to obscure details of low level packet switching.

When I was very young in the 80s and introduced to 1st edition K+R C I was unimpressed with pointers; why bother with all this? Later, I found pointers pretty interesting and useful for data structures and low level driver "stuff".

This is hardly a problem solely for CS. Philosophy has the same issue. Self taught philosopher almost certainly means maybe one favorite author and maybe one book named something like "The philosophy of (insert pop culture movie title here)" and little more. Even a pretty lame intro to philosophy class will be much more broad.

An enforced broad education of a topic can be very useful. That seems to generally be missing in online education. A lot of effort over the years has been put into very tiny topics like "how to teach kids the derivative of x to the y power" but very little effort seems to be put into "how to decide what is learning enough of calculus, how to measure it, and how to pinpoint lacking areas"
Yes, environmental sustainability and poverty elimination conflict in the short-term sometimes.
Weirdly, iOS has been pretty smooth for me (despite a one or two embarrassing bugs, like Smart Invert barely working for long), whereas the state of Catalina on release is a cause of concern..
It's not really superior or inferior but different approaches with different levels of risk. Intel invests lots of engineer hours tying their layouts very intimately together the the particular process they're using to get out every scrap of performance. AMD does their best to modularize their design at every level to not spend engineering hours they don't have and to let them move to whatever process node they need to.

When Intel's fabs were doing well they were dominant. When they ran into problems they were stuck in a way AMD wouldn't have been if TSMC had problems.
Forget about money for a moment, think of just physical world.

The point is, the young would have a higher quality of life if they did not have to support the old. If one young person has to support two old, their quality of life will decline no matter what the fiscal arrangements are. Sure, technology improves efficiency, but not 300%
I have the most experience with TI silicon, so that's where i can talk most about the datasheets.

Some are excellent, many are really good and except for the odd outlier, most are sufficient. Especially certain lines of the newer dc/dc's have really good datasheets where you can just take the reference circuit in the datasheet as is, plug in your values in the formulas to get your inductance, resistors and cap values. Oh, and webench power designer also does a good job if your application is not too complex.

And complexity is also why i mentioned the simpleswitcher series. Other vendors also have similar simple integrated and modern solutions. With good documentation.

And as for Linear, they have amazing chips and documentation with a price that brings tears to your eyes. I have a love/hate relationship with those.

As for calling up vendors, TI at least has their e2e forum where you usually can get an answer no matter how much you pay them, you just need to create an account.
Are Front End Development Skills Enough for a Career?
To help others avoid wasting time.
As a bootcamp instructor:

1. I gave deadlines

2. Students did group assignments 50% of the time

3. They learned to work with Git and how to communicate

I studied a CS degree and learned less collaboration than my students did.

Based on my experience I must conclude with regret that this article is too unnuanced and therefore not very informing, if at all.

The author himself can email me for a discussion on mettamage@protonmail.com since I'd like to understand his views better and perhaps he might benefit from mine.

Edit: I emailed the author.
I would love an inheritance tax. Even a 100% inheritance tax, on anything more than zero dollars.

Of course I don't really stand to inherit anything significant, so it's super easy for me to support.

Inheritance is one of those areas where people's values and what they'd support in practice tend to diverge, according to their incentives. (Same goes for California Proposition 13, incidentally).
Which is covered by

>horrible to manage and lack features users expect

Users expect WebUIs, and WebFig is horrible to manage.
Sigh. This guy's a Rhodes Scholar, but gets it all wrong. Social Security and Medicare are not Ponzi schemes or pyramid schemes (There's a difference between Ponzi and pyramid schemes, but for the sake of argument, let's pretend they're the same.)

Medicare and Social Security are just a tax. Collectively we've decided we'll all take care of our old and infirm. We spend the money we take in every year, and besides the occasional Congress deciding to raid the Social Security trust fund, we just take care of people. As a percentage, are the number of people paying in decreasing, sure, but there's a number of quick solutions: either move the age at which you can collect, or keep the benefits fixed (or even shrink them). Solvency returned.

HN: Don't fall in to the trap. People are trying to convince you that SS and Medicare are insolvent, doomed to fail, etc. They are not. They are some of the most successful, and helpful programs the US has ever created. They are a simple wealth distribution model, where we've decided there's a basic level of livability that humans can't fall beneath. Don't fall into the trap of believing oligarchs and libertarians. The two programs have ushered in the boom since the great depression, and allowed access to healthcare for people who otherwise would just die.
If you assume lifespan keeps increasing but productivity stays flat then sure. If productivity increases at least as fast as the ratio of workers to retirees, then a smaller number of workers can easily cover a larger number of retirees.
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I would say that is not only a trend in NYT but in all newspapers: abuse of clickbait articles, influenced or excessively biased opinion and everything produced cheaply. Newspapers, nowadays, are nothing more than propaganda to their supporters ideology. Not great news for democracy.
My sister used to work a 9/9 shift in biotech (9 9 hour shifts, every other Friday off). It meant she had plenty of time for all-day experiments and could have a day for errands and shopping during normal business hours.
Location: Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python (incl. Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow), Java, R, SQL

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XyA63wIzOpREexwfV_usp9X7VSQ...

Email: kamisligul@gmail.com

I’m a MSc graduate in Computer Science at Oxford. I am enthusiastic about data science and machine learning with an interdisciplinary education in industrial engineering and computer science. Interested in a full-time position where I can utilise my current skills and knowledge, and I can further develop these skills in a practical and fast-paced environment.
Those same people are also part of the massive research system run and funded by the federal government.

Most medical schools, especially the ones you listed, are incredibly dependent on NIH funding and they'd be unrecognizable without it. Without that support (funding, but also the review process and infrastructure stuff like PubMed and the NCBI tools), very little of the prize-winning work would be possible.
Are we sure that it's not just a case of being able to measure more accurately?
There was a story I read about the Carnegie steelworks end of the 1800s. Usual working hours was six days a week. Then the plant manager introduced a 40 hour week. Productivity went up and less accidents happened. This went for a while until the manager got killed in an accident. Soon after, despite the good numbers, the plant went back to the old schedule. I think it’s hard to shake the belief that the more hours you work the more you get done.
The more ubiquitous format in modern times is Web ARChive (WARC[0]) format which is supported by tools like wget, Apache Nutch and organizations like Internet Archive and most national libraries[1]

WARC is also standarized by ISO and has a nice spec that's pretty easy to understand[2]

@gildas I saw there was a comparison table[3] but it seems to be missing WARC. Could you shed some light on why?

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive

- [1] http://digitalia.sbn.it/article/view/1473

- [2] https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/wa...

- [3] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#file-format-com...
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