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by sounds 9y ago
That abstraction shows up in real life as a library, called TensorFlow. :)
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by sounds 9y ago
Err, I thought NVidia already won? Though dedicated silicon like Google's TPU will always post higher _numbers_, GPUs have the ecosystem, the developers, the libraries, the language (languages? CUDA is probably the only one that matter
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by sounds 9y ago
Thanks! Seattle Times now reports rumors of a collision with something on the track. Since this train was the first with passenger service, that seems plausible.
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by sounds 9y ago
Intel has known their Dennard Scaling was petering out for a while now. I think Intel is more concerned with the loss of their instruction set architecture "monpoly." Despite their massive R&D investments, they aren't exp
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by sounds 9y ago
That's a common misconception: software that is Libre can be bought and sold. It just comes with the source code. (Libre is not the same as Gratis.)
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by sounds 9y ago
Perhaps Stallman and the FSF are right? We can fork Firefox, but I agree with many other commenters that a fork isn't sufficient. It is the underlying concept I am trying to shine a light on: software should serve the user. When Mozil
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Portugal's internet shows us a world without net neutrality, and it's ugly(beta.latimes.com)
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Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet(nytimes.com)
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by sounds 9y ago
Amazon and Apple are hard at work promoting Net Neutrality this time. Here are some companies who are "sitting this one out," when they were very actively pro-Net Neutrality 2006-2015. This is quite surprising: • Facebook • Google
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by sounds 9y ago
Re: "ISPs have not done this in the past" Here are concrete examples in the US and outside the US of what is likely to happen: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-neve... http:&
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by sounds 9y ago
Sam wants to talk about the utility function of a superhuman AI. Ok, what are the likely outcomes? (For sake of discussion, let's just accept that a superhuman AI will exist soon.) Asimov's "Three Laws" point out that a
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by sounds 9y ago
That only detects enabled root users, which is a start but may include innocent people who have set a root password to protect their machines.
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by sounds 9y ago
Do you honestly believe Apple will pay out the same to someone located in Turkey?
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by sounds 9y ago
I agree. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-w... Blame the DMCA. This guy is in Turkey - does GP really think he can expect fair treatment and equal compensation as a "western wor
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by sounds 9y ago
I agree that we need more responsible disclosure. But as https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-w... explains, blame the DMCA. Somebody in Turkey has no expectation that they will be treat
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by sounds 9y ago
Information about the previous CPU architecture on the Intel ME has been widely available for years. It was an ArcCompact CPU running ThreadX: https://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub
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by sounds 9y ago
Agreed. Also, the last time HN discussed this, PTX came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658031 > My view is CUDA has already won, and everyone else needs to get over it. Even clang supports PTX now, which is a
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by sounds 9y ago
Yes, they don't have the stability to be used for 9-to-5 work, and they don't have the performance to be used for gaming.
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by sounds 9y ago
In case you got a weird sense of deja vu, this is Missouri, not Mississippi. Mississippi's AG, Jim Hood vs Google: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/mississippi-ag-j...
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by sounds 9y ago
https://www.bfs.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/BfS/EN/2017/1003... Actual measurements, though not very specific on where this was measured: "a few microbecquerel to 5 millibecquerel per cubic met
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by sounds 9y ago
This is a good introduction to how to create a binary multiplier unit in digital logic.
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by sounds 9y ago
Yes, Intel knows how to play when they own the instruction set (x86, sse1,2,3,4 and amd64). No, amd64 is just cross-licensing between two and only two companies. AMD will never catch Intel. Ergo, Intel owns amd64 too. It shouldn't be a
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by sounds 9y ago
State-enforced law to prevent city fiber builds was exchanged for city-led coop. Said state-enforced law bought and paid for by Comcast, deceptive ad campaign bought and paid for by Comcast, and the city still won. Sounds like a classic und
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by sounds 9y ago
DOCSIS 3.1 is impressive, but it's really the HFC infrastructure that even remotely threatens a FTTx build. The comments far and wide (except as Ajit sees fit to hide) show a new carrier could not even be competitive at DOCSIS 3.1 leve
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by sounds 9y ago
Sorry about the others downvoting you. If you dig into my comment history, I've written about a few ways to do this. Great suggestion.
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by sounds 9y ago
There are distinct schools of thought. "How to structure a program" is subjective but also divisive! Here are the major ones (that I'm aware of), making an effort to be inclusive: 1. Functional programming. It's possible
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by sounds 9y ago
This is a technically creative approach, and I think the internet's future is unfortunately going to be something like this. But I for one would rather take the high road. Please call your senator(s) and representative(s) and let them
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by sounds 9y ago
It seems the goal is to rule it out -- in other words, use the political will centering on interference from abroad to kick start the investigation Ajit Pai is so loath to initiate. It's a political gambit.
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by sounds 9y ago
Your final aside, "good encryption using a key much shorter than the plaintext," is something I hadn't really thought much about and seems like a reasonable way to go directly from a one time pad to the ciphertext. As you say
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by sounds 9y ago
Combined with envelope keys it can be effective for many applications. An envelope key is a securely, randomly generated key used to encrypt the large payload. Then the envelope key (much smaller than the payload) can be encrypted using a o

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