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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Surveillance is everywhere. Go ask Edward Snowden about PRISM program by NSA
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
This makes little financial sense to me. At Tesla's scale, the cost to commoditize AI chips out-weighs the gains from commodity AI chips as they will not be dirt cheap. Tesla sells less than 100K cars every year. A decent datacenter wi
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
GPU's are still used in mining. But the majority of large-scale miners use ASIC chips to mine coins. ASIC chips are just more efficient and powerful. They are designed only for mining.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Brendan is one of the few guys who try to squeeze the last drop of performance from kernels. He is brilliant and has done some great work.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Interesting code. Some first impressions. 1. This gigantic file can be split into multiple smaller files. It takes even a while for my browser to render the whole source file. 2. There is inline assembly in the code. Is this for performanc
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Everything is built on top of previous work which I do not intend to diminish here. But, Satoshi is a total genius. The complexity and ingenuity of Bitcoin are just amazing.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
As a consumer, it's great to see competition picking up in the CPU market. Intel does not seem to be able to hold the edge in node process as tsmc and Samsung are matching intel. It has to resort to architecture design.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Not only China and India emit much less CO2 per capita, the US has emitted far more CO2 than any other country accumulatively. The US has been industrialized for more than one hundred years and had been the No1 emitter of CO2 for more than
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Haters are going to hate. naysayers are gonna naysay. Such negative sentiment. How is planting one billion trees not a good thing? In terms of energy consumption per capita, China is less than one third of the US while Pakistan is less than
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
After having been working on compiler and PLs for more than a decade, you would feel bored and want new challenges. Besides, Chris did not leave PL, he is still involved in Swift, LLVM etc.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Are these numbers about the source (where VCs are located) of capital or destination (where the funding goes)? Many SF startups get funding from Menlo Park but they are still used in SF. Is this counted as SF or Silicon Valley funding?
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Arguably, it is better for the entire humanity if PhDs and other talent are spread out across the whole world rather than monopolized by one single nation. That's how knowledge gets transferred and the whole world improves.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
AWS has got so complex.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Wow, interesting stuff. I have not used Uber for a long time. Lyft is my goto app.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Travis did not lose his life's work per say. He was forced out by investors while he still keeps all his shares and still remains the president of the board and has a huge say in choosing a successor who will likely be his puppet. The
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Uber provides certain value to customers. It would not exist in the first place if it does not. Riders get cheaper and faster rides than old taxi cabs. Drivers get jobs which would be harder otherwise. However, does that justify Uber's
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Uber is the largest in the US, not across the world. Didi provides way more rides than Uber any single day.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
How does this make Uber the nice guy if the riders tip drivers, not Uber? Uber still takes a cut of up to 25% of the fare. Anyway, riders can always tip drivers with small cash.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
With all the prolonged delays of features in Java, whether it is Java 10, 11, or 12 is still in question. As an instance, Jigsaw was proposed to be a driving feature of Java 7, and then delayed to Java 8 and even Java 9. And recently it was
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Given that we are not even close to the official release of Java 9 and whether the proposal to JVM specification will be accepted and implemented for which version, it is largely inaccurate to title the article "Java 10 - Specification
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
This title is hugely misleading. The value types specification is for JVM, the platform, not Java 10. You can compile a large number of source languages to run on JVM, such as Java, Scala, Closure, Groovy, Kotlin, Javascript etc. just to na
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
You need to chill out and look at the future, not the past. If you dwell on the past, many countries have invaded many other countries. The British colonized and ruled the US for a long time. The US invaded Mexico and seized large portion o
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
> They realize we're in a second cold war... For God's sake, don't start another cold war. This is an established incumbent, who has monopolized world power for decades, feeling threatened by a new kid in town. Any progres
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Interesting article. Not many people work on low-level storage engines nowadays.
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by nullnilvoid 9y ago
After years of development, databases and file systems borrow ideas from each other. I am not surprised that the breakeven range might be expanded. It would be interesting to re-visit the conclusions with current databases, file systems, ha
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Waymo retires its cute self-driving car in favor of minivans(theverge.com)
1 points by nullnilvoid 9y ago|0 comments
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The U.S. Is Ahead of China in AI Innovation–for Now(wsj.com)
1 points by nullnilvoid 9y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Tech Companies Are Now Copying Chinese Peers(wsj.com)
1 points by nullnilvoid 9y ago|0 comments
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Lyft capitalizes on Uber scandals(azfamily.com)
1 points by nullnilvoid 9y ago|0 comments
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Uber’s Chief Is Gaining Even More Clout in the Company(nytimes.com)
2 points by nullnilvoid 9y ago|0 comments

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