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GPUs are already getting slower

Do you mean the rate of change is slowing down, or that they're actually getting slower?
The engineering problems are all solved and/or trivial.
Nothing is outside our objective reality that I'm aware.

You know when you're learning some new maths, or some other difficult abstract concept, and it just sort of "clicks" eventually and you understand, in whole and all at once? Something like that feeling you can get from drugs like LSD or psilocybin, but you don't actually "learn" anything in the usual sense. You just have a sensation of "getting it" for whatever problem happens to be on your mind, even if asking you to articulate it right then would result in nonsense because the sensation is actually backed by nothing at all.

And I'm not trying to dismiss the experience of using hallucinogens by saying this, either. There is a class of problems people might be working through, which can cause anxiety and depression, and for them the sensation of "getting it" is enough to solve the problem. Hallucinogens are a great thing.

And, to be clear, hallucinogens can also help you reason about your problems and provide actual insights that might not have occurred to you otherwise. However, in that case, you will actually be able to articulate it later, and perhaps even during.

So it's good to have a firm grasp of what you're getting. It's sad if an otherwise good mind falls for the trap of thinking there is actually something there, and becomes obsessed with the "real reality" or whatever secret they think is being revealed to them by their drug use.
This Is What Really Happens to Your Brain When You're Tripping on LSD
> Learn history you sheltered kid

Personal attacks are not welcome on Hacker News. Please don't do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11476347 and marked it off-topic.
>> You fundamentally misunderstand (or apparently disagree with) literally all of
western philosophy and economic thought if you think that charging rents in a
voluntary exchange is 'coercion'.

On the one hand, to say that with any authority you have to be a, well,
authority, on "western philosophy and economic thought" or at least to have read
it. All of it. Have you?

On the other hand, I'm not conversing with "all of western philosophy and
economic thought" here. I'm disagreeing with you about a very specific thing, which btw is not at all whether "charging rents in a voluntary exchange is a coercion". That's your interpretation of my comments.

What I find coercive is charging someone 70% of their
income to let them live at a shithole with the unspoken threat of them becoming
homeless otherwise looming over their head. Not to mention the threat
of kicking them out if they complain about the state of the property, or if
somebody calls the cops on them, and so on, as the article reports.

The people who rent those properties, far from being "free agents" as you
pretend they are, find themselves in dire economic straights and with extremely
limited options. They are under immense pressure to find a house and grave
consequences if they can't pay the rent.

If you consider that "free agency" then you might as well consider extortionate
lending, such as practiced by loan sharks, with the threat of having your legs
broken by thugs if you can't pay, to be a fair and acceptable exchange.

I don't know what "literally all of western philosophy and economic thought"
says about extortion, but I do know it's illegal in most of the world- and for
good reason.
Amazon.com depends on AWS but not all the services and not necessarily in the critical path of serving up pages on the main website.

E.g. All the servers run on EC2 but they don't really use ELB or EBS. S3 is used heavily throughout the company but some of the newer services not so much.
Profiling in general is a really good thing when you're seeing odd load/timing/performance issues... I once found a project was storing its' configuration settings (loaded/cached from DB) in a really badly performing way, an in-memory datatable, with text queries instead of a hashtable (not my design).

A single call wasn't so bad, but the lookup was happening many hundreds of times per request adding seconds to some requests. Wild how much difference a relatively small thing can make.
Not likely. The exhaust normally comes out directly from the engine compartment, forward of the firewall. But the modification moves it farther aft - bringing it closer to where a survalence package would be mounted.

That said, this planes survalence package was probably a guy in the right seat with a 35mm camera. If a camera was mounted on the belly or a window for one installed, that would appear in the airworthiness history. And besides, the police operated this plane in the 80s and 90s, when taking a zillion pictures and sorting through them later wasn't economic.
Cool comment.

We can also look at the daily habits of the ordinary people who create non-junk content every day.

De Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life is all about this: the fertile creativity of people going about their lives, which is overpowered by the glitz of mass media and the seriousness of corporate activity.

That's where my love is, and it's the base for my anti-commercial sentiment. Power to the people.

Corporations didn't invent food, literature, math, love, cleverness, music, fishing, gardening, dancing... they are sponsors at best, tyrants at worst.

So when they try to convince me that, say, music is doomed because of "pirate copying," it really makes me laugh. I have a guitar right here, and two friends who are into folk song...

And all this goddamn stuff they think it's important to consume, including all the goddamn news. To hell with it.
I think that video has been sped up somewhat....
Attacking someone about their country like that is a particularly distasteful breach of civility on Hacker News. It's for Cubans (as for the people of any other nation) to decide the nature of their government; it's certainly not for us to harangue them about it.

Moreover, assuming that what you're saying is true, you're putting the person you're talking to at risk if they answer freely. That's not a fair argument to have and certainly not for fake internet points.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11476566 and marked it off-topic.
So the computations are server-side? Or are you doing some Haskell-to-JS-transpiling?
So far the best comment regarding drug use vs meditation I came across is, that with drugs, you can experience something that is true but not good, or good, but not true. During meditation, on the other hand, you experience what is good and true. I am meditating regularly and I can support that claim about goodness and trueness.

For me, true & not good or good & not true comes with smoking the pot, for example.

With LSD I am not that sure, lately I have been experimenting with microdosing and have mainly positive experiences, close to those of meditation, although sometimes I felt a bit more agitated than usually, but it is just the matter of the right dose, you should be noticing almost nothing special when microdosing.

Interesting is to combine both, microdosing and meditation.
Is this one of those incidentaloma things or are a lot of people actually living very toxic lives?

When you did tests on 100 people's houses, were they surprised by the results enough to pay you for more data?

There's enough fear around this kind of thing, but is there actually anything to fear once you look at the lay of the land of people's homes? (Similar to vitamin analogy... very few first worlders have vitamin deficiency, but there's entire vitamin aisles at the store)
Not a new idea, many had it before.
Nonetheless, it is intellectually interesting, but not practically.

1. Those early users would come for "free" money but how do you shares those shares? Equally by user? by feedback? ponderation by value of the feedback? How do you value it?

2. Those early users will sell those shares to who? Your company : Lowering the capital?

3. Don't you think that real early users would prefer to use your product for life instead of having some shares not really easy to fairly create nor to sell?
Because... Why? I sometimes spend 8 hours at a time in my Rift.
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I make the assumption that you put the inline assembly in a macro. This keeps your C portable. The macro gets pulled in from a header file that is specific to the CPU.

MTRR/PAT won't save you, at least without a huge performance loss, when you want write combining (etc.) for most of the addresses in a page of address space but not all of them.

MTRR/PAT won't save you from reordering that happens in a PCI bridge. It's allowed and it is done.
In Southern India Project Green Hands ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_GreenHands ) has focused on planting trees by hand. On 17th October 2007 they started a tree planting marathon that resulted in 852,587 saplings being planted in 6284 locations across 27 districts in Tamil Nadu by over 256,289 volunteers in just three days - fairly modest average per person but still enough to set a world record.

Planting 1 trillion trees by 2020 would take each of us 7.3 billion planting around 140 trees over the next 4 years.
I recently read the everything store, and amazon and the things that they did at amazon is just epic
I'm not a mod but I know they don't remove comments like that.
>> the feeling of a connection

He's writing about the snail, and we, in replying, are all talking about the snail he's talking about.

The snail made quite an impression. And he's more aware of the snail than he would be without taking LSD.

He's taken the LSD. The snail changed how his mind works - it affected the words you wrote today - and my words, too. If he didn't have anything, you wouldn't be writing about it, and I wouldn't be replying to you. Your comment is real, as is mine, as is the impression the snail made on him.

It cannot be a "fake" experience, if he experienced it in actuality.

His experience of the snail was changed, though it's appropriate to say the snail's experience of him was not changed much by him taking LSD.

>> i could feel him as part of me, connected, in this journey called life.

The snail is part of him now. It's even a part you, and me, too, in participating conversation involving him.
The point was that adding another point for potential failure still won't reduce the chance of failure... it's just something else that can and will break.

In any case, failures happen, and most systems are better off being as simple as possible and accepting the unforeseen failures than trying to add complexity to overcome them.
so tell me any theory that tries to validate the existence of non-material consciousness. Giving loads of names of scientists won't help in establishing what modern science says about consciousness.
The current stance is to try to define consciousness in physical terms (as a matterial substance) but with no success. As per scientists consciousness behaves to be more than the sum total of neurons in the brain. It's impossible so far to articulate consciousness in The law of thermodynamic, so hence the material hypothesis has never stood a chance. Non-material is where science hasn't taken a single step AFAIK yet.
Public transport payment system != product safety system.
The way to validate your product is to talk to people who actually want the product. If you buy feedback (with money, shares, etc) then you'll be getting feedback from people who want the reward, but not necessarily the product.

Not to mention the fact that if your startup is a success the shares you give away are going to be diluted to hell as soon as you get any investment, so you'll only be getting feedback from people who don't understand that their reward is actually worthless, which would make me question whether or not their feedback is actually going to be useful. I might even ask if you know that and you're try to scam people in to giving you feedback for free while making them think there's something in it for them.

tl;dr It's a bad idea.
If the 2000s didn't kill Oracle what will?

In the case of Hadoop, it might be possible to transparently translate the scripts to a GPU backend.
Based on Nvidia's Pascal launch I think you could argue that not only are GPUs getting faster but that the range of change just dramatically accelerated (due to a process node shrink and introduction of super-fast HBM2 memory).
'Getting rejected from YC is in no way a reflection of the quality of your startup'

Yes it is a reflection on quality. They no doubt get it wrong but they have a pretty good track record so it does have some reflection on quality. They are not just randomly picking people. If you have applied 10 times in a row then stop, just stop and get on with building your business.

Getting into YC is a bonus but stop obsessing on it. Facebook and Google didn't go through YC and they seem to have done well. Concentrate on building your business.
Kind of the point... adding more possibilities for failure, at increased complexity and expense isn't always worth it... and I'd say usually isn't.
Scandinavian languages already have "programmering" for "computering" if you want to sound quaint.
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Haven't we gotten over the 'if X has failed then Y must fail too' argument yet? Technology progression doesn't always follow such simple rules. Eg. Since the Newton failed, the iPhone must fail too.
> It happened at Amazon

AWS has never had a worldwide outage of anything (feel free to correct me). It's not about finding "the airline that never crashed", it's finding the airline whose planes don't crash all at the same time. It's pretty surprising coming from Google because 15 years ago they already had a world-class infrastructure, while Amazon was only known for selling books on the Internet.

Regarding the response times, I recognize that Amazon could do better on the communication during the outage. They tend to wait until there is a complete failure in an availability zone to put the little "i" on their green availability checkmark, and not signal things like elevated error rates.
Anyone else a little fed up with the "Hey, I'm the CEO of the company emailing you! This message is TOTALLY not automated." style of onboarding emails?
That sounds awesome, care to share?
Got your Power Delivery right here.﻿
Communication skills are important, but you need to know when to shut the fuck up. That's what's universally important and entirely true.

Instructions are never perfect. It's whether you can get the job done anyway, once you know what is being asked of you, which is mostly a one time initiation. Ever see someone repeatedly asking and questioning what is being asked of them? That's someone who is going to struggle for the rest of their lives in every professional environment someone accidentally put them in.

Supervisors don't want to hear about imperfections that you could have worked around yourself. You aren't being paid to call and talk and yap. You're being paid to deliver. Your approach is academic already, and goes to prove my point. Instructions only need to meet you half way. In fact, less the more for you. This is why it's completely academically backwards. The more you get done with fewer instructions, the more valuable you are because you cost less time.

Imagine a Postal Worker questioning the features on their mobile device (which clearly suck). They're being paid to work with it, not question it and talk about it.

Communication skills are important, but communication itself is an absolute bottleneck in any workflow (with emphasis on flow). Minimize communication volume, and maximize communication value. Work is no excuse to talk.

But that doesn't mean all work is anti-academic. Most of it is though. The best academic jobs will always be in academia.
I have this funny feeling that Tronsmart, RAVPower, Aukey and Anker are using the same factory for these - very similar specs and features for all of these chargers. If I had the cash to get 5x ~$50 devices tested by someone like Clive, I'd definitely do it. I do worry about the internals of the device being swapped out silently by the manufacturers, though.
I'd rather give $100 billion to 2 million people and have 1 million of them do nothing than give $100 billion to 1 person and have 1 million people starve.

Social assistance programs are so meager and inexpensive compared to the cut we give to the finance industry. It's ridiculous to begrudge social assistance to people who need it just because some people who receive it don't.

Frankly, I'm just not offended that some people don't work. There aren't useful things for a lot of people to do. I'm much more offended that some people are rewarded incomprehensible amounts of money which no human can possibly be worth, often for activities that are actively harmful.
Fringe, anyone?
I never had bad feelings on MDMA, or afterwards. No comedown either, on the contrary, plenty of afterglow. The interpersonal variability of these experiences is amazing.
The Problem is that GCP doesn't run an RDS service with PostgreSQL. And external vendors are mostly more costly than AWS RDS. Especially for some customer homepages where you want to run on managed stuff as cheap as possible.
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Not sure about the choice you typically get in a US supermarket, but speaking from experience living in Europe, it's really best to turn your intuitions upside down. Most vegetables and fruit just taste way better, the further they are from their common variant, since there was less chance to select taste out of them. So, for example with tomatoes go dark, yellow, oval shaped, 'deformed' ('oxen hearts' a.k.a. cuoro di bue). With carrots go yellow or dark.
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He has a propellant tank on his back and it's clearly some kind of combustion taking place. Still, seems a bit implausible.
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Personally I have gotten access to some legitimately good products via ads. So, I don't believe advertising is destroying things - only irresponsible, immoral advertisements of bad products is. This latter form of advertising thrives only via junk content(like daily newspapers, reality television etc.). No good company will be willing to advertise its products via junk content and no creator of good content is going to let a bad product get advertised. So I feel, speaking against junk content is the way to go. That way we will have good content making money by advertising products that actually deserve it while also getting rid of bad companies and junk content.

If you are thinking of blocking ads then that will hit not only the pockets of junk content creators(which is fine) but also that of good content creators who will then eventually turn to the junk.
1. The Tesla is a status symbol for people.

2. It's a 1k deposit. I just purchased a car last year, otherwise I probably would have put down 1k on the chance I do decide to buy a Tesla.
Probably because FrontEndLayer needs to talk to LegacyLayer1 who talks to LegacyLayer2...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTskUKq81MQ
Case in point, even Ford was having trouble meeting demand for their new F-150 last year.

Something else to consider. Tesla sold about 50k model S last year. Ford sold that many F-150s, in a month.
AWS had several major outages in the past, especially between 2009 and 2012. In some cases, it was not only downtime, but also data loss, which is the hardest part. 8,760 hours in a year, if you are down for a total of less than 8.7 hours, you're in the >99.9% uptime category (also called "three 9s").
Four 9s (99.99%) is considered a nice plus. Very few businesses really need that.

However, uptime is one thing. Data loss is another different beast.

AFAIK, this one for Google is only downtime. Being able to maintain GCE up for most of the year, except a few hours, means more than 99.9% availability, which is what most customers need.

Operational excellence, or the ability to have your cloud up and running, comes only with a large customer set; Google is now gaining a lot of significant customers (Spotify, Snapchat, Apple, etc), and therefore I expect them to learn what's needed over the coming months.

2016 will be ok. 2017, in my view, will be near perfect.

If Google wants to differentiate them from AWS, they should offer an SLA on data integrity (at a premium, obviously). Here's how you can get thousands of enterprise customers.

Shameless plug: I've also extensively written about AWS, Azure and GCE here: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2016-3f...
PostScript really is a lovely programming language. Some 20 years ago, I used a development environment (PSAlter) that made it quite palatable -- visualising dictionaries and stacks -- and made it possible to step through programs.

There exists a nice free e-book describing PostScript (Thinking in PostScript by Glenn C. Reid) [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000914161447/http://www.rightb...

EDIT

While looking for the Thinking in PostScript book mentioned above, I stumbled upon this legal online archive for books on the net [2] which may be of interest to others.

[2] http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
the B stands for Berkeley, California
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Yep, there is a ton of useful stuff you could do with ar/vr.

My wishes:

AR:

Keeping an eye on something while doing something else. Anything from udemy to a simple timer or a webcam on the delivery dock.

VR:

A wearable replacement for a multiscreen setup. Possibly with a cam in front so you can adjust translucency to get back at office pranksters the first few months.

Edit:

Bonus of a easy-to-use VR solution that goes mainstream: work on widescreen on the train, plane or whatever without nobody nosing into your business (eh, as long as you stay away from Oculus Facebook:-P )

Already done on AR:

- temperature and other sensoe overlays

- escape routes

What I don't need:

- everything google glass turned out to be it seems.
meditation is just like teaching yourself programming for years. after 10k hours of practice in either you can reach to a state of expertise. E.G., you can write any kind of software in your expertise with ease. Similarly you can repeat the same experience as per your wish (like traveling through different planes of existance, hering/seeing extra-dimensional stuff and much more).

Taking drug to experience the state is like throwing yourself onto the source code without any learning/experience to fix a bug. You might end up fixing the bug by accident in some cases, but it can very well lead to other failures which you couldn't imagine with virtually zero experience in programming. More often you end up having bad experiences In both and frustration thereafter.
So that they don't need to obtain a copy of the image in the first place? Also a much lesser crime if they get caught.
In my experience, the SW in the auto industry is broken and inefficient.
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Getting a solution is easy. The slow part is ensuring you've found the best one.
Seriously? I can't believe the SciAm actually published this article.
Leave Donald Trump alone bro.
I think you meant to link to this for the better quality image:

http://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/nmicrobiol/2016/nmi...

The NYT has a "super jumbo" diagram as well:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/04/12/science/11TREEOFL...