skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be useful for consumer cards as well: a tiny (0.25-2x VRAM) compiled shader or texture cache could possibly help with the framerate dips (microstutters).

I know that PCIe bandwidth is not really an issue and SSD latency is significantly higher than RAM (but with NVMe pushing below 3 µs it makes you wonder how low a custom interface could go..)
> The graphics card has already been demonstrated rendering a raw 8K video – the initial demo showed this running at 17 frames per second, and switching to the SSG, that was boosted to over 90 frames per second.

I doubt that the same GPU was used. If it is, we're in trouble (or have unoptimized software). I thought that someone would have already solved the "let's stream data in and out and not interrupt whatever the GPU is doing" problem, but meanwhile many people are fretting over what PCIe version (thus, attained speeds) they can use.
It's a picture of a physical camera with a big lens, and a physical print of a photo with a white border. Supposedly representing an app that people use to store and organize photos they take with a phone and view on a display screen.
Yes, but because he doesn't work as much, he has time to do this. Lol.
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One of my favorite anti-Chomsky quotes comes from the man himself. It represents a lot of what I find at fault with his approach:

I emphasized biological facts, and I didn't say anything about historical or social facts. And I am going to say nothing about these elements in language acquisition. The reason is that I think they are relatively unimportant.
-- Chomsky, N. (1998), Language and Mind: Current Thoughts and Ancient Problems
> the definitive Emacs since '76

The Emacs from 76 and GNU Emacs are totally different programs.

> When you think Emacs, you typically don't think THIEF, EINE, ZWEI, FINE, Edwin, Climacs, Hemlock, Efuns, Zile, QEmacs, Multics Emacs, Gosling Emacs, JOVE, JEmacs, Guile Emacs, or Ermacs.

Talk about you.

When I think of Emacs, then I think of Aquamacs (a variant of GNU Emacs), Zmacs (which I have running on a real Lisp Machine and under emulation), Clozure CL's editor (which is a Hemlock variant) on my Mac and the LispWorks editor under OSX and Linux, which is also a Hemlock variant.

Actually the Emacs I use most, is the one in LispWorks. GNU Emacs comes second.
Languages are not so much a collection of features ...

If you want to define objects precisely, even just to have a language spec, they are absolutely made up of sums, products, recursive types, etc. Whatever useful metaphors one might have to work with objects doesn't change what they actually are. If you give the programmer access to these building blocks, you get ML.

Calling them just domain specific ...

I meant that the particular way they're combined to get OOP is domain-specific.

Again, I'm just asking: why mess with the basics? Why require encoding simple, universal concepts in terms of an ad-hoc object system? You can still have an object system on top, if you find that helps with the really complicated cases, but why encode the parts of your code that are simple in terms of much more complicated, derived concepts?
> One-Month Sabbatical Every Three Years: Every three years, employees are eligible to take a one-month-long sabbatical.

For some reason, I keep being surprised how a month long vacation is called "sabbatical" in American terms while in Europe everyone gets 4-6 week vacation every year, and it's not that rare to take it all at once.

4 days summer work week is nice.
I know this comment will get downvoted, but I'm going to say it anyway because I think it's true.

I see in the article how 10-15% of the units will be reserved for "low income". I understand why they do this. If they didn't, it would never get approval from the necessary zoning authority. However, I think it's a mistake.

When people think "low income" they usually think of poignant cases of single mothers trying to raise kids, but in my experience that's not as common as we think.

I live in an SF building where I'd estimate at least 10% of the residents are retired. I think most are on Social Security and using Section 8. I know my neighbor is because she doesn't speak much English (she's Russian) and she brings me her mail to read. I'm guessing the other retirees (almost all Russian immigrants) are in the same boat.

In my opinion, if retirees need public assistance, they should live in a lower-cost area like Livermore, Gilroy, or Santa Rosa, not one of the most expensive neighborhoods in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Heck, I'd love to live in those areas if my job didn't require me to be in downtown SF every day.

But that would make too much sense. Instead, every new housing unit has to have some portion reserved for "low income" so the local politicians can have some currency to spread around among their supporters - and if you don't think they do this you are kidding yourself.

Constantly taking 10-15% of supply and restricting it to low income just raises housing costs for everyone else - and it's a double-whammy too because it's our tax dollars funding this unnecessarily lavish lifestyle (and $3K/month for a studio is lavish - there's no getting around it.)

If you can't afford to live in a certain level of housing in a certain area at market prices, then you shouldn't live there, you should live somewhere cheaper. If the people companies want to hire can't afford to live within a reasonable distance then companies should pay more. If they can't pay more they should leave.

Companies and jobs leaving will be the only way to lower demand and prices - and probably the only way to wake leaders up and get them to address our poor housing policies.
The problem is that the "foreign investors" are not _investors_. They are more like money launderers in terms of what they're looking for out of their "investment".

That is, for these people it's totally ok to pay X now and only get 0.9X out of the property later, because their other option is not having the use of the money at all. It may well be OK for many of them to pay X now and only get 0.5X out later, and for some of them it's ok to pay X now and only get 0.1X out later. They would obviously prefer a better deal, but unlike a normal home-buyer or real-estate investor expecting a huge loss on later sale of the property is not necessarily something that will stop them from buying.

There may be better places to "invest" in, but finding them may be more trouble than they are willing to take.
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2 questions - what kind of leg work is involved, and how much is a fair bit of money? Is it possible with 250k of working capital?
Does it matter? There are plenty of people suffering from problems that can't be fixed by pills or therapy and who are not mentally capable of suicide. Suffering may be a choice for some, but it is not a choice for many.
There is no scenario where you should feel compelled to pay their legal fees. Perhaps they will think again before starting to run up a legal tab on a term sheet in the future.

That said, if this is a <$5k amount of legal bill… I might just offer to split it to leave cordially.
Please share the name of this investor.
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Well, I wish I had enough karma to downvote you, for a start.
Big corporate lawyer has a conflict if interests. Every lawsuit they bring is big $$$, who cares if valid or not. Of course they could go too far and get in trouble I guess, but all they need is a shred of merit.

IANAL but I would ask one vs posting on hacker news. If this goes the wrong way, it could destroy your startup.
Sorry but that argument is shallow. Given it's a throwaway account is assume even just "troll".

It would only work if the work opportunities in that region are perfectly balanced between m/f and there would be no media/culture sharing between western + other world.
>I have been following the recent hacks by the OurMine group, and find it all fascinating.

Just some kids using someone elses tools to search through someone elses database collection. In this case the compromised journos password appears to have been "camus8" or "albertcamus8".

Don't reuse your passwords guys.
The question aaron695 proposed was "Because an amazing technology was misused a little while changing the world it scares you?"

My answer is yes. That doesn't mean I'd have delayed x-rays used by medical professionals, or any of the myriad technologies that did harm when they first came out. I would, however, be worried about them myself, and would want to make it painfully clear to anyone looking into it that the tech's long term effects are unknown. We've been bitten on this repeatedly, and almost every time it's been a trivial use of an eventually useful tech.
Yes, company towns went out of vogue decades ago... But in new growing economies, company built apartment complexes available to rent by employees is not unusual and foes effectively address housing needs in for example, Korea and China. They're not like the company town of yore or the ones in interior Brazil, etc. They don't have the aspect of milking every cent from their workers, on the other hand they do likely buy loyalty, to dome degree.
The judge seems super sensible.

Bitcoin is not money: it is not M0/M1. It can be traded for money or for other assets - barter. It may be treated as money, but it is not money.

It may overtake money as a unit of exchange, at some point, IMHO probably never (central banks will come up with equivalent functioning if and only if block chains stop taking days/weeks/months to implement on clients), but it is not money, now.
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I've worked extensively with both of the first two and they are excellent teammates; I'd be happy to work with either of them again. They are both very productive, and your hypothesis that they are both managers is incorrect.
Ludicrous. Let people decide that for themselves. I can't believe anyone is seriously suggesting force medicating us because it seems to be correlated (note, correlation, not necessarily causation) with a drop of suicide, homicide and rape. We don't even know how lithium would cause such a thing and its exact effect on the psyche.

I have been following the field of psychology and psychiatry closely and let me tell you, they are not only far from understanding and curing the causes of mental disorders, they are also prescribing very harmful medication based on biased research funded by pharma. What you are arguing for is very dangerous.

And even if it was shown to be beneficial beyond doubt, why not make these supplements available in another form, cheaply and conveniently? State mandated force medication is not only infantilizing to the extreme, it also violates essential liberties of the people.
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I agree the old window zoom, as it was called, was the best. I know Windows user hate it, and so many of the recent changes seem to have been to placate Windows user complaints. I liked my Mac the way it was. We don't need to appeal to Windows users.
That's not an opinion... You made a statement that's either true or false.
I've been using Macs since, well... Forever, and writing about them for over a decade over at http://taoofmac.com

I'd say this piece is too opinionated by design - not only does it ignore the almost relentless iterative approach Apple has taken with aesthetics, it reads a lot like linkbait.

But hey, that's just my opinion. :)
> and the storage it uses is automatically permanent

Is it also automatically replicated to a distributed storage pool so that it is mirrored to all of your other containers? Because that's what people are talking about when they discuss "container storage" -- they're discussing creating storage for a distributed system.

You can create persistence incredibly easily with runC (the core executor for Docker). In fact, runC by default just allows you to store all of your state in your container's rootfs (you need to manually add mounts to make your state run in a tmpfs). It's just not very useful to have all of your state on one of your compute nodes.

I really don't understand why you keep pretending that we're focusing on the simple things. If I didn't know better, I would think that you're trying to distort the problems we're discussing (which are problems for every system) into very easy problems that SmartOS has solved (but also every other operating system has solved as well). As someone who thinks SmartOS has some very powerful technology, I'm surprised that an advocate of SmartOS is resorting to strawmanning the problems that we're discussing. Surely the technology should stand for itself.
I can only point to the fact that cars and transportation in general are obviously about to be heavily disrupted by software--in many ways. Just like phones and communications in 2006.
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Then we should also think about whether governments in areas where lithium is naturally higher have an obligation to remove it from their citizens' water.
Being extremely depressed actually reduces short term risks of suicide because planning shuts down. It's the middle ground where things are bad, but people can still think that has the highest risks.*

*Excluding hospital assisted suicide where someone OD's on pain medication under end of life pain.
And I've been over by where FB is building the new apartments. It's nice. Lots of salt ponds around a hilly park that used to be a dump (hence the hill.) There's an old water treatment facility which I think still operates. There's a bit of a smell, thought I couldn't tell if that was from the facility or the wetlands. All told, it's a nice area and I'm guessing the dump, sewage treatment, and occasional smell are the reason people haven't built here before.
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Yeah, they had some amazing meticulous artistry that they use to put into everything. I remember one of my old bosses (who use to work at Apple) talking about a special guy that Steve had, that use to create all the icons. He'd even make all that the imagery of the iphones and stuff on the home and product pages of the website by hand, all vector... But the newer stuff is less busy and way more navigable. Yes, there's less color, and concepts that are sometimes too abstract. But it's all still better for the user, in my opinion... Great, thought provoking article, though.
I'll go the opposite of most of the comments here.

Assuming a NO attitude right from the start is probably not the way to go. Telling them to "Pound Sand" or just plain NO is not in your best interest. First, you should let the B investors know about this - ASAP. Second, you should start by emailing the GP at firm A and asking him to clarify why they think "you should pay" their legal fees.

With this information, you should consult your legal counsel on how is best to proceed. Most likely the A VC firm feels like you didn't negotiate in good faith and you made them spend money with no intention to accept their offer. You should in this case talk to the GP at that firm and show him that you wanted to close a deal with them and you even made them aware of another offer and asked them to reconsider the terms.

Most of this issues are easily solved if you discuss things with the other party. Assuming a NO attitude from the start, just brings everyones worst character and might land you in a legal dispute.
very much, yes, though I prefer a full KDE desktop (and Vim). I don't see a difference in battery life. if I used XFCE or LXDE, I'd probably have even better battery life.
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Is there anything Apple could announce they are making where you wouldn't post this quote? Private prisons? Spaceships? Artifical asteroid colonies?
Martin Hart: So... what's the point of getting' outta bed in the morning?

Rustin Cohle: I tell myself I bear witness. But the real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.

--True Detective
You actually TALK on the phone? I have one of the smallest voice plans AT&T offers that still has unlimited text and even that has way too many minutes. I think the only number I actually call is my parents' land line. Even my dentist's office texts appointment reminders instead of calling.
I'd think one of the biggest reasons for slow adoption is the same as our broadband adoption- It's hard for effectively 2 big companies to reliably provide service for 300 million people spread out over something like 8 million km^2 (for the lower 48 states) and have it still be affordable. For example a friend of mine still didn't have internet access at all in the 2010s because they would have had to pay to have special construction done near their house in addition to the high monthly bill.
And how do they find your phone number from your name?
Indeed modern GPUs do copies over the bus while executing shaders/kernels. But once you saturate the bus, you are limited in how much shader execution you can accomplish as a result. If this scene required more textures than fit in memory, it would benefit from having a local DDR-accessible cache instead of having to grab it over PCIe.
same here, using it for internal projects where supporting old browsers is not issue, works good enough.
on a different project I used one of the bootswatch themes and last I checked those were 3.x though so still hanging there.
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Yeah exactly - frankly, I think some of it may be that many teams are micromanaged in their day-to-day, hour-to-hour tasks, and it's tough to be a knowledge sharing leader and still code.
It seems very likely that this is a context issue or typical mind fallacy.

The View From Hell is written by an anti-natalist and, if I recall, 'nonpracticing suicide'. This, I think, is someone who has a radically different baseline for "desire to live" than a lot of the people responding to it.

And, on the flip side, a statement like "the drive to survive is what's fundamental" might well sound completely bizarre to the writer. The idea that despair and sadness are about avoiding things detrimental to survival is at best situationally true, as evidenced by all the times when people find those feelings themselves detrimental to survival.

But aside from all of that, I think this doesn't invalidate the basic claim that a lot of the things stopping somewhat-suicidal people are not the desire to live. At the point where someone is considering suicide, their "life drive" wiring is obviously not a whole answer - so it remains relevant to look at the large number of suicide ideators who are held back by fear, or motivation issues, or other indirect reservations.
It's an interesting question.

There is

http://www.acm.org/

which supports the academic CS establishment but frankly has a "devil may care" attitude about practitioners. CACM is full of hand-wringing articles about the roller-coastering numbers of CS undergrads and they never once get a clue that the undergrads hear rumours about what happens to people in computing once the flush of youth wears off. (It's a general thing that engineers start out with good pay but hit a glass ceiling rapidly)

I used to be a member but I quit because of this. If I had to point to a particular issue it is that the ACM has unquestioning support of increasing H-1B visas.

I am a member of the IEEE Computer Society precisely because they take the opposite side.

Personally it is not a litmus test for me, I see there are two sides of the issue, but when you look at the ACM they are in lockstep with the industry which sees it as a one-sided issue and anybody who questions it is like one of those brits that likes to brawl at football matches.

Anti-professionalism (that is, active opposition and resistance to professionalism) is the dominant paradigm in IT and it creates "market for lemons" situations that has a number of negative impacts on the field, the worst of which is that once you do get the job (well paid or not) you will almost inevitably be forced into malpractice by management and not have anybody to support you.

If there was a simple explanation of the situation it is that computing came along in a time when unions were on the run. Had computers became widespread 20 or 30 years earlier, the situation might be very different.
> In its early days, there was a lot of talk about the “natural laws of the Internet” and how it would empower the masses, upend traditional power blocks, and spread freedom throughout the world. The international nature of the Internet made a mockery of national laws. Anonymity was easy. Censorship was impossible. Police were clueless about cybercrime. And bigger changes were inevitable. Digital cash would undermine national sovereignty. Citizen journalism would undermine the media, corporate PR, and political parties. Easy copying would destroy the traditional movie and music industries. Web marketing would allow even the smallest companies to compete against corporate giants. It really would be a new world order.

Reading it written like this, I think I understand why it was that the Internet as it was couldn't last: it was, effectively, a state of nature. The Internet was a great frontier, where folks were finally freed of the constraints of the old order.

The problem is that the old order itself was formed out of the chaos of an older frontier still — and that frontier was populated by folks escaping an even older order, and so on back to the dawn of man.

The state of nature is inherently unstable, because people will band together to use violence and/or the threat of violence against those who violate their mores, whether those mores are going to church on Sundays in the Middle Ages (as various heretics discovered) or not giving to conservative charities (as Brendan Eich discovered). Some people want a frontier (generally, those who are relatively weak in the current order and wish to escape its establishment) but, once they have established a sphere of power for themselves, they defend it and become the new establishment.

If only there were a way to ensure a permanent frontier, where dissenters and freethinkers (and, yes, criminals) can escape and form their own orders, until their own dissenters and freethinkers escape away again.

I don't think most people want that, though. We saw it with the collapse of Ethereum's DAO. We see it every time someone says, 'there ought to be a law.' We see it every time a government forces someone to do something he would rather not do. People want safety; they want security; they want conformity; they want power over others.
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This is inflammatory and insulting. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164429 and marked it off-topic.
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My new Erlang story: about dialyzer and the shoemaker's son
Perhaps FB/Google/Etc should subsidize the cost of employees purchasing property (similar to tenured track profs at Stanford) until they reach a critical mass of voters that can affect changes to allow denser housing.
In a tribal society, the chances of them being fine would be greater than in the classic nuclear family. So it depends on a lot of other factors.

I'm not 100% sure how to interpret evolutionary minutiae in human society past the basic agrarian level. Factor isolation becomes quite difficult. E.O. Wilson effects come into play.

If I may, the Stoics thought suicide a perfectly acceptable reaction to being "checkmated" in life - if there was a significantly unresolvable ethical dilemma, fall on your sword. The Stoics were the principal competitors to the Church early on, which led to proscriptions against suicide ( some say ).
No. It's not. At best you're just trolling.