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> this is the difference between "people should have housing" and "being homeless should be illegal"

Whoa, that's a bit of a strawman innit? If someone proposed punishment for workers getting paid less than X, it'd be an appropriate analogy. But people are instead proposing punishment for employers who pay workers less than X.

To be relevant, your analogy ought to be something like "evicting people should be illegal".
There are already plenty of incentives to build up, as pointed out in the article; the issue is that existing home owners in the area have a strong incentive to fight against it.
Because everyone wants to get the opportunity for that one "why yes, I..." comeback and it is a joy to see it.
I extended GAFAM to GAFAME, but that's not a good thing for Ethereum:

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/860970968143060992
Right, but I think that has a lot to do with interacting with a large, diverse, group of people in your day to day life. Won't this still be true for people who live in the country but commute to the city every day?
All out. This is typical:

nvidia-smi
Tue May 23 01:41:58 2017
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 375.39 Driver Version: 375.39 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Graphics Device Off | 0000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 57% 84C P2 257W / 250W | 11010MiB / 11171MiB | 95% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

That's during training. I'm running a minimal desktop to have maximum ram for the minibatch (and it still isn't enough but it will have to do).
Are you sure? Truck burns 6 miles/ gallon. New EPA regulations in 21 century actually increased fuel consumptions since about 20% of engine's power goes to cleaning the air. Modern car use 30+Miles/gallon.
Does the internet archive not suffice? That's the most coordinated, well known long-term preservation effort I know of.

You can upload media, the foundation isn't just for archiving websites.
>If that GPU is a real bottleneck for you, then you're much better off spending money on GCP/AWS's GPU offerings. That's because consumer GPUs get superseeded every year and online offering's price will only go down.

GCP and AWS have old GPUs and they are really really expensive. If you expect to run workloads for a long time, it would be more cost efficient to buy your own hardware.
No, the Bay Area can not handle more density until the 101 and commuting is fixed.

The real problem though is urbanization. People just want to live in cities as opportunities in rural areas dry up.

Honestly, I don't think there is any solution in a free society. The simple fact is in the future status, real status not just gold necklaces and fast cars, will be about where you live.

Taking zoning rights away from local voters is a pretty awful idea. We can't be all about freedom and privacy and give up local control.
It's worse than inefficient. It's actively counter-productive, as it increases welfare at the expense of reducing the number of opportunities to benefit from that welfare.

e.g. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2951110
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative

There are pros and cons. Sometimes buying in is really expensive, sometimes you can't sell your share, sometimes it losses value. Sometimes the share is really cheap it's equivalent to rent apartment.

My student housing in Denmark was like this. Buy-in was 10$ or so, and you could never sell. But you get to vote on things like, representatives, higher rent, maintenance, etc :)

If I had to rent long-term I would definitely prefer that.
That's certainly why I do it.

Getting Anker products is so much easier and quicker than the old way of trawling through pagefuls of cables trying to find those that appeared spec compliant (thanks, Benson!), reasonable quality, and don't try any scams like "Fully USB 3.1 compatible" thanks to USB 2.0 fallback.
Cool concept - what sorts of tasks are you hoping to do in the future?
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I haven't seen any of these stories let alone fallen for them. Flynn is bad enough.
Something more popular than PHP.

I got into web development in the last 2000's doing PHP backend development and CMS work, and now everyone seems to have gotten into more opinionated dev environments that really involve anything but PHP.
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AMDs benchmarks are highly doubtful.
DeepBench isn't a benchmark it's a benchmarking tool they haven't released what dataset nor what code were they running.

Their SpecPerf View benchmarks were a total FUD they compared NVIDIAs consumer (GeForce) drivers against Radeon Pro drivers.

The SPV benchmarks look impressive until you realize they are lower than a Quadro M5000 which is based on the same Maxwell chip that drives the 980ti.

NVIDIA's consumer drivers (and the non Pro AMD ones) are simply horrible for CAD and other professional workloads.

AMD has been touting better performance than NVIDIA GPUs in compute since Fiji and they do not deliver.

It's also important to note that VEGA will have FP64 performance at 1/32 while the P100 is at 1/2.

I'm sure you can find an OpenCL workload that NVIDIA would be utterly trash in because the code is not optimized heck working with 256 batches as recommended for AMD rather than 1024 as recommended for NVIDIA would achive that alone.
Indeed. This is known to be a factor in the Bangkok area. Huge amounts of ground water are pumped from the aquifer and the land is subsiding as a result. It is making the a annual local flooding problem during rainy season worse, particularly when there is heavy runoff during a high tide.
A really great find. Thanks for the recommendation.
In general, a lot of the same politics apply to the suburbs and exurbs of large cities as the downtown cores. (There are differences based on wealth but it's not a clear liberal/conservative split.)

I'd also note that a lot of jobs are not actually in cities but in suburban and exurban areas. In the Boston area, for example, I expect the majority of tech jobs are outside of the cities in spite of a significant increase in recent years.
As the Romans said, "Solvitur ambulando" (it is solved by walking).
I can confirm this. It was/has been a major source of revenue since the recession around '07-'08.
Those white male retired coal miners living on welfare in trailer parks and dying of black lung will never understand the plight of middle class office politics.
Can't speak to the Bay Area but in NYC we have hit the physical limits of population until there is a serious investment in infrastructure. The subways are bursting at the seams. In Manhattan we are running out of sunlight. These article always bug me a little as we already live in the densest spot in the US and get lectured why we need to crowd in more.
"If Facebook were suddenly gone tomorrow, I would feel devastated (so many memories of my kids, deceased father, mom, all would be gone). The only other sites that would provoke a similar emotional response from me would probably be Google and maybe Github."

Hey! What are the odds you and some other user commenting here both have such similar experiences?! You should connect with them on Facebook! Maybe Github?
Do you have a source?

Economists disagree about this issue. Lots of the people who are affected by the minimum wage support it.

Remember, it's okay to not know something.

Edit: thanks for the source. I don't think an analysis of the minimum wages affect on restaurant exits answers the question "Is the minimum wage good for those whose skills are in excess supply?". It may be bad for the number of restaurants but is it bad for restaurant workers?
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You know, it's one thing when you're crammed in because getting an office means moving the whole company to a new building.

Must be quite frustrating to sit in a nearly empty building and have everyone sardined into one large room.
That makes no sense as the TPU2 is not really out yet for actual consumers. AFAIK it's only in closed alpha right now, so if you're actually doing stuff right now it's not a real option. There's also no pricing so the "cost effective" remark can't really be seen.
The problem with OpenCL is the lack of well performing libraries, AMDs Core Math and Performance libraries are utter garbage still.

If you can't do what Blender did and write everything from scratch including your primatives you'll be much slower than CUDA.

But there is also a cost to it the Blender Cycles OpenCL code is nearly 5 times as big as their CUDA code and Cycles on OpenCL is still not at a feature parity with CUDA.

The change in branding would likely not yield much for it.
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Hopefully, for customers, it also means not having to deal with proprietary Linux drivers and associated headaches.
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let's see... Lack of a real integer type ?

The fact that {} + [], [] + [], [] + {} are all valid and all give different results ? [1]

The fact that it has some silent error conditions like NaN ?

The fact that, in v8 (which is the most common js engine out there), if you add a comment to a function, it can suddenly start performing poorly ?[0]

I love JS, I really do. Hell, I write nodejs for a living ! I find prototypical inheritance to be an awesome idea. The simplicity, and extensibility of the language is something that I really like from it. But I can see where people hating it are coming from. I wish lua had been used instead of JS.

[0]: https://top.fse.guru/nodejs-a-quick-optimization-advice-7353...

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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If it was easy to setup (for you and all your team members) would it be something you'd value at work?
In the UK (no idea about elsewhere) it's a requirement of planning law that certain changes to your property are advertised publicly. This means laminated A4 printouts are cable-tied to lampposts if your neighbour is planning building works. It's outdated but I quite enjoy the quaintness -- provided that I can enquire about things by current technology , not laminated notices, or faxes or postcards.

It occurs to me that I actually mean "whatever is convenient to me". Of course, what is convenient for one person might be ridiculous to someone else.
"And yet, the press has done an about-face on Al Qaeda's, referring to its Syrian branch as 'Al-Nusra, a moderate rebel group."

Substantiate your claim.

"CIA getting into bed with Islamist terrorists"

This is tiresome, just because US govt allies with Muslims that Russia calls terrorists doesn't make them so. In fact, last time I checked Russia works on the ground with Hezbollah, a designated terrorist group. This argument can easily go sideways for people hoisting it up as a mantra.
Blanketing the airwaves with theories about Russia has damaged the MSM's credibility with a lot of people. "There’s More Evidence CNN Colluded With Clinton Than Trump With Russia" [1] This seems like a ploy to regain some credibility. Have a handful of people go full force with conspiracy theories that are obviously unfounded. Then the MSM can step in, point out the "fake news," tear them apart, and regain the middle ground.

[1] http://freebeacon.com/politics/spicer-theres-evidence-cnn-co...
If I were investing in property today, I'd be buying waterfront property a 45-60 minute drive away from a vibrant coastal city. I agree with you that self-driving cars will increase sprawl -- people will feel less of a need to live in the city center if they can still get there with little expense or fuss. Having views of the water, on the other hand, will be just as attractive as ever, and may replace living downtown as a symbol of wealth.
Agreed on the subway and a lot of Manhattan, but Brooklyn is far less dense and filled with 2 and 3 story buildings that could easily be 5 and 6 stories without shrouding Brooklyn in shadows.
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I'll wager it won't get crazy busy. The Texas court was letting anything and everything through. It won't take many summary judgements from courts in these jurisdictions before it is no longer profitable to troll.

Districts like Delaware have a vested interest in being a business friendly place to file your corporation papers. They won't likely allow the district to become an easy place to file phoney patent suits. And in districts where the companies actually reside will be even less likely to let through these time wasters that damage their biggest employers and shrink their tax base.
The phrase "personal essay economy" drove me nuts.

The personal essay largely to me seemed like posting a blog in the paper, I'm not sure why you'd want to, but sometimes they're interesting to read.
There are many enterprise "solutions" that basically do this "out of the box". Yeah it shouldn't be done and a lot of employees are likely unaware that IT can see all of their SSL traffic but it's a big business.
I think it's pretty well known that you can use reviews as leverage even with horrible companies. I'd be more curios as to how their customer service is in non-review situations
Damn, that's even more strict than when I worked in the IC as a government contractor. I don't know how you'd get anything done, realistically.
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I noticed some things were pretty terribly tagged earlier this week. Robots have a ways to go, this is good news.
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The word "just" is doing so much work in that sentence.
And what exactly is wrong with this?

A lot of people like back yards and quiet.
CIA allied with groups that have died fighting al-Qaeda. Just because theft and corruption means material aid given to the groups ended up in AQ's hands doesn't mean CIA allied with al-Qaeda, it shows quite the opposite. SAA goods end up in ISIS's hands by the tons but that doesn't mean they allied with them either.

"Too bad the public is made a to be a sucker"

Who is the sucker here?
That's a point that is often missed and it's something that happens over a timeframe of decades. In NYC, the Second Avenue Subway has only been planned for something like a century and is now (very partially) operational.

Meanwhile, within the city itself, San Francisco has one stretch of BART more or less along Market.
> and yet they probably don't show up on these machines at all

Uh, yeah, they do. Have read anything about backscatter xray machines?

The real way to defeat these machines is to hide things in folds of your flesh. It can see through clothes, but not too much skin. In staged demonstrations, fat people have gotten a metal pistol through, no problem.
Issac Arthur has his stuff together. His videos are for the most part well researched and contain a lot of interesting hard sci-fi ideas. The only time I've seen him fall down is his video about quantum computing, but to be fair, a lot of people get caught by the same mistake. It's not the case that a quantum computer is trying out all of the bit-strings that are possible answers in a kind of quantum-superposed parallel computing. That's not exactly what is happening.

One of the key insights: Qubits store complex numbers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbJYsep45E
Delaware also has a vested interest in keeping it a friendly place to incorporate. So I would expect that to color decisions of both judges and juries.
Such a rad idea. Good luck! Also, design looks a lot like Stripe... :p
The issue in the bankruptcy example isn't that it's unfavorable to the company that's chosen to incorporate in Delaware (in which case, yes, they could choose otherwise), but to its creditors who had no say in the decision. An Iowa creditor, to collect from a bankrupt company whose main place of business was also in Iowa, for arcane reasons of corporate law has to fly to Delaware and retain Delaware counsel, even though venue ought under any common-sense standard to be located in Iowa.
There are some good points here, but I think this article buys too much into the fantasy of magical algorithms -- that the systems for ranking and filtering that are tuned for maximizing engagement and trying to get people to click on ads actually change people's concept of identity in a noticeable way. People identified with stuff on Facebook just as much when it was an unfiltered feed of wall posts.

If anything, Facebook has sacrificed some of its identity-shaping power in exchange for more engagement and ad sales. People are moving more of their real social interaction to other places, leaving Facebook to be mostly a source of news and updates from casual acquaintances.
>Is it inefficient? Why do you think that?

Deadweight losses. A bored teenager that'd rather have $3 than an hour of his time sits at home. A retired person would rather tell stories to a bored teenager for an hour than have $3. The law says that it's illegal to make this trade, even though both parties are better off afterwards.

There's other issues from messing with prices - shortages/surpluses, excesses or deficiencies of quality, search costs, and misallocation of resources. It really all boils down to the same thing, though. Prices provide feedback between what buyers want and what sellers provide. Mess with prices, and society starts lying to itself about what it wants or how hard getting it is. Do Not Mess With Prices.

>When you propose an alternate solution I'd like to see it in practice before throwing millions of people to the wolves.

We have an alternate solution, we just reserve it for people who somehow "deserve" to be treated humanely through virtue of being disabled or elderly. Everyone deserves to be treated humanely. Expand the current welfare system to everyone, eliminate the incentive distortions from means and needs-testing people, and pay for it through tax increases.
> transpiles

can we get rid of this web dev made up word already?

It should be "compiles".
Well, sure, that's what I wrote: "it's very unlikely that it'll actually be compressible." But it's incorrect to claim that random numbers are by definition non-compressible.
Sure, but not zero.
Such a company is also selecting for the sort of candidates who have 4-6 hours free, either those who have no responsibilities at home and are willing to spend an evening or weekend on it, or those who have enough ability to take a vacation day and tell their boss "I'm going to be at home doing nothing." You basically need to do that for the in-person anyway, and there's a limit on how often you can do that.

How many candidates with small children do you think these companies are hiring?
I have a friend who works exclusively on reducing the size of such publications, finding newspapers that charge less, etc. It is funny that his business is still growing when there are so many newspapers closing the doors
This is Hacker News not Startup News.
By and large those locations are already pretty expensive. Marin County and Half Moon Bay in California are no bargains. Even further out, nor is Santa Cruz. The North and South Shores of Massachusetts are pretty expensive as well.
I worked at a mid-sized mature "startup" for 8 years, then a very young startup for 6 months (then half the team got laid off), then consulted for 3 companies over the course of another 6 months. Hiring managers asked me why I stayed for such a short time at each company (except the first one), including why I wanted to stop consulting -- I told them I wanted a bigger engineering challenge in a less unpredictable environment, and they were fine with that answer. What matters more is how you prove to them that you're a good candidate for their position :)
I know. It's still frustrating that you'll moderate comments like mine but comments spreading harmful misinformation never hear it. It's also difficult to take your rules seriously when even you don't.
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No matter where you are, the U.S.government cannot force you...

They have more guns than you do. That means that any statement beginning with the words above is wrong, no matter what comes after those words.
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You imply that there is no other work available for these people, and I think you are partially correct. But I would train them in small business skills so that they can recognize small business opportunities and find work for themselves. This coupled with the loosening of regulations that unnecessarily prohibits small business. That is a general statement, the details I do not know.
If a company thinks that their time is about 20 times more valuable than my time, why would they stop thinking that once I start working there? If a company thinks that the interview process is "soul-crushing", why wouldn't they also think that of code review, mentoring employees, etc.?

Isn't it also true that one-on-ones are a bunch of time that the manager is spent with lesser coders, and it's a time-saving measure to cancel one-on-ones so the manager can write more code?
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I think you greatly underestimate the degree to which you cede your personal sovereignty over to others by participating in these services. It's fine if you trust these companies (and more importantly their employees) to take good care of you. I don't trust anyone in America to do that, but you're free to spend your personal freedom how you like.
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