skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> His contention is that languages with GC don't require reference count updates, and so manipulating the BDD graph is much cheaper in these languages since the resource accounting overhead is deferred by some non-deterministic time.

To be clear, the "contention" is the well-known problem that reference counting (especially atomic reference counting) is one of the most expensive automatic memory management techniques in existence, and it takes pretty significant efforts to get it on par with a modern tracing collector. That's because reference counting has high overhead and poor cache locality (as it comes with a built-in pointer chasing requirement even when you assign a reference).

That the cost is deferred has nothing to do with it.
The fact that this database is being run by actual people involved in the industry who have a sense of how to assign credibility to a story based on knowing the people involved, and not by a computer that is blindly appending to a list when you make an API call.

There's also the convenient fact that when you ask people about incidents of harassment, they tend to go "I'm sorry she felt uncomfortable" instead of "I never did it." The responses of creeps Chris Sacca, Justin Caldbeck, Pavel Curda, Dave McClure, and Marc Canter to the recent accusations against them are excellent examples of this. So, you can just ask them.
> I don't know anyone who wants a 4k sqft house for $650k

I'd love to have that option compared to just seeing 650sqft condos for ~$650k in/near my neighborhood in CA. :)
As it was explained to me, since children's books and cartoons were pretty much exempt from the heavy hands of the censors, artists who could get into production of either were for the most part free to do what they pleased.
The most startling thing here is the form headline takes: "X is compiling a blackist of Y accused of Z".

Notice the word is "accused" and not "guilty". Now I am not going to accuse YC of running a star chamber: I assume (without knowing) that they are fairly responsible with their blacklist. But the principle is still worrying.

Like most institutions, private companies are not able to hold trials and rigorously tell guilt from innocence, so whenever they set out to police others they must do so on some lesser evidence.

It is our right to shun others because we suspect them without proof of something bad. Perhaps it is even our right to gang together and ostracise such, but society suffers when that is the norm.
cool! shameless self-promotion, I wrote a similar thing for a blog post

travelling salesman in js+gpu: https://amoffat.github.io/held-karp-gpu-demo/

gpgpu.js:
https://github.com/amoffat/gpgpu.js
It does reflect poorly on how they just drop the old one and said we're making something else now.

This is one of the reasons why I just gave up on web dev. It's to chaotic and messy. I've basically left this industry and let it sort itself out.

I thought maybe after 2-3 years it'll be good again. Recently did some neat data viz front end and wow it didn't get better at all. What the hell happen to harmony? There are shims and shams for es5 and es6... It's even more fragmented.
The article is talking about California. We obviously aren't talking about Niger, Somalia, Mali, Chad, Angola, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the only places with TFR ≥ 6.0).
Most escalators used outside of China are not made in Shenzhen.
despite all the tabloids, i still use uber here in LA and i honestly dont see that changing much for most people as well. all this backlash feels a bit strange to me, do people get paid to hate somehere ? lol
>All they do is collect payments, coordinate dots on a map, and provide driver rating

This is spoken like someone who hasn't lived in a city that only had a taxi monopoly before Uber arrived. It's like saying all the iPhone did was take an iPod and put it in a Nokia. It completely misses all the little nuances and subtleties that made Uber successful and makes people keep coming back to them.

Before Uber, in New York City:

* To get a taxi, I had to be physically near a taxi (and before the outer borough cabs, I had to be basically in Manhattan or Brooklyn right next to the East River). Good luck getting a lift home from south Brooklyn at 2:30 in the morning.

* I had to be physically near the street to hail a cab. With Uber, I can get a car moving towards me while I'm still indoors. This is huge when it's raining in the city. It's huge when you're in a shady area and you don't want to stand outside waiting around, asking to be mugged.

* I was vulnerable to someone walking in front of me and grabbing the cab I was getting the attention of

* I had to be in the cab with the door closed before telling the driver where to go. And if he huffed and said he didn't want to go there, I'd have to threaten him with a call to 311. Great start to a trip where you're stuck in someone's backseat - threatening them after they told you they don't feel like driving somewhere you need to go.

* I often had to carry cash because (even though it's illegal to have a non-working card reader) many taxi's card readers just "stopped working man." I don't even need to have my wallet with me to take an Uber.

* I've had cab drivers get out of the cab and yell at me on the street because he didn't think my 15% tip was enough. Similarly I'm sure some people don't tip. Uber helps both drivers and passengers by providing ratings for both.

And, I don't want to speak for anyone but I imagine plenty of black New Yorkers have some experiences with cab drivers and hailing a cab and the difficulty of getting a ride somewhere. I wonder if any black folks who've dealt with racist cabbies agree with you that all Uber does is collect payments and coordinate dots on a map.
Use sci-hub to avoid paying anything to get full-text PDF.
>Elegant engineering is exactly meeting your design requirements

Sure, if you selling juicers to businesses. Juicero is selling a lifestyle, not a product. Nice design is then a part of engineering.

Fruit juicers have existed since I can remember. The real selling point here is the juice packs. The nice machine is so that people don't realize what they're doing, which is basically buying pulped juice then letting the machine pour it into a glass for them.
Only if you vote for congressional reps who want to defund it or otherwise take it away.
The tick/lyme disease problem is indeed serious. I think you would have to control influence acorn production though there since acorn abundance seems to be linchpin.

see:

http://www.caryinstitute.org/science-program/research-projec...
> Of course against all of this, the analog EEs laugh at us and continue to make things that just /work/.

Uh, yeah, no. LOL. We just had an entire article dedicated to the weird and wacky ways that things can fail in the analog world (corrosion, light, standing waves, etc.).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14765868

There is a reason everybody moves as much of analog and RF circuitry into digital as they can as soon as they can.

Analog and RF are notoriously unreliable and disgustingly difficult to debug. Once things hit digital land, they become repeatable and debuggable.

Hunting down a stack smasher is nothing compared to hunting down some screwball oscillation in an amplifier.
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement: "application layer should be responsible for storage management and performance tuning". I would take it one step further and say that storage should be virtualized in a high-performance way. HDF5 was the old way, Parquet/Avro is the new way, and something like Apache Arrow is the future. We are currently focused on efficient, cross-platform friendly ways of serializing [columnar] data and have chosen Parquet. Optimizing to the level of volatile caches, though, is probably not something we're ready to tackle. The performance gains to be had by eliminating parsing and lazily loading data (in the spirit of DMA) are absolutely huge. And good file-formats accomplish that. Moreover, the amount of time and performance lost to moving data around is staggering. https://weld-project.github.io/ and https://arrow.apache.org/ sketch the solution: 1) optimize the entire computation graph to minimize data materialization; 2) have a canonical in-memory representation that can quickly serialize results to a variety of clients.

I have not heard of weka.io but will take a look.
Fair.
Personally I'd prefer they halve the lots and put in two 300k 1.5 - 2k sqft houses so even more people can live where they want.
The report: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/20...

It ranks the UK 10th out of 11 on "Health Care Outcomes".
I'm surprised that Coursera and Udacity don't figure higher in the responses. There are a tonne of advanced algorithms, machine learning, data science, and domain specific stuff on there like computational biology and computational neuroscience.
> Amazon or Google or any other cloud provider could spin up a service that pairs drivers with ride-seekers

I'm not sure I've ever seen the difficulty of starting a marketplace company with built-in network effects so vastly underestimated.
aaaand this is why no one but tech companies and property developers want Californians coming to their state
> I know of no business that regularly tracks the reputation of any _individuals_ in a database as part of it's regular business practice (the individual part is important) and that isn't part of it's model to disclose to involved parties.

I bet recruiting firms do.
I understand the 'I don't want to install a new App' concern, but I suspect that will be obviated when you can hail a car using competing services' PWA (or whatever comes next).

At that point there really is no moat to protect Uber's business from competitors of all sizes.

And until then, I think most of us will gladly take 30s to install a new app for a better fare.
> I don't know anyone who wants a 4k sqft house for $650k

Someone does, or they wouldn't sell. That's kind of how it works.
The full article is only 1 page long, and lists the following for references:

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/f...

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/20...
Over 40 isn't baby boomer. The youngest in that generational cohort is 53 or 57. Big difference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
Good spot. BMJ won't be crowing that one though.
It certainly is possible to return to Nationalism and tariffs. Tariffs are, acceptable in my opinion but nationalism certainly is not. Nationalism breeds a certain type of hatred of which I can not stand.
If you replace the property tax with an LVT, the problem could be solved already. Lower property tax encourages developments and renewals. Higher land tax incentives efficient use of land and somehow makes yimby a more attractive option.
I used to feel similarly, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621466 which completely changed my mind.

Empirically, we seem to be too far in the direction of "innocent until proven guilty." This allows people to prey on others unchecked.

It can swing back too far in the other direction, but a healthy balance is probably best.
Perhaps not this case, but analogies when used as persuasion devices, can get quite dangerous. It's important to realize when they are false, or misleading, or overly reductionist, in order not to fall for them.

I certainly fell for a few false ones in the past. Sometimes only deeper meaning is that someone's trying to manipulate you.
Have you seen crossbeam? That's not mark and sweep.

As I said elsewhere, your definition of "zero cost abstractions" differs from what the term means.
No, that's not right. The bar exam tests what you learned during BARBRI.

Law school is for learning how to do good legal research, analysis, and writing, with some exposure to a selection of substantive areas of law thrown in for good measure. At the top schools, there's also a strong focus on understanding the law through historical, philosophical, and policy-oriented contexts. Memorizing "black letter law" is not an objective. In fact, at most final exams, you can bring in a stack of study guides and reference books to look up what you don't know.
The proper follow-through is to file a complaint with the postmaster general for your area, they take it fairly seriously. They carrier is literally refusing to do their job.
Jamie Dimon: “It's Embarrassing as an American Listening to This Stupid Shit”
I'm not arguing that machine learning can't take great photographs, just that there are great photographs (and so, also many not-so-great photographs).

I suppose one could get into deep philosophical discussions about if a machine intelligence can make art, if it does so, does it have to be regarded as a higher level of intelligence, or does the art have to be regarded as inferior art, etc. Interesting stuff, but not my point at this time.
Oh God no. Try to build something, anything in Manhattan. Ever heard of air rights? Those don't exist anywhere else but developers will pay millions just to add a single floor to their building.
Gigabytes should be no problem. We have yet to implement multi-part uploads though, so if your network gets interrupted you will need to re-upload the package from scratch. By design when the upload is in progress your client is talking directly to scalable blob storage. If you run into any issues, please email me: aneesh at quiltdata dot io. We also want to add server-side filtering for giant packages (where `quilt install` doesn't make sense). I can add you to our Slack channel if you'd like to discuss further.
Ask HN: What is your earliest memory of the internet?
What is the earliest memory you have of using the internet? Mine was using Netscape with a dial-up connection to try and look at the newest Nike shoes before I started 8th grade. Took 5 minutes to load half the page. Just curious...
Claude Shannon at Bell Labs
Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. The biggest reason I watch AvE is for his hilarious delivery.

You and I can disagree of course. I'm not finding issue with your opinion -- just offering mine.

I should also mention I'm Canadian and pretty much nobody talks the way AvE does. His accent and vocabulary are purposely exaggerated.
The good part about anti-kid people is they leave the gene pool.
First thing I found out about x86inc.asm is that they put vzeroupper after the register pops in the epilog, which I am not sure is legal on Windows x64.
Seeing AI for iOS
>on Intels x299 you have to pay 100$ extra for RAID 1 and 300$ for RAID 5 support with their VROC feature [1]

This really bothers me about Intel. It's not like they have a separate die for these chips. They are literally charging you to flip a switch on something you already paid for.
Was there any type of discount for taking multiple classes? I looked on the site and didn't see any mention but at $1800 each module it sounds very pricey to take them simultaneously.
The advantage is that you can get all the features you want, even though they aren't all available in one filesystem.

In my case, I wanted a reliable filesystem, RAID1/mirror support, block-level checksumming, and full-disk encryption. No filesystem provides these on linux right now. My solution was therefore to use ZFS to provide a mirrored, checksummed, reliable volume -- onto which I put a standard LUKS-encrypted ext4 filesystem. In the past I had tried the opposite (LUKS on the bare drives, then a ZFS mirror of the 2 decrypted volumes), but it was kinda annoying to manage, and I don't really need the other ZFS features (like snapshotting).

In the grandparent post, the requirement was the ability to expand the RAID volume without rebuilding (something that ZFS doesn't offer), plus checksumming and reliability (which ZFS does offer). So one option would be to use mdadm to manage the RAID array, and then put ZFS on the resultant volume in order to get checksumming.

The disadvantages are: extra complexity; extra overhead; more potential points of failure; more management hassle; etc. As soon as encryption for ZFSonlinux is stable, I'll be very happy to drop this filesystem stacking in favor of that!
> When it comes to capabilities, the people arguing for entire OSs generally win. Go with Linux, get an HTTPS stack, get XML parsing, get JSON parsing, don't worry so much about RAM.

Not where I come from. I have to fight to get 32-bit microcontrollers accepted. And there is zero reason to use 32-bit controllers over 8-bit controllers on new projects nowadays. Zero. None.

> And heck, the price different between a microprocessor and a microcontroller is minimal now days, a couple bucks in large quantity (especially if you have to outfit the microcontroller with more chips to add functionality).

Not even close. An ARM Cortex M0 is 70 cents. The cheapest ARM Cortex A7 is $10.

And the point of the microcontroller is that functionality is part of the part and doesn't require external chips (or at least a very minimal number).
Isn't it possible that someone considers whatever your price is to be 'cheap'? Why not just list the price, and deter whoever's deterred?
No. You're just not specifically subject to that test.

If you're in their management chain, and you get involved with them, you've actually exposed them to significant risk.
So, as a (sometimes) startup employee, how can I identify a setup such that when a major investor makes money off their stock, I too have the option of making money off my stock?

I've heard of setups like this, but I don't remember what they're called - something like, you own stock, and when someone sells a percent of their shares, you can sell the percent of your shares at the same rate to the same party (or back to the company? or something?).

What questions SHOULD you ask, and what kinds of answers are you looking for?
I tried to vouch a sibling comment of Torba's, because shadowbanning people who call you out isn't going to change anyone's mind. If he's wrong, let him show himself to be so; attempting to no-platform him just keeps the question open.

The comment stayed dead. So it goes.
This was my opinion 5 - 7 years ago. I wish I wasn't afraid to buy stocks.
This is very similar to the idea of Sh/RapidMind (eventually acquired by Intel.)

Some details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib_Sh
https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2005/cmsc828v/papers/p787...

Never really took off. In the end OpenCL and CUDA were the winners in this space and OpenCL and CUDA, while explicit GPU languages, can be simulated on the CPU. I think this pattern will continue.
Those are of course, good starters.

My mom married her boss, my dad. So I'm not sure the authority part is cut and dry.

But the rest seems like good albeit no-full proof pointers.

If you want to flirt with a same-level employee, I don't think there is actually a guaranteed way to make a first move with zero liability. It seems we agree there is inherent risk in making any move, whether its just 1 time or not.
No, you don't. With that level of paranoia, you could say that you shouldn't drive anywhere, because you might get into an accident.
Even cheaper than that - I paid 6 cents/kWh last month in AZ.
"Okay, and I would like someone to build and operate for me an exact Facebook clone for $5. Since I have made a real offer here, I should also be counted right?"

Now you're being ridiculous. We're not talking about people acting like that. We're talking about people who do desire labor, but aren't willing to raise their price. Someone who is offering $12 when the prevailing wage is $14 is clearly in the market.

Since you had to be that ridiculous in your opening, I can't imagine the rest of your post is in good faith.
I think mammals are smart enough to eat the food with the most nutritions per effort.
In many cities in CA (and around the US) you can't do that.

There are "anti-poor-people" laws, restricting the minimum lot size (in some cases, 1 acre in certain areas of Mountain View, for example), and restricting the number of SFU you can build in a single lot to 1.
> A quad channel system will have twice the throughput of a 2 channel because there can be twice as many cache misses being handled at once.

Sure, that's the theory, but in practice it doesn't seem to make much of a difference, at least not for dual vs. single.
I know only a bit about Synapse. It seems like they have some valuable data. I think the biggest differences are in the culture and user experience. Quilt gets its DNA from the open/community-driven cultures of GitHub and npm. We want to make it extremely light-weight for anyone to push and share data packages. Synapse frankly seems to have a lot more features. We want to compete on simplicity.

Does Synapse offer server-side filtering? That's something we're thinking about.
Well founders discovered to be abusing such a list would instantly cut themselves off from future YC attention. Reputation extends to all the parties in any potential deal.
As a fellow Californian, what is this "4k sqft house" these people speak of??
Samuel Johnson springs to mind, but if you'd like, substitute "contradict the argument of my previous post". I would prefer that phrasing, but I've often been disappointed at the tendency of people to take issue with small ambiguities or details at the expense of the actual argument.
From my perspective as someone who did ops for bigcos before I knew about jupyter: It's still a rather new tech. Runbooks, script libraries, CMSes, are still king for most sysop flows. I agree with and share your view of the promise that notebooks offer, but given the often lagging momentum of the biggest corps, I'd be surprised if one was already using a relatively new tech pervasively. (thus my "how do I motivate this change" question :P since I've certainly found value in it)
"In general, the U.K. achieves superior performance compared to other countries in all areas except Health Care Outcomes, where it ranks 10th despite experiencing the fastest reduction in deaths amenable to health care in the past decade."

If you look at the graph Exhibit 4. Mortality Amenable to Health Care, 2004 and 2014[1] it shows that for 2014 the UK wasn't 10th. They have taken an average for the decade leading to 2014. So it isn't as clear cut as just being 10th.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2017/july/mirro...
Ah, then it seems like it might be very similar to one of the problems in California. If that increases the construction costs by too much (two fully separate foundations, frames, sets of infrastructure runs, whatever), then there's more money to be made by building only for the top of the market.

Or maybe there's zoning in place to (giving it the benefit of the doubt) prevent it from just turning into "two 600K 2k sqft houses".

In CA this comes about in the form of "the additional cost of furnishing this condo/apartment building in a way that will sell for 5K/mo or 1.xM+ versus targeting the middle of the market is small enough that we'd be leaving massive amounts of money on the table."

So there's a very loud debate going on about how much this construction just attracts wealthy or high-income outsiders who otherwise would live elsewhere (and so doesn't have any trickle down benefits on the rest of the housing stock) vs actually helping people who currently live in the area.

I'm not aware of any areas with the political will to really substantially push back against top-of-the-market targeted construction, though.
Ah dang, deleted my comment because I had a change of heart and didn't feel like going down this rabbit hole further.

But for reference it was:

> so as long as you're a lower level employee you're in the clear?

Clearly the answer to this question is no. The flow chart of bad behavior is much larger than that.