skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's not about arguing whether he does his job, it seems like you've already stated that he does."

Not really - what he 'does' is 'writes code that solves problems we are facing' - ostensibly - because there are so many ways it would be done differently if he was a professional communicator.

What I'm saying is it may appear that he is 'doing his job' - but I'm making the argument he's not.

But this is not a construction site. We can't say - 'pour the cement there and then go refill'.

He's inflexible and making others on the team bend around his designs. He does not reach out to others when there are issues, we have to initiate communication, keep an eye on the situation. He does not work with others to solve problems as a team. When asked for direct feedback, it's generally negative, cynical - not quite personal but almost. He does the minimum required and can't be counted on in a pinch like basically everyone else on the team. He takes the longest to respond to any issue.

Writing software on a team, is like solving a complex problem as a group. If you are not part of the group - then the problem is not being solved maximally.

I will definitely have a chat with him about all of this, but I know what the answer is going to be - and this is a behaviour and attitude problem, it's nary impossible to change.

I've let go of people like this before and the only regret I've ever had was not doing it sooner.

I don't expect people to be chipper sycophants, in fact, I hate that. Dispassion is fine, even a little bit of curmudgeon is fine with me. It takes all kinds.

If someone really does not want to do something, and they have an 'inner negativity' about it - it will take a high degree of professionalism for them to carry on properly. If they can't manage this level of professional behaviour on the communications side to make up for their negativity, well, it's out.
https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hiptensorflow

Everyone on HN knows to always go with free, open software. Without competition any company (Intel, nvidia, etc.) starts to exploit the consumer.
still at the mercy of the hardware uncertainty when crossing clock domains

That was solved years ago. See "Arbiter (electronics)".[1] It's possible to resolve that uncertainty, but sometimes you have to take extra time to resolve the race condition. Think of this as being like resolving a coin flip. Sometimes, the coin lands on edge. You deal with that by adding some noise in the form of vibration and waiting. Repeat until the coin ends up on one face or the other.

(I had the painful experience of working on the OS for a multiprocessor mainframe which predated that solution, and did have race conditions on memory access.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbiter_(electronics)
I haven't, but I've heard good things. I was watching Halt and Catch Fire which is also fantastic bit of history on several fronts (in addition to the computer history on the show, I happen to also love punk rock from that era, especially Texas punk rock, like Big Boys and the Dicks, etc., and so the soundtrack is fantastic), but I kinda drifted away from watching TV a while ago. I'll probably get back to it at some point, as I've heard the later seasons improved.
That's 7cups of tea.
A latency of 100ms in online games is definitely not perceivable as “instantaneous.”
A friend of mine started a company in 1983 to develop Mac software. They didn't want to go the Lisa route for a couple of reasons. First, they wanted to write in C, not Pascal. Second, they wanted several developers working simultaneously and could not afford to get a Lisa for each.

They knew that MacFORTH was going to be available pretty much concurrently with the release of the Mac. They knew they could use that to write programs on the Mac to explore and reverse engineer things.

They bought a Callan Data Systems Unistar 200 Unix workstation [1], which was a 68k based all-in-one non-graphical Unix workstation. They also got a bunch of serial terminals (ADM3a's, if I recall correctly) and hooked them up to the Callan, and gave each developer a Unix account on the workstation so that several developers could be working at once.

The idea was to write in C on the Callan, use its compiler and assembler, and then somehow turn that object code into code that would run on the Mac.

They had the Callan connected to the Mac over a serial port, and a program in MacFORTH that would accept object code from the Callan and invoke it. With this setup, their developers could start working on parts of the product, with test harnesses in MacFORTH to let them test on the Mac.

My memory is getting fuzzy, but I think somewhere in there they wrote a Mac linker on the Callan that could generate Mac executable files, which they could send to MacFORTH on the Mac and have it write them to floppy.

[1] I was a systems programmer at Callan, and was able to get my friend a nice discount. I think it came to $5000 for a nicely configured workstation.
https://freshcalendars.com/
Careless error. Removed, thank you.
You have this exact same issue with JSON for data interchange, unless there are exactly one producer and one consumer and you can deploy both simultaneously.

If you have more than one producer, more than one consumer, or you don't have the control to update all participants simultaneously, you are setting yourself up for pain.
If you are in Chrome, use developer tools and device toolbar. Enjoy.
Ah here we go again! What does "different version" mean? Is it explicit version metadata or something computed from the interface?
Could it be because it is impossible for the farmers to determine long-term effects (e.g. damage to the soil, etc.), and they don't want to risk adopting a potential "time bomb"?
It's pretty moving. I just wonder what the dynamics may be when this gains traction. I guess it could make you feel ever more lonely when you get down to posting something and nobody reacts in any way.
> I was highly skeptical at first, to put it mildly, but won over by the accuracy and consistency of the results.

How did you measure accuracy?
> A rich founder should take this companies on and bleed them dry.

It can't be done. The way to win the contract is to offer the biggest kickback to the prison. One cannot pay such a big kickback without gouging prisoners and their families.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t inheriting by averaging the parents’ matrices only work in single layer perceptrons?

Anyway, nice exercise! :)
Saudi Arabia as an oddity gets 2/3 of its electricity from oil power plants (the rest from natural gas and steam).
So even if an employment contracts states to the contrary, it won't hold up in Court.

That's not true at all...An employment contract can waive the at-will provisions of law; indeed, this is one of the fundamental hallmarks of most major league athlete contracts. These contracts have been upheld even in the reddest of states... Such contracts are also frequently common for high-level executive positions, especially in Hollywood.

You may be thinking of the opposite scenario: waiving the transition period. Some jurisdictions which do not have at-will employment do not allow employees to waive the transition period; others do if the employees are compensated (see, e.g., France).

California is also 'at-will' state. I think the reason most departing employees give "2 weeks notice" is because they don't want to burn bridges, because chances are that you will come across someone you worked with in the past, in a future company / at a future employer.

Yes, that's why employees used to give 2 weeks notice. Employers also used to give pensions, regular raises, pay for overtime, and not lay off people while they are on vacation. Times, and practices change.
I remember when it was released the Hecht's department store at my local mall was selling them, at least trying to, and had one on display that I played with a few times. They also later briefly sold the original Mac.
Human Error in Volatile Situations
I was pleasantly surprised he was 47 when he did this, not that he wasn't qualified or capable, just assumed there would be a bias towards a younger astronaut.
Not risk adjusted.
It's a barren rock. You're not displacing native lifeforms, because there are no lifeforms. It's as imperialist as shouting "I'm the king of the world" in Antarctica.
What I find most interesting in these results is the satisfaction percentage i.e. (Used it before and would use again) / (Used it before and would use again + Used before and would not use again).

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In 2016:

React - 91% satisfaction

Vue - 91% satisfaction

Angular 2 - 65% satisfaction

No framework - 65% satisfaction

Ember - 50% satisfaction

Angular - 40% satisfaction

Backbone - 31% satisfaction

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In 2017:

React - 93% satisfaction

Vue - 91% satisfaction

Angular 2 - 66% satisfaction

No framework - 65% satisfaction

Aurelia - 56% satisfaction

Polymer - 53% satisfaction

Ember - 41% satisfaction

Angular - 33% satisfaction

Backbone - 23% satisfaction

It's especially interesting that many of the frameworks have a lower satisfaction percentage than using "no framework". Of course this could be largely attributed to who is using no framework. I have encountered a minority of developers (usually backend devs) who think front-end frameworks are nonsense and prefer to just write a bunch of jQuery. Also, if you are working on Wordpress sites, then frameworks are often not necessary.

I've written production code in some of these frameworks (Backbone, Angular 1, Ember, and React) and I would have to say these results are more or less consistent with my experience. I love React and don't feel the need to try anything else.
Can anyone explain the economics of being a NYC landlord and keeping a property vacant for months or years?

I've experienced this in several different neighborhoods I've lived in, but it's worst in my current neighborhood (Upper West Side).

This article gives some high-level reasons (institutional investors more willing to wait for higher rent, banks devaluing non-chain properties, real estate bubble). But it's hard for me to imagine the math works out for leaving a space vacant in NYC for years.
wondering if a cloud provider (especially those behind aws) will take this as an opportunity to catch up if the open source software is really good?
Ask HN: How much equity should I ask as technical cofounder?
Hi there,

I'm creating a startup with a good friend (15+ years).
He is non technical while I am a computer scientist and considered brilliant in my field.

At the beginning, he had a totally different idea in a totally different field, but I explained
him why it was nonsensical (guess what, it was about blockchain).

Then he had an "idea" that was the combination of

1) a ~technology I introduced him to for the first idea (more like a CS field than a technology)

2) a field it could be applied to

But his idea was really confuse, it was just the combination of two concepts.
We worked a lot together to make it work (3 months, about 10-15 hours a week).
I believe very few people could have done this much:

- He would never have been able to understand anything of the technical part, and I suppose
nobody in the scientific community would have given him so much time and attention like I did.

- I would never have had the will to investigate that, and he was more focused on the business
part than I am.

Honestly, I think our contributions are quite balanced, but now our idea requires
to have some relationships with regulatory authorities, and as a matter of fact,
my friend's father is rich and influential (mine are not poor and have relationships,
but it is really not comparable). His father wants to invest a lot of money in our project
(2M for the first 6 months).

(see the rest below in the comments)
What if anyone can be you?
Besides, I am still studying (while he is "unemployed") and want to study next year (September 2018) in another country (1 hour by plane).
He was worried a lot about the fact I wouldn't be able to work on the idea, but I promised him
I would be as much available as I can, and that I just needed to go to the university for the exams
(which is true) and could handle my thesis by emails. So I'll be a but sacrificing my degree for our project.

Now, we are discussing about the shares, more precisely what our relative repartition should be
after some rounds of founding.

I said 40/60 while he said 33/66. I feel bad about the fact he would have twice as much as me.

He said he was the one with the ideas, and that although I always had all the answers to his questions,
the questions are more valuable.
I don't think it is true, IMO I asked him the business related questions while he asked me the technical ones.
It is just that he had a lot more questions because… well… business people don't know anything, while
business is easily understandable and I have a broad experience that allows me to understand it.
So in a sense his argument is just that BECAUSE I have more knowledge I contributed less.

He said he only came to see me as a technical consultant and that 33% was already a lot.

He also gave me a lot of examples of companies where the technical guys don't get much shares (Amazon, Facebook, etc…),
and I must say I begin to have doubts.

What do you think of:

- the right repartition of equity

- how I should react

Thanks :)
Suicide hotlines are generally under handed, I don't think we have enough people to help lonely people just yet.
That's a best practice for everyone?
Do you have a source for any of this?
The situation in the phone market is much better than full size monitor market. Without the market size and scale to support, its hard for LED monitor to improve the yield and sell in more competitive price.
Nearly 1/3 of global oil supply is from offshore.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=28492
The NVIDIA website has a whole section on Data Center graphics cards: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/

Won't this just be hurting their own sales possibilities? I can only guess they'll be announcing some datacenter-specific version of the software soon, which is essentially the same but mysteriously more expensive.
You know I thought the same thing - then I got a Surface Book and occasionally find myself doing that. You don't draw the Mona Lisa in that position but for super quick markups it's fine.
Going viral with this particular market might be tough :-)

Jokes aside loneliness is a big deal and I enjoy reading about it but as some other comments mention there is a confusing conflation of ‘being alone’ and loneliness here. Some posts are describing doing something alone (in a positive way) and others are talking about loneliness (negative). Are you actually targeting both?
>> No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.

I thought they were trying to mitigate the diversion of gaming gpus towards mining, apparently not.
This is awesome! I’ve been checking NORAD Santa trackers since I was a kid.

I’m curious, how are you calculating the running total of gifts delivered?
Those aren't GeForce cards.

They don't want their consumer line (GeForce) competing with their datacenter line (Tesla).

They previously reduced the FP64/FP16 performance on GeForce cards (making them much worse for neural networks), but it's easier to limit the losses legally than by reducing hardware. Modern games don't want artificially limited ALUs!
Merry Christmas, Nerds
I wonder what would be needed to gain 51% hash power? How many super computers would that be?
Got a mirror up somewhere?
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4PCbv-...
This kinda misses the point; this is correct, but not what the article is about. The article is about the concept of "unsafe" (distinct from "code in an unsafe block") which is "cannot generate UB no matter how you use it"
This is about the GeForce products, which are consumer/gaming targeted GPUs. Pro-style Quadro, Tesla, etc. cost quite a bit more for similar hardware due to the firmware, drivers and licensing.
I believe landlords try to get 10 year commercial leases which is the cause of holding out for the best price they can.

This article doesn't answer the question directly but it came to mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/fashion/bleecker-street-s...
A standard storefront lease is for 10 years. If you believe you can get 12% higher rent by waiting for a year, it's worthwhile to leave the space empty.

What I don't get is why there aren't more fun pop-up shops appearing in these spaces?
> 16187 mi from NYC to Tokyo to London back to NYC

This seems wrong. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ has ~30,000 mi (48,000 km) from NYC -> London -> Japan -> Seattle.
This post seems somewhat light on details. You open with talking about being frustrated by open plan offices or long commutes (things that I would categorize as major traits of a working environment, likely hard to change), but then completely ignore them in your examples of people you've helped. What is your advice to people who, for example, used to like their job but began to lose it when their office converted to open plan, or worse yet hot desking?
The pixels on the A7Sii are larger than other similarly sized sensors. That's why the megapixel count is lower. Larger pixel size means more photons absorbed in same amount of time. I've also had one connected directly to a telescope. It was an extremely fun night as I could use the Live Mode to see what the telescope was slewing to without taking a 15+ second exposure. It was pretty amazing. I want one for this specific purpose alone.

However, as someone that has shot a lot of video footage with no light other than a full moon using the A7Sii, I highly suggest getting the cable connected remotes for this camera. Trying to fly this body without a remote on a shoulder mount with lenses, follow focus, monitors, etc is brutal. The start/stop button is so tiny and hard to press, it makes you want to throw the entire rig as far as you can. The button is more along the lines of a reset button that you need a small pin to press.

It's pain points like this that make a stills camera that can shoot video much different than a true digital cinema camera
I would be interested to know how to spot cameras on devices such as these (presumably, they aren’t as obvious as a laptop camera). I checked the link, but didn’t go further than the first page.
There are also ones which are considered "well, whatcanyado", like writing to /proc/self/mem.

(link_section might be counted as one of these. or just tweaking your link flags)
There are plenty of Apple failures.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/11-worst-apple-prod...

The truth is, in hindsight, you can make history and success/failure stories look like the result of anything you want if you think abstractly enough.
Compared to the risk of Mars? I take your point, but let’s be realistic about our odds on Mars without Earth backing it all up.
Suppose the human is allowed to reject trials where they feel they botched the timing?

Let's say the clock flashes an LED every second, and you are trying to press a mechanical button that will make an audible click on the 10th LED flash.

To decide whether or not to accept a trial, the human has to judge whether or not the audible click and the flash of the LED were simultaneous. I have no idea how good we are at that, but I'd expect that we are better at that than at reacting to things.

Even better would be to make the button also flash an LED, so that there is no error from differences between aural and visual processing speed and latency.
Very true. It used to be that small businesses did not have access to background checks, so you could slide by if you skipped the felon checkbox.

Now, every employer can check, so there is no escape. Getting a job is very difficult. There are a few companies that hire felons, but generally into menial roles with no growth potential.
Not sure about nyc but in other markets people claim that some are just speculating on the property value appreciating and it has been going up so much the extra money from renting isn't worth the hassle, especially for foreign investors. I don't know how true this is.
Julia is open source...why don't they just incorporate it?
> Can't people elect honest people (i.e. not bought off by BigCapital/Russians/Chinese, doesn't have multiple cases of rape or sexual harassment, countless extramarital affairs, doesn't have videos circulating with them showing Nazi salutes or similar) any more?

Most of those aren't really honesty issues.
Anyone else bothered by the 2009 in the url?

Edit:
Some driver download pages currently link to this page.
Ah sorry, I see, so there's already that split in consumer vs. datacenter and they're now forcing the line to be drawn.
The year was stored as a 4-bit integer

> we wanted customers to keep upgrading

After 15 years? Who was going to be seriously using a 5 MHz Lisa in 1995 (yes you can spare me the "this broke school district is still using an Amiga to run their HVAC!" stories)
not op, but google cache has a copy if the link isn't working

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4PCbv-...

> One client was feeling bored, disengaged and undervalued at his small company. His role wasn’t a particularly good fit for his strengths and he didn’t have as much responsibility as he would have liked. Through exploring his interests and strengths he proposed a change to his manager to take on more work related to the financials of the company - despite feeling that he didn’t have the formal training necessary, this was an area where he wanted to grow. Based on that conversation, he ended up taking over all financial aspects of the company and absolutely loves his new role and responsibilities.

he must have one heck of a charming personality. is fantasy corp hiring for ceo? i have no experience or relevant skills.
> than sending a packet around the world (16187 mi from NYC to Tokyo to London back to NYC, maybe 30% more due to the cost of running the shortest possible length of fiber).

The author gave "as the crow flies" numbers - you might want to contact them to point out their 30% is an underestimate.
When would you recommend using turbo links over Vue? Or, conversely, would you recommend people not even bother with turbolinks?

I'm learning Rails and haven't gotten to that stuff yet, but I'm wondering whether I should even waste my time learning them if something like Vue is just superior and just as easy to implement.
If it means anything: 2^29 seconds is 17 years almost exactly
Computed from the interface. The metadata does not understand semver or any of the higher level versioning tools Cargo exposes to users.

The metadata just contains info on all the types, and their hashes (or something like that), so if stuff doesn't match you'll know.

This is generally visible from the "expected type Foo but found type Foo" error, which will often mention you have two versions of the same crate.

Worth mentioning that unlike C++ or C Rust doesn't have a global name mangling scheme; so it is totally ok for two crates to have a toplevel struct Foo (unlike in C++ where you are forced to namespace them with uniquely-named namespaces). This has the side effect of it being totally ok to link two versions of the same crate together; and Rust will just complain if you try to mix the types.
The worst thing about that is that the billboard that you're talking about is for car insurance. Theres a camera built into the display and the animation tracks where your face is looking.
That sounds like a terrible experience. Please DM us with your confirmation number.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Bloomberg: The pessimist's guide to 2018
> This post seems somewhat light on details.

That's because it's content marketing designed to get you to think about buying the career coaching service they're selling.
Really? Wacom's Cintiq and its huge acceptance by artists and others who like writing more than typing would argue that with you.