skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fundamentally, it’s a function that maps a slice of GPU memory into the host’s address space, typically for streaming geometry data or texture uploads"

Can someone clarify this for me? Are OpenGL/D3D buffers that get stuff memcpy'd into them by the CPU actually "slices of GPU memory," or are they more often reserved driver memory that eventually get DMA'd to the GPU? (I realize both probably happen at different times, but I'm curious which is more typical for modern systems)

It seems like spending CPU cycles writing every byte over the bus would perform much worse than a fast write to sysmem followed by a DMA transfer.

EDIT:
I looked into it, and it seems like the typical implementation is that map returns a pointer to some pinned driver sysmem and unmap kicks off an async DMA to GPU memory.
I think the problem is that you don’t really need centralized lighting at home, and the solution is to use regular light switches. ;)
My favourite "smart" dumb device has got to be single sensor electronics. The automatic hallway light to be exact. It's a piece of plastic with a photocell and a LED.

So long as it has power (but a battery backup would be simple enough) it never fails to turn on "if this, then that". Daylight savings, changing seasons, solar eclipse.

It's never a device I have to think about.

And at home depot they sell $80 IoT light bulbs demanding a property app.
Totally. And not to sound holier than thou, I'm guilty of "unnecessary re-implementation" possibly more than most. I use my own window manager, have written my own high performance disk archival compression, wrote my own (super)multichannel (>8) lossless audio format, am working on my own large sequence data (think: DNA) native clustering algorithm....

But for the love of god man, /never invent your own crypto/
Car “infotainment” systems are the worst. I drive a VW and the touch screen is maddening. Transition animations are too long and involved, which is frustrating because 99% of the time I just need to force connect Bluetooth and that button combination is muscle memory by now. But every time I have to wait for the stupid interface to do this 3D flip. Oh, and if I skip ahead in Spotify with the on-screen controls, it doesn’t pull the new track data until the next track plays automatically, so it’s always out-of-sync.
I believe this ignores the component of social cohesion. In rapidly changing and uncertain times, the lure of steadfast resolve and order can be psychologically powerful to many types of people. Fascist ideologies of all types promise this. And if the atrocities of the state are out-of-sight out-of-mind for the majority of folks, sadly, many find them easy to ignore as long as _their_ world is "in order".
There is.

It's 10% of the cost of the drink.

Just seems you're not super great at personal finance, is all.
Well if minority rule is cool with you then why don't you just give up and submit to the "globalists" desires. I mean why not? Majorities don't matter when selecting a president right? May as well ignore them.
Notes on the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)
I have a vague memory of once upon a time reading a paper alleging that if you could start everything over again from the beginning, that somehow ternary was more efficient than binary for a digital architecture, something having to do with power usage. But other than that it just sounds like nonsense.
Hitler himself didn't make public calls for genocide, so that seems quite a high barrier.
> a lot of JavaScript packages are written in awkward ways that makes lots of assumptions about the packages loaded, the order of the load, monkey patching require, and a whole lot of other oddities

And therein lies the bigger problem. As long as this cancerous code style is tolerated, we'll be putting workarounds on top of other workarounds instead of making actual progress.
Can someone explain to me why this is getting upvoted? It seems like obvious clickbait, the first shift is a platitude and the second one reads like corporate buzzwords strung together (synergy + 10x thinking). And at the end the author tries to sell you “training” on how to achieve a passive 6 figure income. I mean really?
Also, honest question: Anyone know of any exchange or means to take a short position on IOTA? I only did so though "never buying any".
Because my iPad locks when the Smart Cover closes, I always just leave the auto lock timer disabled to avoid this situation.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel got a $637M bonus last year
Yes, except that I won't be able to switch jobs easily or grow in my career as fast as I want to. Every time I go to India, I have to do this elaborate dance to get my Visa stamped. I haven't traveled out of the country enough just for this reason. It's very stressful. I have a child who was born here and doesn't want to go back. I'm really stuck here for no other reason than the fact that the immigration system is horribly broken. Every American (white person) in my management chain thinks I'm skilled enough to be here in the country and pay me north of $400k. Terrible state of affairs. I'm a well-paid slave or at least feel like one.
It makes the IOTA team look like rank amateurs at best, and scam artists at worst.
What year was this in? It wasn't my experience in college in 2010-2015 at all.

Many SV companies recruited mostly useless interns like me and mentored us and paid us well over the median US household income. All in the hopes that we would become useful and join after graduation (at well over six figures salary).

And I'm Canadian so they were also paying flights, relocation, visa fees, etc. It doesn't make a lot of sense for them to do these things if it's so easy to hire an American developer at $50k, but maybe their hiring process is that broken?
A different time indeed, I feel like I'm the last generation to embody those days in any way, shape or form culturally. Everything feels so foreign today, there was a definite cultural shift around 9/11 permanently, for the worst.

To continue this chain with my own letter writing story.. I was a little younger than you two since I was born in the very early 80s, but I sent a letter in the very late 80s or early 90s telling whatever address was in Interaction magazine that I was one day going to work at Sierra.

They wrote me back telling me they'd be waiting for me. Of course being a Xennial (Oregon Trail Generation), I never made it in time. But wow, would I love to be there today. Two moments in gaming history that I've witnessed that were outstanding for me, 1989's Hero's Quest and the launch of the 3dfx Voodoo 4MB in '96. It was thanks to King's Quest & Space Quest that I learned how to type and spell at an early age. As well, a little later on when I got my hands on them, thanks to Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Hero's Quest.

I was a totally ignored child, I can't say how many days & nights playing those games, eating up bologna and Velveeta sandwiches that I made myself at a pretty tender age, and washed down with RC Cola. Pretty terrible mental image, I know. The isolation just made it all that much more impactful. It was the happiness & high point of my life and honestly, still is. Sometimes I still sit and think about the worlds that Sierra created to bring myself a bit of happiness.

Sierra, and especially Hero's Quest / QFG will live within me for the rest of my life and die with me as probably the most cherished memories, characters and stories in my heart. Tolkien and the rest could never have anything on the impact Sierra adventures had on me.
Promises in AngularJS (2014)
This is full of little gems. Like:

> We were just reached out to
by a CoinDesk journalist that Ethan contacted in an attempt to rush out this publication.
This may be the biggest scandal I have ever heard of from what has been portrayed as
a professional 'responsible disclosure'. Ethan is clearly in complete conflict of interest
and pushing this for his own gain, this is no longer about academic merits, but a
desperate attempt by Ethan to make money.

I can be wrong but the suggestion here seems to be that Coindesk journalist reaching out to the Iota team was a ploy to force them to pay a bounty.

But, after devolving into a personal attack. They expect him to reply back a month later?

> Hi Ethan, I can't get a single reply from you, looks like you put me on ignore on Twitter.

This whole saga seems to be symptomatic of the cryptocurrency scene. Lot of expertise on money, economics, cryptography, programming language etc is out there. But, any criticism of cryptocurrency devolves into either personal attacks or a know-all attitude which ensures not many people want to lend their expertise.

Edit: After re-reading the blog post, I realized the agenda of this leak was to show evidence of conflict of interest. The correct link for the post should have been:

http://www.tangleblog.com/2018/02/24/full-emails-ethan-heilm...
I think real ubiquitous computing will require a different technological approach. These Wi-Fi enabled devices that you can access with an app on your phone are clearly not working out too well. I look forward to tech like smart contact lenses, that google jacquard project, and other interfaces... what if instead of telling Alexa to turn on the lights, you could turn your lights on and off by gesturing (think like mouse gestures--you move your wrist down and left in the air, and a bracelet or sleeve knows what you gestured). Or even better, just thinking.

So we're a few hardware inventions away (not to mention, truly enjoyable product inventions away) from knowing what 'Smart Things' really are...
Lol given that the author, Frank, has multiple publications at top conferences already, I don't think he needed to pad out his publication record in any way.
This is why I have been getting superior results working with a $100 tascam digital 4 track compared to what I used to get from logic pro. For music being able to use knobs with eyes closed to record is actually huge to me the GUI is actually a problem for music for my work.
What was the machine dispensing, Woodford Reserve? I thought cruises were “all you can eat/drink”? And why would they sell a limited smart version along side a dumb, analogue version that you could presumably refill as much as you wanted?
While S3 storage costs are fairly reasonable, request costs are unrelated to file size, which makes it an absolutely terrible choice for filesystem-like activities. I say this from experience: S3 PUT requests make up a very significant portion of our AWS bill as we write a massive number of very small files to S3.

Does anyone know of a middle-layer solution that automatically concatenates files into larger chunks (similar to HDFS) prior to persisting to S3 and for retrieval utilizes HTTP Range requests to fetch the individual file? I'm going to build it if it doesn't exist. 100MB chunks would reduce our S3 PUT costs by ~1000x.
Twitter co-founder to CNN: We're overdosing on tech [video]
There's VK9 for Direct3D 9, DXVK for Direct3D 11, and the official Wine-supported VKD3D for DirectX 12.

https://github.com/disks86/VK9
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
https://source.winehq.org/git/vkd3d.git/
Sort of related but not exactly.. and I'm sorry if this is controversial... I just prefer my gas car over my electric car. My gas car is older, the cd play doesn't work however the radio does. I could replace it. I just don't care enough and prefer the randomness of the radio. My electric has mp3, satellite radio etc. Don't know if its nostalgia or what I've just grew up using but yea.. I hate my electric car.
Unless you take inflation into account.
On the one hand, the analog watch they show to compare with the Apple Watch is an Omega Speedmaster, the first watch on the moon. Shows that you can do great things with just gears and springs.

On the other hand, it does cost $3,000...
Counterpoint: the EU.
I recognize one of the IOTA foundation's members. I won't say his ego wasn't out of control and several professors asked him to take down "papers" from arxiv for being sloppy.
LineageOS 15.1 based on Android 8.1 Oreo has been officially announced
The math has not worked out for a very long time.

I mean, China has had a far larger population than the US for many decades and yet somehow the US had a lead for a large part of the 20th century.

How did US leadership _ever_ happen?

Other factors beyond population and human talent are important: how does each country educate its people, organize its research facilities and personnel, its industry, its economy, etc? Did a country encounter misfortune, war, pestilence, political instability, etc.?

I don't disagree with you though. China has created a method of economic decision making and industrial growth which is amazingly powerful. The US seems to be struggling, paralyzed, stagnant.
> This is absurd, and does not follow from the first part.

It doesn't have to follow from the first part (I can imagine several things it could precede from), but it is entirely credible that bitterness/resentfulness might go hand-in-hand with a desire to dominate. If you've been told long enough that you've gotten the short end of the stick, if you feel you've been looked down on, not given enough respect, or even if you're doing quite well for yourself, but of course you've earned it, and there are all kinds of hangers-on and disgusting and lazy people who are still somehow getting a piece of your labors... it's quite plausible that you'd love nothing more than either (a) to be in a position of dominance over your oppressors (real or imagined) or (b) watch someone else who is in such a position really give it to 'em good.

> rich republicans would be the bastion against Nazism. They would be the people that, no matter what efforts are done, cannot be converted. Doctor families. Lawyer "dynasties".

Presumably engineers in that professional class as well.

Amazing that nazi Germany was able to do as much as it did without the help of doctors and engineers and other respectable and conscientious members with a place society. Almost recommends nazism as a philosophy if they were able to basically conquer Europe primarily with the poor, young, faux-science disrupters and others who had no stake in the status quo.
I'm starting to look at it like this -- imagine writing an entire web app with Rails. Then, imagine re-writing it from scratch as a single page app, say with Angular. Then, imagine rewriting it _from scratch again_with React. (Obviously this is just a thought experiment, but an interesting one).

_Something_ in your brain would remain the same through all of those projects. By discovering and articulating that something, you have arrived at more clarity on your domain. You've also made an asset that is more "fundamental" than the 3 web apps themselves. This asset would help you if you ever needed to port to other technologies in the future.

You would also get incredible mileage out of this asset. It would represent the "skeletal structure" behind everything else you need to build, which means you'd have something like a, eh, 40% head start on most things. Maybe a 40% head start on automated tests, a 40% head start on validation code, etc.

This would most likely lead you down the path of code generation, aka "everything is a compiler."

It sounds promising and interesting, but I cannot "prove" the ROI. The time it would take to discover and articulate that "true core" could be significant (though in reality it wouldn't require rebuilding the same product 3 times).

It seems primitive that we typically insist on articulating what we've understood about the domain in the same general purpose programming language that we intend to implement the solution in, and that we do so almost without being aware we're making that assumption.
I'm working through Sean Carroll's "Spacetime and Geometry". So far it's been quite accessible and is replete with exercises. Carroll's explanations do a really good job of motivating definitions while also introducing deeper, beautiful math. It's not all just tensor munging.
> I’ve lived in Wilmington for ten years, and I’ve seen everything in this city a thousand times, but every other second I was gasping. Have you ever passed the same store day after day and thought, “They really need to replace that sun-bleached sign,” then they do, and it’s the same logo, same colors, except it’s new? That’s how the whole world looked — like the entire city of Wilmington was brand new.

This reminds me very much of my experience wearing glasses for the first time, to correct myopia. The whole trip back from the doctor's, my 11-year old self was just looking around at the ordinary residential neighbourhoods we were passing, and thinking "I never knew the world was so... beautiful!"

The article as a whole gives me a new appreciation for the huge variety of colours around me, for all the neat little details that I have the ability to see but take for granted every day. (I'll probably lose that appreciation in a few hours when I forget the article, but hey, it's a start.)
The authors of that paper are estimating that energy use for lighting will eventually reach past levels because of the rebound effect and population growth, not Jevon's paradox.

Jevon's paradox occurs when an increase in efficiency results in so much additional use that per capita energy consumption increases. If the average car is made twice as efficient and that leads to it being driven three times it's annual mileage, that's Jevon's. If it's driven one and a half times it's annual mileage, that's the rebound effect.
All true, windows is kept around for Zbrush and Adobe suite. I'd put it at around 5% of artist workstation count.

(I've worked at a few of the larger VFX studios mentioned throughout the thread)
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How San Francisco's Progressive Politics Led to Its Housing Affordability Crisis
> I have a feeling that you refuse to accept existence of cryptographic protocols not mentioned in the textbooks read by you.

That is a cringe worthy statement by someone doing a cryptographic decentralized project. The whole conversation is a trainwreck. :/
The term "Jap" is considered extremely offensive in the United States. It's mostly associated with virulently racist WWII-era propaganda.
> You're gonna have a bad time."

A major wake-up call for me in the crypto currency world was
Gavin Andresen's ludicrous "validation" of Colin Wright as Satoshi.

When a so-called leader clearly does not even understand the basics you realise it's 98% shit. Sturgeon's law applies again. But I keep on forgetting that.
oh man. so great. the other side of the same coin.
I have done some neat hobby automation projects, and I have some thoughts:

1. With some more work it wouldn't be so, but when the power goes out it is like rebooting Jurassic Park to get my sound system back the way I like.

2. The proprietary power grab is worse than any video format war or chat program territory battle. I've tried to DIY as much as I can, but Google Home is a no go for DIY. I can emulate on/off Phillips Hue stuff for Alexa Scenes but for Google Home you have to go through the net.

3. I can't ask Alexa to do anything when the (rare) internet is out, but I can control everything fine with my phone or IR. Most automation projects seem to require outside the firewall stuff.

4. Would be cool if I could come up with a port knocking thing for Alexa Skills to talk back to the LAN with some kind of reliable security and encryption... But Skills seem to be only available to call out insecurely or to a running EC2 instance say but I don't have a free tier account being an early adopter of EC2.

5. In general, the products I will buy are ideally LAN only. Maybe that's unrealistic like a non smart TV?
And more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number#...
Not entirely true. For the diversity visa (green card lottery), there are (extensive) medical and background checks, but the US consulate does not consider skills and resources beyond verifying that you meet the minimum requirements (high school diploma). The consulate interview for this category is basically a rubber stamp.

However, as others pointed out, the DV is a small fraction of green cards granted, and the process for family based immigration may differ.

Source: I went through this process.
AI has a pretty extensive history of hype. The original AI efforts by IBM involving rules in the 60s were overblown. Markov hidden state was overblown. The original neural networks were overblown (especially the first round). SVMs were overblown. CNNs were hyped beyond what is reasonable.

It's funny that virtually every researcher is very aware of this and yet time and time again the press blows is up. Been going on for 70 years now, which defies belief, but it's the actual truth. And it's certainly not a case of researchers failing to tell the press that it's overblown.

I don't think we're about to learn though.
I think this was a test flight for somebody's new personnel transport.

Facts: It's large, fast, airplane shaped, painted white, and off radar. It stayed in the area, but ran away when fighter jets were nearby.

Since it's large, then it must be for holding things, so it's for transporting something. It's fast, so whatever it is transporting needs to get their quickly, or needs to run away from other things. It's distinctly airplane shaped, so it's optimized for flying through the air at cruising altitudes.

It's white, so it's not trying to hide at night or under cover. Commercial airliners are generally white, so maybe it is supposed to blend in at commercial airports.

It's off radar. Stealth airplanes are flat and small, this airplane is not. It does not have radar absorbing/deflecting abilities, it is off radar. Is it possible that civilian radar equipment is programmed to ignore certain transponders like photocopiers reject scanning dollar bills?

It knew the difference between commercial aircraft and fighter jets, and that the fighter jets were a threat. It didn't leave the area until it was in proximity to the fighter jets.

It could have been a test of the airplane's capabilities. But since it seemed to hang around the area for a bit, almost as if it was teasing pilots, I think it was testing the reaction time of the ATC and the fighter jets. The thought being, "If we need to get out of here, how long until they scramble fighters? And if they scramble them, can we get away?"

Could be that there are multiple factions in the government/military and one of these factions is planning for a quick getaway. That's the only way it would have "off radar" capabilities, civilians wouldn't be able to get a hold of that tech.

Is this Donald Trump and co's getaway van?
I like elemental cars without bloated features as well, but most new cars both ICE and electric have screens and the like. I don't think this is unique to EVs.
Wine uses glMapBufferRange when available, and has logic to translate D3DLOCK_NOOVERWRITE to GL_MAP_UNSYNCHRONIZED_BIT. I don't understand what the current implementation is doing that is causing wined3d_resource_map to block.

https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/538263d0efe725124df...
And some of us in Eastern Europe are expecting -24 °C .
Hang on, what are you actually arguing for? I thought blaming politics on genetics was what you were upset about in the first place.

Are you actually saying it's immoral to say that the circumstances of a person's upbringing can affect their adult behavior? Because that goes way beyond just misinterpreting the article.
https://github.com/itsdalmo/ssm-sh
Maybe not dishonest in the sense that they're purposefully trying to mislead viewers, but it's negligent in the least.
About the microwave: it seems to be purely American thing. Here in the UK even high-end very expensive microwaves have rotating knobs for setting the time and power. I've seen those monstrosities with a million buttons on the front but they are certainly rare.