skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of this dates back to design decisions made in the 1990s which presumably seemed reasonable for the time ... Hence, the GIL and the set of tradeoffs it makes. Now, of course, we carry multi-core computers ... Hindsight is great at spotting that, but hindsight doesn't give us a time machine to go back and change the decisions.

Sadly I don't think this is _quite_ true. I believe GILs are used in a number of interpreters and fall prey to the common problem of where either coarsening locks or making them finer ruins somebody's day. I believe Guido Van Rossum hung the GILectomy on two main issues: The interpreter must remain relatively simple, and C extensions cannot be slowed down.

I'm not disagreeing with the decision (necessarily) but it isn't simply a layover from a bygone era. It was a decision that has been reaffirmed and upheld numerous times.

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/754577/
[1]: just google Gilectomy, it's been covered in a few places that I don't have handy.
Always always always use a payroll provider. If possible (size permitting) use a PEO (JustWorks, TriNet, etc) to take care of payroll taxes and state/local unemployment registration/withholding etc. (especially if you are distributed and you have folks in many states). Getting this wrong can destroy your company, and PEOs are super cheap by comparison!
I received two emails.

1. Class Begins Next Week!

> Thank you for applying to Startup School Online. We're sorry to say that your startup was not selected for the upcoming Advisor track....

What I understood is that I was not selected. But then 1:30 minutes later I got a second email.

2. Your Company was ACCEPTED: Startup School Advisor Track

> Thank you for applying to Startup School Online. Your application looked promising and we would like to invite you to the Advisor track!

So I am accepted? I see others have the opposite happen so I am confused.

When I click on the link and log in, it shows:

> Thank you for applying to Startup School!

> We will let you know whether you’re accepted by August 20th, 2018.

Update:

The website has updated to show that I have been accepted. Good luck to those who haven't received an update yet.
> I think that's a little unfair. Most folks have been pointing out that OpenAI's current momentum-based "deathball" strategy seems to fall apart without infinite regen and a limited hero pool, both facilitated by the current set of restrictions.

People said similar things about Go AIs and ko fights. And in the end it turned out that neural networks handled kos fine but ladders were a challenge.

On the deathball strategy in particular, consider that we expect a superhuman DotA AI to change the DotA metagame, so playing off-meta doesn't tell us anything. AlphaGo would invade 3-3 point a lot more enthusiastically than a human player. This was considered a classic beginner mistake for many years; now the theory has been readjusted to cope with the fact that AlphaGo stuck with it and just considered it a good move.

We can safely say that the courier change has made a deathball strategy more powerful and it seems quite likely it is not an optimum strategy. But we can't be sure until OpenAI tests it, and we absolutely can't be sure that OpenAI won't just learn a new style when the conditions change.

The criticisms have merit, but nobody has enough data predict anything about the future. Particularly a professional DotA player.
they have that??so excellent!
Social democracy is not socialism. Social democracy is always expressed within a capitalist and liberal framework, while socialism negates capitalism altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
Europeans not caring about keeping their jobs, what? That's so far from reality...
This is more common than you'd imagine and it's telling that a company the size of Cisco can't hide it.

Between OPT and H1B the relationship between tech and immigration is grim.
Willing to share details about:

- how many companies applied?

- how many were accepted into advisor track?

- how many received false acceptance email (if not the difference of the former 2)?
I just got Steve Harvey'd
I appreciate your understanding, but just because it's a free program doesn't give us an excuse to hurt people's feelings. I hope you find something to boost your team soon.
Yea, I don't know why this reporter took such a negative tack. They deserve praise for continuing to deliver service during downtime.
Startups in 13 Sentences
13. Deals fall through.

http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
What is the market size of the fashion industry in 2017?
Taking into account the top 100 fashion brands in the world only, what is the total sales (estimate), source of market data, and growth projections. Just need an idea of where the market is headed. Thanks
From what I see people tend to shop brick and mortar for things that they enjoy shopping for, and at places where the shopping experience is enjoyable. Going to the friendly local game store is an experience. The local store in my neighborhood hosts gaming nights, and scavenger hunts, and all sorts of nice things. These types of brick and mortar stores are still successful.

But buying toilet paper, towels, and other random supplies is not a fun or enjoyable experience. There is nothing fun about going to a big box store, walking down crowded aisles, loading up a rickety, squeaky cart, and pushing it to a checkout lane with a long line. No one likes going to the store to shop for boring stuff so Amazon delivery is a clear winner there.

But brick and mortar isn't going anywhere. It will always continue to be successful for sales that are actually fun and enjoyable things to buy.
Still a better website than many actual research institutes.
sure, for games like battlegrounds.
but some games don't even have enemies!
Quebec gets 97$ of it's electricity from hydroelectric plants.
That's one thing to consider, but it's ignoring a major aspect - biodegradability. Yes, a plastic bag is in some ways more efficient per ton than a cloth bag but doesn't decompose safely and fast, cloth usually does.
I received an emailed that said I wasn’t in then one said sorry you did get in. Is this accurate?

Sorry to everyone who received the opposite emails. If you believe in your vision, keep focused on serving your customers and growing your business.
Supposing it is true, why would Cisco prefer work visa holders over US citizens? Lower salaries? Less job mobility(meaning longer average tenure)?
I think you mean the "biosphere" rather than "we". Modern humans have existed anywhere from 50k-200k years. Just to put the time scales into context.

EDIT: Just to clarify: As long as disasters happen slowly enough and there are actually local maxima for the species to evolve "into", everything may be fine for "humans"... but those assumptions may be overly optimistic.
Accepted to audit === "you signed up, congrats"
Ray tracing replaces parts of the pipeline that are using heuristics and approximations that are at their limits with the "correct" solutions (because ray tracing is physically correct). The problem is that there probably aren't better techniques for these approximations that aren't marginal improvements, we've started to hit a limit of what we can achieve (with physically based rendering being the target; stylized rendering still has plenty to explore) with classical rendering. Ray tracing has always been the future of graphics, we are slowly getting there.

So it should provide a standard "generation" worth of increase in graphical quality.
I'm going to build on a common HN adage:

1) Don't roll your own crypto;

2) Don't maintain your own SMTP server; and..

3) Don't do your own payroll.

There are LOTS of things you can try to do yourself as an entrepreneur (some are easier than others), but I think this is a handy list. It boils down to risk vs. cost. The cost of outsourcing the three of these is relatively small -- the cost of screwing any one of them up is massive.
And other times criminal charges comes first.

For example, SEC investigated Bernie Madoff multiple times, but the it was the FBI that decided to act, based on a criminal complaint.

Sentence: 150 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
Yeah sorry I disagree.

I really don't think it's possible for there to be too many articles telling startup founders not to fuck up payroll withholding. It's that important.
Any by doing so fired over 500 Palestinian workers.
I just went through the exact same thing with my team...makes me look unreliable as well as them. of course we are all understanding in the long run. but at the time...kills morale
Some Tesla Suppliers Fret About Getting Paid
2x Quadro RTX 8000 96GB ~$20000.
It is probably just that we have different standards of what a good fps is.

For me if its not at 60fps or more ALL the time I'm angry. Grew up playing Quake and Unreal Tournament pretty seriously.

For a more casual game like skyrim it might be fine for me.
Wow, for once I could be a class member in a lawsuit that I'd actually like to succeed. The only problem I foresee is measuring damages, but it's California, so it might be possible to get them up to a billion. It'll take at least that for Google to give a shit.
Huawei Caught Faking Smartphone Photo with a DSLR
It's like two visa lotteries I applied two: I wasn't selected in either of them, but I knew people who were, and then this happened: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-visa-mistake-idUSTRE7...
Now theres an interesting idea for a park, minecraft in real life!
Where does the chain of responsibility end?

Do the domestic waste management companies that profited from collecting plastics, only to send waste to China bear any responsibility?
That seems promising ... hope you keep working on it.
At $100/barrel the U.S. has the largest oil reserves in the world by far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_reserves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_economics

Even with conventional oil, though, 11th place worldwide seems reasonable, particularly compared to neighboring countries (behind Nigeria and ahead of Kazakhstan, China, and Qatar). Don't forget that the U.S. still has very active oil production in Alaska, Southern California, Texas/Oklahoma, and the offshore Gulf of Mexico.
You're confusing the issue by comparing it with something much more complicated.

A tax is another kind of price increase and we do know, empirically, how to study changes in supply and demand. You can get good datasets for it and any company can do experiments by changing prices.

Logic is helpful in understanding how to analyze data but you can't get very far without data.
They passed a tax on plastic bags in Boulder (CO).

You go to the supermarket without your reusable bags, suddenly you're _paying_ for the bags.

You better believe that disposable plastic bag usage went _way_ down. People don't like to pay for what they're used to getting for free. It makes them unreasonably angry, in fact.

Angry enough to remember to bring their reusable bags, or to buy some on the spot.
Non AMP version here:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/did-google-viola...

Please dont post amp links.
Tunneling isn’t cheap. Much simpler to demolish whatever is in the way and make cross traffic wait (traditional rail) or go to one of a few specific overpass/underpass points (freeways). But such options are no longer even taken seriously. It’s just assumed that new transit must not interfere with the status quo. That has a cost, and it comes out of overall effectiveness. Projects built in an era of higher tolerance for political hubris didn’t have that problem.

I agree it’s not the whole story, but it’s something.
The factory employed mostly Palestinian workers and offered them Israeli wages and full benefits the documentary on the factory paints a very different picture than what the BDS did.

According the the actual investigation the idea of the factory was to build a small plant for the sake of coexistence now you might say that the idea was bad but at the end it was more expensive for them to run the factory there due to higher payroll taxes, higher insurance and security costs and after the whole campaign drama they just closed it as the their factories in Israel proper were cheaper to run operated at a larger scale and received tax benefits.

Overall I’m really not sold out on the idea that the closure did anyone but the BDS activists any good.
Thanks, your help led me to a good solution: Apple man will accept section 0, even though OSX doesn't ship it - so I can squat there. By appending :0 to MANSECT I don't even need the section.

This could be the one time I actually find a good way to note down examples for later reuse. Thanks!
I'm not sure it's fair to call it legacy just yet. Most linux distributions (minus Arch I think) still use 2.7 as the default.

I get EOL/deprecation is here but lets not jump the gun to legacy just yet. I just see more 2 than 3 @ Day Job.
YC is certainly doing their best to provide resources to the overall entrepreneur community. While it can be emotionally upsetting to be dealt the hands presented - consider it as set-back that entrepreneur face on a daily basis - It is not uncommon to be dealt rejections and be disappointed by mistakes of others, the key is to adapt accordingly and move on. (Just ask any entrepreneurs who try to sell their projects, get a verbal confirmation, but in the end the "budget" fell through. In this case, what we asked for is free to begin with.)

We are all talented. We do not need YC validation / school acceptance to prove that we are talented. Build your application and let the metrics speak for itself. Turn your frustration into energy and motivation. Learn from the experience and move on , good luck implementing everyone.
what exactly, actually happened?
Ask HN: Any other moonshot companies doing Startup School?
I'm working on a new neural network architecture that can work towards modeling complex, hierarchical systems like disease diagnosis. Any other teams working at the border of what's possible?
That is painful. I'm so sorry we put you through that.
My point wasn't to compare currency valuations. My point was that the value of currency doesn't depend on guns, it depends on the actual use of the currency.
Ah yes, visual stories 2.0...
Yes, the second email is accurate.
Did you read the article? It’s literally the first sentence.
So quick to blame Tesla. The original article says:

"Currently it is unknown who sued the small consultancy providing insight to the products of the massive auto industry."
It doesn't help it came from "noreply" email, so it's hard to clarify anything.
Coal would add new co2 to the atmosphere that was previously sequestered in land.
having been in a startup for over a decade (i've since exited), i can tell you that this is something that any team should take on the nose and accept. highs are very high and lows are very low. mistakes happen, and you will make them too. big ones. live as a team, die as a team. stop bitching and get back to work.

[EDIT] ...drink the celebration beers anyways.
Per the article... lower salaries.
Amazing (and terrifying at the same time).

That sounds an awful lot like a bad trip on psychedelics. Never had one, but the sound stacking seems to be a common occurrence (along with time dilation/loops, feeling of uncontrollable descent into psychosis, etc.)

Glad you survived the experience with no long-term damage. Sounds scary.
And we'll create plastics that are plastic-eater resistant...
Bypassing article and "skimresources" monetization (crypto coin mining?) leads to the actual court filing.[1] He's suing in California.

[1] http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4777351-gov-uscourts-...
I'm trying to think of ways to "destroy" CO2 that aren't ruled out by the readme-description, ex:

1. Burn a tree in-place.

2. Harvest wood blocks, and destroy them (lava, fire, cactus, TNT or creepers, abandoned until disappear.)

3. Same as above, but throwing stacks of wood-derived items like sticks, doors, boats, etc.

4. A wood-derived item which is placed and then destroyed by item-specific mechanics (boat crash, tool breakage)
so the admin user of the database can run commands on the database host with the permissions of the database user locally
Tell that to the church.
So same here. Its a bit of a disappointment but mistakes happen lets move on. As a solo founder who is not surrounded by a startup ecosystem, what I was most keen on was the group feedback, discussions and I guess some external accountability. Would any others here who have been put into the audit group, be keen to try this in another way? Facebook or hangouts groups? Open to ideas.
RE: Semi-pro

He also mentions that this was in the past. 4 or so years ago 4400 MMR was in the top 1% of dota players. MMR creep has happened significantly since then.
Why would we want raytracing as for 'gaming' as opposed to the rasterizers we have now? Is this a gimmick or are there algorithms for post processing and the like that could take advantage of this?
Another place you could go wrong is if you try to hide your poor financial decisions by giving fraudulent reports to shareholders/SEC.

(Example: Enron)
> Company allegedly favored visa holders in hiring, then paid them less
They were only managing $64M, that's not exactly significant.
You're right, memory management was a requirement in the early days and it created more cognitive load on the dev in exchange for not having to stall for garbage collection. But Objective-C has had automatic reference counting since around 2011. Retain and release aren't used anymore.

I have talked to many people who have had a hard time getting past the square brackets - I did at first too. But now I think of them as book ends around the work. In my opinion, they are clearer to divide actions with. They can of course be abused with many layers of [[[]]], but so can the optional unwrapping code golf one-liners I see written in Swift.

And I agree with you, block syntax is terribly hard to remember. I still copy paste or use typedefs. But I love using blocks – they've done so much for readability of asynchronous code. The language really has come a long way since the first iPhone.
I really think it was an honest mistake, especially because it was an email asking to be an advisor.
It’s hard for me to understand how an increase in price - in this case through taxation - wouldn’t adversely affect demand. I’m talking in general. If this were the case then sellers would have infinite pricing power and they clearly don’t have that. Whether the price increase comes as a result of taxation or from the seller increasing prices makes no difference to the buyer. Not even monopolies and cartels have infinite pricing power.
That's good news! I assume you're using Magisk for root?
A carbon tax is exactly that.
> Change your attitude and you can <fill in the blank>.

It is amazing how much of the complaining and "activism" in this world is so shallow that it can be dismissed with nothing more than a single statement of the above form.

It is also amazing how infrequently this form of statement is utilized for that rightful purpose...
Disappointing to say the least.
I see, monopoly on violence is a legitimate concept in the political/public sciences. I think "monopoly" has several definitions depending on the field.

Thanks for the clarification + source.
It depends on what you're used to. When I stated programming 42 years ago, it took two days between submitting the punched card deck to the computer centre and getting a printout of the results. Now I get concerned if my program takes longer than 20 seconds to compile.
Jesus no offense but I also hope you shopped for a good healthcare provider along the way also.
Thanks for the thoughtful input, and I'm certainly taking your anecdotes as advice. In fact, taking a break seems like a good idea, I'll have to work this into my life sometime soon.

However I have to be honest, my life has never been more successful than it currently is. Not to say it would be more so if I wasn't a daily user, but hopefully you see my point.

No need to respond if you're not comfortable, but in what ways did you fail to grow, that you realized? This could also be good advice for me.
Hey, that's a good idea. You give the students actual wood stoves, and they'll cause global warming, and then they'll die when they're adults. That'll help illustrate the concept in a way that a simulated world can't.
I have a similar usage pattern. I have 200+ essays (1000+ words) on interesting thoughts. Often they are more incomplete than I would like. These aren't necessary notes but more ideas sparked by recent literature I have read.

Lets take this offline? - Would be delighted to chat.
Taxes don't have some absolute power to control behavior, but they do influence it to some degree.

(I am not taking a position either for or against taxing this specific issue.)
This also applies to start-ups/small companies in the UK - you also want to make sure that your pension contributions are going where they should.

I have experienced both !
> In a war of extinction you feel the moral choice is to allow humanity to be exterminated instead?

Moral choice is not always the right choice. The fact that the choice is right or logical doesn't make it moral.

> Surely inaction is just as morally unjust as action?

Nothing sure about that. For example in case of "trolley problem" I would not reroute the trolley so that 1 person dies instead of five because I believe that saving people is optional, but not killing them is mandatory. Or I would reroute the trolley accepting that even though it might be correct it was immoral.

> In more direct terms I, for one, would feel no guilt killing to save my own life from an aggressor, or to save those of my family/friends.

I would feel the guilt if I killed someone.
It's just an indicator that extensive improvement is possible. But as with adding more and more shader cores you can get your FPS gainz to the point of Ray-tracing appears around the corner and now you need to add different kind of cores.

Same process for research. You suppose to find some insights on how to do one thing or another, find the direction of search, eventually there would be hardware to fully explore that direction. Then you move on to a different direction. Rinse-repeat
I'm in. Also solo here.
I got this response from Nvidia customer care concerning these questions:

"Hello Freddy,

Thus far we do not have any information from PR / Marketing on GeForce GTX 20 series Tensor core nor float16 compute performance.

If or when such information is available from them we would be glad to discuss it.

Best Regards, Troy NVIDIA Customer Care L2"
I mean, there's an entire area of accounting called tax planning where accountants consult with businesses about how to conduct business to reduce their tax burden. Avoiding paying taxes isn't some obscure thing that people do, it's something you can make a six-figure salary doing as a profession. Additionally, there is no shortage of data for changing taxes. There are more than enough natural experiments as well as actual municipal experiments testing how people react to taxes. It turns out that most people avoid spending money they don't have to. People like money and they go out of their way to keep it.
> As of 2012, videos that didn’t load in two seconds had little hope of going viral.

This finding aligns with the results of a survey of users of the Mux video analytics service. We asked them "Which of the following streaming video problems is the most frustrating for you when it occurs?" Video rebuffering or stalled playback was considered the most annoying problem for 47% of respondents; video picture quality was chosen by only 14.3%. Slow startup times and rebuffering have a huge impact on the perceived QoE compared to video picture quality.

https://mux.com/blog/rebuffering-the-most-frustrating-and-fr...