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You can do GPU compute without the OpenGL "compute shader" feature. WebGL 2 has much improved features for it vs WebGL 1.

There are existing GPGPU things running on WebGL, see eg https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-core and https://magenta.tensorflow.org/demos/#web-apps
> There are supposed to be all sorts of other GDPR protections, about rights to be forgotten, about being able to access and selectively remove personal data from an online profile, that I have no idea how to activate.

You don’t have to do anything to “activate” these rights under GDPR. You can just email the website in question and ask them to send an accessible copy of your data, or remove some or all of it from their servers. GDPR simply requires companies to adhere to certain consumer demands about my own data and respond within reasonable time frames.

Also I disagree with your analogy. Companies are allowed to track users for internal purposes Uber GDPR. But they are not allowed to sell your data to third parties without consent. The reason all these pop ups and consent forms are so complicated have nothing to do with GDPR, and everything to do with the fact that companies are trying to nudge you into making a choice against your own best interests.
When the topic in question is how one of the most powerful companies on Earth chooses to use its power we should strive to always be this cynical.

Skepticism of concentrated power is the ur-American political belief. We seem to have forgotten that lately.
> One of the things that government ought to do is force people to do what they don’t want to, when it benefits the people as a whole.

Or in this case: force one set of people to do what they don't want to do, at the behest of a different set of people. You can't argue for the benefit of "the people" when you're privileging one subset of "the people" over another.
Why use "discount" instead of "inexpensive" here?
Well, if that reasoning were true we should just get rid of the minimum wage, surely that will lead to an increase in the standard of living and a decrease in the cost of living.

Really, some of the stuff you read on HN is just mind-boggling.

In spite of the gig economy trying hard to erase decades of stability for millions of people even the smallest attempt at reductio-ad-absurdum would show that there is an optimimum somewhere and that there is absolutely no law of nature that dictates that that optimum lies at $2.75, $7, $15 or anywhere in particular.

Whatever you make the minimum, there will always be people who earn just a bit more and of course it will lead to some inflation but the end result will be a higher standard of living for those for whom the change is the most important.

For all the laughter about the EU from the US when it comes to social security I'd like to point out that Amazon already operates here and has to pay the local minimum wage and that consumers are still buying their products.
You raise an interesting point, but I am honestly more concerned with people who would otherwise starve or be homeless rather than students who would not be able to backpack around Europe for a summer. Minimum wage (and other worker protections) are aimed at protecting those who literally have no other options.

> Why should people like you have the right to tell people like me that we can't willingly work?

This isn't personal, I as a member of this society have a right to make my point that the powerful shouldn't exploit the powerless. Not that I'm calling you a trust fund kid, but this is the same argument you hear from people who are sitting on inherited wealth, and appeal to "natural rights" to keep the evil tax man from taking anything away from what is rightfully theirs. Rightfully theirs, by birth alone, mind you. Think for a minute about the opposite end of the spectrum, people born into abject poverty. They have a right to a dignified life, with a job that pays them enough to survive, rather than having to beg for whatever Johnny Moneybags decides to toss into the street from the window of his Rolls.
I’ve worked at the largest tech companies, a 12 person startup and plenty of sizes in between. They all have BS. Small startups are not immune. The dog-and-pony shows for potential investors. The demo-ware for trade shows. The daily distractions and direct exposure to indecisive execs, without a layer of “management shielding”. I have yet to find the perfect company.
Wait, why is it bad that Amazon is lobbying for this? Would you say it was bad if, say, ACLU was lobbying for a $15 minimum wage?

My guess is that from Amazon's point of view, they are winning political points by not just raising their own minimum wage to $15, they are also using their standing in the industry to increase quality of life for non-Amazon minimum wage workers. If they succeed, I am happy to grant them the credit they are due.

If a big corporation doing the right thing results in more profits for them, I don't see that as grounds for criticism. Did we criticize Starbucks when they offered a competitive wage and free college education? Or any of the other companies that chose to pay above the minimum?
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Well, let's be scientific about this. If Bill Gates is willing to write me a check for 640K, I'll be happy to test his theory for him. ;-)
I don't think they are saying anything like that. I think they are saying that a minimum wage increase would bring the lowest earners closer to the higher earners, rather than causing inflation across the board. So that's a good thing if you care about wealth inequality.
I think people get too tied up in the problem (and I agree it is a problem) that they just dismiss the flaws with GDPR.

I really think (like the one I describe) that for many cases GDPR isn't going to have the desired effect, if the result is that we have to sit through notices on every site and click away to get through them.
That's great. I don't want my information stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-sold around without me knowing what's going on.

Oddly enough, you're frustrated about "degraded UX", but for several years now - UX has been terrible with annoying popups asking you for your email, advertisement-ridden websites that attracts traffic via well-crafted titles while the content is something to be desired...

Don't be a peon. But if you decide you want to be one, think about your other fellow humans - maybe they don't want to be peons.
If you invest some initial time into a few shell scripts your management time is very minimal and your cost savings is monumental.

Another investment into a couple python scripts and API access to Linode (vps provider) and you can easily auto scale on demand with the best of them.

As a practical example, I run a cluster of auto scaling servers for around $500/month. The same infrastructure and traffic cost me almost $3,500 on AWS.
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Good, you can opt in to tracking and profiling, if you wish.

The rest of us would rather abolish this flagrant abuse of personal information.
"Now we have a distributed monolith that requires 2x less developers to build and 5x more system engineers to deploy"
I asked my father (retired math professor) and he responded

"I am not sure what book to suggest. But if your friend wants to get away from the algebra of coordinate geometry maybe a book on geometric constructions.—How to do things with a ruler and compass."
He is actually mentioning a real effect. Note the flat part around 20-30 years old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_o...

If that's all the data you had it would look like an S curve with an odd starting anomaly at <1 year old.
> $15 an hour will push a lot of people out of being employable. There is a greater tolerance for whom you will accept at current wage points.

I don't believe that. People aren't going to dig the ditches and flip the burgers themselves just because it costs them a few $ per hour more now. These people aren't taking part in "charity" jobs that will dissapear if the wages go up, they're still going to stack shelves, they're just going to do it for more $.

Additionally, paying people an actual livable wage I'd suggest makes it more likely they will be reliable. When you're not juggling poverty related health problems with more jobs than it's sensible to have I'd suggest you will perform better at whatever job you do.

> The other effect of a much higher starting wage is you will have people enter the market who did not think the wage was worth their time. The people who cannot be relied on to show up on schedule, quit and want to come back, have some issues in their credit or criminal backgrounds, and more.

I'm not sure I follow you there. It seems that you're saying that there's a band of workers that are unreliable (credit/crimial issues) that are just waiting for wages to go up before they jump into the labor pool, but that the lower paid workers don't have these problems?

> Meaning more reliable candidates will come back in and those who dismissed fast food, warehouse, and retail, jobs as not paying enough will now accept those jobs. You will get some retirees, stay at homes, college kids, and even some recent graduates, coming in.

This seems to contradict what you said in the last paragraph so I might have misunderstood something somewhere. Regardless, I doubt there's a pool of workers who are well enough off that they don't have to currently work who on discovering that the lowest paid jobs in the country now pay a bit more will suddenly want to start work.
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I would prefer starting small and cautiously scaling up. “If you lose my data, you are strictly liable” is a good start because it lets case law work through the holes. (It also causes companies to see personal data as an asset and a liability, not just the former.)

Full-blown GDPR is overkill. It makes more sense to wait a few years and see if the situation in Europe evolves differently from the U.S. I personally believe the law fails to incentivise the sort of behaviour it aspires to, but that’s merely a hunch—better to wait until we have data.
Some of the answers are that technology makes things cheaper, people feel wealth from house prices rising faster than wages, easy access to cheap credit gives another more temporary feeling of wealth
I went through the intro. The Python exercises are flakey. Most of them didn't do anything when I clicked Run or Submit. I messed around and called the function myself and that seemed to get it to start doing something.

The presentation isn't great either. Why do I need to click on a next button every sentence?

I also don't feel like I learnt anything meaningful from the Fundamentals tutorial.
I hear that hit job of a book A Christmas Carol did unreparable damage to Mr. Scrooge’s reputation. A damn shame.

Mocking rich people for how they spend their money is a pleasant past time for humanity, not anything deplorable.
There's just as much wasted effort, not-invented-here attitude, and standing on each others' feet in the hard sciences as there is in computer science. The reason why it's so much more visible in this field, is that the financial barrier to entry is so incredibly low – all you need is a cheap computer, which you already have anyway. If doing physics experiments was as cheap as programming, a lot more people would build fusion devices for fun in their garage [1]. They also wouldn't advance actual fusion research, nor would they hinder it, and yet some distinguished physicists would lament that "in physics, we stand on each others feet".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
I'm glad Ashkin won. Many felt he had been deprived a Nobel in 1997, when his former colleague Steven Chu won it (the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light). I believe Chu worked with Ashkin, or Ashkin was his mentor, or something like that.

Incidentally, Arthur's paper is very readable.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.24...
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It's not my list, it's the authors' :). Don't forget to review the original document, as each of those points has some commentary attached to it, explaining what exactly they mean by those phrases.
I don't think the poster you're replying to had that in mind. I think it was more a case of 'you catch more bees with honey' rather than draw the guy's ire unnecessarily, just make a law that does X to help people rather than call it the "F* BEZOS law that also helps people".
In the absence of a monopoly, those drivers are codependent.
But how come low wages do not impact negatively the domestic consumption, which is an important part of the GDP?
> It is on track to end civilization as we know it within two generations. A rational society would think about nothing else.

If you mean by "to end" something like "to extinguish" than I think this hyperbole is enormous.

If you mean by "to end" that the civilization will change, than there is nothing new under the sun. If I look at pictures from 19th century, which is very recent, I am always baffled at how much have changed in the passing of time.
yeah i love xbox game pass. That + EA means i have more games than ever... i have 300 games installed just from free monthly games for gold, ea and xbox pass.
Why would interest rates "normalize" though?
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There are no "human tells" in Blackjack. Its you against the deck. Maybe you're confusing it with poker?
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Audi/VW are not considered very good companies.

They used to have Best In Class interiors which gave them a boost in the luxury markets, but they are average in 2018.
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We do HPC at Graphistry with node because of its low overhead ability to script async over binary buffers (which go straight to cuda/opencl/WebGL) and many general+async app code libs for the 99% case. The result is faster than the native equivs - generally by 10-100x, including multicore. So I'd take that hesitation w a grain of salt.

JS's ability to juggle "Fortran-like" code and scripted app code is pretty unappreciated. Granted, we are slowly adding PyGDF support (google GoAi) to get to GB workloads in real-time, but were fine up to that. I'm not sure if we could have done it in Ruby, may be could have done it in Python. Vulkan adds even more async support, which is the type of thing we could certainly use.

So... Yeah, takes a team that gets how to write HPC code to get HPC code, and JS can be a good choice here when there is a lot of app code to use the HPC.

We'd love for WebGL to get close to GPU compute parity, but even webgl2 feels more like 1998 or 2008 than 2018. The problem there isn't the JS side.
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This immediately brings to mind the Simpsons, where Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz says "there's the truth, and then there's the truth (with a smiling face)". The US and Pakistan are allies in name only. Let's the politicians save face on both sides. But that's hardly the truth. The US didn't tell Pakistan about the OBL operation because they didn't trust them. You trust allies, you distrust non-allies. As a comparison, if OBL was in India or France, don't you think the US would have worked with these countries on the mission?
I think it also comes out unfavorably if you compare average income to average rent, but I admit it's been years since I have really looked into it.
There needs to be a similar moratorium on this red herring of an argument.

Buildings off the rental market don’t count as vacant rentals. Failure to understand this normally subtle distinction retards the progress of this discussion.

If I said there are very few single women in SF because 98% of marriage-minded women are married, you’d see the flaw in the reasoning I’m talking about.
Thank you anyway, and yes I have read the article.
Microsoft developed .NET (internal codename COOL) to get back at Sun for suing them over Java compliance. Microsoft wanted to do embrace-extend-extinguish with the Java runtime and Sun would have none of it, so Microsoft took their ball and were like "Fine! We'll develop our OWN managed runtime and it'll be more better-er than yours is! Neener neener!"

And Bill certainly did program in low level assembly. The last Microsoft code he wrote himself was in the ROM of the Tandy 100 portable computer.
Losing a few months once in a while may be bearable, and even worthwhile as a positive experience towards a more selective criteria regarding future workplaces.

However, I would argue that depending on one's need and situation, time is gold, and jumping from one zombie startup to another continuously may not be feasible.
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Putting myself in their shoes is exactly why I think they should be allowed to do whatever they think is best for them. What paycheck would they risk loosing if they can't find a job anyway ? Minimum wage exclude and marginalize poor people

Asymmetry and inequalities are everywhere. I don't know which perfect egalitarian symmetric insert here another utopic adjective society you live in, but it's not certainly not mine
He‘s right about the cost, but it‘s surely smaller than the cost of bloated protocols, specifications, reference implementations. Nobody except large corporations is able to implement a competitive web browser, for example, regardless of the language. New languages would be much less of an issue with clean API designs and specifications.
Between the SEC essentially dropping any of their real threats, and finally getting to solid production numbers it looks like Tesla has really stabilized. Yet for some reason the stock price is barely getting back to where it was at the beginning of the year. Are there more subtle figures that are showing warning signs for TSLA?
Enlighten me. How can we twist concepts so that a smartphone is not a computer?
You're going to have to show me where he describes himself as a "[person] who wants [his] well-paved sprawl and quarter acre castle subsidized and protected by everyone else."
I really hope it doesn't take the EU over 4 full months to prove a cookie banner is in violation. That seems like a straight forward infraction if the way people have interpreted the law is accurate.
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If you're willing to shame a company for behavior you don't like, I think you should be prepared to give praise when they do exactly what you just asked for. When you constantly move the goal posts just so that you never have to abandon your righteous anger for even one day, what kind of incentive does that give companies to change their behavior?
That makes no sense and would be much worse than just popping the bubble: either China will be extremely uncompetitive with the rest of the world, or they will deprecate the RMB like crazy.

The property bubble really isn’t worth preserving.
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After going through two remodels that lived up to the old adage of 50% over time and 50% over budget, my wife and I decided that there had to be a better way. We created LevelStory to provide more transparency in the process for clients while at the same time reducing mistakes and increasing margins for contractors.

While we built it with general contractors in mind, we think it would work great for the do-it-yourselfer as well. Priced affordably with no monthly fees, you can track all the details on your own schedule.
Finder is the bug, unfortunately.
We could achieve a stable population, but we're still growing our energy use - and will be for some time, as there's something like 2 billion people who also want to have western living standards (like hot water and washing machines).
Hey Tim,

I totally agree but working on a remote machine it's not always possible, even through KVMs, so Hetzner had to step in on this one.

There were 2 faulty disks from the same 4-disk Raid but once they have found the first, they assumed that first disk was the issue and didn't test the rest, so that ended up with loosing everything.

Even if they are helping as a courtesy, they should test all the disks and do this right before let the customer continue.
It's putting a positive spin on paying people a living wage. Unemployment goes up, support the unemployed with safety nets and raising taxes.

The problem is not the cost; the money exists in the economic system, clearly. It's simply an allocation issue.

But pessimists can keep carrying on with "the sky is falling" while progressive economic policies continue to march forward, bringing the US to parity with the living standards of other first world countries.
Oh, it is, far more affordable than most of the US cities. Not only that, but over the past 20 years, the housing prices have increased just slightly above inflation.

https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...

https://www.weetas.com/article/rent-income-ratio-17-major-ci...
The whole Longhorn/Vista debacle, with .NET components being rewritten in COM for Vista, followed up by the increasing the COM usage in Windows 7 and then bringing up WinRT as .NET replacement under Synofsky's leadership is another example of those political internal wars.
You can't just ignore cost of living disparity though. $30K per year is a huge amount of money in some parts of the world -- that's enough to live very well, maybe support multiple wives if the culture allows it. But in San Francisco, that income level for a family puts you below the poverty line and you will struggle to afford housing.
This will lead to worsening conditions. For example, a person who lives with parents and doesn't pay any rent can work for significantly lower salary than the one who lives alone. For him even $1/hour is better than getting $0 sitting at home. Or immigrants who live 8 people in a room will be happy to work for a lower pay. The number of available jobs is limited. So people with higher demands, especially people with kids, will have a tough choice: either stay unemployed or live 8 people in a room too.
Did you just compare a subsidiary of Volkswagen to some singular Silicon Valley startup in terms of production capability, available resources, expertise and infrastructure?

Also, define Porsche:

"Porsche AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, and is owned by Volkswagen AG, which is itself majority-owned by Porsche Automobil Holding SE." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche

I'm a bit skeptical whether Tesla will survive a behemoth like Volkswagen shifting gear towards main focus on electric vehicles.
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Similarly, my kids don't get credit for "doing the right thing" only when I'm about to storm into the room to lecture them on whatever they were doing wrong.
The Ext-VOS design document as provided by Don Syme, alongside other blog entries, tells another story.
I see your point, but the phrasing is confusing: fuzzy logic is not the same as probability.
"A 75% chance of it raining" typically means that it either rains or not.

In a fuzzy setting, "I think it is raining" would be encoded as "the current weather is partially included in the Raining set, with membership greater than 0 but smaller than 1".