skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by GPU bandwidth you mean GPU memory bandwidth, being able to operate at memory bandwidth is typically a huge win over CPU, not only because of the big difference between GPU and CPU bandwidth (900 GB/sec vs 150-200 GB/sec), but also because it is often harder to hit CPU bandwidth because a lack of FLOPs/higher difficulty vectorizing certain algorithms on CPU.

Imagine being able to keep a dynamic dictionary on the GPU to support dictionary-encoded strings or enforcing of unique ids. We do these sorts of things on the CPU now, and have made them relatively fast, but making them faster with GPU-acceleration could significantly speed up import, a major focus of ours.

We also currently build our hash maps on the fly for joins, and can cache the hash table when it makes sense, but have to rebuild from scratch when there are updates or deletes. We could likely build on this sort of data structure to be able to not start from scratch every time there is an update/delete.

Sure there are lots of other uses, just thinking off the top of my head.
Looking at the first row, I'd just point out that some of these are repeat founders at the ages listed:

Elon founded Zip2 right out of undergrad, Garrett Camp founded StumbleUpon while in grad school, and Kalanick left UCLA undergrad to found Scour and then kind of expanded on that with Red Swoosh right after.

Most of these are still accurate and it's really cool data, so thank you for posting; just figured it was worth commenting on nonetheless. :)
This feels like highly relevant training for making responsive multiplayer games
Attach whatever label to it you want. The only thing that matters is whether it makes society happier overall. It certainly makes you unhappy, but the people who receive the money are made happy, and histories have shown us the stratified societies that result from a lot of hereditary wealth/position are less happy than the ones with high social mobility. You might think this is unfair. Being born in an underclass in a stratified society is unfair too.

If you really believe in individual sovereignty, a society that maximizes social mobility should be inherently attractive to you. The John Galt type that the right idealizes would have been nothing if he'd been born an untouchable in pre-British India.

That being said, I recognize that a tax would discourage some people from being as productive as they might otherwise be. At the same time, I suspect that many people will work harder under more fair conditions. It's hard to say what the net effect will be.

Of course, if you have other ideas for promoting a fair society with social mobility along with realistic methods of paying for them, I'm happy to hear them.
you might be an ordinary citizen. But what if some day you end up being a high level govt official, or a CEO of a big tech company handling millions of other citizens' private information? That Huawei phone you had, if indeed rootkit-ed and your data was being collected, will come back and bite you.
The original title from WP is a little clickbaity, but it's an interesting article reporting on a series of experiments to support open democracy using technology, supported by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance.
Throwing more money at problem works when the primary problem is that they aren't currently receiving enough money.
Yeah, we get it. You believe in the ether. Perhaps you would prefer to call it "the firmament." The only people who believe this are certain fringe (read that pseudoscience) speculators who will never be taken seriously because they ignore the actual data, and have only a rudimentary understanding of the rigorously verified physics involved.
Sweet summer child. Even as a citizen of an EU country, I don’t have the right to vote in the country I pay the taxes and contributions in.
Can you explain how income disparity hurts? Just using that measurement alone it can distort the ground reality. To list a couple high wealth disparity countries: Singapore, US, and North Korea. Clearly one of them is not like the others.
>My 21 year old self just loved to build unnecessary, complex shit

When time and energy feel infinite, the perceived cost of wasting either feels low; the real cost remains the same.
Design tools are running out of track. Here’s how we can fix them
The State of California is already showing annual surpluses.

But in any case you will note that both your Federal and State tax forms permit a voluntary donation beyond what you owe ..do you take advantage of this?
>Vote for people who will.

It really, truly is not that simple:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
Threatened Sovereignty, Jurisdictions
Google and Android have your back by protecting your backups
Needs auto-rotate so images are always upright.
I met with a non-technical cofounder a few months ago who is in his early 20s. He had a great idea for a product and was looking for a technical co-founder (he also had an investor who already put up some money and he was already deeply involved in the sales channel and had two customers already sold). I have no doubt this product would very successful. Probably not a unicorn, but could make a few people quite wealthy.

But, from our two hour meeting I could tell that he wanted to make all of those same mistakes I now know not to make.

Your point about building complex shit is exactly his main problem, and I problem I suffered from at that age too. Yes, it might be complex one day if that's what the market needs, but simple can be so much more and it's especially the right move for an MVP.

To some degree, I don't blame him and he doesn't know me well enough to trust me to guide him away from those pitfalls, but man I wish he had a little more humility -- we'd be a couple months away from an MVP at this point.
Screen amount left for an actual content on this website is less than 50% on mobile. This is obscene.
Beat the last price on BuyTheBillboard and use it as advertisement
Spotify has some really strange "won't fix" issues...

I'm on a Spotify family plan. I recently bought a Spotify gift card on sale, because you can usually apply those for a credit on subscription services.

Well, it turns out unlike the rest of their plans, Spotify Family doesn't support gift cards. I didn't even consider that it might not apply to all plans, and didn't check the fine print. Disappointed, I contacted support, who were happy to inform me there's a solution! I should cancel my plan (kicking all my dependents out), sign up for a _regular_ plan, apply my gift card to it, and _then_ sign up to the family plan again. This would, of course, mean that I'd have to reinvite my entire family to the plan.

They didn't really seem to understand why I was less than enthusiastic about this "solution".
Just move to a US state?
> Warm weather is important. eg. Hothouse/greenhouse tomatoes or cucumber are never as flavorful as field raised and ripped ones. The more north you go, the blander/crappier the food gets, mostly due to the weather.

It's not quite that clear-cut. For example, strawberries are sweeter and less bland when grown in cooler climates [1]:

> Increased in growth temperatures resulted in decreased fruit quality including soluble solids (SSC), titratable acids (TA), SSC/TA ratio, and ascorbic acid (AA) content in the fruit.

Swedish tomatoes are, on the other hand, of course crap when compared to southern European tomatoes. But from what I've read that's suspected to have more to do with light than temperature.

1: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5ace/a1295f3898659fb0afdfab...
Bayes' theorem also helps clear up some of the subtleties behind the Monty Hall problem. Switching is advantageous because Monty knows which door has the prize. If Monty doesn't know which door has the prize, seeing a non-prize door results in 50-50 odds that your door has the prize.

Depending on how you model Monty Hall's prior probability of revealing the prize, seeing a non-prize door can result in the probability anywhere between 0 and 2/3 of switching being advantageous.
In most Bay Area communities education bond measures pass with ease. Same with open space measures.

Mid Peninsula Open Space is swimming in money, they buy land faster than they can open it. Bay Area voters just recently approved major funding boosts for Mid Peninsula...why would they do so again so soon?

Seems like HN readers would do well to survey what has passed in the last ten years...
Whatsapp Fake News: A Game Theoretic Solution
NUTS and Stan are quite old at this point!

Here's a more recent advance https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.09268.pdf
would be far more useful to share with anyone else who was there, regardless of if they're pictured (and, I have to presume, the app can determine via facial recognition who they are and if they're in your contact list).

all your pics would go to others, and all the pics from others would go to you. (think concerts/events)
I had it migrated to a new paid account over chat with support in under 10 minutes - did you contact them? Arguably this should be a menu item somewhere, and maybe it is and I couldn’t find it, but my experience was very painless.
in a video i just watched, it said that mccain's plane actually dropped two 1,000lb bombs into the fire that exploded shortly after it began

https://youtu.be/HfnlWKdD2fI?t=643
weird balance of paragraph to 2 sentences
I made that "Login with Facebook" mistake too. Somehow I can login with some numeric username and password, but Spotify still downloads my recent facebook profile pic, what I don't like, because I want no connection to Facebook whatsoever.
If how the Greek bailout was handled serves as a reference of how those 3 bodies work then I’m very skeptical of the EU as a viable political entity. I’ve always thought that the EU was a good idea, but the lack of transparency and the feeling of being driven by closed door politics and Germany having too much clout and disappointingly making very selfish decisions puts Brexit under a different light. I still think is a terrible idea but those are things to consider
Not in a Hacker News comment, I can't. But google around -- the information is fairly easy to find.
I am 41, startup CEO for ~14 months, and currently having one of the worst days since the company started. (edit: actually, the worst day period).

Although you might be right on statistics, I am 100% sure 10 years ago I wouldn't have had the maturity or the experience or the grit to face this day, the way I do right now.

Also, don't forget that today's returns are huge, compared to 10-20 years ago, and that today's entrepreneurs start earlier than their equivalent of 20 years ago.

It's hard to make sense of these numbers without bias or without any risk of misinterpreting things.
I tend to think of it from the other side. What advertiser wants to hear the pitch of, "you can reach the segment of our audience who is too cheap or disengaged to pay for our content"
I turned off FB "platform intergration" entirely, years ago, and it took me like 1 minute to google this up, which worked then and still works now. What's the big mystery?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-iPad/Log-in-to-s...

Ever since then I use that "device name" (really more like a Spotify account number that stands in for a username) for everything. Logging in to Spotify clients built in to TV and roku, Android & IOS apps, and managing the account on the web site.

The account was created, Premium, with FB when that was the only option. Then I got that device name and disabled platform integration on FB so it's not possible for anything including Spotify to access my fb account, and it's been like that since 2012.

Disable "platform integration":
https://m.facebook.com/help/211829542181913
Every EU/EFTA member nation is required to maintain at least one "Data Protection Authority", responsible for supervising data protection law. The escalation process if a company fails to comply with the law is to make a complaint to them.

There's a list here: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_...
Being successful and being famous are two completely different things only tangentially related.

The 30 companies that have famous founders are far outweighed by the ten thousand that you don't know of. On more than one occasion I’ve found myself working for absolutely massive companies (public in many cases) that I’d never previously even heard of. I’ve definitely had a lot of those, “Holy shit, how is this the biggest company I’ve never heard of,” experiences. There are a lot of companies in finance, telecom, and infrastructure that you don’t think about because they don’t have an app that sits on your home screen.
No, but the point is that those people have valuable experience. But they're probably laid off purely from a numbers standpoint, they likely have a higher salary than the junior people. The decision likely isn't based on the merit of the candidates when a company is in trouble; however, that seems like OP's point... that maybe it should be.
Hi, we don't care.

Sincerely,
Spotify
This. In college I was a lightweight rower. Despite there being thousands of people in that sport at the college level, in most years there are 0 to 1 kids with enough genetic talent to be unbeatable by everyone else who just works hard.
It’s fashionable to bash Google+ and ignore/diminish its contributions.

Almost all features in Google Photos for the first 1.5 years of its existence already existed in Google+. Further, the infrastructure that the Google+ team created runs a very high percentage of Google servers today (excluding Search), and ships in a lot of Android and iOS apps by Google. For insiders, I am referring to Boq, BoqWeb, Wiz, Tiktok, and Service Registry.
i especially like how he has nothing but disdain for jack dorsey but is perfectly happy to tweet the day away
IANAP, but IIRC while the higgs field gives mass to electrons, quarks, the W bosons and a few more particles, the vast majority of the mass of the atom (and thus of what we normally call matter) is due to the binding energy of quarks and gluons and not related to the higgs field.
Did the OP actually try the support option? It took me less than a painless 10 minutes over chat with support (and most of that was me asking if the discover weekly model they had created for me would be ported over too, which seemed to have been highly tuned lately. The support person could not say and probably didn’t know what I was asking about)
> How would a Post-Capitalist Silicon Valley be different from today?

What's interesting is that I don't think the day-to-day of it would look very different. Extremely hierarchical corporate structures don't work very well in small scale unless you have phenomenally charismatic (or even rarer, actual top-of-field domain expert) leaders. As an incentive to bring folks into the space, varying degrees of group ownership and power are offered to the founding set (and founding investors, which are often an integral part of the early business).

In a very real sense but perhaps to a lesser total degree, this is (as the syndicalists love to put it) "the workers owning the mill they operate."

What's also interesting is that as the company scales, this approach is considered increasingly untenable (mostly from a profit-generation standpoint) and a more absolutely hierarchical system emerges. But nearly everyone has the opinion that these corporate structures are awful, inefficient beasts that create incentives for parasitic management, outsized rewards for C-sets who may or may not provide actual value, and a constant conflict within the workforce to avoid being trivialized by the desire to increase efficiency over product quality or market share.

There was a pair of papers recently that I really enjoyed investigating what "fractal" community (and by obvious extension, corporate) structures could look like by De Florio & then Pajaziti:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/sres.2242

https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05112

These delve into how one can build service organizations around non-traditional (e.g., not-straight-line-to-the-top-always-centralized) structures and how these can actually have deceptively better efficiency even if their outcomes are only statistically predictable.

It's worth noting that these sorts of organization styles are not untested in the valley. The biggest success for such an organization I can think of off the top of my head is Google's technical support and loaner laptop system, which is semi-fractal and horizontal and despite looking like it'd be a huge money pit (from the traditional "control outcomes and limit loss" school of IT management), is actually dramatically cheaper than traditional IT departments at its scale. Data driven organizations often naturally push towards open and relatively flat org structures, with the understanding that the overhead of abuse of such system's leniency is much less expensive than the total expense of minimizing said abuse.

This isn't isn't exactly new, we see echos of the "actually the chaotic version of this over resources that are infinite in principle but constrained in a time domain is not much worse than the perfectly scheduled system" principle in lots of fields. Market economics likes this outcome (although not when you start making them own "externalities" like environmental damage). Network engineers have long ago made their peace with this truth, as well. A randomly scheduled network is only about 1/3 worse than an optimally scheduled network!
In general, I always try to put my PM shoes on and try to evaluate what benefit they could possibly be receiving to ignore such a prominent issue that you can pretty much guarantee they are well aware of the issue.

That being said, I completely agree that this is pretty strange since I have not a single example that comes to mind in this case...
The food industry benefits from, and therefore desires, this situation. As a result of the confusion, many people throw up their hands, and just eat whatever they want, or avoid one bad thing but gorge themselves on another. People just want an excuse to indulge, and conflicting, ever-changing studies are perfect for that. The food industry, of course, helps out by muddying the waters with poorly-designed, misleading studies.

In reality, sugar, dairy, meat, salt, saturated fat (even coconut oil), and other processed oils, are all bad for you in different ways. A good heuristic for your diet is to maximize the amount of whole plant-based foods you eat. "whole" just means not having good things taken out -- so whole grains instead of processed, whole fruit instead of juices and jams which have had peel and fiber removed and maybe sugar added, avocados instead of avocado oil, etc. Even preferring whole beans to tofu which has had fiber removed -- though tofu isn't bad for you, it's just that whole beans, or whole-bean products like tempeh, are better.

The longest-living people on the planet all eat some variant of this diet -- mostly or entirely whole plant foods, with minimal meat, dairy, added sugar, oil, etc. Unfortunately, as many places become wealthier and more westernized, people tend to start to copy the American diet, which brings with it all the typical the American health problems -- diabetes, heart disease, increased cancer risk, and all sorts of other inflammatory diseases.

I don't generally trust scientific reporting on nutrition. Instead, I like this site, nutritionfacts.org, where they have a team of researchers that read pretty much every nutrition study and analyze them very critically, gradually building up a picture of what we should eat for good health.
I always find it interesting when these sorts of threads are posted. I for one look at them as am I too old to be starting my own company or should I chill out because I still have time.

Fundamentally I think there's limited value in drawing lessons from these stories because you're probably your own best judge of whether you should quit your job or not. Your risk tolerance lowers as you get older but your skills will improve so it's up to you to decide what's the sweet spot. That said there is an age threshold where you'll be treated like an old man at a big company so may as well demonstrate your expertise on your own company before that happens.
I find the term is apt here, because 'space' is roughly defined as anything beyond 100km from Earth's surface (which they're aiming for). But reaching space is vastly easier than reaching orbit, which requires reaching a speed of about 28000km/h or 17000 mph, which they're definitely not aiming for!
Thanks, this is good feedback. The landing page was deployed in a hurry and will be updated soon, both to fix typos and to add some more technical information about how it's built.

For the record, it's all hosted in AWS EC2/RDS, and the backend is built in Django. The front end is nuxtjs
Maybe it's not just anti-Chinese bias, and Huawei really is worse than others?
It's not prima facie obvious that public spending via taxation is less efficient. It's also not clear which argument you might be making asserting that it is -- the general characterizing of state agencies as bureaucratic and wasteful, or something like the undergrad econ models relating taxes to clearing gaps in supply/demand curves, or perhaps something even less specific -- but suffice it to say neither is the end of the story.
It's hardly a reason to leave home, but it's definitely a reason to, for example, not go skydiving.

You obviously can't remove all risk, but you sure can reduce it.
Presumably you get value from leaving home, and these people realized they weren’t getting value from Facebook.

Personally I have still friends I cannot switch to other platforms so I am stuck checking my Facebook messages once a month, but that is the only reason I still have an account, and I have unliked everything else from the service.
If you think about it, Silicon Valley is what you get when you mix two parts new age culture with three parts IBM and let it ripen for a few decades.
Hmm? The goal is to stick a person at the top of it. That's pretty much the definition of manned as far as I'm aware.
You're assuming parent wasn't going for the top comment. In addition to the open-ended hypothetical, popular tactics include prefacing with "This is an unpopular opinion" and "My theory is". Depending on the goal, they might be using their brain correctly. Stacking open-ended hypotheticals is a savvy move.
I've read some Chinese novels translated into English (I'm a Chinese speaker) but more Russian ones like Crime and Punishment and War and Peace.

My two cents is that there are some subtleties that are cultural but for the most part its understandable from the reader's perspective as to what the author was getting to. Although google and wikipedia is your friend when it comes to cultural references.
> It sucks that the author's grandmother died and that he felt the need to work through the night while that happened, but it's unfair to take that out on your colleagues.

It's unfair to take that out on your colleagues, but it is fair to blame it on management and the culture they set. Some people are going to be more politically protected than others for reasons that aren't strongly related to the value they add to the business and able to get away with things others aren't, and if you don't counteract that, you'll both get inefficient results (either they're doing something they shouldn't, or other people don't feel empowered to do something they should) and also cause a loss to morale and trust.

Setting clear (if mechanical) rules about things that would otherwise turn into "the politically connected can do this, the rest of you can't" is absolutely the responsibility of management. Saying to people up front that they should always feel free to take time off or cancel meetings for personal emergencies and the company trusts their judgment (if that is in fact the policy) and making sure people act like it's true - or making sure people show up and have extremely good excuses when they don't, if that's the policy - is management's job.