skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swap file memory is a “big deal” for consoles. Having worked on the 360 this is kinda a big deal. Even for the Xbox One, the only swap file concept was in the OS/ “dashboard”. I’m not aware of the PS3 or 4 ever having such a concept. SSD’s have traditionally served as an alternative to disc based games, not a functional element of system architecture
I wouldn’t be too hard on yourself. I have met some great technically minded program managers who majored in philosophy. Granted you may not get far in SV (don’t know - I don’t live there) but in other big Corp and fed govt you can find people who appreciate a well rounded candidate. Try sales engineering, product owner or program manager if you’re looking for tech jobs.

It’s too bad that we have such blinders on as an industry. There’s more to tech work than knowing the big-O notation of a given algorithm off the top of your head.
Are there any types of tax that are:

1. Reasonably within the means of cities to levy, and
2. Economcially efficient?

This per employee tax was literally a tax on jobs: it taxes a socially beneficial thing. Of course, many taxes are like this, such as the income tax. But adding a totally new tax is mort distorting than simply raising existing income taxes.

And, at a state /federal level, income taxes for some reason are more politically feasible than taxes on externalities, which are economically efficient

If efficiency is out of reach, are there any taxes cities can levy that at least aren’t lousy in terms of efficiency? It seems to me that municipalities generally aren’t given good taxation powers.
In a democratic China the Uighurs will have representatives. If they don't, it's not democratic yet.

Ask other democratic nations if they can get away with voting for systematic oppression of a people via a vote.

Historically, decentralizing power (i.e. via democracy) leads to less shittiness for more people.

In any case, what possible reason would the average Chinese person have to systematically oppress the Uighurs or falun gong? They're only oppressed now because their religion poses a threat to the cultural control the Party exerts over the people. In a democracy, that control vanishes.
Yep I've had this happen before. I'm usually careful to close IDEs but 99% of the time I just avoid IDEs. In the worst case I just copy in-progress source files and re-clone the repo. I don't really have a good alternative to a syncing folder across locations.
> Nobody wants to wait for a developer to implement the things they want.

And yet they still want them, and things take non-zero time to implement regardless of who is doing it. It's not as if proprietary software appears from whole cloth in zero time containing every feature requested by every customer.

> If they have work to do, they need a solution NOW.

If they have work to do they can do it the same way they did it last week. But when the question comes whether to upgrade to the new version of the proprietary software, you should ask whether it makes more sense to pay the money to do that this year, or stay on the existing version for a year while you use the money that you would have spent and instead get the free software equivalent into a state that it satisfies your needs, then never have to pay for the proprietary software again.

> Then once the purchase has been made, the question of paying someone to work on it is a separate issue. Most rational people would say "why would I do that?"

Because you have twenty or more full-time people using it and if you can make them each even a single digit percentage more efficient on a permanent basis, it becomes highly profitable to hire the software developer that allows that to happen.

> Comparing paying a FLOSS developer to paying for commercial software doesn't make sense. Companies don't see themselves as funding development either way.

What did they think the proprietary software license money was funding?
The IRS puts them on an s3 bucket: https://docs.opendata.aws/irs-990/readme.html

There are 2018 filings in there, but many charities have fiscal years that end in Dec. IIRC, they generally file within 6 months. Given things like human error, bureaucracy and filing extensions... more should start rolling in over time.
Unix Directory Structure for Projects
Has anybody tried using unix directory layout for their own builds/projects? More from abstract standpoint.
Even if it did, do people want 8k? I haven’t been pining for more than 1080p with my Xbox.

Why isn’t HDR color moving very fast? I feel like I’d rather have more color resolution than spatial resolution given the choice...
Please vet your sources if you want an audience here.

Whatever message you wanted to get across drowned because of the Breitbart quote.
How is it that the commercial flight simulators never compete with MS in this space?
Life of a Data Labeler
The desperate patient causes the desperate clinician to do desperate things
I do understand the situation, it's not about what the buyers know, but the fact that the car actually has features disabled by software. Why in the world will you reduce range with software? I can understand if different models have different range because of different battery capacity. Make no mistake, this will be hacked, it's only a matter of time.

Occasionally we see software about John Derre and how they use software to limit what can be done to their tractors. We all agree and talk about how evil that is. Tesla doing the same thing is pure evil.
I know someone who works in cybersecurity for an oil company, he uses shodan to double check if they have exposed anything to the big scary internet.
Multiple elements weakened Tung, the most significant being his attempted pro-Beijing legislation and handling of the SARS epidemic. Those lead to a series of resignations and public dressings down. Beijing’s disapproval, while a factor, was neither the proximate nor dominant cause.

Hong Kong, politically and culturally, responds to protest.
How prevalent are printers that don’t support AirPrint? It’s been out since 2012 and HP developed it. I assume it’ll be an IT nightmare and a one-time conversion hell for a lot of people :(
All Investors Claim They “Add Value”. Few Do, Says Prominent Seattle Angel(2016)
I actually thought the same thing. Or maybe a $ sign prior to 3M. $3M could be easier to distinguish quickly.

[edit] It seems that this is a link to 3 million records. Not a 3 million dollars worth. It seems I was even confused with another way that the headline could be perceived.
On the road to self-driving trucks, Starsky Robotics built a trucking business
lmfao...
> chinese society has existed in a stable form for thousands of years.

This is a patently false myth that the PRC promotes to legitimize its government. Never mind that the PRC is only 70 years old and radically different than the government that came before it, or the one 30 years before that, or 300 before that, or 200 before that...

Chinese language and culture has existed as long as all the others have. And furthermore, it has gone through just as many regime changes. Unless you're pretending each dynasty was a single government?
Facbook and google do this in America.
The lede got buried here. This article does not just propose "let's publish everything", it proposes "let's publish everything and have endorsement as a completely separate step." I think that is a far more rational approach than the current model. The current model assumes that the only way to distribute information is by printing on paper. That is clearly no longer the case, in fact it is a laughable assumption. So let's get the papers published online, and then separately have discussions leading to various kinds of endorsements. Or not, depending on the strength of the arguments.
I tried it like I tried all the other similar name generator that I have cross the path with. That’s the firs time that I find the proposal really good. Good job!
Sure, secondary containment might fail. But it buys a second chance and requires penetration of meters thick reinforced concrete on top of a failure of the pressure vessel. With such secondary containment it's likely that Chernobyl would have only resulted in the deaths of operators working near the reactor and water supply, and drastically less contamination of the surrounding areas.

And research papers dispute the risk posed by said bubble: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0146572483...
> Even if it did, do people want 8k?

As a current PS4 owner, I’d definitely prefer 60+ fps baseline then 8k resolution.
I think there is a big difference between being allowed to send a one sentence "oracle" statement like that vs having a half hour conversation with your younger self around why you shouldn't marry her, how it turned out to be the wrong decision, and what you should focus on instead.
It might have to do primarily with how the question is asked. If you say "what information about the future would you impart to your past self if given the chance", then that opens it up to broadly changing future events. But "what advice would you give yourself" presents it more as what would you say to benefit yourself the most.

It's also possible that those that have had people close to them die in easily preventable ways may think of it differently. Having someone important to you die in a car crash is different than having them die of old age or of cancer or some genetic disorder, which are broadly either unchangeable, unknowable of what causes it for sure, or both.
That's very unlikely and probably a bad idea anyway since NAND latency is too high.
bigger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20142089
You're making it unnecessarily complex. The current version of x-plane does VR really well, viewport is in the pilot's seat and all you need for full immersion is a set of rudder pedals and the VR controllers themselves.

Using VR controllers, you can manipulate any modeled knob, switch, throttle, yoke, lever and trim wheel in the cockpit. With rudder pedals, it is as close as it gets to reality. I even felt nauseous after trying out aerobatics in it.
> ...the only other way is to assume the allegations are true

We could assume nothing at this point, right?
xplane 11 does not disappoint, I use it with WMR (Odyssey+). Can't wait for Microsoft to be back in the competition.
I'd kill for 60fps 4k on anything. Sitting fairly close to a 65" TV it makes a big difference. But no console can even deliver that, I doubt they're going to deliver 8k gaming at any reasonable framerate in a modern AAA game, maybe 8k menus.

EDIT: Maybe they're planning to go the way Nvidia is doing now with things like Deep Learning Super Sampling and try to scale up content in intelligent ways. I'm not sure how well that would work with realistically priced console hardware or what kind of results it would produce, maybe someone more familiar can comment on it.
To my ears, this sounds very similar to what AMD's "Vega" cards provided for high-end compute. The "High Bandwidth Cache Controller" allows datasets outside of the GPU's memory to be accessed in a transparent way.

I can't find a decent technical article at the moment, but here's a link to the "Radeon SSG," a $7k graphics card that ships with 2TB of solid-state storage attached, designed to be used to process absolutely massive datasets as though they were in RAM: https://www.amd.com/en/products/professional-graphics/radeon...
I guess Moms Across America didn't file a tax return electronically?

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032686

Thanks for flagging my comment, jerks. What the fuck.
8k gaming? At 120 fps?

They should try to get games running at 120 fps on ultra settings at 1440p before 4k. Leave 8k to the next generation or maybe the one beyond that. Even the most powerful desktop GPUs struggle with 4k.

An RTX 2080 Ti gets 43 fps in AC Odyssey at 4k, 51 in AC Unity, 82 in Battlefield 1, 49 in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, 63 in The Witcher 3 etc.[0]

The numbers will change depending in who's benchmarking them, but they're not going to change much. This is the fastest GPU you can get right now and it costs over a thousand dollars, yet it still can't run many games at 4k 60 fps. It even struggles at 1440p in some. Yet this press announcement says that in a year to a year and a half there will be a console that will cost half as much as this GPU and it will bring many times higher graphical performance? I find it hard to believe.

[0] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-05-07...
This year at PAX East, Thrustmaster had a VR demo of their HOTAS controllers[1], which are intended to allow pilots to access all critical functions of the aircraft without removing their hands from the controls. It's been a long time since my flight sim days, and I've never had such a strong urge to drop a couple thousand dollars on a new gaming PC. (Thankfully I don't have that kind of money available at the moment.)

Your questions are all valid, and I'm sure the answers vary for different people. There's definitely a market though, and hopefully it's enough to motivate continued improvements in the tech.

[1]: http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/hotas-warthog
No, they're promising 8K xor 120 fps.
(Perspective of an American who lives in a US Chinatown and speaks to many HKers, also went there last year)

Hong Kong is over.

Historically, it benefited from being one of the only open ports, proximate to China, but not in it. Good governance and rule of law (very important for mercantile activity, given how much finance, insurance, and complex legal codes around ownership / title / possession), nice real estate, etc.

Today, it feels like the PRC is playing the long game, and they're going to win -- they'll just hang up their hats and wait 50 years, only a generation or two, until they eventually take complete control of Hong Kong, maybe going as far as outright annexation. They're patient, determined, and focused in a way only a place ruled by a powerful, long-term oriented elite oligopoly can be (vs in the US, where we still can't fix Social Security, even though everyone knows it's a train wreck in the making, or build anything remotely resembling China's current high-speed rail network).

The real question I have is, what's going to happen in China when Xi Jinping (dictator for life) can no longer rule effectively? Will he willingly stop aside or is there going to be some kind of coup / violent overthrow if the CCP splits and can't decide whether or not it's time to replace him? That's what's got me thinking these days.
It gets more interesting when you think of use cases beyond an 8K mono screen. "8K VR" typically means 3840×2160 per eye, for example. It could even theoretically unlock scenarios like simultaneous 4K to a local display and 1080p to a handheld device.
Before you have settle down and start a family...

#3 or #2.

You could also attempt to build an MVP (#2) and try to raise a small amount of money so you can de-risk yourself a bit.
The guarantees should then be limited to making available to Lyft enough space to build docks. Banning competition far exceeds that.
What was so cool about it? I don’t get what there was to be reluctant about.
> > As an industry we’ve failed all horribly at making secure the easy default option.

> This will never and can never happen. Security and sharing are at odds

I don't think the GP was suggesting that products be made so secure to be functionally useless. There's a wide spectrum between completely open and completely locked down. But right now the gradient to go from open -> secure is so steep that most people aren't willing to put in the effort.

For example, have you ever tried using OpenSSL to create a self-signed certificate? The defaults are probably not what you want. Adding on stuff like the proper certificate extensions is even more work. Products should be designed so that it's not a herculean task to add security when you're ready to take that step.
All I've learned from this thread is that a good portion of HN hates rural America. Apparently the privilege that comes from being well educated and working in tech isn't worth "checking" although I'm sure a lot of you would love to complain about how straight and white they are too. Who cares if a lot of them are poor, just cut off their power.
> Why isn’t HDR color moving very fast?

Xbox One X supports this now. Here's a good list of titles that take advantage of it: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/xbox-one/xbox-one-x-enhance...
especially for the cost! All you need is a $500 headset and a set of rudder pedals.
I wonder how they will do the photorealistic terrain, if you can have an offline copy of the entire world or just NA I wouldn't be surprised if its 300gb+, unless they are continually streaming the terrain/textures and models.

Currently I've been flying in X-plane 11 with Ortho4xp and downloaded data can easily run into the hundreds of GBs and even multi terabytes.
> The pictures we’ve included in this article confirm Edsel's perennial smile in the presence of ladies -- we don't condone his behavior.

Yet the author feels no need to not condone the rest of Edsel's bad behavior. It's not OK to fondle you but fine to spill soup on your lap? To me it's all disgusting. I'd likely clear out permanently before my butt hit a chair. It's a little gross that the article treats him as a folk hero.

Not that I have a problem with people who tolerated or even liked it. Some people like being abused and God bless them. If they came back after the first time it's no longer really abuse because they expected it and had choices. Same if they knew what to expect by reputation.

But was it a popular place despite his antics or because of them? Maybe for the same reason that people liked being insulted by Don Rickles, which I can't fathom either.
Its not $3 million, its 3 million tax records from non-profits, digitally filed by those non profits, from 2011 until now.

"The new feature contains every electronically filed Form 990, 990-PF and 990-EZ released by the IRS from 2011 to date. That’s nearly 3 million filings. The search does not include forms filed on paper."
Apparently so does someone at reddit, as there is a simple way around the new interface (other than changing settings when logged in):

old.reddit.com

So, using one of your subreddits, try:

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/
Bitwise Presentation to SEC – 95% of Bitcoin Spot Trades Are Fake [pdf]
Leaning towards plant based is far too close to the “meat is bad, minimize it” camp for my taste. I think meat is not only good for humans, but strictly necessary for healthy development and functioning. In my assessment we aren’t eating enough high quality (important caveat) meat.
Excited about the new Xbox. I’ve had my classic Xbox One for a while now and still enjoy playing it.

This promo video though, I hate to generalise but I didn’t find anyone’s excitement believable at all.
You can have types in haskell that represent finite length lists. Here's a blog post giving an overview of several methods of doing so (and several examples of libraries in the wild that provide this): https://blog.jle.im/entry/fixed-length-vector-types-in-haske...

There's a tradeoff here between generality and how important it is to encode all invariants about a piece of data. Many haskell list processing functions are expressed in terms of right folds, which makes infinite lists fairly unproblematic to work with so long as only part of the list is demanded in the end, however for some cases you may want the type system to ensure you can't receive an infinite list.
My old version of x-plane sorely needs an update, so I'll check this out. Thanks!
Has there been anything to indicate that Microsoft reconstituted the ACES Studio team? If not, there isn't much reason for hope.
> chinese society has existed in a stable form for thousands of years.

There is no definition of “stable" for which this is even approximately true.
The whole development experience is so much better than Python.
The video at the event didn't even say anything about gaming specifically, just nebulous 8K "capabilities".
https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1137844761253957632
It's so old and well-known story, just boring.
If we have an obligation to house them, then let's house them where housing is cheap -- which is not near Seattle. The people in the homeless non-profits don't like this, because they like to live and work in Seattle. So nothing gets done and we have used needles everywhere.
> They're patient, determined, and focused in a way only a place ruled by a powerful, long-term oriented elite oligopoly can be

You’re modelling China circa 2005. Xi Jinping is now a ruler for life. Dictatorship predicts Beijing better than long-term oligopoly.

For example, he’s been impatient with Hong Kong. If Xi respected Hong Kong’s independence, the fraction of Hong Kongese identifying as Chinese would have stayed high (or risen); integration in ‘47 would have proceeded seamlessly. Instead, he got impatient. He’s impulsively abducting bookstore owners and ramming through measures. That is stoking dissent and economic corrosion in a totally unnecessary way.

> what's going to happen in China when Xi Jinping (dictator for life) can no longer rule effectively?

We’ve passed the point where Xi can peacefully cede power without fearing for his and his family’s lives.

There may be a few more peaceful transitions of power in China’s future. And there’s a lot of political capital to burn, which gives the process time. But any course correction will be effected by force.
Consumption taxes on luxury goods usually aren’t very distorting at the local level, especially since its pretty easy to define luxury goods that aren’t locally made. The problem is that the max revenue that they can collect is much lower than income or common consumption taxes, which have a wider base with less ability to evade.
We were discussing “hire a developer to contribute” vs “financial contribution”. Of course it’s voluntary and the incentive is low, but that’s off topic.
In Soho London there is also a Chinese Resonant known for its rude waiters and there is the infamous Coach and Horses which I have drunk in a few times.
I think so-called Ultra settings are a conspiracy to burn up cycles for no appreciable gain. Keeps the whales buying new graphics cards endlessly.
Sounds like a perfect application for Micron/Intel's (yet to be widely commercialized) 3D XPoint[1] :) Although I find it highly unlikely a new Xbox would be the place to debut the technology.

Regardless, claimed latency is between DRAM and NAND, so I wonder if it would be performant enough for a gaming use case. To mikeash's point, 3D XPoint is byte-addressable, so perhaps it's possible...

[1] https://www.micron.com/products/advanced-solutions/3d-xpoint...
if you want the flexibility to do something truly bizzare with confidence, you really ought to use Julia, and don't look back.

A while back I was prototyping let's just say... unusual binary datatype representations for numbers. All i had to do was reimplement a handful of operations (+, -, x, /, one, zero) and I got everything from fourier transforms to matrix solving for free. Comparing numerical performance with standard IEEE representations was then easy, and I had confidence that my comparisons were legit, since I was literally calling the same function against both numerical types.

More recently I wanted to play around with galois fields, following Mary Wootter's impressive work, and was able to test some ideas very quickly (and trivially deploy on a supercomputer cluster) in few lines of code using Julia.

That's not a typical use case, but it's a thing. I am thinking about playing around with complex numbers (when I get some free time, which increasing seems like 'never') in deep learning, and for similar reasons Julia will be an obvious choice.
The current and next gen consoles are PCs in disguise, especially the xbox since it shares a large portion of codebase with Windows (OneCore).
Because you can't.
I think you’re making up why homeless advocates don’t want to literally ship the homeless out of the city. There are a lot of reasonable objections to that plan.