skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The reality is that there are not many business uses for massively parallel computation in a small package."

Yet. People will want good voice recognition. Even if you cannot get that in your phone, your provider will want an energy-efficient solution for running voice recognition for millions of users simultaneously.

Further ahead is the babelfish.

Your phone also may want to use its cameras to figure out who is talking, and adjust its noise suppression depending on the location of the speaker.

Finally, car manufacturers will want small, low-power, cheap stuff to build their self-driving cars.

Hardware like this may strike the right balance between flexibility and power use for problems such as these.

And yes, this may be too weird for most to take the risk of using it, but it may take only one succesvol company to make the jump.
Even with rent prices? If I was single it wouldn't matter, I could live in a shoe-box, but a family needs a little extra room. And we're a very frugal family.

It's interesting that growing up in London my single-parent mother on an income between 40-50k managed to buy a house and raise two kids. We lived comfortably.

That house is now worth 6x more than the price she payed. Her salary today (she's retired) would be almost the same. That's why I can't imagine doing the same thing she did, even on a 2x salary.

I'm not complaining, just thinking out loud.
London Underground standard 'crush loads' are 4 people per square meter of floor space for the entire floor area of the train carriage.
Most asian cultures, there is no social security cause the children are supposed to take care of the parents. Generally speaking they usually live in same house. Here in Thailand we get tax credits if our parents are old and don't have a pension. Its called the "good child" exemption
Custom shaders? Interesting. What shaders did you need that the PlayCanvas engine didn't provide by default?
The original poster was addressing costs versus salary.
Stealing my own comment from HN on this:

That article reads a lot like "Peak Oil" concerns. There is a lot of Helium available - [1] The global reserves of helium are known to be approximately 41 billion cubic meters. Most of them lie in Qatar, Algeria, the USA and Russia. Annual global production of helium is about 175 million cubic meters, and the USA remains the largest producer. "

Regardless, this is something the market can correct for very, very easily. As helium supply becomes more scarce, the price will go up, resulting in greater supply. Most of it comes from natural gas, and is so cheap [2] it's not worth capturing. Oil trades for around $100/barrel. Helium trades at $100 for a thousand cubic feet (albeit in gas form)

Some of the problems with Helium is that Physics experiments use a LOT, and previously was so cheap that it wasn't worth trying to conserve. That's changing - [3] A recycling system can recapture about $12,000/year of lost helium for a single scientist.

From reading articles - apparently the problems isn't so much that the cost of helium is increasing - but that it's been so cheap because of the US Natural Reserves making it completely non-competitive to capture - they are basically giving the stuff away for next to nothing.

[1] http://www.gazprominfo.com/articles/helium/

[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/airgas-increase-prices-helium-... And on Friday, the bureau announced that it was raising the price for a thousand cubic feet for crude helium from $84 to $95

[3] http://www.nature.com/news/united-states-extends-life-of-hel...
I'm late-twenties/early-thirties. I'm probably just on the old side to still be perfectly happy to rent a room in a shared apartment. If I find myself in a long-term relationship then I imagine my priorities will change, but part of the reason I moved to London was because I thought it would be easier to meet romantic prospects.

I completely agree that property prices in London are insane, and that the political system is doing nothing to reign it in (quite the opposite, from my point of view).

But, from what I've experienced, if you don't want to buy your own property, then it's perfectly possible to live in London without earning crazy hedge fund money.
I understand that is a possible option, but isn't the whole point of this that it's not feasible to live in the city? Being forced further out to commute is kind of the point.
That is correct, however when you apply for a mortgage the bank doesn't really add both incomes equally and the only reason we were able to borrow £300k is because I earn more than £50k.

Also, interest rates are extremely low at the moment and we will be paying only around 4%.

I prefer not to think what will happen if the BOE needs to raise interest rates.

Additionally if we want to have kids, that's another £12k per year per kid for a nursery if my gf wants to keep her job.

I never earned this much in my life and I never felt to financially insecure at the same time.
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Any insight on how this one compares to Netflix's Druid? Really curious.
I think every framework starts off lightweight and becomes heavier as time goes by.
Most of the planning policy that affects the current housing shortage (along with most things in the UK, really) is decided nationally, so I'm going to have to go with "yes".

Fair enough, could be a local ordinance (I'm not from the UK).

But ask yourself this: Given where you live now, how do you feel about people who don't live where you do deciding what should happen where you live, because it would suit them (not you) better?

I think "how would you feel" arguments are generally poor - biased people make selfish choices, and I'm not immune to it.

That said, I'm not saying that outsiders should be able to choose; you made a comment about it being democratic, and I was curious if it was true. I don't consider a system where only the incumbents would be allowed to vote as "democratic" - even if I could consider it better than a democratic system.
The article asserts Artemis will need to become a MVNO. This would be a large hurdle and one I don't think is remotely necessary. Unlimited data will make Artemis very attractive for fixed home internet service.

Also, some small cellular networks don't offer roaming and only work in very limited geographic areas. Many have successfully found niches among people who don't travel much or have alternatives when they are traveling.
> One unoccupied oil baron's mansion in Central London could be demolished and replaced by affordable housing for hundreds of people.

LOL. No.

The politics of building on the greenbelt might be thorny, but it's nothing compared for what it'd be like to suggest demolishing listed regency buildings anywhere, much less central London.

The best you can hope for is to replace the extremely wealthy absent foreigner with an extremely wealthy resident (foreigner or not).
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> Another important factor to consider however, is that the Maxwell and Fermi architecture (Maxwell 900 series; Fermi 400 and 500 series) are quite a bit faster than the Kepler architecture (600 and 700 series);

Where are the citation for this? I have heard about the disappointing benchmarks when the 600 serie launched, but this is uncommon as far as I know in the GPU marked to have sub part drivers on launch. Plus if you are following a tic-toc strategy like Intel does, you should rarely go for the tic iteration in my opinion. So is this just a claim from the author or is there something to back this statement up?
Without a welfare state, sounds like good incentive to have lots of kids!
This argument hinges on the assumption that miners need the incentive of new coins mined from the blockchain for them to continue mining. However, there are several other incentives that people can have. There are several actors inside and outside the US who like to have a currency without government control for various ideological reasons and do not need an economic incentive to continue validating the blockchain.
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That's all well and good from the consumers point of view. It doesn't help people who are spending their working hours at a place that cannot support them. It's not about doing things less efficiently, so your 'building with shovels' example is facile. The point is that companies alone cannot be entrusted with the welfare of their employees - this is why minimum wage and works rights / entitlements exist in the first place. The concern is that these companies are using loopholes to skirt the laws, to the detriment of citizens.

I'm sure you'd agree that citizens rights should trump those of consumers who want cheap stuff.
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> That's an interesting meta point which is much wider than this discussion (it also encompasses PRISM etc)

Fair enough, though I don't think I ever saw that meta point being touched in any of the discussions about recent privacy issues, and I wish it had - it seems to be important for the future of mankind.

> most of those that do don't expect Him to adversely affect their every day life

To be honest, a lot of the stuff we want to be "private" about probably wouldn't adversely affect our daily lives as well. For instance, if I were to be discriminated by my employer for being a Trekkie (because everyone who cares can know everyone elses fandom affiliations), that employer would be doing himself a big disservice by dismissing potentially good people because of irrelevant criteria and will be outcompeted by one who doesn't discriminate (unless he wants to create a Star Wars-oriented workplace to improve cohesion and morale; let the market decide then if this actually makes sense).

The only big objection I can see is with insurance - while on the one hand I'd be totally fine for insurance companies to bill people by their risky behaviour, it would have nasty consequences for health-related policies; having access to medical data makes insurance more expensive for people who need it the most. But I suppose there could be workarounds.
I always find this very ironic.