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811.
by option 8y ago
yes, thanks to the prop 13 a teacher or retired couple are able to keep the house the’ve lived in for a huge part of their lives. And even with prop 13 the taxes are increasing every year (by~2% I think)
812.
by option 8y ago
No, the property tax is not low in CA. What you pay is tax_rate*assesed_value. Because value is high what you actually pay is huge amount of money on what is considered a very modest house in other places
813.
by option 8y ago
because of range, design and autopilot, I can’t imagine my next car to be anything other than Tesla
814.
by option 8y ago
check Article X, Section 4 of California’s constitution. The courts already decided agaist him, he just can affort to pay the fine and continue restricting access
815.
by option 8y ago
And Khosla Ventures is one of their key investors. Let's not forget that Khosla himself does not exactly care about public interest or existing laws https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/
816.
by option 8y ago
An alternative/additional solution to "just built more, denser housing" is making remote work much more widely adopted. A lot of roles in software, research, etc. are very well suited for remote work. Bay Area companies sho
817.
by option 8y ago
they only help “strongmen” leaders become even more popular among their populations because of an “external” enemy.
818.
by option 8y ago
This is very impressive. The decision to not release the model is questionable imho. There are labs, companies and state agents which have way more compute than OpenAI and therefore can do even better. Perhaps we need some kind of competiti
819.
by option 8y ago
checkout this https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenSeq2Seq - a similar framework but with voice recognition and voice synthesis.
820.
by option 8y ago
i think I am actually going to switch to Lyft after reading this
821.
by option 8y ago
The only Facebook “thing” my daughters are getting (until they are independent enough to decide for themselves) is PyTorch.
822.
by option 8y ago
I dream of the time when I go on a road trip with a family and don’t have to drive. No, train, etc is not an option for too many reasons to list here
823.
by option 8y ago
There are career stages. For candidates just out of school or with little experience asking algorithmic questions totally makes sense. For more senior candidates (who actually progressed to the next stage, not just spent a lot of years),
824.
by option 8y ago
lived there (major European city). No, thanks
825.
by option 8y ago
old ladies should be able to keep their houses if they chose to once the house is paid of and they retire.
826.
by option 8y ago
I live about 15-20 mins away from Apple and Netflix. The house next to ours has been empty for more than 2 years (as long as we lived in the neighborhood). Once a year, a Chinese lady (other neighbors say she lives in China now) appears in
827.
by option 8y ago
Mixed precision training can give you tensor core speedups. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03740 Toolkit which implements it on top of Tensorflow: https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenSeq2Seq
828.
by option 8y ago
this is one of the reasons why I left MS working on Bing (though, not the most important at that time)
829.
by option 8y ago
Personally, I actually commute to work by motorcycle (not sure why it isn’t more popular in CA). But, of course, like a bicycle, it is not for everyone.
830.
by option 8y ago
being forced into strangers’ armpits is not the kind of interaction I am looking forward to. Of course, “happens only during rush hours”. Sorry, but I actually lived in an Eastern European city and had to commute like that to work.
831.
by option 8y ago
I wonder how a bike or even public transit is going to replace a car? 1) How am I supposed ro go to the beach with two kids, stuff for picnic and surfboards on a bike or even on a bus?!! 2) Public transit is all good, but have you ever been
832.
by option 8y ago
I live in CA and often comute on my motrcycle. It’s a joy - carpool lanes, lane spliting, and a motorcycle I like. About 15 mins by motorcycle and could easily be 40 by car (because of carpool lanes and lane splitting, not speed)
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OpenSeq2Seq: Distributed and Mixed-Precision Training for NMT and ASR(news.developer.nvidia.com)
1 points by option 9y ago|0 comments
834.
by option 9y ago
"as much as possible" - I do not think 0 computer time is good for 3-4 year old. For <=2 year old, sure, there should be 0 time. I am thinking to start introducing her to computers and I prefer to start with Mac rather than p
835.
Ask HN: What are the best educational apps/games for 3-4 year olds on Mac?
5 points by option 9y ago|6 comments
836.
by option 9y ago
I had a very similar experience with my 6+ but instead of buying iPhone I finally jumped ship and bought Essential Phone (Android). (I also changed my Apple Watch 1 to Nokia Steel HR as a result of ecosystem change) If only I knew that repl
837.
by option 9y ago
These don’t include private schools, right?
838.
by option 9y ago
"Hack Temple" is a cool name. Don't let PC get in the way. (P.S. I am also Russian-American)
839.
Data parallel neural machine translation training(github.com)
1 points by option 9y ago|0 comments
840.
by option 9y ago
The enormously high cost of war (both economical and humanitarian) is the main reason why our time is the most peaceful in human history. Do not change that.

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