skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how you might try to limit warranty claims under unapproved operating conditions (like 24/7 100% duty cycle) but this is a bridge too far.
They can't price-differentiate FP64 compute out, since ML uses FP32 or even FP16. They tried discriminating FP16 performance but frameworks switched to using FP32 units and downconverting to FP16 after. They can't kill FP32 performance since that's used for gaming. They tried killing the virtualization, they tried differentiating based on clustering, they tried every reasonable technical procedure.

This seems consumer-hostile because the entire thing is consumer-hostile - they want ML researchers to pay more for graphics cards because they have more money to spend, not because they can offer superior performance. (They can offer superior performance to GeForce, just not superior performance/$ or performance/W.)
That's a strange thing to say. I think of a "fiat currency" being one which 1. is not backed by a physical good, like gold, and 2. is recognized by a government, so you can pay taxes and fines with it. Why would it be beneficial that you cannot pay your taxes with Bitcoin?
No I am not "basically demanding" that the service should not exist. There is no reason why smaller regional companies couldn't exist and be profitable, offer better service and provide a compelling alternative to buses.
And an actual human judge is not going to sympathize with a have your cake and eat it too EULA like nvidias especially if the competitor is offering a product that is more efficient for the consumer
Probably? More like "guaranteed."
"All warfare is based on closing. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must close; when using our forces, we must close; when we are near, we must close; when far away, we must close." - Sun Tsu
https://blog.ycombinator.com/pro-rata/
Is the Linux drive still connected when you boot into Windows?

Of course, in practice, I don't think any average bad guy is going to spend the time to write Windows malware that installs Linux malware on other drives or partitions. Just like any security practice, it's a matter of tradeoffs. Is it worth the trouble to disconnect the Linux drive every time you want to play a game in Windows?

So, theoretically, any malware with root-equivalent privileges can do whatever it wants to anything on the system. Also, theoretically, malware can be remotely installed on your WAN-exposed router, infiltrate your network, and install malware using zero-days on every machine on your network. Is it worth the risk to air-gap your machines?

More practically, non-gaming stuff doesn't require a high-end machine, and average/SFF machines are plenty powerful, so it's probably reasonable to have a separate machine for gaming. Just get a KVM switch and put a Mac Mini-type machine next to it for your non-gaming machine. Then do all your gaming, using whatever awful incarnation of Windows is currently required, on the other machine, and never do any banking/email/etc. on the Windows machine, never type any passwords into it (except for gaming-related, of course). Treat the Windows installation as a throwaway, ready to be nuked and reinstalled at any time.
Open-source drivers don't even support Tesla, not to mention Volta. An EULA challenge seems to the way to go here. I'll be emailing legal for advice once I get back to work.
Except they were sued, and Blizzard won.
Thanks for the reminder. I see somebody claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto is flogging it on Amazon..no thanks! I found a Kindle friendly version (.mobi) here instead: http://www.readliberty.org/books/bitcoin-a-peer-to-peer-elec...
More like Disney.
I've just started reading it and it looks good. The chapters on ownership and borrowing really clarify how it works in Rust.
> I don't like excessively long lines of code (120+ in most languages)

Quick straw poll on this... How many people like a line length limit?

My personal preference is a fairly strict 80 (barring silly things like URLs), but I've always been met with resistance to ANY line length limit. Is it really that imposing?
Which transaction? Moving money like that is not a single tx
So your rebuttal attempt to undercut my description of laptop market technology 8 years ago is linking to a couple present day laptops?

OK, I’ll play. How thick are those laptops? How heavy are those laptops? How does their battery life compare?

And review this so you have some basic technical knowledge and understanding of history.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/2783/apple-s-2009-macbook-pro...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/2783/apple-s-2009-macbook-pro...
The game itself is free this week
https://freetrial.ubisoft.com/promotions/wic/12
I’m outside USA and studied the election from a feminism axis. Geek as we all are here, I tracked the original studies and discovered that literally every statistics said by feminists, namely Hillary Clinton and Obama, is false. It’s mind blowing, they just misrepresent the studied group, or the hypothesis, they omit a whole part of the study, every-single-time, not a thing from feminists can be trusted. You will believe I started from an ideological stance, but I only started because I was surprised at the big, announced figures and wanted to geek into it. I only ended up, indeed, meeting « those guys » because I was trying to expose the mismatch between journalism and underlying scientific studies, not the opposite.

And I discovered there are whole groups who do that already, it’s just MSM who lie on science. Plain lies, such as saying the opposite as the science paper (the example I have in mind is « Women can multitask, men can’t », saying it’s nonconclusive, and the corresponding BBC article saying it’s an unequivocal fact).
"Playable form" for an MMO would require donating a server team. These games don't run themselves.
So why bitcoin rather than another cryptocurrency?

If another becomes more popular, everyone shifts to it, and the price crashes, what use was bitcoin as a store of value?

The difference with other assets like cash or gold is that they have value that is supported by a clear rationale based on a central bank’s economic policies.
Go see it!
> Was there a huge automobile bubble? There sure was.

I'm not familiar with a past (or any) automobile bubble. Are you saying you think we're in now?

I've heard this theory before, but I don't know what would cause it to pop, or how one could protect oneself (if that's even needed) from it popping.
Microsoft was the first microcomputer software company. They are still around today.
If that happened I would get rid of all my Android devices and buy Apple ones to replace them. I would uninstall Chrome and use Firefox instead. Etc., etc., etc.

Obama is a nincompoop that has no place in the high tech industry. Google needs a new leader not a sleazebag. At least Schmidt had a history in technology business.
The relevant commit can be found here: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f39...
Interesting take on it, I hadn't thought of that angle. Maybe they could add some kind of non-commercial use clause (if they haven't already) to cover this case? ie. you can't swoop in and commercialize some indie preservation effort but you can host it and supply to others free of charge (or for the 'cost of distribution')?
Racket in NeoVIM
Same thing happened to me in college when I was 21. Two days nearly completely bedridden and coughing so hard I thought I was bursting blood vessels.

I did manage to make it down the block to the college clinic, where they verified that I was their first influenza case of the season, prescribed me some cough syrup, and told me to take way more ibuprofen than it says on the bottle.

I was disappointed at the prescription, but after my first dose I was as happy and energetic as if ever been. Turns out the “cough syrup” was hydrocodone in corn syrup. Powerful stuff.
You're assuming that the original developers would have been just as productive in a statically typed language as they were Python.

Big assumption.

Both because they might have known Python already and also because Python is quite a bit more newbie-friendly, concise and expressive than the mainstream statically typed languages.
oops, my bad. bad habit, used for "humor"/emphasis. failed on both here it seems... :)
Some of the negativity about Bitcoin in particular is around the relative lack of utility of the actual network, and how this usefulness hasn’t grown with the price. Currently, Bitcoin Core (the dominant fork still) has ridiculously large transaction fees (sometimes averaging over $20 for a given day) and transactions can take hours or days.

There’s also some contention because Bitcoin Cash (the other fork of Bitcoin) is in a lot of ways closer to the original design of Bitcoin (“peer-to-peer cash”), but is having to fight for the name “Bitcoin”.
No, every kid and mom and pop store is not creating a network of false identities to sway public opinion and incite violence. Your hot take that kids trying to get Likes is the same thing, so we shouldn't care or do anything about it, is I'm sorry to say, insane.
Hillary is a democrat, Bernie Sanders is an extremist. So the mantra stands.
You know that isn't what he meant.
UK suicide rate shows largest drop for 20 years
Sid (and others) did much the same thing that F2P games do now; make the odds 'flexible' using accumulators, counters and other tricks. For example, the odds displayed may be 66% chance of victory, but over time, that number changes based on a number of fuzzy factors (number of consecutive victories/losses, time since last victory/loss etc...). He even had a random coin flip in there cause 'randomness is what makes games fun'. So even though it said 66%, there's something like a 1 out of 10 chance that you'll just lose, to spice things up. I mean really, how fun would it be if tanks always beat archers. :-)

In the pursuit of making a fun and interesting experience, it's not as bad as it sounds since it leads to a rewarding experience (though getting 2 hours of sleep because Civ is so addictive could be construed as negative). When providing questionable reward to the player and in a money grab via psychological manipulation, well, yeah, seems pretty exploitative and not so honorable.

What's most interesting to me is the wildly different perspectives that gamers on different platforms will tolerate. Zynga/Facebook gamers seemed to never care. Mobile gamers follow suit but some are a bit sensitive to this manipulation. Console gamers are familiar with these tactics since the horse armor days but have a red line (Destiny 2 just crossed). PC gamers have zero tolerance and will go up in arms as soon as their precious games are violated with F2P mechanics (though Ubisoft is doing pretty good here since they're doing it somewhat respectfully).
This isn't a new thing with smartphones, nor limited to iOS/Apple smartphones. Android does/did it too:

https://plus.google.com/+YgorCortes/posts/CZ2GhoxgHk3
Charge property owners for the ability to own property near the transit stations.
I disagree. The biological brain is a known upper bound for GAs thus we are fully aware of a gap in understanding. This makes it a perfect target for research.

Looking at current methods of optimizing neural networks we cannot know if we are far from the upper bound or if we've already reached it... R&D effort in this area could be a dead end.
Couldn't you do:

func closeIfNecessary(object interface{}) {
closable, needsClosing := object.(closable)
if needsClosing {
closable.close()
}
}

And then just do:

func f(i interface{}) {
defer closeIfNecessary(i)
...
}

Doing it this way also saves you boilerplate by factoring the downcast out into a separate function.
The government has literally regulated cryptography before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
I remember back in late 1990s to early 2000s there was a fad for scaremongering articles about how computers and the Internet are the root of all evil.

Looks like it's the turn of social networks now.

> In India, the company helped develop the online presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who now has more Facebook followers than any other world leader.

...Seriously? How about another article on SEO companies training political campaign managers how to gain better ranking in Google?
for me at least it is an opportunity to keep my own wealth. If I can keep my own record of wealth why would I entrust a third party that doesn't care anything about me? Perfect example is Wells Fargo opening accounts and charging people.
Not even remotely what UBI is.
I think the same but its, 1 because of 2 i.e high net-wroth clients fear of missing out.
2017's flu season in the southern hemisphere was pretty bad - it hit teenagers and young adults more than usual. If the same strains are going to be active in this year's northern hemisphere season, I'd strongly recommend getting the vaccine.
> That's p2w. If you can't get to the top of the ladder without spending money, it's p2w. That's what p2w means

That's actually one of the more extreme ways of Pay 2 Win..

Getting a meaningful shortcut (ie. being able to become more powerful) with real-life currency is also Pay 2 Win. You're skipping the grind that way.

Lets say we got Alice and Bob.

Alice plays 2 hours a day and uses the completed quests in Hearthstone to buy packs.

Bob, who happens to be Alice's father, has a busy life. He does the household while Alice plays Hearthstone.

Friday evening they play a game. Bob just got his paycheck, and buys 50 Hearthstone cards. Bob constructs a nice deck with the new cards in which Bob has a statistical advantage of having likely more choice in cards to construct deck(s). Only thing Alice has going for it is more game experience.

Hence,

Hearthstone? Pay 2 Win. (Except arena)

Magic The Gathering? Pay 2 Win. (Except sealed deck tournament)

Soccer? Football? Hockey? Pay 2 Win. (Why? Cause if your club owns more money, they can buy better players.)

F1? They took some countermeasures to level their playing field IIRC.

Heck, the realization makes a lot of sports less fun to watch. Its also why I can't stand the whole Twitch/streaming circus.
Goldman Sachs is reportedly building a cryptocurrency trading desk
Yeah I wonder what they could do, if anything. Especially if it was on private property with owners consent. It’ll never happen but fun to think about.
I know. Now I drink from 40oz can in a paper bag. I feel like a hobo.
Interesting research, although people familiar with poker would not consider Jason Les, Dong Kim, Daniel McCauley, and Jimmy Chou "top professionals". They may be very good at HUNL but they are definitely not the "top".

Many people will look at this and say, "computers have solved poker" without understanding that this is applicable to heads up poker only. Full ring game poker, where there are an uncertain number of non-GTO players still to act behind, is an entirely different beast.

I'd also be interested in knowing how deep the stacks were in the human vs computer matches. The complexity of the game is directly related to how deep stacks are. A 10 big blind hu match, a 100 big blind hu match, and a 1,000 big blind hu match are all three entirely different games with entirely different decision trees.
Not sure, but Microsoft seems inclined to lean that way, since even on Android, where they have a choice, they elected to use Chromium for Edge.
Agreed, however this depends heavily on jurisdiction. E.g. in Germany [0], license agreements presented after purchase are completely void anyway (although defining the moment of purchase for non-physical goods is tricky - not so for a graphics card though). So in Japan, maybe?

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endbenutzer-Lizenzvertrag
I've had similar thoughts before, and I think that's a really good idea.
I think people massively underestimate the number of Bitcoin which are forever lost. I’d put it at well over 50%, and the true market cap is much less than we think it is because of this. IMO “Satoshi” coins are part of this unrecoverable set, but of course I have no data to base that on, just a hunch.
So how does one turn a Linux container into a bootable VM?
I've never seen the first pattern in any other language. Aside from downcasts as in your other example, why would you only want to clean up an object if some condition is true? The 99% use case of defer is for resource destruction, which you nearly always want to do in the same scope the object was initialized in (and that observation in fact is what underlies RAII).
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Satoshi is dead, or in prison. No way they could go 10 years without spending a single coin.
So if a data center is using these cards, and is eventually forced to install a newer driver, they are now in violation?

That seems a bit insane to have used a product that then ammends its own EULA to prevent you from using it entirely...
I haven't been this excited to talk about Chads since the election, this was a pleasure to read!
Aren't the pictures of Donald Trumps "thicc ass" attempting to climb a hill while playing golf considered sexual objectification, harassment, profaning somebody’s personal space in a public context, and a denigration of late-manhood?

One's a cartoon depiction, another is a real photograph taken without consent. Why would they take down the former but leave the latter to proliferate?
>So your rebuttal attempt to undercut my description of laptop market technology 8 years ago is linking to a couple present day laptops?

No, your claim was that making batteries non serviceable means you have more room for a larger battery. It doesn't seem to be the case now. You are welcome to point to an example from the year that you purchased your laptop.
"Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
All of the other points aside, this is the About Me page of one of the four founders of IOTA:

http://come-from-beyond.com/about-me/

Even if this is a joke, and I consider it 99.9% likely to be a joke, if any startup had a founder that was publishing some like this, venture capital wouldn't touch them.

I can only conclude that IOTA is a long-term social experiment in 'doing as much wrong as possible' and yet still being able to turn a profit based on heavy PR spend and humanity's tendency for "wanting in on the latest craze".

On the topic of their 'partnerships' with leading technology brands, they're still listed on the Wikipedia page, so it's obviously a convenient misunderstanding.

Excerpts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOTA_(technology%29:

"With the participation of Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft, and Fujitsu,[8] the Foundation opened up a data marketplace using IOTA technology.[9] The IOTA Foundation is also a founding member of the Trusted IOT Alliance, which includes the companies Bosch, Consensys, and USbank"

"The project gathered participation of over twenty global organizations, including Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Airbus, Samsung, Orange S.A., Fujitsu, and China's Huawei Group."

I don't have a dog in any cryptocurrency fight, but don't take my word for anything. Do your own research and determine how they all 'smell'. For me, IOTA smells pretty bad.
I’m probably the minority here but I don’t like to customize my Vim too much. 1 - it takes time. 2 - half the reason I like Vim is because I can use it anywhere. If I’m so used to a highly customized setup, then I am going to feel out of place when I log on somewhere else.
Prefer Firefox
interesting, IOTA is the timecube of cryotocurrency
I think the general consensus is that that is not true. Python's dynamic nature is a clear advantage it has over statically typed languages. Add the fact that you can elect to tune down the dynamism when it makes sense to with very little impact on your existing stack makes Python the technological superior choice for the majority of applications.
Eric Schmidt stepping down as executive chairman to become a ‘technical advisor’
> If it was scope based there's nothing you could do to get func_defer behavior.

That's clearly false. You could set up a list to hold objects to be disposed (or, more generally, closures to execute) and defer a simple procedure that disposes of all objects in the list. This is in fact what the implementation of defer must do internally.
I knew a guy who was a pilot. His job was, literally, to fly checks around the country. A plane full of checks is a lot of money - enough money that a day's interest on it is more than the cost of using the plane to fly checks.

But this was maybe 10 years ago. At the time he said that his job was going to go away in a year or two because the banks were going to electronic settlement.
JPM makes about 1/5th of profit from "trading" and of that I seriously doubt market making is much of a contributor.
Totally this. Brexit has me not trusting the government I reside under as far as I could throw it. I believe in crypto as an ideological position and hope to see it continue to grow. It might not be Bitcoin that wins in the end but decentralized, truly global, non-governmental mechanisms of money control are needed. There is far too much power in their hands as they push for "cash" to become digital (i.e. traditional bank accounts with access via debit/credit cards).
Yeah, I heard in June, North Korea also tried hacking Bithumb, which is the largest exchange in South Korea.
It's more explicit, which is a good thing, as it makes the intent clear. This matters if, for example, the function is later refactored to inline into a caller.
I think there are so many kids that did well in science and math and love science fiction and probably enjoy dabbling in some kind of tech libertarianism and have a certain naïveté about cryptocutrencies and what will happen in society. I mean this in a nice way but the view that the apparent obscene volatility of cryptocutrency is a sign of it's stability and the USD is crashing, is an intensely delusional view. That really cannot be understated.
How do you know? Have you ever tried an iPhone with a replaceable battery? Is the iPhone 7 better than the iPhone 6 because it is more difficult to replace the battery?
> in most states the majority of the costs of roads are borne by users in the form of gax tax, tolls, and user fees

Your link seems to prove the opposite. It says that Colorado has the 24th largest share of roads paid for by gas tax, tolls and user fees with 49.9% paid for in that manner. That means that only 23 states have a majority of road spending paid for by gas tax, tolls and user fees, so most states (>50%) have less than half of road spending paid for by gas tax, tolls and user fees.
I’d hazard a guess that a lot of the fundamentals haven’t really changed in an interesting way - it’s just becoming more widespread and popular, which isn’t interesting from a tech perspective. And I don’t disagree with throwing a small amount of cold water on the hype - the number of headlines aren’t in line with the actual utility of it.
It's commonplace for long form stuff, which I never read because of it.

Title got me, but the answer to "How does the flu actually kill people" isn't going to start with "one sunday in november". I was interested, but not that interested.
I like the tips and would have bought the book if it was on Amazon. But the checkout page is quite a lot of work. I'd have to dig up my card and possibly deal with the pain of it getting rejected, and not being able to see reviews. So it's too much for an impulse purchase.
Interesting enough to be frustratingly incomplete. I wish they had the time to go into more depth rather than debating the meaning of terms.