skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively, you could simply have your GPUs calculate a few hashes every hour. So technically, you're doing blockchain processing...very slowly...
> the price quickly falls and the bot lost a lot of money

If the trader already holds 1,000 BCH and is able to spend $800,000 to raise the price he can get rid of it at by $1000, he didn't lose money.

Doesn't necessarily mean it was a bot, though.
> very easy to support the good guys

But AMD doesn’t run CUDA? Is it very easy to switch a stack relying on CUDA to OpenCL? I don’t think so.
No, what’s really going on is the franchise vs. mom & pop version of corporate espionage.

Normal people with no skin in the game, beyond what’s for lunch, don’t behave this way.

There’s a small-ish subculture of afficionados and foodies, but I’ve never met anyone that obsesses over dinner to that degree. Usually it’s a byproduct of a phase they breifly went through, when they were on a kick about something.

The rare exception being the occassional young romantic couple, obsessing over the courtship rituals of wooing their hot date. This is less about the food than the date, and again, it’s yet another small-ish subculture, since 90% of everyone is undateable. [0,1]

[0] http://www.pkmeco.com/seinfeld/wink.htm

[1] https://youtu.be/C-a64OwOYqU
Sign up to University of the People and take their BSc in Computer Science. Since you're in Turkey you can probably apply for exam fee scholarship (tuition is free).
I have been wondering recently... how unlikely is it that a major IT failure/hack/whatever occurs which produces a tremendous lack of faith in our existing traditional-currency-backed systems, leaving cryptocurrencies with the only PROVABLE form of money? Walmart says they made $5 billion? Why should we trust that they're telling the truth about that? They rely completely upon swiss-cheese computer systems built on sand and wishful thinking. They build their empire on slapped-together garbage full of holes and push it further than it was ever intended to go, adamantly refusing to slow down or devote the resources to building a dependable, reliable system. How unlikely is it that this will eventually bite them and the mathematical provability of cryptocurrency becomes of paramount, and nigh sole, value? Not as unlikely as those who have convinced bank computers to read large numbers for their balance, I expect.
You can tell they did some pragmatic compromising. Because, well, they're still in business.
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This is the same guy who did the keyboard latency test:

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

thay was on the frontpage of HN.

IIRC there was some critism there. He didn't include the mechanical switch type and it's actuation point and IIRC the text was very unprofessional (capitalization errors).
I've done neurofeedback and have the hardware. It's amazing what you can achieve. It's amazing it works at all.

There's a decent book on the popular history of it - 'a symphony in the brain' I think it's called.
> One interesting point to make is to some extent its all a waste of time…

> due to ageism in my field I need a way to get an income for decades before I am 65…

Yeah, my thinking is the same, so for the past year I've been working on a framework I could use to swing trade futures via an online brokerage.

So far in my backtests from the end of 2004 to mid 2017 (about 12.7 years) I'm getting and avg return of %5.5, avg volatility of %6.8, and worst draw down of %9.7 percent.

Still trying to improve things, but I hope to hook it up an brokerage api, and monitor it on autopilot in the next year or so, but compared to the stats of the S&P 500 and the risk to get those returns during the same timeframe, I'm thinking about doing this sooner rather than later with where I'm at now.

As an individual, I don't think I can just compete with the insider dealing and foreign CB buy-and-hold of the s&p 500 with a passive strategy… so for me, I think the odds are evened out in the futures market.
That "NVIDIA, fuck you!" from Linus comes in expensive now that NVIDIA cares about Linux. They were jerks with Linux before deep learning became famous, and that's why Linus was so French about them.
Try downloading drivers for a Titan V - it goes to that very specific 2009 license (complete with the absurd exception for the blockchain). This is very specific and targeted at crushing small system vendors who were selling to scientists across many domains who preferred GeForce over Tesla because of the huge price difference. They have already pursued vendors and they have tried to shut them down. If you don't believe me or you're OK with that behavior, be my guest to continue enabling it.
I have spent quite a bit time into learning Angular (4/5). I am new to front-end dev, and found that the structured approach of Angular more appealing than React.

Should I continue with Angular or move on to React?

My goal is to create a data-driven website, with expressJS & PostgreSQL backend. Not very complicated, but not simple either.
Three engineers maintain code in Java, Swift, previously Objective-C, Go, Python (both Django and Flask), Node.JS, considering Kotlin, and additionally make use of Celery, RabbitMQ, React, Redux, Apollo, GraphQL, Postgres, Heroku, AWS, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Algolia, Memcached, and more.

I might be an inexperienced engineer by comparison, but I'll be honest, that sounds absolutely fucking insane. These three people must be geniuses to be able to use all of that with sufficient mastery to effectively handle 200M users.
"... is working to this age really the end of the world?" Yes, it literally is the end of the world for him. Later in the article it says the average life expectancy is 79!!
Good post, although it served to remind me again how much I love Ruby for it's emphasis on being elegant and expressive. I may not reach for it first for anymore for standing up a new service, but I still use it for personal projects and scripts unless there's a compelling reason not to.
I think there's a difference betweek being alone and being lonely. The latter implies that you're wanting for company, the former less so.
> there are very, very few places on a public road where pushing the limits of a car's handling makes any sense whatsoever

That's precisely why superlight cars with small engines and skinny tyres make sense.

Here in the UK, the normal speed limit outside of urban areas is 60mph. On a twisty country road, a base-model MX5 will start to come alive at well below that speed, especially in the wet. The basic engine is a 1.5 litre straight four producing 130bhp, so you can really use most of that engine on a public road.

It's more exciting because it's not very powerful - you need to give it plenty of revs and work through the gearbox to make progress. In a properly powerful car, you reach the speed limit before the engine has even had a chance to breathe. The tight handling and light weight allow you to carry that speed through a corner with confidence. Admittedly it does help if your country has roads with corners, which I understand may be hard to come by in some parts of the US.

There's a philosophical difference between making a car that adds some element of drama to your commute and making a car that's brilliant to drive just for the sake of driving. American enthusiasts are only just starting to fall in love with the hot hatchback thanks to the Fiesta ST, but here in Europe hot hatches have been hugely popular for decades.
he is trying to trigger a bank run, but doesn't realize our whole financial system runs on fractional reserves
AMD's ROCm suite has a tool for converting CUDA to C++ code: https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP

How well it works is likely codebase and application dependent.
It’s ok to quit. It’s not (necessarily) drastic, or rash, or whatever. You can do it. Do it if it seems like the right thing.
But your premise is sketchy, that the goal is to intentionally signal to white people. It's not, but I guess you think it is?
> But is working to this age really the end of the world? This guy will probably live a longer life and experience a slower decline in health than if he were sitting at home watching TV.

Isn't how he wants to spend his senior years for him to decide, not us?
> I call bologna on that, we can change anything.

Please be cautious about making such statements. I respect your experience and success at changing things for yourself with this model. I don't for a second doubt your sincerity. But the belief that a depressed/addicted person could get better if they just tried harder is part of a very dangerous feedback loop when you are down. You can't control everything you experience or the feelings you have. You can, sometimes, control your interpretation and response to those things, if you are careful. You can do everything right and still not be able to break the cycle. We're all different, I'm glad this worked for you but it doesn't necessarily follow that your approach would help others.
firmware needed by modern nvidia cards is cryptographically signed
Between this and the high Tesla prices, they really want to move people to use Google's TPUs...
Linux would be faster with a PS/2 keyboard, non-compositing WM, and plain ASCII Athena Xterm with a bitmap font.
Can’t upvote you enough.

An empty commercial space is also not bringing in any sales tax. No employees implies no income tax. Etc.
The difference between testing a null hypothesis vs testing a new, proposed hypothesis does not affect my point about scientific method vs engineering.
I am in the same boat you are. I've tried frameworks before that ended up being a mess later to recover from.

Also, I see Shadow DOM, proper html/js templates and future JS upgrades (modules, etc...) making React totally usesless, or either they will have to uproot themselves all over again to maintain equal performance from native systems.

As soon as I saw that rounded corners were coming to CSS, I stopped all the stupid hacks, I feel like JSX is an immature hack on top of mature tech. Eventually something else will come along and supplant it.
The “Collateral Damage” of the Me Too Movement
Apparently tensorflow is quite close to supporting opencl, and now that nvidia put a 10x multiple on their cards for ML use you can be sure that there will be an army of people making sure that opencl becomes the standard.
So pesticides are allowed on food consumed by kids with no label or warning, and no testing required yet they’re not allowed on a product meant to be incinerated and inhaled and used as a recreational drug by adults? Okaaaaayyyy....
I wonder what else is in x86/arm64/common processors we don't know but would care about.

In situations like these it really pays of to have at least some parts of the system developed as free software. In a dystopian alternative reality where free software never happenend, people would hardly ever hear about these issues, even though issues like these would still be there, and maybe even worse.

Waiting for affordable open/free hardware single board computers like for example lowRISC is aiming to offer is becoming harder and harder. I'm already sitting on my hands (and pocket).
More people in IT should treat pensions more seriously.
Great post. If you are plan to write a native Ruby extension, check out Rust Helix https://usehelix.com/
Would be interesting to do this on a modern system running MSDOS.
> Having been down this road [1], a big problem is that the people doing this tend to be too much into the theory and not enough into wanting programs not to crash.

This problem is already solved. Instead of crashing - do something else! Like make a so-called “educated guess” of what the program should actually do. Or throw you into a debugger. Or, heck, do as JavaScript does: if you can't figure out what the right thing to do is, do something wrong instead!

The actual unsolved problem is how to write correct programs. I'm skeptical that mechanizing formal verification is the solution.
As technologists we are always in this weird state of being seen as both invaluable and replaceable. You are doing him a favor by working with him for free for this long.
In comparison, the Xerox Star was a mere $16,500, which would be a bit more than $40,000 today.
I just tried for Titan V on Linux through geforce.com and got a EULA without this clause. Downloading through nvidia.com probably gets the no data center EULA.
Yep. That's the same video I was thinking of.
Brilliant Animation Exposes ‘Shadow World’ That Controls Society (VIDEO)
The project should support encryption if this is something that some members of the community expect or require.

Encryption isn't being pursuing as closed protocols constitute what the camera is designed to steer away from, but it may be relatively straight forward to implement where required, eg. CryptSetup and Linux Unified Key Setup.
Ask HN: How to make HUGE instant profits on Bitcoin?
Different wallets have different rates to buy BTC.

So, How about buying in an exchange which has a lower BTC rate and send that BTC to a wallet which has higher Sell rate and make profits?

Please give your thoughts on this
SafariLIVE broacasts live safaris in Africa twice a day, every day
Depending on where you live:

* It's cheaper to buy than rent in many places.

* Unless you're in an HOA you can do more with your land, such as farm it, put a pool in, etc. Shared spaces aren't common in many places.

* Pets can often make renting impossible, especially dogs.

* Americans like physical privacy more than many Europeans. (Online privacy is a whole separate issue).

* Most rentals don't have much land, some people really like having more land.

* Rentals tend to be in places that are less affluent and offer less amenities.

* School systems are often based off property taxes so places with more home ownership tend to have more money for schools.
The headline doesn't do this article justice.
Any specific interests?
There are zero DL frameworks that support AMD cards as a primary target.

Most have some kind of branch or patchset with OpenCL support. The problem is that they aren't great. If you need any new layers there is no support. There is nothing like CuDNN so you don't get the high speed convolutional kernels.

It's great to blame developers for supporting NVidia, but the thing is NVidia are great to work with. They dedicate large teams to deep learning support (not like the 2 or 3 part time Devs AMD does), and they publish good research and tutorials. AMD does nothing like this.
Please take a look at https://searchera.io for a demo. My personal email is on my profile.
the regulations for pesticide in Oregon is so strict, baby food would fail. Tomatoes and grapes would fail with 10x above level. Some pesticides have no known toxicity or health concerns were straight up banned. The lab companies were able to lobby for sampling rate that ends up taking a huge percentage of the profit. On top of that, they are corrupted, crooked and rumors of taking bribe for failed tests. Even using certified products you can fail. They had to change the approved list to "guide list" so you don't know what to use. Toxic pesticides in baby food is OK in Oregon, but not in the marijuana.
Yes it certainly could be that. The margins for sheep & beef farmers especially are quite thin so they are essentially surviving year to year and wouldn't want to risk even a short-term impacts.

Although I would argue that some of it is common sense which is eschewed because of the thin margins. In NZ, farmers will annually replace phosphate, nitrogen, and potassium because they know it is lost to produce/erosion/environmental factors. But the same isn't true of 20+ other nutrients that make a healthy soil. Soil is like the human body which has an amazing ability to survive on just bread and water, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's all you should feed it
NVIDIA GameWorks is probably the most cancerous thing to happen to the gaming industry. Partnering with UE4 to fuck games for AMD at the engine level :(
A better question is whether it’s enforcable. If you put a GPU into a DC rig, how are they going to know / sue you?
Isn't it the CuDNN and CUDA licenes which matter?
>How many super computers would that be?

you're asking the wrong question. mainly because bitcoin mining is done with ASICs and not general purpose computers. I would be surprised if the bitcoin network hashrate isn't higher than all the general purpose computing power in the world combined (converted to double SHA256 hash rate).
This makes me think of grouphug.us (now gone) which was a pretty neat concept and was reborn/reinvented a couple of different times before the author finally took it down.

Overall, grouphug was a really cool site with a lot of neat statements.

I feel like the way sharesolo is designed helps in promoting a variety of different posts, with the photos/instagram feel behind it. Promoting it during the holidays will also have an interesting dynamic. I think it will be interesting to watch and see what people post.

Although there are some implementation aspects I don't like, I really do like the concept and the layout.

sidenote: For some reason it asks Firefox mobile for microphone access, but I was able to post something by using the web panels in Vivaldi desktop.
He sounds like a jerk and you're going to have to spend a lot of time with him. Walking away should be an option.
Permissionless, trustless transactions are one of the primary benefits of crypto/blockchain/bitcoin technology.
To throw my anecdote in the mix, growing up in the early 2000s, my blue collar extended family donated to me a bunch of old computers, which were much more accessable to me than a car. I imagine for kids today, the same is possible, old laptops, tablets, etc, hopefully decently hackable.

Now that I'm working in tech, my younger brother is interested in cars, so the trend/cycle is resetting itself :)
What pensions?
I thought the 68000 was down to something like $10 by that time? Given that, the price discrepancy is surprising, since the ST was intentionally a rather simple design. What exactly made the ST have to cost that much?
That doesn't really have much to do with it. The big difference is that now we are compositing 2D UI using GPUs, which require double buffering if you want to avoid tearing.

Older 2D accelerators had hardware support for beam-avoiding blits that allowed for single-buffered compositing. You could still see unsynchronized blits between distinct buffers, though. We could easily build 2D accelerators that work like this today, and they would use less power than GPUs.
Just curious, what cards are you comparing when referring to the 10x multiple?
I don't think you could 'think yourself' into a different personality, because that would be unadaptive for survival. Your reward structure (what makes you tick) is fixed, it is just the strategies that can be learned.

> I call bologna on that, we can change anything.

As you said, you grew up with a snippy and grouchy mother, and you were snippy and grouchy yourself. Then, in a different context, you stopped being snippy and grouchy and you were still OK.

My conclusion is that you haven't changed, what changed was the context. First you were a child dealing with his s&g mother, then you were a parent responsible for his children. Context activates or inactivates parts of personality, like a colored cloth shines through a diamond sitting on it - the color doesn't come from the diamond itself.

My theory about personality is that it has an "active" part and a "dormant" part, which change depending on context. Each context (usually each person you are dealing with) activates a different subset of your personality. Some people bring the worst in you, other people bring the best. With some you don't like yourself, with others you love yourself.

Besides context, personality appears to change with improved self-knowledge - as you age, you encounter more situations that shine light on your personality, as conditioned by the external context. You still have the same personality, but you know it better.

The best way to control your personality is to control your external interactions and know yourself, not to force yourself to be different. Change context, change personality.
I used Mach II Forth as well as Pascal. Mach II was a great resident compiler on the Mac and it was a joy to use. IIRC, MacForth was interpreted but in any case yes, several other languages were resident on the Mac before the "official" Apple Pascal was available.
That's called arbitrage. It's not supposed to exist if the market is efficient[1].

Of course the reason arbitrage opportunities are not supposed to exist is that some people keep trying to find them, and when they find them they make them disappear.

You can try to do it, but unless you have a competitive advantage of some kind, like say lower exchange fees or quick access to market data, you will probably not make money.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothes...
Exactly this. It especially applies to people who cope with self-worth problems. The "Just try harder" becomes "I can do it, why can't you", which becomes "You can't do it because of X", which over time morphs into "You can't do it because you're worthless".

Of course, because those thought-patterns increases stress and self-burden, this can lead to never-ending cycles where the person is literally rendered incapable of breaking out of the cycle.
My best friend in high school did the exact same thing. He failed out of juco from partying and playing pranks. His first job at the grocery store lasted 2 months at which point he supposedly fell holding a few crates of milk and hurt his back. he milked that for about 10 years (pun not intended).

I grew up in the midwest and saw this sort of thing everywhere all my life. It is the primary reason i voted for Trump, and against the party that enables these people. It is why I've read everything Ayn Rand wrote - most of it twice. It's ironic as every last bit of my upbringing, education, profession, and political perspective, and disdain for religion otherwise leans liberal.

These people are poisoning our society. They are the apples that rot the entire barrel that is our one and only society. This is malignant, not benign.

Moreover, it is cruel in the deepest sense. When the government provides these people's income, it denies them the happiness that can only be achieved through persevering through adversity and survival in an environment that provides no guarantees .

Someone wrote that they felt torn due to the empathy felt for the hardworking single mother who doesn't get a day off. The thing is that this person doesn't need empathy - not because she doesn't deserve it - but because she's successful in the sense that she does survive in the face of doubt and adversity. She is happy, and therefore compels respect, not pity. There is no denying this either - love for one's children - especially that of a mother, is absolute. Any person that has this, has happiness in the deepest sense.

And that is what I find wrong with the modern age in America, we are driven by empathy and therefore tolerate anything to celebrate it and prove our virtue, whereas if anything we dismiss the tenacity that justifies respect; explaining away its virtues as white privilege, greed, and so on.
Holy shit!

(and by the way, I finally figured out what that warning light means, by googling TPMS! Thanks, Batman!)
Maybe replace "tried" with "failed" in the headline?
A lot more than 1 bot in operation. All you have to do is just sit there and watch the trading. It's fairly obvious there are a bunch of bots trading at any given time.
What do you use for hardware? How did you get into it? I've been investigating doing it for myself
Did they include perchlorates in the simulated Martian soil? It seems unlikely that they did but I might be mistaken.

The big issue with either growing plants on Mars or simply being exposed to Martian dust is perchlorates in the soil:
https://www.space.com/21554-mars-toxic-perchlorate-chemicals...