skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It had a "Tom" chip. The question is to whether they called it a GPU. I think they called it DSP back then.

Even 3Dfx, the chief competitor to NVIDIA, made “graphics cards” or “3D accelerators” not “GPUs”. At least in that fight NVIDIA used the GPU term first, to emphasize that hey did transformation and lightning as well as rasterization. Although it wasn’t until a few generations later with the first register programmed GeForce architectures that we had anything resembling what we call GPUs today.
It is worth considering that international indexes are often more expensive than domestic, and also have had more volatility historically. They're also often pinned to the USD.
Google releases source code for I/O 2018 app with Kotlin rewrite
Google will track your movements, even if you tell it not to
Yeah, I was pretty skilled too, and we had it all agreed to, and then the night before the appearance she decided she wanted $20K for my unvested RSUs and $5K for a house with no community property value because we had used some money from an inheritance she got to replace the AC two years before we split. That's when the attorneys got called, and the rest is history.

Your story sounds like most I have heard where no lawyers got involved. Hell hath no fury like a partner scorned (with a retainer).

Glad to hear that you made it out without exercising Mutually Assured Destruction. :)
Could the hot air from these fires lift a balloon? Ignoring the difficulty of attaching a burning tree to a balloon, could it lift its own weight? Fireproof Robots, cutting burning trees into neat piles, tied together, to be lifted by balloon?
It is funny, because I definitely fear that I'm trying to "improve" more than I am just trying to "enjoy the ride." That said, as things currently are, this has managed to offset/replace any real need of exercise outside of my commute, and is giving a fun area to try and get social, to boot.

I am ridiculously happy that I didn't get involved at this when I was younger. The "arms race" that is cycling gear is borderline absurd. I finally splurged and bought ultegra wheels, which cost more than my first few full bikes. Probably combined. I am enjoying them, but am very thankful that I'm not optimizing for every last ounce of weight I can.
Photon mapping with physically based quantum BRDFs would be "realistic-looking 100% CGI." Because you'd be doing an exact physics-based simulation of electromagnetic light interacting with physically accurate materials.

There's no way in hell you'd be able to do it real-time with models of sufficient detail though. So I presume you mean "... in realtime."
I’m saying those are two different things. Parent post was conflating them, along with healthcare, for some reason.
I frequently use the ~ in front of numbers or words to denote some fuzziness about their accuracy.

It's a tremendously handy symbol for this purpose, as it otherwise requires a lot more thought or typing to get across a similar meaning (eg. even one or two 'approximately's or 'roughly's will rapidly reduce readability).

Denoting sarcasm would be a retrograde step -- part of the thrill & delight of being sarcastic is that the target is oblivious to it. One worry would be that accidentally inserting a single character (which already has a well understood meaning for the literate amongst us) becomes quite a big risk if it changes the entire tone of the preceding sentence / paragraph / thought. Plus of course there's the risk of rapidly escalating double-bluffs. Would ~~ be unsarcastic, or doubleplussarcastic?
It produces negative distances, which disqualifies it as a metric.
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That's hilarious! And it is exactly how I feel sometimes about people ostracizing certain obsessions.
> i use it to denote a lasting sound. like heeey = hey~

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

Anyway, it has a legitimate meaning already, so this usage may confuse your reader(s). It's probably faster to type heeey anyway. ; )
I don't agree that's the big advantage of western economies, especially for infrastructure project. Actually that's the big disadvantage, and short term of capital economy, as everything is about ROI, in short term. Think about high speed trail in California, the project at that scale, no private company can do that, in additional, it may take several decades to make any profit. Only the government can make such plan and invest on this project, but every four years election make it also impossible.
I will do that as well.
"I feel I am making progress, but it has taken a lot of years."

Ouch. You are now more likely to be older than the other person. If he is 32, things look way different if you are 27 or if you are 53.

At least you've found an upside to this life change.
What role does Socioeconomic status play in abortions?
Yup. And it works..

https://www.lendacademy.com/ant-financial-is-now-a-top-10-ba...
I'm always torn between my principle not to judge other peoples fancies and wondering what kind of actual progress talented people like this could make.
An essential distinction is the difficulty differential.

How much more expensive are options X, Y, and Z in the future compared to now?

How much more expensive is a correct data model in the future compared to now?

If it has a 50% chance of being needed in the next two years and will be 10% harder by then, YAGNI.

If it has a 50% chance of being needed in the next two years and will be 1000% harder by the then, do it now.
Yup I came here to say this. Institutional investors are realizing this and some firm is shorting the shit out of this market: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17755028
Amusingly, I've found trying to digest many of Knuth's writing has been very enjoyable for me as I've gotten older at computer science. I get an odd sense that the industry doesn't respect his particular style and contribution as much today as it used to. Which is a shame. He is much more empirical than he is often presented. More, he is willing to discuss his mistakes and false starts. Something I don't recall having seen in many other works. (Mayhap I'm just having confirmation bias.)

I almost posted something about having nothing being worth more than my relationships. I certainly feel that, to a large extent. However, I also have trouble separating my work from my life. To the extent that I'm not even sure I want to.
so confused we think its very nice of the legislative branch (or is it the executive) to show the judicial branch how its done?
DC-AC and DC-DC are just conversions - conversions used to be the problem with DC for distribution. For HVDC in an AC net you need AC-DC (not much of a problem) and DC-AC (more difficult, solved with only minor losses today).

The advantages of DC transmission are flexibility (can have power flow either way between any unsynchronized AC nets) and lower transmission losses per distance. The details are all on Wikipedia.
A Reinforcement Learning Agent Learning to Play Clash Royale on Twitch
Amazon employee here so I am biased. While multi-cloud might give you more redundancy, it:

a) prevents you from using any of the custom features that many each service great (for instance lambda, aurora, dynamodb or in the case of google cloud, some of their ML tech). Might as well use on-prem if you’re not going to using AWS/Azure/GSuite feature on top of IaaS
b) requires you to set up multiple alarms, logs, metrics, on different providers which can themselves be the source of bugs
c) doesn’t provide you much more availability/redundancy them simply using multiple regions
d)while this may give you long term negotiating power, you will likely just save more money with long term exclusive contracts.

The DOD will also likely never be 100% migrated to AWS and there will probably be more contracts
Should be “lessen” instead of “lesson”
So they're not ray tracing everything, right? If I understand correctly, they're "filling in some of the blanks" using an ML algorithm? Does that really work for general purpose rending?
That's kind of amazing... also impressed you took the time to determine this.
I'd like to point out 90 Kelvin isn't the highest temperature superconductor (likely) reported, not even close. There were Mercury-based HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8 "high temperature superconductors" (thought to operate similar to the common YBCO ones) that have achieved up to 134 Kelvin years ago.

Recently, there was also a conventional superconductor at up to 203 Kelvin (!) at extremely high pressure based on HS3 or somesuch and that seems to have been pretty widely accepted and replicated. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14964

It's thought that modifying the sulfur hydride based superconductors could result in near-room-temperature superconductivity (above 0 Celsius).

Occasionally, people claim room temperature superconductivity in carbon allotropes such as graphene, but take those with a grain of salt as they haven't really been replicated.

Anyway, yeah, this silver and gold material is almost certainly bogus.
Good luck with the current EPA...
Data misuse is not our friend, its our business model
Supercool technique keeps liquids liquid well below freezing
Fruit from the Tree of the Forgetting of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
They use a zone system, and you don’t have to pay for a zone if you get off at the first stop after entering it.

This creates the asymmetry
Sri Lanka is off the coast of India. Your lack of attention to detail does not give one confidence in your argument.
people are greedy. they vote for tax cuts when the economy is doing well.
Is This Inscribed Stone a Forgery – Or the Answer to America’s Oldest Mystery?
The US doesn't borrow money from China. The US swaps treasuries for reserves with the Federal Reserve, which then sells those treasuries to primary dealers, who in turn sell them on the open market where anyone including foreign sovereigns like China, can buy them. In the unlikely event that the Federal Reserve failed to sell those instruments, they'd be left on their balance sheet and the interest would be remitted back to the US treasury. So long as there is any demand for US dollars though, there will always be a demand for interest bearing instruments that have near cash-like liquidity.

Of course if you're referring to China's African colonies and their use of debt to control the local governments, then yes that's accurate.
A good read describing China's motivations behind this: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/30/chinas-inher...
I'm sorry, I misread your comment as "how about you do X" kind of criticism. Now I see the point you were trying to make; it's interesting to think about, but I fear very hard to implement. Social media are pretty much a direct pipe to Moloch Himself[0]. The content that causes problems is made by a countless number of people, each deciding to get a little more for themselves by screwing up other people just a tiny bit ("just so little, it couldn't really hurt").

> I'm trying to make the argument that it makes sense for Facebook et al to show users content that's less divisive even if it means less profit in the short term, as it helps to ensure that there will still be people around to use their platforms in 10 years.

I was going to write a long comment about how the divisive content is not Facebook's fault and they can't control it directly, but I guess all both know that. Facebook's contribution is the detailed mechanics of feeds, filtering, timelines, liking, sharing. They could tweak it a bit without immediately getting accused of censorship or not being a fair platform, but it's hard.

But it dawned on me - there's one simple trick to unbreak social media, both Twitter and Facebook. One simple trick that's so obvious, that its absence seems to me very purposeful. The trick is: display content in chronological order. It would immediately make both platforms more useful and less addicting at the same time.

(I can already hear the screams, "But this is hard! Think of the scale! Eventual consistency and all!". Well, so now you have a hard technical problem that's actually worth to be solved.)

I'm not having much hope, though. If there's one thing proven about humanity it's that companies don't self-regulate themselves out of profits. It's a ratchet, there's no going back without a hard reset.

--

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I recently had to send some things by fax (and actually do have a fax machine), and had trouble with the remote fax server disconnecting in the middle. I finally figured out part of the problem was it did not like the direction I was feeding the pages. But there was no worthwhile error message, and the connection only errored out several pages in.

Also the quality is kind of crap. One of the pages was unreadable, so after having sent the "official" version as a fax (they accepted faxed raised-seal documents as originals), I had to follow up with a higher quality color scan anyway.

Still your point about it being P2P, relying on just the physical network and its addressing is appreciated and duly noted.
"to waste this much time on something that stupid, that felt good to me"
But won’t a report like this from vanguard cause investors to panic and pull their money, causing a recession?
Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?
I am from ECE background, been working in machine learning, and data analysis fields for couple of years, and have decent coding experience in Python and C/C++.

I am about to be interviewed by one of the big five (they reached out to me, I wasn't actively preparing for interviews).

Not being from a CS or software engineering background, I never took an algorithm and data structure course, and from what I know the coding test mainly involves those.

I know there are a ton of resources online for coding interview preparation, but I wanted to seek suggestions on an efficient/quick resource given that I have strong coding skills but not familiar with data structure/CS algorithm.
Yes, you.
The company I work for develops software, including mobile apps, for smaller banks and credit unions that can't afford their own development team. We have more than a thousand clients and all of their apps are basically built on the same codebase with small branding customisations (colours, images etc). Company is called Fiserv, if anyone is interested.
I listened to the same episode. The interrobang seems oddly useful, strange that it hasn't caught on more.
What do you mean by "actual progress"?
Sorry did you respond to the wrong person? The harbour story that recently made headlines concerned the port in Djibouti, which to my knowledge is located in East Africa. I did not mention Sri Lanka.
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TLDR it's because of not blocking infowars guy like the herd
V.S. Naipaul, Poet of the Displaced
> It's not the world's first ray-tracing GPU. Imagination Technologies had one ages ago.

Caustic Graphics as well, IIRC.
Azealia Banks’ claims to have the inside track on Elon Musk’s Tesla drama
Ask HN: Building a basic bookkeeping system?
Im looking at building a very basic bookkeeping system for small businesses. One that has things like a basic chart of accounts, ability to record transactions, balance sheet etc.

We will build a front end, ideally just looking for a reliable backend. It would need to be OS or if not reliable and with a self hosted option.

Does anyone have any experience doing something like this?

Did you just start from scratch or come across a good framework/platform for it?
And put it where?
Any student of Taleb should know that "black swan" events are rare, unexpected, extreme outliers.

Economic recessions are none of these. They are common, expected, and well within the experience of most adults.

Booms and busts have been recurring semi-regularly since the beginning of market economies.

While it would be foolish to predict with any great certainty the date or duration of the next downturn, we can say with high confidence that a downturn will occur.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to observe that recessions are more likely when the yield curve is flat and valuations are historically high than when the yield curve is steep and valuations are more moderate.
Does that ritual work on temperamental horse owners too? A veterinary friend of mine wants to know...
While it is crystal clear to me that sexism is a factor, it is also crystal clear to me that there are other confounding factors. So it isn't accurate to say "If only I were a man, then x, y, z."

But I also think it's really complicated and I have my moments where I feel those confounding factors have been a feature, not a bug, and have protected me from more undesirable outcomes.

I think the next 30 years will be the best years of my life. So while I'm aggravated at still struggling to make ends meet -- and apoplectic about a few details -- I'm not too bitter, overall. And not because I'm the forgiving type, a common misconception about me.

Edit: Coincidentally, I am 53.
Actually not in japan. Just looked like a tasty, easy way to make meals and was interested in trying it. Nut unsure of the effects of the gas burner on indoor air pollution.

A quick search suggests this may be a poor idea on air quality grounds: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-a27/
Using Types Effectively – CppCon (2016)
So... A GPU for (3D) graphics processing? That hardly sounds unique ;)
Sunken Warship Said to Have Billions in Gold Looks Like a Cryptocurrency Scam
i believe azealia. he's seemed erratic since he started hanging with the Grimes chick
There are many publications which accept research paper, it doesn't require any degree.
Worried about backing up your emails to your system?
A fax confirmation sheet can be shown in court as proof that the other party received the document in some cases. Email is a lot trickier.
A k2+ gender version would be an interesting expansion on the idea though. Since the notion of a complementary or inverse gender isn't universal to all genders, maybe cases where there's no clear inverse the gender could be swapped with a randomly chosen gender. Or just swap any explicit gender reference with a different randomly chosen gender. This becomes a bit more challenging if you want to keep the output cohesive though, since you'd probably have to introduce some sort of entity linking scheme.

Another issue is finding an appropriate k for genders, assuming this package is implemented with some sort of hard coded gender mapping. This becomes more complex when accounting for different cultures, which probably just ends up multiplying k by m cultures.
The tourist fee.
May I ask... what on earth does one do with 96GB of GPU ram? I mean , what type of model or problem uses this? Pix2pix at 4K resolution?
I got this pair from Uvex: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000USRG90/ref=oh_aui_detai...

What I like about them is they cover my entire field of view. They're not really fashionable, but I only wear them inside anyway.
Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells'
You're right. For example, there's a similar distinction in Russian.
Buying the company can sometimes be buying certain liabilities they don't want to deal with.
The option to sign out of the Google Maps app is hidden under settings.

And anyway, I think many people – especially in Europe – would agree with the AP, that Google shouldn't store location, especially when it's been told not to under a setting described as "Saves where you go with your devices".
I'm not actually supportive of taking the franchise away from the old. However, it's an interesting concept given how badly (collectively) older voters have behaved on matters of financial and environmental responsibility. Après moi, le déluge.

I would point out that nearly everything you are raising about 'looking after the young' is about the idea of your own children and looking after yourselves. You've done the sleight of hand of shifting the topic to 'leaving money to, and looking after, your own kids'. What I'm talking about is the way older voters have collectively demanded more from society (generous governmental benefits) while collectively denying the same sort of benefits to younger people (there are way more small children growing up in poverty than old people in poverty).

The mythology to which I refer is that older people are taking way more out of the retirement systems than they typically paid into it. So every time there's a thread like this people jump on and yell "what about my social security and all my tax contributions"; however, the books are not balanced - younger taxpayers carry older ones.

I'm sure you have done the right thing by your own parents and children and I respect you for that. I am doing the right thing also.

But there's a big difference between responsibility to ones own and civic responsibility, and a lot of old people have decided that bringing up the young is somehow a raw naked capitalist process while looking after the old should be done with the gentlest principles of socialistic redistribution.
I remember creating flash games after watching tons of kirupa.com tutorials. That was fun.

I don’t think i’d be motivated enough to do that with html. The iPhone / modern smartphones are very much designed to be consumer devices. You can’t do much creation.

There’s something about building. You feel so accomplished. Even more amplified if other people want what you’ve created.
It's not hypocrisy. You just disagree.
Stic.Man - Back on my Regiment:

https://youtu.be/1OlA1xjI0Wk
Surprisingly, in this context, it's a good thing. I'm not sure I would be able to stand those photos in >1 megapixel size.
Virtualization and His Purpose in Business Environments
There are secure fax machines that utilise encryption, require ISDN and used by UK government since the 90's (unsure if still used but probable).
Thanks s1mon!
And indeed NVidia placed a big emphasis on how much more power efficient this chip is for its intended workloads than an equivalent CPU based render farm, using less than 10% of the power.
100%. I do a lot of renders for our marketing from time to time. Because its currently done on a CPU, anything even a little complex takes many hours to get retina renders out without fuzz.
Actually, all of those states had higher standards of living than core USSR and also access to this huge Soviet market. Didn't do much good since communism is so bad, but still.

After the collapse of the Bloc most of those countries lost their industrial capacity, some have not yet recovered, some only recovered on outsource.
While the 4800 series Radeon cards supported fully ray-traced pipelines it wasn't necessarily dedicated to it. These have a section of the chip entirely dedicated to ray-tracing computations and acceleration.
I like that it's so thoughtful and considerate.

This tweet really brings forward the debate and enhances empathy between the opponents. A really mature contribution.
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TLDR; MAGA FakeNews Idiocracy
Is empathy desensitization a thing?

Yes. It is a well known process and is successfully used to intentionally create new torturers.
Firewire certainly exploded in popularity post-IEEE 1394 compared to when it was a Sony controlled interface with special dispensations for Apple. The number of vendors offering Firewire peripherals as well as the innovative software built around it made it a mainstay in market segments such as video editing and external storage.

Hey, I'm willing to pay for Thunderbolt on an AMD Threadripper (because PCIe lanes matter) and I'm happy to build devices based on it (as noted, that was what I working on for a couple of years). Feel free to show me the options available to achieve that goal absent being a special preferred Intel vendor.

Amusingly, I have some history with Intel... I worked there. I've also seen how they mismanage or abandon anything that isn't core x86.
I believe the y-axis on that graph (assuming you refer to the last graph) is the number of parking tickets, not the dollar amount of fines. So more like $50 to $100 million in parking fines per year.
Most insightful questions. Also kinda like a cheatsheet.

I went on to read The Mom Test after pondering over your message. It reflects the learnings from "The Mom Test"