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> It may well be that NVidia will make them available for inference via DirectX so they can do AI based denoising and anti aliasing in games but artificially limit support in frameworks for training so as not to eat into the Quadro / Tesla markets. I'm holding off on ordering one until I see more info on that.

Good point, that would not be cool. I'll wait with ordering until more is known about this.
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So you expect the things he mentioned are provided for free?
And then there are people like me, who are opposed to DRM, yet don't feel betrayed.

If you're opposed to a browser that can be used by DRM modules, Firefox was already not an option, since it supported NPAPI, and therefore DRM as Flash, Silverlight, etc. If you were using Firefox, you were already accepting that compromise. EME is simply a continuation of the status quo.
Good point :) Updated
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This is why i don't use pot. The smell destroyed my house. I had pancretitus and quit drinking and thought i would just smoke once in a while (smoked in high school but that was decades ago).

Bought some, put it in a zip lock bag, in a zip lock bag, in a zip lock bag, in a glass container, inside a gun safe. By the way i didn't start with this configuration by when i reached it and still could smell it everywhere i knew it had to go.

No thanks. Not opposed to using when out and someone has some but the smell was just to much to keep any in my house (this was an 8th).
I'm always glad to hear that people find a balance.

One thing that is difficult for me, however, is to understand how things affect me without long periods of abstinence.

Like, I'm an alcoholic, though I've become more and more functional. I pretty much only drink on the weekends and around other humans, now. But I went through about 6 months of total abstinence from drinking and I can say with a great deal of certainty that I didn't realize the various subtle ways that substance abuse was impacting my life.

It's a relavent epistemic problem, and so when I hear people saying what you're saying, I am not at all skeptical-- I believe that it is true that "Responsibility can be achieved with or without pot". I also believe that I personally was unable to fully understand my position when I was drinking every day.
I'd argue that would be the state of men when they lived in forests. But we live in a society where most of our natural instincts are "suppressed": living in square boxes with just 2-3 people we trust; having to spend time at "work" in order to afford a living; looking at screens; the instinct to hunt; etc etc.

So in a way we do need something to help us "relax" in a world where we can't naturally.
I think they will call it Pro is more mark of how much it will cost, then anything else.
The Clojure world has a set single-letter naming conventions that, since they are widely accepted, greatly improve readability. If you see an argument named `f`, you can be sure it is a function. `m` is a map, while `k` and `v` are used for keys and values, respectively. `x` and `y` are numbers and `n` is always an integer.
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The pause was because human players disconnected. They covered that in the post match session. Looks like no one heard that.
I'm thinking more that a blockchain enthusiast will design a new coin that abuses the raytracing hardware into running some new crypto-token just because.

This series tentatively looks like it won't be subject to the insane price hikes and scarcity of the 10 series because it's already expensive for adding more diverse hardware that doesn't immediately help you mine ethereum (or whatever's the GPU coin of choice these days). But you never know...

It doesn't need to _do_ anything as long as you can convince people that they should buy RayCoins because everyone else is going to buy RayCoins and they'd better get in on the ground floor here.
Sorry, I've posted it on every tDCS article I've seen on HN, and no one has noticed it. It took three posts in this thread to get anyone to see it. I'm trying to help people be more cautious about their brain cells.
The point was different - it is way too expensive for regular gamers, 2080Ti likely won't be able to do 4k@60Hz like 1080Ti couldn't either and 10 games featuring RTX in the nearly future is not a sufficient draw, especially when some of the effects now look subjectively worse with RTX ON (see those shadows from multiple lights above dancing people from Jenson's demo). So the question remains - who is the real target audience that will actually buy those cards at these prices? Did NVidia turn into Apple and made RTX its own iPhone X?

Waiting this generation out until RTX is more wide-spread/tested and going for the next 7nm generation with hopefully AMD having a proper GPU to compete seems like a better strategy for most gamers out there.
AUR, snap and flatpak all work differently. AUR is free for all with no trust implied or given but packages will be removed upon user intervention. So curation is basically done by users and other administrations but it doesn't prevent bad packages from being uploaded in the first place. Most of the AUR is building from source so you just have to read the build scripts (PKGBUILDs) of each package before installing and do what a maintainer does.

It gets easier on updates since you only have to check diffs between versions. I believe you are making a wrong decision if you trust anything on the AUR implicitly.
> I wasn't as ambitious. I was less social.

Would that be perhaps because you were smoking or eating an Indica strain? I'm sure you know that the experience can vary drastically depending on the strain.

I used to be laser-focussed and ambitious when on a Sativa, and completely shut down and slump over on the couch when on an Indica.

Lot of people relating their personal experiences haven't mentioned what strain they were on, or tried, so it's difficult to get any meaningful insight from their experience IMO.

Only thing common across all strain, I've noticed, is the short term and long term memory loss, like someone else had mentioned about not comprehending tech conversations and such. That was a deal breaker for me also.
Ideally the RAM wont be soldered on.
>Some countries may have more welfare but I don't think anyone in America is trying to claim otherwise

Actually, this is the party line of the right-wing in the US. It's not more, it's less, because...freedom?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Imo, going from OpenAI Five to some kind of OpenAI FiveZero or whatever is like 1000x the amount of progress of AlphaGo to AlphaGo Zero, just based on the complexity of game mechanics and the fact that it's 5v5 and not 1v1.
At the end of the day, laws govern the interactions between humans. The law imposes on everyone an obligation to think about the intentions and expectations of other humans. (This is what separates us from animals--the ability to reason about the mental states of others!)

The protocol is relevant, because it conveys information. Just as unlocked doors generally indicate permission to access, unsecured HTTP generally indicates the same. But the protocol is only one piece of the puzzle. It is not dispositive. It does not conclusively decide rights and responsibilities. If a reasonable human would discern that the protocol allowing access was probably the result of a mistake rather than intent on the part of the property owner, that is what matters.
I would like a Mini Pro with a 65-95 watt 6 core CPU and Thunderbolt 3.
Any predictions on the price of the rumored "low-cost" MacBook?
Great, more garbage no one asked for. Why would a pro want a small machine instead of a powerful machine? There’s something Orwellian about pretending you can have it both ways.

Ever since the Touch Bar was revealed, it’s been transparently obvious that Apple is being sabotaged by high ranking double agent employees working for competitors while feeding Tim Cook terrible ideas, and he is too thick to detect the subversion. Sad!
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> Compare that to options, which worth is hypothetical and up for debate. None of your fellow employees know more than what the founders told them. It's some glowing future promise that will only be broken a few years down the road... When they typically won't need you anymore...

Hmmm...I think the part that is maybe missing from your model is that the value is not hypothetical and made up, you need to price the certainty into the value itself when negotiating the offer. If you are given very little information, the value is low. But it's not "high value low certainty" it's simply low value.

Skype equity that allows you to be fired and have it bought back at strike price is not "high value low certainty" it's simply low value. Engineers overvalued their equity going into it. They were not misled, and this was something that could've been reasoned about going in easily. They should've read what they were signing.

Some employers will give you enough information to make an informed decision (cap table, current revenue, projections, etc.). Most will not. Most are not worth working for, or at least their options are not worth valuing above $0. Some are, though.
I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be.

Couple of disks in a RAID, lots of RAM, bring back the quad core. Like the Mac Mini Server of old. They've already built it before, they just need to bring it back in modern form.
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> Apple failed to show interest in laptop and desktop machines and is fully focused on phones.

Well they overhauled the laptops not too long ago, and the Mac Pro is receiving a complete overhaul and is due out sometime next year, I think. (They're also working on a new pro display, they mentioned.)

I'm not saying all their updates have been phenomenal, but they are definitely spending some non-zero time on these things.
I’m writing this on my phone while on break so I can’t get as detailed as I’d like but I just wanted to express agreement with your point regarding the effects of low level jobs being outsourced to contractors.

I don’t want to get too specific in my role but I was able to go from a very entry level position at SpaceX, let’s say something along the lines of kitchen/cafeteria/janitorial/facilities staff, to a much more technical position working on actual launch vehicle hardware. I know I’m not the only one that’s moved up from those positions into our technician roles. It actually happens somewhat regularly. I can’t imagine this being the case if all of our lower level positions were outsourced to contractors.
Definitely a valid question! I think it's hard to define what "worse off" means here, mostly because it's hard to put a number on the value of entertainment to people (other than the obvious ones: ticket prices, etc.).

I get what you're saying, though - cities often give up a lot (and probably too much) to keep franchises happy.

I'm mostly just pointing out the major power disparity between LA and other cities: Major sports teams want to be in LA far more than LA wants a major sports team. That's not true of, say, Seattle or St. Louis or San Diego.
I think this one was posted not too long ago. Commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993330
> I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be.

Perhaps a minimal setup for compiling stuff for Apple's OSes?

I could go for something like that.
If this doesn't violate anti-trust I don't know what would.
I believe that lots of games already do ray tracing/casting when they render (especially for things like lighting and reflections), so there can be benefits even before games switch to 100% ray tracing.
I really hope piracy has another burst of interest. Steam and Spotify completely fulfill my needs for games and music, though with some regrets (I don't really own anything I use) but there's still zero reasonable ways to get quality access to 95% of the movies and television I want
Perhaps. Wish it was an extension offered by Google (or a default feature of Gmail/Inbox) instead of a third party.
No enterprise application is complete until it gets Export to Excel feature.
Isn't that what's so amazing about the USA? That it is open to "anyone"( well you get what I mean)?

People come from different nations, a country that allows different nations to exist in the same physical space is a great way to bridge that gap and food seems like a good starting point. Anyone can probably gain some appreciation for some culture if the food is good( like, this culture actually has something worthwhile to show). I think it works in a subconscious level. Also given the lack of worldwide history education it's also an interesting way to get people in a first contact with a different culture.
>RTX 2080 draws up to 215 watts of power.

It actually went up over baseline 1080. 175 vs 215. And so did the 2070, it also eats more than 1080 while using a more modern litho.
While it's generally true that it isn't, some strains may produce quite strong auditory and visual hallucinations for some users.
Apple does have one fairly unusual pro-level use case, which is that you need to have a macOS machine if you want to develop iOS applications. Having a relatively low-cost (i.e. under $1,000) macOS machine you can plug into an existing monitor and keyboard makes iOS development easier to get into for people and companies who aren't already 100% Apple-focused. A reasonably spec'ed updated Mac Mini would fill that niche nicely.
I still have a Late 2012 Mac Mini i7 and it runs great. Upgraded the RAM to 16GB and put in an SSD, runs like a dream. Would definitely look at upgrading if the newer ones were compelling enough.
Most probable explanation. 19% in Germany. So, $1199 in US, ~$1443 in Europe. 1199 * 1.19 = ~$1427. $1439 with Austrian VAT of 20%, but price is still 1259 Euro, so it seems nice. Seems about right.
4k gaming is still very much GPU limited. The PS4 Pro and Xbox One X often do not render at the full 3840x2160, do not run at 60FPS, and have individual graphics settings turned down compared to a PC for example.

I am currently running a 1080TI with an 8700k and at 4k resolutions I still need to turn down some graphics settings to maintain 60FPS and <100% GPU usage while my CPU sits at 40-50% usage.

If the 2080TI is 50% faster than a 1080TI than perhaps it will be the card that is able to push 4k 144FPS for the faster refresh 4k monitors that are starting to come out.
I have found CBD with terpenes helps to ease the edge.
The Mini doesn't include a touch bar that requires a T2.
You're way, way overestimating the cost-per-item for everything mentioned there.
>Customers can't unilaterally "break the cycle." They'd effectively just be underpaying for service.

I'd actually argue that's the fastest route TO fixing the problem!

When money is on the line, I guarantee that service workers will correctly look to the employer for correcting their wage, rather than trying to exploit good graces of people who happen to eat at the restaurant.

Tipping is a total sham
The I95 is a 1900-mile long interstate highway...

That being said, with the exception of public transit systems like the NYMTA, etc., essentially all of the rail in the US is privately owned, and was privately funded.
> I'll never stop being fascinated by how radically different the experiences of cannabis users are

Nothing to be fascinated about. The experience is different primarily from the type of strain they have inhaled or ingested.

Sativa only strain - High, euphoria, very social

Indica only strain - Sleepy, lethargic, somewhat anti-social

Sativa dominant Sativa-Indica hybrid - Not so high, still little euphoric, smooth come down after few hours.

Indica dominant Indica-Sativa hybrid - Not so sleepy / lethargic, little euphoric...

And then there's the CBD dominant ones which don't get you high, and supposedly cure you of various illnesses. Not FDA approved.
If you ignore the part about allocating money, yes. But the allocation was rather the point of the comment I was responding to.
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Denmark is actually, literally, in the Merriam-Webster definition of Social Democracy / Democratic Socialism. [1] Your one-word denials are unhelpful and uninteresting. Cite some sources and make a case.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20democrac...
Yeah there's no way they're explicitly integrating pauses-in-time into the winrate calculation... There are so many other central/meta game mechanics that they haven't solved yet, it wouldn't make any sense to incorporate a behavior like strategic pausing.
It’s even more wild when you consider that these companies are relying on all of these dependencies to be secure, and to lack intentional backdoors.
> Using x as variable name can sometimes increase readability. For generic functions that are close to mathematics it is not a sin to use such variable names. Though way to often I get pointed out to rename it to something more descriptive. Longer variable names can also leads to worse readability since a linter will now make 1-liner split into a 4-liner.

I've rarely seen cases where abstract short variable names have improved readability on their own.

Where it has helped, either there is a comment explaining what the variable is for, or there is a strong convention already in the domain, like using x,y,z in graphics programming to indicate position.

Also... I haven't really encountered linter issues with longer variable names. Do you mean linters that enforce maximum line widths? That seems increasingly rare these days.

> "Commit daily,... . Give meaningful commit messages." I am starting to see a trend where PRs get squashed into one commit. Thus making such advice not very useful.

As a general point of practice, squashes should merge together into semantically meaningful packages, and big multi-purpose commits are the actual no-no. So for example I'll squash together two commits that say "Fixed ABCD issue by doing XYZ" and "Fixed accidental regression caused by XYZ" to just the first message. The fact that I also needed to fix a regression is fine being documented in the bug tracker only, since someone looking at a commit diff will spot the extra XYZ related changes anyway.
Would love to know the difference between vertical integration and anti-trust.
The problem with this approach is that you then have to maintain that variable. On OSX, my /etc/man.conf includes this for MANSECT:

1:1p:8:2:3:3p:4:5:6:7:9:0p:tcl:n:l:p:o

I guess one should really have a script that first greps out that default value, and then appends your custom section before exporting the variable.

EDIT: something like:

export MANSECT=$(pcregrep -o1 MANSECT\\s\{2,\}\(.*\) /etc/man.conf):pj
With a little luck the mini pro will be something like the Hades Canyon NUC.
Techempower Benchmarks all run on Linux and they are quite focused on the performance of them https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=9...

7+ million requests per second on linux for a single server (maxing out a 10GBps network) isn't to shabby ;)

Also they run continuous benchmarks for all platforms in a wider range of tests https://github.com/aspnet/Benchmarks

With the results being public at https://aka.ms/aspnet/benchmarks
Why would this be anti-trust? Sodastream has competitors who do the exact same thing, not to mention their biggest competitor, which is pre-bottled sparkling water.
There were a number of technical sessions at SIGGRAPH that went into more details, not sure if / when they'll show up on nvidia's website.
I probably am less sanguine than you that public policy can in fact lead us to "rest assured that they're paying their fair share."

But certainly public policy can and should play a role here. The point is, just saying, "Well, your decisions impose a burden on everyone else" as though that were the end of the discussion proves too much. You have to lay out the costs and benefits.
I know gmail does some image caching / proxying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6898454

I guess the vector here is when you read an email versus where from / using which device / etc.
United's hit-or-miss: sometimes they're Johnny on the Spot

Other times? Yeah...not so much

(they're better when you enable push notifications for your flights (and I set up SMS notifications, too))
Sounds like it is replacing the Macbook Air, so I'd guess it will start around $999.
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Which things exactly? Manuals translations is SO DAMN EXPENSIVE. They have to sell, what a dozen or so cards to get those losses? Or 7 european (EU) offices of which one is also a dev center vs 15 US offices (of which one is HQ/dev)? Or stock which comes to both from Taiwan?

In any case, it seems VAT is the explanation and in that case price is without premium, even great compared. Still expensive.
While we're dreaming, how about ports in the front! Miss my aluminum tower.
Seems like a questionable claim.
When taking a heroic dose of a psychoactive substance, you really need a guide to keep you from going off the rails.
So they have 13.2% of 751M ~= 99.1M (and that's all subscribers, of all services in China). Meanwhile, Netflix alone has 130M users worldwide.

How are they not the biggest service?
All prices in the EU must be final (hence incl. all taxes). Yes the ones in the US is pre sale/use tax.
I've been hunting around for a new netbook that would bridge the gap between portable and durable. This isn't it.

It really burns that most reporters turn to Apple products, a brand for which I have SEVERAL criticisms. My main complaint being that people purchase their products as fashion statements/status symbols first, and as tools second.

The situation is compounded by the fact that journalism schools like Columbia swear by Apple stuff, and only mention Android/Windows as an afterthought.

https://journalism.columbia.edu/technology-guide-2016-2017
Specialty brick and mortar. No need to drive to a store specializing in your quirky hobby when you can get any supplies you need in 2 days off Amazon. Not exactly a bad thing, but those stores tend to serve as knowledge centers/gathering spots for the hobby. So some groups make it a point to shop brick and mortar, the whole FLGS (friendly local game store) in the tabletop community thing comes to mind.
Not does the iMac Pro, but that has the T2.
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Of the names you call out for doing well though, it's worth pointing out that while Zoox may have so far avoided "wasting a lot of cash and resources on a gigantic clusterfuck", it's apparently their plan to explore said clusterfuck over the long-term. Zoox's stated goal, once/assuming they get the self-driving software right, is to redesign and then build a completely new concept of what a car is, from the wheels up, and then own those cars, operating an Uber-style self-driving cab service.

This is probably the most capital-intensive business model you could possibly come up with. [edit] Which isn't to say they'll fail! I know nothing about their progress on whatever internal research is going on. But in terms of including as many possible points of failure and guaranteeing that in the future you'll need an absolutely gargantuan funding round to succeed, this is tough to beat.