skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative calculation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109432

"You can rent a Skylake chip on Google Cloud that'll perform 1.6 trillion 64 bit operations per second for $0.96/hr preemptively. That's enough to run one instruction over a 64 bit address space exhaustively over 120 days, or for ~$2800"

It might not make economic sence to actually make this happen for any realistic test, but it's interesting that it might actually be feasible to do it on any kind of human timescale...
No, the author makes baseless claims about the future of technology under the guise of "being reasonable". Technology is just applied and abstracted physics, so I'm not sure what your point is there. No one said anything about data science...this seems a little ranty TBH. You aren't arguing against anyone in this thread.
But those typedefs almost always (in my experience) contain some indication of at the very least an abbreviation of the type and some hints as to whether it's a pointer or not.

That's a lot better to go on than "auto".
lets see there is wayland. The peopitery drivers do not work with that. Moreover there are issues.

Further, its not open source the nvidia drivers. Although, I dont understand why anyone would buy hardware from nividia and feel good about it
I get what you mean by digital, the problem is analog is vastly faster and more compact. Digital essentially reduces the solution space adding overhead. It’s not a technical problem it’s the core tradeoff for going digital.

That’s not to say proteins are as efficient as possible. Just that they are fairly close to the limit of what’s possible at 1 to 100nm. Now start talking micrometers‘s and I can see some things changing.
Ah I see your point. The anonymity desired might have been naive in asking not to publish his real name. He might have bern okay with handle—to give the news organs the benefit of doubt.
No. But people like this speaking in the way he did can be a step in the right direction.

Most pundents of D&I have their ass so far up their head they don't realize that they fail at D&I because the only reconize a 3rd grade level of what that means.

This guy at least from the single post I have read -- seems to get it, and get it in a way that might actually spark real change.
pretty cool.. thanks for sharing... I could not work on the app itself, but that is ok.
Some ideas:

European style: Higher prices, shorter hours.

Japanese style: more automation, vending machines for everything.

Anecdotally, I haven’t seen those issues you mention with retail.

Fundamentally the problem is that the price people are willing to pay won’t support the required number of people at such “high” wages. Either the price has to go up or the experience has to become cheaper.

Or you just fly overseas to Mexico and enjoy much cheaper labor at Cancun or Cabos. Every time I look at resorts in Hawaii I conclude that I should just go to Mexico instead.
Ask yourself what you want your boss to do - if he isn’t coding then what can he do to make your life easier and the overall results for the business better?
Don’t bring Cincinnati into this! Cincinnati learned these lessons the hard way with their stadium deals in the 90s.

For the new MLS stadium being built here, the stadium is being privately financed. Public money is going to be used for a parking facility and other supporting infrastructure like streets, etc.
That would be true only if they weren't rewarding the proprietary driver. If their goal was to pressure Nvidia into being a better player in FOSS they'd disable GPU accelleration on the proprietary driver.
It's not the Chromium team's job to debug nouveau. Switching it to be the default for everything was obviously premature.
ARM controls the isa, that is all. Apple CPU cores are very custom
I once read “Versekunsten”, an entire book on rhyme and rhythm by the Norwegian poet André Bjerke, (which I'm highly recommending to any Scandinavian speakers with a thing for language and literature). The most interesting out of the hundred things I learned from that book, is that the amphibrach metrical foot (the rhythm of the word “potato”) is the most common, and perhaps also the quickest, way to convey a jocular feeling; take the limerick genre and this poem as examples.

> In English accentual-syllabic poetry, an amphibrach … is rarely used as the overall meter of a poem, usually appearing only in a small amount of humorous poetry, children's poetry, and experimental poems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibrach

Is this the case in languages other than Scandinavian and English?
30cm leaves you 4.8mm short of a foot. This is how we lose spacecraft.
Nah, it won't be the 'ruling class' who'll steer us towards fascism. For better or worse (probably worse right now), their philosophy seems to come down to 'don't rock the boat, don't change anything', regardless of it changing anything would benefit anyone else.

What will potentially steer us that way is the frustration felt by everyone else, and the folks waiting in the wings to take advantage of a bad situation to push various extremist philosophies and ideas. That may be fascism (which in turn may or may not be Nazi like), it may be communism, it may be religious theocracy esque beliefs or something else. Whatever it is, crazy extremists are usually outside of the system, and thrive in chaos.
1. Lacking support for old GPUs in a maintained driver. nvidia drivers approach for old gpu is "use an old driver" for cards as recent as the 6xx.

2. People like to run fully open source systems

3. Adding support for things like kms and wayland are really up to the whims of nVidia as to when it happens with the closed driver, while an open driver is more likely to do so (or at least can be forked to do so). In the past features like config-less X were also much later coming to nvidia drivers which made it harder for people to get started on Linux.
I agree, too many talented people not reaching their potential, and not even having it nurtured.
How many potential African engineers grew up to be illiterate cowherds because of a lack of education?

Also, why is Elon regarded as genius inventor, when it's clearly the people who work for him how are the geniuses. Why aren't they the multi-millionaires?
I think we romanticize flight, because otherwise that sounds just like owning a dog or an indoor cat.
Twitter does a lot to de-anonymize people - like locking accounts until a phone number with a real name attached is provided. Then it also conplies with locally “legal” requests for user info. So any anonymity at Twitter is temporary & fragile.

And efficient states will often engage in the ‘minimum viable persecution’ to satisfy their goals. Not every agency may have deanonymized the account, not all may care about foreign-language coverage, and those that do may have considered the deletion of the account, while it was generally pseudonymous, a sufficient message.

But further complaints under a ‘real name’ – allowing further Chinese-language secondary coverage & fully de-anonymizing the account to the public – could easily draw further enforcement, from the same or other agencies.
"Zoll" is a direct translation from "inch". Inches were used when measuring wood.

The actual size was different from region to region, because there was no agreement on whether it is 1/10 or 1/12 of a feet, and 1 foot itself would correspond to different lengths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_German_units_of_measu...
Nvidia is already helping the Nouveau maintainers by not suing them for all they are worth.
We should probably stop and ask if it's even important that they do. I mean, of the various terrorist incidents and other crimes that have happened involving airplanes, how many even involved guns at all?
We have Thinkpad Linux laptops running with NVidia at work. The proprietary driver has quality issues, the biggest of which for us is power management and poor battery life. Nouveau performs much better in this regard, even though they had to reverse engineer the hardware (!) I will be advising my IT department not to continue to buy NVidia.
This sounds like a start up idea? Doctor notes app to synch with other doctors?
> So should they also blacklist Windows because it's spying on its users? No, of course not. They should do their best to deliver a good experience in the domains for which they are responsible.

If a Windows graphics acceleration component spied on its users, Chromium should absolutely blacklist that component, and use software rendering instead.
> I am truly curious of what the business model of denying minorities a car loan is?

Why does it have to be a business model? Humans are not rational actors. The segregation era almost certainly lost tremendous amounts of money for retail businesses as a whole, but their management still went along with it. The remaining implicit bias in many businesses still loses tremendous amounts of money for retail businesses as a whole (see the various "wealthy black celebrity treated like a shoplifter" news stories, for example), but people still do it.
Is it?

They seem to follow a pretty similar career arc. If you take a typical CS grad they're going to go through a couple years as a junior dev, couple more as a more senior one, and then five years or more in they are ready to be in charge of their own project. That's pretty similar to the intern -> resident -> attending pattern that doctors follow.

Honestly, the biggest difference between having a career in programming and being a doctor is the gate keeping. In programming, you can drop out of high school and 20 years later be an expert in the field. There's a path for talented people to go from junior -> dev -> senior -> lead -> principle -> whatever. There's no path like that in medicine. Sure, as a nurse you can go from LPN -> RN -> NP but that's where it ends. Your only option at that point is to spend 4 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars. And there's really no reason for that.
The lunar surface is more brown in these photos than the ones from Apollo, which is more accurate?
> Fantastic thread. Identity politics flavored social justice warfare peeves me because it misses this grand overarching point: there is untapped potential here.

I feel like you're just taking a shot at "SJWs" without realizing that your untapped potential comment is exactly what is at the core of most of these movements.

All politics is identity politics, and it's the identity politics of the past that has repressed millions in America and wasted potential. Potential was wasted when folks were slaves instead of being able to exercise their freedom and pursue their individual talents, potential was wasted when Black soldiers returning from home were denied the benefits of the GI bill. Affirmative Action is explicitly a mechanism to provide more opportunity, so is the modern D&I movement in corporate America. An untold amount of potential is being wasted right now due to America's inability and inaction when it comes to eliminating poverty and providing equal opportunity for all.
Maybe they should risk everything and start their own companies.
If you think any social program should be subsidized, then you simply dont understand economics, youre just being fooled by politics. A politcal system that may have played to your advantage, but also disenfranchised a much greater number of people. Theres no point giving you an economics course here, But yes, in brief, the truth is everyone could afford healthcare, and true healthcare, not sub par programs, if we had a real economy. One that is not political in nature. I also come from an extremely impoverished background, and am too now doing well for myself. I work in a field that has shown me that we are literally being scammed from right under us. However know that i fully understand your incentive and i know it is a good one, you wish to give everyone equal opportunity, so i am not at all questioning youe motive as i know its genuine and well hearted, but also try to understand that you are unfortunately living in complete ignorance.
That... Sounds like subsidizing the stadium.
While I might not agree with everything he says, the gender bias lawsuit against Google revolved around women being siloed in front-end development (as well as starting at lower ranks/pay, etc.). So it doesn't seem all that far-fetched and there may be a kernel of truth there, depending on where you are and what your environment is like.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2017/09/14/google-...
>> Unfortunately we don't have the resources to test every variation of every GPU/driver combination on linux

So Google doesn't have the resources to test the default driver on the most widespread linux distribution for one of the two most widespread GPU producers in the market.
How can I get public land in Zurich for free to build my private enterprise?
> It's no different from websites looking at user-agent strings to work around known bugs, right?

No. Its more like blocking the access to your website to some browsers.

At best they should give a warning that youre using an unsupported browser/driver so beware if unexpected issues.
Thanks, Spark looks great! Very much like Micronaut actually. The only thing I see missing that I would want is handling of async ... not sure if I'm just missing it in the docs.
So, chromium is like "I want a better experience for my users out of the box" and this leads to you comparing them to North Korean nuclear launches?

You need an internet timeout. Go get drunk, stoned whatever you do and try again Monday.
That hasn’t been the case for over a decade.
Unfortunately, most D&I efforts appear to be “push non white, non male candidates to the front of the pipeline”. No amount of window dressing fixes D&I efforts that are sexist or racist.

To your point, equality of opportunity should be strived for. Everybody should get a fair crack at success. But that’s not what’s on order in the current political climate. Real change occurs when employees report all discrimination to regulators, including that of D&I efforts that are similarly against the law (roles held open specifically for a certain gender or race, candidate pipelines prioritizing by gender or race, purposely seeking out candidates for their gender or race, etc).
Well, my assumption was always that in a scenario such as: ISP makes me share my public-facing IP with 15 randos -> I get on a torrent for Sony Corporate Secrets [full pack] [2018].zip -> Sony's legal department connects a honeypot and harvests all IPs it sees on it and sends out subpoenae to identify everyone who is in a friendly jurisdiction, the circumstance that I'm NATted by my provider will actually do nontrivial work in reducing the probability that I am ultimately identified in a legally actionable way (especially if it were to take Sony a while to process its data). Is this not accurate?
As I understand it, the latter, and it is completely justifiable to do so. Requiring users to run binary blobs in order to use their hardware is non-free.
We’d need a stronger government-backed identity/authentication scheme to replace it, which civil liberties groups like EFF vehemently oppose.
I know that it's the website owners and their minions who are downvoting me, the account who posted this thread was just made 30 minutes ago and here is the list of posts that posted on HN by this domain https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=threadreaderapp.com, you judge whether this is systematic or not
I don't know, I upgraded to 18.10 and my XPS's brightness control doesn't work. The Prime switchy thing can't change cards without a reboot, and if the screen goes to sleep between switching cards and rebooting, it never comes up again. Actually, with 18.10, it never comes up again anyway. I have a whole host of issues with nVidia cards, my next card is going to be AMD.
Has anyone seen any interesting keyboard-plus-multitouch hybridization? For illustration, say left hand on kbd and right on a graphics tablet? Or laptop touchpad thumb-based modifier keys? Or, less likely, interesting things to do when keycaps are touchpads?

Last year I was working on optical finger tracking to get 3D positions and entire keyboard as a multitouch surface. It's not clear I want to continue banging on it this year. So I'm fishing for an "oh, that's a neat idea... ok, yes, I do want that" motivating instance.
Nothing you do will change founders' opinions on the situation. If your founders were on top of things & capable, this wouldn't have been a problem. If they are _really_ on top of things, you might be the problem itself.

Either way, situation won't get better for you personally. Just leave.
You could see it as a "limitation of the format", or you could see it as exchanging one type of mathematical object for another.

For example, CPU integers aren't like mathematical integers. CPU integers wrap around. So CPU integers aren't "really" the integers—CPU integers are actually the ring of integers modulo 2n , with their names changed!

I'm not sure what the name of the ring(?) that contains all the IEEE754 floating-point numbers and their relations is called, but it certainly exists.

And, rather than thinking of yourself as imprecisely computing on the reals, you can think of what you're doing as exact computation on members of the IEEE754 field-object—a field-object where 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0 being anything other than 2.0 would be incorrect. Even though the answer, in the reals, is 1.0.
Never again am I going to buy an Optimus machine.

EDIT: Wait, there's an open source thing? Is Bumblebee any good? Optimus is such a pain in my ass that it's making me want to smash this laptop.
Well personal disclosure I'm pretty staunchly left so I'm not going to lie, I think It'd be pretty bad of a business to discriminate against those groups but I think at least the case can be made that those groups have the potential to disrupt the platform and everybody else on it through their political activity, so I think the owner has some legitimate discretion.

I do agree that there should be basic protections on private platforms for speech, especially if people are threatened to be excluded based on ethnic or religious or apolitical identity. But I think it would be absurd to say, if a company could not shut down a threatening or violent, or otherwise outside of the norm organisation.
Even smokers in other threads here complain how cigarette butts smell.
Top bio venture funds of 2018
Because if there are obvious edge and corner cases, like overflow scenarios, a professional system will either ensure that expectations are lived up to, or flatly denied as errors.

No surprises.
Yes, to be clear I wasn't accusing Rust code of having this particular problem, I was just using it as an example of a modern language where in my opinion there's a bit of an over-emphasis on brevity in terms of writing the code, as opposed to reading/understanding it and maintaining it, which I feel for long-term large projects, I'm not convinced is a total win.

I could have easily used Go or Swift as examples instead.

And to be clear, these new languages are in general improving things a lot, but I just worry there's an over-emphasis on "being able to do a lot of complex stuff which very few syntax / characters", which I don't really fully agree with (at least for large complex long-term projects).

That's not to say I'm right, but in my experience of programming over 15 years in everything from ADA, C, C++ to Java and Python, at least on large projects, the speed at which code was created was very rarely that important. Getting it right, bug-free and performant was generally much more important. In some cases newer more-condensed syntax can definitely help, but in others, it can cause trouble.
Yes it’s a civil matter. The property owner can simply have the car towed.
Chromium said they'd do that if someone tested which Nouveau versions work fine and provided a test suite to use. Ilia Mirkin (in the link) said he tried to run their test suite but got errors on the latest Nouveau (possibly due to a browser issue). So as it stands now Chromium doesn't know which if any versions of Nouveau are stable.
What you're suggesting is actively harming users to put pressure on NVIDIA to become a better citizen in the Linux ecosystem. I don't find this very ethical, but I don't think this would work anyway. When Chrome crashes, users blame Chrome. But when Chrome runs slower on NVIDIA, users blame NVIDIA.
Demand enough equity that satisfies your concerns or walk. Pushing for a guy that got you hired, and who has kids to support, to be fired is just dirty. Gently encourage him and the founder to reassign him to areas he can be more useful in.
Which states do not allow for towing of unauthorized vehicles on private property?
If you look at what Reddit [1] and Facebook [2] did in their data layers to scale past what the relational model can offer, they start to look pretty darn close to the Datomic architecture. Linearized. Time aware. Immutable. Reads from cache. Horizontal scaling. Query/writer/storage separation. And obviously they are cloud architectures, built and operated by teams of distributed systems engineers capable of tuning performance of such a system.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15726376

[2] http://www.dustingetz.com/:datomic-facebook-tao/

Neither of these architectures resemble the relational model anymore. They resemble a half-baked bug-ridden implementation of half of Datomic.

TLDR: Nobody likes their database and zero teams at scale run vanilla out-of-box database.

This might shed light on what people mean when they are talking about tuning Datomic: http://www.dustingetz.com/:datomic-performance-gaare/ I'm sure there is more but this is the only thing I have ever come across.
To be fair, most of the general public doesn't know what an ip address is.

I'm in the group that you're speaking of—I have a personal server set up that I can log into remotely, but the prospect of setting up a domain and TLS is very daunting. But, I don't think people like me are all that common.
I mean, just because it's one of two GPU producers, that doesn't mean the nvidia product line is simple. There are desktop chips, there are notebook chips, there are multiple versions of the same card made by different manufacturers who add their own little touches, there are different chipsets, there are different configurations, there are different X11 setups, there are different desktop environments which may enforce different settings, etc.

It's not as simple as "one of the two most widespread GPU producers in the market".
this website has been systematically exploiting HN and reddit to get popular, see https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=threadreaderapp.com and https://old.reddit.com/domain/threadreaderapp.com/
They mean arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic (i.e. a struct containing bignum x and integer y where the connoted value is x*10^y, such that multiplication can be defined simply as the independent multiplication of the value parts and of the exponent parts.)