skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Employers are allowed to test students to see what they can do, but not evaluate them based on whether they went to school or where.

This would never work. People who went to high-prestige schools want to signal that to their employer and when barred would find other ways to signal like "Interned in Dr. Blah's group at the MIT media lab" or "Secretary of the Princeton chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa."

> Make student loan debt dischargeable in bankruptcy.

This is a fine solution iff you want to make the market exclude all academic endeavors that aren't high-probability profitable. This would basically destroy all specialized scientific research, education degrees, agricultural science, all high-level maths, biology, ecology, zoology, environmental research. When people want the market to decide these thing I imagine they think that "those silly liberal arts degrees" is what will get cut but forget that science doesn't pay either.
Even at the slightly lower price point ($98/yr for WalMart Plus vs $119/yr for Prime), this new offering feels rather anemic. It gets you fast (sometimes same day) delivery of a popular subset of their catalog. Prime has music, video, reading, twitch, grocery delivery, etc in addition to fast delivery.

> "We're not launching Walmart Plus with the intent to compete with anything else," Whiteside [Walmart's chief customer officer,] said when asked about Prime. "We're launching it to meet the needs of our customers."

Sure.
Thanks for reporting this.

I can't quite understand what happened - the error says firefox did not continue because "this website requires a secure connection". Surely the fact that it is a secure connection is a good thing and not a reason to not connect.

I use https for the site and have tested with different browsers including firefox without successfully reproducing.
When would the Quadro cards based on Ampere likely be released. Any ideas?
Americans, especially the ones a foreign power would be interested in blackmailing, also travel. In some ~70 countries, homosexuality is a crime.
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Not at all. The 20 series has excellent founders cards.
I love a small feature he mentioned in the video: Monitors with built-in latency measurement. You plug your mouse into the USB ports on the monitor and it tells you how long it takes the image to change after you move the mouse. Brilliant idea.

It's long overdue to have widely available metrics for latency in consumer tech. Many hardware/software setups have absurdly long latency for no good reason other than that it's difficult to measure. People underestimate the subconscious effects it has on your usage of technology.

I couldn't be happier that phone and monitor manufacturers are finally starting to compete on refresh rates >60 Hz. It's far more important than wide gamut or 8K.
Yeah. Even if it is not a Titan, it is at a price that I am glad to pay for the performance (if the 1.5x faster than Titan claim holds true). Bert / Transformer models are incredibly memory hungry, and a sub-2k graphics card with 24GB memory is great to have. Also, its number of CUDA cores seems to be slightly more than A100, would be interesting to see benchmarks once it comes out.

Not to mention that it still has NVLink support! The 3-slot design is a bit challenging and for 4-card workstation, I need to rework my radiator mount to make space for another PSU.
I think if you absorb the responses from other users here, and adapt your future comments more to the specifics of a given story, that should help a lot. geofft makes a good point about linking to past points rather than repeating them. That's the way to handle repetition on HN. Don't inline generic material from before—refer to it via links.
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Any time you provide increased funding to a customer, the price of the goods will go up. This is the same reason raising the minimum wage would likely increase prices of other goods.

An easy-ish solution to this is:

1. Breaking up unions/lobbies - AMA for reference is the limiting factor in the number of doctors. They limit the number of medical students intentionally, inflating doctors wages (and university costs). Administration costs for universities also have high overhead and should be reduced.

2. [Agree] Student loans should be dischargeable via bankruptcy

3. Government shouldn't offer student loans. Instead, offering grants and / or work programs. I went to a junior college for 2.5 years, while working and saving up. Then went to UIUC. I took on some loans, but it was subsidized by my own funds. This leads to more responsibility / accountability so people don't take loans to "party".
So it all boils down to $$$? Any other possible reason?
People argue against deregulating housing density often with second-order issues.

For example: "more housing density will only serve the rich" or variants on that theme.

"more housing density will change the character of our neighborhood" is another argument.

"more housing density will overburden our water / sewer / power / streets" is yet another.

"more housing density will overburden our schools and public safety" is another.

The first-order argument for higher housing density is this: "There isn't enough housing for the population. Some people are homeless. Other people are paying more than we can afford. We need more housing."

The second-order questions are legitimate, but they boil down to tactical issues of carrying capacity. Using them to counter the first-order argument is rhetorical trickery as ancient as Aristotle.

If people my age (I have a grandkid) wanted our neighborhoods to stay in some gauzy Ward- and June- Cleaver state, we shoulda got vasectomies at age 20. We didn't.
Because the point of reading the book is not to exactly replicate his life. Only to be aware of ways of reducing the amount of work in your own life.

Edit: it's the same idea as when I boxed competitively, and watched a Manny Pacquiao documentary. I wasn't going to wake up at 3 am to drink a 1000 calorie shake or do a 1000 sit ups everyday. I wanted to get into the mindset of optimizing my training within the reasonable constraints of my student life.
Your wealth is not decreasing in this scenario. You have ~30% more apples.

What people (wealth tax supporters) are really trying to do is tax unrealized gains that compound because there are no transactions to tax. Dubious legally for the U.S. but not onerous if structured right.
Correctness and robustness happen to all software, when exposed to end-users for a long enough time.

Internally the software would be a ball of mud, a fragile patchwork of incoherent code that nobody wants to touch. A lot of these programs become immutable logs - if you want to change a feature, you add more code because you're afraid to touch anything that already exist.

Yet they are robust - all the bugs in the commonly traficked code paths have already been sussed out, and from outside the software looks like an impenetrable, rugged piece of craftsmanship. This has happened to me in the early years of my career (proud of the robustness, not proud of the code), and I've witnessed it so many times outside. So yeah - robustness and correctness is either a matter of correct-by-construction, or correct-over-time.
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I’ve always wondered why people pay for porn in general. I guess I should thank them.
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> "do you know how many people we'd have to fire if we went looking for abuse?"

I think they make the mistake of presuming this has to go up to 11 on day 1.

Tell the employees you're going to be proactively auditing. Choose a threshold. Interview and potentially fire those employees going over the threshold. Do this until you're done firing people, then increase the threshold and repeat. You will have to fire people, or threaten to, but employees will get the message that the PII-party is over.
I'll make a stronger statement than "can": I have and do productively use object algebras in my day-to-day in Java. It's a really fantastic tool when you need an "interface" that governs multiple types or across more than one receiver. Even when you're not trying to solve the expression problem.

When you're defining an interface on a type that doesn't need to appear in its own method parameters or return types, and where the actual type doesn't matter (as in classic OOP), Java interfaces are fine. But not all problems are best framed this way.
I honestly don’t get the point of this. It’s nearly as expensive as Prime but gives you a lot less.

Their inability to explain the value proposition when asked that question by a reporter isn’t showing a great deal of confidence in the offering.
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> Freedom is when I pay somebody to do it for me and move it elsewhere if I don't like it.

This is exactly why you need the freedom of FLOSS. You can hire anyone to continue the development. You don't have to do it yourself.
All this on Samsung 8nm (~61 MT/mm2). They didn't even feel the need to use TSMC 7nm (~100 MT/mm2). Probably keep the price down and to reserve capacity at TSMC for the A100.

This is like the anime hero/villain (depending on your perspective) equivalent of fighting at half power.
> The problem seems to be that sound cards (or chips) in modern PCs are too clever for their own good. They are designed to optimise microphone input for Skype and Zoom and that means removing the noise and extraneous clicks that are exactly the signal that the detector puts out.

Ugh! I wonder what other hidden features are lurking on my laptop hardware. I am conflicted because while I understand perfectly well why market forces compel hardware manufacturers to add these "features", I don't like the idea of not being able to trust my primary computing hardware.
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But they also have PCI-e 4 with CPU bypass and onboard decompression for streaming in data from SSD.

Probably a better trade-off for gaming and worse for ML training.
Companies who overcompensate can liquidate if they have to. Cities can’t easily dispose of their obligations no matter how foolhardy they were. Instead they raise taxes, deliver fewer services or incur further debt via bond issuance.
Thank you for reporting bugs and helping improve Blender! Every AMD graphics card that is GCN first generation or later can be used for running Blender [1]. GCN second generation or later is required for GPU rendering [2]. Unfortunately the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT does seems to be affected by some technical issues, that are still under investigation. Might be a bug in Blender or an issue with particular OS, hardware and driver combinations. See ticket T75319 for updates on this problem.

[1] https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/
[2] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_...
[3] https://developer.blender.org/T75319
Automatic dimming only works in the recently refreshed (mid 2019) UltraFines. It doesn't work in the original models sold from 2016-2019, despite advertising and product documentation claims that it does.
Wait...so after the 100.000th write, your monitor will be forever stuck on the brightness it was set to that time?

BTW, assuming I change brightness 20 times per day, that would still give me 5000 days ≈ 13,5 years of service. By that time I definitely hope to use a different monitor than today
I suppose it's a type of problem that solves itself: If companies are dumb enough to store brightness settings in EEPROM, they're only doing it because no one uses DDC/CI.

Use DDC/CI, and they'll stop. Even NAND is wrong if brightness is actually dynamically controlled, it should just be RAM.
Sorry about that! This confusion has come up before, and it's a really bad one when it hits. Can you suggest anything that would have made the situation clear to you in the first place?
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No, after 100.000th write your monitor is toast because the EEPROM died. Also note that most people change brightness in increments, with each step causing a write.
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Why would you need ml?

Sampling the background for the correct pitch would be enough
I don't think you understand how the bureaucracy is staffed. The bureaucrats who's jobs are protected are accountable directly or indirectly to people who are not. Basically if you are doing your job "too well" it will be bad on the metrics of someone directly or indirectly above you and your boss will prevent you from doing your job that well which is not something you want if you want a successful career as a bureaucrat. This is kids who live in a single party state get a crap education in history or science (which depends on the color of the state).
Yes, it's excellent.

Also Century of Self by Adam Curtis and many other documentaries. The reality of the situation spans so many disciplines (psychology/neurology, evolutionary theory, history, government, geopolitics, and so forth and so on) that getting a solid handle on what is actually true is impossible, but with the right effort and style of thinking it's not difficult to form a reasonable conclusion that the actual state of reality is quite different than the way it is advertised and perceived by the masses, which seems to me like a good epistemic position to work from.
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I am a software developer with 5 years of experience. I have worn multiple hats in my jobs, but I mainly work in python where I don't have to deal with CS fundamentals. Recently I started seriously looking into opportunities in FAANG. The biggest problem is, am not from CS background and it doesn't motivate me studing algorithms and data-structure just for job preparation. What I am looking for is some project ideas (any kind of, old/new, smaller/bigger, any stack), where I have to deal with these kind of problems. I am more like learn-by-doing kind. Any advice will be appriciated.

Additionally if there are any such kind of projects online (e.g. github) where you deal with many algos/DS, please mention.

Thanks !
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The trust problem is better solved by relevant legislation. The counterfeit problem is better solved by relevant legislation. Intentional incompatibility with generic replacement parts will eventually also be solved by, you guessed it, relevant legislation.

See also: vacuum cleaner consumables, independent car repair
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> to include more items and more perks, like shipping as fast as same day for orders of at least $35

Walmart shipping is already free with a $35 dollar order, it's just 2 day instead of 1 day.

I hope they would have lowered that minimum order amount if you paid for their service.
Um, why do people get to own land, whose creation ages ago the "owners" contributed nothing to?

All financing schemes, be they debt or equity, should only exist to promote the creation of useful stuff. Everything else is unproductive bullshit.

> What if you are old and have run out of money? At least you’ll still have your house.

I've had it with these poor widow(er) / poor retiree arguments. Housing can not be both affordable and a good investment.

Maybe we need a one-time cash transfer to compensate people currently balls-deep in the current system to get the fuck out of the way, but this absolutely is not an argument to continue to turn a blind eye to our continued abject failures at good land use and just allow more generations empathy-arising "middle Americans" to become the next status-quo-justifying boogiemen.

> actually, I’m not totally opposed to having all property go to auction upon death

Ah we agree on this one :)

> This would allow people to be able to never worry about losing their home during their lifetime while also not creating a dynasty of ownership.

The problem is that the population grows during people's lifetime, and so the inefficiencies magnify. Put simply, we need empty-nesters to always be downsizing to conserve land.
I don't see the point you're trying to make, sorry. My answer was about Police brutality, not privacy.
What do you mean? The fan design is pretty standard. Either way it won’t matter, as hot air should be extracted from the case, it’s not gonna meaningfully change the temp on anything it hits.
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> My suggestion is a large one time tax on property purchased for use as a primary residence

This is similar to the "stamp duty" system in Australia, and it's horrible (it actually competes with Prop 13 for the title of Worst Law in the World). Just like Prop 13, it chokes supply because nobody dares sell a house whose value has increased over time. And just like Prop 13, intelligent people have been trying to get rid of it for decades, but it's a legal zombie that won't die.
Look at the bottom line, not the top line.

PhD students are incredibly cheap and do a lot of the revenue-generating work; namely, classroom teaching and research. PhD students earn between $20K/yr and $30K/yr in stipend. For the university, that is damn close to the ALL-IN cost! The university pays no FICA taxes and does not contribute to retirement for these employees.

For this reason, in high-demand fields like Computer Science, 60+% of PhD students are foreign nationals. And the domestic students are often over-represented at top-tier universities. So there are lots of CS departments where the majority of the revenue-generating employees are foreign nationals making $20K/yr all-in.

A PhD student instructing or leading recitations for university courses makes less than 1/2 of what a first year high school teacher makes.

A PhD student doing research is bringing in typically $100K - $200K in grant money but only receiving about $30K of that. Also, again, the "2x multiplier" used to calculate the total cost of a normal employee doesn't apply here because the university does not pay FICA taxes, doesn't contribute to retirement, and often gets great tax breaks and gifts to cover things like real estate (=office space). For universities the "total cost of a PhD student" multiple is more like 1.2x salary.

Professors are managers. Deans and so on are executives. PhD students are the "bread-and-butter" employees of the university. They are the ones who do the bench work/coding and the vast majority of face-to-face teaching. Without international PhD students, universities' total cost of operation would skyrocket.
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Prop 13 was passed by California voters directly, so a little difficult to pin it on a specific administration or party. While there have been some amendments, the will to change it and make a compelling case to do so can be held against administrations and ruling parties.
Forests have pretty much been solved. Look at games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, forest looks amazing. The difficulty now is limited to finer details, like hair. Hair is still pretty much unsolved.
Yes. That unfortunately leaves the harder questions of what to do with flagged comments and faded comments. These signals are extremely important for calibrating users' perceptions of the community—especially new users.
I would assume it’s because the Mulan live action remake is also releasing that weekend. Black panther was extremely popular and they don’t wanna compete with themselves on the critical opening weekend.
My point is more that the exploratory work is done at one point in time, not that it hasn't been done at all. If it has been years it's likely components you are familiar with have either matured or died, and starting a new project is a great opportunity to catch back up with the current ecosystem.
I personally know a molecular biologist whose research is published in Nature (among other things) who believes in homeopathy

But how, I ask? I don't know, but it works for me, she says
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Actually, the Titan, Titan Z and Titan Black as well as the Titan V and Titan X. Titans XP, Xp and RTX were basically just overclocked 80Ti chips, sometimes slightly unlocked. They are the outliers, and widely regarded as a scam, locking away 60$ of memory behind 1500$, with a bit more CUs yet about as fast or slower in aggregate than aftermarket 80Ti models.

It's not the Titan, because it's not the biggest chip, and also, it's not called "Titan". It fits the motif of the 2080Ti almost to a T.