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Compute performance is fine. 20+ TFlops (or T-Integer ops) on 128MB L3 cache on 16GBs GDDR6. I don't think anyone can complain about the raw compute performance of these cards.

Infrastructure: yeah. Without ROCm support, its hard to recommend. You still get Windows DirectCompute, OpenCL, and Vulkan compute. But ROCm is much easier to use than those other frameworks.

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For compute: With 40 WGP x 4 SIMDs per WGP x 32 Threads per WGP x Occupany 4, you're probably aiming at 20,480 SIMD-threads if you're going to be using compute on this card.

Occupancy 20 is supported: 20-threads per VALU, kinda like hyperthreading although you split your registers between the threads. 20 is probably too much (too few VALUs per thread), but 1 is too few (you'll be waiting on VRAM latency). So 4 to 8 is an estimate for how much occupancy a typical program probably needs to hide memory latency.

Those 16GBs / 20kiloThreads == 780kB per thread. Sooooo... yeah. RAM goes quick... really quick... on compute applications. Compute programmers really want more VRAM.
I am not presenting a dichotomy. I am not saying you must either care about aesthetics and appeal or function and form.

I am saying a good technologist can look past aesthetics or appeal, which are superficial characteristics in my opinion, and judge a technology based on its technical merits and the problems it is capable of solving.
Correct, even leadership is paid according to the market. Companies know that of they pay too little, then leadership will go elsewhere. It's not any different to regular employees in terms of getting paid according to supply and demand.
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I'm not suggesting it's better or worse for an adult to be addicted, I'm suggesting that if social media is dangerously addictive we'd see addicts across the age spectrum, and I'm asking whether people feel like that is happening.
Eh.. I actually not that concerned. I would say the social networking is more of an issue but Roblox and Minecraft are probably less so. Minecraft is basically virtual lego. Roblox is basically puzzles outside of adopt me.. I would ban adopt me if I could.. Yes there can be issues of bullying and what not. YouTube may be the worse of the bunch b/c it is so close to TV itself and that's where you see celebritification. We know its a seismic force from unboxing videos all the way up. I've seen it in person. But there are some YouTube shows that are not just consumerism and have wholesome content.

I will add that remote school adds in a live video component and my kids Facetime with their friends while playing games. I find that encouraging since it's the opposite of social isolation.

Clearly these things can be addictive. We know from Asian internet cafes that they are.

As an anecdote... I was raised on TV basically after school for a couple hours, basically latch key. I was also raised on a computer. The computer basically became my primary focus. My current job is software engineering and I was way ahead of the game even before college. Today, I don't watch TV at all.

So I think there is a big distinction between active and passive screen time.

That being said, when I go camping or off to a remote cabin with no Internet, I find it nice to disconnect. You could argue that's a more natural state for us so I think it's important to take that time with your kids for a week or two where all there is is nature.
Integrated heat spreader, I believe.
Thank you!

Our obsession with packing children’s lives with empty calorie activities to “prepare the for the real world” is destructive - to their potential, their mental health, and our ability to level up as a species.
You're making normative claims as if they are "the way things are."

Maybe the above is how you think things ought to be (I disagree), but anti-trust jurisprudence does not agree with your pseudo-libertarian worldview.
I'm in the same boat as you, but think about this: these cushy developer jobs in the Western world are on borrowed time. FAANG companies are investing billions to teach people how to code and brand it as if it's some noble humanitarian effort when it's really just to further lower wages. When the time of FAANG companies actually offshoring key development teams comes (and it is coming), I have 0 faith the federal government will give a shit to protect US workers. So maybe a union is the best way to stop this.
Not exactly what your asking for, but I found that a good roller mouse helped immensely for reducing the strain i my arm due to the mouse.
They do the same exact thing.
0) When in doubt, use plain text
Sure, but I'm not saying "everybody should try streaming for a living." I'm saying it's not true that kids using iPhones is always a dead-end timesuck.
I said almost, not every and we both know they try their best to make it obtuse as possible to pay in a browser because your app isn't even allowed to allude to it.
There's a growing body of evidence that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45283401
Apple is the largest company in the world and sells the most successful product in human history.

Of course nobody ‘compares’.

But compared to almost any other iOS developer Epic is a giant.
NVidia toolchain and profilers are mature. But CUDA will experience lots of viable competition. DPC++ / SYCL could emerge:

https://github.com/Apress/data-parallel-CPP

https://github.com/codeplaysoftware
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> School is exhausting. Between rising unnaturally early (which leaves kids tired), rushing and bustling kids on their daily commute, most of the daylight hours blocked for school then homework when you get home

I will point out though that, if one is inclined to argue that school should prepare children for adult life, it sounds like this system is a pretty good mimic of the working life any given child is likely to have after they eventually leave school. Just replace homework with non-work obligations (or a second job).
Meta comment:

Huh, that is weird that the dupe detector didn't pick that up. I was going through some old bookmarks and submitted dark.fail and it hit the dupe detector as a duplicate submission from October 2019 from user rakefire.

A few other links to different sites I tried submitting also hit the dupe detector too. Normally I do a hn.algolia.com search on the headline keywords (sorted by date) for anything current before submitting a link but after the third or fourth 'dupe' I dug out the Standard Ebooks link, gritted my teeth and mentally dared the dupe detector to find someone else on HN that had come across the site before. Turns out many had (lol).

Your comment made me chuckle (and also scratch my head a little about the dupe-detector algorithm) so thanks for pointing it out (and have a +1 from me as thanks).
Nobody ever ended up going down a "Fax" rabbit-hole, or becoming depressed because they spend an hour before bed each night compulsively faxing.
Yeah, I have to be selective of reddit groups (whole Reddit search is impractical). It now covers a dozen groups around programming, software design, startups, marketing etc. I it is easy to add more if you are interested.
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And LSD: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK99377/
This is awesome. I can't wait until the number of programming literate people grows beyond the current ~ 10 million. Would be a nice world.
Same for GitHub[0], but i'm specifically talking about the machines they give you.

0: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/host...
There's a three episode show on PBS called 'Hacking your Mind' which I think is better than the social dilemma.
It will probably never go away completely. In my experience, you can get over it faster by just being upfront about what you don’t know, because chances are people will empathize and help.

If you feel totally and completely lost still, consider therapy if it’s an option. If you have some sort of stigma against therapy, you need to throw it away. Just talking through what bothers you with a professional could help.
You're allowed to be excited about things that later may turn out incorrect. This is big news. Good news. Celebrate!

If we're wrong we can be disappointed about it later
The forbidden fruit tastes best, right.

My theory is that like everything this requires a balance and gradual introduction. Start early, let kids make mistakes, punish them for said mistakes, let them learn lessons.

Enforcing super strict rules has never helped anyone I think. 1h a day is quite strict in my opinion especially if consumed in multiple sessions. If I had just started doing something and it took me 15min to get fully absorbed and in 15min I had to call it quits I'd be pretty angry myself to be honest.

I can make an analogy with access to sweets here. Our boy aged 6 now has had unrestricted access to a cupboard full of variety of sweets since he was 3. And believe me he loves sweets! Technically he can go and take as many sweets as many times as he wants to and no one would probably understand. But we've said it is 2 sweets a day, reasonable quantities. This was strictly enforced early on and now we can 100% trust him to pick whatever he wants when he wants. Because he knows when is a good time and what is a good amount. He'll even come home from school some days and say he'll only eat one sweet today as they've had chocolate cake for pudding at school.

So cut your kids some slack and let them learn themselves rather than locking everything behind locks - physical or digital.
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Agree. The argument seems to be:

1. individuals are blasted with a firehose of data

2. individual-focused systems to manage this data--like GTD--are ineffective because the left hand (one person working autonomously) doesn't know what the right hand (another person) is doing, so they end up just creating more data

3. therefore, we need some sort of collective--as opposed to an individual--system so we can get a better picture of the whole and distribute work more effectively, thereby increasing productivity.

Maybe a good idea. But the "call to action" there is clearly addressed to managers rather than actually producers. They're the ones who'd control any collective system. And in my experience those always decay and get in the way...though of course that could just be me resenting limitations on personal autonomy.

I'll have to think this over more. One thing I dislike about the article is several places they say things like "Following the lead of software developers, we might use virtual task boards..." where I think I'd be more appropriate to substitute "engineering managers" for "software developers".
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Hey, folks. One of the creators of the Lambda Fellows program here.

We were trying to crack several problems with Fellows:

- The current hiring process in our industry is broken. Interviews represent a point-in-time measurement of someone's talent when you should be "hiring for slope", it introduces bias, and it's time-consuming and costly. It also unnecessarily punishes Junior engineers.

- The best learning experience for a Lambda engineer is real work. We've done our best to design an educational program that simulates real work, but it's still just a simulation. "If you want to learn how to do a thing, the best way is to do that thing."

- 1-to-1 mentorship from a more experienced developer is a powerful learning too, but it's rare. It best occurs within the context of a shared work product where comments are not abstract and squishy but focused and tactical.

- Despite placing over 1,000 Lambda engineers at top companies around the industry, there remains skepticism about their ability to be productive and ship software.

We think Lambda Fellows is the best of both worlds: it's an unparalleled learning experience for Lambda grads (real work + mentorship) while providing companies with an accelerated onramp to experience junior talent on their team while allowing them to give back to develop the next generation of software engineers.

I'll hang out here for the next hour or so. Feel free to ask any questions you might have.
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Textbooks in general (like academic textbooks, not orielly style books). Work through a textbook or three each year, and once you’re a decade into your career it’s like you have another degree under your belt. Find something you want to dive deep on and instead of reading a dozen blogs, buy the textbook and do some of the exercises as you go. It keeps you spending time in foundational stuff rather than specific frameworks, and it pays incredible dividends. It’s slow as hell, and only really pays off on many year timescales, but don’t discount it for that.
I read OP completely and I must agree with you.
This is just a listicle lacking any expert insight.

The description of the "failures" and especially the conclusions barely scrape the surface of what went wrong with these projects.

Some more examples of shallow weasel-worded "insights":

> "Bad engineering: It's tough to spot a particular issue while detecting the reasons for failure in the AI system. However, faulty engineering leads to wrong neural network settings, even when the data is accurate. But the above examples discussed are about highly responsible companies; they can afford the best engineers."

I am sure the engineers have published extensively on what particular their implementation was weak. But OP did not bother doing the research.

> "Complex Area of its Application:
It might be a reason that the system under consideration is highly complex and need data that is difficult to obtain. Sometimes, the results obtained should be highly accurate to develop a precise algorithm. For instance, the usage of AI techniques for the medical industry, law, and other complex industries will be complicated. It requires active human minds, efficient workforce, and enough information to develop an accurate system."

Why did these ML-giants think they could tackle it in the first place? What do the engineers say on the assumed feasibility and how where they specifically wrong in their assumptions?
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I'm not a conservative and grew up listening to the music others where considering bad and were on the other side of the fence, they were an outdated generation in my eyes then.

Now as I got older I realize a lot of it was just crap stuffed into our faces keeping us from discovering the real good artists out there. Those folks did have a point here and there. A lot of that music was pumped by the music industry purely to make money and similarly this addictive software is doing the same thing with amplified effects and more shamelessness.
Are you in javascript web development? Or some other environment where you use a lot of dependencies, each of which introduces its own terminology?
Their pet girl uses her phone to have some contact with real people.
One reason alcohol is so prevalent is that it's a natural product of fermentation of items that we consume. There are videos of dozens of different species of animals drunk on alcohol in rotten food out in the environment. I wouldn't be surprised that the reason we can function relatively well with alcohol use is that we evolved to tolerate it.
I very much doubt her kid is "in school" until 6:30. More likely she is in a after-school program, and most after-school programs are part homework help, part play. My kid misses her after-school program terribly as it was more of an extended playdate with her best friends.

It is hard when they come home and their evenings are packed, but I wouldn't make it out as all bad or all exhausting.
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Agreed.

https://contrastrebellion.com
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No, its not really the same - but the parent is "planning to have a dabble with NLP and machine learning" so my guess is HuggingFace/SpaCy/PyTorch/Tensorflow/FastAI are more the consideration than touching CUDA directly.
Then shouldn’t we stop giving authoritative advice on subjective things? It’s as arbitrary as my own taste.

As someone mentioned in this thread, look up US WDS advice on color. It’s a lot more objective.
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>But the moral argument about equal work should be equally compensated is nigh unchallengable.

I don't the think premise is at all clear, never mind 'unchallengeable', especially if you take 'be equally compensated' to mean 'have the same nominal cash pay'.

Why is 'nominal cash' equivalence superior to 'purchasing power parity' from a moral perspective, for example? Is it moral for some workers to receive rewards that are richer than others (in terms of what they will buy) purely on the basis of local economics?

Why is it moral for workers in locations with generous government programs to receive the same nominal cash pay as those who might have to pay out of pocket for some of those same services in different locations?

"All other things being equal, equal pay for equal work" sounds reasonable, but when you're not holding all other things equal, the moral position is more tenuous.
When (and when not) to store JSON in Postgres
Take a look at https://js.cytoscape.org/. Cytoscape is much more powerful though, so this depends on the complexity of your use case.
In addition to what the sibling comment said, OpenCL runs on the ROCm stack for RDNA1/2. That means all the low-level plumbing, drivers and software should be in place.
What the poster means is that going from 0.79% to 0.04% means that 0.75% were prevented from getting it due to the vaccine. You go from 79 per 10000 to 4 per 10000, meaning you saved 75 per 10000.

But preventing 0.75% of the population from getting it out of the 0.79% who got it implies 94.9% (0.0075/0.0079) of those who _would_ have gotten it were prevented from getting it. That's the relative ratio.

I agree with the poster that the relative number seems more interesting. There are lots of things going on right now (masks, social distancing, etc.) to prevent people from getting COVID. The fact that only 0.79% of the placebo group got it implies a lot about _other_ mitigation factors, and puts a limiting force on how many can be saved by the vaccine (a number less than or equal to 0.79%). Like OP, I wonder if there's any case where the -0.75% number is interesting in and of itself. In fact, if we weren't social distancing, presumably the prevalence of COVID would be much higher and thus the absolute ratio of people prevented from getting COVID would be higher too.

The 95% effectiveness number should (theoretically) be the same no matter what other measures you're taking. It would reduce 0.79% of population from getting it to 0.04% getting it, and would reduce 10% of the population from getting it to 0.5% of the population getting it. I'm totally ignoring that lots of people getting the vaccine will lead to less people getting sick and less people spreading it (herd immunity), but you get the point.
Have a link? In my experience, the precision in DirectCompute is the same as on CPUs, specifically it's traditional 32-bit IEEE floats. Same for FP64.
>>> If you want to dabble; use the cloud. Colab is free

Colab notebooks are proving to be one of the most incredible resources out there right now. I liken it to the "free tier" cloud vm / app engine / heroku of a decade ago ;)
August 2019 is over a year, which likely is the threshold for the detector.
I think it's especially hard to swallow the COL adjustments that employers want to use if they have to justify their prices to clients in terms of the value provided. E.g. if a SaaS company is trying to negotiate a contract with a prospective client, it does so on the basis of the benefits or ROI that the client would get ("you spend X with us, but we'll help you generate Y"). If a competitor offers a comparable service, the conversation focuses on the difference in product offerings, not whether their HQ is in a lower cost city or a higher tax state or whatever.

For the employees who are making these value-based arguments on behalf of their employer to then be told that they should be payed less based on where they live seems hypocritical at best.
It is known as the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in europe as well; Pfizer did not just handle logistics but the trials as well, which are a huge part of the effort.
You don't get over it. Eventually you just stop giving a shit. This usually happens when you realize that most people are doing their jobs rather terribly and that those that are actually having a decent go at it are typically winging it quite a bit (just like you).

There are of course experts, but usually their expertise is constrained to fairly narrow niches.
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I'm talking about multinational corporations, not individuals or nations.
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> (which arguably started before Steam was omnipresent)

This just isn't true, Steam had almost no competition in 2008. Microsoft didn't even have an app store till 2012, Epic certainly didn't, EA Origin is 2011.
>Imagine if instead of master/slave the terms were master and "n-word".

This is absurd. Hypotheticals are important thinking tools but please don't set the parameters of a discussion to be absurd. No quality content/insight can emerge.

n-word is inherently racist unlike master which has acceptable uses.
I think for the most part upgrading RAM (capacity-wise) has been pretty stable (for my uses at least - programming and games). I've been on 16gb since...well as long as I can remember.

Every time I upgrade I'm jumping from DDR2 to 3 to 4 and probably soon 5. So its not like I keep the sticks anyway. Even when I stay on DDR4 I have to upgrade because the speed of the RAM is too slow to feed the processor. Its unfortunately rare for me to not have to buy RAM with a new CPU.