skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of comments are referring to hardware freedom to run what you want but I don't see anywhere in the article saying that you can't run whatever you want to on this hardware. It's just going to pretend to be slower hardware, not cut off capabilities. It seems entirely within Nvidia's moral rights to release a product that is not the best possible of all conceivable products; that's literally the point of the budget gpus anyway!

The behavior on display in this thread is highly reminiscent of the behavior of people demanding that open source authors do free work for them.
My point is the opposite, that from a social perspective, "just" alcohol is a serious no-no during work, especially if working with machinery etc.

Although realistically, alcohol is probably one of the worst from a work safety perspective.
ERCOT's projections would have covered grid needs but for the failure of natural gas and coal plants. So let's talk about that.

Not solar, not wind. Comparing current production to idealized mid-summer production is nonsense. ERCOT's own projections never involve wind maxing out in wintertime, because that's not how anything works. If we were to become 100% reliant on wind for some strange reason, we would obviously need to build much, much, much more wind power for the winters. Which is why we have so many other sources of power. Solar and wind were never expected to keep my house warm, coal and natural gas were. And coal and natural gas fell over and died when it was needed most.
I know, but this sounds like a misunderstanding. The Handshake equivalent of domains in the traditional DNS is TLDs, and that's what you can own and control (for example, I have several TLDs like .stavros). I own the keys for those and they're in my own wallet, and Elbakyan can own them too.

She thought that having her own TLD was a hassle, so they gave her a second-level domain the TLD of which they managed themselves, but she didn't like that because they managed it.

This could have been very easily solved if she was fine with them giving her www.sci-hub, but it sounds like she thought that owning a TLD would somehow be more hassle than owning a second-level domain. It doesn't sound very reasonable to me, sounds like a misunderstanding.
it's cool that gleam emits typespecs. After tooling around implementing type analysis in Elixir, I do have a personal take that dialyzer typespecs are broken, maybe we should convene a group in the erlef to coordinate towards improving the typesystem.
Tarq0n: Also a great point. The question then is whether the attention mechanism is being triggered on the proper word or character sequences. Lawyers employ a form of attention mechanism when “issue spotting.” For example, in a non-compete I might scan for the duration (how many years until the client can join a similar venture?) and breadth (what is the definition of a similar venture?). For an attention mechanism to work well for legal summaries, it seems to me that it must trigger on many relevant context triggers at different levels.

As an extreme example, if I put 50 contracts involving multiple different parties into one big document and the attention mechanism was triggered on the first document title, would the subsequent document titles sufficiently demarcate a new contract to reset the context? Or would the attention stay “on” the first high accuracy context match and mix up the terms and parties? In context of the paper, GPT-3 missed a ton of issues, indicating to me that the attention mechanism is not being properly triggered. Again I may be wrong that tokenizing and predicting based off of clauses, paragraphs and sections would help improve the output, but that was one way I thought would capture the different levels of context.
I know nothing about utility-scale electricity distribution ... can someone explain how "demand > supply" leads to things (apparently literally) blowing up?
Is it who we think of as the 'participant' responding, or is it just a subconscious reflex, like the way our knee responds to a reflex test? And, does that matter?
This problem seems like it could have been fixed by a better UI though, specifically one which included a confirmation step that showed the implications of the decision i.e. the amounts that would be transferred and who they would be transferred to.

If there was a screen that said "the transaction you have selected will result in a total of $900 million being sent to the following parties, broken down as follows: ...; Please confirm you wish to proceed" - then the outcome would have been very different.
Ask HN: Why are software developers not more like lawyers?
I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and there is probably a really obvious answer..

But considering lawyers and developers are both knowledge workers, why do you think the majority of lawyers work at private practises (law firms), yet the majority of software developers work at corporates, enterprise, FAANGS, startups etc?

I spent 8 years running a small software agency, and when now I look back I realise that was more like a law firm. Small, specialised, experts.

Why don't developers more commonly 'band together' to form a software development firms?
On that particular keyboard, the comma is accessible with one tap, while the apostrophe requires several.
> making idle time more productive for themselves

this may be me projecting my own sensibilities (and sorry if i am misinterpreting) but.... why cant people just hang out, take some time off and relax with friends?

why does everything have to be about "productivity" ?
There’s also the iCloud key-value store they can use.
It's certainly not cheap in carbon, which is the main problem in farming.

Vertical farming optimizes water and transport.

I admit that I'm not entirely convinced about vertical farming, but I'm confident it has a future. I'm still curious about using leds and yield.
I used to have this problem, I routinely keep well over 100 tabs open. Then I disabled default loading of javascript and now I never hear my fans.
In fairness to the parent comment: those weren’t the first try.
GPU supply is a huge problem, but this is a massively problematic solution. It likely won't even work; if it can be done w/ firmware, it will be reversed by firmware patches. I've been all through GPU firmware flashes in a quest to get both NVIDIA and AMD cards passed through to VMs w/ QEMU on Unraid, and I feel like this could be easily circumvented based on that experience.
Well I see you've thought deeply about this.

https://giphy.com/gifs/tipsyelves-math-26gR0YFZxWbnUPtMA
Blizzard suffers content leak prior to Blizzcon
Spoiler Alert~ World of Warcraft®: Burning Crusade Classic™! details have been leaked!
More dewtails here: https://youtu.be/17O_0b9OU9U

'Journey through the Dark Portal once again in World of Warcraft®: Burning Crusade Classic™! Originally released in January 2007, The Burning Crusade summoned the heroes of Azeroth to the shattered and fel-scarred realm of Outland to stop an invasion of the demonic Burning Legion. In 2021, Blizzard Entertainment’s recreation of the first World of Warcraft expansion will give players from around the world a chance to return to Outland as it once was to relive an era of timeless adventure—or experience what awaits beyond the Dark Portal for the first time.
odd, I'm in Aus too and I watched the entire thing live with no issues (assuming you're in QLD on EST)
Scale is not a solved problem at all.

And yes, the came could be said for other, less sexy companies.
Currently public offices are allocated by vote to people who have absolutely no idea what the job entails, yet are seeking power. So picking people randomly by lot does seem superior to me vs. picking people who want power.

Maybe we could make it even better by, instead of picking people at random, picking them by pools of capability. So for instance the person in charge of the water supply could be chosen by sortition of plumbers.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the engineers who worked on EDL move on to other projects in the coming weeks
Here's the answer from NASA: https://youtu.be/gm0b_ijaYMQ?t=6240
Yes, that's why I'm saying the people need to pay attention to the track record of the organization and their past credibility.
Multi-metal 4D printing with a desktop electrochemical 3D printer
> Product segmentation for software is also a different issue, because all the scarcity is artificial to begin with, with no natural underlying supply curves because there's no marginal cost to making another copy.

What you're saying is that due to some irrelevant production related factor, it's totally fine for a software company to price their product based on what the market is willing to pay, but as soon as a piece of hardware is involved, that principle doesn't apply anymore.

What about selling software that comes with a hardware copyright protection dongle? Under which category does that fall? The marginal cost of producing that dongle is not zero after all.
"Bus driver seconds from driving over cliff, if only they hadn't turned to follow the road!"

... Nothing in this article seems specific to ERCOT's grid vs any random ISO seeing a demand/supply mismatch.
> explicitly racist fringe ideologues

according to you, he is a racist. so all the people swarming the internet to dox him and misinterpret leaked personal correspondence are demonstrating "Repeated and sustained interest in an allegedly explicitly racist fringe ideologue."

> Weary dismissals of "ugh, gender"?

oh no!

> Complaints about perceived wretchedness of contemporary art?

What a Philistine.

> Openness to ideas about some kind of across-the-board cultural decay or loss of vigor?

What moron is open to ideas in this day and age?

> Paranoia about being persecuted for the intellectual courage to examine dangerous, yet important ideas?

Apparently its not paranoia.

> I mean, this is aggrieved doomsday conservatism in its full, florid form.

You've convinced me, he's a terrible person and you're correct to misrepresent his words because he's not entitled to being represented accurately.

> All that's missing is some outbursts about the ivory tower being packed with radical liberals.

Well just pretend its there, that didn't stop you from misrepresenting anything else he posted.
I'm sure they were being sarcastic.
The sunk cost fallacy is about continuing to incur additional sunk costs. The parent is arguing that we're going to have to pay $X/year to manage the nuclear waste we've already incurred and that the cost is fixed--adding more nuclear waste isn't going to increase the cost. Whether those claims are true may be up for debate, but it's certainly not a sunk cost fallacy.
Yes, but the topic is bad UI in banking
>I’m sure I’ll be called crazy for this, but the true solution to oppressive societal forces is personal space travel and colonization. When it becomes possible for a small group of people to fund their own “opt out” and escape into outer space, individuals will regain some bargaining power.

Besides the infissibility for billions to do so in the next 2-3-5 centuries at least, it will probably also be the total opposite if/when it happens.

Those space colonies won't be like roaming around in some empty earth. It will be like living in some very close knit community on Earth, when everybody is monitored and depends on everybody else don't doing something stupid/suicidal to put the colony in danger...

>I see this as an inevitable outcome of technological development

Why would it be inevitable?

There are big show stopping issues which are only handwaved away atm with "but, progress" (as if technological development is boundless and creativity can bypass any hard constraint).

Some issues as so hard physics problems, that (BS like "Alcubierre drive" aside) would mean the best we could ever do would be "generation ships".
Well, an obvious answer is that you contribute to a terrible work environment. If this is anything more than an isolated one-off - say, if it's part of a pattern of behaviour - then woe betide you.
You know, in some ways its like any scientific endeavor. Hypothesis, funding, data collection can take years of effort. Then you look at your data and test hypotheses, and you have no control of the outcome. It can be terrifying, to be honest, which is why I support publishing of negative results. Of course crashing on Mars would be a terrible null result ;)
I read TFA, and didn't see any such mention. I've gone back to it with the search tool, and still don't see any such thing. Would you mind pointing to where these numerous points are please?
or if those 10000 workers were in a union we could maintain productivity while putting workers on a more even playing field in negotiations
The limitations of Dialyzer and typespecs were a big motivator for creating Gleam. They were not reliable or fast enough for my taste.

There is some work being done towards better types for Erlang, as well as sharing types between languages on the BEAM. I'm excited to see what comes in future.
> Refunds? Replacements? Anything? Bueller?
Starlink would most certainly be of little direct use here.

What I could imagine is having Starlink satellites around Mars that allow to route data from rovers anywhere on the planet to a dedicated high-performance communications platform that handles communication with Earth.
> Green light has too many peaks and valleys and can overload the photosynthesis systems so they reflect a lot of it.

This doesn’t make any sense to me. Why would peaks and valleys overload something? Why would green light have more peaks and valleys?

I was a bit sloppy with the way I phrased that—what I really meant was “the reason why plants use specific quanta of light is the same reason why photovoltaics absorb specific quanta of light” but I didn’t put much thought into how worded it.

Plants absorb light near two different spectral peaks. This is not entirely dissimilar to the idea of a multijunction photovoltaic cell. The color of light between the two peaks is green.
Big companies are risk adverse. At the same time, the motivation for the people is missing, in a startup you have the chance to become a billionaire or at least a multi-millionaire, in a big company you can get them a billion and be the employee of the month with a $100 gift card. I saw it myself some years ago when I got my company a ~ 5 million/year saving project all by myself with a one-time cost of ~ 20k, I got a $250 reward on top of the regular salary. That was a lesson to not care too much. 2 years ago I got them over half a million per year in a 3 days of work mini-project, I got nothing, not even a formal thank you note. That project was not regular work, it was none of my business and I came with the idea and the execution alone, so you cannot say I was paid for such work. Translate this into a risk adverse big company play-pretending to do startup stuff.
Cardano is obviously a shitcoin. This should be immediately obvious to anyone in tech
Twitch must have saved your login details/Tokens in Keychain. Unfortunately, unless the App deleted these entries from the Keychain, iOS does not delete this information upon app uninstall automatically. That is a way for Apps to check if User is installing app for the first time or not.

Coming to Alexa, it might be totally different approach, Ability to find the devices on your network and may be with a combination of bluetooth Beacons.

Fortunately, you need to install full app to read this information. Unlike a Facebook, Twitter or Google Analytics library(Framework) can track you across other apps with the same Library or Framework.

For Second One, with iOS14 Apple prompts a Privacy Alert for Connecting to Other devices on network, You can simply turn it off.

Detecting Alexa App on the device used to be possible before, but it does not go unnoticed by Apple these days without some co-ordination between Amazon and Spotify.
I've heard there is a good tech for backup generation in cases like that -- gas turbines. Not the cheapest one, but not too expensive either -- it could stay offline for months, and spin up in just a couple of minutes. Wondering what's the state of that in Texas.
> This just seems like a feeble gesture at appeasing gamers.

Color me cynical, but this seems like a strong gesture at increasing margins on GPU computing by upselling using cryptocurrency and gamers as PR pawns/scapegoats

if Nvidia is selling more cards than they can produce/distribute at desired target prices they should produce more cards and improve their distribution networks..
Linux Foundation offers free Node.js class
One thing to add to this list, which gets talked less about is : Work Culture and Work Diversity. I work in a major tech firm that has offices in Atlanta. To mildly put it, it isn't friendly. Bay Area, Seattle, and to a certain extent NY and Austin have a certain set of values set in the workplace that simply don't exist everywhere. Your race, gender, nationality, and plenty of other things can invite an unwelcoming vibe towards you. Work life balance are less respected. And the fact that at the end of the day we are just human beings working with other human beings seems to be lost to many.
> (2) Big Mining operations actually write their own drivers

Strong claims require strong evidence.
Their track record includes their responses to issues like these. If they ignore it, that's worse than trying to rectify it or address or mitigate its severity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260, has a better article anyways
> The incremental cost of labor is not going to slow the arrival of a robotic Aldi.

No but it could speed it up. I'm certain plenty of big enough retail operation has a spreadsheet somewhere tracking the ROI on potential automation endeavors.

> Fortunately, I have other grocery stores in the area and can spend my money at the one with the best quality AND service.

Agreed, but are you in the majority with that? There's people who don't care about the long term impacts of, say, buying from an online retailer versus a local bike shop, but there's also a decent portion who's incomes mean it's either take the choice that's a little destructive to society, or not have any even-close-to-nice things for yourself.
Atlanta native & (again) resident. Spent years working in Austin in the years around the .com boom.

Couple of thoughts:

- the tech startup scene is hurting for risk capital. Seed & Series A investors (primarily) come from capital generated at prior exits (e.g. Google millionaires seed the next round of startups, etc.). Atlanta has had some big exits, but not the kind that mint 100s of young millionaires. By contrast, Seattle has had two mega tech exits. Austin had Dell and a few .com hits as accelerants (and their money has had decades to spawn more companies). There are some exciting Atlanta startups that may exit to create the seeds for the next generation of companies.

(Honestly, the aspiring early-stage VCs could do a lot worse than backing companies in the Atlanta area now. Less competition to get in on deals, equity likely cheaper, and the pandemic means that later-stage investors are considering doing deals outside of northern California.)

> Most software dev job postings (as of May 2018) have SPECIFIC tech stack requirements.

Likely an artifact of the diversified economy here. The non-tech Fortune 500s HQ'd in the area hire a lot of tech people. That's going to skew how recruiters operate. For the most part, this is not a factor in the tech metros. Also, I would push back on the premise in general. I have not seen very many job postings of the form "backend dev needed, any stack and database experience are okay." That would seem to be the outlier.

> The salaries offered were still very low compared to comparable COL locations like Austin

Austin is notably more expensive than Atlanta.

> No major FAANG presence to put upward pressure on local developer wages

Obviously TFA is about adding new tech presence to the area. But Microsoft building its East Coast HQ in Atlanta is also a big deal. Anecdotally, I have also seen compensation inflation among F500 companies in the area.

Things are changing.
The Course of Raku
Poor phrasing, I suppose - I was using the generic "they" (changed from generic "you", actually) - I wasn't making any claims about whether the current announcement was a "Security made in <foo>" claim, just that all such such claims are (at best) PR stunts.
But how much of that is not because of the actual drug itself, but rather because the drug is illegal?
it's not really about winning arguments, so much as it is about making it so that reasoned discussion is difficult/impossible. And introspection is probably the only way for them to realize this. Unfortunately intellectual curiosity doesn't seem to be a common characteristic of this crowd.
>And yes you can determine from the start what you'll be studying in the US in many schools

Sure. But the question is "can you do the inverse in the UK?". That would be the difference then -- not having the ability to "play around" before settling.
> I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.

It's not incongruous to belive both: 1. Google is doing important and valuable work, 2. Google is doing other things that are bad and they should stop.

The whole idea that you can simply label some entity (human, company, anything) as "purely good" or "purely evil" is wrong and dangerous. You must qualify the scope of good and bad, and discriminate between which behaviors fall into each category. This is the major failure in the idea of cancel culture.
It does seem like a PR ploy to emphasize the fact that the operators did the right thing, and divert attention from the massive failures at the management level.
NASA doesn't really build rockets in-house, all of their reusable rockets were built by contractors under NASA's supervision. Sometimes NASA collaborated with other organizations (e.g. DARPA/military funding paid for a lot of the DC-X reusable rocket)
What’s the point of doing that? That’s $2000 a year at full time. No American can even come close to living on that and frankly I would rather be unemployed
I think having pluggable language features would be nice; on the one hand, you’d keep the “1 obvious way only” people happy- just don’t use it, or come to some agreement with your team - and on the other hand you’d be able to scratch itches for people whose main value for Python is plugging into its ecosystem rather than the language itself. Heck, why limit it to 4 dialects, you could have a whole Babel scenario where you could pip dialect install some nice language feature. I think people would mainly be using this type of feature to reduce mental burdens, for a small buy-in
Also they can use this to change the price they offer you
I've created a WebKit bug report for this so they can fix it.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222130
The crazy thing to me is the ads aren't even the biggest problem anymore: it's clunky SPAs that load 1MB of js to save 10kb of HTML on navigation.