skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think converting floats to and from strings was a solved problem by now...

I'm surprised noone ever looked at that code --- even when writing it --- and thought "how long can a %f get?" I've been writing C for a long time and that's just something which comes naturally, being ingrained into memory since the beginning. If I see a fixed-size buffer I will always question whether it's big enough (and also if it's perhaps even too big.)

The "psychology" around buffer overflows has always seemed strange to me; a real-world analogy is someone who has no idea how big his car is, finds a parking spot that "looks big enough", and just rams it in without a second thought, sometimes crashing into the surroundings. Not many people would do that in the real world. Yet countless programmers seemingly can't get something simple like this right?

Edit: downvoters, care to state your case?
Did you read the article? He explicitly stated that the NERC standards, if implemented, wouldn't have prevented the issues.

Corporations, corporations, corporations...... it really gets old hearing people blather on like this. Large, bureaucratic organizations, whether private monopolies, private companies, corporations, and yes, governments all have similar issues.

He cites in the article that these events all had precedents, but attempts to change the NERC rules were ignored/halted in the early 2010s.

Turns out that when you are a biased person who just reads the first few sentences and rejects the article due to the ensuing cognitive dissonance, you miss things.
There was this concept of longevity escape velocity where the life expectancy continually increases by one year every year.

Could there be the inverse phenomenon? A crash where life expectancy loses a year every year? What would that look like on the age pyramid?
How does this new card compare in price? If it's more expensive then it's useless and they'll continue buying the graphics cards
IIRC gps suffers about 1hz of blueshift due to descending into earths gravity. I think the velocity (Doppler) shift of the spacecraft is a way bigger factor than the gravitational shifting.
Pedantic quibble, MPTP is not an NBOMe: MPTP is opioid-adjacent. Though, your point stands: they are both certainly quite dangerous substances that are among the reasons that testing drugs is an important harm reduction measure.
Since we've gone meta anyways... Why do so few people value simply linking to and quoting directly from primary sources? From random internet comment #37846399, to sms chats, to user stories on a scrum board, and even news articles these days, nobody cares to drop a link to or actually quote the thing they're referring to. Docs, articles, code, journals...

Yes, it's work to back up your claims with direct links to a source. But maybe that's a reasonable minimum bar to hurdle to stand behind ones statements.
Edge Insider Channel versions offer sleeping tabs functionality. I set mine to go to sleep after 5 minutes, works great.

>Using sleeping tabs on Microsoft Edge typically reduces memory usage by 32% on average. It also increases your battery life as a sleeping tab uses 37% less CPU on average than a non-sleeping tab. Although individual device performance varies depending on configuration and usage, we’ve heard from users that this decrease in resource and battery usage has improved their browsing experience.

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/12/09/sleeping-tabs...
No. It's great. I'm in a tiny company, we're all pretty senior and can solve our own problems.

I have been before. It's obviously awful.
Services align motivations of the developer and the customer most closely.

Other business models would either work by addiction mechanics and whale chasing or by marketing blitz with a big sticker price to entice you to buy but not hold your interest.

Subscription games, to make money, require that you continue to want to pay monthly to continue to play. A developer that wants to hold my interest is one I'd like to invest my time in.

I'm disappointed that subscriptions have fallen out of favor for games. They're replaced by more predatory business models.

There are many games that would have been a much better purchase on a 15 dollars a month or even 5 dollars a week model. Most games don't last me more than an couple hours before I realize I have no interest in playing.
Yes, first one’s free.
It is important not to lump all drugs together. Personally, I think heroin and amphetamines are extremely dangerous and would hope people stop taking them. Addicting children to amphetamines as part of treating ADHD is very worrying to me.

Drugs like ibogaine in particular, and LSD and psilocybin to a lesser degree, on the other hand, have shown great efficacy in helping people overcome addictions. So by greater access to psychedelic therapy we could massively reduce the impact of the drugs that are causing harm.

Furthermore, it is very difficult to overdose on most psyechedelics as most people don't want to trip again right away after an experience, and also that the amount you need for an experience is often orders of magnitude lower than the dangerous amount (for instance you can have a significant trip on 100 micrograms of LSD, an overwhelming experience on 300 micrograms, but it would take many grams to be fatal).
MISO, the grid that covers parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and more also had to do this: https://www.entergynewsroom.com/news/entergy-forced-initiate...
How about the world could benefit from people having multiple employers, with the right structure.

How about, I would prefer to lose half my income in a layoff than 100% or nothing.

How about, I would love to be able to take a new job and see what it is like without putting all of my eggs in this unknown basket?

The idea that full-time employment by a single employer benefits the employees is silly, it clearly gives more leverage to the employer. This is the reason health insurance being tied to employment continues.

In my opinion.
There are like 500 other ways you could have said what you just said as well. Doesn’t mean the way you said it is invalid.
There are actual current contracts that agree to sell solar at under 2c/kWh. Construction of multiple reactors on the same location is very common, constructing a new reactor next to a reactor being decommissioned isn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_River_Nuclear_Plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippingport_Atomic_Power_Stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...

Etc

I mean in theory sure it seems like it should happen, but in practice not so much.
True.

The value creation I had in mind was with respect to the people who were previously very badly underserved by the traditional taxi/black-car industry, and are now served by Uber.
Peercoin introduced proof-of-stake in 2012, and Nano/XRB used it at its inception in 2015. So, yes, cryptocoins have had PoS in production for quite a while.
Please tell your relatives to stay at home. In Europe we don't need more immigrants from tribal societies. Thank you.
That was handled poorly to say the least.
Okay, so there are a few separate issues to tackle here.

First off, your numbers are misleading. Even if we took the literal numbers directly from your citation, it would suggest that less than 3.6x the number of deaths were attributable to overdoses versus COVID. This is not "nearly 6". These numbers also cover different periods, and a comparison between them offers very little information of use.

Second – this bill is specifically with regard to psychedelics. So far as I can see, there are no drug deaths attributable to psychedelic drugs in San Francisco this year. The majority of deaths involve fentanyl overdose, which is a much more specific and worrying problem.

Third – it's obvious that prohibition can't solve the problem of drug overdoses, simply because prohibition currently exists and yet overdose deaths continue to increase.

Solving a complex problem like widespread fentanyl overdoses requires effort and joined-up thinking. You will not solve it with shallow observations like "there are already too many drugs". You might have a chance of solving it through safe drug consumption facilities with support for users, systems for ensuring the safety of drugs, and efforts to keep them out of the criminal justice system.
Plan9 sort of does the latter (crypto in its own process and so on)
It's purpose certainly is to demonstrate net positive energy production.

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

Thereby the machine aims to demonstrate, for the first time in a fusion reactor, the principle of producing more thermal power than is used to heat the plasma. The total electricity consumed by the reactor and facilities will range from 110 MW up to 620 MW peak for 30-second periods during plasma operation.[6] Being a research reactor,[3] thermal-to-electric conversion is not intended, and ITER will not produce sufficient power for net electrical production. Instead, the emitted heat will be vented.
At this point, X.509 certificate information fields mostly seem to be an anachronism. When was the last time anyone looked at the OU of your certificate?
Nividia can't just suddenly decide to keep cards for themselves for mining, they have pre arranged agreements to fulfil with their partners.

Pivoting and creating a mining division also doesn't make sense - mining companies take on a lot more risk from volatile market prices and need to have a lot more cash on hand to sustain the long periods of unprofitability.
Assuming binning is simply making use of chips that fail display output tests but are otherwise fine, then I see no issue here. These are chips not being used by gamers anyway.

I am curious though whether they could be used as "second cards" for systems so that I can speed up Blender render times...
I spend long periods of time without ingesting sources of information without getting bored and literally dying. Conversely, if I was constantly bombarded with useful information, I would still go crazy, and that could very well lead to literal death. I think staying alive is one piece of meaningful information out of a very large set of meaningful information, most of which has nothing to do with staying alive.

In other words, meaningfulness is orthogonal to staying alive.
zsh4humans is like ohmyzsh but much better IMO because when you first install zsh4humans, it walks you through a setup wizard that walks you through choosing your fonts, prompt style, completion style, etc. and automatically installs the appropriate zsh plugins and things like powerline fonts according to your choices.
Hard to say because no-one had an opportunity to benchmark RTX 3060. Theoretically I'd be mostly worried about everything related to huge amounts hashing (eg. bruteforcing password hashes).
FTA:

Perry, who also served as the Secretary of Energy in the Trump administration, made the comment in an interview with Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

Looks like Perry is (R) since 1989 and (D) before that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry .
Whether that subjective perception is the same remains unknown. We have no solid way to communicate any of that yet.

I am inclined to believe it is, but we do not really know.
Yes, and I read them all as they come out, including the MAPS studies. My point still stands: The studies, to date, appear to be structured in ways that primarily explore the potential downsides rather than exploring relative efficacy. Not all of them, of course, but it is a common theme.
We just re-watched the entire series this past autumn (although there are strange gaps in episodes on Amazon Prime).

Great show.
Native Land
What if psychedelics makes people more susceptible to demon possession?
I think i will repeat myself in this thread: printing money ALONE does not create hyperinflation.

I don't understand where this belief came from. Even standards/orthodox/right-leaning economists agree.

Unless the US is suddenly also incapable of producing (and this is impossible), you won't ever have hyperinflation even if the fed did twice the QE they are already doing only to reimburse US gov debt.
I think the unknown is if it uses any face ID data as part of the unlock still, like a partial scan of the top of your face.
I do the opposite and buy OTM puts recently, but as a short term strategy because I think tech is overvalued (and there are particular software companies I'm betting against at their current valuations).

I'm essentially just hedging, though, because I still have so much in stocks. Hoping the puts partially offset the hit I'd take from a serious crash and perfectly willing to lose minor premium in the meantime.
One area where this is good for the consumer (IMO) is music. Before Spotify et al it was extremely expensive for me to discover music. Now I listen to new artists nearly every day
There are non-threatened species of cacti which also produce mescaline at slightly lower levels, but grow significantly more rapidly. Primarily the trichocereus genus.
I'd be extremely impressed if someone actually managed to get RCE out of this, considering you'd only be able to use '0' through '9', or 0x30 through 0x39, in your payload.
Really? So like a system of if-can-pay-do-pay wouldn't be an example of reasonable cost offsetting, exactly like we do with being able to afford counsel?

Surely you're not saying that we can't levy fines instead of prison time for crimes. Are all fines therefore unjust because some people can't pay them?

See, I agree about prison debt traps to an extent, but I feel like this topic always goes off the rails from "debt trap bad" to "prison is the only punishment for crimes, fines are unjust because poverty."
Omitting the CN would make the certificate a little smaller, which might make a difference over many requests.
I do hate miners

But I'm concerned that a company can tell you what you can or can't do with your hardware.
Where is the spirit behind the hacker community, Jailbreaking iPhones, the right to repair, the ban of tattoos that prevented the use of Linux on PCs,...
That's a very concerning move from me.

Also, for a company that does morale :

(1) Nvidia's marketing is one of the best for making old products look obsolete and replaceable.
Most gamers would do great with their old gen card, they just don't need to upgrade already. But they reserve cards for them so that they can create as much e-waste as they want

(2) they could just have prevented supply issues if their supply chains were diverse and resilient. But it turns out they aren't. And it's not something that was asked by the gamers

(3) for a company that's focused around gamers, they have already prevented powerful "crypto" GPUs from being repurposed into gaming gear, as featured in LTT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4
I've been helping keep my bedroom warm each night this week by mining ethereum on my RTX 2070 - made about $6 net so far. The fact that I'm benefiting from the waste heat literally helps me sleep at night.
As with the previous attempt by another company I forgot the name of, unless the price is much lower this will not be adopted by most miners.

The reason is simple: you can't resell a mining GPU for as much money as you'd resell a gaming GPU. People buying RTX 3070 right now know that they will be able to get 50% back when selling on the used market. This make the ROI much better.
It sounds like you're itching to solve Principal-level problems, so the obvious answer here is to get promoted (in the IC track) until your work is hard enough.
You remeber rightly, but like all artificial restrictions people who care can get around them:

https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch
NASA has experience in unit foul-ups. Mars Climate Orbiter is the $125M poster project reminding everyone of the importance in having consistency in units.

"At 09:00:46 UT Sept. 23, 1999, the orbiter began its Mars orbit insertion burn as planned. The spacecraft was scheduled to re-establish contact after passing behind Mars, but, unfortunately, no signals were received from the spacecraft.

An investigation indicated that the failure resulted from a navigational error due to commands from Earth being sent in English units (in this case, pound-seconds) without being converted into the metric standard (Newton-seconds).

The error caused the orbiter to miss its intended orbit (87 to 93 miles or 140 to 50 kilometers) and to fall into the Martian atmosphere at approximately 35 miles (57 kilometers) in altitude and to disintegrate due to atmospheric stresses."[0]

[0] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter/i...
Psychedelics are not comparable at all to the types of drugs you're thinking of. For one, they're generally not habit forming.
The point is that politicians should be marketing themselves as leaders who take care of this kind of stuff so I as a constituent do not have to worry about it. They should be able to hire advisors who make sure they prioritize the right things.

Instead what we have are pols who optimize for fundraising. Which means you get the opposite.
I was thinking of the state's congress. However you are right that's not what it is called. I'm so used to thinking of the federal system I misremembered the term. Thanks for clearing it up.
> total value is not constant over time as we value human creation in a system of human beings

> However at any fixed t, the total value is a constant

This doesn't make sense. This as opposed to the total value at any fixed time t being... not a constant? What does that even mean? If f(1) = 2, then is f "constant" at 1 or not? What would a not-a-constant value for f(1) be in that case? Infinity/Dirac delta?
The evolution of their modelling techniques was amazing to watch. Especially when condensed into only a couple weeks of watching.
“You would think converting floats to and from strings was a solved problem by now”

It is, but it is an extremely difficult problem. I think “How to print floating-point numbers accurately” (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93548.93559) was the first correct implementation. That is from 1990 and, according to its authors “was almost 20 years in the making” (http://kurtstephens.com/files/p372-steele.pdf)

(Faster versions have since been published)
I agree 100%! One of the reasons I moved to Athens was I wanted to live in a creative community in a part of the country I had never lived before. Now that I'm a parent I can't until we can travel again so my 4yo can experience some other cultures, here and abroad. There's too much tribalism, and when it comes down to it most of us want the same things[1]

What's funny is when we moved, we actually considered Asheville, too, but decided to go a little bigger. When we lived in Athens it was rare we'd visit Asheville and not run in to someone we knew, or saw that a friend's band from Athens was playing. There is (or was, at least) a lot of reciprocity between the two music scenes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5MHNvjw7o#t=6m36s
I only do weed. It helps me slow down so others can keep up.
I see a sarcastic misrepresentation of the parent's comment, and nothing of substance here. Is there a deeper, substantial point you wish to make?
Those are elected officials, not bureaucrats. Bureaucrats are the people in non-political jobs who don't get replaced after elections.
You have suggested this twice as proof of actual rolling blackouts of any significant size, but for some reason fail to note that while SPP did order rolling blackouts to shave about 1.5% of the load within 50 minutes they rescinded this order and returned to EEA Level 2. Why fail to mention this I wonder?
People are not mining Bitcoin on videocards.
Money lent out does not exist until lent out. Money for mortgages is created by the bank. That’s why they can do such low interest rates. They don’t even need to have the money to lend to you. They are legally allowed to just make it up and then charge interest on it.
The isn't the first time it has snowed in Texas. When it happened 150 years ago it wasn't "due to climate change" (literal quote from parent). This time it is. Warming enthusiasts undermine their argument by trying to have it both ways. They should ignore weather, and emphasize average temperatures.
It's also important to note that the gig economy has vastly reduced the work required to get a second job. If you want a second job at Uber, you're not a felon, and you have a car, then congratulations, you're hired.
Was EverQuest (1999) the first GaaS game? The wiki says that the concept started with WoW, which is obviously wrong since EQ preceded it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_as_a_service
That sounds like rolling blackouts, and looking at it deeper looks a lot like a few minutes worth. That's not great, but it's not the same as being without power for multiple days.
Squad: Forth on Chip-8
Isn't there an incentive for the world if NVDA continue s innovating in their GPUs such that they use less energy to achieve the same result as years prior?
> estimated to be as much as ~45GW

But if they had winterized that number would be a lot lower
It blows my mind that this is still a problem; Western Electric was already making allowances for it in what I believe to be the 1930s:

Most telephone hardware has some form of self-checking and fault detection. Alarms are classified into "minor" and "major", sometimes also "power" or "critical". Each piece of equipment has its own alarm indicator lamps, and contacts for external alarms as well. Typically the external contacts are wired to both an "aisle light" which aggregates all the equipment in that lineup, and a floor-wide or section-wide "alarm sounder". When the sounder goes off, you look down the aisle to see which lineup has the trouble, then walk down the lineup to find the individual unit and address the problem.

But first, you push the ACO button. The alarm cutoff button silences the sounder, which won't come back on unless something new happens. ACO also tells the other workers that someone is on the case.

Crucially, it preserves attention. If the sounder was going the whole time someone was working on a repair, nothing would ever get done, because the workers would be down at the corner bar trying to get some sanity back.
The page you linked to on the NASA website does mention the worm logo, though its image quality is a bit visibly compressed. Perhaps it’s a recent addition.
Destroying few delapidated homes to make space to build a block of flats on that plot of land? Sure!

But not to drive up demand there are better ways to do that in case of housing. There are places where more efficient housing can't be built bot because lack of demand but local regulations that serve local wealth owners.

Waste food... Not so much bacause food preduction doesn't really suffer as a result of low demand. We pretty much grow food as efficiently as it is possible and in places we don't we do it for different reasons than just lack of demand. There are food producers that destroy some food they produced to drive up the prices by increasing ratio of demand to supply.

Coal power plants close because there are cheaper ways to make electricity now, not because demand dropped.

Crypto mining operations can provide load on-demand which is almost as good as power production on demand while balancing power grid.

Nuclear power plant plus huge crypto mine can provide as much flexibility as coal power plant if not more.
Texas didn't experience rolling blackouts. Texas had day plus power outages over 25% or more of the state. That's far worse than rolling blackouts.
Check `about:processes`. (I'm not sure if this is only available in Nightly right now.) It lists all processes, threads, and their memory + CPU usage.
Perhaps . too?
oh boy! are you assuming the people responsible for GPU drivers are going to write what is basically a real time code signature detection and not screw up with ton of false positives to be debugged at the cost of the game studios?