skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company also limited the mining performance of the soon-to-be-launched RTX 3060 cards to roughly 50% of the normal performance

What does that mean? What has NVIDIA actually done on those cards? Also, if this doesn't effect 3050, 70, 80 , Ti's, Quadro's and Tesla's - does it really matter all that much?
It would be wonderful if this could be used to DELETE my account across any of these sites
I think children tend to be pretty cruel when given the chance, many of whom grow up to be decent people. While there are certainly bad people out there who were already rotten as children, I don't subscribe to the theory that people are born perfect and then somehow experience moral decay as they grow older.
All learning is fundamentally doing
The linked ticket has some activity from the fall of 2020, but hard to say what the overall status is.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6606
the fundamental assumption of the system as stated in the article is that the device manufacturer will simply never attempt to forge keys
let me just say how much i appreciate and admire you. people love to look down their noses at homeschooling and homeschooling has been the subject of terrible and dismissive ridicule. a terrible stigma has been created for home-schoolers. its all nonsense. god bless you for putting up with all of that. its such a shame that the vapid masses impose this emotional tax on smart people like you who are just doing what they think is in the best interest of their children. i think youve done an excellent job.
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Have you seen the crap show that is python? Deep learning in general? :)
Oh so now some nuclear industry regulations are "bad." Then who knows better than NRC engineers and scientists, legitimately aiming to ensure the industry doesn't die from mass-casualty events, public harm, or unworkable costs?

Maybe before throwing shade on something you know nothing about, it's often best to not prove that you're speaking from your tail end. ; )

EDIT: You made a bunch of edits. No, you in particular and no one else have to state which regs are bad if you're making this presumption. "Innovation" and the stability of risk management are often at cross-purposes; don't upset what works and is standardized for consumerist novelty in a fucking nuclear reactor.
Switzerland has a tax treaty with the US which avoids double-taxation.

https://sigtax.com/en/switzerland-united-states-tax-treaty
related project from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15382911

(basically uses intel SGX instead of FIDO keys)
Think of this as much about being a learning exercise as anything else. The project doesn't need to stand on it's own - the creator gets to learn something about both sides.

It's like seeing that M.2 is PCI-E, and wondering if they can plug a regular video card into it. :)

Although for this project, I can construct systems in my head where this would be useful, centered around non-US mobile plans which are "calling party pays", with free on-net SMS. The US is "bill and keep", which makes sending SMS off-net largely the same as on-net from the carrier's point of view.

In "calling party pays", having a device on the same network as the controlled device is about avoiding per-SMS charges.

Author is in the UK, and UK is CPP.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227426633_Mobile_te...
Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare (14 Feb 2021) [pdf]
Mine was in the top 2% or so, and that would never fly (One of the most dumbsad things I have seen in my life so far is the sight of watching someone not open his exam paper and fall asleep then try and have a go in the last five minutes in a panicked frenzy)
That's HN filtering your input, nothing to do with the actual encoding.

Plenty of non-ASCII symbols show up perfectly fine. For example, '£'.
> Is that right?

Yes, although it has a history of controversial mismanagement/underfunding.

That said, in the US, the typical story is that large, social welfare programs like SSA, VA, etc. were created in the early 20th century and remain very popular. Today, new similar programs are very controversial.
I was recently looking at another site linked from HN which had dozens of split keyboard designs. One of the ones that I really liked was the Matias Ergopro, which has dedicated Cut/copy/paste/undo keys. That seems really convenient, made me wonder why more keyboards don't do this. Maybe it is a slippery slope, but those four shortcuts are so ubiquitous across so many pieces of software that I think it makes sense to have dedicated keys for them. As a Dvorak keyboard typist, the standard shortcuts become pretty annoying (no longer doable with one hand) so the thought of having a single key for those operations really appeals to me. But I would think it would also be something that would have caught on amongst the masses as well. I wonder, what percentage of computer users know the shortcuts for those operations, versus use menus or icons to perform copy and paste
That’s testing for thermal cycling over wide temperature ranges or longer lifespans. GPU’s are used indoors and don’t have a very long lifespan.

The major risk factor for GPU’s is electromigration which is a major factor in GPU lifespan and directly relates to usage. A 40 hour a week gamer is extremely rare, but a mining GPU is pulling 168 hours a week.
These industries certainly didn't buy mining cards last time.
Are we talking about trouble making kids, or kids who aren't going to ace their exams?

Your numbers are all invented whole cloth; please don't try to math with them.

More precisely:
Why should I believe that the remaining kids learn more? In my experience, everyone learns more when they teach, as it forces them to shore up their assumptions. (When you learn something yourself, you learn one wrong way to do it. When you teach, you learn thirty wrong ways.) Having kids who think differently around for peer exchange is then a good thing overall. The struggling kids have stronger peers around to teach them, and the stronger kids have more chances to teach.
I've done a fair amount of research into molten salt reactors, and if we can solve the containment issue they should be very cost effective. The molten salts are extremely corrosive, which cuts their lifespan down to ~5 years. Newer designs should reach 10 years and there is extensive research into designing systems that will last 20+ years.

They should be much cheaper to build and operate because they have several inherent safety features. They operate at one atmosphere, so you don't need expensive pressure containment systems. The fissile material is already melted, so meltdowns are basically impossible. Most designs have a drain line to a gravity fed safety containment vessel full of control rods. The drain line is actively cooled to solidify the salt, forming a plug that automatically melts during a power loss or over-temperature event.
Dark Star is wonderful!

Also:

- it's the first movie by horror movie legend John Carpenter

- it was co-written by Dan O'Bannon, who also wrote "Alien"
>Facebook should really come down from their high horses and let legal entities decide of stuff like this

If you've followed this conversation at all for the last 5-10 years, there's no way it makes sense to think that these decisions are somehow driven by Facebook'(or any tech company's) desires. Leaving aside the intense liberal values personally held by Zuckerbeg, Page, Brin, Dorsey, et al, the responsibility for speech policing is a can of worms that the tech platforms have been consistently and loudly opposed to. It's the baying of illiberal lunatics (primarily on the left, in recent years) and the associated PR and regulatory threats that have forced them into this position.
Same here. The “SEO” space is way too aggressive, and while Google does a pretty good battling it in general, the searches that are not top-level mainstream consistently have a lot of noise.
Electromigration is a small risk factor in any kind of reasonable life. Especially if not overvolted (which is something that mostly gamers do-- miners are more likely to undervolt).

Solder fatigue breaking of solder balls is common. I have fixed lots of GPUs by reflowing them. GPUs do cycle over a large temperature range-- delta-T can be 50C+. While maps are loading, etc, you can have delta-T's of 25C+ every few minutes.

Indeed, you have lots of people doing this:

https://turbofuture.com/computers/How-to-Fix-a-Dead-Graphics...
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-repair-your-Graphics-Ca...
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Temporarily+Repair+a+Lost+Cause...

This is a thermal cycling induced failure mode. (Of course, a home oven doesn't accomplish proper reflow, so this is more of a "fix things for a couple months" trick as described in the posts).
That’s interesting! I wonder how big a problem it really was. Vi kind of took the opposite approach I guess.
Why not both? I’m paying for my card by mining when I’m not gaming. I checked with a watt meter and I’m using 270-300 watts mining total (cpu, gpu, etc). It also heats my room so it’s more efficient than running a heater or using a space heater (1500 watts).
Well at least you could say it potentially helps the environment now that you won't have bunch of gamers crypto mining, or does that not matter the moment there is a drawback that affects us?
I think that something like http://us.metamath.org/index.html has already gone a long way in formalizing math. And this is not the only attempt to formalize math, but it is unique that it uses a very limited amount of syntax and rules, and makes use of a simple (small) proof engine, which makes verifying that the proof engine is correct possible.
It's still free though. Are you paying for anything with this service?
I wanted to clarify my last statement. Even when best practices are followed bad stuff happens, and that doesn't necessarily mean best practices need to change.
Yeah, I almost mentioned that I'm using gnome on linux but then I thought that this must be a ubiquitous feature. Now I'm surprised and have to look up if "always on top" was there in windows XP (the last version I've used) or not. :)
I always wonder how package managers go along with software engineering maturity level > 1 requiring repeatability.
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You’re restating my point in slightly different words. The reason that I addressed the “boring” side the way I did is because it’s so often used reflexively to discourage use of newer/more exotic tech like Elm without acknowledging that it is, in fact, “boring” in the intended sense.
The point was often the plane would land somewhere that isn’t their destination, which would at least clue them into the fact that there was some significant mechanical issue.
I'm currently watching The Wire, and this aspect of people juking the stats to move up the ranks is a deep underlying theme.
It's gotten me to thinking: what is the best alternative to focusing on metrics? Surely, relying on something other than data would be no improvement over the status quo.

The only thought I've had is to:
1) Rely on a spectrum of metrics, to get a more holistic perspective. Instead of just seeing "crime is down x%" administrators would see how many reports end up classified as a lower-level infractions, how civilians rate the safety of their area, etc.
2) Add common-sense restrictions to make stat-pumping more difficult. For example, bringing in classroom inspections on random days
3) Penalizing institutions and individuals who are clearly attempting to juke the stats. Enforcement would certainly be difficult, but simply having something to this effect on the books would, imho, reduce schools dedicating time to studying for a standardized test
Personally, I feel we have reached the limits of what schools can do with the current structures, that there is very little improvement that can be mined.

The things we do to maximize fiscal efficiency (grouping by age, school start times during optimal sleep periods) aren't in the students' best interests. The OP's article seems to bear witness of that.
That's a bit of survivor bias. I used to buy truckloads of old PCs and recycle them when I was a teenager. I initially thought that this old tech was just really built to last, but in reality I was selecting the 1% or less that could survive being shoved around a rat-feces-infested warehouse at freezing temperatures before ending up in my parents' garage, to their dismay. Those survivors seemed to last freaking forever afterward, but again, that's because they were the random fraction that just happened to have that perfect balance of durability.

When I started buying new parts as an adult, the failure rates of e.g. GPUs were pretty disappointing in comparison to the biased expectations I had from those survivor PCs.
> wonder why they couldn’t have been replaced with keyboard shortcuts

I'm not sure I understand; I'd guess they were used often enough to justify a separate key. E.g. some TV remotes still have a "Netflix" button.
Well, capital gains is taxed much lower. Also combined with the ISA limits (20k put into ISA's each year - do it every year and your returns start adding up), you can get quite significant returns without paying tax at all. The UK tax system looks a lot more progressive on the surface than it is once you earn enough to take advantage of the various tax breaks.

That said, few people will pay nothing - what they won't be paying if they live off share return (be it dividends or capital gains) is national insurance. I'm assuming that's what the person you replied to meant.

However that means nothing in terms of NHS funding any more, as NI just goes into the general treasury fund in practice.

It's become part of a convenient fiction about UK tax rates, given that most people are unaware of the way NI is structured. In effect the "20%" marginal tax band is roughly 32% marginal when you factor in NI, and the "40%" marginal tax band is really 42%, and the 45% band is effectively 47%.

The 20/40/45 looks a lot less progressive when it's actually about 32/42/47 (even less so when you factor in the many tax breaks those of us on the higher or additional rate can afford to take advantage of that lower earners can't)
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The Beibehaltungsgenehmigung is outdated in this regard. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beibehaltungsgenehmigung
Strange theories on top of strange theories. The GTX 1080 is good enough forever? People are using 1080p forever? Games are staying put with the fidelity and textures and poly counts they had 5 years ago, and not improving any more? Last time I checked, there weren’t all that many games that run at 60Hz 1080p and never dip.
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this is nonsense. almost nothing is carried over. it seems like you have never been the target of viscous bullying. there is no comparison whatsoever to bullying in school and in the workplace. the differences are innumerable. the most important difference is that childhood bullying damages the developing brain and creates lasting emotional damage. you are simply more vulnerable at those ages. you will be much, much better equipped to deal with bullying later in life if you are not carrying the emotional scars of being systematically targeted when you were a child. some adversity is necessary but this is a different discussion.

im so sick of people offering this idiotic perspective because they never experienced being the target for more than a year. your opinion hurts people.
A Look at iMessage in iOS 14 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25953668 - Jan 2021 (79 comments)

A Look at iMessage in iOS 14 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952790 - Jan 2021 (2 comments)
Some context might be helpful. In that verse, god is literally cursing Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit. The author of genesis is not making some prosaic observation of human nature.

There may be some truth to the idea that work will always be work. But it certainly has nothing to do with a curse from a supernatural being for eating a forbidden fruit.
One common complaint is that every plant is a special snowflake that is validated, qualified and certified from scratch. Building more at once as a single project using a single plan could bring a lot of efficiency in the process.

I think that was the promise of Small Modular Reactors - you certify reactor by itself, making the plant certification much easier and faster. I'm not sure that materialised, though.
While I absolutely agree with you in principle, it's still worthwhile for people to know that a growing number of GPs offer permanent (as in not just during covid) video consultations, and that they can choose treatment, and GPs, further away.

Though I think we agree it'd be much better if they didn't need to.
Isn't it just a permission thing? like every mature appliaction?
In the U.S., I heard from a parent whose kids go to exclusive private schools that the schools will often hold new students back a year or even two, as they are more likely to do better in class, do well on standardized tests, and exceed in certain sports - all of which burnish the schools' reputations and lead to better college placements, which often means Ivies and other elite schools.

Another option for students who struggle at public or private high schools (and whose parents can afford it) is a "post-graduate" year at a dedicated private academy for 18 and 19 year olds. The main purpose of these academies is to bring their grades and SATs up to a good level so they are more likely to get in to a good college. I know two people who did this in the 90s, one of them got into NYU after the post-grad academy.
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Is there any way to get these cards at MSRP? Why can't I just pre-order one from nvidia and have it shipped when it becomes available?
muse it is a ineresting format to exploring new links weekly.
It’s also a principle that’s useful for resisting trend-based redesigns in SaaS products where users typically don’t have a choice of staying with the old design.

Most web apps are the polar opposite of Raskin’s principles: highly modal screen-based UIs with low information density (because the designer loves airy padding and big fonts), constantly getting tinkered and unintentionally preventing habit formation.
Cancun Man declares entire premise of deregulated TX energy markets was mistake
Can you elaborate on what you mean by Societal Costs of crypto?

> I have said it a few times on HN: I see more potential into a "Crypto Dollar" than in crypto in general.

This, and the potential of smart contracts that use the "Crypto Dollar" are where I see the most potential.
We use Emby Server to maintain watch status sync and various not-Kodi-friendly devices in our house. The TVs use Emby through Kodi because of Kodi's superior interface and processing.

Kodi 19/Matrix broke that, however, so now we're just streaming directly from the NAS until it's resolved on Emby's end.

While the 2 experiences are nearly identical, we like the per-user/other device stuff that Emby brings in. (As well as outside-the-home streaming when we travel.) If you don't need or care about that stuff, just pulling from a central data store works very nicely in stand-alone Kodi.

The Emby and Plex apps are trash compared to Kodi if you care about flexibility/customization.
This is why my next TV will just be a 43" monitor, not anything "smart". After all that's how I am using my current TV set, which does not even have a DVB tuner. Since modern TVs are effectively computers that are controlled with a remote control, I might as well use a real computer and manage myself the software that it runs.
I was wondering the exact same thing a couple days ago, would be great if a more knowledgable person could confirm this
It’s still centralized.

It requires a central authentication server or controller and trusting that server.
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Newton lost a lot of money in the south sea bubble. Just because they are smarter it does not make them more rational.
I'm not an expert at the mechanism design, but yeah, that's my understanding. The network's goal is to have a block every X seconds; and the difficulty periodically adjusts if blocks come in too fast / too slow (due to hashpower coming on/off line).

(Ethereum & Bitcoin both add some other year-decade timeframe factors to the difficulty, but don't think it affects this basic principle, which acts on week-to-minute timeframes).

I view it as a race to the margins. Anyone who can do it cheaper, or benefit from economy of scale, will get a larger slice of the pie, but at smaller margins... creating a cycle of consolidation.

I think original assumption was that folks running PoW at home on their GPUs would be able to compete, but due to efficiencies of specialized hardware and regional differences in electricity costs, that's just not the case.

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Others might disagree, but my personal opinion is that this isn't a sustainable way to maintain decentralization, since it seems to obviously trend towards a few large "just turning a profit" players.

There might be some ways to adjust mining incentives to make it work, but this fundmental issue is why I think Proof of Stake has a much more viable future, as it sidesteps this (and the environmental) issues.
Yea.

I am a programmer and sometimes think of what else I could have done.

I remind myself I don’t hate my day to day, and often enjoy it.

I remind myself that many other careers are available to me as a hobby since I can afford cameras, paint, whatever. I also have the time to do it.

Many of the other careers don’t afford this.
Huh, thought you guys loved open source
"What I'll say is that the absurdity of this trite dismissal ..."

Are you talking about your trite dismissal of my stating it's a global MLM scheme - which it fits the pattern for precisely? And also a Ponzi scheme because the final latest adopters are left holding the bag - meanwhile wealth was unnecessarily transferred weighted towards the earliest adopters.

Blockchain is a promising technology, designing it like Bitcoin to align people through financial gain (of an MLM) has unavoidable-unfixable pitfalls. You're welcome to go through my comment history to read more about the actual solution. You're making assumptions too that my stating it's an MLM scheme isn't backed up.

I find it hilarious, the irony, of you claiming my comment is a trite dismissal - as yours has exactly the same depth as mine, with the only truth you state is that blockchain is a "promising technology."

Your holier-than-thou defensive comments, articulated almost poetically, is getting more common though - as the more intelligent sucked into the MLM scheme get defensive and their guard goes up - feeling the need to defend their position, needing the price of Bitcoin to go up and up and up; while you're financially incentivized to write and spend energy, and others like myself with counter-narratives aren't financially incentivized to do so.
It's not too difficult to farm work out to code written in C or C++.
Having the opportunity to change jobs because you might be happier, more fulfilled or better paid somewhere else is neither privilege nor entitlement. It's pretty much a sacred right. Every single job should be like this.

The decision to "coddle" and "engage" engineers is made by companies. It's their choice, and their strategy. I would even argue that this is not even close to what engineers prefer: most would definitely choose a raise, or decreased number of hours over the "happiness" thing.