skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sold my $1000 in bitcoin as it was proving a distraction. I was constantly checking it's value. I also came to the conclusion I don't believe in bitcoin. I was just hoping to make money which doesn't resonate with my values. I am good for money. I am thinking of turning my attention to micro loans to get my mind off the topic of myself.

It took a long walk to break the bitcoin distraction and start to see sense. I think we should be wise about the technology we let into our heads. Especially when that technology is tied to money. I have 6 bank/share apps on my phone I check frequently. This may be my next area to tackle.
Theirs was definitely shot-off in The Great War. The only plausible excuses for not reading would be disabilities such as reading (lexical / comprehension) and/or attention. Dyslexia would be a tough one, as well as severe ADHD. I happen to have the latter but still forcibly plow through books.

It is good to have well-constructed readers to summarize and discuss implications of subject matter, but not as primary material, only to ensure mastery of it.
On the contrary your original comment exemplified the thought pattern very well. I fully understand why you claim it doesn't, though.
I don’t understand what kind of sympathy this is supposed to express. Presumably the “kid” was really desperate and didn’t know what else to do. Even if someone from successful picket lane might know better.

Sometimes it’s better to say nothing.
I have done this as well (with Nix rather than Guix, but it doesn't matter). You do run into some friction sometimes, e.g. the UI themes from your main distro not applying properly (because paths are all wrong).

It does basically work, but it can be a bit jarring, depending on exactly what you're trying to do.
> How many engineering managers can spot the common situation "the engineers are bored and they're rewriting perfectly-good codebases in Common Lisp and OCAML for funsies"? And how many know what to do about it when they see it?

I think there is a tension between this kind of actively guiding anti-complexity management and hiring "top talent".

The very best developers are capable, and avoid complexity. The next best developers are capable, and love complexity. The worst developers are not capable.

There aren't enough of the very best developers for a company to plan around hiring only those. So, if you want to hire developers who are at least capable, you have to give them some leeway to make things overcomplicated. Yes, that incurs a real cost to the business. You can think of that as just being another part of their compensation package.
A paragraph near the end of the article implies that this may have been a bird strike, or something "sucked into the engine".

So maintenance failure would have played no part, and the fact that 2 incidents happened on the same day is just that, "co-incidental".
This ...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212749

... the "De Forest" system is what the Great Lakes company used, according to the ad ...

(The whole "turn $100 into $100.000" thing, however, sounds like a "hot ICO" post on social media would today :)
I'm having so much fun with the before-the-fix version, you can make it "jump" out of the water, if you draw a figure 8 under water, and when the negative lobe is at the top and around 75% of the size of the positive one

Even more optimal: https://imgur.com/7gCEJ0T

I've had more extreme versions of this shape teleport off-screen, when starting them under water: https://imgur.com/ymVtTWq

And here's someone holding a balloon: https://imgur.com/8O4rib8
Oh, coding isn't just for data at rest. It's also for transmission.
SSTables on S3: Scaling the Git Model to Petabyte-Scale Data Lakes
It’s hard enough managing code complexity in software projects; introducing tooling into the stack that exacerbates the issues is definitely a large own goal.
It would still be "romanticized", but less glamourous, to think about all the terrible aspects that went into those millions of line of code (and don't get us starting on the hardware.)

It is part of the global human collaboration, where we're all gears and screws, but some of us are more geared toward screwing others.
I don't know enough about the specific situation of computer science at the University of Florida to add anything useful. It sounds like a serious scandal.
The first episode was the only good one. If went downhill fast from there. Stopped watching it after it turned into a soap opera on the moon.
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Well, maybe SpaceX ends up providing free near-earth Starship operations for an advanced ARM.

Basically, launch a probe that goes to the asteroid, spins up to match, collects it in a net/blanket, and maneuvers to meet up with a Starship in an highly elliptical or maybe lunar flyby orbit. The Starship would rendezvous, match spin, load the cargo in it's payload bay, and proceed to de-orbit.

As long as you engulf the asteroid, the spin shouldn't be more than a minor nuisance (e.g. pulsed thruster firing control systems, reinforcement to endure centrifugal loads). You might even be able to de-spin on your way back to earth.

My understanding is that Starship is capable of landing with full 100+ t payload, thanks to the aerodynamic reentry. Also, with no passengers, it could easily spend a few orbits getting the apoapsis from "almost Earth-Sun L5" down to a LEO before re-entry.
I will give this a try, looks promising
What a great find, thank you
In almost all cases I can think of I'm also against canceling individuals, so I agree with you. If NYT openly spread hate speech or called for murder and violence, then they should be "canceled" (boycotted).
I use my card during just during winter for mining and calculated the energy for mining just under "heating my apartment". So the coins are just some bonus from heating. So in future I couldn't do that with an Nvidia card.
> According to Bryan Del Rizzo, director of global PR for GeForce, more things are working behind the driver.

> According to Mr. Del Rizzo: "It's not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter."

https://www.techpowerup.com/278712/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-a...

I think it's important to look at as the article does - the other way around, the CMP lineup will be excellent for their bottom line as miners, without competition from gamers and others can buy up cards that won't contribute to the seccond hand market when the mining boom dies down.

As suggested in the article, silicone would have been allocated to mid and low end cards is now allocated to mining only cards that have little resale value and won't hurt their bottom line when they release the 4XXX series.
Why do you want updates if not for that.

The reason one updates the distribution is to get new features or fixes. It would be a friggin disaster if only this program got the fixes, but not that program, so now they can't agree on the clipboard format, for example.
In principle, yes. But at least you can switch to a differently licensed version of the OS if this is your concern.
Thank you for sharing and explaining this. As a former software engineer I finally understand the other side of the argument. More than just being told it's a "business decision".
Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C
> I don't see tangible value in crypto. Crypto is worth what other people are willing to pay for it. If you wanted to invest in an asset that does not depend on the currency you could buy gold.

Try convincing any crypto "enthusiast" of that, though. Literally none of them have ever been able to explain to me why cryptocurrencies should have value, but that doesn't stop them from proclaiming it the best thing since sliced bread.
Who will be buying it though? Last time this happened mining cards without display output were sold much cheaper than their equivalent counterparts.

The only saving grace they had were hacky Looking Glass style solutions.
I was reading your comment and thought ‘The original Crysis release was very bad for the environment.’

Does the efficiency with which a game utilizes system resources alter its value?

Sort of the inverse of crypto.
But we're talking about software that we are writing. If we have any dependencies that are connecting to the network without us knowing about it, we have a serious problem already!
On the other hand, GPUs used for mining are typically used at ~60% the power draw and more often in places with cheap and greener electricity.
> It is not self-evident

OK, how about this: any work done has non 0 probability for mistake (now we can use math to deduce the same)

> You should introduce an external dependency into your program if and only if it provides useful extra functionality and the benefits of using it outweigh the costs. You should update an existing dependency to a new version under exactly the same conditions.

People are bad in judging such stuff hence this is tautology and provide no actionable advice.

> When you never need to take that action at all, for example if you include a library in your program and the library does what you need and that's that.

This doesn't qualify as you already said that "you dont need to take action". I said "when waiting for action" which implies action must be done at some point.
Presumably, gaming doesn't use as much electricity globally as the entire country of Argentina.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952
Inflation Depends on Where You Look for It (Maybe Asset Prices))
It will be possible but as your third video suggests the number of cards that'll be used this way and not end up as landfill will be peanuts.
Boomer generation started in 1946, they didn't leave college until 1968. It was the previous generation that built NASA and landed on the moon.

Boomers were the ones who stopped the space program and turned it into a jobs program.

Gen X graduated at the end of the 80s and brought new energy into the 90s to build the first dot com and the internet economy, and people like Musk and Beck are the ones shaking up the space industry.

Boomers were involved in Viking and Voyager, but their main contribution to space was the Shuttle and the ISS.
It's entirely different if a "founder" can walk away with their now insanely valuable "stock" or someone else's "stock," effectively a partial pyramid scheme.
I would think unannounced inspections might be less stressful than announced ones. You have to make less effort preparing for them, and the standards are going to be a bit more relaxed, because the inspectors won't assume that you have prepared.
Most of the "skin" of a plane is only a few mm thick [0] it doesn't take much to puncture, I mean, it does, but thin turbine blades made to resist birds impact at 10k rpm would cut through it like butter.

[0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/45566/how-thick...
That would be interesting and maybe not even unprecedented after the Texas vs Florida build off with starship. It might be hard to replicate the leadership team though.
Have you looked at the Raku Programming Language? https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media.
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"...Cheap imports from abroad, among other global forces, might be holding down U.S. consumer prices while asset prices march higher, creating new risks that could sideline the economy in unexpected ways..."
> On the other hand, virtualization _already_ lets you run whatever arm64 BSD, Linux, or Windows that you want. The trackpad and everything else will work flawlessly thanks to guest additions.

The OpenBSD kernel doesn't support loadable kernel modules, so virtual machine guest additions are not an option for a virtualized OpenBSD.
>investing in crypto

Crypto is an investment the same way $GME or playing the roulette is an investment. Better term would be speculating or gambling. Nothing wrong with either, but let's call it what it is.
Many things that transmit do so poorly with a lot of spurious emission in nearby or harmonic bands. In other words, the signal coming out of those radios is so wide it bleeds into the ham bands. The signals are fairly weak but can add to the background noise level.
I think that depends on when the mining took place.
How to dataviz half a million deaths
> This is still extremely insecure, as you can now install/remove/upgrade software on the system without root's permission, which is annoying if more than one user uses the device.

Can you name a single attack that requiring root for Homebrew can protect against?

> but why in the world they made this decision rather than using, say ~/Applications (the macOS recommended practice for software that only one user needs) or ~/homebrew is beyond me

Because it's not possible to distribute binary packages without using a predetermined prefix path. You can easily find devs bullied into explaining the same thing if you look into forums or issue trackers of any binary system package manager.

> granted, apt doesn't do this either, but I'm 99% sure that you can do it with yum

No you can't. Yum, like any other binary package manager, doesn't let users choose their own installation path. There are exceptions though, and RPM packages can be marked as relocatable by the packagers, but that's a rare case.

> and it is how scoop works on windows

Windows is an outlier here, because Windows programs are mostly relocatable by necessity. Scoop packages can't rely on shared paths unlike Unix packages. This is why you end up with so many copies of bash.exe on Windows.
I am hoping to repurpose the gpu/cmp for a hashcat rig once cards no longer provide income for miners. I fear I no longer will be able to use GPUs for this, and are crossing my fingers for cmps
How so? Take this excerpt from the article:

> Nvidia does state that these GPUs "don't meet the specifications required of a GeForce GPU and, thus, don't impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers." Frankly, that doesn't mean much. What does Nvidia do with a GPU that normally can't be sold as an RTX 3090? They bin it as a 3080, and GA102 chips that can't meet the 3080 requirements can end up in a future 3070 (or maybe a 3070 Ti). The same goes for the rest of the line. Make no mistake: These are GPUs that could have gone into a graphics card. Maybe not a reference 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080, or 3090, but we've seen TU104 chips in RTX 2060 cards, so anything is possible.

Combine with their after market value (see https://youtu.be/XfIibTBaoMM), this is no more than Nividia trying to spin goodwill whilst padding their bottom line.
Do you mean to imply that those things are known not to work?

There have been many Apple devices where all those mentioned things (if present) work under a non-Apple OS. So as usual the truth is somewhere in the middle. From my Linux experience there are a lot of well working MBP models from this time span. And Minis.
> After all, if all these cards weren't used for mining but for gaming, wouldn't the environmental outcome be the same?

No. Really, no.

Mining hardware is just trash when new hardware is released, pretty much immediately.

OTOH, gaming hardware very often has a second life in the form of used hardware and lower-specced gaming computers. Don't be fooled by YouTube influencers, most of the real people won't be buying the latest and greatest hardware and drop their previous hardware. IIRC, valve stats showed that 1080-era cards are still very common and in use.

And by the way: pretty much no one is running games 24/7. Mining hardware OTOH are specifically meant to be kept going 24/7.
>Well, there was not resiliency standard that required the natural gas infrastructure to be winterized.

>I ask because I broadly understand ERCOT to have delivered the lowest prices

These two statements are the opposite of each other. Low costs because no winterization. Low costs because the grid is unreliable.
Gaming gives people enjoyment. They are not consuming other energy sources and to a certain degree, i think this is okay.

It also combines and supports advantages in science by making this more affordable for the rest.

You can still critizie it and there have been huge energy savings for idle GPUs which was not the case 10? years ago.

Nonetheless, one thing doesn't make the other thing better or worse. Doing bitcoin is supporting a system which requires mining to make transactions. It also doesn't free me but potentially people who benefit from this directly. Like money washing, moving their millions from left to right or other things. And while doing that, taking my graphicscard, i wanted to play with, to sit somehwere, running 24/7 for what?

What real problem solves bitcoin for me and most other people on the world?
Why do you think that? Any stats or are you just guessing? I wouldn't be surprised if it's within an order of magnitude of that.
It's kind of astonishing to me that I can run software written 30 years ago in C without changing anything, yet I can't expect a node project written last week with the exact same functionality to work today without a huge test suite.
This company did a slight pivot to building autonomous collectors anchored in rivers which have the most plastic dumped into them leading to the ocean.
I was responding to the grandparent post’s statement "A majority of the software I use either for my work or for my leasure time don't even open a socket".
A lot of people are claiming this as a win for the non mining consumer but as the articles puts it:

> Nvidia does state that these GPUs "don't meet the specifications required of a GeForce GPU and, thus, don't impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers." Frankly, that doesn't mean much. What does Nvidia do with a GPU that normally can't be sold as an RTX 3090? They bin it as a 3080, and GA102 chips that can't meet the 3080 requirements can end up in a future 3070 (or maybe a 3070 Ti). The same goes for the rest of the line. Make no mistake: These are GPUs that could have gone into a graphics card. Maybe not a reference 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080, or 3090, but we've seen TU104 chips in RTX 2060 cards, so anything is possible.

There's also seemingly little value for miners:

> Note that the 90HX lists an Ethereum hash rate of just 86MH/s and a 320W TGP. After a bit of tuning, an RTX 3080 can usually do 94MH/s at 250W or less, so these cards (at least out of the box) aren't any better.

> It gets worse as you go down the line, though. 50HX only does 45MH/s at 250W — that basically matches the tuned performance of the RTX 2060 Super through RTX 2080 Super, with a TGP that's still twice as high as what we measured. It's also half the speed of an RTX 3080 while potentially still using the same GPU (10GB VRAM). Or maybe it's a TU102 that couldn't work with 11 memory channels, so it's been binned with 10 channels. Either way, who's going to want this? 40HX at 36MH/s and 185W and 30HX at 26MH/s and 125W are equally questionable options.

Restrictions placed on the 3060 has also confirmed to be more than just the drivers:

> According to Bryan Del Rizzo, director of global PR for GeForce, more things are working behind the driver.
> According to Mr. Del Rizzo: "It's not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter." This means that essentially, NVIDIA can find any way to cripple the mining hash rate even if you didn't update your driver version. At the same time, according to Kopite7Kimi, we are possibly expecting to see NVIDIA relaunch its existing SKUs under a different ID, which would feature a built-in anti-crypto mining algorithm. What the company does remains to be seen.

(from https://www.techpowerup.com/278712/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-a...)

Unfortunately for those that think this would be a good move, I'd agree with this article that:

> Nvidia probably can't implement the same restrictions on existing GPUs without facing a class action lawsuit...

To put it best is Linus from LTT (https://youtu.be/XfIibTBaoMM):

1. Silicone production is finite

2. These cards have no after market value

Nividia isn't doing anyone but themselves any favours by releasing this.
There are fun workarounds around that oath. But the point is true in general: as a Member of Parliament, one must put priority to their duty to the country they represent. One might ask whether MPs with sole citizenship perform well in that regard, but it is quite easier to raise doubts in case of MP with additional citizenships.
I think it's helpful if it brings awareness to the situation.

I've spoken with 70+ different devs working on 70+ different projects of all sizes on my Running in Production podcast[0] and the choose boring tech phrase came up a whole bunch of times, and especially the idea of using innovation tokens. If it helps folks build and ship their app in a quick and stable way, that seems like a big win to me.

[0]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/
Other people in this thread bring up great counterpoints. Namely, gaming is not nearly as intensive as mining and whatever value gaming brings to society is more than that of mining.

I'd also say that gaming at least occupies the human who is playing. Mining would be running in the background: the human would still be consuming energy doing something else. So one doesn't replace the other. Therefore using the inefficiency of one to justify the inefficiency of the other is not a valid argument.

One last observation: you're assuming that all these video cards would still have been produced. Maybe production of hardware has gone up to serve the mining demand.
World is a messy place, its far away from what they learn you at academia. Welcome.
Most laptops are more or less in the same situation as M1. Maybe they different quantitatively, but not qualitatively: devices do not have (sufficient) specs available and people need to reverse engineer them if you want to run any free OS on them. Yet people want to do that and often manage. Why is M1 different?

What I really would like to see is hardware manufacturers (Apple and anybody else) releasing the specs, so that people are free to do whatever they want with the metal they buy. I might event consider appropriate a legislative intervention in this field.
A lot of users don't want updates. They just want their software to work and do whatever they're using it for.

As a practical matter, software that is network-accessible or deals with data from outside sources may well need a security patch from time to time. Those updates are good for almost everyone, but by their nature, they should also be transparent to users.

It's a different story when you're talking about changing functionality that is visible to the user. Almost everyone hates it when UI elements like menus or toolbars or dialog layouts or shortcut keys get changed from what they're used to, particularly if there is no apparent reason for the change.
In my maths GCSE (UK) one of the teachers observed I was having some trouble expanding brackets and whispered a mnemonic she had taught us weeks previously to help. One data point, one observation... but yes, I can believe it.
Greap Expectations
It seems companies have emergent human emotions, we all do the same, 'worry too much then trust and forget' rather than go gradual and long term.