skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the touchscreen era it's interesting to see physical interfaces as an interesting thing and not a chore.

As a kid I'd marvel for hours on players front panels. Tablets have the benefit of making you interact with just about everything in an absolute generic fashion that objects probably can't replicate but they still have wonder and complexity to enjoy I believe.

> Hearing all the little noises and watching it take the tape

Last time I used a backup tape drive, I had the same feeling. The slick mechanism and motor sound was even more beautiful to me 20 years after we got it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260

Also on reddit: (Linus from Linus Tech Tip's Take, I'd reccomended watching this one) https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/locpyb/nvidia_pre...

(Initial Article) https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/lmnpag/geforce_is...

(Clarification that the restrictions in driver+firmware) https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/lnf78f/nvidia_gef...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/lnrgdc/cryptomini...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/lng4q4/nvidia_has...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/lmqd56/nvidia_ner...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/lmom3w/nvidia_is_...

(Initial Leak) https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/lmrsrj/zotac_gefo...
Thanks for the response Jaysetti. Exactly, they act like they have the monopoly on the word 'basket'. There are lot of players in the same segment like naturesbasket, millkbasket, desibasket, etc.
> I mean, is there any inherent upside to burning tons of energy for games vs burning it for a cryptocurrency?

You presume the total energy consumption would be the same whereas it'd be more likely that GPUs that are used for mining will be used 24/7 whereas gaming is likely to be performed by a human being who cannot or would not utilize the GPU nearly as many hours of the day.
Charles Bukowsky expressed it multiple times in his work, there is a particular poem about becoming a writer, but can be adapted to any other endeavour. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/652205-so-you-want-to-be-a-...:

A segment:

if it doesn't come bursting out of you

in spite of everything,

don't do it.

unless it comes unasked out of your

heart and your mind and your mouth

and your gut,

don't do it.
50 years ago it was different. You could work some grocery job and still be okay. Nowadays working minimum wage means being left behind and poverty. Given how competitive world has become it's only natural that it came to that.

50 years ago you would compete with your surroundings, now you compete with the whole city, country or even world in some cases. And this applies to everything: work, relationships, sex life, etc.
1657 flap drawing to convince of funding Palazzo Pubblico tower restoration
Surely it would be worth the same as the normal RTX 3060? It will have the same use for gaming?
> is there any inherent upside to burning tons of energy for games vs burning it for a cryptocurrency?

Not an upside, but probably that the mining is mostly done by 1 person (or org) who use a lot of energy. A gaming rig probably won't be running 24x7 as max utilization.
This reads a lot like the author just read Newport's "Deep Work". I highly recommend it if you liked this article.
I’m guessing they are going to try and raise the prices and create a new market segment. Just as they have separated datacenter GPUs, increased the price massively (coming up to a factor of 10x) and then tried to use a stick to prevent the use of desktop GPUs for datacenter work (eg. the licensing change).

Unfortunately (for their bottom line) it probably won’t work, if the restriction is in the driver then someone like myself (or many other people in HN) will have it patched in a number of hours. If it’s in the firmware it’ll take longer, but it’ll be done. Unless they’ve actually fused out integer units on the consumer cards, that would be bold.
One of the symptoms of ADHD, btw, lol.
The one you and your team master, where all the failing modes are known and predictable
can you send your twitter handle, I will DM you my email id. you can reach me at @rameshvel in twitter
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

As for what I am talking about, read Article 26.

I will quote the relevant phraseS (not the whole article) for brevity:

"Elementary education shall be compulsory"

and

"Education shall ... tons of stuff ... and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace."

And this is reinforced elsewhere.

"Article 29.3:

These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

"Article 30:

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein."

And just to explain why I said Brazil went with the cheating route after UN meddling:

Until around 1970s, Brazil didn't need the IMF or anything like that, thus it was ignoring the UN regarding certain subjects, among them it was that then the approach to public schooling was that the purpose of the public school was the education of brilliant students, and those that didn't want to be there shouldn't be there, so bad students, bullies, etc... were outright kicked out.
Saving children’s lives with world-first ‘dead’ heart transplants
I used to think life insurance was a waste until I had a family I was supporting. I found myself more concerned about dying. After increasing my life insurance, I was more comfortable with dying. The peace of mind is worth the cost to me.
I don't believe you can live on top of a landfill; it's too toxic. In fact I don't think you can even build housing on the site of a former landfill.
Well, despite the title, I am sure Nvidia does care about gamers, because they'll mostly sell to them once Ethereum switches away from GPU mining.
They are removing all the display ports from the card so I can't imagine it can be used for gaming.
What makes you think this is a useful adaptation and not an exploit of our system?
How would that be more of a con, than a company founder who holds a large amount of stock?
Deployed in Finland, vantaa airport i believe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54288067
It’s easier to fix 15+ Year old cars yourself.
There is a now a comment on that article where the ground observer identifies himself and gives a few more details, so looks like you're right.

> 1) I was giving Simon a heads up to look for a report out of DEN - if it was anything, I thought it was just something like a (big) compressor stall. That was why so many caveats were there - I wasn't sure at the time that the aircraft had had a problem. I didn't realize it was going to be widely reported until my mother texted me a couple of hours later asking if any of the plane parts came down close to me

> 2) Something I omitted that I should have put in: After I got home I imagined how many thumb-widths at arm's length it would take to occlude it (from memory), and plugged that into similar triangles and the length of a 737 (didn't realize it was a 777) to get an estimated altitude and got 2-4 thousand meters. I thought the cloud deck was only 2000 feet AGL or so, so I didn't believe the numbers. I did change "a couple" to "a few" though. Turns out it was ~8000 feet AGL. I should have believed more in the math!
This isn’t true. Software can be installed and used without being through this process, if the user explicitly allows it.

Just as if I download some software that hasn’t come from a ‘store’ on Linux I check it out before using it and only set execute permission if I’m happy, I do the same on MacOS.
I would argue that gaming creates a lot more value (joy) per tflophour(?) compared to mining. How many thousands of hours of gaming equals one btc transaction?
Maybe the residents could collectively hire someone sit in the lobby to collect and look after deliveries.
Every line of code that you write and can be proud of stays with you and adds up to your experience. You will produce more of it as you gain more experience.
less than 30 days ago. I made a comment[0] here on HN that Boeing planes safety records make your bowels shift, if you look up their safety records before you fly.
glad everyone on that flight was safe. but yeah airlines need to have a disclaimer when you fly certain planes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25904047
But as soon as you have Docker involved, you have reintroduced much of the complexity you had running vanilla VMs anyway. Serverless is then little more than an economic decision, something that might be a bit cheaper than maintaining a full-time VM to do whatever it is you're doing, as long as you can tolerate the code start penalty (which is typically greater when using Docker).

The main value in serverless, to me at least, is in the ability to write only the actual functionality you need and not care about setting up any run-time environment or setting up a substantial build process to make artefacts to support the run-time environment. With something like AWS Lambda, you can literally just copy and paste some function in any of several programming languages into a box on the dashboard, set a couple of details for security etc, and make it live.
twitter thread without a paywall: https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/136340724792211046...
Can you post more about the cause? I'm not familiar with this toxicity as a cause of depression. Thanks!
Not even the most dedicated gamer is going to burn the amount of electricity a miner does with the same hardware. That's not even considering the number of cards miners purchase...

The number of games that actually cause a modern GPU to hit its maximum TDP is also much lower than you'd think. If vsync is turned on, even a 3060 will trivially hit 60fps on older/simpler games, and modern ones unless the settings are turned way up. Games like Doom Eternal and Counter Strike Go are incredibly well optimized and can easily hit hundreds of frames per second on modern hardware. Likewise if it's a simple 2D game or more balanced title that leans on the CPU (unless you're using complex shader packs, popular games like Minecraft do a lot of their work on the CPU)
"Hey Siri, do my homework for me."

"I'm sorry, Dave, but I'm afraid you need to purchase the Universal Homework Cheating app from the App Store on your mobile device or move to Finland where there is no homework and better educational outcomes."

If AI/ML can be made general enough and enough computing horsepower is available, then a UHC is possible. Soon afterwards though, self-reprogramming will be possible, rendering most programmers and software engineers redundant. You then have to wonder what jobs cannot be automated until emotion AI and truly general AI arrive, and displace people into perhaps an economically-driven technological singularity / organic transcendence.
What usually happens when you are good at something is that you start being the best in your environment and that encourages you, for example you are the best in Math or playing football in your school.

Then you go to compete with the best of other schools and it becomes harder. Then you go to compete with the best your country and you meet people that are amazing. Then you see people around the world that run circles around you.

And even if you manage to compete in the world's league, you start competing against the best in History, in Math you will compete with Newton and Leibniz, Gauss or Euler. Even if you are the best mathematician of your time, you are insignificant against them.

The advantage people have today is tools like computers and Internet that gives you and advantage over people of the past, but also gives you a disadvantage: It gives you access to the best works of humanity while also increasing distractions by levels of magnitude.

It gives you computational power people in the past could only dream about, but uses that to power games, sexual scams and casinos in order to divert your attention and resources.

Today there are more opportunities than ever to create something of value for Humanity, but doing it is as hard as always has been.

And even "hard" work does not guarantee you anything. If you sacrifice a lot in order to create something worth it, maybe you will get rewarded, but it is not guarantied.

I prefer to study how to work smart instead of hard, but that process in itself is hard work.
Business idea: ML infused VCR player add-on to filter/upscale the output to your brand new 8K oled wall
How are you digitizing the 8mm tapes?

I've digitized my family video VHS tapes using an old computer and a tv-card, but apparently there are some 8mm tapes from before my time that could use digitizing as well but I don't know how I would go about doing it.
The two fundamental problems of Risk Management are that nobody can define risk, and you can't manage something that you can't define. :-)
To talk about "increasing risk" you need define risk and what ordering you put on risk. This article does neither.
Sure, ultimately gaming is entirely optional, but alas it's no different than other pastimes in that regard. Games make a lot of people very happy though and provide employment to millions (?) of people, so personally I'd put it higher in the needs hierarchy than crypto-currencies. Not being able to buy the latest graphics card due to high demand surely is a "first-world problem", but for NVIDIA it might become a problem if the situation persists, as they risk to anger a lot of loyal customers.

Also, gamers and professional users will likely still buy graphics cards in 5-10 years (and more so), while I'm pretty sure miners will have either given up or switched to more custom solutions like ASICs by then (which has already happened with Bitcoin). So NVIDIA also risks losing a long-term market to please a potential short-lived market, hence I think they do the right thing by trying to disentangle these two market segments for good.
I spend a lot of every year bike touring, and on popular routes I have met other tourers and talked about this very issue, or observed their behavior. Apparently, a lot of cyclists still feel a compulsion to stop every X minutes so that they can take out their phones and look at their social media.
Good point re landfill - haven't seen anyone else raise that
chess24 https://www.youtube.com/user/chess24media/videos

They broadcast most top tournaments, often with ridiculously strong commentary teams.

The chess video I've enjoyed most is el Fo vs Eljanov[1] on chess24's spanish channel[0]. Exhilarating and so funny. Probably almost as enjoyable if you don't know any spanish.

Also I really love Ben Finegold's chess videos, especially from St Louis[2], educational, but it's mostly about the jokes.

Apart from that.. if you haven't seen Captain Disillusion (debunking fake videos), Every Frame a Painting (visual language of movies), and Vi Hart (art/maths/music/etc) - do yourself a favour!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTzRQxC3i7GOT4jtiTq4e0w

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x2jnDwfxPU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVWaFpMwtaGiBxi79IUqn...
> Does anybody else think that the "mining is bad for the environment and gamers can't buy the cards" argument is a bit weird? After all, if all these cards weren't used for mining but for gaming, wouldn't the environmental outcome be the same?

I never had that specific opinion, but I have another point of view.

Games bring inherent value to the table. That is, if you didn't play games you would be reading a book, going outside to play, browsing the web... Games fill a purpose and bring value. Whether or not I believe our current consumption of videogames is acceptable is irrelevant.

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.

(I had a paragraph here making a point about international transaction costs. I removed it because I started to find it offtopic. Long story short: I find the societal cost of crypto way too high).
One of my old school teachers (ordinary UK comprehensive) was fired for doing German speaking tests one on one with some helpful phrases written on the board in the background.
Reminds me of this techmoan episode about HD VHS movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE

surprisingly nice
> If code is contributed to 0AD under the GPL, they could not combine it with proprietary graphics.

You could use the free 0AD engine to play a proprietary campaign, just as you can use the free Calibre to read a proprietary book.

> This violates the spirit of free software.

That's a matter of opinion. The roots of free software are about empowering users to fix bugs in functional code; computer gaming was barely a thing in those days, and while fixing outright bugs in games is an obvious extension of the same philosophy, changing artworks is much less so.
I also made myself a deb packager script in 100 lines: https://github.com/qznc/simpledeb

It doesn't cover anything fancy like post-install actions though.
The blog isn’t really an argument against MongoDB however.

In many ways it’s an argument for MongoDB considering if you’ve built a JS based application MongoDB minimizes any additional learning and having to translate between the objects on the front end and in the backend. Non relational DBs are also easier to scale horizontally without requiring any application changes.

The OP is an argument against introducing new technology without a significant clear benefit. It’s basically saying that simply having a new tech can add significant complexity, unknown unknowns, and require much more maintenance and other costs.

So if your web application is currently running on MongoDB and it’s running well then this is an argument to stick to MongoDB instead of say migrating to postgresql going forward.
IMHO, It is like sailing on a boat - you at least need to have a rough direction, otherwise you will get nowhere
Totally, and if you mix it with yarns plug and play you should get best of both worlds
Another one of the many fascinating ads, for the "TELEPOST COMPANY", advertising ...

"25-word TELEGRAMS, any distance, for 25c.

50-word TELEPOSTS, any distance, for 250c.

100-word TELETAPES, any distance, for 25c.

10-word TELECARDS, any distance, for 10c."

... makes one wonder what the difference between a "TELEGRAM", a "TELEPOST", a "TELETAPE" and a "TELECARD" was ...
> I can't phantom why none writes a compiler for it. Would be a huge advantage

When every variable and field access involves a hash table lookup, the interpreter loop is not the primary performance bottleneck.
My thought is that there are a number of parents who would say that the punishment is worth it if you can get your child into a top-tier university (based on my first reference - the parent spent no jail time away).
Not usable without display ports.
What about the US military's FB page? Didn't they cause thousands of innocent deaths in Iraq? I'm sure some Americans can somehow justify it, but I doubt the grieving Iraqi's will accept it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massa...
How long-term your vision is? Is it 1-year or 10-year or maybe 30-year? I have met a guy who had a vision for 50 years ahead - sound crazy but works for him.
There are already a bunch of other cases like this. For example, the Windows GeForce drivers have been for years (if not decades) loaded with a bunch of shady OpenGL heuristics to punish you if you do stuff that looks like enterprise/industrial rendering (AutoCAD, etc).

For an ordinary game developer this means cheap operations like texture readback will go from taking 1ms to 16ms (bumping your framerate down). The same stuff is consistently fast in Direct3D because enterprise/industrial workloads don't use it.

NVENC for hardware video encoding is also artificially limited on consumer cards, which forces you to buy quadros for scenarios where you want to do multi streaming.
> it's okay to accept the necessity of overindulgence given the circumstances

Yes and no. To be honest I am not very happy with all the articles/folks advocating that people should en masse self-medicate during covid with gaming/hours on internet. Its like unless you sit in front of computer/phone there is literally nothing to do at home, just slowly go crazy. I wish governments did recognize this since early pandemics and actually encouraged people to do individual sports outdoors, not effectively banning like in France. That's much better way to keep one fit mentally, and as a bonus physically too which helps not only with covid.

The reason for my opinion is this behavior creates patterns that will be very hard to shed off for many people, once things go +-back to as they were (although I don't think we ever get there 100%). Unfortunately, humans are creatures of habits and wired to create many dependencies, ie on substances, but also activities that produce dopamine rush.

I hope I am wrong in this. Maybe it won't be as bad and the same people would end up with these 'addictions' regardless of covid, maybe a bit less pronounced.
I think you're still missing what I'm saying. Yes, running a grid 100% on renewables is probably extremely difficult. Yes, nuclear may be the optimal way forward today. But I still think the most likely outcome is the renewable grid anyway.

Why? Because there's no "we". There's no central planning. What there is is a bunch of self-interested parties that don't care about the entirety of the problem. Everybody will go with what makes the most sense to them, the result will be suboptimal, and then once things go wrong the country will have to fix the problems somehow.

Your plan may make sense in China where the government can indeed implement a central plan, costs and opinions be damned. But it seems extremely unlikely to happen in most western democracies because the politics won't support it.

"Yeah, that's why there's no plan to actually decarbonize with renewables."

What I'm trying to say is that there's no global plan whatsoever. In most countries we don't have the ability to implement any kind of comprehensive central policy. We have multiple parties that can nudge things in one direction or another but none of which has full control over what happens.

"Pass a carbon tax such that building a nuclear plant is less expensive than running solar during the day and natural gas at night."

But the problem is that there's no single party in charge of solving that problem. You pass a carbon tax. Fossil fuels die. Companies will build solar, because it makes them money. Companies won't build nuclear because it's expensive to build and solar is eating their lunch. The powerplant building company cares nothing about the economics of keeping the country powered 24/7, they care about the economics of building their plant. If their business model works okay while selling nothing at night, then it works, and that's that.

Then we'll get blackouts at night, solar companies will shrug "not our problem", and the government will have to scramble to find a solution.
It can be. NVDA's stance is utter bull. It is entirely possible to render video games and stream them to another display [1,2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1nok2VlF1M

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfIibTBaoMM
Won't be long before tesla shills turn this in to EV is the mother of all solutions BS