skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always amazed how consumers will demand less for their money.
I have also travelled a lot in the past...

You presumably do have a "home" country in the sense of where your bank accounts are, get a cheap permanent sim/phone no with roaming, buy the tiniest phone you can off amazon and stick it in as your 2factor permanent number.

Yes, you have to keep that phone charged, but your problem is now permanently solved, it's how I did it.
I prefer to call it "imaginary property", although I do not agree with you on "private property".
I was also wondering why nvidia felt the need to step in. Selling cards is selling cards, having too much demand doesn't seem like a problem they should want solved.

Sure it does incur some PR cost as gamers are frustrated not to be able to purchase the cards, but I doubt it really damages their brand in the long term, and AFAIK AMD also faces similar issues so it's not like it massively benefits the competition.

If I were nvidia I'd be cynically very happy that miners are buying my cards in droves. What am I missing?
That might actually suit NVIDIA's interests just fine - they could sell uncrippled GPGPU-capable cards at a premium whilst claiming that they're helping to protect the supply of cards for gamers. However I think it would be difficult to do this without also breaking rendering pipelines.
> Humans are more versatile, easier to train, quickly replaceable when one goes offline, and keep a much cleaner workstation.

This is a biassed viewpoint.

The problem is that humans do dozens of tasks. When we take one of them and give it to a machine, we view that as a new tool, and we imagine the human hasn't had its work reduced, because 19/20 of the things they were doing last month they still are.

Fry machines are now automatic. So are cash registers. Many locations' burgers are auto-flipped. Those ice cream machines automate 5 different human jobs. Lots of orders are taken on machine now. Etc, etc, etc.

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> Humans are more versatile, easier to train, quickly replaceable when one goes offline, and keep a much cleaner workstation.

No they don't. If you made your own ice cream, you'd understand.

It's just that when a machine takes over one specific job, we stop thinking of that as having been a human job, and let the human messes go out of our heads.

There was a time when fast food restaurants sliced their own cheese; ground their own beef; cut and cooked their own french fries; mixed their own sodas.

You don't live long enough to understand the progress of piecemeal automation.
For reference, Amazon's anti-union site:

https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/
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Alcohol is a bad example to compare vices too. It is definitely a very dangerous substance, nobody argues that, but it is so ingrained in many countries cultures that outlawing it would be political suicide. In fact, it was already attempted in America, we saw how that went.

Prohibition didn't fail because alcohol is actually a 'safe' substance, it failed because it is addictive and people wanted it back. Allowing other substances to gain this status should be done with _extreme_ consideration.

Disclaimer: I think psychedelic's do have valid medicinal uses, but I have also had a very bad mushroom trip before, I know what they can do to your brain. My personality was forever changed.
Intactness of 55% vs 75% should make no real difference to your view either of efficacy or of danger. Because:

Efficacy: the mRNA vaccines have a large margin for error with respect to dose. 55% of several times more than enough is still more than enough.

Danger: suppose the danger of broken-up mRNA to increase linearly with the amount given. Then the increase of danger would be by a factor of (100-55)/(100-78) ~= 2. The substantiated near-term danger of Pfizer is very low. We're at 5.2 million people vaxxed in Israel now… Twice of very low is very low. In order to argue for "too much" danger you have to argue either for non-linearity or for long-term high danger. If you argue for the latter then you already think the danger to be high, so there's no real difference between your view now and your view before. If you want to argue non-linearity of danger then you are arguing for a very remarkable biological coincidence. You also have to explain why the occasional 5x overdoses, which happen when a someone is given a whole vial by mistake, don't seem to be doing any harm. Never mind that it would have come out in the animal trials.
The number of times I’ve been obliterated by a comet: 0.

Draw your own conclusions.
It wasn't cracked. Nvidia released a driver which didn't do the restriction.
> Yocto creates a sysroot for each recipe which contains only the specified dependencies

It didn't used to. This was a major improvement in how yocto acts when it was added.
Not a surprising reaction after the (mostly baseless) smear campaign against Sputnik V.
> You are not owed anything.

He is owed whatever the price someone is willing to pay for his shares which for now seems to be around $300k. He is not owed anything else though.

> Putting money in a company is not work.

He did work for that money, and he did take a risk investing it in these shares, a risk many were not willing to take. This is what he is being rewarded for now. Doesn't make him a hero or whatever of course.
https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/tomt-robertsfors-robertsfors-ko...

Free as long as you live there afterwards.

https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/tomt-norra-rorum-hoors-kommun-s...

10k SEK, close enough to cities to commute.
> but it obviously wasn’t worthless

I disagree, there's nothing obvious about it. On the contrary, I argue that it WAS worthless (in the same vein that "ideas are worthless" - not that they lack anything of value, but that without sustained effort & dedication to extract said value, they're really not worth much).

Also, it's entirely possible that the value of the company was actually _negative_ for the investors. Happens with other stuff too - sometimes you throw out junk that others recondition & sell for large sums of money. Were you tricked by those who resold your junk?
EToro to go public via merger with blank check company at $10.4bn valuation
It's not about substituting charging stations. It's about getting _part_ of your energy requirements from the panels. Check the figures in the grandfather comment: energy gains are in the ballpark of 1000 miles / year.
Totally_safe_transmute, Line-by-Line
The problem with that however is that games might be using the GPU for non-visual things such as physics or AI. Would those 'off by one' errors impact those tasks?
I offer food for thought. Nothing more, nothing less.
In a city, since everything is at most a few miles away, one shouldn't need a car to get around. Just put some trams/electric buses and bike lanes around. There, now you've removed about half the cars in the world.
Panels and a few wires. Not that complicated. No moving parts; so very few reasons for this to break. I've seen some pretty beat up panels on boats that are very old and still allow people to charge their phone and have some lights on inside. Super robust stuff.

This particular car is priced quite nicely even if it came without this. So does not sound like there is a lot of extra cost.

I'm guessing manufacturers spend more on things like seat warmers or other stuff manufacturers put in cars these days. Also these things are probably more likely to break.

And if you consider the environment, imagine the energy savings over the life time of the vehicle not charging from (potentially) dirty sources. It would only be a waste if that energy wasn't used which would require you to religiously plug it in the second you stop driving.

Also, panels can be recycled (just like cars and batteries) and mostly don't contain that much nasty stuff to begin with. So, I don't see the problem here necessarily.
> Make the solution cheap and the problem goes away all by itself.

If we also made the energy storage cheap then you would be right. But it's not cheap.
However, for -O3 on ARMv8, LLVM generates pretty good if slightly inscrutable code [1]:

rec: // @rec
bic w0, w0, w0, asr #31
ret

That's taking the sign bit, replicating it to 32b and then using it as a not'd mask.

negative numbers:
w0, asr #31 => -1
bic w0, w0, -1 => and w0, w0, 0 => ret 0

positive numbers:
w0, asr #31 => 0
bic w0, w0, 0 => and w0, w0, 0xffffffff => ret w0

gcc is also pretty good [2]:

rec:
cmp w0, 0
csel w0, w0, wzr, gt
ret

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/q9hM7z

[2] https://godbolt.org/z/6rbE5e
Not only did I not realize you were OP, I also didn't realize the original Cookie Clicker isn't the one I played.

Universal Paperclips cures/inoculates against Cookie Clicker 2 easily. Cookie Clicker Classic looks too addictive for me to let myself try it.
Although depending how good you really are at the "sustain yourself" bit, you might find that "your whole life" isn't all that long.
It doesn't get TCOd, the compiler simply recognizes what it does and optimizes it. It does literally same thing with the code below.

int count(int n) {
int res = 0;
for (int i=0; i < n; i++) res++;
return res;
}
And sorry but I am not able to find confirmation about him doing this in his own land which makes the whole situation a bit more awkward.

Someone linked to a newspaper article above that made it clear he is building on land owned by his family.
Racism is real in America, but money is far more powerful. A rich person of color is more "white" than the white poor.

Our political system with its for-profit lobbying industry is basically legalized systematized bribery. Search for lobbying firms and you can probably get a price quote on what it costs to influence legislature.
I don't think it's about "bashing new technologies" so much as it is about offering another perspective. Perhaps one that's less sexy, or perhaps one that's simpler and might work just as well in some cases. "XYZ SUCKS" posts are few and far between.
> Nvidia is full of smart people

If that were truly the case I wouldn't have to deal with multiple fuck ups caused by Nvidia releasing drivers with improper signing (windows seems fine with it, but virtualbox runs into issues with it due to hardening checks.)
A PyTorch-based speech toolkit
Remember about ten years ago, how there was a fad to raise money, then use it to buy every single item on the shelves of a small convenience store? The intention was to keep small locally-owned stores in business by buying more from them. However, even though it brought a lot of profit on that one day, it meant that the shelves were empty for the next few weeks. The regulars saw that, and needed to find somewhere else to shop. The regulars left, and some never came back, leaving the store in worse financial position as before.

Cryptocurrency miners are driving up the prices of GPUs. NVIDIA wants to make sure that they have stock available for their regular customers, because that is where the long-term profit comes from. Ramping up production is not feasible on the short time scale that cryptocurrencies have been around, nor is it known whether cryptocurrencies will be around for long enough to recover such an investment.

TL;DR: Cryptocurrency miners are messing up the long-term GPU market, and NVIDIA is trying to maintain that market.
it just means they don't make a profit, officially, right? but they get paid to cover everything: workforce, R&D, opening extra plants, bonuses for executives, etc. I'm sure it's practically no different. just accounting magic. just the fact that they get paid to ramp up production is enough win. they'll leverage this to make profit later.
> We should address this problem globally by making sure wealth is redistributed according to everyone's needs.

An artist doesn't need the dole, they can get a job and make art on their own time.
> The alternative was to close down the company completely

No, the alternative was to give the IP and equity ownership proportionally to the employees, not 100% to the founder.

Instead, they gave it all to the founder and none to the employees who built the IP (as far as I can tell from public documents).

Employees were told they received nothing because their work was useless. Apparently it wasn’t so useless.
> a very disciplined approach to safety [...] they still share the same code, which is also mutable, so they can communicate through that

Disciplined, maybe; usable/sane, certainly not. Then again, it's INTERCAL, so that was most certainly the intention.
I’m curious how this is different from shutting down a paid service or removing software features. Seems like there’s a large grey area.
Living in a dense neighbourhood where you don't need to commute by car is more efficient still. But yes, if that isn't an option, an electric car, preferrably a Tesla so you can indirectly support Musk's space exploration goals, seems like the next best option.
Storytelling with Data: 5 Steps to Create an In-App Data Visualization
this is nothing but BS. There's so much BS that it's hard to know where to begin. The PV panel power output per square meter is a good place to begin. It's telling that they aren't comparing to standard, off the shelf PV panels which put out over 200 W/m2 as standard. Higher values are commonplace these days. And mind you, that figure of 200 W/m2 is at peak power levels which occur infrequently, often only an hour or two per day at the height of summer.

Second, this idea of "charging" ignores a very real issue with cities - shading and latitude. Even if every single car on city streets had PV panels, it is always going to be less technically and financially efficient when compared to rooftop solar which has the benefit of being at a higher elevation and being able to produce more energy. Most cities with the combination of wealth and population required for something like this are not at the equator, they are not even close to the tropics. They are further north. Shading is a bigger problem there as houses of even 5 - 10 m in height cast long shadows.

Edit - sad to see that people here will take EV manufacturer's words as gospel and will downvote critical comments. Good luck to anyone purchasing vapourware such as this.
Plenty of those people depend on copyright law to prevent studios from stealing their scripts and producing them without paying the writer. Or are we supposed to against independent creators, and insist that artists return to the patronage system so we can eliminate copyright?
Do you test for compatibility with the Wii and Nintendo DS browsers?
Not to excuse Amazon or anything, but absolutely every company in America does this. Most of them don't bother with subterfuge though and just go with threats or firings. And one of our main political parties is vehemently anti-union and keeps winning elections.
Apparently it's gotten even worse in the last month, since Samsung and NXP's fabs are in winter-blizzard-disaster Texas, and TSMC is in a once-in-a-century level of drought area
Coevolution of Human and Artificial Intelligences
The middle part.

It's a little more complicated than that, but mostly, away from the coasts and famous cities (Chicago, Austin, etc.), most of middle America is pretty cheap -- by American standards. It's still a lot more expensive than most of the world, obviously. But there are lots of places you could live reasonably comfortably for 2-3 years on $125k. Hell, there are a lot of places you could buy a house for $80k, and $45k buys a lot of food and internet. ;-)
“I Can Sleep When I’m Dead”
European cars have more complexity, so more things that can break that requires expensive parts especially things that makes it more comfortable to drive on roads that are rarely flat or straight. There's less space for parking and more public transport in Europe so the second hand vehicle market is constrained so there's less incentive to make the cars last longer to retain resale value. Western European climate is wetter so corrosion used to be a big issue but it's much less so with modern materials. There's also a critical mass issue, e.g. Toyota is not so popular in some parts of Europe so the parts end up more expensive than say for VW parts.

My tip is to buy a car that's relatively popular where you are and in that area have a reputation for reliability and maintainability because this is actually different depending on where in the world you are.

For example I drive a first generation Land Rover Freelander in the UK that's 17 years old and it's the most reliable and maintainable vehicle I've had in the 5 different countries that I've lived in, but to most people around the world it would sound like I'm completely insane.
The only plus I can see is that if you leave your car at the airport for a week or some other long term parking situation, you don't come back to a dead battery.
> The only real problem with Al is, obviously, that we keep misreading it as AI. The confusion will drive some lesser Al insane, and either that or the singularity will cause a bloodbath, henceforth known as Al Gore.

I think the person who wrote that is being a bit satirically playful, here.
Question is whether the panels on the car's roof or on the building's roof can be installed cheaper, and how the installation+maintainance / energy output ratio compares.
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Care to show some sources?
Just so you know, you can nest deeper, you just have to wait a little while.

HN has an anti-flamewar system which kicks in when there's too many comments too fast in one chain.
Studded winter tires are a major health hazard though[0][1]

[0] https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/cuot-swt1001...

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110105121137.h...
Isn’t this less due to Covid than to increased demand from different sectors like automotive, etc?
They are a novelty that is often surprising in the how their simple set of rules can lead to quite amazing emergent complexity. That the one-time chaotic game of life was eventually shown to be able to stably infinitely expand and be turing complete is quite interesting.

I don't know that they'll ever be useful for efficient computation, but they will likely always remain fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

I have not read it myself, but I know that Stephen Wolfram ( of Mathematica/Wolfram Alpha) laid out some arguments for the usefulness of studying cellular automata in his early 2000s book "A New Kind of Science".
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> I see one use case: leaving the car for extended periods of time unplugged, say at an airport parking lot.

You're making a big assumption there - that the parking lot is open to the sky which many airport parking lots are not.
He can have all mine for a tenner! How do I contact him?
Covid shelter-in-place orders reduced the odds of a non-natural death by 14.4%
Github hosted anything suffers from the same problem, obviously. Russian govt. would just pressure github to remove any content they don't want.
And accelerating virtual credit cards in Africa to expand eCom
I - honest to God - think that this isn't a good idea: it makes the HTML basically unreadable, plus if you end mixing up Turbo and plain CSS sheets it's gonna be a manteinability mess since you have to costantly look on (at least!) two different places.
Also happens with antibiotics in Spain and surprising numbers of other places
Docker is not for production (most of the time), it's a dev tool.

Ignore docker compose (and swarm and whatever else), because you don't need it. The basic Dockerfile format is simple, it reads like a bash script without logic, basically it's a list of dependencies. Then you need to understand the difference between images and containers, and you're good to go.

If you're lucky enough to be developing on Linux, then docker is just a name for a bunch of stuff that's mostly already built into the OS.
> Sadly, quantum supremacy may mean this form of cryptography will soon be dead

I don't think it will be soon, but when it happens it won't necessarily be sad.
Eh... To me it seems just as cringe as Steve Balmer shouting "Developers Developers Developers".
I don't think making drugs illegal has really made their availability difficult, but I went to a highschool where drugs were pretty readily available if that's what someone was looking for. So to me it looks like tax income & supply chain regulation being left on the table
Congress, specifically Republicans in congress, hate the post office and would like nothing better than to see the whole institution burned to the ground and replaced with private business.
PWA is going to break in August 2021
I hate Amazon and stories like this make me hate it even more. I stopped ordering anything from them and, if anything, this has actually improved my consumer experience.

Most stuff you can buy on Amazon these days is the same garbage that is sold on Wish but you pay ~25-50% more for it to come within a couple of days. Not shopping at either has definitely raised the average life span and quality of goods in my household.

Now I only wish I could find a way to move all our infrastructure off AWS...
Musicians Organize Global Protests at Spotify Offices
There is the issue that miners tend to dump the used cards on the market much sooner than a gamer would.
Try DuckDB! I've been getting 20x SQLite performance on one thread, and it usually scales linearly with threads!
I think I mostly agree. When TCE isn’t guaranteed, it seems pretty bad to have code that runs fine in one engine but blows up the stack in another. When it is guaranteed it’s still hard because modifications to code may break TCE and so as well as knowing what those things are (eg wrapping in a try block), you need to be careful about every change that breaks TCE to make sure that the code isn’t relying on TCE. Also I think JS might have extra problems due to eg arguments.caller.

In languages which do have guaranteed TCE like scheme or ML variants, I think I would rather see some way to explicitly say “this is a tail call which should be eliminated” or “all recursive calls to this function should be tail calls” and then have the compiler complain if you have a call which should be eliminated but isn’t in tail position. I think the reason for clojure not doing TCE is that, in general[1], it is a global optimisation (not possible by simple syntax transformation) that the jvm doesn’t do. So clojure didn’t really have a choice in whether or not to have TCE.

[1] it is more possible to transform recursive or mutually recursive code into iterative code, but the latter becomes hard in the face of a dynamic language where functions can be redefined and impossible to do locally for all tail calls.
I really wanted to get one of those, around 2008. Sounded pretty cool; but I wasn't sure how long it would take them to get such an unusual design to market.
Strangely these sites never have the most useful knots. Most prominently the "recursive slipknot", where you secure a slipknot with a slipknot until it feels secure. And the other one is "reverse-8". First you make a single eight and the you track the eight with another rope but from opposite end. Mountaineers seem to extend their ropes with this, because the knot is still easy to open. Third one is the "reindeer-knot" suitable for frozen leather, but I cannot describe it easily.