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The specialized hardware in GPUs is targeted at encoding content on the fly. While you could use this to encode a video for later playback it has a couple of drawbacks when it comes to size and quality, namely h264, keyframes, static frame allocations, no multipass encoding, etc. ... This is why video production software that supports GPU encoding usually marks this option as "create a preview, fast!". It's fast but that's it. If you want a good quality/size ratio you would use something like VP9 for example. Because of missing specialized hardware and internals of the codec itself currently this is very slow. Add multipass encoding, something like 4k at 60 frames, adaptive codec bitrates and suddenly encoding a second takes a over two minutes ... the result is the need for specialized hardware.
Here is Europe:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/chartimage?uri=/economy/governmentpub...

The EU average is about the same as Canada at 13.7% of GDP. The UK is up at 19.2%. If anything, I would think that Canada's 2020 deficit is pretty typical of developed countries.
From the article:

>“President Biden has proposed a new, fairer system for taxing large corporations and digital companies but the UK has not come out in support of the reforms. The silence is deafening. The government must act and help to grasp this once-in-a-generation opportunity to banish corporate tax avoidance to a thing of the past.”
I just tested it and, in bash at least, it actually works fine.

echo foo | # echoing foo
tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'
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Yeah. That's right. Source in this thread.

He also listed the pro's and con's of marriage in a whiteboard when he made the decision. (Nothing wrong with that. More people should do that)
I think it's significant in that diamonds may now make up a lot more of the lower end of the market. This has the possibility to change their image from one of remote inaccessibility to one of availability to the masses.

What the eventual fallout will be, who knows.
I don't think that's for overnight storage, though. More for shifting into the evening peak.
Yes, when signing up for the beta I almost included 'eroticc but I thought better of it.
There are many considerations and compromises to be made when finding a partner. Compromising on her stance regarding blood diamonds might be necessary when finding a partner who shares your other values.
One of the previous bidders for .org wanted to limit it to only the US definition of "non profit"

Which meant that the Red Cross did not qualify - that application quickly got kicked out I seem to recall
Some numbers:

The US Forest Service estimates that 1 acre of forest stores about 80 tons of carbon. You could store about 180 billion tons of carbon onto that area if it were all a forest.

CO2 makes up about 3 trillion tons of the atmosphere. ~27% of it is carbon, therefore there is roughly 800 billion tons of carbon in the atmosphere.

It seems plausible that if we somehow planted a forest on the entire Sahara desert, that we could reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere by a significant amount.

I hope I didn't make any errors in my calculations.
For some reason I typed "www" for an emberessly long time.
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>"To me, the term "hacking" describes the habit of doing things in a more interesting/efficient/fun way than how they are usually done."

I was with computers and sometime electronics for like 40 years already. That alone supplies me with enough "interesting ways". I do not have to have every other aspect of my life to be "interesting". I do not sleep on a stool either.

There are also many convenient practical aspects of registering marriage that are mentioned in other replies.
> When seeing the pants with the bigger pockets, she complained about the fit or aesthetics of those brands

This is a great insight. Women's fashion tends to run more form-fitting than men's. Even empty pockets add fabric and seams. It's not hard to imagine a generous pocket hidden in a hoop skirt somewhere, but in a pair of fashionable women's pants?
As long as the concept "real diamond", as in mined the traditional way exists, then real change will be slow.

It will be interesting to see if companies will try to market "real diamonds" and how the market will respond.
Current Bluetooth profiles don't support high-quality bidirectional audio.

"Bluetooth LE Audio" is supposed to resolve this in the future.
Your opinion on this matter is not particularly important ;)

Although you should bear in mind there is a correlation between the amount spent on getting married and the likelihood of divorce.
Always remember the whole diamond ring thing was a marketing putsh by DeBeers in the first place.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...

So arguably buying a diamond ring has always been a symbol of wage oppression and terrible mining conditions in Africa, and any right thinking person should boycott it.

Fortunately my SO isn't that struck by sparkly rocks. She prefers antique jewellery with character and history. Her wedding ring is 150 years old.
I didn't flag. But this is stupid human interest story.
Many (human-written) books and articles are 10% content and 90% fluff and repetition. The articles shared on HN are a good example.

If the goal is to increase the SNR, GPT-3 is probably not going to help.
Junk paperbacks about truck drivers sound interesting... Remember any titles?
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Like n-gate, this changed the way HN seems to me. I just looked for an hour yesterday... already on here today I've seen a couple of comments that reminded me of it. Life's too short to spend regular time reading the worst HN comments, or seeking them out and posting them in that channel. But still—once seen, you can't go back to that innocent state. And I'm glad /r/LOLHackerNews exists.

I don't think I'll be going back though. Whereas sometimes HN gets so much like n-gate's version of it, or even moreso, that I feel impelled to go to n-gate to feel saner!

(I can't give a link for...certain reasons)
Why do you think that?

If there is one thing that we do know it is that depression, say, is multifactorial and complex. In very few cases are the reasons only biological (but they do exist). See e.g.

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
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I found the idiosyncratic use of a semicolon in the salutation to be a bit too peculiar to ignore. Maybe this is a common thing in Anglophonic countries, however I've never seen a semicolon used in this way. Online language and grammar sources[1] seem to indicate that this is incorrect. I think it's a bit too much of a coincidence that both his wife and the writer of the 'tips' used this incorrectly in the same way.

[1] https://learnenglishwithdemi.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/comma-...
This article makes me think that if you know what you’re doing, it doesn’t matter whether it’s through a screen or not. It makes sense based on my own low-stakes experience (socialising through screens)
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I gave my wife my grandmother's engagement and wedding rings
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> A headline with 5G but not a single mention of it in the article.

Because: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27035599
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It was indeed a serious question. Thank you for your answer.

I disagree with the notion that the success of a for-profit company is solely defined as "profitability". Factors such as growth or value are also often cited as success criteria. I couldn't find literature supporting your statement that profitability is the only measure of company success.

Intuitively, it also seems wrong to me to claim that a children's lemonade stand netting $10 in profit is a more successful business than Tesla.
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Wow this is a very interesting theory. Like a reverse conspiracy theory! How could we go about comparing the likelihoods?
Agree. The name for this is clean room design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
My personal anecdote: Math is not my strong side, to put it mildly, but I can write simulators just fine. When solving the first n Euler problems I got stuck on the analytical solution of the chip defect problem. Simulating it was easy enough. But whoever put those Euler problems together was pretty clever: the simulated answer wasn't precise enough (8 digits instead of 10 if I recall), forcing you to find the analytical one, or to brute force the remaining two digits.
I think it's safe to say that if I were marrying someone who required a blood diamond, we'd be on different enough pages that we should not get married.
If they can offer mass-market diamonds at prices that hit their target demographics, they might well become one of the biggest!
Paraphrased from a previous comment of mine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26699188):

I did not get a dianmond, but a Moissanite ring. A couple of things I learned along the way:

- I bought the ring and the Moissenite seperately. I bought the ring at a regular jewelry store (my spouse found one she liked). It is a very HARD sell when you buy the ring to also get the diamond. I ended up buying the ring online to pick it up, and I have wondered since then if they would have refused to sell me the ring if I tried to buy it in store without a diamond.

- I bought the moissanite online. It was nice seeing a linear increase in price on size versus an exponential price difference (I got it from here: https://www.charlesandcolvard.com/ )

- When I took the moissanite to a jewelry store to get it mounted, the "fake" diamond detector actually said the moissanite was a diamond! I was actually very surprised to see that, and I was candid in the fact that I brought them a moissanite.

- As soon as the jewelry store found out I bought them a moissanite, they said they cannot do anything with it. I ended up bringing the ring and moissanite to a store that deals in moissanites.

My spouse likes her ring, and absolutely no one has been able to tell the difference. I have seen is commenting on how "flawless" the "diamond" looks, and the "diamond" must have cost a lot due to it looking flawless.
yes, that's what we all say
I did exactly the same, engagement ring was made of plastic with some fake shiny stone! Though for our wedding rings we did get real gold with no stones.
OpenStreetMap.org, on the other side, is a website representing an ecosystem that includes data, software and services.
Dan brown seems to do this. Da Vinci code, angels and demons, and the one about the NSA all have the same plot structure.
Going to guess limited impact. The Colarado Desert is 7 million acres. This project will use 2000 acres. That's 0.02%.
The flip side though, is that you're making diamond miners unemployed. I suspect if they had alternate employment opportunities available that were more pleasant/better-paying, they'd have already taken them.

So losers are the poor folks digging in the ground and winners are the companies who've just built themselves a lab.

Maybe a way out of this, would be price up the grown diamonds to include a charitable donation to help create alternate employment for the miners. Would be quite nice to have that representation included in the shiny thing on a finger.
Ah, this may have been my problem (see other comment in this thread). I will have to try this again now with a better RNG. Thank you!
Is it a web app? UI doesn't look native to me
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I don’t see that quote as being too relevant. If a country in the EU wants more tax revenue, then that country or the EU should change its laws.

I’m unclear why Biden or the US applies in this case.
> … but I do worry neither of them will find that depth of connection again.

I made this point to a divorcing friend - he started dating his first ever girlfriend shortly after.
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From the sound of it you find pleasure in exploring something new (dopamine kind of pleasure).

Whould you enjoy writing code with same language, same data structures & algorithms for a long period of time?

If not => you don’t really enjoy coding itself.
just the title itself is utter bs
Bubble sort is just fine if you're sure you'll only have a few items, or if it's likely that it might already be sorted, but it's still embarrassing admitting implementing it. Even Barack Obama knows that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort#Performance

>The only significant advantage that bubble sort has over most other algorithms, even quicksort, but not insertion sort, is that the ability to detect that the list is sorted efficiently is built into the algorithm. When the list is already sorted (best-case), the complexity of bubble sort is only O(n). By contrast, most other algorithms, even those with better average-case complexity, perform their entire sorting process on the set and thus are more complex. However, not only does insertion sort share this advantage, but it also performs better on a list that is substantially sorted (having a small number of inversions). Additionally, if this behavior is desired, it can be trivially added to any other algorithm by checking the list before the algorithm runs.

>In popular culture: In 2007, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt asked then-presidential candidate Barack Obama during an interview about the best way to sort one million integers; Obama paused for a moment and replied "I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go."

Here's an implementation of bubble sort written in PostScript by Sam Leffler, renowned BSD/Lucasfilm/Pixar/SGI/Alias/Softimage/VMWare hacker, which he sent me and gave me permission to distribute in 1988, but which he was too embarrassed to sign his own name to, so he used the pseudonym "Bobo Leffler".

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/psiber/cyber/bubblesort....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Leffler

Also here's a PostScript heap sort by Owen Densmore of Sun, and a PostScript insertion sort by John Warnock of Adobe, both of whom used their real names:

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/psiber/cyber/heapsort.ps

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/psiber/cyber/insertion-s...
That is rather sad. Whatever you think of Microsoft and whether we should have billionaires, the Gates Foundation has done some incredible work. I hope the press gives them a bit of privacy and respect (fat chance).
Pretty much, the US makes up ~50% of the global diamond jewelry consumer market.

It seems the US-focused De Beers marketing campaign from half a century ago is still holding strong.
It displayed battery level for the Magic Mouse as well at one point.
Just to say, thats a great attitude - and that I am happy to hear is an option amoungst a sea of 'if you are not on the same page your marriage is in trouble' comments
This kind of thing is why I've always argued against the death penalty.

There are people that deserve it but it's very hard to figure out who.
Compared to the PC BIOS, OpenBoot (Open Firmware, IEEE 1275) was quite advanced. Network booting is something that took PCs quite a while to get (PXE), and platform-independent drivers still don't exist.

Apple used the system for quite a while as well.
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Oops sorry about that. Just found out about this wonderful program from this HN comment here(1). Should have been more careful to check it through algolia before posting though.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085914
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If you actually understand "investing" you will understand that you can't beat the indexes and are doomed to failure by trying to use "momentum" to do anything other than lose money.
I’m fairly sure that this paper is the one alluded to in the original press release:

Le-Niculescu, H., Roseberry, K., Gill, S.S. et al.

Precision medicine for mood disorders: objective assessment, risk prediction, pharmacogenomics, and repurposed drugs.

Mol Psychiatry (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01061-w
I do the same thing when I write (except for my comments on HN lol)

GPT-3 reads like the unfiltered garbage that comes out of my head when I'm trying to get ideas out. The primary difference is that I have empathy for the audience so I go through the effort to reread, clean it up, clear it up then cut it down.

But that secondary editing process has nothing to do with the subject matter or initial content generation process. It was trained through years of *not* doing it and having my audience ask lots of questions and clearly misunderstand what I was trying to say (let's call it reinforcement learning). As a result I now have an intuition about which concepts need explanatory analogies, based on my understanding of what the readers know, and which are almost certainly going to be understood outright. I think this gets at the root of the difference.

Basically when I write, I'm not trying to generate text, I'm trying to generate training data that will amend foreign models with a high fidelity representation of a subset of mine.

This feels GAN-like but different. It's like you need to have two separate models, the 'expert' and the 'n00b' (or ten n00bs trained on different data), ask both of them the same thing, and one-shot retrain the n00b from the answers provided by the 'expert' until the n00b is able to generate content that the expert finds to be sufficiently similar.
> Have a button that cycles through which 2 devices are simultaneously connected.

I'm feeling very dumb asking this, but... which button is that?
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> I suspect if they had alternate employment opportunities available that were more pleasant/better-paying, they'd have already taken them.

Spoken like someone who thinks that mining is conducted by volunteers.
A bit off topic, but does anyone have a good reputable source for artificially made diamonds?
I checked it out in beta, it’s super cool. Might be enough for us to get of Intercom for our public docs
> “I hate the Bitcoin success and I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful [for] kidnappers in our stores and so forth,” he said. “Nor do I like just shuffling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air.”

The main arguments are :

1. It is used for nefarious reasons (true of virtually all currencies)

2. It made billions for its creator (technically true although never actualized and likely never will be)

These aren't comments from someone who has put serious thought and research into the topic.
Yeah and I think that those people are also not an otherwise average representation of population. I.e. if you have the strength to no do it, you must have some special character traits for which it is very difficult to correct the research.
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I'm all for fighting the pandemic and not dying, I just doubt curfews are the way to do it. They force people to gather in shops and public transportation at the same time.
There was an article the other day that talked about the resale value of diamonds. Basically jewelers refuse to buy back diamonds at any reasonable price (compared to original retail value. And refuse to make new rings with old diamond etc. So there is very little market for second hand diamonds.

Sounds like a business ready to be disrupted

Edit: Found the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/fashion/jewelry-diamond-s...
Happy to see Chris Langton mentioned. He is often strangely neglected. Here is the transition table for Langton Loops:

https://github.com/GollyGang/ruletablerepository/blob/gh-pag...
This is the case with any advance, and could be said about all sorts of exploitative, dangerous forms of employment. In general we seek to remove these and consider it a good thing and an advance for humanity.

Should I feel sad we no longer send kids up chimneys to sweep them?

I agree that social programs are needed to help these folks, but I think even without them, undermining this industry is a win.
Was that supposed to be famously bad technology for detecting flawless actors?
Random diamond story! As a freshman in college, I took a geology class and our teacher asked all of the women in our class to raise their hand if they would rather have natural or human-made diamonds. Most of the women (over 80%) raised their hands for natural. The reasons they gave all seemed to tie back to branding and natural diamonds being “real.”

Then our teacher gave another analogy. He asked if people would rather have natural ice or human-made ice in their water. He broke down that the human-made ice could be frozen in a freezer to a custom size/shape, be a lot cleaner, consistent in how you make it, and chemically no different than H20 than naturally occurring frozen water. As you looked around the lecture hall, you started to see people’s brains unlock. He went on to explain cost efficiencies, ethics, challenges with conflict diamonds, and how you could make a perfect diamond at a fraction of the coast.

After a 30 minute lecture, he asked the question again. Surprisingly, the majority of the women still wanted natural diamonds although the number was less than the original amount that raised their hand. That was the point where I realized the strength of diamonds product branding.
See also: the return of vinyl. Tube amplifiers. Yellow lighting. All from people arguing that poor reproduction of audio and natural light is superior!
Sadly, social media is the new smoking.

I encourage everyone to read "the book of why" by Judea Pearl. It illustrates how "research" and "studies" were used to sew doubt about the dangers of smoking. That's where we're at with social media, BUT, we have new tools like causal inference that should decrease the length of time we deal with "no link found here" or "correlation is not causation" bs.
I've seen vidoes from some of those mines and I don't think the miners browse job openings with their morning coffee before heading off to work. I think they probably just do whatever the man with the (literal or figurative) gun tells them to.
No that was just idiots being fucking lazy
Did your SO explain why it's so important for them to get a "real diamond"? While I understand wanting a valuable piece of jewelry as a token of the value of your relationship, I must admit that the extreme fixations on specifically diamonds always seemed rather odd given that there are so many other beautiful gemstones to chose from. Of course it's also cultural thing, I think diamond engagement rings are especially popular in America?

This might well be the most successful marketing campaign in history.
They should really use the perpetrators rather than the victims.
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