skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like they're doing photogrammetry in real time, which is mind boggling. I'm not familiar with this space, but building a 3D model, texturing it with live video, compressing and sending that over the internet, and doing it with minimal latency for it to be believable/enjoyable? Incredible technical achievement if that's the approach. Using state of the art tech, no doubt, and probably lots of ML magic to smooth the rendering. The 3D display is the icing on the cake, it must look amazing in person.
Interactive Fluid Simulation
benefits like killing the environment.
I would like people to stop believing that this is a real example, at least around here (I'm close to a few NASA missions). SpaceX was selected by NASA for some lunar lift services, and everyone I know is quite excited by US's expanding lift / launch capabilities. I think that I and those around me exist in these roles to serve the needs of the nation and priorities of congress and the scientific community, and will use any tools at our disposal to do so.

Other companies may fight this, sure, but stop throwing NASA (an exploration agency) in with those who would benefit from suppressing SpaceX.

Personal opinion.
Recent GC algorithms slow down the application, either by not scheduling coroutines that allocate too much memory or by forcing them to do the marking or the evacuation (helping the GC) when running (or both).

With that, STW pause time does not depend on the heap size or on the root set size (the stack size). In practice, it means pause < 1ms, at that point the OS becomes the bottleneck, not the GC.

So latency is good but throughput can be reduced by 30%.
You kind of do, right? If you had €50,000,000, you could have a private concert. You don't, so the general public is there, doing general public things.
Ah, thanks, yes that makes the comment more clear.

Yes this gets into the meta game of taxes. Aka what actually happens is that the law that gets passed is the one that is the maximum benefit for the party in power that gives the minimum required to get the votes from the minority.

This is mostly true for any legislation though.

Taxes are pretty interesting laws in that they have become this massive catch-all place to push the economy around. It's an endless source of unintended consequences.
nvidia could take advantage of eth craze in short run and auction cards or chips. They would make a ton more in short run. But crypto folks would be only customers (in short run) and rest of market would risk migrating away from them.

Crypto is very very frothy, so preserving some supply to bread and butter / ecosystem supporting sales makes a lot of sense to me.
Happy 13th, Fediverse
Today's the 13th anniversary of the first post published to the first Fediverse system. On May 18th, 2008, Evan Prodromou published for the first time on Identi.ca:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130615111045/http://identi.ca/notice/1

The folks at Fediverse Party have been marking this occasion as the Birthday of the Fediverse:

https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-12-years-in-2020

https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-13-2021-party-time

13 years is a significant milestone for the Open Web, here's to many more!
The miners can easily stop this, and they will if the users suggest even a tiny bit of infungible preference. I’m not sure that government can control this, although I’m sure they will try, but some authority may be needed to coordinate information sharing between victims and validators.

Not even the most die-hard freedom fighters will side with the dishonest and violent. Cryptocurrency will be the worst thing that ever happened to them.
I think the missing factor here is that mining groups are sort of like neo-feudalists.

If crypto ends up becoming the de facto world currency, then mining groups that are already wealthy purchasing all available stock of GPUs to mine and further enrich themselves is sort of like if 70% of land was owned by wealthy nobles, and they used the profits from their land ownership to purchase all new land-producing/discovering capital and therefore become the owners of all new land coming onto the market. It's like the worst nightmare of those worried about income inequality. And it just so happens to affect retail consumers who just want "land" for other purposes than becoming richer.
Fwiw, I have the opposite perspective (maybe because I used to be one of these people!). All of the people I've worked with who go out on a limb in technical discussions and engage with their technical seniors are independent-minded and intellectually curious. Anybody can reason (albeit not as well) about a system they're working on, and a good team is able to foster this type of growth in their more junior engineers. This includes knowing ones limits, but does not include being perfect at knowing ones limits from day one.
Google Keep has been pretty sufficient for my needs. Nice search feature, able to capture things quickly when on a call or out and about. Not the most fully featured, but good for remembering things a few days or a week from now
Out of curiosity, has the mining yet payed for the rig/card?
Apparently, 51% attacks aren't enough to put off investors, as ETC had 3 of them in one month last year.
"Civil disputes"? At this point even CNN has broadcasted interviews with targets of these "civil disputes" who make it abundantly clear that they're being ethnically cleansed and forced out of their homes.
Really weird things happen with half-knowledge and fixed ideas built on it. If you "know" it'll sound different, it will sound different to you. Combine that with actual, unrelated variations and maybe a bug that fits the pattern at some point...
I'm thrilled when incompetence is punished by reality. At least twice as thrilled when it's incompetence of government employees.
Did his literary persona harass Heidi Moore?[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1392533753768128513
Independent Forensic Team Report Oroville Dam Spillway Incident (2018) [pdf]
The wikipedia page on the infamous double irish with a dutch sandwich has a considerable list of similar arrangements, and most of those do not involve the dutch tax authority - in fact, Ireland moved to make the tax avoidance possible without a dutch intermediary in 2007, which is, well... brazen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

And there are quite a few other analysis of tax havens, including specifically an analysis by zucman in 2018 (which is specifically interesting because it looks not at qualitative interpretations or total corporate profit, but at BEPS specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven#Tax_haven_lists or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Zucman#Zucman-T%C3%B8r...

To summarize wikipedia here; it's convenient to distinguish between conduit OFCs (i.e. countries that make it relatively easy to pass profits through) and sink OFCs (i.e. countries where the profits end up in with low or no taxes). And his interpretation (in 2018) according to wikipedia: "Research published by Zucman, Tørsløv and Wier in June 2018, showed that Ireland is the largest corporate tax haven in the world, even larger than the entire Caribbean corporate tax haven system.[4][5][6] This research also showed that tax disputes between high–tax jurisdictions and corporate tax havens are extremely rare, and that tax disputes really only occur between high–tax jurisdictions.[16]"

However, it's notable that the conduits are fairly large: "Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom"; whereas the sinks are a little more unusual: "British Virgin Islands, Luxemburg, Hong Kong, Jersey, Bermuda".

Much of this research is a little old however, and political will does seem to exist to change things; e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateral_Convention_to_Imp... has entered into force in most places except greece and hungary where it will in july 2021 (and the United States isn't a party, oddly enough, but then again this would have been a Trump era decision, so perhaps that's not unexpected).

Whatever the current status; it surely can't harm to keep up the pressure on the Netherlands, Ireland and Luxembourg given their status as EU members. Given the significant role of British oversees territories, ironically I suspect that Brexit will help reduce tax-avoidance - after all, without the UK protecting their interests, it's unlikely jurisdictions like Jersey or the British Virgin Islands will be able to escape the current restrictions as they had been before.

Nevertheless, I think it's worth remembering that much of this focuses on outright tax avoidance, yet which tax rates are considered "low" is itself a choice - and here too the Irish rate is quite low: https://taxfoundation.org/2021-corporate-tax-rates-in-europe..., so even without outright BEPS, it's still a kind of tax haven within the EU. Frankly, the existance of differing corporate tax rates in a single market sounds problematic to me, but hey...
And if the brain is overfitted, how can it generate out-of-distribution samples? Seems like wildly cyclical reasoning.
That's the feel I get from reading Brad Stone's "Amazon Unbound" .There were multiple instances where Bezos appear devoid of kindness towards employees.

E.g
'...In 2009, Onetto’s human resources deputy, David Niekerk, wrote a paper titled “Respect for People,” and presented it at an S-team meeting. The paper drew from Toyota’s proven Lean ideology and argued for “treating people fairly,” building “mutual trust between managers and associates,” and empowering leaders to inspire employees rather than act as disciplinarians.
Bezos hated it. He not only railed against it in the meeting but called Niekerk the following morning to continue the browbeating. Amazon should never imply that it didn’t have respect for people embedded in the very fabric of how it operated, he said...'

"...Among the final straws for Onetto was a September 2011 story in the Morning Call newspaper in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The paper reported that the company’s warehouse in the Lehigh Valley had gotten so swelteringly hot that summer that workers were passing out and being transported to nearby hospitals by ambulances that Amazon had waiting outside. An ER doctor even called federal regulators to report an unsafe work environment..."

"...Before the incident, Onetto had presented a white paper to the S-team that included a few paragraphs proposing to install rooftop air-conditioning units in Amazon’s facilities. But according to Niekerk, Bezos bluntly dismissed the request, citing the cost. After the Morning Call article drew widespread condemnation, Bezos approved the $52 million expense, establishing a pattern of making changes only after he read criticism in the media. But he also criticized Onetto for not anticipating the crisis.
Fuming, Onetto prepared to remind Bezos of his original proposal. Colleagues begged him to let it go, but he couldn’t. As they anticipated, the meeting did not go well. Bezos said that as a matter of fact, he did remember the paper and that it was so poorly written and ambiguous that no one had understood what course of action Onetto was recommending. As other S-team members cringed, Bezos declared that the entire incident was evidence of what happens when Amazon puts people in top jobs who can’t articulate their ideas clearly and support them with data..."

"...Bezos didn’t want another empathetic business philosopher to replace Onetto as the head of Amazon’s operations; he sought an uncompromising operator..."
Using fear to control behavior in Covid crisis was totalitarian admit scientists
mining is actually worse because of economies of scale. rich miners don't need pools so they don't pay fees, they get bulk deals and earlier access to the newest ASICs, they can pay personnel to optimize their operations, etc.

so over time, the rich miners get richer at a faster rate than poor miners.

whereas under PoS, everyone gets the same % return (unless you stake with a pool, but even then you don't have these economies of scale like with mining.)
> Don't they also come and go?

Myself and most of my gaming friends have been buying nvidia cards for (soon to be) decades now.

Basically since 3dfx went belly up
Yeah, lawyers are scumbags.
Any news about the memory usage overhead this brings? The original design goal when the work on site isolation started was 1 GB overhead for a browsing session with 100 separate origins (can't remember how many tabs that was supposed to correspond to, although due to iframes it was definitively less than 100 tabs).

Was this goal reached in the end, or perhaps even surpassed, or missed after all?

I guess this also makes adblockers even more valuable in terms of saving memory, since each blocked third party-iframe that doesn't load is potentially one additional process that doesn't have to be created…
What, you mean because they are legally obligated to refuse to do so?
Except that miners will simply workaround the downgrade software (as they did in the past) and regular consumers will be the only ones with crippled hardware
Vitess' compatibility with MySQL has made major leaps in the past couple of versions and the team has started focusing on locking in ongoing compatibility with various popular development frameworks. You can find those here, and more are getting added regularly: https://github.com/planetscale/vitess-framework-testing/

The basics of MySQL compatibility are described in here, though it's important to keep in mind that just because something "works" doesn't always mean it's the best way to do things in a sharded environment: https://vitess.io/docs/reference/compatibility/mysql-compati...
Can't wait to see ads in 3d
If the choice was between restricting food - i.e making it less profitable to burn, to make it more available to the hungry and letting food be free and the hungry starve, then that's a pick between the best of two bad options. Clearly it's better to feed people than let food be unrestricted.

In this case though the choice is between restricting hardware to give gamers more affordable GPUs. The benefit doesn't match the cost.

The principle is something like freedom or ownership. Arbitrary restrictions are bad because freedom is good. By definition arbitrary restrictions aren't needed (arbitrary) and reduce freedom (restriction).
SpaceX + vendor-agnostic NASA contracts are a world away from the cost-plus launch vehicle design projects with heavy involvement from NASA engineers that got us to the moon, built the ISS, and also spent a long time going nowhere once the corruption caught up with the system.
This is always touted as a reason but honestly I always spend time teaching the hired new frameworks, JS knowledge, ecosystem knowledge, etc. The world already operates on multiple languages and JS is already an exhausting confusing ecosystem. There’s no reason not to use something because it’s in a different language.
> On the other hand, any exchange that automatically opts user deposits into staking without notifying them should be criminally liable.

One of the selling points of cryptocurrencies is that they make financial transactions and contracts possible without depending on a central authority.
> isn't ETH going to Proof of Stake soon?

Ethereum is going proof of stake soon for a few years now.
This is very similar to what you'd write in HLSL, except maybe for `[[stage(fragment)]]` part (since this information is provided externally in HLSL) and `vec4<f32>` instead of `float4`. Are these the only things you are concerned about? If so, then I'd be happy with this, given that it's an artificial example.
I don't want targeted advertising. I don't want to be the target that someone paid to make sure to hit. I just want no advertising.

>Banning one form of advertising simply raises the value of the unbanned forms.

For me personally it is most important to ban the forms of advertising that are inescapable, i.e. in public spaces. Indeed it would raise the value of advertising on radio/tv/internet, but those are much easier to ignore. But the only way to ignore outdoor advertising is just don't go outside, which is a bit much.

A tax on advertising revenue is not a bad idea though, it might be a good incentive to find other revenue streams for many types of businesses.
I'm still not understanding how the 3D works... is it like the 3DS? Because that required you position your head in a very specific place.
None of those things are necessary for civilisation, or radio communication. They just improve things on the margin.

Besides, surely it must be simpler to build a fusion reactor on earth than harvesting enough material to cover the sun in solar panels. Would the solar system even have enough resources for that?
They only fears that those consumers gonna sell their used hardware which gonna cause drop demand for GPU for a long time.
Or perhaps those of us who've been here since Fidonet are weary of nuance-free libertarianism. Shrug
Respectfully, you're failing to engage with the purpose of the project.

> it's not an alternative to the web

Right. You can't have a lightweight drop-in alternative to the web, pretty much by definition. Any platform capable of everything modern browsers are capable of, is by definition enormously complex.

> it is a very very small subset

That's not a flaw, it's a design goal. It isn't meant to be a half-baked portable GUI toolkit the way the modern web platform is, it's meant to be a simple and minimal format, stable and easy to implement. There are other formats somewhat like this in common usage, like man pages and, of course markdown.
You are the exception of all exceptions. What percentage of GPUs being purchased for the purposes of crypto are for reasons like yours vs being bought by already wealthy conglomerates and mining groups to further enrich the new crypto multi-millionaire/billionaire class.
Well, throwing away and recreating all the data pipelines that have ben written since 2014 would be pretty inefficient.
Both problems are worth effort and energy. It is worthwhile to push the envelope at the top because that technology, if it really works and can be developed in a more consumer friendly way, will eventually become vastly more accessible.

Solving gigantic scale problems requires a completely different kind of innovation than what you can achieve by pushing the pinnacle of what's possible.
it kind of looks like you're having a rough day. i hope you feel better.
Highest ever energy light captured by Chinese mountain observatory
> Not even the most die-hard freedom fighters will side with the dishonest and violent. Cryptocurrency will be the worst thing that ever happened to them.

The history of many nations has proven this to be untrue.
> nobody even tried to calculate how much of that energy was produced by the wind or sun.

I've definitely seen some analysis that does? But I don't see how it matters. There's an opportunity cost there, where using solar or wind power for something like bitcoin could be better spend on something intrinsically (rather than abstractly) productive, like heating/cooling homes or whatever.

And like, if suddenly it was decided magically somehow that "all bitcoin must be produced with renewable energy" I don't think the world would be made better by the sudden rise in price of solar panels by 10x like has happened with video cards. There's an inherent price inflationary effect involved in anything that's capable of producing 'free money'.
Meanwhile, Nvidia doesn't allow you to use your graphics card in a datacenter/machine learning setup. You need a special license for that.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge...

So let's not pretend that Nvidia is acting in the interest of their clients at all times.
It does, but that the fact that the ponzy scheme that is cryptocurrency hasn't been made illegal by now should angers me even more.
THETA->Super Hi Def video streaming
https://www.thetatoken.org/

VET-> Supply Chain Authentication for Businesses
https://www.vechain.org/

Are two real world examples that are starting to see adoption. Also this articles covers it well: https://101blockchains.com/practical-blockchain-use-cases/
> "To help get GeForce GPUs in the hands of gamers, we announced in February that all GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards shipped with a reduced Ethereum hash rate," Wuebbling added.

Is there any evidence that crypto mining plays a significant role in the ongoing hardware shortage? Any evidence at all? I see so many people complain about it, but I haven't seen any reason to believe crypto is one of the primary factors driving the shortage.

I don't mine or trade crypto. I acknowledge the many problems with current crypto offerings and have no interest in dealing with the tech until those problems get sorted out (if that ever even happens). But I inherently don't like the idea of a hardware company intentionally crippling general computing tech like this. And it's especially frustrating to see them try to spin it as a positive move for their customers.

The RX 6000 series was another huge step forward for AMD graphics hardware. Hopefully their 7000 series will be even more competitive. NVIDIA needs the pressure.
Have you heard of PayPal? Because i buy things internationally and pay with PayPal all the time. If I don't receive the order, I can contest and cancel the charge (sometimes). And there's no transaction fee that I'm aware of.

Do you buy $5 items internationally? Because the bulk of my international orders are low value items. If I have to spend more on a transaction fee than the item costs, I'm not gonna buy the item. Oh, lightning you say? You really think I should trust that more than pay pal?
thats why currently the minimum stake amount is 32 eth. Also, you'd learn you were the validator for the cycle only when you are awarded eth. If you try to push through a false transaction you can get slashed (Losing some of your stake). all in all, makes it impractical at best.
Why not extend this to create forms/surveys as well in your application? You can render a checkboxInput block type as a <input type="checkbox" /> in a form. Your backend would match up the form POST parameter names with the associated form input names and that would be your "Submission".
Awesome, appreciate it! I'm going to play around more with different formats and the videos as well to make them clearer on smaller devices
We know a few things about the formation of organic compounds that life uses from inorganic compounds, and how some specific organic compounds crucial to life appeared, but not much more than that. Nothing even close to the formation of a simple self-replicating cell, for example.
OpenDocu – International OpenAccess Service
It’s crazy that you can own land. I bought a several acres, and it has a creek that runs through it. How nuts is that to own your own creek!?
I'm currently searching for a serverless database for my next project and will look into it.

I already played around with Upstash and Fauna.

Somehow the signup shows an 422 error, then I get an confirmation email that leads to a blank page.
The permission is at the document level. What are the use case of intra document level permission?
It's amazing how bad our brains can be, even after a few million years of evolution. They're capable of flying a helicopter on Mars and cranking out a vaccine within months, as well as developing vast machines containing zettabytes of information -- and still can't retain a word for 15 seconds.
A backdoor/bugdoor is much more likely to be in the source code. Compiling the code by yourself does not help.

You have to rely on a distribution that has a many-eyes review policy and has security conscious users.