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>There's also a natural connection between nerdiness and independent-mindedness.

Is it, or it's just an anecdotal projection from PGs own experience ("I'm nerdy and I consider myself independently minded, also know a few others like that").

This is just extrapolating from the diminishingly small number of nerds who are also SV entrepreneurs.

But historically nerds (e.g. 50s and 60s "propellerheads") were just working for companies and research labs as employees, and mostly on what they were told. Most still do exactly that.

Socially also many nerds otherwise follow the herd and "try to belong" with the "cool people" (often in vain).
It's not that hilarious when you realize that this is the same kind of thinking some cryto-boosters apply to hundreds of years of financial regulation and history.
Show HN: KXY, an ML API to estimate the theoretical-best performance achievable
It would have to be really futuristic to convince people to coordinate timings, reserve a slot, pay and drive to some location for a video call. FaceTime/WhatsApp are still good enough for most.

The office use case is probably more realistic, but some other related products (Surface Hub, Jamboard) haven't become as ubiquitous as originally imagined.
They can't improve the supply any longer, so they are cutting demand instead.

Why would you prevent mining if some gamers do want to utilize their idle GPU power? Mining is supposed to be for everyone.
YouTube primarily recommends me videos that I've already seen
We don't use JOIN for the content tree; I don't think I've seen one in any of our queries.
You are presenting a false dichotomy, it can and often is degrees of both.
You, personally, are not. You, one of a cohort, kind of are.

If i run an e-commerce site, and see the vast majority of my users, but the minority of those that buy stuff, are on mobile and from India, maybe i need to optimise my site for mobile and lower-speed connections? Maybe something is wrong with my payment for specific currencies?

If i run a blog, ans the majority of my viewers come from France, maybe it's time i start writing localised content in French?

You get the gist.
>I think I have all the energy I need to be honest.

You don't. You only think you do because you are living on borrowed energy, massive amounts of energy stored in carbon over the last billion years. Unleashing this stored energy is going to burn down our planet.

So yes, we need way more energy that is not tied to digging up dead dinosaurs. Even more energy if we want to put them back in the ground. And even more if everyone wants clean water. Everyone else that is not a westerner wants lights and water and food too.
Apologies to people from China, Russia, Ukraine and so on on HN ahead of everything else: It would not be a bad idea to get countries that routinely shield bad actors and/or active engage in electronic warfare across the net to be blackholed as long as they don't cooperate in bringing the perps in these cases to justice.

People will get killed because of these actions, if it hasn't already happened.

Of course that works both ways: the countries on the other side of that divide would have to stop doing the same thing, to each other and to countries on the other side of the divide.

It's sort of an 'electronic curtain', the iron curtain of cold. China already erected one half of such a barrier, the GFW definitely reduces the chances of foreign hackers attacking Chinese infrastructure, it doesn't seem to do anything to keep attacks from China out of the rest of the world though.

So regardless of the origin of these hackers, I'm all for a bit more isolation until we've figured out how to deal with this problem, cross border digital crime is going to be (and already is) a real headache.
I think it really is that unique - Notion blending read/write is pretty revolutionary for an app like this. Wiki's are obsessed with toggles between read/write mode.

Those apps you mention - Drupal, Wordpress, etc - have write modes that exist in backends with alien experiences to the read modes.

By unifying read/write into a single continuous UI, with built-in relational databases usable by non-technical users, Notion really does let people create damned powerful custom apps.

If you squint, you can see how Notion looks a lot like the next version of the Internet. By hyper-focusing on company intranets they miss out on the power of connected workspaces ("domains"), but the thinking is there.

I'll be seriously surprised if Notion isn't looked back on as a breakthrough paradigm shift.
Something that comes for free with Redux and its abstractions like Kea (the approach promoted in the linked blog post) is that you mostly avoid the problem of needless re-renders.

Each `useSelector` call (and `useValues` call that uses it) triggers a re-render only when the value changed. So unless you have something forcefully re-rendering the root node, only the few relevant sub-sections of the page will re-render.

It's not perfect nested-sub-object level precision, but in practice works well enough.
Inferior to VR for gaming or pron.
PPP is totally irrelevant for this discussion.
I met a guy recently who did this. Much of the time was spent on a yacht, but he did exactly this. Lots of Russian oligarchs, a few big names in tech. Take the vacation himself, and then report back. He'd do like a handful of these vacations and then one of them would be chosen and they'd take the owner on the vacation.
I think your loose definition of “principle” does not meet many others’: it’s definitely intended to be stricter than a heuristic.

Of course even though you can have relaxed principles, e.g. “I usually don’t lie” vs. “I don’t lie,” I think the point here is that if you believe or preach a particular “principle,” but then adjust it for yourself when it’s convenient (for example a “just this once” scenario), it was never a principle to begin with.
Yes.

You can't pour trillions of 'printed' US Dollars into the economy without causing inflation.

If you can't see rising prices because of that inflation, you haven't looked closely enough. Don't forget about 'shrinkflation', either; it's the way most companies hide the rising prices until it becomes too obvious.
randomhodler84, have you heard the phrase "last man holding the bag?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagholder This crypt ponzi scheme turned the natural progression of itself into a meme that reinforces itself. But GME is at $180, so you could be right. Stupidity could yet win and our future could be doomed to feed an ever increasing amount of resources into accounting. I hope it's just mania and we can go back to regular low energy databases to keep track of funds.
Notion clicked for me when I realised that everything is a "page with some attributes". Blocks are interesting at the engineering level, but as a user I found I was normally thinking at the level of pages.

Each page is some content (optional) with a set of arbitrary attributes of different types, e.g. date, string, number etc. When you create a table and populate it, you are creating a set of pages all of whom have the same attributes and the table is just a view of those pages. You can then create a calendar that's a different way of presenting those same pages. You can also deal with those pages directly and put content in, and reference them from elsewhere.

It's a really simple data model, and it's pretty flexible. We built all our processes on Notion initially and then moved them off when they got to an appropriate scale. I'm glad the API exist now, because then that approach can be incremental rather than a wholesale move.
All the ways of displaying things - tables, calendars etc. are just displaying collections of pages.
New tech typically debuts at a high price point only wealthy people can afford, then as it get commoditized it becomes more affordable. Wealthy early adopters willing to pay high prices for novelty or business applications are what enable the fast pace of innovation that we have become accustomed to.
> All the energy they expend gets returned as mining rewards just like normal

Is that because the mined blocks themselves are still valid (i.e. the hashes check out), regardless of the presence of an attacker? But then how does it help the attacker in an economical sense? Doesn't the rest of the network know that the new 51% blocks are tainted, so to speak?
A good way to test whether your version is using usleep is

nm `which sqlite3` | grep usleep

On some servers, it's

nm -D `which sqlite3` | grep usleep
The level of delusion when it comes to cryptocurrencies - is unreal.

As a market practitioner of many decades, I must say I have never witness this level of froth and delusion before.

I'm studying it with great interest (and a touch of disdain about my fellow humans unbounded rationality/irrational exuberance about cryptos)
Using a made up but probably good enough analogy, if scientist created a blackhole in the lab that could end up sucking in the entire planet and the solar system, would it be OK for someone to jam the mechanism that sustains it? I think of PoW gambling casinos slash Ponzi schemes (Bitcoin) in the same way. If the governments don't have any motivation to stop the mayhem, then the company whose products are being used to create that blackhole should step in. I never liked Nvidia, but this is a necessary decision.
I think that's fair yea - it might just be a matter of semantics. If you think software is included in technology then I stand by my point but, if your view of technology excludes software then you're quite correct.
That stuff is flaky to begin with. I've seen a recent Windows 10 update bring back an unwanted Canadian keyboard, showing up in the language bar, and part of the Shift-Alt cycle.

I had deleted the keyboard and the Canadian English language, with the system set to to US English. Now this keyboard suddenly came back, with no way in the UI to delete it. I had to first install the Canadian language. Then I was able to remove the keyboard.
This is a game changer. Much better than VR/AR.
Thank you for supporting us all these years! We wouldn't be here without awesome customers like you. <3

As a long time user I bet you remember when we needed to write posts like Two Factor or not Two Factor[1].

> One and a Half Factors?

Good times. :) Thankfully with our own service we are now able to provide real 2FA as our server is able to enforce it. Same with family sharing, team environments, automated backups, item history, account recovery that only your family organizers/team admins can perform, along with simple invites and easier device setup.

And it's not just new features but we can make existing ones better. You probably have seen your fair share of Conflict Resolution windows and weird sync issues over the last 10 years. Sync is a hard thing to get right and being able to rely on a server to give specific responses in specific situations has enabled us to provide a much better experience than we ever could with a generic file service.

The reality is 1Password is better than it ever has been as a direct result of allowing our developers to work their magic on both sides of the network connections. Server and client.

It's a bit dated now but I wrote From a Happy 1Password Maker[2] back in 2017 that highlights a lot of things we love about memberships. In it I explain why I'll continue to non-apologetically nudge everyone towards 1Password Memberships.

[1]: https://blog.1password.com/two-factor-or-not-two-factor/
[2]: https://blog.1password.com/why-we-love-1password-memberships...

++dave; 1Password Founder
Do you pay for youtube?
> I don't know how you think that if GPUs were cheaper then miners would be buying less of them.

It would increase supply by forcing fabs to scale (would take years anyway, but should happen sooner rather than later).

> Miners are a black hole for computing power - they can absorb near infinite amounts of processors since they know (or strongly believe at least) that they'll pay for themselves pretty quickly.

And that isn't going to change even with these limited GPUs. Mining with ethash is still profitable even with the halved hashrate, and other algorithms like kawpow and cn-gpu are not limited at all.

The only thing that's going to get rid of PoW mining is the entire shitcoin market tanking. As long as the bubble continues there's going to be idiots spending money on scalped GPUs.
E.g. managers having different information about tasks diplayed in a table than programmers. You could do a different page for each group, but it's not as nice - different URLs, duplication of surrounding content, etc.
Pretty much the only non-native games I can not run on my Linux computer are the ones that incorporate anticheat detection. I just use Proton, as it is built in to Steam. Origin games do cause some headaches, but usually because of the origin client, not because of the game. Examples of "heavier" games that run fine for me at highest settings (radeon 580): subnautica, tomb rader, mass effect (andromeda), alyx, population one.
It’s how I feel about getting a ps5, scalpers grab your all the inventory and I refuse to buy one from them so here I am just given up on a next gen consolfor the near future
If computer chess has taught us anything is that "the problems are the same" does not translate to "so are the solutions".

To clarify, computers play chess by searching exhaustively large game trees. Humans, on the other hand, do not. "The problem is the same", but the solutions are not. So we have no reason to assume that "the problems are the same" means that "so are the solutions", for animals and machines, and we have evidence to the contrary.
The free market and personal liberty aren't magical tools that when combined produce a functional system. From the outside the GPU market is probably unfixably broken. Capacity to manufacture is an extremely expensive investment that will be wasted if cryptomining on GPUs becomes merely somewhat less effective. Meanwhile GPUs are being driven out of the price range where their natural market can actually afford them.

Imagine if it were so profitable to haul small trailers of goods around for amazon that basic passenger cars went from 20k to 70k and nobody was interested in expanding car manufacturing to meet the new demand because the capacity might well go to waste next year. It would be untenable.

If car manufacturers started selling cars that were deliberately shitty at towing but still worked great for moving people from A to B I think they can be forgiven.

We want freedom to use our hardware but we need to have a functional market as well and this one has been broken for years with no sure end date.
I haven't lived there so I appreciate the perspective. There certainly is no single cause. What I see as the proximal cause, or the straw that broke the camel's back was that starting in the seventies, the USSR had become a petrostate. The USSR wasn't producing enough food for the population, but this wasn't a problem through the seventies and early eighties due to the high oil prices. The USSR simply sold oil to pay for food imports.

In the mid eighties, the oil price crashed, and in order to feed the USSR, they had to take out increasingly large hard currency loans, which eventually got so big, that the only way to make them happen was with western government backing. The (implicit or explicit) condition was that if they rolled tanks in Poland or East Germany, the money, and hence the grain, would be cut off. Gorbachev said in an interview that in 1988 or 1989, the USSR was months away from mass starvation had the imports ceased.

Some give Reagan credit for convincing the Saudis to pump more oil and set this chain of events in motion, but I have no idea if that's true or not. Of course I'm disregarding why exactly it was that the USSR couldn't produce enough food with the massive amount of arable land available to it, or why it exactly there were these pro-democracy movements popping up in Poland and East Germany and other places in the Warsaw Pact.
You most likely do not own that creek. Typically running surface water is not owned, you can't dam it, you can't disturb it and you can't add anything to it or subtract anything from it. You may not even be allowed to fish in it even on your own property.
Or, maybe we can step back from this whole discussion and consider that maybe, just maybe, tying block-production to coin-ownership in a blockchain with undecidable smart contracts and a less-than-stellar security record is an exercise in tempting fate.
Possibly.

I do worry about

>Natural gas pipelines can transport large volumes of hydrogen without any hardware changes.

as hydrogen exposure makes metal brittle.

There are other moderately serious problems--hydrogen flame, unlike that of almost any hydrocarbon, is invisible.
The point is it mitigates the on-chain attack surface which is still prevalent on PoW. Off-chain attacks are still possible for all consensus mechanism.
> how many people are going to turn a room in their house into a work videocall room?

Very few while it's $20k+. But I can imagine a lot of people would want one if the price was reasonable. I'm sure you still use the room for other things.
Ah, the old Keynesian argument...
That is essentially what they are doing, but in a way that doesn't burn their long-term customers (PC gamers). There will be crypto ready SKUs of these cards sold at a considerably higher margin.
We're already seeing serious inflation, you just have to look over the edge of the "representative" basket of goods used to calculate most CPIs. Bought real estate or stocks recently? Got a container shipped to Asia? Or some lumber, or computer chips, or etc pp...
I’m sure plenty of people would agree to an absolute “I don’t steal” principle—one that covers a pretty significant number of conditions & circumstances-and yet not go back to the register when they accidentally walked out of the grocery store with something, or compromise it more significantly under stress of hunger. In this case, one could argue “I don’t steal” was never a principle they actually held.
Are “the many” being served by USD inflation rn?

And can you name a cryptocurrency which is anything other than a speculative store of value, and not something whose market cap is based on drum beating over social media?
Well if the invisible hand off the market works in favour of me for once, I'm not gonna complain
I thought it was an open secret that people who were just trying out the Adobe tools (and other software with similar pricing) didn't really pay the sticker price?
To my surprise, the text uses the word "algorithm", in the following quote, though I've edited it for clarity:

"""Elsewhere, I have argued that the practice of school mathematics in the US regulates the child by privileging: ... the ‘standard algorithm’ over invented or international algorithms; ... Not only can these repeated practices over a lifetime serve to dehumanize students and teachers in classrooms, the narrative about mathematics being a pure discipline, reflective of the natural world around us, universal, with an almost unilaterally positive relationship to society’s advancement, leaves many humans unable to challenge this narrative to consider other ways of doing mathematics.” (Gutierrez 2017)

That's still teaching that algorithms are something that can and should be followed, just arguing that teachers shouldn't privilege one standard algorithm.

This echoes complaints about teachers insisting that their students follow one algorithm to multiply (like, say, by the counting-intersection method shown at https://www.careerbless.com/maths/speedmaths/dbl.php ) and who give no points to students who already know and prefer long multiplication.
Literally some of the best modern short stories there is.
I didn't see Nvidia weigh in on the morality of any workload, just like nerfing FP64 performance in their GeForce cards wasn't a statement on the morality of double-precision workloads. They're trying to steer cards towards a particular segment of the market, there can be a lot of reasons for that.

For example, they might believe that while selling to gamers is less lucrative than selling to miners in the short term, the gaming market will always exist while the mining market dries up the moment GPU mining is no longer profitable; so maintaining a good relationship with the gaming community is important for their long term health. Or maybe they're just tired of gamers yelling at them.
Now, members of the new organization are calling on Google to support freedom of expression internally — particularly around anti-Zionist viewpoints.

While I agree with this as stated, I would like to see the intersection of the signers of this letter and those who demanded that James Damore be fired.
No new hardware revision needed. Just a new on-card BIOS requiring a newer driver with a more fine-tuned mining detection. Should be trivial for manufacturers.
I'm arguing that China subsidizes coal[0], and that China does not utilize a carbon tax[1].

So when you call for a ban of Bitcoin in the name in environmental concerns, you've decided to be the arbiter of energy usage, on what is productive and valuable, and what is not.

You're welcome to argue your points, but it would still be far more efficient and productive to addresses the actual core problem: coal fire plants, and energy prices.

[0]: https://www.iisd.org/gsi/faqs/china

[1]: https://www.carbontax.org/issues/what-about-china/
Note that unfortunately they actually have a set of cards that are better suited for crypto.. they just don't want you to use these.
I absolutely love this web design omg
I ran into this exact problem myself. In the end, my only option was to request a download of my Apple ID data and look through the CSV files to finally find the track.
This is a bit of a two wrongs don't make a right: the fact that your energy retailer is taxing you doesn't (by itself) make it 'right' to use that energy for mining.

Ofcourse I totally understand you do as you do, on an individual basis, but that just stresses the point that this can only be regulated at the group/population level.
I think pedantry is often a way of asserting status ("I know this thing, you don't"), though I agree it doesn't intrinsically have to be.
The main value of cryptocurrencies is a provable ledger with an open API. PoS sufficiently establishes that for all economic purposes save for those wishing to make themselves feudal lords.

Currently your money is transmitted by csv copies across thousands of companies, most of whom use a semi-manual process. Moving this type of transaction to a distributed ledger will save financial institutions billions in audit costs.
how can anyone be ok with that?

I don't want to mine cryptocurrency on my graphics card. So given the choice of buying an unrestricted one off ebay for $2500, or a restricted one for the originally suggested price of $800, I would rather buy the restricted one. Nvidia isn't being dishonest, they aren't throttling the cards they already sold, they aren't claiming anything is moral or immoral, they are just offering a new product that does exactly what I want for cheaper. So I'm certainly okay with it.
NVidia has a supply problem. Imagine making something that is so popular that you continuously run out of stock for the people that you originally intended your product for. The normal solution would be to crank up production to the point where you can supply all of your customers. Might even get some better economies of scale out of it too.

This is the dumb way to deal with the problem. Besides the fact that it will get hacked it alienates a good chunk of their customers who would be happy to drop more $ if there were more product.
Building “Mars Coin” on Holochain
I'd love to do a Clubhouse room just chatting around his stories.