skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'TheOtherHobbes offered a detailed reply, but I'd like to add a useful mental model for such questions. Like all other EM radiation, radio waves are just light. They diffuse a bit differently than visible light due to much longer wavelengths, and different materials are transparent/opaque to them, but to a first approximation, you can view the transmitting antenna as a lightbulb, and the receivers as opaque and weakly-reflective objects.

Your questions are thus similar to asking, "If you put a tiny solar cell on a glass table, wouldn't that steal light from the lightbulb? Wouldn't we need a more powerful lightbulb to illuminate the room? Isn't this energy transfer extremely inefficient?". Yes - it consumes some power; no - it casts a tiny shadow, and enough light is scattered around that you won't see the difference; yes, if the only reason you turned the lightbulb on is to power that solar cell, it's very inefficient.
(Not the parent)

My sleep cycle naturally drifts infinitely by some 30 minutes a day on average.

It makes life strange at times, especially on this latitude. Imagine waking up at night through a whole winter, not seeing the Sun for months.

I've tried to hold steady cycle but I just grow more and more tired every day until finally the alarm fails to wake me. School was hell. Was absent a lot simply for sleeping.
Have you heard of all the people arbitrarily blocked/banned/censored by PayPal? Just for one, I had my Paypal account permanently closed because I (many years prior to the block) registered it when I was still under—age. Separately, I am resident in a new country where for arbitrary reasons I don’t have all the necessary validation to open a Transferwise account registered here.

Relying on a small handful of centralized private service providers for critical infrastructure is a bad idea. My situation is not unique or strange. I could most likely illegally submit false information or register new accounts, with the risk of having payments frozen or even held at any point. Some online vendors only use PayPal, which has lifetime banned me as a person, so by extension I can not purchase from these vendors.

I do trust Lightning more than any of these. I actually regularly use for payments for stuff like you mentioned. Last time a $11 purchase yesterday, which even including amortized channel opening cost was most certainly less fees than PayPal would have been.

——

You’re happy with PayPal now, because it works fine for you, but the increasing power they have over individuals and the economy is real, concerning and dangerous.
Good point, I haven't followed the latest VR advancements, that does sound neat. Still, Starline's approach is surely much more sophisticated (the hardware obviously has a lot to do with that, these are prototypes of a desk-sized machine vs a headset). The 3D model looks reasonably detailed, and the final render has very few artifacts. Making it all work over a WAN link with latencies critical for teleconferencing is also impressive.
Sure, whatever region you want to call Texas feel free to call it that. It's largely arbitrary.

The problem is that Dallas (and other areas) have been sucked dry of talent by tech companies for a while - even before the conservative economic policies you're handwaving about came into effect. Some of that is on the state for not being competitive enough, other parts of that have been on predatory practices by businesses that fuel things like state to state income inequality.

Second, I don't need to be told what to be afraid of, so your condescending tone can take a listening stance. A software engineer in Dallas Texas doesn't make near the cost of living difference between a San Francisco job while doing the same thing and that is a problem. Full stop.

That problem can be remedied by bringing more tech businesses to Texas and gating them out of the traditional coastal areas like New York, SF, Seattle, and Portland. There are other ways of remedying the problem and I'd love to hear them, but finger pointing at the Texas government without pointing at companies and other states sounds pretty fruitless.
It's honestly pretty surprising to me to see how many people on here are supporting this move.

Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. Support for general purpose computing and user freedom has fallen substantially in the last several years. Look at iOS, where many geeks are happy to have a megacorporation tell you what you're allowed to run on "your" hardware.
For an alternative theory see https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz
That saying, combined with the euphemism "smallest room in the house", paints an interesting picture.
If you want to get a sense of what this "feels" like and you have 6DoF VR, try a VR 180 video. I've not experienced the Google Starline project, but I can tell you that when I saw some of the really well-produced VR180 videos it was so realistic I felt I was invading someone's privacy.

Of course this won't be the interactive feeling but it was pretty mind blowing to "feel" how intimate real 3d telepresence could be.

They have some demo's here:

https://arvr.google.com/vr180/
You can be your own vpn provider if thats a big concern.

Your isp knows you visited a certain domain with https. That's a concern.
they even need a battery aswell which will wear. since the cell is too sluggish to be fed directly to the electric motor.
Would it be reasonable to assert pure proof of stake is less risky than delegated proof of stake? I don't claim to be an expert in crypto but from what I've read it seems like pure proof of stake is a leap ahead of other consensus algorithms in terms of security, energy usage, etc.
The vulnerable can also be anyone or a subset. I suspect it's inevitable for someone to design a custom virus.
The one you measure won't change, just all the rest.
I understand crypto perfectly and I strongly believe that it's ultimately useless. The difference is that I have no financial incentive to tell everyone I know about crypto, whereas you certainly do.

I'll leave it up to the audience to decide which one of us is biased.
ClojureScript is great and it'd be my first choice if performance doesn't matter. For me the drawbacks are that bundlesizes tend to be bigger than using js. Profiling is much harder due to the output from the google closure compiler is somewhat opaque. Reasoning about memory allocation and leaks can be quite difficult even in a complex js app, having persistent data structures makes this an order of magnitude more difficult.
Calculus owes some of its development to its use in scientific theories, but also stands alone as a branch of math. One can approach it as a pure exercise in symbol manipulation (as I did as a student).

Without trying to precisely define scientific methodology, I think it always needs some connection to empirical evidence. This is the problem with the Drake equation, but also with some other speculative fields like string theory.

So I'd say that the Drake equation is scientific in the sense that it's motivated by scientific speculation, but has not yet found a form that can be tested.
The existing limiter doesn't work, though. It was narrowly focused and consequently easy for miners to work around. That's why they're making this new version. There is no precise test for whether a given workload is "mining", though, so we can expect more false positives to show up as Nvidia tries to close off the myriad ways to avoid detection and miners respond by making their computation look more like traditional gaming workloads.
You’re not opting out of anything. At the end of the day, everyone is trading their crypto for dollars or another government currency.

Crypto is opting out of real money is the same way buying an unstable stock is. People are buying it hoping to get rich and convincing others to do the same, hoping they’ll sell it off before the price crashes and it’s completely worthless. Nobody is buying milk and eggs with GameStop stocks or *coins, and if they did, it’d make international news and that singular event would be referenced for 5 years by supporters as an example of how “real” their currency is.
@setr explained it really well. A side note, NoSQL also includes graph databases, dedicated to this type of node/relationship traversal.
Exactly, it's just a fancy FaceTime technology, I would be bored after few days. Tell me a problem that it solves.
I was travelling a few years ago. Even Russian bus ladies (they collect your fare) and Mongolians living in traditional huts in the middle of nowhere (and without any signal!) have smartphones now. I found the idea funny that the "To plug in a USB cable, you need 3 tries" experience was maybe universal.

So, 12 years (back then) after the iPhone, it's reached a lot more than 5% of the world.
Sony has it's own version of the light field display. https://youtu.be/KrLMnQM0_Ps
The net of what you should be cognizant of when providing insider information on a product from your company or commenting on a topic it is heavily involved in is wider than the single issue you eagerly dredge up.

E.g. the last thing you want from your comment about using <new product> early internally are news articles about "What Google plans on doing with <new product>" when you were just trying to give your personal opinion on where the technology might go.
I think they meant hardware. For software, yes there are tons of examples (open source software is usually free, games are usually cheap).

But for hardware, it's almost always some expensive thing first. The internet was once very expensive to access, cell phones were initially very expensive, DVD players were initially very expensive, computers in general, etc.
This. There's a bunch of waffling above about how the miners vs stakers will control stuff and so on, but in reality it's the markets which define which gets used. That's what decided the block size debate, not users spinning up nodes or miners pushing in one direction in ther other. Miners follow the market, and so will those running validators on proof of stake. Those who can influence the market have the most power here (and usually that's vocal members of the community or developers).
Been working with multiple document API's recently for my start-up. It's been a real challenge to understand how different document stores compare -- Confluence uses undocumented XML markup that "mostly" mirrors HTML, Google Docs gives you sometimes semantically-incorrect HTML with lots of inline styles, Slack has its own funny Markdown, etc. Then there's Notion blocks. I had to write my own HTML-to-Notion block parser, but I think I prefer working with it over everything else because structured data is just easier.
One interesting gotcha: if you want to completely overwrite a page you currently have to remove every content block one at a time, and then add each new line one at a time. This is using their undocumented API, but the new API doesn't even offer deleting content yet. I'm eager to switch over but it may be a while...
If however you have developed for mobile and specifically iOS you have a big head start:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/gpu_features...
I enjoyed the illustrations, but you should try looking at your article in Firefox for Android: all pictures overflow to the right and it's not even possible to scroll horizontally to see the rest.
Folks, the GTX 1070s 8GB coming with 2017 laptops are still good enough for literally any semi-professional, non-mining application out there, from machine learning to gaming. With a few hacks and the right hardware setup, they can still do not-so-clever professionals happy. Therefore, this is a full supply-demand problem, with Nvidia facing its first, real catch-22 maturity problem: how do they sell new GPUs to happy-with-1070 regulars like me?
Good luck explaining the concept of a "dotfile" and "git" to a 6 year old, I guess...
I remember reading about this earlier in the year. What may not be apparent from this article is that Nvida is also selling GPU cards specifically designed for miners.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/
Why couldn't you do that with batteries?
So cool. Anyone have more information about tonari (https://tonari.no/)? They were/are working on solving this “feel like you’re there” problem.
Correct: there is one other person (a production assistant) and two cats. [0]

[0]: https://winterbloom.com/about
I thought dreams only happen durring rem and you are paralyzed durring rem stages. So you wouldn't be physically reacting to anything. I think those movements only happen in other stages of sleep
Did they do it under a facade of morals? Perhaps you can point me to where Nvidia makes a moral argument.

As an aside, businesses don't act on their own. People do have morals, and they're the ones running things. Whether or not they use their morals is a different question, but we needn't preemptively excuse them from doing so just because money is involved.
To be clear, this is not a Vitess/PlanetScale-specific opinion or choice. Foreign key constraints are a bit of a controversial topic in large-scale MySQL environments in general, which is the greater context in which this design decision was made by the Vitess team.

PlanetScale's (and Vitess') non-blocking schema changes rely on open source tools for MySQL like pt-online-schema-change and gh-ost, which are widely used in production environments everywhere, and neither of them are too comfortable supporting FK's, though pt-osc does accommodate them to some extent (https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/3.0/pt-online-sc...). gh-ost's lack of support was discussed on HN previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16983620

A good collection of resources on why they're considered problematic and many companies designing large-scale MySQL schemas tend to drop them can also be found here: https://federico-razzoli.com/foreign-key-bugs-in-mysql-and-m...
Is there some merit in comparing this to regulating concert prices? There too one might argue to let the market determine the price, but there too that might lead to a very unequal situation for many, that may eventually backfire.
In other news, Nvida has cards specifically designed for professional miners: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/

https://hothardware.com/news/msi-cmp-30hx-card-debuts-for-et...
> It shouldn't be much of a surprise to learn that the r/bitcoin sub, bitcointalk.org, and several other bitcoin communities are owned by one and the same person that have a history of censoring dissenting opinions. Just read up on the r/bitcoin history.

Cryptocurrency discussions are notoriously filled with astroturfing. It’s a lot like what would happen if present-day nation states quite literally lived and died based on the market price of 24/7 globally traded bearer shares. The saying “well kept gardens die by pacifism” is resoundingly true here, to put it mildly.

Historically, the opponents to the now infamous “Bitcoin as digital gold” narrative were pushing things like gigablocks, nodes in datacenters, “Bitcoin as PayPal 2.0”, let’s replace all the core developers, etc based on populist appeals. There was no way to distinguish between those populist appeals and attempts to foil Bitcoin socially by all manner of biased attackers (and just plain ignorant people).

I think it’s rather telling that after these people forked to Bcash, they subsequently capped the block size of Bcash to 32MB and are now ironically scaling Bcash via sidechains — e.g. SmartBCH — against the backdrop of historically claiming BTC would never increase in price past $300 USD without a block size increase. To say their entire worldview has been invalidated would be an understatement.
They're referring to: Gabriel Weinberg - Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Sounds like a great reason to do a little medical tourism once the present situation is under control.
We will be eventually migrating to UDP (HTTP/3) once it is rolled out on Envoys[0] on Dropbox Edge Network[1].

[0] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-we-migrated-dropbox-...

[1] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/dropbox-traffic-infrastr...
What's unserious about it?
A block has many properties. A property has a name, and a value.

The underlying persisted data doesn't necessarily have to be a bag of KV pairs.

A block is related to its parent and descendant blocks.

These relations are suitably represented in a relational database, not a document store.

EDIT: In graph theory, a tree is an undirected, connected and acyclic graph.
Keynsian demand-driven economy is the root of all evil, i.e. market bubbles that pop eventually. Everyone except market speculators would be much better of with supply-driven economy and small deflation.

For one it would provide incentive to save money and spend it wisely, instead of mindlessly buying all that unnecessary crap.
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Is there any broader context to this quote?
That's a fair point. I hope you're involved in the spec discussions around these topics! There's definitely room for improvement in terms of ease of use.

I noticed this update on the https://web.dev/coop-coep/ article recently:

> We've been exploring ways to deploy Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy at scale, as cross-origin isolation requires all subresources to explicitly opt-in. And we have come up with the idea of going in the opposite direction: a new COEP "credentialless" mode that allows loading resources without the CORP header by stripping all their credentials. We are figuring out the details of how it should work, but we hope this will lighten your burden of making sure the subresources are sending the Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy header.
https gives your isp any domain name you visit. A vpn would hide that.

A vpn moves any legal situation into a country with different laws.
Isn't that kind of the point? If consumers and enterprises were competing for the same product, we would probably see a similar situation as we are with consumers and miners.
Because Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video et Al don't make money. At some point they're going to have to and that's when we see if you're right or not.
Also to add: do people still use "isinstance" for comparing types? Always has help like an antipattern to me.
It only loses value when Elon shitpost on Twitter, right?
> nothing to test it with

What do you mean here?
100% this in the short term, but in the long term workarounds will become harder to find. Have a look at iOS jailbreak history.

I just hope they don’t kill functionality which matters for other meaningful purposes, like deep learning.
This is so true. In the grand scheme, there are never any bigger slimebags to walk through the courts' doors than those who work there.
The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel
Aren't most miners in China and use coal power? Seems like it is contributing to destroying the planet then.
I hadn't heard of Notion before this recent HN discussion, in which many, many people make the argument that it's slow, often unusably so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27144566

So it's a bit of a surprise to see them bragging about their technology today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-Op-1peZI for less formal overview
https://www.thetatoken.org/ contains white papers if you want the technicals.
> Because, yeah, having ex-miner cards burn out is a pretty common thing on the used market.

This is mostly a myth, miners cards are usually undervolted, and only a subset of the card is used.

If your CPU only used it's floating point unit then it wouldn't be as intense as if you were using the whole thing.

The only potential issue is thermal damage, but that's hard to place and has to be close to, or in excess of 90-110c.
> A software engineer in Dallas Texas doesn't make near the cost of living difference between a San Francisco job while doing the same thing and that is a problem. Full stop.

Why is that a problem? Do you feel that the same gap needs to be closed globally, or just within the US?

> finger pointing at the Texas government without pointing at companies and other states

I don't think anyone is finger pointing at the Texas government while ignoring companies and other states. GP is saying that Texas is doing thing X, coastal states are doing thing Y, leading to companies (and engineers) choosing the coastal states because they prefer Y.
It seems more that the most competent government agencies and private organizations are in the same general ballpark, but anyway that doesn't matter, because the ones getting hacked are the least competent of either group.
I think the biggest problem is that the app is geared towards cellphones. It’s just like Spotify desktop app around 3 years ago before the revamp.
It's part of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_District

Many "cities" have political structures similar to what you describe.
I would love something with the crafting, housing and city systems like Star Wars Galaxies.

I also enjoyed the combat and style of WildStar.

I am always more pve oriented, but i really liked Planetside 2 when it first was released, now they have simplified it too much, probably due to a lack of players...

And eve online always lingers in a «I really want to get back into that but i already have one full time job now» territory.

Edit: I guess I would love something that whould have all of that, but that would be waaaay to unrealistic.
But, if something could re-create the magick of clearing nax the first time with your guildies then i would be happy.

So to boil it down; something that promotes cooperation and community i guess?
I hate to say it but my first impression of this was that it looked like a visiting area for a prison. (Something about the bleak colour palette and minimalist display). But, I think that presents a similar long-distance use-case as the 'phone booth.' I wouldn't be surprised to see this as a pay-per-use option for prisoners/families. It's probably only a matter of time before the 'Echo Shows' capitalize on it.
People dump toxic chemicals on their property every day. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fertilizers are all toxic. Hell, we even pay farmers to do this.

There are other ways to mitigate this problem than giving voters the authority to dictate how a property owner uses their land.
That doesn't cause the positive use cases to not exist.
No, that's arbitrage.
I dunno, the freedom fighter in me thinks this is a terrible idea, but my rationale says that it doesn't make much of a difference. Nvidia's hash rate limitation is really their way of telling miners that they aren't interested in their business. I suppose I could see Nvidia taking a hard left turn here and stopping acceleration for other things (like ML and physics calculations), but why would they? CudNN and PhysX are already such massive investments to them that throwing it out would break comparability with several games/apps and outrage the professional/consumer market.

So given how few choices Nvidia has, I think I trust them to call this. At the very least, it should reduce their hardware demand to tolerable levels, so they can focus on securing better silicon rather than simply more.
What do your queries look like? Are you using an ORM?
...yet, all these are fairly new. Give it another 2-5 years for implementations and integrations.

Also, it’s already used in defi, if you count that as “real world”. Reminds me of when anything on the internet wasnt “real”.
I don't know why it's not considered animal abuse. They say that 40% of them are domestic abusers, but really 100% of K9 units are animal abusers. They are taking advantage of puppies and having them do things that a dog shouldn't naturally tend towards when interacting with human beings.
Why does Nvidia even want to sell to low-priced buyers, if they are saturating their manufacturing capacity with the high-priced buyers alone?