skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually GPUs used for mining are typically undervolted to keep power costs down, and by running them 24/7 there is less thermal expansion and contraction so they’re not expected to fail at higher rates than other GPUs.

Source: I used to mine ETH years ago on used AMD GPUs when that was still profitable. From perusing mining forums this is still standard practice. I eventually sold all the GPUs and all of them worked flawlessly.
They renamed Reason to Rescript, FYI. (I don’t actively follow Reason or ReasonML, but the rebranding caught me by surprise).
Gamers are the reason why Nvidia exists, it's a hard thing to let go of.

It would be like FB shutting down the blue app and pivoting to Tinder.
Actually, is there a need to block anything? They're coming up with a mining-focused product line now. Just make them slightly cheaper per hash and voila - all miners will be buying the mining-focused products. They lack the video outputs so it makes sense, you can skip some of the BOM on the card, save a few bucks. As it has already been mentioned in the thread miners are super sensitive to squeezing every cent out of their setup. If they can save some bucks on cards, they will surely go for it.

So either the mining cards will be cheaper than regular, which makes this block a moot point in near future, or they will be more expensive per hash than normal graphic cards. In which case the block makes sense but in my opinion is a bad move by Nvidia. Making the mining cards more expensive than regular cards is throwing a gauntlet to the whole world to break the drivers or workaround the hardware. It will be fascinating to watch the cat-and-mouse game of hackers and Nvidia developers, but it will not fix the horrible GPU market situation we're in now and that is a shame.

Disclaimer: I want to buy a new GPU soon but for the MSRP and not the price equivalent of a small car. So I may be biased...
It's doesn't list how much each one has... Not very useful.
This is a great explainer on how and why Notion is so powerful, and certainly helps explain why it doesn't feel like the fastest tool (because it's inherently more complicated and more powerful than most).

I've tried using it for personal notes but it's speed and lack of offline prevented me from migrating to it. But I think it's the best choice for any organization that needs a collaborative docuement/wiki/Confluence-esque tool.

Not to mention that I think it has the best default fonts, spacing, and general aesthetic of any tool I can think of.
Something you really hit on here; there is no free lunch with clustered databases. You have to design your application to account for the sharding or you will run into data locality related performance issues.
If they wanted to capitalise on remote meetings, I assume they would have shown one in the demo video. Instead they focused on family members reconnecting.
Same reason why they are not an investment bank investing in stocks, or building skyscrapers in Dubai.

It's not their business. They've built over the many years, a very defensible business out of expertise (and IP). That expertise is unique and resilient to the whims of a speculative investor hive-mind.

More practically, they just wouldn't be able to compete. Against companies that build ASICs specifically for mining, the tech they have, while is viable for the small-time gamer-miner demographic, does not have good returns on a larger economies of scale.
The age of evidence is behind us. It's all about expert opinion now, as you can infer from the other comments you've gotten.
> you don't need any capital to run a node

Please point me in the direction where I can find some of these free ASIC miners.....
I understand the concept, but I don't think it applies to life specifically. Even the simplest cell is more complex than any other naturally occurring formation we have ever seen in the universe.

Furthermore, unlike waterfalls, we actually have no idea how life appeared and, despite trying for many years, have been entirely unable to produce life from non-living things, and we have never observed this process occurring naturally either.

Furthermore, every living thing we've ever looked at has been a relative of other living things - as far as we've been able to determine, all of the life on Earth has a single origin, a single original RNA/DNA code which must have been present in a single population of organisms, at a single location. This is a strong suggestion that the conditions that allowed life to appear on Earth may have been extraordinarily specific - otherwise, we would expect many unrelated beings sharing the planet (or at least it means that a particular for of life was overwhelmingly more adaptive and entirely wiped out all of the others).

Even worse, there is another phenomenon for which we only have evidence of one instance happening in the history of the Earth: all eukaryotic life has a single common ancestor, and there are no complex multicellular organisms which are not eukaryotes.

So, not only did life arise only once on the one planet we know it can thrive in, but complex life only arose once from simpler life.

So, while we can't say that it's plausible life will never again arise in the universe, we can say that for any particular moment of time, it is plausible that no new life is being formed anywhere else in the universe.
What, externalities like energy waste? If that's the case, why target ETH, isn't ETH going to Proof of Stake soon?[1] I admit I don't really know if what Nvidia is targeting applies to both pre-merge and post-merge ETH

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194586
Then why is Elon Musk trading Bitcoins? Tesla makes more money trading Bitcoin than selling cars.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-makes-more-money-trading-...
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
It’s a reasonable problem to address. Agreeing with that has nothing to do with critiquing the absurdity of the ‘solution’.
That's called binning but it's not as bad as it seems and it reduces waste. The way chips are manufactured all the high end and lower end variants come from the same process, but the company can only guarantee the performance of the higher binned ones.
The actual details on those names can be found in the digital edition here:

https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=611...

It's an interesting magazine. Ads for private jets, helicopters and huge ranches and horses. I'm certainly not in their target income bracket!
They do, the mining specific cards are more expensive / hash rate. It's just market segmentation.
> 25. Jeff Bezos

> 49. Bill & Melinda Gates [NEW TO LR100]

I knew Bill Gates had a lot of land, but that information about Jeff Bezos is new to me. Too bad the report doesn't say how much land they own.
yeah. it is a bit chicken and egg.
"This primitive alone allows for much higher velocities of money since value can be moved and repayed in a single block (on the order of 10 seconds)."

what can be usefully arbitraged in that time in way that guarantees no loss?
"In a gold rush - sell shovels."
I'm right there with you, and I use a 4k camera and a boom mic and headphones and wired ethernet to videoconference now: I have been regularly complaining about the low resolution and framerates of current videoconferencing systems (10-15fps, 720p, low bitrate - and that's the highest quality setting available!).

If Google wanted to make me believe they care about videoconferencing quality, they'd have a 4k 60fps option that auto-enables in Meet if it detects everyone on the call is on wired gigabit with a 4k camera.
This is why you should have a blog: Because when you throw your reddit comments onto your own website and show a "post archive" on the sidebar, you're a blogger worth being submitted to Hacker News.

The point is valid, but the presentation and profane clickbait are lower tier.
I'm going to be writing a blog post for my engineering team soon and I'm really impressed by the storytelling and presentation here. How did you plan out your blog? Were there any resources or examples you found useful during the writing process? Thank you!
What Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?[video]
I find the energy used in crypto mining to be a crime against humanity and support reasonable efforts to curtail it. Until we price in the externalities of using fossil fuel energy, no one should be wasting energy on this scale for such a spectacularly nonessential purpose.
This looks like individuals. Institutions would hold much more land.
Microsoft confirms Windows 10x is dead
The boulder-sized caveat for all this admittedly really neat stuff being:

> PlanetScale's Non-Blocking Schema Changes' workflow doesn't support FOREIGN KEYs in users' databases.

> PlanetScale determined that the production safety that Non-Blocking Schema Changes provide are worth this technical tradeoff. Learn more.

https://docs.planetscale.com/concepts/nonblocking-schema-cha...
They could start a bunch of subsidiary companies.
Depends on multiple factors:
- S3 or compatible would be trivial choice for storage

- if on-prem is a must there are multiple options, generally something with erasure codes (it is a game changer for storage)

So far I have been using enterprise storage (that has some potential problems when mounted as nfs volumes), works for petabytes, already decouples storage from compute.

More recently I was experimenting with MinIO. No conclusion so far.

The problems are with Hadoop:

- unfortunate design choices (namenode??)

- extremely unfortunate implementation (I probably spent more time in the Hadoop codebase than any other, found many bugs, some I could fix, most I couldn’t)

I think I have migrated away from Hadoop 10 PB worth of data infra in the last 5 years, mostly to AWS, some to Azure. Average cost saving is between 10-30% yoy.

Some comments point out the network cost. The reality is most companies collect a giant amount of data (ingress) and publish dashboards (egress). It makes cloud pretty viable.

S3 is beating the shit out of HDFS in reliability and cost, even though most Hadoop shops spread the fud that it is slow. Same way these companies used to spread the fud that snappy is best for data compression.

As of 2021 even the latest adopters (banks and insurance companies) use cloud. Maybe extremely few dogmatic companies remain in the onprem crowd. Even those will eventually give up.
I stopped buying the pixel the moment they stopped producing the XL version. Perhaps the data showed there weren't a lot of XL buyers but I was one of them and upgraded nearly every year.
It's been a shift I've noticed over the last ~15(?) years of browsing these and similar forums - as they become more well-known and frequented by the general public, the opinions start to lose nuance and aren't as tightly coupled to the principles from which the forum was borne.

Similar example - government regulation of tech: if, 15 years ago, you were to tell a community of Hackers that the EU was planning a massive law to regulate the way you can process data that internet browsers voluntarily send to your server, there would be principled outrage. But, speak ill of GDPR on today's HN, and you'll quickly find yourself inundated with anti-tech talking points.

The filter bubble doesn't last forever :)
Maybe not.

Plants have two sources of nutrition: uptake via their roots and photosynthesis. My general understanding is that photosynthesis is what provides them energy whereas uptake via roots provides water and some essential nutrients they can't synthesize.

The details will vary and some plants, for example, grow in total darkness or feed parasitically on other plants. But I think photosynthesis is roughly the equivalent of humans eating carbs for energy.

So it's a little like saying "One defining characteristic of sleep is that animals stop eating." And, in fact, hibernation through the winter when food is in very limited supply is a known mechanism of survival for some species in harsh climates: They sleep instead of eating.

In fact, my understanding is that to some degree eating and sleeping are substitutable. If you can't sleep, you can eat to help keep yourself functional while awake on a long shift.

I think they do this on episodes of Deadliest Catch: feed people more when they are pulling a long shift and going to be awake for 24 hours straight.
Plywood is often better in every conceivable way than pure wood, and can be more expensive as well. GP is perhaps confusing it with particle board maybe? I don’t know they’re talking about. There is “crappy” plywood too, sure, but that used for framing & structure.
I'm definitely not arguing for the stupid "audiophile" frequencies. For the tiny fraction of music taking advantage of ultrasonic frequencies and high dynamic range it's nice there's an option now.

I hope the availability of high resolution, or more importantly the spacial audio, will inspire some artists to really explore the space. I'm hoping for some stuff like the Flaming Lips' Zaireeka or Yoshimi album's 5.1 mix.
I mean, why are non-crypto consumers better than crypto ones from a utilitarian POV? (I play video games and dislike crypto - I'm just asking). I suppose that people do things other than gaming with 3080s, because I would be hard pressed to make a convincing argument that gaming is somehow so much more valuable of a hobby than mining crypto that it's worth the hit to general purpose computing to specifically ban crypto
How do you do that? I see search history, some recent tracks, but not the extensive feature you list.
I don’t think you can do this without a block-based approach. That part isn’t super novel, for example I wrote textbook editing software circa 2014 which worked largely the same way.

What notion has done that is impressive IMO is made the editing experience enough like the MS-Word “inline” editing that people seem to understand it and use it without minding that it’s a block editor. The project I worked on back in the day wasn’t quite as slick, and there were a lot of users who got frustrated when things like copying text across multiple paragraphs didn’t always do what they had in mind (imagine a text selection from the middle of one paragraph (block) to the middle of another - that’s complicated to deal with).

Nice to see Notion take this model mainstream with such a nice UX.
having segfault is the best you can have: it tells you explicitly that something is wrong with your program. in other languages the same kind of error may result in stale data and the GC does not collect the data and the memory consumption grows slowly. You will notice the problem much later.

Np language can solve the inability of writing a correct program. Do you believe if your Rust program compiles it is free of errors??
I doubt you need gigabit for an 8K stream. The real issue is the abysmal common network infrastructure. Latency will be a bottleneck if most ISPs don't care about treating your packets properly.
The Holy Grail Is Here: A Stable, Solid-State, Lithium-Metal Battery
Yeah, but don't sell crippled shovels.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316225

> the 8K is their Input Resolution.
> That resolution is then divided into the 45 viewing directions:
I disagree - I would agree that Minecraft wasn't a novel technology, just like Linux wasn't a novel technology - it was an alternative version of Minix.

Additionally Zoom isn't a novel technology, it isn't even particularly interesting technically when compared to other video conferencing solutions - but over the past year it's been incredibly important to a number of people.

I think the OC slightly missed the mark in mentioning "important technologies" instead of something closer to "technologically innovative" technologies or, more accurately (but less interesting of a statement) "expensive to develop technologies". Things that are expensive to develop generally aren't cheap to begin with, while things that are cheap to develop need to be cheap to compete with other market entrants and clones. Additionally hardware (a limiting factor on cost for a lot of technology) tends to get cheaper over time and that rate of change is accelerated by a large market of interest (leading to more folks deciding to try and iterate new designs).
The original Bitcoin paper was published late 2008 and much of its original momentum was a direct response to the clear failures of the financial institutions at the time.
If those are the sacrifices you have to make then it failed completely.
Penicillin, maybe? But I wonder how quickly it became readily available outside of the Western world.

And I see that Nintendo has apparently sold an extremely impressive number of consoles (https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/11/nintendo_has_now_s...). But even if everyone only bought one console each, that's only about 10% of world population.

This may be a little unfair, but I do wonder if there isn't a tendency to consider a technology to be widely available when it becomes available to you and the folks farther back in the line don't count or aren't relevant.
The issue is the resale value for actual working GPUs is higher so the miners will often buy the normal cards anyway
he is probably referring to the docdb document store in yugabyte: https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/architecture/layered-archit...
Very interested in your data store. How do you store, query, and search across documents?

Also, are you adding presentational tables any time soon? :)
Even if OneDrive vs Dropbox is important, this is a win for Windows in general. People will switch OSes because the TCP throughput is better on the other side; it's easy to measure and easy to compare and makes a nice item in a pros and cons list.

Fixing something like this can help lots of use cases, but may have been difficult to spot, so I'm sure the Windows TCP team was thrilled to get the detailed, reproducible report.
LAN parties are nerdy for sure.
It's going to happen eventually.
>Bitcoin costs more to mine than the power bill you'll receive

he's talking about cryptocurrencies in general, not bitcoin specifically. Mining ETH with recent-ish is currently profitable unless your electricity is very expensive (50+ cents). Besides, bitcoin mining is dominated by ASICs and there really isn't really any point in using hacked computers to mine it because there are more profitable coins (ones using ASIC resistant algorithms).
Hah, this comparison very much feels right.
It's not just about that limit though and it's not even a complaint to be clear. If eth pays me 5-10% per year for a simple cryptographic signature, great, not gonna say no.

But it inherently makes the system unfair, I have 0 pressure to sell that eth since it didn't really take me any effort to make it and I don't need it to cover life expenses, whereas for someone who has much less money, well that return on their eth (say from pools), they'll probably need to sell it to cover some other costs (rents for example). So for the wealthy, their shares grows while everyone has pressure to sell. There's also a cycle where if you're a staker and few other people sell, price will skyrocket, make it even more unaccessible.

I really hope that we avoid these scenarios in real world, but I'm a bit skeptical.
Disclosure: I work at Google too and my opinions are also my own.

We are told internally that when we discuss Google related matters online that we should be cognizant of the what/where/how/why of our communication. Disclosing is—for me—both a reminder for myself and an attempt at a hedge against accidentally representing Google.
I work in SaaS. Availability is a key feature.

A service with more features that I can't use is less valuable than one with less features that I can use whenever I want.
> (a) We have universal healthcare for those without income: Medicaid.

> (b) We have universal healthcare for those over 65: Medicare.

In varying ways, both of these programs have large gaps and do not achieve "universal" coverage for the groups they claim to be for.

For instance, when it comes to Medicaid, there is a lack of actual, physical access to care facilities for those without transportation options or a lack of ability to take sick time at work. Many rural areas have severe doctor shortages. There are many others.

> (c) Discussing healthcare reform is not considered "far left," there is significant debate about how to do this and how to pay for it across the spectrum. So far relatively left politicians have gotten the most airtime about this, but it is discussed broadly.

US pays more than most European countries do for healthcare on almost any comparable measure, per-capita, adjusted for life expectancy / outcomes, and many others. Switching to a multi-payer system with basically a variant of a public option, ironically similar to what Germany and a few other European countries have, seems like a pragmatic short-term choice. Unfortunately this isn't a popular solution on either side of the aisle.
After 10,000 charge cycles, the battery still held an 82% charge! This is impressive if commercialized as expected. Of course we’ve seen many battery “breakthroughs” that fail to materialize, so time will tell...
I'm on the fence about switching from console to pc, but I've still been trying to get a 3000 series card anyway. The ability to use the cards for ml and crypo in addition to gaming is appealing, but moves like this just make me think sticking to xbox and my gtx560 is best.
they should add it to their profile.
The US was motivated not to recognize it because of the Israeli diaspora in America.

There isn't much of an "Israeli diaspora" to speak of the the U.S. At most it makes up 2-3 percent of the Jewish descendant (or identified) population.

"Pro-Israel sentiment in Congress; more specifically, a sentiment favoring the current political status quo in Israel in regard to this particular issue" would be a better description of the proximate cause behind the current US policy, here.
Halo isn't a nerd thing. Pro gaming is.
Grift Is Good
I don't like Nvidia's approach for other reasons (mostly 'cause market segmentation raises prices in the end imo). But I'm pretty sure miners very price oriented. They'd sell rather than trash whatever cards they have. And it seems unlikely they'd be using any unsellable cards since those are energy inefficient.

There's a shortage of Nvidia card/chips after all.

Edit: Now I read the article, this is literally only being added to new cards and with a warning.
I only know what I saw from the IO stream, but I think it might send a compressed 3D mesh + texture across the network and render the light field locally.
There are better Google Drive clients like SyncDocs that can actually restore properly.
HP's Halo conferencing system had several studio quality cameras that would change the video feed based on who was talking. There were also specially placed mics on the conference table to keep audio crisp. The video quality was impressive, however you had the same issues that you have with current web-cam based systems. Eye-contact was non-existent. While the camera placement was above the middle-top of the LCD screen, you'd never feel like the person was making eye-contact with you unless they looked directly at the camera. I had several team meetings in Halo rooms, and for the time, it was the next best thing to having a meeting in person. It also worked well for groups of 4 on each side of the link.

From watching the video, Google's conferencing setup is creating a 3D rep of the people talking and adjusting rendered view based on where the participants are seated. This is blending AR with videoconferencing. It would be interesting to see how their conferencing system works with multiple-people on each side. I know the video had a mother and baby in one segment, however is the 3D rendering based on the eye-level of the main participants?