skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While having the cards is tablestakes, and newer cards can do more for less, in the end--even for Ethereum--you really still are spending more on electricity than hardware, and so you can have all the cards in the world and still not be able to mine crypto effectively. Most mining is thereby done in other places in the world where the externalities on power generation and use (clean or dirty, both) are less well tracked, with the occasional place in the US--such as the plants in NY that are being booted back up just to mine crypto--where people are actively trying to make it illegal. I would imagine a lot of the mining done in the US ends up being either to "launder" (not quite the right term) money (buying lots of power and converting it to untraceable crypto for illegal activity... kind of a reverse laundry ;P) or with "stolen" power (as is the case of a college student mining in their dorm room).
"Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded"
> Life is the same. We have seen enough of it in enough variety to know that it can take on many forms, including exotic forms that are impossible on Earth but would be possible elsewhere.

What forms of life that are impossible on earth do we know about?
If the USG isn't able to provide protection against ransomware attacks, what other choice is there? This is going to be a hard sell - especially when the USG continues to pay ransoms themselves. Oh they may call it other nonsense like "humanitarian aid" to try and save face, but they're ransoms. I'm not in favor of kicking the victim when they're down.
Do we know yet what the evolution and conditional-support mechanism is going to look like? Will there be "feature levels" like D3D, or ad-hoc independent extensions like interim GL, or some mix of the two?

Now that basically all relevant browsers are evergreen (sit down, IE11) I wonder whether an API roadmap could take advantage of that in a way that's less pesky than the traditional approaches.
Is it lenticular, or something else?
After your battle with the compiler is over and it compiles it does not mean your program is correct! If you now what you you have no issues with C++. It's not the language. It's the design, approach and attitude
Why mine gold when you could make a fortune selling shovels?
QUIC absolutely uses congestion control. See section 6 here
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-quic-recovery-26.html
If only my PMs had cared...

I previously worked on a monstrosity where the input state was owned by the backend via huge incomprehensible metadata updates. Every keystroke had to be submitted (and thus actions fired) because a field update could invalidate other fields on the grid and the user could feel the latency (~400ms roundtrip?) between each keystroke. The backend team was sure they had discovered some magic sauce and I noped out of there before my next bonus
No, my work doesn't involve that at all. It just sends the signal to me as a customer that they can limit what I do with something that I bought and is supposedly now mine. It's a slippery slope kind of situation where you don't know what else they might figure they'll want to limit in the future.

I am not okay with that so I'll vote with my wallet.
An Incremental Path Towards a Safer OS Kernel [pdf]
Risk. When crypto inevitably crashes again they will be left holding the bag on a huge set of cards that may not have great resale value. Selling the cards is safer and also aligned with their core business competence.
I guess I misunderstood things then. It's difficult to reconcile why they'd be using a legacy version of Java that required these specific GC tunings if they weren't forced to use it because of libraries that couldn't be replicated or replaced in GoLang. Sounds like it's a much bigger mess there than what I had assumed (I guess I was giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt).
Absolutely, the best people at Bell labs in the 80's were "like cows".
Gopher is from 1991. I've been using it back then but HTTP won quite easily.
Would you say the same if you could mine bitcoin by buying up as much medicine as you could, and burning it?

Because if you think the above behavior isn't "earning income" clearly better than "play video games", then your argument falls completely flat.
There are staking pools that allow you to stake with less than 32 ETH and pool those together to participate. We understand the requirement of 32 is high but that doesn't mean it is impossible to participate in staking with less. Rocketpool or Lido finance are examples.
Zoom lag is an issue with Zoom, not the network generally. If you actually do wired, p2p on the same side of the same continent you can get rid of most of the lag. Current lag comes from services that aren't p2p and bad networks (e.g. wifi).
They said as far as they know. More likely they never heard of it.
Serious miners are buying Antminers, not video cards.
I think it's hard to take the principled approach when you see that the result of sticking to principles results in large organizations enriching themselves while ignoring the myriad externalities.

At least, it makes you re-evaluate your principles.
The dynamics of moving heavy loads long distances has never favored electric power. Diesel currently powers tractor semis because it produces more energy than gasoline and creates much more low speed continuous load torque.

EVs are well suited to light loads and short distances, rapid acceleration and altitude change but are not well suited to long range hauling of heavy loads due to the enormous energy required.
No one mines BTC on GPU, and Etherum is up 100% from two weeks ago.

Ok, I understand that NVidia does not want to mine themselves, but why on Earth won't they just raise the prices to the level miners are willing to pay?

"We want to sell to gamers, not miners" is the stupidest excuse ever. Isn't capitalism all about selling to the highest bidder? Why do they even care about who buys their product?

EDIT: Also, think about this: gamers that are considering upgrading their hardware get additional incentive - Etherum mining makes buying this new, shiny GPU basically free. Typically, after 9-12 months the initial investment is paid off. Without the possibility of mining many gamers will delay the decision about buying a new GPU, hurting NVidia sales further.
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In case anyone is wondering about the stability I've been running this for a couple of months now and stability has gotten pretty darn good. I'm excited to see it go into stable builds soon.
I find her use of the words "me" and "our" refreshing. I've created a bunch of mostly unsuccessful businesses(1) and haven't really resolved this language for myself. Here are a couple quotes from the first paragraph...

> exactly one engineer - me

followed by

> our current tech stack

This is something I struggle with when I'm writing about my own business or product. Sometimes "our" feels like the right thing to say but I know it's really just "me". She seems to have resolved this herself and uses "our" when speaking about the company, the technology, company philosophy, etc. It's kind of refreshing and she might have just helped me decide it's okay to say "our" as a solo maker.

1: https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
This is incorrect since the onboard HDMI output can be used for that as well (or a secondary GPU).
> I would expect people on HN to object to this move on principle.

I cannot think of any principle that would cause me to object to this.

Blind fealty to general purpose computing here conflicts with the very real world impact on non-crypto consumers. If we're being utilitarian, it seems to me that it would be obvious that this is a good move.
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It's going away though
Proof of work makes me angry. I have a difficult time getting too upset over any attempt to curtail it.
Monero is often accepted (such as in the pipeline situation). It is an interesting usecase that the company could try to pay privately to avoid legal action themselves.
Yes. That's my take away after years of "paying attention" to diet and health. Countless articles read, videos watched, diets tried, trends analyzed.

Through it all, it seems a general rule of thumb is:

Eat whole foods. If it requires processing in a factory, avoid it. This includes many things that you might not intuitively think of. Vegetable oils, for example are a highly processed food.

Aside from avoiding processed foods, and eating whole ingredients... Yes, eat a variety of different foods. Eat vegetables, eat carbohydrates, eat meat. Just don't eat too much of any one thing, and if you can identify something that doesn't sit well with you, avoid it!
Apple has sold their dual GPU late 2015 powerhouse model on the website, allowing people to completely skip the USBC donglebook with butterfly keyboards and touch bar

I’m looking forward to having that in the new processor and with touchbar

They are acknowledging the folly of their ways as they have gotten rid of the butterfly keyboard, adding magsafe back, and adding sd cards back

They are making the least contentious and perfect machine
How much would you pay? I expect the lower end to be around $20,000 from hardware alone, plus at least gigabit down/up connectivity.
The timer may be to deal with inventory issues. A denial of inventory attack exploits a site that uses carts to calculated available inventory. Sites which track item availability need to reserve the item for the customer when it is added to the cart. If it’s not, the item may not exist when they checkout.

Usually this works fine as only a small percentage of stock is floated in inventory, but if someone wants to take your store down, they can add many items to their cart that they never intend to buy and leave it indefinitely. If you don’t periodically empty unused carts it will create a problem. It’s possible that the site you visited kept a very small inventory and was suffering from these issues even without it being an attack.
> in standardized, prescribed ways

Another way to frame that is to learn how to follow an algorithm. There is great value in that. Creating one's own algorithms is much more advanced, and builds on the foundation of knowing the existing algorithms.
Because halving the performance makes them unprofitable to run. If you buy one you can still try mining, and if it falsely detects mining your desktop won't crash, but professional miners won't be interested.
Hello Umanwizard, I'll try to make that less ambiguous.
What I mean is, over the last century it has become common to believe that we are taming pathogens - smallpox, polio, maybe malaria next, diseases that have been with us for a very long time. As our technology enables this, I fear another trend pushes us in the opposite direction, that as we encroach further and further into fuller exploitation of remaining wilderness we are encountering novel potential pathogens at a greater rate, and our highly connected single global population means that transmission happens very quickly. So my question doesn't concern the lethality of Covid, rather that is is novel and has spread globally quickly - whether this might be an early data point in a future data set, that will indicate we are now be generating new novel pandemics at a greater rate. If that is the case, that will be a more difficult problem to solve than the problem of lax lab safety.

There are interesting points in this thread, about how well we would respond to confirmation that the pandemic was triggered by a lab leak, so I'm not saying that there would be a good outcome from knowing it was a lab leak, rather that even if we never know the truth, it would probably be a better thing for the future of our civilisation it was a lab leak, rather than the first significant event in accelerating sequence of naturally generated pandemics. These are not the only two options of course, but that was the ambiguously stated meaning of my comments

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You don’t have to have 10,000psi tanks. A regular 3,000psi industrial gas cylinder would do the job and it would store energy equivalent of around 8gallons of gasoline. The gas cylinder would weigh ~ 100 pounds. So totally feasible.

Now, do we have cheap appliances that consume hydrogen and produce work/heat ? Not yet.
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It's not a whole new level. An aspect of Quadro differentiation has, since ages ago, been based on selectively disabling features that the consumer gpus silicon was capable of. It's the same strategy here.

This makes sense to Nvidia because it creates a segment differentiation and will allow them to charge more for the higher hash rate parts.
Are there CPU architectures where 8 cores share a L2 cache? I'm not aware of any though I can think of several where 4 cores share a L2 cache, though those tend to be pretty lightweight cores. More often you see issues with the L3 cache being shared between 8 cores or no as with Zen 2 versus Zen 3. And since only lightweight cores tend to share L2s this isn't really an issue in terms of replacing heavyweight cores with lightweight ones. Mostly, though when I think about sharing data between 8 cores I tend to be concentrating on making sure it ends up as S in MESI, MOESI, MESIF or whatever cache coherency protocol the chip is using.
Well, if I didn't have the life experience I had by then I might have been pushed into the sale. He also tried to make me feel guilty about wasting his time (1,5 hours) talking through and drawing up a kitchen plan for us. Which is why I could laugh at the whole situation, because it's his risk for trying to get a sale. And if his kitchen drawing services where that good he should have made an agreement before spending his valuable time with us. But I doubt anyone would visit that place if he did.
>Google will eventually ban any big enough ad vendor tinkering too much with delayed loading.

Delayed/deferred loading is supposed to improve page performance metrics, not degrade them.

In light of this, I fail to see how you arrive at this conclusion after an article that essentially says that Google decided to de-prioritize AMP in search results and instead give top spots to well-performing websites regardless of whether they are AMP or not.

If anything, this move encourages delayed/deferred loading for all non-AMP websites, because that's one way to improve your website performance and get your search ranking higher.
Miners are already doing hacks like this, i.e ETHlargement pill (which alters memory timings on 1080/1080Ti cards to improve ETH mining).
My next GPU is going to be one that a) supports the features I want, and b) that I can actually go out and buy without putting hundreds or thousands of dollars into some economic parasite’s pocket. It’s not just “hard” to buy high-end GPUs right now—it’s impossible unless you make a lifestyle out of chasing them down.

If this has any effect on anybody who isn’t a crypto miner, it’s going to be to open up possibilities and/or save them money. I have trouble finding fault with that, and we’re surrounded by far more egregious erosions of our “right” to buy and use general-purpose computers.
> Does anyone even consider it serious science?

Yes, just like there are people who consider Crystal Power serious science. A lot of people are deeply impressed by the Drake Equation, presumably because they can't understand it.
All I can say is that that company well deserved Linus Torvald's famous middle finger: "NVidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with, so NVidia F--- YOU!"

And they certainly haven't disappointed since back then.

Petty.
> in college

Not 3rd grade.

Following an algorithm is not memorization.
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That's super useful on a resource strapped system. Wish I knew this earlier.
I absolutely despise cryptocurrency, so this may not be accurate, but my understanding is that they’re only reliable if many independent people mine. If NVIDIA kept all its GPUs and mined Bitcoin instead of selling them, it could control more than 50% of the hashing capacity. This could allow NVIDIA to double-spend bitcoins, the possibility of which would probably crash confidence in the asset.
Ben Thompson has been rarely wrong in many of the more important strategic decisions by the big tech, media and telecoms giants. The CEOs should ignore his sage advice at their own peril.
A bit ironic that this promo video maxxes out in 1080p, despite YouTube supporting 4K and this tech pumping 8K+ res.

There is so much more we can do in terms of quality and immersion that we're not doing simply because bandwidth and connectivity are so low-quality and overpriced at most of our leaf nodes in the USA.
Really interessing.

This seem to be a really good use case for a NoSQL database. Am I wrong ?
I suppose the "long term customers" for these GPUs are gamers, right? Don't they also come and go? I don't particularly follow this as I'm not really into games, but it seems to me that AMD has had quite an impressive growth recently. Does that mainly come from people new to the market? I'm actually a "new to the market" buyer, and I bought an AMD mostly because I'm mainly a Linux user and didn't want to take any chances with nvidia given the horror stories I've seen floating around these parts.

The issue with the GPU market is that since it's a duopoly, customers don't really have anywhere else to go. My impression is that people mostly bounce between the two. I'm not sure how many people have that much of a "brand loyalty", especially since this is the "enthusiast sector", so I guess people don't just buy whatever they find at the corner store.

To me, this looks more like market segmentation, the same way that you can't run virtualization on their consumer products, and you can't have ECC RAM on consumer intel chips. I really don't think they're doing this from the goodness of their hearts towards those poor gamers who are priced out of the market, but because they figured that miners would be ready to pay more. Which is pretty obvious, since scalpers are managing to sell those at outrageous prices, someone has to be buying them, right?
DigitalOcean is removing most referral credits that you may have accumulated
I'm not going to lie, I've amassed thousands of dollars of hosting credits over the years because I've referred many many hundreds of new users to DigitalOcean. Most of those credits (and yours too) are going to disappear a week from now with no prior notice other than an email DO sent out today.

Here's a quote from the email:

> We recently discovered unused referral credits on your account that were issued more than one year ago. We are writing to inform you that, starting on May 25th 2021, we will be expiring credits earned through the referral program that have gone unused for 12 months.

I've been a long time user and advocate of DigitalOcean, ever since about 2014.

I asked nothing in return for promoting them, I talk about them positively because I've had good experiences using their services.

Over the years I've created a number of courses focused on deploying web applications and have used my DigitalOcean affiliate link in those courses because it's a double win. New users get free credits when signing up and I get credits when those users spend money on their platform.

In my opinion this is effectively stealing. I referred so many folks to their platform and got compensated by hosting credits in return because that was my only payout option. Now they are taking away those credits but all of those hundreds of folks who signed up through my account are still customers. In other words, DigitalOcean has benefited and continue to benefit from those users and now I lose all compensation for that.
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This is worth consideration. Many lifters who use chalk have spent money on building a home gym or attend gyms are open despite COVID restrictions.
I am not at all well informed about this but I imagined a Dyson swarm would sort of grow and evolve organically over time. Not as an end goal in themselves.

For example, if you start building space habitats (even if they are enclosed cylinders such that they hold an atmosphere and provide gravity via rotation) you need to put them somewhere. It makes sense to throw them in orbit around the star at some optimal distance (for example at 1AU +/- some amount), if you continue to put more and more such habitats around a star in similar orbits over time, in sufficient numbers, wouldn't they start to resemble a Dyson swarm?
I don't think this is "recognizing customers", I think this is just sectioning markets. I'd dreading Nvidia crippling deep learning for all those not paying X more dollars (as the situation already is for server farms).

Long term, the aim has to be selling cards by usage rather than by cost of production (obvious with the aim of prices higher than the cost of production by different amounts). How many people like Adobe's creative suite? Student software versus professional software, etc.
That would really take it to the next level if it had that feature, even with very few degrees of freedom.

The (New) Nintendo 3DS has head tracking, but it doesn't change your perspective into the view port, which gives a very dizzying effect when you deliberately test the feature.

I would imagine its possible to extrapolate perspective if they had an array (N > 2) of cameras.

This is super cool tech, and can't wait to see an array of these installed in the secret undisclosed board rooms for the illuminati.
The first story in Exhalation is written in the style of the Arabian Nights (Thousand and One Nights). Get the unabridged, original translation by Richard Burton - it is some of the most beautiful literature ever written - comes in 16 volumes so there will be no shortage of reading material!
The notion that these anti-money laundering schemes and otherwise regular financial transactions are 'oppressive' is not only false, it's upside down.

'Poverty' is a system without trust, justice or regulatory oversight - that is a system of 'power by thuggery'.

The reason Singapore and Hong Kong flourished is because they had objective commercial law, you could put your money in a bank and know it wasn't going to be stolen. You could make business claims against others in court, instead of having to hire gunboats.

A rigorous financial system is a foundation of civility, not an oppression.

If we want to 'improve' we can look at remove VISA/MC monopolies, platform monopolies (Apple etc.), and of course reduce fictionalization of the economy by the Fed ...

... but good luck with the later, as those receiving a 'tiny bit of free money' from the government have difficulty realizing that they are actually being duped by the fact that everyone higher than them on the ladder is getting 'even more free money from the government' and that their ostensibly handouts are going to get more than eaten up by inflation of various kinds.

There is no magical solution to our problems, we need to more pragmatic and intelligent - there's nothing in the domain of crypto that's fundamentally going to change the equation other than as minor tool in support of something more broad and pragmatic.
Thanks for sharing that!

I love this: https://winterbloom.com/about

My HR department is twice the size of hers.

I too, am a one-person (gender difference) company, and there’s a ton of stuff I do that would not work with a team.
Being able to feel like another person in the room is enough for me to reconsider working from home. As of right now I strongly have a preference for in person, but I do acknowledge most people prefer commute and cost benefits over productivity.

The state of video conferencing today is a poor one and I'm very excited for something that can change the industry like this.