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A difficult topic. Everyone of us has a story to tell and a burden to carry. Focusses on some fierce nerds and misses all others. The gamut of personalties is vast. Got to try to bring out the best in people.
Not “dreams of a madman” then?…
I once hired an outfit to install a patio in the yard. They gave me a bid based on per-square-foot cost, which I accepted.

They leveled it and staked out the elliptical shape. I'm a very poor judge of size, but something made me suspicious and I brought out the measuring tape. Did a little calculation based on the formula for the area of an ellipse. It was 30% smaller than the contract bid.

There was a couple pallets of bricks for it in the street. I measured a brick and did a little multiplication, and discovered that the quantity of bricks matched the measured size, not the the contract bid.

I called them up, and they denied it, then said they'd made a math mistake.

Baloney. They were trying to cheat me. I hypothesized that they'd discovered that few people noticed when they oversized the square footage in the contract, and they kept going further and further with that, and expected to get away with being a full 30% off.

Knowing a bit of high school geometry paid a big dividend that time for me.
This matches with my experience. I love shooting full manual on my mirrorless, even dialing in manual focus on a fast prime with some assistance from focus peaking, but when it comes to iPhone photography, I prefer shooting hands-off. It feels like the ML engine just knows the limitations of the sensor better than I do and can give me the most to work with in Photos' streamlined develop mode.
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Would you consider working at Apple? They are also quite vocal about issues like racial justice. They still seem to be praised as an employer, though.
There is a pretty wide variance from school to school, town to town, and state to state/country to country. Maybe you were in a particularly well-adjusted school, and other schools and communities are still more judgmental of non-blessed interests? Or maybe the nerds remain, but they had different interests from the new main-stream. I'd hardly call Halo a nerd thing, for example.
I bet that's true for most laptops regardless of whether it's got the battery life or not.
When inflation sets food prices skyrocketing, cafes and microkitchens will look better than ever as part of the benefits.
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Their stated purpose is still true. They want to get these GPUs to gamers and their mining GPUs to miners.
> I mean on HN you really do see a very anti-cruise ship sentiment whenever the topic comes up.

For sure, and in other contexts too, but I don’t think the issue of not being able to buy gas because cruise ships exist comes up often (mostly because AFAICT it’s not real). And that’s really my point: it’s perfectly valid to complain about cruise ships being wasteful without being able to point to some incredibly obvious consumer-facing manifestation of that waste, because them being wasteful (they are, obviously) isn’t predicated on any such manifestation. Despite the vast scale of their waste, they’re a drop in the bucket that is the global economy.
Hey there! Matt from the DevEx team here. Apologies for the lack of polish – I think the issue here is that the flatgithub.com URL only works when you specify the repo owner and repo name, à la https://flatgithub.com/storydrivendatasets/white_house_salar....

It gets confused by all of the other stuff afterward, "tree/master/data/wrangled".

Let me know if that gets you sorted!
Indeed. I buy fast computers because they are fun toys. What if I want to play around with password cracking on my gaming machine? Is the hardware going to detect that I am running hash algorithms and throttle it? Is this a game reserved for state-level players behind closed doors?
Ctrl-F "mania" says something. But on the level of barroom talk this sounds like a plausible explanation of the prodromal effects of sleep derivation.
I also insist that the second answer choice is valid. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
That was about users' nodes being able to validate blocks; that's an orthogonal issue from PoW vs PoS.
If you watch the video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q13CishCKXY

Interesting thing to note is that they don't show the participants touching the glass pane 'separating' them, whereas for that kind of situation it would be very very natural thing to do.

I guess doing so (reaching towards the 'glass pane') would make the imagery distort/degrade real fast as you would start going out of camera's FoV, which that would break the magic.
Couldn't one just not upgrade their drivers? NVIDIA has no way of crippling an offline system.
How hard can it be to reverse engineer the drivers and remove the protections? Theres economic incentive now after all
So earning income is less important than letting people play video games? Let's just say I'm unconvinced by this argument.
They really don't. And neither do they need to buy SemiConductor Companies.

Unlike most if not all other companies that outsource manufacturing. Apple still has the known how and detail view in not only the factory but the whole supply chain. They could, should they choose to, instantly assemble everything by themselves.

Compared to other companies, they are making design changes and working with contract manufacture, but they have no idea how those machines in production actually works.

Buying Semi or Fabs also doesn't make sense unless they intend to Fab for others.
> Any coin not enforcing this rule is not bitcoin.

That's your opinion.

> There of course will be forks that dont, but they are not bitcoin.

Again, that's your opinion.
Cost is roughly 2x (at MSRP/inflated MSRP) over a 3080, so if you can buy a 3080 there's no reason to buy a 3090 for hashing. Hashrate is something like 20-30% more than a 3080.
abandoned carts are pretty commonly stored in a database so a followup email can be fired off later in the way. You don't need GA for this.
Link to the manual proposed for use: https://equitablemath.org/. The PDF downloads have a lot of content... it would take a while to digest all that is in them.

I'm all for social equality and getting rid of racism (i.e. the horrible practice of discriminating against people, even implicitly, on the basis of race), but calling out "objectivity" and "either-or thinking" as characteristics of white supremacy seems way over-the-top.

Either we teach people from the Western tradition of pedagogy, or we don't. But deconstructing the basic tenets of western philosophy and calling them "white supremacist" is absurd.

It also distracts from what actually hurts people of color and other marginalized groups, thus perpetuating the problem.
Serious miners will go to great lengths to improve their efficiency by even a fraction of 1%. They will absolutely patch some drivers if it gets them better hashes/kwh (which it will or Nvidia wouldn't do this).
Amy I the only person reading this who doesn’t think that the marketing line in the middle about not managing a schema is super scary?

> Developers want the durability, stability, and scalability of a SQL database but do not want to be constrained by managing a schema. It has been our goal to give both, not compromising on the power of your datastore but making changes feel as easy as deploying code.

Sorry. There’s always a schema, and learning to manage it is a _good_ thing. If you’re not ready to manage and migrate, then you’re not in production. You’re in something else.
...In most cases, the CEO and probably a huge number of people in upper management can do any number of things to nuke a company from orbit. But this doesn't happen very often. The things that those people can do to nuke a company from orbit are typically tightly controlled functions, and the people with those responsibilities are carefully selected and extremely well-compensated.

Yes, some employees need to be absolutely trusted. No, you don't need to absolutely trust every employee (or even most employees).

Turning to your Snowden example, if you're a TLA and find yourself completely owned by an outside contractor making low six fiures, then you've utterly failed and managing insider risk.
Always good to hear Corona is becoming less of a threat.

While Texas does not yet have the same level of vaccination as the UK, they did lift restrictions before the UK.

On the other hand if a country is slow to vaccinate (India, Japan), then Corona will be a major health issue for a long time.
I'd say more like a tariff, because you pay a 80% tax when you buy foreign goods (or pay an 80% tax when a foreigner sells good to locals).
I've been thinking about pre-ordering the Looking glass portrait. $250 for the unit, and I already have a leap motion laying around.

https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/portrait
After using M1 for some time I don't really want any Intel machine any more.
Insects are animals:

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

Infobox on the right-> Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta.
"If we didn’t have such a dire X I would be upset on principle, but I see this as a move that’s supposed to help ..."

What worth is a principle if you don't still have it when it get challenged? Then it's just a opinion, which is fine by itself and it's ok to change opinion, smart people do it all the time. But don't call it a principle.

Unlikely that mining will disappear because NVIDIA limits a specific algoritm/client software/however the limit is implemented. It will, like most "limit for your self-protection" systems, eventually be broken. Miners are already not afraid of picking apart the components they are using, so neither software nor hardware is safe.
Why can’t we have both? A job where we can “actually do stuff” without getting mistreated by psychotic billionaires. There’s a lack of compassion in tech.
I suspect this definition issue is partially due to cultural issues - freedom means different things in different parts of the world. Outside of the US societal freedom and the freedom from pain are valued over the individualistic freedom valued in the US.

I don't think either view is absolutely correct after having lived in a few different' societies - but there are valid points to support a view where individual freedom to act isn't the primary freedom to protect (i.e. protecting the freedom for everyone to live a healthy life better enables all individuals to achieve a greater degree of freedom as a society than being individually focused).

I really think there's a philosophical disagreement on what freedom is at the core of a lot of the libertarian vs. socialist arguments.
> You mean AMP pages egt preferntial treatment by Google

Promoting pages in a carousel above-the-fold is preferential treatment. Preloading Amp pages however is not. This capability works with any implementation of an Amp Cache, including the one used by Microsoft's Bing.
According to some other comment on this thread:

> a bunch of aircraft carriers and planes and bombs and people with big guns, which gives the ability to say (credibly) that it is a crime to forge dollars no matter who you are or where you live

Cryptocurrency offers all this and more for a fraction of the price.
Oh great! I was considering adding it later on but I was on the tram and didn't fancy fiddling with wikipedia on my phone :D
This is for future manufactures, and it'll come out of the box disabled.
Pray your infrastructure is secure?
We’ll see a cottage industry of modders. Turning a $300 thing into a $600 thing should be a viable business.

Though I’ve seen some really sketchy mods before… can’t find it at the moment, but one involved taking a dremel to the chip to break an internal pad/link.
I don't understand this question? Grover's algorithm is itself faster than classical search algos.

It is as of yet unknown whether quantum computers are more powerful than classical computers; there is no proof that BQP is strictly bigger than P. There is oracle separation but that's not the same thing.
People interested in POS should look at Nano [1].

In Ethereum only "validators" validate transactions - those with more than 32 Eth in their own wallet.

In Nano "representatives" validate transactions - but individual users vote a representative to represent them (with their wallet balance as a weighting).

The difference is that you can have 0.00001 Nano and still have a say over the network. It also removes the need for "stake pools" where lots of people lend Eth to one person to make up 32 Eth together (with the hope you will get your money back).

[1]: https://nano.org
>I think the fact that they sell a simple and compact adapter which restores the functionality

It does not restore the functionality. You cannot use the wired headphones via the adapter, and simultaneously charge the phone. The adapter was sold on the tagline of 'courage' by instilling the myth that 3.5mm jacks were verboten in the ecosystem. To suggest it was an altruistic act, is absurd. It was a calculated bet, like everything else they do, e.g. iPhones have yet to feature USB-C.
I wouldn't be surprised if sleep is an aspect of a nervous system in general. Last year an article came out about how even artificial neural networks benefited from sleep. Perhaps it's the nature of the beast.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24018131
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Only the boring ones are humorless. I actually think most decent satirists would match up to the fierce nerd persona pretty well. Voltaire comes to mind.
Don’t these hardware manufacturers already deliberately reduce the performance of some chips just so they can sell them for cheaper without actually developing and manufacturing an additional line of chips (i.e. price discrimination)? This doesn’t seem much different.
"Hey, that's nice", "How's that going?" or something like it.

Also, no response is also a response, you could just listen to them. No one's going to say "I just started taking guitar lessons" and remain silent for the rest of the evening; for sure they have much more to say about it.
Why don't you split California so Los Angeles and San Francisco are no longer in the same state? Their cultures seems so different I don't see why not.
I think it's quite fair to say earning income is less important than allowing people to achieve happiness and video games are a pretty well known way to accomplish that.
Does this mean my pre-crippled 3080 is now going to be worth even more on the secondary market?
I mean, that's like 99.9999....% expected, since they all evolved with a big light signal in the sky that operates on a 24 hr cycle. Plants, even more than animals, should be optimized to function that way (do mostly resource production at day, do mostly maintenance at night).
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Important to note that Vitalik massively gains from Ethereum transitioning to Proof-of-Stake since he controls a large percentage of total ETH due to premining it before the project launched.
It doesn't need to last forever, just long enough to prevent shortages from pissing off non-mining customers.

I wouldn't be surprised if nVidia releases updates to unlock hardware after a set time period.
There is literally not a single democracy in the middle east, not one. If you wanna call me racist (is middle east a race?) for saying something glaringly obvious go ahead. Btw some people simply look down on democracy, like China. They truly believe they have a better system. So its not for everyone, definitely not in the middle east.
I can't find it, but I'm pretty sure Iran has also lifted a drone of ours using a security hack. So if Iran can do it, I'm sure that means others have the same capacity.

Maybe security holes are just part and parcel to the whole enterprise. So you have to accept them and center your preparation around your response to such losses. How do you get back up and running? How do you operate without the asset that was compromised? And so on.
All packages that were present in Ubuntu 18.04 but absent in Ubuntu 20.04
Aren't schema changes are actually a big problem when there is a huge amount of data in the table. Adding a column / index to a table that has 500M rows in it is usually the pita. This is definitely something on the right direction, but would love to see this supporting this with the data itself.
Fellow solo SaaS owner here.

I'm only part way through reading all of your linked articles, and so far they're absolutely great!

Just wanted to say thanks for collecting and sharing.
I get similar vibes to demoing VR the first time. My first thought was, "My tech-illiterate dad would have his mind _blown_ by this."

Unfortunately, even an already-set-up VR experience was too strange/unnatural for him so he never got to experience it. However, this looks easy/natural to use and set up and feels like it'd have a similar mind-blowing effect for many of the older generations, which I think is a good indicator of being revolutionary tech (assuming it can be made available/cheap enough for most people to try it out).
I think there are better ways than intentionally crippling a general purpose compute platform.

On the surface, the easiest, cheapest way to alleviate the situation would be to require government ID for purchases and limit it to 1 GPU per person, and relax the limitations for educational institutions doing ML research.

A more serious way to do it would be to administer a test that you take in person (similar to the DMV); you pick either a gaming skill test or a machine learning test, and if you pass, you get to buy 1 GPU. This takes a bit more resources though, logistically, and although it sounds silly I think it would work.
It’s interesting to see how much work people seem to think that framing the Drake equation as a “thought experiment” does.

If it’s a thought experiment, stop calling it an “equation”. People hear that something is an equation and they think that there’s real math and science involved. Call it the “Drake Conjecture” or something.
Hacks that re-enable mining likely won't be showing up on tpb anytime soon! A bypass will be worth quite a bit of money for large miners that can get hold of the cards.
A password manager that doesn't support sharing passwords? Why would I bother importing passwords from another password manager for less functionality?
This is a bit like the question how to have a system that promotes honest, smart politicians. As you might guess, nobody has figured that out yet.

Ultimately the only way is an omniscient, omnipresent CEO who does all the important stuff alone. Which is probably the core reason why no one has leaked God's files on the Universe, yet.
I agree on not calling out anything psycho. Not sure about invasive though.
Yup - and pay heavy penalties if you don’t (with interest).

The idea that you only owe tax at the end of the year is a fiction the federal gov’t and IRS is more than happy to continue supporting for the majority of tax payers, as it reduces resistance to the income tax. Tools like paycheck withholding were built to support that fiction and lower resistance as well. People fight less when they don’t see the total amount of money they are actually paying in one lump sum. When they get a lump sum ‘payout’ (yearly tax refund), it helps when it is larger and less frequent. They don’t connect the dots that it is their money they’ve been paying into the system every week as easily.

Every business (including all businesses paying out wages, and any receiving 1099 income) need to pay quarterly taxes and pay the IRS. Individuals who need to pay estimated taxes (did not do sufficient withholding), need to do the same.

The yearly tax return is doing the final audit/complete analysis and trueing up any amounts paid for the year, and certifying it. It isn’t when you’re taxes are ‘due’ - rather when they need to be completely correct or else. They actually needed to be paid quarterly.
Exactly!

I'll probably say, "Cool!!.", "Electric or Acoustic?", "Why guitar?", "How are you finding it, easy or hard - I've been meaning to take lessons". "Do you like your teacher?" ....

I guess, if my mom played and had a vintage Martin then... who knows?...

I believe the primary issue with conversational AI is that, at best, is 1-person, while humans are infinite-people. Hell, even a single person is multiple-people depending on the context and mood at that moment and other factors - in the sense that depending on context/mood/etc. a person may reply in different ways.

Conversational AI cannot capture that, it can be simply a drone..
Uhm excuse me, I've been talking to Dr. Sbaitso for decades.

He cured my potty mouth, THAT'S NOT MY PROBLEM
I remember what happened the last time Bloomberg published rumors though.
You can still buy unlocked GPUs. What is wrong with creating a new product people want? I want a gaming GPU that is powerful and reasonably priced and actually available to be purchased. Unless Nvidia does this, how else can they provide that product for me?
There is a very clear bias if one chain keeps the ticker, and therefore the price, so much that in practice exchanges exchanges can decide which chain "is the original one".
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Tim Cook sounds like someone who is genuinely excited to tell you about a Ford Taurus.
> Anything, that is, except actually forging coins or bills.

Of course none of it is forgery, but the net impact is no different. As soon as the USD loses its reserve status, the US won't be able to maintain its hegemony that is funded largely via

> Fed has the ability to make new dollars; although technically the US Treasury has this ability in a narrow sense
I agree with everything you've said except for "and that would break the magic". We've already seen proofs of concept of "how natural does this kind of thing seem", in Star Trek and so on, and I can easily imagine not even noticing this kind of user error after a couple of minutes. Even if the screen burst out in simulated blue sparks when the person on the other end reached past the camera, I think that… probably doesn't break the immersion?

You "just" need conversation to be truly real-time, seriously low latency, and with really good audio and visual quality. Once you've got those, I can easily imagine crossing the threshold where you're speaking through a magic pane of glass rather than into a screen. Think of how you might find interacting with a literal magical artefact that did this.
I'm not sure this really is all that good for gamers. It'll solve the short term problem of lack of supply, sure, but in a years time we'll instead have a whole bunch of e-waste mining cards and a very thin second-hand market for gaming cards. All upside for Nvidia though!
If they've been using the Android 12 public DP, then they haven't seen this new UI yet.

The beta with UI overhaul was rolled out today I think.
And yet that's what the US does.
A major bad point with this is when the mining cards become obsolete, they won't be able to be used as a graphics card in a computer due to it not being able to output to a display.
So realistically it will decrease avaliable graphic card supply to gamers in the future who are maybe looking for a cheap used graphics card (therefore pushing people to buy a new card instead). Short term fix, long term problem.

I was thinking they could maybe get a second use in industry however they mostly buy new cards (from my limited knowledge on it).

Nvidia knows the strats to make $$$ in the long term under the guise of the good guy.
They could win me over by putting in a rounded-corner slider. It looks like it would default at 11/10.
It really isn't a load of crock. For whatever reason NVIDIA has a real interest in making gamers happy. You hear this as being a serious motivation for them even from employees not on the record. The most cynical take on it would be that they want to do this for long term growth. Which if so, is fine. An example of capitalism working.
The plastic and wooden winders make tables wobble as well in my experience.