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I think Minecraft and Linux are more like the content produced on top of the technology that is computers. It's like if a new book is written it's quickly available to everyone in the market who can afford a book. The book isn't really technology, but the printing, publishing, and distribution is and it's been around long enough to be distributed.

Software seems less like technology and more like writing. The distribution cost, once the systems are in place, is marginal. The technology part is creating the systems that enable the software.
That's tautologically true but the question is what the distribution of p is over the 0-1 interval for real world programs.
Yeah that's how I'd describe it. 3D TV with 3D cameras. Looking forward to reading about the tech specs.
This is using the trs-80 model 100 as a dumb terminal for 300 baud dialup, since it's not capable of more than that. The email, presumably, is displayed in a very basic CLI shell.
You can use Ethereum Layer 2 tech like Loopring, zkSync, and eventually Optimism which Coinbase supports in the Coinbase Wallet. They haven't even added support for Lightning
Sirum is hiring engineers for the micro-fulfillment of medicine
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You'll probably be interested in section 3.6 of the spec[1], "optional capabilities." One such is timestamp queries, which I find especially annoying when they're not available.

[1]: https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#optional-capabilities
Check out https://equitablemath.org/

That's the curriculum that is being proposed.
Awesome! Thanks very much.
That is exactly what we _do_ support. Our team includes the original developer of gh-ost for MySQL, which has been built to execute these kinds of massive changes at scale at GitHub. We've integrated it tightly with Vitess. Once your branch is ready to be merged with production, it executes that change in a completely non-blocking way.
My understanding of the existing tech that's out (3d displays) is that it allows for such on the X axis (different view per-eye) but not on the Y, so a scenario such as you described (looking downwards) might still remain sci-fi for the moment. Perhaps this does something entirely new/novel with display tech but there's nothing to suggest that at the moment.
> Sleep loss, specifically dream loss, leads to an overfitted brain that can still memorize and learn but fails to generalize appropriately

Curious where this claim came from. Obviously a lack of sleep will degrade your day-to-day performance, but I almost never have dreams.
People are buying these cards for other coins that are still profitable to mine on the GPU.
My understanding is there is a concern that cryptocurrency miners are buying GPUs, using them for a few weeks to determine which ones they can overclock, and selling the ones they can't (and have probably limited the life of in the process) since you can probably sell a 30 series GPU for more than you got it for, even if you're upfront about it being used.

All of that isn't possible with the mining-focused line, so Nvidia feels they need other tools to help convince the cryptocurrency miners to move over, hence the block.
I guess the same was said about those non-mainframe kids 30 years ago. Tech gets cheaper and better. You can rent CPU time instead of buying a server. It is just that simple.
Tesla stopped accepting bitcoin. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tesla-stop-accep...
I don't think this is just a limitation of the analogy, but it is the key point: for any structure where we know the process that forms it (like waterfalls or snow flakes), we can have some informed opinion about the chances of it happening elsewhere in the universe, even if we have only observed one instance of it happening.

However, for structures where we have no idea of the process by which they are formed (like cells), we can't have any opinion on how likely they are to happen elsewhere, unless we see more examples.
The latest generations dont seem overly interested in land, partly because they 've been deconditioned from real estate ownership by necessity, at least in europe. It's this thing that boomers+co value a lot that will die with them (and be passed down).

Would be interesting to see who are the 100 largest virtual land (online property) owners in the world.
Power law distributions suggest that if you can get a few datapoints much of the rest is roughly estimable.

Rankings are less utterly useless than first appears.
When I remember getting BBS results faster... sigh.

while (true) {

Every available channel will fill with every available amount of content until the SNR gets so low that a different channel is created.

}
Sure, you should be cognizant of what you say online otherwise you'll get smacked with the cancel culture hammer. This is regardless of where you work.
The moment Trump and Covid just don't deliver the current ROI of clicks for the media, suddenly we started hearing about how terrible crypto electricity usage is.

The same way plastics are suffocating the fishes got forgotten the moment everyone started to litter the world with masks and packaging from food delivery.

It is manufactured news story the same way that next one will be.
Great story re: your grandfather. Thanks for sharing.
I mean, the cards are selling at 3-4x MSRP right now. Won’t halving the hash rate just cause the price of the cards to drop to 1.5-2x MSRP and miners just buy twice as many?

Possibly good for NVDIA I guess (selling twice the units assuming the can make enough), but I don’t see this helping gamers get cards in hands.
The problem is that Java 7 is 10 years old, it means that you are missing 10 years of optimization. For GCs that's a lot.

GCs before ~2010 have been optimized for throughput more than for latency. Since then, you can choose.

Since 10 years, G1 let you set your maximum pause time and you get a huge warning if it miss that target, ZGC or Shenandoah are from the beginning latency first, throughput second.
But _somebody_ has to have clearance to get to the data in some way. You can't protect yourself against that person. It's not possible.
Or you just don’t remember them.
Thanks for taking the time to check out the white paper!

- Ben, 1Password
I mean it was perfectly clear in context. That's why I wrote the "Well..." dependent clause; I know I'm providing the better way for homebrew.
It would be nicer if Python just optimized the old way.
Am I the only one that thinks one-on-one video is already fine, and what we actually need is to improve the experience so that a group of people feel like they're meeting in the same place?
Isn't it clear glass and not a layer over a traditional display like the 3DS? Glasses would either actively time slice with shutters, or spectrum slice with passive filters on the lens and of course you need the glasses.

How could any of those technologies be what is used here?

E: Looking again, perhaps it could be some layer over a traditional screen. You see through some of the broadcasts but that could just be the digital far plane that shows through.
"We want you to make a video all about this amazing thing we've made, but don't demonstrate it. Just show people talking about how awesome it is."
Because Tesla's most valuable product aside from the cars is the memes.

I am not kidding. It seems a substantial proportion of TSLA buyers aren't really interested in its fundamentals but like what Elon tweets out.
Having a downed database server for eg. 24h (while you are out trying to hire people to fix the failing restore for you) will probably mean you lose many of your B2B service users. Your clients might also try out that shiny new SLA you promised them.

Backups also ensure business continuity - which might be more important than past data for some workflows.
> I've still been trying to get a 3000 series card anyway

...I think I know why you can't get one.
In all seriousness though, using GPUs for mining has trashed the gaming market and made entire realms of PC gaming inaccessible to lower income people, it's an incredible shame.
An above-average math teacher doesn't start by denying objectivity or calling it by an epithet.
That's the point. If you want the web, you need today's browsers. If you want a subset of the web, your "document web" for example, you can get away with something simpler.
It depends on what you mean by the early days of each - in the really early days of Linux (1992) computers were probably going to cost north of a few thousand dollars and the type of computer Linux was designed for (a multi-user system for dumb terminals) would cost tens of thousands of dollars. By the time linux became a thing more than a handful of people in any given state knew about you could probably run it on a machine costing somewhere around 300$.

Minecraft has never been demanding resource wise, I'm sure early versions had serious performance issues but running it on a cheapo laptop has always been totally reasonable - it's quite accessible (it was written in java even!)
> Especially as all you gain is energy (which hasn’t proven limiting)

What? Civilization runs on cheap, abundant energy. Before the industrial revolution we had to use labor animals, slaves and the occasionally water and wind mill. Providing light was expensive. Global supply chains (transportation), aluminium smelting, fixing nitrogen for fertilizer or calcination for cement consume stupendous amounts of energy.

If energy became cheaper then creating green fuel for airplanes and rockets, electrorefining all metals, desalination or perhaps mining and crushing olivine rocks for carbon sequestration would become more feasible.

Whenever vertical farming is discussed here the main counter-argument boils down to energy not being cheap enough. It's hard to compete with the sun delivering it to plants for free.
I think that is where the custom compression algorithm comes in. If you think the fact that human body and face doesn't change much, and the fact that it's a 3d model based, the compression ratio could be very high.
What percentage of dollars are used for trade, as opposed to investment? Does it matter?
What exactly is a "virtual land owner?"
Correction to my earlier statement: the initial version of Electrolysis had just one content process (that could be sandboxed apart from the browser parent process), but was soon followed up with "e10s-multi" with multiple content processes.
> Wait, do people actually think Dyson swarms are a thing?

Yes, absolutely. The main reason is that building orbitals is largely an engineering problem. You need a material no stronger than stainless steel. If graphite is feasible, it allows you to build bigger orbitals but it's not necessary.

Compare this to a lot of other proposed megastructures like space elevators, which would take a material to build that doesn't currently exist.

Also, to be clear, we're talking about Dyson _Swarms_. This is the original design idea that was called Dyson Spheres but that name is often not used because people mistakenly think we're talking about a rigid shell that encompasses a star. That is not and never was the intent. It's also impossible for many reasons.

A Dyson swarm is simply a collection of orbitals. The great thing about it is you can also build it incrementally.

Note that since these are spinning orbitals they have (spin) gravity and atmospheres.

Energy is absolutely a factor here.
This doesn't really make sense to me. What would the "casual customer" do if nvidia didn't introduce this segmentation? Would this completely halt the gaming industry such that 10 years from now no one would even consider buying a GPU? I don't believe that.

Also, if they're able to produce both consumer GPUs and miner GPUs to meet both demands, what's stopping them from doing it now? Is it not worth their while at current prices, so bumping the miner GPU prince by a significant amount would change that? Why not just increases prices as it is? It seems to me that the actual price charged by amd and nvidia isn't that outrageous, it's just that the cards are bought well in advance and possibly scalped later.
I guess I don't totally know how to respond to that; I have no idea what everyone is using it for. That's rather hard to know just looking at the blockchain, or even reading message boards like this. I have no problem spending it; pretty easy to convert it to gift cards that can be spent anywhere (they give you a kick back even), there's some places that do take it directly (not restaurants, or car repair, but like electronics stuff on the internet). And of course you can just sell it for fiat on an exchange then turn around and dump the fiat for stuff (in this case, fiat is kind of the weak asset since no one really wants to hold cash for long). Plus, it can buy some stuff you can't get with fiat (e.g. overseas purchases not tied into USD, or all the dark web stuff people talk about). It feels pretty darn liquid; I've never had a problem turning BTC into stuff. And it is way more so than gold, land, even stocks and bonds; none of which can turn into stuff in under an hour much less without audit/paper-trail/control. Only fiat is more liquid, except no one wants to hold fiat; just turn it into something else actually worth having. The real problem is getting BTC. Lots of roadblocks in acquiring it and generally the people who have it would rather pay you in fiat and keep their BTC.
I've heard "cut-throat", but not kind.
You realize quantum computing is ultimately just a few linear algebra operations right? There is no more magic in it than conventional neural network based models. Standard ML ethical frameworks are more than sufficient.

Adding "quantum" simply means speed ups for a few specific types of operations. You are not going to get an AGI with the current state of the art in quantum computing.
This was about trading Bitcoin, not accepting it as a payment method. Plus, it doesn't really change the question.
A New Semantics for Local Lexing
Thanks, I use Ubuntu so I missed that there was a menu bar. It's hidden unless I hit "Alt".
They have. That's where the people who then gleefully point it out go to find it out.
I definitely got vibes of the "viewing" tech from Asimov's "The Naked Sun", always exciting to see sci-fi tech reach the real world.
Cool anime names list and their meaning
Why is it the white guys build it but aren't in the video using it? So sick of this bullshit.
There are more than enough people out there that want to just play games or do research. Miners are only making nvidia look worse. Their core demographic is getting disenchanted because what good is a great cheap graphic card, if you can never buy one.
Yeah I wonder how the Pope and the leader of the Mormon church would rank on this list.
Nvidia want to charge more for cards that can mine crypto currencies. Just like they want to charge more for the same product if it is used in data centers.

It's a way of artificially segmenting the market.
Well, the article does say that it will only be in a future revision of cards. I already bought a new 3070 from a friend for a mere 10% over the (already ludicrous) MSRP.

What about when ETH moves to PoS or the crypto market crashes? The concern is that this feels more like a ratchet in a bad direction rather than a temporary fix.
There is a Russian saying:

Who is a wise man?

The one that always seeks to occupy the smallest place/room.

Nota Bene: I am not a Russian, but simply encountered this formulation several times.
> late-night Cheetos-driven college sophomore

Welcome to HN!

> starfaring civilization

Reinforces the point - fanbois confusing scifi with reality.
I have done this, yes. Your point is well taken: no question there is support for less racism towards black people (including racism amongst black peoples) but there is often deep suspicion about political motives of movements, from the black power 70's to the current Marxist BLM leadership.

Many POC are right wing of course, an inconvenient truth for people who like to think we live in a world of blue (good) versus Red (bad).
Haha Ill entertain this bit: there are no criminal consequences for misbehaving as a node. Participation of a reserve system shareholder is quite limited and only partially helps assist with routing and regional statistics. Partially.

There constraints on being a bank at all are not limited to federal reserve banks.
I hate assholes who use their gender or color to push their point.
>Isn't capitalism all about selling to the highest bidder?

Capitalism can be about that, but there's a lot more to it than simply charging the highest price possible on every transaction. For example, loss leader products and free trials are common across industries. I don't have any insight into Nvidia's thinking specifically, but they might believe that cultivating the gaming market by not pricing gamers out of their product in the short term has much more longterm value than going all in on of the most volatile industires in the world.
The industry is definitely dropping the ball on offline. To give us credit, legal/privacy issues don't make it easy.
Not at all, part of the reason is crypto miners buy up all the supplies and gamers can’t buy them. Then when crypto prices fall they dump old cards back onto the market. It hurts both sides
Doesn't really matter. Running a card 100% 24/7 is still harder on it that gaming a couple hours per day.

GPUs are relatively reliable, but fans less so. The failures are usually an early death of the fan, which can't be replaced without strapping something else to the shroud with zip ties or watercooling it.

Miners aren't usually impacted because the failures happen after several years. It's the downstream buyers who lose out and then associate the brand with premature failure.
The terms are worse in the sense that they're at a much lower valuation than most VCs would offer, not that it wasn't a good deal for the startup. Almost every YC alumni I've talked to believes it was worth it.
Notion is clearly a feat of engineering. The first time that you modify a link name, and it is automatically modified in all others connected users whether it is in the menu, inside a document or wherever it is. You are just impressed. You can also drag and drop links from a document to a menu.

I'm just worried that so much engineering complexity is going to make things slow to move. We will see in a few years if that was a good idea or not
A real surprise was seeing the Ellison family at the bottom of the list at number 100. He clearly likes his movies, fighter jets and sailing more than the others.

The Kennedys have managed to maintain their land holdings despite not being in the super zillionaire category.
There are tons of use cases for GPUs outside of output to a display: audio/video encoding, render farms, scientific computing.
Do you seriously think there were more slaves in the USA than in Africa?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa
I liked that Ringworld addresses this.

What Dyson Sphere's excel at is hiding their location* and capturing 100% of a stars output. At those sizes, a civilization MUST have already conquered the energy problem. It'd be impossible to construct without "free energy", because you need to convert that energy into matter to make/engineer enough material to create a sphere the size of the Goldilocks zone.

And as you said, you'd lose atmosphere & gravity* would be wonky.

But to address the fine article, the equation was a thought experiment. We now have hard data on the number of stars that we've looked at that have planets. And of those we have a hard number that have planets in the habitable zone. The Drake Equation presumes that you guess TINY numbers for those values. Well using known numbers and extrapolating the number of possible worlds with intelligent life jumps from staggering large, to incomprehensible.

As humans, we can barely communicate with others of our own species. Let's frame the problem another way.

Put two Americans in a room.
One is deaf, the other is blind.
How long does it take for them to agree on what to eat for dinner?

Context depends on language.
We may have been bombarded by intelligent alien life for centuries; we just don't know that somebody is talking.

*Everybody forgets about gravity.
Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against Java/JVM. I pretty much appreciate that tech. The criticism was specifically against Hadoop. I spent nearly 10 years on it. Luckily it is stack that most companies migrating away from.
Are serious miners buying supply constrained GPUs?
If it works for you, that's good. It's less the specific issue and more it indicated to me I was rolling my own crypto and didn't know enough to avoid shooting my feet off.
And of course I feel I have to mention Richard Burton himself who led possibly the most interesting life in his time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
With Ethereum 2.0 there is no need for these cards. I think in a few months if it goes well.
Yeah, I loaded the page expecting to see:

1. The US Government with X million acres
I liked http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/roman.htm

Interesting how binary numbers creep into the multiplication algorithms used to operate on roman numerals.
I think the power of Notion became apparent to me when I created a Page, accidentally changed it to some other type, then ctrl+z-ed it back to a Page, with all its contents intact. Seriously impressive. I wish search wasn't so crap though.
>> I am of the surprisingly-controversial opinion that ML’s future is going to be as a human empowerment tool — a bicycle for the mind, yet so much more.

I don't think this is controversial at all, rather it's what Donald Michie called Ultra-Strong Machine Learning back in the 1980's [1].

Briefly (and with modern interpretations) Michie defined three "levels" of machine learning system: Weak, Strong and Ultra Strong.

A machine learning exhibits Weak machine learning ability when it is only capable of improving its predictive accuracy when trained on data.

A machine learning system exhibits Strong machine learning ability when it satisfies the Weak machine learning criterion and can additionally output its model in symbolid form that is readily understandable by humans.

And a machine learning system exhibits Ultra Strong machine learning ability when it satisfies the Strong machine learning criterion and can additionally instruct the human user so as to improve the human user's performance.

In a sense, not a bicycle, but more like a jetpack, for the mind. Unfortunately we don't have anything like that today. Yes, I'm aware of claims that Go players have learned a lot by observing AlphaGo play. But AlphaGo/Zero/blah is not capable of instructing a human directly. Michie envisioned Ultra Strong Machine learning as a kind of coach basically, or teacher, an AI teacher.

_________

[1] Michie, D. (1988). Machine learning in the next five years. In Proceedings of the third European working session on learning (pp. 107–122). Pitman.

Online here (but behind a paywall):

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3108771.3108781

Full disclosure: I'm one of Donald Michie's grand-students; he was my thesis advisors' thesis advisor. Additionally, Michie was besties with Alan Turing, so I have the privilege of being a grand-nothing of Turing's :P