skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally feel very odd in discussions like the one you mentioned: Israel/Palestine. For those 99% of people with strong opinions but aren't impacted, 99% of them have based their strong opinion on information that's at best incomplete and most often wildly biased.

At best, you can hope for a genuine conversation where two extremely incomplete views come together to produce a state that is merely quite ignorant. That's an improvement, I guess. But I have a hard time getting enthusiastic about it. Especially since, if they did indeed come in with "strong opinions", the best case seems unlikely.

I myself have tried to aim for "weak opinions strongly held". Which is to say, recognize both my ignorance and the large amount of effort it would take to produce a state of genuine knowledge. I'm not kidding when I say that I have little interest in the opinions of anybody on the state of Israel and Palestine who doesn't speak at least one of Hebrew or Arabic fluently... and preferably both.

It's far from sufficient, but I find it weird how few people consider it necessary for holding strong opinions. As you say, these are real people, and if you're not able to speak their language, anything you know about it is at least one step removed -- and likely more.
I do notice some lag but not until I have over 10,000 or 100,000 glyphs when I'm prototyping data visualization ideas. Honestly it scales better than I was expecting, so my guess is they've optimized their loops and I'm pushing the hardware to the limit around that OOM, and that a Remarkable3 will fix it with faster hardware.
The pope doesn't own all this land. I believe in the US, ownership is diocesan.
Virtual land and spaceships: NFTs and the new crypto frontier
The writing is on the wall. Licenses are out and subscriptions are in. Make of it what you will. Don't get upset with the person doing their job and towing the company line.
Ah that makes sense, I forgot about power usage.
The administrators changed the title of this article for a reason. Moreover, that device is intended to be installed very close to the "consumer", that is useful in medical application, for example, where is no advisable to install the battery in a device to be implanted in the body. So you can install the emitter , transmitter, whatever you want call it on the skin. And WIFI is total bullshit. The say "WIFI frequency" aka 2.4 GHZ because as we all known is the deregulated frequency reserved for consumer application. So, IMHO the researcher shouldn't have used that term, is confusing ! From there to say that the experiment involve the problem of powering cordless devices in the sense of electronic gadget is complete misunderstanding of the sense of that research. Man , science is not an opinion.
Thanks. Was quite a pleasure to read.
There is more: Debian maintainers review the software and sometimes disable antifeatures like tracking.
It isn't the "goodness of their hearts", Nvidia just wants to maintain their position as the market leader in the markets that will be there for a long time. Gamers is one such market. Some gamers are loyal to a particular brand of graphics card, but there are also just network effects to being the most popular. Game designers spend extra effort making sure their games work well on the most popular video cards. Influential people like YouTubers, streamers, or game reviewers are more likely to buy elite hardware and talk about what they got.

Market segmentation would only really make sense if Nvidia were capable of saturating all the demand from miners, and wanted to squeeze out some extra margin from them. But right now it doesn't seem like Nvidia is actually able to manufacture enough to meet the market demand at $800 like they initially intended.
someone who owns land inside of a game environment most likely?
Pretty cool! Seems about as real as a concept car, though.
Not to mention the massive amount of electrical power consumed to perform the calculations.
Yeah, I have no idea either why Microsoft would want to remove Message Analyzer completely, even if they could not maintain it. You can still download it through the Internet Archive:

* 32-bit x86: https://web.archive.org/web/20191104120802/https://download....

* 64-bit x86: https://web.archive.org/web/20190420141924/http://download.m...

(those links via: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/e4qocq/microsoft_... )

Or use the even older Microsoft utility Network Monitor, which is still available on Microsoft's website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=486...

Supposedly Microsoft is working on adding to the existing Windows Performance Analyzer (great GUI tool for ETW performance tracing) to display ETW packet captures, which will succeed Message Analyzer and Network Monitor: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/networking-blog/intro...
Serious questions... I genuinely don't know... but I assume a country could block access to the "blockchain" of any crypto currency, just like some of them do with access to Twitter, Google, Facebook, Github, etc.

Is there way to continue using your Bitcoin in this case? Or is it effectively the same as having a bank account frozen (i.e. you can't conduct any transactions if you don't have broad connectivity).

Or am I misunderstanding something fundamental? (I realize it's probably not a single domain/endpoint like other sites I referenced, but the traffic probably has other characteristics that would make it easy for a state to disable).
"Primarily" is more than a bit of stretch, here.

All observation of U.S.-Israel relations since 1967 indicate that it's driven by a very strong ideological (and perceived electoral) component. In fact it's hard to think of a single case of a ("friendly") country for which the degree of U.S. support is less ideological.

Pork barreling plays a role for sure as well, but it's definitely second fiddle.
I think the difference is the paper focuses on previously high income earners. When people earn a high income, they tend to get mortgages, dependencies, and expensive habits. When you have all of that, it's tough to take it away without it feeling like a great loss.
Microsoft vet from 1990s-2000: same. Got to work with many of my programming heroes, and many of the same people influencing programming language design, Azure, and .NET even now. The vast majority were a pure joy to work with, just as you describe.
Sure it does. I’m defaulting to old reddit without old in the url while browsing on mobile.
How do you feel about laser printers and color photocopiers refusing to photocopy government currency?
Two options exist today, depending on the city you visit: innovate parking structures, or lazily attack the car and drivers. Which do you think will not cause high-earning, mobile professionals to just leave your city? Choose wisely.
They talked about this on an episode of Very Bad Wizards
To add on:

none of it is malicious. its just the market stabalization problem

a) let's keep consumer grade stuff stable in price

b) let's charge miners 3x, because they willing to pay 3x, and destroy the scalping market which is VERY anti everything. Scalpers hurt literally everyone.

c) let's not de-stabalize nvidia's income again when eth drops in value. They don't want to be beholden to a coin's gamble either. Basically as it stands Nvidia is far invested into eth's value and if it drops their sales drop sharply because of a massive influx of cheap supply.
Chia Coin Spurs HDD Shortage: Prices Up, High Capacities Sell Out
haha thanks. i collect it for my paid community #shamelessplug https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/creators-mastermind a small group of fellow creators and indiehackers here. i started with an infoproduct myself (made $120k so far, def recommend it to everyone before tackling your own SaaS), looking to work my way up to saas someday but am being patient with it.
If it suddenly became wildly profitable to buy all of the bread and rice and any form of carbohydrate from food manufacturers and grocery stores and burn it in a field, would it still be morally wrong for food producers to figure out a way to cripple the utility of their food products by making them unburnable? Is there some capitalist principle or moral principle of the free market that overrides all other human needs and values?

What is the principle you are defending and at what point does it become less important than other principles?
FWIW Intel engineers are meant to use the hashtag #iamintel to indicate their role, see it a lot on LinkedIn
E-Bikers Ride Much Farther and More Frequently Than Regular Bikers (2020)
Take a quick spin through their "encyclopedia" and see.

Labor unions? Bad! Climate change? Probably good, actually!

Their article on oxygen would be "oxygen is good, always" or "oxygen is bad, always". They don't leave much room for nuance in their encyclopedia, and unsourced assertions of a policies popularity in their writings can probably be treated with a grain of salt.
The IO video introducing Quantum AI campus was fantastically grating to me. There's so little to say, so little to share, about what is happening, what this is, what it's for: it's just pure marketing fluff, with the thinnest veneer of introductory technical material. 'This is some kind of chip. It goes in this cold thing we built. We're hoping to to inspire others.' Gee frigging thanks.

Tech is either esoteric or exoteric. It either is a thing for only experts to understand and use and put to use, or it is something illuminating, something shareable, is a conveyable experience. Quantum AI combines two of the most opaque, hard to understand fields to make something whose prestige in large part rests upon it being entirely indecipherable to 99.9999999% of humanity.

To which I just keep wanting to say, can we please make personal computing a thing again?
> Energy consumption has nothing to do with increasing planet temperature,

As long as we're using fossil fuels, planet temperature does in fact have something to do with energy consumption. You seem to be arguing that because renewable energy sources exists, Bitcoin has nothing to do with fossil fuel emissions. However, that is false, as 8% of Bitcoin mining happens in Inner Mongolia, which is home to many of China's large coal mines[0].

[0]: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/bi...
Like I said for electricity, aren't you free to do with your GPU whatever you want?!

This is anti-consumer they should be sued.

Just like ISPs wanted to slow your traffic for services they don't like and didn't succeed hardware producers can not limit what you do with your purchased hardware.
Haha, thanks ... worth hanging on until the second half ...
Being angry / outraged / upset is somewhat newer on HN.

Not discounting it, but I tend to be more interested in the . well . interesting conversations and questions then to go down the angry / upset / outraged path.

The no video out cards used in mining are already out of gamers hands. If they throw them away (they won't - existing product is working fine) they would no need to buy non-gaming product. Finally, I think you underestimate the value of the existing product, if they did want to resell into gaming market they would probably find success.
Ex Pentagon official Luis Elizondo reveals UFO bombshells
PostgreSQL has Ltree

http://patshaughnessy.net/2017/12/13/saving-a-tree-in-postgr...
Google will have definitely discontinued this project by then of course :)
To the person who disagrees - compared to climate change, it's the least of our worries.

No oil spills beats a few oil spills - but these are not an Exxon Valdez sized event, and they don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
In an abstract sense, yes.

But crypto with proof of work is such a huge energy wasting uselessness that any action against them is welcome. Besides if they don't, then their old markets will disappear because they can't get cards anymore and start doing other things, and then when crypto is made illegal or crashes for good, they suddenly lose their whole market.
Aside from human factors, the use of "touch" DNA analysis is absolutely frightening. The presence of someone's DNA at a crime scene is not necessarily evidence that they were ever there.

https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/

https://outline.com/f9njZV
The Mormons own a lot of land in Florida, and I would guess also Utah.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/30/from-book-to-...
Right - old cards will still work. And they would DEF sell 1,000 cards at $500/card even if that's a fraction of retail.
> Their intent is to limit what people can do with their hardware.

Not really. The intent is to get graphics cards in the hands of gamers and professionals, instead of in the hands of crypto miners.

That is the end goal here. If you have a better solution, of how to do this without people getting around it via reselling, ect , please suggest it.
Kind of like Star Trek AI (besides Lt. Cmd. Data that is).
It's already here, is just that the userbase and third parties are (happily) doing the dirty work for them. Try going GitHub-free for a month or three and you'll notice how many things rest on the assumption that you have a GitHub account. "Log in with GitHub" is essentially what Microsoft hoped for with Passport, if Passport had actually been successful.

Look at how it shat on Markdown with what it calls "GitHub Flavored Markdown". Look at the things that it calls "wikis". Look at how GitHub's PR merge tool junks up the commit log. Look at how many projects don't even have a way to accept a fix unless you submit it with GitHub's janky pull request workflow. Hell, a bug in Netlify's command-line client managed to make its way into release versions that would straight up cause the process to terminate when cwd was a repo that wasn't hosted on github.com, leading to unhandled exception.

The tacit assumption that you're using GitHub is like the tacit assumption 15 years ago that you were using Visual Studio, only this time, you can't escape just by steering clear of Windows-related tech.
How big is the used market for graphics cards though? Common advice is to avoid buying used unless you also price in the risk that the card was used as a miner and hasn't been taken care of.

Aside from the recent drought of GPUs and pricing madness, you could buy low-end current-gen cards that could outperform higher-end previous-gen parts.
Looks like an electronic prison visit.
Indeed I was referring to yugabyte, apologies for the clumsy phrasing, I havent used crdb but I guess it is a postgres frontend layered on a KV store instead of a document store?
Thought: This could bring back phone booths.

If this tech turns out to be too expensive (for normal people) we could still use it on a pay-per-use basis, like with a "video conferencing booth". You'd schedule your call and reserve a local booth for both participants through an app. And most companies should be able to afford having one of these in the office.
I know, right? It is one of the greatest things in the world to be the dumbest guy in a room full of really smart, secure people. It’s like you’re getting a mini postdoc education for free, compressed into a few minutes.
No, you can already download the source .debs, rebuild them and compare the results.

And, there are large tech firms doing this already.
Yes, you're wrong. You're wrong because you need to JOIN a massive tree of blocks, to form the graph the author is referring to.

You can break out the "block" model into several tables and represent it in a relational database that way.

NoSQL = NO JOIN?

Hope that helps.
Design portfolio mistakes that’ll send clients running (in the wrong direction)
That's a conjecture, not a known form of life that couldn't occur on Earth. There is no proof that silicon based life could exist, we barely know if silicon organic chemistry could actually exist.
The number of GPUs being produced may be constant but it’s lower than desired. The issue is Nvidia worked with Samsung to fab their chips this time around and Samsung had poor yields. Nvidia should have used TSMC like AMD and Apple but they tried to use Samsung and got burned on supply. They said they will use TSMC going forward but in the meantime there are shortages.
Am I alone here in feeling like that all sounds incredibly exhausting and like a pretty draining place to work, and not-so-subtly seeks to attract workaholics?

It's like there's lip-service to things that we as software engineers enjoy about our profession (eg craftsmanship, deep thinking, high-quality work), but it comes across as just throat clearing before hammering in "moving very, very fast". I read that constant repetition of "moving fast" as "you will always have an endless backlog of work that you will nonetheless have to endlessly crank through with all your energy, and our hiring/retention policy only selects for that"
I have such a hard time imagining that thread being serious. Poe's law is in effect. Like seriously. What is going on with that thread?
I.e. ecstatic since you're generally not allowed to see people.
Via the Polygon commit chain, these issues are fixed. Polygon's adoption is through the roof, saving Ethereum's butt. Hence the massive price climb.
I remember this when it was XML -> XSL -> HTML.
Your maths is incorrect, dividing by the number of devices doesn't make sense in this case, you should be multiplying them. E.g.

- 466 minutes of fourth-generation TPU time.

- 1,600 minutes of third-generation TPU time.

Using this logic, fourth generation TPUs are 3.4x better. But, comparing different cluster sizes is pointless. These things don't scale linearly.
Def doing it for themselves, I see it in this case as customer base preservation. Most of their other approaches have tried to move users off their lower end products. This time they are trying to preserve lower end product availability (smart).
Intel’s Optane H20 is the latest attempt at “hybrid” laptop storage
It is pretty easy to use it generate and test hypotheses, which is frequently done and published in the literature. Common examples include radio and other EM surveys for extraterrestrial signals.
Greek Scientist Solves Mystery of Hindenburg Disaster
No, he donated an illiquid pump and dump shitcoin that was sent to him by the scammers who created it. There's little to praise about this.
"School math is white supremacist. Let's teach Voodoo math instead!" You're just not appreciating the superiority of native African culture.
And this seems like yet another good reason to drop Adobe.

I want things I author to be archival, not ephemeral.

* Dropping Flash? Good idea. Dropping Flash with no compatibility/emulation path? Bad idea.

* Switching to license servers from owning software? Bad idea.

And so on. I like the things I do, and I like many of thing things I did 35 years ago too. I'd be sad to see them dead. At the end of the day, I'm willing to take a productivity hit to ensure that if I do create something really good, it's eternal.

Even in retirement, someday, I won't expect to be able to afford the Adobe tax. Do I want my creative work disappearing? No.
But this isn't an action "against" mining: this is just so they can use DRM techniques to build the computational equivalent of a network neutrality violation to price discriminate a high value use case to their CMP HX line.
Some fun backgrounds and filters will alleviate that feeling.
This is really cool. I've seen things like this in graphic filters for use with the Wacom Tablet, but this is a completely different way to attack it for web sites.

I came up with something that looked really slick, and then dialed all the sliders back to zero to make a comparison. The smoothing is really nice, and fairly reactive to the other slider settings. Dialing it back easily exposed how too-much-coffee my freestyle mouse writing actually was.

On the leading and tailing where you can control the angle, it would be remarkable if you could slide in some streaking, as one would get from using a marker that is wearing or drying out. You'd be able to get some spectacular Sharpie emulation with that.
It does seem really cool but I don't see any reason to think they are sharing it with a larger audience.
Was always separate. There was a movement towards trying to make Mozilla-Central an upstream for it, but it hasn't happened. So technically right now it's a community project used by Firefox.
Wise and true. I totally agree with it in principle. *

* Whoever said this didn’t own a grand piano. Just saying.
This is cool as hell, but I have to say I feel like we're solving top-level problems when most consumers don't even seem to be getting solutions to the most basic pain-points.

For me, the problem with video-calling isn't the image-quality. It's all the much more mundane technological problems - high latency, lag-spikes caused by bad ISPs, failed noise-cancellation for people who don't use headsets for audio, bad wifi routers cutting out, etc.

First thing I did when I realized we were going to be WFH long-term was buy myself a $100 gaming headset. Next thing I did was get all my home computer stations wired with Cat 6.

That stuff is far more fundamental and far less interesting than 3D telepresence, but it's the real unsexy problem that so many people are suffering through this pandemic.

Even simple things like latency make simple, natural reactions agonizing. Talkcover and crosstalk is incessent and I've developed a filthy habit of just talking over people because otherwise it's a solid 20 seconds of "you go no you go" caused by awful latency. I've had to defuse angry reactions by co-workers who feel they're being interrupted by other co-workers and explain to them that the latency makes interruptions feel worse than they are.

I've tried to push friends to join me on my private Mumble server where the latency is near-nil and the call-quality is excellent, but there's always one person who doesn't have a working headset and wants to just use a laptop or tablet mic with no feedback-cancelling that destroys the conversation through echos (plus Mumble's auth system is needlessly bewildering).

Then with video, problems are similar but less impactful - cheap cameras, poor lighting, compression artifacts, poor sync with the audio, etc. And it's infuriating because every person has a wonderfully powerful camera in their pocket right now - and there's software to connect them but it's just too tricky for most people.

Good on Google for taking an interest in the subject, but I feel like they're decorating the apex of the technological pyramid while most people are pushing stones around at the bottom.
I sold a very used GTX 1070 on eBay for $325 only three months ago.
Very inspiring. I'm myself starting a similar journey with my first hardware product (https://getgumball.com) and it's really reassuring that it is possible to do something like this in "solo" mode. We hear a tone of people doing it in the SaaS work, but not so much in hardware - if anybody here knows other similar examples, I'd love to hear about it!
Nobody in the real world is using any of this.
I think your math is backwards. The training workload W is the same, and the time to complete it is:

W / (256 * speed_v4) = 1.82

W / (4096 * speed_v3) = 0.39

speed_v4 / speed_v3 = (4096 * 0.39) / (256 * 1.82) = 3.43

Note that this assumes that training speed is perfectly linear with the # of accelerators which is not true as you get to very large #s (like 4096!). So the true number should be smaller than the 3.43x above, and the reported 2.7x makes sense.
Voodoo math is how I prove all my algorithms
Why sell shovels when you can just buy shares in the company selling shovels?
It's will be funny to see how HN crowd that support Nvidia here will react when Nvidia going to cripple ML features for the sake of market segmentation.
Yeah, happened to arise on earth quickly would probably be the better phrasing.