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This is missing half the story. Yes, things can be temporarily underpriced and then an appeal to scalpers makes sense, as scalpers can instantly raise the price to the market clearing rate. But at the same time they can instantly lower the price to the market clearing rate.

What manufacturers and consumers both want is price stability. They want prices to change in regular intervals and in predictable amounts. Both producers and consumers, but much more producers than consumers, need to make long range plans which require stable pricing. So when the iPhone first came out there was huge demand. Why didn't Apple auction the phones off? Because Apple wanted to anchor expectations for what the phone would cost over the long term. They certainly did not want consumers thinking that if they waited the phone would become cheaper. Thus they did not want consumers to think the phone's price was subject to a daily auction. Instead, it's better for Apple to have occasional shortages than to let people think that iPhone pricing will be moving up and down a lot. That allows consumers to make long term plans as well.

So manufacturers want stable pricing, they want happy consumers, and they don't want surprises. Consumers want the same thing. That's why people hate scalpers. You can draw all the supply demand curves you want, but that doesn't change the fact that people need to make long range plans, and this requires stable pricing.
For what it’s worth, the thing I find most exciting about Spaces is that they provide a decentralised hierarchical namespace with decentralised access controls for every room (ie pubsub topic) in Matrix. So it’s like we’ve sprouted an openly federated global hierarchical filing system for freeform realtime data streams of all flavours - where people can go crazy defining their own trees, applying their own curation ideals; perhaps we’ll even see a single global tree emerge (although the implementation may need some more optimisation first).

It’s like a multiplayer hybrid of DMOZ and USENET and the read/write Web all rolled together. Once we start storing more interesting data streams than instant messages in it (eg forums, email, bulletin boards, DOMs, scene graphs, ticker data, IOT sensor data...) it really gets interesting :)

Plus you can use it to organise your own rooms and have Discord style communities or Slack style workspaces, but that’s the boring obvious bit ;)

Edit: for a user-facing rather than developer-facing overview, https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/ has more details.
nVidia has been deliberately vague about exactly what they are detecting because it would make it easy for miners to develop a workaround.

That said, Anandtech wrote about it briefly recently:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16648/nvidia-updates-geforce-...

They surmise that there is hardware-enforcement of BIOS\Drivers via some blown eFuses.

Also they imply that nVidia does multiple checks such as whether it's running on a PCIe x1 bus (gamers would typically use x4 or more) and whether it's hooked up to a monitor. It's likely they check for other things too but they would keep it on the down-low.
I am sure it is stunning and beyond anything most people have ever experienced, but will it be worth $$ to have a beautifully lit version of visiting someone in prison? It is still not human contact, I don't think we can fool the brain into not missing that.
No money in video game piracy? What? https://jolt.richmond.edu/2019/02/09/the-unwinnable-war-on-v...
> releases chad strings

> just calls str()

> refuses to elaborate further

> leaves
Calling people "virgins" for not using your library is toxic, and I wouldn't send this page to a junior, male of female. I dunno where you work, but this wouldn't fly with my employer (and yes, that impacts my technical decision making). And yeah -- you can fork it, and then maintain that fork. No thanks.
A person living in the year 1400s wouldn't have any method to determine the energy needs of current man I don't see how we can possibly determine what would be sufficient hundreds let alone thousands of years from now.

Maybe we will consume vast resources of energy sending people or machines to explore the universe. Maybe we will need it to reshape our home environs. Maybe we will want to produce more people than can be supported on planet earth and profit in the arts and sciences from their contributions?

Never in human history has any amount of energy been enough so is simple extrapolation that if civilization continues to grow it will consume more energy.
Previously, we offered a pay-once price with no trial option. With subscriptions, trials are straightforward, solve the App Store’s lack of upgrade options, and open the door to features with ongoing costs. It would be nice if Apple offered Sketch style licensing, but it is what it is.

If you don’t want to go with a subscription, we still offer a pay-once choice. Just be aware that you won’t get features with ongoing costs.

If the price doesn’t make sense to you, then it sounds like you’ll be happier with a cheaper app, and we wish you best.
total sales?
If I want to keep my fees less than 5%, I wouldn't call $100 a "micro-transaction". People don't like paying more, for fun.
> How is saying something shouldn't be marketed not a moral stance?

It's a political stance, not a moral one. As I said earlier, I didn't make any moral judgements about the people who eat that snack, or even for the people who sell it, although to be fair I do have a few choice words for the latter. Anyway in my book accusing someone of "moralising" is most of the time something people say to shut down conversation.

I didn't understand what you mean by your last sentence.
There’s not money to be earned by jailbreaking iOS that increases in value the harder it is to jailbreak.
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Binance runs about a dozen staking pools publicly so there are definitely problems with trying to keep pools decentralized.
How does it do the light field if multiple people are behind the glass? They can’t really optimize it for every person individually right?
Should encryption be be curbed to combat human trafficking? Murder? Terrorism? Child abuse is a crime like any other, curbing encryption will not stop it, and would probably systemically make other non-emotional issues worse.
> 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?

Yes, but if someone loves what they do why wouldn't they want to immerse themselves in it and get paid well for it?
> Replicating the experience of in-person communication much more closely

That's not a problem people express much, at least not in ways where "3D" points to a solution. When I want to see people in person, it's not because of a lack of stereoscopy. I want to hug them, to break bread with them.

> there's no reason to believe a revolutionary new approach and product couldn't change this

There is indeed! In specific, the many times we have already had revolutionary new approaches and products that were met with great enthusiasm in the market for a few years.

I'd add that the telephone was not only a very successful technology for a century, audio calls still remain very popular. (I'm not sure what your work calls are like these days, but quite a lot of people turn off video in mine.) The lesson I take from that is that people mainly self-generate the feeling of interpersonal connection, and they can do it with very little in the way of cues. To me that's another strong indication that no new 3D technology will make much of a difference.
I personally find it to be a funny meme.

But think about the general implications: the general idea of 'Virgin vs Chad' is that 'Chad' gets more sex than the Virgin. Its basically incel logic in some regards, or glorifying toxic masculinity to an extent. Its innate to the meme.

So it is what it is. Like many things on the internet, its kind of a mean message if you stop and think about it. On the other hand, I know its "just a joke" (but I'm aware that some "joke" evolve over the months and/or years into... well... not jokes. Serious things).

Context for everything. Maybe the incel community will suddenly adopt the meme and use it "seriously", which would make it unfun. (I don't follow many incel groups, so I wouldn't know if they picked up on this meme yet). Kinda like how "Red Pill" was fine when it was just a Matrix reference, but suddenly turned into right-wing virtue signaling... the underlying context and/or culture behind the meme is often more important than the actual message.
>>As written, it sounds like the production assistant is separate from the person.

Interesting, when I first read it I did understand that the production assistant was the person he was talking about. But yes, I can see why it could be confusing.
> Scalpers hurt literally everyone.

Not entirely true, and also not accepting that one person's "scalper" is another person's "bought this but decided I would rather have the money it seems to be worth now that I see how much this is".

Secondary markets provide liquidity, allow for original sellers to trade money for time, provide reputational protection based on societal perceptions (this one is a bit weird, and maybe the less defensible of the reasons. Selling your own inventory on a secondary market to avoid negative press for high prices is thwarting normal market information principles, IMO), etc.
You must not take the Monty Python's name in vain. That would be right out.
We don't use an ORM. Notion's codebase on the back-end is much more functional than object-oriented, in the sense that we have many more code that looks like `transformTheData(theData, theChangeToMake): ResultingData` than we have classes or methods.

We do lean very heavily on the TypeScript type system and try to make invalid states unrepresentable.
Peoples' obsession with toxicity is becoming a toxic meme in and of itself
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Data labeling can take up to 80% of the resources in an average ML project
Even with speed of light the farthest message we could have sent would barely peak out of our cosmic neighborhood. We need a powered probe that accelerates outwards sending a message for any chance of being heard out there in any reasonable time.
Yes, I have been saying something like this for years. I believe this is the first time I have seen someone else make the same point here.

My dog is looking for signs of extraterrestrial super-olfaction.
For some very loose comparison, the Fujitsu A64FX is a 60mm square package and has 48 ARM cores and 32Gb of memory, though no GPU cores.

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It's quite odd that your calling out Uber for using HDFS because it's so "2014", legacy and inefficient and yet your solution involves NFS and an enterprise storage vendor? Do you not see any irony in that? I think that many would argue your solution is far more legacy. It's also far more inefficient from a cost perspective. I have yet to see a storage vendor who could match the price of commodity hardware.
because they will burnout.....
I've seen 3d screens in Japan 20 years ago. TVs, ad displays, mobile phones. It works really well, and it's actually very simple technology. Never understood why that never took off.
I mentioned what I use, not what everyone uses (Nikon D850, XQD card). True, XQD has mostly been replaced by CFExpress.

Regardless, the point remains that high-end cameras often use high-end memory cards that are not SD cards.
nope! I agree with you 100%
There are a couple of comments in 'dead' relating to using gender [a self-identified gender that in this case differs from the writer's apparent sex] in order to promote oneself; suggesting - reading between the lines - that it's gauche to promote oneself based on some otherwise irrelevant characteristics.

It seems to me there's a conversation to have about that, it's a shame that a) those comments seem a bit too dismissive and b) that HN just hides the controversy rather than talking it over. One of the comments in particular laments "steal[ing] the achievements of real women" which in tech circles is probably a quite important thing to consider.

I think this is particularly interesting as the author writes that one of their values is "Don't try hide who I am, especially when it becomes difficult." [0] - to me this post goes against that value. I'm sure other will disagree.

[1] https://blog.thea.codes/my-personal-values/
It's one of those things that they don't really need to move. The product is perfect as-is. Maybe a more full-fledged API/plugin system would be nice, but that's it.

The only people that really want them to move and change things are investors, not customers.

Same with Dropbox. A folder that syncs is all I need from them as a customer. Everything else they try to do is just getting in my way.
A desktop would probably be quieter than my 16”, which ramps up the fans at even a whiff of CPU usage.
I'm surprised companies don't buy insurance against this. I could very easily see insurance companies offering a new product. Pay us $25,000 a year, for a 5 million liability. Or 50,000 a year for a 10 million dollar liability shield etc.

Insurance companies can then develop their own methods to better determine premiums for companies based on measures they take.

Companies can then decide how much risk to take in choosing not to invest in cyber security for their operations based on the cost of their premiums.

If this is an insurance option that currently exists, perhaps more companies will begin paying for it.
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Why do you expect the government's laws to be forever reasonable, or reasonable for everyone all the time? Can you be guaranteed a vote if you've already been made a criminal? I'm skeptical of BTC as a currency, but divorcing the state from the capacity to control who can transact seems like a fantastic check on government power in a world where surveillance is becoming increasingly perfect. Think of Bitcoin in this context as digital cash, in relation to a a potentially centralized digital currency.
Because we're being pedantic, what you'd want is an em dash (—), not a hyphen (-). You would also omit the spaces.

> there's one other person—a production assistant—and two cats.
That's brutal... isn't the hash difficulty supposed to automatically increase to compensate? Is it actually the case that the limiting factor on hash rate right now is how quickly Nvidia is willing to sell GPUs?!
You know what, sure. Let's do that.

Let's destroy the entirety of online commerce.

Let's destroy the ability to digitally prove identities of corporations and people.

Let's eliminate the security and integrity of every computer system.

Let's expose every company that uses a network to connect its computers together to hackers.

Let's eliminate every viable form of DRM (actually, I'm kinda OK with that one).

Let's destroy the entire concept of proof of work.

Sure, let's "curb" encryption.
This whole situation makes me wonder if the GPU market will just crash once the biggest coins move away from PoW?

The market would be flooded with a ton of current and last gen GPUs with second-hand pricing, while AMDs and Nvidias newest offerings suddenly lost a major part of their demand.

I guess another possibility is that miners will just transfer their efforts to coins still working on PoW, trying to make those relevant instead.
How does this view of PoS governance explain how Ethereum protocol governance has operated in reality for the past five years?

As far as I can tell, the power held by miners has been minimal; if miners had any significant power at all then the various issuance reductions and now EIP 1559 would not have been accepted nearly so smoothly. So when miners are replaced by PoS validators, the power that PoS validators will be inheriting is not that much...

> Yes there will be a number of custodians "competing" with each other, but they will all largely operate under the same regulatory jurisdiction (or at least cooperating jurisdictions)

Even if this is true (given all the decentralized staking pools coming out, and the still really large number of solo stakers, I really doubt it!), I don't see how that state of affairs would survive any attempt by governments to actually use their jurisdictional power. It's very easy to move stake around (or at least it will be very easy post-merge), so once a single pool does anything disagreeable people can just move their ETH to other pools. And staking infrastructure can live in any country; there aren't even constraints around needing to have cheap electricity there.

> This is external to the system and can be done without paying off any existing Bitcoin actor

I've heard this argument many times, but.... why does that even matter? Making a PoW farm requires paying off a hardware provider. Hardware providers are far more centralized than cryptocurrency hodlers, of which there are millions and you just need to find one willing to sell to you. "I want to buy coins but the existing hodlers are all colluding to not let me" is not a problem that anyone in the cryptocurrency space actually worries about in real life. Specialized hardware manufacturers, on the other hand, are few enough that such a thing is at least actually plausible....
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> Nvidia is trying to get miners to buy mining-only cards

I thought the non-LHR cards are fully featured?
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That seems unlikely. My game stream in 1080p at 60fps already takes 40Mbps. So 4K at 30fps would need more like 80Mbps, and 8K 320Mbps
The title says "any" amount then the subtitle say "moderate" which is more than "any" but less than large.
This is really cool tech. I'm using it in my "Discord meets Minecraft" app (jel.app), it's basically exactly the primitive missing to really have a multi-tenant story for these kinds of chat systems.
>The lower classes are the most vulnerable to inflation.

The lower classes spend most of their income and accumulate very little savings and even if they do, those savings will not generate enough returns to replace their job, if the latter were possible they would not be lower classes by definition.

Really there is only one benefit that Bitcoin brings and that is the ability to "strike" and force central banks to set interest rates properly e.g. the threat of competition keeps everyone honest.

Also, Bitcoin is going down very quickly. Considering the recent rise in inflation I wouldn't want to hold onto Bitcoin if my goal was to get ahead of inflation. The volatility completely drowns out inflation. You may have to hold onto your Bitcoin for years and hope for a recovery.
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Mark Zuckerberg might announce that, but I think he'll go straight from Facebook Telescreen™ to Facebook Panopticon™.
This is like buying a 400hp engine in a sports car but it's only available to use 400hp to those that are retired, and anyone else it's just too bad. The problem is not miners, it has been said many times before. The problem is the silicon shortage, and now scalpers and even worse yet, bots.

Nvidia needs to work in fixing the JIT manufacturing process, spending resources on any other issue is not helping. Inventing new nerfed chips in your products to a specific use case is not solving this. They are at risk at also angering a prominent portion of customers since their "alternative" CMP HX line is laughable.
What do you mean untraceable crypto? Isn’t there a distributed ledger of transactions?
Nope, it's from his book of aphorisms.
They have a SKU specifically targeting miners

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/
While it looks exciting, I'm also interested in the 3D display's eventual potential for movies and games...
I said it before and I'll say it again - the vendors are the criminals here. There are vital industries that need GPUs for their viability - video games, medical research, engineering etc. and they should filter out the robo buyers to allow these people to purchase the graphic cards at reasonable rates. Right not RX570s are going for $200 on ebay right now... A 4 year old mid-tier graphics card....

Just allocating some GPUs to a wait list would be enough.

For people like me who cannot wait for GPU to become available you can get a very cheap usb-hdmi dongle off of amazon for dual monitor support. It works well enough for what I need it to do.
You're not the only one.

The major issue with the document model is storage. How big can a document grow? How do you persist it, and make small changes inside it? How do you handle "hot" documents that are very popular? Moving data between documents or having part of a document reference part of another document are complex. Complexity comes from building derived data that looks at slices of a document.

With a block-oriented model, your records are much more manageably sized. It's easier to reference or move data between documents, but in turn, you need to do these kinds of recursive shenanigans because your individual records are smaller in scope. Complexity comes from derived data that composes blocks together into a document.
I don't think that's really true. Which part of postgres would you describe as a KV store, compared to what cockroach does with RocksDB?
You missed the (extremely good) point that istorical is making.

The argument in this subthread has been over whether we should be mad at Nvidia on principle. For example, as capableweb puts it:

> 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.

You seemingly agreed with a "principled" reading of the situation: "That strikes me as almost morally wrong. I tell the computer what to do. It doesn't tell me what to do."

istorical is arguing, by giving an extreme case, that we don't have a consistent principle against limiting the capabilities of a product when it will benefit a customer who matters more.

After all, if we've agreed that it's morally wrong to "cripple" a product, then what worth is that principle if we abandon it during a crisis? Let the people starve! You're rightly repulsed by that idea, and so you're retreating to the position that we're just going with a cost/benefit analysis. Preventing food from being burned has a cost and a benefit. Preventing GPUs from being used for crypto has a cost and a benefit.

The thing is, this gives up the supposed moral high ground that many in this thread have tried to promote as a reason to be mad at Nvidia. From the perspective you present, it's perfectly reasonable to look at the situation and say that preventing GPUs from being used for crypto will have more benefit than cost. (I certainly think so!) There's no inconsistency you can draw out of someone weighing the various benefits and costs differently than you do.