skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is different than just product segmentation or binning chips - this is hardware restricting software.

How would you feel towards Intel if they didn’t allow you to run Microsoft Office on an i3 chip because it’s a “consumer grade processor” - you have to upgrade to an i5 or higher to run “business programs”.
This isn't how tax laws work. Exchanging one cryptocurrency for another is a taxable event. You are committing tax fraud.
Wow, so active community vigilantism isn't actually a solution to solving problems - shocking.
There have been great strides made in ai compression in recent years. I wonder if they are going to leverage that.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/10/05/gan-video-conferenc...

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-...

https://aibots.my/officialBlog/deepminds-ai-agent-muzero-cou...
Ok, so now I am dying to understand how this could possibly be the case, as this isn't how the economics are supposed to work... like, according to this calculator, I could make $5 with the old graphics cards in my PC, and I live in California (where I would expect expensive power).

Like, the premise is supposed to be that if there is that much profit to be made mining, people will mine, the hash rate will skyrocket, the block production time will get too low, and the hash difficulty will rise until the profit you can make is low enough that you aren't sure if you want to do it anymore. Does the difficultly just not rise fast enough?

Or like, is this largely just because the price of Ethereum has gone up "too quickly" in the past month? If so, does this calculator take into account the incentive factor that if people actually do this the difficulty will go up, and so this $7 of profit today might be $0.50 of profit in a month, and maybe you will fail to pay off your hardware investment fast enough?

Or is there just something really weird going on in this market that I don't understand (and would love love love to learn about)... maybe it literally is just as simple as "there aren't enough graphics cards to go around, and Nvidia's disinterest in making profit in this way--even temporarily--is the strongest current limit on hashrate"?
It's not a court hearing where things have to be accurate or you're lying.

We generally is understood to be - me + project/company because the person and the project are not the same thing. Code bases do not get updated to reflect me/we grammer as people come in and leave.

Also technically a company is an artificial person, even a single person project can be we.
Think of it this way: a cloud is just water droplets suspended in the air. The air is transparent. Water is transparent. Yet... you can't see through clouds.

That's essentially what a full Dyson Swarm looks like.

People have modeled how many orbitals you'd need to achieve this and I believe that if you orbit them at 1 AU (plus or minus) the mean distance between them is still around 150,000km.
No, this sends a different image to each eye. It's not actually a transparent piece of glass with an image on it[0] - I think they just try to make it seem as if it is a transparent pane you're looking through.

The marketing for it is pretty terrible though, because I initially came away with the same impression as you.

[0] See image here: https://www.engadget.com/google-project-starline-191228699.h...
The first cut will be using Jitsi as the engine, albeit with more appropriate UI, which gives you AEC (echo cancellation) from WebRTC and some level of AGC (normalisation). But we have plans to go far beyond that, and are very aware it’s hard work. However, pre-Matrix, the core team professionally built VoIP stacks, so we have some experience here (and our own WebRTC implementation should we need it :)
Moderation is actually the problem. The internet was a better place for everyone when it was just webrings, usenet, and goatse.
If you're zooming from the wider lenses it doesn't necessarily lose information, because you can merge it with a tele lens picture.
An early version of Notion (before my time) used Neo4j, but it turned out to be very slow for the kinds of data access Notion does.
Why isn’t the mental health of people using its platform a priority for Facebook?
They are limiting mining of a single coin: Ethereum. Nothing is going to stop mining other coins, which are quite profitable. Also, Ethereum is going through two upcoming events which will change the landscape dramatically. July has EIP-1559 which will reduce ETH mining earnings by 30% and the eventual move to proof of stake in late 2021/early 2022. Both of these events will make other non-ETH coins more profitable.
In the parents defence, the tax status of crypto has nothing to do with the technical capability of using Bitcoin for trade. I think we can all agree, that if both parties are willing, I can use bitcoin to buy things.
You can use them as remote controls for your camera, though I'm not sure how bad the latency is.
> And when Tesla decided to allow purchases via BTC

The main reason I don't buy things with cryptocurrency is that it would trigger a liquidation event and short term capital gains taxing.

Due to that, for US residents and citizens, it's not functional as a currency in its current form. I'm vehemently against taxing of cryptocurrency or treating it as a security by the IRS, but that's the way it is now.
WSL for Rails Developers
The new Material stuff feels to me like a gimmick. Basically just color skins on your screen the same way you can pick your own skin for your phone case.

Sure, people will use it, but it's not very clever and won't make anyone more productive.
The used market is huge. Even before the shortage, newer used GPUs were selling for 75% or more of their new price, from my memory.
One of the maintainers of the PSL (Ryan Sleevi) has written on HN before that they'd sure like it if people leant on the PSL less rather than more.

It's a nasty hack, the successor to even worse proprietary hacks but still something we ought to strive to get rid of.

I can see exactly why it was the choice here, and I don't blame Mozilla for choosing it, but we're not going to make things better if nobody gets out and pushes.

That said, since we're stuck with the PSL for the foreseeable, I sure would like it if Mozilla shipped a way for extensions to just consult Firefox's built-in copy of the PSL, rather than needing to either build yet another awful hack or ship the entire PSL again in an extension.
> BTC seems to be about 10 times more volatile than the dollar on a daily basis.

They're not talking about volatility; they're talking about the average trend over time.
Asim, are you familiar with how Stephen Baxter portrayed the use of telepresence in his science fiction novels? If not, check it out. But if you are, please explain it to me! It always confused the hell out of me.
I think a lot of big cities have aholes. See how many BMW-driving yuppies there are in Palo Alto who try to cut you off and get mad when you don't reward their superior, entitled existence.

> Trash taking various demographics

Hasn't that always been a low-class thing?

When/where/what classes of people did it ever go away?

I've seen it done ironically in the UK amongst good friends and coworkers who are definitely not racist.
Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, unified platform for MLOps
A bit pedantic, but a parenthetical can be indicated by em dashes, parentheses, or commas.

https://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html (rule 3)
Genuine investments in companies, real estate, and other hard assets which actually produce cash flow rather than BTC whose value depends on the madness of crowds and the tweets of eccentric billionaires.
I certainly am calling Facebook and other mainstream social media more carefully moderated than off-the-beaten-path social networks which glorify anorexia, self-harm and other disorders.
This reads as if you didn't even read OP's comment.
Yeah Thea is as real of a woman as any cisgendered woman. It's upsetting that the commenter couldn't realize that there are legitimate claims about cisgendered women lack of representation in tech, but to come out with hateful language derails any useful discussion. They are literally creating a flame war while decrying that HN can't talk about certain topics. Also I am not sure this comment section is the place to talk about it.
Got it, I was a bit confused as I never had heard about the problem you mentioned. Too bad here in Brazil you can't get the specialized care you need for the condition you have.

This is a major screw up and inefficiency from this country.

Thanks for explaining the concept more in-depth too.
The internet was a better place when it didn't have all those people that require moderation.
So does any traditional government issued currency, credit cards and banking loans and that doesn't make them useless to me.

Would I work for a crypto startup or as a crypto developer in the US if I'm not a citizen? No

Does crypto work as advertised? Yes

Social wellfare, a 401k, etc... are also "get in first get more money out if you get in late" schemes. A lot of people already cashed out their crypto to tangible assets and are set for life. A lot of other people have our pools as a risky investment and every once in a while rabalance and it puts food on the table. It's full of people with bad intentions but open your eyes, so is the world, those people are also doing pump and dumps and pyramid schemes with fiat and the stock market and putting hits on drug dealers over snail mail or dead-drops.
Not a lawyer, but this sure seems like libel.
Ah another free market neoliberalist. You do know that government intervention during Keynesian’s time was incredibly helpful for the macro economy - providing jobs and investment into long running avenues. Neoliberalism purports that the private sector will invest diligently but really we’re seeing companies use shortermism as a technique to just make profit.
Hardware fuse? Trying to run custom software can actually brick hardware now?
> I liked that Ringworld addresses this

Just FYI, but the Ringworld as Larry Niven envisioned it simply doesn't work because no known or theorized material is remotely strong enough.

To produce gravity a Ringworld needs to orbit the star. This produces centrifugal force that is tearing the ring apart. I believe around our Sun it would need to spin at about 1.2M mph [1].

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150609-will-we-ever-bui....
there's no such thing as a "mining-only" card, they are still good for compute tasks like grid compute.

what you are looking at is a future that is very, very bright for BOINC and folding@home scores.

the cards will never be worthless, if nothing else someone will buy them up for 25 bucks and store them until the (inevitable) next mining crisis, and any reasonable miner is going to chose 25 bucks versus having to pay to dispose of them properly (ahahah, sorry, we all know if it comes to that they're going in the nearest creek).

anyway you get the point though, the value is never going to actual zero, people will buy them for development work, for grid compute, or just as a bet on the next mining crisis. A hundred bucks for a card is better than nothing.
I think we only feel and think this way because that wss prior to a wider and more gradual Eternal September. I don't think we can go back at this point.
The fabs did scale down near the beginning of COVID-19 AFAIK when the economy was in a panic and all sorts of manufacturers were canceling orders from people further up the chain - and that does account for some of the shortage we're seeing now (since that production time was resold to other consumers) but it's a much smaller impact than the 30XX line's attractiveness to miners. I don't think there is honestly the capacity to meet these levels of demand right now (as opposed to there being readily available production capacity that's either idle or doing something that could be outbid).

I also don't really see how keeping all of the consumer groups (miners and regular folks) using precisely the same model of card instead of two incredibly unbelieveably similar cards would actually increase demand. If anything there being a card optimized for hashing (i.e. with unnecessary bits stripped off) might lower the cost to produce such a card and allow miners to actually purchase more of the card compared to paying for a nearly top of the line consumer video card.

I don't actually know how much we'll see Nvidia try and scale up (since that extra purchased capacity will be a liability if Eth suddenly tanks) but I think their decision to increase scale will only be minorly impacted by this effort. I will admit there will be some impact since they could refuse to increase the 3070 supply (please correct me if I've got model numbers turned around) without having as dramatic an effect on their customer base - however, that'd honestly just return them to square one where the miners are going to pick up consumer grade 3080s to keep up with mining projections.

I think the important thing here is that nothing is being made impossible - it's being made difficult which should have a corresponding effect on the value of these cards to miners unless they screw it up again in a major way. People trying to absolutely prevent video game piracy have either

1. Screwed it up and allowed a sharpie to defeat their system

2. Bricked a whole bunch of legitimate users' computes and ended up in class actions

The successful approach to prevent piracy is to price things fairly and while making it less convenient to pirate things - honestly a huge driver here in the modern world is content that's enriched by being online, not stupid "You must have an internet connection to play this single player game" but "If you're online you can tap in a friend for help" - that sort of online integration significantly lowers the value for pirates while allowing legitimate users to only see upsides.
Not really such a bad idea, these days
You can't see anything in this world without dividing things up. That's how your senses (sensory inputs plus processing plus cognition) work. So this version of "clarity" seems hard to achieve.

Maybe just settle for "try to limit the extent to which your cognitive biases and priors shape how you think the world is". You can't reduce them to zero, but you can reduce them a bit.
Have you had a sleep study? I used to have tons of vivid lucid dreams during sleep apnea. Now I have much less detailed dreams and they're less frequent, after fixing my sleep apnea. It's a bit sad because the dreams were fun, but I do feel way more rested these days.
Note that Facebook does not have the choice to agree. To do so would be to open Facebook to unimaginable legal liability. So Facebook's opinion in the matter is moot. There are practically no inputs to this function that will change its behavior.
No offense taken. I know I am currently in the (significant) minority.

But it's been six years, now, since using crypto has been a genuine net benefit for me, and this is completely outside of any kind of monetary speculation. That's not nothing. Is it a useful comparison, one guy that works in tech vs. the world's financial systems?

If using crypto helps me, it can help other people, too. That's enough for a real start, all on its own.
I would like that too but it doesn't seem to be the case with the 'restricted' RTX 3060 (I would like to get it at RRP).
My impression is stablecoins are still taxed as property, even if they don't fluctuate as much. Going through the same hassle but not having as much fluctuation seems like solving 20% of the problem.

And if you peg your money to fiat, aren't you just ending up back where you started?

What you're describing sounds essentially like being my own brokerage back office to provide cash services to myself. That's nice for people who enjoy that sort of thing, I guess.
Reminder:

> 8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?"

> like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen": drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

* https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/cryp...
> I met with three separate Googlers in Project Starline (all of them men)

Well, at least we know that they weren't all white men; because if they were, this writer would sure have let us know about this very irrelevant information.
I have a backup browser for this. My main browser is locked down so tight it would take me ages to disable all the protections.
FYI downvoters, this is a real solution and I've done it for business purposes.
Investment portfolios exist. They also reduce the cost of loans, thus making it easier for companies to grow and speeding up innovation. In comparison, the only thing "investing" in cryptocurrency does, is encourage larger economies of scale for cryptocurrency (which, side note, has built in mechanisms to actively prevent it from becoming more efficient).
Already on it. :) https://vitess.io/docs/reference/vreplication/vreplication/
> Discord style communities

Boring and obvious, but this is probably what most people would want. Now that we've seen how good and usable the Discord model is, it's pretty much the baseline now for public chat rooms.
I agree with this comment 100% - please increase the value of my facebook shares.
I looked and was gratified it cited Francis Crick and Graeme Mitchinson's paper from 1983 that had a very similar idea.
Sleep occurs at both the cellular and organism level. Sleep is probably like getting a car serviced and cleaned. Sleep isn't just blowing up the tires, or changing the oil or cleaning the screen, it's all of it.
So don't fill the screen with the viewfinder. It's not rocket science.
It's such an amazing looking device, so shiny and polished and professional looking. The craftwork is so well done that it's a bit of a shock when it wobbles so much in use.

I never thought out that before... and now I understand why the wooden one a friend owns has a big lump of lead in the spinning part as a counterweight (which, BTW, is too low, it still wobbles a little. I suspect a second, smaller, weight at the very top would help).
Chad here. I use Go
Essentially eye-contact is the missing ingredient. I believe it! Eye contact is key to a conversation feeling authentic.
Makes sense, since vscode was originally a clone of github's editor atom ;) Which they are still maintaining, to their credit
> I think I have all the energy I need to be honest.

“2018, global energy-related CO2 emissions rose 1.7% to a historic high of 33.1 Gt CO2.”

Only thinking of your electricity or transport needs is missing all the other CO2 sources you rely on for your civilisation. For example you eat: “Globally, the fertiliser industry is responsible for about 1.5% of annual carbon emissions, largely because 95 per cent of production relies on natural gas as a feedstock.”.

The easiest proxy for measuring your energy usage is simply the amount you spend annually, which is usually closely related to the amount you earn. Most of our energy usage is hidden throughout our economy, due to our reliance upon our society.
I feel like video calling is not great because you lose that depth which is natural to human communication. That said, I work in field focused on digital audio and sound and so all my colleagues have professional microphones and headphones which makes up 90% of that difference immediately.
Also a bit of a jump from neural networks to brains.
I've used TransType to convert PS fonts before with good success. PS fonts are kinda a nightmare, I'm glad that they are going away.
Google's LaMDA vs. GPT-3
Can Google's new laMDA compete with GPT-3 by OpenAI?

Google has showed off today its next generation NLP AI by talking to Pluto and a Paper Airplane. We had similar conversations with GPT-3 too, e.g. about Universe and God.

But I think we should consider these technologies in a broader context; like Extended Reality and Gaming industry both via AR/VR. I guess in near future we are able e.g. to travel via our headsets/glasses and make random conversion with random human-like 3D models without any problem.

Apple will also introduce it's Spatial Audio. It means soon we can fully experience a extended digital layer on top of our physical world. It would be both crazy and amazing at the same time.

Love to hear your opinions too, thanks.
The difficulty completely depends on the level of quality you're after. They're certainly working on cutting-edge-level quality, so it is likely no easy task. Someone else pointed out that they released a paper on related tech last year:

https://augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo/
Movfuscator: Compile C into only mov instructions
> By allowing others to look into your home and listen to your conversations, they can verify that no abuse is occurring, and easily collect evidence when it does occur.

CPS can do that if they have a warrant.
Guess it depends on what you want moderated. I don’t consider Facebook very well moderated. They moderate what helps them sell ads and leave the rest of their sewer alone.
Yet more useX to keep in your head. I don't get it with React.
As explained in the post, there’s a button to toggle that.
That was linked already a week ago, with a less inflammatory title:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27130355
A lot of the systemic issues that have caused people of certain races to be poorer and less educated have either a historical or direct basis in race. And then if you look then at the poverty rates by race, it's clear that certain policies (esp. with regards to educational funding) often have a far worse impact on members of a certain race than others.

It's not hard to make a connection between, say, an actually racist issue like redlining and how it affected the development of neighborhoods, and the subsequent lack of local funding for educational programs in the affected neighborhoods.
Because its revenues are dependent on users being addicted to its service.

Your question is akin to asking why are crack dealers not worried about the health of their customers.
It's not an exchange. It's a loan with a collateral. It's only an "exchange" if you get liquidated, which means that you were forced to sell it at a loss.
I climb... a lot, have used 3-4 different brands of liquid chalk and many different powder ones. After reading your marketing for the chalk/skin care I really don't understand what differentiates it from other brands and why I should care.

It just kinda looks like fancy liquid chalk I guess? Your description is:

"Improves grip by reducing sweat and moisture. Climb stronger than ever with dry hands and a stronger grip. Guaranteed to reduce your use of messy chalk powder. Using less chalk means stronger skin for you, nicer rocks for everyone and healthier lungs for all. Keep your gym and the rock pristine, "

Which could literally apply to any brand of liquid chalk, and doesn't really tell me anything. You can probably assume people who care about the amount of chalk their climbing produces also know what chalk is and why it is used, and focus on why YOUR chalk is worth the larger price tag.

Same thing for the skin care, cool it moisturizes and helps repair skin, a claim that an entire aisle of cheaper products at any drugstore also makes.
These are very serious issues and I don't in any way mean to minimize them but, honestly, nazis and anti-vaxxers are legion on facebook. These groups both pose serious societal threats especially in the middle of a pandemic.
Only if your company doesn't believe in training.
Why no Android support?
That's amazing! This is such a smash-hit feature from Discord that no other messenger has gotten right yet.

Feels like a needed step for community-building after having used Discord for so long. You are doing awesome work.
I think the point is that at present the majority of cryptocurrency usage is in investment, trading, and hoarding- speculation as opposed to actually using it as a currency for everyday transactions.