skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering they sell the cards afterwards, I remain unconvinced that they will (to miners appear to) be unprofitable at half the hashing performance.

I fear these guys will just want the double amount of cards now :/

So sorry, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Ok, so go back through your forums and threads like these and read all the "how do I get standalone" questions throughout the last 5-6 years and tell me honestly that the awkward non-answers are just you guys being excited about your hosted solution. It's evasive. I'd feel a lot more mutual respect if you'd drop the charade and just say "yeah, you guys aren't really our primary use case anymore and we're not really planning to support you. Sorry." Making us read between the lines while you play coy games like saying "well, it's not advertised, but it kinda works on some platforms" is insulting.
I'm not redefining anything; heuristics to decide what to focus on and how are what intuition is. That fact that it's implemented differently is irrelevant; by that logic LAPACK isn't doing linear algebra because it's not using jury-rigged neural networks augmented with pencil and paper.
I appreciate this write-up! I've been considering a migration from Evernote to Obsidian/Notion/other-competitor for a while as Evernote's UI gets steadily worse, and this reconfirms my perspective that Obsidian is leading the pack. Thanks!
Great idea. I've seen similar products e.g. gumroad but this really turns it up to 11.
I cant vote in the US. In argentina, however, the government seized my bank accounts and made it illegal to trade foreign currencies.
Yep, this is designed products for specific markets that are currently being untapped.

It's allows for a premium charge on crypto-enabled cards while still capturing the consumer market. It's a great solution.
Thanks for the great response!

Just wanting to pick your brain on a couple of points...

1. Do you think an effective MMO can exist without being an extensive time sink? If so, how?\
2. Community and cooperation are the lifeblood of MMOs - working together to meet a goal. I like the idea of building games, but I can't justify it because I think both myself and others should spend their time pursuing goals that will improve the quality of the real world. Do you think these two can co-exist? People pursuing in-game goals which directly or indirectly map to positive outcomes in the real world?

My second point may be a little long-winded - but I'd like people not to feel guilty about spending their time on an MMO because by playing it they are having a positive impact elsewhere.
FireFox appears to be accelerating their feature velocity post Mozilla resizing. Curious what changes they made internally to refocus development.
Smart engineers chose Hydrogen as the first stage fuel fuel the Space Shuttle, and it turned out to be a terrible choice.

H2 offered the highest ISP, ie energy per fuel mass, and originally they wanted the Shuttle to be a single stage to orbit vehicle. But Hydrogen also added larger, much heavier tanks and engines didn’t have enough thrust for that. So they had to add large Solid Rocket Boosters to get off the pad. And all they additional dry mass meant the higher ISP of H2 was wasted.

And now the SLS is repeating those mistakes, not because engineers didn’t learn those lessons, but because politicians require them to repeat them.

Engineers recommending Hydrogen for cars are
influenced by regulatory requirements and benefits, and politically by company objectives. If your CEO says Hydrogen is important to use because our government and regulators say it is, you as an engineer will find a way to make the best of a bad choice.
I think this paper should be a top level HN discussion thread.
Sounds like Nvidia hasn't actually raised the price. They could just auction this off from their website directly and cut out the middle man.
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To say that a single company's products being used by even a single digit percentage of the world population doesn't meet the requirements to ve considered "widely available" is a stretch.

In any case, you said "important," not "widely available," and yes, Nintendo's products are hugely important. Many of today's technological advancements can be traced back to their proving that a given use case for a primitive version of a given technology was viable.
It's the best thing that's happened to my career by a wide margin. I'm 15 years in and definitely not the smartest person in the room on most topics, and I'm finally moving forward and really enjoying it after quite a stagnant period.

I try to remind myself to show some gratitude, not just for my team's knowledge and insights that they share, but for having selected me as a person to join them as well. It's a real privilege to have a good team. I think they consider me more of an equal than I give myself credit for but I really do get an education pretty much every day. Life is interesting.
> but one must sell if somebody offers to buy the good at that value.

Maybe for ultra rich people. For normal people that's all fun and games until a bunch of haters crowdfund taking your home from you.
First DTC Hearing Aids Released by Bose
This is huge win for hearing impaired patients all around - lower cost, no Rx or physician visit required with the comparable or higher quality. Very interested to see how it works without having an Rx if insurers will reimburse for the device. How do you prove medical necessity?
Doubtful, IMO. The fact that you need it to be both extremely low latency and with essentially zero compression artifacts (probably lossless, based on their goal). If the numbers listed here[1] are correct, then the most efficient lossy codec at that time was doing 100 minutes of 8k video in ~37GB of data. From that we can intuit that it was using an average of 50 Mbps for that 100 minutes of video. For the most efficient codec, and I'm not even sure from that whether it was using lossy or lossless numbers, because apparently HVEC can do both (but I would assume lossy, since it's about streaming video in that case).

You can't do weird texture mapping or lossy compression and expect people to really seem like they are there. Even if you don't notice that stuff normally watching a video, I think you'll notice it when you're interacting like someone is really in front of you, and that will throw off the immersion.

1: https://www.quora.com/In-regards-to-filesize-how-big-is-1-mi...
Because those price-sensitive buyers (PC gamers) are far more likely to be loyal customers down the road than crypto miners, who will immediately stop buying GPUs as soon as mining stops being profitable again.

Nvidia wants to give PC gamers a reason to stay on "Team Green" by making it easier for them to get a card at a reasonable price during this perfect storm of limited silicon availability and insane crypto mining demand.

I actually think that this particular move is more about rate limiting purchases intended for crypto mining than it is about putting miners in a different market segment.
According to Tom's hardware analysis the CMP gpus are leftover Turing architecture that would otherwise have gone to the now less desirable GTX 1660 Ti, or 2080 Ti.

And when they are finally using the new Ampere silicon, it's likely those chips that did not pass QA for being made into a RTX 3080.

So they are getting rid of overstock/dead stock already.
To echo this comment, zamadatix is exactly right; I need someone quoting me about a Google project as an official representative about as much as I need another hole in my head.

As to the greater point, I want to emphasize that as a human being I want to be careful with how I communicate with others because I care about them not feeling judged, dismissed, othered, or otherwise insulted. The charge that the rules keep changing is overblown; it’s always about respecting people even if you don’t understand or enjoy them.

I know that some might still equate that with “cancel culture” but I can’t help that (and tbh that’s a discussion that we should have over beers and not on the internet).
A fast, minimal Forth-like interpreter core in C++ with no assembly
Had this contract been written in idiomatic glow, it would have been structured as a state machine and transitions would be forced to be explicit. You could specify invariants on the states as well as constrain the behaviour of the transitions.

In this case the transition would have moved the SM out of the initialised state which would have precluded the ability to re-initialise the contract/state machine. Attempting to invoke said re-initialisation would cause a compile error. You could write the contract in such a way that would still allow this however it would be evident that something is amiss as it would be incredibly un-idiomatic and awkward.

In the other case, the function had an implicit constraint that the value was within a certain bounds. The contract made no effort to check these bounds. With Glow you would have specified the constraints on the inputs and the interaction with the contract would be denied if the input for the function was outside those constrained bounds. This would be a compile error and possibly also a runtime check in the case of malicious actors ignoring bounds. I'm not sure how necessary the runtime check would be (as I'd have to check how the smart contract generation is set up) but at the very least the exploit would not have been able to occur.
We didn't mention RSS/RPS in the post mostly because they are stable. (Albeit, relatively ineffective in terms of L2 cache misses.) FlowDirector, OTOH, breaks that stability and causes a lot of migrations, and hence a lot of re-ordering.

Anyways, nice reference for TAPS! Fo those wanting to dig into it a bit more, consider reading an introductory paper (before a myriad of RFC drafts from the "TAPS Working Group"): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11035.pdf

PS. We went through most of our low-level web-server optimization for the Edge Network in an old blogpost: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/optimizing-web-servers-f...
The Octopus Teacher’s Student
Agreed. Fiat maximalists are persistent though.
Oh, for sure, there's plenty of work to still be done on the crypto side of things.

Regarding which coins I use, it's mostly Bitcoin Cash or Doge. No funny accounting or anything. The network transaction fees are readily available:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dogecoin-transactionfee...

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin%20cash-transact...
Your line of thinking is exactly what's wrong. The fact that life emerged on earth shortly after being able to sustain life says absolutely nothing about likelihood. It could be a very likely thing. Or it could be a 1 in a 10^35 miracle that happened due to an insanely low probability event involving gamma rays hitting chemical reactions in just the right way. Until we solve abiogenesis and can demonstrably evolve life from abiotic matter, or observe other planets with life on them, this is all speculation.
Double walled high vacuum tanks that vent hydrogen gas if left unused for less than day and empty themselves after 10 days.

Liquid hydrogen at -253c that is more energy intensive to make than high pressure.

Not sure I see that being practical.
Once we go interplanetary, we will need to turn on the radio again.
This is the camp I find myself in.

It takes a lot of effort in some areas to stay calm and allow the other side to play out their argument, and I recognize how critical it is in maintaining a positive attitude towards work.

I find that minimizing unnecessary conference calls was a monumental step in the right direction. When a technical conversation is serialized through a Github issue, it tends to get a lot more thought and time applied. It is also easy to walk away from a frustrating issue, go for a run, come back, and write a much more reasonable reply than you otherwise would have if compelled to do so.
Grape genetics research reveals what makes the perfect flower
Banks can create dollars in the sense that they can synthesize contracts to deliver dollars. These contracts are liquid enough that they are considered equivalent to cash, and in many cases superior (as I describe above).

There is absolutely nothing stopping an institution from accepting deposits of ETH, and then lending those ETH out by crediting other account holders with more ETH in their account. And it is equally possible to imagine that some vendors might prefer to receive their ETH payments as credits to their bank accounts, and thus the IOUs represented by these deposits become "ETH" in the same sense that bank deposits become "dollars".

But here we are strictly discussing the underlying specie. If account holders in a dollar bank demand their payment in specie, the bank is exposed to that risk. This risk is small but significant for modern banks because the credit market for dollars is very liquid, so they can easily sell loans for their present value to increase their cash exposure, and thus make good on the demands for specie.

The credit market for ETH is all but nonexistent except in very specific cases (basically just margin for exchanges) so an ETH bank would be extremely exposed to the risk of a run, and given the level of volatility and general deflationary trend in ETH it would be almost impossible to set a value on future ETH.
My honest advice is to just make a clear statement that you're dropping standalone mode and do it. People with licenses can continue using their non-upgradeable versions as long as they want but they're not getting any more updates. That would be a lot less dishonest than pretending it's supported-ish and just hiding it deeper and deeper on every release.
> The price of Bitcoin converges towards the price of mining it.

Isn't it the opposite. The cost of mining converges towards the current price of Bitcoin. Because when miners get Bitcoin as a reward they immediately sell it for profit.
Sorry. For "we" I mean parents at youth/school sports events. Not professionals.
I don't care. I have a 3080 I paid a pretty penny for so that I could play some games in high resolution and do personal machine learning projects. Between the cryto miners and scalpers I don't care what happens to those folks.
Maybe it was a well adjusted school, or maybe it was a school in which achievement culture and college application stacking and reverse engineering had fully run their course. After all, 'well rounded' on paper people get into elite colleges, and people from elite colleges have a better shot at becoming rich. Nothing less nerdy than wanting to be rich.
I think you're reading too much into people's reactions. I think this is a good move for Nvidia in the medium and long run. Gaming is the stated purpose of these cards; hashing is an unexpected and temporary phenomenon for them. Ethereum is moving away from PoW, and more regulation is undoubtedly coming to crypto, with its environmental cost likely a compelling bullet point. Why wouldn't they try to get back to their core business of selling GPUs to gamers?
Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys
I interpreted this as the downside of competition in the ad network space. Similar to “why do we need 4 cell towers on the top of this building” or “why does Boston have so many hospitals”.
has been https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17560462
Wouldn't it be better to use WebRTC data channels for communication between instances of the game? If I'm not mistaken, that's even based on UDP. Of course, that wouldn't show off the new Cloudflare features nearly as much, though I guess Workers and Durable Objects could still be used to help the clients establish the WebRTC connection.
Given there is just more demand than supply. With this model they are still sitting customers who are willing to pay less for the same good. If there wasn't such a tight supply constraint right now, this strategy would make 100% sense to me. Right now they should just auction the cards off from their website. Keep all the margin and get the cards to the buyer for whom the goods are worth the most
Crypto Liquidity Metrics
No. That was easy!
Is it that the illegal marijuana is safer than the legal alcohol? And the only thing keeping Alcohol in this framework is tradition?
This project needs a Chad code of conduct.
FWIW, I read it as a joke in part about how common it is in their experience to run into people without CS degrees who are in this field.

(And in part just an opportunity to play with language. I grew up in the Bible Belt. Gentle humor about religion/spirituality is something I am no stranger to.)
I'll agree with you that the monopolies (or too big to fail whatever) in finance and technology should be broken up. And I hope everyone who is into crypto banks their fiat at a local credit union.

But I think for most people using lightning means getting an account with a wallet provider. Couldn't they suspend your account for violating ToS? I guess some people could setup their own channel but I don't think that's what most people do.

Proof of Stake just means the biggest entities will have control. That doesn't sound stable to me but good luck.
Curious that you keep trying to compare its density to cities rather than other territories, then.

Anyway, we’re clearly talking past each other. Have a nice day!
> we use TeX/groff and not InDesign.

Surely that is a takeaway here: Open standards, open formats, open source. And maybe "not Adobe" for good measure;) Nobody ever will - or can truly kill groff support for something; even if it were removed from the (many) implementations, you can just build an old checkout and be back in business.
> there's one other person, a production assistant, and two cats.

A bit pedandic, but since we're talking about grammar anyway, that should probably be:

> there's one other person (a production assistant), and two cats.

As written, it sounds like the production assistant is separate from the person.
Ah yes the typical HN commenter who sees hundreds of millions of people doing something and assumes that he knows better.
For a technology to be falsifiable, there needs to be an agreed upon method of measuring its fundamental failure.

Even in cases like stablecoins where investors are provably losing millions of dollars on repeat oweing to fundamental design faults of the underlying protocol, the coins continue being traded nonetheless. The coins are still worth money despite the many instances of clear technical failures — “being worth money” appears to be the sole arbiter of “validity”.

How can the underlying tech really be disproven? Cryptocurrency is an effectively unfalsifiable technology. You could be selling a one-wheeled tricycle, and investors would still trade it based on one narrative or another. That is more or less the case with PoS.
What I never understood about the Drake equation and the search for intelligent alien life is why people assume that "intelligence" is something special and not something inherently human. There's no reason to see human-like intelligence as one of the infinite amount of properties a life form can have.

"Two possibilities exist: we are either the only things in the Universe that regularly speak Swedish or we are not. Both are equally terrifying".
Lossy and lossless has to do with the encoding not the signal processing. I'm just saying it is entirely possible to replicate an analog signal with a digital intermediary. Losslessness depends on the software.
> Eye-contact was non-existent.

Potentially a solved problem, just fix it in post. :)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-microsoft-finally-l...

I wonder how well it works, and how much latency (if any) it adds to the feed.

I'm also sad it isn't rolled out more generally, a very strange feature to lock behind a small-ish volume hardware product.
https://electronics.sony.com/spatial-reality-display/p/elfsr...
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F While Communicating with Stakeholders
There's precedent with crippled FP16 performance, so it would not be surprising to see such things in the future to attain market segmentation from consumer cards.
That’s fine for tech businesses with dedicated IT support, but what about consumers?
I think there are some restrictions on tab "navigation source". (Something about a fairly obscure JavaScript feature that links tabs opened via click navigation, if I recall correctly.)

Does this also happen when you type the Twitch URL in a new tab?
The recommender system you've always wanted
Eh, I gotta say that no matter the system, speculators are gonna speculate and power hungry idiots will do everything they can to control a currency. That's fine, and human, and expected. Just please try not to melt all the ice caps while ya'll have at it.
> Crypto folks come and go
Do they more than gamers? Complaints about miners buying all the graphics cards have been going on for years now
Don't all online payment systems use cryptography?
Literally every part of it.
> this project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web, and document the largest and most popular websites

You don't want to call it the map of the Web instead?
It's not a myth. These things get racked in stacks of GPUs in what may or may not be actually-cooled data centers. Undervolted or not, when you couple that with constant load you're stressing devices manufactured to consumer specs.

The excusemaking is pernicious.
the fact that I could use Premier for $20/month rather than the single time purchase of $800 or whatever it used to be

Or you can buy DaVinci Resolve for $295 and get a lifetime license. And they make a Linux version.
This is a super nice library, but I can't see using it in a professional context because of the toxic meme.
I'm not sure I'm following. If this is based on a flat panel display, there must be a lens array in front of it. There is no other way to achieve this effect without requiring the users to wear glasses. The lens array can be covered by a protective flat glass pane without issue.
I'd argue it's a bit dramatic to say I was "forced from an area" but I did move from the east coast to the Bay Area largely because pay disparity was much larger than the difference in cost of living. I saw that as an opportunity, not a punishment.

> A lot of it has to do with wage suppression

This is where I get a bit confused. Why would companies artificially push engineers to the areas where they command these disproportionately large salaries? Are you saying that they overpay engineers in general specifically to suppress wages of engineers that _are_ in Texas?
Pallelel property is unaffected by distance :-)
Tesla on 'autopilot' crashes into deputy's vehicle
Wow I forgot about Telepresence. I used it a decade ago at a Fortune 500 company. With all of the cameras and displays perfectly positions, everyone was life-sized on video, felt like you were sitting around a roundtable. Now I'm imagining that with higher resolution and 3D light field display, wow.
it would certainly sit comfortably in a black mirror episode, lol.
please don't get google glass'd
America Is Flunking Math
The news article makes it sound like causation has been determined beyond a doubt but the actual study abstract does not detail why the authors think this. Is it impossible to imagine that more brain “damage” leads to more drinking in some cases? Do people who are developing Alzheimer’s sometimes drink more to feel better?

Also not clear is the selection criteria. Are these people who were going to have an MRI and incidentally were offered a chance to participate in this study? In that case it could have biased the sample - there could be a large group of people drinking alcohol and being just fine but they wouldn’t be seen in this study for the very reason that they are doing fine and weren’t getting MRIs.

Certainly the presented hypothesis could be true but the article would be more convincing if it was more critical of its source material. Correlations are easy, they’re a dime a dozen. Proving causation is the real work.
Should the free movement of people outside their houses be curbed to combat child abuse/drug trafficking/burglary