skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to guess, I would guess these would often be "fierce nerds" who mellowed with age.

I think this "fierceness" is an expected sign of intellectual dominance of your peers at 15-20. At 25+, it's a sign that you've either never entered a pond with genuinely big fish, or you've never managed to recognize that big fish are swimming around you.

Of course, you could just be dominating big fish at 25+. It's logically possible. But the incident of "fierceness" is muuuuch higher than the incidence of that level of genius.
I have learned to demand a very high standard of evidence for conspiracy theories,

Not a conspiracy theory at all - but rather a very sensible inference based on how state actors behave in the modern age.

I am not even sure what you think Israel is hiding

Blurry images make it much harder to assess, and verify the extent of the "unintended" casualties and property damage the current IDF campaign is causing (the term is in quotes because that's the language they rather gallingly use, as if they expect you and I to take it face value).
Same here. I’m quite picky when it comes to sci-fi, a lot of it I don’t really like, but he nails a really unique sweet spot where sci-fi is just the framing device used for some beautiful stories. Might reread his books next actually!

Edit: I’d love any recommendations of other authors people think of when discussing his books. Doesn’t necessarily have to be the same style but more just that level of quality and uniqueness.
https://winterbloom.com/about
I think they're literally blind. It is biblical.
Yes. It's called asymmetric warfare. It's very cheap to attack. And it's very expensive/resource intense to defend.

Most probably "state actors" are taking advantage of this asymmetry to extort money and bind resources. It's a hidden "war" going on out there.
NO WAY.

It is impossible for me to explain how/why it works so well.
You can use Lightning (a Bitcoin technology) to send BTC which is extremely cheap in comparison. Talking fractions of a cent.
If you want to enact political change then the legal structure of the government is most definitely not a “detail at best.” Consider gun rights, for example. Due to the Second Amendment, every level of the US government is greatly limited in its ability to enact gun control. To change this requires not a mere majority vote in congress, nor even a supermajority in the senate, but a constitutional amendment which much clear both houses of congress AND be ratified by 3/4 of the states!

These details matter, and they are important specifically when talking about public policy matters and trying to advocate for change.

Back to my original point, there is nothing stopping any US state from adopting universal healthcare, but it’s not clear if the federal government even could if it wanted to (see Medicare expansion and how many states have chosen not to opt in!). Thus if you want to make comparisons to the “things that Europeans take for granted,” it is often more productive to look at what individual US states do and can do, rather than obsess over the federal government. Trivializing that is just a road to getting nothing done.
Author here. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.
This is like the cow talking about how they don't like mean other cows while Paul Graham was probably talking about the farmer.
Probably because it's just not their business. They don't need to confuse their objectives with bitcoin to get rich, they're doing exceptionally well without it
I haven't actually tried fasting. The longest I've gone without eating is something like 20 hours.

I should give fasting a try though, I believe in the research. My hesitation has been that I am pretty low BMI. I seem to struggle to keep weight on even if I'm eating a normal amount.
I remember when I started using YouTube, their recommendations were excellent. I could get completely lost in each next recommendation and they were nearly allr elated to the content I just watched (and was thus clearly in the mood for).

Nowadays it's hot garbage. I just checked. There's 7 videos in there it's been pushing on me for the better part of the year but I have no interest in. 4 videos I've already watched (and it KNOWS this because it shows the full red bar at the bottom), 3 videos I bailed out of because they were not interesting. How many that are related to the video I just watched? Zero.

The original algorithm was clearly and forcefully replaced by something that was advantageous to YouTube's metric but I'd wager detrimental to the majority of their users. Everything feels dumbed down now and it's clear video's are playing to this new kind of algorithm in attempts to cling to their audience.
Too little too late? I think mining has peaked with ETH POS shift weeks away. We will soon find out how much of Nvidia’s business was truly driven by crypto versus what they conveyed to investors in the past.
I mine on renewables and with 3000 series gpus. I didn’t want to do any of this, I ended up here because my energy retailer decided to tax me for exporting too much energy to the grid. So short of earthing the electricity, my solution was to burn it up in mining, and improve my solar roi.

The 3000 series gpus are the most efficient hashes/watt. So actually by disabling this, you are driving people towards less efficient/worse for the environment ASICS machines.

Yes I batteried my home, and use my solar on everything I can first... there is still excess... especially at peak.

Pretty sure this dismantled most of your argument.
I would suspect the reason is marginal electricity cost. Nvidia likely has to pay full marginal price on electricity whereas miners maybe geo located with cheaper electricity, or marginally free electricity (such as so called stranded energy or used in places where heat is already being created by electric heaters, but one could get marginally free computation done)
Is it not the case that having access to a machine capable of running either Minecraft or Linux in the early days of each (if not now) means you are (or were) fairly affluent?
The amount of buzzwords on the site made me think this was some kind of elaborate joke. I'm not yet convinced it isn't...
QUIC is UDP, and TCP does not use CCA in userspace.
> GPUs have been doing this forever though. This is exactly the same as some features being enabled on quadros that don’t exist on RTX/GTX/GT cards.

No, I think this is the first time a GPU has been heuristically trying to detect what you're doing and self-limiting in response. How is that equivalent to features just being literally off?

There's no special "mine-crypto" instruction in the CUDA ISA.

> there have been no false positives that I can see.

How can you see that? These aren't released yet and the GTX-3060 isn't really a popular card among serious gamers that would notice.
Oh sure, Shore's.

Also a bunch more.
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It would destroy their business?

They'd have short term massive gains but it wouldn't be sustainable.
My point is that if there's zero exposure to fraud then the purchase should go ahead regardless of whether the anti-fraud libraries load or provide a negative result.

So this means that users who expose the site to fraud must allow the anti-fraud libraries to track them, or switch to a bank that offers 3D-Secure so that liability is shifted to the bank and they no longer need to be tracked. Seems like a win-win situation.

> There is also card testers that test to see if the card is still valid.

Same scenario applies? If it's protected by 3D-Secure, who cares? The bank will end up paying the cost of it, not the merchant. If anything, this is a problem I'd love to have, as it means if I can identify those reliably I can keep pocketing money without even having to send out any actual goods.
>what incentive does a for profit company have to shift any gains from economies of scale/etc to consumers?

You'd have to have listen in to a Walmart upper management meeting to see why, but my guess is that all commerce is somewhat fungible. There's always a bit more growth to be eked by lowering prices or increasing value of products.

I'm not saying that this always happens, or that it isn't shared with increasing profits. Gigantism in box stores could be used in areas for monopoly pricing where they have wiped out smaller competitors (who themselves wiped out smaller competitors) but there are numerous cases where it hasn't happened. I'd say that fear of anti-trust action is only part of the reason.
Yes, which is why I only claimed that we do have care for people without income. re: states not opting in, I couldn’t agree more, hence my emphasis on State-level action being more important than federal when discussing US domestic policies.
This term is already defined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage

https://livingwage.mit.edu/
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox[0] is a great and easy to read paper to disabuse anyone of the idea of multiplying point estimates when you could convolve probability distributions instead.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C
> That means you are knowingly killing human shields.

That means that you decrease amount of your citizens that will end up dead.

> Military equipment that is primitive and is completely neutralized by the Iron Dome.

It's not. IDF and official Israelis obviously want everyone to believe that, but in reality, Iron Dome is not limitless, and can simply run out of ammunition, if Hamas launch sites are not counter-attacked. Which means a couple of thousand, or tens of thousands, of dead israelis in a few hours.
The parent poster does have a point; the Wikipedia entry for the author indicates that he identified politically as a Libertarian and later Republican: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Evers which is a likely bias.

We should be careful to draw conclusions only after reading the source material that the opinion piece is quoting from.
This is a deep topic worthy of an essay, the kind of essay pg might write! The concise reply is, when you catch yourself in dichotomous thinking, you should assume you have misunderstood or oversimplified.

Sometimes you have to go with your misunderstanding or oversimplification to make a decision or to make progress, but keep in mind you are doing so based on beliefs which are unlikely to correspond to reality.

It's striking that so many mental health difficulties are characterized by dichotomous thinking. [1]

Rationality itself can be profitably critiqued at the meta-level.[2] So, don't be an asshole, unless you need to be. Do you see the world as consisting of assholes and non-assholes? How does that feel? What are the advantages of that view? What are the disadvantages? Is considering that question worth your time?

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/she-comes-long-way-b...

[2] https://metarationality.com/introduction

EDIT: Fixed link, spacing
(crdb eng) I'm not sure what "document DB" means here, mind elaborating?
I've not used notion before and this is a great write up...

Having built my own private-ish collaborative editor/note/todo/sharing/pm tool back in 2012 (that uses indent level permissions) I don't see how you could have a non "block" implementation?

I also don't see how they are having so much performance difficulty moving up the inheritance tree at the client level?

Does anyone else who has worked on these kinds of problems take a different approach? This being HN and a space I develop in I am actively curious if any other architecture are in use generally?

Are there approaches outside of blocks for tools with this level of granularity?

Really cool of Notion to share these kinds of "inside ball" deep dives.
I interpreted this differently. My takeaway was that the abrasive ones constantly defend everything they do, even when it’s not necessary, and the gentle genius doesn’t feel the need to be defensive at every step.

It doesn’t have to mean that the gentle genius never defends their viewpoints, but highlights the key differences in how these personality types operate on a day-to-day basis, and the resulting impact on the team around them.
Actually that's what some companies in the ASIC supply chain have done when the first bitcoin ASICs came out (2014ish I think?). That's probably because of the kinds of people in those companies, and the kinds of markets those companies operate in, i.e. solely in the bitcoin mining market. Nvidia and AMD mainly sell their GPUs for various other use cases other than mining, and the mining uses are quite recent. Nvidia is also known for building different products for different market segments, and they do have dedicated GPUs made for mining. I.e. in 2018 they forbode machine learning uses in datacenters of their consumer hardware in their EULAs, to push people to their professional hardware instead. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge...
For more details on advantages of Ethereum over Bitcoin, and advantages other new blockchains have over Ethereum, please see my recent presentation:

https://capitalgram.com/posts/history-of-cryptocurrencies/
>Too little too late

Just on time for ETH to move away from PoW! It's almost like NVidia waited for ETH
For the same reason that many companies that happen by chance to have real estate as their most valuable asset don't wanna pivot to being real estate companies.
Fascinating. So not only is it feeding it an 8K / 30 (60?) FPS image, it's feeding it numerous incident angle variations and displaying all of them simultaneously?

Sounds like a monster data rate.
Can you imagine? They could do anything, they could create a corporate utopia.

I wonder if the corporate psychology is similar to human psychology. In which, far from being run by a green field thinker like you, they are short-term oriented, and mainly backwards-looking for the sake of emotional security--we already know best what works for us.
QUIC does run in user space, and also uses congestion controllers running inside the QUIC stack, in user space.

(I work on a QUIC implementation in Rust.)
> Do you really believe Nvidia is being an enforcer here to "take action against harmful behavior"?

Nvidia has deemed crypto mining harmful to their brand and product and have taken action against it, so yes I do believe that.

> It's just price discrimination

And?
It's advantageous to announce when you have a good working prototype so that when a competitor (e.g. Apple) announces something similar, the world is less impressed/amazed.
They are clearly marking the new models with a new suffix on the model number. As someone who has been trying for months to buy a 3080 and has zero interest in crypto, this is fantastic news... IFF it means I can actually purchase a card.

This doesn't make me angry, and I don't think it should make you angry either.
I think that BQP > P is not so important. Exponential advantage of known qalg vs known c_alg when the hardware is available is what's important.
Because they’re in the business of manufacturing and selling GPUs, not speculating on volatile crypto markets which could nosedive 90%+ in short order and drastically cut the profitability of mining.

If they suddenly changed strategy like this, their stock price would be hammered instantly and there would be a clamour to replace their CEOs and boards.
I've spent a decent amount of time and money to make this happen and it helps less than you would hope.

Partially there are just affordance issues of things like eye contact which are physically out of alignment unless you start using two way mirrors [1].

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/29/two-way-mirror-improves-vide...
No. There is no constitution of any nation which says you are owed the freedom to be guaranteed that a luxury good (like gaming graphics cards) will be available when you feel like buying it. Market scarcity of luxury goods has no infringement on anyone's freedom. Just like market availability of luxury cars or gold jewelry in no way infringes on anyone's freedom.
Minecraft wasn't an important technology. It's a game built with important technologies.
Doing digital zoom "right" involves some serious thought.

One issue is technical. The iPhone cannot capture a RAW photo with digital zoom enabled. It's restricted at an API level. The reasoning is that it wouldn't make sense to crop a RAW file, and there are privacy concerns around saving data in a photo that the user thought was cropped.

Another issue is that digital zooming is awful. You're typically looking at simple interpolation, whereas cropping the photo afterwards in any half-decent editor offers better algorithms. Very smart software can apply super-resolution.

Then there's added UI complexity. On hardware that supports optical zoom, you want to clearly surface to the user whether they're engaged digital zoom or optical. Many users are caught by surprise with how the first-party camera app quietly switches between the telephoto lens and cropping the wide-angle lens when it needs to focus on macro shots; the wide-angle lens has a closer minimum focus distance.

From talking to users, we found many folks use digital zoom as a focus aid. That's why MkII included a focus loupe, which solved that problem in a much more elegant way.

We do have some ideas on how to do digital zoom well. Stay tuned.
Thanks for the correction (and for wgpu!)

Was it a Mozilla-originated project that has been moved to gfx-rx, or has if always been separate?
William Gibson quote I think.

And yeah, insane prices at the start funds development for everyone else, I remember when the first 4K screens came out and they where exotic, now they are just normal.

Same thing happened with phones and hell computers, I was the first kid I knew with a computer back in the 80s and we where not wealthy, that think cost more than my dad made in a week, an actual IBM PC was unattainable til I was I was 10.

Now I have hilariously more powerful single board computers shoved in a drawer because I can’t find the time to do anything with them.
The 3060 has been out for a few months now, and it has the limiter. Re: your edit about noticing, I strongly disagree. Tech reviewers would LOVE to run the “limiter cripples Blender/Tensorflow/whatever” story, but that hasn’t happened. And in this market users are generally taking what they can get, so I’ve seen lots of people who would normally run 70/80/90s running 60s instead.
That's a very interesting hypothesis actually.
No matter if you think of what's happening here, NVidia is clearly not the bad guys in this story.
It's honestly pretty surprising to me to see how many people on here are supporting this move. That's not what I would expect, I would expect people on HN to object to this move on principle.

Maybe my prediction in where most HN commenters stand in principle on this issue is wrong, or just maybe, this is a rare example of a time when the principle (hardware should be free to run at their max capability, not deliberately hamstrung, etc. etc. - to me, this kind of ties in with the "software should be free" principle) conflicts with a more immediate desire to play the latest video games (lol).

Harder to take the principled approach when you've been waiting "like 11 whole months for the 3080 I mean seriously dude".
Those games are using a lot more of the gpu than just the compute functionality.
So what’s the point of restricting ransomware payments then? Only organizations that can’t hack it in the modern economy will be affected anyway.
Can't you delegate your ETH with other people you trust? Isn't that an arbitrary decision that seems likely to change (ETH is famous for making sure that people can run a full node on an older and underpowered laptop)?

Not sure how it changes the question I had anyway. The point I was responding to suggested that people might buy a bunch of ETH to influence the network. My question was about how that could be economically viable because it would take a very large investment to get any real influence would cost more than what they could get out of it (the value of the ETH they bought to influence the network would go to zero).
>> This is where you can get a loan for any amount (liquidity provided) as long as you repay the full loan amount in the same block.

> What is the point of that?

Leveraging arbitrage
Alternative to GraphQL long polling on an Express server for a large request?
Install these in neighborhood libraries, or as phone booths!
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It takes me about 5 seconds too. I plug in, I walk away. When I'm ready to drive, I unplug and get in. Not complicated, adds up to about 5 seconds. All the work is being done when I'm not around. In sum, since ditching gas, I have in aggregate spent much less time tending to my car's energy needs.
The e-Waste part is what should collectively anger us, but I'm glad you're able to buy your card.
The first proof-of-stake coin was PeerCoin from 2012. Also Algorand is not leaps ahead of the competiton. More in my presentation:

https://capitalgram.com/posts/history-of-cryptocurrencies/
How is this an ad, rather than someone just providing an anecdote that is relevant to the conversation?

OP surely is a bad advertiser if that is their company, considering they've been posting on hn for 4 years and this is the first time they've mentioned it. 2.25 years ago they said generally that whisky was an interest of theirs on a comment. That's it though.
Because BTC is down 30% in the last month?
Eye tracking is the core feature here--the rendered "hologram" is correct from every possible angle. The things you mention are probably closer to 2% of the final result.
> Why wouldn't nvidia and amd or any other card maker just keep the cards and mine all the cryptocurrency for themselves?

Bitcoin costs more to mine than the power bill you'll receive. This is why increasingly most malware happens by stealing power one way or another. And I don't think NVidia and AMD are in the stealing power business.
> Telling the difference requires you to be... smart.

...which is exactly my point of why your examples of "smart" fall short ;)
Twitter paid subscription name, price, and premium features leak
I once ran a web scraper on an hourly schedule with GitHub Action that wrote to a json file in my gh-pages branch and saved its results with sh "git commit --amend". Glad to see this workflow in a more integrated environment than my janky hack
Those are "lucid dreams". My experience is that lucid dreams do lead to you be tired, probably because we tends to wake up after lucid dreams, though we wake up momentarily in normal life too, we just don't remember it.

Maybe lucid dreaming overrides the benefits of sleep since the mind is actively engaged again.

It's all fascinating, and there are no real answers whatsoever.

Also, side questions:

1. Is your working memory pretty good? What about your IQ?
2. How vivid are these dreams and how logically-sequential are they? I.e. can you remember a clear chain of events from the dream?
You can do pooled staking with small additional risks:

https://capitalgram.com/posts/ethereum-2.0-staking-and-stake...
I am sure that the immersion of the experience is higher. My question (and perhaps that of GP) is: is this greater immersion actually beneficial to communication?

I think this is cool tech, and valuable. I'm just not sure that it offers a communication benefit over well-lit, well-miced, wired, low latency, 8K videoconferencing.

Maybe there's some 3D emotional perception face processing stuff that we have deep in our brains that can immensely benefit from this, but I'm skeptical. I think simply doing 4k or 8k low latency high quality videoconferencing might be a 90 or 95% solution without needing special cameras/displays.