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Regarding Maxwell and Navi: Actually, that's not true.

The micro-benchmark that suggested Maxwell (and later) was a tiled deferred gpu was actually measuring something else. Each GPC gets assigned different sceenspace areas, and concurrency rules between the areas is relaxed (unless explicitly required by shader atomics).

The result looks somewhat like tiled deferred rendering in that micro-benchmark. But it's still very much immediate mode.

A similar thing happened with Navi.

However, there are mobile GPUs (Qualcomm's Adreno) that dynamically switch between tiled deferred mode and immediate mode on a per renderpass basis, depending on what driver heuristics suggest will be faster.
Past related threads:

35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729930 - Aug 2019 (164 comments)

SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14550060 - June 2017 (202 comments)
The parent article already discusses that article, saying those GPUs don't use TBR in areas where the primitive count is too high or something:

> Another class of hybrid architecture is one that is often referred to as tile-based immediate-mode rendering. As dissected in this article[1], this hybrid architecture is used since NVIDIA’s Maxwell GPUs. Does that mean that this architecture is like a TBR one, or that it shares all benefits of both worlds? Well, not really…

What the article and the video fails to show is what happens when you increase the primitive count. Guillemot’s test application doesn’t support large primitive counts, but the effect is already visible if we crank up both the primitive and attribute count. After a certain threshold it can be noted that not all primitives are rasterized within a tile before the GPU starts rasterizing the next tile, thus we’re clearly not talking about a traditional TBR architecture.

[1] https://www.realworldtech.com/tile-based-rasterization-nvidi...
Not likely. When was the last downleg of NAND and DRAM? Commodity cycle works when there are a consistent under and over supply cycle. When enough consolidation happens you rarely see this happens anymore in any commodity market, tech or not. ( Downleg here refers to negative margin, a correction from insanely high market price isn't a down leg in my opinion )

Low cost Node have been in demand outstripping supply for years going all the way back to 2015/2016. Foundry are just very cautious because of high CAPEX and they often lack TAM data. What happens in these sort of crunch is you have lots of new customer coming in given you new confidence and perspective. And it also fix the GF's Chicken and Egg problem especially when they have Wafer supply agreement with AMD. Hence the expansion of Fabs. Not to mention building Fabs and actually getting up and running with Capacity is an entirely different thing. The current lead time for material and equipment are over a year.
Aren't those the same risks for anyone famous from a news reporter to mega pop star? This is just on a much lower level.

Are you against women using their looks and charm to get famous?
But there are very few people with that kind of wealth, because very few people have the innate drive to do what it takes to attain it. Most people don't have that drive. Most people just want a paycheck and a low-risk life.
It's not the same - that's buoyancy, not weightlessness. Gravity still exerts force on your body and internal organs, and you feel orientation, i.e. up and down. It's a very different feeling.
Of course, you shouldn't have people roam in the aisle if you want to accelerate faster. If you're seriously considering rail as an alternative to airtravel, and at 600km/h you are, then having people stow their luggage and sit down is not a serious issue.

For the sake of comparison - a Toyota Corolla will do 100km/h/6s. You don't need to fully stow your cargo, you just need not to have drinks on the table. Even standing you would be fine, though there is some danger you'd trip.

Beyond that, buses see accelerations on the order of ~0.2G often, and that's with people standing up, in an unpredictable fashion.
I'm curious about the small business loans. I'm from Europe and the animations suggests for a $9000 loan a total repayment of $10305. Let's assume you make $5000 in revenue per month and they use 10% as a repayment cut per transaction. That would yield a 20 month long repayment schedule. The "interest" would be roughly 7% annually. In today's world, isn't that greedy? In today's world, Warren Buffet can issue a 0% coupon bond[1]. I'm just perplexed. Especially since it's Square and not Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan.

According to the St Louis Fed, the average interest rate for Small Businesses was about 3.5 - 5% [2]. For me this sounds like an incredibly bad deal.

[1] https://cbonds.com/bonds/698053/

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EEBXSSNQ
Interesting. As other said, there were retro-rockets that fired. I guess I was just assuming the retro-rockets would be more pronounced - like the gentle landing that the rocket motors perform. Good to know that this wasn't as jarring as it looked.
This comment is the most helpful thing I've ever read about entanglement. Thank you!
Sorry, should have been more specific! More correctly, they are debating if it's just time to retire now and be grandparents full time rather than risk losing a lot money in the restaurant due to increased prices, then being forced to retire.

I assume "closing down the restaurant and retiring" means they will sell the restaurant (or at least the property), but I am not sure to be honest?
I think it's file manager in particular. When I need to do something muscular I open a DOS box and just do it at the command line. It feels plenty zippy though I haven't bothered to do any benchmarks; I have to confess I've never learned Powershell because it's so easy to get most things done with command.com.

Although Windows remains my favorite environment I share the annoyance at how MS really polishes some things while failing on basic functionality, when they definitely have the resources and skills to fix that. Every time my wifi or WAN hiccups I wonder why Windows still lacks decent network history/QOS tools out of the box.
I don't know if it exists anymore or not, but Selenium used to have a FAQ & there was a whole bullet-point declaring how bad/evil/wrong/horrific it would be if the Selenese test-recorder (selenium's companion gui tool) could generate something automateable.

That did not stop ~2008 me from writing a small script to automate playback of, iirc, the HTML table elements that encoded the data & ran it via SeleniumRC against a SeleniumGrid (sometimes we'd use all the laptop's in the office as a load test!!).

I added some variable interpolation into the commands, and QA department had a field day recording activities, & using that output to writing & composing steps & tests.

I'm still extremely salty at the weird dogmatic "gui tools are for human interaction!" anti-automation perspective selenium presented then. Today, there's an HtmlUnit WebDriver project that does just this, I believe. I quickly scanned the archived seleniumhq.org website & web.archive.org but haven't found this, hope I do again some day. It remains one of my earliest & most impressionable memories of dogmatism in software, of someone very loudly declaring that this thing needs to be over here & that one needs to be over there & never ever let them touch. Long story, pardon; this project here is definitely bringing back those memories though! Heck yes GUIs that can help script.
Useful heuristics. Mooted by coworker's incomprehension, poor craftsmanship, and beligerent disregard for received wisdom.

In other words, all HTTP APIs devolve into screen scrapping, which is actively thwarted by terrible libraries. So just give up any expectations and do whatever scores the most agile scrum kanban karma on your team.
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> I don't know if it's because I've seen SpaceX doing much more complicated missions

You know that NASA and other countries have been flying rockets and sending people and things to space before SpaceX, yes?
I think people misunderstood my point. I was telling that a deliberate sabotage on a railway can be many times more deadly, not an accident from "natural" causes.

Otherwise, yes, trains are almost as safe as air travel, if not even safer.
React will fail under a few possible conditions:

* Browser tech evolves to not need it (WebASM and similar tech becomes mainstream)

* Browsers and the open web fail in favor of some other cross-platform standard emerging

* Browsers and the open web fail because an existing platform (like MacOS/iOS) reach 70% or greater marketshare with lower costs of development than the web.

Right now, none of these seems feasible, so I believe React will endure. I can't see any of the other JS frameworks having a strong and compelling reason to take it down. The only risks are more of a fundamental change.
I live in france, and I recently went to some presentation by some "restauration job industry" school director, who tried to encourage us to apply. I was open to other jobs and I discovered that it was mostly about working in a restaurant after arriving at the presentation.

It's summer, france is a destination for tourism and there is a big shortage of workers. Post covid, people want to go out and have a good time.

I've talked several times with skilled and competent cooks in the industry I met, and apparently it's hell on earth. That industry has the most drug users: you work at times when others are having a good time. Competition is very high in france, restauration is a big big industry here, the culture of food is amazing and I'm pretty sure we're one of the best of the world.

In my view, preparing food for others is a form of slavery. It's one the most obvious form of social inequality. Of course people love to eat good food, sitting nicely in a cozy place in a nice terrace. Of course people are going to spend their money for this.

Except it's hard work, and there will always be a culture of "I pay, I decide, you work".

Honestly the more I eat at restaurants, the more I realize I'd be ready to eat slightly expensive frozen MRE and some picnic just to not make those poor people work like that. Plus there are many people out there who cook nice meals for their friends.

I love that part of the french culture, but honestly, clients will quickly realize eating at a restaurant is expensive for good reasons.
It's interesting to note that in the case of books and publishing, content creation (authorship/publishing) and metadata classification (libraries, largely) are two separate domains conducted by entirely separate entities.

The separation isn't total --- publishers will typically indicate the genre or category of a work, for example. But even here there's generally a divide between authorship and editorialiship / publishing.

A strength and weakenss of the blogs and other individual authored-and-published works is that there is no such divide, and much incentive to misrepresent, without internal checks.
CC0 and WTFPL are also copyright licenses. Works available under these licenses can be used with very few restrictions (basically, as few as permitted by law), but the works are still copyrighted.
What you're describing could be done with classical physics. Have one penny and two lockets. Place the penny blindly in one of the two lockets. Take one locket across the world. Opening it instantly lets you whether the other locket has contains the penny.

And the point of this description is this is not what's weird about quantum entanglement.

What's weird about quantum entanglement is you have two different measurement types that are non-orthogonal and they combine according to quantum logic rather than classical logic [1]. Having a particle in a state of this sort can't be explained by any analogy to discreet events occurring beforehand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic#Quantum_logic_as...

Edit: Whether this is "spooky action at a distance" is in the eye of the beholder. One thing is isn't able to be is fully reducible to actions happening on something like a "classical time line" but another thing is isn't to able to do is transmit information.
They're just going to close... without risk of losing money by trying to raise prices and seeing what happens.
This is true, but I don't understand why Explorer has been plagued with performance issues (and some of those intermittent; I presume based on network status) since forever.

I'm actually a big fan of Windows on the desktop, and as long as I avoid Explorer, I have no issues at all with file system performance while I'm developing, working from the command line, VS Code and Rider, and working with containers and WSL - all works great. But Explorer is such a central component of Windows that it affects pretty all users. I genuinely don't understand how it can be so rubbish ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1000 passengers, really? Just imagine the possible loss of life if something goes wrong. We are still counting 100 successful launches in a row as an unprecedented success - whereas in commercial airplane flights airlines with less than 1 incident per 5000000 flights are considered 'poor safety record'.
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This doesn't have anything to do with filesystems or kernels.

The x86 assembly uses fixed width immediates. CPU registers are a fixed width. For any code to compile and run, it needs to make decisions about how large stack frames need to be, and how much heap memory to allocate.

This was the parent's point about abstractions. You can make a library that pretends to be a variable sized integer, but to implement such a library you need to make a decision about how much space to allocate and the width of variables in order to compile. There is no getting away from how the hardware works.
What exactly about FTP has changed that invalidates the FTP browser code that's been in Firefox for 20+ years?

People bitched when Firefox added a stupid non-standard thing, yes. Now, the few who still use Firefox, will bitch because they have arbitrarily removed a standard thing.
It's shorthand. Rawls is certainly compatible with whatever moral philosophy is prevalent throughout American media/legal discourse.

Edit: The reason I chose Rawls is because no one will agree on what moral framework modern society operates under but Rawls is compatible with most such proposals.

Edit 2: I am interested in what you would propose as an alternative, however.
There will be no debate. This is just another commons, and we all know what happens to the commons when private industry is given a free pass to exploit them. It'll be just another tragedy.
> (and let's be real: you don't)

OMG! Look, everyone: a telepath! ESP IS REAL!
Firefox will just prompt you for an application to use for `ftp` URLs.
B doesn't have these issues because it only has one integer size, take that C.
Do you guys doubt that it is right? What kind of information would you require to show you that it is true?

I'm one of the lucky ones who tends to work on safety critical "complex cyber-physical systems". Is that maybe the difference?

There is the case where a developer runs unit tests before a commit. Some of the tests are unhappy. Developer fixes it and commits it up. Maybe hours spent?

Then there is the case where something goes funky in the real-world all-up integrated system at the test range. Even in the best case tens of people waste a day. If we are unlucky it is a hard one and a small army of the most senior developers with the best operators and hardware people are hunting the bug for weeks. I fear to even sum op the wasted cumulative work days.

I lived through multiple of these at different companies on different projects. (Both the first kind and the second kind.)

Is the question if this is true? Or maybe the question is if this is true for your area of the industry too?

Obviously I won't be able to provide sources for the ones I worked on. I bet no company really would want to release the hard data on these things. So let's look at some well-publicised problem caught in production: The Boeing 737 MAX MCAS issue. 346 deaths, 1 year, 8 months and 5 days grounding and the estimated direct costs are US$20 billion.

Obviously this is all super anecdotal. I just want to understand what part of the question/problem you have doubts about.
Thanks for splitting the gap in an illuminating way.

My experience with "chains of synchronicity" is they quickly become obsessive and drained of subconscious lifeblood. For me it's word games, chains of acronyms and anagrams, reading meaning into licence plates. I noticed the same tendency in Scott Alexander (of the late SSC)'s fiction, where he plays with words in an almost numerological way.

I can see how it would be fun as an activity, but the view from the tic/compulsion side of the line is less pleasant.
Very cool! I've been using TMSU for this purpose for a while, but I'll have to check out supertag :)
Agree. My consumption of restaurant food basically stopped in March 2020. I have eaten out or gotten take out maybe once a month since then. Pre-covid I was eating at least one meal from a restaurant almost daily.
>I have never seen that. 20 years in the game.

I have seen that a bit too many times, it's pretty terrible. People debug and print HashMap contents, and complain the thing is broken... as get(Object) just returns null, finding an empty bucket.

I guess, you have been a bit more lucky than I was. Definitely seen too many mutable keys.
All work relationships of employement fit into a relationship of subordination. Actually, where I live here they are legally recognized in the framework of a relationship of subordination. They're fundamentally a relationship where the worker is subservient to the employer.

There are exceptions, yes. But they are the exceptions that proves the rule.

Of course if you work for yourself or if you work as the owner of a company then you're not oppressing yourself, but that's not what people mean when they say "work under capitalism".

All in all I think it is a fine starting point for the argument they made, and it can be "repaired" even if you precise a lot more.
Please don't take HN threads into tedious flamewar.

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More people, more traffic through the stations. That sort of speed has to increase daily capacity/throughput. If that capacity is used, they will do OK.
I found his description of a Panic Attack well documented.

I have never convulsed though. My panic attacks were very brief compared to the authors.

"The next four hours were a hellscape of terror, panic and paranoia. There were almost no thoughts, only my body begging to escape my skin, convulsing like a fish fighting for life. The fear was a bottomless trench."

The last line hit home with me.

I've only had one bad Panic Attack. What I didn't realize is how it would affect my anxiety levels in the following years.

I'm on a long half life benzodiazepine, and a drug they give to opioid addicts, but the anxiety is still there.

I have noticed my anxiety levels impiroved a bit with age.
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Even in the US the government needs to buy/take land from every individual in the way.
In my experience that maybe wouldn’t be a problem but they try to get it for a ridiculously low amount, so then people (understandably) fight. That leads to delays and more costs until that’s finally settled.
When the county replaced a road that ran next to my parent’s property, they wanted to move it up, taking half of their 60 acres. They did this because they wanted to expand the county park (for RVers) that’s across the road.

They offered $500 an acre. That land is easily worth $10,000 an acre, and that would have also reduced the value of the rest of their land and house. Their house is on a hill and the view is wonderful, and the county also tried to put a water tower up right in front of their house.

Long story short after a long fight a man with some pull got involved on my parents behalf, and the county ended up with some extra land (sold at a reasonable price) and the water tower was put behind a woods (from their perspective) instead, all of a few hundred feet away. It was years of stress for my parents.
In the midst of all of the "You're just doing Buddhism wrong!" comments, I would like to point out the PLOS One paper mentioned in the article, "The varieties of contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists" (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...).

"In one of the only prospective studies to use qualitative methods to deliberately ask about adverse effects, Shapiro (1992) [67] found that 63% of meditators on an intensive Vipassana retreat reported at least one adverse effect, with 7.4% reporting effects negative enough to stop meditating, and one individual hospitalized for psychosis."

It appears that mindfulness-based meditation is being prescribed or promoted with no regard to the side-effects.
I don't believe that this is accurate.
to be honest I can't bring to mimd any code that changes a value without recalling put(), code that does that would smell so bad you would spot it by the @author
> rarely a day goes by that I don't question how Microsoft manages to get anyone to buy that steaming pile they call an operating system.

Haha. Maybe because it works? I do miss XP though. It felt like the only OS that can work as well on a PC and a Tank.
Everyone should be paid well, which imo means healthcare, retirement, and not crazy hours to pay for room and board. Utopia right?
In a word yes.....

However, you don't account for credit risk whereas the st louis fed rates are based on existing bank small business loans which are very conservative.

Presumably the expected defaults on Squares product would be very very high.....
That's why I was asking!

What would the difference in sensation be for one who is submerged on earth, versus one who is encapsulated in a floating sphere of water...
There's definitely a group of people that bemoans the death of Gopher: they've tried to resurrect it and even are reinventing it as Gemini. They do use TLS in there at least :)
When 16 bit computers went to 32 bit, people probably thought that one wouldn't ever need 64 bit computers either. That being said, by the time 128 bit run out we have probably boiled earths oceans :).

You could think of checked memory models where half of the 256 bit address is a 128 bit random key needed to access some allocation, or maybe even a decryption key. Similar things are done with the extra space of x64 as well.

Also, 128 bit numbers are still quite uncommon in Rust. Easy conversion of usize to them wouldn't be that useful if conversions of the other number types don't work.
Yeah, IMO there’s certain tech that HN, in aggregate, likes a lot, and readily upvotes positive articles about - SQLite is in that category, along with Postgres, CockroachDB, Go, Rust, etc.

There’s also certain tech HN, in aggregate, strongly dislikes, and readily upvotes negative articles - Mongo, anything “modern JS ecosystem”, systemd, etc.
7% is a low interest rate for an unsecured small business loan.

I'm not 100% sure what the FRED chart you cited means by "Effective Loan Rate for Small Business Administration" but those are most likely collateralized.
You are right, by default 1 billion bytes per row or blob. Can be raised up to 2GB with compilation parameter[0].
Storing video streams may be not a good idea, but e.g. photos, thumbnails or some JSON documents may be absolutely fine.

[0] https://sqlite.org/limits.html
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