skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems this is an HPC product, but many HPC apps are memory bound.

The point of a supercomputer is to throw so much compute at a problem, that everything else is the bottleneck.

If an HPC app is memory-bound, then the GPU / Supercomputer was successful at its job. So many HPC apps are memory bound because... well... turns out our machines are actually quite good.

In any case, MI200 has 1.6x the bandwidth as the A100. So if you have a massively-parallel use-case that is memory bound, the MI200 line should have an advantage.

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The main issue IMO, is that the MI200's 1.6x bandwidth is really 80% bandwidth applied over two die, connected with a incredible amount of "infinity fabric" links to share the data. I have to imagine that the A100's larger design wins in some cases over the MI200's chiplet design.
I have shifted from dual booting to fully windows + wsl (Ubuntu). The new GPU passthrough and GUI app support in Win 11 WSL is particularly useful as you can run full fledged dev tools like Intellij natively in Linux vs the WSL Remote trick VSCode uses while still having all the device driver polish and hardware/software compatibility of Windows.
“To most people who are even moderately experienced with entheogens, concepts such as awe, sacredness, eternity, grace, agape, transcendence, transfiguration, dark night of the soul, born-again, heaven and hell are more than theological ideas; they are experiences.” - Thomas Roberts

This phrase is quoted in "Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences" by William A. Richards (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28121728-sacred-knowledg...), yet I find it the most suitable summary of this overview of scientific research on psychedelics and religion.

We hear about mystical visions from LSD ("acid"), psilocybin ("shrooms"), and DMT from many "spiritual but not religious" people and self-proclaimed shamans.
But how does it relate to vision by ordinary people (ones who never tired, and wouldn't try if it weren't for legal, scientific research)?
And how does it relate to prayer, mediation, and mystical visions by Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and Hinduists? How do monks and priests compare their psychedelic experience with their regular practice? Do they all turn to Zen Buddhism, or entrench in their religious background?

Regardless if you are deeply religious, or a non-spiritual atheist, I believe you will reconsider a few things after reading this book.
My experience is like this too. Most spirituality is kind of cornball seeking and trying too hard and missing the point to me, but I sure do find myself a lot more interested in astrophysics lately after certain experiences... Origin of life research too.
The OS probably doesn’t disallow any such thing, but several apps have found workarounds such as briefly setting the screen dark when it detects a screenshot, or various other forms of trickery.

The result is that the screenshot still gets taken (they have no way of disabling that), but the photo is unusable.
I really like the little diagram showing the states and how it is linked to the source code.
"Well the problem suggested by other research is that when vaccinated people are infected with a functionally different strain they don’t appear to create new antibodies."

Do you refer to the mRNA vaccinations only, or vector vaccine, too?
How about the inactivated type vaccines? Simple logic says, you would be better off with those?
Twitter is a cesspool, with lush islands of information crisscrossed with rivers of sewage.
> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information".

Where does it say the information was false in that sentence? The newspeak worked.

and to go from "artificially" to bots and fake accounts... OK, maybe. But how do you know? Not because they told you in that sentence, that's for sure.
History shows that this stuff usually gets more infectious but less fatal, but there are examples of it working otherwise. The early 20th century "Spanish Flu" being one example where it got considerably more fatal (esp. for younger people).
Isn't the reason a vaccinated person's immune system might not specialize to wild covid as much during infection as an unvaccinated person's that the disease in the former is shorter lived? Like, the way the never-vaccinated person would get slightly lower risk in the future is by taking a much larger risk now. You're still way better off with the vaccine.
> easier to buy from the producer’s website and pay shipping

You shouldn't even have to do that and pay shipping. For the last 5 years at least I've had luck going to a more trusted vendor like Best Buy or Target which have comparable free shipping options. And a bonus is that I can go to the store and pick up the item same day if I want. Also Best Buy price matches Amazon, though it's rarely necessary because they all converge on the same prices now anyway.
Will be interesting to see how much compile times suffer once rust starts being used more heavily in the kernel.

In my gentoo days I remember the compile time for firefox suddenly going up from 20 minutes to several hours which left a sour taste in my mouth with regards to rust.

Has there been much improvement in compile times in the past ~2 years?
I recently went on the journey of creating my token for my utility app. Through it all, I learned a lot about the mechanics of creating and deploying tokens.

Here's some insights on what I learned, and some recommended approaches depending on who you are / what you're trying to achieve.

Didn't get a chance to get into some of the more nuanced points, such as setting price, setting presale price etc, though happy to elaborate if people are interested. Setting tokenomics was one area where I really struggled to find any good information.
>> Good article, but note that if the hardware supports the division instruction, will be much faster than the described workarounds.

There are systems where numbers going into a calculation are similar to the previous iteration. Physics engines, or real-time measurement systems come to mind. In those cases it is often fastest to use a number from a previous time-step and one or two iterations of an algorithm like this while also being very precise.

Another classic is computing 1/sqrt(x) for normalizing a vector (even ignoring that silly floating point trick). I've also used similar methods for calculating sqrt(x) quickly based on the (valid in my case) assumption that my x value didn't change too much from the previous one.
W11 is just brilliant. Nothing can go wrong with it.

Why, just yesterday, my wife’s Windows 11 laptop automatically upgraded and along with the OS update decided to update the BIOS of the laptop as well! Which meant a sudden shutdown with several seconds of a blank screen at which point she was very keen on hard restarting and potentially bricking her laptop.

With brilliant decisions like these made for you how can you ever go wrong with Windows.
First they came for the socialists ...

Edit: To they guy that flagged my post. I am alluding a well-known "1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller" [1]. Educate yourself.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Note that SRP is an older protocol, and things have moved on from there. See various PAKE algorithms:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agr...
You can turn on showdead. It's typically just conspiracy-laden fearmongering.
Wow this is so awesome!

How/where does the data get saved for later? I'm guessing from the example, you don't need a database? E.g. I can just save the data to a document database, and next time someone works on it, just sync with the database? Or do I not need it at all because it's stored on the browser? And how would the information be associated with accounts, if someone wanted that feature?

Also curious how/where the demo site is deployed (guessing Vercel doesn't work since they don't seem to support websockets? I see that Hocuspocus is mentioned — is that required as a backend to make it all work?

Sorry I'm new to all of this and it sounds like magic, but I'd LOVE to learn how to implement this; especially on something like Vercel, if possible
Whatever happened to having chips that didn't have all this secretive scummy nonsense behind it? I feel like we should just roll back to the 68k era at this point.
I think HN has hit a new low, people are swallowing press releases and acting like they're unquestionable. Go ahead, try to question anything in the PR in this HN thread.
All the puppets will wisely nod their heads. And repeat whatever their facetwitter tells them. And inject whatever the priest tells them to inject. And wear the holy facecover. And think only good thoughts.
abuse@sendgrid.com is proactive if you forward the whole email inline.
We're already at 70% or above for all the age groups that matter

https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccination-and-C...
Cloudflare acquires Zaraz to enable cloud loading of third-party tools
All of that plus "What kills people from COVID now?" To which the answer is "Lack of access to ICU-capable health facilities."

And what causes lack of access? Total number of people hospitalized. And how does that number grow? Exponentially.

So every public health department in the world is optimizing for "How do we prevent our limited number of ICU-capable health facilities from being overwhelmed."

And that comes down to predicting the future hospitalization rate, which can be predicted by the current case count as you said.
It's perfectly fine

one column for a timestamp and one column to store the json

You then build materialized views pulling out whatever json fields you need.
This is why we need tags for conversations. Yours would get a <sarcasm> tag, maybe.
Focus on case numbers by means of PCR tests is problematic because a PCR test only measures virus RNA, not the cause of sickness or contagiousness.

If a thousand healthy people come in contact with the virus it is possible they all will have a positive PCR test while not being contagious at the same time.
Saying they're free is certainly misleading.
Hospitals are not designed to be empty, though. So you can’t just point to 80% full ICU beds and say a hospital is overwhelmed. Is there any data showing ICU beds filled above carrying capacity? Or number of patients transferred to a different hospital due to bed shortage?
This is clearly big light trying to manipulate us!
I don't think the non-materialist argument is that the 'brain is not just chemistry'.
Such a cool idea. I wish i heard zaraz before…
Also, the OS shouldn't tell the foreground app when a screenshot is being taken.
Being digital doesn't necessarily improve decision make. All the necessary data was there. RKI the German equivalent to the CDC in the US predicted the current wave rather accurately in summer, but politicians ignored it, because they wanted to win the election.
PCs have unique advantages, they enable things like Napster, Torrents, in-premise storage, and all kinds of autonomous servers that could never work with mobile computers and the cloud.
This is an especially big problem for items that are differentiated on quality of materials/coatings/construction/etc. My go-to example is always lens filters: https://www.the-digital-picture.com/News/News-Post.aspx?News...

It's hard to fake a believable iPhone. It's easy to fake a threaded cylinder with a round piece of glass in the middle that can fool the uninitiated.
If Twitter say exactly what brought the ban, next time the scammers will know exactly what to avoid.
Discussion on HN of the Moderna vaccine released to GitHub.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628233

Moderna targets one specific feature of one variant of the virus. If the virus evolves to minimize this structural feature, then this mitigation will fail.
And that's why my wife misses me for 3 weeks every year... I'm hunting morels.
Why would you say this? The US does not require consent to cookies, but we still see it on almost every website. Is this because webmasters are too lazy to prompt it only based on region?
Since we're talking about two different points in time that are nearly a decade apart, lets be clear about the context here. spiped didn't exist when that article was written (or if it did, it certainly wasn't mature). Back then fail2ban was a pretty good recommendation for the domain in question. Which was my point.

If we shift the focus to 2021 then I'm more inclined to agree with you that it's less important. However I still disagree that it is "bad" advise and think you're overstating the reasons why it should be considered "bad advise". I'm not going to discount the problems you raise but I believe them to be less significant than the benefits fail2ban brings. To be clear, I do also agree that the benefits it brings are also small, however the risks are smaller.

The problem with the discussion here is you're focusing just on SSH. There are clearly a number of ways one can protect SSH without fail2ban. Much better ways in fact. But fail2ban isn't an SSH firewall, it's a log watch. If you have a machine exposed on the internet with no other firewalls between the internet and your server (eg no AWS security groups, router firewalls, etc) or even if you do have other firewalls in place but have several services running off the same host, fail2ban can protect you against some of the more casual directed attacks. eg you can set it up as a WAF and have all services blocked if your Apache/nginx logs detect suspicious activities.

Also your point about botnets are true but the point of security is to slow down attacks in the hope of preventing them. There isn't a silver bullet, only layering hurdles. fail2ban does slow down the smaller scale bot net attacks.

Let's also remember that there is a fair amount of bots out there that aren't part of botnets but rather just scripts run by opportunists. fail2ban can cut down on that annoyance as well.

Going back to your point about auditing, most independent hosts wouldn't even think to run auditing. The fact you do only demonstrates your enterprise background. And I'm not even convinced your example even adds any value since if nftables.conf is on the same host as iptables then it's not unreasonable to assume any successful penetration that has rewritten your iptables rules might also rewrite your nftables.conf too. In fact the first thing they'd do would be to check what agents are running for auditing and configuration management; and then kill them. I also think you're overstating the difficulty of working around dynamic deny lists -- it wouldn't take a complex script to filter out the rules added by fail2ban and frankly the rules you'd be more interested in auditing would be the allow rules anyway.

That all said, I don't disagree with your point about fail2ban (in 2021) being cargo-cult. I do disagree with your point that it is bad and your reasons for why it is bad. But I do agree that it's benefits are largely marginal in most cases.
Or rather if those 3 days turned into death.

I'd rather take boosters every year than risk a horrible death.
Are they doing it to get a bigger cut of miners' funds? Or to try to find a way to keep the pipeline for designing, building, and coding for gaming GPUs flowing?
I totally agree with that assessment. What I am weighing, though, is that I would not be eligible for any potential omicron-specific booster for several months if I get a booster now. It's a risk/reward calculation.
Thanks, yes, passphrase is the correct word. :)
Even in those days we had more power than we do today. You had to use proprietary software but that software still worked for you and did your bidding. The computer ran the software you told it to run without complaint and it didn't matter that some "rights holders" were losing money or whatever.

At some point all of this changed... Software now works for the corporations and only allow us to do what they designed for us. If they don't like something, you just won't be able to do it anymore. You can't even program the computers anymore, that's now a privilege increasingly reserved only for "approved", "licensed" individuals.

Typing out a document? I wouldn't be surprised if the office suites of the future started automatically checking your work against some "rights holders" corpus that you're not supposed to copy and then preventing saving or printing until you fix it.
I've been sent a random junky product (in its box: I knew I hadn't ordered the thing) from Amazon as an exploit to use an older Amazon account I'd had, to produce a verified five star review.

It was the #1 rated product in its category, and that's when I stopped trusting anything about Amazon. I don't remember if it was also 'Amazon's Choice': seems to ring a bell, it may well have been: showing not that Amazon was intentionally pushing garbage, but that it was purely algorithmic. I don't think it's malice as much as wilful ignorance.
Spot on - this annoys me so much.

So much, from quantum til cosmos, so much in life is not boolen / black or white.

"Oh, someone got sick though he was vaccinated, vaccinations don't work"
"Oh, someone got sick, and didn't die, it must not be serious"
"Oh, its is not an exponential curve, it is sigmodial... "
"Oh but now 50% on the ICUs are still vaccinated??"
"Oh, but vaccinated, transmission is still possible?!"

So many strawman and itself maybe right statements, but wrong conclusions drawn.

I would hope we could educate ourselves better, it is not just booleans, it is also not just relative percentages, it is never simple.

It is also always about absolute numbers, it is also about probability theory, it is even more about also conditional probability (that seems so counterintuitive to many) .. etc. etc.

But people stick to argue with single observations or boolean statements as the gound truth so many places :( It is like children argueing "Yes it is" "No it isnt".

To come back to what you said: Yes after all we know right now: The probability of transmission is reduced on multiple levels: your virus load is smaller, your infectious time is shorter, maybe more
Is Rust truly the first good candidate for Linux's second language? Why didn't older languages get this far?
This will end the moment Linus has to review a giant kernel patch and realizes he has no idea what he is reading.

As awful as C is, there is real value in keeping kernel development limited to one language. If people really want a Rust kernel, try Redox
This reminded me of the video on DRM called C.R.A.P.(Content Restriction Annulment Protection) by David Berlind of ZDNET:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww65z8HuIJ8
Yep, it is the the typical slope for earth moving, Italy here, thousands of km of roads are made with this slope, exceptionally it is lowered up to 4:1, a reference:

https://www.manualihoepli.it/media/doc/pr141.pdf

What I mean by 3:2 (base divided by height) is often referred to as 2/3 (height divided by base) and is roughly the "natural" angle of repose of - say - gravel.
Double down on your strongest skill (sounds like Python) brush up on some of the changes (e.g. Python 3isms) and find a role where you can use it, all the new shiny stuff can come later.
Insofar that it is a bunch of driver "leaves" for the forseable future, it should more embarrassing parallel.
C.R.A.P. (Content Restriction Annulment Protection)
It's only Linux-next.

"This does not mean we will make it into mainline, of course, but it is a nice step to make things as smooth as possible."

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-Hit...
My question with this kind of infraction is how do they connect the user to the fake accounts and bots? Can I take down accounts I don't like buy paying a few bucks to a blatant bot farm?
Yep-- Colorado has, on average, lower degrees of poverty and higher levels of education than the national averages. Factors that research indicates are well correlated with obesity. These are more likely factors in their low obesity rates than the direct metabolic impact of local climate.

It local climate has an impact, its somewhat temperate nature probably plays a large part: It has a fair amount of sunshine but doesn't reach the peak temperatures of other high-sunshine states, which probably contributes to the local culture of outdoor activity, and outdoor activities are going to burn more calories.
Well rather than reading anonymous accounts who aggregate what real journalists are reporting from the courtroom while interspersing random conspiracy theories, it seemed useful to just link to the real journalists directly.

An extra benefit is that since the journalists are reputable, their accounts are unlikely to be deleted or suspended.
Fully agree with the UI suggestion of being able to input exact numbers and furthermore: symbolic math expressions. I would personally use expressions even more often than exact numbers, and expressions would as a byproduct allow a true 1/3 rather than a rounded 33.33%. I was agreeing with this idea above, did it seem like I was arguing? Sorry about that.

The UI inputs are a somewhat separate topic from how much resolution is needed for transparency. I think a thorough investigation of necessary transparency resolution would be really interesting, something along the same lines as how perceptual color spaces have been developed, by examining things like the “just noticeable difference” in transparency values and mapping that across the space of all possible color mixtures and transparency values to get an understanding of how stretchy the space is.
> use a lending aggregator that is constantly polling many lending sources and moves my money to the best source of yield regularly

If you live somewhere where cryptocurrency gains are taxed as income, how do you handle the reporting of this at tax time? It seems like it would be tedious to keep track of every transaction across multiple defi platforms.
During a psychedelic trip, one might wonder "if I had been like this all my life, I would consider this to be reality, not what I'm used too". It fundamentally shows you that what you consider reality might be very, very, very wrong. So how can I trust my own senses and perceptions if they can be so powerfully modified by such a simple molecule? What if the actual reality is what you experience during a trip, and what we consider reality is some kind of trip due to the lack of a molecule that allows you to fully experience reality [...]?

At first glance this might sound like a reasonable thought but I have never been convinced by this idea. The mistake is to think about you in isolation. You alone might be unable to tell whether reality is like your normal perception or like your perception under the influence of psychedelics, but you are not alone, you can compare what different people perceive. You will probably find that normal perception mostly agrees while perception under the influence of psychedelics varies. Why would that be if psychedelics allow you to perceive true reality?

And you do not have to stop there, maybe all humans have the same kind of distortions in their perception of reality anchored deeply in our DNA. But we do not have to rely on human perception, we have invented devices to measure and quantify about everything we know of. You can just point a camera at a wall and figure out if it solid white or if it is covered in moving color-changing fractal patterns.

Sure, it might be possible that our perception is warpend in such a strange way that even devices we build would be unable to make this difference noticeable, but that seems really unlikely to me. So for all the agreement we have between our perception and what our measuring devices report, I would say our perception of reality is pretty accurate, at least within the limits of the capabilities of our senses.