skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was an attempt to decrease demand for the cards, thereby reducing price.

The simplest market solution to high demand and inadequate supply would be to raise the price of the cards. This would maximize short-term profits but Nvidia felt it was not the right strategic move. Why not? Here are some guesses:

- pricing gamers out of the GPU market would damage Nvidia's historical market - video games

- pricing AI users out of the GPU market would damage an exciting new market Nvidia is working very hard to cultivate

- tying a large fraction of your business to cryptocurrency is risky given the volatility of that market

I think Nvidia sees gaming and AI as viable long-term markets and feels very invested in maintaining the health of those markets and Nvidia's participation in them. They are much less interested in cryptocurrency mining customers because they don't see a long-term future for themselves there. Nvidia is willing to take a short-term hit to profits to get more of their products into the hands of gamers and AI researchers.

However Nvidia has not completely forsaken short-term profitability. They have substantially raised the price of GPUs and they are making considerable amounts of money selling GPUs to miners. They are trying to take a middle path and balance competing interests.
I too have very basic needs. It's just, iirc, there was some baseline feature that they overengineered in a way that was frustrating (to me).

I can't put my finger on it; this is the best I can remember.

So, yeah, Thanks for the recommendation! I'll give it a try asap, maybe this weekend ;)
My wife is in a similar position here in Oregon. Two of her direct reports are Ukrainian, and one just took a leave of absence that wasn't explicitly "I'm off to defend my homeland," but it wasn't explicitly not that, either.
Thanks, those are great tips and I've just implemented some of those.

Thanks again, this is super helpful!
Have had now 3 kids thru Montessori and another starting next year. 2 of them did in New Zealand and younger 2 in HongKong. The kids have all excelled, want to rush to school every day, come home smiling. Can’t say anything like this of older kids experience of public or private( $$$) school system in either place.

My own experience is that Montessori puts the kids years ahead of age group peers and the learning benefits last into adulthood. My eldest earned a PhD in spite of learning challenges and the second eldest senior manager in a Govt department. #3 taught herself a 3rd language at age of 3. To many things to attribute just to home life and DNA.

Not familiar with other systems mentioned but I do see any environment where kids are respected and observed carefully seem to get similar and lasting results from their education.
We need some examples, when I arrived on the landing page thats the first thing I looked for and could only find a create button and promptly left.
I just wish the new Dooms didn't have quite so much platforming.
I don't get that logic: "We decided to help mining and gaming community", while in reality removing that LHR feature would only help Ethereum miners.
I just realized the obvious - I can DDG the frequency and see if it's listed.

https://shortwaveschedule.com/index.php?freq=15735 says "Yerevan-Gavar", so Armenia. You were right.

No other currently scheduled transmissions.

http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20191120021502... says they have been a "Persian IRAN INTERNATIONAL TV audio relay".
It is also unprecedented to occupy the capital and block international trade for three weeks, while making demands that couldn't be met (such as asking the federal government to override provincial restrictions). Over conspiracy theories about dead baby tissue and "graphene oxide" in vaccines. 2/3 of Canadians agreed with the use of this measure.

The restrictions in place were lawful and in keeping with the charter. Canada is a rule of law jurisdiction and judicial avenues existed for the resolution of these grievances. As did normal protests. I welcome normal protests, and I welcome the truckers to return to Ottawa and picket - without their trucks. Their goal though was to overturn the results of the last election - of a minority government they only have to wait an average of less than a year to see fall on its own.

I didn't vote for Trudeau last time, I won't vote for him next time, and I completely agree with his use.

> My point wasn't to attempt a take down or to win an argument, it was mostly to drive home the point that it's all maybe deeper than just russian trolls after all ;)

It might be, but it could also be normal disagreements that are having a wedge placed in them by foreign adversaries.

Or it could be completely unrelated. I am very open to that.
Mine was maxed out with 8x 1M simms. Didn't hear about a 32 M mod until just recently.
I needed this encouragement, so thank you for taking the time to write it.
Would seem to be a rather misinformed comment even to a crypto-layperson.

I’m surprised we don’t have a chorus of cyptofiles informing you that crypto emits less greenhouse gases than the traditional banking system, and there are coins/tokens that don’t require melting chips to establish proof of work.

I can’t talk to the use of crypto currencies for crime, but I would be surprised if the total volume of transactions were greater than that of traditional currencies (ie cash).
Finland has stronger employment protections than the US, so it seems unlikely this kind of "weeding out" (at least in the way its advocates usually mean it) is what they're doing better.
Cryptocurrencies are pretty green besides bitcoin and ethereum
Was OS 7.
You mean PoW right?
Are you suggesting that it would be a good thing if Russia used cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions?
A better solution would be for AMD to invest in bringing their ML stacks up to date to work with PyTorch and such.
You mean meta
I didn't say it was a good plan. It's just a plan.
It’s one of those things that i think you need to experience to understand. I had it for about four months and I couldn’t get used to it, at all. It’s not just ‘there’, it messes with how you hear and is a constant active intrusion into your peace of mind.
Practice with a rope. Part of learning to lead climb is learning to fall and trust your rope and anchors so you can really push yourself in climbs. Presumably once you have enough experience and skill at climbing as Alex then you'll start to know what climbs are trivially low risk for you. Alex makes it very clear that when he's free solo climbing he is not pushing his climbing limits or feeling scared--if he has fear then something is wrong and free soloing isn't the right thing in that moment.
I am currently participating in a study using tEAS (transcranial electrical and auditory stimulation) for tinnitus. Can‘t say much about if it works or not especially as the study was redesigned and will contain less treatment, so I‘m not too optimistic. (Background: 10y tinnitus without any known cause, was coping very will for the last 8y, had a terrible last 2y but I am starting to get over it again so in general I am hopeful about my future at least)

But as this is HN I wanted to share a technical detail:
The device used for the stimulation is pretty new and, as all medical devices are, pricey. It is connected to a laptop through USB-C but not only for data, it‘s completely powered through it. Sounds neat, right. But what happens if either by accident or not knowing any better you unplug the cable? Then it dumps all the stored charge through the electrodes into whoever has them on their scalp at the moment. It‘s VERY uncomfortable and I am shocked (hahaha) that a device like this has such a failure mode and that this is even allowed.
> I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community.

It doesn't. This is just miners co-opting an old argument to gain sympathy.
This was a nice fun read!

This is almost how adding, subtracting numbers is taught in schools here. I didn't notice this pattern when was a kid (if this was the pattern back then) but after having sat down with both my kids I can see the pedagogy clearer.

This actually inspired me to keep up with the literature the kids have to go through when they are learning math. I am a little surprised that I find it so enjoyable. There are methods I completely forgot and methods I can grasp easily and add to my existing knowledgebase..

There is always something to learn, even if it is elementary!
Well, many of the especially relevant stories where still illegal.

Sure ethically they where "right" and not illegal from a EU POV, but still illegal in the country they happened.

Besides that most other stories are people getting rich by high-risk speculative investments. But the problem with mass investments into high-risk speculative investments is that they tend to create bubbles which can destabilize the economy, so not really that grate either.

There are a lot of good use-cases for the technology behind crypto currencies.

But much of the current crypto currency landscape is not grate a lot bubbles, a lot pyramid schemes and scams, a lot of things which conflict with money laundering regulations. And many other problems.

I'm fully sure that the related technology (blockchain etc.) will have a future, I'm not sure about crypto currencies like we have them now.
Is there some practical way to delineate the two product usages that isn't arbitrary I wonder?

Maybe make mining only cards more performant and affordable than consumer graphics cards, so that consumer cards will drop in price from less demand?

I find it hard to believe that a use case specific device wouldn't be able to dethrone graphics cards as the better choice for miners at the right price, and it should be cheaper right? No need for all that extra graphics related componentry like visual ports etc.

I know stuff like that is already on the market, but it's usually more expensive as they are from more niche manufacturing. NVidia has the scale to make a similar device more affordable I imagine.
Why? I saw a good use for this week when journalists used it to purchase a car in war torn Ukraine.
What's there to understand? Cuba is still under embargo 50 years after the Russians tried to put weapons there.
One thing that I've seen is "preemptive whataboutism" - essentially, when Russian state media make a wild unreasonable claim, one that's not merely false but invokes a "WTF how and why would someone even think of something like that??" feeling, then sometimes it turns out that this is something that they are planning or doing at the time, and that is why they have considered that this is a plausible thing that others might do as well and can be reasonably accused of actually doing.
Sorry, but r/ukraine has hardly been a solid source for the last few years.

I've already seen a few older videos of Ukraine Armed Forces attacks on Donetsk being presented as "new videos of Russian armed forces bombing civilians", just as Arma 3 gameplay videos: https://www.pcgamer.com/arma-3-clips-masquerading-as-footage...

Reports of soviet munitions, coming from the country that has been one of the centers of soviet military-industrial complex, raise some skepticism.
Is it better for the first bully a person encounters to be in the 3rd grade or as an adult with an unreasonable boss or a peer who dishes out emotional abuse on the side? American schools can be brutal but so is the world at large.
We have archeological evidence for the last 5K years. While humans or our ancestors may have used herbs for literally millions of years as the article implies, we do not have any evidence for it.
I'd like to engage with this opinion because I genuinely have no idea how this is the conclusion people reach (that crypto is bad for the environment).

The configuration of transistors through which electrons are punched is obviously not the problem (at least I hope it's obvious).

So it must be about proof of work chains, right? That they create high demand? That's about the only point I do understand, but I think you'd be hard pressed to meaningfully translate a bitcoin transaction to a carbon cost. There are some mining farms powered by green energy (less altruistic and more about being off grid).

But if we're talking about energy usage and environmental damage, we have to talk mining.

There is just no debate that mining is THE singular (keyword) greatest threat to the environment. Fracking, acid mine drainage, offshore drilling, sonic bombardments of coastlines, the ridonculous requirements of smelting. The list goes on and on.

We are stuck with that industry for a long time though. I'd argue the minerals that constitute the technology you're using to view this comment may have done more damage than bitcoin and co have.

In a nutshell, here's my problem with this argument: To suggest that demand is responsible for the damage caused by supply is just a crazy warping of reality. That absolutely does not make sense.

There are other, more pressing issues with crypto (like the lack of regulation around fiat exchanges and how they constantly get rugged) and those criticisms are valid, but they get lost in the noise of "how we generate energy is not as bad as how we use it". I just can't get on board with that point of view.
Yeah I think that was point 1. If they succeed in getting reasonably priced GPUs into gamers hands (While AMD can't) they get a lot of good PR!
I used to cringe whenever I see a prompt to upgrade driver. But it's getting better. Version 460.39 hasn't caused any pain so far.
> Global warming continues to be a civilization-ending level threat,

Global warming is a threat that will have tons of negative impact. But is it really "civilization-ending"?
Sure, but that doesn’t apply here. I am a technical individual who can make a case for the technology, and have for many years.
All you precoiners do is complain that everyone else is getting rich and/or destroying the planet. It Just isn’t so!
Oh, tell me about it.

+Installs Linux, this time determined to make it daily driver. Why is this so slow though?

- You need to install Nvidia drivers

+ Oh, OK makes sense.

-- INSTALLS NVIDIA DRIVERS --

-- LINUX NO LONGER BOOTS, OBSCURE ERROR MESSAGE, FURIOUSLY GOOGLING ON A TINY PHONE SCREEN TRYING TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE --

Later made myself a Hackintosh, eventually bought an actual Mac. The Hackintosh stuff was much, much more stable than anything Nvidia ever released when I was trying to use Linux. Installing patched kext files, trying make MacOS run at full resolution and with smooth animations on unsupported hardware was much less pain than dealing with official Nvidia drives on Linux.

It's sad to hear that graphics drivers are still not a solved problem on Linux.
It wouldn’t be renouncing claims, it would be de jure ceding territory (that is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine) to Russia, and there’s no way that would be okay.
This is utter nonsense. Yes there are homework help businesses (and NGOs, council-run offers, etc) in Germany or Sweden but this is a fringe business and the vast majority of students never use it. If you have evidence for the contrary please provide it.

Its not like e.g. Korea where this is basically obligatory to use.
Stick around and make positive contributions and you'll see a downvote button. Can't remember if it's 250 or 750 karma.

Arguing with somebody who's patiently explaining why you got flagged isn't productive. I didn't flag or downvote your dead comment, but for the record, I would have if it wasn't already dead. I'd downvote the comment I'm replying to, but cool feature, you don't get to downvote direct replies.

And, downvotes are for quiet disagreement. Unpopular opinions go grey. Moderation keeps the site more pleasant than other news aggregators. Greying out unpopular opinions does seem to quell the flame wars a bit. You'll get used to it. Nobody owes you a fight. After all, that's what reddit is for.
You’d be better off using jsonlines than creating a bespoke format that is neither CSV nor JSON.

https://jsonlines.org/examples/
It's not a problem if you can continue to run the cooling system for quite some time. If you bomb the plant or its connections to the outside, that might be a problem - just as in Fukushima, where a key cause of the disaster was that the cooling system could not be properly powered when required.
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Does the LHR impact the same calculations performed under gaming load?

I feel like nVidia aren't _that_ stupid. But I admit I know nothing about any of this
It helps them in one dimension and harms them in another. I think the ridiculous scarcity and price mechanics of graphics cards right now is a way worse issue than drivers, and we can advocate to have that fixed. Doesn't matter if they fix the drivers while cards are still 2k+ because I won't be using them anyway.
Same, glad to know i'm not the only one that deal with this.
Wait, what? Is there a typo or a missing word there? Both of those happen quite a lot. Bribery, political donations, Lobbying (in its worst forms), campaigning (in its worst forms), and pork barrelling all happen over and over.

There are also a lot of harder-to-prove forms of political corruption, such as when a politician uses their power to benefit a company or industry, and then after retiring from politics they are given lucrative work with those same companies or in that industry. (And many many variations on this theme.)
That would be nice. It really boggles the mind how thoroughly AMD has missed the boat on ML. And it really seems like they aren't on any trajectory to catch up even today. I've given up on them. Instead I'm hoping that Intel's imminent entry into the discrete GPU market does better. Nvidia is in desperate need of some competent competition in ML.
a union would simply delay the inevitable

Yes, which is the difference between having the time to offboard from your current career and do something else instead of being chucked out overnight and losing your house and everything else, multiplied by all the lost developer jobs.

Imagine the cost of that in the Bay Area. It'd be catastrophic to the entire region.

Slowing progress down a little can be a positive thing.
How is this non-sense the top comment?
I can't believe we get this level of ignorance on HN.

(1) the ruling power will eventually control all communication and remove any free speech.

You think people can trade child porn online because we allow them too? Anyone building a illegal operation ( i.e. a resistance ) knows that you can make anything carry information. Even IF they find what you are using to transmit it, that doesn't mean they can read whats in it.

(2) they will constantly find and kill leaders through electronic means which are now amazingly effective.

You are overestimating the Russian tech by a mile. And you are overestimating the ability to automate this process by another mile.

The Russians will eventually torture people for information on others. That is exactly how it happens in the past.

A guerilla will be spectacularly effective, even today. But it will be extremely bloody if the Russians decide that is okay.
Indeed, both made masters level pedagogical degrees and regular upskilling mandatory. The salaries are also decent but not actually extravagant in comparison to other jobs. They do of course have six weeks summer vacation, which certainly helps to make it attractive :-)
This is just not true. Even in the original story, the boy who cried every day was outlier. It was not story about most of the kids being super scared.
Or what about that guy finalizing their crypto rug pull? There are just too many bad actors in the crypto community. Most of it seems to be scams and over hyped coins that are completely useless.
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Read the article?

Nvidia released it to make GPUs less desirable to crypto miners so gamers can actually get their hands on some.
The US is a small part of the world. Just a reminder. You can open a bank account in the EU that allows depositing cryptocurrency. The US is on the decline. It's propaganda is great, though.
The craziest part is the talk where he says “I didn't want to be a lucky climber. I wanted to be a great climber.”

He literally went back and did it all again after that one part when he felt like he was in danger. Almost anyone else would say "It happened once, it might be bad next time" but he wanted a run where he did everything perfect and didn't feel like luck saved him.

He is not like other people.
Also worthless, because they just keep printing them and giving them away to VCs, who then sucker engineers into building em a product/ecosystem.

You will see it eventually David!
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Be careful what you wish for. While I agree the current cryptocurrency is a mess, but prohibiting a pure computation cause more harms than good.
One popular alternative (useful if your data has nested dicts or arrays) is to use newline separated json. This avoids having to encode or parse the whole dataset as a single object, but rather line-by-line, which works nicely with large datasets.
The DMV is an outdated example.

I remember decades ago standing in line literally for 3 hours to finally get to talk to the person at the desk only to be told I had the wrong form. Then back to the end of the line.

I honestly can't think of anything that has improved as much in my lifetime as the DMV.
It is a very costly choice. We don't know how to store waste securely. We don't know how to process the waste efficiently and somewhat without it being an ecological disaster. We don't know how to extract and process nuclear 'fuel' without it bei g an ecological disaster as well. Just because the atom doesn't produce smoke at the plant doesn't make it an alternative.

Additionally there is the whole thing about the dangers of an accident and the cost for insurance against it. The cost of building and maintaining a somewhat secure reactor and the later cost of dismantling it and storing the additional waste.

Nearly all these costs for externalities were not factored into the price of energy. Calculating in all these costs mskes renewable energy look more than interesting. And also makes the question of storing excessive energy an interesting case. But governments/lobbies argue for cheap (read subsidized) nuclear, while not factoring the same subsidiaries into energy storage for renewables.

Investing into the future with a broad renewable energy and storage infrastructure program could ensure not only less dependency on Russia (for oil or gas) but also have a positive impact on the topic of climate change.

On the other hand. The German/European dependency on Russian gas and Russias dependency on the money from the sale of said gas was done to reduce the risk of war. The idea being that both sides could loose too much in the case of war and that would act as a deterrent. Even during the height of the Cold War Russian gas flowed towards the western world (aka Europe/Germany).
There are limits to manufacturing capacity, especially such advanced manufacturing.

I feel like if Nvidia could, they would have scaled up. Why wouldn't they want to meet demand?
Montessori schools are super structured. They are not unstructured in any meaning of the word.
Absolutely insane breach overall, hackers got everything (including unreleased products) and the only potentially mitigating factor is the verilog files for their chips MIGHT be encrypted. If not, it's nothing short of catastrophic.