skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading a few Japanese newspapers online these days (their English sections, mostly), and it's so much easier to read than nearly all of the online newspapers in my own country. No narrow fixed-size space in the middle of the page (is this meant to be read only on phones, portrait mode, by youngsters able to read with their nose pressed into the screen?). Proper pages, no endless scrolling. Flows nicely to fill out my browser window. No clutter. Easy to read, and easy to come back to and re-read something. In Europe a lot of the online news web pages makes me feel I'm reading a low-quality low-cost dirty mag from the seventies sold from under the counter, as far as design is concerned.
How is that relevant to Nvidia GPU source code?
And that is where the contradiction exists — let’s say you get your way, and governments start arresting people doing arbitrary computation on their graphics card — let’s say hashing. That would very bad for everyone’s freedoms, software and hardware. The same anticryptocurrency playbook is what was used against cryptography in the 90s. Technology that challenges the powerful is dangerous!

It’s ok to not like cryptocurrency and not use it. Others can, and will. Be on the side that empowers people with technology, not the side that wants to take it away.
X-Bows is a great keyboard. It's the cheapest one that has multiple keys for thumbs. But it is very wide for my hands. Reaching = and | keys are very difficult. I'm looking for a more compact alternative. [0] is a great resource for comparing sizes of keyboards.

[0] https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/
Mysterious spent Rocket part about to slam into the Moon – Space Junk
I suspect that legally speaking Ukraine is one of the successor states of the USSR?

Doesn't matter too much for the point I made in any case:

If a nuclear disaster were to happen in Ukraine now, NATO and EU would also not blame it on Ukraine.
“Live coding” test: A good idea?
It’s possible to get a filming permit for one. There is a drone shot near the end of Free Solo.
> remember that noise-cancelling is NOT hearing protection

I fell for this one as well. I wouldn't be to surprised if noise-cancelling could actually cause tinnitus, or make an onset of it worse (though I haven nothing but biased anecdata to argue the opinion).
Thank you for connecting those dots for me. I haven’t really done a lot of backend/infra but have heard the term before. Neat, indeed!
I dont think this take advances understanding of Russia. This is how Americans sees the world. Americans are not trying to make America larger, therefore they will project same lack of wish to get larger on Russia.
> In 1975 the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam and other dams in Henan Province, China caused more casualties than any other dam failure in history. The disaster killed an estimated 171,000 people and 11 million people lost their homes.
That's a fair point in general. Exploding all nuclear reactors in Ukraine isn't going to do that though.

And, of course, Russia could do much blowing up with conventional weapons, too.
This is also how I see numbers. Like 7 basically being an 8 that has a notch with room for one..

At the same time, 8 is sometimes a 10 with a notch with room for 2..

Question: Did you find math easy from the beginning of school? I had immense trouble, it just didn't make sense no matter how long I looked at the shapes.. What logic was there behind the 6 shape and the 1 shape together makes the 7 shape..

Do you see negative numberse as different from positive ones, or do you just see them as positive numbers that have to be subtracted? Depending on the context, they're just a subtraction, other times I see them as white and black dots, and when there is equilibrium it is a grey plane of 0, and when add some to the plane, that number of that sign will be visible, for example, you have 0 + 3 = 3 white ones, then you add two black ones ( 0 + 3 + (-2) ) = 1 and the two black ones merge with the white ones and become grey and then you see only the one white one that 's left.. It goes that if you then add two more black ones, ( 0 + 3 + (-2) + (-2) ) = -1 one of the black ones merge with the remaining white one, and there is one black one left on the plane.

I eventually got the basics.. these days, I still prefer using letters instead of the actual numbers, and deal with the abstract instead of the concrete and just let the computer do the calculation if a concrete value is needed.
Despite my complaints, for casual gaming on a desktop you shouldn't have too many issues with Nvidia's drivers these days as long as you can use the ones packaged by your distro instead of Nvidia's installer. My troubles have mostly been associated with laptops that have both Intel and Nvidia graphics, or desktops used for ML training where the distro-packaged drivers wouldn't work for one reason or another.

I've heard AMD's drivers are OK these days but haven't tried them myself because I care about ML.
> This seems to be a distinctly American quirk.

Not so much American. They are very corrupt here in Australia. There are union leaders or related staff in court pretty much every working day in court down here.
You've been brainwashed, friend. There's no reason in the world _I_ should switch up (pun, heh) hardware at the pace of the manufacturer. But, that's what happens when corporations are kept unchecked. _They_ decide that every x years, I need to upgrade or decide what I use it for (violence and harm excluded). Were I able to repair it or use it however I wish, that'd not be the case.

Nintendo needs to make a better argument for their hardware if they want people to buy it. Not by dictating laws about hardware usage. Simply put, they're living in the past where different hardware and different firmware mattered.

What's next, Microsoft doesn't let me run anything other than Windows on my hardware?
Wait ...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/enable-tpm-2-0-o...
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-...

Hey look, propaganda! Your favorite <3
Hopefully, this is a wake up call for you to read between the lines. In this case: No, Microsoft did not invent secure cloud computing.
Putin said that id you dont lament the fall of the soviet union you have no heart but if you want to rebuild it you have no brain.

I think he knows Ukraine is lost. He wants it broken so it becomes a strategic liability for the west rather than a military asset.
Having chip designs without a state of the art fab won't help them any more than having software without a computer would.

For China and Russia to replace TSMC they'd need TSMC's (and ASML's) secrets, as well as nVidia's.
I’ve been a developer for 25 years. The only time I couldn’t just throw my resume in the air and get another job was between 2008-2011. But that was a function of a bad economy and my letting my skills atrophy.

When Amazon developers (I work at AWS in ProServe) saw their compensation not in line with the market, they didn’t talk about “unionizing”, they started interviewing and resigning en masse forcing Amazon to change their entire compensation model.

We will see in April how well that will work - when compensation changes for the year starts.
I wouldn't consider shareholders good or bad, but neutral. The revenue you send them today is compensation for the capital they provided to get the business to where it is today (or, in many cases, liquidity for earlier employees who built the company). They provided meaningful value to secure that revenue stream.

Meanwhile, the union provides no value to the business.
That argument falls apart when you realize that LHR didn't cripple nVidia's cards, it merely reduced their mining performance to being just a bit stronger (but still stronger) than AMD. Had they really wanted to kill miner interest in their cards they would have reduced hashing performance by something like 90% with LHR. I think all they were ever really trying to do was decrease the relative desirability of nVidia cards specifically by miners, not eliminate it entirely.
I have seen some places that use asciidoc as the interface, and then transpile asciidoc to docbook by using custom transformations. This works really well.

It's a huge PITA to write anything but basic markdown for books or long articles (30+ pages) that you need to output in multiple formats (e.g. one source to PDF, epub, and html) to be honest.
As stated upthread, "the argument is that driver source being open could help the (tiny!) Linux gaming community", and the further argument that the community will be getting larger and not only because of people using Steam Deck hardware.
Marvell has nothing dense enough to meet these requirements. We're looking at 100GT/s, sure, but across millimeters, with physical connections measured in micrometers. It's a completely different technology to what Marvell makes.
Thanks for the link!

Yes, I agree that it's pretty nutty. It's just that to actually verify that we have to do a bit more work, like you suggested; otherwise we might just be bullshitting ourselves.
This service is infamous to be abused by spammer.
> Be on the side that empowers people with technology, not the side that wants to take it away.

I'm not really advocating for taking it away. I'm happy with a natural death or a market induced death. I'd definitely advocate for hardware that's terrible at mining because I'm not really being given a lot of options. You can't really say "freedom to use your hardware as you will" out of one side of your mouth while saying "you can't want hardware with restrictions" out of the other. It's a paradox. We both want the hardware that works for us, don't we? If NVidia can make cards that suck at mining, it's my economic freedom and right to choose to support that, and I would, just like it's your economic right and freedom to buy all hardware in existence to waste energy.

I can tell you 100% that cryptocurrencies are the opposite of empowering for me and those around me in my current life.
So banks will have accounts at the central bank and/or with other banks. Settlement does not require physical transfer of paper cash, in either case.

> Banks cannot transfer their own book money.

I'm not sure what you mean by this - could you elaborate?
No.

Doom 1/2 monsters dont't crawl to you and then patiently wait for you to hit whatever gamepad button to play a funny animation[1]. They were dumb, sure, but look at the basic zombies in Eternal: they almost don't move. They exist only for the glory kills bonanza for E3 presentations, they aren't even dangerous. Look at the analysis[2]:

> They should be chiefly considered as targets for glory kills, the flame belch or the chainsaw, depending on the player's current need for health, armor, and ammo respectively.

Literal fodder. Yet they have 13 funny animations.

Compare it to a Zombieman [0]: it's puny and doesn't pose a risk... until you get them in numbers and/or you are at the low health. And they are actively trying (as all other monsters) to get closer to you!

And if we talk about a map design here then even D1 maps are not linear (eg [3] or [4]) and were more restricted by the technology (2.5 engine) and performance (386DX as a minimal CPU in SysReq always been a butt of the joke) than actual design. There is a lot of linear levels too, but you still progress them on your own pace and usually you can retract your steps all the way to the start.

Overall both D2016 and Eternal (especially Eternal) is just Quake 3 in Doom setting, especially with all that platformer bullshit and fight arenas.

[0] https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Zombieman

[1] https://youtu.be/31qYHl6Op2I?t=499

[2] https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Zombie_(Doom_Eternal)#Tactical_ana...

[3] https://doomwiki.org/wiki/E1M6:_Central_Processing_(Doom)

[4] https://doomwiki.org/wiki/E1M4:_Command_Control_(Doom)
Donation. Just like many projects like this.
In about 6 years of waiting tables I cut off exactly one party from alcohol… they threatened to shoot me in the parking lot later. Probably was the right decision, but not an easy one to make.
It might also depend largely on where you are in Germany. My contacts are mainly in NRW.
Read the OP's question ?

If "nvidia released it [LHR] to make GPUs less desirable to crypto miners", then, "How does removing LHR help the _gaming_ community?"
I built my own NVR a half a decade ago, using motion detection on nodes (RPi Zero W), recording to a NFS share, and a object detection program running on the server using Pyionotify to detect new files. When it detected a person it sent a notification with Pushover, including a screenshot of whatever was detected, and uploaded the file to a remote server as well. Local NVR isn't worth much if people know where it is.

It went through several iterations and "i wonder if" branches, including offloading object detection to Azure ML, and using Azure IOT Hub.

While it generally worked well, i've since replaced it with mainstream NVR. UniFi protect for home and HomeKit Secure Video for my summerhouse. Less maintenance, same or better functionality :)
The std::optional / std::variant case is unfortunate indeed, it's sadly an argument for using non-std versions of these types. It's also possible to cheat a bit with libc++ macros.. -D_LIBCPP_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 does the trick (but turns exceptions into asserts).

You can also link statically against libc++.
Yeah this doesn't work if your parents kick you out as soon as you turn 18. When you have to pay rent and feed yourself, you can't afford to stay shut.
Forefront? It's nice but I'm glad I didn't wait 15-20 years for Nintendo to play SNES games officially.
And what’s stopping tech companies from doing the same thing manufacturing companies do when they don’t want to deal with unions - hire cheaper labor overseas?

My hometown use to be booming with multiple manufacturing plants. Every time the union got involved, the plants just picked up and left.
OMG get out from my head RIGHT NOW! I've got the same!
A Resident Evil-Style Hallway Made in Houdini and Unreal Engine
Bandcamp does this for all of their paid and free downloads. They also do FLAC.
There will be a new bundle on Monday.
Ohhhh, I like it... gods, please let this be the case. This is the good kind of deep state.
When mine first hit it caused me a sort of despair - this cannot be fixed, stopped, anything. It interrupted my sleep and stole my attention. I searched pretty desperately for something to give me my quiet back, my silence. There's not really anything. I tried various theoretical things - blast your ear with the same tone to desensitise that pitch. Under a minute's relief when stopped. I tried the opposite, under-stimulation. I reprocessed all my mp3s to cut out any/all sound in the octave around the noise (notching) and increased my music listening to 8+ hours a day. This had a placebo-like effect if anything and looking back I think this was part of adapting my mental state.

Now, 15 years later, yeah I do barely notice it any more. Except when I do. Sometimes when I go to bed after a bit much to drink there it is loud and proud and unignorable. Right now I can hear it clearly because I'm thinking about it, a 13KHz whine that never ever ever stops. This is a reason I only sometimes read HN tinnitus threads, not thinking about it is a big part of living with it. Imagine "The Game" only when you think of it, instead of laughing and saying you lost, something squeals in your ear for a few hours.

It's ... trying.

And I'm lucky, it's not that loud, and it's not at a frequency that interferes with much else.
There is of course self-selection compared to going with the default, but your data may be poisoned.

I don't know the Montessori system, but in the Waldorf system, some of the intellectual stuff is moved from the first years to the later years compared to the public school. So if you compare midway on the public school metric, you'll find a gap.

Of course, if you compared midway on a Waldorf metric, you'll find that students from those public schools have a gap in the other direction.

I talked to a Waldorf school principal about this, and she said that if you enter the system at later grades, say halfway through, they could see that there are some things that such a child just don't learn.
I have to note ocaml-bitmatch/bitstring. Example code: https://bitstring.software/documentation/#matching-bitstring...

This was extremely convenient for me in the past.
This is not a proxy though. Its just a DNS entry.
You mean like installing automatic updates ? Or running untrusted code in the browser ?
Up-to-date Linux distros already compile things with latest compilers. The bugs are already caught there. And in my experience, with GCC and clang, updating to new versions consistently reduces bugs.
It does provide value to the business, but to the employees rather than the shareholders. The question is why should interactions with the shareholder reps be compulsory, but not the employee reps? Why is compulsion fine for one but not the other?
Why does it matter if it just disappears one day if you are not paying for it anyways?
I don't know in which world you live in, but gaming is a serious business as well. Specially the gaming community.
> The Montessori system is not a trademarked or patented. There's no authority governing the Montessori system.

AMI begs to differ, even though their certification is by no means obligatory.
> CO2 is ecologically compatible.

Yes, but it just kills the climate.
Eric Voskuil Presents Black Market Money at Web3 Summit 2019
I don't know about what's legally allowed or not. (Might also depend on jurisdiction.)

From what I remember, in general you have to recognize outlays with certainty, but you have more leeway in how you treat inflows.

In general, you can also keep whatever you want in your books and run them however you like; you just have a legal obligation to also keep accounts that are in line with established standards.

You see this distinction in GAAP vs non-GAAP numbers in the US, where GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

In banking there's an obligation to model counterparty risk; but I have to assume that banks keep multiple copies of their balance sheets and accounts around:

One version for eg tax purposes, and another version for things like determining capital requirements and risk exposure; if different rules apply in the different domains.
Don't forget Norway.
-Most definitely, but there'd be plenty to spare for Russia, too.

Blown up nuclear power plants are equal opportunity weapons.
Yes. Opus "replaced" Vorbis, and has several advantages over older and common formats. Many popular streaming and voice-related apps and platforms use it as codec.
If demands for developers sink - aren’t you screwed anyway? How often in the history of labor have unions ever kept companies from just outsourcing? Did it help employees in the car market?

My solution for 25 years as always been to change jobs.
Someone fleeing a war zone probably shouldn't depend on currencies that require Internet access.

For defending one's life savings, I'd recommend investing in productive enterprises rather than speculative and volatile get rich quick schemes, but to each their own.

For dissidents, crypto might be some small help, but not much. (For example, crypto did help WikiLeaks accept donations, but Julian Assange is still in prison.) Even with cryptocurrency, dissidents still need to reveal themselves in the act of protest.
A couple of million transactions per day: https://www.statista.com/statistics/730806/daily-number-of-b...

That's less than the number of private transactions in a moderately sized city, never mind business or financial transactions.

Random comparison: NASDAQ alone sees 30-40 million transactions per day. http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=DailyMarketSummar...
I can use Twitter and Facebook only in a throwaway matter. I don't own a phone number so I have to rent one for an account. Then it usually doesn't take long until some blocking mechanism kicks in and I can start from scratch.

It's kinda frustrating, but on the other side it makes it more simple to avoid.
The Mind Map Book
Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, with a professional agency to negotiate on his behalf, was in a union. Tom Cruise is in a union. Steven Spielberg is in a union.

There may be philosophical reasons to oppose a union, but contracting isn’t generally an issue. If you have more negotiating power than the union, you can just negotiate on top of the union contract, like sports and entertainment stars do.
Car insurance companies can very much drop you if they deem you to high of a risk.
Ah, the both-sides-ism.

> I found what they believed in was very different than what the talking heads told me they were.

Lucky you, to have encountered that particular niche, and I guess it's telling when they knew more than you. But what percentage of Fox News watchers take what their talking heads are saying as truth, and what percentage as "spin"?

Even Fox News pundits and guests are now being fact-checked by a Fox News employee: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/04/jennifer-griff... . So, why is Tucker Carlson defending Putin. Just for his billionaires owners? Is it defensible? To read your comment, yes it is, because the other side spins too?
"Crack That Tank"[1] WWII US Army training film for infantry. Much of this still applies, although anti-tank weapons have changed.

[1] https://archive.org/details/27424CrackThatTank
I have the exact opposite problem: for me, Chrome's tiny minimum tab width is one of its best features, and one of my biggest obstacles for switching to Firefox. Firefox has an about:config setting that lets me shrink tabs a bit, but nowhere near as far. Firefox's low limit on the number of visible tabs is really frustrating.
For a mad man who's going to lose anyway, what does he care if he takes the whole world with him?
Power tripping money grabbers like... power and money. Bosses have those.

Jerks are motivated to climb the ranks and willing to climb over you.
The more I think about this kind of take, the less it makes sense. People on this site talk about American president and American race relations more then about China too. Because there are many Americans here. There are many Europeans here too and thus they talk about about war right next to EU. Indians here run to every discussion involving india. Asia biased forums do talk about events in Asia a lot too.

People in countries around Syria talked about war in Syria a lot. And in that conflict, America seems to be blamed for both intervening and not intervening enough. It is guilty of Russia bombing cities and Assad actions ... and also for helping rebels in actual fight. Because, in relation with Ukraine war, it is important to make America guilty of literally every bad thing everyone does in every conflict.
> We just have to get rid of autocrats and authoritarianism.

Nothing to it - piece of cake. Forget about millennia of human history.
> "Utter nonsens" is such a non-startar in conversations you know...

> My "proof" is that everyone I know in Germany [...]

See, the problem is that other people seem to have different anecdotal experience. So that's why in an online discussion it can make sense to appeal to published statistics and other articles.
I can suggest a good reason why the Nvidia GPU drivers are opaque binary blobs.

Generally speaking, you don't build a multi-billion transistor chip, and manage to ship the A01 spin without doing some magic.

The Nvidia GPU i/o interface is a remarkable mechanism where the resource manager (the code that sits at the very lowest level) can patch the hardware interface to get around hardware issues and give the appearance of a chip that is working perfectly.

I'm not claiming the blobs work well or anything. I'm just saying there's a reason Nvidia does blobs.

Typically, an A01 chip will ship with about 50 bugs that are worked around in the resource manager and driver. They really do not want to tell you about these bugs -- because they are WORKED AROUND. You don't need to see the sausage made, so to speak.