skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Won't 3090 prices go down a good bit after the 4xxx series cards start coming out in a couple of months?
No, they are considered cringe.
In the US, antitrust doctrine is largely based around preventing dominant market players from causing direct harm to the consumer and does not care much about health of the markets. It is hard to argue that NVIDIA saying "use this price that you think is too low" to EVGA would constitute an antitrust violation when that means lower prices for consumers.
You are a Don Quixote after my own heart. If you ever need a job, get at me. I think we'd work well together. Heh. Not even joking.
Congresswoman Urges FTC to Investigate Surveilling Americans' Movements
From western world perspective, $85/month for a whole suite of powerful apps is absolute peanuts if they are used in a professional setting. An average carpenter probably spends more on tool upgrades each year.
For some reason, this site hides the reply button after a certain reply-chain length, but you can just click on the person's name. This will show all their posts, including the one you want to reply to (you may have to look for it), with the reply buttons present.

I guess they must be trying to softly dis-incentivize really long chains, but not block them outright? It doesn't really make sense to me...
Just a reminder that anything backed up to iCloud (besides iCloud Keychain) will be accessible to government authorities, including your iMessages.
Nitpick, maybe, but I think it's worth maintaining a distinction between "terminal (or terminal emulator)" and "shell (or command line)".

From a skim, these seem like games that run in the terminal usually spawned from a shell, but that is not the same thing as being "run entirely in your Linux shell."

For the headline itself I think IF with a parser counts as "command line only", though it still doesn't run in your shell.

I don't know of any games that run "in your shell" but a good example of the distinction is that mutt and pine run in a terminal, but nmh actually runs in the shell (not in the sense of processes but in the sense that the shell is what I am using to string together actions when I use nmh).
Yes, nobody has the claim including Britain. There's no such thing as better claim. This discussion started because people could not reach a consensus on who has the best claim. Saying that Britain has the best claim is going around in circles.

I think we are on the same page. Instead of pointing out to Britain that you must return it, one should grab it.
I think this language started because healthcare advocacy organizations are trying to draft in the wake of military propaganda. Many governments of countries with active militaries (e.g. the US) spend a lot of money convincing the populace that fighting wars on the government's behalf is a great thing. Why not try to recapture that free advertising for a war on poverty, a war on drugs, or a war on cancer? IMO it's not a particularly healthy analogy but it's what we're steeped in.
The Bank of Canada is losing money for the first time ever on rising rates
They asked if you could "end up in the same boat" by getting paid the same amount in cash as RSUs. You can't. There's a common misconception that RSUs are only more restrictive than cash, that if you got paid in cash you could just use the cash to buy the stock and end up in the same position. This is just not true.

RSUs have downsides. That was never in question in this thread (as much as people keep affirming it).

RSUs also have financial upside over the equivalent amount of cash. That's the thing people keep trying to explain but also seems to get brushed off.

$100k cash and $200k RSUs per year in a stock that increases by 10% each year: after 4 years I have $400k cash and $1.171mm in stock.

$100k cash and $200k cash given to me at the beginning of the year to buy the same stock for 4 years: $400k cash and $1.021mm in stock.

They're just not the same. RSUs have leverage. They have upside and downside.
I wonder if a refrigerator that uses Peltier cooling could ever be practical by taking all of the space savings of getting rid of the compressor and using it to increase insulation or thermal mass, offsetting some of the relative inefficiencies of the underlying tech.

It doesn't appear this article will make it clear if such a thing is possible, since it lacks any hard numbers relating to the technologies it is comparing.
You can also invest the RSUs that vest or keep them. In my example I assumed you cashed them out instantly and did not invest the resulting cash. So while the cash looks better with investments so do the RSUs.

That also means the risk of RSUs is also not as high as you paint it out since you don't keep them for 4 years. After the 1 year cliff you can sell them as they vest. So you're only risking future money rather than money you've already gotten. Unless the stock goes below the original stock price then you're still ahead. If it does then you either get a top up or find a new job.
Or are we detecting eyesight issues earlier, which we did not do in the past, and prescribing correction glasses?
haha, yeah, I did try out qubes, but I'm not really in it for the security, just the flexibility.
Thingy, whatsit, whatchermacallit - there are loads of these words. “Jawn” may have slight differences in the way that it is used when compared with “whatsit”, but it doesn’t seem very different. “Dongle” used to be used this way (by the person who invented the copy-protection dongle, who then repurposed the word). And then there’a the old faithful Latin “re”.
They can presumably advertise the film under a different title, with a clickthrough to info with the proper title.

Facebook should have better credibility vetting, for things like movies distributed by recognized distributors with a good reputation.
> Eh? Wealth tax.

I'm not ready (or qualified) to go into an in-depth analysis, but the implementation of redistribution programs has historically been unsuccessful, often to the point of having the opposite effect. The rich hide wealth and evade taxes, massive political corruption, and not to mention that the taxes never go to what they're supposed to after-the-fact anyway. If these programs worked I would be all for them.

> but it doesn't look like we need to build any new nuclear

Depends on where you are, and what you base the future projections on. We're gonna need a LOT more electricity for an electric vehicle fleet and synthesizing alternative fuels, at the same time most grids and nuclear plants are falling apart because they were built in the 50s. Electrification is our only chance of replacing fossil fuels without global disaster, imo.

> Scaling back and investing in research is the way, I hope.

Well, look at Germany. They got hooked on Russian gas and reopened their coal plants, simply because they scaled back (on nuclear). You desperately need prosperity to make ambitious infrastructure projects. It's not realistic to first cripple yourself and then expect to become a world leader in a novel technology. When you're in a crisis, you're gonna default to the familiar and proven.
"Now Localtalk is really local."
They're either assuming printed local classifieds were overtaken by a website, or that CL is a site that performed better than the local classifieds website.

Not hard to extract, nor worth getting heated about.
If you want to join forces writing that HOWTO please shout !

I dug out an old router in the garage and might play over the weekend
Apple HomeKit locks for your smart home
I appreciate that, thank you. You’re definitely right I could have worded it better.

Just from my point of view, I’ve done a lot of research in this market so I’d be very surprised to learn that there’s competitors offering affiliate marketing program creation/management for the same pricing as us or better.

Our nearest competitor seems to start from $29/month, but that’s with an additional 9% fee for each referral. And they don’t allow you to upload your own logo to your campaign invite page…

I do appreciate I should have worded my response better though, it’s been a long day
https://archive.ph/HHFC2
RSUs have a $0 cost basis - these aren't options we're talking about. Yes it's technically a $600K downside risk but if you recognize anywhere close to that your company went bankrupt and that won't factor into the conversation since you won't have a job anymore.

This kind of up-front grant is a wonderful asymmetric bet. You get $600K skin in the game on day 1. If the stock goes up 20% you get a 20% gain on the whole amount before you even own it. If it goes down materially, you're welcome to quit - but more often what happens is actually the company issues a refresh grant to make up for it - since they don't want you to quit. If it goes back up you now have a ton more stock on the way back up.

You get to earn appreciation on the whole amount before you earn it so up to 4 years early. You have nothing of your own at risk except your time. Things go well, you can do amazingly well. If things go bad, you lost a year or two and you can wander down the street for another lotto ticket.
White-collar crime is crime. Tax evasion while relying on tax-funded infrastructure is theft.
Graphite – Modern code review for fast-moving teams
I got you fam: https://www.google.com/search?q=US+distance+between+cities+d...

(aka if you actually need this for your project, you already know how to search for the things you need. If Craigslist needs one-time access to a GIS system to build an initial dataset for high volume countries, they can easily afford the limited time access and dev time to generate the dataset they need, as well as afford the dev time required to do a deep dive into which -free or paid- datasets already exists and are suitable, or not, for this purpose, as well as what licenses they come with)
I may be wrong but I think rather than 'slang' the correct word would be 'idiom'. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiom
Space Habitat Astronautics: Multicolour Lighting Psychology in Simulated Habitat
This was my first thought. They were prepared to do this, and once that market has dried up, they are ditching people and trying to lay blame elsewhere, and it seems to be working.
DC doesn't have property management places you can contact directly? The ones around here are happy to help you find units for rent.
Adobe shouldn't be compared to Microsoft or Google, or hell even Salesforce, which are really good at integrating new companies into their existing suite of tools.

Adobe is comparable to Oracle or IBM, where acquisitions mean the death of product innovation as Adobe has a hard time attracting and retaining engineers to the same degree as the above companies.
How suitable is Blender for CAD tasks? And if Blender isn't suitable today, how difficult would it be to make CAD features some kind of addon?
You are right. This is a fine rendering layer for datasets of the right size. The space I exist in and am interested in demands a bit more. I think it's just a difference in scale. I do think the article is wrong though. I think we need more graph vis engines of all scales. I think the marketplace for them is just starting to be cracked and there is plenty of room.
Same here, I only learned about it as an adult.
v8 does not use NaN-boxes; instead they use the low bit to distinguish between a 31-bit small integer ("smi") or a pointer. Doubles are additionally sometimes stored inline ("double field unboxing") I'm not sure how this works exactly. Other times they are heap-allocated. I am not sure if there is a specialized double-allocator, I'd like to know.

JavaScriptCore uses a tweaked NaN-box [1]: values are stored via a NaN box minus a constant, which avoids requiring a mask when chasing pointers. This makes pointers cheaper but floating point operations more expensive.

SpiderMonkey and Hermes both use straight NaN-boxing to my knowledge.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/ec6b5337e777f9b460ec6b...
Learn Bad Coding Habits in This Beautiful Game About a Struggling Developer
It still has a $40B market cap
> it turned up some surprising results

> I've wanted to write a post ...but haven't gotten around to it

Now you have to write that post ASAP because you can't leave us hanging like this.
Yes, for 2020 to 2021. But American life expectancy has been on the decline for about 10 years now, and the decline was already accelerating before COVID-19 hit. This is visible on the charts in the article. Drug overdoses do account for much of the decline from 2010 to now.
> All companies are employee owned

False. Only a few are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_compani...
English has "verbing", too.

> "[E]asy conversion of nouns to verbs has been part of English grammar for centuries; it is one of the processes that make English English."

https://www.thoughtco.com/verbing-definition-1692587

Just like "jawn" is not unique (not even within English), in my experience there's almost nothing really unique in any language.
I recalled the same, and was hoping to read some more information about that in the article.
I agree that it is not simple, and that the worst consequences are awful.

But unfortunately, opting out is not an option, no matter how distasteful parts of it are. If we don't have competitive or superior tools, we become victimized by those that do. For any definition of "we", where there is not enough social cohesion and control to prevent bad actors (e.g. most obviously: global politics!).

These tools are sometimes used carelessly. Some of that is inevitable, some of it is lack of accountability, some of it is malice. Some of it we can improve on, but some we cannot.

But also, military research is responsible for huge good parts of our lives. Our survival as a (country, yes, but also) species might depend on it. But it's a mixed bag. This mirrors the complexity of life.

The ideal is to have the best tools of competition imaginable, and to never need to use them. We can agree on this at least, I think.

(We can also agree that they are sometimes used unnecessarily!)

But the privilege of never needing to use them comes with the burden of constantly improving them. Fortunately, there are often great benefits to the research even if it's never used for the purpose intended by the party who paid for it.
Netflix lets you take a fraction of your pay in long term options, not RSUs
There is nobody that it totally immune to phishing. No one.
It's a point of a blockchain; it's opt-in. Much like your credit card's contract.
It was June, not April. See the correction.

Regardless, they knew the merge was happening, and what that would mean to the market, so it's fairly suspicious nonetheless.
> ECONOMICS PRIZE [ITALY]

> Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, for explaining, mathematically, why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest.

> REFERENCE: “Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure,” Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 21, nos. 3 and 4, 2018. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068>

> This is the second Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize for Management was awarded to Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
> Gosh, we complain about people coming over the border

You wrote this and it sounded like you were endorsing an implicit open border policy. Did you have some more intermediate solution in mind? Recall that we do presently have a legal pathway for asylum seekers to immigrate to the US.

> Providing security assistance would like like what?

We already do this. US agencies frequently cooperate with their counterparts in Mexico and elsewhere.
Preparation Enables Surrender
My guess is "not as much as most folks seem to think"

Comparable 24gb vram 4xxx cards are also 1 slot bigger and many watts hungrier. If you want to be able to use a 800w PSU + 3 slots, and just need 24gb vram for say, running inference on a big diffusion model, then 3090 is still going to be your only option for a while.

They're pretty well priced right now, at $1k. If you need one, not much reason to wait, your time is probably worth more than saving a couple hundred bucks.
Book burning used to be a thing. Now its content moderation.
Agreed. But I have literally read most of them in an afternoon at some point, and very much cannot say the same for War and Peace. =)
TL;DR: we run data centers on-site at oil wells and take natural gas that would otherwise be flared (it can't be economically transported as natural gas in a pipeline or turned into electricity and transported) and combust it completely. Methane is a significantly more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, so it ends up being a net reduction in emissions vs what's currently happening.

https://www.crusoeenergy.com/digital-flare-mitigation has some more information.
The money isn't outside the West...yet.
I wrote technology on purpose, to cut through useless information. It is not relevant that “Craigslist” obviated classified ads. The root problem newspapers were solving was a seller being able to provide information to a wide audience of buyers. Technology brought about a better way of solving this problem, so the root problem newspapers were getting paid to solve with classifieds no longer exists.

Not having local newspapers/journalism causing problems with the local civic process is a separate problem, that has nothing to do with technology enabling sellers and buyers to reach each other more easily.
I'm not sure where you got that story from, but there was pneumatic tube mail in New York city from 1897 to 1953, operated under contract to the USPS. Networks existed in four other cities but New York's was the largest. It eventually halted because it was ridiculously expensive compared to moving mail on trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
I appreciate overstatement! You're right, important communications consider eternal subjects. When I read books written centuries ago, the authors still speak to me. Podcasting, however, is a particular medium with particular characteristics. One assumes Marcus is trying to build an inventory so he won't have to work as hard to keep the podcast going once it launches. A bit of this is fine, but too much will damage the work. If Marcus and Kohane discuss medicine today, and necessarily neglect to mention the significance of a relevant event five months hence, the episode will seem weird whether the publishing delay is explained (e.g. as commonly heard on sports-betting podcasts) or not. A podcast is not a book. It is an open-ended serial conversation. Serial works necessarily respond to the present moment.
My family would play a similar game at Easter. We paint hard-boiled eggs a day or two before, then on Easter, we each pick our "fighter" and attempt to break the other person's egg. Point to point is allowed, and you have several attempts with the different sides of the egg before the bout is over.
They (US CBP for US ciizen) have to let you in.

But they will lie to you and tell you they won't let you in.

They will also lie to you and tell you they have the power to cancel your passport.

I've had them pull both 'tricks' on me. Not a lot of people are well versed on their rights and without access to a lawyer it would be easy to believe a federal officer when they tell you these things. If you believe what a federal officer tells you, which is probably most Americans, being told you won't be let in unless you do X is going to be taken literally as 'unless I do X, I am denied entry to the country.' They will simply comply on the basis of a fraudulent lie, which I might add a material lie like this is a felony if a normal citizen says it to a federal agent.
I incorporated my startup in the US (as a European)
Is it usable in polite company?
Trial in Uber Hacking Stirs Debate
I closed by FB account 10 years, not opening it up again even if it's to access their Marketplace. Was big on eBay back in the day when bidding was fun (before sniper bots took over), you could find good deals, and wasn't full of scams. Used it just this week probably for the first time in 10 years to find an obscure part that I needed replacing--still good for that.
"We" don't need to retreat back into smaller forums. Despite the huge number of false positives flagged by content review systems, they still impact less than 1% of active users. So everyone else will continue using it. Facebook is terrible and unethical in many ways but it's still the fastest, most convenient way to share pictures and updates with friends and family scattered across the world. I don't have enough hours in my day to pursue other options.
Energy density matters... a lot. As a matter of scale, nuclear can be shipped by plane to feed a plant (no Government would allow it, just for comparison sake). Try doing it with coal or gas.
How much digging you must do to have a sizeable quantity of radioactive ore to refine into nuclear fuel?
Compare it to coal, lithium salt, bauxite (aluminium) and cobalt. Electrification of everything and mining every item above can take a greater toll on environment.

Is Nuclear older tech? Light Water Reactors (LWRs) are from 1950s and used by the Navy. In the same time, Molten Salt Reactos (MSRs) were developed by Alvin Weinberg in the Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) and proved very successfull.

Unfortunately, the US Gov't (Nixon) invested in Plutonium/Nuke tech and MSRs weren't developed further.

Not all energy uses are electrical.
MSRs can also be used on thermal processes (above 700 degrees Celsius) and thermal energy is crucial to dozens of industrial processes, currently moslty feeded by coal and gas.
Current light water cooled nuclear plants just do at 350 degrees and requires tons of protection to contain gaseous water pressure (> 150 thousands Atm). MSRs can operate at 3 Atm and higher temps => low explosion risk.

Radioactive waste: France is estimated to grow long term waste from 140,000 cubic meters (2019 - data from Statista) to 189,000 in 2040. Thats 2,200 40ft containers to 2,900. A 700 container size change in 20 years. All their current long term waste fills 11% of Evergreen, the infamous ship that clogged the Suez Canal. Compared to coal ash deposits, it is nothing.

Current nuclear waste retains 97% of usable energy. With MSRs, it is estimated to reduce it to under 5%, with half-times around 50 years (very short). Imagine the waste reduction after recycling all that into those reactors.

The most important component in solar panels is silicon with 99.999% purity. That consumes a lot or energy to produce. And China produces lots of them... fueled by coal plants. Nice for a carbon-free tech.

Concrete is a carbon intensive material but you´ll use a lot less in a nuclear plant than a hidropower one.

Concrete, aluminum, fertilizer are all thermal energy intensive industries and are carbon intensive with current tech. What do you think where their carbon footprint goes if you adapt them to use some nuclear thermo-electrical boost?
This story feels like it could be the plot of a children's book.
Maybe kind of in like clock... but the parallel throughput and the ability to securely slice and provision GPU workloads is what was delivered this go around. As well as optical NV-Link and all the crazy new stuff coupled with their CPUs. Go look at crowdsupply and look at the previous gen cores being strapped to massive software defined radio arrays.

This isn't just about pushing framerate. It's about vector processing being massively more efficient than CPU for almost everything and the tooling to start floating consumer needs that aren't just making pretty bleep bloops go boom boom for fun times is very, very mature.
Verbing isn't unique, but I do like to explore etymological quirks.
Sellers too. Not to mention harassment/racism/phobia when the price isnt "right".

Facebook usage seems to be correlated with reduced cognition, it invites the bottom rung of society