skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He could have remained silent, but he used the opportunity of the run up to the war to spread Russian propaganda about US agencies and media to his 5 million twitter followers.

E.g. his tweet from not even 2 weeks before the invasion:

>There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.

https://mobile.twitter.com/snowden/status/149222362658580890...

Why would he blame western media and intel agencies for Putin invading Ukraine?
Much larger L2 cache on the GPU.

The 30xx cards needs a wide bus to feed it, but with the L2 cache on the GPU, you can get away with a smaller bus width (and faster memory on top, things shifted in the last couple of years and DDR6(X) memory is even faster now than it was).

Some of this also has to do with what kind of memory configurations you want to offer, as they are tied to the bus width. So if you widen the bus, you are looking at using more memory chips and having more memory. This pushes the price point upward, and you want it to tier somewhere in the middle of it all.

One "mistake" on the 30xx (Ampere) series were that the 3080 was much too powerful for its price point, and you couldn't really cram too much more power out above it due to its memory config. With this change, you can introduce a 4080Ti in between the 4080 16Gb and the 4090 as a mid-seasonal upgrade, and widen the bus a bit to satisfy it.
> Magnus's goal seems to be to get Niemann disinvited from tournaments.

In other words, he is bullying Niemann using his status and renown as a world champion. Nice.
You are certainly correct that older languages had more constraints on ordering, but I completely disagree that modern languages have removed all restrictions. I assume in whatever language you are imagining you have things like methods in classes or namespaces. This forces you to write them all together. The ability to separate those out is powerful.

As evidence of this, compare a well organized C codebase to whatever language that you have in mind. Does it really look that different? Literate programs on the otherhand do like quite different.

Furthermore a big programming project is still just a list of files. What do you read first? What are the important concepts? There is nothing to tell you this information in a typical program. A literate program has a page 1 and you start there. You can think of it like the difference between API documentation, and a well-written tutorial. Modern code files are great API documentation, but are lacking in that other form of presentation.

Another feature modern languages don't have (and probably shouldn't) is the ability to integrate other media types into the code (images, math notation, etc). This is another feature facilitated by literate programming systems, although not the essence of it.
The companies making the ads are capable of hiring orders of mangnitudes more engineers than however many people volunteer to maintain adblockers. Google/youtube is already using their monopoly on the browser to prevent ad blocking via extension changes.
Does anyone do server side rendering these days?

I fail to see the point in SPA apps for the majority of web apps. At my work we have an ancient Dojo frontend and a newer react one being build. Its a few list views that the user can filter and a few forms with validation. It's a ridiculous amount of complexity to avoid loading a page. I could do almost everything for half the effort with server side HTML from Django and a little bit of JQuery.

I ask at my work why we are doing this and no one seems able to give me a decent answer but we carry on down this path regardless.
'Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series..." on this server.

Reference #18.3df06e68.1663689222.96a3b41'
> Currently, it's not possible to run gray386linux on i486 machines (but it's possible to run gray386linux on Cyrix 486DLC and similar CPUs)

What's the cause? Incompatible/missing peripheral or some breaking changes in instruction set?
Analysing GitHub actions marketplace for security vulnerabilities
I completed a bunch of Sierra and Infocom games in my youth, 20 or so.

Can't recall many without reaching out for a hint here or there. There's always things in these types of games that are totally illogical. I'm suspect of anyone who says they beat these things with zero help at all as IME it's down to myopia in writing/design in most cases.
This is ripe for video-to-speech AI.
I love this alt-history, because the contemporary view at the time was that the 10-series MSRP was "fake", that it was impossible to find cards under the $700 MSRP, and that the whole thing was a scheme from NVIDIA to market a lower number than you could pay in practice and upcharge for the blower cooler.

Partner cards were stacking up in the $725-800 range for 6 months after launch, so they came in above the MSRP, which people justified because they were "premium cards". Very few vendors offered any products at the actual MSRP, EVGA had one that was "only" $20 above MSRP and Zotac had something similar and those two low-cost models were impossible to find for a long time.

Now it has gone from "NVIDIA wants to upcharge you for a blower cooler" and it's a dastardly plan from NVIDIA to undercut partners.

everyone is real riled up by that EVGA ceo's tantrum but even GN told you to take it with a grain of salt, and other board partners have confirmed that in the last 2 years they've been running 10x their usual profits due to mining. The EVGA ceo spinning it like partners been losing hundreds of dollars per card for years now is false and untrue. Being a partner is generally around 10% margin and even a smaller partner like EVGA should be able to get around 5%. Losing hundreds of dollars per card is something that happened in like, the last month, partners made very healthy margins selling into the mining boom, and the CEO is being disingenuous by pretending that they've lost a bunch of money on it/are running super low margins. Mining was great for margins.

https://www.igorslab.de/en/evga-pulls-the-plug-with-loud-ban...
I liked this one a lot better than I usually do of PG's blog posts!
Another related surprise is how bad founders can be at realizing what their problems are. Founders will sometimes come in to talk about some problem, and we'll discover another much bigger one in the course of the conversation

This is also true of undergrads, who often come in to office hours thinking they have one problem, but they in fact have another, or several others. I suspect that mentorship is useful: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-pr... because good mentors often see the non-apparent problems.
Putin will speak to the nation in 2 hours followed by his pet shoigu. Full war and mobilization expected.
I agree that race should ultimately have no part of it, but that’s not the reality we live in. Systemic racism is real in America, and people are disadvantaged from birth by the color of their skin. I don’t know how to completely fix something so deeply engrained in American society, but taking steps ensure more equitable employment outcomes for people fundamentally disadvantaged by the color of their skin (no, not white) is at least something.

I also agree with your general point that in general, disadvantaged people (eg poor white people) should also get some kind of boost and not be left in the dust, there just needs to be some nuance and acknowledgment of the systemic racism that applies to others as well.
Supported by a foreign enemy, defending domestic interests. A Russian citizen with a warrant for his arrest. His words are true, but his honor remains conflicted at best.
No, the EU has a specific process for leaving by asking, while the US states can only leave if a sufficient number of the other states agree to it.

The EU isn't really a country, it's a free trade agreement with an unusually democratic (by the standard of FTAs) process for updating its own rules.
I have two dedicated home internet IPs (one iCable fibre and a China Mobile 5G fallback/quarantine WiFi) and get these "checking if your internet connection is secure" interstitials all the time now. Also see them on my HKBN work connection.

I'm from Hong Kong and suspect the whole territory is on the naughty list.
Ya fair enough, I don't entirely disagree, and admittedly have a blind spot around government overreach. We may not be able to have liberty with excessive taxation, but it's important to remember that we also can't have justice when we fail to tax the wealthy and dump that tax burden onto the working poor.

There was only a short period of time of about 50 years between FDR and Reagan when we did tax the wealthy, and it created the middle class and made the US the top economy in the world. I'm concerned that the relentless call to cut government spending that we hear on mainstream corporate news obfuscates the full equation. If we were to do what they propose, we would be all but guaranteed to fall into maximum wealth inequality and the government would be at the whim of corporations, if it isn't already. It would bring the end of the American dream by turning the US into a nation-state of company towns where workers are at the mercy of their employers, paid pennies on the dollar for their labor, with no help coming from the government. We'd have to trust the benevolence of the wealthy, which breaks trust-but-verify, as we've seen decades of corruption like the savings and loan scandal, Enron, the housing bubble bailouts, insurance bailouts, embezzlement (is that the word?) of TPP loans, many more that I couldn't list here.

After writing that out, I suspect that you don't disagree, and that maybe I'm dancing around the issue of taking money from one group to give to another. I would propose that we won't be able to see eye to eye on that until these other injustices have been addressed. Basically that the wealthy have already taken monies equivalent to our $20 trillion dollar national debt by lobbying so hard that they set their own taxes to 1/2 or 1/3 what they would have otherwise been. Not to mention that the Pentagon can't account for $20+ trillion, which conveniently matches the national debt too. If we were to look into where the money went, we'd find that (edit: each of) the 150 million US taxpayers have already had something like $250,000 skimmed into the pockets of the wealthy since trickle-down economics began under the pretense of bankrupting the USSR. Now that the main global threat is the collapse of the natural world and displacement terrorism resulting from that, I'd like our taxes to be collected from the groups responsible. The $10,000 student loan forgiveness is small potatoes, just a rounding error compared to that. Which is why I feel that it's a distraction, even if I can't challenge your concerns around redistribution.
I must be the only person in the world who likes class components in React.

Sure, it's often overkill and a functional component does the same thing with less code. Use a functional component in these cases. But if you're doing something more complicated then stop treating class components like the fucking devil. They have their place.
(In case you hadn't seen it, I found more about Italian POW parolees at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32890349 . Apologies all for threadjacking.)
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Old distribution with old userspace :).
I understand that it looks hard. But you can download precompiled kernel and initrd. Yeah, there is only busybox for now.
proc macros are their own walled off thing with well defined input of tokens, and well defined output (also of tokens). You have tooling to inspect their output (cargo expand). Compare this to the average C++ feature which is usually implicit and not visible in syntax and interacts with other C++ features in interesting ways that you have to keep in mind.
> Abstract

> Causal inference is a central goal of research. However, most psychologists refrain from explicitly addressing causal research questions and avoid drawing causal inference on the basis of nonexperimental evidence (...)

I always believed and keep believing that Psychology is a pseudoscience with no useful outcomes. The useful outcomes we all need are located on Neurophysiology areas.
Gitpod competitor here - www.usenimbus.com

We've made a lot of the opposite decisions and often wonder if we went the right way. Still don't know if it's the right decision but at least our thinking wasn't wrong - so thats a win :)
Yeah, I think it's a combination of some of this stuff is common knowledge now, rather than surprising, and people were looking for concrete examples of mistakes startups made (so they can avoid it themselves)

Rather, this is an essay about what was surprising to him about startups in YC. And I think it's fair to say that these were all surprising, and I wouldn't have inferred them if someone told me about YC as an idea back in 2005.

Or put in another way, if someone came to you and told you about the idea for creating YC back in 2005, when the only model of investing in startups was how large institutional VCs and angels invested in startups, would you have been able to tell them the following insights about how it would work and what the value add of the advice is? Remember, when YC started, lots of people thought 7% for $15k (I know they give more now) was a joke.

- Most startup problems are the same, but in different forms. It makes advising tractable for a single person to do.
- Advising a lot of startups in batches has the advantage of learning about all these problems faster.
- And yet, startup advising has to stay individualized (presumably to keep things concrete), so in order to scale, they had to shard. Limit was somewhere between 60 and 80 per individual advisor.
- Identifying problems and ranking their severity are two different skills. You'd think they're the same, but they're not. As an advisor, if you can help startups do only these two things, it'd go a long way. Lots of advisors try to help with other things, but these are the two most important, because if a startup died, all other problems are moot.
- Despite this, founders don't listen to advice about how not to die. And they don't listen because the advice is counterintuitive. It's like how there are more skiing instructors than running instructors. Skiing is more counterintuitive.
- A big headwinds to advising startups on how not to die is that due to the educational system, founders have all learned how to hack the system. The skills that got them to where they are stops working when trying to build a company.
- Beyond helping startups not die, advisors likely know less about the product/strategy in any domain, but they can increase focus, which increases speed of iteration, which indirectly helps startups with their product/strategy through iterative greedy algorithm.
- A follow-on value-add of YC is the alumni network. Like clusters of painters in Paris during the impressionist period or musicians in Vienna, and Xerox Parc, lots of great work is done when great people do it in clusters along side each other. At the time, people thought the price of independence of is loneliness, but turns out it's not true.
> As the German politician Martin Scholz once said, if the EU were to apply for an EU membership, it would get declined because of a lack of a democratic foundation.

That's the way it should be.

In a democratic state, the state itself is sovereign, while the citizens are not. The rights of the citizens depend on the constitution, which can be changed according to a democratic process. The EU is a union of sovereign states. Due to that sovereignty, decision-making in the EU cannot be fully democratic, as that would violate the sovereign rights of the member states.
I stopped doing new projects in C++ years ago, and now I only code in Pascal
I'm curious why you put "random" in quotations.
It’s not really possible in the niche rust plays at. If you want to remain close to low-level detail. you have to deal with low-level details.
What does "single player gimmick" in your sentences here mean?
I'm not sure what else to expect? Is it so crazy that they make the card even faster and bigger than before, and it uses more power? What else is the next generation of cards supposed to do, have the same performance but make them more energy efficient? Not sure how many people would buy cards that have the same performance but less TDP.
Especially when they've been have lower than expected revenue because of the crypto crash. You'd think that they would drop the price a bit to entice the people who've been waiting for GPU prices to drop to buy the new version.
My experience has been that Verizon phones have not been locked for many years. I've used European carrier sims in my Verizon phones many times.
Maybe OP means 10,000 miles?
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By contrast, I think what actually killed punk was the type of "in-group" elitist behavior that you describe in your comment.

Punk was, in its beginnings, explicitly ANTI-elitist. Got an old guitar and a cassette recorder? You, too, can produce music!

Very few art forms can describe becoming "trendy", and punk wasn't one of them.
> Why can't adults stop behaving like toddlers?

It certainly seems like a very successful strategy.
If we disregard AI/ML applications for a second, are there really cards that are regularly limiting FPS in games between e.g. 12GB and 16GB?
Obviously, that should be 10,000km. :-)
Ask HN: I am still using a 980. What should I get? I do not care at all about having the latest/greatest, I just want an upgrade.
As a gamer... Should I care?
In my experience, better to mention it, but understand your experience might say otherwise.
10,000km, but yes.
Ignoring the upside/downside of buying used mining cards, is anyone else purposefully not buying to punish those who hoarded all the GPUs with an inability to profitably exit a commons-harming hustle so they might think twice before trying it again?
There is no such thing as 100% load in ETH GPU mining. The bottleneck is the memory controller, not the GPU itself. That's why 5+ year old cards are still more ROI efficient than the latest greatest cards. The only way to speed things up is to speed up the memory.

Other algos take advantage of more of the GPU side of things as well. ProgPoW, if it had passed, would have done that. From what I understand, RVN also does as well... and uses more power too.
If it's actually another 2x performance improvement, we're really only another generation away at most. On my 3080 RT caused a performance drop but I was able to decide the trade-off for myself, often it was still playable, I just needed to decide whether I wanted high refresh rates or not. Another doubling or two and it'll barely be a thought at all. The caveat with this still is it requires DLSS for best effect, which is barely a trade off in my experience.
https://archive.ph/XQlQU
cant let nature get uppity
Oh yeah for sure. They don't _have_ to pay taxes, that's codified legally. QEII paid income and other taxes by personal choice, but they're not bound to.

Whether that's fair or not/applicable in the modern world is totally a discussion to be had by the public. Though perhaps the monarchy being so up-front and visible contributes to this.

Meanwhile companies sit in Ireland/Malta/Switzerland/etc and go on tax dodge binges and the public don't bat an eye. People seem to have a very short memory/modern world is so complicated we have to resort to apathy to handle it; remember the Panama papers? Was anything _really_ done about those?
Chesterton's Panopticon?
I’ve idly wondered if the reason there is no O/S competitor is because of patents. SketchUp is pretty smart at figuring out what connection points and directions you’re pulling the model. That’s it’s key advantage IMO, and something I’ve not seen offered by other software.
> occasional and unpreventable bad behavior

That is a bold and aggressive claim, and I believe one unsupported by evidence. Can you prove that some of the famous, recent, dramatic examples of police misconduct were actually unpreventable and were not in any way caused by an institutionalized lax attitude towards self-policing?

> vs a tiny few hundred examples of bad behavior

Oh, just a half dozen or so in each state? That's a very white thing to say. And trivial to disprove.

However, the issue isn't that the police are imperfect- it's that they knowingly tolerate, and even defend bad behavior. THAT is a very different problem than being "imperfect", and it is not one we have to accept in order to avoid total anarchy.
Wasmtime 1.0
That's why you make something a footnote. But that's not a reason for making the mark invisible.
Didn't partners demand raising of prices for them to capitalize on high GPU demand?
Market doesn’t seem to care yet
> But hooks need to be named "useX"

No they don't, that's a suggested convention

> have restrictions on where to be called (that a program detects)

Yes, it is strange that they opted for this implicit approach, but this is the nature of interacting with a scheduling algorithm in real-time; it is with limitations

I agree they are clearly not unrestricted free-use JS, but they aren't a custom DSL hydrated by compile-time craziness, they are hooks into a scheduling algorithm to help you maintain consistent state in a giant tree. I'm not sure how that is ever going to be free. Perhaps a better type system can help but this is fundamentally complex
Look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September. Happens to every forum. HN is well past its "hidden niche community" period and is now attracting the same crowd as Reddit, Facebook and the like.
That sort of make sense... I was thinking of upgrading when the 40 series came out, but looking at these prices, it makes the 30 series look a lot more affordable for what I need, even if it's less performant.
Re South America: Guatemala had incredible, almost miraculous success when Jacobo Árbenz did his landmark land reforms. The idea was simple: (1) unused land over X ha was expropriated (and the owners compensated), and distributed to previously landless peasants, and (2) credit lines were made available for those peasants to buy farm equipment, do renovations, etc.

The success was astounding. We're talking child mortality being halved and poverty rates dropping off a cliff, in only a few years. Of course, US businesses did not like it very much and US imperialism shut it down in violent fashion, and Guatemala has been an unstable and violent place ever since, with a long string of brutal dictators.

What is "funny" in a deeply grim and sad sense is that this was at once socialism (i.e. means of production to the people who work, rather than a separation between those who work and those who own), but also very much the American Dream: a plot of land which was your own, for you to work, and where you own the fruits of your labour. You, not a king, not a robber baron, you. That's why the violent stampdown by the US is especially disgusting and hypocritical.

As for Chile, it had a democratically elected left-wing government. Even if Pinochet's economic policy turned out better (which it by most measures did not), NOTHING can justify a violent operation to overthrow that government, to the tune of tens of thousands of tortures and deaths, to implant one that pursues your favoured brand of economics.
I was curious to see what companies were part of the S12 batch, and who were the most notable. Among the 80 or so in that group, big winners were Coinbase, Instacart, and Zapier.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/21/yc-demo-day-s12/
For comparison you can buy 3x Xbox Series S (which will play almost all current gen AAA games) for the price of 1x 4080. Absolutely preposterous.
€5500 compared to €1200 for just double the memory at the price of less performance is not really worth it in my opinion.

> Not so cheap if you're just using it for gaming

I am not even sure if there is any recent game that can utilize 24GB of a 3090.