skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There does seem to be a close association when comparing GPU benchmark scores.[1]

[1]: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
>But it also works in spite of all that. If science only worked when done by the best people, it wouldn’t have changed society as much as it has

The vast majority of things in the sciences that have really changed the world are those that could be used to make products that just work. We need reproducibility by entrepreneurs and engineers, not academics if we want to change the world.

Maybe Academics would be better off as an idea generating group, rather than as guardians of correctness, as the latter just doesn't seem to be working very well. Evolutionary strength of ideas is what drives survival of ideas, and correctness just isn't that big of a part of an ideas survival in Academics outside of Math.
Most likely your deficit is waaaay too steep. You should not be starving to the extent that you have hunger pains, or are unable to sleep, or your reproductive system or your immune system shuts down :)

Hungry ape gets woken up early because he needs to go and invest his remaining calories from body fat in to digging up a tuber, or trapping a squirrel or whatever...

Edit. Because obviously the ones with the hunger -> no sleep behavioural repertoire survived to pass on their genes.
Fasting doesn't imply eating less (on a larger time scale). You can, for example, eat the same number of calories all at once or spread out over the day.
It's possible you'll need Gen 5 over the lifespan of this card as storage takes up more and more lanes. That this card takes 2x as many as necessary to save a fraction of a dollar doesn't make much sense unless these things were far enough in the production timeline... which means these were being produced for a while now.

Same for DisplayPort 2.0. These benchmarks show games exceeding 120fps at 4K already. Displays that support those higher rates and resolutions will be common in 5-6 years.

It's more of a question of "why not?" rather than "does it need it" at this price point.
They also had an amazing blog post about how dating profiles came down to ~85% how attractive you are (both men and women).

Most people look at 3-4 images and pass, this probably was the inspiration for Tinder.

One example of this was personality score, which they ended up removing. "In short, according to our users, “looks” and “personality” were the same thing". In this example it was just a profile picture with no text...

Whole bunch of interesting knowledge from this:

https://archive.ph/QNCbf#selection-513.0-513.79
Oh, ok I actually thought they use EU cloud. Instead they are using US cloud with EU servers.

We went extra length to make sure we are US cloud free. With few exceptions it wasn't that difficult.

https://wideangle.co/blog/saas-business-without-us-cloud
Can anyone speak to how fast this card for inference on diffusion models?
Even kids know what ray tracing is these days, it's used in video games to sell graphics cards. Teenagers write ray tracers in undergrad classes.

This example is a cube and plane with one light. It is lines from the camera checked for collision against triangles then a line from the collision point checked against a light. Checking for collision against a triangle is just checking collision against the infinite plane and checking if that point is inside the triangle.

What is the "significance" you are talking about? This is something common with an uncommon display.
The only truly effective way to keep something for a long time is to get people to care about it enough to make sure it remains available. To quote Linus Torvalds “Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.”
Many browser extensions use azure, google and amazon paid TTS APIs for the best quality. I really like Azure English (Canada) voice and it's free from Edge read aloud. My main browser is chrome, have to use a small ahk script:
Get corrent url, open edge small window in reader mode (--app=read://https://"%chromeURL% "--new-window") and press read aloud hotkey.
In general, Edge has become more and more attractive lately.
Also, take multivitamins when dieting.

It could be the water is helping, and not the salt.

Dieting tends to dehydrate me. Burning fat releases a boatloat of stored toxins, and does a number on the kidneys, etc.
> [new technology] will reduce the demand for [some class of] workers

Is the exact argument used against literally every new technology.
> Probably my age showing, but the value proposition of PC gaming seems to have fallen steeply in the past few years compared to consoles.

Consoles have been the better value for a long time.

That said, it's a mistake to look at $1600 flagship cards and AAA titles and think that's the only way to game on a PC. Even entry-level cards in the $200-300 range can play modern games at 1080p or even 1440p as long as you're not trying to max out the settings (max PC settings aren't available on consoles anyway)

The real upshot to PC gaming, IMO, is that there are hundreds of highly-rated PC titles over released over the past decade that you can access with a few clicks.

> Nowadays, I don't want to fiddle with Windows (which insists on forcing updates when I do power my PC up to play with friends),

Ironically, this was my experience with consoles. Since I play infrequently, I'd often be stuck on forced console software updates whenever I turned it on. AAA console games also need to be updated frequently, some times with 10s of gigabytes to download before I can play. Updates aren't exclusive to PCs any more.
Maybe Google Docs is better? You can give it a try.
Huh. We have a 1:1 credit system here in Washington.
Your Engineering Path
Why would this not be in the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation? Putting it on the DoJ seems ridiculous.
If NILFS is continuously checkpointing, couldn't you even remove the file right after you add it, for simplicity?
I meant more in the sense that we are primed to take one side of the issue by the default, the one we know. In the counter-factual Socrates-less world I'm describing, we are the unprovable counter-factual and people there are posting about how grateful they are that Eulogothenes' words were put to papyrus.

Perhaps a better way to illustrate this is to point out that the Mona Lisa's cultural prominence essentially ballooned once it was stolen.
Actually the dependent type view gives clarity to thinking of type level functions, like container types parameterized over an element type.
Well, if the government wants to help people meeting offline, it's gonna cost a helluva lot more than a website... to the point it doesn't sound like a waste anymore. I don't see society going back to offline dating by itself.
Nice article but not sure I follow the argument here. The problem of messaging into the void can be solved by changing the settings to only show you paid members. If they don't give the option then don't use them. Paying members are more serious so it makes sense to not spend your time on non-paying members. BTW, at least on Tinder I know that everyone can message back regardless if they are paid members. Maybe in 2010 things were different and the article made more sense then.
those are good articles (the top 25) but the site has a left liberal bias which shows only censorship from the right. I have followed https://ground.news/ for a while which shows stories missed in what are classified as right, left and center media...
I agree. If we hold to the historic 200 USD GPU price point, developers should still be mostly targeting the GTX 16 series.
It will be like, really bad for the culture when you won't know what is serious and what is a joke on the internet anymore. Suddenly people won't be sure whether they should take it seriously when that one guy from Fear Factor talks to a billionaire smoking a blunt on his show.
We are looking at this the wrong way. The latest iteration of any tech is always expensive and over time it leads to a drop in price for the “old” tech. Because of the 4090, my 3090 is likely to drop in value. Similar to older models that are still very capable.

Game studios find these cards useful because their own processes get faster not because they expect people to run games on a 4090. The 3090 in my case has sped up my workflows quite significantly. I can render, play, model and bake textures at the same time.

So if anything this will improve the state of things.
If so, it's a bit misleading. The go bug just requires a reference, rather than a lambda. I bucket lambdas into a category of language features I expect to have more sharp edges around capture semantics than references.

Bug:

var all []*Item
for _, item := range items {
all = append(all, &item)
}

Fix:

var all []*Item
for _, item := range items {
item := item
all = append(all, &item)
}
Fortran I/O statements specifying a FORMAT are the first example I'm aware of (released 1957), so the basic idea is at least that old.
Zero maintenance is an impossibility. What happens when hosting provider goes bankrupt?

However, there is a way to make minimal maintenance websites.

Make a static website and upload it to a provider that you believe won’t go away for at least 30 years.

Checkout Astro.js for this purpose, you can then upload it to any CDN. I prefer to use bunnycdn due to costs but there are other providers too.
I assume you’re on the grid?

Yeah, sadly, it’s crazy. Solar heaters are expensive and require a large area to get decent BTUs out of. If you can find free solar heaters that someone’s giving away, that can make the difference, but they’re often a few thousand dollars and that’s about equivalent to a Fujitsu or Mitsubishi heat pump base install, especially when you factor in all the extra plumbing and pumps to/from the solar thermal array.

WORSE, there’s maintenance. You’ve got the potential for leaks (probability rises to 1.0 over the years), and you have to worry about the water freezing. That can be mitigated by using a glycol mix, but then you’ve got glycol and that lowers the efficiency.

And then you have to think about climate. Is it reliably sunny in the winter? Or is it only sunny 1 out of 3 days, with long stretches of gray days? You are probably better off plowing that money into efficiency/insulation improvements to lower the overall heat load (and those improvements often have zero maintenance).

I’d suggest looking into an air source heatpump that can produce domestic hot water, paired with a large storage tank. Check out Artic Heat Pumps: https://www.arcticheatpumps.com/
Lax plus http-only+secure is probably the best solution atm. I can’t remember details, but IIRC, that should work for the last 10 years or so.
> Their motto is that their app is "meant to be deleted."

I have seen this on NYC subway adverts, but is there anything substantially different about their app or business model that backs up their motto?
> Honestly if you don't intend on playing AAA games at 4K/+100fps with ray tracing you don't need this.

On the other hand, if you're doing other things with your GPU than just gaming, this might be a very well-worth card, depending on how much AI/ML/video encoding/3d rendering/physics simulations/X you do.

Personally I'm waiting for some benchmarks related to CUDA and particularly Stable Diffusion to come out before I decide.

And I don't game that much anymore, maybe some hours per month at maximum. But I'm using my GPU a lot for video encoding and 3D rendering, so still interested in GPU development.
Does anyone know if this applies to Child Care matching sites as well?
Hot dry rock schemes have been around for a while (apparently dating back to a project in 1970 in Los Alamos NM), but for it to work it seems you need some specific rock types. For example, one project only recovered 3% of the injected water due to losses into fractures. Here's a historical overview:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/hot-dry-roc...
It's easy to discount a disrupting technology when you see yourself as far removed from it.

- Autonomous McDonalds doesn't bother me because I don't work at McDonalds.

- Stable Diffusion doesn't bother me because I'm not an artist.

- Copilot doesn't bother me because my code requires creativity and critical thinking.

But then again, Copilot doesn't need to be "good" before it starts to take away programmer jobs. It just needs to be better than the worst programmer on your team.
> I don't expect dependent types or logic programming to become widely-used in the next couple generations of mainstream languages

I do, these are low hanging fruits for improving software engineering practices.
Can you explain in this thought-framework which asset markets are not ponzis?
Note that the way you write this is the best way to form closures in Python: form them inside a function with the closure variables as function parameters. This forces the closure to capture the current value of the closure variables when the closure is formed. Note that you could put the calls to the _loop function in a for loop and things would still work:

>>> functions = []
>>> def _loop(i):
... functions.append(lambda: print(f"Hello {i}"))
...
>>> for i in range(10):
... _loop(i)
...
>>> for f in functions:
... f()
...
Hello 0
Hello 1
Hello 2
Hello 3
Hello 4
Hello 5
Hello 6
Hello 7
Hello 8
Hello 9

> lexical scoping, where the variables are bound to the block they were declared in

In Python that would only work if a "block" included comprehensions. For example:

>>> functions = [lambda: print(f"Hello {i}") for i in range(10)]
>>> for f in functions:
... f()
...
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9
Hello 9

You could fix this by defining a _loop function as above and forming the closure inside it; but changing variable scoping to be lexical in "blocks" wouldn't fix this case unless the list comprehension itself counted as a "block", which is not how Python defines blocks.
It's a common misunderstanding / idealization that the north wanted equality for black slaves. A very tiny minority wanted that. To the extent that northerners were against slavery (and by far not all were) that was mostly the limit of it. They did not see blacks as equal.

The same pattern applied the 60s "civil rights era", some northern liberals were against jim crow, but certainly did not want blacks moving in next door to them.
Also, any sort of hydro-based solution is susceptible to drought evaporating water below sufficient operation levels.
That's still only the very first step to building a Space Elevator. And, the product, if it had those properties (when deployed in the wild) would find more profitable use in terrestrial applications.

We will be burning rocket fuel to get to space for the foreseeable future. Better to launch enough to build in-space processing facilities if you're really committed to dual-homing humanity or making space travel more cost effective.
Swift Concurrency is broken in Xcode 14 for macOS
Legit tactic
Estoppel. The development process was highly publicized and the relevant entities surely knew about the call for patent claims.

And possibly laches. Patents are highly dependent on the technological context of when they're written. The Opus development process deliberately sought to avoid existing patents, and trying to reverse these judgements a decade later is disingenuous.
I don't see how the bisexual statistic is politically incorrect.

It makes sense, considering the self-professed "bisexuals" I've known, which are well known as well in liberal-leaning circles:

1. Young women who pretend to be Bi to get more attention from Men

2. People who pretend to be Bi to avoid having to completely come out of the closet

There's actually a saying in the gay community for the latter, "Bi now, gay later!"
> I find the conversation around diet extremely myopic. If the goal is to lead a long and healthy life, the minutiae around exactly when to eat or what to eat (Mediterranean diet) is so unimportant and detracts from so many other important tenets. Those being proper sleep, stress management, and exercise (cardio && strength).

Are you saying that nutrition scientists should ignore diet, and concentrate on the random things in other fields that you find important?
> there are dietary regimens that tend to naturally restrict caloric intake without any effort.

Which ones? I've never seen any, so far.

IF is effort. Low carb is effort. And so on.
Look at the demographics that standard TV commercials are aimed at. The market is literally dying.
It is 100% possible.

The problem is that it's monumentally expensive. You will need to have a pretty big water tower to handle enough energy to run a microwave for a hour.

P.E. = mg(h)

So say we have 2,000 liters of water that is 50 meters high.

2000kg * 9.81m/s^2 * 50 * 80% efficiency = 784,800.0 joules.

Say you have a 1100 watt microwave. A watt is 1 joule per second. That gives you enough energy to run that microwave for about 11 minutes.

A better example would be existing municipal water towers. A 500,000 gallon water tower that is 129 feet tall costs about 2 million dollars. This is based on a public notice I found for a city in the USA.

That is 1892700 liters and 39 meters. I am guessing that the average height the water actually falls is 25 meters.

The average American household uses about 30Kwh per day. Which is 108,000,000 joules.

1892700 * 9.81 * 25 * .80 / 108,000,000 = 3.4

So 2 million dollars for 3.5 households-days worth of energy.

I don't know if having 1 days worth of energy is too much or too little per household.

And beyond the cost of the tower itself you need the generators and lines and holding pond for the water. Or underground tank or whatever you want to use.

It's very expensive.

However it is probably the cheapest option right now as far as current technology goes.

It would probably be cost effective for a off-grid shack in the woods, though.
I'd like to see hardware more suited for running sparse ML models. You don't need branch prediction like on a CPU but you also don't need as much shared memory as a GPU.
Yes, I think that most of the fast/IF style fad diets really boil down to this which is more a diet hack "don't eat in the morning when you are not hungry", which gives you a few hours where it's a slam dunk of easy adherence. And adherence to the plan being the number 1 predictor of successful weight loss (almost tautological, since a superior plan cannot lead to weight loss if it is not adhered to).
Court win for man fired after turning webcam off
OKC was bought by Match - they were no longer the same company after being acquired as they were before. All these articles were written before they were acquired.
The article talks about suing hardware manufacturers, it doesn't say the patent pool excludes software (it doesn't).
The last overseas visit we made was to Naples and Rome. Rome has been sacked a number of times over two millenia, bombed by the USAAF, and has a variety of home-grown problems. Whatever we went to Rome to experience, it wasn't unspoiledness. And on the other hand, Rome is not at all a dead thing.
For short-term incentives, you could have some kind of scheme where you monetize dates. Eg when you match someone the app proposes you a list of partner bars, restaurants, parks, etc.

In theory, this could create a perverse incentive for the app to set you up for matches that last just long enough for a few dates, but not long enough that you get off the app. In practice, I don't think matching algorithms are precise enough that the app could act on that incentive.

The bigger problem is that most users would completely ignore the monetized dates.
At some level, a dating network needs to make recommendations.

In Plato's Republic, he proposed his vision for a utopian city-state. Essentially, citizens would be ranked into castes: bronze/iron for laborers and artisans, silver for soldiers, gold for leaders. When people came of age in this utopia, they would be paired off through what they would be told is a random lottery.

In reality, however, the city's leaders would decide on the couplings ahead of time, pairing like with like. Plato called this the "noble lie", and it neatly demonstrates what any government-run dating system would probably develop into: a systemic eugenics program.
I doubt they would let it happen as it's the worst of all options -- it guarantees more and more nuclear blackmail in the immediate future, not least from Putin himself.
That’s the thing, calling this a “military conflict” is already quite biased.
I've kept a PC for years now that I only use for gaming and its not too much of a hassle. There's still a lot of games that are PC only, and with a lot of major console games eventually getting a PC release I think the value is still there. I do with there was some sort of "gaming only" option for Windows to keep it from being annoying.
Paying in BTC, DOGE, etc will never be a good experience. The bill in is in USD while the price of those assets can swing wildly. As such, services often use an unfavorable exchange rate or high fees to accept crypto. You're also creating a taxable event just paying for something. Not to mention 15 minute block times in BTC.
However, I have had pleasant experiences paying in USDC on Polygon, and I'm wishing that more services would support it. It's dollar-equivalent and it can be used for things like withdrawing from your Robinhood account 24/7 outside banking hours (with 2-second confirmation times). There is also no messy ACH credentials setup or giving them full access to your bank account, just a simple QR code/address.

Credit cards remain my payment method of choice for most things, but for large purchases, two-way transfers, or anywhere where I want to avoid CC fees, USDC is much more convenient than a bank.
I disagree. Twitter and HN are merely publishers and have no 1st Amendment interest at all. You or I do when we write a comment. Twitter and HN are just common carriers.
I agree the government does nudge people to go to college. The problem is there is a difference between nudging people and arresting people. Nobody is putting a gun to your head requiring you to go to college.

I agree the economy is set up against non college educated people. We should work to change that. Promoting trade schools as legitimate alternatives to college might help. I am not sold that would solve much though. A lot of young people don't want to get into the trades. How many 18 year olds who just graduated high school want to be a plumber?

One thing I will say is that I don't think it is solely the government to blame. Companies require degrees for jobs that don't need it. They probably do it since there is a massive amount of people with degrees so they may as well get one of them to work for the company. We need companies to step up and stop requiring degrees. At the company I work at there are people with degrees who are working in data entry.
As of this release the USB stuff is now included in the opensource base.