skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past, NVIDIA launched the "3080" and the "3080 (12GB)" where the memory capacity and bus width was the major differentiator. (it also had like 3% more cores or something).

The RTX "4080 12GB" and "4080 16GB" were much further apart in cores (IIRC a 30% difference) and so naming them in the same category in a way that suggests the RAM is the primary difference, was widely seen as disingenuous.

Yes technically any consumer could lookup the specs, but that doesn't still make it a dirty and dishonest move.
It's not really symbolic. It's reparative instead of punitive.

Repeated offenders get punitive fines added to the mix.
Homo Sapiens lithic technology in South Asian rainforest (C. 45k – 8k years ago)
Pando, the world’s largest organism, has stopped growing
indeed, but afaik these more or less depend on dedicating a cpu-thread to the software-thread because a cache eviction would completely wreck the performance
Most modern system (since 2014-2016?) supports WHEA, which allows the OS to get notification and write it to the OS system log.

Not sure if this would be seen in dmesg.
You really BLASTED the media there, @InTheArena!

jk

Yes - modern technology is making an objectively malformed economy and social signalling system.

Still crossing fingers that there is a viable solution to populism.
Maybe post a link to your resume and a few bulletpoints about what your skills and passions are here? The force multiplier of our collective HN network is massive. And we help one another.

Job boards are brutal. You need referrals. We can do that.
I was expecting the article to announce it was being renamed to a 4070 or something. Now I'm just confused. It's just going away? Did they already manufacture these?
Yep, people voted him into 3rd place in the election. Then he was able to gain power by forming a coalition government.

The people who voted for him expected him to do the things he promised he would do, rather than the exact opposite.
> widely accepted and known solutions to climate change

No such solutions exist. Cutting back CO2 emissions by a few percent is not enough. Anything else is ignoring significant economic and political realities. There are no widely-accepted and known solutions to climate change that don't involve major ecological devastation and the destruction of all our coastal cities.

That's why we're looking at options like this.
I really fail to see the point of this format.

If human readability was the point, then doing something different than expected is a really bad idea:

* "no" and "yes" as boolean values may save some bytes, but the tradeoff isn't worth it (and if filesize matters, use a binary format to begin with).
* Using angle braces except of double quotes to fence strings makes the format look noisy and means you have to remember two kinds of escapes if you want to use < and > in the value.
* The format isn't object oriented in any way. You can simulate that by putting maps into maps, of course, but no one will have fun reading or writing that in a text editor.

Type information is for parsers, not humans. JSON this this right, Protobuf does this right. UXF is just a compromise combining (only) the disadvantages of the two.

UXF is self contained, that's great, but in 99.9% of the cases where you need a DX format, sender and receiver already know the schema, so that definition block just adds bloat.

You can happily mix lists, maps and tables of primitive or compound types. And since stuff is typed instead of named, order matters and you end up addressing everything through positional parameters. That's going to be fun when using a text editor to write down something like a list of GPS coordinates (you are likely to confuse latitude and longitude).
overfitting is a pretty well-understood and well-documented problem that we have statistical models to guard against - if this was just a simple case of overfitting, you'd think that Amazon of all organizations would be able to confirm and correct it.
Google's spam filter automatically marks Republican campaign mails as spam at a significantly higher rate than it does for Democratic campaign mails, which is how this whole thing got started.
My sister and her husband have been travelling throughout asia and south america this way for years. It's a great way to stretch the budget; they can get 4 months of travel out of what a typical tourist might spend in 1 or 2 months.

It wouldn't work for me, but I really respect that they're able to do it.
Good, the whole thing was just stupid. It was a completely different tier of product.
What makes you think a customer service rep is operating the official Twitter account for a $40+BN company?
This is why biological tech is superior: You can just eat failed products.
One big issue with planning is that it is enjoyable. And if it is enjoyable, you will likely overdo it.

Planning is "dreaming" about the future. All of your biases will emerge and self-reinforce during planning.

The amount of planning should correlate with predictability of your business. If you're a factory, plan all you want. If you're a startup, have a vision, take baby steps towards it and re-evaluate often.
The part where you did rand() < 0.8 ? 1 : 0 is fine. That's a Bernoulli trial with p=0.8

The part where you did this in a loop, with two calls per iteration, and then divided the counts and called it a percentage is wrong. It's certainly not a Binomial distribution. It's just the ratio of two binomial random variables.
Oh I agree! Everything would be ACME if I could. A ridiculous amount of stuff still doesn't support it, though.

And, like I said, usually it's someone who doesn't grok certs doing it without asking for help in the first place, so they're not going to get why ACME. (Because I am tired of doing cert renewals. I've had enough for a lifetime…)
It's not just that the 12 GB 4080 was a confusing name - it wasn't the same class of card, at all.

In previous generations when they've had differing memory sizes for the same card, that was the ONLY change. So, it was useful for something like CUDA, but usually not for gaming. A specific audience.

For the 4080, the 12GB version has the following changes:

* 12GB VRAM vs. 16GB VRAM (the obvious one from the name)

* 7,680 CUDA cores vs. 9,728 CUDA cores for the 16 GB.

* 192-bit memory bus vs. 256-bit memory bus (understandable, since this scales with memory size... but also probably means the memory itself is slower).

This isn't just a different amount of memory, it is fundamentally a different product and should be marketed as such. Instead it's Nvidia being greedy.
Either they’re keyword stuffing for gullible science people to get them to click ads or build out ETL pipelines, or they’re drunk on money.
It's not an either or. My union father has a pension & a 401k with match.
What I'm thinking is a little far out but it came up recently on a project where I'm using Postgres FTS (it's slow but I guess I might as well link it for now[0] -- please do not HN hug it).

Basically, I read on the internet (and was surprised by) the fact that setweight can be used and combined with individual terms on tsvectors, and then those tsvectors can be combined and they keep their weightings.

Some code from that project to illustrate:

UPDATE podcasts
SET fts_doc = setweight(to_tsvector(COALESCE(title, ' ')), 'A')
|| setweight(to_tsvector(COALESCE(homepage_url, ' ')), 'A')
|| setweight(to_tsvector(COALESCE(podcast_idx_itunes_author, ' ')), 'A')
|| setweight(to_tsvector(COALESCE(podcast_idx_itunes_ownername, ' ')), 'A')
|| setweight(to_tsvector(COALESCE(podcast_idx_host, ' ')), 'A')
|| setweight(to_tsvector(array_to_string(categories, ' ')), 'B')
|| setweight(to_tsvector(COALESCE(description_html, ' ')), 'D')

Basically I'm making tsvectors out of chunks of the document, weighting them differently then recombining with other vectors without losing the weightings -- I'm thinking this could be applied to words identified by the corpus-level algos.

So my simplistic thinking here is that if you've done the corpus level processing, you could build an intermediate data structure and re-evaluate each search document with the appropriate weighting. It would likely be quite the lengthy stored procedure, but seems like setweight could support the usecase? Maybe I'm being a bit optimistic.

[0]: https://podcastsaver.com
My home setup uses port forwarding and it is much safer than DMZ, that exposes your entire device. I forwarded port 443 to a higher port on my RPi so I can serve TLS traffic using an unprivileged port, without the need of a root user, this alone is a great security improvement.

Setting this up was done on my router, and was really easy, the advantage over DMZ is that I stay behind my router's firewall and DoS protection system and other protections.

I had dynamic IP from my ISP so I had to use a DDNS service, I chose ddclient[1], which is a very simple and ease to setup daemon. And it really works, never had DNS issues.

Now I acquired a static IP plan from my ISP, so I could ditch DDNS, the result is a simpler setup. It is being a pleasure to self-host. If my setup has any security holes please let me know. :-)

All in all the hardest part was buying the plan on my ISP, their customer service sucks.

PS.: In Brazil it is illegal for ISPs to block users from doing home servers or block some ports, but all major ISPs do it, so buying a static IP plan as a company was the easy solution. Plans for companies normally come with all ports unlocked and NAT disabled.

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[1] https://ddclient.net/

Edit: Fix typos.
I agree, but that level of authority is in a different level of the foodchain. I'm on duck tales, Larry.
If they could not scare up the scratch even to maintain the first one, what are the chances of building a new one? And of them maintaining that one?

That said, the I-35 bridge in Minnesota could have been maintained, but was re-built at ruinous expense. Is the new one now maintained properly? Or does it need less maintenance?

Apparently the old one was built with certain metal plates that were too thin by half, such that had they been of sufficient thickness, the abysmal state of maintenance would not have led to wholesale collapse, and we would today still be using the ill-maintained bridge.

So maybe collapse is a solution, not a problem? Presumably the money to build a new bridge did not come from the same account as what is used or fails to be used for maintaining bridges. Though maybe that account should be drawn down for maintenance, which would seem a radically better use of the money.

The US is in decline. Can it be turned around? Probably not so long as fully half the population is easily persuaded to throw its full-throated support behind an out-and-out grifter for its chief executive office.
I'm not a contrarian, but I to tend to second-guess the bang for the buck out of typical tourist activities.

My favorite activities in Paris were 'not going to the louvre' and 'not going up the eiffel tower' :)
Not sure if there is a technical definition of the term. I am using it to refer to the transformer-based neural networks that are used to build models like Open AI's Codex (which GitHub Copilot uses IIRC).

I believe they are called large because they contain orders of magnitude more parameters than the models that came before them. They do not fit in memory on a single training device (GPU or TPU usually) and require serious infrastructure work to train effectively.

The models are also trained on large datasets. These datasets are usually text streams. In the case of GitHub Copilot, it was the textual source code of a large percentage of the git repositories on GitHub. (Maybe supplemented with other code?)

I am curious if anyone is parsing source code into syntax trees and then training large language models to operate on the resulting graph structures.

Edit: On a related note - GitHub Copilot is extremely good at generating syntactically correct code. Has anyone studied which parameters in the language model are related to learning programming language syntax? Are the parameters in the model related to javascript syntax "close to" the parameters in the model which learn Go syntax?

Edit 2: For GitHub Copilot, did they use the content of git diffs to learn the kinds of edits people make to existing code?

Edit 3: I realize that a random HN post about some blog is probably not the best place to be asking these questions. If anyone could point me to a better place, I would appreciate it.
Although high permeability materials can route field lines around things to a certain extent, you can't get the kind of total magnetic shielding you'd want to say, protect a floppy disk from a strong magnet, without superconductors.
China is in a funny situation of this hitting right after government investment of several billion has disappeared (for their chip industry). And serval thousand microchip companies have closed shop already.

Sure some countries could leverage the recent flushout of corruption and hundreds of thousands of employees of the microchip industry looking for work. But I doubt China will be able to.
They look like phone images to me. At least phone images from 2015 non-iphones.
My standard is a 40L travel backpack and a compact shoulder bag that can hold a laptop and/or stuff for walking around town for the day.

Recently (pre-pandemic) when I was doing a lot of travel I did optimize my clothing somewhat for synthetics and merino wool that could be easily washed and dried quickly. And, yes, I usually have walking shoes--whether they're trail shoes or leather walking shoes depends on the trip and some sort of very compact light shoe as backup etc. Also a couple little kits that have all sorts of cables, repair items, basic first aid...
Even that little bit of a peek behind the curtain helps some people who have no idea what it's like to work in tech, especially if you aren't a software engineer.
Wait, did we also get trailing comma support in column lists?
What authoritarian ? The article states that the village council installed a siren which goes off at 7 P.M. everyday and they urged people to switch off their devices. Nobody is being forced to do anything here. There is a difference between urging one to do something and coercing.
Their price point was too high to be considered a 4070. If they launched it as a 4070, it would be naked price gouging.
Yubikeys are so much faster than other 2FA options.

Just a quick tap.

All of the flavors of "type in this code from your app or that we texted you" are a huge pain by comparison.
I'll have to try this out!
Idk this doesn't bode well - for Ars Technica. Don't they have news to report that they pull these nothingburger stories out of thin air? What has become of the Ars of John Siracusa with his legendary Mac OS reviews?
Good for you! What does that have to do with personal taste though?

Those things you list all sound like objective measures. All I'm saying is that wine quality is an objective measure too.
NVidia proving to everyone why EVGA quit being their partner.

This sounds horrific for the card manufacturers who have made a ton of product and are now unable to sell.
Is this something unique to math? I've never taken computer science courses in school, but I'm fairly good at it...
COBOL Examples with Explanations
Those are only requirements for newly launched devices. Post launch, devices tend to stay on the same major kernel version even when they get new OS versions.
> What's become cheaper in the current economic crisis?

Good point. In all the others I’ve lived though, something has, but not this time.

Shares have got cheaper and savings are being hit due to inflation being so high. It’s a good time to spend but what do you buy?
PyTermTk
I doubt that is accurate.

Humans are a diverse population. Apathy is one response to facing overwhelming pressure of legacy systems, monolithic organizations. Perseverance is another.

Look at George Hotz and https://comma.ai/ - I am skeptical he and his organization would "no one gives a fuck" about broken shit.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOuCKQfybz8 personality snippet
I used to say, "in case I fall off a cliff," and then in a previous job a colleague went mountain climbing and literally fell to his death off a cliff. Now I just say, "for when I'm not around."
Apple Card to Offer High-Yield Savings Account for Daily Cash
Doesn't DDR5 have some ECC built in by default?

I don't think its a good as memory with ECC, but its something.

edit (looking up question...)according to wikipedia, it has some ECC, but I'm failing to see the difference between the explicitly ECC and the regular memory:

"Unlike DDR4, all DDR5 chips have on-die ECC, where errors are detected and corrected before sending data to the CPU. This, however, is not the same as true ECC memory with an extra data correction chip on the memory module. DDR5's on-die error correction is to improve reliability and to allow denser RAM chips which lowers the per-chip defect rate. There still exist non-ECC and ECC DDR5 DIMM variants; the ECC variants have extra data lines to the CPU to send error-detection data, letting the CPU detect and correct errors that occurred in transit."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR5_SDRAM
What, you and I are typing right now in a comment thread precisely about increased CO2 resulting in lower nutrient density, so no, you haven't detailed how that will happen.
But why do AirTags not count?
The fact that I can view LEO objects in real-time on a phone just shows how awesome technology has become.

Even 10 years ago, that thought would have been ludicrous.
I don't know about hard facts, but iOS has turned into a usability nightmare. Sedimentary layers of settings on layers of settings, unintuitive gestures that require perfect precision, and unstable behavior.

Try tapping the play button and guess what's going to happen. Try getting the passcode screen to actually appear when you want to get into your phone and your face/finger aren't working. You can feel the competing teams shoehorning their thing into a platform that's already overstuffed, with no top-down editor removing the bloat.
Until the end of the 19th century iron production out paced steel by roughly 9:1, after that it slowly changed and reached, IIRC, in the early 20th cebtury the opposite ratio. Good luck finding iron nowadays...
Scalped RTX 4090s with an average selling price of $2,524 on eBay
> All this to say "I'm a contrarian"

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Arnade is one of the more interesting writers online these days. Tastes vary, of course, but let's try to avoid the middlebrow dismissal thing here. Your comment would be fine without that first bit.
The fact that Twitter is a customer service channel, the tweet was sent with "Qualtrics Social Connect" which describes itself as a customer service tool, the fact that there was a personal sign-off on the tweet which big companies don't tend to do when they're making policy announcements, but that they do tend to do when a customer service rep is replying to a customer question. Plenty of large companies do this sort of support via their official account rather than through a dedicated support account, it generally provides a better customer experience because no one wants to look up an account like "LufthansaSupportEMEA".

I'm not sure what makes you think this is not a customer service interaction?
> To this end, we analyze 101 subjects recorded with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging while listening to 70 min of short stories. We then fit a linear mapping model to predict brain activity from GPT-2’s activations. Finally, we show that this mapping reliably correlates (R=0.50,p<10−15) with subjects’ comprehension scores as assessed for each story.

Note that this is exactly the wrong way to form and attempt to refute a scientific hypothesis. The authors don't start with some new observations that require explanation, they start with a hypothesis already fully-formed ("...these models encode information that relates to human comprehension..."), and then go out and collect observations to confirm this hypothesis.

I'm sure that if asked, the authors would say that they are simply trying to answer a scientific question, but it's obvious that they already have the answer they want and they're just trying to find data to support it. The problem of course is that if one is already convinced of the answer, one can always find evidence to "prove" it. It's a kind of confirmation bias.
That crashed my browser HARD. Needed a full reboot. Thanks for that!
Oh, I see what you mean now.

Those are chargers that have an integrated cable that of course ends in male.

I really didn't know those still existed. It seems like such atrocious design -- the vast, vast majority of consumer electronics has moved to separating the charger and cable when using USB, precisely so you can reuse chargers and replace worn cables. I'm pretty shocked Nintendo and Lenovo are so backwards on this. Is there really a significant cost savings or something for them? It's so user-hostile.
A funny point is that the line depicted in the second picture down (Micro Center - Burlington) is not exactly unique to an NVIDIA launch. Micro Center often has long lines for a variety of manufactures new parts. That place is basically the biggest outlet in the area for the DIY crowd.
A Strategically Placed AirTag Led Police to a Dumpster of Stolen Campaign Signs
They're probably using PHP's built in opcache or something they rolled themselves

OPcache improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory

https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.opcache.php
Not blurry at all, at least with GoLand or PyCharm.
No scaling, haven't tested with scaling to be fair.

Output DP-3 'Goldstar Company Ltd LG HDR 4K' (focused)

Current mode: 3840x2160 @ 59.997 Hz

Position: 0,0

Scale factor: 1.000000

Scale filter: nearest

Subpixel hinting: unknown

Transform: 270

Workspace: 5

Max render time: off

Adaptive sync: disabled

Available modes:
My understanding of this issue is that it could also affect badly done end to end encryption.

Open source is also a good start but it is certainly no guarantee as not all code is audited even when open.
Well, just to keep in mind, internet access without cables is very valuable, and possibly the most valuable use of that space we can have.

It's important to control the space junk problem, of course. But not at the cost of not using the space.
Had a use case recently where a vendor dataset of approximately 1.5 million companies needed to be searchable. Fiddled around with Postgres for quite a while, not really managing to get good results while keeping query times below 1 second on average. Ended up going with elastic search instead but I hate the additional complexity. Anyone with similar experience or who actually made a similar setup work with pgsql?
There is a positive correlation between athletic ability and intellectual ability; strong bodies and strong minds correlate with each other (both are downstream of good nutrition and genetics.) Furthermore successful participation in team sports implies good teamwork and social skills.
Designing for me as a single user is different from designing for other users. Other users can’t hit my localhost.

The article talked about how much time it takes to get working so it seems like the author took shortcuts to get it working locally.

I agree that it’s a good practice to dev so deploying locally works as well as deploying remotely (or to lots of environments). But this is different than developing only for localhost.
It's fascinating how this whole other brain architecture clicks on, especially for how it reveals the arguments people are willing to make when all the ideas are just hypothetical.
Advice of the day!

Kant or Heidegger probably wrote something similar.
When the completion is not context-sensitive, it's not really what "code completion" is taken to mean these days (the last decade, at least).