skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the hell is going on at nvidia? First the very transparent not-a-4070 scam, then gigantic misjudgement on crypto demand drop, then the evga mess, then this "unlaunch" that looks like an intern post.

The tech still seems good (e.g. DLSS) but corporate decision making seems in freefall
He didn’t say anything about not revisiting those events personally or with other vets, he said by with “people who weren’t there”. Give a guy a break for choosing to not sit his kids down to hear all the gory details.
> Consume less, make less people, and use less power.

Game theory (and several economic theories) suggest that relying on voluntary collective sacrifice is never going to work. People simply will not do it, at least not in numbers large enough to be effective.

I do try to consume less, but I'm sure I'm still above average consumption-wise, and I'm not sure what other cuts I could make while still maintaining the lifestyle I like. At the very least, I have decided I won't reproduce, so I guess that's something.

Political solutions can force people to do things they wouldn't otherwise voluntarily do, but politicians who make their constituents miserable tend to be replaced with politicians who will... not do that.

I think the only feasible solution is the one we are already pursuing: continue consumption growth, but find and build cleaner, renewable ways to fuel that consumption. It's not happening nearly fast enough, though, is hindered by special-interest groups who have an incentive to fight change, and it's unclear if we'll be able to dig ourselves out of the hole we've made for our species' future generations.
The 200 resources thing has been a really frustrating problem for us too. We've started migrating ours to separate API Gateways at a "service" level and then mapping paths to different APIs using the Custom Domain API Mappings.
Lol no thanks, once you hit the server I’m good, it’s more about the UI for me.
I don't know that anybody ever cared. The barrier to entry re: running an IT infrastructure has fallen so far that gross incompetence still delivers a serviceable-enough product.
I limited exercise to walking while recovering. No yoga or anything like that. It doesn't seem essential to recovery, though it certainly can't hurt to do as much of it as your body permits.
Nvidias arrogance is going to do them in.
>Might be true, but we were talking about GDP. GDP is production. Imports are not included in GDP, so an increase in imports doesn't cause GDP to go down.

Imports cause GDP to go down relative to C+I+G. Full stop. I'm sorry I didn't say "relative to economic activity which should be the true measure of a recession" but again, that's why I call you a pedant.

>Wrong, because math. Spending is up equal to the amount of imports increasing, so there is no effect on GDP.

Yes, but GDP is down relative to C+I+G because of imports. Why are you being so stubborn about that? And honestly, what's the Venn diagram of people who bring up D-K and those who suffer from it? Like ad hominen is a universal sign of intelligence, right?

>You are conflating an increase in imports with a decrease in domestic spending. Trade is not zero sum.

Answer my question about selling debt/assets please. Are those in GDP? Or can you sell things that aren't "produced" by GDP?
I know people are exploring this front currently. Basically you could use results from DFT+U to train the potential; but I am also told that strongly correlation can now be better described by SCAN functionals better than LDA+U etc so it would be even easier then.
The private schools priority was education. They had the normal tests on the subject matter taught, and may have been required to do the federal government standardized tests used to judge schools, but they did not focus on those tests results. They focused on education, not federal/state government standardized tests.
opting out would put a big red flag when hiring
When do things ever "just compile"? I assume the Docker image is because this is a pre-alpha and the docker image ensures that no one needs to go through hours of dependency/config hell because the docker image is set up with everything necessary already, letting you focus on alpha-testing this and reporting bugs.
that's a fair point. i just take issue with diluting the meaning of a term by using it for things that are just mildly inappropriate vs things that are actually harmful or hurtful. it all just contributes to an environment of fear. i prefer that these terms be reserved for things that actually warrant a strong reaction.
It's not about complexity, sophistication or quality - it's about liability when shit hits the fan and your bugs kill someone.
> those who have content generally value being readable

I find it ironic that his website looks like hot garbage on a modern ultrawide display.

I realize that it's over 20 years old and it still looks bad at 1280x1024 which was the resolution I was using back then as a poor college student with a second hand 19" Sony Trinitron that had a dodgy VGA cable you had to hold up just right with a coat hanger.
I don't care what's good what's bad, i'm just making an observation and i share my knowledge

The "one sided" mindset in the west is tasteless and boring
Not yet. I know it can replace variable names, but MOSS can catch that already. What features are you thinking of?
Hey guys, found the antivaxxer.
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> but once in awhile something new comes along and he runs it up the flag pole to marketing and/or legal before adding it to his list of approved replies.

Of course one of the reasons everything has to be an approved response and you cant get "plain answers" from companies or politicians for that matter is shitty journalists looking for something they can take out of context and blow out of proportion.

Journalism is it's own worst enemy sometimes.
> That being said ‘the more words you know, the more things you can say’ as my old English teacher used to say

And also the fewer people who can understand what you say.
You are probably not part of the capital class, even if you have a lot of money. You're invested in doing your own security and don't publicly advertise whatever financial power you have in a way that might make you a target.

But realistically, you could have John Wick levels of combat skill and you would still have yawning holes in your security. You have to sleep and you can only be in one place at once, so there is only so much physical property you can fully protect. Wealthy capitalists outsource their security and mitigate their paranoia by dividing full awareness of their security surface between compartmentalized vendors, each of whom has to assume they're under surveillance by one of the others. If you are personally wealthy, congratulations, but I'm gonna guess you live somewhere with high public safety and never worry about your lawyers or accountants taking up with kidnappers or extortionists.

The capital class is not just about having a lot of money, but being able to leverage it in the acquisition of political and social power. If you have to conceal your power, do you really have it?
This is really interesting to look at in the context of other hiring testing -- like Google's practice of asking silly abstract questions like "invert a binary tree" for jobs which do not involve substantial algorithmic work.

eg: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
I think we can agree on Equifax being a giant, rent-seeking POS--that's the whole point of their business, right? But I think if a more reputable company were doing this we wouldn't be so outraged about it. I'm all for taking a free opportunity to bash a bad actor like Equifax (that's the price of a poor reputation, after all), but I don't think I actually disagree with their reaction to the findings here.
This. Management does not care. Does the market care? In spite of examples like the Therac disaster, the people in charge do not try to learn about what it'd take to make software more truly reliable.

In the early part of my career, I (and many of my friends) invested significant amounts of our time learning and pushing PL/T because the way things were going:

- Things are toys before they become tools. Early word processors were toys util they replaced typewriters.

- As the tools become more important, they will become more mainstream. Requirements will increase, e.g. that they be more reliable, that they become more usable.

- We now have designers in tech, indicating that the market cares about usability.

- There is still no formal verification of software, just "tests" which are applied in varying degrees of completeness.

To rely on "testing" is fine for a lot of consumer applications, but when I briefly worked in medical devices, we used C++. We did not hire a specialist with experience in Coq. Similarly when I worked with medical data.

I'll be quite blunt and cynical about it. Don't blame the software "engineers" / developers / whatever you want to call us. One of my friends actually went back to school to do research on this stuff, but I'm pretty sure he made a pittance compared to the friends who worked on the like button at Facebook. The market doesn't care. Call me a software designer if you like, I'll take the fat paycheck after spending the entire early part of my career trying to make things reliable, only to be slotted into the same "tech bro" category by a society that doesn't care.
They are going after the hundred billion dollar pet industry, focusing on electronics for pets. With a TikTok flip-flop, give a dog a phone.
Most of those debris dots however aren't labeled; I wonder if they are actual debris.
Are you arguing people named Jared with high school lacrosse experience are the pinnacle of human achievement?
Fussell references the belief among GIs that the Germans had better kit. It's one thing to objectively assess this after the fact, it's quite another to get hit by an 88mm in Normandy and not see the Hurricane obliterate it.

The Wehrmacht fought tenaciously in Western Europe using second-rate troops compared to the Eastern front where the real struggle was. Defending is easier than attacking, and the defenders were inching closer and closer to their homeland. This counts for a lot in warfare.
Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
GoPuff Lays Off 300 Specialists (95% of the entire US support team)
In Finland's case, if you are filthy wealthy, you should never drive yourself. Hire the cheapest person that is a good driver and pay their tickets for them.
>But almost every country has, if you look for them, places with zero commission.

Oh man this is hilarious. Places with zero commission end up charging the absolute worst exchange rates. You're better off paying a small commission/fee and getting a good exchange rate instead of those zero commission places that don't charge a fee and fleece you with a crappy exchange rate.
It is weird because Nvidia clearly has an instinct to give their cards car names (with the GTX, GT, RTX, etc etc stuff). They should just get rid of the numbers for the most part.

4090 -> 2022 Nvidia Optium

4080 -> 2022 Nvidia Melium

4070 -> 2022 Nvidia Bonum

4060 -> 2022 Nvidia Benem

(I barand-name-ified the latin words for best/better/good/okay).
Cheap access to plentiful energy has been one of the main drivers of innovation for all of human history.

It is very surprising in that context that Governments haven't pushed harder to secure their energy security more aggressively.
The MDR-7506 has just as obscure a name as anything they're selling; it's not clear to me that the naming is so much a strategy as a lack thereof...
Update. Even though I didn't use the DOT syntax exactly, I added some syntactic improvements so that expressinga more complex dependency graph is easier.
Now it allows for edges specified as
{1,2,3} {4,5,6} (skills 4, 5 and 6 all depend on 1, 2 and 3), and the levels now can be expressed as
1 {skill 1, skill 2, skill 3}
typically I find CMake would do this, or Make, to verify dependencies.

Coupled with a packaging system, like debian gives you, this is all pretty straightforward.

I ran into this yesterday, and turns out I don't want to install docker just to build a program...
this seems like it could make going to work something to look forward to!
I don't really disagree with anything in the article, but I would say it's the same problem faced by millennials and even late gen Xers getting gradually worse over time rather than some sudden new issue.

They could have picked a better example than the woman in the article too, I think. She's on £38K which is actually fine, it's above the median for London and she's only 25. She can probably save £500/mo even without living in shared accommodation with some lifestyle tweaks - and no I'm not talking about fewer avocados! Property prices in London are crazier than ever, but she could get together a deposit for a £200K studio in Acton or similar in about 3 years. She's in an OK position, comparatively.
To my understanding, letter transpositions are common even for great touch typists. Especially letters in the same "category" (such as shifting vowels around in this instance). Sure, it's a different "feel" when typing it wrong and if you are paying attention you might catch it, but you generally when touch typing don't think about the specific feel of individual letters, but the pattern or "shape" of the overall word. "gut" is a common enough word pattern (and an English word in its own right). "hib" is not, but if your brain/muscle memory is expecting the full "word" "github" and knows it uses both fingers "in the middle of the shapes" and it already used "u" it can be a likely transposition to wind up with "hib".
No way they did this on their own. Retailers or partners must have pushed back on it because they didn't want to deal with upset customers and constant returns, or scams.
They mean usb c port in the phone itself, so consumers could use virtually any usb-c cable to charge relatively safely rather than overpriced proprietary apple lightning cables or bootlegs
I'm assuming 'click and send them to spam, blacklist the domain' for some reason is beyond the pale as a solution.
Yes, and they don't add footnotes. From visualization it looks like crash is inevitable. But yeah, otherwise there would be no visualization.

Think about it: they say 19334 objects are tracked. Imagine that many cars or trucks in the world scattered all across. Then extrude that to couple hundreds of kilometers. Would that feel congested to you? 19334 new cars are being manufactured in less than 2,5 hours...
Granted it might not be as good as the original depending on how deep your notes go.

I know that the team behind Obsidian also created dynalist which iirc is a workflowy competitor.
Impressive! But one stated goal of the software is to be compatible with STOS and AMOS, so one has to use an 80s BASIC for programming AOZ.
I admire the idealism but I don't see it working.

This is exactly the kind of thing the ServerFault.com community talked about back in 2009-2010 when it launched-- creating "canonical" questions, etc. I was keen to answer questions about products and concepts that were important to me. I think a lot of other people were, too.

In the beginning there were well-researched and thoughtful questions, and there was a lot of fertile ground to write about basic concepts. Then it became like Stack Overflow-- "Shut up and give me teh c0dez!" kinds of questions. Then it became Not Fun(tm) anymore.

You can see how well it "worked".
It might be talking about pages that used tables for styling/layout
Aeon just had a great article on the consciousness, "Seeing and somethingness" https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-probl...

It argues that consciousness evolved out of sensation, where we developed an "inner self" to predict how sensations would affect us, and it's that inner self that became our conscious.

Don't miss out on the comments section, the author answers a lot of question in there.
$900. But there was a time when the best GeForce you could get was less than that by a pretty wide margin.
I was a terminal poweruser wannabe. For a time I tried just using tmux and Vim on almost all occasions. I still use Vim for something, like writing Puppet code. For everything else: I've just come to embrace to the GUI.

Unless you're an absolute terminal power user that can masterfully navigate tmux, vim or whatever tools you use, I don't think it's a good use of time. There certainly are things where the terminal is the right tools, use it in those situations. Just ask yourself if you're artificially limiting yourself, simply because you think the cool kids use the terminal.
Also in Alfresco with Stephen Fry & supporting actor in Pierce Brosnan series' James Bond. Lovely actor. RIP
Slaves and serfs.
It doesn't work for business at all because if you want to do business you have to meet people where they are. You can't email a client and say, sorry, can you please send me that contract in a text file, I only have a terminal. Or, sorry, I can't use your web portal to access the data because it uses JavaScript.

If you're not doing business, using the terminal works fine. Up until you have to deal with health insurance or your power bill or your taxes or bank.

Unfortunately the world now revolves around [gui] web browsers. We brought this technologically retarded hellscape on ourselves and we deserve it.
I realized that I never misspelled it this way.
“Purchase everything I look at for 1 second”
> Imagine writing bug-free code

Can't possibly go tits up. These new reactors are surely infallible, right?
Have you explored the nonprofit space, or considered going the indie hacker route and trying to launch your own thing?
Congratulations! This looks neat!
What is too aggressive about this is the taking a normal english word and restricting its use to preserve a guild's privileges. The original sorta useful aspect of this was that in the days before the internet, you could keep records of the person doing the survey or signing off on the structural engineering. Now it's not even useful for that.

It would be far better if only "Licensed Software Engineer" was restricted. Most hiring managers would also, of course, be less likely to hire that person, just as "Certified Scrum Master" is a negative signal.

The normie/excitable journalist take is that you want everyone to be a "professional", but there are strong arguments against occupational licensing. https://www.mercatus.org/publications/corporate-welfare/effe...

It just reduces competition, driving up prices and reducing innovation with no increase in quality.
We need more of these. The path to 100% green energy without coercing people and making decisions that could backfire, is to upgrade the energy grid to the point that electricity is dirt cheap. At that point people will want to buy electric vehicles because it will make more sense.
Minetest for the Web
For us old-timers, this reminds me a great deal of the plot of "Operation Canadian Bacon".
Agreed if what is taking so long makes a difference.

I suspect a lot of it is red tape without a real benefit...
>>Taking 400W *24/7 is quite a lot of energy, and I'm not really believing the 4-8L output.

I run a dehumidifier in my British house(in the conservatory) and it easily fills up its 10L tank every 2 days. Also indicentally it does use 400Wh(which yes, is a lot of energy).
Taxation is crazy high. Debt fuelled national development doesnt work. What you end up with is a rich country but not so rich citizens.
https://farside.link/libreddit is closer to the new reddit layout if you like that (it's better for browsing image/video heavy subreddits imo)
That’s a good place to be in where you have the opportunity to make that decision. Many, many people would jump at a chance to do some light, legal evil for a few years of work. To be honest, for most that choice doesn’t even exist.
Not that I want to talk down the importance of not using the block cipher default mode, using it in this setting is a bug Microsoft should urgently fix, but those attacks are mostly relevant in interactive settings, not against data at rest.

Here, the probably mostly in fact is that you can see penguins through the encryption.
The distinction is a good one, but the word "engineer" has a long history and varied uses. The guy who runs a train is an "engineer", is he licensed? (maybe he is).

It would be better to create a specific term, like "registered professional engineer (RPE)" that is unique, rather than trying to limit the usage of a common word. This is what I think most places do.
Given the sort of software glitches we've heard about the ID.4 and the Taycan, maybe they should sort things out on their software end.
> At what point do they start breaking up into unrelated orbits?

It's not as easy to see as in this visualization, but Jonathan McDowell (https://twitter.com/planet4589) posts graphs on his website of each launch of starlink satellites as they raise orbits. https://planet4589.org/space/stats/star/starstats.html

Scroll down to the individual launches and there's images you can click on of the orbit raising progress of each launch.

Example of the Starlink 4-21 mission that launched on July 7th of this year: https://planet4589.org/space/stats/star/spl51.jpg (One satellite failed, which isn't that unusual, and will de-orbit probably sometime early next year if they don't recover it.)
The courtroom drama, executions, and pageantry of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’
CPUs got faster, memory got larger, compilers got better.

Microkernels aren't a dead idea and they are even making their way into consumer electronics. (see Zircon).

In fact, even newer oses are backing into microkernels. Windows adopted similar microkernel concepts in Vista with the HAL. Android adopted a HAL with project treble in android P.

The steady march of modern OSes has been moving driver logic out of kernel space and into user space.
Same with memory bus. The 3060 Ti, 3070 and 3070 Ti all had a 256-bit bus. Only with the 3060 did it drop to a 192-bit bus.
Don't forget Software Designers. ;)
Even my local library stopped using terminals with monochrome screens and some database system written in COBOL. Now they have webbrowsers.

Perhaps it is time to upgrade :)
So a town with a population of 800k is considered small to you? Yikes don't come to Iowa then...
Elon Musk seems to be playing a great long-con on the American tax payer. $300m per launch, $16bn in hand-outs.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/03/12/spacex-seeks-16-bi...
Lots about the stones; not much about why 'Homo Sapiens'. Is it just because these tools are attributed to Homo Sapiens? I skimmed the article but didn't see anything about human remains or dna analysis.
Fun trivia: did you know that the control room GUI for the French/Finish EPR was designed for 4/3 displays, and by the time the actual control room was built, there were few of the such displays on the market, forcing them to find and approve new suppliers …
The demand was probably also not right, as it was just not a very appealing offer.

They will probably see what AMD does and then rebrand them maybe with some under or over volting tweaks.
F - Facebook
A - Apple
A - Amazon
N - Netflix
G - Google

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp
I agree with you, even though I’m not having children.

My partner and I just need to figure out who can support us when we’re old… (e.g. help us steer our finances in case we can’t ourselves)
What rules have changed in the past five years, when there have been the announcements of delays?

I have been following closely, and never once have I heard of a delay because of regulation changes. Not once! It's all construction.

And with the costs of delays, blaming this on an external party like the NRC would be an essential thing to do to explain it to the backers.

If you have any knowledge of regulations that caused the big delays, I would love to know, and would be very surprised.