skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For the latter, we have fission, fusion and we can grow into space.

Going to space and colonizing the milky way within the next 2000 years yields grow rates below 0.1% per year. That is far less than a capitalist society needs to maintain existing living standards (yes, in a system with growing inequality you need constant growth just for things to stay the same), let alone improve them.

>Assume computation is one way to create economic value. Eg either because computation is just useful for humans, like today, or because in the future you'll be able to simulate human beings (or other economic actors) directly via computation. Landauer's Principle [0] gives us a physical lower limit on the amount of energy we need to do a single bit operation:

You are ignoring something obvious. Since the brain contains the utility evaluation mechanism, any external aid to evaluate utility of an activity or object must be trusted by the human blindly, otherwise he would have to cross check the result and be bounded by his own cognitive resources. Thus we would need genetic engineering to increase our brain capacity just to interface with the external evaluator. If you can do this, why even bother and not simply engineer us to be as happy and perceive as much economic value as possible? The whole concept of absolute utility breaks down. Utility only exists in the context of a utility evaluator and if you change the evaluator you are missing the point. An equally valid solution would be to hunt down all humans and let them go extinct so that they can't be unhappy.

If we keep the evaluator the same, there is still another way to cheat and that is to create an adversarial model with superior computational resources that creates an inverse model of the evaluator and abuses the lack of cognitive resources in the evaluator so that he rates low effort activities and products as having insanely high utility.
After 4 years at vercel, I’m stepping down as COO
If I do see something in an ad that interests me I make a point of accessing the advertiser’s site without interacting with the ad. Presumably this is still being tracked but I try, at least.

I want the overt metric of a site visit caused by the ad, and the per-click fee to the advertisement host, to be as obfuscated as possible (or ideally, non-existent).
I actually think it should be considerably higher
How can you prevent modifications of memory when the software is running on hardware I own?

Also what would be the benefit for other companies to agree to have their customers be vetted by Google run API that excludes portion of customers?
I can't read through the euphemisms. Are they uniting to defend their right to read open-source code, process it into blobs, and "release" the output with their own licences?
I sometimes go on the web without adblocks, and it would be a nightmare
Sure! I've uploaded the relevant patches here https://gist.github.com/irisjae/08f55a52f7e4bcb81613061fc217...

My full build process is somewhat more complicated to keep my $HOME clean and remove other impurities, but just these patches should be enough to enable offline building.
I've bought a Radeon RX 6700XT (12GB) last year, primarily for playing games.

But after Stable Diffusion came out, I started to play around with it and was pleasantly surprised that the GPU could handle it!

The setup is a little messy, and Linux only.

For someone targeting AI, definitely pick an Nvidia card with 12+ GBs of VRAM.
An earlier (1968) venue with a similar concept was "The Birds Nest", a pub / nightclub in the UK.

> They renamed The King’s Head, an almost brutalist post-war booze bunker at 2 King Street, installing a state-of-the-art steel dance-floor, light-show projectors and a high-end sound system.

> They also installed an in-pub telephone network so that if you saw someone you liked the look of, you could dial their table and have a chat across the room.

Source: https://boakandbailey.com/2020/10/watneys-birds-nest-pubs/

[This information comes to me entirely second-hand, through articles and an episode of a podcast, so I can't vouch 100% for the accuracy.]
If the common prisoners were being rationed less than a meal per day then they were also being tortured.

The source your quoting also calls it "inhuman" and "repugnant to the principles of civilized warfare."

It's got nothing to do with how rich he was, only the fact that he was mistreated as a prisoner.
It's not "dead", but rarely used for new projects if at all. A lot of legacy exists still (one of my businesses still runs it, from that period in time).
Originally by Allaire, then sold to Macromedia which was later bought by Adobe.
> Solve the barriers/limitations

I don't think this is possible when you can't pool memory on the 40 series retail GPUs.
So if I understood you correctly, you are complaining I got better because I took supplements without a prior medical professional approval because other folks discussing long covid reported improvements from taking them? Cycling through dozens of specialists across two years without a single one finding anything, yet barely existing? Did I spoil your pristine machine learning dataset? Are you serious?
Victim blaming is absolutely the correct approach here. Of course you shouldn't blame your grandma for using Chrome, but people on HN are a completely different audience. HN readers should be well aware of the damage Google is causing to the open internet, using Chrome is tantamount to supporting this effort.
Firstly, the examples you gave are dissimilar; GP is pointing out a positive action (choosing a specific browser) while you're emphasizing negative ones (not doing specific things to contribute to Firefox). Secondly, they did not say that the user is to blame for the situation, merely that they are part of the problem, which is trivially true; Google would not be able to do what they are without a large number of people choosing their browser. Thirdly, the way to effect change through fora like this one is to identify what an audience, personally, can do and encouraging them to do that thing. People can choose what browser they use. They cannot meaningfully change Google's behavior.
Until someone sneezes and all the power is released at once.
Why would you ever want the padding? For me the padding makes the treemap useless.
And herein we see a weakness of Python: There is no way to get rid of the lambda lambda lambda, without actually naming things using def. Even though we are defining a pipeline of steps, still have to put up with syntactic clutter. Compare with threading/pipeline in other languages.
I used Brave. But I am considering a switch to the new DuckDuckGo browser, which I assume is just another Chromium browser.
I that’s reasonable for war criminals, like the engineers at Raytheon, the CIA, most militaries, etc.

Making the internet worse? That’s bad, but I’m not convinced it warrants the same reaction.
Yeah, I'm actually using Iceraven right now, I just didn't want to muddy up the point of that comment any further than I already had. Firefox is an easy recommendation on desktop but mobile needs a bit more nuance.

The point is that using anything that's not Google Chrome is better for the internet.
My question was not about AlecSchueler's personal opinion of torture.

The other 4 Declaration signers who were detained by the British were all rich men of high station - were given good treatment and considerable freedom under parole not given to normal prisoners or POWs. They certainly weren't tortured in any sense of the word.

The description in the biography seems to be that because Richard Stockton was also a rich man of high station, he should have received similar treatment, but he was instead treated like a commoner, and his suffering was all the greater because he was used to the good life.

In the biography were are supposed to sympathize with Stockton because of course rich people deserve to be treated better than plebes. That's the natural order of things. A bizjet traveler should never be forced to fly tourist class.

Congress's interest in the case seems to be much more an apprehension that Stockton was being treated like a common prisoner than a concern that commoners are being horribly mistreated. They wanted Stockton treated like a POW, covered under different laws than a prisoner.

If what was going on can be called torture, Congress don't seem to care. My question is, why not?
If I had encountered this poll on Twitter, I would have picked "moon" too.
Is the attestation zero-knowledge? Or does the attestation carry metadata that can uniquely identify a device?
Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification
That is useful info, but still does not quite address the question.

The question was how memory type, memory amount and bandwidth factor into actual performance. So let me rephrase: Given a budget of $X, what performance/limitations should you expect with

- 256GB of non-unified DDR5 in a PC, just CPU

- 128GB of DDR5 for an APU

- 96GB of unified DDR5

- Whatever Nvidia will sell you for $X.

An answer of "just compare a single memory bandwidth number" seems a bit short. Sure, more bandwidth helps, but is half as much RAM at double bandwidth better or worse?
Technically we do not need "proof" that our users are human, not even when using AdSense to monetize our websites.

The only reason Google think we do is because they implemented AdSense incorrectly. E.g. Using an impractical and underpriced PPC model. If they used a fixed pricing model this would not be a problem, and fake clicks would not even be an issue.
Web standards are a part of the problem that few people think about. Existing rendering engines grew along with the standards. However, the standards (especially CSS) have become so absurdly complex that implementing a new engine would be nearly impossible. Even Microsoft caved, and Edge is now essentially Chrome.

Some will point out that Chrome is based on open-source software. In reality, however, Google has a huge amount of power here. If Google is serious about this initiative, they will try to force it into the projects, and make it an essential part of the web experience. As others have pointed out, Google is also a primary supporter of Firefox, so they have influence there as well.
But surely those folks can walk away and put in their CV that they quit because they were in charge of implementing one of the worst ideas the history of internet has seen so far. Wouldn't you hire someone that puts that in their resume?
Can you elaborate on the issues you're running into with Firefox? Hopefully we can help you sort these out!
> Intelligence has a pretty clear meaning.

Come on. We did this already, almost certainly long before you were born. Even the instrumentalists don't like it!

This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think’. The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. If the meaning of the words ‘machine’ and ‘think’ are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, ‘Can machines think?’ is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll.
Yet the development of the browser is seeing a smaller fraction of that income than most people believe.
This is one of those lines that sounds like it came from a book of quotations, but I can't seem to find any source beyond this post.
Edge is just chromium. It is not a competitor.
I know but it never worked for me. I followed the procedure twice, two different years, two different installs. I'm always doing something wrong. On Mozilla's side, why are they even doing that to us on Nightly?
Back in the 90s I managed a dial-up ISP and I had a policy that if a customer calling support was overly rude to my agents, we would just tell them "I guess we're not the company for you, let's start the cancellation process".

We were the best deal in town (lowest price and user:line ratio for an unlimited service), so they would usually change their tune, but we had a 2-strike policy, so call and be rude again, and you're out for good.

We didn't end up having to do this that many times, but when we did, it was worth it.

Often your most difficult and abusive customers end up being your least profitable.
I agree. Just noting the bar is very low for these tools, which may have set low expectations.
Does Opera count? It uses Chromium.
That's just exchanging one demon on your shoulder for another.
The changes introduced by discovery of fire were very gradual. No Internet, no written language at all: any innovation back then could only spread as quickly as humans walked, and would temporarily stop at every significant geographic barrier such as sea.

Compared to the discovery of fire, the changes from room temperature superconductors would be a flash fire.
This seems like a very reasonable reply to me; what's tone deaf or otherwise objectionable about it?
And if I want to use links on z80?

And aside from niche platforms, do you want the 3 big companies to decide what you're allowed to see on the internet?
Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) [pdf]
I think the person you are responding to would say that edge is just another chromium skin. It doesn't exactly relieve Google's monopoly on browser technology
The last sentence in the paper:

> We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical event that
opens a new era for humankind.
Show HN: I built a multiplayer Gameboy
Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.
I currently use grocery plastic bags as household garbage bags. I've not bought trash bags in a decade. It'll be slightly more pricy and less convenient if plastic bags go away. But maybe it's still good on the greater whole.
Google engineers or Google managers/business units? I don't think regular engineers have the voice to drive these kind of things. Sure, engineers are the ones implementing it, but at the end of the day it needs the approval of management.
How we (legislatively, or the lack thereof) have allowed corporations to directly affect peoples lives with a black box algorithm with zero human accountability is insane. We do the same thing with credit scores, used to deny people housing and even jobs (today in 39 states + the District of Columbia).
Yeah, I mentioned this in another comment: it's really a shame that Mozilla spends the majority of that money (often poorly IMO), instead of putting it into an endowment fund or something similar that would leave them in a much better position for the long run.
How can a point be inherently pointless?

Yes or no: can a standalone headset play games like a PC-connected headset can? If yes, it is not a poor substitute. If no, then it is a poor substitute. This is the dichotomy I established with my comment.
> Perhaps in Ireland?

Why make this call out?
At a much lower price, because search deals are paid based on number of searches done (so indirectly, the number of active users), and because Google has 90%-ish market share, it means a 90% drop in revenue.

Also, Bing has on average twice higher RPMs, so, a 50% of drop in income after rev-share.

So, you remove 90% of the revenue, and you divide by 2 what is remaining.
A perhaps more appropriate name for your 'log' would be 'peek'. Log reminds of logging, which usually does not return a value, but writes to stdout or a file or similar.
And is everyone, or should everyone, be willing to risk that fat salary, cushy job, benefits for their principles if it means risking the quality of life for their family?

Do any of them support a sick kid, spouse, parent? Any of them send money home?

All I'm saying is that some of them might not be in a situation in which they could, on a whim, risk getting fired. And we shouldn't blame them because the fix for that is not on their hands.
For everyone "with a Mac"...
Windows User have to wait.
A Galaxy with Almost No Dark Matter
Why do you donate money when you have acknowledged that the CEO is wasting it?
emotional brainwashing(entertaintment, fear etc) people to buy stuff that they don't need. taking advantage of people's weakness. it's not like "this is our product, this is what it does, and this is the price of it" instead "your neighbour has this cool stuff but you don't means you are lesser person if you don't buy also", "if you don't buy this stuff, you won't get a girlfriend and die alone", "if you don't buy this stuff, you will miss out amazing opportunity of becoming rich and stuck as poor"
> There are exceptionally talented, successful, high-profile software developers with incomplete & unpolished exploratory projects on their GitHub.

If you intentionally put up your GitHub page in your resume and all you have is "incomplete and unpolished exploratory projects", that's how you're choosing to present yourself.

Also, the degree of "unpolished ness" actually attests to the skillet you bring to the table. If the "exploratory projects" you choose to showcase as your portfolio are ungodly messes, you should not be surprised they reflect poorly on you.

> It's surprising that you would take pride in using this as a basis to disqualify.

I know for a fact that public GitHub repositories explicitly presented by candidates as their technical portfolio is an accurate reflection of their skillet. I am certain of this fact because I never used personal source code repos to exclude candidates but to guide the interview, and each and every single candidate I interviewed that published crap in their portfolio was lacking absolute basic competencies in the domain they showcased.

Do you have any data to refute this?

I really don't understand how anyone in this day and age is surprised that the way you present yourself in a CV or even online, specially in professional venues, has an impact on your hireability.
The stable ones are thoroughly used in C-64 software these days. A more detailed matrix with extra information can be found here: http://www.oxyron.de/html/opcodes02.html
But you do realise that other engineers may do it, right? Ultimately the managers or executives are the ones behind it.
A little nitpick: Mozilla has no shareholders. Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, while Mozilla Corporation is 100% owned by the Foundation. Your point still stands though.
> driver bugs linked to OpenCL and ROCm

CUDA is the default tech for GPGPU in HPC or AI applications, for more than a decade now. By now, people have found most of these driver bugs, and nVidia has fixed them.

Similarly, compute shaders is the only tech for GPGPU used in videogames. Modern videogames are using compute shaders for a decade now, in increasing volumes. For example, UE5 even renders triangle meshes with them [1].

However, OpenCL and ROCm are niche technologies. I’ve been hearing complaints about driver quality for some time now. For obvious reason, AMD and Intel prioritize driver bugs which affect modern videogames sold in many million copies, compared to the bugs which only affect a few people working on HPC, AI or other niche GPGPU applications.

> they're underestimating the power of a few good public "how to use the damn thing" sessions

I agree the learning curve is steep, with the lack of good materials. For an introduction article, see [2]. Ignore the parts about D3D10 hardware, the article is old and D3D10 hardware is no longer relevant. Another one, with slightly more depth, is [3]. For an example how to multiply large dense matrices with a compute shader see [4], but that example is rather advanced because optimizations, and because weird memory layout conventions inherited from the upstream project.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMorJX3Nj6U

[2] https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/DevZone/docs/h...

[3] https://github.com/jstoecker/dxcompute-docs/tree/main

[4] https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/blob/master/ComputeShade...
Fun story from a place I worked which got one of the first alpha 4100 sold in our country - it was having intermittent crashes that we couldn't figure out.

DEC sent out a very senior engineer to investigate, he eventually discovered some shielding had somehow been bent behind where a bus slot was soldered and with thermal expansion would short against some of the pins causing errors.

Aside from that they were rock solid.

DEC also sold us a weird windows cluster using where 2 boxes connected to the same scsi array, it was not so solid.
> A simple example would be just rejecting ad-blocking extensions from their Chrome store. They've never done anything close to that (including all the manifest v3 hullabaloo where they explicitly worked with ad-blocking teams to help them migrate) so who in their right mind would think that they would try to sneak it in via some fancy new web standard that wouldn't even be able to effectively block ad-blocking if it wanted to.

Like, perhaps like if they didn't allow any extensions on their mobile browsers?

(Note: You can't use extensions on Chrome on mobile devices)
It’s named Gnathia jimmybuffetti… after Jimmy Buffett.

We really gotta work on these names
Sure they have known for a long time. What is changing is advertisers awareness of the fake clicks. Creates an opportunity for ad platforms that can prove the humanity of their viewers.
As an example, Can you recommend a good tech/hacker video channel that is available somewhere else other than Youtube?
How does fixed pricing mean you don't need to care about bots?

The site claims they get 1M visitors per day; should an advertiser believe them?
I remember AMP. If they push this through I'll be taking our business off Google. That would mean a lot of workflow changes but there is absolutely no way this gets a pass. Quitting Twitter was annoying and quitting Google will be a lot harder but I do believe that if you don't stand up against stuff like this that you're effectively part of the problem.
Bad for what/whom?
Landfill isn't demonised. It just happens to be the worst option for most stuff.

Libertarians in the US have been landfill stans for decades because they are funded by the people who provide the inputs for non-recycled plastics, namely fossil fuels.

The only thing they hate more than recycling is single use plastic bans, again because that means less fossil fuel sales.

Ironically, their anti-recycling propaganda has been so successful that people have just started supporting outright bans. And now they have to embarrassingly suggest that bans are unnecessary because single use plastics can be recycled instead.
What are these issues?
>"Im used to spending too much money so in order to not getting a minimal pay cut im gonna work on unethical proyects."

That also accounts for expenses.

Do any of them send money home? Help parents or grandparents? Do any of them had to bring their parents or grandparents to live with them due to health issues? Lifestyle creep takes into account taking on more debt. That debt is not just in luxury like how most people think.
You speak as if religion and astrology are two different things.

Not all Hindus believe in astrology, but very many do, and within contemporary Hinduism it is very much mainstream belief. And many Hindus who believe in astrology would reject the idea of drawing any firm boundary between their astrological beliefs and the rest of their religion. [0]

Hinduism is not the only religion to promote astrology: it is also a very common thing in contemporary Western Neopaganism/Wicca/etc. While contemporary Christianity is (with rare exception) anti-astrology, it was much more accepting of it in the Middle Ages, even into the early modern period – "papal astrologer" was once a real job description.

[0] https://iskconeducationalservices.org/HoH/lifestyle/expressi...
Would really appreciate an invite if you don't mind. My email is hi@[username].com
By investing locally and in people I don’t mean spend all your money. But to that end, neither are the big companies going to come to your aid. But your neighbors and local business owners will be MUCH more likely to come to your aid after supporting them and helping them succeed.