skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does 8K gaming require more VRAM?

I think the textures and geometry would have the same resolution (or is that not the case? but in 4K if you walk closer to the wall you'd want higher texture resolution as well anyway, if the graphics artists have made the assets at that resolution anyway)

8K screen resolution requires 132 megabytes of memory to store the pixels (for 32-bit color), that doesn't explain gigabytes of extra VRAM

I'd be curious to know what information I'm missing
One way to look at is that the third party GPU packagers have a different set of expertise. They generally build motherboards, GPU holder boards, RAM, and often monitors and mice as well. All of these product PCBs are cheaply made and don't depend on the performance of the latest TSMC node the way the GPU chips do, more about ticking feature boxes at the lowest cost.

So nvidia wouldn't have the connections or skillset to do budget manufacturing of low-cost holder boards the way ASUS or EVGA does. Plus with so many competitors angling to use the same nvidia GPU chips, nvidia collects all the margin regardless.
I think they mean CUDA
It's accountable to Congress:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

> The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by the Federal Reserve Act to serve as the nation's central bank. The Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., is an agency of the federal government and reports to and is directly accountable to the Congress.

> Some observers mistakenly consider the Federal Reserve to be a private entity because the Reserve Banks are organized similarly to private corporations. For instance, each of the 12 Reserve Banks operates within its own particular geographic area, or District, of the United States, and each is separately incorporated and has its own board of directors. Commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System hold stock in their District's Reserve Bank. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund.
Fallacy fallacy
No, he doesn't, item 6 on short-term moats:

> 6. Reputation / Brand: Building a strong reputation often directly boosts sales, and AI is likely to make the brand-building process easier in surprising ways. Having a brand with a rich history can also be an advantage, given you consistently keep working on it and maintain its value over time.
This not about some random source control system, but rather about original product called SCCS (predecessor to RCS, CVS, SVN, etc...), the one of the first version control systems made 50 years ago. This is a retrospective by original author.
Even where the remedy is correct and effective, letting people lie their way out of trouble is bad magic.
I like the name. It's the SDK that gives the name meaning anyway.
That reminds me of a while back, my phone battery was getting really low, like 1%. I grabbed a power bank and connected it, USB-C to USB-C, and for whatever reason, the two devices decided that the phone should be charging the power bank instead of vice-versa. Then the phone died a few seconds later. (Then the powerbank started charging the phone!)
The Fed is subject to FOIA [1]. (Within limits [2].) FRB New York is not.

If you want to know about monetary policy, that’s FOIA’able. If you want to FOIA the FRB’s trades so you can front run them, that’s not allowed. (Similarly, you can FOIA the Department of Education. You can’t FOIA Sally Mae.)

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/about_foia.htm

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/exemptions.htm
Haha, yeah you are a real independent all right. I swear I've never heard anyone say that and then follow it with something in their own voice, it's f*cling hilarious to me - I've never met an independent, just idiots tbh.

For the record, and this is true for all humans, speaking words that you've INDEPENDENTLY thought of and come up with all on your own - they leave your mouth differently than words you've heard another say and now your just repeating... it's instantly and immediately identifiable - it's like an advertisement came on, totally different tone, incantation and inflection.

Your comment was the text version of that.
I think, at least the way I would approach the problem, would be to look at the speed or flow rate of the phones on a particular road as the primary signal. I believe Google has ways of detecting if the device is in a car/vehicle vs being carried for example so they could filter out "walking" phones. Then looking at the flow of devices alleviates the need to calculate the carrying capacity of a particular road. The speed/flow tells you want you're trying to measure more directly than trying to count phones and decide if that means a road is congested or not, to do that you'd need to develop a heuristic to estimate the capacity of roads which seems like you're unnecessarily ignoring the direct signal in favor of trying to calculate it from a noisier source.
Yeah, and every country (at least every Western country) has the same issue.

Perfect storm of building codes, political apathy, government bureaucracy, and corruption.
Ask HN: Do you try to predict email contents from subject line?
I noticed I do this somewhat subconsciously and rather less exact details but sentiment (positive/negative) and perhaps the ask that might be in it based on sender and prior history with them.

Which is why when someone sends an email with no subject I immediately assume its negative…which it is most of the time.

Is this just something I do?
Stares in Long Term Capital Management
I think the imminent collapse of the US economy is aptly named "Doomsday" to the Federal Reserve.

I mean, you bring up a disaster recovery plan for companies, but is it REALLY a "disaster"?
Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – it sometimes makes it worse
Many of our "heroes" speaking about having children the same way. Steve Jobs said having children was far more important than the work he did at Apple. While he's going in a different direction with it, Elon Musk has focused on a lot on declining birthrates and what that means.
Effective in 3-9 months. Today is about pretending the company is growing with employees.
Ours just opened in 2024 and I've tried to give them as much business as possible. Ordering everything for a new PC build, sans the AMD CPU, and then doing pick up was a breeze. Feels great that the place is completely packed every time I go in there. I feel like Bestbuy made me sort of hate electronics retail and Microcenter is reminding of what it used to be like going to Radio Shack and Compusa back in their hayday.
"Community belief", or the appearance of it, can be engineered by a bad actor with sufficient resources: an authoritarian state, a think-tank with sufficiently rich sponsors, or the platform itself.
I will if you do! look at that, your contribution just doubled!
Thermal Radiation with a Twist
You're the middle ground I was talking about. You tried it. You know where it works and where it doesn't.

I've used LLM to generate code samples and my IDE (IntelliJ) uses an LLM for auto-suggestions. That's mostly about it for me.
> banking system printed every dollar out of thin air and is charging interest on every single one (giving a cut to government)

This is also nonsense, though less so.

Money is created by private banks through lending. The government gets a cut, but that comes through taxation. Money creation is complicated, but it seems like every year someone watches a YouTube video about inflation and deduces, with zero further thought, that it must be a conspiracy.
I air-fry frozen Ore-Ida fries a lot. All of them have added sugar EXCEPT for curly fries (for some unknown reason). So I only buy curly fries because they have 18.5% fewer calories.
It's not just Elon, it's the whole experience on X which is IMO so awful. It's a shame more AI people don't cross post on to Bluesky. YMMV of course. :)
This comment resonates a lot with me, so thanks for writing it. In order for me to lose weight, I had to completely upend my view of food instilled during childhood which meant no longer eating three meals a day "because that's how it is" and focusing on a few areas like drinks since those are easy to go overboard with.
Honestly, SCSI was more straightforward than the quagmire that is current USB standards, especially over Type-C. I can't trust the quality of cables or what they are capable of on the surface. I really need to do my homework to ensure I get the right transfer speeds and power delivery.

Once I was charging my SteamDeck using a cable I thought was quality, and the darn connector bit felt alarmingly hot to the touch. Turns out the cable wasn't certified for PD applications and was better for 5V @ 4.5W...
And that’s only one of the four planned phases.
This is the wrong take. The system reflects the will of the people who the system deems important. The average person wants higher wages, shorter hours and cheaper cost of living w/r/t rent, food, fuel and health. Congress is reflecting none of those desires right now because they serves the needs of the oligarchic selectorate that has been funding unrestricted class warfare against regular people for the last 20 years.
40k a year does not even cover cost of basic housing in high cost of living areas.
Electron; ship a whole web browser as your cross platform toolkit. Worst of all worlds, but at least you pick the browser version... wait that's horrid for security!
It'll be a net-positive for things like that, passports might be rendered useless in the future since they're already using facial recognition at Customs. It can help solve crimes given it can recognize faces using CCTV footage amongst other things.

There is a certain level of distrust since it can be abused and people think it will lead to a dystopian police state.
Demonetisation isn't so bad (i.e. copyright claims). Copyright strikes kill the channel after 3 in a row within a month or so.
Or markets with lower burdens of entry (ie, regulations or religion-political opposition)
Hot take:

This is to please the incoming president.

Both the far-right and far-left live off misinformation, but right now the far-right is experiencing a renaissance, and tech moguls are bending the knee to be on good terms with the leaders.

MAGA and European far-right politicians have been moaning for ages that fact checking is "politically biased". The Biden laptop controversy was the catalyst for this.
> don't we grow tolerant to pleasures

For some, the tolerance doesn't cause them disinterest but rather a drive to go further. Can they get an even _saltier_ chip? Or rather more flavorful with increasingly exotic condiments. Or one bowl no longer does it, maybe 2 will do.

You can see this in American supermarkets on the snack aisles. You see variants of the same products from plain/traditional, to novelty flavor, to 5x extra novelty flavor. It isn't just marketing or just the normal distribution of individual preferences. I think it is a hedonistic ratchet. You see it in the level of nuances specialists take to any field or hobby the deeper on delves. The craft beer connoisseurs to who keep wanting more hops in their IPAs are a good example too.
>I miss when high-end GPUs were $300-400, and you could get something reasonable for $100-200.

That time is 25 years ago though, i think the Geforce DDR is the last high end card to fit this price bracket. While cards have gotten a lot more expensive those $300 high end cards should be around $600 now. And $200-400 for low end still exists.
Los Angeles actually builds skyscrapers the fastest:
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/which-city-builds-sky...
You don't really need to own much to initiate a bogus copyright strike, so I don't know how that's relevant.
Flexoki 2.0
I see less "painting as a luddite" in response to statements like this, and more... surprise. Mild skepticism, perhaps!

Your experience diverges from that of other experienced devs who have used the same tools, on probably similar projects, and reached different conclusions.

That includes me, for what it's worth. I'm a graybeard whose current work is primarily cloud data pipelines that end in fullstack web. Like most devs who have fully embraced LLMs, I don't think they are a magical panacea. But I've found many cases where they're unquestionably an accelerant -- more than enough to justify the cost.

I don't mean to say your conclusions are wrong. There seems to be a bimodal distribution amongst devs. I suspect there's something about _how_ these tools are used by each dev, and in the specific circumstances/codebases/social contexts, that leads to quite different outcomes. I would love to read a better investigation of this.
100 years.

But the entire issue was held back politically.

The construction itself took less than a decade.

However, even that showed the issues with America building so sporadically. The construction was really expensive. And a lot of those expenses could have been reduced if the US was doing this consistently enough so we could learn from them and optimize future construction.

The next phase, for example, has changed the station design based on the experience with the first phase, which alone has been estimated to save about $500mm in costs. There’s some great work being done by NYU or Columbia (I can’t remember which one) analyzing the expenses and suggesting other trivial changes (such as the working hours and the shift timings) that will save many more hundreds of millions if not billions (1 example I believe was something like modifying shift timings so excavation is completed right before the trash pickup arrives, because right now many millions were being spent to excavate additional space simply to hold the materials excavated until the trash pickup shift started).
While I kinda agree with you, I don't think we will ever find a meaningful way to throw genome sequencing data at LLMs. It's simple too much data.

I've worked in a project some years ago where we were using data from genome sequencing of a bacteria. Every sequenced sample was around 3GB of data and sample size was pretty small with only about 100 samples to study.

I think the real revolution will happen because code generation through LLMs will allow biologists to write 'good enough' code to transform, process and analyze data. Today to do any meaningful work with genome data you need a pretty competent bioinformatician, and they are a rare breed. Removing this bottleneck is what will allow us to move faster in this field.
Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders
> They aren't explicit about it, but it's clear that pressure does not exist anymore

It's clear that the pressure comes now from the other side of the spectrum. Zuck already put Trumpists at various key positions.

> I think this is a big win for Meta, because it means people who care about the content being right will have to engage more with the Meta products to ensure their worldview is correctly represented.

It's a good point. They're also going to push more political contents, which should increase engagement (eventually frustrating users and advertisers?)

Either way, it's pretty clear that the company works with the power in place, which is extremely concerning (whether you're left or right leaning, and even more if you're not American).
Not having a single binary distribution like CockroachDB is hurting adoption of TiDB.
You can do this (in Linux, at least. Mobile devices like Android as well.) if the USB port of the peripheral side is a USB OTG port. I've only seen USB OTG ports as USB-B (standard and micro) or USB-C.

Edit: I didn't notice before, but USB OTG is on the front page right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585167
Most office workers only need access to Microsoft Office and a browser. I can definitely see a use case for having these at your desk and some people having a laptop that is not as locked down.

I am a developer and I was using AWS Cloud 9 exclusively for a year until it was deprecated because it was much faster working with a lot of data in a VM hosted on AWS than it was on my local PC even though I did have 1GB symmetrical Fiber at home.

It was definitely a better experience working with a cloud IDE when traveling for business with much slower internet.
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Ah, yes, it's that time of year again.

(Every year around this time there are a bunch of these articles, presumably on the basis that it's usually a slow news period, so why not list the lost property from various transport authorities. Here's another more fun one: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93gvqvyx5lo )
This covers a lot of the common stuff.

This is native HTMX, or at least a good chuck of the basics.
I have a Framework 13 and I've found that it's fairly finicky about what power sources it will accept. Anything 60W and higher seems to mostly work, but lower wattage chargers are much more dicey.

The one trick I've heard works (but haven't tried) is to "kick start" it by connecting two chargers, one with higher wattage and one with lower, then giving it a minute to begin charging, then disconnecting the higher-powered one. Apparently that's enough to get it past the initial issue and then it will continue charging (more slowly) from the lower wattage charger.

There was a firmware update a while back that was supposed to improve things, but it didn't change the behavior with my 27W charger.
> Money is created by private banks through lending.

Exactly. Every single dollar was created from thin air, as a "loan".

> it seems like every year someone watches a YouTube video about inflation and deduces, with zero further thought, that it must be a conspiracy.

I've been studying and researching this for years.
Excuse my ignorance,but what is wrong with Chipotle?
Is it the high sodium.
I eat the thing twice a week and do so because I get a high amount of fiber and calories needed for my diet...the only issue it the sodium content.

I tried Cava once and it was expensive for what it was and did not taste as good.
I just realized that I had forgotten to actually add the license file to this repository. Added it now.

The license is MIT. Thanks for noticing.
> Are they privately held or part of the state apparatus though?

The Fed is part of the state. Unambiguously.

FRB New York is its interface with the private sector, analogous to Fannie Mae or the Tennessee Valley Authority.
We should all do our part to stop perpetuating the meme about that comment, which is pretty unfair.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392302
Nice charts. These are great too:

https://jabberwocking.com/top-20-charts-of-2024/
Location: California, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, C++, SQL, machine learning, big data

Resume: 12+ years at Google (current/ongoing). Built Google's system for model based mobile ad format selection and most recently spent 5 years as the technical lead for HTML5 Playable ads.

Education: M.S. Computer Science from UCLA

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This sounds pretty cool! I like the name too, I would keep it like that.
The victim trap of engineering managers
An MIT license file was added (or edited) a minute ago in the repo :)
It's pretty much right. Dig into what it takes to run a social network in most European countries and you'll hit at minimum the following problems:

• Lack of a DMCA equivalent. DMCA lays out a lightweight process for platforms to process copyright disputes which if they follow it will avoid legal liability, which is needed on any platform that hosts user generated content. The EU Copyright acts require platforms themselves to enforce copyright and prevent users violating it. This is a gigantic technical implementation problem all by itself. Also, the US has the legal concept of fair use but that's not a concept in much of Europe, so people posting parodies etc thinking it's OK can still create liability problems.

• No equivalent of Section 230. Many new laws that specifically criminalize the hosting of illegal speech, and which don't give any credit for effort. As what's illegal is vague and political in nature you can't make automated systems or even human-driven systems that reliably handle it, so the legal risks are large even with a good faith effort to comply.

• GDPR, "right to be forgotten" and NetzDG style laws have large fixed costs associated with compliance which established companies can absorb but startups can't. For instance it's common for EU lawmakers to demand 24 hour turnaround times, which you can't reliably comply with if you're a one man startup.

• Algorithmic transparency laws, which mean you can't obtain any competitive advantage by better ranking (being good at this is how TikTok got so big), and which can threaten your ability to clear spam or use ML.

• Laws around targeted advertising mean you can't generate revenue comparable to what the US based firms can do, so you can't be competitive and your users will be annoyed by low quality barrel scraping ads for casinos after they click "No" on a consent screen without reading it.

There's probably more. For example, running a commercial search engine or training AI models on the internet is illegal in the UK, because UK copyright law only allows "data mining" for research purposes. There's no way to argue it's fair use like they do in the US. Just one of many such problems off the top of my head.
this is what I’ve been looking for. Like a Freeform spreadsheet. super excited to give this a go!
The article explains the author's justification right at the very top, so you can decide if the given reasons apply to you or not.
This is just false

> Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think

> Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, they compared what the public wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of 90% of Americans have essentially no impact at all.

https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba

There are several articles about the study
> the option to save off a hierarchy of classes to text

And so did ancient Smalltalks.

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 46

"Within each project, a set of changes you make to class descriptions is maintained. … Using a browser view of this set of changes, you can find out what you have been doing. Also, you can use the set of changes to create an external file containing descriptions of the modifications you have made to the system so that you can share your work with other users."

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...
Will FedACH process ACH payments on the National Day of Mourning, Jan 9, 2025?
> average person wants higher wages, shorter hours and cheaper cost of living w/r/t rent, food, fuel and health. Congress is reflecting none of those desires

The average voter does not uniformly express these preferences.
You're forgetting that the transit zones themselves are not only affected, the main BRIDGES are also affected. So even if you're not driving in downtown Manhattan, you will still pay the cost to enter the city through the normal entrances

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Manhattan's Congestion Relief Zone starts at 60th Street and heads south to include the Lincoln, Holland and Hugh L. Carey tunnels on the Hudson River side, and the Queensboro Bridge, Queens Midtown Tunnel, Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge on the East Side.

Drivers will be charged when they enter the Congestion Relief Zone using the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queensboro or Williamsburg Bridges, or the Holland, Hugh L. Carey, Lincoln or Queens-Midtown tunnels.

Drivers coming from the Bronx or Upper Manhattan will be charged once they reach 60th Street.

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