skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My response assumes that you are talking about the "frame warping" feature of Reflex 2 (saying DLSS 4 was misquoting Nvidia's PR jumble) not simply frame-gen/MFG or upscaling. MFG, while producing even more interpolated frames, does not improve latency and will probably make it worse. I suppose an argument could be made for upscaling in a roundabout may (lower internal resolution = more frames = faster response time) but that would be more true for DLSS 3 as it has a lower GPU overhead than the transformer-based DLSS 4

Anyways, even if it were the case that graphic stack produces a response to the input by warping the frame during interpolation / before rendering, the input that triggers said response would (certius paribus) still go through libinput (and most likely the Wayland compositor) so timing would remain the same. For any features to improve on response time, it would likely have to circumvent one (if not both) libraries.
> And that if you hold a stock for say 10 years and somehow sell during a recession you could make ~0$ on that stock if it only did buybacks. While with a dividend you'd have come out ahead.

A stock with buybacks should be compared to a stock with dividend reinvestment.

If you do something other than reinvest dividends, you should sell some shares every year.
Doesn’t it self regulate? If there is too fewer miners then reward goes up?
Also, unlike gold, you can anonymously transport it around the world without getting robbed.
To confirm my understanding: weren't protectionist policies (e.g. corruption + clientelism) pretty much enshrined pillars of Peronism?
> who solve only 50% of the problem and have another tool to solve the rest, which in turn only solves 50% etc.. ad infinitum

This actually converges to 1:

1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1

You just need 30kloc of maven in your pom before you get there.
I had a similar idea a while back and built Gnod Search around it:

https://www.gnod.com/search

You can enter a search term and then click on the button of a search engine.

Or you can just press the first char in the name of the engine. So you can search Google for "hello world" by typing "hello world<enter>g". And then go back and just hit "c" to send the same query to ChatGPT.
It's appalling how many people on these threads take pride on being an SME on these topics, without recognizing the real point. It is not a question for a drones SME. It's question for defining the meaning and purpose of human progress. We are creating a form of natural calamities and calling it progress. Drone swarms are calamities similar to earth quakes, tsunami or wild fire. If you have a swarm your enemy has it too. If you have a nuke, the enemy has it too. You might reason, well, even if we don't push for it, others would. Alright, then the only way to stop it is by natural balance. The balance would be achieved by devaluing the resources humans are after. Say there are too few humans remaining on earth, so that they don't care about owning stuff, country borders or money or security ...
Industrial uses of gold aren't the only uses of gold. Like it or not, jewelry (among other decorative objects) containing actual gold is an enduring status symbol that is hard to 100% fake, and there is quite a large amount of the world's gold that is used for decorative purposes.
I was thinking more 2010, for 15 years.
Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet
Where would you want a young female (for their own safety) to walk through at 9pm at night, given the choice:

A block of drug zombies, or a block doesn't have any of that?
There is a large base of competent Rails practitioners.

It has good documentation.

The code base is stable.

There are mature libraries.

It is practical to learn Rails.

Sure there are very good reasons not to choose Rails, but the current year is not one of them.

And the work of building any new business...let alone a startup is approximately the same no matter which technologies you choose (modulo your expertise).

Time spent researching web frameworks postpones building the potentially money printing mechanism. When your research is done, you still won't have built anything.

If you are lucky enough to grow, you will be constantly rebuilding your systems. Unless you are Telegram. They used Erlang. It has the same features as Rails except for a large pool of practitioners. Good luck.
> “Jackson: In Vanguard’s view, crypto is more of a speculation than an investment. […] While crypto has been classified as a commodity […]

While Vanguard isn't against commodities completely (e.g., VCMDX):

* https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...

* https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/dam/corp/research/pdf...

It's not really their thing either.
For Vanguard's customer base, this is quite true though. They have access to easy avenues for exchange in the form of USD and other assets.

There is some value for those without access to stable currencies in their home country, but that use case is absolutely dwarfed by the other use cases out there at the moment. Perhaps this will change if the US goes through an economic collapse due to bad tariffs or something.
If it were that simple, Vanguard wouldn't have taken the additional step to prevent trading in these products on their brokerage. Telling customers "you can't buy Bitcoin because we can't sell it to you at a profit" would be ridiculous.
And yet that's not what we have. Bitcoin, the most popular cryptcoin in the world, is far from quick and cheap to exchange...especially during times of volatility. That dream of "internet money" is just a fantasy to lure potential bag holders.
The people I know who go out and buy vinyl today are the people who I used to go to concerts with, had a lot of CDs and were the same people who were early adopters of streaming. Basically, the people who actually really like music!
>How much of gold value is honest commodity value and how much of it is speculative value?

It really doesn't matter. The honest commodity value is the same price as the market value. 60+ percent of new gold mined every year goes towards jewelry and electronics. The base price of gold is high due to demand, not due to speculation. Gold is pretty and pretty hard to find - thus the price goes up.
> You're right about that. It's called the barter system and we don't use it anymore because it's inefficient and sucks shit.

Barter sucks because of coincidence of wants. It doesn’t suck because paying in S&P500 ETF doesn’t correspond to magical temporary store of labor whatever that is supposed to mean.

> No, it's because if cash has a fixed value, then the "temporary" part of labor storage goes away and the economy grinds to a halt.

What would grind to a halt exactly? Sorry, plebs, only rich people are allowed to be paid in stocks and other non-inflationary assets. You have to suffer, otherwise economy grinds to a halt!
Someone is writing the blog post. That is the person who cares if you mistake their hard work for AI slop.
> There's a great story about the development, by a Mr. Strowger, of the first electromechanical telephone exchange switch. Previously, calls were connected manually, by operators. Mr. Strowger was an undertaker, and he believed that the operators were sending callers to his competition unfairly. So he invented an automatic switch to remove the human element.

I’ve heard this one before. Wasn’t the wife of one of his competitors actually the operator in question?
Would have been nice to see if the issue is present on wlroots compositors, GNOME rolled their own.
I thought citizens are allowed to request companies to delete their data? Similar to CA’s CCPA laws. I likely hold a similar opinion as you. Most of these laws are tokenism considering the harms done real or implied.
I’ve been pretty vocal about using http://kamal-deploy.org/ more and more, and Render less.

Kamal really is fantastic, PaaS niceties w/o the PaaS tax.
The Gutsy Teenage Oversteegen Sisters Killed Nazis During WWII
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Oversteegen:

"Oversteegen, her sister, and friend Hannie Schaft worked to sabotage the Nazi military presence in the Netherlands. They used dynamite to disable bridges and railroad tracks. They also smuggled Jewish children out of the country or helped them escape concentration camps.

The Oversteegens and Schaft also killed German soldiers, with Freddie being the first of the girls to kill a soldier by shooting him while riding her bicycle. They also lured soldiers to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them. Oversteegen would approach the soldiers in taverns and bars and ask them to "go for a stroll" in the forest."
The Music N language family, which describe both the implementation of the sound generation engines and the pitch and timing of the sound, goes back to the 1950s. The original member of this family was used to do the first digital sound synthesis (Max Matthews rendering "A Bicycle Built for Two"); the last and likely final member of the family, CSound, dates to the 80s but is still maintained and occasionally improved as an open source project.

The Music N family and other ideas inspired all kinds of much better text languages for music encoding, including examples like Chuck and the very large set of "live coding" languages that is constantly expanding.
What does this have to do with protests? Aren't protests by definition events where the organizers want people to be aware of?
The article links to

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/28/texas-housing-afford...

to explain the increased construction:

> Austin’s housing crisis had become undeniable. How to solve the problem became a dominant theme in the city’s 2022 elections.

> "People just kind of got to this point where they had had enough," Council Member José "Chito" Vela said. "They just were like, 'okay, what we were doing on housing for the last 20 years is clearly not working.'"

> The council members YIMBYs helped elect passed several reforms aimed at juicing the city’s housing stock.
Would you consider someone with 15 years of industry experience (including Python, Rust and Node), a passion for building impactful stuff, but no LLM exposure (yet)?
Why do you say were? The site still seems active?
It actually does when you're off-road. If you can keep all tires in contact with the ground you aren't wasting fuel spinning one that isn't in contact with the ground (I keep the traction control off when offroading to avoid the system engaging its brake-based power delivery since it isn't an actual 4x4.)

The difference has been absolutely measurable, with a ~15% increase in fuel efficiency in very hilly or rutted terrain.
Interestingly, this test has been in the public domain for the last seven years, since it is part of all possible chess games with 7 or less pieces, which is solved and published. It is a huge file, but the five pieces games dataset with the FEN is less than a GB. I wonder if it even got included in the training data earlier, or if it will be.
Ability to send vale across the world, to anywhere, for relatively low fees, could count as providing value, don't you think? A lot of people do.

Bitcoin got labeled just a "store of value", but with Bitcoin Lightning it can be used for low fee payments too.

Pity about mining though, I wish they followed Ethereum into staking. It doesn't matter how much value you provide if you burn the planet along the way.
Link isn't working. Is there another or a cached version?
Signal occasionally drops something that could be the server code.

When they were working on their cryptocurrency they didn't release anything for over a year.
I built a Chrome plugin to watch Netflix in a group
Oh thank god. I had the displeasure of meeting with him once, and it was so bad that when we hung up I had our team to start planning a migration off of Heroku.

The crux of the issue was that he told me that he philosophically didn’t believe Heroku should put up status notifications about downtime or performance issues until AFTER they fully understood the problem and had a fix. (My theory was actually that no engineers worked there and they didn’t have on-call rotation anymore)
> If someone could produce a substitute for far cheaper, and undercut, they would

Not when a cartel controls 97% of the market, distribution, placement, and is very keen on maintaining the status quo, as posited by the article.
I did some work to create a simple device to measure this some yeas ago. The intention was for developers to use it to regularly benchmark their software. It costs like 20 bucks and takes 10 minutes to build.

I might get to run some benchmarks myself next week.

https://jnsn.dev/posts/frametime/ with a follow-up in https://jnsn.dev/posts/fastisslow/ or if you just want to see the code without my jabbering: https://github.com/DelusionalLogic/Frametime
You provided no references, and you've made your claims in generally nonstandard terms. Given that, I don't think it's reasonable to criticize other users for guessing incorrectly what you meant to say.

> There are studies pre SARS-CoV-2 about coronavirus in natural environments (like bat caves), and they found motifs that we found also in SARS-CoV-2.

You're doing it again here, but I think you're probably referring to Andersen's Proximal Origin:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

But nobody disputes that SARS-CoV-2 evolved mostly in bats; the question is whether its path from bats to humans included a trip through the lab. No genomic evidence can distinguish between a novel natural virus and a chimera of two novel natural viruses. As Davis Relman wrote:

> Some [that's Andersen] have argued that a deliberate engineering scenario is unlikely because one would not have had the insight a priori to design the current pandemic virus. This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors i.e., more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in a laboratory—for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site. It would have been a logical next step to wonder about the properties of a recombinant virus and then create it in the laboratory

https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2021133117

The WIV had the biggest collection of novel sarbecoviruses in the world.
It's also unlikely that the person working on the Russet Quality Calculator feature has any knowledge about the market shares of each customer and their boardroom deals.
> maybe just had it less accessible

Yes. That's the whole point. The old way of avoiding the work was:

- find someone else's essay, maybe buy a Cliff's Notes or search the internet

- read the summary

- write your paper

It would still take you hours.

Now, you can avoid the work by just typing a two-sentence prompt into ChatGPT. It's free and fast, and it does the actual writing exercise (or your homework questions) too.

You don't need to take my word for it that things have changed. There is a huge amount of empirical evidence that kids are doing less of their own reading and homework because of AI.

> If you are interested you're gonna read that book, most likely no matter how many alternatives you may have. If you're not interested it's not like you're gonna do it anyway

This is absolutely untrue and discounts the entire concept of education. There are lots of things that people end up being interested in, but they someone has to force them to try it.

You're basically suggesting that you can leave a kid in a library and they'll end up reading every book that appeals to them, and we know that isn't true.

> Text transforming language models only make accessing short summaries easier to access (with a caveat of being potentially less reliable), but they don't change anything else.

You're underselling how much easier the access is.

> If limited scale was only thing that was holding the whole system working - well, that wasn't reliable, fair or meaningful system in a first place.

Just because some new efficiency allows cheaters to break a system doesn't mean it was a bad system. This is just a nonsensical concept.

A perfect example is online gaming. Now there are incredibly sophisticated aimbots and other ways to cheat that are almost impossible to scrub out of the system.

Does that mean online gaming was never fun, valuable, or entertaining when it was just humans playing against each other? Of course not.
You can always hold the ENS in a multisig wallet, or hold it in a smart contract with whatever arbitrary custom logic you want.
Pis VideoCore has like 48 planes split up between writeback and HDMI output CRTCs. There’s one explicit Cursor plane per CRTC.
By time a market is lopsided enough to incentivize startups to replace them, the established monopoly has built up a warchest of funds that is able to squash most any potential competition.

And even assuming companies don't resort to skeevy tactics to prevent competition, the companies that incentivize profit the most are going to have the most capital to expand and have the highest growth out of any potential competitors and fully saturate the market the fastest.
Do people not play deathmatches on LAN parties anymore these days? 2.5 is huge if the game lasts long enough that someone would be leading with 200. ;)
> that all goes under a single unhelpful name (Copilot)

This isn't even a new dumb move for Microsoft. In the early 2000s, they applied the .NET brand to lots of random things that were completely unrelated to the runtime/framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET_strategy
>The reasoning behind this is that your fingerprints and face etc. are public knowledge.

Not really. You can be compelled to give blood sample for alcohol testing, but your blood is hardly "public knowledge". Same thing with strip searches.
> The number of drivers needed at any given time is completely variable. It's obviously a larger number during peak travel periods.

That's Uber's business problem to solve, though, not ours.

Sucks to be them. The solution isn't "well, let's make it easier for Uber and screw over their not-employees".

The government, the people, are not obligated to ensure profitability is possible for every corporations every idea.
I agree with you on general drivers, but what generic devices does Linux still lack? Controller HID support seems pretty universal, as do all manners of touch screens/touch pads, drawing tablets, and just about anything resembling a keyboard.

The only hardware I know for sure is lacking is stuff like Stream Decks, but that kind of hardware is difficult to generalise for.

Plus, most working hardware that doesn't fit a standard HID protocol already has drivers in the Linux kernel written by manufacturers.
That's a big assertion to make without any evidence. There's a lot of individual crime which is not intentional (e.g. driving related) and there is a lot of corporate crime where someone clearly made a decision. In particular corporations employ lawyers so they have people qualified to decide if a crime is likely being committed.
Yeah, network latency and client side prediction and accuracy will also play huge roles. The actual distributions will be very complex, but in general reacting faster is going to be better.
After TikTok, the WiFi router in your home may be next Chinese tech ban target
I ran this test myself when another obsolete bit of Y2K kit recently fell into my hands: even with a 256Gb spinning-rust drive and 1Gb of RAM, just using Windows Explorer to copy, move, and delete files took a fraction of the time my main rig did.

And my main rig is a Dell T7920 running Win11 Pro for Workstations 24h2, with a Gen4 TLC NVMe directly attached to the Gen3 PCIe bus (at 7,000/6,900Mbps it can totally saturate its channel), 256Gb of 3200Mhz DDR4 LRDIMMs (4×32Gb), and dual 8C/16T Intel Silver 4110 CPUs.

By any measure, my current rig should have blown the Win2k machine out of the water. The Win2k machine did the file operations in HALF THE F**KING TIME
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You're wrong, here. Words are defined by how people use them, and the way people actually use the term "economy" is much closer to the original etymological meaning than how economists use it.

Economists are free to take a term and redefine it for their own purposes, but the public meaning is every bit as valid. They don't have a trump card that invalidates every other meaning because they want to use it to designate a particular abstraction.
The owning class everywhere has always gotten together trying to figure out how to keep things the way they are.
Fascinating strategy. It looks like they're forcing everybody into it, so it's opt-out, except there is no opt-out in the initial version of the app. They seem to be in the process of adding it now.

> In your app (for example, Word), select the app menu, and then go to Preferences > Authoring and Proofing Tools > Copilot > Clear the Enable Copilot checkbox > Close and restart the app.

> If you do not see the related button, it means this button has not been pushed to your Office version yet. Please be patient and wait for the development team to release an update.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-d...
My S23 enters airplane mode and the WiFi and Bluetooth are still connected... Airplane mode isn't what it used to be!
> The quality bar of pretty much all seed stage investors has always been extremely low. That is simply the nature of the business.

Of course it is. That is why I said the quality bar it is at an "all time low".

> There is nothing to learn from the SVB collapse. They mismanaged interest rate risk and overextended. So what.

Ah yes, why not tell those same so-called "AI startups" to repeat that same mistakes again in 2023 and also continue to burn lots of that money and we'll see yet again widespread massive panic, downrounds on this site like we did before.

The startups that got complacent over believing that VCs will just throw money into their startup forever (until they don't) are the ones that will be added into that inactive directory unfortunately.

So as soon as this AI bubble collapses with a new surprise catalyst, I won't be surprised to see YC directly caught in the contagion because they threw themselves into hundreds of low-quality startups, unable to make money and they are cloned and raced to zero.
“It looks like you’re trying to build AGI! Need help taking over the world responsibly?”
slick design, love the keyboard
At Disneyland? Where there’s a union for food and beverage workers?

> We perform everything from preparing and creating treats like turkey legs and churros to serving grant and exquisite meals at the famous and exclusive Club 33. If you are eating in the parks, our members are making that happen.

https://workersunited.org/joint-boards/local-50
Timestamp.com is owned by a buddy of mine. Long before blockchain, we tried to build a company around being an SMTP relay and a special HP PCIe card that took the GPS signal as its source. The card was special because it was encased in glass and an inert gas, which could sense if it was tampered with. Ahh... the good old days.
A friend who in cybercrime talks weekly about scammers using Bitcoin ATMs and there being no way to get it back compared to traditional banking where he regularly gets victims their money back.
I would love to read more about this idea.
you can just use iceberg tables with AWS Glue/Athena
Composited desktops have their drawbacks. With a display system like X11 or old-school GDI-based Windows, draws to the display are next to immediate, whereas with composited desktops, everybody has to draw to a back buffer, then the back buffers have to be composited together on the final display, adding at least one frame of latency. Mouse cursors have been a hardware sprite since the 90s, but Wayland compositors may favor using the GPU to draw a soft cursor.

It'd be interesting to see a compositor that can speak Wayland, yet performs immediate, region-clipped draws of all windows like X11 conventionally does.