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omegalulw··on GeForce RTX 40 Series
They are probably working towards cleaning out the 30 series stock given that crypto demand is dying off. It takes a lot to put 3060 prices on a marketing slide for 40 series.
omegalulw··on The definitive guide to “modulo bias” and how to avoid it (2020)
But you do? You expose some information on the range of the value via the time it took to sample assuming for example that the attacker knows the rejection sampling method in use.
omegalulw··on Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years
I would say that's more of a reflection of your teachers then unless you have a really exceptional style of learning.
omegalulw··on Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box
I would say that people who regularly invest in top end hardware don't care as much about power bills. Otherwise power efficient chips is the norm (laptops, phones, etc).
omegalulw··on Congress.gov API
I don't see much value in this beyond diffing? The hard part in making laws is reaching concensus, not the actual edits.
omegalulw··on Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut
4.5x faster seems perfectly reasonable to me, I always see the x as meaning a multiplier (or divider) over the original. Saying that this is 450% faster would be blasphemous.
omegalulw··on Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch
Come on, burying side loading in a setting and having a giant red warning is good enough to keep the vast majority of users out of using it. No reason they can't offer that technically.
omegalulw··on NASA selects SiFive and makes RISC-V the go-to ecosystem for future missions
I absolutely love that NASA is doing this AND encouraging the RISC-V ecosystem. Maybe it's impossible, I don't know, but if we have an open soruce alternative for hardware with the kind of reach that Linux has in software i think that's the best way forward.
omegalulw··on Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
Add to that a video now a days is at least 24fps. So a two hour movie suffices haha :)
omegalulw··on We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
Not necessarily. The signal-to-noise ratio drops the farther you get away.
omegalulw··on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
I don't get this attitude. For an open source projects, especially ones not funded, properly utilizing free tools is key to success.
omegalulw··on EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service
20 kids x 25mbps streams each is still only half a gig. You are way off here. The only way you saturate a gig is if you download big games from Steam, etc. If each of your kid is doing that you would probably run into fair use limits and have to set up a central PC for catching downloads and stuff but that's still a niche use case.
omegalulw··on IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories from GitHub
How does ipv4 vs ipv6 affect speed?
omegalulw··on Curious C++ Lambda Examples: Recursion, constexpr, Containers C++23 included
Not sure what sort of code for you write but recursion and linked lists are incredibly helpful.
omegalulw··on Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
> It's literally impossible to write concurrent and highly-available code without exceptions.

Do you have an example?

omegalulw··on Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers
Not a wrong target at all. Streaming is pretty much a solved problem now and Netflix is competing mostly on content.
omegalulw··on Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ
What's your take on Kotlin? Neatly solves a ton of these issues.
omegalulw··on Nvidia publishes 73k lines of 3D header files for Fermi through Ampere GPUs
CUDA is their moat and their drivers do add significant value, seemingly more than AMD. So it's reasonable to expect that these won't be open sourced any time soon. Honestly I'm surprised why people expect them to just open source core IP like this.
omegalulw··on Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
Any reference for this claim? In my opinion this is most certainly not the case - random forests are hard to overfit compared to gradient boosted trees but you can overfit with them too if you don't tune your parameters right.

Overfitting is generally a function of the the size of your data and the complexity expressible in your model.

omegalulw··on Diablo Immortal player spends $100k, cant find anyone suitable to matchmake with
This is NOT aimed at people like you. Tons of folks out there who either 1) don't have the skills to be competitive without pay2win, or 2) don't want to waste time on useless grinding and have the money to buy items outright.
omegalulw··on How Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
The point is that the relevant feedback is that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, not that you should not cite Wikipedia. They sound similar but they are fundamentally very different.

For former encourages the behaviour of finding other sources that are reliable. The latter encourages quoting Wikipedia without citing it.

omegalulw··on How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”
Never have I felt so personally attacked! Have you ever found a solution?
omegalulw··on Computer science proof unveils unexpected form of entanglement
This is part of the answer. The other part being that there seems to be fundamental non determinism in our universe.
omegalulw··on Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
Not really. pbfid needn't be a hash. You can take the plain text url, which can be ".../random.user/post/post_number", happened a random salt, and encrypt it using a key which is a function of "f(random.user)". That way you get unique encodings for each shared URL and every time you decrypt just discard the random bit. Defeats all pooling/reverse engineering efforts and offers perfect user isolation (each user has their own key).
omegalulw··on Web3 is just a fresh serving of the same old crypto nonsense
Who makes web standards? Is web3 a formally recognized thing? As far as I can tell, pretty much most people consider it to be snake oil?
omegalulw··on Responsible stewardship of the UEFI Secure Boot ecosystem
I mean sure, but no one is forcing users to install software from APT groups. That's a choice people make. The general point is that you should be able to use hardware for general computing. There can be a switch that by default limits to software signed by your original manufacturer but that should toggleable by the end user.
omegalulw··on James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live
Have you seen overlay comparisons to Hubble? The detail is significantly improved.
omegalulw··on Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous
Run a chess solver, feed it enemy moves, use it's moves to play.
omegalulw··on Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS
Do you have a postmortem on why both servers died so fast?
omegalulw··on Absurd Trolley Problems
I didn't pull in this case, but my reasoning was that eventually there might be a way to rescue those people.
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