otherjason

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by otherjason 7d ago
Apple events are full of these meaningless statements, which always drive me crazy. Of course it's the "best iPhone Apple has ever made." If it wasn't, then wouldn't I be better off buying an older model?
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by otherjason 27d ago
The cynical way to look at this is that the purpose of the system (the privacy nutrition label) is to support Apple's carefully-crafted and -marketed image as the most privacy-focused of the tech giants. Actually having enforcement o
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by otherjason 2mo ago
They are probably not going to be implemented using long put positions, but a product with a similar return profile to what you're looking for is a buffered ETF . Basically, over a defined period, you agree to a maximum possible downs
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by otherjason 2mo ago
Indeed, I was referring to the parent comment.
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by otherjason 2mo ago
This reads as pretty clearly AI-generated text, which is against HN guidelines.
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A $40M Gold Heist Risks Exposing CIA's Top-Secret Spy Programs(wsj.com)
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by otherjason 4mo ago
Almost every Intel CPU released since 2013 has AVX2 support. Some Atom SKUs were longer holdouts, but the fraction of x86 CPUs shipped in the last decade that have AVX2 support is very high.
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by otherjason 4mo ago
The statistics reported by GitLab for the x264 repo ( https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264 ) report that the project is 13.5% assembly; common utilities used in the inner loops of the codec have optimized assembly imp
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by otherjason 7mo ago
See this correct comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061696 AVX512 leading to thermal throttling is a common myth that from what I can tell traces its origins to a blog post about clock throttling on a par
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by otherjason 7mo ago
The only CPU I've encountered that supports SVE is the Cortex-X925/A725 that is used in the NVIDIA DGX Spark platform. The vector width is still only 128 bits, but you do get access to the other enhancements the SVE instructions g
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by otherjason 8mo ago
What makes you think that RAII- and arena-based strategies are in tension with one another? RAII and smart pointers are more related to the ownership and resource management model. Allocating items in bulk or from arenas is more about where
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by otherjason 9mo ago
The parking spaces in question aren’t free; the city sold the long-term rights to operate the parking facilities to the private sector in a bid to balance one year’s budget.
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by otherjason 10mo ago
Overprovisioning is much less aggressive than this in practice. A read-oriented SSD with 15.36 TB of storage typically has 16.384 TiB of flash. The same hardware can be used to implement a 12.8 TB mixed-use SSD (3 DWPD or more).
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by otherjason 11mo ago
https://www.solidigm.com/products/data-center/d5/p5336.html
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by otherjason 11mo ago
But, if model development stalls, and everyone else is stalled as well, then what happens to turn the current wildly-unprofitable industry into something that "it makes sense to keep spending billions" on?
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by otherjason 1y ago
I think they were trying to say “radix sort is a more important application of prefix sum than extraction of values from a sparse matrix/vector is.”
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by otherjason 1y ago
Where did you get the pricing for vast.ai here? Looking at their pricing page, I don't see any 8xH200 options for less than $21.65 an hour (and most are more than that).
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by otherjason 1y ago
The last few generations of GPU architectures have been increasingly optimized for massive throughput of low-precision integer arithmetic operations, though, which are not useful for any of those other applications.
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by otherjason 1y ago
This is the common argument from proponents of compiler autovectorization. An example like what you have is very simple, so modern compilers would turn it into SIMD code without a problem. In practice, though, the cases that compilers can s
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by otherjason 1y ago
It doesn’t sound like they are referring to newborns needing to be physically present to get a SSN. Instead, it seems to refer to persons who are registering to start receiving their Social Security benefits (or existing recipients who want
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by otherjason 2y ago
And "our best iPhone ever." If it weren't your best iPhone ever, then I would be better off buying one of your older models.
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by otherjason 2y ago
If you or anyone else are interested, his newsletter is available by email for free!
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by otherjason 2y ago
If your roboadvisor is buying the individual stocks that make up the index in my personal account for me, do you have data that compares the slippage (bid/ask spread) paid across all of these transactions versus a single purchase of ve
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by otherjason 2y ago
For devices with compute capability of 7.0 or greater (anything from the Volta series on), a single thread block can address up to the entire shared memory size of the SM; the 48 kB limit that older hardware had is no more. Most contemporar
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by otherjason 2y ago
Protecting the main branch is definitely a good practice, but the other potential hazard is: - Having a developer on your team that rebases their own feature branch - Then tries to "git push", only for it to be rejected since a fo
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by otherjason 2y ago
Difftastic is a useful tool, but in my experience, it's far too slow to be suitable as the default selection for a ubiquitous tool like git.
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by otherjason 3y ago
Whether the technique described here will actually be faster is pretty application-dependent. The problem is that, on x86, shuffle instructions are the bottleneck for many algorithms (at least the type that I often work with). Storing const
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by otherjason 3y ago
I have had good luck with fpm, which makes it easy to make packages of all different kinds, including deb and rpm: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
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by otherjason 3y ago
From a quick look at Lima, I don't think it's exactly the same thing. Tart allows running macOS and Linux VMs, while Lima seems focused on Linux VMs only. I don't use Tart, but having infrastructure-as-code-like tooling that
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by otherjason 3y ago
This looks very nice. One bug (?) I noticed was that if you drag the Clouds slider all the way to 1.0, then the clouds disappear altogether.

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