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Vvectoron Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program

I've read recently (here on HN) that branch predictors are right 99% if the time. Is that inaccurate?

Vvectoron AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference

Nvidia just started shipping the H200 to selected companies two months ago. Too late for this benchmark.

Vvectoron Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either

My understanding is that beneficiary trumps a will, and definitely trumps the default when there is no will.

What would be the point of a beneficiary if it gets ignored even without a will?

Vvectoron Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either

There was no will, no spouse, no children.

"He died at 59, single and childless, with no will and no guidance on who should inherit his assets."

Vvectoron Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

Wealth and fertility have an inverse relationship. This is true worldwide, and through recent history (~50 years). Just one of many reasons, women are going to college and having careers at historical highs. And the same women are punished for having kids.

"This decreasing relationship between fertility and income is well known to economists and demographers alike. In addition, it holds true over time: Rich countries, such as the U.S., have experienced a remarkable decline in their fertility rate as they became rich. Also, the relationship holds at the individual level, as rich families tend to have fewer children than poor families." from: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link...

Vvectoron Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

IMO, your generalizations are not fair. There is an inverse relationship between wealth and fertility, globally. https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link... The article describes some possible reasons.

And how are we healthier? 42% of adults are obese, compared to 12% fifty years ago.

Vvectoron Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

If someone lets their kids outside while not under direct supervision, there is a real risk of the government taking their kids away from them.

Just one example from the news https://reason.com/2022/12/08/emily-fields-pearsiburg-virgin...

Vvectoron Spotify is increasing US prices again

For me, it's not the cost of the albums. It's the delivery system. Many years ago, I ripped my albums (300+), made them enabled on a media server. It was unintuitive and required maintenance. It did not pass the wife-acceptance test.

Spotify just works (for us). It's got almost everything we want to listen to. There are no tasks required for me to listen to anything. IMO, this is worth any extra costs.

Vvectoron Nvidia announces new AI chips as market competition heats up

Set to start production 18 months from now, in late 2025, for an early 2026 debut.

more details at: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rubin...

Vvectoron Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

I remember being queued up to download one song from a specific host. My download with be like 6th in line.

Vvectoron Stop Using Discord

$50/month for the basic hosted option. Self-hosting requires skills and resources not available to everyone. It's very easy (and free) to start on Discord. Then if it takes off, there is too much friction to move to Discourse.

Vvectoron Cloudflare took down our website

I though flagged content showed a "[flagged]" in the title?

Vvectoron Cloudflare took down our website

In the last 10 minutes, it got 35 more upvotes, but dropped from 27 to 30.

Vvectoron Cloudflare took down our website

Why is HN demoting this article?

It was at the top of HN, then quickly buried to #20-#30. It is now at #27, being a hour old with 318 points.

Vvectoron Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025

Hardware has never been AMD's problem. Their chips are great, on paper. But their software has always been a few generations behind.

Vvectoron I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search

This doesn't happen in FF using Google Search.

Vvectoron I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Don't complain about a company having a monopoly while using their products WHEN THERE ARE COMPLETELY FREE AND VIABLE ALTERNATIVES.

Vvectoron Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira

It was announced in mid-2023, and google sent out numerous emails to account holders over the last six months. https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670?hl=en

Feel free to migrate your domains somewhere else. I chose CloudFlare

Vvectoron Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?

Can you explain the "substantial expense" required to convert an office parking garage to a residential parking garage?

Typically, office building parking ratio is currently around 4 spots per 1,000 square feet (1). With two people sharing a 750 sqft 1BR apartment, there should be 50% extra parking spaces.

(1) https://www.commercialrealestate.loans/commercial-real-estat...

Vvectoron Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?

can you explain why parking would be an issue? Typically offices are more people-dense than residential. So converting office to residential should reduce the number of parking spaces needed.

Vvectoron Apple introduces M4 chip

Blaming a company TODAY for marketing from the 1990s is crazy.

Vvectoron Single Citrix Compromised Credential Results in $22M Ransom

There are backups (mostly). To be safe, they picked a restore date before the suspected initial entry date. This is a few weeks before the final attack. Change Healthcare is sanitizing the attacked servers, then migrating data over to the new servers to avoid losing data.

Vvectoron LLMs can't do probability

https://xkcd.com/221/

Vvectoron FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

Welcome to the new charge on my bill:

$2.00 FCC Fine Recovery Charge

Vvectoron Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI

Nvidia is a software company that happens to make their own chips. This has been their mantra for the last 15 years.

Vvectoron AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff

"Haikus from images with Claude 3 Haiku"

But think of all the poet jobs you are eliminating...

Vvectoron The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

The solution is not to provide assistance to underpaid illegals. Better to penalize the company for hiring and underpaying them.

Vvectoron The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

I think you are on the right path. I've seen the arguments that "minimum wage" should be able to afford a median priced 2BR apartment (30% of income). Then who rents the bottom third apartments? I'm all for a bottom tier safety net to keep people off the streets.

Vvectoron ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC's Internet rules, critics say

"Why give something away for free if you could charge for it?"

Vvectoron Guess my RGB

There is a boardgame with this theme. First clue is just one word. Second clue is two words. Everyone places a pawn on their color guess. Points awarded based on distance. Easy to play.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/302520/hues-and-cues