The new block cluster shared memory and synchronisation stuff looks really really nice.
Readit Newspixel_fcker commented on Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator anandtech.com/show/17327/... · Posted by u/jsheard
Ambient occlusion is a horrible hack from twenty years ago. You don’t need to measure pixel values from photographs to know that it bears no relation to how light works in the real world. Just don’t use it.
pixel_fcker commented on Nvidia tool generates full 3D models from a single still image blogs.nvidia.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
Observation: stuff that used to come from SIGGRAPH now comes from NVidia.
That’s because nvidia hired like every graphics researcher.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
They are using race to preferentially treat higher risk groups of people.
Sounds like the way you should treat people - higher risk first. Very click bait title.
Men are more likely to die of COVID and more likely to be intubated. Should we start preferentially treating men over women? Why did they not include this advice as well?
pixel_fcker commented on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked? · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
Nine out of seven? How does that work?
I assume typo for “None”
There’s like 100 people in whole of NZ who can’t take the vaccine due to medical reasons.
And there are hundreds of thousands of children under 12 who aren’t vaccinated.
Yes, exactly!
The 90% can't live isolated forever because of the 0.2% who can't have vaccines for medical reasons. (The remainder is made up of those who've made anti-vaxx part of their identity).
Put that money and resources into protecting the vulnerable, not into isolating New Zealand and severely impacting the economy in a vain attempt to keep a virus, which will be with us together, out.
Human lives aren't infinitely valuable. As an example, there were 318 road deaths in New Zealand in 2020, which could all have been avoided by lowering the speed limit to 10kmh.
This isn't a solution that would ever be considered seriously, because it's evident that the financial and flow-on social harm caused by such a rule would greatly outweigh the current death toll.
It's becoming increasingly evident that 'protecting those who can't be vaccinated by stifling New Zealand in draconian restrictions' is the same.
Lol “draconian measures”. Yep we’re all under house arrest down here it’s awful. Basically the same as Stalin’s Russia.
As a New Zealander, I am super supportive of easier pathways for wealthy people to bring themselves, their expertise, their connections, and their money here.
Do you support denying re-entry to people who are already citizens as a means of doing that?
You said:
> Do you support denying re-entry to people who are already citizens as a means of doing that?
Which implies the people entering on these visas are taking places away from someone else but they’re not, they’re entering the same lottery system as everyone else. Unless you’re suggesting that only citizens should be allowed to enter the country?
> It's also kinda unfair to expect people to have seen Omikron coming
Perhaps, it's unfair that the government is obligating severe COVID restrictions on travel for citizens (and non-citizens, alike) in a country with 80+% vaccination rates for a disease that's essentially endemic at this point. NZ seems to be just pushing the problem down the line at this point. There will never be a time where they can just open without any cases so why are they still so incredibly restrictive?
FWIW: I am not a NZer, I don't plan to visit NZ any time soon, and I'll admit I'm relatively unversed on the political situation in NZ.
A few weeks ago everyone was expecting them to replace MIQ with home self-isolation in Feb-April thanks to the vaccine uptake. Now Omicron has thrown that all up in the air.
The solution is simple... Shut down the unnecessary MIQ system. Everyone has had the opportunity to get vaccinated and risks for those is now back to as low as it was prior to the pandemic.
What about people who can’t take the vaccine for medical reasons, or are too young? Fuck ‘em right?