This is a rather misleading headline. New Fuji Instax square-format analog cameras (and it's hard to say that Fujifilm isn't a major film brand) have been released in the past decade, and smaller companies like Lomography have been releasing new analog cameras. They never really went away.
I used to work with the dude in Michigan who started his own neighborhood fiber ISP. Good dude, super sharp, he had loads of experience in the ISP space. You don't do that kind of thing by getting consumer-priced fiber and then running it around the neighborhood, what he did was far more than that.
At the end of the day, you can't force someone to install consumer-priced fiber to your home. There's just no law requiring companies to provide you with fiber access.
Most streaming 4K is only 25mbps, FYI. Cox's lowest plan appears to be 100mbps downstream. Are you not getting even 25mbps from Cox?
Shocking! It's not like there weren't 4070 Ti Super cards that had 16GB GDDR6x at 21Gbps with 8448 cuda cores. 28Gbps with 8960 cuda cores?! Unbelievable! Sounds... fine. Uh, let's see what the price is.
It's good news I think - more cards have to set 16gb as their baseline to future-proof them for the long term. Skipping a 12gb generation is better for everyone, and I frankly don't even think 8gb cards are that bad if you aren't playing 4k games.
More CUDA cores tends to mean more SMs, which means better performance overall. We'll have to wait until the benchmarks roll out to say anything for sure, but it looks like a good upgrade (and lord only knows Nvidia will price it accordingly).
Yep, there are a number of different 12gb Nvidia cards; 3060ti and 2060 also had 12gb options.
But I think those are gap filler cards, at least in Nvidia's lineup. They're intended to fill the "budget 4k" market that needs enough memory to run high-res displays (or LLMs/crypto miners) but not the compute to fully saturate it. A sort of consolation prize for people that can't afford the 2080-tier cards but want a similarly large memory pool.
A lot of outlets see those cards and end up dunking on the XX70 models just because "memory lower" and I think they miss the point. There are a lot of users, particularly 1080p and 1440p users, that do want less memory that can run faster. As time goes on, I expect Nvidia to phase out 4gb cards for an 8gb minimum, with 16gb midrange (XX60ti, XX70) cards and probably 32gb flagship (XX80/XX90/Titan RTX) styled cards. Again though, it's anyone's guess.
Uh, even the 3080ti had 12GB RAM; in that generation only the 3090 had more (24GB). The 2080 had 8GB.
Just a nitpick; the guess is sound (though I would expect 4GB to stay for the office PC market), and obviously only time will tell what they'll really be doing.
OTOH don't underestimate the power of artificial market segmentation - "oh, you want 16GB VRAM? Too bad, get a xx60 instead of a xx50. After all it's just 25% more expensive!".
When cholera spread around the world, we did not pretend it was 1830 again, we started cleaning the water we drunk or we died. When AIDS spread around the world, we did not to back to boinking like we were flight attendants in the 1970s, we had to practice safer sex and be more careful about our partners for a long time or we died (these days there is PrEP). A friend lost a vaccinated parent to COVID in 2022, and has a vaccinated aunt in a wheelchair because of COVID complications.
Indeed, 2022 started with unquestionably the most substantial spread of COVID throughout the pandemic, both in terms of wastewater levels and tracked cases. It is clear that early 2022 was a time of very substantial risk. Rates of COVID both in wastewater levels and reported infection rates were the highest of any time in the pandemic.
However, years later in late 2024, measured wastewater levels and serious illness risks appear statistically to be at their lowest of any point over the course of the COVID pandemic.
The linked article states that "we are in freefall" and contains a lot of florid language to imply that we are all at risk of serious disease. We are not. The rate of COVID-related illness is drastically and radically lower at this specific point in time than nearly any other since before the pandemic, and it's rational for people to react as such.
Personally, I'm boosted (so many times I've run out of space on my card), and I've got boxes of N95s, and in the event of any reportable uptick, I have no hesitation in going back to full protection. My loved ones feel the same way. But we are currently in no way at the same level of risk we were just a couple of years earlier.
We will all have to live with COVID in the same way we all live with the flu, pneumonia, cholera and any number of diseases. (The cholera pandemic is, according to the WHO, still ongoing!) We all risk illness and death every single day regardless of COVID; in the area I live, the risk of dying or experiencing serious injury in a car accident is currently greater than the risks of contracting COVID.
It doesn't help us in any way to continue to live in fear after the worst has passed. I don't disagree with a message to stay vigilant, but to say that the sky is falling when it is not is absurd.
When other diceases became endemic though, we went back to normal. Especially since we have already had been over-extending and taking useless procautions and cultivated an unscientific hysteria during their pandemic phase.
That doesn't mean nobody will ever die from it anymore. People die from pnemonia and even common cold too, everyday even.
so when a small group of people conspires to cook up a virus in a lab for power and profit, the answer is to put on a mask? by your logic, it sounds like you think we should stop these people. no one in this country or on this planet has the spine for that though. so i guess ill just put on the mask.
As ridiculous as this comment will sound, a million dollars for a 40 year old with a family is not a lot of money these days. "Oh hell yeah, I've got a million in fungible assets" honestly doesn't mean much when it comes to ensuring your future. Yeah, yeah, you could buy a Lambo in cash, and many of us here on HN could... and we don't. Do you have a pension? No? That money is there to help you in the future, not in the present.
1. Cash it in.
2. Pay the taxes.
3. Pay off any high interest rate debt, like credit cards or home equity loans.
4. Put money in a college fund for your child.
5. Move where you want, hopefully with a lower cost of living. Then, do what you want you like for money. Feel free to take breaks, but keep things moving. (Note: you do not have enough to properly retire in the US unless there's more in your investment funds that you're not telling us about.)
6. Put the rest in index funds, target funds, and other real estate investments.
Donating money has become incredibly painful. With the exception of extremely local independent charities, any amount less than a few hundred dollars will be quickly used up by mail campaigns, staff calls, endless harassment.
If there's a local cause, please, donate. If a friend experiences fire or medical issues, help them out. A local group helping people out or trying to run a local business in the face of adversity? Do it. But professional charities? I'm sorry to say that it's a waste.
As a matter of personal practice, I donate a percentage of my gross income to charitable causes. Through experience, I have developed a number of rules about this.
One of them is that I don't donate to large charitable organizations or any organizations that solicit donations from me. I get more bang for the buck by sticking with smaller organizations that are often overlooked by others. The big guys don't need my money, the little guys do, and the little guys make a more obvious impact in my community.
Also, I have yet to have a smaller charitable organization violate their promise to keep my donation and identity a secret.
Never. Don't do it. If I abandon my cart, there is a genuine reason. If you really want to discuss it your founder or CEO can send what seems like a genuine and personal email. But don't send me a text message about it. Please. Don't. Ever.
Alas, as I am not in the EU, my cell phone is not covered by the regulations of the GDPR.
That being said, I do continually have to click through ridiculous GDPR cookie announcements, as I generally browse incognito, and thus am subject to cookie warnings on every web site every time. "Thanks, EU. Somehow, because I have cookies disabled, I get every cookie warning imaginable. Good job, idiots."
They want to subject you to those popups in order for you to get annoyed by them and blame the GDPR for it (and hopefully get some sort of popular uprising against the GDPR). However, the GDPR is not to blame. Those popups are a choice the website operators are making.
Noooo, they can't tell if I'm a new browser or not and they display these incessant, idiotic GDPR warnings because I don't have cookies enabled lol. How would they know whether or not they displayed the warning before without me having a cookie indicating whether or not they displayed the cookie warning?
Answer: they can't. The EU politicians did not think this through.
Like, just send everyone a postcard about cookies and be done with it. Literally this is the dumbest law ever. I love consumer protections, and yet this is the most idiotic thing we all have to deal with on a literal daily basis because nobody understands how cookies work, apparently.
The point of the law was not to require everyone to nag you about all the tracking they are doing, but to discourage them from tracking you. Cookie popups are just a collective form of malicious compliance.
The point was to discourage doing the sort of data collection that requires consent. Websites that don't want to spy on you and don't have an inherent need to collect protected information about you don't need to get consent to begin with.
The very fact that a website is presenting a cookie popup to you is effectively an admission that the website is engaging in unsavory practices. When I see one, I think twice about using the site.
There's nothing unsavory about HN using a cookie to label your comments with your username.
Cookie warnings are like "known to the state of California to cause cancer" warnings. If not displaying a warning creates serious risks, and there is no compensation for legal costs to prove that the warning wasn't necessary, everyone will display the warning everywhere as a precaution.
> There's nothing unsavory about HN using a cookie to label your comments with your username.
True, and if that's all the data collection is about, then there's no need for a cookie banner.
> If not displaying a warning creates serious risks
It does not create serious risks. It's pretty clear what sort of data collection is risky, and any site will know if they're squarely in the "safe zone". The risk is if they want to engage in sensitive data collection, or if they want to push as closely as possible to that.
You only need to get consent if you plan to collect user data. There's no need to store any cookie documenting user consent if you aren't doing anything you would need consent for! And that is the real aim of the law:
"The General Data Protection Regulation requires you to consider whether there is an opportunity to achieve the objective through processing less data or if the aim can be achieved through less intrusive means." [1]
Don't blame the GDPR for the plague of useless cookie warnings; blame lazy developers who would rather thoughtlessly burden you with shitty UX than try to stop tracking you.
I'm serious, do not give. Not to the right, not to the left. Don't.
Never give less than a hundred bucks to anyone unless it's someone you personally know. Sure, if you know someone who has recently encountered a serious illness, a fire, or the loss of their job for reasons outside of their control, absolutely, help them out. Otherwise - do not. Don't give.
Any small donation to any political party will be used to try to get you to donate more money. You are not helping the cause. You are paying for someone to pester you to donate more money. Really. Unless you have serious cash, 100% of your donation will eventually be used up by staff calling, texting or emailing to get you to donate more. Just move on. You literally cannot help.
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