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Segwit is not about fixing malleability. Malleability can be fixed without SegWit. It's a simple change to the TX format. Segwit is over engineered to avoid a hard fork, and is primarily meant to support side chain technology, but in reality now we end up with multiple competing forks.

You believe that limiting the block size increases adoption. That is an absurd viewpoint, I'm sorry. I don't agree with you. I think its like saying limiting the bandwidth of the backbone of the Internet increase adoption. What? It doesn't make sense there, and it doesn't make sense for Bitcoin. Regardless of what layer two technology exists. Layer two solutions are great, but if you look at highly scalable networks layer 1 isn't a piece of crap.

I didn't dismiss how the blockchain works. This is your own misunderstanding of how to verify nodes. If you put the utxo hash into the block header you have lightweight history verification, Ethereum does it, and so can Bitcoin. It doesn't do it for historical reasons, not because there isn't a better technical way to do it. Nodes that need to can still validate full history, but just like headers validation can work for spv, a modified header could be used for full history verification. The fact this hasn't happened is incredibly telling, its because it helps create a false narrative around nodes not having the compute, bandwidth or disk space to handle bitcoin transaction history.

Listen, you can attack my technical chops all you want. I've built tremendous amounts of stuff with Bitcoin, and it's obvious that small blocks are hurting adoption, hurting businesses that are trying to build software on Bitcoin, and creating arbitrary and ridiculous limits that are not in the realm of sound computer science. Arguing over a 1 megabyte increase in block size is the height of absurdity, it's Bitcoin's butter battle, and advocating for overly complicated layer 2 solutions when we are years away from being necessary is some kind of intellectual masturbation.

I'm advocating for larger blocks, I hope that core is punished for their complete lack of management capability by losing control of the network, and I think that market forces will crush this absurd vision for Bitcoin when it is relegated to some small unimportant chain. Let's wait and see how it pans out.
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Am I reading this right? A single binary, less than 1mb in size, that handles GC and cross compiles? Color me impressed. Looking at platforms, does it not do 64 bit?
As mentioned by others, the emphasis in the name is on the fact that it's a Windows Subsystem. The historical precedent for this name is "Windows Services for UNIX", which similarly provided a Unix environment on Windows NT.
When you say "glirp couldn't fit on the vell", do you mean to say that the glirp was placed onto the veil, or that the glirp placed the vell on the glirp itself?

The melon could not fit on the hat because it was too small.

The melon could not fit on the hat because it was too big.

https://www.google.com/search?q=watermelon+hat
Binary compatibility. As a developer I want to be able to:

1. Write an app in rust.

2. Use a rust library in that app, via the native rust interface (using c interfaces negates a lot of the pros of rust).

3. Dynamically link that app to the distro repository version.

4. Have the distro apply security updates to that library without recompiling my app.

5. Ignore cargo completely.

As a user I want to:

1. Not download and install multiple copies of common rust libraries (as is the cargo norm).

2. Not be in doubt whether a particular application is using the latest patched libraries.

It seems that rust community has learned from the mistakes of c, c++, and java. But they failed to learn the successes as well.
Linux supports everything that Windows and MacOS supports except for GUI.

As for GUI,

https://gitter.im/red/red/welcome?at=595f60f50de4d2545e026e5...

> No timeframe until we find someone to work on it. Though, we should be presenting Red at the GNOME global conf in China on October, so I hope we can find someone motivated and skilled enough there to work on it.

So Linux GUI might come not too late.
You should ask the question about Core developers' incentives: what do they personally gain from scaling bitcoin? Nothing, at best increase in value of their holdings which they share with lots of free-riders, and only until they sell. They only gain continuously if scaling is prevented as that opens space for their second-layer solutions - presumably to be enabled by planned 'improvements' to bitcoin. Ie. their only incentive is to capture bitcoin for rent extraction.

Miners are the only entities that have a continued incentive to improve bitcoin directly.

THAT'S the real conflict, everything else is BS.
That's a good point, I don't recall everyone who's had a black bar, though the few I do were in tech. I guess it would be an odd list to keep, but if anyone happens to know of one that exists, I'd be curious to see the list of the past N people we've had black bars for.

Edit: I just did some digging around and it seems they didn't have a bar for Neil Armstrong's death either, so this seems right on the mark so far.
Some people will not be satisfied so long as the keyfile, KDBX, and password reside in the same version of our shared reality, as it's still mathematically possible to decode the numbers into something they personally value.
Because they didn't have the might of Rust Evangelism Strikeforce behind them
Because that has nothing to do with consciousness... Every living cell can perceive such inputs, even the simplest of prokaryotes can "sniff" out their food sources.
yes. powerful technique.
It's easier to deal with than you think. Don't outright admit to a firing when the question comes up. I'm not saying make something up on the fly, because they'll smell the bullshit, but think of how you can spin your termination in a positive light. Leaving because a project was completed/cancelled or company priorities changed is generally seen positively, even if the truth is you were fired from one of those jobs for being incompatible with the rigors of the role.

If you're just coming out of a firing, the worst thing you can do is have a mea culpa moment of clarity when you're negotiating for your bottom line. You'll get the old standard, "thanks for your time", and away they go to the next person, who may have also been fired, but bent the truth in their favor to get the job.
Yes, but my understanding is that quite a bit of it is still served through partner CDN services, is it not? I was aware that Netflix served at least some of the content themselves (and growing, I assume), so was attempting to imply that the 37% noted for content access for Netflix may not equate exactly to 37% network delivery for Netflix, as they measure different things. I didn't mean to imply none of that should be attributed to Netflix's own network.
> How many mini malls does a suburb really need?

A lot of people live in the Bay Area. The 9 county area has 7.68 million people [0], enough that it would be the 102nd (of 234) most populus country in the world if it were its own country [1]. Countries with similar populations include Switzerland, Israel, and Hong Kong (all relatively small and dense).

Anecdotally, I dont see much vacancy in commercial/retail real estate (mini malls or otherwise) in the Bay Area, and with nearly 8 million people living here, there is an obvious need for quite a bit of commercial space.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...
> Looking at platforms, does it not do 64 bit?

Right now, it only compiles to 32 bit binaries (which can run on both 32 and 64 bit OS).

64 bit support will come after the compiler is bootstrapped.

> and cross compiles

Yup, easy cross compilation. You do not need different cross compilers for different platforms a la llvm and gcc, a single 1 mb binary can produce binaries for all supported platforms.
The deals are too good to be true.

Otherwise people (me included) would be snatching them up.

Most of the sites on flippa are newly-created wordpress sites. Often they build a site once, then sell it repeatedly, each time with a new domain name. They can sell them for $60 or something and have a minimal amount of time invested, plus a domain name.

These sites likely will never make their new owner one cent, although perhaps they're not a bad way to get your feet wet.

Anyway, any site selling buy-it-now for 4x MRR is lying about something.
So it's Tardigrades all the way down... :-)
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Anyone have any experience with any cloud computing solutions (like https://www.paperspace.com) with their MacBook? Was thinking about trying it since it's cheap to try out.
Because it is nonsense. What Gavin did in that post was napkin math that completely ignored all of the complexities of secure blockchain design.

It's like a guy showing that we can get humans to Mars eailsy just by greatly increasing the amount of fuel in the rocket. Any rocket scientist would have heart attack if such a notion became broadly popular, because it's so naive.

A lot of this debate can be summarized by saying that the popular opinion is being propagated by non-experts spouting incorrect ideas that seem correct to the general population because they are accessible, because they ignore the hard (but important) parts of blockchain design.
which one generated a 100k binary? I see it running on an uno right here, which has less than 100k https://github.com/avr-rust/arduino

Were you using zinc or some other project as the base? I figure it is an arm cortex * in your case.
The Xbox One was going to have this exact feature at launch, but I think they ended up killing it?
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Stories and threads on HN are, for the most part, a sort of community property. The bar at the top of HN is not: it belongs to the operators of HN. Litigating how and when they use it to express grief is not an especially polite thing to do.

The easiest way, then, to understand the "black bar" is to think of it as an expression of sorrow that has a direct connection to HN's operators.
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Especially if you’re playing over the rear audio jack instead of over the HDMI port.
There's really no way to trim down the rust binaries??
GPU accelerated MD5 is a thing and I assure you it's a lot closer to zero than you'd think.

High-end FPGAs can smash through SHA1 at rates of billions per second and MD5 is not even that complicated. A million rounds is not as hard as Bcrypt cranked up to a sufficiently robust level.
Wasn't Bitcoin supposed to be decentralized in the first place? What's a "decentralized" decentralized currency, anyway?
A more serious problem (with the solid version) is that no material imaginable could withstand the compressive forces involved.
Is there something like this for OnHub?
> Of course all the native libraries that have been wrapped in R are the tricky bit.

Everything in R is an SEXP struct. The native code is all shared libraries on Linux and Mac, and mostly DLLs on Windows. There should be almost no problem calling the native libraries if you have an existing R installation.

That doesn't apply if you are talking about a complete reimplementation of R, but that would be a massive project, in which case calling native libraries would be of little relevance.
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I'm not sure I agree. Maybe the list of things presented by bloggers as things every programmer should know, but C would not be a new addition to such a list in any case.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522187
You're correct. It's crazy what you can do when you don't bundle 8 zillion MB of C in your install. Rebol is the original parent language, but it doesn't have a system language to compile to, just a < 5 MB interpreter that you could do a lot with. Neat little languages. The creator wanted to take Rebol and write a version that would be the first true "Full Stack" language covering everything from desktop GUI to building OS, to highly advanced parsing, to robotics. If you google it, there is a nice interview with Red's primary author Nenad Rackocevic (forgive spelling) that is from ~2015, but still should be accurate.

Interview:

https://notamonadtutorial.com/interview-with-nenad-rakocevic...
While Uber seems to be the current whipping boy of Silicon Valley, I wish I could say that this article would sound different if I replaced Uber with any other big tech company.

Getting yelled at constantly, usually with profane language? On call for weeks at a time with no help? Put in a double bind by management? Put on an impossible task, or a task made impossible? Stack ranked that you don't drink enough? Staying around late trying to look productive?

I wish I could say any of those weren't ubiquitous in SV.
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True but a bit chicken and egg. If you brought a large company to a nowhere place - the hipster yoga, expensive wine bars, and snooty farm to table places move in eventually.
My first thought on seeing this headline was "what, again?"

Don't get me wrong, the new design looks great, but it feels like every six months they switch between having side navigation and putting everything on top. Every time they change there's a definite improvement, but you'd think they'd be able to come up with a design that works for at least a few years.
He's great, we know his work. Thanks for the recommendation!
>Didn't happen,

...yet. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14770230
I use proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/), it has support for ZFS out of the box and allows you to run services in containers.
In that case, why not just embed an R interpreter inside Lisp? I've published a slightly modified fork of RInside that lets you embed R inside anything with a C FFI[1]. Tested only on Linux.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/rinsidec
Yeah. Red continually impresses me. Its documentation is what has kept me from really diving in. But over all, it's an impressive language.
Not relevant in this situation, but to be fair, archiving analog media isn’t about making a perfect copy, just a good one. Also, when old DRM encumbered games (StarForce, etc.) are archived, the DRM is removed first. So not a perfect copy there either, but just an as good as you can get copy.
There are a bunch of articles on trimming. I think I managed to get it down to like 80kb before I gave up.
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Yes and no.

Yes, because there were probably priests who shouldn't have been.

No, because there's still a lot of people in the world to convert.
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It doesn't need to replace it (it's not like c++ is being deprecated), and there has to be real reasons to port over existing code, because there are real costs.

The technically best format doesn't always win. Just look at Betamax vs VHS.
Thoughts:

1. A company can be underpaying for the employee's experience but paying correctly for the skills the company needs.

2. It should not be a bad thing for an employee to leave a company to advance their career - the current company may not offer the needed opportunities.

3. Managers should be proactively asking the question of the employee: "Let's talk about recognizing when you SHOULD move to a new position at XYZ or some place else?"
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I agree. Google has come out with some papers that are, to put it harshly, basic gluing together of DL models followed by loads of training on their compute resources.
I can't think of a succinct way to describe my response, but I'm not sure we disagree, so much as we're talking about slightly different things.

Regardless, I wanted to thank you for the detailed replies -- having a back and forth helped me ponder my thoughts on the matter.

Have a good one. (:
I was using the standard rust compiler, plus a bunch of articles on thinning rust binaries. Best I managed was about 80kb after three or four layers of thinning. That link is pretty interesting! The Rev3 uno has 32kb flash, so someone has found a way to thin the binaries enough to fit on an MCU. Cool.. now if only I knew how they did it!
Yeah same. Seems to struggle with sounds that require more vertical shapes, or closed lips for short periods
The way housing and society works is significantly different in the USA and China. It's not really fair to compare the two. I don't know anyone in USA that has used their parent's life savings to purchase a house, because that kind of way of doing things isn't nearly as common there compared to China.
There absolutely is; the smallest known Rust binary is 151 bytes.
What do you mean by counterfactuals? NNs are function approximation algorithms, in any geometry. No ifs ands or buts about it.
Cortex M works today, but since I'm not in the space I can't comment on debuggers or IDEs.
That's misunderstanding even the basic issue here. Segwit signaling needs to begin August 1st, it won't lock in for about 2 weeks and that has nothing to do with the 2x part which won't even happen until November.
AirBnB is probably the anti-Uber in that regard.
Also when did EmcaScript conveniently became ES?

when i see someone mention ES6, I think its elasticserch but its not
Maybe they SHOULD leave even if they WANT to stay.

Career advancement some times requires that the current manager say :

"Sofia, this is a great opportunity for you. While we could make you a counteroffer - you really should make the move to advance your career. Please let me know if you want a counteroffer anyhow."
While I agree with you... This is TechCrunch, not WSJ?
I think there's some of that, but a large part of it the very strong user-first ideology in applied CS. Not that I'm critiquing user prioritization (at all), but the problem of categorizing what's unnecessary overhead to be handled beneath the hood by tools and what should be left up to the developer to handle is a problem that has no unique solution/is highly context-dependent.

I think younger programmers' frustrations with old, difficult (and sometimes useful) tools along with their drive to modernize everything occasionally drives them to misdiagnose something as "legacy bullshit that isn't user-oriented enough" vs. "a powerful tool which is still necessary with limited uses".
Perhaps...but this has been my observation recently. A persons ideological position is always used as a gauge to judge the quality/value of his opinion on a particular topic. If a person is of/ perceived to be of an ideological disposition different then mine and then whatever he or she says gets discounted. Your argument about people being Bayesian assume that they are rational. In practice, you find people sticking to their prior beliefs even more strongly even when the evidence to contrary is stronge, so called backfire effect. In fact, a lot of people reject the evidence simply based on the Ideological disposition of the source that it comes from and terming it as XX wing conspiracy.
> I'm sure it will change society the way internet and mobile phones changed the world.

It will change the entire world the way humans changed the world. And that's scary.
So none of the HN operators care about the first female Fields medalist? I don't buy this argument. The bar should have been there. It was a mistake to not put it up.

And on that note. I think it is time I left this shitpile behind. Autistic white males dedicating a reserved form of sorrow for some special people and then post-facto mental gymnasting their way out is the last straw. Fuck all y'all.
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Not a live thread, or interactive much but:

https://www.xbt.eu/

Once the BIP91 hits 80%, an as long as it does so before August 1st, this issue is going to go dormant until November.
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This question is both a leading and also ill-posed. What is preventing Rust from replacing C/C++ _where_? In existing applications? For new code development? In some particular application (e.g. game engines)?

There are lots of good answers in the comments here. I think Rust has a good story for why you might choose it over C/C++ for some uses today, but it's still early days. If Rust is going to take share from C/C++, it will do so over the period of decades, not years.
This. I still cannot forget the disappointment of my parents and some family friends, all retired scientist or MDs, when I explained them how deep learning and natural language processing works a few years ago. They were truly upset that all this was "nothing more than clever accounting and statistics" at the end of the day, and no trace of the "advertised intelligence" - with Hinton's RBMs maybe coming closest, but by the time I was explaining how you use MCMC to train a Boltzmann machine, they again were complaining that even this is just modeling "statistical likelihoods, not true intelligence"...

In essence, we are only modeling patterns and their transformations, even if rather complex ones. But even the most basic prokaryote can model patterns, that has nothing to do with intelligence or consciousness per se. (And please don't get me started on swarm intelligence now... :-))
Miners don't want side chains because that reduces their fees. Miners want Bitcoin to be VISA where they are the conglomerate that controls it.
Renting: 180K isn't enough to survive in SF with just 1 kid. If it is supporting 1 kid: 4k 2 bedroom (run down) + (2k) child care. 15k gross = 10k after tax. Just removing 2 things makes your post tax: 4k monthly pay check left. 4k a month rent let's you walk around at night and let's you do public school. (180k no private). A car with a kid is a must and that is expensive in SF, then add utils + phone + clothes. If you want to eat, or go outside, then you start dipping into savings.

Buying: in SF at 180k? Not a hope. A decent place not TIC, and where you safely put your kid in public school - is low 1.3million. Step one: come up with 260k cash + now your 4k rent is 5200 morgage with nutty property taxes. Plus play the lottery of schools because you can't afford private.
Hash power follows value not the other way around. For some reason a lot of people seem to think the entire economy follows the miners.
> I need to crack the paywall on that FT item

https://archive.fo/Pf2Uu

Interesting article. I wonder if any Japanese (or someone familiar enough with the culture) could comment.
They've got all the building blocks really. For instance check out sand dance https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/sanddance/

It's just that Microsoft is so focused on getting you into azure services that they're pushing these capabilities up there instead.
> Many parts of it are complex in unknown ways, but some parts are truly mechanical.

I feel like this is a bit of a false dichotomy. We've never encountered any spooky non-mechanical non-physical part of the brain, and we've been looking since Cartesian dualism was in vogue.

What we think of as human consciousness is likely just a bunch of feedback loops allowing the brain to analyze some of its own state as if it were an external entity.
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> But at a company with more than 15,000 people

Uber has over 15,000 employees? That seems a lot. That's almost the same headcount as Facebook. Why does Uber have so many people?
I agree at one level, but also see it slightly differently. To wit:

Feelings are facts. Emotions are labels we apply to those feelings. The Fine Article deliberately glosses over this rather key distinction in a way that cedes an opportunity to make the very point you're making here.

This is — or can be — a problem, because we tend to identify with the labels much more strongly than the experiences, which can be consequential for our long-term mental health.
I get what you mean now. I think I mentally auto-corrected the sentence on the first pass and never really considered the literal meaning.