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Define significant. I write software that couldn't exist without SIMD, as do all my competitors. (Note: it could exist but wouldn't offer nearly the same level of capability, i.e. it would be a different product) By specifying the last several generations of Intel hardware I can guarantee customers can run my software (AVX1 minimum) with consumer level desktops/laptops. AVX-512 hardware support hasn't reached the average consumer yet, but I am ready to take advantage of it when it does. (signal/video processing)
you'll have to expand on this a little for me. I just recently looked at an older Haskell codebase I was working on two years ago, and simply because of a very few straight forward types, nothing special, I could really wrap my head around the code-base a lot easier. Not just because the code tells me in plain text what types occur where, but also because enforcing a strong type system encouraged compositionality and well-formed behaviour in the first place.

If I look at some of the python code I've written, I'll be perfectly honest I often cannot tell you what to make of it any more.
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It seems like they're taking the same approach as QNX, except across boxes instead of within the same box.
I can't be certain of that with any maps app. It's not as though I've never had the occasional problem with Google Maps, and even if I didn't, surety is an impossibly rare thing.

With Google Maps I feel I'd have greater confidence for its accuracy, but placing complete confidence in any maps app would be a mistake.
I was in SF when a police undercover van raided a building. I wanted to see if I examined the van closely, there would be something salient about it that would make it easy to spot a police van in the future.

Even though the van was rather beat up. It had almost brand new tires with excellent treads on it.

my takeaway was, the cars have to be maintained really well and have reliable engines and tires, even thought they are dressed to not stand out.

BTW, the police didn't like me so intently looking at their car and they IDed me and played their intimidations game a bit.
If he knew it would and cashed in on that capital would come quickly. From the article I see part of it was regulatory burden and propriety of trading his own crypto while maintaining the fund. That makes sense but nothing to do with the current drop, good excuse though.
AFAIK, scatter/gather have been available in supercomputer vector ISA's since the mid-1970'ies. And even with the state of compiler technology back then, the Cray Fortran compiler was able to use scatter/gather to vectorize loops with indirect addressing (e.g. a[ind[i]] ). Such as occurs e.g. in sparse matrix style computations.
It does require a case-sensitive file system, so it takes some additional effort to cross compile from the mac.

Not that that's unusual :)
My entire wallet was stolen [i] -- all that hard work. But that is great news Bitcoin never got hacked -- I got nervous there. /sarcasm

http://www.cryptsysettlement.com/ [i]
Useful work is not actually a good foundation for securing a decentralized cryptocurrency.

The value of PoW in cryptocurrency is that I know for a fact that you have to burn $X million dollars if you want to double-spend my cryptocurrency. That has to be burned in electricity, and that burn can't be used for anything else. It's expensive for you to attack me.

If suddenly we've got useful works, such that you can apply that $X million in electricity to solve problems that are actually not wasteful, and worth perhaps $X million dollars in solutions, then I don't actually have confidence that it costs you money to double-spend my transaction. You might be able to double-spend my transaction as a by-product of computation that you were going to do already.

Further, useful PoW is a centralizing pressure, because not everyone is going to have equal access to people who are willing to pay for solutions of useful work. This unequal access to revenue means unequal ability to compete, favoring people who are able to sell solutions more effectively. For cryptocurrency, we like to remove these advantages as much as possible (granted, the existing system has a lot of room for improvement, but useful work moves things in the wrong direction).
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> The only way to determine true value is to go through these phases

You're referring to a pump and dump scheme as "phases". You don't set high values by scamming unsuspecting fools.
And of courses it uses actual nvidia parts which is convenient for nvidia engineers.
Being able to exchange btc for other coins makes it like a stock market. BTC is also a commodity. It is also a speculative investment into the lightning network. It is also a hedge against fiat currency.

BTC is many things and it causes confusion amongst people trying to determine where the value comes from. It took me many years to figure this out, unfortunately.
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Bitcoin has gone up 1547% in the last year. Unless you are heavily shorting it, you are making money and it's not necessarily because of talent or great strategy.
Time to double down on product placement.
I wonder why they did the BW thing instead of just defining a vector length register like other vector ISA's (which would have allowed to get rid of a remainder loop, leading to less code bloat and more efficient execution for short loops where the number of iterations is not an integer multiple of the ISA vector length).
A server is just a name; you can't infer the number of machines (physical or virtual) that are behind a name.
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I believe so, the Arduino is already FCC approved. It doesn't need a separate approval for each retailer. Same for the LEDs etc. If you are making changes to the hardware the FCC has documentation on what is permissible for not needing a re-certification.
If something can do anything, than the way in which it can do _any_ thing doesn't much tell you how it does one _particular_ thing. In contrast, a mechanical clock can be inspected, and the way in which it tells time can be understood by its construction.
Did you find an architecture description anywhere in there? I've been looking for one.
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A paradigm shift indeed. Anyone can pick up your phone, point it at you, and then get access to all your apps (banking, etc).

You have to be looking at the phone. How much that helps is another question.
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The market will eventually stop doubling every month. It's hard to predicted when that will be, a month in advance. Getting the timing wrong can be disastrous.

The market will eventually become saturated with efficient traders. For an efficient trader, this is easy to predict because it is accompanied by a slow decline in margins. You just have to be able to stop when you can't beat the market any more.
Everyone else's computing time is wasted, in the sense that all that electricity and processor time (both of which cost money) have not contributed even one bit to the blockchain.

The point of the article (and I'm surprised that it takes them so long to explain it) is that regardless of the blockchain building process you choose, the entities responsible for adding blocks to the blockchain form a highly competitive market, and in these kinds of markets the costs grow very close to their expected income.

For Bitcoin, those entities are the miners, and costs grow because if you don't buy the latest high-powered hash-nozzle, your neighbor will, and your expected revenue will drop. It's an arms race that only stops once the costs exceed the revenue, meaning that most of the revenue from each block dissipates into electricity and hardware, and the electricity and hardware that doesn't contribute to a block is waster.

But even for a different blockchain model, designed to not waste anything, the same thing would happen: block-adders are incentivized to spend as much money as possible to increase their slice of the pie. In the end, the same amount of money (the revenue for a block) would still be spent in electricity, hardware, bespoke lava lamps or golf sessions with senators, anything that lets miners get one step ahead in the arms race.

Of course, if you were to drive down transaction costs, the available revenue for each block would go down, and the amount of wealth that can be wasted would decrease as well.
Maybe i'm dense but where else has this classic narrative unfolded? Social media? What you are describing seems to me more common with bureaucratic solutions than technological ones.
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Not sure if it's allowed here on HN but, this is the one i'm operating: https://discord.gg/CNQf3p
Salaries versus COL, and the impacts of the perception of both, are not (usually) linearly correlated, but which side of the line any given locality falls upon is hard to predict. Salaries in San Jose, for example, are significantly better relative to COL (in part because of the halo effect from the rest of the Bay Area) than they would be in Los Angeles, where cost-of-living is high but a commensurate lifting of salary has not been seen. But considering this as a general note of unfairness rings pretty hollow to me. It's a relative scale problem; my yearly net is going to be more actionable and more usable than that of someone in a low-COL area because the work usually isn't there to begin with.

As an example, from the numbers I've seen whenever I've talked to companies out there, I would probably take home between 40% and 50% more money if I relocated to San Francisco from Boston; I'm very good at what I do and my set of skills is in high demand. I'd probably pay between 20 and 25% more in expenses, including taxes. The biggest increase would, of course, be housing costs--but I would have more disposable income that I could then (because that kind of money is buy-capital money--unlike, say, a tiny pacifying bribe to look the other way while the rich monumentally loot us) use to invest and reap consistent returns in a way that is functionally unavailable to most people living in, say, the Lakes Region of Maine, where I grew up and where the average household income is about $41,000.
Can you post your [1] link?
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Correct, but the article specifically referred to securities as zero-sum transfers. A security is linked to something that has value, and exchanging the security doesn’t alter the value of what the security is linked to.
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This is actually the most prime example of an 'untrusted' relationship. If it weren't for the total imbalance of power you have to bring the full force of the government down on a drug dealer without any need for a reason, you wouldn't do business with them at all.

How does a buyer do that on the darknet? Hell, how does the buyer do that on dealer that's part of a well set up network? Do you think cops don't know who many of the dealers are already? They can't or won't touch them, and as a buyer you have zero power to make that happen.

I don't know how's the market where you are, but I can assure you that nobody I know who buys or bought drugs ever even considered going to the cops - even when they got robbed and smacked around by a dealer.
Thanks for the great answer! You've handled my objections well. I am probably underestimating just how much of a hassle it is to setup environments to do lots of algorithms.
It’s a video + clickable interactive transcript, but if you prefer to read only there’s a ‘collapse’ button to make the video area a bit smaller.
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Sounds great but the sad reality is that Netflix shows have commercials inside of them. I was really excited about this netflix show "love" until the macdonalds product placement inside of it just made me sick and i stopped watching it. I haven't been watching much original netflix shows since then, but whenever i feel like peeking into a new show i notice product placements pretty soon.
I only sporadically rant. But thanks for the encouragement.
Amazon has already been using machine learning to separate fresh vs. moldy strawberries; I'm sure AI will be able to identify the freshest cookies better than humans in the near future.
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Your math's off, $90BN / 30k = ~$3M:

https://www.google.com/search?q=90.2+billion+%2F+30000&oq=90...
So, w.r.t to Pitt's research, proving that the brain could compute anything (like a Turing machine) does not help in understanding how it does one particular thing, for e.g. language?
No, the perfect solution would be to not need a notch.

Since that's not possible right now, only compromises can be achieved.

So you don't have front facing speakers and have a notch in the screen.

Whether you are ok with this is subjective and I am not.
Happy owner of an iPad Pro here. I don't know who promised you that you could build an Android app on an iPad but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Apple and they're the ones who should know. As for building an iOS app, you can write most of the code for one and then transfer it to a MacBook or iMac for the final build and packaging (go check out the Swift Playgrounds app for details).
I accidentally watched some TV the other day. Having not seen any regular programming for at least a year, I was amazed at how much ... dumber it has become. Also, why did we sit through so many commercials for so long? It feel a little like a twilight zone episode, where we sit there watching a box telling us what to buy.
Biggest mistake IMO was not clarifying what a distributed OS is supposed to be. Especially nowadays with all the cloud hype I could think of at least three different meanings right off the bat, then clicked all the links on the landing page and erratically browsed the wiki and didn't find anything, not even an external (wikipedia) link which got me quite annoyed at that point.
I remember reading a while back about a link between competitive bridge (the stereotypically old person card game) playing and a lack of cognitive decline in aging adults. I'm curious if competitive video games have a similar anti-brain-aging effect.
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That's the recent Parity multisig wallet freeze. So far it doesn't look like there will be a fork for that.

The event I described happened in the summer of 2016, and was a fairly sophisticated attack.
Been there before. Didn't like the part of the work commonly referred to as account management. Hated always having to be selling and closing.
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Are you one of those crazy oldschhol ST players?
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ALL shows have product placement. Some more blatant than others. You can't get around that.
Thanks for the breakdown. Very helpful. I'm somewhat disappointed with EOS's offering compared to ETH, as I'd always (wrongly) assumed they were providing a lot of innovations in an effort to reduce ETH market share in the whole 'dApp platform' space.
Every year when I go home for Christmas I watch TV with my parents and I'm always astounded that they pay more money than me to get access to worse content, and it has ads. It's really astounding that folks put up with it.
A good look into trader psych is Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness". All of this predates Bitcoin, though I'd argue the open nature of cryptocurrency allows for people with "extraordinarily active imaginations" (let's say) to participate.
Even in the US, apparently, up to 12% of the population[1] is sometimes in a position where they have to skip meals, so even there, I'd say the depths someone can fall to are, potentially, very low. And a lot of what makes our current system at least somewhat predictable is controls restricting the unfettered operation of the market. A truly unrestricted market would be very unpredictable. All in all, I don't see predictability as a particular strong suit of markets, even with the most optimistic assumptions -- and I'd also say that, contrary to the original post, promoting stability is not the reason they came about. Enclosure was not a particularly stability-promoting maneuver, for instance.

[1]https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
This would be fantastic news if the content was anything worthwhile. At the end of the day, I'm not sure I care whether the kid is watching commercials or some other inane show. It's still passive consumption.

Personally, of course I want less commercials. But being able to consume more per minute isn't necessarily a good thing, IMO.
There's a British tv presenter and scientist called Hannah Fry who has published in this area, including a talk in Germany (received just like many comments on this page), some Numberphile videos and BBC documentaries in other areas of data science.
In a healthy, civic-conscious society, it is understood that those who have help those who don't and that this is a moral and ethical good. What we are seeing now with the profound selfishness of the modern American civic system (in some social quarters on the left, in most social and economic quarters on the right) is a breakdown of that mutual understanding and spirit of civic duty. Which leads to those who have incomprehensible amounts of money being defended by those with merely a lot of money against those with no money by characterizing the notion of ensuring a basic standard of living for those with no money as something like "handouts" instead of the mutual cooperation to keep a working society that people, not just rich people, actually want to live in.

There is a statement about the need to get over oneself somewhere in there, but finding it is an exercise for the reader.
My family and I 'cut the cord' in 2005, back when Netflix meant DVDs, and other than access to sports, we haven't missed TV at all.

These days we use an Apple TV 4th Gen, with only Netflix, Plex and KPBS apps, and I believe my kids are better off for it. They still have access to way too much TV, but at least we know what they're seeing.
> The average child watches 2.68 hours of television a day, or almost 980 hours a year

This is a very sad statistic. I cannot imagine what this non-stop television consumption is doing to their brains. I am guessing this does not include the tablet screen time which is another 3 hours per day or so.
Go ask anyone aged 45 or over, who does physical labor - construction workers, electricians, farm workers, flatbed truck drivers. They will all tell you of the severe toll on their muscles, bones, and most specifically joints. Shoulders, elbows, hands, knees, and backs get to a point of being functionally disabled.

So, yes, physical labor, even with full OSHA support, will wear your body out. Alongside all those structural injuries seems to come a penumbra of other illnesses, like heart and kidney disease.
This is great. The next generation will view ads as abnormal.
I think the “Frosty the Snowman” special on live TV ran almost 90 minutes... the commercials were agonizing.

Also, kids are consuming a lot of highly effective YouTube ads.
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No, I mean, 1% of $0 is $0, there's nothing to pay.
As someone learning Clojure, I'm curious why you feel Clojure is not applicable to most use cases. From an outsider's perspective, it seems like a great fit for most enterprisey type applications which seem to make up the majority of apps. Would love to hear more about your experience with Clojure.
Day trading crypto is a zero sum game. You can profit if you're able to somewhat predict the madness and stupidity of the market just before the market acts that way.
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Well, this is true for most of the netflix series and must content out there (youtube etc). They just pump out show after show tailored for binge watching. The whole thing is just dumb.
Why is it just limited to kids?

It saves adults too.

Sure, an adult might switch channels during a commercial but your time is still wasted because now you're filling the gap with random surfing rather than consuming the content you're interested in.

It honestly surprises me at how cable providers managed to exist for so long without getting a backlash from its customers.

A 1 hour show on American TV typically only has 42 minutes of actual content. The other 18 minutes are filled with commercials.

You are losing 30% of that 1 hour off your life, not only that but you're paying a premium to receive it. After removing special promo prices even basic cable from most major providers is a lot more expensive than streaming services.
I came across this after reading an ESPN article about NFL bonuses: ( http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/262951/nfl-play... ), and thinking "Why can't engineers get paid like this?" ( e.g., why don't I get a $100k bonus for delivering 500 pivotal points? ). That question lead to googling for "Software engineer bonuses" and that lead to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5743..., which lead me to this video. Discuss.
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From what I read, it's a Plan9 fork refreshed for modern build chains plus golang support. From floren's comments, it sounds like the architecture is still Plan9.
Said article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/28/nyregion/subw...
The FX show Baskets has its product placement front and center the entire time. It's hilarious and I don't mind one bit though.
I always thought House of Cards had some of the most bizarre ones. I can't remember anything too blatant in Love, but I only got a few episodes into the second season before dropping it out of boredom.
Even if they have a lower ceiling and could never compete at the highest level, I think older players could go toe to toe with lower but still competitive levels, especially in a team game with plenty of strategy. And I think promoting this is a worthy cause.

I'm formerly a competitive golfer and there's plenty of 60 somethings out there who are better than me even though I can hit it 50 yards past them. I expect (and hope for) similar things playing out in gaming.
As they say, past performance is no indication of future potential. This is especially true the shorter the trader's history. Thus, reading one trader's secret of success may as well be like listening to a slot machine player's 3-week winning strategy story.

Meanwhile, identifying recurring inefficiencies and working out the details of how to take advantage of those inefficiencies can produce a more reliable income. Unfortunately, inefficiencies are really a polite euphemism for "other people's money that they didn't realize they were losing". Brokers and exchanges are quick to shut down a successful trader if that trader is costing them money, just as a casino will ban a player who consistently beats the house (for enough money to be noticed).

I have my own crypto strategy, and it's about as simple as surfing. Each new wave (no pun intended, if you know what I mean ;) ) may grow and give you something to ride. Not all waves do, and timing when to get on is important. We people on HN probably have a nice advantage over the fascinated (and gambling-minded) masses. This is perhaps what the guy in the article was describing was his basis for success.
Houses of the past had this. Lots of old colonial homes have a small room with has doors to the outside and the inside that both lock.

Sometimes they're called "mud rooms" or "butler's pantries" or other things, depending on the age of the house, and the social status of the person it was built for.

That's why sometimes in old movies you'll hear the phrase "Tradesmen enter on the side."