skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did actually read all three of the first ones, and attempted (at least) almost all of the exercises. It took me about three years. I enjoyed it, but I will say that the _practical_ benefit of reading through all of these books is questionable; it's more like climbing mount everest and looking down from the top, saying, "wow, I really did it". I did come across a set of all three cheap at a used book store - I don't think I could ever have justified paying full price for the set. The only part I sort of skimmed over was section 5.4 in volume 3 that covers the algorithms for using banks of external tape drives to sort more data than you can fit in memory (taking into account the time taken for the tapes to get up to full speed and whether or not the tape drives support backwards reading). Fascinating stuff, but I couldn't motivate myself to expend as much effort into trying to work the exercises as I did with the rest of the series. Still, reading through TAOCP is quite an experience - if anything, it's a good reality check if you were ever thinking you were about as smart as a person could be.
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I find the comparison between ARM's GPU and others very interesting. I wonder what exactly Apple and Qualcomm are doing that they are way more efficient based on power usage?
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This post is 100% reflection. The press is merely trying to give all of us working in the CS fields the ethical observations we've all but ignored over the past decade, as this profession has grown.
Same here. I’m also worried that a lot of people around the globe will lose their hard earned savings. Think about, it’s the first time in human history that a Ponzi scheme can go global thanks to modern communication tools and low barriers to participate. Most coins/ICOs are currently selling a dream. Nothing more
The people that got the money probably didn't put it under their bed.
Alcohol requires an attendee to check ID before being taken from the shelf. There are other employees on site to monitor, answer questions and restock.

You seem to have the impression that no checkout == no employees. This is not the case.
I've always considered BTC an alpha release and a prototype. Kind of amazing it's gotten this far.
There are prior examples of his writing style offending a lady who turned to actually had a pretty potty mount, herself, as well.
Wow. I'm a passerby who had heard of PyTorch on HN, and been on the sidelines about Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Just read this summary and feel inspired to kick the tyres and start learning some.

May be I will find some use for it in my sysadmin world.

Thanks for such a summary.
As far as I know, the section on random number generation is the only treatment of that subject anywhere, better or worse.
Haha, I was thinking about the same book when reading the comment! Highly recommended indeed, but you beat me to it.
From my graduate CS classes in the US, most women are from foreign countries. I notice the same in other US grad schools as well. From that, I am led to believe that women from developing nations (which kind of includes China) still choose STEM careers (most likely for practical purpose of making money).
I believe your fundamentalist accounting of history has error.
There are experimental lightning network nodes on mainnet now and the first transaction has been made: https://cointelegraph.com/news/lightning-networks-pizza-day-...

Here's a map of the LN network. So far there are about 100 nodes: https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/
It was their second launch with the Electron.
Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/rocket-lab-still-testing/), has an article about them.
No that was just a scam to avoid the implementation of segwit and off chain transactions.

Even satoshi(before you try to cite him) himself said off chain might be needed.
> In an ideal capitalism society, the most talented should earn the most, but the compounding effect of capital makes it so that whoever holds wealth the longest earns the most.

From the perspective of an anarcho-capitalist, this does not describe the "fitness function" of Capitalism. Capitalism optimizes for the best management of capital, not for talent or productivity.

To reduce this to a fundamental level, if two entities - A and B - comprise the entire global economy, and entity "B" consistently achieves a greater increase in capital for a given unit of time, B's share of global capital will approach 100% as time approaches infinity. This is true regardless of disparity in starting capital.

In practice, it's not at all surprising that a small number of people end up controlling a large majority of wealth - in fact, if this were not the case, I would strongly suspect a forceful market distortion existed. This is not a bug. It's a feature.

That said, in practice, entities do not consistently achieve the same ROI over time. Families acquire wealth, companies form and are dissolved, fortunes are made and lost. There is a balance point that is reached where there are a relative few rich and powerful peoples/companies/families, and members of this group come and go even within a single generation
> I wanted to ask again here, directly to Bitcoin techies: How can BTC survive 100 years if no one can download the massive blockchain? Most residential IPs enforce a 1TB/mo cap. Much of the internet is also on slow connections (Australia).

Presumably in 100 years, your cap will be larger, and your internet will be faster.
Are there any decent open source implementations that a small company could deploy?
What do you mean "stored"? The fiat used to buy bitcoins went to sellers, so they have it.

The current "valuation" suffers from the same issues as the valuation of any asset.
Do you have the same complaint about gold? To me, they seem very similar from a gambling perspective.
"I can't make myself outraged about rich people throwing money at each other. If there was no art, they'd find another excuse."

Yep. Art was always a plaything for the rich. The Romanovs bought thousands and thousands of paintings to show how cultured they were. Every succesful Dutch merchant had to have a portrait done by Hals or Rembrandt. Italian bankers spent their entire fortunes on statues. Chinese emperors had enough porcelain made to host Beijing for a tea party.
(I downvoted the parent comment not because I believe it is wrong or without merit, but because it doesn't describe the why or the how.)
Netflix, FreshBooks, Apple Music, Square (the Dashboard), many others.
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The low-fee, fast transactions were absolutely the main benefits of bitcoin, especially in comparison to Visa or PayPal.
Point Break was a documentary?? I'll be damned...
raatgift develops an excellent answer describing the many options one has when attempting to model a "single particle" (and goes into detail as to what that small phrase can mean).

But to add to the first paragraph of their answer: if you set the 'T' tensor to the zero tensor in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations#Mathe..., then you are effectively studying the vacuum. The left hand side describes the curvature of spacetime. This is a set of 10 non-linear partial differential equations which permit many solutions.

You can then add a "single particle" back to these solutions with varying degrees of complexity as outlined by raatgift.
Yo! I've read articles on your blog quite a few times while working on my thesis. Great work!

I've been using Pytorch for quite a while, and had to use tensorflow recently. May be its my pytorch _priors_, but using tensorflow felt weird, and un-intuitive. Any good resources for pytorch folks to get into tensorflow?
It's stored, but isn't it also being loaned out as well? Isn't that part of how the money supply grows - fractional reserve?
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My first internet access was via a freenet in West Chester, PA called ccil.org (Chester County InterLink). I volunteered to help set up computers in libraries and community centers so that others could access it. My first email address and web sites were on ccil.org.

The software was written by Eric S. Raymond who lived in the area and was a key figure in the development of the system.

Those were the days...
MRI is probably better thought of as a physics experiment than as a camera, but it is quite elegant (at least on paper).

Hardly the only example, though, cf for example OCT (which is commonly used clinically in ophthalmology)
Just something that would work in the wild. There are a number of things that might theoretically be possible if the machine of complicit with you but aren't actually exploitable.

Like i said:

- JavaScript appears to not be a possible attack vector. So now we're just worried about already had access to run a native binary.

- so a native program that sat snooping sudo passwords would be a good demo, but obviously if a rogue binary had to sit running for days with only a part success rate, we would be able to attack stupid managers and evil corporations because it wouldn't be very impressive. If I'm already running binary code, i have a lot of better ways to attack the system.
While the government policy is ultimately what causes people to be jailed, you don’t think it’s important to focus on how technology uniquely exacerbates the problem by making it scalable?

This is one of the few tech headlines that mention number of LOC that is basically and technically accurate. It does seem that a single — and trivial — line of code has led to the tragicomical punishment of thousands of innocent citizens:

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Yes this government has been for many years unjustly suppressing its own citizens — but the story here is how the targeted group used a very simple hack to frustrate the government’s idiotic tactics. To just summarize this story as “Turkish government wrongly jailing citizens” doesn’t do justice to the absurd details and process involved.
Apple is a bit of a herring here.

Apple had a very unusual strategy of (a) not pursuing market share and (b) not building moats. This was part of their quirkiness as a tech giant. The truth is that they are far more exposed to competitive pressures, and their own future performance than others.

IE, the ipod had little or no moat. OSX never had 10% market share. iOS has tsomewhat of a platform moat, but they left the high volume segment of the market to Google. They have some network-effect-moats like facetime built in, but it doesn't add up to a persistent dominance. Facetime still needs to be better than whatsapp and skype on iphones to maintain popularity.

In all their major product lines, the current competition could really hurt them if Apple underperform for one or two generations. iOS, OSX, itunes...

Few other companies think like this. IE maintained dominance (despite antitrust) for a long time.It wasn't untill Firefox & Chrome broke their monopoly that browsers/www started advancing again.

They survived bad operating systems, that no one wanted (Vista), extending XP by 5+ years past its use by date.

Amazon dominate online selling. They had a patent on remembering your CC number, a mf patent! ...just to turn past market share into future market share. The infrastructure services are platforms, with lock in.

Google is all about 100% market share, all about lock in. All about accumulating data so that they have

FB has all the people and all the sites (FB tracking pixel). They have the best ad-targetting platorm for this reason. All the people regsitered. Detailed data on their FB dataset. Vast off-platform collected from advertiser sites (all the advertisers).

I agree that part of the FB problem is that they aren't treated like news media, and are exempt from journalistic norms. But, this is also a red herring. Their monopoly is a problem regardless.

Many of their acquisitions are defensive, buying potential competition.

Antitrust needs a total re-build from the ground up. It's not about price fixing anymore. It's about taking up all the space so that no one else can play.

I don't think that the standards of antitrust are any good right now. You have to prve price fixing, unfair competition or some other hard to prove and potentially irelevant activities. I think antitrust has to be preventive.

It needs to make sure there is ample room in a market for innovation, and/or regulate all the giants by default. Got a dataset that includes all the people in a country? Maybe that should be a public dataset.
I’d argue it should be more pointed towards the government using flimsy evidence to arrest people. It dances around that point without taking a hard stance that what the Turkish government is doing is essentially a human rights violation. It’s not the single line of code putting people in jail, it’s the government. While that line of code is significant, it’s not the only thing.
His language is why this particular post is getting such traction. This is what he does. You can't get attention for your bluntness and not have your bluntness discussed.
When I get connected I always take a note of the persons name, and ask for it if it not given upfront.
I used to work for a home theater company. We were regularly working on newer mansion in the suburbs. If you ever want to see some dudes that work faster than fast, go hang out with a drywall crew.

I remember showing up on a site, and the drywall guys had just started carting in a ton of drywall. By the time we left in the afternoon, they had cut, hung, taped and mudded over 3,000 sq feet of home, it was insane.
The behavior you’re describing may be satisfying for the person slinging insults but is widely recognized as unhelpful by most management or educational guidelines because it doesn’t lead to any positive outcomes but does lower morale and increase stress.

Most people are going to take it personally, especially when it’s public in front of their peers, and since it’s so lazy and unhelpful there’s no benefit from doing that rather than, well, anything constructive
In the long term you can't have fast and low fees with decentralized and censorship-resistance you have to chose one or the other.

Bitcoin Cash is fast and as low fees but if it manages to scale to something like a Visa network number of transactions, it will be centralized and then some geographical jurisdiction or miner cartel will try to have control over it lowering the censorship-resistance characteristic.

I think is great to have to different paths on Bitcoin BTC vs BCH so we have opportunity to see own they evolve.
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What does a burning heart imply?
That reference you give cites two people. The first makes the point that low wealth does not mean you are poor, citing students in debt in western countries as an example. Some would disagree with the assertion that having a net worth of less than zero does not make you poor, but that's beside the point. There's a lot of subtlety that is conveniently ignored in the analysis of the article you linked to.

If you're in a Western country you benefit from goods made in countries where wages are very low and the cost of living is low. People of these countries cannot access many of the commodities that westerners can, such as oil, which generally has a worldwide price floor. That is, despite the price of food fluctuating between countries, the price of oil does not. That oil represents a natural resource that many in the west can enjoy, but the bottom 10% on < $2 per day cannot. How much of our development, how much of our lifestyles in the West are dependent upon being able to afford oil? Does an entrepreneur in Central African Republic have the same access to cheap manufacturing (relative to their earning ability) in the same way that an entrepreneur in the West does. No.

The second person used in the article to "explain" why the figure is misleading, despite having a career made largely on the back of denying wealth inequality as a problem and the link being to a website called "cafe hayek", merely divides $17.5 trillion by the population of the world at the time and gets approximately the same as what I do.

What, precisely, did the top eight do that was so great a service to humanity that it entitles them to the same* purchasing power of natural resources as the poorest half of the world, especially given that the more valuable resources accumulated over millions of years? There's at least three of those figures whose vehicles of wealth accumulation are not universally worshipped in this community: Bill Gates (Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Larry Ellison (Oracle).

*ignoring asset liquidity, which is arguably a big problem when discussing the assets of the super rich.

EDIT: to "debunk" this claim -> to "explain" why the figure is misleading
"Guns don't kill people, people do"

"Code doesn't cause people to be arrested, people do"

True in both cases, but also true in both cases that guns/code are used as enablers of the evil deeds.
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That's misrepresentation of the situation, the crime is not installing an app(nobody is sentenced for the crime of using an app) but being a member of an organisation that is deemed illegal and the app is considered evidence for membership as it was members exclusive app. Think of it as if being an Uber driver was illegal, then having the drivers app can constitute as a good reason for suspicion of you being Uber driver and you might be held until you receive a sentence or cleared from wrongdoing.

The problem here was that the Turkish authorities were "a bit too liberal" on what constitute of using the App in question, that is, they mistakenly assumed that making HTTP request to the App's server is a good indicator of being a user.

Unfortunately this is the way that the Turkish government operates since many years, they first lock you in and you fight back for years until you prove your innocence. What's even worse is that you can't really get good compensation for it, you just suck it up and move on.
Or they already have a good idea about the credibility of the news sources and this will let them determine which users are credible.
"irrational people" != people with "undiagnosed and untreated personality disorders"

I just think it's important to iterate that. At the beginning of your comment it seems like you're offering a different general approach to the general approach given in the article.
But if employees still check for accuracy, is the system really faster than a normal supermarket? Can imagine it being only slightly faster for a much higher price. Might work in the beginning when everyone wants to try it but I doubt it can appeal to a wider range of people.
You misrepresent the intent of bitcoin along with it's intended use. Bitcoin was designed to be lost - to be eternally deflationary and for coins to fall out of circulation. Also you have to consider that the majority of coins were lost when bitcoin was worth considerably less than it is worth today.

Proper techniques to store bitcoin (local keys on a secure machine or a hardware wallet) make bitcoin mathematically impossible to steal. "Stolen" bitcoin is synonymous with "insecure" bitcoin. Properly securing bitcoin would be significantly cheaper than storing gold bars in a mattress.
How much does a marketing website cost?
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yes, i'd rather buy a farm and no gold (someday i'll buy a urban farm)
There's beginning to be a lot of movement in the alt-coin space where people are trying to DO things with the blockchain, far beyond just a store of value.

There's not a lot of love here on HN for a lot of that effort, but it's not terribly controversial to say that there are a large number of dev teams working on products in a multitude of fields that are putting the blockchain to work.

The controversy seems to be whether blockchain tech is a sensible solution to some of these problems (that is, people ARE actually building lots of things, but the verdict is contentiously out on how sensible/lasting those things will be).
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Making either perfectly horizontal isn't even the hard part, but concrete steps take a LOT longer, if you can believe it. You have to build a wooden box to pour into, and you can only pour once (new concrete does NOT stick to dry concrete).

I did a concrete landing for these steps, which wasn't too bad, but my next door had his front steps re-poured by actual professionals, and it took them like 2 weeks.

Compare that to mine, which while a pain in the ass really only took about 20 hours total, and I made 7 "stringers" instead of the usual 2 or 3 (I used composite decking on the stairs, which requires support every 9-11 inches) which made it a lot harder (and heavier).

And of course, concrete steps really only look right when they go right up to the house, they don't look right attached to a deck, and they certainly aren't something you want IN your house.
Ah yes, probably.

And now I've noticed the author uses "he or she" at some point, so I guess the neutral "they" is indeed disliked by some writers.
Not sure if it's a pun, or the literal etymology of the phrase.
I don't think you're seeing it entirely wrong, but there are other effects this is having other than locking away money.

One positive effect this is possibly having (I haven't seen a direct analysis of this) is to boost GPU R&D. Right now it sucks for people who want to use GPUs for other things, because it's causing shortages, but that's presumably not a permanent state of affairs. And better GPUs will be good for a lot of other fields, particularly AI.
Imho, as a user, it is rather silly to find that a framework requires me to define a dependency graph instead of just coding the operations directly. In my career so far, no compiler has asked me to do the same. So why would neural networks be an exception?
Not to be nitpicking, but Charles Ponzi and Madoff did fraud at global scale.
I'd like to read more about those soundness issues - do you have a link?
> If given completely free choice, perhaps some people are just disposed to being in interested in different things.

Because that would require people to acknowledge that the theory that everyone is a blank slate with equal capabilities and that any differences in outcome are as a result of some sort of systemic oppression might not be entirely correct.
Not to reply to your point, but I found an interesting discussion when reading up on your use of the idiom "for the worst": https://writingexplained.org/worse-or-worst-difference
> ... I've also seen Americans in IT who can be very blunt. I attribute it ... to the [autism] spectrum.

Please stop. It's unhealthy to pretend that undesired behaviors in IT are generally the result of autism. It perpetuates an unhealthy culture by essentially saying that guys (because it's only guys who are excused this way) in IT are not responsible for their behavior. It's also insulting to people with autism to lump their legitimate social difficulties in with people who are simply choosing to be assholes.

If a salesperson or marketer or artist or executive is blunt/rude/an asshole, no one assumes it's because they're autistic. It's assumed that this is part of their personality, because they find it more effective to communicate this way (or in some cases, that they're simply bullies).

There is no indication I see that Torvalds is autistic. He's certainly not socially awkward. He manages an organization of thousands of contributors very effectively. If he's blunt or rude, it's because he chooses to be.