skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Headline: refers to a laptop

Article: several hundred words about an architecture that is not currently available in a laptop form factor and probably never will be.
Here are two resources that I think are helpful:

1. Token Economy is a weekly crypto newsletter run by two crypto VCs (https://tokeneconomy.co/). I think it is extremely good at separating the signal from the noise. Highly recommend.

2. Twitter is unfortunately indeed the easiest place to follow what's going on. Naval Ravikant, the founder of AngelList, recently published a list of the people he follows in the space (https://twitter.com/naval/lists/crypto/members). It has a large overlap with my own list, but neither he nor I endorse everyone's views that are on it. But it probably includes most of the active developers, VCs and thought leaders in the space.
D's Mir does the same sort of thing, and metaprogramming in D is much nicer, because it was designed from the ground up instead of the bug elevated to feature that metaprogramming is in C++.

http://docs.mir.dlang.io/latest/index.html

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
Personally, my biggest reason to prefer LAPACK in general is that its authors have already put a great deal of effort into correctness and numerical stability, so I don't have to. Even basic LAPACK is pretty fast, let alone the optimized libraries. Hand-optimizing my own special case is an absolute last resort.
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Matrix paired with the Riot.im frontend offers the best functionalities. Do not trust anything with a Facebook label on it, especially Whatsapp.
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Long long time ago, in an other life I used this synth. I always remembered it being very good for pads and clean bell-like sounds.

Can't hear much (or any) aliasing in the tracks on the page. How does Zyn manage to avoid that?
So did this come about based off Chaos Theory? Then the main goal of chaos engineering would be to "create order out of chaos"?
The Minority Report short story was written in the 1950s.
The book used the I Ching as a gateway between worlds, producing the Man's book as well of course the insights of the trade minister, who starts to doubt the assumptions and foundations of reality early.

In the TV show there are mysterious films with no explanation, and though the wonderful Embarcadero freeway scene from the end of the book is shown at the end of the first season, without the slow build up it isn't at all insightful.

Admittedly it's just a film, so not expected to be able to express the subtleties possible in text, but I feel they don't even get to the heart of the book at all.
Do you know someone who is going to stop buying Intel's CPUs?
> 8 times more efficient than binary

They're claiming this, for what operation? And similar question for the 10% usage claim.

I suspect storage will be the same when you get done packing into machine words and storing those, yes? Unless they're not using all the bits in a word...

Any independent references for ternary efficiencies for any operation?
People misunderstand the dangers of AI. The danger isn't (or isn't yet anyway) that AI is going to develop will and agency and oppose us. The danger is that AI is a force multiplier in whatever you do because it allows the intelligent to automate formerly rote tasks.

For example, take self-driving cars. Formerly all you could do if you had a remote execution exploit was smash running cars into ditches or oncoming traffic. Bad, but not the end of the world. Now you can take 200k Teslas and very easily target every gas station or other soft target in the developed world. (I'm actually concerned about this, see https://www.zachaysan.com/cars for an, admittedly long, take on the matter.)

The same is true with AI everywhere. Don't read individual Twitter accounts, scan them all, build a data model to target the influenceable influencers. Iterate.

Don't try to get your honeypot to date the head of Goldman Sachs, use data science to figure out which 1000 25 year olds have a good shot at heading it up in 10 years.

The cyber game / international relations is about to get much more extreme. Offence is so much easier than defence and AI is turning every little touch of exhaust data or device into a tool of war or espionage.
This reply is to do with dealing with the psychological effects of feeling rejected and feeling like you failed, rather than legal or job hunting.

I got made redundant at one of my previous companies, in a similar boat as you, unhappy at the time.

A lot of the other employees were very surprised because I was known as a high-performer and before I'd moved teams was a lot of people's go-to guy for getting shit down. I think they weren't really seeing how much of a 'handful' I'd become for management.

It took a long, long time for me to really be ok with it. Like a decade. I would very much recommend you deal with it now, and not let it fester like I did.

As I say, I did it badly, but if it happened again, I'd try and say these things to myself:

1. It's not a reflection on your skill, it's a relationship thing. Try and realise this. You split up, and the reasons can have nothing to do with your technical skills, your interpersonal skills, your politics skills, whatever. It can be simply that you didn't fit and eventually that became more of a problem than all the other benefits you did offer.

2. Just because you got fired doesn't make all the work you ever did there bad. You did some great things. Maybe try and reflect and write down all the great things you did do.

3. You already wanted to leave. You'd already decided it was over, they just realised it. You ALREADY wanted to leave. It was already over.

4. Try not to burn bridges, either through spite or through inaction. Try and keep in contact with people you valued in the business, as friends and as future useful networking contacts. That might even include the people who fired you. I sometimes wish I could ask one of my old bosses, who I highly valued, for advice. Yes, it might take time, maybe a year, maybe two, but don't feel like you can't say hi, even after a break. I ultimately lost good friends over it because I felt so awkward about it.

5. It's business, you should not feel any shame. It's simply business. Realistically speaking, you simply got out-manoeuvred. Maybe you subconsciously advertised that you were moving on, and so they reacted in a fairly predictable manner.

6. The abruptness of it doesn't mean anything, it is simply easier for them. As a business they have that control. Don't read anything at all into the abruptness. They might have spent multiple meetings agonising over what to do with you, but you'll never hear or see about that.

7. They're only a bunch of humans, they probably made many mistakes in managing you, in nurturing you and in keeping you happy.
madaxe_again disagrees with me (look at his reply to my comment) so don't make your decision solely on what I say.
TomTom ditches map updates for some sat-navs
Reminds me of a RACI matrix experience.
Thinkpads. Macs are horrible for development.
I'm sure this is what a lot of people at Apple told themselves, and the downside risk of that thinking has already arrived. Now voice assistants power connected speakers, a market Apple is trying to enter, and they're years behind on the fundamental UI technology that powers it. Whoops.
"The problem with secret services is that nobody by definition keeps them in check and balances. They can easy fake and create the reasons necessary for theire power to continously expand."

Not true. You can have trusted elected people watching them, so secrets are still secrets, but trusted peiple who change regulary keep an eye on them. Accounting, requesting documenation, ongoing operations, practice, training, ect. That works as good as the political will behind it.

And sure, there can allways be black departments operating on black money, but this is a different story. I am talking about a government agency, not a secret society. But yes, the latter happens, when there is not enough watching.

And sesame credit I have to research.
You had a wave function for the particle/detector system, you performed a measurement, then you didn’t have any longer the wave function that you previously had. I think that’s what von Neumann would call “measurement causing the collapse of the wave function”.
> quantum computers work because they aren't branching.

Or rather, the branch universes diverge and do their computing in parallel, and then finish by matching perfectly, with all universes having the same answer. Any interference from the environment outside of the qubits results in the universes not being perfectly similar at the end and you don’t get an answer back.
It's the Ganzfeld effect [0]: "The effect is the result of the brain amplifying neural noise in order to look for the missing visual signals"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect
Isn't this just common sense though?
I was laid off too last week. Here is wha advice I have been given by HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16240389
> stores are suffering from food shortages because of a newly implemented inventory-management system called order-to-shelf, or OTS.

And if thre is any delay, there is no food in place.
Cryptos lend themselves to flamewars, no twitter or anything else needed. You have a bunch of people who are trying to get rich quick while on average not understanding much about the underlying technology. Try to have a technical discussion on any crypto enthusiast forum and see how well it goes. In my experience it turns really ugly really quickly.

In general I give up after I get the first "you don't know what you're talking about" without any kind of actual argument behind it. Note that you find several of these in the comments of TFA:

>i find it deeply alarming everybody and their graindma has to write bad stuff about iota without beeing informed themselves enough.

>I learned a lot today, but not from this article. The comment section has some good information.

>you’re way too late for the fud party.

>Wow…another clear case of awesome journalism. Another case of the misinformed trying to mislead people with another mudslinging article.

>Just a question: does it ever occur to you to pick up the phone and may get in touch with someone who actually knows the topic at hand before writing this kind of garbage…say the IOTA…

Truly enlightening.

I love this comment too: https://medium.com/@dfalkman/i-think-this-article-sums-the-p...

>The bottom line is that IOTA is embarking on something new. Like a lot of things in crypto, it is theoretical and academic and working towards becoming practical. It is very early.

Then:

>We all rise together, so we should more encouraging of one another’s endeavors in crypto and blockchain. IMO these concerns would have been best voiced in the IOTA slack channel instead of on the interwebs for all to FUD about.

In other words: it's experimental academic endeavor but don't criticize it publicly because it hinders my ability to pump it.
So you argue for a stop in technological progress?
As my point is every powerful technology can lead to catastrophic events?

edit: so downvoting is considered a argument?
MIT is awesome! With so much effort on deep learning education, I wonder if there would soon be an over abundance of professionals in the market.
With that mindset, I demand Apple make an iPhone with a serial port and a built-in fax machine given how often I need a serial port and the ability to fax a piece of paper.

I find myself morally outraged that they did not consider my very common use case when building their smartphone.
I think they are just making assumptions about Japanese people and comparing them to what they know about Americans.
As long as you are vaguely positivist then we are surely only "choosing between algorithms" - the question is rather how those choices are made. When we consider computerised solutions we are nearly always forced to radically simplify our frame, dispensing with "judgment". This can be an advantage, because it reduces the scope for individual bias, but it can also be a disadvantage, because it reduces the scope for mitigating systemic biases. It is much more difficult to design a perfect system than it is to apply corrections to a merely good one - capturing what those corrections are, however, is very difficult.

As an aside, do you have a source for the cost comparison, because I didn't see anything in the paper?
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Thank you for the answer. I'd never heard of it. It struck me as odd given that a snowflake is delicate and ephemeral which is exactly what you don't want for this kind of technology.
It's always interesting to hear discussions of the apprenticeship system in this day and age. Law school is an extremely valuable experience, but the problem is not all law degrees are created equal. A T14 (the top tier of schools) can employ the majority of their students into legal jobs, while a equally pricey, but less well known school could fail to employ even a small subset of their student population to JD-advantaged jobs (a job that makes use of one's law degree).

Prospective law students today should aim to maximize their application strength, and take advantage of the plethora of scholarships given out at just about every reputable law school (excluding HYS). Furthermore, attending a reputable school gives students access to public interest programs within the schools that support their high debt-relatively low -income students.
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Zyn has some of my favourite output from a synth as well.

Here is a nice breakdown on the original author's thoughts on harmonics and randomness:

http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc_0.html

It's a very interesting read for those that are interested in such things, and gives some insight into what has helped elevate this particular synth over the more robotic or sterile sounding offerings out there
The way I read GP, the python script can very well do the equivalent of gcc -DPARAM=42 -o binary-param=42 && ./binary-param-42.

edit: oh nm, reread GP...
I did lightweight eng to law to heavyweight eng. It's really set me up (or at least changed peoples' perception of my skills) to do big picture stuff and make technical recommendations, like a CTO style role.
“Why do you hate crypto, Jason?” (I don’t, but… )
If you want to learn how to build blockchain in Go, this set of posts explains it really well https://jeiwan.cc/posts/building-blockchain-in-go-part-1/
I know it’s just an example, but does one need Bob to come to that realization? If you say you’re building for mobile, you look at the strengths and weaknesses of input on mobile devices.

The biggest strength is precise finger movement. The biggest weakness is lack of tactile feedback.

That leads to the same conclusion without extraneous data.

I feel like personas are a way to force people to think critically about the end product. That’s not a bad thing, but just deciding to critically consider what your goal is before building something already goes a long way.
The naming / logo / design is an obvious homage to Clive Sinclair :)
iOS/MacOS Messages/iChat is end to end as far as I know. I know it's not strictly multiplatform, but just putting it out there.
Why not WhatsApp? Isn't it peer reviewed by Signal?
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I'm tempted to write a cracker for shitty seeds people come up with, but given what I've heard of the design of IOTA, I'm afraid of getting brain damage trying to understand and reimplement their algorithms.
A number of sounds bell/pad/etc were made possible by the PADsynth algorithm developed by Nasca Octavian Paul for use in ZynAddSubFX ( http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc/PADsynth/PADsynth.htm ).

For both the pad-synth algorithm and for the add-synth engine users create a definition for an oscillator in terms of the frequency components. Then to play the oscillator it is converted into a time domain wavetable. For pad-synth a collection of wavetables are created with each one corresponding to a different frequency (and thus a different antialiasing threshold). For add-synth when a user hits a note, then a new wavetable is build by removing the high frequencies which would alias before performing an inverse fft.

There are still some issues with this approach since it's possible for the frequency of the note to change over time (e.g. frequency lfo/envelopes or add-synth cross-oscillator modulations), so in the future I'd like to add some optional oversampling to the cases where aliasing isn't eliminated by the current approach.
Dell is guilty of this sort of thing. Trying to price compare between “business” and “home” computers is a nightmare.
Oh, I did years ago - chucked it on geni - although iirc it went back to 1580 or so. I also shared scans of the letters with the BBC, as while I'm sure they've got digitised copies of the times from then (hence they were flogging the originals in an auction house in Hampshire), I don't think the inclusion of the correspondence was deliberate - assume someone left them there 80 years ago while working on research for a story. The rest is of fairly limited interest other than as oddities - although the radio times poster graces the wall of the business I founded still, I gather.
Meltdown and Spectre exploits are rooted in the nature of current CPU design. If you want to be safe, go build a RISC-V computer.
Intel is TBTF. Like the banks but in via different mechanism, they appear to have reached consequence-immunity by becoming critical infrastructure.
A side point, riding a motorbike involves counter steering, just some people dont know they are doing it. For the latter this can be dangerous as when you hit an emergency situation and your brain goes from a relaxed state and thinks 'what do I do' you try to steer away, and end up heading more towards the object you want to avoid.

So if you do ride a motorbike and dont know you are counter steering I'd recommend googling 'conscious counter-steering' and practising this. It could save you on the next bend.
> instead of the bug elevated to feature that metaprogramming is in C++.

That inflammatory wording doesn’t add anything to your comment. If you wanted to compare D with C++ it’d be a lot more useful to link to something which does that rather than just the documentation index.
I noticed the first one when I clicked a link here in these comments to a JP site and clicked "translate" in Chrome... it translated much of the page, but quite a bit of text was in images and of course couldn't be translated.

Then of course I switched to Amazon.com for a comparison and almost every word on the page was part of an image and could not be translated either. I guess it's more common than I thought.
>IMO this means everybody who learned anything from history should be scared.

Which is why tptb took over education and have manipulated how it teaches history. They want us to love our upcoming neofuedal state. That's why when people talk about Orwell vs Huxley I say; It's a brave new world... until you resist. Then it's 1984.
> Does that mean I'm in the minority, because for me, the more a company tries to "communicate the utility or the feeling that this product will give you" instead of factual information, the more I perceive them as crappy and/or dishonest?

No, it means that you are probably not in the core audience that Apple tries to target with its ads (to use the iPhone example from the parent). This is nothing good or bad - I also prefer to compare specs instead of "feelings" (I openly admit that lots of important information is not given in the specs listened in a typical webshop, such as how long the mobile phone will be supported with Android updgrades). The important spec field that makes the difference is "Operating system": If you care about what iOS offers, you will only consider mobile phones that have "iOS" in this field (i.e. only compare the specs of the different iPhone versions). If you don't care about what iOS offers, you will probably not buy an iPhone anyway.
I think the problem is that it's tricky math, and there are so many possible subtle failure modes that make a scheme insecure (e.g., timing attacks). So in order to have a chance of making a new secure scheme, you should be an expert in crpyotgraphy (i.e., be very familiar with past schemes, why they worked, and common ways schemes fail that are non-obvious to someone without such a background).

Furthermore, given the number of subtle failure modes, a new scheme (even one designed by an expert) is likely to be insecure until shown to be secure by time and peer review (i.e., after it has been extensively attacked). Experts know this; amateurs assume that because they can't see a flaw, their new scheme is secure enough to deploy.
For those wondering the lapack guys are working on a new version of lapack to run on heterogeneous architecture including gpus. See their work at http://www.icl.utk.edu/research

I have worked with these guys and all I can say is good luck outperforming the highly optimized routines they have written. My bet is that the the guy writing this blog used a non optimized version of lapack.
I've never heard of it being peer reviewed by Signal.
And even if it is, there's a lot of stuff around Whatsapp apart from the protocol that most likely is not.
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For the double spend to occur, you would need access to the seed ( private key) which the victims had and are trying to outrun the attacker in the case you were describing.
If the secret services are keeping their operations secret, how are the "trusted elected people" supposed to keep what they're doing in check?
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Having had a bunch of dental work done, sometimes it's not unreasonable - I had my wisdom teeth out and was given hydrocodone for afterward, but I was fortunate and didn't have any pain warranting it after.

Being given opiates for a root canal seems insane, though - if you have crippling pain _after_ a root canal, I think that means the dentist did something horribly wrong.
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I wish the post started with a paragraph about why someone would use this website. 1-2 sentences is all that's needed.

I assume the seed is used to generate a public key for some kind of wallet? Is IOTA some kind of cryptocurrency?
Your "first solution" would be to take a de novo PDF implementation written in C, "compile it with something that makes it memory-safe", and then port it to an L4 microkernel. Maybe bust out some HDL and get parts of it deployed directly on to FPGA.

Got it.
That also contradicts an earlier statement in the article:

> The moderator has not only to decide whether reported posts should be removed or kept on the platform but navigated into a highly complex hierarchy of actions.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/06/02/10-facts-about-the-ar...

I don't know if it was really less "successful". It lasted longer, and enslaved more. Though it seems the route was more difficult because it was over land instead of by sea.