skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> inevitable future of computing that is somewhere between those two experiences currently.

Not sure that ever happens. The two are very different in their performance characteristics. CPUs have to stay focused on single-threaded performance.

Single threaded performance = minimizing latency, that’s why in CPUs so many transistors and electricity is spent on cache hierarchy and coherency protocol, instructions reordering, ILP, microops fusion, prefetcher, branch prediction incl. indirect one, and so on.

GPUs don’t care about single-threaded performance, all they care is throughput on massively parallel tasks. They ignore memory latency, switching threads until data arrives, makes caches much simpler. They don’t need high clock frequencies (this alone improves their flops/watt by a large factor), don’t do branch prediction, memory model is less strict, and so on. That’s how they can spend that many transistors on FPUs and ALUs.

P.S. Intel tried many-slow-cores with Larrabee / knights landing / etc., all they got was a very expensive lesson, people didn’t want that stuff. I’ve heard a rumor initially Sony wanted to use another Cell CPU for the GPU in PS3, again, didn’t worked well enough and they negotiated with NVidia instead.
"intellectual" sounding but certainly not actually "intellectual".

Foucault's explanation for why leprosy disappeared from Europe is pure psudoscience, along with the entirety of psychoanalysis (which he accepted at least partially). I don't like scholars who take the likes of Lacan as being serious instead of charlatans

Foucault had some good ideas in works like Discipline and Punish or A history of Sexuality but filtering between the noise and signal is extremely tough with him...
> unless I completely change my role and/or specialization

That would be the point, yes.

I definitely did not mean to imply that spending 6 years doing the same thing at a big company is in any way better than doing the same at a small company.

My point was that since a large company likely does allow you to completely change your role, domain and specialization without quitting, you should look at years-per-role and not years-per-company.
Even people like Ramakrishna and Vivekananda had a lot of Theosophist influences. And much of the English translated works from people like Radhakrishnan were notable for speaking to Western audiences too. Then there is the whole VHP take on things which is a purely modernist (nationalism) prism.
I'm a minority and, like many, I see this as just playing word games; the inclusivity equivalent of security theater. I have no expectation of any significant gains in new developers from this sort of thing and therefore no inclination to praise or support it. I would go so far as to say that I am annoyed that this is allegedly being done for my sake as a minority.

If businesses and organizations seriously want to help inclusivity, send money for tech education to schools with a high proportion of URMs. Send volunteers too. Send something that actually represents a significant sacrifice. Not this.
Hey that's me :)
It's already quite easy. I made a python reverse shell in 15 minutes with basically no knowledge, and was able to obfuscate it well enough to fool every single antivirus.
The picture is slightly more nuanced. What's your exposure from browsing a web page or your mobile phone? Your IP address alone is enough for companies that use network provided APIs obtain your full billing information, location information, and more:

https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open...
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>The difference is that most hardcore Bitcoin investors also accept the premise that something seriously bad is going to happen to the monetary system.

If something seriously bad happens to the monetary system what on earth makes you think bitcoin will even be a thing? If civilization collapses, who is going to keep the electricity flowing? What on earth makes you think anarchists won't attack that first? Without electricity, what use is bitcoin?
It is a hallmark of left-wing political thought to have excellent, valid critiques of real problems, and then on top of such an excellent foundation, provide solutions that involve only deconstruction, tearing-down, revolution, and other such feel-good, troop-rallying calls to action - and no actual plan for what to do once we get to the far side.

The identified problems remain, as do all of the original problems that the outgoing system has solved. The aeons of tradition that have built up to the current solution will have to simply be rediscovered the hard way, perhaps with different window-dressing, but ultimately not that far off from their previous incarnation, especially if the deconstruction happens by those who haven't truly learned the lessons about what went well and what went badly before.

Sometimes this comes about because the wishful solutions we want to apply don't work; sometimes because reality is messier than we want to admit, and the solutions are messier still. Child discipline, for example, may always end up being harsher than we as gentle, respectful people would like it to be, particularly for unruly children. Institutions may always be slower to react and improve than we would like.

Much like in software, a full rewrite is often only a pathway to a new set of problems, compared to a refactoring that could solve the known set of problems that remain without losing any existing value.
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My (poorly worded) point is that without the internet, bitcoins in your bag don't have any immediate value.
That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
Yes there is. It's not documented/example'd yet tho.

There's a derive macro called #[derive(PostgresType)]. Combine that with serde's Serialize, Deserialize, and you're gtg.

I'm going to be working on more docs and twitch streams over this week.
Do you have any information on your digial audio interface you can share? Seems like an interesting project.
I grew up reading books espousing this type of stuff, but the older I got, the more I realized how much of a pipe dream it is. As a kid, you think you can master everything, as an adult, you realize how much maintenance each of these skills take. So even if you "learn to fight" or "program a computer" well once, it will quickly fade if not maintained...for an hour or two a day. You can see how that short-circuits the list quickly.
I wondered why we hadn’t seen her in The Rovers.
Whereas a monetary system is an essential aspect of modern civilization many people see major players in our specific system obviously working against the interests of the rest of civilization instead of simply enabling it. It's obvious that not everyone is equally bad or equally culpable but its obvious that there is also an institutional lack of what most people think of as ethics.

Take for example the creation of a market to manipulate the price of commodities most notably wheat.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/04/27/how-goldman-sachs-creat...

Sachs is most likely mostly responsible for millions perhaps hundreds of millions of people going hungry and yet a response to outlawing this kind of manipulation provokes this response.

>I asked a handful of wheat brokers what would happen if the U.S. government simply outlawed long–only trading in food commodities for investment banks. Their reaction: laughter. One phone call to a bona-fide hedger like Cargill or Archer Daniels Midland and one secret swap of assets, and a bank’s stake in the futures market is indistinguishable from that of an international wheat buyer. What if the government outlawed all long-only derivative products, I asked? Once again, laughter. Problem solved with another phone call, this time to a trading office in London or Hong Kong; the new food derivative markets have reached supranational proportions, beyond the reach of sovereign law.

This is Bond villain proportions of villainy. We could of course continue in the same vein touching on Banks laundering money for cartels, the housing market collapse, and on and on and on.
This is really awesome! thanks for this :D
And also just think at how well humans who lack this form of sensory input still function
Can you provide some sources for your information ? From what I have read they are considered to be that part of the Vedas.
They're running a marketplace to sell stuff...

Yes a store front charged a premium to host something on their platform. Like you can levy that complaint against practically every e-comerce website on the internet from e-bay, etsy, amazon, steam, overstock, etc.

And they do link to the creators websites. You can click through to their vendor page which can have a link to their personal website.
https://filtergrade.com/vendor/carlos-viloria/
If you happen to be horribly mistreated by someone with a lot of fame and power at some point, and you try to bring them to justice, I will support you and I hope you are treated seriously and not ridiculed by general public as well.

If it never happens to you (perhaps thanks to cancel culture serving as a sort of deterrent now?), all the better.

Do downsides of cancel culture outweigh the upsides? Up for a debate, but unless all participants are willing to acknowledge those upsides in the first place I don’t see how such a debate could have a point.
I'm only talking about maybe the last week of trading at most.
I just found out about zein[0] the other day. It's made from corn. Not sure about ethanol resistance, though. Wikipedia says it is used to line coffee cups, for example. How often it is used, compared to plastics, I do not know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zein
“a cellphone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk” (when G. Maxwell arrested)
Bitcoin can be sent and received anywhere in the world needing no than a raspi's worth of computing power.

Not many banking hoops to jump through, sanctions aren't at play, very difficult / impossible for a non-superpower country to exert control.

Greece and Venezuela are both recent examples of countries where people who owned Bitcoin faired substantially better than their peers who did not.
Lol, and how did that work out for you?
> Defined benefit pensions existed for quite a while before "fully funded" pension funds, using a pay-as-you-go system, and could probably survive indefinitely that way if designed right.

The PBGC was created because this isn't the case. The issues with Social Security are another example of how pay as you go isn't completely sustainable.
"Linux founder"

Folks, anyone who knows what Linux is also knows who Linus Torvalds is.
I mean as a broke masters student with a graphic design degree this sounds like the kind of job I would actually enjoy doing, only I have no idea how one goes about finding such things. Is the real problem here the hiring process and where these things are looking for people?
The US model of funding retirements is subsidizing (via tax breaks/structures) the middle class to buy into inflation beating assets (only stocks meet this really) or underfunding pensions that need to also beat inflation by buying into equities. There truly is “no alternative” to stocks and, to a lesser extent, real estate. These are the only two major asset classes which can provide sufficient returns to support a middle class or above lifestyle for a very large class of people who do not work or intend to not work in the near future.
We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control.
I think you're talking about something very different, which is attacking Python's supply chain.

This is talking about malware payloads themselves. I don't agree that those capabilities (taking screenshots, especially eval) are trivial in other languages. Eval in particular makes things trivial since you can basically do:

eval(get_payload()), which is awesome from a staging perspective - the trend in malware is to modularize more and more for a number of reasons (less code to scan for sigantures, new monetization strategies, easier to update, etc).

So having the ability to do runtime, reflective module loading to trivially get a capability like screenshotting is pretty huge.
Because we know too much.
Again, that's fine for you to act that way. But what you stated was the rule:

> You shouldn't be fired for things you do and say outside of work, period.

Which would presumably apply to all companies. Under what ethical basis is this a good rule? What if I want to fire someone for what they did outside of work? Why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? Why should your belief about how you would run your company affect how I run mine?
Look up Quantitative Easing, since 2008
It's a valid point. I should have specified that I meant stagnation skill-wise, not career-wise.
And you think the average non-technical person is going to trust that over... trading for actual goods like food/fuel/livestock? On what planet does the government-backed virtual currency fail and then non-technical people suddenly trust a darknet currency backed by... imaginary computer algorithms that they don't understand and don't want to understand?
That is a fantastic follow-up article. Bookmarked :)

Re: the stick...

> the stick is multipurpose in helping with launch, as well as stability (plus being easy to manufacture with low precision)

True. Model rockets achieve mostly the same, except instead of keeping the stick attached to the rocket, the stick is instead attached to the launchpad, and is stuck through two (or more) holes on the side of the rocket (fancier/bigger rockets typically opt for rails, but a simple metal rod is typically good enough for smaller rockets).

Like I mentioned, if such a rocket were to be built to be disposable (i.e. with a "recovery system" that just disintegrates the rocket instead of something like a parachute), they could probably be cost-competitive and performance-competitive with mortars (probably a slightly-higher upfront cost due to the launchpad and electric ignition system instead of a traditional fuse, but not by a whole lot); that they ain't typically used for pyrotechnics seems to imply a regulatory issue with doing so.
I would still call it censorship when you constantly violate the moderation rules you supposedly follow.

Just look at their "no altcoin discussion rule". Altcoin discussion is allowed if it makes Bitcoin look good, but you'll get banned if you point out benefits of other coins over Bitcoin (or pointing out any flaws with Bitcoin at all).

Or how discussion about the Lightning Network and the centralized sidechain Liquid is allowed and even encouraged, while discussion on a blocksize increase has been bannable for years. Even before Bitcoin forked discussion of full node clients such as Bitcoin XT, which followed all the rules of Bitcoin, were blocked because it was "an altcoin" (which is was not).

Explaining away the countless of unjustly banned users with "moderation" is part of the problem.
> Because, frankly, it makes a nice trope or whatever, but I question the literal seriousness Heinlein had when he wrote that.

I wouldn't take anything Heinlein put in Lazarus Long’s—or any other fictional character’s—mouth as representing his simple literal view unless Heinlein also said it directly in a nonfictional context.
Deschooling has a lot of material to consume, and the term is pretty strong sounding, so I don't think it's surprising, but your conclusion that Illich wants to "dismantle the entire system" is far from most readings of his work.

Wikipedia [0] has a good summary of the idea IRT schooling in general - it's basically a philosophical position that people are better at learning when they actually have interest in a given subject, and that humans are also instinctive learners. Forcing people to consume curriculum without interest actually contributes to phobia of a subject.

There are many successful people who have been educated using the principles of deschooling. It's not about rejecting education at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling#Unschooling/Descho...
U.S. Set to Reject Certain Chinese Maritime Claims in South China Sea
Yes or no? Are Likert scales always preferable to dichotomous rating scales?
mea culpa on the eval/expr. I did the comments inline for brevity.

I am confused about the $$ examples though, since swear I have worked on production code that literally behaves like that. Maybe they had some extra non-alphanumeric bits. This behaves the way I gave originally

set b a
set (a) 5

puts $($b)

Edit:
I found the production code. There was both

puts [expr 3 - $$b]

and

puts [subst $$b]

and the Steve example was actually two steps:

set nameVariable [subst var$$b]
puts [subst $$nameVariable]
I would imagine that that the point is less the practicalities of how it would than exist rather that commodities will become (as they always have done) the mechanism of trade. Before there was money there was just normal trade. In apocalypse land who are you going to let into your group of survivors, the guy with 10,000 bitcoin on a usb stick or the guy with 10ton of rice?
You're not far off talking about "The World's Most Interesting Man". It's a quote from Time Enough for Love, which is about Lazarus Long, a genetically modified human who lives for 2000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long
There are people who age extremely well, though.

Audrey Hepburn, in her early sixties (just before her death) was stunningly beautiful. She was merely "cute" when she was in her twenties.
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No, because none of them are calling for the abolishment of the country they live in. They are calling for its improvement, just as many of their reasonable opponents do.
I think the current TSLA situation is simply about betting on the future. The stock price of a company not only represents what it's doing right now (sales, profits, whatever) but also a prediction of what it might do into the future.

Tesla are doing OK now, (kind of) breaking even, and making a decent number of cars. I think most would agree they're more solid now than ever before, and it seems like they're probably here to stay. But much more importantly we have to look at what they could be doing in 5-10 or 20 years.

Often people say Tesla isn't anything near the behemoth that is Toyota (true), and their stock shouldn't be higher than Toyota's. Toyota now make just under 9 million cars per year worldwide [1], exactly the same as they made in 2007.

In 2007 their share price was ~$75USD and now it's roughly similar. While they make a ton of cars and are profitable, they're not growing or really doing anything drastically different to almost 15 years ago. It's very likely in 10 or 15 more years they'll still be trundling along, doing the same things, making a similar number of cars. That's solid and good, and their stock price reflects that.

Tesla, on the other hand, are going all out for expansion. With the new factory going up in Germany, and one about to be announced in the USA for Cybertruck, it seems like they have no intention of slowing down, and plan to continue to grow extremely rapidly. In 10 years they may be making as many cars as Toyota is now. In 20 years they might be twice the size of Toyota (in terms of units produced).

Whether you believe they can pull that off or not is a matter of speculation that isn't worth getting into. That "guess the future" is exactly what we're seeing in the stock price. Toyota's stock price is not skyrocking because they're not doing anything radical, and aren't growing exponentially. On the other hand Tesla's stock price is skyrocketing, which we can read to mean a huge number of investors think they can pull off massive growth.

Of course time will tell, and in the mean time we can all gamble on what we think will happen.

(Note - I haven't even touched on Tesla's plans for self-driving, their "revolutionary" new battery chemistry, home storage, large scale storage or whatever else they're (maybe) cooking up. Also important is the inevitable extinction of the internal combustion engine. Those are heated topics of disagreement, but again, the fact the stoke price is climbing so fast shows people think Tesla have a very bright future)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267272/worldwide-vehicle...
I'm not seeing this as newsworthy either.

All porting involves some changes and instability. This is "Water is wet" style news.

Are we learning something new from this being widely reported? (very little from what I can see)

Should be infer that there's something inherently wrong with Apple Silicon in that Elixir has an issue? (doubtful - its just new. no surprises multiple projects will need various bugfixes or code changes)

Perhaps that this is insurmountable? (unlikely)

Is this a case where large numbers of eyeballs being focused on it is somehow worthwhile or there are wide implications, eg its a major security incident? (no, unlikely)

Is there some technical quirk that sparks interest? (not particularly)

I don't understand how this is news.
I'll get ridiculed for this, but there's actually decent wine to be had in cans now too. I wouldn't really drink it out of a can directly, but it's pretty convenient sometimes to have a half bottle of wine, and not worry about how to save the rest.
>You have incentive to spend, since the point of life is not to die with as many bitcoins as possible, but to spend your wealth on things that you enjoy and matter.

Do we live in the same world? Do you think Jeff Bezos has hoarded all this money to buy himself nice clothes, ice cream and trips to the beach? Dying with as much money (i.e. power) as possible is very much the endgame for many people.

And note that it's not just individuals that accumulate a lot of wealth, it's also corporations and governments. Do you think Fort Knox is just a piggy bank for when the citizens of the US decide to go on a collective vacation in Thailand?

>I think it is a great thing that BTC makes disincentivizes unnecessary spending.

Investing into the economy is not unnecessary spending. Every time you hear about a funding round or somebody making a loan, that's somebody else investing money. Fractional reserve is also about reinvesting money instead of letting it sit idly in a coffer.

The fact that these Econ 101 points have to be made again and again in cryptocurrency discussions is probably the best evidence as to why they're doomed to fail. If you don't even understand what inflation is about how can we have a reasonable discussion about currencies?
I built a valuation model of TSLA and came up with a fair intrinsic price of less than $200.

Of course it is hard to value anything right now because coming up with a discount rate is fraught and you have government manipulation of the asset market as well.

I don't know if there are waaaay smarter and informed people than me that know something about TSLA's long-term growth prospects or it is just bing meme-ed into orbit.

Very strange times!
Or we would if the FTC didn’t try and block it - isn’t this the way an antitrust regulator should work?
You’re right. As jascode suggests I think you took a stricter definition of “required” than I intended. We have pension plans buying private equity which should never happen. We have had them selling volatility because they’re desperate to find yield, which should never happen. Etc. When I say required I mean that for whatever management reasons they decide they must continue to target the same returns, and due to the artificially low interest rates they’ve been required to go into riskier assets to find them.
"One of the strangest phenomena in academia is" is a good opening line. Deep well.
The mystery is that the drop happened even in areas such as Sweden which did not do this.
The wave function collapses on the third attempt.
While it's great you're sharing your success and formula one must consider market saturation. Once that point is reached there may not be enough underserved demand to support similar gains for others.

Edit: you're not your
now you ought to tell how it turned out!
Couldn’t you say the same for most industries?