skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The path to decentralisation" for these projects are usually very primitive and don't actually arrive at the broad claims. Too often it's just putting wall paper over the hole in the wall. A DAO it self doesn't bring you decentralisation, the hardest problem is how you determine the members of the DAO. With how this is being played (tokens) you arrive at oligarchy or a federation, not decentralisation. The developers know this. That's why you don't see anything but baby steps forward with regards to decreasing their power over the protocols.

Ditto on the non custodial claims, I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen this term used to describe a product and for it to actually be the case.
In a stock market flight to safety you go to the greenback because the USG is the worlds primary reserve currency and is backed up by the power of the American financial system. I'm not talking about a stock market flight to safety. I'm talking about a hypothetical scenario that I do not think will come to pass: They keep running the printers even after the real economy is breaking down. They won't do it. They will let the stock market retract before they let inflation get over five percent because they know the power that they have keeping the USD as the world's primary reserve currency, even if it means the stock market is going to tank.

That is my argument: The stock market is going to tank and these meme stonks only go up are going to look chilling in retrospect.
Wow! There's a lot of amazing stuff here. I think a lot of it can be abstracted to apply to any field really.
The money use case is cool, but only really that helpful if you want to evade the law. A much broader use case is building applications. This will not work for all apps (eg social networks that produce massive amounts of data), but many apps in the business world (eg accounting systems) do not produce a lot of data.

The advantages are that it will be easier to build apps this way because no outside server is needed. This is great for prototyping and bootstrapping. Apps built on Bitcoin have other advantages like maintaining data provenance (useful for audit purposes), managing data ownership (who is allowed to update a piece of data), or storing cryptocurrency atomically with data.

Frameworks along these lines are starting to pop up. One example is the Bitcoin Computer (http://bitcoincomputer.io/): It allows you to write an app entirely as frontend code and gives you simple provisions for persisting data on chain with a single line of JS code.
Tell that to Raymond Chen :-)
Just think of how much stuff humans use "point eye at" for....
They're not saying that bitcoin is sophisticated (it's not), but the entire backbone of the internet is.

In some post-apocalyptic dystopia, people aren't going to be using their phones and laptops to make payments with bitcoin, they're going to use whatever is backed by the local authority.
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But most of the debt has been around for years at this point. What in the next 9 months changes that?
"With the amount of sponsors they get, they could get away with $10 tickets like PyCon Europe which is free for all and still take care of travel and lodging for speakers. When Google gave Kubernetes for free to CNCF non profit, I don't think this is what they had in mind and may be why they went with OUC instead."

It's very expensive to run 10,000 person events, we run the events as pretty much break even across different projects, some events make money, some loss money, it all balances out. We also produce transparency reports for our events: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/01/09/kubecon-cloudnativecon-n...

Also keep in mind that nothing is free, running VENDOR NEUTRAL events is a hard business, ORM laid off all its events team recently during the pandemic (https://www.businessinsider.com/oreilly-media-layoffs-events...), I'm proud to say we haven't laid anyone off.
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Between Apple and Google heavily investing in Indian facilities , I wonder if this is going to actually lead to physically outsourcing our jobs for real
So maybe an app could send a request to Apple, then require you to open a new window and log in to the Apple site, navigate to an apps request page, find the right request, allow it, then go back to the original app. Or maybe copy a really long string and paste it, then copy the response and paste it back into the app. But you can see why no one did it this way right?
Wow, thank you for taking the time and writing that down.

Just one question: How can I obtain the knowledge to build such a system?
Are those AVX-512 registers saved on context switches? At least on syscalls, the kernel could just have a policy of not using those registers? I'm not exactly sure how that works, this is part of the ABI right?
The company they hired to get me to work with them was my consulting company. :-)
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> Video meetings where you sit at your desk and stare into your screen for an hour is just stupid.

Could not agree more. Was recently asked to give a several hour presentation online to a group via video chat. Insisted on using just audio and screen sharing (so that the concepts being explained could be demonstrated). It was a far more pleasant experience without everyone having to stare awkwardly at each other.
I think the difficulty with making an equivalence between “faith” and this type of fundamental epistemic limitation is that no matter how well-intentioned you are, religious people are going to take the soundbyte and claim it’s “proof that science can’t explain everything” which will then be “proof that god is possible” which will then mean oppressing people whose beliefs they don’t like.

We need a much different concept than faith.

Faith means continuing to believe something that is massively contrary to the evidence, to preserve some type of fidelity or loyalty to a previous belief commitment.

I think this is massively different than acknowledging the fundamental deductive limitations of reasoning about epistemic metatruths.
I think you are thinking AVX takes up more diespace than it does. Only a tiny fraction of all CPU diespace is dedicated to the actual CPU. The rest goes primarily to cache and partially to the various controllers on the CPU (memory controller, PCI-Express controller, etc).

There's a reason AMD is and Intel are able to cram full GPUs onto the same die as the CPU.
I have a somewhat contrarian opinion. I'll speak from the standpoint of an American citizen. Yes, remote work will obviate the need to live in Silicon Valley for many engineers. I'm also concerned that the shift to remote work may be used as justification by anti-immigration politicians to reduce immigration on the grounds that highly-skilled immigrants could work remotely for American companies from their home countries.

However, engineers in America still need to live somewhere. Silicon Valley is very expensive to the point where $500,000 won't purchase anything except for maybe a one-bedroom condo, but unfortunately many other coastal metro areas in the United States are not affordable, either; Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, and Boston are expensive places. While I see some engineers moving to more rural parts of America as well as other less expensive portions of the country such as the Midwest, the South, and the "Rust Belt," for some engineers who grew up in or near America's coastal metro areas it's going to be a major adjustment moving to the places I listed due to the differences in cultural values and politics. For these reasons I can see many engineers still opt for living in or near Silicon Valley despite the major challenges regarding housing prices.

For these reasons I think Silicon Valley is still going to remain a desirable place to live for some engineers for many years to come.
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Or Oracle free VM. (I made a comparison of some free stuff in the beginning of this article: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server )
As someone who works at a large cryptocurrency business, and who's welfare is thus bound to the ongoing success of cryptocurrencies, I would like to state my unequivocal support of the notion presented in this article.

I think the potential of life improvement for many unbanked people in non-first world countries extends a little beyond the life improving characteristics of ham radio, but overall his sentiment on how inaccurate the "BTC is basically 90's internet" people are, is entirely correct.
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>I don't think the current social climate is conducive to this advice anymore.

The advice is at it's most meaningful in uptight times like these.

>it’s probably easier to convince them with social aikido [] not assert dominance.

What about just regular assertiveness? It's neither domineering nor artful to be grouped with something like "aikido."

Sometimes it's just not possible to both get your way when you're right and remain a people pleaser. Which makes me think by "aikido" you're just referring to the kind of passive aggressive or manipulative people that fucked us into the social climate we find ourselves in today.
Anyone ever figure out if even Heinlein himself accomplished those skills? Because, frankly, it makes a nice trope or whatever, but I question the literal seriousness Heinlein had when he wrote that. Perhaps as an early prototype of The World's Most Interesting Man, but not to be taken as a literal bucket list.
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Other founder here! For a high level overview of this framing of the problem, I recommend reading this Waymo blog post [1].

One nice feature is that by using embeddings produced by a user's model, which has been trained in the context of their domain, we can do this sort of smart sampling in domains we've never seen before. Embeddings are also naturally anonymized, so we can do this without access to a user's potentially private raw data streams.

[1] https://blog.waymo.com/2020/02/content-search.html
Brainwallets, where you choose the phrase that unlocks the wallet, are a bad idea for this reason. Plenty of people have lost a lot of money from trying clever things like using their favorite line from a piece of media.

However, if you have a seed phrase of 12 randomly-chosen words (that were properly randomly chosen by software, not a person), then that's enough to be safe.
The throttling will surely be reduced when Intel gets its process issues resolved(7nm), which is probably around when they finally ship AVX512 on desktop.
I’ve been doing practically nothing since February, plenty of time to work on my hobbies. This is about the third time in my overall career that this has happened, and all at giant companies. At Oracle I had a 4 month period where I did absolutely nothing and didn’t even have a manager lol.
except that papers rarely give all the data these days, or even enough to verify the conclusion
Interesting!

Now I wonder if Inselbrauerei's all-around labelling [0] is more than just a shelf recognizability gimmick.

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d2/a7/6b/d2a76bc591bd8d13697f...
I think they mean that SIMD only provides a very particular, limited kind of parallelism. It's only useful for some kinds of parallel problems.

Anything where the execution traces diverge significantly requires more execution cores, to sequence them separately. For example serving multiple web pages in parallel.

Anything where the executation traces are identical or near-identical across many repetitions in lockstep, is fine with one execution core and SIMD ALUs. For example dense or block matrix arithmetic.

Modern GPUs are a hybrid of both ideas. Shared execution cores and SIMD ALUs because of high repetition of identical logic, but still many execution cores (but fewer than ALUs) so there is some amount of decoupled parallelism as well, running different tasks at the same time.
Your speculation doesn't appear unfounded to me, but I think you're painting the picture with too broad of a brush here. AMZN, TSLA, and AAPL (just to limit the discussion to the ones you explicitly mentioned) are tech stocks, but have fundamentally different business dynamics that I would expect to be affected quite differently by the effects of COVID.

* AMZN: huge swaths of new and existing are customers moving their shopping online. They stand to profit from this in the short and medium term at least, and I would wager that the change in shopping habits would result in a noticeable number of long term changes sticking.

* TSLA: a lot to unwind here, but it's a combination of their recent delivery numbers and large amounts of retail investor speculation. While I believe the stock was undervalued before, quarterly delivery numbers wouldn't fully explain such large jumps.

* AAPL: I'm at a loss on this one, but I also don't know a lot about it. With many folks not able to spend their discretionary income on bars/restaurants/travel/etc. I can see more of this money being channeled to iPhones.
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The site is indeed very inaccurate, and I'm not using private trackers. Seeing as there is a previous HN thread about it 6 months ago, it should have some historic data in which I occur... it just doesn't capture everything.
Nothing wrong with speculating with money you don't need.
Disclaimer: I own cryptos however no Bitcoins.
What it would really do it hurt all consumers to the benefit of a very small interest group, small businesses.
I've been subscribed to https://www.devopsweekly.com/ for a long time. I usually find something interesting in it every week.
Luring your victim to the part of Yellowstone that lies in Idaho seems like a much more legally plausible way to accomplish this.
Yep, it's overall quite pessimistic from my perspective. Despite them, I've been buying diversified indexes all throughout this year. The gains have been absolutely beautiful. :)
> In a lot of ways, many of the problems just stemmed from age, it was an early 90's application in an early-2010's world. There definitely were some not ideal software development practices that contributed to difficulties as well. But I still had a sense that the previous developer had crafted this beautiful, unique, intricately complex and inter-dependent little world.

I've had exactly that experience. It was an old Apache mod_perl CGI app that used labels and goto statements for flow control, and for well over a decade nobody wanted to touch it because of that. Once I dived in to change it I realized there was a method to the madness. Mod_perl essentially takes your code and wraps it in a sub (function), so if you have subs in your script and use any sort of globals, those turn into function variables, and their use in the subs causes closures. By emulating function calls with goto and labels this problem was side-stepped.

Not how I would have done it (and not something I kept as I revised the script), but what at first appeared to to be complete insanity eventually ended up being based on the environment and the time it was built in. It's a good reminder that often what appears to be stupidity of the prior programmer is actually your own misunderstanding of the problem (and probably poor documenting of the problem as well...)
If you don't have the direct power to hire and fire, then yeah, you have to walk. Find another gig. It never gets better.

Put another way, some bad situations are not accidental. If you try to fix them, you become the problem in the eyes of those maintaining it.
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Tesla has always been a popular stock with speculators, hype followers, and Robin Hood users. It had nutty valuations before the pandemic. On top of that, the Model Y is now available and crossovers are by far the best-selling type of vehicle in the United States right now.

(It was probably a mistake to come out with the Model 3, a sedan, before the Model Y, a crossover).
The pacman rosetta is page I use the most.
Bitcoin market cap is really low if it were to become important to the Internet or the global financial system. 1-5 Trillion USD is a reasonable number if it were to serve a fraction of the world's trade or capitalize certain derivative products.
> It's like saying "Person P had 1Mi dollars and got 10% interest last year then now Person P has 1100k dollars". But Person P didn't. The interest calculation is correct, but the premise is wrong.

No it is not like that. It is like saying "IF person P had 1Mi dollars and got 10% interest last year THEN now Person P would have 1100k dollars". This statement is true regardless of how much money person P has today. That is how steps 5-8 work: they are true regardless of the truth of the antecedent ('in every group of k people, everyone has the same age'). Finding 2 people in Canada of the same age would NOT prove step 5 wrong (though it would show it to be pointless, of course).

Probably a much more interesting problem would have found a less obviously wrong premise to demonstrate this with. I'd love to find a way to build a similar argument for Fermat's last theorem or some other non-trivial observation.
Oh, don't get me wrong: long term the petroeuro is coming – unless it gets upstaged by the petroyuan. With luck it doesn't come with too many bodies.
How many of them derive most of their revenue from the ham radio market?
Does Monero have a upper limit of issued coins like Bitcoin?
+1. This can be terrible. When Avago acquired Broadcom (and kept Broadcom's name), initially they continued selling existing components for a while, then suddenly discontinued hundreds of discrete RF/microwave parts (some were inherited from Agilent and even Hewlett-Packard's days) because they are "legacy parts". No! It was a huge pain. Many of those, despite their old age, are still good and useful, it's just because the demand and profit from discrete parts are low, and the new management decided it's not worth keeping them.

On the other hand, after Analog purchased Linear, many of the high-performance Linear parts are still sold side-by-side with competing Analog parts today, Analog even created a "Powered by Linear" product line for selling Linear power converter chips. It was a wise decision, apparently the management knew those parts from Linear are of great value. I hope Analog will adopt a similar solution for these Maxim parts.
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I'm a bit surprised nobody has called out the obvious.

The market did correct for these fears and in doing so, dramatically overcorrected. Initial estimates were quite worse than the current situation, and unemployment is terrible - but has been recovering at a rate significantly greater than anyone expected.

That doesn't mean we won't see declines or corrections in the near market, as it's possible the market is too optimistic now - but short of a crystal ball, nobody can actually predict that.
I completely disagree. The amount of c02 dumped in the atmosphere from this product is unfathomable. HN is full of environmentalists and I don't understand why they don't speak out against bitcoin and like technologies that are doing tremendous damage to the planet.
I've been getting worse at this. The thing is, it leaves me feeling more anxious if I roll out of bed and go straight to work. I like having a slower morning where I can sip coffee, read, or work on a side project before starting work.

Between working from home full time, having the pandemic fatigue, and the days being longer, I go to bed later, sleep in later, and wake up closer to when my workday should start. It's a solvable problem, I just need to find the discipline to reset my schedule, again.
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I've been doing outreach efforts throughout most of my business life and wanted to document my knowledge of the process as it can be confusing for people who are just getting started with it.
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What is different about this situation than previous situations? The history of claiming high tech software engineering will soon outsource itself to India is long.
> little evidence of anything not widely reported elsewhere

Are you trying to say the claims are true, since they were independently reported? Or that they mostly lack evidence? Without telling us which claims are confirmed by other sources, which are unsupported, and which are distortions, we can only speculate.
This is a failed argument. Internet is already decentralized; there's no need for ham radios. This comparison would make some sense if there was just a single website controlled by the government, and ham radio was the only solution for freedom of information. Current money systems are centralized and controlled by the governments. Bitcoin fixes that.
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2 powered raspberry pis and a moderately functioning internet is the answer.

The network adjusts it's requirement for power based on the total power thrown at it. This is called "difficulty adjustment". Beyond total world collapse that would set society back a century, I cannot imagine a scenario where you couldn't continue running Bitcoin as long as a few people had the motivation.
Wear a hood/mask/glasses. Hit ATM at 3am. Park behind the building or a block away. Test 25% of the cards.

Then repeat for each block of 25%.
It is also a trait of any rational actor.
I'm reacting to the "lowered trust" in your comment. I take exception to the idea that Signal has spent down any of their accumulated trust on this. What's especially galling to me is that this is Signal taking steps to resolve the biggest complaint nerds have about the platform, and then getting attacked for it.
I too see there is still a lot in draft form, but it states that "this is currently a draft and will launch formally Jan 2019." So its over a year and a half old and lots left to fill in. Maybe they should update that line to address that issue? Its a good start for resources.
I shuffle each pile of resumes and throw half in the trash. I don't want to hire unlucky employees.
It's not a fake number, it comes directly from Robintrack's own public API (assuming you mean the number of people holding shares on Robinhood)
My view is that data parallel is here to stay and what's likely to happen is we'll see more power pumped into the instructions. Things like "If lane A > lane B add C to lane D"

Eventually, I see us going basically full EPIC. That is "here's a batch of instructions that can happen in parallel, run it".
Venezuela/Brazil/North-Africa disagrees with this.