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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are incoming — 2020s will be the fight of MMT vs BTC as Balaji says.
NN-512 is an open-source Go program that generates fully AVX-512 vectorized, human-readable, stand-alone C implementations of convolutional neural nets

The generated C code is an example of AVX-512 programming using GCC's AVX-512 intrinsics. AVX-512 is exciting because its use of masking simplifies edge cases (partial loads, partial stores, etc.), there are 32 wide vector registers, and really excellent shuffle/permutation instructions (in particular, the two-input permute by var). Recent versions of GCC produce very good object code from C intrinsics

The goal of NN-512 is efficient neural net inference on inexpensive, CPU-only cloud instances. For example, a Skylake-X cloud compute instance costs $10 per CPU-core per month at Vultr, and the NN-512 generated code does about 18 DenseNet121 inferences per CPU-core per second (in series, not batched)

As AVX-512 becomes better supported by Intel and AMD chips, it becomes more attractive as an alternative to expensive GPU instances for workloads with small amounts of inference mixed with other computation
Humans are less & less required for the unfolding, highly leveraged, highly automated, highly unequal economy.

Don't see any way for avoiding this.
I don't think it's elegant at all. Magically treating special strings in this manner seems like a violation of "everything is a file".
And yet personally (in the USA) I know more people who's lives have been wrecked by alcohol than by cocaine.

Of course, now it seems I'm arguing for prohibition after all, maybe that's because alcohol is legal, is that why more people get into trouble with it?

My sense is that criminalization doesn't have much role in it though. I think cultural factors, as you mention, are more powerful.

And the number of people whose lives are wrecked by the criminal justice system because of drug prohibition is really significant.
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OP here - I built Date Night Questions with my wife over the Thanksgiving holiday.

She's a designer, I'm a developer, and we've been wanting to build something together for a while. But, to be realistic, it needed to be something with a pretty narrow scope.

For years, we've curated stacks of hand-written index cards for our weekly date nights. In 2020, that's turned into weekly bottle-of-wine-on-the-deck nights, but we still do it. Once we started handing decks out to friends, and hearing back that they enjoyed them too, we decided it'd be fun to put Date Night Questions out into the world where anyone could use it.

My mom (beta tester #1) said: "It's fun. And, I've learned so many funny things about your dad. He took a class from Buckminster Fuller! We've been together 38 years! I probably knew that years ago, but have forgotten."

My wife designed and illustrated everything. I built her designs as set of web components (Deck, Card, etc) with Lit-Element.
My solutions for implementing the principle of "procreation being a privilege to be earned instead of a right for all" are not socially acceptable and pointless to discuss. We'd need a Brave New World system taking over the world. It's an absolute utopia. I had a deep hatred for the savage even when I first read the book.
Imagine a society not based on consumerism and quarterly report increases. Gasp!

Back in the day people used to get interest (covering more than inflation) from holding money in their bank accounts. What's changed?
No other components in my setup have changed.

I also experience the lag on my windows desktop while dragging windows.
I think the usual counterargument to your point is that Europeans have greatly benefited, directly or indirectly, from the conquest & colonization of Black & Brown people. I don't know how much water that argument holds, but there it is.

Sure, there were European groups that were themselves being actively colonized/conquered (eg, Ireland), but it's also true that the conditions in their home countries led many of these same peoples to seek their fortune elsewhere and to end up at the vanguard of colonization. For example, when the British were in India, there was an outsize presence of Scottish & Irish fortune seekers in the subcontinent who made out like gangbusters.
I've recently finished watching Narcos on Netflix and this news comes out... Is the whole planet in depression or something ? Why in the world people would think about legalization of cocaine when it kills you eventually. Cannabis and alcohol is different thing. Economy?! There are different way to support economy, get rid off mafia and narcos first.
> Executives, CEOs and shareholders are all highly compensated for their risk in both time and money

That too is wrong. Paying wages based on supply/demand instead of based on the value an employee actually provides leads to exactly this kind of heavily distorted labor markets.
How AWS Made Mac Minis Data Center Ready
I just checked a couple boutique builders and they’ve all got 5000 series Ryzens in stock.
True Pandemic Toll in the U.S. Reaches 345,000
Corollary: Outsourcing KYC means they learn from you getting stung.
when you say '"because capitalism" is always a terrible argument', you're doing more than observing that it's used nebulously sometimes, you're saying that by definition it cannot be used unnebulously, which is just false and is what I was responding to.

Your original comment was aggressive but I admit quoting Dunning Kruger, while not misplaced, was also aggressive and escalatory.
I read it as:

> ... provide their business users with access to capabilities which are regulated_,_ with those capabilities fulfilled by entities with the appropriate licensing ...

Short version: we do the hard things for you so you don't have to. Correction welcome if that comma doesn't convey the intended meaning.
I agree. I'd rather hi-dpi 32"+ monitors first though. Hidpi displays are becoming standard on top-end laptops but on desktop you're almost out of luck.

It's wild that the only hidpi 32" monitor is ~$5000, and it was released a few years ago now.

My eyeballs need that sweet crisp text.
I think read replicas scale easily, so if it’s views and such then there is no problem. If you have to compute stuff during writes, then it’s hard, but probably solved by normalizing the data.
While this makes sense what the parent comment said is also true.

I always wondered why big enterprise customers are not concerned about lock in. Maybe they cut multi year deals with the big cloud providers?
So much this. I would have zero interest in building out kyc vs having stripe do it for me
So now, humans are going to be the intergalactic assholes of the universe who go and change their phone number without leaving a forwarding number. When our message sent from Arecibo is finally received, their response will go to a disconnected number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BVbyCZXc5s
Couldn't we just augment the existing plastic with seeds/fungi is some way? That way, after some time in the trash, the fungi actually develops a colony which eats the packaging?
Having worked at a startup who's product was built around unity, that 2nd 80% is a killer.
Wow, it looks like Scott Manley's assessment of the failure was spot on. Incredible footage, and equally incredible that they caught it on drone in such high detail!
"the rollout of licenses for legal storefronts has been pretty disastrous"

Disastrous how?
I think this is actually the better link to be discussing, rather than the twitter threads shared before.

The most relevant parts (in terms of back story) should be this:

> A week before you go out on vacation, you see a meeting pop up at 4:30pm PST on your calendar (this popped up at around 2pm). No one would tell you what the meeting was about in advance. Then in that meeting your manager’s manager tells you “it has been decided” that you need to retract this paper by next week, Nov. 27, the week when almost everyone would be out (and a date which has nothing to do with the conference process). You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.

> Then, you ask for more information. What specific feedback exists? Who is it coming from? Why now? Why not before? Can you go back and forth with anyone? Can you understand what exactly is problematic and what can be changed?

> And you are told after a while, that your manager can read you a privileged and confidential document and you’re not supposed to even know who contributed to this document, who wrote this feedback, what process was followed or anything. You write a detailed document discussing whatever pieces of feedback you can find, asking for questions and clarifications, and it is completely ignored. And you’re met with, once again, an order to retract the paper with no engagement whatsoever.
I know exactly how you feel. Here are some things you could try:

* At standups, have a parking lot time at the end where people can raise issues.

* Do retrospectives - you should be able to raise your issue and get your team thinking about a solution.

* If you're running the meeting, have an agenda. Build in time for Q&A and an Any Other Business time. If you're not running the meeting, request an agenda.

* Book in your own meetings to have your say. Back it up with info.

* Try do confidence voting - I have seen this work well. You go around everyone in the room and ask them how confident they are in the solution. It can be eye opening because some people may say 3 (low confidence) while others say 8 (high confidence)

* Try make your comments before the meetings (on slack if you are WFH)

* Start a Decision Log for team. It may help to prevent the decisions that have been made from poor points.

Now, none of these help if your team don't care and are just Loud(tm).
Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru
I agree. To me this sounds more like bad programming (high coupling and low cohesion) and like it would be a problem even if a separate application acted as the backend.
> While criminalising hard drugs is not ideal, legalising them and thereby making them more easily available will have a devastating impact and destroy too many lifes.

You mean your friends live in a country where cocaine is legal? o.O Would love to know more about that!

Or is it that you just didn't understand the arguments in favour of drug legalization and decriminalization?
Not surprising. Databases are built to be really efficient, and with enough hardware, they can forgive a lot. Mediocre developers can produce a lot of "working" code if they stand on the shoulders of giants. (Not saying you or your team was mediocre, I'm just saying that I've seen really bad code run a lot of business processes. At the end of the day, it worked and the company made money.)
Yeah, that's why I like to ignore stock comp as it doesn't help me buy food at the supermarket
If you foment race war like this on HN again we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: actually I'm going to ban the account now. You've been breaking the site guidelines a ton, quite badly. You've also ignored repeated warnings to stop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24538416

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079600

You've also posted good comments, although they've been getting harder to find in the mix. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Facebook Renames Libra to Diem
The vaccine trials did not test whether people who did not get COVID-19 might nonetheless have been infectious. The assumption is that it reduces or even eliminates infectiousness but that hasn't actually been tested for AFAIK.
As far as I know the largest offenders are still the cellular companies since they can and are selling location data that works without any software on the phone. It's technically less precise than GPS/wifi location data but since it's always active it's pretty easy to use weeks of data to improve the resolution.

Besides that just don't install any apps you don't need. Stick to open source software, install a custom ROM on your phone, don't use Google location services, etc.
> Removed: OpenGL Desktop Rendering

And so it starts.
See also Google conspiring to suppress worker wages for many years until they were caught and given a slap on the wrist.
War on drugs is what corrupts do to divert politics from fighting the corruption on politics. They just keep blaming the country problems to cocaine, otherwise the blame would fall on themselves.
Becuase of lack of tooling there is tons of duplicate logic in SQL based systems, I see the same logic repeated across queries which already exists in some view but no knows about it so it ends up being repeated.
Lack of abstractions like modules and namespaces for logically grouping stored procedures makes it hard to understand where is what
think gold with finite supply and easily transmissible. Bogleheads approved :)
patio11 elsewhere here: "Stripe Treasury is presently only for businesses serving businesses"
You keep saying things like the deception of the nuclear industry can be "reliably identified" yet you seem unable to provide any support for these claims. You then willingly turn a blind eye to the deception of the renewables industry, and your only attempt to defend this practice is to throw more mud at the nuclear industry.

I just can not understand this position.
More stuff for me to lose money on...
I'd pile on that the programmability of the HPs was amazing compared to the TIs. The manual for my HP-48sx was a chonkyboi but man could I do so much with it. Once I figured out how to calculate pitch frequencies for equal temperament (just a mathematical series) I was using the BEEP function (IIRC) to have my calculator play music.
Let's also not forget London Breed, the Mayor of SF [0].

[0]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-...
I don't think anyone here will disagree with you. They're just saying that this new system brings its own problems. Namely heightened labor monopsony. That doesn't mean we have to go back to mom and pop systems, but it probably does mean we should work on solving the new problems.
Surely all of those exist on a spectrum from healthy to hostile. I've been in infosec for 25 years and see it regularly.
Why I'm skeptical of universal basic income
“What did you expect?” is my least favorite conversational trope (it’s more disappointing on HN because in general I have higher expectations here, but it’s common everywhere).

On the surface it sounds smart and world-weary. As an actual part of a conversation, whether something is expected is pretty orthogonal to whether, say, something would ideally be done about it.

I suppose it is relevant to whether something makes good content, but hopefully most of us aren’t here primarily to comment on our judgment of content marketability

I think the most common place I see it is with surveillance conversations

Though I should note that I’m not seeing those comments towards the top anymore, so that’s good
Haha, cool
AWS/Azure lock in is more about data than platform.

Fortune 500 have lot of data and while its free to move data to a particular cloud provider they pay a bomb to take it out.
What the Hell Is Salesforce, Anyway?
That sounds good in theory, but essentially gives the company the ability to play groups off each other. The entire point of unionization is to be able to negotiate on level terms.

This viewpoint also seems to assume that merit is the most important thing, and that unions should optimize for it. For a union, tenure is super important to maintain its strength. Corporations are held together with contracts and money, so they optimize for things that are legally safe and make more money than they cost. Unions are held together with only social fabric, so it makes sense to optimize for things that maintain continuity and cohesion.
Golden Gate bridge is 887 000 tons: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/golden-gate-bridge-fas...

So around 1000 times as heavy.
"GitHub has My Stolen Code" makes it sound like:

1. GitHub did something special or intentional in this case.

2. GitHub is running the code.

In fact, when I saw the headline, my first thought was that GitHub was using someone's library in violating of the stated license.

It's also strange that this person published their source code along with the demand that no one reproduce it anywhere.

It's like if Twitter complained about people reproducing tweets. Sure, maybe they are violating your copyright in some way, but copyright is very, very difficult to enforce on a product that can be reproduced billions of times per second across the entire world.

Especially after seeing the code itself (simple forum software that runs on PHP 5.6, which has been unsupported for 2+ years) and that the author has no intention of monetizing it, it just sounds like they were looking for a sensational headline. There seems to be no actual harm happening here.

And as others have said, this is how we'd prefer the web to work: copyright holders have less power, not more.
In the article:
> We get a 90 ms improvement from going from 24 Hz to 165 Hz.

As per the linked article, the observed delay improvement isn't one frame, more like ~3 frames. It doesn't go up from 1/24 to 1/165, it goes from 2.5/24 to 2.5/165.

Computer software waits a lot more than it did in 1977. That's why 240hz displays feel much more snappier even if it's supposed to be less noticeable -- you're waiting for same 3 frames, but they pass by much faster.
> It is genuinely pretty neat.

This captures my feelings exactly about BTC, thank you for phrasing it so succinctly!
Totally agree about the keyboard and processor/ram. Originally thought about getting the X13, but I recall the screens options weren't that good, and I prefer the larger size and bigger battery anyways.

As for Linux, I fully intended to dual boot Arch and Windows. Due to circumstance, I am stuck with a tiny 128GB NVMe and so I am using the default Windows for now. I've been watching this playlist of a user installing Arch on their T14s to help prep me on some of the quirks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFPynCqfzc&list=PLiKgVPlhUN.... I hope that helps answer some of your questions.
- The accusation tends to be entirely unproven, or even wrong in rather obvious ways. To stay with the example here: despite this particular incident, there are many laudable contributions to social causes that Google has supported over the years.

- The idea that professing some sort of belief which one acknowledges as "good" is nonetheless somehow "bad" when not accompanied by action just doesn't make much sense. It is still PR for the good cause. When it's convincing, people will act on it.

Example: Apple has been making lots of noise, for years, on issues such as environmentalism or privacy. They have been accused of "virtue signalling", or "greenwashing", etc. I don't think those accusations are valid, but in any case, even if they have been the most cynical liars, their statements will have the effect of setting expectations for them and their industry peers. They will attract talent that believes in these ideas, and, over time, will turn them into reality.

- The term "virtue signalling" is used exclusively by the political right. Are we to believe they have any actual interest in, say, increased diversity, and are concerned about "virtue signalling" because it is somehow damaging to their cause? No... that doesn't make much sense, does it? Instead, it's used by these people because their real opinion just cannot be openly stated in polite company any longer. So it's rather convenient to come up with a concept that uses the generally agreed-upon "goodness" of your opponent's stated believes against them.
I'd argue this is bad timing. Biden won't let that slip.
+1 for mercury, great option for this use case
Is that true though? Bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold, etc.
21 years ago, I joined a young team that wrote an ERP, with all business logic in PL/SQL. Customers are still amazed how fast these guys are going. 10 years ago I joined Oracle to work on APEX (created in 1999), which is a web app development and runtime environment, written in PL/SQL. We estimate that there are about 260K developers world-wide who are developing apps with APEX. All of their business logic is also on the server. Call me biased because I am working for the man, but my data points are completely different.
For those who are not familiar, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all colluded with one another to keep tech worker compensation below its market value[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Many people don’t want or cannot get real bank accounts, e.g. because they can’t sustain the minimum balance, have been blacklisted for bouncing checks, or it just isn’t the norm in their community.
Based on the contents of the email things were already beyond repair

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
I built two systems recently with the 4650G that I imported via Aliexpress. I paid a little more than MSRP and shipping was slow and nerve racking, but the sysrems work nicely, and no GPU made it fit in a smaller ITX case (heatsink selection is tricky though)
Mapping Fake News and Disinformation in the Western Balkans
Not the person you replied to but: I’ve been trying to get the same one. No chance. Luckily the shop I ordered from has a queue system so I don’t have to hunt. Just today I got an email that their supplier is delayed the next shipment and they have no idea when anything is going to arrive
I'll explain it to you in one sentence:
There IS NOTHING else.

There's only 4 main assets classes:

1) Equity valuations are at all time highs by nearly every objective measure out there

2) Fixed income is really vulnerable to the onslaught of inflation that looks ever more likely with all the MMT that's been going on.

3) Real Estate is a possibility but not scalable and not tax efficient and takes a great deal of skill and time to execute properly. (not counting REITs and other real estate ETFs)

4) All that leaves is commodities: Gold and Bitcoin.
This is very interesting, and if those numbers are right, straight up batteries do not appear very practical for that route. but lets consider that one does not have to complete the longest journey in the world on a single battery charge.

Any of the pacific islands could be built out with infrastructure to recharge them - afterall, sea-based wind turbines are one of the cheapest sources of power, while ontermittent, they are perfect for charging. You coupd even place something akin to an oil platform, but for charging ships.

However maybe something like hydrogen makes more sense.
There is Satoshi's wallet in the root, no need for authority as we can see.