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Thank you for this, and to add to it: BTC is hard money.

Thinking of the price of Bitcoin is a fairly irrelevant endeavour.

Thinking how much BTC it costs to buy one USD (not hard money by a huge margin) over time is a much more productive way of looking at it.

(yes, I've heard of f(x)=1/x I'm talking about a psychological stance here)
It's also good to follow the 20/20/20 rule. Each 20 minutes, take a 20 second break and look at something at least 20 feet away (20m works too, for metric users).

Having your eye focus at a certain distance for a long time has an effect on your ocular muscles.
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>crypto/hashing performance where you could find embedded processors

You mean ASIC I guess.

I think this was Apple's idea in first place. Instead of having general purpose computational machine why not have some general purpose alongside with specialised silicon for the most common tasks.

After all, isn't it GPU just another specialised unit? Why not have similar stuff for everything relevant?
I'm sure there's some good macroeconomists that get paid bags of money to be on the right side of the fence. They would not be dispensing their predictions for free.
To be honest I don't think the president should communicate using a private platform like that at first place, but use official governmental websites. Trump tweeting all the time kind of made a mockery out of the job.
The Digital Antiquarian had a thoroughly interesting article on Chris Sawyer and his work not too long ago:

https://www.filfre.net/2020/10/transport-tycoon/
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If one wants to try out on an android mobile go to:

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I was not virtue signaling, what I meant to say was that both countries have completely different philosophies and values, which will lead to different costs for businesses.
> Oil is priced in dollars, and countries borrow in dollars, because dollars reign supreme.

I think you took two steps. It wasn’t because of the dollar - it was because of the us military. At the end of WWII, there was not real alternative except the British pound, but they couldn’t back it up with military might.

Adding to the leverage was the gift of a DC3 to The Saudi King, whereas the Brits gifted a Rolls Royce. The King liked to fly and could sit in either seat. In the Rolls, he wanted to ride up front, but would have to sit at the unclean hand of the driver.

Sorry to nitpick your nitpick, but these things were more important (and somewhat causal) to a strong dollar.
All of them? I'd need a source on that. Also how do you think these algorithms became popular in the first place? If implimenting an algorithm around SIMD didn't give proper performance then they wouldn't exist.

You have to understand that current software exists because it solved a goal. If you have to first have your algorithm implimented in hardware then nobody can make anything. Without SIMD these projects simply wouldn't be able to exist. That's the hard math of it.
Using behavioral psychology to promote positive financial decisions
>keep forcing the rest of the world to pay for the US standard of living while they themselves live beneath their means, but that is the actual problem now so how much longer can it last

Our entire society is built on this, though. Silicon Valley wouldn't exist if electronics couldn't be produced for comparatively cheaper overseas. You bring up an interesting moral point, but if you're serious about that there's a lot of reckoning society will have to deal with. It's not just going to affect minimum wage lol. It'll affect wages across the board. You're really talking about totally reforming the economy
I recently came across this app that I've been fascinated with. Basically they are using insights from behavioral psychology to try to encourage people to make smart financial decisions. So for every $25 you save you get a weekly lottery ticket with 7 numbers. Each night at 9pm EST they draw a new number and if you match all 7 in a week you win the $10 million jackpot. You can also win small prizes from a few cents all the way up to a Tesla.

I think this idea of gamifying activities that are otherwise totally boring, such as saving money, is really powerful because it's fundamentally different from so many of the popular apps that exploit psychology to get people to take actions that are beneficial to the company instead of the user.

The company also is somehow able to offer a very competitive APY (currently I think it's 20 basis points) without even factoring in the potential games from prizes.

I'm very curious to know what people think of this concept. What am I missing that could make this company fail? I'd also love to know if you can think of any other companies that are similar. I do know the insurance company Lemonade has used a bunch of behavioral economics principles to flip the insurance model on its head (they don't make more money by denying claims). I think this model could be used for many different types of products.

Not here to push this app on anyone, but if you are interested in trying it you can use my referral code SEAN5 and we both get 100 tickets.

Hope people find this interesting!
what does "inf GB/s" mean in this circumstance? I can't figure out exactly how these compare yet; the minify number makes it look like native M1 underperforms Rosetta2.
Pretty much, yes. All sorts of jurisdictions are tightening up on this because it can be used for tax evasion, money laundering, etc.
Love this comment, sure Urbit is shit in that way Solid is shit but somehow Solid is not canceled for being communist while Urbit is fascist. The Cathedral at work for you.

The prescriptive part of neoRX has always been retarded but the descriptive part is on the money.
Over the last few years, I've used 20% time to:

a) Learn deep learning on audio with a friend, via online courses, reading research papers, and re-implementing things. Then, to put the knowledge to work, I...

b) Joined a small bioacoustics project working with external researchers to level up their ML,

c) Developed some models and deliver some results to the external researchers, and, finally,

d) Got hired onto a new team doing ML on Audio full time, largely on the strength of recommendations from bioacoustics people.

e) I've kept hacking a bit on bioacoustics, including launching the birdsong id kaggle competition earlier this year. https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition

IMO, 20% time is "just marketing" until you actually put in the personal effort to make something real out of it. Doing so is non-trivial, though.

There's a real risk of falling into a 'half-ass two things' pattern. It's difficult to do exactly one day a week on some project, then cleanly drop it until the following week. Context loss is a real problem. This year, I find myself looking out for 'low stress' times during my day job to do some deeper dive on bioacoustics and create a bunch of new stuff in a kind of sprint, rather than consistently setting aside 8 hours a week. It's hard to do a research 'sprint' in two areas simultaneously; it's better to let a research question take over my brain for a while.

(I also find that my personal limit for meaningfully tracking experiment outcomes is two model architectures. I tried three at some point this year and it was kind of a disaster.)

It's tough to motivate myself to do important-but-boring things like write unit tests in 20% time, which (combined with the context shifting problem) has often lead to pain down the line.

All told, it's a hard road, but very rewarding, IMO.
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Here is a comprehensive reply to this paper from trained economists.

https://twitter.com/ben_golub/status/1338175642932715520?s=2...
What? I do not even like the guy but is obvious that the author has personal issues with Yarvin so why give him free publicity for his ideas
Just the individual-developer games that I've actually played:

Minecraft. Stardew Valley. Braid. Fez. Cave Story. Roller Coaster Tycoon. Axiom Verge. Streets of Rogue. Space Empires.
Labor is likely the most plentiful asset any developing country has as well as it's a system that doesn't require much legal overhead. Manufacturing goods would be the easiest asset any country could produce - trying to own an asset in a foreign nation is an expensive endeavor that requires military might (the middle east probably being the most pertinent example). Trying to collect rents requires the maintenance of an international legal system that will rule fairly. I'm not saying it's impossible, but that manufacturing requires way less overhead to maintain.
M2 will likely support Arm's new flexible SVA2 instructions.
Try Rocky Linux. Its the new Fork of Redhat from all of this.
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A case is just a detected infection. If you have no tests, then your cases will be low. Your infections will be high.

A "Case Fatality" is a pretty meaningless number. You can't avoid the consequences of covid19 by not being tested.
I don't disagree that it is an important issue, but for a population the size of China, 1 million is a small number.
While students may need a calculator, I don't think they need a graphing calculator. It seems a silly expense when they already have a smartphone. At high school in the UK in 1990s we were expected to buy our own calculators. Only primary school had boxes of (non-scientific) calculators.

I bought a graphing calculator for A-level maths, but only needed the graphing functionality a handful of times. At university graphing calculators were banned in exams. Only the basic scientific FX-82 was allowed (which cost about £15 IIRC.)
This doesnt gel with the (widely shared) idea that we're supposed to lead the world in terms of innovation and environmental protection. Why is it so hard to explain to people that if you lead the world by continuing to discount the value of having a livable environment, that where it gets you negates any benefits reaped from getting there?
I'd rather live in an American city then in a Mexican city.
Granted, I'd pick a European city over both (albeit that's country dependant, Southern Europe city life is getting considerably worse)
The ID information is private because otherwise it would be impossible to run a company without having your identity stolen.
> its clear orderbook spoofing so when everyone wakes up, it's happy about the price again

sorry, you have to provide a tad more solid evidence for claims like this. when sentiment changes, exactly 0 volume is required for that to reflect on the price. buyers/sellers at price X just go away and proceed trading at price Y.

> tether it's printing the same 150million 3 or 4 times per week

that's about $25-30 billion per year while entire tether's market cap after operating for 5 years is at $19 billion. obviously you're wrong and need to crunch the numbers some more.
I really don’t understand why a hacker community would consistently downvote crypto currency related comments. Can anyone explain it to me? Like, folks can build their own cpu so not to be controlled by big companies, but they all like using money controlled by some big banks?
>Yet I was criticized for making the following remark:

>In some respect, the Apple M1 chip is far inferior to my older Intel processor. The Intel processor has nifty 256-bit SIMD instructions. The Apple chip has nothing of the sort as part of its main CPU. So I could easily come up with examples that make the M1 look bad.

>I am not saying that the Apple M1 is not great. It is.

It's sad that this needs to be written.
Development for Apple devices is wide in volume but narrow in scope.

You pretty much don't develop anything else on Mac OS. No web, no embedded, no Linux, no Windows, no nothing. Only Mac OS software, iPhone apps, etc. I am exaggerating slightly, but you get the idea.

Or when you do, you use your Mac OS laptop as a terminal. Or at best, something to run VMs, and in both cases you don't develop with Apple OS / tools, it's just hosting or giving you non-integrated access to completely different systems.

Apple things are a pretty much distinct and closed ecosystem, and one which is quite limited to (some) endpoints.
I can't speak to CMS, but are search engines and databases really such a big deal? If postgres or influx or something kinda fits your workload then it's probably not worth the time, but on the other hand I've seen both custom databases and the cludges people have written to work around off-the-shelf DBs, and I vastly prefer the former both in terms of performance and maintainability in a problem space (similarly with search engines).
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No-one maintains the Pascal support in GDB. In fact, I think the test suite doesn't even run any more (at least for me, FPC seems totally broken). This is an area where a volunteer could make useful progress pretty easily.
China may devalue their currency in order to achieve inflation (their CPI is falling). Doing so would strengthen the dollar. I'm honestly not sure about about the dollar bull/bear case, situation is not very clear to me.
I don't know why more people aren't saying this. Is it really a majority opinion on this site that a race to the bottom is a good, or even tenable idea?
It’s available in the MacBook Air 2020 Intel version, and it works well.
The most visible impact was in the company's internal services. Many "scratch an itch" tools such as Google bus schedule lookup, employee tenure lookup, or massage-room booking originated in 20% projects. The "internal social media" of Google such as "moma badges" ("achievements" for e.g. writing 100 CLs or contributing to a particular fixit -- anyone could add new ones) and the internal joke image board "memegen" also originated as 20% projects.

This kind of modest, privste service was much lower-commitment than trying to single-handedly kick off a new external-facing service. Having all these volunteer-built projects around created a good vibe of being part of a community of engineers, each building whatever we needed to make our days better and sharing it with our coworkers.
> doesn't say much for democracy does it? Hundreds of millions of indians living without electricity, indoor plumbing and in abject poverty.

Wow what a cherry picked example. I guess being a "democracy" should just magically solve a millennia of colonialism and thousands of years of rigid class hierarchy? And even if it absolutely should, the wealth gap in india is at an all time low due to Reservation policies.

> Sure, but the article is talking about riots and attacks. And it's a taiwanese company they are rioting against. The irony.

Yes, they haven't been paid for months. In india the workers don't take that sitting down.

> "China's policies of suppression". China's policies were copied from japan, korea, singapore, etc who in turned copied from the US. Parrots parroting.

Interesting, I never saw nets along the company housing in japan/us preventing workers from killing themselves, nor have I heard of american workers sneaking letters in products begging for help.

Also, I love how you're equating humans rights with "virtue signalling". Spoken exactly like a privelaged fool who doesn't understand the value of right, yet deems them unworthy for others.
Judgement is subjective. I would argue that the safest way to drive is conservatively and with caution. And that your own emotions, time constraints, and judgement about safety are not sufficiently compelling to override that.

Of course as a society we are forced to strike a balance between safety and utility. Where you strike that balance is political and not entirely objective.
And for how many total seconds is it useful in a form factor like that before it throttles down? This is why Apple never adds a spec just for the sake of it.
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I'm not a Googler but wasn't Gmail a 20% project? (And maybe other Google products that I don't know?)

It seems to me that it would be entirely worth it to Google if 99.99% of 20% projects don't go anywhere, but every now and then, you get a big hit like Gmail whose newfound revenue completely eclipses the lost 20% experimental time from the 9999 other employees.

And even for those 9999 other employees, even if their 20% projects don't go anywhere, they are likely still hugely educational in ways that would make them more productive in the other 80%.
Long fully-random passwords in a password manager is what I recommend to friends and family. Using 32 alpha-numeric is what I use by default, with exceptions when other requirements are needed (symbols, etc). This ensures compatibility with pretty much everything.

62^32 = = 2.27e57

I always say: "If you can remember your password, someone can guess it"
Bitcoin was invented to remove middlemen. Not your keys, not your coins. Things like this are the exact opposite of why Bitcoin was invented in the first place.
Let me expand on this thermodynamical metaphor. Open systems that may exchange matter and/or energy with their environment, can maintain or even decrease their own entropy. This is how living organisms exist, without violating the second law of thermodynamics.

If you see a software system as a living organism, then the natural entropy increase (new feature requests?) may be contained if enough energy (developer time?) is invested.
Of course this kind of investment may contravene some other commercial software law, like being profitable.
Clusters are affordable, given that cloud hosting is a commodity now. Digital Ocean, for instance, charge nothing for traffic between nodes if they are hosted at the same data centre.

Julia, in particular, has the interesting-looking JuliaHub service in the pipeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUJ5Oohuhs&feature=youtu.be...
You must be from Europe or something ;)
What’s wrong with Bitcoin?
So an attempt was made to bring back manufacturing, and that’s so terrible? Let’s all roll our eyes at the Republicans.
Given the Intel MBA 2020 shipped with AVX512 this would even be a fair comparison.
“To rise to the level of China, India will need to offer equally attractive manufacturing policy and conditions on the ground.”

Sounds like a value judgement to me.
> Executive Compensation team at the time

What exactly does that work entail?

> A few senior leaders agreed to let me pitch my ideas, and after a fair bit of head-nodding, nothing actually happened.

I suspect successful 20% time projects are the ones where permission is not required, and don't need someone else to implement?
The american definition of "liberal" basically means socialist.

In 2020, "liberals" in america have very little to do with the original meaning of the word which meant "in favor of freedom".

If there is one thing the liberals in the US have very little care about it is preserving freedom.

It's the main reason they got spanked by trump in '16.

It has very little to do with the European understanding of "liberalism", which is what americans call "libertarians".
You have some degree of presbyopia and need weak reading glasses. As you age the auto-focus capability of your eyes (called accommodation) degrades. Look for the depressing graph in this article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269899...

This is incredibly annoying.
Just curious do you plan to open source or sell it? WOuld love to see other's game.
AFAIK it still exists. In my several years there, most people didn't take full advantage of it, and that was as true in 2011 as it was in 2020. Most people just didn't come up with anything a technical project they'd rather work on than their core project. (I was one of those.)

I think most who took advantage actually worked on improving and facilitating employee training & learning programs. Google has great internal training material -- mostly for internally-used technologies, but sometimes for external technologies people are curious about too, and also for soft skills, and even not-work-related skills (e.g. fitness classes).

Overall I think the 20% resulted in more "community" work than most other companies have, and I think it was a positive for company culture.

And for the few people that actually worked on technical projects, the existence of 20% time seemed highly motivating for them.
General purpose development includes more than developing applications for Apple devices.

XCode is a good example of what I mean. It's a terrible developer experience for anything but targeting Apple's platforms in the way you want to (meaning writing Swift, using their frameworks, and their devtools, and keeping your code base small to keep their devtools functional, and never caring about that code running on a different OS).

Compare to Visual Studio, which also only runs on Windows, yet is a pretty damn good developer experience and not a nightmare to support for cross platform projects of late.
> It wasn’t because of the dollar - it was because of the us military. At the end of WWII, there was not real alternative except the British pound, but they couldn’t back it up with military might.

Totally agree. That is the origin of the supremacy.

The U.S. was the only advanced economy with infrastructure intact. That led to the Bretton Woods system, which lay the ground for the post-BW order.

Oil came after all that.
The Intel MBA 2020 sports AVX512 which works well without underclocking issues. This would have been the comparison to make.
The benchmark program itself is obviously broken on ARM, as Rosetta is jitting ARM behind the scenes, so you could write a program + compiler that emitted the same ARM as Rosetta. This means it's a problem with the program and not a problem with the M1. I'm not sure what's actually wrong with it yet.

Edit: messe found the issue in sibling thread
I think the point OP is making is that while the answer can be googled on whatever search engine you like, its up to the person making claims to back up those claims.
Does watching this pose a risk to being allowed to work on wine?