skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ordinarily I would agree, but in this case there are two potential systems and “which of these two uses the least energy” is a relevant question.

(I’m extremely skeptical about PoW crypto of all types, BTC included; this is just about the reasonableness of this specific argument).
Squares internal motto went from Make Commerce Easy to Economic Empowerment some years back.

Square Cash is really big in the black community so Jay-Z obviously have a lot to offer there to further expand the business.

With regards to Seller I think the idea is to push more for the "black owned business" motto and thus he will have a lot to offer there too.

Disclaimer, I used to work at Square
It would change economical pressures to push for things like building necessary transfer capacity, meanwhile you have BTC miners rescuing coal mine and coal power plant with new power purchase contract.
The former American national soccer team manager, Bruce Arena, once was famously quoted describing a scrappy player, Clint Dempsey, with the phrase, “He tried shit.” Meaning - it was sometimes weird, didn’t always work, but he went for it and took risks.

You can think what you want about this deal, but Dorsey is similar. It reminds me of Amazon in a lot of ways. They will absolutely try anything, no matter how weird. Some start-up delivers tacos by drones? The next week Amazon has a whole new AWS managed service to deliver tacos by drones, and shuts it down the next year.

If there is any business out there right now that has some potential to be the Amazon of consumer finance, it is Cash App. Obviously the chances any business could do that are low. It’s by no means a clear path to success, but you at least have to admire Square for trying weird shit and being willing to do anything to see what works.
You are as retarded as a Qanon motherfucker.
Yea, I figure that about brakes. I was wondering about tires.
The author Lyman Stone writes mainly for IFS Institute for Family Studies, which is moderately to strong biased to the right according to https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/institute-for-family-studies/

He also writes for The Federalist, another biased publication: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-federalist/

If you look at the destruction of natural resources world-wide, you don't have to be an expert to see that the current resource usage is unsustainable. At the same time the rich countries are unwilling to give up their status. The trend is going in the wrong direction.
Just to provide slightly more info:

For crypto (read blockchain with PoW, PoS), other than censorship resistance - which most people don't actually care about because they are lucky enough not to need it - it doesn't really offer anything useful. Most crypto projects are Rube Goldberg machines whereby the operators of these companies are re-hashing all the same things our we've done with money before. Of course they are doing well at the moment because it's morphed into a get rich quick scheme. If there was no easy money to be made there would be little interest in it, just like there was back in 2010 when I started looking at Bitcoin.

Enterprise blockchain struggles because there's no actual need for blockchain elements like chains of provenance and smart contracts if the participants are fully identified and already have business relationships. "Blockchain" is a direct substitute for trusted third parties and good legal agreements and should only ever be used in circumstances where all other options are exhausted because the technology comes with so many bad trade-offs. Doesn't scale, very complicated, difficult to manage upgrades and versions, customers find it hard to understand, etc...
I just learnt today about Okta, a Cloud Auth SaaS buying up Auth0 another Cloud Authentication SaaS... So I will have to now add this asterisk to my mental entry, so much for a second language.. pheww
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/eoo16m/base_catego...
The ship is coming from Denmark. The cost of transporting the fuel on that ship across the ocean is probably miniscule compared to the cost of dragging it over land from the ship to the airstrip. Moving heavy things by ship is remarkably cost-efficient, a few dollars per ton to move something across the planet. Getting it that last few miles from ship to customer is where the real costs start.
Making a Mockery of Academic Debate
1) Although the satire seems obvious, it does help to know that the engine is named for the play 'Waiting for Godot'.

2) In the long run the bad actors who exploit users through IAP/loot boxes are harming the entire industry. This is not a secret to anybody in the industry -- but the bad actors are throwing enough money around that (to a great extent) they've been allowed to keep raking it in so far regardless of the consequences.

3) Genuinely free games do exist but stand little chance when competing with "free-but-IAP-and-dark-patterns" games. App stores need to do more to help users.

4) Strong industry representation is needed to set the proper tone but ESA has not seemed able (or possibly willing) to stand up to some of their funders. At least ESA is finally rid of the bully who'd run it for years. Hopefully they'll do what's right once we begin to return to normalcy.
How will Google serve ads when cookies are phased out?
I would like to say, paying customers have even more valuable tracking data, since it signals that you have good disposable income.
I delivered wearing a mask last year, it's honestly security theater. A little floppy surgical mask does nothing to contain the breathing of a laboring woman. I was more upset I couldn't kiss my baby when he was first put in my arms.
It's not that they didn't think like this but that they couldn't.

Thanks to readily available and affordable birth control individuals have much more freedom to make reproductive choices that benefit themselves.

What those individual freedoms do to society as a whole is another issue but it is entirely within the ability of western governments to increase birthrates through policy. The fact that they don't is most interesting.
Honda in Australia seem to be doing similar without EVs too. Closing various dealerships, fixed pricing?

https://www.honda.com.au/about/our-future
So we won't need the US military if the US adopts BTC? Ridiculous.
Dead Cells was not developed by Supergiant Games. It was made by Motion Twin.
The Function and Importance of Metadata
Are there parties that benefit disproportionately by establishing a cost for carbon and the definition thereof?

Is this all an altruistic exercise in saving the planet?

If so, it sounds very nice. We are lucky to have the concern of such well funded saviors.
Sorry you can’t beat your children as you’d like
I wouldn't quite call a construction with 'map' a loop even if it is substitutable for one.
... after a century of development
Why does a search engine have a music company? Why does a premium hardware company and OS company have a music company?
Why does a retail store have a music company?

It's conglomeracy and the theory of the firm. Mergers are efficient.
Thanks for the recommendation. I see that Qobuz also integrates with UAPP on Android (which gets around the 48Khz limit). Since I listen to mainly Jazz and Classical, it sounds like a good fit.
If his position was not substantively very negative, then it was not correct to represent position as very negative. (Even if he was waiting for an asset to settle, that has a positive value that should have canceled out any negative.)

The fact that it's "normal convention" to represent positions this way is a problem with the convention, not with retail investors.
> I think it's naive to believe it's possible to drop assumptions all together.

Dropping assumptions altogether isn't what I meant and is trivially shown to be nonsense. We couldn't live our lives if we didn't assume the sun would come up tomorrow.

What I mean is making unfounded assumptions about other human beings and their experiences.

> Taking the word "privilege" as an example, you have an assumption about what I mean when I use it and that it entails "moral judgement". These are not things I've expressed in any of my posts

Then I've made a mistake, by making an assumption that was unfounded. I'm not claiming to be perfect at avoiding unfounded assumptions about people or what they say, just that it's a better ideal than growing out your set of assumptions. After all, if you take people and keep dividing them into groups based on shared characteristics, take that to its terminal limit and you're simply treating people as unique individuals.

[edit] having reflected further, I think there might be a legitimate meaning behind my thinking of it as a moral judgement, but I'm interested to see if you agree. It's on my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343064

> I'm confused how you can know what's best for all without making assumptions. Could you elaborate?

I don't know what's best for all, nor do I believe that anyone else does - and I'm suspicious of anyone who claims they know what is best for any other person. What I try to do is look for people who navigate through empathy. The way I see it, politics is predominantly driven by finding the "bad people" to blame your voters' problems on and make them stop doing the bad thing. In reality people's behaviours are driven by structural incentives, so I am more inclined to trust people who, instead of pointing fingers at other humans and their moral deficiencies, focus on changing the incentives. I think a lot of green initiatives contain this kind of systems approach, as an obvious candidate; but so do some people of many different political movements. It's basically an individual rather than an ideological thing, hence why I say backing individual leaders.
Actually EVERYTHING that is easier for the producer is harder for the consumer, and basically given that an average produced item would have a nontrivial number of consumers, every corner you cut has a massive cost for everyone else.

There should be a technology that can automate all the kinds of things a producer can do to make it easier for consumers to search, discover, remix and collaborate with git and so on.

Maybe start a company to do that?
"Lambdexes use < instead of = for assignments" !
It was a question. You seemed to be implying that any such study would be "fear-mongering" (your words). That suggests that you think the studies wouldn't be useful and that we shouldn't do them.

Your playground rhetoric isn't helpful.
Any decent developers can write a parser. Most can't (or at least don't have enough time before they need to get back to whatever their main job is) to write a fast, secure and robust one for a complex grammar.
The level of breathing needed to deliver a baby is intense, sure, but the impeding of breathing from wearing a mask is minimal. Early on when I was wearing homemade masks made with shop towels, rubber bands and staples, mask wearing was uncomfortable, but with masks that aren't made out of random elements are fine. My first-grade kids have no problem running, jumping and climbing with their masks on.
Energy consumption != carbon footprint
Just removing the first 2, Beef and lamb, would almost solve the problem of land use.

Has anyone seen this movie? No idea how scientifically accurate it is, but I enjoyed it

https://gamechangersmovie.com/
Headline is really bad, and doesn't particularly match the rest of the article. Although even the article questions whether the number of explosions here are too much to win large contract coming up soon. Since the contract is political, it's possible, although if I had to pick a rocket to ride on next year, I'd pick Starship over New Glenn or SLS at this point.
>What's with the strangely transphobic jab at the end of the post?

Unfortuntely, more than a few free software advocates would rather believe RMS was crucified by a conspiracy of "satanic transgender SJWs" who just wanted to destroy the life of an awkward, neuroatypical man out of cruel spite and kill the free software movement with their fascistic gender equality initiatives and codes of conduct, than accept that his own well-documented and at times legitimately reprehensible views and behavior inevitably became his undoing.

Not entirely surprising that a movement whose mantra is "Stallman was right" might have a problem admitting Stallman did a lot of things wrong.
Is that true? Given the amount of torque Tesla can put to the tires, I would imagine it puts more wear and tear on the tires. Driving on highway means higher speed, which means higher temp to break down the rubber. Driving on local roads means a lot of stop and go which also break down the rubber.

I'm not trying to dispute what's being reported, just wondering about what tires they put on that would last 90-100K.
I Finally Launched Rocket
I have started accepting preorders for Rocket! It's a boilerplate for building SaaS apps using Node.js, React, and MongoDB. Rocket is helpful for developers not wanting to spend hours on basic stuff like authentication, users and billing. And it comes with a special preoder discount :)

https://userocket.herokuapp.com/
What's sadder for our society as a whole is that, despite this comment and the GP comment, this is happening, and will be allowed to happen by regulators who won't give this a second glance. And this sort of multi-billion-dollar absorption of a "better" company by a "worse" company is almost a weekly story.

Tech started out as a meritocracy, and a lot of us still operate personally in a meritocratic bubble, but, generally, this hasn't applied for a long time. As a whole, tech is leading the way forward in a neo-fuedalistic form of government. These political marriages to increase one's kingdom are a common affair, and they NEVER work to end-users' advantage. They only serve to make the kings and princes of the realms involved a lot of money.

The best we tech-end-users can do is grit our teeth, and hope that the acquisition doesn't ruin a product that we love and depend on. The one I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop on is GitHub. There's a LOT of people on this site (among many others) who crow about how Microsoft has changed, but time will tell. At the very least GitHub is going to get "FOR BUSINESS!" laced all through it. I note, for the record, that many of the high-profile Ruby people abandoned ship for Shopify after the sale. That's not usually a good sign.

Having been through a "merger of equals" of Fortune 150's -- and watching my very-good-company-to-work-for being broken up and sold for parts to float the bad company's survival -- I've learned this is all you have to do: watch who leaves and who stays. Ignore all the PR statements. They are literally worse than nothing. Watch what happens to the core tech people, and the distinct VP's. That will tell you what's really happening with the restructuring. In my company, the ring-1 exec's all cashed out their golden parachutes and left. You have to have some inside information to understand the players, so this is tough to do from an external observer's point of view.
My iPhone XS is faster??

best: 2684.35 gflops
[numthreads(16, 16, 1)]
compute void main(constant float4[] A : register(u0),
constant float4[] B : register(u1),
device float4[] C : register(u2),
float3 threadID : SV_DispatchThreadID) {
uint m = uint(threadID.x);
uint n = uint(threadID.y);
> By that extreme definition of wilderness, there isn't much on this planet, and I've never been in or near any.

I mean, that's the point, right? That even Antarctica is heavily affected by human activity, and genuinely untouched spots are likely to be limited to stuff like under-ice lakes and deep caves soon?
Interesting article, but running out of wilderness?

Antarctica is 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square kilometers) or about twice the size of Australia. Australia has an estimated 15-23 million buildings [1] (let alone other structures) and there’s PLENTY of wilderness left.

According to the article, “littered across the continent are as many as 5,000 permanent structures”. So Antarctica is nearly twice as big and has not even 1% of the structures that Australia has. I’d suggest that there is plenty of empty space down there still.

1: https://www.spatialsource.com.au/gis-data/many-buildings-aus...
If you have a lot of nesting in the XML, and it is formatted for human reading (i.e. indented), you may want to consider not doing that. We had a project where we were creating human-readable versions of the XML (mostly for developer convenience) and then parsing it. When we stopped adding all the extra white space the parsing speed increased a couple of orders of magnitude. (The downside was we no longer had built in coffee breaks in our development process.)
That's easy enough. There are WWW pages that contain "time.wiodows.com". I turned up a couple with Bing, in examples of how to use the ntpdate program, and there are no doubt more, including ones where this is hyperlinked by some "smart" program. No need for a nefarious explanation when a WWW spider found this on a WWW page and decided to crawl it will do just as well. (-:
When a company reaches a certain size, the CEO is basically a ceremonial position. Note how Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos all left their companies with little effect.
You are confusing a theory [0] with a model [1] of that theory. These are two different things.

> there is always a subset for which multiplication works like repeated addition

A subset, yes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_(mathematical_logic)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_theory
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They probably mean a laser-based "grade control system" - such as the Trimble GCS900, CAT Accugrade and similar.

The idea is, instead of having the heavy equipment operator move some dirt then someone following with survey equipment and telling him he removed too much or too little, the survey equipment is mounted right on the blade/bucket and automatically gets the height right on the first pass.
> In C# you can make data structures which [...]

Yeah but that's completely validating my point. C# is not Python or JS. It's a (remote) cousin of C which tries to take some of the valuable performance tools from C and bring those to a managed runtime. Because it's strongly typed, it's a lot easier for the compiler to optimize, and because you have all these tools to design compact objects without pointer, you can do that job so the compiler doesn't have to.

And again, an experienced C# programmer can probably write code that runs circles performance-wise around code written by an experienced JS/Python developer in most cases.
Thanks - not what I'd expect, but I can repro. Bug filed here:

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/45197

It is AOT though. If you time `dart a.dart` vs `./a.exe` (pre strip :-), the latter should be considerably faster.
Racket News – Issue 47
> ... leakage by timing side-channels depends in parts on how accurate your time-measurements are (e.g. Javascript's timer resolution was degraded, in order to make transient failure attacks like Spectre harder [1]).

But that doesn't matter if how long it takes for your instructions to execute is data independent, no ?
C++ code usually use std:: string, std::string_view, or other string classes that stores the string size and has some capacity pre-allocated to avoid such issues.
> ICE specific stuff dealerships basically only do warranty work

Dealerships probably do quite a bit of oil and filter changes as part of annual service. Since every car needs those and many owners of new cars want to take it to the dealer (for whatever variety of reasons), they make a lot of money off these services.

I do all the maintenance on our family cars, subbing out only paint and tires. My electric LEAF has needed wiper blades and washer fluid in 20K miles and 6 years [it did need a warranty battery repair in year 4]. In that same time, my wife's CR-V (which is generally low maintenance among ICE cars) did about 30K miles and needed a clutch, a set of brake pads, a power steering pump, a belt tensioner and serpentine belt, an alternator, 6 oil changes, plus wiper blades and washer fluid.

Some of those were wear items (and last more than 5 years [clutch/alternator]), but the difference between an even traditionally considered low-maintenance/high-reliability ICE vehicle and a low-end electric was much greater than I expected. My parents' experience (with two electrics and a single diesel) is similar. The electric cars need much less intensive and much more predictable maintenance.
So if I wanted to take this and start selling processors, how far am I? What comes next?
The Personal PhD
Omg, this not only looks like a bonsai but also as a bash fork bomb :D Who will execute it first? :D
She verbal insulted me and then told me to justify why I think I could work at Okta. The whole thing felt like a giant bait.
Code Complete gets into the idea that you want multiple testing methods since they tend to have complementary coverage

Reducing bugs to the spec has the same benefits as Rust reducing memory safety bugs to unsafe blocks

& to your point: Spectre & Meltdown took decades for real world testing to unearth. So now that we know them, it'd be nice to come up with a formalization in the spec to address observable information leaks so that future chips have reduced attack surface in the space of spec implementations

It's hard to prove you're safe from novel threats, but let's not let that stop us from proving we're safe from old tricks
Law of Unintended consequences: I pay an absurd amount of taxes, enough to fund several countries. Making it easier to pay them isn't going to make the fact that we subsidize high ranking government employee's lives and donors any better.
Your counter is just as flawed as you have no way to verify any miners are using renewables. Power transmission is a thing (California does it) and if we weren’t using the power to mine BTC it could be used to power other things. Again, people are only arguing for BTC on this site because it’s hacker news, nothing else.
You seem to have some axe to grind about this, but it's not really helpful. Engineering management is hard, and a number of skills and traits are necessary. If ICs are willing and able to be promoted that's great, but it's not a panacea. When it comes to early scaling, even with the best of intentions the bottom line is you may be growing faster than existing folks can acquire the requisite skills. Of course hiring from outside runs the risk of cultural damage, but promoting from within runs the risk of dysfunction via the Peter principle. Choose your poison, but at least you're growing right?
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But it's not gating content. You still go forward, whatever you get or don't get.

It just means that most of your runs will be different. And will enable you to do different things (maybe you get staff of freezing and freeze the lake, or maybe levitating boots and walk on water .)

Non of that gates you, just provides flavor, and different runs.

Sure some things are better and some things are worse, but my fondest memories is getting a win with hilariously bad drops.

In mobile games you cant proceed, until you buy crystals, or wait down the increasingly long timer, or simply can't kill a boss without a powerup from cash store.
I don't know that isolating the cost of raising kids is necessary when you can see the drop in overall wealth by generation. Millenials (who are the prime "kid having" generation right now) own far less wealth than any generation that came before them. Is it really in any way surprising that fewer are having kids?