skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a friend's birthday party in the early 90s (10th or 11th birthday, I believe), he picked up a 7-10 split after his dad bet him $50 he couldn't do it. Fortunately dad was smart enough to be ready with the camera to catch the reaction, just in case.
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That.

Dithering is useful if you can trade samples for accuracy. It is useful if your quantization scale is too coarse.

As a result, one can inject noise to sense signal that is normally below a sensor threshold, for instance.

In graphics, it is still very useful to add some dithering in some cases; one obvious example being to reduce banding on gradients: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_banding

Regardless of the chosen quantization scale, there are corner cases where values measured will fall close one to another; dithering is useful in these cases, and is not limited to images, but any data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_bit_depth#Dither
For starters, this site's JavaScript hijacks history and won't let you navigate back.
CppCon 2019: Olivier Giroux “The One-Decade Task: Putting std::atomic in CUDA.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogqOscJYvk

Future of ISO and CUDA C++

https://developer.nvidia.com/gtc/2020/video/cwe21284-vid

Thrust, the CUDA C++ template library

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/thrust/index.html

Optix, single-ray shader programming model using C++, and ray Tracing acceleration using RT Cores.

https://developer.nvidia.com/optix

Phew, so many wrappers yet to list.
do you have any reading material on this? curious idea
> we should care about how wealth was generated, and the gap itself is less important.

I don't understand this. How does finding out what caused the wealth gap — and then nodding appreciatively that's it exists for the "right" reasons — help the bottom four-fifths who are getting more and more left behind?

If all that matters is that those attaining wealth are doing so now more "meritocratically," will it still be fine if the number of people becoming wealthy dwindles down to a smaller and smaller percent of the population, so long as they are all Bezoses who made their own companies?

> so the "small percentage of people" who can start companies now is larger than it was 40 years ago.

First of all, I'm not sure of your evidence of this — it may be "easier" in some sense, but is there actually more class mobility now, and is the percentage of people becoming wealthy actually growing? I think not [1] — but more importantly, if it's on the backs of the lower four-fifths of the population's wages stagnating or decreasing, how is it a good thing if one or two more percent can become wealthy?

The probability of the average American earning equal to or more than their parents is lower than it has even been. [2] So are these families supposed to be happy that a couple more MBAs are able to make ten million dollars selling an app that lets you apply augmented reality to your cat?

1. Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/1/251

2. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
Are these project for more or for browsers? I would love to been able to create wpa that could save on git without any backed. Is this possible with this or with isomorphic git?
Neither. Probably recycling/repurposing of older fabs. Afaik car manufacturers are not looking for cutting edge chips found in memory, cpus and gpus, so older fabrication lines can be repurposed for that role and provide an alternative revenue stream for intel until they manage to sort their CPU fab line out.
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> The problems are, that they stock to much of some parts and not enough from others.

Is there a reason for that? I would imagine they'd have actuarials telling them exactly how much of each thing they need to produce a thing, as well as failure rates.
It goes even deeper than that. I have seen that meme catch on in so many feminist Twitter and Instagram accounts that it is essential to look at the play here.

The "you woudn't care about women dying" narrative completely derails the essential discussion (aka when do we determine vaccine to be save) by selectively picking facts from a completely unrelated health area to turn it into an activist subject.

It reminds me on the magnet-troll-logic memes, only this one trying to come up with the completely insane narrative: "If you are concerned of a few more people dying because of a vaccine, you hate women."
> Deaths by COVID implies that those at risk will forego all other options to decrease risk of infection, such as masks, distancing, etc.

Masks are supposed to protect others from you. Wearing a mask is not meant to help a person who may be at risk decrease his/her own risk of infection.

In any event, now that spring weather is here in the northern hemisphere and the vaccination campaign has given people hope, social-distancing rules are being flaunted in many countries and at-risk populations may find it hard to properly distance when they leave their homes for e.g. basic shopping. So, since the "other options" don’t always work, keeping up the vaccination campaign is very important to reducing infections.
> Phishing, trademarks, spam, business disputes,and valid legal requests will all still exist no matter who runs things.

Of this list, only "valid legal requests" is something a TLD should be concerned with in my opinion. And even that is questionable, given that law is often unjust, favoring the powerful and abusing the powerless.

We already have strong regulations holding internet hosts accountable for what they're hosting, and many countries (like France) have censorship at the DNS level. Isn't that more than enough to deal with abuse?

> It’s been a very long time since domain costs were highly dependent on the technical requirements of the data they represent.

Yes, and that's the problem. When you pay 1$/month for web hosting, you're not paying a thousand times the price because of hypothetical legal concerns. Why would it be different with DNS? Why is it normal that a line in a zone file on some TLDs costs more than an actual VM in a datacenter?!
Seriously. Every time I read a post like the parent you are replying to, my eyes roll back a little farther in my skull. It's like they teleported from the slashdot comment sections from 2 decades ago and decided to carry on without missing a beat.
Inequality is a good theme to buy and rally voters, however. Also, what's better than stealing some stuff from rich people instead of figuring out how to fix the economy and create new wealth.

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq... Inequality has nothing to do with standards of living, freedom and human rights, or how well developed a country is. It's a completely irrelevant thing. Sweden has more inequality than the Ukraine and most of the world; however, many people will vote to live in Sweden than anywhere else.
Both comments being ad hominem of course. When the "good" journals are plagued with a "replication crisis" aka fraud the appeal to authority of what publication the paper appears in falls flat

For reference, here is the track record of the "good" medical journals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_medici...
Dynamic worker isolation is something something I have dabbled with. I’ve been trying to figure out that if, once a misbehaving isolate is.. isolated it is possible to scrutinize its behavior to catch it in the act. What do you think? Would something like that even be useful? It seems to me that maybe if an isolate is confirmed malicious you can backtrack and identify data leaks.
I'm glad you found a place, but I think this amounts to help to buy incrementing N.
Adding for context: RIPE is https://www.ripe.net/ , the European Internet Registry [1] responsible for allocating IPv[46] addresses and AS routing numbers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry
Can you point to their claim of FDIC coverage. Brokerages usually have SIPC for securities, I figured coinbase just had privste insurance and wasnt using FDIC or SIPC.

Looks like there is some details here https://www.coinbase.com/legal/insurance
> Light bulbs don’t illuminate.

I find this one especially funny as it's pretty much the lack of regulation that made the 'old' bulbs burn out much too quickly [1].

And before someone says "but my LED bulbs keep burning out", also the free-market/lack of regulation. To see how they should be built watch Clive on how bulbs are made for Dubai[2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4
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If we care about how the wealth is generated, should we not also care about what the rich do with their wealth?
> Nominet was a non-profit, but not a democratic one. Democracy is not "choose your rulers", but "choose your rules". Having a board/parliament is by definition the opposite of government by/for the people. The simple fact the community has to fight against the board is proof of that.

That's a No True Scotsman argument since by your definition there is no large scale democracy in existence. Most people would consider a representative democracy to be a democracy.
Easier and cheaper to do with Bitcoin futures
It's ridiculous when the West claims Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan's first president) dictator, at the same time allowing his family to buy properties in London spending billions of dollars. Hypocrisy at its finest. That's one of the reasons I, personally, no longer accept West as world's morality leader and their "democratic values". They're good at fooling young people, but when you start to think and analyze, you'll realize that corruption is legalized in US, that there are plenty of presidential families or otherwise high-ranked positions there, so it's all the same. West condemns when "dictators" shut protests while doing the same with protest in their own countries, even more violently. They just have more money, so they can wash brains better, end of story.
No, it's okay to subscribe to something, stop using it and stop paying it. When your access is cutoff due to non-payment, what's the problem?
I don't contradict that wealth inequality exists, or even that it increases. But if middle class relies only on income from salaries and spend it like there's no tomorrow (because catching up with the Joneses, or simply they don't know better) instead of staying out of debt + saving + investing it, the gap will only increase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I

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This guide recommends Learn C The Hard Way by Zed Shaw as further reading, but the ##C Freenode Channel specifically recommends avoiding it[1]. Can anyone tell me why this book is so contentious?

[1] http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Books
Wow, didn't know you could get advertising copy published in as an article in the Paris review, guess you find advertorials everywhere.

Because this article certainly gave up any pretence of being a neutral account about halfway trough.
It also helped that the American manufacturing was in good shape while the Europe was sortof ruined after the WWII but yes, this should provide enough economic momentum for things to start going moving again. The problem nowadays is that few have long term in mind, everybody’s in for quick gratification. Some things need to change before we can move forward.
I can see how you think this way, if you're only thinking in terms of popularity.

Let me reiterate. The FSF does legal and advocacy work. You're only thinking in terms of advocacy. The legal work is just as important, without it, we wouldn't be able to use GPL licenses at all.

Big tech didn't accomplish it's goal of killing the FSF itself. The one org standing in its way of complete dominance. It's not a battle of ideas, it's a battle of people.

All it takes is a core group of people willing to put their money and time into it to keep it alive. Stallman himself said he never thought free software would ever become a thing and that the FSF has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

As long as the GPL continues to be a viable alternative, we will continue to have a bastion against the endless waves of proprietary software.
They are clearly losing market segment after market segment. Flash and Dreamweaver have lost the Internet market, Flash/Animate is no longer the clearly dominant software for 2d animation for media and television, XD is losing the web UX community, Photoshop is losing the hobby and semi-professional drawing community.

Adobe has enough momentum and moat that their demise will stretch over decades, and they could halt their fall at any point. Retaking market segments that are lost is hard, but regaining the trust of those about to leave is a lot easier. But if they keep course their eventual fall into irrelevance is inevitable.
Conversations like this aren't an outcome of not thinking. They are an instruction to not think. These phrases are software development thought-terminating cliches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
Oh this is interesting.

Perhaps there's an opportunity for arbitrage of the unused period of subscription by pooling the remaining time and then allowing others to be connected to the individuals who have time remaining and use their accounts.

Basically buying up the unused time and reselling by treating it as a marketplace.
Being in the nucleus and being integrated into your chromosomes so that they are copied during cell division aren't the same thing.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9160...

> Adenoviruses -- even as they occur in nature -- just do not have the capacity to alter DNA. Unlike retroviruses such as HIV or lentiviruses, wild-type adenoviruses do not carry the enzymatic machinery necessary for integration into the host cell's DNA. That's exactly what makes them good vaccine platforms for infectious diseases, according to Coughlan.

> And, engineered adenoviruses used in vaccines have been further crippled by deleting chunks of their genome so that they cannot replicate, further increasing their safety.
Last Meal of Prehistoric Pollinator
If we're talking about GNS to replace the DNS protocol, it's in fact backwards-compatible and intends to recognize ICANN as root zone, as was the case previously.

If we're talking about a domain name cooperative, that would act as a registrar and potentially as a TLD in the future, all we need is a non-profit organization, some bylaws, and enough good-will people to make it work. Maybe OpenNIC would be it?
That's what I like to hear! I agree: standard library needs more stuffing. Working on it!
Yeah I googled it yesterday to see what it even did and it made the computer slower. I’m not sure I knew that back then...afraid I was setting computers slower.

You can see where consumers could be confused since they basically made a word mean the opposite of what it means. Someone needs a paddling for that.
They're not backing out of a contract. They're opting not to renew the contract early in the term of the contract.
Bill Gates 501c3 puts back less than 1 percent off their benovelent humanitarian money back to the United States. The country that coddled him, an his connected mother.

Personally, I think these good ole nonprofit boys; Billy, Zuck, Warren, etc. are tax dodgers.

Obama wanted to reform nonprofit regulations, but chickened out.
> Entrenched money stabilizes the world.

It stabilizes the world into a corrupt distopia where those people rule only to entrench themselves and their friends (incompetent and malign as they are)

What you are describing is the old feudalism approach where aristocracy controlled everything. How well did that turn out for the serfs?, then how did it work out historically for everyone?, how many are still around?
The author is almost certainly referring to real median household income, not personal income, and definitely not average (which is massively impacted by wealth gains at the top). See [1]. It depends which time periods you're comparing, but entire decades saw declines rather than gains. And that's still skewed by the top quartiles. Look at the tables in H2 here [2] to see what's really going on.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

[2] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
Intercourse, Pennsylvania

Blue Balls, Pennsylvania

French Lick, Indiana

Middlesex, New Jersey

Back in the day, there was a pornographer who arranged to have his material mailed from these towns. That proved to be his undoing. He claimed that his material was of scientific/medical value, but the fact that he chose these towns for his postmark was considered evidence that his primary purpose was pornographic.
"So now the elected representatives cannot represent, because they are not expected to? Does this not make it very unlikely for any person to actually make an informed decision?"

You really have a habit of going off on some random tangent and misrepresentating what was said. The dynamic is different. You have a 1 to 1 vs a 1 to n (thousands to millions). This allows lawyers, the example you brought up, to interact in a meaningful and even educational way. The rules of professional conduct are also different, allowing politicians to do things lawyers cannot. If the people are educated, then they can recognize when they are being misrepresented and the steps to take to correct it. This might involve adding better candidates to the ballot or looking outside of the traditional 2 parties.

It's not the test, it's the education of the people. Passing some rule, as you suggest, isn't going to fix anything. It's not likely that the representatives will legislate away that source of funding without adding loopholes that benefit the party in power. Your plan depends on the same corrupt power hungry people to somehow oversee themselves and remove a source of their own power. So how do you see that actually working? Spoiler - it doesn't.
Translation: Running an electronic Bitcoin mining army is fine even if it provides no meaningful benefits beyond military spending.

I'm honestly surprised that literally every comment that is defending Bitcoin mining energy is always pulling out the same poorly though out argument as if knowing that electricity is being wasted is a recreational activity in its own right.

Please come up with better rebuttals. Here is a freebie:

The block reward goes down over time and thus the economic incentive to waste energy. The transaction fee goes up to compensate and the transaction fee is directly paid by users who derive value from the platform, otherwise they wouldn't pay the fee in the first place.
Interesting, is the pullup resistor common for other protocols like SPI?
> pro-free-market, anti-government propaganda

Indeed, it has become apparent that the supposedly liberal and free-thinking minds at HN are increasingly in support of government control of regulations and markets.
It looks like an innocent bug and to get back to HN takes me two clicks rather than one, not really something I can get too excited about, particularly when it showing something new.
You clearly haven’t met Haskell or Rust programmers.
Tor's Onion Services are pretty much ideal for this, and provides additional anti-censorship guarantees by providing anonymization for both parties.
Low Tech Magazine's solar powered site uses dithering to help achieve very low power consumption. I think the results look awesome, just as good as the artfully filtered images used by a lot of sites but with a fraction of the weight.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low...
A founder whose only agenda is to get rich and then put the proceeds into a mega-yacht and private island or worse yet, lobbyists and political contributions aimed at protecting his own privileged tax status, is one I'd prefer remained a citizen of some country other than my own.
> If it’s 30%, then it’s possible 30% of your team will over-abstract, and if you make them a principal, they will over engineer most of the codebase.

Isn't the idea to make a non-over-abstracting engineer the principal, and then they will bring everyone else into line with code review, etc.
The renter doesn’t hold the risk. They can walk away.

If you want the profit, then hold the risk.

If you want the freedom of mobility, then rent.
The Titanic sank in 1912. That's a pretty glaring error when you're making such a sweeping assertion as this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picking_quarrels_and_provoking...
Yes, those Dubai bulbs are better than the ones we're all stuck with. But isn't that because of a regulation rather than because of the market? In particular, when Dubai accepted those kind of bulbs, didn't it prevent the manufacturer from selling them anywhere else?
If the money used to pay for the "art" comes from declared income and and the only thing you provide in return is "the artwork" it's modern art, unless of cause your connected enough that it could be seen as an attempt to carry favor with your connections.

The transaction that happens when the buyer then sells it for twice the amount to an offshore holding trust without any operational business associated with it is money laundering.
> haven’t heard of cost-plus contracts

I don't know why someone would agree to them, but they're fairly common. Nasa awarded Boeing a cost-plus contract for the SLS.

Basically they're awarded a contract for the cost estimate plus any overruns, it's basically a blank check.
I mean... there's very obviously a limit, right? You don't use an infinite number of programs. And it's not "all programs you use", it's "all programs that you use to make the Program ... available as a service". You don't need to provide the code for Microsoft Solitare, but you do need to provide the code for Apache httpd and your Linux distro. Which is pretty easy to do!
I believe he’s talking about the US here, where labor is definitely losing at the moment.
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You think BTC will collapse or you’re talking about alternate coins?
I’m more of a maker because done is better than perfect.
Leave the two letters ‚in‘ out of the word and therefore eliminate inequality in favor of equality.

The message is clear:
Stop being unequal and start being equal!

Today is my AMA so feel free to ask for solutions to common problems of mankind.
Sounds like a reasonable definition to me.
Not ideal but long clicking on the back button show history.
It's unworkable to literally read 3 options?

"Annual plan, paid monthly"
vs
"Monthly plan"

It's not like they hide the fact on page 488 of some multi-document contract. It's on the sign up page.
> Oh! Wait! This is what tools like cut, jq, grep, awk, and sed to.

Yes! Except, you have to use them to write one-shot parsers that are specific to both what you're piping from and what you're piping to! For n commands you may want to arbitrarily mix, that's n² parsers to write.

> And they won't tie you to a certain object model.

From the point of view of a system user, tying to a certain object model is a feature. It facilitates commands interacting well with no parsers in between. But even if you don't have a common object model, just wrapping the commands to produce structured output can already be helpful, because the parsers you'll be writing to glue commands will operate on structured, higher-level concepts. It's easier to map between two different representations of what a "file" or "process" is, than it is to manually dig them out of an unstructured text stream.

To use a stupid example, assuming hypothetical "kill-and-announce" that echoes a process name and sends a SIGKILL to its PID:

ps aux | awk '{ ...extract columns... }' | sed 'rename columns' | xargs kill-and-announce ...

Would be harder to figure out than:

wrapped-ps | wrapped-kill-and-announce

Or even with incompatible object models:

wrapped-ps | select Target={id:$_.PID, name:$_.name} | wrapped-kill-and-announce