skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they really any better? Zcash has performance issues resulting in fewer people using the private features (privacy is about blending into a crowd. Hard to do that if the crowd is small), dash sounds like a fancier version of normal bitcoin coin laundry. Monero is probably the best but still doesn't provide any math based garuntees, so it's hard to know what it really gives.

Then again, they dont need to provide privacy, just the preception thereof.

(I stopped paying attention to cryptocurrencies a while ago. My opinions may be outdated)
MobileCoin is notable here as well, as they’re promising privacy and being integrated into signal
The Intel chip in the Surface 4 is a 10nm chip. Theyve been shipping since last year.
This is not the same as the Foveated rendering you're thinking of.
I think it is the wrong trade off.

>I’d still prefer a smaller trackpad to avoid accidental input. And it looks like the edges and indentation in front of the trackpad remain sharp, as if you aren’t supposed to put your hands near there [1] .

You are trading absolute best for some people at the expense or annoyance for some people. The older trackpad isn't small either.

Which is exactly the same thing with TouchBar and Keyboard.

Some loves the butterfly keyboard, but they dont hate the old scissors keyboard. There are lots of people who hated the butterfly.

[1] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/11/14/the-16-inch-macbook-pro/
I agree completely.

I stumbled on 3b1b a couple of years ago when I was trying to really understand the Fourier transform in a deep way.

His explanation of Fourier and especially the visualizations really helped me to finally 'get it.'

He has a real knack for conveying complex information and I am looking forward to watching more of the his other channel focused on the Julia language -- much of the 3b1b content is outside of my professional (and perhaps even cognitive arena).
I really don't see what you're getting at here. Even limited to only three named registers I don't think the example you provided would pose an issue on x86. (I'm not very familiar with ARM but I don't think it would pose any issue there either.)

In practice, x86_64 works just fine for HPC number crunching code. Outside of some serious number crunching, when are you going to have more live values than named registers, have instruction streams whose output depends on _all_ of those values (which is why they would be live), and also those streams complete so quickly that you stall on the next set of loads? And you have absolutely no other useful work to do? Honestly I think you're being silly.

Historically, I understand that the 32 bit version of x86 did have scheduling challenges surrounding function calls. The 64 bit version of the ISA expanded the number of named registers and (as far as I understand things) it largely resolved the issue.

Also note that typical hardware can sustain a surprisingly large number of loads per clock. You just need to find something useful to do while you wait for the load to complete. In case you really can't there's also SMT. Really though, the PRF and ROB are only so large.

> If you want to run 4 instructions at the same time, you need no reorder buffer.

You always need a reorder buffer if you want to achieve good performance. Among other issues, the compiler can't predict the latency for each load in advance due to caching behavior depending on the runtime state of the full computer system. I previously mentioned Itanium. It's directly relevant here.

> Imagine if b,c,d get modified inside the inner loop and spilled into memory, you have to track memory locations in order to do register renaming.

No. You can't just rename registers any longer. A store to memory means the memory model for the ISA gets involved. Things become significantly more complicated. The store buffer exists specifically to deal with such issues efficiently on an OoO core. Seriously, go read about it. It's astoundingly complicated for any OoO core regardless of the ISA.

> the compiler can more easily interleave instructions, which can help reduce the number of instructions that need to be in the reorder buffer

Unless I have a serious misunderstanding (I don't design hardware, so I might) everything passes through the reorder buffer. Every instruction is speculative until all previous instructions have retired. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20165289)
A mountain of money does not necessarily (or even likely) make a good game. Yet Alyx was one of the best titles of 2020 and probably the best VR game ever made. Color me impressed by Valve’s game development team, regardless of the incompetence of their security practices
HL:A was one of the first games I played on VR, and teleport was a necessity.

Now I can handle smooth locomotion, but at the time it'd make my stomach lurch.
The quote literally says it's regarding iPhones.

Why would you stop reading after a true statement about iPhones...?
Bbc.co.uk or svtnyheter.se for news. RSS For tech blogs / software release pages. Got tired of medium and the likes of it a long time ago.
Excommunicating a Heretic
I wonder where that page gets its information. Its own quote links to an IRS document that doesn't seem to mention this case. Other places online recommend against it.

>There has been no IRS ruling on whether ETFs from two different companies that track the same index are considered substantially identical.

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/investment-products...

>Investment advisors and tax planners recommend against selling an index mutual fund from one fund company and buying another index fund tracking the same stock index from another mutual fund company.

https://finance.zacks.com/substantially-identical-mutual-fun...

>And while arguably swapping from index funds like SPY to IVV are almost certainly a wash sale abuse (or at least, a transaction that should trigger the wash sale rules)

https://www.kitces.com/blog/the-wash-sale-problem-when-tax-l...

If you look at Wealthfront's own documentation, when they do tax loss harvesting with ETFs, they find ETFs that track similar but not identical indexes:

https://research.wealthfront.com/whitepapers/tax-loss-harves...
Taler is not private at all. It gives the government a backdoor, like the old Clipper chip that some in the government wanted to put in processors to decrypt communications.
How is SEQUENCE different from AUTO_INCREMENT if you have only a single writeable db instance? If you dump & restore a table with SEQUENCE values as IDs, does the restored DB have the same IDs, or are they generated anew on restore?

Also, SSN is a terrible key [1] and getting uniqueness without central coordination can be done with UUIDv4 or ksuid [2], as long as you have a reasonably trustworthy source of randomness

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26776092

[2] https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid/blob/master/README.md
Escrow. First BTC I bought, circa 2013, I met with a guy and gave him physical money. He then released the escrow.
The key word here is "incidental", and helps connect the dots for why specific nsfw channels are ok, but entire nsfw servers are not, in Discord's view anyways.

(I don't necessarily agree or disagree with Discord's interpretation, but a lot of folks are glossing over "incidental", so.)
delisting doesn't really change anything. The real threat would be if exchanges started blocking accounts that received BTC deposits from known monero-BTC exchange accounts.

Luckily, they can't really do that, since people would be able to poison an arbitrary BTC wallet just by sending them a quantity of BTC laundered via monero. But it'd be a pretty expensive poison pill.
>>tax evasion and illegality hiding (which it isn't even good at).

This is just a Big Brother smear against privacy, with a socialist twist emanating from those with a financial stake in empowering the state and its dependent industries over the private citizen.

Exactly your arguments are made in the campaign to criminalize the use of cash:

https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is...

Credit card company representative's statement on it in 2014:

>There's huge interest in cryptocurrencies and what perhaps they can create in the market place. Now we at MasterCard are not completely comfortable with the idea of cryptocurrencies largely because they go against the whole principle that we've established our business on which is really moving to a world beyond cash and ensuring greater transparency.. If you think about it, cash is a problem for a number of countries. Cash really facilitates anonymity, it facilitates illegal activity, it facilitates tax avoidance and a range of other things that aren't going to drive efficiency in an economy

-https://youtu.be/bO4jHXjCXw8?t=2m57s

>If it's an anonymous transaction, that sounds like a suspicious transaction. Why does somebody need to be anonymous?

- https://youtu.be/bO4jHXjCXw8#t=4m12s
I don't know that anybody is frustrated about what they did. It's that anybody else who could have benevolently done the same thing, much faster, but without all the process, would be in massively hot water. I think mostly it's just frustrating to want to do the right thing, know that you could, also know that you can't, and then see somebody get to do it officially so much later.

Top that all off with the fact that it's really hard to trace who and what were involved, versus a more transparent process where legitimate experts could chime in and prevent any further harm. Instead we have to cross our fingers that they did it right and that the judge understood what he was agreeing to.

And I mean it's not a unique problem to this circumstance. Just kinda how institutions tend to be.
that's okay, the market hasn't seemed to really care about any of that. its been a Sword of Damocles hanging over many tokens heads, and sometimes they've dropped pretty hard on the teams and the market shrugged it off.

the issue is that actual unregistered securities can't be traded by custodial exchanges, and registered securities have to be traded by broker dealers, and none of that exists or has any liquidity in crypto land.

but the autonomous non-custodial exchanges have more volume and liquidity now anyway

so nobody cares.
Agreed. Austen Allred is notoriously terrible on Twitter, too. Constant snark, immediately blocking people who point out the predatory business model, and shamelessly holding himself up like some gift to could-be coders.

Dude’s just a thief. Even the way they handle their comms internally is hilariously bad to read about. Gives me the same vibes as the chick from AWAY that finally was forced to step down.
That's great idea. I think it would stand out unless everyone else do the same
TrueNAS?
> "We"? Are you Twitter CEO or on Twitter board ?

Had a short internal argument if I should downvote you for the line above or upvote you for the rest of your comment.

Ended on upvote, but if you harvest downvotes that likely is the culprit.
There's also the problem that semiconductor manufacturing is a highly capital intensive and cyclical industry. If you spend billions to spin up a fab today along with everyone else and 5 years from now the whole world is producing a surplus of chips, now you're stuck paying back the loans for that fab in a very unprofitable environment. Semiconductor manufacturing may be one of those industries where the capital costs are so high and the necessary units sold to dilute that cost is so large that the world can only support a single fab company at the cutting edge without significant regional subsidies.
Would also be interesting to compare with a similarly capital intensive industry like steel because there's also a shortage of steel and spike in steel prices right now.
Same.

I enjoy the much higher resolution displays, but rarely get more out of them.
Hardware Yubikeys (2 for daily use, one as backup) with a paperkey backup.

If my main key breaks, I can switch to the backup key which gives me a buffer to setup a new key from my backup.

The ArchWiki has a decent guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Paperkey
I was scheduled for JnJ vaccine tomorrow but late in evening I got a text that my appointment is cancelled. I was conflicted all day about whether to keep my appointment or cancel it. I am sort of relieved that someone else made this decision for me and honestly makes me feel good about getting another vaccine. This assures me if there were or are any issues with any other vaccines, our regulators would have paused those vaccines too.

Also I was able to get another appointment for Moderna vaccine next week. So I just have to spend another 4 weeks or so social distancing. It is better than developing blood clots, imo.
Is LBRY a registered business?

I don't see how SEC could regulate cryptos much more than they already do. I suppose the could force US exchanges to disable withdrawals like the Chinese government did a while ago for Chinese exchanges. Other than that there's nothing they can do regulation wise.
> The result is FOVO, a new method of rendering 3D space that emulates the human visual system, not cameras.

I don't buy this part. Sure, the human visual system does all kinds of processing that causes us to perceive our surroundings differently than we do a flat image on a screen. But the input to the visual system is still an image on your retina, which obeys the same laws as camera optics.

If you ignore depth of field (which the authors don't seem to be concerned with) then the human eye behaves essentially like a pinhole camera. No matter what happens behind the pinhole, all of the light rays entering the eye must pass through the pinhole from the environment, traveling in straight lines. For any given viewpoint, the relationships of which objects are occluded by which other objects will be exactly the same for an eye as for a camera. But the authors specifically point out that their algorithm doesn't preserve these relationships.

Of course, computer graphics is as much an art as a science. If deviating from the realistic model turns out to give aesthetically pleasing results, then by all means go for it. But the reason it's better wouldn't have anything to do with more closely mimicking what the human eye actually perceives.

In any case, I would question the aesthetic benefits. To my eye, the algorithm seems to distort relative shapes and sizes of objects in a weird way. It looks great in screenshots, but when moving through a scene[1], it creates a subtly unsettling "space-warping" effect.

I also think the comparisons in the article are a little disingenuous, because everyone knows that linear perspective projections with wide FOV look horrible. I'd like to see a comparison against something else, like a stereographic or fisheye projection, which would be both more physically realistic and more efficient to render.

[1]: https://www.fovotec.com/architectural
Not sure for you, but what makes WhatsApp the stickiest for me out of the chat apps is the statuses (stories). I start many of my conversations on WA by seeing someone's status (story). On Signal, Telegram, or even iMessage, there isn't that nudge to restart the conversation.

I think if those platforms made some story-like feature, I'd have an easier time leaving WhatsApp.
More fragmentation. Why isn't this just directly implemented in gnome
Most of my finances are just strings of 1s and 0s. My company pays me. They don't send pieces of paper to my bank. It happens via 1s and 0s. From there, 80-90% of my expenses get paid automatically (rent, most taxes, electricity, internet, gas, water, trash collection) all via 1s and 0s. And cash is slowly disappearing into 1s and 0s as well via phone payment systems.
It's just silly. Get outside your desktop bubble. Linux powers literally billions of smartphones, a similar amount of embedded devices, millions of servers in large datacenters, etc etc.

git is one VCS among many, even if it is the most popular and the best in many respects. It's one of the many tools used by pretty much a single profession. To me it's a bit like saying that a circular saw has had more impact on the world than Linux.
Prior to the introduction of CORS preflight requests, those same requests simply would have been blocked by the browser.

Your old code will still work. If you see CORS preflight requests, then you are using new capabilities that didn't exist before CORS.
A number of voices from government and surveillance circles, like Thiel et al, have come forward lately to caution about "big problems" with Bitcoin. I have to conclude that Bitcoin is actually winning, and these people are just spreading FUD in an effort to crush something they can't control.
Cancel – Social Media with Guardrails
To get full 2x HIDPI character rendering at the same size as 1x on a 1080p monitor.
The problem I have with Benedict Evans' commentary is that he is very quick to suggest that a proposed solution is wrong (especially if it impacts the FAANG execs who hang on his every word), but never offers up an alternative OR admits that a current solution might be better than no solution at all. Yes content moderation is not a scalable solution but no content moderation is far worse.

I get it, the platforms are his bread-and-butter, but at some point he needs to stop pooh-poohing the solutions others are putting up and, you know, actually suggest a solution himself.

In this article he presents the possiblity that moderation does not work in scale, and that we should stop pushing for it. Then what? Well, Benedict doesn't get into that. He suggests that change might be necessary and that it might be a complete change to a different model of interaction - but he stops short of suggesting that is might be up to the platforms (or the government) to enact that change. If he were to turn around and say "Twitter, you need to fix your shit. Stop allowing unlimited retweets of some poor shmuck's bad day tweet" then he would actually have a position worth considering.

Edit: Changed the last line because I got distracted when writing the original and forgot to finish it.
It's the critical question. The time frame is critical for reasoning about alignment and what to do now.

If you expect AGI to happen tomorrow, you throw up your hands in despair or exhilaration, if you expect it in a hundred years, you might also throw up your hands, but it's a different picture; a hundred years of development will see the development of new technologies transformative in their own right.

This excellent blog post hones in on this question:
https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/03/23/two-paths-to-the...
This is a major blow to Moxie's credibility and Signal's reputation.
This was a thing until mining ETH is profitable again.
There are very specific requirements with strong precedent (see: Howey Test https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp) that must be met to be considered a security, and it is very clear that currencies like Bitcoin don't meet them. If various bodies wish to regulate it, there are plenty easier and stronger tools to use than securities laws. With that said, many companies involved in minting their own cryptocurrency (primarily during the IPO craze a few years ago) did sell unregistered securities in plain sight, often committing massive fraud alongside it, and it's no surprise that the SEC has been catching up with it over the last few years.
The same-origin policy protects users of your site from being attacked. It doesn't do anything to protect you (except indirectly by protecting your users).
I’m a little worried about supplying any explanation because the DK paper didn’t study the general population at all, and nobody who participated was incompetent or lacking meta cognitive skills or representative of any of the other exaggerated terms they used. The participants were all Cornell undergrads volunteering for extra credit. That alone is such a huge red flag on the validity of this study that presumes to make bold claims about general behavior, I honestly can’t understand why this paper has had so much attention or traction. The participants were self-selected, all the same age, all the same socioeconomic bracket (statistically speaking), all needed extra credit in their psych class, all admitted to a prestigious school, and all have been told by their family how smart they are.

> People may self-report opinions of their own performance that they feel are socially acceptable or socially protective of themselves. So it reverts to the mean because it remains within The Overton Window so to speak.

> If your objective performance is poor [...]

The DK paper didn’t study objective performance, it studied perceived performance. They didn’t exactly have participants opine on their own performance at all, they were asked to rank themselves within the group. That is a relative opinion, and it means the participant is evaluating the other participants’ abilities too. It also means everyone in the study was just guessing, which is the biggest reason why I think Tal is right, that this is nothing more than noise leading to regression to the mean.

> But if they hired you for your PhD in mathematics [...]

DK did not study any difficult cognitive tasks akin to research or complex math either. The paper only had 4 tasks: ability to get a joke, some standardized test logic questions, a little English grammar, and grading other people’s tests.

I’m not sure if the things I’m pointing out support your theory or not. Mostly I suspect DK is specious and contagious because it lets people justify their own negative judgements of others, so in that sense I think using DK as an explanation of someone’s behavior is a way to feel socially acceptable and be socially protective of one’s self. It’s just unfortunate that the common judgements and conclusions with this study are almost always unjustified because the paper is so widely misunderstood.
What common refrain is this exactly? That holding public individuals accountable is some how wrong, and equivalent to the cold war and Joe McCarthy? You can't excoriate bad faith arguments when you're doing this in return.

You sure you don't want to compare your opponents to Nazis and Hitler too?
Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey
This is insane. Clearly it's Thunderbird.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird
"Everything critical of my get-rich-quick scheme is FUD"
Installing Windows 95 from 21 floppy disks (2021)
Hey folks I have been working on this app for the past 2 years now and I am nowhere done.

I thought of just posting it online to see if it sparks any interest.

The overall goals of this project are:
Your data is yours: Bangle is a fully client side application which helps you edit your markdown notes. You provide it with notes and they stay with you.

Portable: Bangle is and will be a web app first i.e. no bloated electron app. Use it on your phone laptop or tablet.

Powerful: Bangle is simple to get started and has enough extensibility for the pro users (Just press command-shift-p).

Looking for early feedback (if I get any traction on this). Cheers
But there is no config to disable SNI, so Firefox send cleartext domainname in every ClientHello. Makes me think the session ID about:config is not really aimed at privacy concerns.
Corporations fundamentally exist to make a profit.

A startup that cares only about growth at all costs doesn’t care too much about moderation. If it’s a tiny startup whose product isn’t very popular, they are free from any regulation.

Once the product gets popular, the startup morphs into a “regular” corporation and is now under all kinds of scrutiny to improve its image.

So any product that you use and like which gets really popular will suffer the same transformation as it becomes more mature and more adult.
HIV vaccine is in the works: https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/141892/nov...
I've had this problem and would solve by killing gpg-agent as described at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/382279/gpg-hangs-wh...

Ideally there would be a better solution.
They post bullshit blog posts advocating social goals while reducing the investment in Firefox. It’s sad.