skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can see, only the phase 1 of plotting is cryptographic in any meaningful way. The rest is just rearranging data requiring no CPU power, and can be done effectively instantly if you have 400GB of RAM.

A big 'plotting house' would have dedicated crypto units to do phase 1, then stream the results over the network to a machine with 400 gigs of ram to do the rearrangement and write out a plot file. It should be possible to do that in seconds per 100GB file.

The plotting I don't see is any kind of bottleneck for a big operation. It's the storage of the resulting files.
I dont think its surprising but its definitely a cool little exercise. Somewhat aside of the content of the post, I could see some use cases where specifically implementing DFT layers in your architectures could lead to improved performance over using just the raw inputs or activations. Noisy datasets, or synthetic data based transfer learning come to mind as potential uses for the DFT as a step in your ML pipeline.
I agree with the gist of this comment, but not the numbers. I don’t have sources to hand at the moment, but while Apple’s margins are notoriously high, they’re not that high. OLED screens are quite expensive.
I like the concept of NFTs as it pertains to allowing artists more "control" over their works but I see no value in NFTs as a means of investing or really anything other than the modern pet rock. That being said, I still think it would be cool to own one as a novelty.
I agree with gmail now sluggish. At one time, 800ms! Today? Seconds.

I use it for personal and to search my body of pro emails forwarded to an account for that purpose.

Too bad about macOS mail.

I need to look at FastMail.

Outlook, like the rest of the Microsoft Office programs, is craptastic! It will do what you want. You will enjoy doing it less than you want, and it will generally remain worth it to do what you want.

Web only email is killer. I did that for many years.

The big thing with Outlook and exchange is business calendar integration. MS has a good solution. Forward to gmail and I get Android calendar copies for essentially free and low hassle. I do enough sales related work to justify Outlook.

I do not like Microsoft mobile apps much at all. On Android at least.

Edit: I fought with / against Outlook for years.

When I finally said, "fuck it" and used it for business, I found when I do not invest much, I do not risk much and have been happy ever since.

I just don't want to think about it all that much. The contents of those emails are what I want to think about and so that's where my focus is.
It is one of the youngest cities with subways.
I just use the vim plugin in Jetbrains products. I get vim navigation, editing modes, basic macros. Vim emulation is not thorough, so I can’t get more complex features, but they seem unnecessary when I get Jetbrains features.
I am from Brazil, here mainstream journalism for most part support blatantly a few political parties and ideologies, and do their best to sabotage the others, including with blatant lies.

I think people start believing journalism is "political", when it stops being "factual" for political reasons.
> Plenty of similar workers get nothing (Walmart for instance).

That doesn't seem to be the case. https://one.walmart.com/content/dam/themepage/pdfs/Associate...
The simplest solution is don't buy or build things you don't need. Wait till we actually have an opponent where advanced fighter jets would help defeat them. America's founders tried to prevent a standing army for this reason and also because most militaries get used against their own citizens more frequently than getting used against foreign enemies.
I've briefly tested it, it seems nice. Other than that I have the same concerns.
I don't have any factory to authenticate.
If you're looking for a more concentrated intellectual exercise that won't take days at a time to dig into I reccomend Zachtronics games, especially Spacechem, TIS-100, and Infinifactory.
You’re getting dangerously close to a position whereby, if a process fails, what needs to be done is to add more processing.
Knowing why a warning happens and being able to say that a particular warning is safe to suppress in a given instance is a reasonable way to deal with that case. There isn't a lot else you can really do... but you need to know the why part and have a documented explanation of for the suppression.
Man, there's no pleasing some people.
> join the conversation, bring your whole self to work, etc.

This is a classic honeypot. They want to weed out people who have views that do not align with current PC status quo. One of the reasons is that no company wants to be associates with an employee who has views that could damage company image and lose money. They want your whole self, so they can discard you if they think you are a liability.
That’s good context. Thank you. It speaks to the power imbalance.
I think that would be unfortunate. That kind of special-purpose hardware would go against the "anyone can farm" spirit of Chia and likely worsen the environmental impact since those drives wouldn't be useful for other applications.
I think that’s a fair take although my expanded position was more along the lines of whether spending 9 figures on this particular channel was the most effective use of resources given the extent of industry domination, when perhaps other channels could promote the brand for marketing and recruitment purposes.
For comparison, UK NHS budget is ~$4500 per year per capita. No deductables.

About ~10% have private insurance in addition to e.g. avoid queues etc. for non-critical care since NHS triages by clinical need. Typical price for private cover is usually ~$50-$200/month per person.

The true scam on the American public is that the way your healthcare is regulated means US taxpayers pay about the same UK taxpayers do towards public healthcare, but Medicare and Medicaid are unable to provide universal care for that money because they're artificially prevented from e.g. negotiating best possible prices for services and drugs, and the rest of the regulatory regime completes a system that is basically welfare for the healthcare and insurance industry.

So you pay roughly that per capita and then your private insurance on top.

Germany got it's first universal public healthcare insurance system in the 1880's under Bismarck because Bismarck was worried about outright revolution, because the notion of being without healthcare was one of the things driving rapidly rising resentment. Most of the rest of the developed world followed over the course of decades. That Americans are still putting up with this kind of massive wealth transfer to corporations by politicians today speaks to a disturbing level of subservience to corporate power.
Interesting. I'm curious how they got to $3.23 of labor for 16 ounces. And I suppose that drops as they sell more, assuming it's made in large batches.
Neural networks can learn many things but I can't imagine a practical use-case of this.
>If you’re in a slump (rut), chances are you feel like you can’t complete anything. You feel like you’re unable to finish anything so what’s the point of starting.

But how do you get out of a slump you're in caused by playing Factorio? Especially if you're still trying to get rid of the spoon?
Next exercise: implement the fast Fourier transform as a multi-layered network.
This is also not really surprising for a single layer neural network.
It’s been a while since I worked retail but unless something has drastically changed most people don’t read product packaging very closely. I would constantly have people walk up to me with an item and ask a question that was not only clearly answered on the package, but the information was _highlighted_ for them. I just don’t think most people would even notice the cost breakdown let alone read it and think about what the information means.
> liberal (as in right-wing)

What the hell? These terms are in no way synonyms.

You seem to be fairly extreme left, which is fine, but then labelling everyone to the right of you as "right-wing" is not a useful classification. "Left" and "right" are relative to the political centre, not to wherever you yourself happen to be.
Slightly off topic, but on the topic of "deprocrastination" and gaming. How do other people here feel about managing gaming habits and such, among their other side projects, work, and the day to day chores. I've been off video games for soon 3 months now because I felt I was unable to properly moderate my gaming habits. I was ending up playing late in evenings or during a weekend where I arguably had better things to do.

I've found that there really aren't any replacement hobbies for gaming as such. Lots of things to do instead, but nothing really replaces it. Personally, the closest thing I came to the same kind of enjoyment I got out of gaming is meeting other people IRL and being social.

Games for me was able to fill a very odd spot in my mind I think, they were challenging to the extent that you felt like you were growing a skill, and at the same time rewarding with various power-trip-gimmicks like "winning" or just plain old fun things like explosions, guns and (fantasy)-violence, stuff that gets your lizard brain going you know. It boiled down to "fun-work", and by that I mean truly fun work, stuff that you completely voluntarily do and which is void of the added boring fluff that comes with normal work. And as said, also something to grow into where a skill is actually being developed and a kind of deeper gratification can be found by continuous progress. (All the previously mentioned aspects were however too fake for me in the end, the lizard brain part doesnt understand that it was fake skills and fake victories though, so it liked them all the same)

On the topic of Factorio: I am absolutely certain this game would suck me in for far too many hours. I've heard stories about it and I can imagine how neat the problem-solving to feedback loops are, combined with creativity and you know, explosions.

However, if you have employees that are struggling with exactly solving open ended problems, games like this one probably does train that brain function.
AceQL Client 6.0 SDK: now a real JDBC driver over HTTP. Fully secured
> Valve decided to seek short term gains instead of thinking of a long term strategy by working with linux people to develop a nice ecosystem with libraries / drivers / app distribution.

The part that you suggest they should do "instead" is exactly what they have been doing. As far as I know, every game by Valve is native on Linux, along with their source engine.

> They could collaborate with Epic/Unity to facilitate linux builds

Both Unreal Engine and Unity can export games for Linux. Both seem to be able to be run on Linux for development as well. What more is needed?

> What if windows 11 is again a free upgrade and completely breaks wine?

There is literally nothing Microsoft could do to break wine; it isn't their software. If Microsoft breaks backwards compatibility, no existing software for Windows would run on the new version. Linux + WINE would be the best option for running the majority of Windows software with the most recent updates (one could of course still use older versions of Windows instead, but that's a bad idea long term).
Nice overview of the crypto.subtle apis, but I'm not sure about some of the use cases.

>Multi-factor Authentication
>Sometimes, hackers can steal users’ passwords. So, even if these passwords are hashed or encrypted in the database, it can’t stop them from accessing a user’s account. To make sure that someone who’s accessing an account is the true owner, applications allow multi-factor authentication.
>Rather than using transport-layer authentication, such as TLS client certificates application can use suitable client keys which may have been previously generated via the user agent like multifactor tokens.

I could not follow this part. With FIDO, you have should have a Trusted Platform Module or Hardware Security Key to store the secret key, but I'm not sure what is being suggested here.

In the section on "How to deal with man in the middle attacks", there is no mention of TLS 1.3, which would be the #1 thing on my list.

I agree with others here, that JS Crypto is shaky because you still need to trust the server not to give you compromised JavaScript. TLS and the Same Origin Policy are designed to sort of bridge the security boundary of the server up into your browser page. In this scenario, just offload the crypto to the server.
I find it similar to Civilization one more turn syndrome.

There is always something small you meant to do, one more improvements that will take only a min... suddenly you hear birds singing outside... its 4am...

Never again.
To me, this is a really weird argument. Why is Sony's business model Epic's problem? They're still taking a 30% cut. If Apple started selling phones at a loss would they now be in the clear in Epic's mind? Is there a minimum "loss" required? Like is losing $0.01 per iPhone enough to make taking a 30% ok?

Finally, what about Nintendo? They famously usually sell consoles at break-even or a small profit. Why isn't Epic suing them?
So is the identity transform...
What's even the point of "decentralized and anonymous file hosting"?

There's a bajilion serious hosting providers that have proven their mettle.

And when chips come down to it, crypto never is anonymous.
In general bad faith means that someone is lying to you, either implicitly or explicitly, when engaging you.

An example of this might be to act interested in a point, request sources to back it up, but with the intention to never look at the sources. Instead, the intent is to attack them for not providing sources making them look like their opinion is unsourced if they don't provide any, attack the sources if they provide anything that might be considered controversial, or to ignore them entirely and move onto the next person if they do provide good sources. The goal is to at worst waste their time and at best make them look like their position is unfounded.

Other examples might be asking questions when discussing a slightly controversial topic to get even more controversial replies that you will then quote mine to attack the poster, even if the quotes weren't controversial in context.

A less agreed upon example might be someone who is purposefully being misleading because they don't want to expose their true goal, but whose true goal is to educate the person. Asking leading questions to get someone to reach a conclusion when you would not be able to argue directly for that conclusion. This last example might even pass as an acceptable form of bad faith dialog because it is done with the intention of having a good faith conversation on a topic where good faith conversations aren't possible.
Mask study was “misleading” and misquotes citations, says Elsevier
'Dog Biting Dog': China's Online Fight Could Further Empower Beijing
Sure, but they finally got the current part done because it was worth it - at seven times the cost to do a similar capacity tunnel in Spain. If NYC could control their costs a little better there are a lot of tunnels that right not are not worth it that would be obviously worth doing.
I sometimes feel that Factorio in the mid- and late game is quite a chore. Almost like work to get that yellow science going. Calculating all those ratios, connecting countless types of inputs, fending of the critters.

I quite like the supply challenges but find in comparison to the Zachtronics Industries games (e.g. Space Chem) that not seeing competitive stats and being able to tinker/optimize is a missed opportunity.
Proof of pyramid scheme, you mean?
Biological neural networks do not use backpropagation, or at least, there's no evidence of that yet.

Backpropagation is a placeholder for stuff we don't understand.
> What you want is not email.

What I want is email, with the pains ironed out. I do not want anything fundamentally new. I just want to use what I'm currently using, and have it work as it currently works, minus current frustrations.

These frustrations vary from person-to-person (mine are numerous, some I'd be happy to live with, but others genuinely bother me daily), so fixing enough of them to appease a large portion of email users is no small task, but I think email is a good enough foundation that doing so is worth pursing.

I don't see much value in telling everyone their complaints re: email are invalid and they should accept it as is without improvements.

> So make what you want

That's a fair point, and maybe I should. It would certainly be better than posting aimlessly about it in internet comments. As mentioned above though, it's no small task.
1) The other examples in the same comment are more recent.

2) What happened there was so bad Italy was found in violation of ECHR. That nothing has substantially changed is in and of itself a major part of the problem.
https://www.exportgenius.in/india-import-duty/apple-iphone
> only has $400 worth of actual parts in

Heh. Yeah 400 ;)
Didnt China open up to the world before India, so they had a headstart.
FWIW your views are not what I think of when I hear the phrase 'progressive activist'. I tend to think of someone who is concerned almost exclusively with race, gender and sexuality.
> and we know CO2 levels on earth have reached 8000ppm in the past

The last time that CO2 levels were around 8000ppm was also the time when the solar flux was several percent lower. So this argument doesn't really work the way you thought it worked.
As someone else says in the thread, all these "assurances" are based on combinations personal preference and anecdote.

I am overall responsible for the team that produces and figures out developer productivity metrics for Google.

I can assure you there is lots and lots of real data on this, so there isn't a lot of need for random supposition based on people's desires (WFH vs not) and biases. There are too many comments in this thread to read every single one, but most suppositions i read seemed just to reflect biases and personal preferences rather than any real data.

It's IMHO a little odd to see people assume that any really successful tech company is not going to be able to figure out and succeed at maintaining whatever overall level of productivity they want (IE pre-covid, pre-covid-50%, pre-covid+50%). The ability to adapt and be productive/effective in changing conditions is often one of the things that makes companies successful in the first place.

The thing that is much harder to fix is stuff like personal well being.
Here's a source that says the cost is $415. You're right that the OLED is expensive, it costs $23 more than the LCD it replaces.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/bom-analysis-iphone-12-...
Others in this thread have mentioned the proxying happens right when you open the email, so doesn't really protect you.
So upending the lives of 36 dedicated employees is the best alternative? People can't raise money like a corporation can. Those people got the company to where they are today, so suddenly it's fine to just cut them loose because you made a video about how you feel about the situation?
It should be taken with a massive grain of salt, but [1] suggests $431 BOM cost for an iPhone 12 Pro.

[1]: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/bom-analysis-iphone-12-...
This could be highly interesting. Especially when starting with the FFT butterfly structure for connections and the corresponding weights as network initialization and then adapting that to real data via training.
I think that music defining one's identity and their lifestyle has kind of gone out of style. I just remember the late 00's/early 10's as crazy on judging people on what they listen (or they clothes, like Vice Do and Don't), not saying it didn't exist before. But maybe I'm a bit sensitive because I did go through that phase and it's still fresh...

Also to add to this the more I lean to the content creation side and work with artists, the more genres become blurry and irrelevant. Seeing critics and the creator of that history tree obsess over this and create micro genres to try to fit every music and their listener into this is just silly and far removed from how a good composer or producer with eclectic tastes works. Nowadays a mainstream song can be surprisingly creative, while the N-th production in a "good taste approved sub-sub-genre of techno" will have 0 artistic value.
Do these plant defense mechanisms affect their nutrition? Are they causing them to develop more antinutrients?[0]

I wonder if "companion plants" operate under a similar principle to trigger defence mechanisms.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinutrient
But that reflects an ignorance of how cost accounting works. Sure, it might include $400 of parts, but a hell of a lot of R&D, equipment, labor, and overhead are amortized into that phone. A very cursory look at Apple's latest income statements shows that the net profit margin on their revenue is about 20%, meaning that the phone's actual cost to produce is somewhere around $1200 (assuming a $1500 retail cost).
I mean, that is what many groups have attempted to do over the years whether it's violence in movies, D&D, or other entertainment. For some reason, 'classics' like Shakespeare (what with the death, incest, and foul language) get a pass, though.
One can only hope for the situation to overheat completely for and the lynchmobs to eat one another that the pendulum swings the other way.
That sort of item might benefit from displaying upfront costs instead of BoM. It'd be an interesting study.
The difference in consumer storage prices today compared to a few weeks ago is pretty substantial, and that’s when you can find it in stock at all.

HDDs have been hit much harder than SSDs, but I’m guessing you didn’t buy 144 TB of SSDs.
Rajie Cook deserved more credit for making sense of public spaces
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Yes, a pretty big oversight by anyone on the design team concerned with security. It just makes it look like humans were yet another product pushed out the door before they were ready for prime time.
He has a bad habit of rambling and never getting to a point. He had a ~20 minute video on their recent $155m round and never actually said what they were going to do with it. Just a lot of fluff about "wow! creative economy! integrations!" and how you can assemble a whole business as an individual from API as a Service type companies (Stripe, etc) while their API is being sunset.
> I do not believe for a minute all this wanting to replace email is about the pain of countless people. There is pain, no doubt. I have some myself.

To clarify my point: I think people try to replace email because they're frustrated with email and believe it can't meet their needs. Personally, I believe email could meet some of their needs were it improved to alleviate some of their frustrations. And I wish some people would direct their efforts toward improving email rather than trying to replace it.

Then again, maybe I should be taking my own advice.
Why are you comparing a $1500 phone and a $150 phone? And how is that even relevant?
I do the same think with Racket, and what’s really cool about its Repl is that it supports displaying all sorts of objects and it’s fun building images and graphics this way and it is immediately rewarding. But it is still a procrastinauon of some sort
Fork knife doesn't appear on that list - I suspect it has many more downloads than pubg mobile. Having said that, I'm still really surprised how popular pubg mobile appears to be. I used to play the desktop version semi regularly and it was nowhere near that popular.
> I see no value

> I still think it would be cool to own one

Cool enough to pay more than $0? Perhaps there could be an NFT so cool-to-own for you that you would VALUE it at $1?
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Textual descriptions of child sexual abuse both desensitise (a thin end of a wedge, a slow on-boarding) and reinforce a habit or desire.

See my reply down-thread.