skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $20 or $200 doesn't matter - how on earth could you have a credit card if you can't afford to pay off $200?

Who cares how they got the card, maybe it's a debit card, maybe it's their parent's or partners. Maybe they've got one that only allows a very low limit of charges.

The point is that there's a whole ton of people for whom $200 isn't a "Oh, well, that's a learning exercise - better be more careful next time".

> What's wrong with buyer beware?

Buyer beware is fine where all parties are fully aware of all repercussions.

However, you'll note that this doesn't apply to certain kinds of transactions, particularly financial transactions.

In some cases, you're either required to go through an expert who can advise you on the downsides and risks, or the seller is required to ensure that the buyer is fully informed of the risks.

It's the same reason we have warning signs on a whole bunch of things about how they could injure themselves.

Without the ability for someone to limit the damage, someone could be up for thousands of dollars in spend without being aware of how they even got there.

> AWS aren't scheming to scape little bits of money from small time developers

It's not even students and other inexperienced people that end up in bill-shock.

I've dealt with well-experienced senior developers who've gone off to an AWS Conference and spent a day or three being lulled by the story about how X is the new hotness, and would solve all the problems we have.

The AWS reps have all confirmed the story that X is the new hotness, and it's perfect for some new solution - and they've got some big name customer who's implemented it and saved millions Vs their legacy on-site solution. The AWS reps also hand out tens of thousands in account credits like they're mentos, with the message "Go play, see if it works for you".

Those senior developers have taken a look at the pricing on the thing, thought they understood it, and then fired up a demo to prove it out. When the billing starts to come in, there's been shock from them that they spent so much in so little time.

The pricing on things is quite opaque with one headline price for something, but doesn't include that you'll also need to consider the pricing for other bits. The billing is often delayed quite signfiicantly, and alerting is only useful as an indicator of how much you've fucked up, rather than a way to prevent it.

So, yeah, with AWS marketing all their solutions as being much lower cost, while at the same time not making it clear on what things do cost, and not making tools that you can prevent major fuckups -- they definitely do need to shoulder some blame.
There's no reason you wouldn't have access to the encryption key, though. In a sensible system it would be derivable from your password and data on the drive.
why would COD allow that to happen
There is some discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

BCPL -> B -> C (perhaps) but there is a lot of overlap. C came out around 1973.

As you say: Hello World is quite old and probably predates these Johnny-come-lately, fly by nights like C.
Amazon is a pretty bad example because it does give you backup codes to override 2SV. But for most properly implemented sites, if your sister had the backup codes, that issue shouldn't happen.
I've worked remote-only for over a decade. I would want a big raise to go back to sitting in a cube farm all day.
Wouldn't traditional "offline" advertising be even worse?

"We suspect X million people watch this TV show (based on highly inaccurate Nielsen ratings) and then stayed around for the ad break, pay XX dollars."

"XXX people passed by your billboard, XX saw it, X people visited your website and made a purchase, pay XX dollars."
“Since B is often used for system programming and bit-manipulation, octal numbers are an important part of the language.”

I’m curious why octal fell out of style. Hexadecimal seems more useful in every way. Perhaps it relates to using 36-bit words?

Literally the only octal I use is for chmod.
Interestingly enough, the IPA is in fact not the only phonetic transcription system. The most famous alternative is Americanist notation [0], but there’s also the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet [1] and probably others as well which I’ve forgotten.

However, the IPA has one distinguishing feature: it’s standardised, by the International Phonetic Association. By contrast, Americanist notation (the main competitor) is mostly unstandardised; for the most part, it’s not so much a ‘phonetic alphabet’ as much as a set of conventions people follow. And this doesn’t matter if the author has been careful to define their terms correctly, but it can be a real pain if they’ve forgotten. (e.g. for a while, I believed that Kalam had [r] as an allophone of [d], until I realised that the author had used ⟨ř⟩ to mean [ɾ], not [r]…) Thus, the linguistics community has mostly standardised on IPA, with the exception of some subfields which still use Americanist notation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanist_phonetic_notation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_Phonetic_Alphabet
I've found that if you move away from Gmail (and there are much better providers around), a Google account doesn't contain much. Turn off your history and someone compromising your account can do... what? Search for things you'd like? View your YouTube favorites? Meh.
vsetvl{i} should not cause speculation failures.

The VTYPE part of vsetvl (which sets the VTYPE CSR) is conceptually part of dynamically following instruction opcodes. There simply isn't room for it in the current fixed-size 32 bit opcodes, but in future 64 bit instruction encodings [1] the VTYPE will be explicit in eery instruction.

This is no different to every IEEE-compliant Floating Point implementation (which ARM and x86 of course are) including a rounding mode field in every instruction which often (in fact usually) contains the value "dynamic" meaning that the rounding mode is taken from a CSR.

In both cases the instruction fetch stage can simply jam the current value from the CSR on to the end of each instruction and have it pass through the pipeline with it as if it had been in the instruction opcode in the first place.

VTYPE has 8 active bits in the current v1.0 draft, and the XT-910 and XT-906 implement a different 6 bit VTYPE of which 2 bits must always be zero (so 4 bits really).

VSETVL with a register argument could cause a mis-speculation, but it will normally only be used for saving and restoring VTYPE on task switches. Normal code will usually be using the immediate form, which the instruction decoder can pick off and save locally.

As for the VL CSR part, there is a bit in VTYPE that specifies whether a) you don't care about elements past VL -- they can be computed the same as if they were within the vector length or not, or b) elements past VL remain undisturbed. Designers/users of OoO machines may be happier when the software specifies a) and designers/users of microcontrollers may be happier when the software specifies b).

So when "tail agnostic" is set, very wide hardware might calculate all elements anyway, while hardware with N ALUs might calculate whatever portion of the tail falls in the block of N elements containing the end of the vector, but not later blocks.

The XT-910 designers of course didn't have this option as their CPU implements a two year old draft specification that no one was ever supposed to implement in mass-production hardware -- or at least if they do they have to know it has no guarantee to be compatible with RVV v1.0

The XT-906 uses the same vector processor (or at least the same ISA). I've been using one via ssh recently and hope to have my own board with the Allwinner D1 chip that uses the XT-906 core later this month. I've got some simple vector test results at:

http://hoult.org/d1_memcpy.txt
http://hoult.org/d1_strcpy.txt

[1] 64 bit RVV opcodes will also likely have other enhancements such as being able to use any V register for masking, other masking options (e.g. invert the mask), ability to address more V registers, four operand versions of multiply-accumulate, and I don't know what else. No real effort has been expended on actually designing that in detail yet.
i agree, but there are stable coins...
Based on what? Do you have any research or studies that support that statement?
Ah yes, the "how much could it cost" comment.

"Businesses should keep adding engineers to work on optimization until the cost of adding an engineer equals the revenue gain plus the cost savings at the margin. This is often many more engineers than people realize." https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
Somebody has mentioned this about Patreon before. But couldn't a drug dealer now just sign up to Twitter and get Tips from their customers instead of cash?
I partially disagree: fake (paid) "organic" mentions and fake reviews are the most effective form of marketing. And, obviously, they're much easier for a company to achieve than the real thing. How unsurprising is it that the most effective class of ad spend is the most scummy? The reason (fake) organic marketing is effective is exactly because it fools people into thinking that it isn't marketing.

Take paid Amazon reviews for example. This is advertising, just one of the most scummy possible forms of it. It's effective because people like me look to reviews to provide a third-party take on whether or not a product is any good. If I have a choice between two otherwise equivalent products, I'll pick the one with better reviews. But usually this just means rewarding the company that paid more to "advertise" on Amazon.

I realize you're probably talking about "real" organic mentions, but those are growing increasingly harder to find. A good example is the last time I bought headphones. I got suckered by a bunch of small review sites that had either been paid or gotten free samples in exchange for reviews. I bought two pairs, and when they arrived the sound from both was distorted. One pair broke within a few months. It was clearly trash that had been pumped using fake organic marketing. When I went back to find the sites that had provided the reviews in the first place, a few of them did mention (in very tiny print) that the reviews were paid. Me, suckered by advertising?! More likely than you'd think.

Back in the day, Johnny Carson reading an ad was convincing to the median consumer because they could be led to believe that the ad really was an endorsement of the product. That doesn't work any more, or not nearly as much at any rate. The basic strategy hasn't changed: it's still an attempt to find someone the consumer will trust. This is why, in my opinion, ads have always been and always will be bad, an attempt to subvert human rationality. Johnny Carson endorsing a product didn't mean that the product was good, it meant he was paid to endorse it. A review site endorsing a product nowadays doesn't mean that the product is good, it means they're paid to endorse it. In both cases the breakdown between what the consumer believes is happening and what is actually happening is the very thing advertising is trying to create, its raison d'être.
Replying to myself, because I'm too late to edit:

You said "tolerating fascists" rather than "being a fascist". But it's still an enormous shift from "I question whether Jews were killed" to "It's OK that you want to kill Jews".
You can already get much better photos by processing RAWs manually; the image in the article shows an automated result obtained from the camera app which at the moment does only very basic processing (like auto white balance based on averaging brighter areas of the photo, which isn't going to be very accurate for some kinds of pictures).
We can only hope! From what I've read, I vote for John Deere.
Why would you need to trade your COD skin through a decentralized distributed network if that skin is only usable through a specific centralized game?

The use cases for CRYPTO and NFT are extremely small.

Its a solution that's been looking for a problem for over 10 years.
Lots of code doesn't run so often that it needs to be optimal. If you use proper data structures and algorithms then you'll avoid the real problems. The constant factor slowdown you get from language choice won't matter for the vast majority of lines of code.
from https://www.speedtest.net/ ...Hmm..
I don't even trust speedtest for accurate speedtests let alone cosmological news. Speedtest.net's results are hilariously inaccurate, both way higher, and way lower than my actual connection bandwidth.

I use fast.com or cURL for more accurate tests.

Ex.

$ curl -s http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
The follow up article is interesting — after replacing the motherboard, the new Mac was writing tens of gigabytes of data a day, which is obviously not good for the SSD. Other users reported the same issue.

That’s, like, really bad, right?
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Since Twitter's cut is zero, they owe Apple 30% of zero.
Similar, but done in secure hardware in a T2 embedded inside the M1. The complete I/O path is protected.
It makes me recall the UMC who had trusted IBM.
What does living in the US have to do with it? Different people do well or badly in every country.
Then gets mixed up who paid and who didn’t
I'm confused by your argument, because I'd consider making $200K/yr to be firmly on the side of wealthy. Also, I think he was talking about the circumstances being unremarkable, not the people themselves.
(Minor note, since you brought it up: it's spelled "Caltech".)
You can do this with the new version of Edge:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-password-gener...
And
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-s...
Is it on android yet?
Imagine being so rich you can lose a billion dollars under normal operation.
Yes. We already do this for all sorts of things, including sewage. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_outfall)
Select Time 'Allballs'
You're only a few years into your career, not saddled with an oversized tuition from a prestigious university, and already making $200k with a sizable net worth. In my books that's absolutely a path to wealth!
According to App Store rules, if an in-app payment all goes to the creator with zero platform cut, then Apple foregoes the 30% fee.
Rust for Windows v0.9
I recommend Kevin Rose's podcast MoFi (Modern Finance). He has some great interviews and seems very knowledgeable on the topic.
Your ability to work hard is dependent on things like your nutrition, genetic temperament, and general outlook on life as developed by your parents, friends, mentors and life experiences. It's not just a magical innate ability that exists if you believe hard enough. This type of thinking becomes a problem when you begin associating "working hard" with having a superior moral character that deserves to be rewarded while other less good individuals can suck eggs.

It really is all luck.
I generally oppose anything Chromium, because it's ushering in a return to the shitty days of "this site is best viewed in Microsoft Explorer."

But... not sure what an independent developer is to do about that.
I took that as more social commentary than victimhood. Victimhood would infer some real harm. O’Reilly never said that, just that the situation was ridiculous.
This idiotic elitist mentality serves no one.

You aren't special because you purchased a product made by the largest consumer product company on the planet.
There are systemic injustices. If you're chasing pure outcome it is advantageous to be aware of them so that you can access underpaid underprivileged people or back people whose performance is boosted by privilege.

If you think that a founder being black makes it very hard for him to access debt because of systemic bias and his company plans heavily on debt financing, then yeah, it makes total sense to pass on it if you think the risk is too high.

On the other hand, if you're a black founder and the company you want to build requires you to heavily rely on debt financing, it makes perfect sense for you to spend less time worrying about injustice and more time making this thing work however you can knowing full well that people will pass on you (perhaps "unfairly"). After all, you can play and maybe lose or not play and definitely lose.

A founder I knew used to look for schools that had strong candidates but had low social cachet. He believed he would have an advantage hiring from there.

One particular liberal arts college had him hire almost their entire founding CS year. Almost all of those graduates were great. Other times the strategy didn't work out.
Most people don’t have bitcoins
The fact that something in the past couldn't have been prevented doesn't mean that there's nothing to be done in the present.

There's also the fact that often you couldn't have prevented it.
It's irresponsible unless they were waiting for the ban and purposely orchestrated it for publicity
> This uses an STM32 microcontroller to act as a USB mass-storage device, serving up a dynamic file. This file can be loaded by the system's boot config to change its boot behaviour based on the physical input

pretty neat idea!

An alternative might be to use a plain USB stick, put switch onto its power line, and check its presence in the grub.
> Ads. You pay with your attention.

What? No. You pay with your data. You pay with your privacy.

And the ads additionally destroy legitimate paid services. Ads have destroyed the entire internet economy, and brought upon a surveillance state.

This blog post is more detached from reality than the Q board on 8kun.
It's probable that drug dealers could use this, but there's a bit of a marketing hurdle if they do decide to go that route. Can you imagine the awkwardness of explaining that you want funds received through Twitter? It's a nightmare since twitter is a public arena and doesn't even use E2E encryption for its DMs, so police can have a nose at your convos.
But she's no true woman!

Admittedly, this reply is tongue-in-cheek because I'm amused at how positively bizarre this subthread is.
No.

https://knightoftheinter.net/img/Screenshot_20210506_195521....

https://knightoftheinter.net/img/Screenshot_20210506_195855....
The same is true in science.

The same is also true in business (this is one root cause for the "hard-to-place smell" that surrounds the HBS case study approach).
IIRC, the Google/Android 2FV implements FIDO2
To be more precise, VSETCFG is gone (rolled into VSETVL) and VSETVL's 3rd argument is an integer encoding the VTYPE with four subfields, written in assembly language for VSETVLI as up to four arguments: element width, register length multiplier, tail agnostic flag, mask agnostic flag (trailing subfields can be defaulted).
Coleman is someone I wish everyone knew about. He’s changed my mind on a number of things and always seems to have unique well reasoned views on the subjects he speaks about.
Still waiting for someone to name one singular measurable impact of a crypto project.

It's a solution that's been searching for a problem for over 10 years.

Decentralized, distributed, blah blah, stop drinking the koolaid.

Is a network controlled primarily by 4 mining companies decentralized?

Do you need a distributed network to sell NFTS that are only useable within the world of a specific video game company? (game nfts)

Name a project that can't be accomplished traditionally with the cloud and some code?

Name a reason why you should leave your FDIC insured government backed bank for a 3rd party wallet and incur transaction fees, gas fees, fraud, hacks ect that are equivalent to wire transfer fees cbx fees ect.

The crypto community has been spewing advantages that don't exist and solutions for problems that do. not. exist.
Easier to just tap the “not interested on this ad” button
AsmJit
Of course you could work around s-expressions (and make your ALGOL-formatted language looks like Lisp, a common complaint against my own code by my coworkers), that wasn't my argument.

Most aren't fond of Lisp syntax, regardless of how you dress it up, and thus writing in Lisps doom you to have fewer people to hand over your code to, and I don't think that scarcity is useful.
I suspect the reason most don't like s-expression is that it forces the human reader to maintain a "mental stack", an exercise humans are not too good at, as demonstrated by human languages aversion of center embeddings.
It's much more likely that Mastodon is just full of the sort of people who get kicked off all the centralised platforms.
> Who were the people that put forward the “say happy holidays not merry Christmas” issue?

I was one of these people for a time. Mainly because in certain places, like where I'm from, Christmas was pushed on people. I'm an atheist and those holidays are hard enough. I've been pressured into praying with people, whom when I would try to complain would effectively mock me. I was forced to go to church where a pastor (or priest) would talk about me by proxy, speaking about how terrible I am or how I was going to hell (yaaaaay brimstone and fire). That's just a couple examples, but I'm sure you can fill in the gaps. So, I got to be kind of a dick about it.

I have grown since then, and Christians have generally gotten more tolerant that not everybody pauses for their holidays. This "conversation" could've been a lot healthier though.
Yep, works great, and saved me from an costly backup restore a couple of times.
LCD (essentially fake) viewfinders are miserable experience. They suck up battery and don't give an optical view through the lens.
> they apparently know how to secure my account better than I do

This is definitely true for 99% of people though
3.2.1.vii Apps may enable individual users to give a monetary gift to another individual without using in-app purchase, provided that (a) the gift is a completely optional choice by the giver, and (b) 100% of the funds go to the receiver of the gift. However, a gift that is connected to or associated at any point in time with receiving digital content or services must use in-app purchase.
> Surprised to see no bitcoin after all of dorsey’s crypto boosting

This will eventually lead to crypto donations. They're Trojan-horsing that in eventually is my prediction.
A drug dealer could also get cheese from their customers instead of cash. Would that make sense? About as much as using twitter tips, I guess.
People track conversions - click through URLs contain tracking query params which track the source. If you convert (download a resource, request a demo, start a trial, buy a product) it gets reported back to Facebook.

There's definitely accountability. The problem is that you can't always blame FB or Google because maybe your targeting is off, your ad copy sucks, you dumped the user off the front page of your website and they bailed, etc. There's a lot more to performance and accountability.
> You are incorrect.

No, I’m not.

The supply of Bitcoin is 21 quadrillion satoshi. You are making an arbitrary distinction that an entire Bitcoin is some meaningful thing. I’m not doing a conversation. A Bitcoin is 100,000,000 satoshi. That is just a literal fact.

People want the supply of Bitcoin to be limited because their economic models depend on that false reality. If there is 21 quadrillion of something, it is not scarce. Wanting something to be scarce doesn’t make it scarce.
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Holmes was a domain expert, wasn't she? I guess con artists also happen to be domain experts sometimes. Oh no, is it possible your precious founder is confusing chance with wisdom or luck with skill?