skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BOOX generally does not include a camera. (I'm inclined to say "never".) It does have an onboard microphone, however.
> When you have a cushy tech job to fall back on, you simply won't try as hard as when you have no safety net.

Or you don't try entrepreneurship at all, because if you fail you don't have anything to fall back on.
Define sync? I still far more trust "my own encrypted volume" plus "home-rolled synchronization (Syncthing, in my case)" than e.g. a Bitwarden.

(also, I have no idea exactly what "end-to-end encrypted" actually means these days, given the loose way many apps/services seem to define it.)
Worse than that: as an influence on the conversational AI model, to push certain products by weighting responses that recommend them higher. Less hassle than throwing a conference for doctors and sending reps out to give them free stationery every month
AFAIK Ivan is customer support, photopea is a one-man website, and one of the best out there.
Because most people are stupid, and this level of truth-bending will not be punished.
What is an example of important technology that did not start as something only available to the affluent/connected?
I mean, you could have.

If they had returned, "Showing results for lambda", "Search instead for lamda", then that would have definitely been a problem.
I can comfortably work all day on battery doing all of those tasks on my M1. I can work all day at a coffee shop and leave my charger at home.
I read that reply rather differently. It didn't sound self-absorbed, as if they were saying "let's talk about me, not you." It was more like "how cool, we have a common interest, lots to talk about!"

I could imagine better responses, but I didn't see much wrong with that one.
If you can't automatically restore, it's because you've lost data. There is a huge variance on the data value and difficulty or recreating it, but a backup should let you clearly and unambiguously recreate whatever system you are backing up.
> A lot of the sustainability hype this year is about how continuing doing what you are already doing is now less impactful to the environment

I completely agree. A blatant example is the smartphone market. Sure, not including chargers and headphones will reduce waste, and going 100% sustainable energy is good, but if they were serious about sustainability, they would make their products have more longevity, be more user-repairable, and stop marketing them like fashion items/Veblen goods so people don't feel the need to upgrade every year.
1.3 million employees a recent news article said. wow.
I think we should ask which particular humans are desperate and which are curious.

Thousands of scientists and engineers would not have been motivated to work on ballistic rocketry and guidance systems if they had not been curious to learn about the moon and outer space.

Congress would never have spent 4% of the 1966 US federal budget on the Apollo program[1] if it had not been desperate to tell allies and enemies about our ability to land a payload in Leningrad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#
Disclosure: work at Google, opinions my own.

I've had a chance to play with this and it's eerie how good it is. Most impressive to me, it was able to defend itself persuasively when confronted with evidence of how its previous answers were inconsistent (in the version I played with, it tends to be very coherent but frequently wrong).
Well, 3nm is 2022, so the newer M variant in this article wont be using it.
Not in principle, but I do believe this to be the case for Bitcoin specifically. Network majority is distinct from minor majority, but obviously miner (or stakeholder) majority is an extremely important part of it.
That is really interesting but I can't shake the feeling of it being like visiting hours at the jail.
What is the top systemic practice which sustains white supremacy in Californian math pedagogy? What is the leading argument?
I've been following Citus Data, it might be interesting for you.
https://www.citusdata.com/
Congrats on the launch, this seems super exciting! Curious where you see Thryft in relation to platforms like Depop or Poshmark?
>You can't fork an exchange off of the network without also disrupting every single user that parks funds on that exchange.

Anyone who willingly opts into staking on a shady exchange, agreeing to a contract saying that they might be slashed, needs to be prepared to be slashed.

On the other hand, any exchange that automatically opts user deposits into staking without notifying them should be criminally liable. That's a big breach of user trust.
I believe the socially acceptable term these days is "normies", right?
Just like all systems that call themselves decentralized, some aspects are and some aspects arent
First, please don't take this as a personal criticism, or that I'm saying that you do sound self-absorbed - we are in a comment section where people share their own experiences and opinions, so I don't think that expressing yourself in the first person is in any way negative.

However, to answer your question about how to appear less "self-involved", perhaps there's a structural trick you can use, which is to shift some of your writing from first-person to second-person and speak from the outside? How does this sound to you:

"It can take a while to learn that this can come across as self-absorbed and obnoxious in the US when speaking that way, so I've learned to consciously remember to ask questions about the person or the topic they presented, and void introducing related topics. This does make it more challenging to know when it's OK or how to actually switch topics (since, like the article mentions, conversations do flow from one topic to another) and this uncertainty can be anxiety-inducing"

I'm not saying it's essential, but as an exercise if you imaging talking about the situation that way, it can influence the tone.

I will repeat that I think your fear about sounding self-absorbed does not come out, to me, in your paragraph. I have worked with colleagues whose conversations do wander off on their own tangents if they're not asked to focus, and that may be similar to what you're talking about? But I can't be sure. If so, that is the difference between conversation for its own sake where sharing and opinion and life experiences are related, and workplace conversations which often have an objective, etc.
> I am surprised how much legacy inefficient crap is lingering around in companies like Uber.

Maybe there are some JVM specific libraries they need for things like mapping that don't exist on GoLang? From reading their tech blog, it sounds like they're mostly a GoLang shop and they were apparently Python before that. So it seems like they're probably forced into using Java because some of the libraries they use aren't worth rewriting in-house to avoid having to use the JVM.
I was wondering about this. Is it a company of, like, two people, where she's the engineer and there's someone else doing other stuff like marketing? Or is she alone, and if yes, why the plural?

Amazing project and superb writing in any case.
I worked with a number of brilliant people at Bell Labs through the 1980s/1990s. The most comfortably competent among them, the most productive among them, were also the least abrasive. They were also the most self deprecating.

Not just one or two, but the majority of them. To the point that the aggressive geniuses stood out. And I worked for/with two abrasive ones as well, so I know the difference.

The same was true for the two startups I worked at after that, and Qualcomm, and now the third startup where I work.

The really productive geniuses in each situation were easy to work with, I think largely, because of their confidence in their own grasp of the subject at hand. They had nothing to prove, they knew that, and it showed. The difficult people were never stupid, far from it, but they felt like they needed to defend everything they did, every decision they made, and that made working with them less productive.

With the gentle geniuses, if you thought you came up with something that was an improvement on what was being done, they would look at it honestly, and if it was not better, they would calmly explain why, and if it was better, they would acknowledge it right out and discuss how to merge that into the current work.

The 'less gentle' ones would take pride in pointing out the flaws in your idea if you were wrong, and if you were right, would fight you over whether it had any real value at all, then would stiff arm you as far as getting it accepted as a change.
I was under the impression most low level firmware is still written in C? Is there a new preferred language? (Rust?)
It looks like magic, when I saw the video I briefly thought it was a joke (ha-ha, they're actually in the same room!). I wonder how much of the magic is software and how much is hardware?

The video certainly plays up the software, but I've never used zoom or FaceTime in an 8k video call booth before, so I suppose I don't have a point of comparison.
Singularity vs. Daoist Robots
>> my general take is that the top 1% by income do pay roughly their fair share but the top 1% by wealth don't

> What evidence do you have of that?

The tax rate on my salary is way higher than the tax rate on my investments and property.

It's perhaps possible that the top 1% by income are also not paying their fair share, but in that case the top 1% by wealth definitely aren't.

> Because it's already been taxed (corporate tax rates). Labor expenses come out of pretax revenue.

So what? I pay taxes on my grocery bill, and I buy groceries with money I already paid taxes on.
Wow! It does sound extremely painful haha. Thanks for sharing, that's pretty useful info.
Will be canceled within two years.
The getting angry is just another sales tactic if the first one doesn't work. I've had one salesmen try that on me as well. I just set there kind of laughing at the show he was pulling of, but my girlfriend felt genuine threatened.
That’s just one part of the job description.
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in Florida
When there is a prominent founder, everyone usually tends to defer to them (in this case, Vitalik, see what happened to ETC vs ETH).
My threat model isn't super high profile, so no?

Partly given 2FA, but more importantly the fact that I check my email pretty frequently (most of them will be like "hey, someone's trying to change your password, is it you?), I don't think that's a fair comparison.
> "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."

This is primary/secondary school mathematics, not cutting edge mathematical research, and there quite clearly is a right and wrong answer for simple, commonly used mathematics of that nature.

Moreover, it's unclear what's wrong with "perpetuat[ing] objectivity"; most people here on HN would describe objectivity as a good thing.
The irony is that with OpenGL and WwbGL getting left behind, graphics programming becomes a bit more uniform across platforms as a result, even though the underlying APIs are different. They are based on very similar modern concepts. OpenGL on the other hand really shows its age and isn't a good fit anymore. Some newer things have been bolted on awkwardly over time, but they are either optional extensions or part of versions that are newer than what certain target platforms actually support.

Looking at the various rendering backends for our product, the OpenGL backend is the most byzantine one. The Vulkan backend has more code, but all of that is fairly sane. It doesn't have accidental complexity like having to pick the right GL function to upload a specific texture out of about a dozen possibilities depending on the texture type and target OpenGL version/extensions.
> What if you're only mining with renewables?

The issue isn't the "we're using renewable energy - see, this doesn't make things worse." It also doesn't make things better. Whats more, its increasing the consumption of energy which is at the core of the problem.

It would have been even better to push that renewable energy out onto the grid (and also not increase the consumption of power for crypto mining).

Switching all new power consumption to renewable doesn't improve things because the baseline of non-renewable is still there. We need to reduce existing and switch existing to renewable.

I suspect a bit of Parkinson's law is in place with energy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law -- The key is to stop making it worse (by mining crypto and trying to justify it with "but its from renewable").
I don’t know about AIDA64, but Geekbench tests a variety of more real world or at least more varied scenarios compared to cinebench which just does CPU rendering.

You can see the full description here (https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf) but there’s compression, encryption, compiling, and several other tests.
1 + 1 = 3 for large values of 1.
In Santa Barbara?

That should be interesting. There's been some good physics from there. Flash LIDAR came from Advanced Scientific Concepts there.

UC Santa Barbara is Hollywood's vision of a college. Everyone is good-looking and the college is right on the beach.
> Netlify

Netlify already allows full control over headers even on their subdomain, including COOP/COEP.
>We set out to build something much more than a large iPhone app on a bigger screen. We had to completely rethink our design to for the big, bigger and biggest portable screen.

>The best UI is usually as little as you can get away with, so just like on Halide for iPad, our exposure dials only appear while adjusting exposure. They fade away into the background after a few moments.

we had to think what to do with all of this extra screen space, so we decided to hide even more of the UI
And that related to the "Not really". Not the bit I was talking about:

> Not really IMO, I think they just pushed it to just say "whatever's related to the topic". People who behave like that irl come off as self-absorbed and obnoxious most of the time, hope future AIs are not like that!
I don't think it hurts to use this advice. The worst that can happen is that the company is only willing to pay you 90k (either they don't think you can net them more or they think you're bluffing, but that's risky if you have other offers to show them). You can still pick that company if you want in the end.
Nah, if Google actually went for it for years it would have went down the wealth requirement. The problem is that Google has demonstrated time and time again that it cannot do reiteration grind.
AMD Discloses Vulnerabilities in EPYC Processors Secure Encrypted Virtualization
Ethereum 2.0 isn’t expected to be released until 2022, 2023, or 2024*

If you’re looking for something that works now, you can take a look at the 3rd most popular cryptocurrency on Coinbase,
Stellar Lumens (XLM). It sure is energy efficient.

More details here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/nbqfey/since_co2_e...

Sources:
*Coinbase, Stakewise
And reimplement TCP on top? Would not recommend.
I don’t really agree. You can get cpus where eight cores share an l2 cache and you can pretty much obliviously program those and get totally reasonable scaling because the contention penalty is the L2 access latency. There are no 32-core parts with that property, so you’re paying for at best L3 access latency and maybe main memory, possibly even NUMA node-crossing latency.
1. Under PoW, a 51% attacker can continuously attack profitably. All the energy they expend gets returned as mining rewards just like normal, and they can potentially even (up to) double their rewards if they censor the other 49%. The only way to stop this aside from changing the PoW algorithm is to physically locate and seize the mining rigs.

2. Majority stakers can't change the rules of the system either.
That’s a definition you can use, sure. And, I do tend to value using words in a consistent way over time.

But definitions are choices. People are free to choose what definitions they think of as “the definition of <x>”. Some such choices are likely to cause more confusion when they interact with others, but this is not always sufficient to discourage/prevent some faction of people from choosing some definition that differs from that used by some other faction.

Under the definition you are using for bitcoin, such a thing would not be the thing that you currently would consider bitcoin. That’s fine.

This doesn’t mean that people wouldn’t use the name “bitcoin” for it.

Perhaps 2000 years from now, the word “bitcoin” will instead refer to apples instead, due to random linguistic drift. (Or, a fruit which resembles apples. Will they technically count as apples, according to our current notion of apples?)
Yeah, on a certain level it's frustrating if a technology can seem to bring far away to an arm's length away, but not actually any closer.
Those bugs are in the graphics drivers, not in the WebGPU implementation. Any remotely powerful GPU interface will probably be able to talk to the drivers in a way that will exploit those bugs. On the other hand, if you artificially restrict the interface so those bugs are out of reach, it will probably not be powerful enough for what it wants to be.
Graphics card vendors will have to step up their game and improve their drivers.
I'm with you on that.

It feels like these things are being written by academics who've never bothered to understand the world around them.
It should always be clear that bitcoin doesn't have an energy use per transaction. The energy use of the network doesn't increase with the number of transactions conducted.

It's absolutely true that the layers built on top of bitcoin do and will continue to present scale, allowing for more and faster tx per second.
This essay feels like it really panders to the reader.

It excuses poor social skills, tells you that you too can become rich by simply "getting the right answer" and that it's the best time ever to be a nerd.

I don't buy it. The only way this makes sense is in hindsight if you're massively successful. Otherwise you're just the weird person who has poor social skills and is obsessed with "solving problems".
Not much of an article, but it seems to me that missing component is that the world, at least the human version, will change to better suit AI/ML/etc. It isn't just synthetic intelligence becoming better at formerly human tasks.

Design for manufacturability is an example of what I mean in terms of the results being changed to suit the process.

There's money to be made and a strong feedback loop in it's making.
It would be great if hacker news could find a way to filter out advertisements... seems like they are getting more and more common?
> We don’t know how customers that do manage to buy a scarce product feel afterwards.

I bought an instrument the other day, online. When I first saw it, it said 3 people had it in their cart. Maybe they were saving up, maybe they were waiting on a tax refund, I don't know.

I feel kinda bad I took away their chance to play it instead of me. Anticipation destroyed. If it showed names & avatars, I'd probably feel even worse. Maybe it's different for truly mass-produced stuff, where the serial numbers are in the billions.
Tizen has first class support for .NET in case you missed it.

And it isn't like they are that good with their C coding efforts.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/07/12/samsungs_tizen_no_lon...

So I am curious what the merge means in practice.
I run GetToKnow (https://gettoknowapp.com) on Elixir.

It costs me $50/mo total (app + DB) and I can easily support 20k users across 250 organizations (some of whom are paid).

I'm basically ramen profitable overnight and my overhead is incredibly low. It's essentially pure profit.

With Ruby/Rails this would be at least x4 the cost.
Yeah, I grew up in the Midwest and even there it's super common to respond to X with a personal anecdote about X.

I think it makes the conversation more personal. Anyone can say, "Oh cool! What songs have you learned?" Only _you_ (you know, the friend they chose to talk to) can say, "Oh, that's cool! My grandpa gave me a cool guitar that I've been meaning to learn to play."

I find the best approach is to sandwich a personal anecdote between two "you" statements for the people who need a prompt to carry the conversation. For example, "That's really interesting. I've also been thinking about learning guitar. How are you liking your lessons?"
My favourite people to work with are the gentle geniuses. I love to be wrong around them because I get to learn, and I love opportunities to present something useful I've done and know it will become a valuable contribution.

I avoid the other kind of person like a plague now. They ruin otherwise excellent teams. They might be fine to have a drink with or something, but in day to day work, they are sand paper.

Another thing I find is that the gentle variety tend to understand and appreciate realistic timelines. Highly competitive "nerds" tend to fight on timelines, or suppress others using them. Why wasn't that done sooner? Wait, all you did in 3 days was this? It's a terrible tool used to knock team mates down a peg on a routine basis.
But this is great right? What you just wrote? I'm confused now. Is this what you wanted me to say? This is why I point you to research books or articles. Or even follow actual politicians on what work they are doing. I'm not going to have this. I'm a software developer removed from the issue mostly.

But if you know that black people are more likely convicted than a white person(they also get longer sentences for the same crimes), then why are you asking as if you don't know. Overall, you've ended up raising more questions than answering...
In which world is preloading javascript needed to run a proprietary superset of HTML when you search for something not preferential treatment?

Ah, I guess preferential treatment by Bing makes it alright. If we forget for a moment that Google has 92% market share among search engines.
> DevOps because I was a Linux nerd since I was in my early teens

You are an exception.

In the military and certain parts of the corporate world ("enterprise" companies mostly), there is a wide-spread and systemic problem with horrendously unqualified people managing software/IT groups. E.g., Susan Mauldin for a recent example.

We can allow space for self-taught people without opening the flood gates. No one should be in charge of IT security without first developing deep technical expertise at some point in their career.
You should offer default images instead of requiring us to upload. That's the power of the spammy meme makers, visit site, type, share.
That these sanctions — which are for hacking rather than for genocide — are lax and symbolic is basically what I’m saying they need to be in order have room for things like “make sure China doesn’t invade Taiwan”.

This is why there are also significantly greater sanctions against Russia for The Crimea and The Ukraine, and the sanctions against North Korea for the nukes.

I agree that “Never again” was indeed never more than a slogan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(after_Wo...
Bitcoin used to be a currency, now it's nothing more than a speculative asset. Are "the many" being served by that?
> getting angry is just another sales tactic

That's legitimately horrifying. I've never had the misfortune of experiencing it, but now I know - if a salesman ever tries to pull that tactic on me, then instant threat to call the police.
I think it depends on context. Idle chat at the coffee machine? Fair game to inject trivia like that. Somebody who maybe is looking for support in their new hobby? Different altogether.
Some of the people concerned about room response are listening to surround-sound classical recordings. In works that involve a spatial element -- for example an orchestra in front and players that move around the hall (or are embedded within the audience), creating a 360° soundstage -- headphones just don't preserve that as well as actual speakers.