skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper is an always-there, always-on, never-obsoleted, never uncharged, high-light/low-light, durable, unbreakable device with inegrated modular sharding and really, really, really shitty search features (though creative indexing can get around this somewhat).

(Some of the newer e-ink devices ... are starting to address a few of paper's strengths, particularly use under brightly-lit environments, increased durability, and whilst not never needing charging, both going long stretches on a charge and reviving quickly.)

There remain risks. Few paper-based notekeeping systems suffer from integrated keyloggers, data exfiltration, or ransomeware attacks.

What makes paper far more useful, I'm discovering several years in to a still-only-semi-organised Bullet Journal practice, is indexing.

Find a way to highlight where relevant data are kept, and note things there. The Bullet Journal itself strongly leverages, but is not limited to, time-based organisation. My strategy generally is to begin temporal content at the front of the journal, conceptual or topical content at the back, working toward the middle. (Exceptions to both rules can of course exist.) The index, which begins at the front (and can be extended to any arbitrary location within the journal, though I've found 1--2 pages more than sufficient, having allocated 4 initially) points to either specific items or waypoints (e.g., monthly spreads, possibly weekly if you want to go that way).

There seem to be two primary schools of BuJo use. One is principally concerned with aesthetic. I'm concerned with utility. My journals are brutally practical, and anything but works of art. They're useful, however. (And I hope to make them more so with time.)

Having recently acquired a larger e-ink device (Onyx BOOX), I am finding its notetaking capabilities ... surprisingly attractive. (I'd bought it strictly as an e-book / e-article reader, it does very well at that also, of course.) It's become an idea-development space. But isn't seriously challenging paper yet in other realms.
Wait, to run a node (like, just keeping track of the chain), or to mine in a way that isn’t entirely ineffectual? Because the former doesn’t seem like the proper analogy to staking.
> Our current financial system doesn't give people the ability to independently verify anything at all; it's even worse than the most centralized chains in that regard.

I'm sorry, that sounds incorrect, many people have been "verifying" things independently and sounding the alarm, but nothing happens.
Fair, but I just have them backed up to a non-encrypted USB key, offline.
Oh wow. Cell. Please also see previous dicussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956715

I vaguely remember an Indian Paper (or an author with an Indian name) that made the same claims and it got destroyed on HN. But my memory may fail me.
Good for people who can't buy these cards because of miners.
IMO means In My Opinion
I mean this question sincerely, am not trying to troll or provoke anyone, and engage only with the greatest hesitance:

Can someone please explain to me what things like the Jones & Okun list of "white supremacy characteristics" on page 5 have to do with (to quote the text) "white supremacy culture"? I was involved with leftist movements quite a bit in college and these just read like typical leftist complaints about capitalism, plus a touch of the anti-"affluenza"/consumerism movement, plus some generic things that most people probably agree are bad (when, implicitly, taken to an extreme). I don't see the connection to white supremacy, but I assume there is one and am curious what I'm missing. I started reading the text but am having trouble following it—I think they're assuming background that I don't have.

Reads more like SlateStarCodex's Moloch than anything to do with thinking one race is superior to another, really. What am I missing?

[EDIT] I've just looked around for the original Jones and Okun paper and all I can find are excerpts expanding on the list, nothing connecting it to the attitude that other races are inferior to whites. I'm having trouble finding the original on LibGen, too.
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prsYbV1TkM from Silicon Valley. I imagine the real-world experience will be pretty similar for a long time.
In upper end extreme case, using 8 HE Core instead of 8 HP Core saves you 24 to 32W. Those 32W could allow more GPU usage or some other part of system such as ISP or NPU.

At the end of the day you will still need HE Core, they just aren't as important comparing to a Battery devices.

Not to mention Marketing, Die Size cost consideration.
Then you're probably not from Iran because crypto miners have routinely sparked power outages there.

https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210203-in-ir...
I was that someone else, toured right as the other family was leaving. I decided I liked the place and told the landlord that if he was willing to have an awkward conversation with that other family tomorrow, I would sign immediately.

But yeah like moshmosh said, real estate is different. Anything where you are vying for exactly one of a thing is a different beast than whatever crap you SAAS vendor is trying to tell you.
Microsoft is a massive and highly compartmentalized company. Windows kernel developers have no reason to see Dropbox as a competitor.
Right. The line of thinking around "criminals are victims of circumstances" has always stumped me. It completely marginalizes the actual victims of crime,
"property damage is no big deal, covered by insurance". I wonder how many people advocating that line have gone through such a thing themselves
My impression from these reports is that Apple is planning to differentiate their laptops more strongly than they have been: there will be ones that place "thin and light" as a priority, and ones that place "give me more I/O, dammit" as a priority. If you want a high-performing Mac laptop that's thin and light and you don't care abort ports (hi, this is me), you can already get an M1 Air that has the same performance as the M1 MBP (and this is exactly what I did). The M1 Air is good enough that you're not really losing anything other than the perceived cachet of putting "Pro" on the nameplate. (Well, you are also losing the Touch Bar, but one can argue that's actually a net gain.)

From these reports, the next revision to the Air is going to get a bit of a redesign, colors, faster CPU, etc., but "Air" is still almost certainly going to mean the line that prioritizes being thin and light. You will still have a Mac laptop that gives you what you want. But people who do want more ports will, for the first time since Mac laptops went USB-C, also get what they want. (Or at least get closer to it.)
Search "USB-C Printer Cable" and you'll find a number of results, i.e.: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=33457
I'd more impressed if Google actively provided security updates to all those devices. Otherwise it might as well read 3 billion security holes
Sorry it took us so long! We'll do our best to win you back. <3

++dave; 1Password Founder
I suppose I mean "service" more than "machine," i.e. any system in which the owner of the other machine has a shot at getting at your stuff. I know "zero-knowledge" is possible, but, again -- why risk it?
Articles, as in "a" and "the". Slavic languages don't have them, and we Russians can never learn to use them properly. Alas. Some languages don't mandate always keeping track of whether something is "an object" or "the object", can you imagine?
What should be used instead of Hadoop DFS in 2021?
Do you see Tesla as a snakeoil company today when it comes to their batteries, drivetrain, range, reliability? I wouldn't put Nikola and Tesla in the same categories.
Tesla has one serious issue imho that they can only fix with refunds of the cost, that their auto-driving cars probably won't get there in the next 5+ years, so all the people that paid up to 10k for that will have to get some compensation.
Such an unnecessarily pessimistic comment. How do you think tech becomes affordable? It has to start somewhere and then we go from there...
That's was my point. The ability to stake shouldn't be based on an arbitrary and temporary exchange rate. What happens if USD/ETH is $0.0001? $1B? It should still work regardless of the exchange rate.

Current implementation depends on the exchange rate and creates an incentive structure towards centralization.
"Dropbox is used by many creative studios, including video and game productions. These studios’ workflows frequently use offices in different time zones to ensure continuous progress around the clock. "

Honestly I don't understand these orgs that don't go OneDrive/O365 suite. What product value does dropbox have when competing within Microsoft's own ecosystem?
With PoS one can just buy _governance_, that's all. All you need to have more influence on (PoS-based) Etherium is a huge amount of money. More power to money-bags!

So “fresh” idea :)
I thought the concurrent GC algorithms (zing/azul, g1?) avoided these stop the world events by using concurrency?
Probably just a combination of the OS properly managing memory and the hardware being “powerful” enough.
It leads in the direction. The better we get at defending against these "lesser" attacks, the better we are at defending against the bigger attacks that might happen. Also the less likely it is someone will develop those attacks in the first place because there is less incentive to learn how they work.
Vitalik, just one person, owns billions in ETH. That is the top 0.1%.
> I was sceptical because 'AI' and 'quantum' seems to be used interchangeably and fits your regular snakeoil salestalk

That was my first take - and akin to saying "quantum intelligence" which just reeks of marketing on a synergy overdrive mission.

Of course they are just using quantum hardware/software approach towards AI type problems. So for me it may of been better to say Quantum Annealed AI. But then, as a campus name, it don't have that marketing ring going for it.

One question though that will arise down the line will be ethics, with a classical computer you can drill down and understand fully every bit of decision making if needs be. With a quantum computer, not so easy at all.
Maybe possible that they create a good quantum AI system but equally at the same time it is also an evil AI system, only that they observe only the good as that is what they are looking for.

Philosophy is going to have a whole avenue of debate over this in years to come and who knows - AI psychology might be the future job we never expected to happen.
Can assistant make calls to book your haircut with a real person yet? That was hugely exciting at a google io demo about 3-4 years ago
There was an article just the other day of a coal plant that was entirely restarted for PoW coin mining. PoW systems are not proven to incentivize renewable energy R&D and investment. There's no proven link there. There's no proof that a PoW coin ban would "kill a major driving force of change for the better". Sure, a restriction on carbon output would be such a driving force, but there is no such restriction today and it is wishful thinking to believe that PoW miners are following anything like one in a market where such externalities continue to be unregulated.

It is orthogonal to the issue at hand that PoW is using far too much energy per transaction/per capita/per GDP/per most metrics you want to point to. Not using the energy in the first place is always going to be greener, no matter how much PoW systems invest in renewables and their R&D! I can't see that as "misguided". An outright ban would get immediate results versus a carbon output tax would incentivize eventual results, maybe. That's not misguided, that's just a different perspective, and a different preference on an ideal time window to address the situation versus wishful thinking and "golly gee, sure hope the market eventually figures it out someday".
They still haven't launched a lot of the Google Workspace features they announced last year. Don't hold your breath. Some of the features, loke Meet in Docs, are just the same features they announced last year just announced again.
I'm not sure this is something unique to California. Travelling around, it seems that it's more correlated to people's income level. Richer people tend to talk about themselves more, in both Asia and EU. Maybe it's because they are able to experience more given their wealth/status, thus having more topic to talk about. Or maybe they get wealthy because of that self-centric attitude.

In short, I don't think it's a California unique characteristic.
Why do people keep including this Jones and Okun list in things if they want to be taken seriously?

Saying that “individualism” and “worship of the written word” are white seems pretty fucking racist to regular people.
Is this why they're trying to stop teaching algebra in 7th grade? I saw very little about teaching math and more about "you should do this instead" or "these students won't understand your examples because of [some societal reason]".

I could also use a deeper understanding of how "showing your work is racist", that seems counterintuitive since understanding how someone is learning (or not learning) is important.

It also seems laser focused on the USA.
From what I've read, the card detects if it has been continuously mining for 30 minutes then throttles itself.
I’m not sure whether Stellar Lumens (XLM) counts as POW, POS or something else but it sure is energy efficient. It’s also the 3rd most popular cryptocurrency on Coinbase.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/nbqfey/since_co2_e...
Thanks!

It is not so much a parser generator as in interpreting parser. It is based on https://fransfaase.github.io/ParserWorkshop/Online_inter_par... which I developed earlier this year.

My idea was not to use the input as the base of the seed, but the generated BrainFuck program. The idea is that there are a multitude of BrainFuck interpreters/compilers in a multitude of programming languages that one could use verify that they are not malicious.

Also, I think it is easier to verify that a BrainFuck program is not malicious than a program in machine code. The x86 instruction set is rather large, I understand, with all its extensions. I understand that only a very restricted subset of instructions is used in the seed, but one still needs to verify this requiring to understand the x86 instruction documentation. Verifying the BrainFuck program is not easy, but it does not require the access to some external document. Besides the definition of the language, only an ASCII table, which would also be needed for x86 seed, BTW.
I'm mostly talking about governance. The biggest "users" and governance decision makers of any PoS protocol will be regulated financial institutions (e.g. Coinbase) operating on behalf of end users. In theory Joe Schmoe can be a staker from his garage, but in practice the only stakers that matter will be regulated custodians (full disclosure, I am the CEO of a regulated custodian) other than a handful of independent ETH whales (like yourself).

Yes there will be a number of custodians "competing" with each other, but they will all largely operate under the same regulatory jurisdiction (or at least cooperating jurisdictions). If a PoS currency becomes mainstream, the Federal Reserve (because regulated banks will be the largest custodians) and Dept. of Treasury will have significant influence on governance debates.

The big issue here is that governance decisions in PoW systems are split between miners (geographically distributed), custodians (largely US based) and other economic actors. In PoS systems only custodians will call the shots. That has very serious implications because custodians are regulated financial institutions with significant network effects, miners do not have this centralizing force.

Lastly, to actually become a miner in a PoS system requires you to find or create a cheap source of energy and hardware and maintain this advantage in perpetuity. This is external to the system and can be done without paying off any existing Bitcoin actor. In a PoS system you, by definition, need to pay to play - you must purchase a sufficient stake of the currency from an existing insider if you want to have a seat at the table. It's the perfect insider game. Some may argue it aligns incentives, but it also centralizes control.

These systems all have different tradeoffs. Maybe some people are ok with these tradeoffs for switching to PoS, but I'm not.
I took the opportunity to base my visual computing project for this semester on the Rust WebGPU implementation (wgpu-rs). Working with it is very nice, compared to OpenGL and Vulkan. The biggest pain point right now is WGSL because it still is a moving target, but it's already good enough to work with in my case.
The repository for my project currently lacks any info at all unfortunately: https://github.com/niklaskorz/linon/

It is a ray caster that I plan to evolve into a nonlinear ray caster where the viewing rays travel along a vector field which thus distorts the image. You can enable the nonlinear mode by setting the "linear_mode" constant in "src/compute.wgsl" to false. I also implemented hot reloading for the shaders, which made experimenting a lot easier. The project doesn't have any non-Rust dependencies, so giving it a go is as easy as "cargo run" in the repository directory.
For an idea of what I'm aiming for, see the "Visualizing Strange Worlds" paper by Eduard Gröller from 1995: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~david/Classes/Papers/Groller95.pd...

You can also drag&drop .obj models to load them, but I advise you to only use small models (500 triangles max) in linear mode and completely avoid it in nonlinear mode right now, as the performance is really bad at the moment. :)
I'm looking into acceleration structures next, so hopefully this will improve.
I wonder what % of high end users actually work on battery only. For me it's mostly a desktop that I move between home and office. And like maybe 2% of time batteries.
How can you verify that? currently everybody just listens to what he has to say, when he decided to undo the DAO hack, the original "immutable" chain just died off because Vitalik put his vote on ETH. Sincerely, I really wish he hadn't done that.

(I'm guessing vbuterin is THE vbuterin here)
Ask HN: Technology Oriented Business Banks?
I currently bank with Wells Fargo.

I am a US citizen living in Europe and unable to complete basic activities without visiting an in-person branch.

What tech enabled / oriented business bank do you use, and why do you love them?
> You would believe that everyone's backups are teetering on the edge of failure constantly.

Hum... Backups aren't normally "at the edge of failure", the procedure either works or doesn't work. One must test to ensure the procedure works and continue working after all the environment changes done today.

That is, except for proprietary formats, like Exchange. Those can fail at any time, retroactively.
With all respect (and I completely expected the downvotes to my original post) - "link in bio" is not what people consider selling on Instagram

You make selling on Instagram easy by charging $6/month. I don't think you should be ashamed of that, nor tell people they can use your website to sell via "link in bio"

I believe the winner in this unclaimed race will offer Instagram Shopping integration for free, by figuring out a way to minimize losses, while hoarding customers
It shouldn't be much of a surprise to learn that Vitalik is part of the Ethereum Foundation which controls the trademark to Ethereum as well as all of the popular social media channels (r/ethereum, @ethereum twitter account, ethereum.org domain). Ethereum is the illusion of decentralization.
Haha. This is my feeling. And using words they would never use! Max emotion, max buzzword blah.
Is this really true? I buy stuff with crypto all the time.

It's how I learned about crypto in the first place- back ~2015, I ordered legitimate, had-a-prescription medication for my father from overseas using bitcoin, as it was the only way I could get it, as the even-with-insurance price in the states was beyond our means. Wound up doing so for several years, and it was much easier than dealing with the 'normal' ways of payment. A lot of the things I order from overseas in general I pay for in crypto, simply because it's cheaper & easier than doing regular currency conversions. I'm talking about regular things, like specialty foods, or everyday items I can't find in the states. Nothing even close to grey market or sketchy. Just regular financial transactions, using crypto.

I'm sure by numbers my <$100-equivalent purchases are small potatoes, but how is that not also true for regular money? There are billions of dollars of capital sloshing around in the markets, but that doesn't make my personal-level spending not useful.
Do you think he's defending himself, or the entrepreneurs he funds, befriends and admires?
You can mine with a Raspberry Pi. It won't be profitable. But, you'll be contributing to the security of the network.
I'm speculating, but perhaps with all the YC IPOs in the past year they are now liquid billionaires, and he is thinking it through, out loud, via essays, which is how he figured out things from Lisp to startups to investing?
The Android 12 public beta is available now
A quick look at https://equitablemath.org/ shows that the quotes in the WSJ are overly selective, leaving out important context.

Take "getting the right answer".

The full statement in the Equitable Math document is: """There is a greater focus on getting the "right" answer than understanding concepts and reasoning."""

It explains: """Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict. Some math problems may have more than one right answer and some may not have a solution at all, depending on the content and the context. And when the focus is only on getting the right answer, the complexity of the mathematical concepts and reasoning may be underdeveloped, missing opportunities for deep learning."""

It instead argues that math educators should "Choose problems that have complex, competing, or multiple answers" and "Engage with true problem solving".

Finally, it comments: """Of course, most math problems have correct answers, but sometimes there can be more than one way to interpret a problem, especially word problems, leading to more than one possible right answer. And teaching math isn't just about solving specific problems. It's about helping students understand the deeper mathematical concepts so that they can apply them throughout their lives."""

Or, here's the context around "linear fashion": """Math is taught in a linear fashion and skills are taught sequentially without true understanding of prerequisite knowledge"""

with commentary: """While some mathematical skills and concepts build off each other, the forced construct of linear teaching reinforces objectivity. A prime example is how matrices is considered a precalculus standard, even though the only math skill needed as a prerequisite is arithmetic. This is highly detrimental to students because they are systematically deprived of knowledge they could access due to false constructs. Math teachers have internalized the sequences that have been predetermined by standards and textbooks, rather than sequencing learning based on (pre)requisite knowledge. In general, teachers teach math like a ladder rather than a web. """

The actual context for "show their work" is "Students are required to “show their work” in standardized, prescribed ways.". The problem is "that can center the teacher’s need to understand rather than student learning. Teachers should seek to understand individual student perspectives and focus on students showing their work in ways that help students learn how to process information."

Frankly, I think those observations and commentary are correct, and the WSJ op-ed piece was deliberately constructed to scare and anger readers without being informative.