skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bumped into this company some years ago that use light to perform 'random projection', which can be used to approximate matrix multiplication. Which is used a lot in the AI space (reduction of dimension etc)

How? They do the projection quite literally: with DLP projectors that project on CCD through a 'dirty' medium, for randomness. At current DLP resolutions and refresh rates, every pixel being one bit, I'll let you imagine how much data you can push through, using only 30W. The whole thing is sold as an appliance, a sort of co-processor that can do just one operation (but a really complex one)

They released their first commercial product a couple of months ago, hope it works out for them as the idea sounds pretty amazing.

edit: found their website https://lighton.ai/
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I felt sure this would mention Orson Scott Card's novelization of "The Abyss" which I thought gave much more depth for Lindsey (the engineer who designed the "Deep Core" drilling platform, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).

I'm not a fan of Card's other work (Ender's Game is a perfectly fine SF story, but didn't need a sequel let alone multiple sequels) but I thought this background really helps The Abyss much more than even the Director's Cut.

Or, if not that then B-to-the-F which is Ryan North's series about the novelization of Back to the Future, eventually published as an e-book - meta!.

But neither of them rates a mention, I guess that even if it lacks praise there was too much going on in this sub-genre to mention it all even in passing.
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> their canal monopoly

An alternative is technically possible since Israel has contiguous territory between the Mediterranean and Red Sea: https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/the-us-had-a-pla...
Is MiB/GiB binary? And, GB/MB SI? Or the other way around?
For me, it’s walking that I can do. My joints scream too loudly with any amount of running. Long cardio is excellent for obliterating sideline thoughts though. (Probably any amount of cardio, but an hour and a half walk or more really zaps the mind.)
It appears to be related to sign-in flow[1], but may not affect signing in via Google.com or other Google-hosted services directly. It's the API for "Sign in with Google", far as I can tell here.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web
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Anything curated and not subject to engagement algorithms. Every publication has a newsletter, or you can just check their websites directly once per day.
China could easily stop a US invasion of Cuba merely by putting several garrisons of soldiers in Cuba.

They probably could not stop an 'all in invasion' - of course - but that's not the point. The point would be to raise the cost significantly i.e. 'invading Cuba would mean war with China'.

There are a lot of things the US could to do raise the cost of the invasion of Taiwan, but it's hard. Every move comes with a counter move.

The US would have to coordinate with everyone else on this. They're trying to do that but it's hard.
Exactly. In real life you run the numbers and that is why we don't have UBI.
The US plan for an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs
>It shouldn't be controversial to say that on average, men are taller than women. However it is a problem to say that "since you are a woman, I infer that you must be short". The difference is (not really) subtle but the first statement can be true while the latter statement is obviously fallacious.

I agree, but the person I was speaking about specifically was the former, not the latter. They were extremely resistant to the idea of measurable biological differences. This is an intelligent, science-believing person.

I think there are a few main groups that people fall into around these kinds of subjects:

1) People who suspect that there may be differences in groups of people, but know that acknowledging them will probably lead to arguments that support sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc (because they have historically), and so they avoid acknowledging any differences that can't be explained by bias.

2) People who want there to be differences in people so that they can justify their biases against groups of people.

3) People who don't want there to be differences in people, because it doesn't align with a fair worldview that they want to be real.

4) Everyone else who just want people to be honest about potentially uncomfortable truths.
Yes, it could be done without a Secure Enclave. In which case the data would be vulnerable in the case of theft or resale without a reset, but would be protected if it were reset, as long as the storage of the old key was actually properly wiped.
I feel like you think this means munk-a is merely refusing to update past iOS 10, but there are devices that simply can't. (The ones stuck specifically on iOS 10 forever are the iPhone 5 and 5c.)
original headline: "The US had a plan in the 1960s to blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs". Apologies for omitting the decade to fit the length limit, but the other details seemed more important.
Can you please elaborate? I’m trying to avoid causing distress but I don’t see how what I’ve written is anything other than clear, neutral, and respectful (even more than usual for an Internet forum).

(PS: I don’t discuss mechanisms of depression with depressed people; reviews from friends who have recovered are generally positive, I think mainly because I am willing to put up with the emotional abuse and continue to be supportive)
Because something has not yet been done, does not mean it cannot be done.
I noticed that when I play league of legends [very competitive game]

I play way worse when I listen to music than when I turn this off

unfortunely this thing is so addictive that I struggle to not listen to anything when working

Impact of music on people is interesting topic I guess

e.g how it affects risk taking - like you know, when there's some more "spiky" "crazier" song like from Disturbed, then I'd say it increases the likehood of taking risk
Five years as a journalist, 30 years in PR and this article is, at the broad brush strokes, spot on.

At the strategy and budget levels, PR is being eaten by marketing. We also have a quality problem -- there's virtually no barrier to market entry and many clients don't know what they need. The combination means there's a lot of relatively ineffective work being done.

Practitioners, particularly on the agency side, are too invested in doing leading-edge, breakthrough work when most clients, most of the time, need consistently good-enough work that is repeatable and measurable against KPIs. It's our equivalent (well, one of our equivalents) of chasing shiny objects.

The ice floe is melting. We used to be the gatekeepers to the media gatekeepers. Then earned media lost a lot of its power, and we became content strategists and producers. Now content is becoming largely commoditized so our production of it gets edged out in favor of paying influencers and their audiences for a slice of attention. You can build a business out of that (many, many have) but it's not PR. And that makes it harder to defend as a separate need/discipline.
> Make them pay billions in damages every time somebody gets hacked because of their negligence.

The downside is companies will lock down their hardware even more out of fear of getting sued. It's utterly amazing this person managed to get custom firmware executing on the WiFi chip... stuff like Intel's or AMD's microcode is digitally signed (and iirc, also encrypted) instead of using a plain old XOR checksum, and I'd argue the world is off a lot less safe as a result.
Indeed, but also the time delta between detecting the same event at different detectors around the globe gives us directional information.
Author selects a different success benchmark, gets different results.

Casey's demonstration is specific to the claim that terminal text rendering, by itself, is "worthy of a PhD thesis", as written by a Microsoft employee. He makes no claim to Refterm being an actual terminal emulator, and he repeatedly says that it is not optimized, by which he means that he has never profiled it; it reuses Windows library code, implements a simple LRU glyph cache, and has an option to bypass conio and present a buffer passed directly through the kernel. The code is otherwise just a first pass at achieving the desired features, but it succeeds in demonstrating that a high-bandwidth terminal emulator is possible if pursued with any effort.
There is this wonderful page-by-page review of the novelization of Back to the Future:

https://btothef.tumblr.com/page/19
It can produce code snippets that were never seen by generating fragments from various sources and combining them in a new way. This makes it different from a search engine, which only returns existing items.
Your unique perspective alone is something you add. Thanks for sticking around!
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When I looked into this several years ago, the advice was to give .5% or so (on a 2 year vesting schedule) to advisors who were going to be providing value based on their expertise/networks.

I can see that this is an unpopular position here on HN, but wanted to share so it's clear that some founders do give small amounts of equity to early advisors.
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No need to push anything. Distances between objects (that are sufficiently far away from each other) just increase as if there’s "more space" inserted between them in some sense. There’s the concept of spacetime metric, a function that’s sort of a universal measuring stick for distances in the universe, and it is "shrinking" (as in there’s a parameter that varies as a function of time) so that a distance that used to be three measuring sticks long is now three point one.
And what if you have 1 tonne of HFC-23 vs. 300000 tonne of CO2e ?
Because they’re not getting a share of GitHub’s future revenues from their works or from derivations or their work.

(Why do they care so much about revenue? Open source coders and ‘starving artists’, not to mention Covid economic wreckage, the US approach to medical insurance, and the total absence of Universal Basic Income in virtually all countries permitted to access GitHub.)
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Descartes' I think therefore I am has become a cliche, but it is profound. I can chuck any questioning about whether I actually exist or not. How do I know that I exist? Well, because I am thinking.

It's at this point all I (we?) can know with probability 1, metaphysically speaking. We could just be a brain in a box, stimulated to believe we are alive in this world. But at core, we (or at least I) do exist, brain-in-a-box status notwithstanding

As for the rest, well, act as if it's all real and things will go better for you.
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> The argument in the article is that all code made by co-pilot is not infringement because there is no copyright attached.

Right; I don't see how that's even remotely a tenable argument. I think the article is trying to eat its cake and have it too.
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More detections gives us information about the population characteristics of various sized black holes and neutron stars. We have models for star and galaxy formation that these events can validate, which in turn can also tell us about conditions in the early universe.
Aren't "big" 3D circuits unfeasible due to temperature limitations, though?
direnv is our magic sauce for this.
We enforce that all devs store the current context in an environment variable (KUBECTL_CONTEXT), and define the appropriate kubectl alias to always use that variable as the current context. To do stuff in a cluster, cd into that cluster’s directory, and direnv will automatically set the correct context. I also change prompt colors based on the current context.

(This way, the worst you can do is re-apply some yaml that should’ve already been applied in that cluster anyway)

We also have a Makefile in every directory, where the default pseudo-target is the thing you want 99% of the time anyway: kustomize build | kubectl apply -f -
I hope this works in my old iPad… I’ve been noticing quite a bit of slowness these days
Columnar stores speak SQL these days, though they may map-reduce under the hood. ELT vs ETL just moves some transformation into SQL the data normally still ends up in the data warehouse.
That’s always been true of these sorts of changes. But new apps often target the latest OS, and it’s common for existing apps to target “current minus one”, so it will only take a year or two for existing maintained apps to start benefitting from this.
Take some time, rest, find something that you enjoy before you start working again. Ease back into work. Our company is hiring SWEs and is more flexible with part time stuff and remote or in office (Austin) set ups. There might be others like us as well.

I have several friends in nearly the same position as you. We are trying to build our company more flexibly to support that. Feel free to reach out if this would be a helpful setup for you. I’m honestly curious to see how many people feel like they need something different than what they are currently doing.
Sam Altman used to "predict" that it is inevitable that 80 percent permanent unemployment is coming and this is why we need a UBI. He's changed his tune a lot about the details and I have no reason to believe he's got any kind of special expertise that qualifies him to speak on this topic. It's just a pet subject of his and he's very rich, so he can get eyeballs on his ideas. And then people imagine that means he must have good ideas on the topic when it means no such thing.

There are people in the US on Social Security who are homeless. UBI doesn't solve one of the key issues in the US: The high cost of housing rooted in broken housing policies and broken city planning.
William's claim was rather tenous. The Norman Conquest barely succeeded after narrowly winning the Battle of Hastings. The English had put down a rebellion in the north in the preceeding weeks, then just prior to the Battle of Hastings Harold Godwinson defeated a viking invasion at Stamford Bridge, and in a few short weeks force marched from Northern England to Hastings to meet William. It still took the Normans all day to defeat the battered and tired English army, but the resulting slaughter of English lords left a power vacuum and England ripe for the Norman's picking.

P.S.: "New England" properly rendered in Old English would be "Níw Englaland".
I’ve got scoliosis and spondylitis. People tend to assume I’m lazy if I take a seat on public transport because I’m young.

Such things can get rather tiresome.
How are we going to cool those 3D chips?
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Ha - so cool. I love that it can be easily used to send a stream (the only thing I missed in magic-wormhole). Basically,

ls -lah | croc send

works.

Thanks for this link!
She's arguing that copyleft people are arguing for an effective extension of copyright into places IP lobbyists are currently fighting for. It's not a good framing. She's saying that we shouldn't argue for copyright to be consistent if we're against copyright - arguing that we should make a moral argument against a legal situation.

It's as if we couldn't argue against drug companies being allowed to sell heroin if we were anti-drug war and drugs would remain illegal. It's a strategy argument that leads nowhere. If the result of making machine written works also subject to copyright results in all possible songs being copyrighted by a machine, that's a good outcome. It's obviously absurd and weakens the entire concept.

We should demand consistency.

If this is fine, we might as well stop enforcing the GPL, too. It's a trick of copyright to further the cause of anti-copyright. I'm sure somebody can write an "auto-fork" that will digest GPL'd code and rearrange and rephrase it in order to spit out a clone.
Yeah, we’ll have to agree to disagree that that’s a good idea.

#3 is the crux of Ray’s power. I don’t understand why serverless is necessary. By default, I want to configure it to use my TPUs, which I control. I’m the one who creates or deletes TPUs — because I have to be! There’s no “TPU creation service” that can autoscale TPUs on demand.

Maybe there will be one day, but not today. And focusing on today will help you long term, because it’s a very real need that people actually have. It’s hard to predict what people will want, other than to cater to existing needs. It’s how every great startup got their footing: build something people want.

In that context, how could it be otherwise? When a TPU comes up, it connects to the ray cluster. That TPU cannot be shut down. I’m using it for training, for inference, for every reason I would be paying for. Interrupting those tasks isn’t something that I can “just be okay with.”

I agree that inference tasks should be able to die occasionally. But training tasks, all the time? It’s not an abstraction — you can’t pretend that the training task can run on an arbitrary TPU. It needs to run on a specific TPU, because that TPU has the model loaded.

What am I missing?
iPhone 5 is 9 years old, iPhone 5C is 8.
My iPhone SE is from 2016 and is getting iOS 15.

What device do you have from 2017 that even shipped with iOS 10?
I'm totally cool with professional licensing for software engineers, and I agree it's coming (but "the next decade" seems optimistic - I've been expecting it for 30 years).

My gas-fitter is professionally-licensed. My electrician is professionally-licensed. My accountant is professionally-licensed. They have to be. But I'd hire a developer with a stellar record over one with a professional licence, unless the post was Compliance Officer or something.

I just don't expect such a licensed "software engineer" to be doing hands-dirty software development; they'll be managing the show. Hands-dirty developers need to know stuff you don't learn on training courses.
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With interpreters it's always difficult to track resource usage. It should have full blown instrumentation w/ kernel support.
I am not sure python has it.
these devices are nearly 10 years old
It's easy to remember. The SI prefixes are always decimal, that's why people call it "the decimal system". Kilopascals, megajoules, centimetres, always powers of ten. So a megabuck is 10^6 bucks, 1 million bucks, and a gigabyte is 10^9 bytes, 1 billion bytes.

The weird power-of-two prefixes get the special weird symbol and name, because you wouldn't want those anywhere except computing.
Wasn’t at home, don’t have them in my Dropbox.
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I don't know; I had concrete plans to quickly leave the US if Trump had actually retained the presidency after losing the election. I think it would have been a smart move, and wouldn't have been possible without close attention to the news.

One of the nice things about Biden's presidency is how much less attention the news seems to merit, these days.
I don’t disagree that housing and healthcare policy are intertwined with UBI policy and implementation. An unregulated free market is unsustainable, and therefore UBI alone isn’t going to solve the welfare problem.

I would love your take, as someone who has a lot of experience with homelessness and life challenges, what you envision as impactful public policy to help set a firm quality of life floor for everyone.
> I'm curious if the use of little add on MCUs to cellphone designs like this opens up the opportunity to back door into the OS

I would say that the possibility is there - imagine a buffer overflow (or something as bad) in the driver running in the kernel.

However, getting the malicious firmware onto the MCU would be the difficult part. But I suppose even a purposefully "bad" batch of MCUs that have an extra core executing malicious code is not exactly science fiction in these times :P

> could be hard fault handler getting invoked due to either div by 0 or incorrect linkage

Interesting! I will look into this, cheers.

> Great write-up BTW - subscribe!

Thank you, much appreciated!
It doesn't matter. The undisclosed conflict of interest should eliminate it from consideration.
> Why would I want to "get by" without a package manager,

You don’t have to on MacOS.

> or "get by" without 32-bit libraries

Why would you want 32 bit libraries? 32-bit support was also ditched in popular Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat) in the same year as MacOS.

> or "get by" without a functional graphics API?

To claim there is no functional graphics API on MacOS is utterly absurd.
>Well if we are fantasizing about huge pools of capital shelling out the money necessary to get enough mining equipment for a majority hash rate, there is no reason the same pool of capital can't purchase stake at a premium

There simply isn't enough for sale. Premium - premium to what? Try to buy 10M eth after mining is gone and price is going to increase several times. Staked amount is constantly increasing and eventually I expect most of eth's supply to be staked.

Even if an attacker somehow acquires enough stake, everyone else can simply fork them out. That's not really possible in PoW - a fork from an asic PoW to a gpu PoW is possible, but it would start with negligible security, and most likely the attacker would secure enough gpus before the (asic) attack to kill the fork. Nothing can be done after a gpu/cpu PoW chain is controlled by a censoring attacker.

>rational actors will sell to the highest bidder, who may be anonymous

Unlike bitcoin, staked eth generates yield, so the principal doesn't have to be sold - ever.

>Bitcoin's value will increase when mining is more decentralized (which is heuristically determinable enough to take the risk), which will increase mining decentralization.

Not sure what was the intention of this sentence - that as bitcoin goes up, mining decentralizes? In any case, mining has infinite economies of scale so it always centralizes. The recent China ban accelerated the process, most likely in the much more dangerous direction - with majority of mining to be done in America or under American control. So far, only America sanctioned crypto addresses, and there are already some American miners that explicitly enforce them.
And what would France get in return?
Sure. I think the first words of Andre Agassi's autobiography was something like "I hate Tennis."

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