skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think I agree, if you divide assets into "money" and "other stuff" buckets then when you move something between them, "money" is created.

A new loan doesn't move assets between buckets it creates a new asset and a new liability. The asset is money, the liability is not money (nor is it negative money).

> I don't think people intend to say this and only this, when they talk about creating money. Because it's trivial.

Money creation is fairly trivial if somewhat counterintuitive, but people talk about it because it is important in its economic effects.
Ha, I'm not sure! I just write papers, the vagaries of how and why journals and conference proceedings are published the way that they are is beyond my ken. Looking back through some of my other papers it seems that there's a mix --- some styles do include a date, especially those provided by the ACM, whilst others don't, including IEEE TPDS which is where the paper above is published. Who knows?
Nice. Do you also support SharedArrayBuffers or does everything need to be serializable that is sent to/from WebWorkers?
Interesting that the diagrams mention confidence values from the previous searches, but the text gives no indication that he applied corresponding Bayesian adjustments to his model's results?
If you want something fast, note that (https://github.com/haampie/libtree-in-c) is currently faster than ldd:

libtree-in-c $ make CC=musl-gcc CFLAGS="-Os -s -static"
musl-gcc -Os -s -static -c libtree.c
musl-gcc -Os -s -static -o libtree libtree.o

libtree-in-c $ hyperfine 'ldd libLLVM.so' './libtree ./libLLVM.so'
Benchmark #1: ldd libLLVM.so
Time (mean ± σ): 6.1 ms ± 0.3 ms [User: 5.2 ms, System: 1.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 5.3 ms … 8.1 ms 348 runs

Benchmark #2: ./libtree ./libLLVM.so
Time (mean ± σ): 2.4 ms ± 0.4 ms [User: 1.2 ms, System: 1.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.7 ms … 3.4 ms 840 runs

Warning: Command took less than 5 ms to complete. Results might be inaccurate.

Summary
'./libtree ./libLLVM.so' ran
2.54 ± 0.43 times faster than 'ldd libLLVM.so'
Besides the thermodynamic advantages with conduction / convection / radiation, you can also use boiling points. Strap a pan with water to it. The pan won't heat up past 100 unless all the water has boiled off.
You still need to remove the same number of Watts, but this is potentially easier to manage.
If you take an intellectually honest argument and inject a good amount of greed - since the biggest proponents of it are all big owners of it - you're going to hear some unreasonable claims.

The flaws in most of the arguments in favor of cryptos are quite apparent. When you don't have a personal financial interest in it! Some of these arguments only continue bc people have ALOT of money tied up in its success.

More money, more legitimacy. Cause that's how finance works. The dollar is only the dollar cause people BELIEVE it's a dollar. Tech don't work like that. People have arguments based on (usually) honest intellectual and observable evidence.
Things I don’t want on the web:

- Websites asking me for permission to send me notifications

- Websites asking me to install an app to use them

What other features are you decreeing essential? I admit curiosity if my distaste is in perfect opposition.
Time in lieu.
What is the advantage of using this over iframes?

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This will take me a while to read :) but thanks for sharing
False equivalence. Lowering the number of people raped and murdered as much as possible has a positive effect. Lowering the number of people working as much as possible does not.
I never really got why people use `dig`. Its interface and output is awkward, and it seems all of its functionality can be more easily performed with `host`, which doesn't feel the need to print stuff like:

; <<>> DiG 9.16.20 <<>> -r jvns.ca
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:

just try `host goo.gl 1.1.1.1` or `host -t ns google.com` -- it's the output you'd expect without all the verbosity.
It depends on what we are talking about in regards to "big tech".

It's not clear to me that products like Facebook that are primarily driven by cultural rather than technical dominance are something that the Chinese are likely to be able to dominate in. Facebook dominates because your friends and family and hobbies and whatever are on there, doing their thing. When they stop doing that, Facebook won't dominate anymore.

Now if Han culture becomes internationally dominant as the "cool" culture which North Americans Europeans aspire to emulate (like how American culture was internationally in the post WWII era through, say, the early 90s), then all bets are off -- but I think the trend is actually going opposite to that now.

Until then, there will be social networks that dominate in China and there will be social networks that dominate in Europe and North America; because culturally (and politically, obviously) and they will rarely overlap as these are still two very distinct entities.

I think it's likely that the same argument applies to a lesser degree to the ads space, and maybe even to commerce. Something like AliExpress feels worlds apart from Amazon despite the latter become increasingly a wild west of knock-off discount Chinese products anyways.
In my opinion, neural network engines like Alpha Zero or Leela Zero do a much better job of assessing how difficult a position is to hold. They also report the evaluation in a completely different manner, win/draw/loss probability as opposed to centipawn loss.

For example, in yesterday’s game Stockfish was often giving a drawn evaluation (0.00) where Leela Chess gave a win probability of 30%+. I was posting about this during the game.

https://twitter.com/nik_king_/status/1466794534214504454?s=2...
Well, this isn’t what I was talking about but to your size point: there have been security bugs in the infrastructure which Estonia has been been aggressive in addressing, unlike DE, but that also matters in EE because they actually use the infrastructure.

When the chip IDs were rolled out in DE the Bundestag didn’t put in place any rules requiring that that banks or others be required to use the PKI (even only when offered and available) to protect and authenticate personal information. So of course the banks didn’t bother. Without any major use case, nobody else did either.

This was claimed at the time to be a way to let business lead, but really it was because business were happy not to have to provide extra privacy protection so lobbied against it.

Compare that to chips in credit cards in the 1990s: they really cared about protecting money so put in all sorts of rules to make the use mandatory.
By the way, I built something similar (?): A Rust library that mimics the API of the `futures-executor` crate, but each worker thread is a single WebWorker.

https://github.com/wngr/wasm-futures-executor
I was thinking the exact same thing recently. If you can setup and manage an infrastructure by yourself, you have pretty good advantage in term of cost.
dog is a nice modern take on dig

https://github.com/ogham/dog
It also should be immediately obvious that this is one person's story, with no information from the other side, amongst tens of thousands of employees.
Worker motivation to take advantage of new technology is extremely important. The more you pay for workers to learn a given skill, the more likely they are to learn it. No amount of extremely efficient technology can help if your employees are incompetent at using it.
I love Go for quick and dirty CLI apps. They are a bit bigger than the C app but so much friendlier to develop on. Rust is better for more complex processing, but it is also less straightforward (at least for me).
I bought some heat-shrink off Amazon once, for an electrical project. I ordered "1cm diameter". When it came, it was 2cm in diameter. I kept it as it was too cheap an item to bother returning and it would probably come in handy some time anyway.

As per your 'warning to others' notion I wrote a review that simply said "Be aware that this heat-shrink is actually 2cm diameter. Looks like someone at Amazon doesn't know the difference between diameter and radius"

Pretty light-hearted, I thought. But I got an email off Amazon saying my review had not been published as it was 'offensive' and 'blah... blah... T&C... blah... blah... no personal attacks'. Sometimes, the hyper-sensitivity of these companies is breath-taking.
Agreed. Tesla touring requires more planning than touring in an ICE car. But the car itself (and the Plugshare app) helps with the planning process. I enjoy planning; some people might not. In general I find the supercharger locations occur at about the right interval for a pee break and a leg stretch, and more superchargers are being added all the time.
This is the reason I am generally for the anti-work movement even though I am largely against the individual reasons motivating it. I think there is real negotiating power that has been unrealized by the working class and they are just starting to exercise them. But I think they should use that negotiating power to get better deals for themselves not destroy capitalism.
The CEO has been with twitter for 10 years and been CTO and actively involved at top-level decisions for quite some time. This isn't some sudden decision pulled out of a hat. Not sure why some commenters seem to have such knee-jerk reactions to this change. Most of it seems to be sensible. The CEO came up through the ranks from starting off as an individual contributor at Twitter. He probably has a good grasp for what organizational changes can help the company and it is also very likely that this has been in the works for a while.
Quite like using dog too

https://github.com/ogham/dog
Not sure most people would consider venture capital funded startups as even close to the same as the large corporate basic R&D of the past. A better 'name' might be: niche short term applied r&d.

Likewise, university "research" is not the wide open expanse that it once was either.
You can try obsidian.md
Hyperscript supports inline web worker definitions:

https://hyperscript.org/features/worker/

We tried to improve the API to this very cool feature.
Even $26 billion seems a bit high given their non-tangible moat depreciates by the day.
No, it's just that, like banking in the en of 2000's the tech sector gets way more scrutiny from the media, the public and politicians, a convenient scapegoat to blame for all the problems. It's interesting how all the same politicians stopped talking about Wall Streets and "fat cat bankers"... the new big bad wolf is now "big tech", in 10 years it will be something else...
BuT rAiLs DoEsNt ScAlE
I don’t understand why (from a technical or legal perspective) this company exists.

Their product’s user experience is strictly worse than having an HTTPS portal that lets people upload and download files. Is the value add that 99% of companies that receive signed documents are too incompetent to secure such a server?

The only other thing I can think of is that it’s the javascript “blindly click through this PDF to sign” widget.

Surely, there’s some value add behind the scenes? Right?
Hi there! I saw the free tips; does the full book use an added way besides the red/green bars to denote "do not do this" and "do this"?

Red/green with no other iconography are confusing for color-blind people.
> society starts to learn more about wizardry. Real wizards are distinguished from charlatans by their results. A few wise wizards keep their power and even extend it. Ordinary people still can’t cast spells themselves, but they know the names of the wisest wizards.

They do not know the wizards. Even the article uses Bezos as the target for the "wisest wizards" link. He is a king, not a wizzard! The wizzards are beink kept out of sight in the castles. And the royal courts issues statements that they do not exist. You merely have to use SAFE, Cloud, Containers, etc to have the same results.
Infinite scale up (direct fan-out to mass market), high margins (able to overpay for commodities), and outsourcing production work to stable businesses are all facets of the Hollywood business model that Surveillance Valley adopted. Once the concept was socially proven, then nobody gets fired for buying IBM.
I too think it would be the opposite of a socialist empowering currency. The main enabler of socialism in a non willing populace is the government forcibly extracting taxes from people who would otherwise not donate freely to that cause. To that point without some kind of change in the current status of Bitcoin (in the USA) the ability of government to track and tax Bitcoin is greatly hindered.
To be fair, I doubt you'd have got any offers for the laptop anyway. Even if eBay hadn't blocked your account. I certainly wouldn't buy a laptop from a new account with zero feedback.
I decided to do this writeup because I know how frustrating long-standing tech debt can be and that it's usually a challenge to find a common language with some stakeholders about it. I'd love to hear your experience with technical debt and how your org handles it.
We're a medical device startup using a KB/RBR system for glucose control, and our greatest feature from a traceability/regulatory perspective is the ability to produce a report for each and every decision made; why we made that decision based on what we know, and how that decision affects the output of the system. This can also be applied retroactively; so all we need to know is the version of the system employed and the sensor inputs given and we can fully replay the decision process.

This is something that, as you state, you simply cannot do with a deep learning approach. Regulators don't love black boxes, especially when it comes to human lives.

Is it highly specific and non-transferable? Yes. Did it take a decade of work to refine? Yes. But does it get the best results, even better than classical MPC/PID approaches? So far, yes. In medicine, it's results that matter, not reusability of the tech employed. Human trials are just around the corner, and we can find out with certainty if our approach gives the results we think it will.
Dig is great and DNS is hella underrated. It seems like not nearly enough folks know how to wield it. At both $lastco and $thisco people just used a mess of configuration to point to service IPs/URIs. I showed them how to set private zones and records for both A and SRV and suddenly everything is just using sane defaults.

Side note: does anyone know why dig's output is so...eye-bleeding? Why does it show so much info by default? +short should be the default. Why the ;; "comment" prefix?
Way back before the digital age when software was still an insignificant component of an overall technology spectrum, this was so long ago that it was a completely different economic landscape too.

There was a prominent recognition in major companies that for positions where a visionary ability was needed, they offered a considerable amount of compensation intentionally as "temptation" to keep the moths drawn to the flame rather than spreading out in an unforseen direction to do their own thing.

Whether that was starting a new business or going to a place like Bell Labs where you would be more likely to pursue your own strongest interests, this was all balanced out based on the need by the biggest payers for the most visible and persuadable high-performers.

This was actually a limiting factor.

Now the remaining less visible & persuadable high-performers of the same caliber are way harder to come by precisely because of the visibility issue, even though there are many more of them.

This is a vast resource that could potentially be leveraged to overwhelming benefit by an alternative paying force that has been absent from the landscape for all practical purposes.
So the shop receives an order from the scammer named Joe but gets a payment from a customer called Bob, wouldn't that raise a flag?
I deployed a Py application (Pandas, PyQT) at work. It was horribly slow on half of the Windows machines ,likely because of the antivirus but I didn't have admin rights to check that. It was impossible to make a single file exe because it took too long to decompress. I spent days trying to reduce all the unused files half-manually (because automated approaches kept failing). In the end I threw all of that out , rewrote the UI and deployed it as a web application on a server. Now the users are happy.
electron enters the chat.

Though seriously it's mind blowing how convoluted modern desktop applications have sometimes become. Would be nice to have more KISS applications instead of fancy monstrosities for our daily usage.
Why Indian-born leaders dominate tech’s top ranks
A lot of the problem lies with distance.

10km of fiber (with transcievers made for that kind of fiber and distance)... gigabits without any issues.

10km of copper pairs for *dsl? Good luck.
Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? [1]

The thread was 6 days ago, Someone read it on HN? Or did they start shorting it long before?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29363897
> No function definitions, no classes, no callbacks.

But VB had all those things.
> Lowering the number of people working as much as possible does not.

You must surely know how much of our work is centered around consumerism and the role this plays in the impending climate catastrophe?

Besides, the vast majority of jobs have an abysmal effect on the health of the worker. And don't get me started on bullshit jobs.
I agree with you, but queue the responses implying that without adtech stalkerware there is no way to pay for it.

My response to that tired theme: you don't need a mega $B valuation to pay for a simple social network for sharing baby pics with friends and family. A non-profit or a benefit corp structure would be just fine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carne

Right! The surname exists! Still distracting, I would use a pseudonym if it was me.
Point 1) I don't believe you are describing Bitcoin, maybe altcoins, NFTs, DAOs but not Bitcoin.

- wash trading: tell me who, how, and why is doing wash trading on Bitcoin? I would argue the only entities capable of moving markets with wash trading are major centralized exchanges, not whales. The Bitcoin market is too large to be meaningfully manipulated by whales via wash trading. If exchanges are wash trading, please cite evidence. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in other cryptocurrencies, just that it doesn't happen with Bitcoin.

- manipulating market: again not sure what your claim is here related to Bitcoin? Who manipulates the Bitcoin market? How do they manipulate it? For what purpose?

- pump & dump scams: again, what does this have to do with Bitcoin? Agree there is a lot of pump-n-dump activity in low-cap altcoins, just like there are pump-n-dumps in low-cap OTC stocks. For pump-n-dumps to work the market cap needs to be small enough for manipulators to manipulate. Who is capable of manipulating the $1 Trillion dollar Bitcoin market?

Point 2/3) I may be misunderstanding what you mean (please correct me). If you are saying that digital payments and remittances are not a solved problem even with Bitcoin, well today I can send Bitcoin or Bitcoin over Lightning to anyone anywhere for less than an ATM fee. I could also send stablecoins instead or convert Bitcoin to Stablecoins and back without KYC using a self-custody wallet.

Please help me understand what you mean by Point 2/3. Did I understand you comment correctly?

Disclosure: I work for a startup (www.liquality.io) that has built tech into a self-custody wallet that allows you to swap any crypto to any other without KYC or added fees. We have several competitors so this space is rea
>Firefox has great support for pwas

It doesn't and the relevant bug is marked as WONTFIX.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407202
Can ADSL survive an acoustic coupler?

To give it a fair shot, assume the driver and microphone are studio quality rather than the kind you’d find on a 1970s telephone handset. I bet it’d work pretty well.

But the real question would then be: how much of an air gap could you create and still get a connection?

Could you post to HN on an ADSL signal that’s being screamed across the length of the room you’re sitting in?
As others said, conventional EVSEs are just spiced-up power switches, so there's not much to gain from SiC. It does however open up a pathway to smaller / cheaper / more efficient residential DC fast chargers which can also enable a widespread rollout of V2G.
Infrastructure and Env vote to ban robots from operating on Toronto sidewalks
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> [...] It is like suggesting casino receipts are what make the modern world spin.

One thing is for sure: Some people inside the casino do make parts of our world actually spin.
This is just wrong (and forgive my language, but stupid). The federal minimum wage has increased by $7 since 1938. A $7 increase in 84 years. No one is saying work should be banned. People just want jobs that allow them to afford housing, health insurance, retirement, and to sustain a family, and today the US has failed to provide that except for a minority of industries.
Will a Screw spin if pressed into wood by force?
> Hardware assisted virtualization only covers the CPU in most cases. All the hardware and I/O is going to be using paravirtualized devices (virtio or similar).

Well, no. IOMMU is a thing. You can do passthrough of I/O devices is you need to.

> There is no inherent reason why that interface is going to be more secure than the syscall interface. If the goal is security, there are easier ways of hardening that without reaching for virtualization.

There is no question that running a software in a VM is safer than running it straight on the kernel. The isolation enforced is far stronger.

You could legitimately ask if it’s safer than running it inside a container. That’s a good question especially now that the orchestration surrounding containers is better.

A unikernel keeps the advantage of discarding plenty of attack vectors just by virtue of every unnecessary part of the kernel not being there however.

> we only consider VMs more secure due to how existing implementations work, not due to anything intrinsic.

It’s weird argument. We do indeed consider VMs more secure than running things directly on the kernel because the way they work intrinsically means are.

You can certainly harden systems in different way and enforce isolation though different means but VMs have the advantage of being a fairly old and well known technology with good toolings around them, especially in the entreprise world.
> > Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes were unavailable for comment.

> It sounds as if the author means to imply that that's no excuse for them to not respond.

Barthes and Eco are renown for their metatextual essays and stories. They are among the pioneers who reshaped international arts and intellectual discourse through what critics and artists call poststructuralism and postmodernism.

They were and are giants in the world of belles lettres and students and scholars would receive this line and laugh. Maybe even out loud.

No shade on you (or anyone!) for being part of the unending flux that is (Literary) Eternal September.
I copied some code into QBasic to make a fire truck siren come out of the PC speaker at that age. It was amazing. Decades later, I'm pondering Max for Live devices to do essentially the same thing, but more complex. Everything is new to someone at that age, so anything that supports what she's drawn to interest-wise is good.
She works for a sub, that's why they pay the premium, to insulate. This is sorta dumb.