skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Knowing who to trust is absolutely a major problem in financial networking, whether it's crypto, digital or physical.

Solving the Byzantine Generals problem doesn't help you know who to trust.

With a large enough network, it makes it extremely difficult for malicious actors to subvert the process of exchanging money.

It does nothing to solve other crucial aspects of "who do I trust with my money", such as having recourse when someone scams you into giving them money.

In fact, the technology's spread has enabled terrible abuses of trust like cryptolocker attacks, and has probably made scamming much more profitable and practical.

If the solution to those problem has even a whiff of "user error" in it, then I submit that the problem is not actually with the users (it so rarely is).
> (Almost) Nobody (really) cares about flops ...because we should really be caring about memory bandwidth

In university, I was shocked to learn in a database class that CPU costs are dwarfed by the I/O costs in the memory hierarchy. This was after spending a whole year on data structures and algorithms, where we obsessed over runtime complexity and # of operations.

It seems that the low-hanging fruit of optimization is all gone. New innovations for performance will have to happen in transporting data.
Low light is probably not an issue here, as horses don't tend to congregate indoors in low light environments.

I would take a pentaprism SLR over an EVF any day. That being said, my budget has usually been constrained to penta-mirror SLRs.
That's nothing I watched Oracle pump Oracle 6 all down route 101.

Edit: see the shareholder suits that followed. Customers were also buying bits and a promise ^h^h support and getting their assets frozen.
The app update limits collected data to 14 days. While the storage limit is only defined by the memory capacity of your smartphone running the app. But to add insult to injury, in my case it silently deleted all data except for the last 9 days. I am furious.
For perspective, if you’re not flying first class, this probably isn’t something you consider value for money.
That's a $21 annual delta at 40 hours a week, I knew retail had thin margins but sheesh.
This is a wonderful way to visualize side by side images like this.

Great work, it feels smooth and intuitive.
> Why would Twitter want to just let this all blow over? Elon did a ton of damage to the company and they have a good cause of action.

I don't think Twitter has much of a choice here. Suing Musk seems like a pretty big risk given his defense, and it doesn't even guarantee a payoff for the company. On top of that, the fallout from such a high-profile court case wouldn't be very good PR (arguably so even if Twitter wins), so the shareholders are probably in for a net loss if they fight it out in court. Plus, Elon could full-well just settle the $1B offer cancellation fee out of spite and Twitter wouldn't see a dime.

Elon definitely made a stupid and rash decision, but frankly, Twitter is an even dumber company. A bunch of bagholders trying to legally compel a multi-billionaire to buy them out doesn't make a very strong court case. I don't see this ending well for Twitter unless Elon really fumbles his defense.
You can do that while the phone is locked?
Suspending the whole thing would be suspending pretty much US News's entire remaining raison d'être at this point.
I love this. But the Carina Nebula doesn't work on Firefox for Android. It just displays the JWST image.
The paywall on Medium prompts me to subscribe to Medium (and presumably, some of the money goes to the authors). It feels like a magazine. My relationship is with Medium, not individual authors.

With Substack, I'm prompted to subscribe directly to newsletters from individual authors.

None of the authors I follow on Twitter tell me to subscribe to Mediums. A bunch of them point me towards their Substacks.
You didn't need to justify your perfectly reasonable comment. I just hijacked your comment because I have an axe to grind.
> Personal names will sometimes be translated - depending on when the person moved or decided to present as.

E.g. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_II_del_Reino_Unido
It's the wrong question to ask because a 'human observer' would see absolutely nothing. The age of the objects you are looking at is such that you are looking into the past not at something the is still there in the present, so if we were to transport you there you would not recognize the various objects in visible light at all, too much time has passed.

At this level 'distance' = 'time'.
As far as I heard from managers internally some of the big decisions, e.g office and so on have a hiring freeze at least till end of the year.
I left in 2015, as soon as it became apparent the party was over. OkCupid went downhill for a lot of reasons, but overly aggressive A/B testing wasn't one of them.
A platform isn't necessarily neutral. It can cultivate and influence the culture that that exists on it. Medium never really seemed to do that imo.
This was mind-blowing to watch as a kid: https://youtu.be/jyqS4IS7h8Y
Sometimes "giving a shit" can talk you right out of a job.

You: I'd love to work with you but I need to know X,Y,Z and we need a couple more meetings. I want to fully understand your project and your goals before committing to price.

Someone else: I can do it for $

Some people pick (thoughtful & detailed) you, and some will pick (easy and vague) someone else - it really depends on their personality.

Some business owners simply want to write a check. Others want to be intimately involved - the skill is determining which is sitting in front of you.
Rat Tales from Around the World
Lots of people replying based on what sound like personal preferences or language biases; I'm guessing the biggest reason, if this is accurate, is that no one ever asks and GP assumes no one will.
https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-1/#control-instructions%E2%9...

Those are the list of control instructions. WASM seems to be a bit of a misnomer as it is not an assembly language in the more conventional sense. It is a structured language and provides a limited goto in the form of branches (in the section I linked to) which are constrained to a particular scope.

If you compile your whole program so it fits within a single function, then yes you can use this to do universal tail call elimination. Otherwise you are restricted to doing TCE only on auto-recursive functions and maybe mutually recursive functions if you have a single entry point (of the set of functions) and decide to optimize by moving all of them into one function.

Otherwise, function calls are performed using one of the two call instructions which (presently) implement a behavior more like conventional call stack/stack frames. This proposal would add a second pair of call instructions that a compiler can emit which the WASM runtime would then optimize (by not generating new stack frames).
Well first of all there is tons of research being done right now into linear type systems, which have the potential to statically verify a whole bunch of things that Rusts borrow checking still struggles with. It's a very hot field of CS research atm.

I also think that you discount the amount of advancement that has been done in the development of pauseless GC. It's a shame that many of these are only available on the JVM (and sometimes only at a steep price), but I have no doubt the main ideas will eventually get adopted by other languages.

But really there are so many unexplored niches. AFAIK no current architecture has hardware support for read/write barriers, having that would make pauseless GC much more feasible. Zig has been experimenting with letting people use custom memory allocators, but there are many more avenues there that have not been explored. Why not have a language feature for "this value lives outside GC management" similar to Haskells compact regions but more powerful? Nim has some cool ideas about mixing reference counting for most values and a more general GC for cycle breaking. Mixing GC and non-GC values is also still a seriously underexplored field IMO.
IMDB ratings, and even revenue from movies.

Pixar used to work on one movie at a time, and each one that came out was technologically ground breaking[1], a huge media event, and an instant classic beloved by adults and children.

Now days you have https://www.imdb.com/list/ls020738923/

Some of their movies are good, some are great, some aren't good, but now days they are willing to make cash grab sequels.

[1] Siggraph during Pixar release years turned into "what ground breaking tech did Pixar invent this time"
The elongated double lensed galaxy to the right of centre shows lots of point sources. These look like globular clusters or maybe satellite galaxies (maybe these are the same thing in the early universe?).
more like bureaucrats (and their families and friends) isnt getting their self-worth of mooching off of the taxpayers; people, not so much.
That seems reasonable. Tail call elimination, limited to within a realm, still seems pretty useful.
Many business class PCs shipping with Pro versions of Windows do not have bitlocker enabled by default. We have a few hundred laptops and desktops in the validation lab I work in and very few of them shipped with bitlocker enabled.
The mass exodus from MS Outlook and desktop email clients to webmail with cloud-based virus scanning has removed the greatest source of suffering in the corporate world: Attachments.
The big difference is that Substack puts its writers front and center, while Medium focuses on itself. People read Substack content every day without even realizing that the company exists. Authors can build their own brands and gather a dedicated following without too much interference.
The spikes are caused by diffraction of light around the struts supporting the secondary mirror. Hubble has 4 supports for the secondary mirror. JWST has 3 support for the secondary mirror, which because...physics (I don't know I'm not an optics guy)...manifests as 6 diffraction lines.

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

EDIT: It may be caused by both the diffraction spikes from the supports struts and the shape of the mirror and aperture. I'm not really sure. The JWST images also seem to have two additional small spikes that look more like the diffraction pattern from a single strut, which could also be a support strut for a stop further down the optics chain.
But in this case, those problems need to be disclosed upfront. Google should have a big banner upon signup that says "this is a fully automated service and you have no recourse if the automation goes wrong", to warn people against relying on them for anything critical.
VMware's acquisition by EMC went well for most of the employees (at least during the initial years). For all practical purposes, EMC left VMware alone.
Youtube, the product, maybe makes more money. However, Youtube, the community, was much better initially, which I suppose can be expected with most communities as they grow.

Bad actors creep in, which creates new rules, which negatively impacts the whole, which causes resentment, which causes more bad actors, which lead to more rules, and before you know it, review-girls don't seem so bad when your feed lands on terrorist-mickeymouse and the syringe babies.
No, it's not PR operation, and no, Sarah Jessica Parker does not have anything of interest to to say about the matter.

Squirrels are obviously very different from, and much smarter than rats. Their appearance and grooming are a reflection of this deeper fact, not simply a gimmick or an accident.

What a silly article.
That paragraph has specific names and references so I can verify what is being said. You're just offering bare contrary claims and drama.

> Where do I even start?

Start with a claim you think is wrong, and explain how it is wrong with enough information that I don't have to trust you.
Regulations that prevent force or fraud or infringing on other peoples' rights are perfectly valid in libertarianism. It's a proper function of government.
The opposite.

GPUs became more general purpose. Old, vector processors from the 1980s served as inspiration. Even in 90s commercials its obvious that the GPU / SIMD-compute similarities were all over the 3dfx cards.

In the 00s, GPUs became flexible enough to execute arbitrary code for vector-effects and pixel-effects. Truly general purpose, arbitrary code, albeit in the SIMD methodology.

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Today, your Direct2D windowing code in Windows is largely running on the GPU, and has been migrated away from the CPU. In fact, your video decoders (Youtube) and video games (shaders) are all GPU code.

GPUs have proven themselves to be a general purpose processor, albeit with a strange SIMD-model of compute rather than the traditional Von Neumann design.

We're in a cycle where more-and-more code is moving away from CPUs into GPUs, and permanently staying in GPU space. This is the opposite effect of the cycle of reincarnation (CPUs may have gotten faster, but GPUs have become not only faster at a higher rate, but also more general purpose and generic allowing for more general code to be run on them).

Code successfully ported over (ex: Tensorflow), may never return back to CPU-side. SIMD-compute is just superior underlying model for a large set of applications.
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too little, too late. Medium sat on its hands while Substack ate its lunch. its not a question of technology, but organizational willpower.
wait, i have a 55MB pull request encompassing 12,872 files. And it’s all good.
True that. I use it incorrectly with non-technical folk as they may understand what a REST API is, but when I say "it's more like an RPC interface" their eyes glaze over.
Elon hurt himself by waiving his right to any due diligence. Any time he tweets he sees a ton of spam accounts replying to him. Why didn't he ask for this information before agreeing to the initial terms?
Swimming is extremely calorie intensive compared to exercise in the air :)
Because you have a right to view an article on medium?
What I mean is that this game is not what comes to mind when I think of the word "roguelike," but perhaps that's just me. During the pre-release and early release of this game, it also felt like nearly every game was touting itself as a roguelike, thus the definition appears to have expanded.

To me, it's more like a card game. Because it is.
That's because the possibility of an acquisition is still being priced in. If Twitter announced tomorrow that they were letting Musk off the hook it would take a much greater dive.
> So is it fundamental or not?

Obviously a Turing-complete system can simulate any other Turing-complete system. For example you could write an emulation of any system you like in WASM, and in the emulator you could have tail call optimization. Thus from context it should be apparent that we're talking about efficient implementations.
I think about this question a lot, because although I learned to program after college, I had a false start during one of my college summers. I tried to follow the intro JavaScript section of Codecademy (this would have been ~2011) on my own, and I fell off the learning wagon.

In retrospect, I think the main problem was motivation, in multiple ways. It was during a period of "I don't really know what to do, so maybe I'll try to learn to program, or maybe learn a little Korean, or what if I got into...", where I was exploring broadly, but without clear goals or much practice learning on my own. At the time, I didn't even know what I wanted to major in! Because there wasn't much real interest backing the initial exploration, I backed out when I ran into some resistance and it required a little more effort, and I instead moved on to the next thing (spoiler alert: I also didn't learn Korean). I wasn't very good at putting in the work it takes to learn hard things, and I hadn't had a lot of practice studying, though I somehow passed my freshman year classes without good study skills.

I think that starting with the broad, amorphous goal of "learn to program" didn't include tangible goals that I think would have helped motivate 19-year old me, like building an actual website, writing a useful app, or making a basic game. As another comment says, multiplying numbers for the sake of multiplying numbers wasn’t enough. Coupled with the aversion to putting in the work, I don't think there was enough to motivate me to keep going.

When people ask me about learning to code, I try to think of ways that they can leverage their interests — maybe if you love cooking, you can learn enough to build a very basic cooking app. You'll run into some tough spots, and having that inspiration can help you get through them, hopefully until you're well practiced in getting through those tough spots. Better yet, work through it with other people and get through them together.

When learning to program later, a large part of the motivation was to make a career shift, and it was much easier to direct my energy and focus, aided by a little more maturity and practice learning as well. There was nothing quite like fielding customer support calls to help motivate me to study after work, and I stuck with it much better.

The joke is truly on me, because I now really enjoy both programming and learning.
I'm convinced we are receiving "Wobbly Photons"

Meaning that no matter waht, when we speak of gravitational lenses, we could, usting JWST account for the "wobble" of a photon, nased on the accurate knowledge of where a body was, via measuring through multiples of JSWT observations... (ideally through actually multiple JWSTs, in differnt locations)

The idea being that if we can triangulate a more precice location between earth [A] and galaxy [N] - set of all galaxies/bodies/whatever,

We may be able to calculate the influence of gravity lens upon phont differentials based on when they came from and how far...

Ultimately making adjustments to the output of an image \based on super deep-field focus which is effectively selecting to the phtons of interest... and we can basically "carbon date" the accuracy of an image with a higher resolution?
This is an evergreen story.

The actors change, but it's the same play over and over again. Roughly once every four years. People with addiction problems and their influencer-enablers find "crypto" and go absolutely apeshit over it. Even after the inevitable crash, those who lose everything are mainly concerned with how to make it back.
Maybe you're right. I'm curious as to what situations would make it advantageous, though.
I have both in my neighborhood. Squirrels live in the trees, prance around my yard, are very passive and bury nuts. The rats live in the trash heap that my shut-in neighbor keeps in her garage and property, carry disease and are quite aggressive. They may be similar in biology but not in behavior or diet.
Linkedin and Github acquisition by Microsoft.

Github and Linkedin both have their own culture, perks, and the companies are run independently. Infact, Linkedin pays better than Microsoft and are overall happier.
> Officially, the Queen's English says this is pronounced "drawing". But most Brits feel compelled to insert an R, "drawRing".

Am British, literally no one I know personally puts an extra R in when pronouncing drawing. I have heard it said that way before but you certainly couldn’t say that “most” Brits do it.
Yeah, LHR immigration has some intense questioning. I have been to a lot of countries, and they leave the impression as most invasive. (The rest of Europe is very pleasant. Hong Kong was my favorite; I felt like they gave 0 fucks about who comes into their territory. I've also been yelled at in Japan because I filled out some form in blue ink instead of black ink. The immigration agent gave me a long lecture about how "I know you can read Japanese because you had a student visa, what part of black ink didn't you understand?" I said I didn't have a black pen, and they didn't have any around. That seemed to be good enough of an answer. I guess the strategy is to rile people up so they say something dumb, but I guess I had nothing to hide except my taste in pens. And I suppose they want to test that I'm who I say I am; I should be able to answer that question in Japanese if I am who my passport says I am, though gotta admit this was about 10 years after that and I was pretty rusty! The mind games are pretty transparent, though tedious after an 18 hour flight.)

US immigration is also very invasive, but I have Global Entry now and haven't spoken to immigration in years. Love it. (Customs, yeah they'll still ask you questions. Immigration questions upon arrival to the US always annoy me because I feel like I have a right to exist in my country of birth and citizenship. If I have the wrong answer to some question, where are they going to deport me to? The US? But, I don't feel like I have any right to bring in goods from abroad without paying taxes, so if people ask me those kinds of questions, it doesn't bother me.)
This is what happens when we stray beyond the true path: 6502.
It's not clear to me how "growth mindset" equates to "having an open mind".
I have Airs, which are definitely weaker, but light enough that I don’t mind.

Have considered its a tastier looking target for thieves, but esp in Asia they seem to have no idea what it is at all.
"oh, I have to get up from my table, carry my laptop over to your fridge and attempt to type in the password without dropping anything?"

(I have a horrible short term memory and struggle with short phrases)
>large retail client who had a lot of turn-over and was looking for ways to "stabilize" hiring

>It kept employees from getting a second job that they might dare prioritize over their current job.

I mean, clearly it fucking didn't.
and if a neighbor 6 year old daughter decides to retrieve a ball from under your rear wheel you will hear a loud pop
One problem may be that your long and heavy zoom/telephoto lens (plus adapter) may be extremely unbalanced attached to the light and compact body of a mirrorless camera.
The Java language has improved a lot since Oracle took over. It started to languish at Sun, like they didn't want to put any effort into it.
Name a laptop model and we'll check. But do check the other thread too, I think you'd be surprised. I was surprised too -- it is practically guaranteed that on a laptop with a TPM and modern standby, Bitlocker will be enabled by default. In fact, a Windows install will default to on, ignoring the OEM setting.
I had never heard of the Wheel Harp before.

It appears to be a sort of polyphonic hurdy-gurdy: one tuned string per key, and depressing the key engages that string with the wheel-bow. The wheel appears powered by electricity, and the foot pedals appear to either control the pressure or speed of the wheel-bow.

In contrast, the hurdy-gurdy's (and nyckelharpa's) keys shorten its melody string to increase the pitch, like fretting a violin or guitar. The wheel is manually cranked, and the rhythm of the cranking is used to adjust tone and engage the buzzing of the trompette. The HG is monophonic in that you can't dynamically play chords, though you can engage multiple melody strings simultaneously (usually octaves or fifths).
Substack fills an explicitly free-speech need (for now) in an age where the backbone/service providers of the internet's conveniently forgotten why that's important.

You get a lot more interesting writers on board than Medium in that case. People who stick to the safe areas of thought don't make history (for good or ill).
Umm.. not compression artifacts. GIF uses lossless LZW. Maybe color palette artifacts since GIFs are usually palettized and not true color (although with a tortured use of local color tables they can even be true color)
As someone generally hesitant about regulation, I'm down with this. Markets can only function well when this kind of information is freely available.