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by sxp 6y ago
They got hit with a $65M SEC settlement for this last December: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinhood_(company)#SEC_Probe_... This is a clear case of "if you're not paying for the product, you are the produ
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by sxp 6y ago
If you don't have an understanding of signed distance fields, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk is an amazing demo of their power. There are more videos about the fundamentals of SDFs at https://ww
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SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research (4/2020)(yurideigin.medium.com)
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by sxp 6y ago
I was hoping these would be functional models. Since you can probably cram an Esp32 or Pi Zero into these cases and run an emulator at native speed, you can create semi-functional replicas of old computers: https://3dprint.com&#x
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by sxp 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs is an interview with SiFive's Chris Lattner. RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends and we need another option to increase perf/watt and
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by sxp 6y ago
Is there a trusted broker that can be used to short Bitcoin? It's unclear to me if BTC will work in the long run, but it would be nice if all the people claiming it's going to crash would put their money where their mouth is. It&#
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by sxp 6y ago
The workflow for modern scientific research always seems so amateurish from the perspective of basic software development. > We set up a video meeting, and decided that Susanne would go through simulations, and I would go through my old
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by sxp 6y ago
https://thisurldoesnotexist.com/ I don't know what I expected.
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by sxp 6y ago
You can read it online at http://www.pbr-book.org/
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by sxp 6y ago
This was a great online encyclopedia before Wikipedia was created.
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by sxp 6y ago
He has closed captioning on all his videos to help viewers.
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by sxp 6y ago
This should read "successful Coup d'eta". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rebellions_in_the_Unit... lists other rebellions.
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by sxp 6y ago
California law has special protections that help people who create a startup in their garage in the evenings while working at a company in the daytime: https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/div
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by sxp 6y ago
If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the abili
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by sxp 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/ has many more examples if you're a fan of FUIs.
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The First Real Palmtop(hackaday.com)
3 points by sxp 6y ago|0 comments
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We Built the GitHub Globe(github.blog)
1 points by sxp 6y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 6y ago
Thanks for that link. Do you know if the results are posted anywhere? https://shakti.com/license.php says "Customer shall not... distribute ... any report regarding the performance of the Software benchmarks..." w
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by sxp 6y ago
That shows kdb is faster than BigQuery, Spark & other similar systems. But it doesn't compare K to C.
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by sxp 6y ago
> ”K programs routinely outperform hand-coded C. This is theoretically impossible. K compiles into C. Every k program has a C equivalent that runs exactly as fast. Yet it is true in practice. Why? Because it is easier to see your error
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by sxp 6y ago
Very nice. I'm a big fan of these types of "perpetual motion" computers. The project reminds me of https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish which was a solar cell + LCD system that showed
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by sxp 6y ago
If the site uses good CSS & SVG graphics, it would still be possible to get nice layouts and high res graphics without bloat.
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by sxp 6y ago
What site achieves 10ms? Even HN is 70ms for me when I disable caching. And that's ignoring the HTTPS handshake.
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by sxp 6y ago
It would be better to evaluate the sites based on the size of non-image resources. E.g, load the site but discard all image files when computing the size so only text, css, js, etc are counted. Then add the images in separately. That would
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by sxp 6y ago
Spoiler alert: https://medium.com/@googleyasheck/i-didnt-get-hired-here-s-w... > Last week I received a rejection email from the recruiter, and at first, I thought it was a mistake, and laughed it off. I checked in
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by sxp 6y ago
Note that "fast" is a relative term in this case. E.g, "On average, these particles reached Uranus and Neptune 38 and 46 years later, respectively, with the fastest reaching Neptune in under a decade." It's more acc
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by sxp 6y ago
https://kframework.org/ has high level details. It says "K is a rewrite-based executable semantic framework in which programming languages, type systems and formal analysis tools can be defined using configurations, co
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by sxp 6y ago
Feed conversion ratio is the wrong metric since you're forgetting about the energy required to grow the feed and transport it. The proper metric would be Joules in per gram of chicken out. Since the lab grown chicken doesn't need
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There’s Something Super Weird About Netflix Anime(wired.com)
2 points by sxp 6y ago|1 comments
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by sxp 6y ago
When I was hired by Google in 2010, I was sent physical papers to sign and return. I distinctly remember this because Google mailedthe papers to my old address from my first application rather than my 2010 address so I had to drive to my fa

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