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811.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> This has nothing to do with low-rank approximation. Literal-minded people are an endless source of joy.
812.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Make it illegal to sell an IoT device with closed-source firmware, with punitive damages in case of breach that get distributed directly to the buyers.
813.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Tried simulating this circuit in LTSpice and failed miserably I have one somewhere, let me dig it out (it of course won't produce true randomness since it's a sim, but close enough to understand how the circuit works, which h
814.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Worse : the quality pf the HW RNG will degrade steadily over time. There are much better and stabler ways to generate noise with analog circuits . FPGA based inverting gates ring oscillator, which when sampled with a proper crystal-ba
815.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Nice hallucination ... could it maybe used as a source of inspiration for new research avenues?
816.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/E8U8m
817.
Grayscale scores big court win against SEC over Bitcoin ETF(ft.com)
3 points by ur-whale 3y ago|1 comments
818.
by ur-whale 3y ago
California is simply coasting on it's momentum. It was one of the best place on earth for a very long time. They WERE doing something right. Way back when. It's been over since the 90's. It is now an absolute shithole, but:
819.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Economic darwinism at its best.
820.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Capital however is predominately held via inherited wealth and its controllers want rentier incomes with low risk You just described the capital markets in the entire western Europe, not just the brits.
821.
by ur-whale 3y ago
>The remaining issue is the durability of the catalyst. And its cost. Or more generally, where the catalyst sits in the supply chain (how easy it is to produce at scale, can it be recycled, is it expensive, what is the waste management f
822.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Very interesting topic, completely useless article content. Come to think of it, that's the definition of clickbait.
823.
by ur-whale 3y ago
From the article's conclusion: > This suggests that while money is perfectly inheritable, exceptional talent is not. Unless I'm missing something, it also suggests that the rich get richer because they are more talented in the
824.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorfish-col...
825.
by ur-whale 3y ago
From the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_c... looks like Mongolia and the Caribbean are optimal places to organize conferences.
826.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> moving programs between implementations was a bit of a crapshoot. You just summarized the historical reason why LISP and its various incarnations (Scheme among others) failed. So many different patois, no way to move code from one to t
827.
by ur-whale 3y ago
More importantly, how easy is this to deploy in a real world production situation?
828.
by ur-whale 3y ago
>Firefox with uBO is more than 100% faster than Chromium based browsers. uBO doesn't properly work on Chromium based browsers due to their limitations THIS.
829.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> do you want Google to control "the internet"? Also: do you care at all about Google knowing every single thing you do on the internet?
830.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> I don't trust anyone other than Google with my passwords. At this stage in their corporate life-cycle, where greed and complete and utter lack of care towards user happiness reigns supreme, trusting google with anything is a rat
831.
by ur-whale 3y ago
While that's great news, in recent years, AFAIC, the decision to use firefox over Chrome has been entirely unrelated to performance issues. In my book, Chrome is now officially in the same doghouse IE6 was confined to back in the days:
832.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Looks like ML is getting better every day at solving the generalized inverse problem.
833.
by ur-whale 3y ago
This article is really well-written and has an excellent description of differential manifolds. Worth a read just for that part (not implying that the rest isn't good as well). [Edit]: and the rest is really good as well. In particul
834.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person Holier-than-thou much?
835.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> When seat belt laws drew fire Why the past tense? They still are a violation of personal freedom today.
836.
by ur-whale 3y ago
DNS is the _one_ thing that needs to be based on bitcoin type tech so as to forever escape any attempt at centralized control. Also, being able as an end user to easily choose where you get your name resolution from is essential. The whol
837.
by ur-whale 3y ago
:wq Huge, huge loss.
838.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Every once in a while, HN publishes good news. This is one of them.
839.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> The name of they game is taking money off the table and the best way to do that is to deliver value quickly and then move to the next table. I pity the fool who hired you. Or will hire you, for that matter.
840.
by ur-whale 3y ago
And now for a slightly different take on the much-discussed room temp. superconductors: on the off chance that this LK-99 stuff is actually going to be a thing, how should that influence my investment portfolio over the course of the next

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