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by vlmutolo 6y ago
I look forward to seeing these markets settle. I really like that Filecoin actually seems to be pegged to a real-world asset, i.e. storage capabilities.
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
I'm glad most of the network seems to be rolling their own solutions. Plus, what I said really only applies to lazy miners. It's probably not that hard to set up a thin compatibility layer between B2 and Filecoin, but as another c
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. And I did notice that Filecoin's committed storage was even larger than Backblaze's reported capacity, which was super impressive, even if it doesn't represent actual files yet. Congrats on the release!
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
I agree that there are lots of problems and too much complexity in blockchain-based systems. But it's important to note that there is a real problem that Filecoin is trying to solve. Censorship absolutely exists in file storage. Just
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
My best guess: Filecoin is hovering at around $65 USD / FIL [0]. The rolling 24-hr reward for storage on the Filecoin network is currently about 0.25 FIL / TB, or $16.25 / TB. Backblaze says that they manage around $36 /
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
I think this is pretty cool. The basic idea is that Filecoin builds on top of the existing IPFS storage layer to add an incentive to provide storage to the global network. If you're someone who follows cryptocurrencies, the first quest
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
One concrete advantage RISCV has is its variable-length SIMD instruction set. The assembly instructions used for SIMD in RISCV can all operate on data sizes that are various powers of 2. All using the same instructions. You could even call
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Part of it could be due to using Rust as the implementation language. Rust has good, cross-platform abstractions over things like threads and processes. The language tends to make it harder to shoot yourself in the foot. Would definitely li
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“Posit” extension to RISC-V ISA is a possible alternative to floating point(posithub.org)
3 points by vlmutolo 6y ago|1 comments
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
I was reading through the RISC-V ISA spec―specifically the section on floats―and thought "I wonder if RISC-V and its brand-new ISA are a good time to introduce that 'posit' thing I read about a couple years ago." Then I
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
It’s really funny that you asked this because I clicked on the RISC-V “V” extension spec on GitHub, and literally the only thing I read was “you can’t context switch to another CPU with different vector lengths”. EDIT: Non-layman wording &g
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Don’t know if they have an Android app, but ClimaCell seems decent and they have a good API.
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Western Digital is shipping SiFive RISCV controllers in their hand drives now. And I believe Samsung just announced that they’ve begun integrating with SiFive hardware in some way. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15228&#
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
this theme is hilarious and infuriating EDIT: You can comment out the yellow background image in the style editor and it becomes something reasonable
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Alright, somebody tell me why this isn't as awesome as it looks and why I shouldn't immediately wipe my current install and use this instead.
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Rust rejects this because it isn’t necessarily safe. The Rust deque grows when it needs to, reallocating and copying all the old elements over to the new location, and then freeing the old location. If push_back triggers this reallocation,
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
It’s not like E2EE is required for Matrix (or Element). It’s just on my default, which is great.
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
It’s funny when you’ve been thinking for months about how speech recognition could really benefit from integrating models of the human vocal tract… and then you read this
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
I have a feeling that the right solution isn’t a new programming language, but a library with a good API in an existing and proven language. Maybe. A quantum chip is a weird compilation target.
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I’m pretty sure I need the highlighting. Looking at black and white code is just so much harder for me.
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
I’m comfortable reading code on a screen. I just thought it would be interesting to try printing out a whole library as a packet to get a good understanding of it as a first pass. You’re right that you lose a lot of tooling on paper. But yo
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
This… might actually work. Thanks!
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Ask HN: How do you print code?
7 points by vlmutolo 6y ago|16 comments
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Are we supposed to assume that the only inputs for this model are the prompts shown? Is GPT-3 already trained on shells somehow?
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Sorry, one more note because I'm currently trying to write a parser for this. You should specify very specifically what characters are ignored in the beginnings and ends of lines. I would strongly suggest using UTF-8 values to specify
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
Another question: if an item has multiple annotations, should the annotations be considered ordered? Or is ordering defined to be non-meaningful? I don’t know if there’s an obvious answer to this, but some applications might benefit from se
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by vlmutolo 6y ago
This looks really interesting. For a “casual coder”, I think you did a good job designing the spec for a new markup language. That’s not easy. One weird edge case I’m thinking about: what happens if you have two lines, A and B, and A is ind
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by vlmutolo 7y ago
Sometimes I think “wouldn’t it be fun to try to write an emulator?”. And then I read things like this. When you’re up against things like emulating hardware to just throw away leading bits so that it will mask the mistakes of the original g
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by vlmutolo 7y ago
I immediately thought of xkcd's post on Rolle's Theorem. https://xkcd.com/2042/