raghavtoshniwal

Unregulated exchanges might be worse for the society overall. NYSE and other centralised exchanges have alot of guard rails built to protect retail investors. For ex - a circuit breaker if the price jumps/crashes too suddenly to ease panic.

Nothing similar exists on Uniswap, it's cool for people who know what they're doing, it's terrible for everyone else.

Hard-pressed to come up with something concrete but blockchain is a way to build consensus. Mostly, it's more expensive than centralized consensus. In some cases though, it's cheaper.

For ex - Cost of consensus by the govt in a stable democracy is much lower than a failed state. Blockchain could be used there.

Maybe it's more than breaking the law. If I want to bet on something random, say, 'if it will rain tomorrow in my hometown', it's pretty hard to do without a blockchain unless I know the other party.

A prediction market could solve that, cheaply build consensus where it would be harder to do otherwise.

Browsers are cited as an example of interoperable tech in the article. While it maybe true that *anyone* can write their browser, we see that Chrome does have inordinate amount of power. Even though it's literally based on an open-source engine that people can (and have) fork to build competing browsers, there isn't a wildly competing browser market.

Maybe just enforcing interoperability won't cut it.

Nit: Afterburner is built on FPGAs, they are architecturally different from the M-series chips and GPUs.

Loved the crowd interaction video by Rahul! Would love to talk, have an interesting proposition, please email at hn@raghav.cc

> The more utility in the item, the less I care about a separate ID number associated to it

I completed agreed to the point you were making and then I got reminded of sneakers. They are supposed to be of high utility and yet 'limited edition sneakers' command a high price and are never used (in fact they lose value on being used).

I think other threads in the discussion point out the difference between the price people pay for 'owning' an artefact versus 'enjoying' an artefact. In the music case also, I can totally imagine a successful artist taking out limited NFTs on their music and their super fans buying it, trading it amongst themselves. Most people who want to 'enjoy' it won't care but I guess a case can be made for die-hard fans wanting to own it.

I might be wrong but what you pointed out is exactly why NFTs might succeed. Sure Nintendo has enough credibility to own and operate its own market, but for people who are trying to compete with Nintendo, the fact that artefacts are tradable outside the company's ecosystem and control becomes a point of differentiation.

Neither a gamer nor a miner but would love some perspective here because something about this doesn't make sense to me.

If Nvidia has the capability to make a differentiated mining product, shouldn't that be enough to get miners to go for it? Why halve the hashing rate on the "gaming" GPU artificially? If it is a supply issue, shouldn't Nvidia, as a company, try and solve for it directly (maybe it is really hard?), instead of making their products unattractive to a certain set of customers?

Haha, forgot about that. I was just learning how to code around that time, didn’t know better.

The FDA rushing the approval of vaccine that might turn out to be unsafe harms their credibility in the long run. The worst case scenario of a hastily approved vaccine is so high that it probably makes sense to bear the cost and take the health/economic hit.

Also this is the first major use of mRNA vaccine, scientists and experts were not sure how well it would work. Administering it without trials could have led to a nightmare scenario for a few individuals and anti-vaccine stance for a larger chunk of population.

Ben is probably right, the status quo should change, but I am not sure if the 'opportunity cost' calculus he makes is accurate in this case.

Once trained a GPT2 model to do text-gen on Linus’ emails. Boy there were some choice angry rants and non-sensical technical jargon that was generated

The tradeoff is to keep design complexity as low as possible while carving out sections of the chip for specialized tasks. Apple’s new M1 chip has a ‘neural processor’ that works with Tensorflow to provide a speedup. They thought it was worth the added complexity. They also have 4 low power cores for background tasks.

Alot of DSP and networking tasks are handled by the modem itself.

Software and Compiler toolchains are often quick to optimize for any improvements that a processor provides but the bottleneck generally is cost and complexity which don’t scale linearly.

I would assume that this boost up would also unlock faster inference as well. With WASM, and quicker inferences could open up new ML use cases

Just trying to think functionally here:

Netflix now has “interactive” video content (see: Bandersnatch). Isn’t a streaming video game service same as “interactive” video. If so, isn’t Apple almost saying they’d also have to approve every video on the Netflix platform?

Or am I missing something?

I too use Google news but I often wonder if I’m missing out on a perspective/views because Google News shows me news from the same news sources.

Hey,

I saw your submission minutes after I posted mine. Quite the co-incidence!

I really like what you did. I too struggled with “splitting” the screen on mobile. My current solution is a little janky.

I developed this locally with my adblocker on. I didn’t even realize ads were showing. Fixed it now :)

It would be messy for sure but there is somewhat precedence for it. WeChat operates its own AppStores and is subservient to the CCP. 'Running' your own AppStore is forbidden in the iOS terms of service but when you have the might of a billion people, some rules are okay to be broken.

Yeah alternate app stores exist but when something like this is driven from a nation stare, the Indian govt will most likely mandate inclusion of their AppStore on Android and iOS. Once it is loaded on by default, you suddenly gain 800 million strong distribution channel. It would be a no-brainer for devs to put their app on the strore. The same case could not have been made for Amazon's and Samsung's store.

I made something that does this some time back: https://tweetencryptor.netlify.app/

Recognizing to disregard input from your wrist/palm when it's resting on the iPad surface whilst one is using Apple Pencil.

Fwiw, the guy who wrote this article is ex-Uber and was involved in Policy and Strategy for Uber India. Probably has privileged access to Kalanick’s new venture.

Really thought they would phase out fusion drives in the next update. Guess not, still available in the 21”.

This is a cool idea. In a similar vein, I use Google Colab heavily to induct new students to python. Requires no setup, we can collaboratively edit and the output is instantaneous.

Maybe? But only if it ran on a tree and was powered by the sun

This is so timely! I am teaching CS to some high-schoolers and they just got introduced to Python, I want to hook them by getting them to make something that they can play around with. Could use this there :D

Somehow, it feels like, CS education is getting both easier as new low friction tools are being made available each day and getting harder because the sheer complexity and number of things to know to really understand anything at all the levels of abstractions is getting more complicated.

They could, and I might be wrong here but Apple also disallows you to mention that a cheaper version of the service is available elsewhere on the app. So the user has no idea what the actual price is or where they could avail the price. All they see is a button that unlocks an ad-free version for $2,147,483,647 (Assuming you're using a 32bit signed int).

So... a virus took down the entire conference? How on brand.

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" If this succeeds in reducing the friction for someone to submit a patch/bug fix, the number of 'eyeballs' for open-source projects would increase substantially.