skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find a benchmark for chacha20 as a PRNG (I've only found benchmarks for salsa20...). Why don't you try the code from [1] and see how it compares to your chacha20 random number generator?
If only there were world simulations where economic crashes have much lighter consequences, where economists could literally run A/B tests of their theories.

Of course, for those to be possible you would need a vast connection infrastructure spanning the globe, and many millions of people willing to participate (perhaps because the world simulations are clothed in cultural common places and so are disguised as "fun"), and something of value that they are willing to trade in earnest. Then you could run all sorts of fun economic experiments there and prove theories via A/B tests.

I wonder if the idea will catch on. I hope it's not held back by a perception that those world simulations are not serious enough for real science to be done.
Regarding 2:

>> Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men ... It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.

This is beautiful in its simplicity and still has a piece of truth. But a more elaborate modern take would be probably that we also have finite resources. I do believe for instance that the earth surface is spherical, although I cann't immediately come up with an argument to prove this. I have not personally traveled around the world in a boat or launched satellites.

It seems that there is fundamentally no choice but to trust some people or traditions of thought on some things and then somehow to decide when to start doubting. Which is why fake news is a problem, for instance.
This would be much more enlightening if broken down by county or voting precinct instead. States like California have very disparate economies county to county.
Why? Many of Commodore’s later models weren’t.
> Because open-source is good at cutting through the bullshit, it also makes it an equalizer.

That's one heck of a premise.
If he can prove he published it, then he should file his prior art with the patent office. In fact, if he notifies Google of his prior art then Google is obligated to tell the patent office about it.
> This works. Don't do it unless you really have to (and if you do, you probably want to use a bytecode interpreter instead).

Like, oh, Woz's "Sweet 16".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

"The SWEET16 interpreter itself is located from $F689 to $F7FC in the Integer BASIC ROM." I.e. 371 bytes of code.
I've never been asked about any education in developer interviews, only experience.

Obviously YMMV, but after a couple years of experience, employers simply stop caring about education level.
Okay, so I'm going to charge for my development time - how exactly am I going to divide that up among the customers, many of which don't exist yet, without over-charging anyone and how are you going to make sure I don't do so in a way that doesn't "illegally institute artificial scarcity" ?

The issue here is that there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of how markets work. Toro could choose to cut production of their lawnmowers by half and double the price, and this would cause "artificial scarcity". However, it would also be perfectly legal and downright stupid of Toro because the competitive lawnmower market would punish them dearly for it.
The debug code (up down up down left left right right B+A start) looks really similar to the Konami code (up up down down left right left right B A start). It's like the debugging equivalent to "don't forget to drink your ovaltine".
Yeah, it would work great and incentivize all the right things, but you wouldn't need anywhere NEAR that. Given that this would apply to individuals and companies (all forms of abstraction and consolidation), have it be 1 (one) percent.

Then if you're doing complicated finances to get all you can out of three different entities, you pay 3 percent wealth tax. And if you have basically nothing, you don't have any of these entities or holding companies so you pay just your personal one percent wealth tax.

Getting the corporate shield from personal liability would be well worth double dipping the one percent.
No, the point of this new feature is to add safety where you want it. That's not the same as mandatory safety. You can use the safe semantics throughout your codebase while retaining the option of direct ("unsafe") dereferencing wherever you prefer not to pay the costs of the safety checks. That's a basic requirement of how any new feature should work in a performance-oriented language.

C++ is and always has been about giving the programmer tools and leaving the decision up to the programmer. If you want a language that does the choosing for you, just use something else.
Products are scarce. Data isn't.

What if everyone had a Star Trek replicator? Would they still pay for products according to their value? That's what a computer acts like.
I suspect one factor is that the many British people trust in the secret ballot and the old democratic system of voting to change things. So, as long as they can vote secretly, and vote in the people they want, the system will correct itself and any bad choice by a government can be corrected.
Not to mention, it assumes a priori that double taxation is bad.

Double taxation has consequences, which may be bad or good in different situations, but isn’t itself bad or good. Hell, I’m now getting double taxed, through the adjustment to the SALT deductions.
Yes I understand security concerns thus you are forced to verify yourself via your retina and thumbprints.
Perhaps because it can be error-prone to keep attributions together with the thing requiring attribution.

This is certainly an issue with things like photos and Creative Commons. Anyone who uses CC-BY-SA photos in presentations knows very well that, as photos get reused and mixed in different presentations, it's very easy to end up dropping a credit somewhere. I know I try hard not to do so, but I'm sure I still miss things from time to time.
If anything, more money to chip makers means more incentive to build better chips. Gaming will benefit from these advances.
> Jumping ship is a knee jerk reaction to news that hasn't impacted the platform at all yet.

People are jumping ship not only because of what MSFT may do, but because of what MSFT has done in the past. Its an issue of reputation.
Just publishing prior art, in a way that proves when you did it, is sufficient. It can still be a problem if you're not aware your idea is being patented, so the patent office doesn't find your prior art, but that's not an issue here.

There are also services where you can register your prior art, which say the USPTO uses them when evaluating claims; I don't know how useful they are in practice.
I’m not sure I agree.

We recently had a magic the gathering old cards discussion internally. People were showing off their collections, many of which were in the mid five digits price range (full beta power etc).

People keep those things in bank vaults. If they play for fun they just use proxies. The odd time they go to a real tournament they take out the cards and use them.

To me the desire to collect these things doesn’t take away anything. It is still a game, but it is also something to collect and enjoy just owning something rare for some, and that rare thing happens to also have other utility.

The point of a thing can be multifaceted, and collection is as valid as any other point is, to me at least.
> It seems to have been driven by the needs of the compiler and the gaps that needed to be filled for the static analyzer. Those seem to have been super-charged instead of catering to app developer's actual needs: efficient, hassle free, productive (iOS) App development.

This. Even then Swift (the last I really looked like v2) was full of special one offs and smacked of design by committee.

It would’ve been much more interesting if they’d worked on making an updated Objective C language. Maybe even break C superset constraint and add in some new syntax. It’s even more sad that ObjC message passing can support distributed systems.

Probably time to move back to Linux. Too bad GNUStep never took off. Or Etoile (?).
So has been Cocoa with Gnustep for more than 20 years. And it's completely useless. Nobody does Objective-C in Linux for anything serious.
The term for that is memoization, for googling purposes.
It would be competitively priced if everyone started charging for their software and the market filled back up with participants. The concept of free software has decimated the software industry by entrenching existing players and allowing them to exist unchallenged, so of course it has resulted in higher prices from the remaining companies.
Or challenged before the patent is issued. The USPTO encourages this; fees for notifying them of prior art are much lower before issuance.
So if you buy an architecture license to design your own core and you want to use AMBA in your design, you have to pay extra? I find that very surprising, but having never worked for an architecture licensee, I don’t have any information to contradict it.

Can you share a sense of how expensive the bus license is relative to the architecture license?
Nope. "Enlightenment" in German is "Aufklärung", which is not cognate with the German for light ("Licht").
Still absolutely trivial for a state level actor to bypass, aka: the exact people you really don't want creating fake news that looks government endorsed.
alas, we cannot.

apologies for the slow response - I hadn't noticed you replied via thread until now!
Actual government-endorsed would never be fake, of course.
Could it really be that hard? They’ve had at least a few years heads up and this feels like something that could be accomplished relatively quickly with 5-10 10x engineers. As a high profile project that shouldn’t have difficulty finding the talent.
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No reason to imagine, just look at what the soviet states got up to and adjust for modern data theory.

Been rewatching Person of Interest lately and kind of think that's Homeland Security's wet dream...
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277018
Prior art is a legal defense. Patents are lawsuit prevention. Even with prior art it's cheaper to just patent.
You can click "Newest" at the top of the forum to see threads by creation date.

I'm planning to rework the nav bar. It's not as easy as simply adding a link, as there are numerous links people want faster access to, not just one. I need to design a navigation system that's scalable and responsive to accommodate what I know will be an ever-growing list. There are also a great many other features and bugs I spend time on that people have been requesting for months, not just navigation, and imo navigation is by far the easiest to work around oneself for anyone seriously inconvenienced at the moment.

I share plans for IH on the forum sometimes. I should do it more often for sure — the monthly thread is a great idea. And of course people in the community are free to make threads with requests/questions, and to send me DMs and emails, which I respond to. However, I'll probably never have a public feature roadmap with date estimates.
I'm going to give kudos to people who, trapped unexpectedly underground by flood waters, with limited food, for three days managed not to completely freak out and just kept doing the original exploration they set out to do.
> Okay, so I'm going to charge for my development time - how exactly am I going to divide that up among the customers, many of which don't exist yet, without over-charging anyone and how are you going to make sure I don't do so in a way that doesn't "illegally institute artificial scarcity" ?

It's not my job to invent business models for other people, but all Kickstarter-type funded software is a good example of one possible way. Another is maintaining and updating a gaming server and charging for access to it, like World of Warcraft does.

> The issue here is that there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of how markets work. Toro could choose to cut production of their lawnmowers by half and double the price, and this would cause "artificial scarcity". However, it would also be perfectly legal and downright stupid of Toro because the competitive lawnmower market would punish them dearly for it.

If you had a device to copy lawnmowers, but the lawnmower industry fought back to make copying lawnmowers illegal, then you'd have a working comparison.
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"It might sound like a story from a parallel universe – but it’s true. The Bullet Cluster isn’t the incontrovertible evidence for particle dark matter that you have been told it is. It’s possible to explain the Bullet Cluster with models of modified gravity. And it’s difficult to explain it with particle dark matter"

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-bullet-cluster...
Usually included in the grab-bag term “Intellectual property” is trademarks, which as far as I know is mostly benign and exists to protect consumers from being deceived with fake products.
If you believe in this digital ID concept, go ahead and post your full legal name and a sha256 hash of some biometric data to this post.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/977209817012977665?lang=...
It comes down to whether this thing you're making for fun is profit or for pleasure (of course it can be both in some cases for some people, see last paragraph).

If you have a day job and need an escape, then don't bother with making it robust, polished and feature complete - just have fun doing it regardless of what the world may think of it, only thing that matters is what you think and what you get out of it.

If you don't have a day job and your next project is going to be your source of income, then I think my original statement applies.

What many do is turn the fun side project into a day job by focusing all their attention on it once they see potential in it and then start polishing, making it robust and feature complete.
Yeah, this is why I didn't want to try to make it out to be political despite calling out Republicans, as I do think the false dichotomy of Republican vs Democrat is an attempt to make politics something that the average American [insert spectator sport here] enthusiast can get behind in a good vs evil paradigm and distract from the weird stuff their doing. (Like President Obama signing the Farmer Assurance Provision, otherwise known as the "Monsanto Protection Act" into law while everyone was distracted with the Supreme Court decision in CA on gay-marriage)

And I did mention 2012's NDAA as a big part of the problem, that was all President Obama. He said he needed the power but swore to not use it. To which the logical response was, "Yeah, great, but then why fight for the dystopian clause in the first place and also, what if the person after you is a complete nutter?" Then we got Trump.

Both sides have also engaged in illegal warfare that as you put it, we have all been complicit with. The movement towards a surveillance state seems like an act of war against our own citizens. So no argument here, whether it is the system or the politicians who are corrupted, something is definitely amiss.
Sure. But it’s untrue that someone can simply file a patent for an existing invention and effectively steal it from the inventor. Filing the patent can minimize legal headaches, though.

(To the extent that a bad actor can “steal” an invention, FTF vs FTI is irrelevant.)
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Yes, and software products are the sum total of all of the effort put into developing, advertising, maintaining, and supporting them. The fact that they are distributed as data is an inconsequential fact that obscures what they actually represent, and that is very much a human achievement no different from painting a picture or building a couch. There are tooling costs and all sorts of ongoing fixed costs, just like any other business.

As for Star Trek: when that day comes, we'll deal with it then.
You act like self-interest is black and white. Oracle persues profit at any expense, often via lawsuits. Google uses patents as a defense mechanism against other companies. Both are self-interest, but very different degrees.
'capital investment creates jobs' is a completely outdated concept that will never, ever return to validity.

Why look at it in isolation?

Here we comparing taking a job and collecting a paycheck vs investing capital.

Investing capital is more likely to create or eliminate jobs which makes economy efficient than taking a simple job.
Yes, it's called 'defensive publishing'.
Such approach is called arguments a priori.

Descartes. He can conceive non-existence of material world, but cannot conceive non-existence of self, therefore his consciousness doesn't belong to the physical realm.

Chalmers. He can conceive non-existence of his own consciousness, while physical world stays the same, therefore consciousness doesn't supervene on physical properties and physicalism is false.

R. Brown. [0] He argues that it is equally possible to conceive non-existence of one's own non-physical consciousness, while physical and non-physical parts of the world stay exactly the same. Therefore a priory arguments can't be a basis for deciding the truth of physicalism or dualism.

Dennett thinks that what we perceive as ourselves and the world around us are illusions and do not deserve the title of "hard problem". And so on.

[0] https://philpapers.org/archive/BRODTA.pdf
Don't see any info on the pricing.
Nice read but the use of latent risk to explain his choices (both in tech stack and career) could just as easily (if not more appropriately) be explained through opportunity costs and trade offs.
Its annoying to me that they basically are just copying the interface that google maps SDK has. I would have hoped for something more declarative and easier to use from a framework like react/vue/elm etc.
Wouldn't you just use something from Google? They have better mapping data, at least or so I thought...
Try to pay for a mortgage with donations.
To put it more concisely: Everybody wants to commoditize their complements.
I'd highly encourage you to listen to this lexicon valley podcast, I am a bit skeptical on mandarin or cantonese or one of the other dialects of chinese taking over globally.

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2018/0...
The problem with open source is, for some reason, the developers feel no sense of obligation to the end users or the people who donate to them. MacOS devs do and will go out of their way to make sure their software is not just usable, but a sheer pleasure to use in every way possible. Yes, there are exceptions (I'm looking at you, Apple, with your Xcode and your Finder) but for the most part that's just the way things are in the MacOS app ecosystem.

Open source, on the other hand, is like trying to shave with a razor blade with no handle. It's a hard sell to get people to donate to projects that they know are going to cut them at some point.
How Dare You Worry About Microsoft Aquiring GitHub?
There is no such thing as a "chinese" language. Your statement is akin to saying "You'd better start learning european then".

China is a region with a far greater linguistic diversity than europe.
I hear you. But then wouldn’t advocating for more humane working conditions simply be a part of that progression via capitalism which you allude to?
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Not really; seccomp(2) is for _specific_ system calls, pledge(2) is for more broad functionalities.
Ask HN: Does HN allow account deletions (under GDPR or otherwise)?
With the GDPR here, the 'right to be forgotten', and the repeated FB privacy flare-ups: will HN ever allow comment and account deletions?
I use fast RNGs for kernel projections, FHT-accelerated JL transforms, and data generation for numerical experiments. I don’t need cryptographic security for these purposes.
> Renters endured longer commutes than homeowners in San Francisco, Detroit, and Cleveland.

I'm surprised there's working homeowners in San Francisco.
That's not what I'm saying, and I don't think I'm spreading any falsehoods about free software licenses here.

Building a business is about distribution as well as product. My product is pretty good, but my distribution, compared to a large player with an existing user base, is woeful. If I licensed under GPL I would be giving explicit legal permission to any big player (who was open source) to take my product for free, and compete with me solely on distribution.

Licensing my product in the above way wouldn't be good for me financially, and as a result would decrease my likelihood of working full time on Dependabot. Worse still, it would disproportionally decrease my returns from working on the product, as opposed to distribution.

Thanks to copyright law we don't need to hide our codebases in order to charge for our work. That's a great thing, and there should be acceptance of code that is developed in public but without a permissive license. It's a perfectly rational decision, and creators shouldn't be put under pressure to give their development work away for free instead.