skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't put kickstarter odds THAT low... I've backed dozens of campaigns now and so far had exactly one that has totally failed to deliver (the company went flat out bust after getting royally screwed by all of their supply chain - Next Thing Co, the people that made the C.H.I.P and pocketCHIP - in themselves successful KS projects) and one that is in forever development - Star Citizen, but at least they drop regular alpha versions...
For everything else I have alt least gotten my product eventually. though I do pick my backs very carefully. I admit there is a lot of obvous vapourware though, but it's easily balanced out by genuine people trying to get a product off the ground, and are usually smaller in scope with much more realistic targets. They don't usually make headlines though ;)
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As someone who's full name is unique on earth, this is nearly impossible for me.
Worth mentioning (more regard the Robotaxis)

"As Horace Dediu often reminds us, every vehicle has a job to do, and Tesla's do the job of providing high-end, high-performance, environmentally-friendly status symbols to tech executives quite well. But that's a very different job with very different needs than the prosaic business of commodity mobility that taxis provide, whether currently in human driven form or in the future as robotaxis. "

from https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27725/tesla-fleet-company-stru...
Death of the Author is a bullshit idea. The only person who knows what the writer's intention was when writing a piece of literature is the author him/herself. Any alternative interpretation is fanfiction at best.
I still don't quite understand how it's economical for all these huge companies to hire engineers in SV/SFBA for 2-3x as much as in other western markets, and probably more like 10x of non-western markets when the internet to a large extent mitigates a lot of the down- and upsides of geography.

By that I don't necessarily mean everything should be outsourced to India - even Vancouver (same language, same timezone, similar cultural background) has drastically lower developer wages than SFBA & plenty of talent.
> I guess for people fluent in number theory it's probably somehow obvious

It's "obvious" to the people who are aware of how RSA works, and know that Rivest based his derivation of the puzzle on the properties on which RSA encryption also depends.

Note, Rivest is one of Rivest–Shamir–Adleman: "The acronym RSA is made of the initial letters of the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who first publicly described the algorithm in 1978."

See also:

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

In shortest and simplest, the "hardest" part is just that the numbers which have to be processed are huge and that nobody knows an algorithm which would avoid doing a lot of the calculations to factor such huge numbers. Then for Rivest as he created the "puzzle" the goal was just how to construct one special huge number which encrypts the message. Constructing all that is then by a clever design faster than solving. Those who try to solve the puzzle don't have the exact construction numbers Rives used, just the result which has to be attacked by "brute force" calculations. The intermediate results during that process aren't predictable faster than simply calculating them, but every next depends on the previous one.

But not everything related to RSA is mathematically rigorously proved, as you can see in the Wikipedia article.
In Marx's writings, true Communism is true freedom. His goal was for people "to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic".

The system in China is close to the New Economic Policy instituted by Lenin in 1921 (later abolished by Stalin), which he referred to as "State Capitalism". Lenin believed this would be the ultimate form of capitalism, which would then lead to Socialism and finally true Communism. Stalin and Mao attempted more direct routes.

Interestingly, there has been a lot of trouble in recent years caused by Marxist students in China. They are taught classical Marxism in university political science classes at the direction of the Party, complete with the principles of Class Struggle, solidarity with manual workers, etc. Then when they actually go out and campaign for better working conditions for cleaning staff, hold protests against dangerous working conditions for labourers, etc, the Party sends the Police in and locks them all up.
OT but readers of this comment section are likely to know.. why is a LaTeX distribution 5.8GB in size[0]? That feels far too large for a tool that's been around for decades and primarily deals with text.

[0] https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-18...
Halo around captions is a problem with any LCD TV even those with FALD with the exception of the high Sony ones (Z9D/Z9F) that use enough zones to minimize it.

Pretty much for captions heavy content you need an OLED.
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> For example, we now know that the Internet has a corrupting influence on civil society that's stronger than its capacity to uplift it.

You believe the Internet is a net negative for society? I think it's easily one of the greatest inventions in all of history.
I live 10500 miles from where I grew up ... so maybe I do.
> Read the paper. It tells you why they think it's better than that.

OK, I read the paper.

This is the entire discussion of the inherent difficulty of repeated squaring:

> More importantly, repeated squaring seems to be an "intrinsically sequential" process. We know of no obvious way to parallelize it to any large degree. (A small amount of parallelization may be possible within each squaring.) Having many computers is no better than having one. (But having one fast computer is better than one slow one.) The degree of variation in how long it might take to solve the puzzle depends on the variation in the speed of single computers, and not on one's total budget.

I see two problems here:

(1) This is a purely conclusory argument, suggesting that a better response would have been a simple "no, there's no proof".

(2) This does not even attempt to address the question I posed, which was whether it is necessary to compute the intermediate results in order to compute the final result.

In fact, we know that the intermediate results are not necessary to compute the final result, because that is how the message gets enciphered in the first place. It can be done by factoring the modulus, and obviously there is no proof that that is difficult to do.

But beyond that, it also isn't immediately obvious that it must necessarily be impossible to compute the final result directly by means that don't require factoring the modulus. It is possible that somewhere in the literature on Blum Blum Shub this question has been analyzed, but that goes a bit beyond your suggestion to "read the paper".

So, I'm stumped. Tell me what you saw in the paper that you thought would answer my question?
I've been working remotely (for companies that are not all 100% remote) for some time now and other than the occasional communication problems, there is simply no downside to it (for me). I am much more focused, I do better work, in a better health mentally and physically (I can exercise since I can organize my time), I don't waste time on commute.

The people I work with are interested in results and that's what I deliver. Other than that, they are not demanding that I organize my time in a certain way, or that I change the hours when I work, or anything like that. Of course, when I need to work together with my colleagues on a certain problem, I make sure that I adapt to their timetable.

They just care about results. And I think that makes the most sense. If one day I run a company, that's what I would care about: can this guy deliver? Yes or no?

Of course, one should be a decent human being - that goes without saying.

The whole "friends from work" thing doesn't make sense to me. I go to work to work, not find friends there. That seems to be unpopular opinion, but seriously, why do we mix those things up?
> hoping that people in Africa will stay poor so they cannot

That’s a pretty far-fetched allegation which does not contribute anything to the discussion, but instead makes it seem more black/white or rather good/bad.
NO debug overs ssh, why I still use CircleCI.
It is clearbit: the chat widget on zendrive is drift, per their site: https://www.drift.com/intel/

I'm surprised at Clearbit's accuracy. It knows my (very small) business which is really impressive to me
It has free markets, great universities, rule of law,
safety, democracy, and most importantly an acceptance
of a certain kind of risk taking. This combination is
surprisingly hard to recreate.

These all exist to a large extent in a lot of major (and not so major!) western cities. Not that unique.
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I think it's all too easy to take the positive aspects for granted.
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Honestly, I think this should be quite doable. These guys [1] built a pump based on a stepper motor and an arduino, in order to replace expensive peristaltic laboratory pumps.

[1] https://www.instructables.com/id/Open-Source-Peristaltic-Pum...
Replace a PLCC chip with a socket “ghetto style”
> the data would look nearly flat with a 0-100% range — and for what reason?

To show honestly that the change is barely noticeable.

An even more useful chart would have a y-axis from -50% to 50%. Then readers could see clearly that revenues were still growing, just not quite as fast as last period and well above any risk of contraction.
Let me work in a warehouse. What do you think how long does my initial training will take to be a picker at an amazon warehouse?

I will tell you: between 2 days and 6 weeks.

"shrinking its warehouse training time from a conventional six weeks to as little as two days."

How long do you think i have to train your wife to setup a kubernetes cluster, make sure it is secure, backuped and works efficient? Then when she knows that, how to build images, and write code in java, go, bash, ansible etc.?

If the answer is longer than 6 weeks, you see the difference. And don't get me wrong, i have seen people who had a 3 year education and start as juniors and miss a lot for years until they get it all right.
>“You were a complete ghost online.”, they said

Okay, so what? Is it a blogger or promoter position? Otherwise, why should you have any visible online presence?

The whole thing is about one guy who decided to make a personal website and how he made it, that's fine. But why call it "You should have a personal website" without any reasoning/examples for others? I don't get it.
Why is that a bad idea? If you can pass the interview stages and the only difference is perception then I say go for it.
The problem is that browsers choose not to implement high-quality justification algorithms like the Knuth-Plass algorithm that Tex uses because it is computationally intensive. That’s why justified text looks like garbage on the web.

There are some experimental JavaScript implementations, but without browser support reflowing high-quality justified text is a non-starter on the web.
Actually.. ;) Fitzgerald’s insane wife bullied him into alcoholism. Hemingway was more of a rum drinker and the main bully of the writers of the time was Gertrude Stein.

But your point still stands. Hemingway thought not highly of literary critics.

The fun thing about Hemingway was his persona was 50% real and 50% self-cultivated myth, except we can’t really tell which half was which. As far as his style, that was a direct result of his journalism training at the Kansas City Star. https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/arts-culture/articl...
I'm really disappointed that the author didn't post the answers. Putting my SAT Reading hat on, my guess would be G/B, possibly C?/G/B/F.
Honestly don't know what you're on about. Grandfathered-in property taxes definitely entrench wealth more than "everyone pays current rate" or "everyone pays past rate".

I'm not trying to explain housing prices here. I'm talking about the innate behaviour of Prop 13.
IIRC most of mainland Europe formats numbers this way ('.' for thousand separator ',' for decimal separator)

Strangely there doesn't seem to be a 'falsehoods programmers believe about numbers' post, but if there were, this would definitely feature :)
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I just refused. I had good enough grades that I could afford to actively sabotage those lessons with passive aggressive responses that let my teacher know very well by the end of it what I thought of the whole thing.

I found it quite interesting that I was the only person in that class who regularly both read and wrote poems, and at the same time the one who had the sharpest reaction to being forced to analyse them in ways I felt actively destroyed my enjoyment of those poems.

One of the highlights of my school years was during this torture, when I got a chance to read a poem I'd written during one of those lessons aloud, with the intent that we would analyse it.

The teacher walked right into it, not yet aware how much I detested it.

My poem was a scathing criticism of tearing poems apart to invent meanings, unsupported by facts, that the author likely never intended, just barely civil enough to be read out in school.

My teacher got red and mumbled something I think nobody in class heard over the cheering and clapping.

I don't think I ever want to perform any of my poems again - it's a hard reaction to beat.

My teacher and I reached a cautious detente - he didn't punish my grade as much as he could have for that and other demonstrations, and I contained it and mostly played along. But the following year we did have to do a major report that included a literary analysis of a novel, and I told him flat out that I knew I could afford to come out a full grade lower and still not drop a grade for my final grade of the year, and that I just would ignore substantial parts of the requirements.

I did all of the 'mechanical' analysis of vocabulary and identifying allegories and the like, but then flat out refused to speculate on what the text meant. That was purely demonstrative - I certainly could have talked about my subjective interpretation, but the exercise in pretending there was an objective interpretation just made me upset.

It did not just affect my enjoyment of reading, but also my enjoyment of writing - the thought of my writing even potentially being treated like that was profoundly depressing.

To this day I think these kinds of lessons are destructive and do massive damage to students enjoyment of literature.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I am remembering that all of my daughter's vaccinations had to be current before she started school in CA in 1975.
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Let's call spade a spade: if a literary critic is creating an interpretation that goes beyond what the author intended to convey, they're pulling meaning out of their ass. It's completely arbitrary and has no validity; at best it boils down to psychoanalyzing the author (and the critic is not qualified for that), trying to guess what the author "truly wanted" to say without realizing they want it to say. A simple experiment: imagine a blind test in which the critic doesn't know whether the work was produced by a human or a GAN. If they can give similar statements about "what the author meant", then they're talking garbage.

Trying to put the work in context of other works from the same genre or historical period? Sure, that's useful. Telling you what the author "truly meant", even though the author never said that? That's just entertainment. Let's label it as such explicitly, instead of trying to tell people it's a form of "deeper truth".
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"but it’s not often applied so directly"

I beg to differ. While quantum mechanics is linear algebra with a lot of tensor structure. The language of deep learning is linear algebra (plus non-linearities). Often in machine learning one use lin alg pretty much directly: linear regression, SVD, etc.
Somehow related (pretty good in my opinion): https://www.troyhunt.com/the-ghost-who-codes-how-anonymity-i...
Wondering the same things !

Also, it's not really "employed" if you are still a freelancer / business contractor. You can leave when you feel like you want to leave, so the employer has the risk of missing people to finish each projects...
> ...dismissing an entire academic field because you had a poor experience as a child is self-aggrandizement.

Can we please try to be more polite than this? Accusing someone of self-aggrandizement doesn't usually lead to a friendly and interesting conversation.
She may have dodged a bullet - some GATE programs are rubbish, others excellent and it's hard to know what you'll get.
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>My point is, a lot of good error handling is built at the lowest level, close to the point of failure.

This is very true for some types of errors and for some types of programs but not true at all for others, which is why this debate has been going on and on for decades.

An extremely common example for the latter is programs that touch a DBMS or file system on every other line. You don't want to see error handling code for "database is gone" or "local disk is gone" events all over the place.

The information required to handle these errors just doesn't exist in the local context. So the only reasonable question is how to let those errors bubble up to some central location where you can handle them or decide to abort.

In my opinion there are good arguments for and against both exceptions and error returns. But if error returns are used, then there must be some reasonably ergonomic way to do it, i.e not what Go does right now.
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Entire cities are historic in Europe. You don't need glass and steel towers to cope with growth. Just build more densely populated suburbs and have good public transport infrastructure to connect people.
I'm sorry, I don't understand this comment. You want to solve captcha in order to be served text ads? Why would you want to do that?
I go to pow-wows annually. It's not all beautiful. There's still lots of racism, drug use and alcoholism. Racism is especially bad, I have friends that we're basically ostracized from their tribes for having non native fathers. The annual pow-wows sometimes feel like one big D.A.R.E. lecture and it's really sad because they talk about how every other generation gets caught up in addiction and grandparents are always raising grandkids.

My mother intentionally never got us properly set up for tribal membership because she didn't want us anywhere near the negative aspects of the culture. (I'm also not even sure if I could qualify despite tracing my ancestry back to the baker rolls.) And she didn't even grow up on the rez, just in Appalachia. It's been a blessing and a curse.
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He means that if you don't like Nintendo's restrictive policies, you're more than welcome to play the vast majority of the games on the other consoles/platforms they're available on.
I sometimes wonder if the culture in Europe is different. I don't know a single person working in SWE who has an active GitHub presents or a personal blog. Of course, GitHub wasn't a thing during my college time (subversion was king, not sure if GitHub was available). But even now, of all the things you can do with your free time, why would you choose more coding or writing about coding? The people who are that passionate about coding have to be quite rare.

Personally, I tried to do side projects several times. But after a while I realized, that I really don't care and that it is not necessary for my employment. SWE is just a job, it's enjoyable work, but still nothing but work. I do enough at home to remain employable and to be decent at my job. There is no point doing any more.
I can't compete with them because the state protects them. Liberate me from the tyranny of IP law and I will save you.
It's just a language argument, so there's no "right", but to me "side-hustle" implies money-making or at least career-building, as differentiated from, say, a "hobby" or a "pastime" which mostly costs money (or for some people, maybe includes enough transactional stuff to break even).

And then "side-hustles" became fashionable, so people talk about getting into coffee, or beer, or fixies, or ukulele orchestras, or scuba diving - as their "side-hustle".

I "play with" coffee making, electronics, drones, motorcycles, electric bicycles - none of them are a "side-hustle".
Not disagreeing at all. Just spelling out the unfortunate direction that hiring tools are heading towards.
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“I’m a native speaker of Greek but I failed this grammar test”
So the real problem was really the proprietary nature of the protocol - both in the sense that it wasn't properly documented, and in the sense that the author tried to use legal means to keep it secret.

But GitHub doesn't have this problem.
You dodged a bullet with that one!
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The first aspect you mention (handing out a link so people can look it up) is like an online business card that's "free form" in nature. That makes sense if you are a creative professional and the website is a showcase of your creative ability.

But otherwise: If you apply for an job, say in finance, you'll be asked for a resume, because people can't be bothered dealing with information that's extraneous to what goes into a resume.

If you apply for a job as a coder, you'll be asked for a link to a github repo, because people can't be bothered with looking at anything other than your code.

If you apply for a research role, you'll be asked for a link to where your publications can be found, maybe on researchgate, because people can't be bothered with looking at anything other than your peer-reviewed publications.

Do you see the pattern here? It's another example of the balance between information and attention shifting towards too-much-information/too-little-attention. -- And personal webpages aren't good at dealing with the too-little-attention part of the equation, so there is rarely a demand for giving people information about yourself in the "free form" style.

The second aspect you mention: If you produce some webpage content, you can always decide whether you want to see it as a diary and not put it up online, or whether you want to see it as something that should be out in the public, and do put it up online. It seems to me like a contradiction to prefer putting it online, but then not to care about whether it actually gets seen or not. (Especially considering that one gets into a lot of liability everytime one puts something up online).
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That doesn't disagree with what I said. The majority is still in the East (the mean is East of the geographic center), and you don't want to optimize for average latency anyway. You'll get the best median latency with two datacenters by putting one on the mid-Atlantic coast (~180M people East of the Mississippi) and one on the mid-Pacific coast (another 50M in Pacific Coast states). That means the latency for ~2/3 of the population is way lower, and the max latency is still about the same as putting them in the center of the country.
Have you ever browsed the web using Tor? Cloudfare hits you with a captcha for every other site, it gets annoying very fast. You don't want this experience for the whole Internet.
I have a more minor issue, in that my mum once mistook a SciFi/horror film director for me, because of his website. I also share a name with a Victorian era author. As I’m now writing a novel, I’m going to have to publish with a pen name.