skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Identity theft" just means that a bank or other creditor failed to authenticate the identity of someone they incorrectly gave money to. Why on Earth should I insure against that?
It's really not about languages. Your code has to be perfect or trivial for the language to matter.

If it's easier for you to write better algorithms in Python than in C++, than your code will probably be faster while written in Python. Because better algorithms will easily get you further than 10x in terms of performance.
People pull incredibly dumb stuff on alcohol all the time. No one cares, no warning labels "don't do alcohol when you're prone to being an aggressive douchebag" on alcohol, nothing.

Basic drug education in schools would prevent many of these issues. Stuff like "what are the effects/risks of various popular drugs", "always have someone sober as a tripsitter", "call an ambulance when someone overdoses, there are Good Samaritan laws"... but no, schools worldwide rather teach/preach abstinence and kids end up fucked, because from where should they know if their parents are not 60s hippie kids?
That's insane. In Kenya, PrEP is offered free of charge in all public hospitals while in private hospitals, brand name drugs will set you back about $35, while generic equivalents cost about $4.
The bigger cause for the more recent (accelerated) drop is IMO not the 5p fee, but the fact that many shops simply stopped offering the thin "single-use" plastic bags altogether!

Still my praise goes to Whole Foods, the only shop (that I know) that offers paper bags.
Oh, like John Wick's "ballistic" suit coat?
Unlike code style, speed limits are not a matter of taste.
Indeed, there are many factors to consider here. In a sense that is what makes discussions like this interesting!

I suspect that in some respects that we already optimize for this as an industry, we might have application logic in python, but the database is presumably written in a systems programming language.
Their effects are largely a result of what you're trying to get out of them, and how earnestly you pursue those ends. People who want those things, and mean it, tend more often to find them, in my own experience.
Fascinating project. It is the first time I've seen proof-of-work combined with DAG and real world engineering details such as PulseToken, oracle nodes, varient on S/KEY one-time password scheme, etc.

> adamierymenko 478 commits 403,913 ++ 148,611 --

Impressive productivity.. Worried about the Sybil attack. The documentation uses the "foolproof" wording, but the overlay might not be attack-resilient and creating a million fake identities would be sufficient to dominate the system. Even a loose connection to the main DAG might be sufficient to hurt LF.

> Oracle nodes document low reputation records in commentary records. When a node sees a commentary record it extracts this information and caches it internally in an indexed table.

That could be an attack vector. Broadcasting negative information can often be exploited in my experience. Slandering attack with a 100 Mbps VPS might cripple the network. Could this be altered into positive re-enforcement loop?

> Casual users can choose to trust nodes that are generally trusted.

How will central server "lf.zerotier.com" handle copyright claims by Hollywood (people will try to upload also large files)? (disclaimer, creator of Tribler, we're designing systems like this within our university lab for 14 years and 8 months)
Pro tip: implementing a hashed wheel timer yourself in user space comes with weird jitter because you can't atomically grab the system time and sleep for the next tick. Which is why all the sane OSes implement it or something like it in kernel space, including NT.
> That's the first time I hear about RFID/NFC MITM, neat.

That's been a thing for quite a few years now in the context of pentesting, e.g. for badge cloning / proxying for access control systems, see for example [1] for an overview presentation. There's quite a few BlackHat talks on that space that give a good overview at this point. This attack is intruiging since it circumvents more complex measures by manipulating the communication and obviously has practical and direct impact on a monetary asset.

I've read elsewhere ([2], German) that Visa declines to fix this with the explanation that it would require attackers to steal the card in the first place and is technologically too complex to be seen in the real world, which is kind of weird. The hardware required is pretty accessible at this point but I guess their risk assessment determined that the actually occurring fraud with this method is currently not worth fixing anything.

[1] https://www.bishopfox.com/files/slides/2016/InfoSec_World_20...

[2] https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Bezahlen-ohne-PIN-und-...
s/Millennials/Generation Z/ at this point.

Millennials are all in their 30s and older now.
In this scenario, I never willingly placed the order in the first place.

If Amazon started sending me a ton of useless random packages every week, you bet that I'd expect them to have a team of ninjas chase the driver down and forcibly remove my package.

Spam and marketing mail should be - needs to be - opt-in and illegal.

I would love to have an ACL on my physical mailbox, where all senders I have not explicitly authorized get mail returned to sender at their own cost.
Private Space Race Targets Greenhouse Gas Emitters
Overall, has there been a noticeable change at the landfill level? Also have there been reductions in plastic bags making their way to waterways, streams, seas, etc?

I ask this because the inevitable comments arise regarding people now having to buy rubbish/bin bags instead of reusing shopping bags. So, what is the net effect of this change on the environment?
Ah there are so many whingers in Australia who hate change! The new tram is much needed and George St is much better off with this than the hellscape of buses and cars. The southeast desperately needs a proper link to the city. As someone who moved from overseas to Sydney, I am excited about the new line, and WestConnex was desperately needed too. I'm grateful for all the infrastructure coming online here. $3 billion for this isn't so bad. You won't find anywhere in the world where projects like this don't have some corruption. Shrug.
I'm also pretty disappointed with all the fees that showed up on my bill as well. It's faster than my previous service, but not by much. I'll be switching back once my year is over.
The number of mutexes I generally wait on has nothing to do with how many cores my computer has. But I'm giving up on the hope that you'll ever share with us your wonderful imagination.
I’m not sure why theres such animosity in your replies. The goal here is not to defend windows but to point out that handles need not aways refer to kernel objects.

It would be possible to provide an orthogonal handle based API even if windows doesn’t always live up to that ideal.

Ultimately it seems these systems are just too big to maintain a cohesive design - but it is still an ideal to aspire to.
If you keep asking they might cave in and say yes?
I agree, but even then we're talking about a 50% drop in usage from last year, which is impressive and surprising that so many bags are being used despite the charge.
Can we make customized dashboards on the ERP software?
The difference is that the company is not paying (and therefore not tracking costs) for client code, so it has less incentive to fix things.

The extra engineers needed to make a Java/C++ backend need to eat/sleep/consume and have their own environmental cost.

$$$ is a good first-order proxy of environmental cost, and lower server costs probably don't make up for engineering salaries.
Dwindling CPAN Releases
Fair point. I believe productivity is a major factor in most performance issues. Write highly optimized code that's very fast and as small as possible or pull in jquery and a dozen libraries? It's pretty obvious which one will get the job done more quickly.

And once the job is done, optimization often is off the table, because the next features await. I work for clients that are making lots of money with their sites, and not even then are they willing to spend pennies on the dollar to optimize those pages.

Maybe the highest impact you can get is working on most-used parts. Make Wordpress run 3% more efficiently and you'll have an enormous global impact. Make your own site run 3% more efficiently and it won't register globally, unless you're Google, FB etc.
not sure but we no longer have a bag of bags filled to the brim, like we used to :)
Seriously. This is the "anti-drug" argument I just don't get how people fall for. An acquaintance-of-a-friend dropped and then stabbed his roommate 57 times. Of course these stories can readily be found, but they just pale next to the shit drunk people do, and which we just dismiss.
They should freeze them for later, instead!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
Appreciate your comment! Will look more in-depth and perhaps reach out in the near future to pick your brain further (probably after the yc demo day rush though :P)

Great website and mission. Wishing you all the best too!
Haven't they gotten headlines for this almost every year for the past three decades?
This is straight out of a Black Mirror episode.
This is a pretty poor refutation to the thesis that web performance is an ethical issue. Your argument is that both points in the article are unimportant or outweighed by other factors. However, by making that argument, you are already tacitly accepting the ethical framework the author laid out.
My local Morrisons have started offering paper bags that are strong enough to be reusable. Best of both worlds!
Yes and no.

Yes because it is. No because you want something that someone else has (£€¥$) and that someone needs some kind of assurance that they could ever get their money back.
> I would 100% rather drive 25 minutes each way instead of sitting on a train for 40 minutes each way even if I could use my laptop/phone the whole time

To each their own. I'd always take train, even if I couldn't use the time for anything.
Buses are bumpier. The experience of riding a tram is simply much nicer. The fact that people avoid buses in Melbourne, as you say, is just a consequence of the difference in comfort.
Yes, that's true.

There are clear and real incentives they are just more visible in the cloud where you pay for your hardware. Or in traditional workstation software where there's also market competition: "do that 10 times faster than the competitors and we'll talk".

It's true that with the Web the incentives are week. Sure, you'll lose some 10% of your potential visitors to frustration, but who cares if the traffic grows expectations are exponential.
How do you know if PrEP also works in the high-resistance cases?
It's just good developers are hard to find.

Web gurus will tell you that web is slow because the specific sites are written badly.

While Linus has told that C keeps bad developers away from the kernel.
Boots have started doing paper bags now - I got one last week when I went there.
The large cloth bags you buy from the grocery store in Ontario are just the best things ever. They're a dollar each but they last years and years, hold far greater volume and weight, and are useful for all kinds of other tasks. I bought ten to help me transport bric a brac when I moved.

It's one of those things where environmentalism doesn't even have to factor in once you realise how awful the previous technology was.
The origin of waveG is in Seattle's condointernet and spectrum networks (as54858 and as11404), which were acquired by wave in 2013. Wave also bought astound and cascadelink. Wave later merged with rcn and grande.
Because we live in a less than ideal world, and you'll have to go through the trouble regardless of how right or wrong it is.
If it was sane company, you could. When I was doing some support for less sane companies, sometimes their "servers" were less powerful than my phone (hey, it still works after 10yrs, why change it). When my current company made product, everyone in such less sane companies was amazed that we could produce monthly route reports for fleet cars in seconds instead of minutes (and as devs we thought it was still not optimized enough).
Agreed. A good point that people often miss. We also are often in constant pursuit of the next feature, so don't have the luxury of the kinds of polishing or optimization that might get some of those real performance gains. I was a big fan of the accidentally quadratic tumblr.

It's important to remember though that not all significant performance gains come from better algorithms, I've taken an industry standard C implementation of an algorithm and improved perf (as measured on production workloads) by 30x by thinking about issues that didn't really concern the original author (in particular cache locality and realizing that the entire problem could be moved into the integer domain)
>> We strive to remove any single point of failure from a hardware point of view, and for me, people are no different

Thanks for stating this explicitly.

In my next System Design interview, I am going to list single points of failures as: HW, SW, People :-).
To Fight Climate Change, We Should Add Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere
> When you can be just as productive as a web developer in c++ let me know.

I used to work at OkCupid. The entire web application is written in C++ [1] and I was quite proficient with the language even before joining the company. Then I joined a medium sized game studio where C++ was also the most common language, and as you can guess we also decided to built the game landing pages and user management system using C++ with Boost and an in-house template system.

I am not OP but you asked to let you know if someone is a productive web developer in C++, well, I am.

[1] https://github.com/OkCupid/okws
Also the old shopping bags were extremely thin. The new ones in countries that implemented the tax are much thicker. So what exactly is the net plastic here? What about including plastic tote bags? I know they are reusable, but how many times do you need to use a very struby plastic bag until you reach net plastic?
> For me, comments should only be needed when something isn't clear. Defining what isn't clear is hard to determine for sure, but that's one thing for which code review helps quite a bit.

Totally agree. Comments should be limited to sections in which the code is unexpected. For example, for a workaround for a bug in another part of the system. That you should comment because if the bug is ever fixed someone reading the code will understand why it looks wonky.

I don't agree with acronyms. They are fine to use as long as you are consistent. For example, if you write "ts" in one place, you can't write "timestamp", "tstamp", "tstmp" for the same data in some other code. In my code, I always use "n" for "length". Since I'm consistent about it, and ever use "n" for anything else, it doesn't make the code harder to read.
Curiously, I've made almost this exact same thing. In my case it needs to account that some platforms are a couple minutes extra walk.

Given that we've both independently implemented basically exactly the same thing, I wonder how many other people would want something like this.
Well, life is a huge parallel process that requires a diversity of inputs, so you need blue sky, "stupid" stuff, boring spadework and directed development, all at once. (and those definitions change; as fields go through their "stamp collecting" modes, as taxonomy/biology did in the 18th and 19th centuries, that was exciting. High energy physics is stuck there at the moment, again).

So yes, we do need someone like the ARPA of old. Licklider, Bob Taylor, and the like are heroes in my opinion and I don't really see their like today.
I don't see the difference. Take Melbourne versus London. Both use electrified trains. Both have drivers. Both travel at similar speeds. Neither have to stop for automobile traffic (except for slowing down at the few level crossings in Melbourne).

Whether the line is fully underground or not doesn't seem to affect much (other than ventilation).
> MaxFileSize: This limits the maximum size of locally written files. Files larger than this can appear if someone else wrote them. The hard global maximum is 4mb. Note that large files can take a very long time to commit due to proof of work on public networks!
It really depends on the definition of millennial that is used. I'm in my early 30s but I have a couple friends that are 24/25/26 and personally they align as millennials rather than Gen Z. Very tail end of course but definitely millennial.
Cannabis is not psychedelic, at least to the same degree that classical psychedelics are (Psilocybin, Mescaline, DMT).
Eta: Jeffery Epstein identified himself as transhumanist and has been talking about ‘seeding human race with his DNA’ because of his alleged transhumanist beliefs acc to NYT.

I honestly don’t understand why I’d be downvoted for identifying as a transhumanist.

Sometimes downvoting because of a headline kind of defeats the purpose of discussion any topic. I wish people would read the article before flagging/downvoting/deleting threads.

I think discussion of transhumanism and what it means to different people..and how it would be accepted is a valid topic for discussion.
earliest millenials are pushing 40s and younger are at least well experienced and aware of the job market shenanigans, I don't think firing older people as a policy would really be attractive to them. unless this was written by some old stooge that thinks everything under 50s is young and hip, I don't see a correlation here.
From article: "Rather than adopting open standards in their operating systems, they started focusing on developing their own, intended to work within their own ecosystem only."

I'm glad they did. MacOS is more clean and secure than Windows and Linux, and is a primary driver for Apple hardware sales. You can make Linux almost as secure, with enough tinkering, but it is not out of the box experience. Think Gatekeeper code signing.
> Most spacecraft use chemical thrusters to desaturate momentum wheels; LightSail 2 relies on electromagnetic torque rods, which orient the spacecraft by pushing against Earth's magnetic field.

I'm trying to visualise what this process might look like. Having read a bit about momentum wheels it seems like it's probably not a one way street in terms of the direction of torque so the wheel at times might speed up and other times slow down so to avoid saturation. Clearly this is not always possible so an external energy source is used to provide a balancing torque so the wheels can be slowed down without turning the craft (too much).

For the lightsail 2 it uses magnetic torque rods, which from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer are electromagnets so the energy comes from turning them on for a while.

Can anyone guess a bit more or explain where in the orbit the saturation might occur and what this desatiration process would look like in terms of the motion of the craft?
Maybe you were lucky enough to spot IBM Master Inventor John Wilson testing his smart cane that gathers data to help doctors and physical therapists understand how well you’re recovering from an injury.

https://ibmblr.tumblr.com/post/157117436482/yes-volumes-i-it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz9jc5blzRM
I'm really curios about it, do you remember at least the year?
Co-op have started using compostable bags.
The thinner ones like to fly away, get carried long distances by wind or water, and will shred and tangle around things spontaneously. They are much more of a danger to wildlife than the thick ones for this reason alone. Shifting the bag away from "disposable" and "single-use" category makes a difference on its own in terms of how much of it ends up in the environment.
Let's skip this and go right to web development in assembly:

https://board.asm32.info/

The author claims that it's only twice less productive to write in assembly than in high-level languages. But the performance gains are overwhelming so it might very well pay back the effort.
It's one of those things that takes political will to achieve however in the first place because they can appear unpopular before they even are tried, and there in lies the rub. We just don't have time to ease into it this time, especially for climate change.
we had a similar adventure implementing the next thing which was lorentz embeddings. Some equations were wrong in the paper which AFAIK have not been fixed in subsequent revisions.

@dchatterjee172 found a lot of the inconsistencies in the work.

https://github.com/theSage21/lorentz-embeddings
GMOs don't really contain any unnatural substances unless they've been deliberately put in, to my knowledge, that's not many, most GMOs that contain additional substances contain natural substances since it's easier to copy an existing gene than making a new one.

To my knowledge, pesticides and glyphosate in the levels present in most food don't really have any effect on our internal microbiome, which is mainly non-plant based and the few plant based single-cellers in that biome aren't that harmed by glyphosate and should quickly develop immunity.
I saw this in person yesterday at Siggraph and it works perfectly. No perceptible flickering, fully opaque images (when the alpha mask is on), cap touch, good color fidelity. It’s a simple, terrific idea.
Good !

Now we need to figure out how to stop packaging everything in dozens of layers of plastic !

I was amazed when I ordered deodorant from a company that tries to avoid plastic waste and I received it in an envelope made of several layers of paper (whereas most companies would have just used bubble wrap)
I'm not trying to tout battleships. I'm just pointing out the insanity of investing heavily in carriers in this day and age. In a war against a real opponent, they're $20 billion target practice. I don't think the decision to continue developing and building them is based primarily on their effectiveness.
> Still my praise goes to Whole Foods, the only shop (that I know) that offers paper bags.

It is far from clear that paper bags are any better in their overall impact.
I am in favour of banning all single use plastic (and quite a lot of non single use as well).

But I now do have to buy some bin bags... What do people do to avoid this?
That's hard to answer, because it depends on the prices in the area where you are.
The number needs to be high enough so that if you have paid for rent, food, clothes and so on, you still have a tiny amount left over to save for emergencies.
It's the complete lack of any savings that can make you very nervous and impatient.

For example, if my washing machine breaks down, I have the resources to call a mechanic, use a laundromat or even buy a new one. When I was poor, a broken washing machine meant dirty clothes and having to not buy something else until I can afford the mechanic.

You can probably guess that under these circumstances it would be very hard to stay patient with the mechanic if he does a poor job, or if he can't fix it for some reason.
It feels like something that IBM regularly does, similar to Cisco's revolving lay-off cycles. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland has a part where the protagonist's father is fired from IBM after being there for years.
Formal or Online Learning – Which Is a Better Path to Learn AI?
Oh, I am very bad at Chess. Still, beating around 10 kids at the same time while facing a brick wall was very impressive.
It is heartening to see the results. I have this one year old article [0] and an info-graphic which shows what other countries are doing [1]. As usual, the trouble seems to be in implementation. Speaking from experience here in Bangalore, plastic bags have decreased in availability but not disappeared :-(

One highlight: Ireland introduced a tax on plastic bags in 2001(!) and usage dropped 90%.

[0] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/img/64410700/Master.jpg