skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, I go to nwcpp.org meetings, and there's always an outfit there stoning every tern looking for C++ programmers. I've been contacted by Symmetry Investments with 20 D programming positions to fill. Tech companies sponsor and attend tech conferences for the purpose of finding engineers to hire.

Giving an hour presentation is a fantastic way to sell your abilities. Tech conferences are often desperately looking for someone, anyone, to give a talk. Meetups, and nwcpp.org, are always looking for presenters. I often fill in at nwcpp and give a D talk because they couldn't find a C++ speaker. I often get contacted by conference organizers looking for speakers.

Employers will troll through github accounts looking for recruits. Want to get noticed? Contribute to a significant open source project. There is no gate there. Anyone can contribute.

Shotgunning out resumes is generally the most useless way to get hooked up.
This is rarely worth it. There are multiple companies that have tried this and it really comes down to you either being able to afford private jet travel or not.

If you can't, you'll find that you're really just buying into hype more than actual productive travel. All of the arrangements will have strict conditions on passengers, luggage, arrival/departure times and many trips will only be 1-way so you're left finding your own way back, and that might be from small regional airport somewhere.
That's probably why it's misused so much.
Apple doesn't promote choice, but it's not because Intelligent Tracking Prevention is on by default. (Also, it's not an "ad-blocking" feature…)
Erm, the VMs see CGNAT, but it doesn't mean anything in my case, but still let's me access other PCs on the company Intranet on 10.x.x.x
'Hungry' performance artist, David Datuna, eats $120k banana art installation
I like cooking but end up with a bunch of things to clean if I get creative.
sounds to me like geology?

the new hire is responsible for carrying all the rocks around
if only californians were willing to stop voting for open-borders and legalize housing just like the rest of the civilized world. Or even better, only allow citizens to buy housing while retroactively abolishing the fictional birthright citizenship law.
Another comparison: 43 yo brazilian Gurgel Formigão vs Tesla Cybertruck (text in Portuguese):

https://quatrorodas.abril.com.br/noticias/formigao-picape-br...
They generally were jokes, some with images, some not. It seems every joke site at the time had at least one about Yugo's or Hyundai's. At least that's what I remember. This is roughly between 1995 and 2000. Some may have been on Compuserve instead of the Internet, I don't remember the details, but generally both copied each other.
The aforementioned Swedes appear to be quite content paying their high taxes, given the benefits conferred.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/nov/16/sweden-tax-bur...
[2] https://taxfoundation.org/sweden-competitive-spite-high-tax-...
[3] https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-09/bernie-sanders-wants-...
In the financial domain, repo refers to repurchase agreements. You pledge some bit of collateral to receive a short-term loan that is cheaper than other forms of short-term lending, (usually as a funding mechanism for your daily trading activity, at least for bulge bracket investment banks), and then you pay back what you borrowed and you receive your collateral back.

The opposite is captured with “reverse repurchase agreements” which is exactly what I described, with the roles inversed.

It is actually quite interesting, but doesn’t come up frequently in daily personal finance much at all.
> To put it another way, no one would reasonably talk about something like the "market cap of the Euro"[0], so why would you do that for something else claimed to be a currency?

Oh, but they do:

https://www.dailysabah.com/finance/2017/12/06/bitcoin-renews...

And while Market Cap may be on its surface misleading, its mere semantics, and is really in reference to what you've described; its just that as you said, its a currency and itself cannot have a strict Market-Cap but its a succinct way to describe the totality of its valuation for all issued satoshi's--which again, is misleading because of the 21 Million, its likely several million are lost forever.
That's the worst case price, too. It can be cut down substantially if you work a job along with it, get used textbooks, prepare your own food, etc.
Even if you need range queries when programming, it's rare that you need it for a dynamic dataset. This means you can get better constant factors just by sorting your data and binary searching. You only need trees if you need to insert/delete/update items in the middle.

Most programming tasks work with static datasets because memory is volatile. We are always loading the data from somewhere else and usually just once because reactively updating the in-memory collection is nontrivial to hook up. On the other hand, this is the default for databases.
In one case I've observed, the effort was _honest_. There was a real attempt to make IT have the same seat at the table as the rest of the business. That doesn't mean it was easy, and I wouldn't call it SMOOTH, but the transition itself wasn't that bad. Ironically I think if they had just 1 or 2 different people in the right places during the transition they would have done well enough for themselves I'd wish I was still working there.

In another observed case, well, the process did seem to shine a light on people who's primary duties at work were to make sure they still had a job... In that scenario it can get really ugly because the optics make it look like "We empowered IT and things got worse!" Of course ignoring how the gatekeepers would rather quietly ruin projects before giving another division a 'win'. Leads to a huge fear culture because you start to ask who's going to be the next sacrifice for the lack of real progress on anything.
> memory round trip delay

Is that where Zen's architecture, with memory controller central to the chip (close to memory IO up/down) and 'chiplets' containing cores left and right, makes so much sense?

I'm partial to announcements of "3D" stacking chips; wherein memory cells, controller and CPU cores are arranged like cake layers, thus with extremely short memory round trips. A clever design could entirely remove the need for L3 cache I suppose, make RAM behave essentially as such. It's elegant I think, somewhat balanced in design, essential. And I find it crazy and awesome that cooling those is even possible.
Generally it is preferable to choose the pivot randomly.
Having done IT, I'd say it's fairly common. If the company does not have strict rules about personal use of systems, I generally ignored it ("Oh sorry, wrong folder" if the user was looking over my shoulder).

In my current company we specifically ask users not to store pornographic images on their work systems so we can all be spared the embarrassment, so far that seems to work well.

Personally I try not to use work systems for anything non-work related. Why risk it? hardware is cheap.
Using a throwaway for obvious reasons...
I am grateful these are being worked on because they are extremely needed for some use cases.

I have been part of a group organizing protest in Beirut and I was surprised there was no clearly go to app that provided the security features we need.

We started off with WhatSapp because that's what everyone used before security became a concern.
We then moved to Signal mostly to get auto-deleting messages.
We then ran away to Telegram because there was no way to kick a compromised phone outside of a Signal group.

We considered using Wire which seemed to have what we needed but the interface was a bit clunky and it did not run well on all the phones of the group...
We are currently evaluating an considering Keybase.io which seems to have all the feature too, but not sure how it will handle about a hundred people in the group...

If anyone has ideas about which apps are recommended for that (or has additional useful things) please help, the main things we need are:

- Encryption E2E is nice to have but not a deal breaker.

- Possibility to kick a user from the group, deal breaker ( a thug stole someone's phone in the protest once and another time we got a message saying someone's security code changed then they became inaccessible) both incidents ended up ok but there was no way to kick the person out of the group and proceed while clearing things out with signal.

- no old history kept of the conversation. Either auto-deleting messages set to short duration like signal, or if not possible we can survive with an admin at home deleting old messages constantly and clearing the chat for everyone in sensitive situations ( like telegram allows)

- Free. For various reasons, some people can't buy apps no matter how cheap.

- easy to use. Most protesters are not too technical.

- possibility to display sender and group but not the content of messages in the notifications.

- having an easy way to add password to the app itself. (nice to have)

- making screenshots inconvenient to take (just nice to have).

- Not tied to phone numbers also really nice to have but not mandatory.

Our main threat is riot police and pro government thugs taking protesters phones and forcing people to unlock them or running away before the phone is locked then snooping around.
Very rarely are people alone when this happens so we almost always get a notification that X is compromised, so we clear chats and kick them out of the group before their phones are really compromised.

I don't think the government is running sophisticated deep packet inspection.
I don't think our group has been infiltrated but that is always a possibility.

We are also trying to find some free device management solution to remotely track / lock and maybe wipe phones when they get taken.

Sorry for the wall of text... just though now might be a good time to ask...
Smokers' decision-making biases result in a private welfare loss of $400/week
> Then my application can decide "this is an important photograph, so I'm going to shard it across 8 chips on two different controllers and use error-correction codes that can correct 100% of bit errors". But, that does not exist.

It’s still not sufficient to backup to a single drive since the device may be lost or destroyed. And once you are storing in the cloud you have all the benefits of distributed redundancy and multi-regional support.
Upvoted, can you remind me of the current steps for bypassing a paywall these days?
I made a children’s book – Little Champions of Justice (side project)
Was this inspired by the meme?
It’s also a legal way of screening out certain ethnicities.

Many Police and Fire Departments famously used testing as a legal screening method -against black applicants at the times- for what is a purely physical blue collar job.
> You can argue that asset prices should be derived from future cash flows, and hence, both Bitcoin and gold should be almost worthless.

Which points to what IMO underpins whatever Bitcoin's underlying value is: a fear - or for some a hope - that typical vehicles investments will have precipitously declining future cash flow.

In that way it's like gold (minus the part about being pretty and useful for selling overpriced audio cables - is that still a thing?).

Unlike gold, though, it's in a way harder to secure, either by individuals or governments, because it isn't held behind physical security measures. Rather it's subject to the same large scale attacks as any other information on the Internet.
Your response sounds fair enough to me. One small thing I would like to add to it though. I'm actually not a fan of Russia (for a number of personal reasons). But I equally dislike how the things you mentioned about Russia are (in my opinion) also true in Europe and the USA. That is, at least on any meaningful level of power/influence. It might be better hidden under a thick layer of persistent cultural brainwashing, but that's about it for the difference. You could even argue that the reason why people in Russia don't even pretend to be honest, is because they already learned that they will get away with everything anyway (something powerful people in the US and EU are increasingly learning also, with increasingly blatant corrupt behaviour as a consequence).

Sure, the Russian government will welcome any form of friction within the US or EU, and probably will not hesitate to create it when they see a chance. But there is no need for any Russian propaganda to seed such doubts, because the US and EU do a marvellous job just on their own there.

Also, anyone who doesn't question the validity of something, once there appears to be any discrepancy (even if that turns out to be a false alarm), is either a blind believer or an idiot. The only agenda that I "push" is to indeed question everything. After having witnessed first hand what some US and EU based "humanitarian" organization do in other parts of the world, I think I have very good reasons to be extremely sceptical about any expansion of their "freedom and democracy".
Rice's theorem only aplies to turing complete programs, so if youre "weak enough" there's no problem being both sound and complete. I think it's easy to see why people would think of such systems as "nicer" (even though the others are of course still rigorous).

>It's true that type inference becomes undecidable without annotations for things like dependent types, and there's nothing hacky about that.

But it's not just for more advanced type systems, type inference is undecidable for basically any system more complex than HM typing. So in practice virtually all programming languages with type systems that go beyond the absolue basics can't fullfill the "promise" of type inference, which is that you don't have to explicitly annotate types. I think if you take into consideration that even relatively "good" type systems like Haskell's occasionally require you to annotate not just functions, but 'random' terms, you might see why some people might consider it "hacky".
If this tickles your fancy, there are plenty of Australian outback pubs on the market for similar prices:

https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/news/six-classic-aus...
It would probably end up in way too many lawsuits from all towards all directions and across.
Thing is, you are supposed to carry a book the time it takes to read it. It just has to survive something like 2 or 3 weeks in transports.
I mean, Bitcoin isn't a fiat currency, either. Banks trade forex for completely different use cases than people/orgs trade Bitcoin.
I think maybe we have different definitions of "useful".

I'm pretty stubborn about preserving my chat history; it goes back across several phone upgrades. When my dad died earlier this year, I was glad of it. I get to scroll back and see what we talked about.

If my choice was between secure comms and keeping history, I'd take keeping history. Surely many people are in the same boat. So if Signal wants to be truly ubiquitous (which increases security for all users), they really have to solve common user needs.
Yes, in the sense that calling it anywhere will pull in a lot of stdlib stuff by default. But no, in that it's trivial in C to write your own minimal printf replacement. Because of the nature of linking in C, it will override all uses of it.
Whenever I hear a lobbyist or business person talk about “choice” or “freedom” it’s usually bad for people....
Not really at all. iPhones are only "very" popular in US (high average income) and among the wealthy elsewhere.

A 20-second googling produces one example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2014/04/10/what-kind-...

Google around for more.
That sounds unlikely. I'm sure there is some variation due to differences in OSes and GPUs, but there are surely enough iPhones with each to make it nothing more than supplementary entropy.
They look nice to me, but my wife always tells me my judgement on fashion is an outlier (said using less pleasant words).
I know the person in my anecdote and their motivations. It might’ve not been clear from the thread, so my apologies.
The image I linked, yes, was from a single publisher. Here is one from several different ones:

https://a-gilles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/aef9a82f8a20...
I got iced up in winter at night years ago and learned my lesson. TKS/FIKI is a great safety add on (if you can get it) to give you an extra advantage of you get caught up in it, but it's not a license to plow around in known ice.
How did they deal with all of those typewriters in the 50s with an open floor plan? They didn't.
There are lots of people who don't try to make more money because of roadblocks put in by the government. Obviously the uber-rich like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates don't care that much about taxes but for someone in the low to middle income brackets it can be challenging to move up as you pay more in taxes and receive less help from the government.

If you make enough money that you can live comfortably and you would have to move up a lot to counter the offset to make more money in the next tax bracket, I think the majority of people would not bother. Outside of HN, a lot of people are satisfied with making an okay salary and having steep tax bracket changes just amplifies that. Obviously, everyone would like to make more money if they could do so easily but if it is very difficult to do so, a lot of people will not be bothered.

The people who do want to make a lot of money and become rich, well if they have to deal with crazy taxes, they are going to either find away around the tax laws, or simply leave the country which both options are not good for the country.
You'd be right if you got the CS degree by taking the easiest classes, doing as little as possible, and partying.

On the other hand, if you carefully select the courses, work to get the most out of the opportunities there, etc., you can get a very valuable education at UW. I've seen it too many times for that to be a fluke.

UW isn't going to hold your hand, it's up to you. There are a very large number of local UW graduates who became wealthy.
Paid Groups and the Passion Economy
The AI Gold Rush
That's a good thing? Excessively cramped living spaces create anxiety and reduce ability to concentrate among other things.

BTW I think the real problem is the hyper-concentration of all opportunity in only a few cities. The US is enormous. There is no housing shortage unless we decide that we must cram all economic activity into five cities.
They are probably more likely to merge than outright fail, barring a bigger-than-normal recession.
Yeah, maybe it is true for Ruby development on Windows, but not for others, says Node.js.
Developing Node.js on Windows is (comparatively) easy to do so, usually you only need to install `node` and `npm`, then optionally install `yarn` and `windows-build-tools`. None of these steps will give you GNU toolchain, so it won't available until you install it.

That is ehy I prefer OS-agnostic tools such as npm or npm+gulp for more complex build tools.
> her entire after-tax income to support

An interesting fact of our progressive income tax that combines spousal income is that the lower earning spouse is strongly disincentived to stay at home instead of work. This is especially true if one spouse has very high income.
All three of those stocks pay dividends. Doesn't that tend to reduce volume vs float?

Also, if you're going to compare Bitcoin to stocks, does that mean you accept that Bitcoin's value is in speculation and not as a currency?
Interesting, Boulder is not on that list according to WSJ; but in BusinessInsider its #1 on the tech hub list with data from Bloomberg:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/top-12-tech-...

It just goes to show just how unreliable the data can be used depending on the desired effect.
It could. However, you average Joe crypto hodler from reddit understands this phenomenon, e.g., after reading about Tether & friends.
> My guess is that Apple works to limit ad tracking because its executives personally do not want to be tracked

I'm going to guess that their CEO, growing up gay in 1960s Alabama, has a strong connection with the human need for privacy.
The databases contain the metadata (authors, edition, ISBN, etc.) for the books.

Thus, 32 TB of books (over 2 million titles), 3.2 GB database.
Why I Left Google (2019)
Show me a non-C, high level bootloader for a non-trivial system.
It won't. All it does is make it even easier for Disney to yank content until the next "special edition" which you'll need to pony up for in the shops at an extortionate retail price because of "special director's cut" or some other bollocks.

And then a year later they'll get around to showing that version on Disney+, possibly for a surcharge because "special edition".

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369213
I think he means doing NAT on his PC itself (such as is the default network configuration on virtualbox), where it doesn't ordinarily matter what private IP range the VMs are located in. VMs get DHCP leases and a default gateway from the host. The host presents only one IP address and MAC to what it's physically plugged into.
I've been developing a dataflow programming language, which runs on a tagged dataflow virtual machine: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/TOC.html

I'll update the link soon, as I've added several new features to the language.
Apple under Steve Jobs 2005 and Apple under Tim Cook now are different beasts. Steve would go crazy at the executives releasing all the buggy/unpolished products Apple released recently. Imagine the Macbook keyboard or the Touchbar being released under Steve.

iPod was a great product. But time has changed, and I would be cautious in extrapolating that experience to Apple today. I can't imagine Apple executives saying "We change the keyboard because we love typing".
I think you only need to specify your immediate dependencies in nix?
Depends on the advertiser! Big brand who mostly wants to reach everyone in a geographic area? Targeting doesn't matter. Retailer that wants to bring someone back in to complete a purchase? Without targeting they won't buy ads at all.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google)
The Curious Case of Aurelius Capital vs. Puerto Rico
Yes, you are an exception. Just look at how popular books of letters are: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/100260.Best_Books_of_Let...

Or look at how popular "Letters of Note" is: https://twitter.com/lettersofnote

Conversation is connection.
> The devs in charge of Bitcoin have purposely abandoned the idea of it being a currency. On-chain transactions are artificially limited to about four per second, and they refuse to change that. They call it a "store of value" now.

I don't think they abandoned the idea of it being a currency, I think they just have different ideas about how exactly to go about scaling it. The block size limit (and therefore the transactions per second limit) was raised 2x rather than significantly more because they don't think scaling onchain is a viable long term solution [0].

Lightning, and other second layer networks have always been discussed as the solution to this scaling problem, and while they are still very early, there's already a fair amount of usage. I work at a company that accepts Bitcoin, and as of today, > 90% of our transaction volume is via lightning.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy#Argu...
63% of people between 25 to 34 (or may be less for those still in school but I imagine not by much) isn't "vashingly small."
https://myles.works
Why does it need my entire browsing history? The example given above didn't ask for that.
Do you mean sell the cars to students? It's same problem: they will probably prefer very used cars from known brands over slightly used cars from an unknown brand.
Market Maker is a well defined term, see my comment below. . I believe that he was not aware that reputable crypto exchanges don't pay market makers.