skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I like https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

It also converts between yaml and json with ease for writing and reading
Cargo volume and trunk opening dimensions.

But I also neglected the other reason people like SUVs: driving position and ease of entry, especially with child seats.

If an SUV is priced equivalently to a car in terms of fuel costs and MSRP, it’s essentially a better choice for most people.
Why is concatenating two 128 bit hashes (each with a different algorithm) not stronger than a single-algorithm 256 bit hash?
I have found it a real slog (challenge), and gave up after chapter 3. I think the lack of context made it a bit dull for me. Maybe I should try an annotated text to see if holds my attention better!
In the UK, the cheapest way to pay for things abroad is to get one of the travel-specific credit cards. The Halifax Clarity card is probably the best known, but I see that there are others now. These give you better rates than even the best forex places and don't charge per transaction fees. Obviously it's always wise to carry a little cash when travelling, but I can't recall the last time I had to use it, and I travel a lot for work.
I don't see how that's any different from posting links to Newsweek, a _left wing_ propaganda outlet. To not recognize it as such at this point you'd have to be pretty deliberately blind.
They don't, they give money to boomers. Billionaires and CEOs get some too. That is the only thing going on here: redistribution of wealth away from anyone under 40.
Is this a language problem? Apparently [0] in BE it means sidewalk, but not in AE.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pavement
The tax money given to companies through tax incentives means that there is not schools being built. There is not roads being paved since those taxes where never collected. If there was no tax incentives the same amount of people would be employees. States are competing with the best tax bids. Public hospitals and universities are not being funded. All that lost revenue may lead to worse development of society as a whole.
Government is necessary. Government is not free. Grow up.
I think there are a lot of poor analogies and comparisons being made to Hollywood. AAA linear game development accompanied by massive sustained growth in production budgets has made some segments of games look like Hollywood.

Some segments of game development may continue to look like that. However, the mix of procedural content generation, user generated content, a strong skilled global talent market, and the US being of piece of a much larger global sales pie, makes it look nothing like Hollywood.

Hollywood has traditional been very much an American cultural product dependent on American talent both on and off screen to produce. Games are neither.

The boom-bust cycle of studios is of course another matter. Games-as-a-service may appear to be more suitable for unionization but the end result may just improve the economics of user generated content marketplaces.
Finally. The notifications popup is seriously annoying.
People do not have to agree to your bad use of the English language. The term "toxic masculinity" is a creepy academic "theory" it is not an accepted truth.

I think it is one of the most negative and nasty social mores of those that you are desperate to be apart of. There is nothing that turns me off more.

Ps. You are assuming I am a man? How woke.
Why wanting to increase economic growth ? Economic growth is polluting.
I've reached pretty much the same conclusions, but you do make novel points that I think make tremendous sense.

> We need to realize that "voting" and "money" and "shares" or "securities" etc. are all the same thing

This blew my mind said like that. I can now see how this is all but 'materialistic vectors' in a 'phase space' taking us from now to "change" (however small/big). Conceptually you may reduce it to a particular instanciation of information theory, sort of a "memetic" signal (a "meme" is a "cultural gene" in anthropology, unrelated to the internet-thingy) that spreads onto and influences civilization(s), big groups of individual vectors. It's an interesting model, "tensors" of civilization so to speak, which we are increasingly able to estimate with actual data — whether numbers for votes and money, shares; whether principles or sentiment reduced to political/investment choices; I mean there's a way to model that thing, framed like that.

Great food for thought, thank you so much.

About a "social network that is local first": I think eventually we need to get together with like-minded people (from all fields) and design something, a spec. Solutions are aplently, what lacks is imho some common standards to iterate deeper, more focus.

About a "democratic" form of governance: that's next step, I see the network as a pre-requisite of sorts (not necessarily in theory, but in practice very much so, to "warm up minds" to the paradigm shift in coherent ways, to "teach" by example). However I'd caution against forcing a type of "regime" so to speak in the protocol, the spec itself: let some be dictatorial or in anarchy if they so wish, let all forms of governance emerge from first-principle-inspired bricks. (I guess this would speak to the "expressivity" of the spec, the topologies allowed/defined by it).

Fascinating topics which have occupied my mind for decades now (only 37 though...), that I think will define civilization throughout this century and beyond. It's our time to innovate politically in ways that go back 250 years, and in a deeper slower move some 2500 years. Grand cycles, eh!
>The vast majority of heterosexual women lose respect for a man who shows weakness, and it's certainly not "women doing what men do", as the man displaying a stiff upper lip for his partner is substantially more likely to weep with his male buddies.

I'm not certain women are as emotionally simplistic as this. Plenty are attracted to emotional vulnerability. A man who hides his emotions too much seems more likely to commit violence, after all. Then again, some women like that. Women, like men, are complex beings but unfortunately threads about masculinity and feminism here tend towards reductionism.

And what I mean by "doing what men do" is reinforcing the stereotype that a man can't be masculine and also display emotion (or "show weakness") as you put it. This isn't a behavioral trait created by women and forced upon men against their will. Plenty of men who spent their childhood getting beaten by their fathers or their classmates for being too "sissy" will attest that this is an aspect of male culture created by and largely reinforced by men.

No, most men wouldn't weep to their male buddies, they wouldn't dare.

>Why is it so difficult to believe that this is something that actually happens?

Why is it so difficult not to blame women for everything? Men aren't puppets, they have agency, they are responsible (really, far more responsible) for the nature of modern masculine culture and identity, good and ill.
You could have a speaker on every table without wiring the place all day.
> but not okay for employees to band together to get paid what they're worth?

Does not Facebook also retain the right to hire employees willing to take less?
> 224 bits is considered the minimum safe output length for a general purpose hash function.

Considered by whom?
It isn't a bad thing, and there is nothing wrong with that. Yet it isn't always conveyed at face value.
Man I hope they have a good plan for fixing pairing with all the millions of different devices.

Either that or the whole ordeal will be hilarious to watch.
I am displeased with Sonos due to their "recycling kill switch". Insert the stronger language of your choice. They shouldn't have a patent on anything they have done. Ask anyone who has a degree in signals for a solution to the problem of multi speaker sound. You will have a pile of solutions in less than 20 minutes.
With less and less titles shipping as boxed-product and very few of those having anything approaching an instruction booklet crediting is almost dead already.
Some in-game credit screen buried in the options menu or after completing a 50+ hour campaign is about as un-readable as the end credits on a Netflix TV show.

The argument against you getting a full credit is that it would list your contribution to the game as the same as a colleague who worked through the ship process. I'm not sure how it works in the production side of the film industry but I imagine it is not dissimilar.

You definitely did the right thing by getting out and looking after yourself and those around you. The industry has and is responding to the loss of good people due to burn-out, not at every developer but some of the most notorious have realized the level of churn hurts their ability to hire and retain the best. The more push-back there is against the onerous work practices the more quickly they will stop.
I’d guess not one user in 100.000 uses git decentralized (as in, doesn’t have a blessed “central” repo). It’s the disabling of locking that should be the special case! The big problem with git is that you can’t mark a repo as a master repo/blessed repo (which would be the one where lockfiles are stored). A lot of functionality would be helped if the commands could know which end is the important/central one.
That approach allows temporary censorship by miners to be converted into permanent coin loss (thus increasing the value of the attacker's non-censored coins). It also (by itself) doesn't produce an ongoing rate which is necessarily compatible with decenteralized operation of the network.
I think cities could use good ebikes. Ones that can plug into the high-speed, high amp, chargers. Imagine charging an ebike in 3-5minutes and being able to go 70miles. People in cities would like to have an alternative to public transit and car ownership.
My 4th prediction is coming along nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21943361

> "4. Reality as a Service will allow users to choose the facts of their reality."
> "it sounds like some companies have strict bands related to YOE"

I don't see how this could be legal, even in an employer-friendly a nation as the U.S.

Sure, there are some outlier candidates who enter the field later in life as a second career. But for the overwhelming majority of candidates, "years of experience" is a very thin proxy for "age". I can understand requiring a minimum YOE, but there's no reasonable justification for a maximum.
There is already an open source payment system which needs a bit fine-tuning so it can scale to payments. No government, serves all unbanked. Solves the same problem. You know the name.
I've made the same observation in Berlin. Not a lot of job offers, and those that exist are more like "yeah, we're also trying out a bit of Elixir in our stack...". Such a shame.
bup does. Even worse: rsync relies on md5 for finding duplicate blocks.
Ask HN: Any advice on extra database security?
I am currently working on a DaaS API project. The company I work for has a customer who pays to query data. Because data is the company's most valuable asset, leadership is very concerned about its security. It is the first project in DaaS format, usually data is delivered within our application / UI.
We are creating a separate database with only the data set for that particular client, which will be encrypted and unlabeled. This data will be available in a unique environment with a single API for this purpose only. The API has time limit on queries.
If any of you have had experience in a similar scenario, would you like some advice or ideas to help me?
What would be an outline of your solution for extra security in this case?
Thank you all in advance!
It seems unfair that those who have more money may have more influence--and in a sense, it is.

But as it is, you have the freedom to speak, to collaborate with others to speak, and to gather more resources to speak more effectively--and the government may not restrict you from doing so.

And what is the alternative? Allow the government to decide how much speech you may have? How much speech is worth? Catalog and index everyone's speech to ensure they aren't exceeding their quota? Disallow citizens from freely collaborating and associating for the purpose of speech? That's not freedom. We know where censorship leads.

One can recognize the drawbacks of big PACs and corporate political spending, while at the same time recognizing that those are natural consequences of liberty.

As they say, freedom of speech is the worst--except for the alternatives.
I was 47 when I joined Microsoft and am currently a principal engineer working as an individual contributor doing engineering work. Before that I was running my own startup for several years. There are jobs available in everything imaginable including product management, engineering, management, and blends of those three.

The age thing wasn’t a problem for me interviewing for an engineering position. However, I had some difficult engineering interviews with senior and principal engineers. You should prepare hard to interview very well. The hardest part is convincing young senior engineers that you’re as good of a develop as they are or better.
If this was lispy then
(elem "countries" (elem 0)

Would be an error.

Expression evaluation ought to be inside out.
The hard part is precisely that they want to reuse that platform, and just replace the engine with a battery and motors. Designing an electric vehicle from scratch today is infinitely easier than an ICE, both in complexity, skills required, number of parts and manufacturing.
Most of the big football programs make the universities money hand over fist, and keep alumni engaged.
Here you go: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12135939757325271...
I think DC is about 85% of the way there. All we need are slightly better defaults in how money is invested. Fidelity already does this, I remember signing a big stack of forms to "take the safeties off" to be able to trade it as a raw brokerage account. 401(k) custodians are fiduciaries, btw.

Whereas DB, it seems like every place and in every time, there are always incentives to underfund, to cheat, to push liabilities around, to misrepresent them, to dump them on taxpayers. These things are closer to immutable human nature and won't change, IMO.

The bigger issue that is NOBODY can really afford to retire given how long people are living, escalating medical costs, and low rates of return. The DC people are just ahead of the DB folks in realizing this, because they're relying on bailouts there isn't enough money anywhere to fund. Illinois is a case in point.
It's called the Holocene period in geology, see below:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
FWIW, I'm on desktop right now and that scrollbar is still ridiculous.
> It’s like saying we should reduce a formula one car so people can use it without reading up on it, etc

A far better analogy is:

It's like saying we should reduce a programming language so people can use it without reading up on it, etc.
looking at the first step in that graphic, for example, a histone is made of 4 distinct types of parts, and in humans each of those has a dozen variants, and the final assembled histone can additionally be tagged with other pieces. and the physical interaction between the histone and the DNA is influenced by the local sequence.

I don't know how I would quantify that, but there's a lot going on.
That's been my experience as well. Using credit cards when possible and withdrawing cash from ATMs are the two best ways to get a good exchange rate.
Last Minute Paper Writing Advice from Prominent NLPer
Okay yes that's true. Within the bounds of modern capitalism we are at an extreme place.
That's a different argument. I'm addressing this notion that the government is oh so incompetent and the only people that can do this is the private sector, when many countries have upgraded to excellent government-run (but private sector built) payment systems that work just fine.
Because apparently trying to increase GDP from 2.5% to 2.6% is worth more to a party of people than providing health care to everyone and not putting young people into tremendous debt #justrepublicanthings
What is considered sufficiently far future may change with life extension technology.
I wonder what the intended meaning is. I presume it has to do with a presumed eventual urge to confess.
A Story About 'Magic' (Hacker Folklore)
This is reality in Europe today. The fast charging is totally unnecessary, you just charge it at home/work where bikes are inevitably parked for many hours.
well, we know without a doubt that they withhold info related to vulnerabilities in order to prioritize continued offensive success. that doesn't bode well for any non-offensive work, and there's no reason to believe that has changed.
Streams of Income with a Few Clicks
High competitive / low prices marketeering at best gives you Walmart: where none of the products are very good, false values products are vaunted (the one gallon pickle jar for $4.99) and nobody is especially enthused about what's on offer.

At worst you get things like the gig economy.
I'm not sure if I'd call it sound advice - but there's not much stopping you from building a site based around (client side) Javascript these days. Maybe a markdown parser in js, some json (js) data files (à "database") - etc.

Basically a variant of how:

https://tiddlywiki.com/

works. Or:

https://chrisdiana.dev/cms.js/

In a similar vein (but not solely client hosted and managed) there's:

https://vuelog.js.org/#/page/about

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/

If all you need is a blog, it's really just a bit of navigation you need js/<some program> to help with. And you can of course add things like commenting as a SaaS that's essentially just an imported cross side scripting attack on yourself, much like with visitor tracking via Google analytics etc. See for example muut.com for comments.
Apple Airport Express, which contains an audio out (which I hook to my stereo to synch playing music in multiple parts of the house) and does synchronized streaming, made it to the market one year (2004) before Sonos's first product did (2005). Apple later remove the WiFi extender and added a speaker and renamed the product appropriately, but it is and evolution of the same pre-Sonos technology and probably is why they aren't trying to sue Apple.
The point of c2rust is to be a transitional tool, once the system is done in Rust, compiles with Rust tooling and works as it used to it's assumed it'll be much easier to manage and iterate on.
Maybe. But every time I've changed jobs my pay increased 20 or 30k.

That means I'm doing higher demand work.

So at least my most recent skills are extremely valuable.
It's worse now that Lime and other bicycle rental startups have littered the sidewalks with bicycles. When I'm not running around a bike left on the sidewalk, I'm getting run over by somebody riding one on the sidewalk.

I'm amazed at how often a bicycle rider on the sidewalk will actually warn me to get out of the way. I haven't knocked anybody off of one yet. It's only a matter of time before somebody bumps into me on one and gets hurt.
Amusingly enough ... The rates there are, in fact, significantly slower than what plain old Bitcoin developers. Bitcoin dev's probably should make the syncing status print the number of inputs per second being processed.

But being able to barely keep up means that if you fall behind for even a moment (say, if your connection drops... or if miners get lucky and mine a bunch of extra blocks) then you will _never_ catch up. Operating anywhere near the limit of your processing rate is non-viable for that reason.

You need to be able to process many times the network's capacity so that you can catch up in a reasonable amount of time.
I think that is the reality for most professionals, not just developers and engineers.

Your HR technician, your barber, your baker, your supermarket team leader, aren't going to be able to show more than their CV either.
In the 1950s people walked to work, to get groceries, to the movies, to the hardware store etc., cars were almost not needed in cities (except delivery trucks).
Imagine how nice it would be to get off work, walk 10 minutes to get groceries, another 10 minutes are you are home with all your shopping. Then walk 10 minutes in the evening to the library or bar. This is what people want again. It was lost when we created car-centric suburbs in the 1950s as part of a large post-war housing boom.
Selling and moving to a fancier place nearby is what many people do. You free up that equity and suddenly you can afford a sizable down payment on a nicer place that you couldn’t otherwise had you been renting the whole time.
As someone in a CTO position now but being a serious IC ~5 years ago, I'm curious. How was the transition back for you? I love my job, but I also miss it.
Dating like any science has to be based on evidence. As we gather more evidence and learn to identify it, we get better dates.
Separate version control for code vs assets leads to a world of pain. Also you can use whatever diff tool you want; doesn't have to be the built-in textual diff.
Except that they not selling it. It's like I was trying to compete with latest iPhone by publishing renders on my website of my cool new phone concept.
In general I prefer to use tools that show me real data rather than transforming it in “smart” ways that are poorly documented and not under my control.

If other people have different preferences, that’s fine! They can keep using Chrome.

Also, even if that weren’t true, change is a cost. It’s perfectly reasonable to complain about change as being intrinsically bad without giving any other reason.
Done:

echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview-window wrap --preview 'cat test.json | jql {q}'
I’d go further and say “marginal net revenue” rather than the gross.

Using a revenue number for this makes no sense.

Let’s ignore for now that this revenue also owes a great deal to the commons that is never paid back by most companies.
>The hash is this tiny bit of information, and somehow is expected to be sufficient to uniquely describe some arbitrarily large amount of information

It doesn't really describe the information it just indexes each piece. For that it is a very large key space. A 128 bit key could index 10^38 objects. That's a lot of slots. Provided your hash has sufficient mixing you will need a lot of shots to hit anything.

>If one can truly "easily" derive a "secure" hash function

Semantic security has a precise definition. We just have to make empirical assumptions about whether an input cipher is semantically secure. The hash is only secure if the cipher was but the derivation is easy.
You can argue for improvements to the political process, but public entities do many things better than the market. For example: the fire department, parks, utilities, roads, healthcare, education.
This sounds a lot like the defectiveness and unrelenting standards lifetraps I mentioned in another comment. I encourage the author, and anyone else who recognizes themselves in his words, to go to therapy about this.

You can also read the book I mentioned in a previous comment. In the opened my eyes to the lifetraps that have been affecting me the most and how they're playing out.

I wish you success with overcoming this!
At least you have a scroll bar and don't need to try and swipe on 10pt text :)
Common sense? Does it seem likely that politicians concluded being able to manipulate people better = improvement to democracy?

Hmm, actually, you may have a point.
Thanks a lot for hanging out and answering question.
I see unions good for established low skill workers.

Grind the years and that will lead to sucesss. No innovation or additional learning needed. Just wait.