skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OSM SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) – OpenStreetMap Wiki
This right here is the answer. He couldn’t stomach his unicorn investments going to zero. This gambit sort of worked but his real assets are still illiquid. He’s still need to be able to exit them.
Not to mention that mass media is an agency nearly entirely dedicated to promoting health theater.

"You and your children will die soon and there's almost no way to stop it" is the dominating message on the front page of many media organizations.
Froth and volatility are bad if they result in a less good allocation of resources in a Pareto sense. So if net utility in society decreases because some hedge funders are skimming the financial froth rather than putting resources to productive use then yeah that is bad.

For example there may be a student who is good at Math who could become a PhD physicist or material scientist and develop new materials for medical application. Instead he is drawn to wall street and spends his career optimising "high frequency trading" algorithms and pricing options. Maybe he makes more money as an individual but society as a whole is worse off from the misallocation of resources.

Basically a financial sector that rewards non-productive work exerts a negative externality on society, particularly in terms of opportunity costs and mis-allocation of human resources.
Rainbow Tables are a specific innovation in time-space tradeoffs (precomputation) rather than the name for all such attacks.

The specific clever trick in Rainbow Tables is the observation that rather than storing

hash(password) : password
5f4dcc : password
c2fe67 : jimmy
25d55a : 12345678

... we can build a function that takes the output from hash(password) to deterministically create a new candidate password, let's call this function pass(hash), and then chain the hash and our new function together as many times as we want. This lets us store much less data, while doing more work during our look-up phase.

hash(pass(hash(password))) : password
153dfc : password
92fe87 : jimmy
213eea : 12345678

Now if I find a hash 92fe87 in a password hash file, I do not learn that the password was jimmy, instead I need to compute pass(hash(jimmy)) and that's the password I was looking for. And if I find 39a4e6 which isn't in my list, I calculate hash(pass(39a4e6)) and discover that's 213eea, then I look this up in the table and I discover the password I need was 12345678. Obviously real Rainbow Tables don't just run the hash twice like this, but instead some fixed number of times chosen by the creator to trade off less space versus more work to find a password.
Loved that as a kid on the spectrum, a great sequel to chaos. Iirc you could actually hot seat 4 players on some maps?

Check out chaos reborn on steam for a reasonable modern update.
Because it's ridiculous to decide that the bottom of the decision graph should be held responsible for the poor decisions made from above.

Engineers should only be held accountable for decisions they made personally. The unfortunate reality is that, a terrifying amount of the time, terrible decisions are handed to engineering teams as required implementation details from managers, executives, product directors, etc. So should engineers be held criminally accountable for their product manager demanding MD5 hashes on passwords?
New Foundations Proof Explorer
Of course someone’s posted it to YouTube: https://youtu.be/qhl_W3qVvuM
Molyneux really soured his reputation with Godus, though the potential for over-hyping and not delivering was always there.

Godus could have been a great game, looked fantastic but ended up with a complete lack of purpose except fleece people via micro-transactions or sit through ad views to actually progress.

I always associate Bullfrog with Syndicate which is still up there as one of my favourite games.
In America, the validity of a search is rarely an impediment to carrying it out.
How Chekhov invented the modern short story
Merchants using Nano for transactions will not have to pay credit card processing fees. This will save them a significant amount of money. They will thus have an incentive to run a representative (a full node) that voting weight can be delegated to from other users in order to keep the network decentralized.
You claim to want the things I want, and yet you seem to think that reporting on a spike in COVID cases in a small state due to a large event is comparable to Tucker Carlson shrugging and saying “eh, you can’t blame him” about Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha? They’re not even within the same realm of discourse.
Maybe by looking at the flag outside your house?
I'll just finish with this rule from the Recurse Center User's Manual[1] that I think applies very well to this situation:

> No well-actually's

> A well-actually happens when someone says something that's almost - but not entirely - correct, and you say, "well, actually…" and then give a minor correction. This is especially annoying when the correction has no bearing on the actual conversation. This doesn't mean the Recurse Center isn't about truth-seeking or that we don't care about being precise. Almost all well-actually's in our experience are about grandstanding, not truth-seeking. (Thanks to Miguel de Icaza for originally coining the term "well-actually.")

Direct link: https://www.recurse.com/manual#no-well-actuallys

[1] https://www.recurse.com/manual
Testing everyone, every day will isolate and eliminate any pockets of Covid.
Children should be tested before attending school. People should be tested before going to work.

There are less-than-1-dollar tests coming which just require some spit, probably called "lick-a-stick".

Keeping people like "young and healthy (how do you know?)" untested gives a perfect place for Covid to spread.

Listen to This Week in Virology (TWIV) https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
- For the working parent whose productivity has been slashed by 50% and stress has gone up by 50% due to parenting obligations, WFH might be terrible.

This is not only WFH. I've done WFH before the pandemic and it was fine. Daycare and nannies are usually an option in normal circumstances.

This seems like pandemic-from-home to me.
Oracle's marketing is more to preserve their existing install base than acquire new customers.
> I don't see any alternative arguments

There aren't any arguments in that essay at all. It just describes, with numbers, the consequences of a wealth tax for startup founders.

> I see his position as against the transfer of wealth and societal equality

The essay states no position whatever. Not every essay has to state a position. Some essays are just about stating some facts.
I might sound naive here, and I'm not an art expert, but I feel like only some artists are interested in technical innovation and social capital (though I think it definitely plays a big role.)

Success in art is different for every artist, some musicians want to innovate and challenge people with new approaches (avant garde composers), others want to tell stories and spread ideas (hiphop, folk musicians, film and musical theatre composers), or help people dance and have a good time (EDM), or a million other reasons.

Maybe I've missed the point of the article, but I think there are so many reasons why art gets made beyond the artist trying to prove themselves as a master of the craft
So I tried to show this article to my mom and she had no idea what it was saying. When you introduce terms (and you are targeting non-"computer" people) you have to clearly define them right away. For instance she was really confused that hashing was used as both a verb and a noun.
I agree. Silent issues are the problem that needs addressing.

Personally I think bugs should be addressed, with better debug modes and tools. Take this example:

int i, array[10];

for(i = 0; i < 11; i++)

array[i] = 0;

A clear bug, right? You could write this type of bug in any language. Many languages would stop you from writing outside the array. In C its undefined behavior.

Undefined behavior means that the compiler doesn't have to do anything, therefor it doesn't have to at run time test if the code is correct. It can assume that the programmer knows what they are doing. Thats why C has great performance, but also why bugs can be silent and hard to find.

But, It doesn't meant that the compiler has to ignore the issue. Its undefined behavior, so the compiler is free to do all the checks that a language that doesn't let you write outside an array do. Sure, then C will become just as slow as other languages, but you can now find and remove the silent bug.

This is why I think that debug mode, should be very different from release mode. The two compilers have entirely different design goals. Some compilers are starting to do this. Visual studio will for instance break if you access a lot of uninitialized values in debug mode, something that it will ignore in release mode.

There are loads of things that could be done to improve debugging that doesn't require the language to change or to slow down the release runtime.
The JEDI RFP was seemingly written specifically for Amazon to win. (And there are accusations that they actually did influence it, since a former employee wrote parts of it [1]) It appeared that they were the only company that could possibly meet the technical requirements of it. The whole process looked like a formality to 'fairly' award them a new contract. And then Microsoft won the bid.

Its about cloud computing infrastructure, and Amazon is the leader in that sector still. Amazon already provides two government cloud services, GovCloud and C2S, and the government has invested billions of dollars in them too. So its not like they aren't already in the space, are inexperienced, and trying to 'steal' this contract away. They actually have more experience than Microsoft, when it comes to cloud services for restricted government environments.

A judge already agreed that there was enough issues in the winning proposal that Amazon's case had enough to pause the work on the contract. So I don't think its nothing at all. Using the political angle happens to be the most headline producing legal argument they have right now. No matter who won the $10B contract, someone was going to contest it. If Amazon had won, Microsoft and Oracle would be contesting.

However, I do think there needs to be competition in the space, and I am not at all upset that Microsoft won. It is a good thing to not have everything locked into AWS. Its not the outcome I expected, but it seems like a good thing. And I think that wanting competition in the space, may well have actually been a real reason to award Microsoft with the contract, even if they didn't have the best proposal.

[1] Oracle was also fighting against this contract too, because they want it. https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/03/oracle-loses-10b-jedi-clou...
I block ads, and Google doesn’t actually give your data to advertisers, so they don’t get anything from me. Just another case like my underwear seeing my genitalia, to my mind. Computers taking to themselves while I go on living my life.

Cambridge Analytica was a serious problem, although I thought Facebook had cracked down on that kind of thing, and Google did much further in the past.
Follow up questions when you want to measure adoption:

- 68k users out of how many users on HN? This is the metric that really matters when you want to consider how wide the adoption is.

- Number of users may not be very easy to evaluate as there's throwaway accounts, inactive accounts and the like, so ideally you would need to account for the people who log on at least once every month or something.

- Among those, you would need to filter those who actually use the feature regularly vs the ones who just used the feature once and never used it again. Look like the average is at 25 per user based on the data you provided, but I am guessing there are users with 100s of favorites so that means there are people at the end of the tail as well, with just a few, which should not be counted as "active favorite users".

By the way @dang, is there any hidden function on HN to see some HN related stats?
It is a common trope to compare America to Rome. Economically America has almost nothing in common with Rome. Rome was a non-industrial economy mainly based on plunder or at least transferring products from the provinces to the central government and upper class in terms of taxation (in kind, e.g. Egyptian grain, and monetarily denominated). When the Empire stopped expanding new wealth, for the most part stopped being created. Perhaps there is a little bit of a comparison with 19th century America and expanding to the west in manifest destiny but in modern America economic growth is driven by technological change. Not conquest.
Up Your Zoom Shirt Game with Tees for Freelancers
Yes, it's called a segue. Original topic was Larry Page and neither Q nor pizzagate have anything to do with him.
In the same vein we have "The Annotated Annotated C Standard": https://www.davros.org/c/schildt.html

A blast from the comp.lang.c past.
Perhaps the fact that a writer doesn't share a society's dominating ideology (in this case, democratic socialism and anti-capitalism) is what makes a writer's ideas original and interesting, as opposed to rehashing what the dominating ideology already tells us.
The reason people are 'fine' with it, is because it's a rational response to a real concern.

Guccifer was hacking into people's accounts, revealing information of a national interest.

So there is some proportional reaction by law enforcement.

"But when someone innocent gets caught up in it, then it's too late and there's no remedy."

Who are these innocents 'caught up in it', for which there 'no remedy'?

It's possible investigators make mistakes while matching DNA just as well, but we don't deny them the right, because it seems the 'science' supports DNA as evidence. So we use it.

I think that is a real but smaller concern - bigger concerns are large dragnets (arbitrary data collection), lack of oversight (no warrants), lack of proportionality (i.e. local Police getting access to all your searches because someone made a 'noise complaint'), and politicization (i.e. Trump getting search records on political enemies etc.).
Any open source or DIY alternatives to this?
> If we arrest someone embarrassing, we'll just find something to charge them with.

Or as they currently do: lie about their detainees doing crimes and/or plant contraband
That is my point. Civic leaders DID decide how Americans would live for the next few generations. It is hard to undo even if our children want to go back to the traditional village which had worked for centuries.
Debug logging of requests is sometimes left on by mistake too.
I agree, the majority of people who visit content aggregators tend to be readers, not commenters, and therefore there is no necessary correlation between commenting and bookmarking.
That's an interesting idea, I'll probably borrow this for ETL purposes.
Can Greek Tragedy Get Us Through the Pandemic?
I'm not doubting some people have secrets that they genuinely need to keep, some people are honest-to-goodness terrorists, for example.

Just the narrative that suggests all people should be worried about secrecy; I'll warrant most people's secrets wouldn't cause enough of a stir to dissolve a sugar lump in a hot cup of tea.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. Words can independently change and evolve over time, while still using the same base.

As a Chinese speaker, Korean very much sounds closeish and Japanese is often similar enough to realize a distant split.

It is important to remember that all branches of a tree grow. China has thousands of dialects all co-evolving and we don't know which the others could have split from and how far either has changed
Fusion and Cold Fusion were the best, IMO:

- https://skins.webamp.org/skin/cc24464c27369f14e2631c709eb095...

- https://skins.webamp.org/skin/efb2ac84260d283513e8b940de12cf...
The BCM2835 was originally a high volume shipping cell phone GPU for Nokia with a different part number (BCM2708) and the ARM core enabled internally. It was also stacked with DDR memory.

It shipped first in a STB for Roku, but that was happenstance vs any design intention.

The market for separate cell phone GPUs died off, but the die was manufactured still for the RPi.
"even though the goal is to eventually have as much IP released under a BSD-like open source license"

What do people mean _exactly_ by 'IP' in contexts like this related to computing boards such as SBCs and FPGAs?

The only 'IP' I know is a term pertaining to legal concepts like patents, where 'IP' and 'patent' are almost synonymous. In the current context, what does it mean to 'release' this 'IP'? How do you 'release' a patent?
- Stefan Milo (Anthropology): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ9jWH_8tJ-Nmaj8dSQdEYA

- The Tim Traveller (History): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LVhJH_9cT2XKp0VAfsKOQ

- Numberphile (Mathematics): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A

- Practical Engineering (Engineering / Sciences): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOqf8ab-42UUQIdVoKwjlQ

- Smarter every day (Engineering/General): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA

- Objectivity (Sciences): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg

- Every frame a painting (Film): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A (No longer active)

- Primitive Technology: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

- Domain of Science: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqAWLTk1CmBvZFPzeZMd9A

- BPS.Space (Rocketry): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXIe2svjHhg

- Moth Light Media (Biology): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOh5Ht3eB4914hMUfJkKa9g
I wondered too; here's some information I found: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16948/do-helico...

From the middle of that answer:

> In normal operations, and design aims to achieve this, the rotor tips do not go supersonic since when they do, there is a sudden and large decrease in performance with more power required, higher blade loads, vibration and noise.

> Think about a helicopter flying forwards. The advancing blade at its most perpendicular position experiences a relative airflow which is equal (ignoring all kinds of minor side effects) to the forward speed plus the speed of the blade. The retreating blade is experiencing a relative airflow equal to the speed of the blade minus the speed of the helicopter.

> If the blades rotate so fast that the tips are supersonic, then the main lift generating part of the retreating blade, the outer two thirds of the span, would experience such a low airspeed, for some of the span it will even be negative, that the blades will stall causing a catastrophic roll into that side. It is this phenomenon which ultimately limits the rotational speed of the blades and the maximum speed of the helicopter.

I also found this: https://www.quora.com/Does-every-helicopter-main-rotor-blade...
From what I've seen, it just seems too implausible to me even beyond the practical considerations. Satoshi was carefully guarded, but I suspect something not that far off from his real personality shone through in all of his posts and emails. Maybe even something very close to it. I have no idea what his moral character is, but my gut feeling is that he's just not the sort of person who would work as a bogus pharmaceutical seller, spammer, drug trafficker, arms trafficker, and murderer. Of course I can't possibly claim to know this with any certainty, but I just have the feeling it's very unlikely he's anything close to a Pablo Escobar-type.

My guess is he's a single individual whose real identity has never been publicly suggested as a serious Satoshi suspect.
Interest rates are super low. The Fed's printing money like there's no tomorrow.

It makes a lot of sense that investors would want to put their cash in the market and/or take advantage of low interest rates to lever up.

If you're willing to bet the dollar's going to crash in the next few years due to Fed policy, it makes sense to write dollar-valued IOU's today and use them to buy stocks and gold, knowing you'll be able to pay them back with cheaper-valued future dollars.
The complaining students are factually wrong when they say: "The word is most commonly used with a pause in between both syllables". It isn't. I heard it countless times when I lived in China.

This is just stupid.
See, I always thought that socialism degenerates into tyranny.

My socialist country didn't even allow people to travel - to prevent capital flight and brain drain - and now you are proposing to basically close borders to some people until you buy your own freedom.

That's scary as hell and a return back to 1920s.
Re google vs state scrutiny specifically - the big difference between the two - one has an exclusive right to use physical force against individuals, another one - does not.
Need I remind you that the world has been running almost exclusively on gold, which also has a limited supply "design"? That is if you look back a few thousand years. Deeply flexible currencies are mostly a recent invention, and their fate is not yet determined.

Volatility is a result of lack of actual usage of the currency. And yes, bitcoin has virtually no actual usage, save for speculation/investing. Any normal currency has hundreds of millions of contracts attached to it (starting from short term offers on groceries in your local shop). Each of those contracts is a volatility dampener. Saying that Bitcoin is not used because it's volatile it's like saying that x=y because x=y.
What academia does to pay the bills (publishing papers to get grants) has very
little to do with undergraduate curricula. Once you're on "the other side" as
a PhD student, you'll see undergrads as cattle whose primary function is to
pay tuition.
http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
They have had that option for twenty years already.

It hasn't happened because cultural fit is super important to a business if it wants to create a quality product.

Look at the areas where the services have been outsourced to overseas, it's support and maintenance of products and services, generally post-sales support where they don't care about the quality of the service or it's a company with a natural monopoly and they care more about saving money than providing a good service.

Having a hand picked team with unique interlocking skills is what creates a quality product, you can't do that if you are outsourcing entire teams overseas, you have no control on who you are hiring and quality.

Or at the least these problems are super difficult to overcome and probably the cost to overcome them is too much for anything less than a global company to get any savings out of doing.

PS I've totally generalised to make a point, there are 1000s of exceptions I am sure.
Broadcom SoC is probably protected by a bunch of patents and/or trade secrets, which makes it impractical to open source. For example the whole boot process is a black box, which is why you have to use Raspbian and not regular Debian.
It's roughly in the same class when compared to Arduino/uC RISC-V boards that really are incomparable and suited to a completely different type of application.
Is it worth it to salt in scenarios when the passwords (actually tokens) themselves are guaranteed to be unique and instead only use pepper?
My understanding is bcrypt truncates at 72 bytes by default, which could be 18 emojis I guess?

It should still be consistent with registration/login with things getting truncated, but I think this is also the default in PHP if you are using password_hash() today. Is that a security issue?
What plan do you favor for ending the pandemic?
Is this a good machine for a pihole? Can I power it via usb from my router?
Does anyone have a link to an ebook copy or scan?
On the other hand wouldn't it be good for some of the extra hygiene to stick around? Allowing kids to do online school when they're sick rather than prioritizing in-person attendance is a great step forward IMO. Not only because schools spread illness quickly, but because it's a horrible experience to be sick at school. Same goes for work.