skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting and well-researched article. I'd like to put if-then-else in the bigger historical context of "structured programming".

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was a big debate if programmers should use structured programming, building programs out of blocks with control structures such as iteration and conditionals. (Earlier programs were built from ad hoc control using goto.) This is the context of Dijkstra's famous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful.

Although structured programming seems obvious now, there was a lot of resistance. At first, people weren't even sure if structured programming could implement all the required control flows, so someone (Böhm–Jacopini) had to prove the "structured program theorem". Languages needed to be modified to support structured programming, e.g. adding block if-else to Fortran 77.

I have to wonder what modern programming debates will seem as obvious in retrospect as the victory of structured programming.
“ What the next system will look like is an open question. I’ve seen multiple proposals. Whatever form it takes, it’ll be decentralized in the sense that it won’t be completely tied to any one country’s currency, since no country is big enough for that anymore. It’ll be based around neutral reserve assets, and/or a more regional-reserve model based on a handful of key country currencies, with an expanded variety of payment channels.”

No wonder Facebook continues to fight hard for their Libra / Diem project
"Complexity is a crutch" - I'm told Neil Gayman said this. Not 100% sure but I totally agree.
I enjoyed playing around with this and I got real value out of it as a discovery tool when I filtered to showing aclaimed fiction. I know its survivor bias, but I dont want to waste my time on something both terribly written and outside my echo chamber.

One usability tweak based on how I interacted with it would be to add a 'I already like this' button to suggested books to save me from re-adding them. It also suggested another H.P. Lovecraft novel despite me already marking At the Mountains of Madness as a liked book, I'm pretty sure that if you like one Lovecraft book, you'd like the rest.

The one recommendation I had a strong negative reaction to was by Jeffrey Archer which I guess means that its the book I should read next.
that would be great, if it had an open API

It is useless without API
in his defense, it is more like a book than an article, so it is understandable if he missed some of important points
Not quite, if you take the a priori assumption that the attacker will test dictionary words, you don't want your password to be a dictionary word.

However, it's so incredibly unlikely a high entropy generator would generate a dictionary word that you shouldn't even have to worry about it.
Well my hometown now has a white nationalist militia that wasn’t there 4 years ago. I guess these are just patriots in your book?
Are there any good real-world applications that take heavy advantage of SIMD? I imagine it would be very prolific given the benefits offered but SIMD, but I honestly have no idea.
So much for the narrative that Amazon never kills any services.
Your article is irrelevant - and doesn't even support your claim. The article simply states that ordinary citizens have the least effect on policy creation (and they, self-admittedly, offer no data on how effective other participants are). Not that they have no effect. In fact, the purpose of a democratic republic is to provide protections against mob rule by limiting persons' individual effects. You are misinterpreting their study and misapplying it in your argument. Had your argument been valid, then you would be wasting your time anyways - why argue with people who have no effect (definition of a troll)?

So while individuals have relatively little effect on policy creation, you are completely leaving out their participation in policy execution - a major component of my argument. People can file complaints against bad officers or judges. People can file lawsuits when their rights have been infringed (look at policies that were enacted and the payouts against police departments in big cities). People can generate a combined effect on policy creation through voting. An easy way to view this would be to ask yourself what policy changes should take effect if one party or the other took full government control as this requires individual participation as voters and would likely lead to lawsuits against those new policies.

"I bet it makes software engineers in Seattle or SF feel very good about themselves when they can blame the woes of society on the median income household, but maybe you should try to go after people who actually have an impact."

You complain about invalid premises yet you engage in ad hominem fallacies? I wouldn't presume to know what devs in those areas think. I think it's also a stretch to claim that anyone is blaming the median income households - plenty of higher income people are ignorant of the problems as they are disproportionately unaffected.
> For example, it's more likely you'll say something like 'give candy to these kids' or 'wash these cars' than 'give a piece of candy to each kid' or 'wash each of these cars.

True but for more complex instructions, it’s common to say “do these things for that kid, then do that for all the kids”, which is pretty much a for loop. I can’t speak to how common this was in lay speech before programming was common though.

(There was an earlier thread about this but algolia’s search UI suddenly became a pain to use on mobile and it’s too tedious to find.)
People on this subthread are talking about how you'll get caught, and maybe there's something to that, but the real reason this won't work is that nobody wants to buy your stupid auth bypass bug in a random line of business application.

If your bug generates OG Instagram accounts, you'll probably find a buyer --- they will be loons who are likely to land you a prison sentence, because that's the general caliber of person who commits felonies to briefly lock up short account names on Instagram, and you'll have absolutely no way of arguing in court that you didn't know exactly what they were going to do. But you'll probably sell it, because there is an existing business process that acquires OG Instagram accounts your bug can slot into.

Nobody has a business process for exploiting access to a stupid internal legal dashboard application. Nobody is going to shell out more than $7000, speculatively, for access to this website.
>> To compete, you really do have to cut minimum wage. You have to loosen regulations

That’s not what Germany has done but there’s little doubt that Germany’s manufacturing ability is held in a higher regard globally.

So i challenge the “have to”. It’s the unproven talk of a particular tribe but i stress unproven since economics is a social science. That means there’s lots of science but is fundamentally stories we tell each other and not akin to, for example, the unassailable truth of gravitational pull.
But that’s like saying you are frustrated by auto companies because your car isn’t free and doesn’t last unlimited miles. Don’t you normally pay for things?
hi! What service did you use to search the books? where'd you get your data from? cool project!
There is an administrative fee usually that is in the low 3 digit range per semester, I’d assume it’s still below 200€ per semester and usually includes a ticket for the local public transit. When I studied a real fee was introduced (2007 iirc) and abolished again before I graduated.

Volkshochschule is not a college but does offer yoga and knitting classes, some language classes and maybe a computing class for seniors.. nothing that would prepare you for a career
I have unlimited data transfer on my home internet connection. Is my ISP pulling a "bait and switch" because my internet bandwidth isn't also unlimited? Ignoring the whole "physically impossible" thing, of course.

The entire universe is a bait and switch using that sort of logic.
I like the open, competitive, low-middle-man economic vision.

I'm not sure whether the volatility of ETH price matters much when stablecoins are readily available.

Generally: I'll switch to ethereum for daily spending when I can spend through a proxy that allows revert an erroneous transaction (e.g. a overcharge or wrong recipient), perhaps necessarily arbitrated by a 3rd party. It's just a little too stressful sending >$100-500 frequently w/ ethereum right now.

This week, I bought a little airbnb pre-ipo, then sold post-ipo through Ethereum->FTX exchange.

Also bought some 24 hr traded synthetic tesla stock on eth.mirror.finance. (completely anonymously)

Wild times. Hard to go back once you have a taste of financial freedom.
Bitcoin could be a solution?
You must mean 8Khz - which results in a 64kbps stream. (8000 bytes per second) The companding was actually a very good use of 8 bits per sample for voice, introducing little artifacts except at high amplitudes and the low pass filter. Nowadays I find it ridiculous mobile networks feel it's still necessary to compress the audio further - 64Kbps is nothing on modern mobile networks, ie VoLTE etc... WB-AMR is definitely an improvement with it's 16Khz sample rate and a bitrate lower than that of G.711, but mostly not supported between different mobile carriers...
> At this stage, instead of just blue-collar labor in America being hurt by the system, the geopolitical ambitions of United States hegemony are also subverted. As far as Americans were concerned, for 40+ years the petrodollar system used to work for the top half of the income spectrum but not really the bottom half, and now it neither particularly works for the top half nor the bottom half. It’s now a system without a purpose.

This is the article’s key insight. Dollar hegemony no longer works for anyone.

The Fed needs to support international payments in multiple currencies
and build its non-dollar reserves. Congress should prioritise domestic manufacturing and wage growth.
Sure, but I think it can be easier to do. VPNs require some setup so it's not as ad-hoc as you want for sharing files between two offices. The HTTPS server is what many offices do now when they deal with a lot of secure document exchange to clients (law firms, accountants, etc). Again, not bad but requires them to setup an on-prem public server to have equivalent security to peer-to-peer. The opportunity is to take some steps out of the process.
It's very common in image and audio processing algorithms, and overall lots of general-purpose libraries used in software will use SIMD instruction sets. Even things like memcpy or String.IndexOf are vectorized in modern runtimes. IIRC Facebook released a very carefully tuned hashmap that uses SIMD instructions to do many of its search operations.
Great tool! Apparently I need to read about Knitting "Catering Moss", which honestly sounds like the most relaxing book I would have never thought to read.
VB.NET also uses “OrElse” and “AndAlso” for short-circuiting. VB6 didn’t support short-circuiting at all.
That would be self-dealing and illegal.
Arstechnica has a great interview with Jordan Mechner, the creator of this game. A true technical and artistic wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw0VfmXKq54&ab_channel=ArsTe...
If you take documents from the website, you aren't looking for vulnerabilities, you're straightforwardly committing felonies. Private groups might donate to your legal defense fund, but they aren't going to pay you for documents they know it's a crime for you to have.
As an experiment, I gave it The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, a Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, and the silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. A pretty standard selection of well-known books in the Fantasy genre.

Out of the 90 books I get, 53 either have the word "Dragon" in the title, or a dragon on the cover of the book. Clearly, a majority of the results also fall in the Fantasy genre, so have my doubts this counts as escaping the echo chamber.

On the other hand, there are a lot of books in that list that I have never heard about, and that look interesting (insofar as you can judge a book by its cover).
When I'm done with my current series of books, I'll have a good look at this :-)
Have you tried https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard ?

Edit: just saw that several people mentioned this already. Good, it is a nice tool!
Lets say that you use method such as `openssl rand -base64 6` and out comes "password". The odds of that happening would be crazy low for an individual user. However, if you deploy the same generator for a billion people it could realistically happen, and you might want to filter against outputs like that. Of course if all passwords are autogenerated (users cannot choose), the attacker gains no advantage from choosing "password" instead of "tlnNHJ4x".
I'll second pwndbg, but also recommend gef. Gef is a little more lightweight and optimized. It doesn't include the reverse engineering tools that pwndbg has, but it doesn't sound like you're using those anyway. For general debugging it should work the exact same way as pwndbg.

https://github.com/hugsy/gef
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Did they synthetize the DNA in their kitchen, or they paid an specialized lab to do that part?

> To date this is by far the largest dosage(10mg) of a DNA plasmid based gene therapy outside a clinical trial(all others have been in micrograms or single milligrams).

Why? Is there any indication that a big dose is more effective?

Luckily they had no big side effects, but any test of a candidate of a vaccine has a chance of a problem. That's why they are tested firs in very small groups and under medical supervision.

A few days ago, the Pfizer vaccine caused a problem in two persons with an history of allergy problems. It is always a possibility.

Also, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement that has been observed in coronavirus.

The clinical test for a vaccine are very important.
Orwell became an engaged socialist as a young man based on his experience as being sent out as a colonial officer to Burma, and then as a consequence his exploration of the lives of the lower classes in the “developed” regions of Europe (primarily UK, France and Spain).* he wrote extensively of the inequities of capitalism and specifically of British social system.

By the end of the war his opinions had expanded as he understood the common thread of manipulation that ran through the governing systems of capitalism, fascism and communism. His subsequent, and final book, Animal Farm was about how communist systems, due to human nature, can tend to to end up just as bad as the others. It’s unclear to me if he ever gave up on his hopes for socialism (and if he had, if he despaired of any alternative) but it’s his weakest book in an extraordinary corpus.

1984 is often taken as a denouncement of socialism, but it’s more broad than that.

* Blair’s journey to socialism parallels the earlier journey that made socialism an acceptable doctrine in the UK at all, the trenches of WWI. That was the first time many of the upper class (all officers of course) had ever interacted closely with members of the lower classes and really developed even an inkling of what their lives were back home.
Guess, I am not going to add goodreads support to my reading-tracking library app
I do lots of simulation, and make extremely heavy use of SIMD.
Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks
Move out of California. Start a new career. Switch my ambition from having a great career to having a great life.
I think there is a fundamental difference between editor (designed to produce a deliverable) and viewer (designed for immediate experience) software. One of the things essential to the latter but really to the former is immediacy, hence I suspect that the computing powers commonly available today make it impossible for now (but likely not for much longer).
The other thing that happens, and really dooms a project is when the senior people leave. Eventually you end up with a team that doesn't really understand the code.

This leads them to just tack on features while changing as little as possible. This will grow into something truly unmaintainable, virtually guaranteeing no competent work will be done on the project again.
I just signed up for this and imported my GoodReads csv export. the csv has 90ish rows and I was only able to import 60ish rows.

I get that Open Library doesn't have as much data as GoodReads, but I wish it would show me the data it couldn't import so I could add it manually to Open Library's data store.

Nevertheless, I love the idea and I'll be opening bug reports and maybe code contributions if something looks easy enough.
Yeah, I'd be curious to see plaintext pros and cons between this and a quick Wireguard 1:1.
In all fairness, the same is happening to China as well. Manufacturing as a percentage of GDP has been declining every year since 2010, and iirc manufacturing in total value has stagnated entirely in many provinces over the last couple of years.

Manufacturing is still moving to SE Asian countries (Viet Nam in particular), but even there producers are increasingly moving production in India and East Africa because of rising costs (e.g., wages).
I completely disagree. certainly the chances that a rewrite in a standard software organization are pretty good that the new version will be just as broken, but in a new and different way than the last.

but I've taken several projects in the 100s of k-lines and translated them into projects with equivalent functionality and spanning between 1-2 decimal orders of magnitude less source code.

that's not an argument for rewriting in all circumstances - I just think at least half of most mature software is just 'junk dna' - useless boilerplate, unused paths, poor abstractions, etc
There is no correlation between FOMC and fiscal policy and the dollar. The dollar has strengthened since 2008 despite all this QE, stimulus, and other stuff that has gone on. I think the dollar is more like a proxy for US dominance in the world. If the US assumes a smaller role, likely the dollar will fall.
Cyberpunk 2077 Performance Review and Optimisation Guide
Use f.lux, redshift or some other alternative.

You can thank me latter.
Wealth inequality is a problem you can’t fix by reducing the income of the poor.
> You reasoning applies exactly to gold

About half of gold is used to make jewelry, and 10% is used in industry [per wikipedia]. If the demand for the remaining portion that is purchased as investments/speculation fell to zero, gold would still have value. If bitcoin's investment/speculation interest fell to zero, the price would also fall to zero (or close to it) - it doesnt really do anything else.
Biological sequence alignment.
Even if it weren’t, that just means we would have called the construct “if-then-otherwise” instead (perhaps abbreviated as othw).
To do that I'd have to calculate 4 billion sha256 hashes.

This quote is from 2012: "I do 622 million SHA-256's per sec on a Radeon HD5830."

You might have salted it or encoded in a 'clever' way like hex or words or whatever, but as you know the method you can do it.
The argument of it saving millions of lives in the future, is not good enough for you?

And there are more people in my city than in New Zealand. You can't compare the world to a tiny island. Your comparision is unfair and unrealistic. Europe for example couldn't just close it's borders, it's logistically impossible.
Everything you listed sounds like something that should be handled by permissions or settings, not a completely different media format.
Yeh, I beg to differ. Containers have an absolutely horrible security record. Just in the past few weeks we've seen yet another container breakout, an "un-fixable" k8s 'issue', another cryptojacker exclusively attacking container infrastructure and more.

The huge problem with "containers" is that they break well known security boundaries by sharing the same kernel. This is further exacerbated by software like k8s by allowing an attacker to further extend their attack as soon as they compromise a single instance.
In fact, when propositional logic was first formalised [1] George Boole gave "and" and "or" the same meaning, denoted by the symbol "+".

[1]: https://t.co/nBYXLPidoS?amp=1
Introduction to Machine Learning from MIT
Except that you’d then have to make all the operators postfix to match how German puts the verbs at the end of subordinate clauses :-p

“wenn a b ==...”
Hi, Mek. Awesome project!

How do I go about claiming my author page? The current book listed there has been officially "retired" for over a decade now, and I have plenty of other books that I'd be happy to add.

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A/Rik_Roots
SIMDs are big in computer graphics – you'd expect them to be used heavily in physics simulation and CPU-based rendering engines. Would be interesting to see how blender's Cycles or say Arnold Renderer performs on M1
Yeah, complexity sets are a bad method to estimate password entropy. Wheeler et al. [1] published pretty sound methods for estimating password entropy at the lower end of the entropy scale.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical...
Importance of ERP Software in Manufacturing Industries
Win 16 nor Win32 were never state of the art Windows GUI frameworks, just the basic building blocks.

That place is reserved for OWL, VCL and MFC, which WinDbg doesn't use.
That's the same thing, just in a different part of the process. Why does the insurance company get access to your driving record, which ideally is confidential between you and the state? Corporate lobbying making laws that give select companies access to everyone's driving records?
China has sold off a net of 40 billion worth of treasuries in the past year. Less than a percent. "Sell off" is putting it exceptionally strongly. The Yuan is still in a very managed float position. It doesn't swing by more than a percent or two over a long horizon.
Do video games qualify? Anything that does stuff like lots of matrix multiplication is a prime candidate for SIMD optimization.
Had you shorted the US stock market in 2000 on that prediction/hunch, you would be down a lot. The economy has moved beyond manufacturing. Data, payment, and information processing and intellectual ropery have taken over manufacturing in importance.
And who is going be able to provide for all this shit? I'll tell you who - FAANG. Good luck starting your company when all of the above is a law! I've had enough clicks on GDPR's "OK" buttons. What did it change?

All this crying about tracking - how else the owner of the place can make product better? If I own a store - I can see where people go, how they shop, how they walk around, which basket size they prefer, what they buy. If I don't collect data on my website - I can't THINK about how to make my service better. I can only GUESS. What about data collections for simple functionality - like, when you come back to the half-filled form and I remember the values you already submitted by matching your cookies. Are you against this as well?

Sorry, but if this is the alternative - I would rather have Google know everything I do online and hope that they honestly don't store data on my Incognito browsing. If they do - worse for them.
Tons of schools are going to chrome books. In fact digital books are distributed this way and cheaper than physical books.
A heavy SIMD user is in all things cryptographic.

You can read what Google did on Android phones to encrypt drives here for instance: https://lwn.net/Articles/776721/
US self sufficient manufacturers who don't rely on commodities would benefit with a weaker dollar.

US consumers will get fucked with a weaker dollar. Imagine having to pay $7 a gallon for oil instead of $3.

There is another consequence. A lot of other countries will become "rich" all of a sudden. Which means they won't use US dollar as a medium of exchange and America would have to "earn" by exporting. Which means people will have to work a lot more to produce more for exports without consuming ourselves.