skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow thats so lame. its not iranian hackers that are sophisticated, its us cia com “hackers” that are apparently lame. each day it seems we discover the emperor’s clothes. a shame really because we needed the cia to bring us democracy.

oh wait..
> Is there some mining craze going on with old cards?

Combination of mining craze and massive demand for entertainment electronics and GPUs since everybody has been stuck at home due to pandemic and decided to build/upgrade their computers.

Which also lead to the situation that scalping outfits have extended their services from covering mostly designer appeal to now also include electronics like GPUs and consoles. The popularity of this also attracts a lot more people to use these kinds of services as a form of investment, which most certainly does not help an already supply constrained market.
There was a time not long back where people in London communted back to their families over Christmas. A lot of my friends on social media were ripping into them 'selfish c*ts, can't they see they are killing people?' The thing is we all live in a rural area where most of us have a nice remote job living in an area that means we can afford a house with a decent garden and a lot of us with young families at home. Whereas those in London have likely been sitting in a single room 'bedsit' going out of their mind from beingf stuck in the same four walls for hours everyday.
Well, it has the faster iGPU thats for sure. But if you use it for work it is usually slower:

https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/Intel%20Core%20i7-...

You can't just swap it out too, you need a mainboard with a 9-Series chipset, which you usually don't if you are running a Haswell.
On modern engines most of the hot code are GPGPU shaders, specially on cards modern enough to support mesh shaders.

Secondly, there is the ongoing rewrite from C++ into HPC#.

Third, I still remember the days when Pascal, Basic and C compilers were deemed worthless for professional game engines, followed by similar remarks to C++, back when Abrash books were still hot of the press.

Finally, languages don't dictate how fun games are and how much they sell.
Not in about 8 years. I do most of my development in Docker these days so tend to make use of Linux package managers.
Ask HN: Searching for „Modern“ Contracting Companies
Hi all, I‘m searching for inspiration and examples of successful contracting software development companies, which are not „just“ doing anything & everything and bending over backwards for their clients.

I’m looking for companies which are opinionated and successful.

What are the contracting companies you admire? And why?

Thanks!
This is why I love weekend HN. Articles like this don’t often seem to make the front page on the week days, but they are fantastic.
I wonder how much the hat BASE/wing suit stat is exaggerated by the “extreme” culture associated with it. I can’t imagine hobbies airplane builders are immediately doing aerobatics at the first chance they can. Wing suit flyers are famously risk maximizing.
The impact of home schooling on young children
A function that will be called... a continuation. eg. "call me back when you are ready". or "call me when you are outside", "call me when you have arrived", "call me later".
> And then what?

And then, I suppose, the expectation was to sell most shares to desperate hedge funds and maybe keep one or two because you actually like GameStop. The idealistic and completely unrealistic narrative being that it would only be short sellers that pay for the redditor's profits, of course.
I think GME wouldn't really have had the opportunity to capitalize on the situation, because them issuing shares would have angered basically 95% of reddit -- and if you're dependant on gamer's liking you, that would probably be a death sentence.

> con them into working with you

I'm not sure how much active misleading was going on, when the narrative that most people believed allowed for motivating people to buy/hold without any nefarious motives.
I've always found it quite funny how common it is in the US to be the 2nd or 3rd e.g. "Peter II Smith". I haven't seen this anywhere in Europe besides in history books for kings etc.

It looks like one of those "need to compensate for lack of history" things.
The intellectually honest way to approach a faulty argument is to discard the parts that are false, maybe with commentary, then attack the bits that remain with better arguments.

I don't believe the article is doing that. It characterises one protest as "anti-lockdown, anti-vaxxer, anti-mask, anti-5G ... organised by Save Our Rights UK Ltd". I don't think the protesters thought they were protesting against 5G; I note that Save Our Rights UK doesn't list 5G as an issue [0]. And many of the issues they do list are, y'know, pretty serious. I'd consider joining a protest against sweeping legislative changes in response to the pandemic. Such changes in crisis situations tend to be really bad in hindsight.

There is a big difference between legitimate and illegitimate arguments. But I don't trust the article to fairly represent the arguments of the people it is attacking. The author should have a little bit more empathy for the people in the movements they are attacking.

Also; as a general comment it isn't reasonable to demand everyone be articulate about why they are hurting or to understand where in the system the leverage points are to relieve the pain. This is a radical time, people who aren't full time public speakers might have things they want to say. Working hard to paint them as disinformed and therefore having illegitimate concerns is a terrible strategy at many levels.

[0] https://saveourrights.uk/issues-we-face/
Perhaps instead of stating "that the title has arisen as a result of a form of professional jealousy" I should have stated "that use of the title has arisen as a result of a form of professional jealousy" which is entirely consistent with the author implying that lawyers need to signal that what they do is special".
A Log Function with Superpowers
What does a war between two interstellar civilizations look like? If they can accelerate mass to a high fraction of the speed of light doesn’t that mean their first strike weapons are all planet killers? If we assume they still primarily use planets as the sites of their industrial and population centres then doesn’t that mean any systems within striking distance are immediately obliterated by large, dark, unstoppable projectiles travelling at 0.7c? Any point defence you can think of fails when you can easily throw millions of these at a planet. There’s no way to win that game for either side.

If we change our assumptions about whether they live on or even care about planets it becomes a very different story. Who knows if they even need the free energy that stars emit. Most of the interstellar medium is ionized so it may be that it’s much easier to just scoop up gas and dust with magnetic fields than it is to attempt to extract large quantities of matter from planets that are few and far between not to mention gravitationally bound.
Check out page 20 of this document [0] produced by Dominion. It clearly shows FTP being used to transfer tallied vote data from remote polling sites to central sites.

Do you have any evidence to support your claim?

[0] https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/sys...
Rutan Quickie is subject to deep stall, and it has an AOA never exceed limit because of it.
Bitcoin average transaction fee is increasing, rapidly
I wouldn't consider Chromium a good example though, given how Google considers most of modern C++ not welcomed.
No. It may be because JD’s are so common and easy to earn relative to a Ph.D. (at least a hard science Ph.D.).

The JD itself is not meaningful for the practice of law - its passing the bar that matters. But that’s true for other professions too (doctors).
It's the book to this course!
These days they don't, which is why, as the article notes, not many lawyers use the term, as it's seen as archaic and pretentious.
Let me start by saying... this is as must read article. I share it often. It is
1. extremely fascinating
2. patently ridiculous
3. something to learn from

He documents almost every part of his daily work environment in painstaking detail. Much of it is ridiculous. All of it, including the article itself, is over the top. I am very appreciative that he chose to share.

Stephen has optimized (for him! not for me) his life to an unbelievable degree. Whether that is walking outside with a laptop working because it slightly reduces his resting heart rate, the extensive renovations to his office to remove the sound of his computer fan, or the elaborate filing system he uses for his daily notes and mail.

He also goes deep into his personal analytics. Stephen is working approximately 100% of the waking hours of the day as evidenced by the timestamps on the emails he sends, which are well plotted over 3 decades. (He's a night owl, sleeping 3am-9am). It also appears he is opening nearly 800 email every day and keeping his unreads below 200.

I should add, partially because I read this article, I began tracking half hourly sprints in the pomodoro-style and have become more interested tracking parts of my own life.
Seems like stock standard American Exceptionalism to me. "When we do it, it's a communications network. When China does it, it's espionage".
How We Fuzz the Browser at Mozilla
This! Particularly when we've reached a point where "scalping as a service" has become a thing.

There are outfits out there that charge a monthly subscription for access to prioritized acquisition channels in combination with bot networks.

This is streamlined to such degree that people don't even need to hold physical inventory themselves: The scalping outlet handles all of that for them, all they need to do is supply the capital for the bots and set the parameters for buying/selling, everything else will be handled by the service.
Works well for China!
Minnesota Cryptocurrency Q&A with Nano Founder Colin LeMahieu
This is why at the very least the triple lock pension needs to go as soon as possible.
There was, in fact, a serious problem with T-tailed jets: Superstall, an irrecoverable stall where the turbulent wake of the stalled wing over the stabilizer and elevator prevents recovery. A crash of a BAC 111 prototype led to the development of stick shakers and pushers, as stalling presents an unacceptable risk in these cases. It is exacerbated with swept wings having a tendency to stall at the wingtips first, as this typically creates a pitching-up moment.
It becomes irrational when you develop the capacity for mutually assured destruction.
The primary reason is that it’s simply not customary. That’s it. It’s no deeper than that.

But JD programs also differ significantly from academically oriented PhD programs in that the overwhelming majority of them focus on generalized practical knowledge and skills alone. Most don’t even properly prepare graduates for local licensure exams, forcing them to do yet another prep course (or at least intense self-study) prior to practicing their trade. In this regard, it’s a degree that’s more similar to an MBA than it is a PhD, and while it shares traits with MD programs, MD programs have a much deeper emphasis on theory, and a much deeper emphasis on practice and ethics than you’ll see in any JD program.

That’s not to say that there aren’t folks that do a JD but proceed along an “academic” track intended to focus on original research and prepare for legal scholarship. These people exist, but they are a tiny minority among JD candidates.
You can call yourself whatever you want in the US, unless you’re trying to sell medical advice and claiming to be a medical doctor and you’re not.

Although a bunch of states are allowing people who have no expertise or study of evidence based medicine to sell their services as doctors, so even that standard is getting lowered.

Edit: fixed can can typo
it's a doctorate in name only. It is actually a professional degree. In other common law countries the first legal degree is an LLB. Unlike other doctoral degrees, it does not signify that the holder can lecture or practice medicine or other research in the field. confusingly, there are PhDs in law, LLDs (doctor of laws) and even LLMs (master of laws) that are sometimes higher than the JD.
If you want a motivated, enthusiastic workforce, don’t try to crush fun for profit.
It's a tale of two east coast authoritarians who tied themselves to two very different party platforms.
Is this a specific accusation against Wolfram or a general comment? (I did a quick google search and found nothing, but without being sure if I was even looking for something, I limited the amount of time I spent.)
So if your comment is about "what does the title mean", yup, no argument there. Today, it means lawyer.

The article is about why.

And the article explicitly states we have no idea why the term is now attached to the legal profession.

Again, all we know is: knights got rich, squires became a thing, people started using "esquire" to appear rich adjacent, then ... esquire == lawyer.

That's it. That's all the article gives us as far as the origin story goes.

But maybe you're not talking about the origin and instead just talking about contemporary use, in which case we're in violent agreement! :)
I think it’s a wonderful idea but it’s going to require a ton of help both political, social, and economic to really become a thing that makes a difference.

State prisons in the US are hell holes. The facilities are terrible, the people (many) are legitimately terrible, and the staff are terrible too.

First you have to find a place where you can have computers at all, no googling for answers because they won’t be allowed internet access.

Then you have to select from the general population, people who won’t destroy the machines, have the social and study skills required to complete the training. It’ll be very few.

Then there’s the absolutely dipshit power tripping staff. Do you know of any good teachers who want to drive out to a Texas prison in the middle of nowhere each day to teach programming?

I have a brother in state prison who would love a program like this. He’s also far more intelligent than me. But to hear him describe the people and conditions, it’s really bad.

I want this to be a thing for inmates but it’s going to require a lot of work.
It may be true. But also: it may be coincidence, there is a chance that the cat naps on the beds of people that are lying quietly, which is something that probably precedes death more often than it does not, the cat may sleep on other beds but nobody thinks much of it and so on.

What the NEJM publishes is not always accurate or even true, there have been numerous examples of retracted studies so no need for the appeal to authority.

If it is true then someone should figure out the mechanism and prove it otherwise it might just as well be coincidence.
How does complexity theory benefit real people? Unlike theories of physics or economics, it doesn't appear to describe how anything actually works, rather that things are just more complex than they seem. For instance, complexity theory just points out that the double pendulum is hard to predict without adding value, while controls theory was more useful by stabilizing the double pendulum.

So what are some real-world benefits of complexity theory?
This is a conversation that we need to be having as a society.

Without this being part of this discussion, there's no way that those worried about disinformation are going to win back anyone's trust.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
To be clear, you mean "literally and kind of change to a function signature [...]", right?
Combine an electronic nose with Boston Dynamics hound and you have a pretty good recipe for a nightmare or a horror movie. During the day it recharges... during the night it hunts... and it never stops chasing you.
Dang, your title definitely made me curious enough to click the link, had a quick glimpse of the article and went to download the original 14 page PDF the author provided

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

This is the power of web and http that opens the world to any curious mind. Your change of title made a book marketing page to a gate to new ideas to explore and discover.

Also out of curiosity I traced the HN list of the submissions of the original link, i.e., the author who is promoting his book:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=cloogshicer

You can see that your change increased the attention to his marketing effort by a factor of 2!

Unfortunately this attention would hardly help him reach his audience, who are on the hiring side of the market and have completely different constraints than the engineering minded people dominated in HN.

Interesting conversation though.
Also, water-free Ammonia is gaseous at room temperature, you have to transport it in pressurized containers. Should one of those rupture, all the Ammonia will boil off, creating a nice cloud of fun for all involved. Neutralizing it works by spraying acetic or hydrochloric acid, which is not quite as bad, but still quite ugly.
By and large, call people what they want to be called even if you think it's a bit unnecessary and pretentious. The fracas over Dr. Biden was silly and whatever one's views of PhDs/other research doctorates emphasizing a doctor title, it's important to some--both male and female--and the latter also gets into all sorts of issues of sexism and perceived sexism.

As the article says, the US in general is less into titles than the UK. I went to an event put on by The Economist a couple years back and the registration form forced you to choose a title and I think were about 30 choices and you had to pick one. (Mr. and Ms. of course but also Lord, Dame, Rev., etc.)
It’s not a doctorate, even though the d stands for doctor. The J.D. is kind of an odd special case. The use of Dr. for a J.D. would be contrary to custom and make no sense. It is a vocational certification, requiring no research nor contribution to knowledge—just two to three years of classwork.
Well its usage has been beaten out of me for scientific papers, and I’ve never seen it used in the venues I read. Maybe I just need to read more papers.
The Road to World War Two
Because the government is the party deciding on the restrictions. If the government has to pay the price there’s a chance they’ll keep that part of the equation in mind.

If they can just brush it off by having others foot the bill, they’ll simply make the choice which minimizes the impact that can be directly attributed to them. Which definitely is not always the right choice.

It’s just so much easier to chant for safety whatever the costs if you don’t have to pay the bill.
> When the average person can't write a short story, can't draw, can't do anything creative (in the generative sense), but instead relies on consuming pre-packaged experiences for entertainment

The cause of this is the continued capitalist enclosure and privatization of science and technology.

"Place Silicon Valley in its proper historical context and you see that, despite its mythology, it’s far from unique. Rather, it fits into a pattern of rapid technological change which has shaped recent centuries. In this case, advances in information technology have unleashed a wave of new capabilities. Just as the internal combustion engine and the growth of the railroads created Rockefeller, and the telecommunications boom created AT&T, this breakthrough enabled a few well-placed corporations to reap the rewards. By capitalising on network effects, early mover advantage, and near-zero marginal costs of production, they have positioned themselves as gateways to information, giving them the power to extract rent from every transaction.

Undergirding this state of affairs is a set of intellectual property rights explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and global institutions at the behest of the nation states who benefit from it the most. It’s no accident that Silicon Valley is a uniquely American phenomenon; not only does it owe its success to the United States’ exceptionally high defence spending — the source of its research funding and foundational technological breakthroughs — that very military might is itself what implicitly secures the intellectual property regime." [1]

Only a system that honours actual material scarcity of all resources (and thus the immaterial abundance of written/drawn knowledge: blueprints, trade secrets+patents ('intellectual property'), any other type of human knowledge; enabled through the zero-marginal cost of digital reproduction), can change this:

hREA (by Mikorizal): http://mikorizal.org/futures.html + https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea

holochain: https://developer.holochain.org/docs/concepts/1_the_basics/

[1] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
Flash performance was abysmal on Mac OSX since forever and Adobe couldn't be bothered to fix. They gave up the Apple ecosystem and the whole Flash thing even before the iPhone.
I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)
Pretty great, thanks, bookmarked!
I bet it costs less than half that in Texas. If that’s any consolation.
Paperback!

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
That’s true in that there is no law against it. You can give yourself whatever title you want.

Other people are going to find it confusing and embarrassing though.
Yes we should.
Uh? The most obvious violation? The point of these is to reduce the s1 need etc in part
In certain parts of the US (mostly Texas, I think), it is common to give your first born son the same name as you. In that case, using Sr. and Jr., or numerals becomes a practical matter of identifying which Peter Smith you are talking about.
An attorney (under the model rules) can call themselves doctor (your state may vary). No one does because it would get you laughed at by other attorneys (as we should do to Dr. Biden).
Finance people know you sell stock for hundreds of reasons, you only buy stock for one, you think its gonna go up or pay a dividend.
Good metapoint - you don't even have to call yourself, you can can yourself! :D
It's not really reddit's job. But I wouldn't be surprised if the SEC decides to ban "meme stock hyping".

Their mandate includes insuring that value of shares accurately reflects the value of the company and that investors remain confident in the function of the market. This situation is damaging both those mandates, especially once GME fully crashes and all the noob investors who bought the peek lose their investment and decide to never invest again.

Before anyone replies saying that the SEC should instead be focused on hedge fund market manipulation, I'll point out that's already against the rules and it's just an issue of enforcement.

And I assure you that the SEC are going to have an even harder time enforcing any rules against "meme stock hyping"
I wished so, but no. It's even true for changes in a function's body. Maybe that's a good hint, no? :)
Certain fields legitimately should ask. If you’ve been convicted of financial crimes or theft a bank should know before hiring you. Likewise schools should know if you’ve hurt children before.
They do insert a giant advertisement in every email which was a dealbreaker for me.
It's not exactly wrong as map does call the function passed to it. Maybe the topic was named such as to get up-votes as many people do not like callbacks (which is only a convention to higher order functions used extensively in Node.js for async, as JavaScript by itself does not have any async functions!)...
The proper title would be something like: "Unexpected parameters when using Array.map and new Promise"
"The YouTube channel you're currently using isn't supported for the Google Play Music transfer."

Uhh... ok...
I presume this is the ‘legacy’ macro language and there is also the Visual Basic thing which is plain English, right?
I really wish all of Google’s and alphabet’s problems were due to their occasional principled stance.