skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100 people were murdered in Chicago in July (just one month) last year so does it mean US as a whole is dangerous? No, my suburban town had zero murders for last 4 years, there was one homicide in 2016 (domestic dispute) and then no murders for 10 years before that. On the other hand it’s unclear which one is safer - South Chicago or Kabul.

Donbass in Ukraine is dangerous and a no go war zone. Downtown Kiev/Lviv are peaceful and have an excellent quality of life with amazing restaurants and nightlife.

You can’t average big countries.
Yeah, sort of what I meant by my last bit... They simply don't need it any more.
Dumping a C program’s AST with Psyche-C (and Clang's AST correlation)
SpaceX's Starship rocket lands but then explodes
Ah, yes, I strongly disagree to this. An activity being primarily performed by a disadvantaged group does not mean that activity is immune to criticism (see also: fur coats, fgm)
Ah, that's interesting. Different from what I was talking about but certainly makes sense.
Please provide more background and context.
From the article:

> Hitting nearly 1TFlops in the browser (50% of peak) is extremely empowering and it's exciting to see such technology available.
The approach you describe definitely does not work for all children. The vast majority (that I've taught) are better served by a scaffold of increasingly complex metaphors and definitions. The fact that the metaphor of repeated addition wears thin actually highlights the idea that different sets of mathematical objects have different operators for most students in a way that just telling them that ahead of time does not.

The changing of the rules is good preparation for scientific study where our understanding actually changes over time and we have to internalize new models regularly. I taught my chemistry students that quarks only combine in pairs or triplets, until one year Fermilab released evidence that quarks combine in quartets and quintets while I was teaching the unit. How could I avoid telling my students that what I'd taught them before was incorrect? Literally no one knew. So the practice of revising our ideas has utility.
> History has shown us over and over again, always bet on the web.

For what it's worth, people had the exact same mantra about internal combustions engines for decades any time someone brought up electric cars.

You're absolutely right that entrenched systems are hard to change and attempts to change them mostly fail... until one succeeds.
A good friend of mine breeds Angora goats for milk, and makes cheese and soap as well as showing the goats.

It seems like a lot of work. And she only has a maximum of around two dozen at a time. I grew up on cattle farms and cows are much easier.
Why do all cloud compute services have GPU quotas?
Usually I work off of my own home GPU server but today I wanted to quickly spin up a cloud GPU instance. I tried aws, GCP, OVHCloud and Genesis cloud. All of them have GPU quotas which are 0 by default and one has to create a support ticket to increase it to non-zero values. This means that its impossible to "impulse buy" a GPU instance.

Now I understand that having quotas in place is almost kinda necessary (miners), but I am sure there must be a better way to handle it than setting the default quota to 0.

Any thoughts ?
Same here in mexico. Its wonderful to file my taxes because i only login into SAT website, check the prefilled data, click accept and I get my tax refunds due to my mortgage credit.

It blows my mind that The USA doesn't have something like this. It's basically taxes at work
Keeping track of algorithmic complexity would be nice as a language and/or static analysis feature. If you wanted to be exact or do it for a language with complex metaprogramming I assume it would be a nightmare to implement. Absent those complications and especially if you always reduced it to O(1), O(n), O(log(n)), etc it might not even be that difficult given the potential advantages.
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So somebody cracked RSA and took over gmail.com domain just to fake him being Schnorr.
Hmm, one could also have a small or regular capacity ammunition feeding device?

But your point, I didn’t initially consider they would use that to mean magazine, I guessed they meant the gizmo one might use to feed ammo rapidly into a magazine without getting one’s thumb tired, sometimes called a speed loader.

Seems silly to call it something else, but perhaps they needed a term that was a superset of magazine and anything else someone might come up with to hold more than a regular mag.
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Soft robot reaches the deepest part of the ocean
"it will open a 97 MB binary STL file in about 165 milliseconds flat, on a 2013 Macbook Pro. This is blinding fast."

This actually sounds incredibly slow, that's nearly 1/5th of an entire second. What can it possibly be doing? :)

In case anyone else was wondering, I followed the link and clicked the description and this is actually based on the time to the first frame being rendered - not just the time to load the file (which should be essentially infinitely fast). So it's actually more impressive than it sounds.
Well, that’s the first time I’ve encountered real spam on HN...
Apparently Thursday (March 4th) is significant to QAnon believers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-56260345

<quote>
Before the 20th amendment of the US Constitution - adopted in 1933 - moved the swearing-in dates of the president and Congress to January, American leaders took office on 4 March.

That's why QAnon followers have latched on to this date to underpin their latest theory.
</quote>
Bonuses at the tech company where I work were only funded at 57% even though the financial press has been in love with the stock lately. The contrast with the recent stock performance made the shit bonus feel like a real slap in the face.
Yeah, this is something we’re actively working on for early stage companies. Number of shares is actually not very valuable information. What’s more important is your percentage of ownership given how many outstanding shares there are at the company. We’re taking a first attempt at collecting this information here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdErbieBKoeEVhrOWZn...

We think startup compensation will be a huge and important next step for us. Hope to have more updates soon!

*Note that once a company switches to RSU we collect that as a cash value at that point (so for example Stripe would have a cash value for their stock grant)
Yes, we're working on collecting more data still: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Investment%20Banker
> forgot to create a killer app example with publicly available source code. Show us a minor Google property re-done in Flutter with code examples and people would flock to it.

Can you think of a "minor Google property" that is open source?
Hey there’s also Canada! We don’t have San Francisco salaries but Toronto tech blows away the EU. With a job offer, you can get a visa in a few weeks.
Company uses YouTube video to mock Amazon for copying their product
Same! In all these years... I am examining it now and dare is say it is just basic spam. "It's better than Tinder!" A redirect but then just a very small, simple page with no JS that looks malicious. Strange community to target. :/
This is dumb beyond belief. It has been well documented that The Gab folks created an account for Trump just in case he wanted to join them. Trump has never had a Gab or Parler account.
Surprising that this a $20m ask when the Oberlin result was 2x that for what seems (albeit with very different levels of information) to be much more superficial institutional involvement.

I’ll be interested to read reporting on the trial, if it gets to one.
Tomochain should be considered as an alternative to BSC. Its a pos network, evm compatible, 2000 tps and 100 times cheaper than eth. You can also issue gasless tokens for your own project on the chain.
Price wise we are not far from price discovery. Its really flying under the radar.
The USA is a hard country to get presents for, because you seem to have everything.

But as an Australian, I'd like to give a gift of the word "Fortnight". Fortnight is a word that means "2 weeks". Its a little old fashioned but awfully useful. Its a common word in Australia (and the UK I think) and you can find it in every English language dictionary.

Like "week", fortnight can be used as an adjective. For example, "Fortnightly meeting" - which means "A meeting that takes place every 2 weeks." Unlike "bimonthly meeting", a "fortnightly meeting" is clear and unambiguous. It is also well understood by the rest of the English speaking world.

I hope this gift finds you well. You're welcome.
Funny, the ergonomics of the Swift string API are so bad that I've started learning a lower level language for parsing, etc.

Here's my favorite WTF: https://christiantietze.de/posts/2020/01/string-index-offset...
Depending on exactly how broken, a large portion of traffic on the internet would lose almost all of its security guarantees (privacy, resistance to forgery). It would also be a huge effort, and take forever to get everyone to fix it. That's about as close to "movie disaster" level as it gets.
Clubhouse is great. Just leave it on. I used to watch "study with me" YouTube and Twitch, but it's not the same.
For a skilled researcher it may be an order of magnitude easier to write the whitepapar than to code the implementation.
For me the moral of the story is do not use (whatever)scanf() for anything other than toy programs. In most cases implementing your own tokenizer (for both of these cases of reading numbers that involves str(c)spn() to get length of candidate token and then strtosomething()) is significantly easier than reasoning about what scanf() really does (even ignoring accidentally quadratic implementation details) and whether that can be adapted to your usecase.
I once saw him walking the floor at Comdex (not the main Las Vegas one but in Chicago). Watchig him walking around, shaking hands, and catching up with his old friends at Red Hat and the like, I couldn't help but feel an intangible sense that the guy was happy. Someone who had created something significant out of nothing (This was before Linux really took off in the 90s). I was starstruck.

> His fortunes changed in 1999. Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading purveyors of Linux-based software packages tailored for large enterprises, had granted him stock options with no strings attached, thank-yous from entrepreneurs who hoped to grow rich off his creation. When Red Hat went public that year, Torvalds was suddenly worth $1 million. On the day VA Linux (now VA Software) went public, Torvalds was worth roughly $20 million, though by the time he could sell his shares, they were valued at only a fraction of that.

> Torvalds hesitated before buying himself his first expensive bauble, a two-seater BMW convertible. "I was a bit nervous about people's reaction," he confesses. "Are they going to think I've gone over to the dark side?" In the end he decided that the shape and price of the hunk of metal he drove to and from work each day was his own business. Despite counsel to the contrary, Torvalds wisely sold all of his stock and spent almost all of the windfall on his home and his cars, trusting that he'd always be able to earn a good salary as an engineer.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031127045640/https://www.wired...
It wouldn't be that far off if we had the money and motivation.

We could probably have a mostly self sustaining colony in caves on Mars within ten years , if we really wanted to. It would just take an absurd amount of money and singular focus and dedication by governments and companies.
I mean, there has been investigations, many investigations, and they've found this sorta thing is Amazon's MO.

Example:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/report-finds-mor...

>Among the Journal's findings: 116 products falsely listed as FDA-approved, including toys, which the agency does not regulate; 80 listings for infant "sleeping wedges" the FDA says can cause suffocation and that Amazon had previously banned; 1,412 electronics listings falsely claiming to be UL-certified; 2,324 toys that failed to include federally mandated choking hazard warnings; and more.

>The WSJ commissioned tests of 10 specific children's products it bought on Amazon, many carrying the enigmatic "Amazon's Choice" badge. Of those, four failed tests based on federal safety standards, including one that contained excessively high levels of lead.

>A 23-year-old man in Missouri purchased a motorcycle helmet from Amazon that was at the time listed as certified as meeting US Department of Transportation safety standards. Later that year, however, he was killed in a crash while riding. A federal investigation later found that the helmet did not meet DOT standards and was recalled. The WSJ, however, found the product still for sale, with an active listing promising compliance, until the WSJ contacted Amazon to inquire about it.

>The WSJ's investigation found 157 products for sale that Amazon has already banned from sale on its site. The motorcycle helmet was one of more than 2,300 product listings altered or pulled after the WSJ drew them to Amazon's attention. Yet, within two weeks, the WSJ found that at least 130 of these problem items reappeared, "some sold by the same vendors previously identified by the Journal under different listings."
Touché – after all, disk-to-RAM is hundreds of MB/s, and faster if it's cached!

In practice, I'm racing mesh loading against "how long does the OS take to give you an OpenGL context", which is rarely below 160 ms (longer if it has to switch from integrated to discrete GPU).
Really not a fan of this.

Okta as a business are a pain to deal with, and unless you meet their minimum spend requirements (which are not told to you up-front) you're screwed.

I've rolled out a ton of commercial products where we started with 1-2 users or a few units of compute, and on the basic little/no support options.

When those products succeed, and we can demonstrate that not only does it meet our needs on paper, but it actually works, and whatever flaws that exist are not big enough to stop us wanting to use it more.

AWS, Atlassian's Jira and Confluence, Sendgrid, Mailchip, Duo, and a bunch of others all started being used in orgs where this kind of thing is super low friction and easy to spin up, we plug in a credit card to get us off the ground.

Okta? Well they'll tell you the pricing up-front, that's great - what they don't tell you is that after the trial period, you can't just give them a credit card, no you need to go through the sales process. It's not until you're talking to their salesperson that you find out you can't just start with a few licenses, no, you need to meet their minimum spend figure per month.

Well, that idea was dead.
I dont think anybody's arguing whether companies should worry about theft. My earlier comment was that companies should not be using their concern about theft as justification for treating their employees like criminals, and subjecting them to bag searches.
We owe it to them.
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I didn’t follow the original story or comments about GTA, but based on the description in this article, I wouldn’t be surprised that this sort of problem could happen to any coder of any experience level and I wouldn’t give them any grief, but I would be surprised that the problem would be live in production for a very long time without ever having been profiled. Surely seeing JSON parsing taking more than 70% of the time would have made it onto someone’s radar?
Definitely! We’re working on finance, the variability there in compensation is pretty high especially at these HFT firms with heavy bonus structures, and so we’re hoping to develop a way to accommodate for the soon (although you can still enter your information today)
I am not sure about that. Thee same strengths that FAANG brings means that they don't have the intense focus that companies like Auth0/Okta/others bring. See how many people are complaining about Firebase and Cognito in other threads.

Having the auth system be your primary revenue stream means you pay very close attention to it, whether that be marketing or engineering. If it is just a freebie/side offereing you add to make your core better, well, it might lack resources or focus.

Disclosure, I work for FusionAuth.
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I think this is fundamentally a regressive idea. Currently the very poor pay zero (or effectively zero) income taxes. No matter how you structure the sales tax, you cannot go below zero. (I think negative sales tax is not actually realistic, nor particularly progressive.)

A system that only taxes spending fundamentally has problems in that the richer people can afford to save and invest.
So, it's an 800% improvement over an older mac? Have you seen the other posts around here? Judging by the comments here, people are saying things like "the m1 is unreal", "might disrupt Google/Amazon in the compute space". That last one wasn't even said as a joke.

When you think 800% improvement is relevant, you kinda have to consider how great those 100% were to begin with. Otherwise, it reaaaally looks like a bunch of people in an echo chamber.

I honestly have no gripes against people liking the m1. But it annoyes me that the marketing of it was so unbelievably misleading, and it lead to this completely disconnected from reality notion that this is anywhere close to the performance you can get from a top end laptop. And a top end desktop? Yeah... It's an OK hardware, that is pretty good at being power efficient. Raw performance? Do you need it? Like, honestly. Are you running heavy compute calculations. Somehow not bound by 8 GiB memory? And you need to do this while commuting. Well, I suppose the m1 hardware is OK. Nothing to write home about. But OK.
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What is the risk you are worried about?
Almost 2 years ago, I quit my job as a SWE at a FAANG and started raising a small herd of dairy goats. We use the milk for personal consumption and to make soap to sell.

They give a nice rhythm to the day: I greet them shortly after rising and lock them up as the sun sets. We have daily conversations while I milk them and we gossip about the chickens.

The switch has forced me to hone my construction and machinery skills, but I still enjoy finding ways to slip tech solutions into my setup.

I recently started working again in tech remotely, but I'm doing non-profit work which is in much greater alignment with my personal values. I'm a lot happier and a good part of it is due to the goats.

It's not for everyone, but I've enjoyed the change in pace and outlook. And the fresh milk.
What specifically about this BBC report do you feel is not substantiated enough? You did not get downvoted for calling for moderation, but for making unsupported assertions that contradict the available evidence.

You complained about the quoting of Zenz. Perhaps you are one of those who feel that his Christian faith disqualifies him, or perhaps it's something else. In any case, the BBC does not consider him disqualified, but they also performed many investigations of their own and have corroborated the reports of many people who are not named Zenz. The BBC has provided abundant evidence. They are widely considered to be a reliable source. If you think the BBC is lying, then say so. Otherwise, it seems like you are just throwing stones.

The only way I can see your position making sense and seeming moderate to you is if you take the CCP's official propaganda as of equal weight with the BBC's reports. This seems absurd to me, but I will grant that you can choose to take this view and I do think that you make your arguments in good faith.

Edit: It appears that you got downvoted for calling the ongoing genocide "soft cultural erasure". It would have been okay if you've said "cultural erasure", but the "soft" part is just wrong. There's nothing soft about concentration camps and rape.
Sorry, this should be Sailpoint of course.

Okta, 2020 Revenue: $586M

Sailpoint, 2020 Revenue: $355M

Ping: 2020 Revenue: $224M

Auth0, 2020 Revenue: $200M

There's also Oracle ID Manager, some IBM thing etc - a bunch of other large vendors.
The mobile gaming audience has trended female for quite a while now. It's only in the other categories that men the majority of the audience (consoles, pc, etc).
How can loading a file be infinitely fast? There is latency to receive the first byte from loading the file.
> Earth even if hit by an asteroid that killed dinosaurs, Chicxulub impactor, would be more habitable than Mars.

Not initially. Maybe after a few days or weeks. The thermal pulse from the impact itself would have instantly charred terrestrial life for some portion of the Americas. And the reentry of ejecta radiated enough heat to ignite forests around the globe.

Anyone on Mars would be sitting lucky, well situated to begin the recolonization of Earth.
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I refer to mine as petstock.
https://archive.is/vI60u
I'd rather learn COBOL than BAAAAA lang
What does emotion have to do with it? For many years, every time someone claims to have broken RSA the response is the same: here is a test case you (the alleged RSA breaker) should be able to crack if your claims are correct. Put up or shut up. That seems like a fair, just-the-facts response.
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Here is the archive: https://archive.md/VpYl2
Yeah, right James Watt would be so pleased!

So I suppose COMPLEX SOLUTIONS solve - or should I say reduce - all soluble problems simultaneously. :-)

What continually amazes me is the ingenuity of those who come up with these natty ideas. Like most jokes, such ideas rarely occur to me until after I'm told them.
There's also an entire book on using lex and yacc.
"tone policing"? What do you think that phrase means? Who was talking about "tone"?

Do you believe in "responsible disclosure" [1] of security vulnerabilities? How does your stated philosophy apply or not apply to ethics around disclosure of discovered software security vulnerabilities? Is that different?

[1] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Vulnerability...
Absolutely adorable, it goes straight into my “games” category with `bb` and `oneko`. As it only takes a minute, is good practice, and may be helpful for others, here is a quick minimal Nix expression:

# vim: set ts=8 sw=2 sts=2 et:
#
# nix-build --no-out-link -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}'

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { }, ncurses, pkg-config, stdenv }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
version = "1.0.0";
pname = "cbonsai";
src = pkgs.fetchFromGitLab {
owner = "jallbrit";
repo = pname;
rev = "v${version}";
sha256 = "1jc34j627pnyjgs8hjxqaa89j24gyf0rq9w61mkhgg0kria62as7";
};
nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
installFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" ];
}
the problem aren't the fonts, the problem is the developpers who made the websites with shitty performance

this font is quite small
Fair point. "Increasing the key [not the length of the key] by a factor of 2^400".
I thought this was going to be about the Greatest Of All Times Operations! Like how to rewire a a CAT-5 connector or something like that, haha.
Snowops for sure! I calculated a few weekends back that I had moved over 150 tons of snow in the previous 24 hours. Also threw 4 or 5 sheer pins and ate a hidden Amazon package with a snowblower, but that's part of the territory.
That's a specific type of shorting. In financial markets you can also enter swap agreements, or sell futures or call options. The key is that GameStop seeks to profit from price depreciation.

Just for fun we could imagine GameStop seeks to buy back every game it sells, and that games don't intrinsically decay because they're digital and the packaging is worth zero.

Come to think of it, if games are pre-ordered it's even closer to what could reasonably be considered a short.
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