skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What python traits do you think are weak

It's growing in a sprawling, disorganized fashion. It's developing generics (with horrid ambiguous syntax) for semantic typing that's not generally used outside some applications. The walrus operator is obscene.
This is I think what cryptographic hashes are meant to achieve.
Since I last used it, it looks like there has been a lot of work on manim in the community fork [1]. It used to definitely be a fair amount of work to figure things out, but it looks like things are easier now. I remember having to dig through source code for everything and the SVG rendering was a nightmare, but since then there's now some proper documentation [2] and an overhaul of how manim does SVG rendering [3]. Looks like it's much nicer to use now. It's worth messing around with if you haven't used manim before

[1] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

[2] https://docs.manim.community/en/v0.4.0/index.html

[3] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/915
> We are always free to chose

I heard this sentence so many times, that by now I'm convinced people who believe we are free don't really know what freedom means.

Today, you are free to choose in the same sense that you are free to commit crime. You can kill the next random person you meet on the streets, you can do that as long as you're ready to pay the consequences.

Does that mean we have freedom to commit homicide?

For the same reason, we aren't free to choose between keeping a job or starving our family and ending under the bridge.

Especially in a corrupt economy that relies entirely on people being in debt to live under modern standards.

Abolish debt, guarantee the basic needs to everyone, then we can talk about freedom of leaving a job.
Wouldn't it be great if we did that instead of bailing out American Airlines and propping up overpriced real estate?

That's the issue here: not only is stuff you need getting more expensive because of the expanding money supply but the new money is being used directly to cause it rather than helping the individuals that need help.
Also why didn't she follow up with "well, I do" and see what would happen? Is it better to shut up and blame communication style? Is shutting your mouth and getting angry a communication style?
Are you sure you have cause and effect in the right order?
Re-engineering the Enigma cipher (2008)
Not universally-true. Contrived scarcity is bullshit and reduces enjoyment for me.

I don't subscribe to monogamy or closed relationships. Regularlly, I'm with 3 bi/pan females who would all eagerly have my children whenever I wanted. They sleep around primarily with women, as do I. It's way more enjoyable than the "waiting until marriage"-types and virgins who I actively avoid because they're dull.
There's nothing wrong with using the tools you know. But IMO it's quite interesting to use languages that might just be a big improvement over how things have been done so far. I think Julia is such a language when compared to Python (excluding the ecosystem, of course).

Also, if you come back to Julia sometime there's this:

https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl

https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl
Not the previous poster, but the point was that "I love your curly hair!" is not a statement that would cause offense pretty much anywhere in the world except in certain "woke" US corporations.

Also, while said companies go to extreme length to tell their employees how to handle any hint of racism, sexism, etc, they do not actually define what any of these terms mean in practice, meaning even the "indigenous" are walking on eggshells. There's also a difficult continual doublethink required to simultaneously celebrate diversity while avoiding any hint of appropriation, all while pretending to ignore everything about the actual people you're working with.
There's a bit of nuance here in that outside IPOs, companies can go public both through either a SPAC or direct listing. However, a SPAC incurs a 20% sponsor fee that the direct listing doesn't, so you imagine that many strong firm would simply balk at the price and opt for the direct listing if they felt bullish enough about their market prospects.

Perhaps it's more reasonable to compare SPACs and traditional IPOs, where there's a middleman taking a cut one way or another. SPACs seem like an inverted IPO to me pioneered in the current rather frothy environment, where there's more capital that wants to go into taking growth tech firms public than there are firms ready to take public, so they pre-allocate the dollar allocation into a blank check firm to streamline the process when a suitable target is found to expedite the process. The advantage here seems to be 1) time preference or 2) ease of taking firms public that otherwise would face challenges in being taken public in more traditional market conditions.
Angering private investors is not a good long term strategy. Instead look at why Dubai became an international hub for trade?
I have many bats under roof, often see them flying at night, but there are still many mosquitoes nearby (very slow water river about 1km from me). Bats help but will not remove problem entirely.
After Google, Now Microsoft Tries to Patent Asymmetric Numeral Systems
If you have a solid ability to code it shouldn’t be a problem at any age. But some people aren’t able to break a task down into steps a computer can follow, even with a lot of training, and if your one if those then it just won’t work regardless of age.

I worked at a start up where the president had hired her BFF the graphic designer to be an Oracle DBA. That didn’t work out and when I read the notebook she left behind it was clear why - every day she would sit down and try to understand how relations between tables worked and by the bottom of the page it was all doodles of flowers and unicorns. Next day, repeat. Very nice lady, great graphic designer, but running a database just wasn’t her thing.
This is part of modern encryption. To be more specific, we have blocks and a deterministic cryptographically secure rng, we seed the rng with a public key that is broadcasted, we then encrypt blocks and then combine them together with the number produced by the rng and create the next block of encrypted data.

You may be wondering, why do we even do this? The answer is simple, "the image is encrypted, but everyone can see the penguin". In a less cryptic manner, encrypting blocks simply maps them from one space to another, but is a reversible operation and, as any function does, is deterministic and returns the exact same value every time. The consequence of this determinism, is that identical blocks will always produce the same value and thus, the content is still somewhat visible and in some cases it could leak information. By combining blocks together along with a PRNG, we hide the mapping by requiring that the recipient solves the first block before decrypting further data and we don't end up leaking information.
"read this book". nah, was expecting a tl;dr
Profile of Chamath Palihapitiya, public icon of SPAC and amateur trading booms
So wait — you were banned by Google, then years later banned by Facebook before even trying to run ads?

That almost sounds like they’re sharing ban lists
Literally Ran Out of Space
I'm talking about a major publisher here, Wiley $1.7bn revenue...
I don't watch TV. Was it anywhere nearly as good as the original? Has it been seen since the acquisition?
> "The Rosetta daemon seems to use a lot of memory, likely causing excessive swapping."

I haven't seen this. The rosetta daemon, oahd, is using only 1.3MB on my system (8GB M1 MacBook Air) and I have several large translated apps running. If it's stuck using lots of memory, I guess that's probably a bug.
Your data is now written with ANS if using e.g. Apple, Facebook, Google, Linux, soon JPEG XL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems

This patent covers rANS variant which is used for example in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL - if granted, only Microsoft will be able to make its hardware encoders/decoders.

Lots of materials about ANS: https://encode.su/threads/2078-List-of-Asymmetric-Numeral-Sy...

The Google patent story: https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/06/inventor-says-googl...
I'm not certain of what happened, I'm just recalling what I had read some time ago.
Playstation Plus is what lead to my eventual move to PC Gaming. I didn't (and still don't) see the benefit of having to pay monthly just to play games that I want to play. At the time (ps3/4 era), most if not all the free games were all indy games and games I had no interest in playing. That meant that I was paying full price for games I wanted to play and I had to pay a monthly fee just to play online multiplayer (and internet of course). Moving to PC saved me something like 30$/month for something that gave me little to no value.

If the future of gaming is a subscription model, I'd rather just stop gaming.
So true. Again and again.
Sure, negotiating your salary is an important skill, but I don't see the value of this article over just the title.

And then there's this

> Here’s what you do:

>

> Read this book.

> Do what it says.

Bad self-help marketing fluff piece without any substance to it...
Instead of linking to a paid "the book", here's a completely free resource:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Interestingly, the book Patrick links to at the end is the same as the one in the blog post.
> Which is just bad practice on the one hand, and elitist on the other.

I got exactly the same impression. Making a strawman out of the rest of the market and special-casing yourself always sets off a red flag. It indicates the possibility of a culture could be out of touch with reality, that chooses to rationalize its poor decision rather than facing reality. I wouldn't work at a firm with this kind of culture, it's a liability.
A recession is an actual economic term, a depression is a cultural term with no economic definition that basically means "a massive terrible recession".
In CS212 we're mostly writing simple recursive programs in SML and proving using induction that they evaluate to the correct result. We step through the programs by hand on paper. This seems very different, and I'm wondering if what we're learning has any practical application.
Sounds like some critic making excuses for their own laziness to me, since pushing your body past its limits is simply a form of transcendence, but what do I know, I'm just a stupid, sexless sheep I guess!
check out this, too - https://blog.interviewing.io/exactly-what-to-say-when-recrui...
> Ageism is pervasive in some corners of tech. I'm nearly 50, and in my R&D group, there are few developers under the age of 35. Few of the older developers are managers, either.

Of course there are exceptions, but they're rare. Your personal experience has no bearing on industry-wide data[1].

> I think you are conflating age with experience. If the OP has enough skills for an entry level position, then I would not expect him to have anywhere near the same level of expertise as someone in the industry for nearly 20 years.

You're putting words in my mouth. I said nothing about age and experience being the same thing. I'm saying that OP wants an entry-level job at middle age, and that's more difficult for many reasons (ageism being one of them).

> If the OP wants to get into web development, then they should work to progress their skill set over time

People are hired (or not hired) for many reasons, and only one of them is their skill set. I'm sure OP can acquire the necessary skills, but it can be painful and life-consuming, which a lot of people can't tolerate as well at 40 as they can at 22. A lot of people over 35 have mortgages, spouses, children, elderly parents, health conditions, and a variety of other responsibilities that are less common in younger people. Taking a grueling, low-paying job is not necessary feasible in those circumstances.

1. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/celebrati...
Giotto-tda, a high-performance topological machine learning toolbox
Better than the alternative IMO: Buying to own a bunch of games on Steam every time they go on sale and never even bother to play them because you have a huge backlog of games to work through.
Oh wow I had no idea, now I want to have a look at it.
Osteopaths in the UK and most other countries are quacks. Osteopaths in the US are real physicians. This is not a trick of labeling: In the US osteopath training is a science-based, rigorous medical program identical to that of an MD. Yes DOs are also trained in the historical "chiropractic"-like stuff, but most of the ones I know deemphasize that in practice.
Object orientation is no “must have” for a general purpose language to become popular. OO is a paradigm like many others, and it is one that in my opinion is much more abused than, say, functional features.

In a few years we will look back at all those class hierarchies and wonder: man, what the hell were we thinking.
Thanks for the details! I know what I’m gonna try when I row later.
Chinese censors don't allow gratuitous sex or sensuality.
Archive link as the article seems to be down: https://web.archive.org/web/20210308114008/https://chrisvonc...
Where I am restaurants have been available throughout the pandemic at least for take out, and most have setup ways to have outdoor seating which is still allowed. There are a few which have closed permanently, but not as many as I expected, thankfully.
If you take vitamin D, you should also take vitamin K2MK7.

Do also blood test every 6 weeks of 25ohd to detect if your dose is sufficient. And don't forget to take 10 minutes of Sun while it's in its Zenith to get vitamin D dissolved in water.
Show HN: Firefox Containers Helper Extension – Adds bulk container actions
Perhaps with the exception of cash, Bitcoin is more accessible than any of those
braid is cool in that it uses already existing and widespread http for transport.

for anyone who is nojs, for one reason or another, here is archive link: https://archive.is/DfJwR
cached because the blog was hugged to death: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Awfh5p8...
Yikes. Is this 2004-era Tucker Max speaking?

Civilization cannot exist without promoted monogamy.

Q. Do you believe polygamy in the Middle East hurts women or men more?

A. Men. Young, poor, men. You have tens of thousands of young, poor men with zero prospects of having a mate. That translates into a thousand suicide bombers. To a man that desperate, that 60-odd virgin fantasy starts to hold far more meaning.
I was wrong. The Earth is NOT Flat [video]
Dogpile.com – Aggregate Search Engine
Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for Finserv infrastructure?
Asking for investment advice in a forum is probably not the best idea, but does anyone have any advice for someone who's been sitting almost entirely in cash for over 2 years (including missing the covid rebound)? I have a fair amount of experience in the market but from an intuition perspective, I feel like I have alzheimer's or something, I haven't a clue what a person should do in this situation.
Have a starter from the ALA: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks
Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better (2016)
We did both. I think it makes sense because the muscle memory is almost identical.
What you are suggesting is the idea behind StyleTransfer. Given two images, A, B, and a neural network F, you repeatedly modify B using ∂ L(F(A),F(B))/∂B, where L is the loss function, A contains the style and B is the input image.
I think we all know the answer to that.

Saudis will get special treatment because they have money and oil. Their barbaric treatment of women and decades of financing terrorism (Wahhabism) will be ignored.

DEI is mostly about profit. It’s profitable in the US to virtue signal via DEI but not in KSA.
Interest rates are at zero. When official inflation starts ticking up they'll raise interest rates which will deflate the stock & house price bubble and cut inflation off at the knees.

We have lots of things to worry about -- inflation isn't one of them.
Buddy of mine that was hiring for a team put it this way:

HR determines the upper and lower range of the salary for positions. It’s actually in your boss’ best interest that you’re brought on at the highest in that range so that you’re the happiest you can be in the role.

So you’re really just negotiating with a third party (HR) that you’ll never talk to again in your day to day.

Maybe someone else can speak to HR incentives though. Are they incentivized to low ball you? Not sure. Either way, it’s just business.
Their barrier for success is so high they kill off anything before it even has a chance. Look at Stadia was it even out a year before it was effectively canned?

Imagine if Microsoft had taken that approach when they built Xbox, they knew some products are a marathon not a race.

Starting to wonder if any of the decision makers there even remember what the early moments of a product can be like.
Baudrillard's insistence on reading everything as a symbol gets him in trouble. There are a lot of intellectual fireworks in his writing, but I think he lacks depth and appreciation for the vibrancy and diversity of life. It's another example of cultural criticism failing because it overly textualizes things. Did he ever ask the owners of the bodies he so eloquently critiques, the "bodybuilder", or the "skateboarder", or the "Bronx breakdancer", what they think about all this business? Those aren't real people, they are just archetypes who serve to add color to his writing. Who wants to listen to a humanist who seems to hate actual humans?
The grandparent says explicitly in the comment "all the central banks". We are not talking specifically about the USA.

Anyway, the "reserve currency" excuse doesn't explain Japan in the last 20 years or the Euro in the last ten. The theory is just wrong. I don't know what more have to happen for people changing their minds.

It's spending what can generate inflation, specifically, spending above what the economy can produce. If Biden tomorrow created a trillion dollar coin and keep it under their bed, there will not be inflation. If the Central Banks create reserves, the interest rate will fall to zero (but not more), and if, despise the low interest rates, nobody is borrowing, there will not be inflation.
This is quite a simplistic view I think. Neither a 'yes' nor a 'no' to this initiative says that a voter thinks of it as scandalous either way. Maybe there should be more options to answer such votes though, like "don't care", "don't understand", "yes/no, and I feel so strongly about this to use my yearly joker" - but at the end you don't wanna overcomplicate the political process.
Perhaps I'm missing something but shouldn't that bug be filed with the glibc project rather than with the weave project?

Has glibc since fixed the issue?
If they didn't they couldn't have used it and they wouldn't have needed a citation either.

The point is that the "because the investigators were unable to cite an unpublished work, I submitted it for publication at their request" justification doesn't make much sense. She could have just explained to them that no citation was needed for something so trivial.
Is this related in any way to the ideas Ayn Rand laid out with Objectivism?
I wonder what the Turkish response to this is going to be?

As background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/20/turkey-insists...
I agree it pretty much never hurts to ask for more salary. Outside of situations where the two sides were clearly so far apart that there was no satisfactory outcome (like spreads of more than 75K+ from the offer and the candidate's expectations), I've never seen it tank an offer in any way - the worst that can happen is that the company stays firm.

I will say I've been the manager at places that had a no-negotiation policy, and there were legitimate reasons for it. In our case, we wanted our policy towards salaries to be opaque, fair, and equitable, and it's hard to do that in an environment where everything is negotiated. We had strict salaries assigned per level, routinely adjusted to market (for existing employees as well as new ones). We had a few cases where this created some friction with people who assumed that any situation where a company refuses to negotiate necessarily means that a company is trying to screw you over, and that's not always the case.
The analogy doesn't make sense cause people aren't served the same food. Whereas a prostitute is reusing her body. I agree sex workers are more likely to take precautions but alas just because of having multiple sex partners they are more likely to suffer from various STIs. As I said earlier wearing a condom doesn't save you from a variety of infections. So just having sex with multiple partners increases your risk of infections. A study from England that looked into it:

> FSWs were almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with chlamydia, and three times more likely to be diagnosed with gonorrhoea than other female attendees, adjusting for demographic factors.

https://sti.bmj.com/content/90/4/344
Duo and YouTube TV come to mind.

Edit: Photos is 2015, so just over 5 years old.
I don't think it's just propaganda, I honestly felt a couple of times that I inadvertently made people feel bad. It's not like they threw a fit and called me racist (like the "grievance activist" implies).

Also, I don't want to say that anytime I asked this question I offended someone, it's more like 3% of the time I had this feeling that I wish I didn't ask.
Chinese might.

Russians? IDK. It won't be their war. And the oil wells of Russia are rather far from China border, in pretty inhospitable Siberia.
I highly recommend doing so. I had a great time with his book, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”
All citations are good citations, even the bad ones.
Also worth noting that the VS Code extension for TLA+ is steadily improving:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alygin.v...

https://open-vsx.org/extension/alygin/vscode-tlaplus
People and companies peak for one or two generations at most. What happens long before the petro issue described here is people generally stop giving a fuck.

There are few organizations that make it past any long range of time and when they do they’re well past their hay day, whether is Std Oil, Dutch East India, Exxon ,etc. Folks at Basecamp will lose their steam similarly when DHH leaves too and stops giving a fuck. It’ll happen to Apple, Amazon and Google. It’s the natural cycle.
Cool. I grew up amongst neighbors who were Danish and hippie nudists (12' / 3.5m fencing in their backyard). I only wear clothes or conform to most societal expectations to not shock the 98% of people who are normies and/or uncool.
Some people will stick to watching because of the content, others will actually click on them because of the thumbnails. As they explained (and I'm sure his is the most cited one), it's a simple numbers game. Min-maxing Youtube, so to speak. Or growth hacking, to put it in hip startup crowd terminology.

I mean the HC community and YC companies have no qualms about discussing and promoting the best practices for a good landing page, every time someone comes in to promote their product there will be unsolicited advice about that. It's the same thing, but instead of saying "you should put caps in your title and have an expressive face in the thumbnail" it'll be about the content on the landing page like "you need a screenshot".
"Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes"

...Food price rises ARE inflation!
Currency debasement is a pretty ancient phenomenon. It’s also not usury.