skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
«No retail investor has accounts directly with the NYSE»

That's a good point. So a fairer comparison would be to compare Coinbase to the market cap of NYSE ($66B) + a stock broker who has roughly the same userbase as Coinbase. For example Schwab ($127B) has about half as many accounts as Coinbase. So NYSE+Schwab = $193B. Suddenly Coinbase valued at $100B while having twice as many accounts and trading fees per dollar transacted ten-fold higher than NYSE+Schwab seems like a bargain... !
You could snapshot your filesystem, then run the script and diff against the snapshot. Isolating executables (even shell scripts) is really outside the scope of what a shell normally provides.
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That would be a much more impressive breakthrough if they did with only 10% overhead.

But it also is not a good match for the problem they are trying to solve (the attacker is not the cpu in this situation)
"In 1969, Ken Thompson wrote the first UNIX system in assembly language on a PDP-7..." [1]

Half a century ago this living legend wrote an operating system. Can you imagine how much experience this single person holds today? It must be hard for him not to roll his eyes when talking to juniors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7
So many memories. From a time far away. Before I got my first Macbook. When computer were honest. When the underlying OS was ugly and nobody cared if apps used their own style.
This is what is anti-trust law is for.
No, they don't have to be flat. There are two items that hinder it. One is that winamp has a fixed size, modern layout systems have to support a multitude of screen sizes, which is a hard problem. Throw on some nice 3d texture as a full skin and getting that to work is much more difficult. It's not impossible, but some of the items on the skins would be very hard.

The other big one is accessibility. People with poor eyesight can struggle when the system has low contrast.

3d buttons or adding depth to controls and the like are pretty simple and don't have any major impediments that I'm aware of. I often will accent my GUI designs with a light touch of depth.

I can't tell you for sure as to the evolution of the systems, I design modern systems and while I did toy with GUIs back in that day I didn't do major systems then - I was a kid. Aesthetics takes a major backseat to usability in my work.

Though I'd say that some of today's look and style is much like clothing. It's a style of the day.
You're right, that would be a better title.
Normal encryption does that. The entire point of Homomorphic encryption is that it does not do a decrypt step.
Fairly easy, a few thousand lines of C. Bit of work, though. Parser is the hardest, a lot of details to get right. You don't really need a buffer for the output, because you can't type that fast.

Of course, driving the display is a bit harder. I'm using a parallel tft, wrote the driver, too. Keyboard code is kludgy because I'm not using diodes for cost reduction on the bom.

You can see it here: violence.works yes that's a url.
That Microsoft won the 2018 contract to build prototypes of IVAS was mentioned in most stories about the new contract for the production systems. Here's one [1]. That Microsoft won a big contract to provide the military with cloud services in 2019 is also mentioned in that same story, and was all over the news at the time, as was Amazon's suing to try to overturn that contract.

It was publicly known that the prototypes were delivered and underwent extensive testing in 2019, and officials said they were anticipating the final product being fields in the fourth quarter of FY21 [2]. They were still undergoing testing in the second half of 2020 [3].

Another thing to note is that the article makes much of Microsoft stock going up 11% from the time the time the stocks were bought to some unspecified time after the contract was announced.

But if you look at other tech stocks, such as Google, Apple, and Facebook, they all follow about the same patter as Microsoft: from March 19 (when the Pelosis exercised their options) to March 31 (when the contract was announced) they were roughly flat, and then within a few days of the contract being announced were up ~10%.

This suggests that the stock movements after the time the options were exercised were because of general movements in tech stocks and had nothing to do with the contract.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/microsoft-wins-contract-to-m...

[2] https://www.army.mil/article/230034/soldiers_test_new_ivas_t...

[3] https://breakingdefense.com/2020/10/from-frankengoggle-to-ba...
Do online casinos check whether some coins are dirty?
It could be the basis for a tty with multiple channels, fairly easily.
I remember doing this when I was a kid.

We also had an understanding of the number of based on the number of rings, too: 1 ring and hang up was when my aunt got home and 2 rings was my cousin got home. They could call us long distance to let us know they got home OK.
If you ever want to do something stuff with text efficiently (full text search and associated processing) I’d argue that it’s quite important.
That’s the big lie. You just have to pay enough and have a process.

I’ve done consulting work for tax agencies. They are full of smart people and are very good, as most government agencies are, at implementing and consistently delivering processes.

The problem at the IRS is that a group of people with the ability to influence the purse strings have signed pledges and dedicated careers to make the IRS as ineffective as possible. I have a former associate who is a specialist in a few arcane areas of tax law and has the ability to basically look at the books of any company and figure it out in a day or two. He left because systematic cuts meant that he was one of a half dozen specialists in the country (there were 200+ when he started), and ended up traveling all across the country to testify at trials as an expert.

Look at the military as an example of how any government agency works. Billions are spent on weapons systems development with the best and brightest minds. In the field, the applied work is done by 19 year old kids, roughly sorted into an occupational category by IQ.
Sure, you can guess at expected values, but what makes that guess interesting enough to share with others as a recommendation? Why would GiveWell's guesses about political causes be more interesting to read than anyone else's?

GiveWell's job is attempting to make predictions about fairly definite questions that can be answered by doing a lot of homework. They can learn a lot about charities and read scientific studies and make predictions that they can stand behind. It's figuring out what the safe choices are, not guessing at speculative winners.

But maybe a prediction market could do what you want?
It’s intended to be obvious nonsense as a means of getting people to think about metrics and whether the sum of a metric over a population is a good metric for that population.

The same thing goes for means, weighted means, and so forth. The classic joke being that when Bill Gates walks into a homeless shelter, everyone is a millionaire on averages.
Is this part of Oxide Computer Co?
As a European, I feel the complete opposite. The US can learn a lot from Western Europe on how to run a healthy Democracy for the people and not the rich.
You are on HN. Most of us are software engineers. You aren't telling us something we don't know.
Honestly, solving the problem is more of a push than any additional income. If there was a way to search for the bounty, maybe, but unless it's integrated into the project somehow, it's not worth searching out.
That is one of my favorite podcasts! I often go back and listen to older episodes.
yep, just found those

I'm looking forward to bothering you on the Matrix ;)
> you want a type error, not a return of False, when you check equality against a completely unrelated type

What? No I don't?

foo = if x: Foo else 1
foo == 1 # why would I want this to throw? I just want False!

Disclaimer that I haven't done much Python recently (or Java, ever – I wonder if raise-on-== is a java-ism)
The article talks about using WebAssembly.Global to avoid message passing overheads / delays.

One could almost certainly use SharedArrayBuffer to do a very similar shared mutable memory overhead-lowering optimization with webworkers or iframes, and see the same outcome.

I haven't looked in a while but SharedArrayBuffer used to be a core way to communicate with wasm, albeit it seemed super gnarly: if I remember you have to load your wasm program into a SharedArrayBuffer, then run that SharedArrayBuffer to do anything. I still have some hope that some day, some year, some decade, wasm workers might be able to have more than a single Memory at a time, such that we could work with SharedArrayBuffers far more elegantly/slickly, but please no one hold your breath.

And of course, Safari doesn't support SharedArrayBuffer nor SharedWebWorker nor like 50% of the other awesome little platform capabilities that just seem so technically excellent. Makes me very very sad they make such great devices so technically maimed.

To be fair, the spectre/meltdown global freak out ~3 years ago did cause a huge amount of slamming on the breaks & rapidly withdrawing really good standards. SharedArrayBuffer is only just making it back[1]. Would that we ever have a chance of having high resolution time again too, but that's basically never going to happen.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/enabling-shared-array-buff...
People on HN remind me of people from Singapore that I've met, in all the wrong ways. What a vile shithole of a country!
Wars would be harder to finance so it would be a good start.
If Facebook could create a local monopoly or competitive advantage to pay electricians $1M/yr, they would to deny the skills to their competitors.
People have tried this about a million times. It never works.

Writing the code is not the hard part. Verifying its good quality is. Bounties encourage people to do the absolute minimum which works poorly.

Compare that to security bug bounties. Its much more binary - you either hacked us or you didn't. Even then, 90% of submissions are crap and sorting through bad submissions is a significant effort
Admitted, without much data to back myself up, I think I disagree. Real Estate has a tier of broker that handles the huge deals too.

Right now the IRS are spending too much time going after the low hanging fruit, which is hurting the little guys. The department has been gutted and understaffed, so they are trying to hit the easy less sophisticated targets.

A few $1 Million settlements could more than double their salary for the year. Even if the bonus was split between a team, a few whales would be a boon.
TLDR: You need PIPE investors. Though with the recent correction, its harder to get, so it seems SPACs are trying to find companies they can merge w/o the need for PIPE to fill the rest.

Lucid Motors at one point was valued at 70b without a single car on the road. And although Churchhill Capital 4 raised 1b, $24 billion was filled by PIPE investors iirc.
Sometimes it is useful to impose different size limits on ‘subqueues’ (each consisting of elements of a certain kind).
I just realized that at travala.com , it is possible to book hotels and pay with crypto. Another point that indicates just how much the revolution is here.
If you're too lazy to read the paper, here's a short explainer video on the paper: https://youtu.be/_o9CgLjo9Kk
No relation.
And there are tons of posts here are rushing to defend the country, because HN is filled with wannabe fascists and sheep.
So what you're saying is we should change the name of The United States of America to something with only one word?
I can't speak for the person you are talking to but this site has much less tolerance for deviation from cultural norms - which is both a good and bad thing.

Compared to even niche subreddits there is much less room for "freewheeling" (can't think of a better term for it) comments. It has costs but what for what you pay, you gain in a more serious and sober environment.
> things which you cannot choose (except religion), is a pretty major change from protecting the official state religion du jour

It's a big change from protecting the official state religion du jour to protecting the official state morality do jour?

It isn't even about prejudice which will already be illegal for discrimination in hiring, etc. It's simply about saying things which might make other people feel "bad" feelings. Pretty similar to offending a religious person by saying their God is wrong. That stirs up hate too and it deeply hurts people.
Your Maginot line is only providing imaginary security.

Actual IT security is in depth, and the simple task of having an admin account that is not the default user ID makes sense to me.

What zero days are out there that rely on a known user ID, and a known process ID for that user’s first process? You could defeat that by just following the advice from people that know better.
> The reason is that code that’s broken can be easily debugged and fixed, and will not be shipped to customers until it works.

Having worked in tech support for a piece of very expensive (~$100k per install annual support/license fee in the late 90s) enterprise software that had a GA release shipped to customers with a syntax error in an install script, I would state that more like “code that’s non-subtly broken is less likely be shipped to customers before it works.”
I routinely give on Kiva but I feel bad knowing that the APRs actually offered are like 30%+ to the guys receiving the loans. Can the cost of administration be that severe?
Unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions are still Bitcoin transactions, with the advantage that on the Lightning Network you have a built-in protection against doublespends in contrast to accepting 0-conf tx.

You are correct that funds in a Lightning Network wallet are at higher risks than those in a cold wallet, but this applies to all "hot" crypto wallets. Most LN wallets supports "Static Channel Backups" which you only create and store once after setting up a channel. In case your phone goes up in flames, you can use it to safely close your channels and receive your balance.
As someone who gets downvoted probably more than average, I don't agree with you. Downvotes are the least problematic way for people to tell me they have some problem with my comment and minimizes the fallout from me having to try to navigate gender politics as part of the mix.

It would be vastly worse for men to only be able to express sexist garbage by openly attacking me and trying to find some plausible excuse for hostility that is sometimes rooted in "She won't date me!" basically.

I'm a very controversial figure in part because I am getting healthier when that is not supposed to be possible and the world generally has a big issue with me because of that reality. HN has handled my "disruptive' presence better than any other forum I've been on. I've been banned from several forums and I've had mods elsewhere tell me that the abusive treatment heaped on me by others that was a clear violation of the stated rules was not the problem, the problem was somehow my behavior.

Since I'm not making any of that up, I'm kind of painted into a corner here socially and I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to not end up essentially murdered over it, like Semmelweis was.

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

I do everything in my power to behave in accordance with the rules and blah blah blah, but I'm a woman and HN was as much as 98 percent male when I joined and I'm getting healthier when that isn't supposed to be possible and so forth. And HN is the only forum that is able to cope with that constructively and help me talk to people who are knowledgeable about areas of science that are pertinent to my needs as someone trying to survive in the face of an incurable genetic disorder.

I say all kinds of things that are not "popular" or even socially acceptable and as long as I am not violating the rules of civility, the mods here don't have a problem with me being here and that's extremely unusual. Most mods are all too happy to just get rid of me as the easy answer to their problem while not caring that this is de facto a polite way to quietly commit murder against someone whose crime boils down to "I am a scientist who is doing cutting edge work and my credentials include I'm a former homemaker and spent years homeless."

It sucks to be me. It sucks majorly for a long list of reasons.

And most forums find me intolerable and HN is willing to let me stay and that's literally life saving for me.

So I feel strongly that I am the ultimate test case for how well their rules work. The entire forum can literally think you are nuts and you can say things here that people literally believe is you being a deluded fruitcake making shit up, and if you behave you can stay.

So I think they are doing something amazingly well that's incredibly hard to do and I'm a huge fan in part because it has helped to save my life.

I'm sure there is room for improvement. I'm also equally sure no one else on the planet does it better.
It’s a pretty obvious strategy that is scrutinized already. Try buying $500 gift cards routinely,
Reflections on trusting trust wouldn't really apply here. The script is not a compiler, is not even compiled, and can be easily understood by reading it. Unless you think there is some vulnerability specific to /bin/sh and this script the citation is just wrong.
I am still super long PSTH. It's the biggest SPAC ever led by a reputable value investor. The target will be huge (Stripe, Starlink, etc.)
Greatest barrier to e-bike adoption?

Nowhere to park it.

I mean a nice, locked space indoor to do so. Not some bike rack on the street where it will eventually get stolen.
COVAX is a thing, so there's hope. But even the usual politics aside, it's going to be a hard sell if you can't even get your own population vaccinated quickly and safely.

Also, let's be realistic here - there's more to vaccine distribution than just dropping refrigerated containers of perishable vaccines off. I get the intention of the sentence, but just giving away doses is not in itself a recipe for success or helping people. Helping implementing/building medical infrastructure and expertise out is a gift that will keep on giving.
I've worked with groups with small bounties and toxic environments. I'd rather have less drama in my life. Remember, good engineers can make money.

Programming is one of the few things I love in this world, and these groups made me start hating it.

I hope you can keep your feedback and leadership positive, I think it's too late for some areas I've worked in.

Also, consult a lawyer on legal issues with compensation and volunteers.
Ask HN: Best stack for cross-platform desktop app?
What's the best tech stack for writing a performant, cross-platform desktop app in 2021?
You still missed my point. "Work From Home" does not encompass CLOSED PORTS OF ENTRY and CLOSED FACTORIES. Perhaps you can use this quarantine life to brush up on your manners.
If that were true, then why did this post reach the front page of Hacker News? As Larry Wall stated, the three virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, impatience, and hubris. Tools like this embody all three.
Announcing to the world you really want this particular product and you just cancelled all competing contracts is the best negotiation tactic ever!!1
> What I want: Use Terraform programmatically, i.e. call "cdktf deploy" or similar FROM node or python and give users some scripts they can use where I can abstract away some of the difficulties of learning to use Terraform natively for simple use cases (i.e. deploy an S3-based frontend host). Ideally, I had intended to distribute some npm-installable packages which would run this stuff.

This is actually exactly the use case we’ve designed the Pulumi Automation API (https://www.pulumi.com/blog/automation-api/) to support.

Allowing modern IaC technology (like Pulumi or Terraform) to be easily embedded into custom software solutions, instead of just being something humans work with directly, is a huge potential enabler for the next wave of cloud infrastructure management tooling.
We use it all the time. Not to deploy to multiple "cloud providers", but to update dnsimple domains with the cloudfront endpoint, set hirefire rules for heroku dynos, and create kapacitor alerts. It's great that they can all reference vales from other services, and it's broken up by coherent services, rather than where it's being hosted.
It comes from the ASCII C0 [transmission] control code NAK, which means "negative acknowledgment"--something was wrong with the last transmitted data block or command, or the reception of it. As opposed to "ACK", which means a block or command was successfully received and accepted. In the original 1963 standard the mnemonic was "ERR", but changed to "NAK" for the 1965 standard.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

In programmer lingo it can means something similar to the original meaning--rejecting a request for faultiness or incompleteness--or it can mean something more like, "no"--answering in the negative.
How so? If I bought a Tesla with Bitcoin apparently I'd be forced to pay short-term capital gains even though I'm using it as just a payment currency. Doesn't sound like a good deal tax-wise. If Tesla gave me an equivalent discount on the BTC price though, that would change the game.
The monopoly is on the public discourse, not the public opinion or political power. Brexit and Trump were widely criticized by most of the popular new organizations, celebrities, social media companies and general open public discourse.
The gas idea is interesting, and gave me another idea. Assuming that you could track an object, I wonder how much much you could slow down/redirect debris using air resistance. The idea would be to fill a balloon with air, and then release the air at exactly the right moment just as the debris is passing. The air shoots out into the vacuum right into the path of the oncoming debris. If you got the timing and positioning just right, you could probably both slow down and redirect the debris earthward. These things could use their pressurized air for maneuvering themselves, and given that they just use air itself, you could probably devise an efficient means of refueling them via some kind of weather balloon thing where you'd refill at high atmosphere without having to go all the way back to earth.

I have no idea what I'm talking about really, but its a sort of interesting concept...
For various reasons, I cannot use terraform stock. I have to use terragrunt, which wraps around terraform and provides a lot of functionality that terraform should have had.
Prettify the face of imperialism with the costumes of social justice
I'm so happy to see strong towns growing. We need a serious change of direction in America. It's going to take a lot of work to move the social momentum.
Sounds fine, practical and worthwhile, if not, well, you know...