skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I followed his story back when he "won" the Fields Medal and the Clay prize - and rejected them. It was hilarious. :)

I think he lived with his mom, and just didn't want to slight his colleagues. It might also be a socialism thing (some millionaires got doxxed and catch the eye of the state in Russia.)

More seriously, the math community is always waiting for a "savior", so I hope he continues to contribute to the math world because there's not that many capable of the "high notes" like him.

("Good Will Hunting" and "A Beautiful Mind" were close to reality in depicting the freakish math talent needed for novel math proofs.)

If you read the Wikipedia article, you'll notice that a Chinese team rewrote his proof in detail. In China, it's very common to insist on writing each step before going on to the next one, otherwise the proof is not considered acceptable as being actually finished.

It's just a cultural thing, similar to how in the computer security community a working exploit is expected before anybody believes you.
Did anyone else immediately think of “The Conjoined Triangles of Success?”
The real value is in the democratization of the control. Sure no crypto network is 100% in this realm yet, but all of the reasons you see on this page tie back to the fact that central regulatory bodies are both bad for innovation, and bad for personal privacy.

I don't need a government, bank, or anyone besides the other side of my transaction to be involved in it.
If you, like some of us, live in a country where the government of the day can seize your bank accounts because of your political views, storing your assets as crypto has real-economic value.
I have given this a lot of thought and I believe that lobbyists are to law making what automated test suites are to the software development.

If you plan to introduce a change in your code, if you have automated tests, they will tell you what exactly might break if you go through.

If you plan to introduce a new law, lobby groups will cry depending on how hard they are hit. You can then change your law (or go through with it).
Have you ever used Garmin back in the day, or a USB GPS receiver? It can take a minute or so to get enough initial information to deduce a location at a low datarate. AGPS gets some or all of that information (I'm not sure) from another source, usually a cell phone network so that first location is deduced much faster. Modern phones have GPS receivers, but use AGPS. If a modern phone has no network signal, it will still get a GPS signal, it will just take longer to get the first location.

Not to be confused with other technologies such as skyhook [2], which was used in iPhone 1 and other older devices to fuse radio signal strength, known wifi hotspot locations, etc as a kind of pseudo-GPS. It was only relevant for a few years.

Wikipedia [1] has a nice short explanation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
Crypto currency seems to have major technical issues. Transfer times and fees become ridiculous at times of peak popularity. I can't imagine how the current models and architectures could handle even a fraction of daily commercial transactions. It's fair to say "that will get worked out over time". but it's seeming increasingly likely that the idea of blockchain and mining will be have to be abandoned entirely
Honestly, I'm pretty new to robotics and haven't had a chance to mess around with transistors. I was able to find some videos on solenoids and relays and that made it easy for me to get something up and running quickly.

The latency wasn't an issue though. Even on expert mode on TTFATF, I still had to program a delay to time everything up. But that's great to know for future projects if I need a super low-latency solution.
For some merchants.

https://paymentdepot.com/blog/level-3-data-processing/
More than 1.5x variation in my tests. And dedicated Ryzen servers obliterate anything else in their price range.
You make a lot of good points! I agree that 3D printing has lowered barriers.

I would point out, however, that your viewpoint appears to be U.S.-centric. In the U.S., you can 3D print all the "easy" parts (pistol frame, rifle stock--parts that could be whittled out of a larger piece of plastic, molded from epoxy, or similar), but you can buy all of the "hard" parts without restriction since they're not legally the firearm (barrel, chamber parts, etc.). I bet that varies a lot country-by-country.

And another idea I have: a lot of the "vastly easier" manufacturing you're describing is actually a product of the interconnection the internet has wrought, rather than 3D printers specifically. If I imagine a world where we didn't invent 3D printers, but we do have the internet, I bet we could've captured most of the manufacturing-ease gains other ways. For instance, just produce molds and then mold parts out of fiber-reinforced plastic. It makes iterating on designs harder, but we have a lot of people + the internet. So the process would be slower, but we would get there. Neat, huh?!
What can I say, it seemed perfectly cromulent.
> Yes, it shields you against your own government by giving an alternative they can't stop or ban.

How? If your government decides to take your stuff, they’re not going to say “some nerds in another country said no, guess we have to let them keep it” - they’re just going to fine, jail, or abuse you until you turn over the keys (better hope you can convince them you didn’t have anything more which you aren’t still concealing). Blockchains helpfully give them your full transaction history so it becomes exceptionally dangerous to engage in transactions with anyone you know in country since you don’t know whether they are or will ever be giving that data to the authorities.

The underlying problem is the repressive government. This is not a technical problem and you’re not going to be able to solve it with a complex, easily tracked technology which preserves a full history of your non-compliance for prosecution.
Some merchants do transmit information about the purchased items:

https://paymentdepot.com/blog/level-3-data-processing/
Getting started with Quantum Computing (4 min read)
> Like Biden’s proposed executive actions on “Ghost Guns” they sound scary, but it’s not as if anyone is using them, especially as there is no market demand in the US given the ease of getting a regular gun.

A "ghost gun" is just a firearm without a serial. That would include 80% lowers too (which do not require any ID to purchase as they're just hunks of plastic or metal). Many people enjoy the hobby of building their own guns. To say there is "no market demand in the US given the ease of getting a regular gun" is simply untrue.
Reminds me a bit of https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/
Thanks! The image recognition is done by OpenCV which I highly recommend checking out.
You write as if "equal" is the objective correct way to distribute.

It is a really fun experiment which they replicated in different cultures and got vastly different results. Even both extremes of the spectrum are good ways to describe expected behaviour in some cultures.

In some places, the first person would take all the money, and the second would happily accept that split. He could have been first after all and would have done the same thing. In other places, the first person would give everything to the second, who would still reject this split. Neither wants to receive money 'undeserved' by being lucky in getting first or second.

All participants would describe their local approach as fair, despite the split definitely not being equal.
Not like Google has been fined unprecedentedly large sums numerous times for deceiving users and abusing their info.
You could try running significantly slower (jogging, ~10 min/mi pace). Worked well for me.
Microsoft don't sell software in this context. They're selling a service, primarily Azure. Azure is the mainframe that you'll be running your Rust applications on and paying Microsoft the monthly rental for that.

Microsoft don't care if that is a Rust, Java, Python, Visual Basic or PowerShell application. They only care that you choose to do it in Azure (so lets learn the Microsoft centric ways early) though.
For a lathe, CNC or not, you need 10's of thousands of $ worth of equipment and specific skills and experience; several months worth, at the very least. Plus you need a space where you can put a workshop.

To 3d print a gun, you need a sub $200 3d printer, $50 worth of filament, a desk and a computer, and another $100 worth of tools to be able to ECM barrels in your bathtub.

If that is not a sensational leap in capabilities, I don't know what is. It the same leap as going from needing $50k Onyx workstations to being able to program advanced 3d applications with $500 worth of computing equipment and a bunch of free software from the internet.
Or just buy some pipe! Can't argue with tradition.
U.S.-China Joint Statement Addressing the Climate Crisis
Because credit card rewards aren’t free? Banks compete for credit card consumers by offering rewards. Those rewards cost them money. Selling consumer information is another revenue stream to make up for the cost of rewards.
Most consumers are okay with this trade off: they get their airline miles / low interest / cash back in exchange for their purchase history.
Until people can buy food and essentials with crypto, it has little value on its own. The US government can ban any bank or credit processor from exchanging crypto with any individual right now.

The coins aren't any good unless you can spend them. And for the foreseeable future, governments have complete control over that
I had "Rooshdesher Roopokotha".
Meh. Part of what makes rust appealing over C++ for my current project is that the latter has at least three major target compilers with subtle differences in how they implement things that mean that even staying within the bounds of the standard might result in different outcomes in the code (not to mention the whole mess around dependencies in C++ code). Multiple implementations of a language feels more like a bug than a feature to me.
Monica: Self Hosted Personal CRM
Tim Brown VP Security of Solarwinds said:
“We check code out of source code control, have a TeamCity environment to kick off the build, and here the attacker looked for Orion to be built and swapped a file. It was a transient virtual machine and that’s hard to detect,” he said.

https://itwire.com/security/solarwinds-speaks-out,-and-softw...

So it sounds like the VM host they were running builds upon was compromised - or maybe JetBrains was compromised?

JetBrains claims there is no evidence they were compromised
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/07/an-update-on-sola...
Lots of Americans here
> Or they can complete the DMCA counter-notice process, and if that is unchallenged or successful, be reinstated that way.

If I was a US resident I would, but I'm not a US resident. If the DMCA claimer decides to challenge my counter notice it ends-up in a US court. Even if their claim is super far fetched they will probably realize there is no way I can realistically defend myself in a foreign court.

Worst case I get convicted in absentia and the next time I set foot on US soil I get in trouble at customs.
I am certainly not saying that is not the case. I'd just like to have practical examples of success stories of deregulation in this area. I haven't found any yet myself, and I have plenty of counter examples...
I agree with everything coins_r_fun wrote in the sister comment will add some of my perspective (your timing is great with this question, btw - I just started taking notes for an essay I'm going to write on this topic. Sorry for the still-raw ideas).

There's multiple layers to coins for me:

* Art & Science - If you'll allow me to borrow some programming terminology, both the Class and the Instance are fascinating and work on multiple dimensions. The Class in that each design for a given coin is an engraving done with, at a certain time, fine hand tools and represents a snapshot of the public aesthetic of the moment.

But each Instance of a coin is also an opportunity for deep variation and aesthetic pleasure. Depending on how and where it was stored, the chemical reactions also can create absolutely stunning (dis)coloration on the surfaces that make a given coin absolutely unique and very desirable. Take these two coins as an example - both the same Class, but two deeply different Instances:

https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/40276266_1730666_2200.jpg

https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/21516597_44827571_2200.jpg

* History & Archeology - For the same reason I find it wondrous to go through a museum of historical objects and imagine that this plate was used by that person in some ancient civilization to eat dinner, a very mundane thing that binds us across centuries, I find it equally wondrous to hold a coin from the late 1700s in my hand and imagine that this ACTUAL object could have been used by a soldier coming home from the Revolutionary War to buy a drink at a local tavern, etc., and that through the years it's made its way from person to person to person and eventually into my hands. That is objectively cool, IMHO.

* Asset - Unlike many "things" one can spend money on, coins are, if purchased properly, a true asset. You can experience all the joy of retail therapy and gluttonous consumption, if that's your thing, of buying a shiny new toy and it's probably not going to lose value as you enjoy it! So it's not so much "spending" money on coins, it's just moving money into another form. I went to a coin show yesterday and spent $3000 on a very small handful of coins. Trust me when I say I am NOT the kind of person who spends $3000 on things - that would be a stomach-churning experience in many cases. But there was zero guilt, zero stress, and pure fun in buying these coins, because I know that at any moment I will be able to convert them back to $3000 (or more!) cash if I want to.

* Transaction - The art of the chase is really kind of fun, too. It's fun to learn the pricing, go to auctions, compete with other people, and experience the thrill of winning a bid that could be hundreds or thousands of dollars below market price (or above if you're not careful!). I won a bid at $900 in an online auction last night for a coin that I'll be able to sell for close to $2000 (if I want to). Does that happen all the time? No of course not - it's a pretty efficient market. But there are moments of inefficiency and it's fun to find and capture them.

That's my quick summary!
> But, the employer initially broke the relationship, by not keeping their promise regarding the bonus.

Or maybe the employee misunderstood the conditions of receiving the bonus. We can't really judge the situation after hearing just one side.
It's hard to read text these days so ...

If you are being truthful: I am really sorry, I have had sleep apnea it's not pleasant, exacerbated by a thick neck would you believe. Though once I stopped smoking cigarettes it stopped. I will not give advice because I don't know your situation.

If you are not being serious given what I have said in my comment: :)
> It’s doing so many more checks for you then other compilers to prevent lots of problems that it’s bound to be slow.

The checks aren't the longest part of compile times, so that's not really it.

It is true that there are aspects of the design that lead to slower compile times than other languages, but it's more of what you're talking about at the end: monomorphization is great for a lack of runtime speed, but increases compile times. There's a lot more complexity here than simply "rust's safety checks are slow."

(And, "zero cost abstractions" was always speaking about runtime cost.)
It seems to me that picking any single extreme will leave you losing on other fronts. Market-focused has its own problems, for example because the market doesn't actually always know what it wants, needs or already has.

Abstracting people into a 'business' with 'tech and business', interacting with other people that are 'market' is nice for pictures, but rarely tells the whole story, and oversimplifies things to the point where you can't make complete choices.
I think parent meant to communicate that the vast majority of "uses" of guns in the U.S. are still serialized, mass-manufactured guns. Not that the market for non-serialized but legal guns is literally zero.
I was commenting from a more general point of view: It might or might not be significant for Firefox at this point, but it's weird that all the author says about the question is that you multiply by the answer ("Multiplying 1x2x3").

Certainly marketing people care about the net promoter score, and it would be good to have an idea how its changes affect growth.
It also a mix of compiler issue and the approach of compiling everything from scratch.

A debug backend or interpreted based one, e.g. ocaml, GHC hugi, could help quite substantially.
For me the only utility lies with the likes of Sia, Filecoin etc. To an extent doing to storage what AirBnB does to homes.
I don't understand the article (and most of the comments) to be about the lack of consent, but about the act itself: deliberately making people sad.

In most medical studies, that's not being done. You might give someone placebos and watch what happens when you don't give them the medication you want to test, but you're not giving people cancer to see what helps best.

I'm not sure consent would've made a fundamental difference to that reaction to it.
Cryptocurrency provides economic incentive to support a blockchain, and a blockchain provides support to a decentralized, distributed service.

For example:

1) Money transfer - with no central point of failure or central point of control, a blockchain database provides trustless support to verify and maintain a history of transactions. But to do the work, economic incentives to workers must be applied.

Example: Bitcoin

2) Storage - once again, no central point of failure or control, with a blockchain providing the history and data regarding what is stored, and with cryptocurrency providing economic incentive for someone to provide storage to the network.

Example: Siacoin

3) Contracts - trustless contracts or escrow, maintained in a blockchain database with code for execution maintained on the blockchain as well. Verification and execution of code is done by workers who are incentivized by cryptocurrency.

Example: Ethereum

Why use cryptocurrency instead of USD? Because USD isn't electronic and is heavily regulated. As much as we like to think our money system is electronic, its really only hacky applications on top of our existing banking system. I used to work at a very large bank in the payments processing division, and you have no idea how many times they screwed up payments across the entire world. Sunday morning deployments often involved double-charges, missed charges, and overall screwing up virtually every merchant in North America. The only reason our monetary system hasn't collapsed is because people work very, very hard to fix all of these hidden failures. Cryptocurrencies remove the human element and provide a more efficient, error-free system.
Globale employment of digital workers is a breeze to do with a fast blockchain based solution.
The workers can be onboarded using their wallet, their contributions can be logged on the blockchain, and their rewards can be directly paid out to their wallets.
Their work can be analysed without the need to know which gender they have or where they come from. This opens the door for unbiased reputation and reward schemes. A true equaliser.

This is an application of blockchain technology that becomes much more expensive without it. The hassle of hiring people around the world, paying them, and rating their work objectively is expensive and very difficult.
Elon has been declaring so many things that are not supported by facts, I don't think we should believe him without objective third party data.
> Google knows enough about you [to not even have to bother listening]

Right. This was is actually much more alarming to me.

Whenever this topic comes up in conversation I point out that the fact that the most attractive-seeming explanation is “they’re listening”, but they actually _aren’t_, should have one even more concerned.
Whatever backend tech you are most comfortable with and https://htmx.org, which is backend agnostic and has almost no learning curve and requires very little code.
Contracts can't enforce themselves.
Yes. Everything you described relies on central authority. For those who would like to not rely on central authority - cryptocurrencies provide real economic value. It’s trivial to the point where it’s impossible to distinguish you from a troll.
They've also been asking for birthdays lately, obstensibly to verify age, but with the small print that it will also be used for ad targeting. But don't worry, they say, you can control how your information is used after you add it. On that page, the only option is whether to show the birthday publicly or not. There is no option to disable use for targeted advertising.

Oh yeah, and Google frames asking for a birthdate as being "in order to comply with the law". They are deliberately ambiguous in order to imply that it is me who could be breaking the law, rather than Google. Also, the law only requires verifying age, and doesn't require storing the birthdate afterwards. That one is entirely on Google.

So overall, my trust in anything that Google claims is rather low.
In many countries it wouldn't have been allowed to fire him.

I wonder how it'd been to be a manager, if he couldn't be fired, and he continued contacting the CEO etc saying you (GGP, whirlingdervish the throwaway) weren't any good at your job.

I guess eventually I'd quit (if I was in GGPs position and couldn't do much about it), and he'd become the manager in my place, if the plan hadn't been to hire another one.
That's not really true. Plenty of people in the US build their own guns (ghost guns as they like to call them today). You can see this in the sales of places selling 80% receivers/frames. Even if you can buy a professionally built gun at the store, some people would rather build their own, putting their own personal touches on it. It's a similar mentality to hotrodders, or custom motorcycles, etc.
A housemate might have seen the Voltaren lying around, then Googled for it on your computer.
The best tool is one you already know
See also the discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21734529 (about https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust but also about a GNU Rust compiler in general)
Did you search for "pain" or "arthritis" or "migraine" or something like that? Visit a page devoted to your condition or symptoms? Could be whatever led you to get Voltaren in the first place also led you to issue search queries or visit sites in a way that let Google infer you might be interested in Voltaren.
One question? What we have to do when the market is not yet created? May be the author ignores the idea of iPhone? Can you imagine Jobs to be "market focused"? When there is no market for touch based phones?
Market focused by the way perfectly describes Apple of today.
The Irony is big.
Instead of a list of instructions, it might be nice to have details on how all the things you mention actually work...