skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can definitely go overboard with eye contact via Zoom, though. Just as an experiment I put my Zoom feed on a little monitor on my teleprompter and that was a little much.
The Bitcoin Stack
Server tomcat v8.0 server at localhost failed to start
Three examples where DSP saved my butt
Ah, I missed that part. You're right in that case! I'm just so used to the EU coming up with new rules without reasonable exemptions that I assumed the same here.

It's my mistake!
Can be considered fake. https://news.bitcoin.com/silk-road-fake-murder-mystery-may-b...
As I wrote, there could be an exception for non-voting stock. At least temporarily.

But ultimately, it's supposed to change the paradigm. Because currently the economy is run by paperclip maximizers that no human is held responsible for. Which is not ideal.
Probably talking about something like LoRa on 900mhz I guess?
Yeah I do my most productive conversations when I'm rushing to do a big shit.
> I am sorry to have posted this. I was duped by the source seeming credible

The source is credible; it's a mathematical April Fools joke. Kind of how the HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" status code is a nerdy computer science April Fools joke.

No harm, no foul.
What if browsers exposed the capabilities to locate the inputs, act upon user input, supply generated passwords, etc. in a sandboxed manner?
As others have mentioned, I also wonder how much of this annoyance to return has to do with the failed open-office concept.

People more-or-less occasionally like having their own place during work where they can some action (e.g. closing their door) to focus 100% without interruption.

Cost-cutting open-office plans that let management see their flock typing away destroyed this option, and covid has reminded people how valuable and productive this option is/was (for those at home with this option).

We are now in new territory, as we are experiencing the end of the first pandemic during the information age. What we decide now will resonate for many years.

Something to think about: for most millennia of human experience, where one worked and where one lived amongst the family and community were one and the same. It’s only a blip in post-industrial history have we had this situation of leaving the family (et al.) behind to pull levers and receive $coins.

If the internet lets us go back… that would be huge
It does not. It has an excellent microphone for a laptop microphone. It doesn't step to a $69 desk microphone.
There will be if it's successful - 90% of the bitcoins ever mined have already been mined, for bitcoin to be useful at a long term world wide level it needs to store enough value even as the size of the world economy grows - if it can't them it will become a limit on economic growth much as gold became in the last century.

So because the number of bitcoin is fixed to remain relevant bitcoin will need to continually deflate (ie increase in value) so that there's enough to represent the size of the economy
Reading this Ross comes across as naive and claims he did not know SilkRoad would be used for drugs. This is a complete rewriting of the facts. Ross personally bootstrapped the marketplace by growing and selling magic mushrooms.

I get that he is a bit of a celebrity And that he laid the ground work for the dark markets of the internet but let’s not forget that he knew exactly was he was doing. He wasn’t on some model path to change/save the world.

He was a criminal that tried to get people killed.
very disappointing! Or was it 'really' delayed?

Until then, when the price falls its time to buy!
Facebook wants to launch its newsletter product later this month
Even if you buy with fiat, you're still giving up the opportunity cost of not buying Bitcoin. All of our pizzas in 2011 could have been millions
I read that SO page.

I find the argument unpersuasive for the same reasons commenters there did. The case for C++ is stronger because the set of current C++ compilers (which nowadays have integrated pre-processor) is much smaller than of C compilers that could be encountered in the wild.

Doing complicated things with header files and paths is inherently fragile, pragma or no pragma. So, don't do them. Absent fragile header file or include-path games, there is no problem.

In the foreseeable future, #include will begin to fade from C++ code, and with it #pragma once, include guards, and any sort of worries about them. (Then we might start to worry about module name collisions, instead.)
You can export passwords from Chrome / Google passwords.
Seems like replacing (firing) a group of employees for something so arbitrary is maybe not great for morale.
Lightning developer here. Note that Strike is only one implementation of lightning (it's also open source, and an open standard). It's not even the most popular.
Hold up. I thought webExtensions already was an effort to standardize browser addons
To start with, how do you figure out how much profit this completely Australian company made in France? It's not their revenue from France, and all their expenses are in Australia. Does the company calculate expenses according to Australian law, or French law? Calculating expenses is complicated, and each country has different rules. You're effectively forcing companies to file full taxes in every country where they have customers.

If the company doesn't declare a profit in France, is France going to audit them? They have no presence in France.

Multiply this issue for every country where customers reside. This is bad for consumers. Companies are going to choose which markets are big enough for it to be worth the additional burden. If you're from Canada, too bad; we don't sell to Canadians.

Australia and France have similar tax rates. This doesn't have much effect on how much tax the company pays; just how much goes to France.

We have already have sales tax, which is a much simpler system that taxes revenue, not profit.
Like you, my superpower is to "look for trouble." For some reason, my mind looks for the potential weak spots in any plan, and I'm darn good at it. Of course, it's much easier to find them in other people's plans than my own...
Biden has now made it policy to protect journalists from certain means of investigation, but that can be reversed easily by the next president, by Biden if they want, and because the has no legal force, courts won't enforce it and it may be that the biggest risk taken by violators is to lose their job.

Why isn't this made into a federal law? What constituency in Congress is opposed?
Holder spaces. https://math.ucdenver.edu/~jmandel/classes/7760f05/spaces.pd...

"""

Let Ω be an open set in Rn, 0<α≤1, and k a nonnegative integer. The (uniform) Holder spaces Ck,α(Ω) consist of functions whose k−th order derivatives are uniformly Holder continuous with exponent α in Ω. The(local) Holder spaces Ck,α(Ω) consist of functions whose k−th order derivatives are locally Holder continuous with exponent α

"""

The Holder continuity condition looks sorta like the limit definition of a derivative with an exponent on the denominator.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6lder_condition
Who is going to support them? People working from home (maybe not from tech org like Apple) from a non-tech organization forget that computers don't fix themselves. Their work is now totally dependent on their ISP too. An org's IT department employees can't be pulled in 100 different directions to go fix a mouse or "the Internet" every day.
Just because something is a native species doesn't mean it can be a traditional lawn.

https://content.yardmap.org/learn/native-grasses-for-your-na...

But its true that a lot of the ecological benefit would be forgone by a traditional lawn even with native grasses. But it does have the advantage of limiting the spread of non-native species that can (but no always) have harmful affects on local ecologies.
City roads – This website renders every single road within a city
> google "fiber plc splitter" for some manufacturer info and datasheets.

See also "optical tap".
Electrolytic capacitors are quite prone to failing over time and aren't difficult to replace, even on a motherboard. They are most commonly through-hole components, probably because they aren't compatible with reflow soldering. One of the features of high end motherboards is high reliability capacitors.

Based on reading the article and folks comments on this thread, though, I wouldn't trust anything this person claims.
In a different story that Mac later runs Windows 7:

https://kuulpeeps.com/2018/12/14/freddie-figgers-meet-the-29...

But there was no capacitor, it was just taken apart 5 (or 6) times. Not abandoned here either, just a crack-addicted mother.
> I think something that's not readily apparent with the success so far of remote work during COVID, is that organizations are operating on the organizational 'shared context' that was created before remote work started.

Strong agree here. My company has hired a bunch of new people over the course of the pandemic and the same level of acculturation into the internal culture and way of doing things is just not there for them. A fair number of our team has actually been 100% remote all along before the pandemic, but I think having a core contingent of (particularly operation and project management) people sharing space over the workday did a lot to spread that shared context around and loop the fully remote members of the team in. Over the COVID period I’ve noticed newer team members just having a lot more trouble adjusting and settling in because all that in acknowledged cultural and context dissemination wasn’t happening.

I can’t think of the last time I actually spoke to anyone on our UI/UX team because I literally have zero reason to set up a meeting with them and if there isn’t a work reason to interact it doesn’t happen anymore. For me that’s less of a deal but, for example, imagine being in the shoes of a junior business development person. For them their career progression and skill development depends on picking up a lot of the lingo and philosophy around how development works by osmosis. The absence of that is pretty fatal for cross team collaboration.

Lots of big companies are heavily silo’d in this way where everyone just does their specific job description thing, and I’ve worked in many such companies. I really didn’t like it. Those environments have always felt less dynamic and creative to me. Obviously that’s just one man’s opinion and experience, but I really don’t think I’d be as happy in a fully remote team.
I really struggle to understand why people are so averse to paying for important software.
This paper uses a substantially different (and in my opinion useless) definition of bullshit.

People feel useful if their work contributes towards achieving objectives. If you're on a ship taking on water, bailing out that water is incredibly useful. On the other hand a security guard who hasn't had to deal with an incident in years probably feels quite useless.

Meaningfully contributing however requires that objective to be one that needs doing. If the ship is only taking on water because some basic maintenance has been neglected, that doesn't make it any less important to bail out the water, but it's BS that you have to in the first place. While the security guard may never do anything productive, simply being available on the off chance there is an incident is a major and indispensable reduction of risk for the organization which depending on circumstances, may very well not be able to operate without it; certainly not BS at all.

Most people do work hard to deal with the problems they face day in and day out. That doesn't mean the problem should have existed in the first place, and Graeber correctly defines a bullshit job in such a way that a very much not-bullshit employee can nevertheless find themself in the soul crushing position of working a bullshit job. Any alternative definition where that soul crushing situation isn't possible completely misses the point of his research.
>they depend on the order of those items and you "broke" their code by not having this behaviour you never promised and it made no sense to depend on

reminds me of a time my extension started glitching because localStorage stopped returning results in same order they were put in :o) Now that I think about it it happened somewhere around 2017-2018, did google drop it into Chrome at this point?
Ironically, the thread is now flagged, which proves my point. I get that it's fun to be snide on the internet, but is that worth it if you end up in the wrong anyways?
How does content of this compares to e.g. newer (still 30 year old) book like Applied Cryptography by Schneier? I understand these PDFs are even more "applied" but in terms of concepts behind them?
A lot of the reporting titles make this sound like the employees want across the board remote work.

The letter specifically states that they want teams to be able to define their own remote/local needs versus being beholden to a company wide policy.

They also ask that the company track how many people reject job offers or leave due to the remote work policy so that the teams can make informed decisions.

This seems really fair. Some teams will need to be fully on site, others don't. Right now they're beholden to the new policy, whereas if these changes are accepted, they could do what's best for the team.
This probably isn't very helpful, but I'd imagine underestimating the PD is going to lead to happier patients even if not all that accurate. We can accommodate with crossing our eyes, but the opposite is not usually true.
I'd imagine this is a big consideration for a lot of the people advocating a return to the office in those companies. Once fully remote work is an option (or even mostly-remote work, a 3 hour commute might be acceptable once a fortnight and if that's by plane, half the country is within range) they'll be open to far greater competition from equally talented engineers in much more reasonably priced areas.
what do you see as the advantages of rustpad over etherpad?

can etherpad documents be exported, converted to rustpad?
> "...that doesn't change the fact that the rich always have a leg up on the competition."

All of the proposals other than meritocracy so far gives the rich even more of a leg up over everyone else, which is why meritocracy continues to enjoy widespread support. Meritocracy focused on objective measures and unbiased assessment at least gives talented ordinary people a chance at outcompeting the rich.
"what about showstopper?" is a legitimate question that offers a way to continue the discussion.
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> I never really understood this. Ed25519 keys use SHA-512 and are considered secure. They're still just long secrets, aren't they?

No. I find it easiest to keep this straight in my head with a line from the U2 song "The Fly", "a secret is something you tell one other person". You're thinking of Ed25519 private keys, you mustn't tell those to anybody and they're minted as a pair with a public key you can tell to everybody.

> What's to prevent me from using a similarly long, randomly generated secret as my password

That's a Shared Secret. You tell the password to the remote web site. They have a copy of it, their permanent copy of it is likely hashed, but you send them a new, unhashed version of that same password to the site every single time you log in.

This makes all the difference in the world. Let's see that in action:

Suppose that Edward, who is Evil, has complete insight into everything stored by and every program running at Facebook for an hour. If someone logs into Facebook using a password, obviously Edward learns the password, it was sent to Facebook so they could check it was correct. So Edward can log in as any Facebook user who logged in while Edward's magical insight lasted? Right?

Nope. Facebook has WebAuthn. For WebAuthn users logging in involves public key cryptography. Facebook has a public key for those users but no private key. Edward can see that the users were properly authenticated, but he doesn't get a persistent credential because the persistent credential never left the user's grasp. He cannot log in as those users, only they can do that.
There are some nice packages, no doubt.

How many people with significant prior language design experience are deeply involved in the language design process? what about database dev experience? OS dev? server dev?

> I also think it's a pretty fair comparison to point out how standardized and consistent the Rust governance process is compared to Julia's (the Rust RFC system is an exemplar here).

Yep. I want the language to be good, but it needs help from communities like the Rust language team.
What are the odds that a website will run a computationally hard hash function on every single HTTP request just so it can log something less sensitive than an IP address?
I like how they're also hacking the biological visual system of pilots, ghost in the shell style...I didn't know the pilots had prosthetic replacements ;p ;) xx
The title of the HN post is incorrect, and the worst kind of incorrect because it editorializes what is otherwise a correct title on the original article: "Buterin Explains Why Ethereum 2.0 Upgrade Won’t Arrive Until Late 2022".

"PoW to PoS is expected to take place sometime in 2021/2022"

It's the "the shipping of shard chains is not expected until sometime in late 2022" that is further delayed.
This is a silly comparison and this "aha, but what about this, huh?!"-style of conversation is not one I'm interested in having.
Well, my book on Learn LLVM 12 by Kai Nacke should have arrived today, so I'm not out of the C++ woods just yet.

Thanks, cheers to you too!
Oh jeeze with comments enabled anything goes.
> Also, if you significantly above average contributor you pretty much can dictate when and where you work even before the pandemic (with some common sense limits).

Yup. I’ve been mostly remote most of my career for this reason. I’ve only once had to justify it beyond my contribution once (got a doctor’s note stating that the noise in an office would make me less productive, which is true). It was no surprise that I didn’t want to keep working there for other reasons not so long after.
Strike also open sources their code - calling it "Bitcoin for countries"
I believe he was referring to the old 1Password that let you handle the storage of your encrypted vault (which doesn't incorporate the secret key encryption approach)
If you use a password manager that's two factor, then you are still at two factors. e.g. vault-based or hardware key based
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There's no surprise that some large/small subset of employees want to be full-remote. If you're someone who hates the commute, has relocated, or just plain don't want to be around people - going back to the office feels like all downside from your perspective.

If you're responsible for the larger organization, your pros and cons are different. The IC may not care about subtle deleterious effects of remote work on culture and collaboration but top management has to care about that very much.

Personal story: I started a new job during COVID and haven't met any of my colleagues. This started off fine because I was building out a team and connecting with stakeholders, so there was a lot of shared context being built up together and it went fine. Now, I've been asked to take on a few more teams and holly shit it's hard. I struggle to visualize who is on what team because I never see them "together" in physical space. It's also hard to become aware of people I am not working with but should be. For example, it took me a while to realize that there's a "support" team doing front-line defense for one of the teams. In a real office, I'd have spotted that much sooner because I'd realize that a certain someone runs over to the team whenever there's a production outage - I'd see and hear it. But now, that happens in a zoom/slack I am not in, and awareness is much lower.

The point is that the employees have much simpler consideration: do I like/want to go to the office or not. If your responsibility is for the organization working well into indefinite future, you have a different and much more complicated concern.
Is there any evidence to support that NRC/CAA and farm laws caused slowdown of growth? Or is it a laundry list of things that Modi government did so they must be bad?
Hybrid can be great or completely useless depending on the person and their locality.

If you're hybrid, you can't really live further away in cheaper areas, but you now have to set up office space at home for the WFH days. So it's potentially worse than fully WFH or fully on site.

You still need to maintain having a vehicle or commute.

Of course there are advantages, like spending more time with family and reduced sum commute. But it doesn't allow for people to have a meaningful change in lifestyle that they're seeking.
I think it varies on the organization and individuals. For me, "shared context" is a general feeling that people can ask questions and ask for help and can expect to get a productive response in a reasonably timely manner. Organizations have absolutely managed to establish that online using tools like video conferencing (as you mention).

For me though, I find relying heavily on asynchronous communications insufficient, and synchronous remote communications deeply frustrating (i.e., natural turn-taking cues aren't present in video calls). I end up feeling disconnected from the people I work remotely with, even though they didn't do anything wrong. I can only establish "shared context" with people who have spent enough time with me in the same space with ample frictionless face-to-face conversations.
Everyone would be going back into the office... if there wasn't a shortage of skilled workers to fill positions.

As the labor market is, companies have to bend to some of labor's demands in order to attract and retain talent.

This isn't the worst state of affairs.
Spoken like someone who's far away from minimum wage. One would think it also benefits the people who receive the wage increase, yeah?

My country has a $20 minimum wage, and yet the unemployment rates, small business survival rate, and inflation are all around the same levels at the USA, so all the talk of impending economic catastrophe if we give poor people a few more crumbs seems to be hot air from where I'm sitting.
The implication is that they’ll quit if they don’t get to work remotely, not that they’ll be fired.