skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be missing something here. How does it help an investigation by fetching the meta data of those who read an article? Anyone could of read the article within that time period.
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Small steps, little projects that can be done in a few days.

Trying to have fun over getting results.

Maybe getting into some different things that involves new people and subjects.
Author here - actually LDC died in October 1977, the same month this book came out. So there were more texts planned in the "Military Cryptanalytics" series, but they were never published.
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Yeah I shouldn't have used "toxic", it sets off people's SJW alarm
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Jobs at larger, more stable corporations can still take a lot out of you! Even if it pales in comparison to the insanity of startup life.

For myself: the drive, and the creativity, only come back if I stop working for an extended period of time (weeks). I need a lot of idle time and some boredom before I feel creative again, let alone want to touch a keyboard, but if I wait long enough it always happens.

I promise you the creativity and desire is still there. It could be more that the current job (or something else) is suppressing it, and less that you haven’t recovered something you lost.
Is this a 2021 news? The "webextensions" API has been talked about for years already.
Pretty sure the USD is more stable than bitcoin over the last two years.
I'm using it right now on Android. Works fine.
This has happened to me. And I wrote the post in the first place because I kept having to rediscover how to do the thing
Those are not mutually exclusive.
Often yes, but in different ways. Parents make sacrifices all the time.
Minor bug: if I visit the page in 1920x1080, everything is too big. But if I resize the page to 960x1080 and back, the layout becomes good.
Although all (bar one) of the points made seem sound to me the take-away should probably be "and then go and do bitcoin anyway". Maybe I'm an idealist, but allowing people to freely signal what they think is worth supporting financially will cause more good than harm.

I think there is a strong argument that even with all the negative externalities listed, the positive are even greater. I mean, what if the world's billionaires are eventually forced to transect on a public blockchain? A lot of shadiness will suddenly become really hard to hide. Net crime may well reduce; we don't know what we don't know in that sphere.

> Funding "rogue states" such as North Korea and Iran."

Now on to the point I disagree with. Find Iran on a map. Look left of it and right. You'll see two countries invaded by the US on the flimsiest of pretexts. The US not being able to use financial means to rub salt in the wounds of people it wants to bully is a win for the world. This is a positive externality.
I like the URL feature. I can share the French army's flag :p https://flag.rachel.systems/#WyJGRkZGRkYiXQ==
But the money was still printed as you see in the M2 supply:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
For some reason I've observed this to be true of QA reporting issues.
I think you might be missing a word there? Everything is too what? Also thank you for the report!
How come when I look at unionized companies and countries, they don't have it much better, and their pay is whole lot worse?
'Grumpalumps and gadflies': S.F. cafe owner fights to open in Mission District
The alternative to password managers is federation. If you're going to trust Apple's or Google's or Microsoft's browser to remember passwords in the cloud then you might as well use SAML or OAuth and stop caring about passwords almost entirely.

For the few sites where security matters more than trust in browser vendors it's probably better to memorize those passphrases, or use completely offline password managers.
Sorry, edited. I'm on Firefox 88.0.1, if that helps.
There doesn't seem to be anything across the North Pole, yet.
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Seeing how not being able to print more money when you need it worked out for the government of e.g. Greece, I would be surprised if El Savlador chooses BTC for paying its debts.
I don't think they work on desktop either. It seems to be just a static image in the background rather than an interactive map (despite the apparent zoom buttons).
There are two views, I suppose. Stalin did build an industrial state. It was based on slave work causing death and untold damage to millions. But it did allow them to persist against Germany. Which is all good as long you are not the one being slaved, that tends to shift the viewpoint significantly.
This sounds like a really good way to make sure you get the smallest raises and the least promotions. You'll never be seen or heard!
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Yeesh, after trying to block it multiple times and then telling them you still think it won’t work even if you’re letting them “waste” time on it, that’s some serious humble pie to eat! How did that go?
Plausible. If it is for one of the new AMD instances as someone else in the comments theorized I don't think they're heavily used by Amazon internally.
“Some people like peanut butter and jelly, some don’t, but both viewpoints are fascist.”

You used both “toxic” and “sjw” incorrectly, I don’t think these words mean what you think they mean
There are usually a few undersea cable cuts every year just from accidents with ships dragging their anchors in bad weather. Most places have redundant connectivity now so it isn't a major problem.
Picking up other hobbies got me back into software side projects but not as an end in themselves as they used to be (and I'm pretty tired of "learning" new tech at this point -- it's just the same things over and over and over again, usually with even more complexity); rather, I feel compelled to write little pieces of software that vastly improve my experience of the new, interesting hobbies.

Avoid competitiveness and "getting ahead" -- pursue mastery the same way a zen gardener does. It's very enjoyable to be good at useless things.
> Previous embedding theorems (see Whitney embedding [3]) preserved topology but not necessarily geometry.

The definition of Riemmannian manifold fairly straightforwardly means that every compact smooth (I think you only need C^2) manifold can be isometrically embedded in a high enough dimensional euclidean space (with the euclidean metric) just by using the fact that every riemannian manifold is locally euclidean, which means we can cover it with balls on which there are local isomorphisms, and from these we can pick a finite subcover and partition of unity that glues together for a global isometry. Basically you are gluing together local solutions to a PDE. This is something often covered in a first year course on geometry. For the details of this approach worked out, see this expository paper:
https://www.math.mcgill.ca/gantumur/math580f12/siyuan.lu.pdf

To the best of my knowledge, this result doesn't even have a name attached to it (I could be wrong, but it was always presented as just a series of unnamed propositions whenever I saw this). That's not the hard part, the hard part is putting an explicit bound on the size of the target space other than "finite". So the genius of Nash was to put a strong bound on the dimension of the target space as well as the size of the target space. Rather than using general compactness and existence arguments, this requires careful arguments and innovative geometric ideas and is really a suprising result.
>there was never a real danger of a global thermonuclear war

This seems like an odd thing to say. Is it meant as sarcasm?

Everyone has heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis, so I won't say anything about that.

But have you heard of the Sino-Soviet crisis of 1969?
Allegedly (I'm neither a historian nor any other kind of authority on it) the USSR was going to launch nuclear missiles at China during a border dispute, and asked the Nixon administration to remain neutral.

Instead, Kissinger replied that the US would nuke hundreds of Russian cities in response.

This story appears to be reflective of the official Chinese Communist Party historical account.

https://www.scmp.com/article/714064/nixon-intervention-saved...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
Globalization and the detriment of their own counties economy is what limits the likelihood of this happening. Russia definitely has a plan to do this and the capability. But they won't.
You're kidding right? There are giant maps of these cables all over the place.
> If you set the DNS A record correct then it works fine, so it's very trivial to bypass, but that is something to be aware off for the region.

Or /etc/hosts, which is what I use to bypass things like reddit or crypto related stuff that's blocked (but can be done for things like pornography).

> The one thing though is the navy of both the Philippines and Indonesia are not armed, nor strong enough to defend against China.

If you exclude the 2 attack subs in the Indonesian Navy (and the 3 more on order [0], which signals intent to build up this capacity), I understand that, but in order to pull off an attack/invasion, much more distance needs to be covered and actively defended (i.e, supply chain for such attacks/invasion must not be ignored) which is a lot easier for China to engage in such operations against Philippines compared to Indonesia.

> Satellite communications AFAIK can be routed via USA owned sats so that wouldn't be an issue provided these SEA countries didn't attack first but that just opens up more speculation...

Satellite links can also be compromised by surveillance spaceships/satellites as well, so even routing through ones own sats is not a panacea.

> Interesting future the next two decade will be.

Agreed.

[0] https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Indonesian_Navy
Take action how? Anyone can order ddos and they use 100000s of hacked windows machines. What can govs do?
I’ve been in a similar position but with sport rather than coding.

I’ve represented my country and competed abroad. After burning out racing, I weirdly couldn’t enjoy it as a hobby anymore.

Perfectionism was definitely a factor. The main thing for me was the lack of learning new stuff.

When you’re a beginner, the initial steep learning curve can be really fun. Then it flattens out once you’re an expert.

Maybe you could build a side project in a new language - or even step away from coding for a while and learn something completely different.
Thank you! I’ll try it on firefox and see if I can reproduce the issue
I agree and like your philosophy, but it is also a bit of a trade off. There are lots of situations where spending time trying to make things work where you think they otherwise wouldn’t can waste time or cause further damage (like relationships).

This is not me trying to say “that won’t work” :)
So they used the wrong word, and it gave you an opportunity to pen an essay on "authority" vs "force". The actual point stands, however.
What’s even weirder is that breaking Enigma is often attributed to British cryptologists.
This book, like the MILCRYP series, is focussed on cryptanalysis of "classical" (pre-computer) ciphers.

The "Principles of Cryptodiagnosis" chapter (which I think is the most interesting "reveal") is an update of the author's 1970 monograph "Ars Conjectandi". Around 1976/1977 when the book came out, the stronger "modern" cryptography was becoming public - DES, public key crypto, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, the paper "New Directions in Cryptography" etc.

The Schneier book is all about those - e.g. DES, RSA, GOST etc and applying known systems. It's not about cryptanalysis of pre-computer "classical systems" - at the start he says "This is not a book about classical cryptography". There's a brief note mentioning that "double transposition" is a very strong classical system, and that's about it.
And way more non-programmer friendly.
Was tempted to make a throwaway account for this, but what the hell, burnout is really nothing to be ashamed of.

I'm in a somewhat similar situation to you, but replace the 3 years with 10 years. I had many periods of 'minor' burnout along the way that I ignored or ploughed through, which in hindsight was a pretty big mistake.

Around August last year I just couldn't continue. I wasn't sleeping, I was frequently run down, and I was self-medicating more and more with drugs and alcohol. It eventually got to the point where simply opening my laptop would elicit a fight or flight response.

I was lucky enough to be in a secure enough financial situation to largely take 6 months off. If you're in a position to do this, I highly recommend it.

I uninstalled gmail, slack, etc. from my phone. I considered getting a dumb phone, but settled for turning off push notifications for everything instead. I went away with my girlfriend for a week and left all my tech at home except for my kindle (literally the first time I've been disconnected for more than a couple of days in probably 20 years). I exercised as much as possible and spent time in nature going for walks, etc.

I've been back at it part time for the last few months. Gradually I felt the feelings of burnout being replaced with feelings of boredom, which is hopefully my brain's way of saying that it's starting to repair itself and ready to slowly return to work.

I'm still nowhere near back to peak productivity, but I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that I may never get back there. I'm 36 and probably would have dropped dead of overwork by 50 if I kept up the tempo of the last 10 years anyway.

I'm not 'cured' by any means, but I believe things are slowly getting better.

My advice to you is to be kind and patient with yourself. Try not to stress about not having a side-project, and instead just focus on self-care for a while. Someone posted this on HN a few weeks back and it really hit close to home for me: http://www.robinhobb.com/blog/posts/38429
Boredom is a totally underestimated and undervalued mental state these days. IMO it's quite difficult to become bored these days with all the distractions of the Internet. Many great thinkers went to rural "boredom resorts" to let their ideas thrive after they got stimuli from crowded cities.
If it's the one I found they're talking about a different town. That said I certainly haven't verified the sign, though I do remember seeing an image of it somewhere a long, long time ago. Not pre-Photoshop but definitely before it's usage was common.
The last time someone had ideas to replace the US Dollar, things didn't end so well for them.

https://millenium-state.com/blog/2019/05/03/the-dinar-gold-t...
In theory, yes. You might say that cryptography exists in the gap between the theoretically impossible and the practically achievable.
How do you as a Lighting Network developer propose that the citizens of El Salvador secure their Lighting Network Channels so they don't get drained of their funds? LN channels require each party to observe the channel for malicious transactions so they can forcefully close the channel if one occurs. Can the average user handle this or are intermediaries needed?
> Perpetual motion machines (and unethical behavior, another good example in this thread) really do need to be shot down fast, but they're rarer than they might appear

They really are not, a stint at (or getting chummy with) the nearest patent office demonstrates it quickly.

The machine you mention is pretty much the exception that proves the rule, and unintuitive enough that yes it did really need a proper model.

> One guy had an intuition that said it could be done

There are dozens of guys waking up with the intuition that a PMM can be done every day.
That’s simply not true. It’s as easy as joining their channels in Slack.
Just extending your explanation that Ada also does RAII, there they are called controlled types.

And to certain extent, C++ has influenced Turbo Pascal/Delphi as well with similar approach.
Big agreement here!

Though, as it turns out, software is eating the world, and every analog hobby I've picked up eventually wants to become a computer hobby. You can choose to resist this entirely, or give in a bit. The analog part is still there waiting for you whenever you're tired of starting at rectangles.

(Example A: FM synthesis ideas should obviously be reimplemented in python... Oh wait, super collider exists, and now this cheap USB game pass I had lying around is an FM synth. But I've still got a small pile of synths to play with.)

(Example 2: Birds are cool. Eventually I found my way into bird song id with machine learning, but I can now always justify a long walk in the woods as field research...)
Are there any videos showing how these would be used in a real world situation?
does anyone know why VB developers seem to hang on to VB with such tenacity? I know two people who still use VB6 for their own stuff, and I work with dozens of people who write and maintain VB.net software every weekday. they have no plans to leave VB.net.

this puzzles me. I consider it a bad thing to be glued to any particular language that strongly. at some point, intentionally ignoring other languages is detrimental to growth as a developer, to me.

I dunno, maybe not. I can say that the love that people have for VB goes directly against my own experiences with VB. I found it very painful, and now avoid it at any cost.
Here's one that allows you to mix and match symbols and motifs that are common to national flags: https://flag-designer.appspot.com/
This was (probably still is) exactly my mistake...being able to survive is by no means related to "I'm recovered and happy to commit to something new"

And after 2 years of surviving, I feel that I lost a lot of time
I used neither of those words incorrectly and that's not what I said
Wow, I could relate so much with this link and I’m only 32...
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I have a bash script which takes in name of the website and generates a 64 character long random string(lower,upper,number,symbol), then puts that in a text file and then encrypts it with gpg using aes256 and puts that file in a dropbox synced directory. Whenever I need to use one, another option retrieves the password, and if I want to use my phone, I just use yet another option which uses qrencode to generate a QR code of the password and then display it using `display` by imagemagick so my phone can scan that to copy the password into clipboard. That's the most safe solution I came up with without trusting third-party solutions. Only downside is dependency on a Linux-powered PC.
nice, enjoyed making one

https://flag.rachel.systems/#Wy0xLCJFQkVERUEiLCJCNUI3MjYiLCI...
Yes. Productivity is measured and clearly increased over the last few generations.
Which is how it should work in principle. Why would parties to an agreement care about each other's internal matters?

Without such a provision you open up to scenarios where a parliament sabotages international treaties by making laws that are in conflict with them.

That's worse than actual official termination of the agreement because the threshold is much lower.
Related:

“Editorial: There is no drought”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-t...

Spoiler: this is because a drought is temporary whereas this may be the new baseline.

Discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068716
>Conservatism in the US has nothing to do with conservation, it's more synonymous with economic liberalism in Europe

This is a very popular cliché, and while the conclusion might hold, the logic doesn't, in my opinion.

If the US did have true conservatives, then they would be conserving what is in the US, not Europe.

And I think it's widely considered that the existing order in the US has more elements of economic liberalism.

On the other hand, the Republicans who like that sort of thing seem increasingly marginalized anyway, so as I said, the conclusion may still be correct.
"we just have to ship a device which produces more electrical energy than one has to put in. Is 4 weeks enough? "

4 weeks for a brand new fuel cell is a bit short, but you can just buy them on the open market.
I mean, the best way to think about it is as a replacement for MATLAB, except with better support for general purpose computing. MATLAB the language syntax is optimized for double precision matrix math - but MATLAB is interpreted with a JIT and extremely productive IDE, so actually really easy to use, except for the part where it costs $2000 per toolbox per year. It also interops fairly seamlessly with Java since it runs on the JVM.

Mathworks: the company that I wouldn't pay paying money to, if it wasn't such a ridiculously large sum. I don't have any issue paying for Jetbrains IDEs, but it's an order of magnitude smaller than Mathwork's yearly take.
I'm not sure that the decision do have to be made in the same sense that they are made if there is an explicit policy.

But, regardless, a "specialized government agency" which "plans the economy", would I think invariably be a "political organization".
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So everybody stops working after saving a few years. And then who produces the food?
Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
US gov stance on cryptocurrency, when described this way, is clear to me. “We will only accept X. We will monitor the use of Y as a means of value exchange among the citizenry, since we still want everyone to participate in X market and pay taxes in it[0].”

Less double-think, more orthogonality.

[0] a.k.a. “maintain a country”
Probably relevant, Bing is not blocked in China the way Google is. capitulation like this on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square might have something to do with that.
As mentioned often "that won't work" is a good way to cut off all creative thought processes and should be limited, but there are definitely times when a quorum of uninformed parties are about to commit to 'an investigation' where someone calling it straight is appreciated
That would be like saying venture capital is a waste of economic resources because most start ups fail. We should take risk knowing that failure is a part of the path to learning. Government has demonstrated clear ability to spur innovation through investment. American has a successful market economy specifically because of a good active government not in spite of it.
How old are you? Do you live alone? Do you have kids? It's normal to get older and to lose interest in things you once thought important. If it actually is important, it will become interesting again. It's okay not to care about things you don't care about now.
No.

While I don't believe in karma, I do believe there are consequences to misbehavior, even if one is not caught:

The temerity and lack of ethics to appropriate a project that someone else has written and claim it as one's own leaks into other areas of one's life. That kind of behavior is not isolated to just open-source software. Perhaps the world-weary thief of the OP took his experience as a lesson and changed his ways, but he likely continued bumbling around, behaving dishonestly, losing the respect of his peers along the way. Perhaps even that of family and friends. Perhaps he miscounts the points in a boardgame, or cheats on his spouse, but it won't be limited to this.

Contrast that to the life and career arc of the OP himself.

So, no, the fools are those who steal, caught or not.
Actually, like everything in computing, it depends.

Reference counting is a form of garbage collection, as per most highly referenced CS books on the subject, like The Garbage Collection Handbook, chapter 5.

https://gchandbook.org/

But lets put that aside, considering that std::..._ptr<>() or any other variant thereof are plain optional library types.

That still leaves Unreal C++, C++/CLI, C++/CX as garbage collection extensions to C++, just like GCC C++ or clang C++ provide their own language extensions.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScrip...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/dotnet/dotnet-programmi...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cppcx/visual-c-language...