skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://services.math.duke.edu/~bray/Courses/89s-MOU/2016/Pa...

Quoting from the paper:

The standard given by the NIST gives a list of explicit parameters ... describing the elliptic curve behind the algorithm.

Examining the points P and Q here, it is obvious why cryptographers were suspicious of
the Dual EC ... once the scalar k is known, it is a “simple matter to determine the secret internal state s of the pseudo-random bit generator” [6], by observing as few as 32 bytes of output.

It goes on to quote one of the NSA contractors who admitted that instead of being randomly chosen, "Q is (in essence) the public key for some random private key."

"It could also be generated like a(nother) canonical G, but NSA kyboshed this idea, and I was not allowed to publicly discuss it, just in case you may think of going there."

Straying from the prescribed points was discouraged, and NIST only provided FIPS validation to clients using the original P and Q.

More recently, GPRS was also shown to have been intentionally weakened - presumably to pass export controls - although in this case I think it was the algorithm and not a "cherry picked" curve: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/819.pdf
In this case it's similar to how Qanon recruitment works. They say to "do your own research" but then push them so their research only finds the sources suggesting Obama is actually JFK wearing a mask or whatever.

Not that the liberal "trust the experts" worked, since Fauci's policy was to only say things that made him sound trustworthy, whether or not they were true. (and he admits this)
Is dark matter real, or have we misunderstood gravity?
Which Security Protocol Does Secure File Transfer (SFTP) Use to Transfer Data?
I think there are a number of factors in this:

* It's difficult for Western businesses to time shift, and there are usually caps on work visas.

* Perhaps until recently, most Western programmers genuinely enjoy the work. What I've heard from Indians is that many Indian programmers are more interested in building a career than in the work itself. Intrinstic vs. extrinsic motivation. I think this may be declining as a factor as software eats the rest of the US economy and brain drains talented people from other fields, though.

* Cultural differences--it turns out that English fluency is necessary but not sufficient to seamlessly slot into an Anglosphere company.

* One way out of this conundrum could be for new software companies to start in India and outcompete Western companies (at which point culture differences and time shift wouldn't matter), except I get the sense there are barriers to that.
> indoctrination and propaganda happening in US education

What evidence do you have that it is happening and on what scale?

My teachers, all that I recall, never presented any opinion or perspective as truth. It was always about thinking critically for ourselves. If, for example, they presented a well-established view on the sinking of the Maine, it was as material for our analysis and evaluation.
or npr and nytimes, two outlets that especially harp on their "fact-based", "independent" reporting, but is as message-controlled as every other (e.g., covid fearmongering is still being peddled as hard as ever).
I stopped reading on this sentence:

"It involves fresh scientific evidence that we are not be the only intelligent species in the cosmo."

If they can't even proofread their article, I'm not going to bother reading it.
Here's how I phrased the question: https://strawpoll.com/47x15cf1
Isn't saffron ultra expensive? It is in my country, at least. Prohibitively so.
i have added in-line evaluation,

by the way this is an open-source project you can follow updates here: https://github.com/uprun/lisperanto
Sadaf is a staple. I'm a fan of the cardamom varieties.
I strongly agree with this paper. Regularizing a NN is the key for better performance. But first, one needs to know, what exactly to regularize. I don't think trial-and-error hyperparameter bingo should be the way to go.
We need better insight and understanding about these networks, analyze their structure and find out, what exactly is wrong with it.
Then, a TARGETED regularization (layerwise, or maybe per neuron) has a huge potential to let very simple networks perform extremely well.
I even suggest, that adaptive regularizations (on/off/strength) should be researched even more. It is not necessary, that a network is regularized all the time the same way.
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And, more recently: "NUTS!".

https://www.army.mil/article/92856/the_story_of_the_nuts_rep...
There is a difference between not relaying all information and selecting info or misrepresenting info used for an agenda.
A friend works at Oracle and they have unlimited PTO and in December, their CEO announced you could do full time remote or hybrid.
This way to call a function smells wrong anyway. A shared pointer to a new value is nonsense as a parameter, because at the point of the call the pointer is not shared, it is unique! Since a shared pointer is implicitly constructible from a unique pointer, this makes more sense, assuming there are other call sites that really intend to share ownership:

void frob(std::shared_ptr<T>);

main() {
frob(std::make_unique<T>());
}
Not in DID, no, but can refer to DLT which is defined as:

> distributed ledger (DLT)
A non-centralized system for recording events. These systems establish sufficient confidence for participants to rely upon the data recorded by others to make operational decisions. They typically use distributed databases where different nodes use a consensus protocol to confirm the ordering of cryptographically signed transactions. The linking of digitally signed transactions over time often makes the history of the ledger effectively immutable.
This article is absurd, the statistics are entirely around "computer and information science" degrees - note this is NOT comp. sci. What software developers do any of us know with that major, lol? As if the # of software engineers in the job market is tied to that major at all (or any specific major, really)...
For starters, being just-in-time compiled makes for a nice short feedback cycle when you're developing. That's great for scripting, data science, exploratory development, even Web development since it facilitates a nice hot code reloading experience. But it also completely disqualifies it from running on iOS, which enforces a (understandable, IMO) ban on JITing.

I'm not interested in arguing about the relative merits of dynamic typing in any sort of absolute sense, but I will say that there are a lot of use cases where I like it, and they happen to overlap nicely with Python's core use cases. But they're also a problem on mobile, where you're more resource-constrained, including having to worry about battery usage. All that pointer chasing does have a cost.

On the other hand, non-GC languages like C, Rust and Swift make sense on mobile, where you want consistently low UI latency and you're trying to keep memory usage down. But there are lots of back-end development scenarios where I'd rather not have to think much about memory.
It's not 2 grand good. It's similar to bikes that cost $1K or less. There is no way they're only breaking even on the bikes unless their supply chain is complete garbage.
The looking up of liquidity is the whole reason LN can not scale or be cheap ever.

Today people in crypto may be willing to look up bitcoins they hold long term anyway. But in the real world this would be dead and trapped capital it doesn't work for you and you cant even use it to quickly buy something an take advantage of a market situation.

The only reason why someone would look up capital like that if is it makes money. So people who use someone else locked up bitcoins have to pay. This makes LN impossible to be cheap. You literally lend money to send money to someone. Its complete absurd. And as you said to make this more efficient large centralized pools are created so there will be a monopoly or oligopoly for lending, hows that gonna be good for the fees.

LN was dead before they started coding it.
This will always be the case. The last thing the majority of companies want to do is provide a clear path to promotion and pay increases. Face it, the vast majority of non technical companies are all about cost cutting, doing more with less. Hence job hopping is how developers get promotions and raises.
Do you call the barberry rice pilaf or plov? It's popular in Eastern Europe and it's so much tastier than the rice cooked in the western world.
Manipulating your own children (probably not good if you want functional kids) is a private affair without a political agenda.
I think what they're implying is that the bottom 80% are incompetent and should (presumably) feel bad. This is an interesting way to define competence.
This paper uses the petals (in one case they say leaves, but everywhere else they way petals), specifically because they aren't as expensive - so it seems the petals have the same chemicals as the stigma for this test
Maybe companies will finally start hiring new developers, instead of starting each of their positions at 2+ years of experience?
Yeah except that countries that lean closer to what you’re talking about are universally better than countries that lean in the direction of politeness. Lower corruption, happier by all metrics and so on. Should you let your friend walk around town and become a laughing stock of the community just because you were too afraid to tell him the guy at Supercuts must have had a hangover? Like I said, you’re trading in tomorrow for today. Trading in the big picture for short term gain or convenience. Ultimately it’s a net loss and it’s societal poison that, if left unchecked, leads to corruption and stagnation.

The emotional reaction to harmless words is not an intrinsic aspect of human biology. If someone says mean things in a malicious attempt to hurt you, it is natural to be emotionally disturbed or upset at the fact that someone has malicious intent toward you. But in some cultures you can tell someone their haircut is messed up and they understand that you don’t have malicious intent. It’s a cultural artifact, albeit a widespread one. It tripped me up for a long time too because I was born in a country that doesn’t know any better.
Interesting. The article defines propaganda differently than the dictionary.

The article: "Propaganda is information (delivered through any medium) designed to persuade, manipulate emotion, and change opinion rather than to inform using logical truths and facts."

The dictionary: "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."
Does anyone use StartPage? Is it truly privacy friendly?
No, everyone gets LHS auto wrong at the start. They don't realise it makes a copy. I have to point it out every other code review.
Lucky for you, it's going to be the future soon:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2chEZfdAqJvlw9dM3hAU6p?si=c8f...
> GBDTs are still unbeatable.

You'd be surprised how many times I've replaced a GBDT with logistic regression and had negligible drop off in model performance with a dramatic improvement in both training time as well as debugging and fixing production models.

I've had plenty of cases where a bit of reasonable feature transformation can get a logistic model to outperform a gbdt. Any non-linearity your picking up with a GBDT can often easily be captured with some very simple feature tweaking.

My experience has been that GBDTs are only particularly useful in Kaggle contests, where minuscule improvements in an arbitrary metric are valuable and training time and model debugging are completely unimportant.

There are absolutely cases where NNs can go places that logistic regression can't touch (CV and NLP), but I have yet to see a real world production pipeline where GBDT provides enough improvement over Logistic Regression, to throw out all of the performance and engineering benefits of linear models.
What if we opened up immigration and built factories in middle America?

Provide path to citizenship and education opportunities for children of immigrants, but host all manufacturing domestically at rates comparable to overseas facilities. Beat them on opportunity and subsidize workplace safety and vacation.

Provide tax incentives or transferable/sellable credits. We could even federally purchase the land and provide no-cost ground lease.

Dollars to dollars, this would make way more sense than extending Amtrak. It'd also stop population decline and create a next generation of American consumer.
How does this square with the first amendment? Is there a foreign country exception?

Also, its disappointing. The west needs to normalise relations with Iran. Europe are on it. It's only the US that won't face the facts.
6. chips o mast ;)

But I disagree with the tea.

I thought about this and I think the way the persian drink tea might be a sign of economic hardship: we put a handful of dried tea leaves in a pot and brew it ad infinitum on the samavar. This causes the tea to over brew and let out a very bitter taste, but also allows for a longer lasting supply. Then to counter the bitterness we add rock candy or sugar to it.

I prefer to brew the black tea in hot water but not too much; I still like saffron rock candy in it some times; but at this point my ancestral guilt is ablaze cause its a luxury to throw away tea for a cup when u can squeeze a pot out of it.
Why does it seem like C++ is constantly replacing its subtle hazards with even more subtle hazards? It's like they never go away, they just turn into something more obscure.
what? i'd say ~90% of the people I know in software have CS degrees, and the balance have EE, CE, or no degree at all.
Definitely. One of the primary benefits we get out of Spark is the ability to decouple storage and compute, and to very easily scale out the compute.

Our main Spark workload is pretty spiky. We have low load during most of the day, and very high load at certain times - either system-wide, or because a large customer triggered an expensive operation. Using Spark as our distributed query engine allows us to quickly spin up new worker nodes and process the high load in a timely manner. We can then downsize the cluster again to keep our compute spend in check.

And just to provide some context on our data size, here's an article about how we use Citus at Heap - https://www.citusdata.com/customers/heap . We store close to a petabyte of data in our distributed Citus cluster. However, we've found Spark to be significantly better at queries with large result sets - our Connect product syncs a lot of data from our internal storage to customers' warehouses.
I too have fallen victim to this and similar traps. it's a good idea to use a deleted copy constructor when you know it's not safe to copy the object. you can't completely stop others (or yourself) from doing bad things, but you can at least give them a moment to reflect on what they are doing.
For some reason I read "Zoroastrian cossacks"... And did not even question it until much later.
I still want to try Japanese Natto but can't find it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D

Supposed to taste quite bad for Westerners.
I think a lot of those are code for compensation, though. It’s a lot more polite to say “I didn’t see a path to advance here” than it is to say “this other company was willing to pay me more” [or “I was tired of your particular flavor of bullshit”].
What is it that changed your life? Medication? Better understanding of yourself?
Outdated, the US Democrats raised the bar with their spectacular propaganda campaign leading to the 2020 elections.
If every single left-leaning media said the lab-leak hypothesis was debunked it should be easy for you to give me one citation.
CIS is not computer science.
UPDATE: I just made the app available to all countries. Not sure how long until that change is propagated by the App Stores, but you can try soon.
> Shortage of abused developers who work for peanuts*

Fixed title a bit.
You completely ignore my points so I will yours

Have a nice day
Actual raises would help. In every software dev job I've had, every significant pay increase has come from either switching employers or threatening to switch employers.
I'd love something more recent that treated the same subject anywhere close to as well. The near-contemporary and somewhat-related The Official Preppy Handbook received a sequel some years ago, but it's lazy crap with none of the insight or wry humor of the original. Awful little scrap-book that got published based on the reputation (and sales figures, I'm sure) of the original. Very disappointing.
UPDATE: I just made the app available to all countries.
> isn't that why I get two or three recruiter offers a day on LinkedIn?

Do people really get this? I get two or three a year.

Here's something I tell people - I was hired a couple of years ago from a completely cold LinkedIn message. Nobody else was sending me them so it really caught my attention that someone would be so interested in what I was doing!

Lots of people assume everyone's getting courted by recruiters - I think there's probably a very very long tail of decent people who aren't and are only simple a reach-out to away.
Datapoint: I've recently spun up my mom's old G4 Powerbook 12" (running OS X 10.5 Leopard) to rip some old CDs I found, and everything was reasonably snappy. Well, ok, a bit slow, but fine, really. Until I opened Safari. After some 3 or 4 tabs the machine basically ground to a halt. (Fair enough: 256 MB RAM and a spinning hard disk!)

Things got a bit better when I switched off JavaScript. But yeah. The web is basically unusable on older machines. For many use cases all I want is some text, maybe some images, maybe some forms and buttons. How hard can it be to render that?
After using the duck for a couple of years, I have become better at two things:

- Reading man pages or official documentation sites before opening a search engine

- Thinking of more precise search keywords, as I got used to duck not helping me as much as google
Simply by using C++, you tell the computer all sorts of things, such as "I know the entire language by heart", and "I have a death wish".
I just tested an image search on Bing (https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=test) and Brave Search (https://search.brave.com/images?q=test) and it definitely appears that Brave is falling back to Bing as the results are highly identical, especially compared to Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=test).
Unrelated but interesting, many medieval recipes included saffron, especially in pie crusts (coffins).

https://giveitforth.blogspot.com/2019/03/harleian-ms-279-ab-...
The higher fees subsidize the lower ones. If it were flattened, people wouldn't want to do smaller transactions because the fees would be too high by proportion.
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If somebody robs me at gunpoint, I immediately know it happened. I can report it to the police, who will take the report seriously. If the police catch the guy (which is likely if he's a serial offender), the prosecutor will take it seriously. If convicted, the offender will go to prison for years.

If a company violates privacy laws, I will not immediately know it happened. If I don't know it happened then I can't report it to the police, but even if I did, the police probably won't take it seriously. And prosecutors going after corporations? Even if that happens it will doubtlessly take many years for the court case to reach any conclusion. If convicted, the corporation will receive a fine that is a fraction of what it would take to put them out of business. The executives won't go to prison.

The practical differences between these two scenarios are substantial.
Circles: An End-to-end encrypted social network built on Matrix
It's incorrect, and everyone knows why a provocative title is used even if the author has to spend the rest of the paper walking it back.
Yeah I learned that the hard way when I found out that std::vector apparently feels free to move your objects around in memory for you, no matter if you point to them from somewhere else.

I mean in hindsight it's obvious, but still not exactly what I wanted to happen.

For reference, what I did does actually work, temporarily.
Because advancement offers what? Right, bigger compensation.
I made no argument about viability, merely about facts.

Of course they do have something in common, indoctrinating the youth is the foundation of any regime.
> path for advancement

I'm pretty sure that's code for better compensation and better working conditions.
As far as dosage:

“For chronic supplementation, take 15mg of saffron, twice a day. This is the advised upper limit for constant supplementation. Preliminary evidence suggests that doubling this dose may have a toxic effect after eight weeks of continuous usage. Acute, single doses of saffron, can be as high as 200mg.

Saffron can be supplemented by taking water extracts of the stigma (the red part of the plant, used as a spice) or by using the dehydrated stigma itself. Some evidence suggests that the petals of saffron may also be effective.

Saffron can be taken twice a day in a supplement form, or at meals as a spice.

Doses above 1,200mg may cause nasea and vomiting.”[0]

[0] https://examine.com/supplements/saffron/

(Also for those unaware, Examine.com is very good)
I tend to agree that things will become increasingly consolidated, but think it is more the fault of the government, opposed to the capitalist system.

It is the government which has inflated the cost of housing and assets out of the reach of many people. For example, in 2020, there were 10 trillion dollars in US covid packages and federal reserve actions, which mostly went to corporation to buy assets out from under individuals. Thats > $60,000 per federal taxpayer.
If he did apply for asylum and was refused, that explains the situation to me personally. I never thought all of the (admittedly, quite few) directly adjacent to Russia democratic countries would do that to him. I hope he continues to write on these topics from wherever he is.
In modern C++ the use of `new` and `delete` should be considered smell, for this and other reasons.
The killer feature is marketing and content for your instagram account
They call it mellow yellow
I have also done Quake mapping and even done an editor for fun[0] some time ago :-P.

You are supposed to stick to the grid, the crate texture is sized so that it fits perfectly on the grid. If you go off the grid things become a bit harder, but this is why pretty much everything on Quake is axis aligned :-P.

It is ridiculously simple to make stuff actually.

About rotation, most editors that people used even in the 90s had support for texture locking for both translation and rotation. id's original editor was very primitive though, but later editors like Worldcraft and Radiant had those features.

WRT. texture coordinates, they are converted to U/V (or actually S/T) pairs, but it happens quite late during the edge span rasterization. You can see the inner rasterizer loop here[1] where it draws an edge span and performs a linear interpolation of the S/T values calculated at [2] above and [3] (during the surface draw setup).

Having said that i think what you described is closer to what Ken Silverman was working on at the time as a successor to the Build engine (at least based on my understanding from what he wrote years ago).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/5xWOw3K.jpg

[1] https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/WinQuake/d_...

[2] https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/WinQuake/d_...

[3] https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/WinQuake/d_...
That's a good point; I appreciate that perspective.
You can drive a truck to a vault and pick up your gold. Try emulating that with bitcoin. You can't use burned computer cycles as a door stop or to make jewelery. Just because people speculate in gold doesn't give bitcoin legitimacy because they speculate in that. Gold has value as a financial instrument because it is tangible, it is something bitcoin can never be.