skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is way more expensive than a 16-core desktop, though. Workstations are a class above consumer-grade desktops and that's reflected in the price.
Extreme performance requires extreme tradeoffs. As with anything else, you have to evaluate your use cases and determine for yourself whether the tradeoffs are worth it. For a mass-market application that has to play nice with other applications and work with a wide variety of commodity hardware, it's probably not worthwhile. For a state-of-the-art high performance data store that expects low latencies and high throughput (à la ScyllaDB), it may very well be.
As engineers, it's easy to mistake the final product to be just the code running somewhere.

Sales / Marketing is another huge chunk of the final product
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100959
Eg:

(1) This is my credit score, certified by XYZ agency, so please don't ask for my SSN so that you can lose it in a public database leak tmrw

(2) Here's a bug in your program, please give me the bug bounty and I will tell you the bug (can help stop sketchy bug bounty programs.)

(3) Your Certificate Transparency Provider can prove that, for the latest root, there was no change in your certificate. (This has less to do with privacy and more to do with the succinct verification properties of the latest zkps)

(4) Construct postquantum-secure signatures (eg: the Picnic signature scheme)

Generally, ZKPs provide selective disclosure: I can prove to you that some fact about me or my accounts is true, without revealing to you any other information. The SSN example is one, you could generalize that to taxes, bank statements, Keybase attestations, etc.
For many existing MPC protocols, ZKPs are overkill for achieving malicious security, and more efficient approaches exist (eg: information-theoretic MACs)
Not as extreme as 3
The page seems a bit too heavily weighted towards SNARKs in particular and cryptocurrency applications in general. There's no mention of ZKPPs, for instance.

Not all crypto is "crypto".
Hepatitis C can be cured in most patients with a course of sofosbuvir (Sovaldi).
i often did try to implement the minimax algorithm on tic-tac-toe. Its not too complicated.
Building from source doesn't have to be inaccessible, if the build tooling around it is strong. Modern compiled languages like Go (or modern toolchains on legacy languages like vcpkg) have a convention of building everything possible from source.

So at least for software libraries building from source is definitely viable. Fro end user applications it's another story though, doubt we will ever be at a point where building your own browser from source makes sense...
FWIW, this website is out of date; there's been enormous improvements in zkp constructions and applications in the intervening 2 years.

(This is not a slight against the maintainers; the space is moving incredibly quickly, so it's difficult to keep updating regularly.)
I was really excited about V until I started using it and every few days everything would break after upgrading. Maybe someday they will stablize. But I am going with deno until then.
> The problem though, was that no-one on the team actually cared about growth. “Get people home in time for dinner” had to become something more like “get even more people home at some time”.

Once you see this pattern you cannot stop seeing it. It shows up in startups, in the video game and entertainment industries, and apparently used to show up a little bit at Autodesk, at least until the author quit. The people with non-monetary drives are the easiest to exploit. It makes perfect sense to a business. If someone is will to do more work for the same or less money it's a no-brainer to encourage that behavior. The end result is a bunch of people willing to put up with substandard pay and poor working conditions. Run from those industries. It never pays off. If a product can't be made outside of these conditions, maybe it doesn't deserve to exist. Survival of the fittest products and all.
Show HN: Simple (Inline) x86 Assembly/C Windows Mandelbrot/Julia Fractal Program
If you want to learn basic x86 assembly language or Win32 API (Windows) programming, here's a relatively simple program which would likely be helpful (especially combined with the tutorial videos listed on the github page). Or just enjoy some nice fractals. In short, I haven't left Windows users out in the cold.
Over the last 25 years, property values have appreciated by around 7% in Australia. This might shock people who are used to seeing the spectacular price rises in metropolitan cities, but they're looking at a shorter window.

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/sep/3.html

Owning property to let can be good or bad, depending on your goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rachman
yes, now imagine you could have the performance benefit of pre-computed hashes for that rsync process .. and we'd have zsync. :)
> by the same principles as a gravity assist, a capture burn

Note to the audience: these mechanisms don’t violate the conservation of energy because you aren’t tapping the object’s gravitational energy per se but instead its orbital energy around the sun. Put another way, you can’t do a gravity assist or capture burn in any direction.
They don't mean Citron.
But that's not why they rejected it, or at least not why they rejected it so hard. They rejected it as hard as they did because doing so let them paint Trump as an idiot.
You can't solve this problem without having a full history of code to inspect (unless you are decompiling), reproducibility is the first step and bootstrapability is the second step. Then we refine the toolchains and review processes to ensure high impact code is properly scrutinized.

What we can't do is throw our hands up and say anyone who compromises the toolchain deep enough is just allowed to win. It will happen at some point if we don't put the right barriers in place.

It's the first step of a long journey, but it is a step we should be taking.
Blue Animals Are Different from All the Rest
Yes.

But it's not that interesting or unusual. The Oort cloud doesn't really obey the plane of the solar system the way the planets or Kuiper belt do. That's why it's called a 'cloud' and not a 'belt'.
Your code is already in C# so why not just go to .NET Core (and with version 6 coming out I think they are just calling it '.NET 6'). Any reason the jobs that post bids to eBay cannot run as Azure Function (or the equivalent on other clouds)?
Agreed, but as you said, it all depends. I am not sure if it was specific to that individual recruiter that I have been working with or if it is just a general practice with fintech recruiters, but if my recruiter was going for the high volume, she had made a really poor choice deciding to continue working with me.

I am saying that because I’ve been working with her for at least 3 years now, and I am yet to take a single offer from the companies she set me up with (either due to them getting cold feet last second or simply due to me not passing some of those interviews or me declining due to some red flags with the companies). If it was all just about high volume for her, it would have been in her interest to drop involvement with me after the 3rd unsuccessful attempt to set me up with a fintech company.
China just lowered the threshold for poverty, bam 300M poverty free.
What are you solutions?
I love kitkat and twinkies just casually chilling out next to bull testicles and sheep eyes.
I'd honestly punch you in the face right now, if only I could.

This person is opening up about their problems and their fears and you have the nerve to come and post this dumb shit of a joke.

I'd be ashamed of myself if I were you.
Peak Phosphorus
I used to love that IBM Selectric Letter Gothic Font-ball.
Show HN: Compile Go regular expressions to Go code
Most shoes are sold in a single width. A study showed that at a given shoe length, offering single width means only 40% of people with that length can wear the shoe. This didn't even check how adding foot volume in the mix would decrease the number. Very few shoe companies offer a meaningful selection of shoes in multiple widths. And even when they do, they often aren't much different.

It's nuts that something as simple as shoes is so ignored and so simple to do right if only people were aware they were wearing badly fitting shoes.

People simply don't know, and even if they did, they couldn't act because they have so few options. Companies don't need to care because people buy the badly fitting shoes regardless.

edit: citation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55432-z
Hello my Doppelgänger, you are on place two for me :-D
What are "ZKPPs"?
Binary reproducible builds are still pretty inaccessible though.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/should-you-use-srp/
so capitulation of sanity and attempting to rationalize irrational behavior.

I suspect we're close to the top of the bubble.
ffmpeg does this (and a thousand other things). For Linux and PulseAudio:

ffmpeg -f pulse -i alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor -c:a libopus -b:a 128k capture.opus

Virtual streams are also supported natively by PulseAudio, so you can do some simple mixing of inputs/outputs, in which case you'd specify a different -i value above.

Sidenote shoutout to PulseAudio. It's really come a long way and things just work nowadays, including high bitrate Bluetooth codecs. I haven't had the need to try something else like Pipewire.
Except that Covid isn't just one disease, and immunity is a moving target. If you got the original variant back in February 2020, that may or may not protect you from a new variant with new mechanisms for evading/suppressing immune response.
If it hadn't being ruinously expensive, what were your reasons for preferring a gas cooker over induction?

We were ignorant of the post-build costs. If we had known the 10x exposure in costs to re-wire, we'd have paid up front for induction.

We wanted Gas because of belief it was "better" for our style of cooking but gas cooking albiet responsive, is highly dependent on the heat energy the stovetop puts out, and the heat energy in the gas supply (pressure) And we kind of missed out on both: a brand name stovetop is disappointingly "slow" even on the wok burner, and our supply pressure is on the low side of normal.

If you have Aluminium or mixed origin cookware Induction usually demands new pans because they must be responsive to induction current. We didn't want to replace a bunch of (to us expensive) cookware. We're now much more aware and buy induction capable replacements, although quite why I don't know: we're not moving, and as this thread says, the retrofit cost for induction is not good.

Induction comes with it's own problems: It's surprisingly noisy, you need to cool those magnetic coils, its bulky under the workbench, and you don't want to put people with pacemakers on your cooktop, no matter now much you might want to experiment.

The cleaning is a huge thing. I do the stovetop, I've used more barkeepers friend in the last year than the proceeding 20 from fat spatter baking on. You can wipe down an induction very quickly after cooking ends.

Ideally? I'd have argued for two gas rings, and a square of induction. Wok gotta wok.
Strongly disagree there - I put up with my pebbles’ poor UI and controls until I got my first Apple Watch. It’s 10x more useful, and way more user friendly.
I am building a tool that will post some text (for now on reddit) every time it gets triggered by some predefined keyword.
I think i can use it to advertise my other side project but maybe other people find it also useful, either as ads alternative or for anything really.
yeah will see.

before that i did work on

https://ideasfilter.com/

and

https://insightrend.com/
> the raw material for solving any problem is found in problem solvers, not the ground.

This implies that the quantity of "problen solvers" is more important than quality.
Lunduke is back! I realize he's polarizing but he's not clueless and I find the impassioned "this is why my favorite platform sucks!" presentations to be part love letter, part cry for help/improvement in the product, and all-around educational.
Ttuly horrifying
Maybe I'm just old but I want to share a space with the people I'm working with and, yes, it seems obviously superior to remote.

I wouldn't say it was the deciding factor, but when I got an offer from a smaller place working in person, I took a significant pay cut to go back into a (very cool) office.
Their problem is that people believe its more centralized than other DPOS blockchains (its not), and then believing that Binance is paying enough attention to reverse transactions after large scams (they aren't and people use bridges fast enough to make sure they keep the funds)

The same scams happen on all the other EVMs
She outright spits on the way Bezos made his money, when he has one of the most honest and efficiency-enhancing paths to earning his fortune.

Is the world a better place because Gates used blatantly illegal monopolistic practices to stifle innovation in the OS space? Or because Facebook is willing to engage in dirtier data-sharing, growth, and addictive product design?

Whatever one thinks of those, Amazon created a market for the long tail of books, media, and then goods that simply didn't exist. And then followed it up with one of the most important platforms in the history of the tech and startup ecosystem.

He's done more good with those than she'll ever do by giving his earnings to whatever is most fashionable at the moment.
In order to provide trade forwarding to your custodial exchange, we must send the necessary transaction request data back to your exchange, which is why the privacy policy says we share transactions with third parties.

We do not sell transaction or balance data to anyone, for marketing purposes or otherwise, nor do we tag this data with Personally Identifying Information.

Let us know if you have any other questions!
It also suggests a strong selective pressure for uneducated, unproductive communities that do nothing but breed, take welfare, and vote.
These things will be used by law enforcement. Deploying these and having remote cops surveil is cheaper than putting a cop on every corner.

The implications for a surveillance society are pretty intense though, but it can easily clean up tough neighborhoods where deterrents are necessary sadly.

I can also imagine pull over stops where the robot engages the passenger first, and is only equipped with a taser. You basically take the human out of the equation so there is no fear of getting shot by the officer or the passenger.
Joke’s on them, I opted out of organ donation.
> As you described above, they damanded a conversation about why he was making the request he did.

They didn't demand a conversation. They continued a conversation. If he doesn't want to engage in discussion with them he shouldn't have.

> They couldn't just acknowledge that he had a request and choose to respect it or not when it was clear he didn't want to talk about it.

They were trying to arrive at a compromise. This is usually regarded as part of good faith negotiations. Trying to describe this as "dragging him into a huge spectacle" is quite shocking to me. Do you genuinely believe that if a person says "please do not distribute my package" the only reply to that thread should be one that says "we will remove it" or "we will not remove it" and then the thread should be closed?

> Even after they closed the issue on their side, (other?) NixOS people went to endlessly harass him on the home assistant forums.

I don't think this is an accurate description of that thread, but indeed, I think opening that thread was an example of poor judgement. A threat to make a certain library proprietary during a heated discussion is something that might be reconsidered or it might be a bluff. It should be confined to the negotiation unless it comes to fruition.
YOu assume that only drivers are the problem with cell phone

More than a few pedestrians walk and use their phone, walk right out in the traffic, or other situations (some hilarious walking right into poles and getting laughed at on the internet.

I know in a few nations this may be a hard concept, but here in the US, it is absolutely NOT true that "pedestrians always have the right of way"... no no no
Don't eat before reading this
The vaccines.gov website's Vaccine Finder requires javascript to run. It could have been served using HTML and a <form>.
Where there is a will, there is a way!

Really you should just start doing it and eventually you will get there; no such thing as not clever enough.
You can run your own code on your phone. Even iOS lets you do that (I don’t even think you need to lay the apple developer fees to do that?) You just can’t widely distributed it in easy for other people to run form. You _can_ give your friends .apk files. You _can_ write iOS apps that violate App Store rules. It’s the “publishing” bit that is locked down.
Unfortunately I can't read the article because it requires a subscription.

The conclusion is surprising to me though - poor people generally spend what they get paid on what they need. I would have assumed that this means that if their pay is increasing at the same rate as their costs, inflation isn't hurting them much at all.

If their pay isn't increasing at the same rate as their costs, I'd consider that a phenomenon different to inflation, and blame that.

On the other hand, it seems like inflation would hurt people with large quantities of uninvested cash the most.
It's just the euphemism treadmill. New words and phrases cycle all the time to describe the same concept.
Well, sure if it happens, i just meant in that whole inevitable no matter what doom scenario thing.

I just mean, worrying about that or being scared is not really worth it. If it happens it happens. There's better things to dedicate that energy towards. Save the worrying about things like that for the people being paid to come up with solutions in the extremely rare chance this happens within any of ours, our children's or our grand children's lifetimes, after that I dunno, I'll probably be dead by then.
Tesla too would be cool to program - if only even the navigation and entertainment systems.
I found many dead bumblebees this year and many of them were infected with mites.

It seems as if varroa mites have carried viruses from infected honey bees to wild bees and are killing a lot them.
Coincidentally, my biorhythm program would tell you various things about yourself (birthstone, zodiac traits, yin/yang, Chinese animal, numerology, but also the phase of the moon the day you were born). Yeah, I threw in everything I could find/calculate.
If I have the market power through mono- or oligopsony to force my vendors to sign fixed-price contracts for variable-scope work, I guarantee you they aren’t getting paid for a lot of that scope, whether that comes out of their bottom line or their employees’ lives. Hypothetical me is going to improve my own bottom line by pushing scope (“just fix it in post!”) to the part of the budget that’s contractually-guaranteed to stay fixed.
There is a lot of SRE content about fixing on-call.

My short summary is, fixing on-call is a HUMAN problem, not a technical engineering problem.

Here’s an excellent place to start:

https://monitoring.love/articles/how-to-improve-on-call/

There is a wonderful list of talks and resources there, and those will lead you to yet more concepts and ideas to research.
> I really don’t like the idea of the government dictating what a company does with it’s software

Part of what most people (including me) expect a government to do is to help protect consumers from malicious actions by companies. That's why we have things like ingredient labels, anti-anti-competitive regulations, the SEC, truth-in-advertising requirements, and many, many more things.

This kind of thing requires giving a small amount of additional power to the government in exchange for significant benefits to consumers. This is generally a good trade, and it certainly is in this case, because Apple's locking down of their hardware and software are malicious actions toward consumers - they serve only the good of Apple (and before you start raising objections about possible security benefits for consumers - it's trivial to design systems that give almost exactly the same security guarantees to consumers while also giving them the freedom to do whatever they like).
Thanks for the clarification. So start learning at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/?view=aspnetcor... for example?

I didn't even think about running as Azure Functions. GREAT idea, thank you.
As a non-American, American cities haven’t impressed me at all.

However, you may find it interesting to explore the rest of the world via Google Street View: I grew up in the South Downs of the UK, did my degree in Aberystwyth, spent several years in Cambridge and roughly one each in Plymouth and Sheffield, and now live in Berlin. These all have a lot of greenery within and on their doorsteps, the worst among them (Sheffield and Plymouth) being roughly similar to my memories of Manhattan.

Street View images of Spain, Greece, and Cyprus remind me a lot of rural California (when actually visiting, Spain and Greece felt accurate, Cyprus felt like the UK). Most of England, Wales, and North-West France reminds me of New England. The only places I’ve been to that were as bleak as Nevada/Salt Lake were literally beaches, and even there the bleakness didn’t stretch to the horizon.

Rhine Valley has some colossal eyesores, but even then you get to fantastic countryside in a fairly short cycle ride. Everywhere in Switzerland, even the cities, is basically a paradise on par with Yosemite, with the occasional mistake present (e.g. Zürich motorway); and, with the caveat that I was 9 and this was multiple decades ago now, I have lots of green memories from when I visited Singapore, Bangkok, Adelaide, Sydney, Canberra, and Cairns.

(Nairobi had a lot of green in a lot of places, but I really did not feel like I grokked any of the cities’ underlying patterns in the week I was there, so I can’t say if greenery implied rich places or poor places).
The robot dog tases you and the responding officer calmly kneels on your neck until you die of "natural causes".
That’s exactly what TideLift is trying.

https://www.tidelift.com
The effect of the one child policy was muted, since birthrates had already fallen in the years preceding the policy being enacted. And since the policy was relaxed, birthrates have not increased.
I bought my Yugo for 200 euros when I turned 18. It breaks down constantly and if I don't turn it on daily during winter then I have to get a jumpstart, but getting it fixed up costs basically nothing, and it runs on a bottle of LPG which costs nothing compared to actual petrol. It's truly got that ex-yugo charm to it, what's not to love about the hunk of junk?
Can't wait to become a karate angel.
The game (and the Japanese novel of the same name it was based on) mostly went by pseudoscience but it was interesting. Then the game added a bit more fire and stuff. And then very weird sequels that aren't apropos to this discussion.
Er, anyway. Imagine the publicity if it turns out to retroactively have some scientific basis though. Need to check if the author is still alive nowadays.