skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a big deal that you don't know about this stuff. You can get very far as, for example, a web programmer without ever having to explicitly shift a bit.

If you are curious, bit shifting is essentially multiplication or division by 2. It is faster than doing the actual arithmetic.

Bitwise operators just perform logical bitwise and, or, xor operations on the bit representations of two numbers.

This is especially useful if you have mapped some data to binary 0-1 vectors and those operations are semantically meaningful for the representation.

Just as an example, you can calculate the Hamming distance between two 0-1 vectors by taking an XOR of their integer representations and then accumulating the 1s digits for all shifts (towards 0) of the XOR-ed value.
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> is like saying you know black people and that somehow it affords you some privilege others do not possess.

Of course it does. Interacting with black people (or any race) affords you insight into their life experiences, struggles, worldview etc...

Of course sociological discourse is highly subjective but this attitude on HN that anecdotal data has no value whatsoever is silly. Do you seriously expect every fact of every people to be published in some infallible academic journal?
This is the flipside of GP. States that increase their quality of life by sending their problems to the states that would attempt to solve them.

Name someone alive who does not contribute to the quality of life.
Everything in a computer is binary. An 8 bit char has 8 bits. Bitwise operators operate on those bits. So a char with value 253 is represented in memory as 11111101. Bitwise operator >> would shift all those 1s to the right, resulting in 01111110. Bitwise & runs the AND operation between two values at a bit-level. Same for |, XOR, etc.

Hope that helps.

Here come the well actuallys.
The existence of a single pair of operators, instead of one for signed and another for unsigned shifts (with good names) make the operators impossible to remember to me.

Ok, the article just made me remember they are not signed. But it's certain that the next time I need them, I won't remember it again.
This may be stupid question, but why not use that debris as reaction mass? I mean throw/accelerate it backwards, so that debris orbit is even lower, but your orbit is much higher?
I really appreciate having my words taken out of context, and wrapped in insults.

I probably could have done without the second sentence, but the first stands.

Have a nice day.
This can be a real challenge with mixed teams. Remote workers often complain that their in-office team members have a leg up due to more accessible communication, collaboration, and relationship building.

I was at a company that tried to mitigate this by forcing in-office employees to do their meetings and collaboration digitally even if they were right next to each other. It wasn’t fun. We ended up having clandestine meetings and being worried about being caught talking to each other about work, as ridiculous as it sounds. There was even some question about whether we were allowed to go to lunch together because it might make the remote employees excluded, so we’d have to eat lunch secretly together. Not a great solution.

Unfortunately it’s a difficult topic because it requires a tacit admission that remote work has some disadvantages. Forcing everyone remote is the brute-force solution, but giving up those in-person benefits for the sake of leveling the playing field isn’t great for the company or team.
This may be the first technical book I’ve wanted to buy in a decade. Google searching really replaced the way I learn programming and I’m not sure why. I’ve always had access to Google or another search engine but I used to actually buy books.
That might be true for a lot of people, but not for wealthy people.
The depression and suicides don't happen during the crisis but afterwards.
when your input makes more sense as a graph, or your desired output resembles predicting node labels or edges?
I admit I had a similar initial reaction, but then I realized it's similar to golf clubs. Golfers don't use simple wooden mallets, nor do we expect them to. And part of the skill of the game is knowing when to use what when.
> vagueness

> could imply sexual harassment [only] if you squint

> character assassination

Complete hyperbole.

As I said in another thread, threatening suicide at somebody because they won't date you is neither "vague" nor "cringey": it's straight up emotional abuse and coercion.
Or, 20x more than Icelandic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language
Thanks to herd immunity, which we're not going to reach with COVID because of anti-vaxxers.
In Israel (9m pop), non of the banks available to the general public (Poalim, Leumi, Discount, Iggud/Mizrahi) will let you do anything other than a checking account and a saving account. Perhaps a loan but definitely no holdings; and similarly no broker will either. They are not small. It just isn’t worth it to them financially so they don’t. There are est. 300k US tax payers in Israel, but while the profit is per-person, the compliance costs are huge and mostly constant.

HSBC in Israel, last I Heard, had a $2M account minimum.
> However, it also recommends RSA & classic Diffie-Hellman over multiplicative groups of integers, while Suite B exclusively recommended elliptic curve-based public-key crypto.

I think their reasoning is probably along the lines of "large RSA keys will buy you a little bit more time to migrate than small ECC keys if a quantum computer emerged today, due to memory constraints with what we think quantum computer will look like".
You're including non-adults (330m population @ 6%). It's closer to 8% of the adult US population. Not very many people under 18 are millionaires or reasonably likely to be. The non-adults in question fall under the millionaire household grouping.

And if anyone is interested in the household wealth distribution (as of 1Q21):

Top 1%: $41.5 trillion | 90%-99%: $48.8 trillion | 50-90%: $36.5 trillion | bottom 50%: $2.6 trillion

$129.5 trillion total household assets.

There are around 128 million households in the US. The average American household is now worth a million dollars (the median is obviously far lower).

That top 1% of US households - 1.28 million households - holds an average of roughly $32 million in assets.
What value are you hoping to contribute to this discussion? You are speaking in generalities and platitudes and making so many assumptions it’s hard to respond. Your description of the corporate subsidiary relationship is still incorrect.

This isn’t logic, it’s history. If you’re interested in commenting on it, why not read something about the actual lawsuit? In this case, specific people were caught making certain agreements that are against the law. The executives did know, because they were the ones making the agreement, and they were caught. People directly involved included Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple) and Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google).
The right algorithm beats out low-level every time. Think of bitwise operators as a vector unit, but the scalar is a bit. That’s it.
I was always disappointed that I can't get the ball to curve.

I now know a bunch of things need to be exactly perfect for this to be controllable or even happen at all.

I no longer feel guilty on company bowling parties to just shoot straight:)
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RTS games come to mind as one possible answer, but what else? It should ideally be something with a short loop and transparent feedback, I think, no?
You don't want your loudspeakers to have their own distortions.

You want to transmit the distortions audio production made without add-ons.
I’ll have to remember this one for my next anti-vax encounter.

It’s not even really a conspiracy theory either, isn’t there plenty of evidence of Russian troll farms spreading anti-vaccine sentiment?
Thanks, this question touches on a very significant point.

Backup and recovery currently are handled by iCloud and Google Drive through Keychain and KeyStore, respectively, both of which form the backbones of Apple and Google password managers, respectively. The two cloud backup services (a) are fully encrypted both in transit and at rest and (b) are managed by Apple and Google, not Keyri. So the only parties that "see" the private keys are the user and Apple or Google, and the latter two only see encrypted copies of the keys, same as they only see encrypted copies of their users' saved passwords. Recovery also happens through Apple or Google when a user sets up their new phone using iCloud / Google Drive backups of their old phones, which are also encrypted in transit and at rest. Developers can additionally require users to enter a pre-specified passcode in order to decrypt their private key upon recovery, which involves another layer of local encryption.

Key pairs are generated locally on the device (i.e., Keyri's API does not generate/provision them). Private keys are stored encrypted at rest in phones' secure enclaves and only decrypted at run time once biometric verification is passed.
Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
I believe to renounce you must first have dual nationality. You could marry a foreigner for nationality, then (eventually) both renounce your home country.
> Long term capital gains is only 10%

But it has yet to be taxed as income. Even if it doesn't devalue, you can't use it until you dispose of it, incurring additional tax.

> The wealthy are only wealthy because the non-wealthy people who vastly outnumber the wealthy, allow them to keep their capital.

The wealthy can afford better weaponry than you. Are you alive only because they allow you to live?

> rethink this generous position

Do you think you are entitled to something just because you could (forcibly) take it?
What Is Sam Bankman-Fried Like?
>Only gun nutters believe the source of their right to self-defense comes from the 2nd, while the rest of us have that right whether there is a 2nd Amendment or not.

Arms are ubiquitous in modern times and the second amendment enshrines the ability for those such as the disabled and women to have a fighting chance against a violent attacker. So you're right, it only protects a certain form of self defense by virtue of allowing the implements to defend yourself (arms).

>It is the right of The People.

Did you purposefully turn "the people" into a proper noun? Do you not understand "the people" are made up of persons? "The people" of the United States are made up of persons. It does not say "the militia" may bear arms, but rather those people ( who are persons ) may bear arms.

>Maybe the First Amendment means that all printed media should be free as in beer?

Since we've gone off to the first amendment, do you believe "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" only applies to an organized militia and not individual people?

The protections of the bill of rights are protections against government, not private entities. You aren't owed something free from a private news company.
Ordinary income is not the first derivative of wealth, capital gains also contribute.
Don't forget the 40,000 ventilators he demanded for his state (a claim he said was based on science and data no less).
This story from a few months ago illustrated this[1]. It's the story of one of the main bowling-ball designers. A math student who becomes a bowling-ball designer.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324564
Generally means graphs as either input or output or both. Discrete values and relationships aren't an issue and can be easily dealt with using embeddings.
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This is awesome. To get the top job, she: beat up her own mother; then took on the existing alpha 4x her age, and probably larger; then in the next 'peanut session' he had to backdown and let her eat first; and now she walks with an erect tail and goes and shakes trees for fun--It expresses her power. How cool is that!

It just goes to show, it's never about gender, just about choices, ambition and how brave you choose to be. Fuck yeah!

I wonder if the social dynamics will change under a (nominally?) female leader?
Indeed, it's great to see open data corpuses expand.
Interesting that she's "walking the walk" in terms of dominance behaviors too. It would be fascinating to study whether she underwent significant hormonal changes after taking leadership or whether she had a different hormonal makeup compared to the average female "follower" even prior to her takeover.
How do you simultaneously know what bit shifting is but then not know that you can easily avoid it completely for a career?
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20 years of application development and I’ve used bit shifting a couple times, none of them were all that essential or much better than the alternatives. It’s a bit condesending and par for the course on HN to be flabbergasted at someone’s lack of knowledge of something but honestly there are career paths where it truely does not matter.
Two things:

1. What he did went against published federal guidelines which state no transfers to nursing homes unless they have medical isolation wards

2. Why lie about it?

Also contemporaneous with his policies, pundits like mark Levin (who broke this story) were calling him out on it only to be accused of spreading conspiracy
Why does that need to be insulting? It's correct in that context. Only names of a certain format are valid inputs to their system. It's not a personal attack
> Citizenship comes with all sorts of obligations like getting drafted and serving on juries

If you've already done those things, does the IRS pay you?
Then once the manufacturer makes that decision, switch. Honestly this comment is just nonsense.. Apple has always allowed other OSes on Mac. When that changes, buy a new computer.
Facebook also has such policies. This would be a pretty clear violation, on multiple ways. If the story holds up (I'm aware of no reason why it wouldn't), there will be enormous internal pressure to remove her, and I'd be pretty shocked if they don't fire her reasonably quickly.
One important cause of Normalization of Deviance is when an organization stays misaligned at the top about what the norms actually are. The effect of this is that:

1. Some folks at the top will shout about the norms being violated and nobody listening to them.

2. Folks underneath them will struggle to get buy-in on initiatives to follow best practices.

3. Folks underneath them at an individual contributor level will struggle to tell the difference between following established best practices (or good practices in a complex adaptive system) and getting distracted.

For an illustrative narrative of this, consider the character John from The Phoenix Project.

Patrick Lencioni writes about this in books like The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage. For a quick read on part of this, see: https://hbr.org/2002/07/make-your-values-mean-something
It is still very difficult to get a curve from a pro ball, it's just more possible. If you get one of these you are more likely to be confused with what it is doing that to suddenly be bowling turkeys and picking up spares.
Can you elaborate on the second point?
Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill
Right, but we could also say this about thousands of other things in the world of software engineering. There is not enough time to learn everything, or even 1% of it.

It's often best to have "wide, shallow" knowledge that is selectively deep in some places. I don't have much experience with time-series databases, but I know what they are and I'm familiar with their use cases. So if the need ever arises I'll be able to reach for the correct tool and invest my learning time wisely.
Fraud detection as well as Facebook haha
Let's take the time to appreciate the effort of Mozilla. To add new languages with others came from the minorities, we can't deny that they are continuously putting effort into the community.
The way to invade Australia is by capturing control of its government through influence operations, not by sending troops and firing shots.
You're implying that you somehow are entitled to having the weddings you want to attend be near your place of residence. Why would the people getting married prioritize your entitlement over them having the party where they'd enjoy having it?

It's their party, your being invited at all is already a courtesy being extended to you.
> But those homes don't need to be located in the most expensive areas on the planet.

A substantial fraction of the homeless are currently employed and another bug chunk are only transitorily unemployed. Forcing them away from where the work is not a great solution; its a form if welfare trap where in exchange for improving their current condition you remove their ability to get out of a dependent situation.

> You'd be doing those in need of such housing a favor by relocating them to less expensive areas on the outskirts of the city

The outskirts aren't that much less expensive in terms of either capital or ongoing costs for housing, but have less infrastructure to support an influx of new population. By the time you pay for the capital and ongoing costs for the additional transportation, etc., you probably have come up with a much more expensive solution.

While “the market is doing the rational thing for the market to do” isn't, IMO, an argument against doing something different to address social ills, you have to realize that if you deploy that argument against housing in the inner city, it applies with at least equal force in the outskirts.
A Facebook manager helped Cuomo's office leak info about one of his accusers
You have to be able to prove you're a resident somewhere overseas though, and that you've broken your ties to Australia.

It's more complicated for digital nomads that don't really have a permanent place overseas.

Other than that though, agreed. AU taxation filing is not complicated.
Yes, me too. See the sidebar: "(they/them)".
> ...Matrix is much more than an instant messenger. It's a replicated database with ACLs...

THIS is one of the main reasons that I'm such a fan of the matrix protocol. Yes, the chat use case is by far - for now - the most popular direction...but i can envision many other use cases (not just, say, for IoT devices)!
> Is the healthcare system in New Zealand better than the states?

Most western countries have better healthcare system than the US, New Zealand included.

- US comes in last in health care rankings of high-income countries - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/04/health/us-health-care-ran...

- Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries - https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...
I should have specified, the New Testament is particularly anti-wealth and pro helping the disadvantaged. The Old Testament is like the internet - you can always find horrible examples to reinforce your beliefs.
I am reminded of an infamous couch and pool that are notorious for appearing in many adult productions... Possibly stock footage of a production room or repeating prop intended for being subsampled for so that multiple or repeated works by the same person or group can be flagged. I recall a person of interest was arrested after of all things posting a completely benign YouTube tutorial video. My thought at the time was likely a prop match to the environment or some such within the video. The method is definitely doable. Partitioned out to every consumer device with unflinching acceptance? Yeahhhh.

Remember, these databases are essentially signature DB's, and there is no guarantee that all hashes are just doing a naive match on the entire file, or that all scans performedare fundamentally the same.

This is why I reject outright the legitimacy of any Client-based CSAM scanners. In a closed source environment, it's yet another blob, therefore an arbitrary code execution vector.

I'm sorry, but in my calculus, I'm not willing to buy into that, even for CSAM. It won't stay just filesystems. It won't stay just hash matching. The fact there's so much secrecy around ways and means implies there's likely dynamicity in what they are looking for, and with the permissions and sensors on a phone that many apps already ask for, my not one inch instincts are sadly firmly engaged with no signs of letting up.

I'm totally behind the fight. I'm not an idiot though, and I know what the road to hell is paved with. Law Enforcement and anti-CSAM agencies are cut a lot of slack, and enjoy a lot of unquestioning acceptance by the populace. In my book, this warrants more scrutiny, and caution not less. The rash of inconvenient people being rather frequently called out as having CSAM found on hard drives in media with no additional context indicates the CSAM definition is being wielded in a manner that produces a great degree of political convenience.

Again, more scrutiny, not less.
Bowling is my daughter and I’s weekly activity. We both just picked up our pro balls yesterday from the shop and tried them out. It’s a night and day difference from the house balls.
What's the tipping point for you? (Or possible lines in the sand?)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28072189
This comment isn't about somebody living in America. This is about somebody who doesn't live in america, has never lived there, doesn't have a passport, but are considered "american" by the IRS - somebody born in the USA to non-citizen parents while traveling for example.
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That's precisely why I posted. I think the ethics of such an action might be somewhat questionable, but as it says right at the end of the post, "The end justifies the means".
For a bit of context, there is a bit of 'tension' between in-country Croatians and expats. Generally the latter left for greener pastures and the former stuck it out through communist rule and the war. There are at least as many Croatian expats as not.

The expats usually left because they didn't like the strictures or ideology of communism. Some had property confiscated and/or were harrassed by the authorities for whatever reason. Most of these people have a reflexive aversion of the left and are reliable right wing voters.

Those who stayed seem to be those that agree with communism to whatever degree, who were part of the communist regime in some way or those that did not mind or did not have the means or will to leave. Some have been indoctrinated to some extent, or maybe more correctly they have grown up in the culture of that time.

Many ordinary people suffered from a relatively poor quality of life under communism. Croatians received a relatively smaller share of resources and opportunities because of Serbian dominance of Yugoslavian government.

The differences are not all or even mostly political. Many locals just resent expats who avoided the misery and show up with money and a particular attitude, usually a critical one as to the dysfunction and corruption in Croatia, amongst other criticisms.

Full disclosure: I'm an expat (who lives in Croatia, for now), so that may colour my view.
Mac up next, I bet.
HSBC Hong Kong does not accept US citizens or green card holders to open an investment account.
To be fair, Iraq basically was a disqualifier in 2016. Little data is to be had on 2020 since the gop primary didn't really mean much.

Trump campaigned on how dumb Afghanistan and Iraq are and promised to remove troops.
So it appears that we can infer the following..

You can tell some lies to an vaccine skeptic to make them yield to vaccination.

And amusingly the reverse appear to be true as well, that you can tell some facts to a pro-vaxxer to convert them to an vaccine skeptic..