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Thank you for informing hacker news that companies want to make a profit. Now. Do you have some evidence that intel is harming people? The water is almost completely recycled
Finding a new value that hashes to four leading zeros is computationally difficult. Because the hash function is designed so that very few values hash to four leading zeros.

But testing to see if a value hashes to zero is computationally simpler. Just take the value, hash it, and see if it has four leading zeros.

What is sent is the input value, not the output with four leading zeros.

The miner claims "if you hash this value, you will get four leading zeros."
What’s also ironic is that people can grow nut trees in arid land at a smallholder scale. Folks in the permies.com forum talk about chucking nuts randomly, and the ones that survive to grow on their own are more drought-tolerant.

If you are not trying to force greater yield in order to squeeze out profit, the nut trees can do well to yield enough for people to have their fair share.

When done as part of a practice that involves diversifying crops, the entire smallhold is far more resilient to any number of external pressure, including climate, pests, market crashes, etc.
Impressive that the bitcoin donation address has received $20k!
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all non-routeable addresses, multicast etc. etc.
They're taking raw untreated river/lake/aquifer water, purifying it to an incredible degree for the fab. When they use the water it gets cleaned again.

Now that water can either be returned to the river/lake/aquifer or if you clean it sufficiently well it can go straight into municipal drinking water supplies. That's how this fresh water comes out of nowhere.
> Is there an official standard body behind this (and json 6 mentioned in another comment), or is it a kind of loose / informal standard left up to libraries to implement?

There's a spec: https://spec.json5.org/
That will only happen if you live in a region that is arid or semi-arid. Most of the US is literally overflowing with fresh water and almost all the expense for water is related to simply piping it to you or cleaning up the wastewater you create. For the vast majority of people in the USA, water is very cheap.
I've been wanting to test this for a long time, but every time I research this I find that the Occulus seems like the best option, but I can't stand the FB account requirement, and I wouldn't feel comfortable with that.

What alternative would you guys recommend? Would the experience be significantly worse if I tried to do this with an Index, for instance?
Firefox is a lot less secure than Chromium.
Yeah I also do this: I own my domain and I use a catch-all setup at my email provider so <anything>@jpreston.xyz goes to my inbox.

I suppose the advantage with a non-custom domain is you leak no info about yourself, the masked email is 'just another Fastmail email address'. But doing it for a custom domain feels like it defeats the point, isn't it just like catch-all at that point?
That's the way to go. I set up a rule where everything going to *@a.mydomain.com goes into a folder which I largely ignore. Every website gets a unique prefix, e.g. ycombinator@a.domain.com.

The advantage of Masked Emails is that third parties won't even know about mydomain.com. The disadvantage is that you need 1Password to recall which email address you used with a particular website.
You can almost certainly make it portable. After all, the allocation has a pointer, size, and type, and if it is at all an array, you could dereference every Nth element as needed, possibly with memcpy(), and avoid aliasing rules via casting to unsigned char *.
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If you accept the Many Worlds Interpretation of QM, then Deutsch's book will indeed seem "amazing". If you don't, though, then much of what Deutsch says is simply wrong, since it depends on that particular interpretation.
Not that Spaces isn’t a good product, but there are countless S3 compatible object storage services.

This announcement is noteworthy because there’s no egress fees. Spaces still charges 1c per gigabyte for egress. Not comparable in that aspect.
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Love the team at DigitalOcean but Spaces was NOT reliable the last time I played with it. It’s also lacking key features in lifecycle and notification areas. Maybe they’ve gotten things together in recent months/years and I haven’t gotten the update, but it was very “you get what you pay for” when I tried to stage a project using it in 2018/19.
Downvotes are for comments that don't add to discussion, not for comments that are disagreed with. (For example, this comment I'm writing is off-topic for the current article, and so should probably be downvoted.)

Stating a simple fact with no sources and no discussion is not a good HN comment. Ignoring your first sentence, your comment is really good.
What's an example of a site that loads slower with an ad blocker? I've never observed that in my browsing.
To be fair, fastmail has a significant number of fun domains to create adddresses with :)
Does this remind anyone else of the exploit in The Cuckoo's Egg[0] whereby hackers escalate privilege by using GNU Emacs' mailutils?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
In general usage like that, you might as well substitute "scholar" or "wise man" or "anointed authority" as the descriptor.

Such things often quote a source or reference an authority you could look into further, "researchers at the University of Binge Drinking say" and the like. "Research conducted by Dr Claude Balls indicated tigers can become testy"
I eat these daily. How would I know my risk of this?
Not GP but I didn't interpret it to mean that all C# companies are boring, or that the language itself is boring, just that many boring C# companies exist.
Elsewhere on HN someone suggested in a comment that we could replace the standard paper and pen lab notebook with something digital. Yeah, there's definitely a subset of people who think computer everything is better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676325
As many people pointed out, the focal point is at a much higher distance than the typical screen.

If anything, this could be much healthier.

If only the head mounted displays were designed with health in mind rather than making a quick profit...
The number of people who seem to worship Elon Musk in spite of his shitty behavior is really discouraging.
This is a great list and points out the flaw in the question, which is "employed at which type of company". A web consultancy has different needs from Intel, so they use different languages. Yet both hire "freshers" and other programmers.

One thing I'd add to your list. The Microsoft ecosystem is big in the enterprise, so C# should go on that bullet point.
That seems like an awfully verbose way of saying "I have social anxiety". Seems Sartre had it pretty bad, hence his intended meaning of the phrase, but most people don't feel that way, so they interpret it a bit differently.
In the "Default scikit Iris visualization" example you could colorize the arrows for true|false since colors are available.

Alternatively you could use two distinct types of arrowheads.
In a previous life (2013?) this software got forced on me and the team/company I worked on as "boss-ware".

Unsure if the founders were aware of this or just "well shit happens", but it defo means I can't see this product without also seeing the uncomfortableness of working with a "all eyeing eye" on your system tray

I have no idea if the product is still somewhat geared for micromanaging/boss spying but it left a really bad taste for the whole product segment for me.
In my experience, it's axiomatic in high-risk sports to understand the difference between "smart crazy" vs "dumb crazy"; everyone knows what it is, but it is rarely described.

One friend best described it as the difference between using knowledge, technology, and/or skill to reliably perform ordinarily dangerous activities, vs. getting away with something by pure dumb luck.

Here the technology is lean (nose clips, lights, fins, cable, alarms) and the knowledge, technique, and skill is extensive, but clearly many can make a career of it.

What you are doing is like staring at the crash statistics for cars, or even racecars, and minimizing the very real and large body of safety knowledge, equipment, and process that reduces the risk to tolerable levels.

And to scoff at how this knowledge makes one "more effective, conscious, skillful, and thoughtful as human beings" is pure ignorance. I can tell you personally (having a healthy dose of this mental training, and great respect for the much further extents achieved by these freedivers) that it makes all the difference in the world - but of course if you have not done it, you literally do not know what you are missing.

(edit: clarity, punctuation)
Oh look, Intel is going back to the IBM 1960s mainframe model.

How long until they use their management features to sell overnight spare capacity on your machine (using WoL or firmware tricks to power on your machine if you turn it off overnight) unless you pay them monthly?
Don’t know about the algo (who does?) but the ability to place mid-roll ads was minimum 10min, now lowered to 8min.
It would indeed be great if reporters were somehow immune to the pressure to constantly churn out stories to compete with the algorithm's recency bias, 24 hour news networks, pseudo-news outrage channels and the like.
Why shouldn’t I?

Firstly the causality is the same even if the ultimate power and available sanctions are different. The nations can “just ban hacking” the way they can “just ban arson”, and then go “oh no it’s still happening” while locking up hackers and arsonists; or they can say “fire safety on all domestic products” and then it’s harder to set fires, which isn’t much different in causality than a big box store making exactly the same requirement for all the products they sell.

Secondly, sovereign nations have been mostly fairly relaxed about the businesses creating and enforcing Ts&Cs, and can always overrule those Ts&Cs as and when they change their minds.
> I was under the impression that public political speech which is critical against of supervisor (ie the entire executive branch of the govt) while on active duty can be considered insubordination. Is that wrong?

That's not exactly true, and even to the extent that it relates to real offenses, I think the upthread commenter would be correct that an order to not post to social media “without exception” (barring, e.g., a special mission where that is a bona fide security requirement) is probably an illegal order.

Of course, to the extent that his conduct using social media before or after is insubordinate, disrespectful toward military superiors or civilian officials, seditious, unbecoming of an officer and gentleman, or prejudicial to good order and discipline, that conduct may still be a UCMJ violation notwithstanding the invalidity of the overbroad order.
What makes you think someone prosecuting a police officer would rely on the police investigating the officer?
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Tangent because this the first I’ve heard of Virgil. From the main README, what do you mean when you say you would like programs written in Virgil to be dependency-free?
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I didn't even know that this popped off from HN, but I used to used this on my gen 1 iPad to read Cory Doctorow ebooks. I had completely forgotten it but I loved it and want to set it up again. So cool!
So you're going to touch every byte of the memory, to check it's been successfully allocated.

What happens when you access memory which has not been successfully allocated?
Don't mean this as insult, but this can't make sense: "prosciutto or another cured meat"

Am I crazy or are you just substituting something (i.e. a carb) with something else (cured meat) that comes with a different set of problems?

I'm remain perplexed by keto diets. Yes, stabilizing glucose levels and removing spikes/crashes is important, but some of the alternatives don't make a ton of sense.
I stopped using this a number of years ago when I became more privacy-conscious and now use ActivityWatch which doesn't have an online connection.

If RescueTime could be run completely offline or could be self-hosted I'd consider it again.
You’re misreading that as $0.15 per GB.
>use the URL bar to directly query Youtube with !yt or Wikipedia with !w and a lot more.

My understanding is both Chrome and Firefox can do this natively, ie without DDG
Lots of people like to pretend the "entire internet" is synonymous with the IPv4 address space...
In some cases the problem is a lot more of sugar, soda, and overall bad food. Drink a lot of water, eat two meals a day, and make those meals more with chicken and meats, less of carbs, and far less sugar.
You clearly don't experience this phenomenon. I'm jealous! But no, the whole problem is that I'm staying up late scrolling my phone even though sleep would be much more satisfying. And I can tell you that, in the moment! It's just hard to actually put my phone down and go to sleep.
Cache without paywall https://archive.is/Z9e5R
So the difference is that there were two fines issued for the same offence - one for 61K and one for 20K.

The specific offence was that there was collusion between BeLeave and Vote Leave which ultimately meant that money spent by BeLeave was actually supporting Vote Leave's campaign, which was not lawful.

Both 'parties' were fined - Vote Leave and BeLeave/Darren Grimes.

The judge who overturned Grimes's fine did not pass judgement on whether the spending was lawful or not.

The appeal was upheld based on the ruling that the Electoral Commission had not properly done their homework to prove BeLeave's legal status, or justify the maximum fine permissible for Grimes - essentially a procedural error, rather than a factual error.
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Will runtime fields help you with post-pass filtering? https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-elasticsearch-runtim...
There is some: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012

And according to the first sentence of the summary the current formulation is axiomatic as well...
The v6 space has structure and is much smaller than that
I joined a company where the owner had everyone's machine RescueTime'd. I improved their dev throughput 100x in 2 months (quite literally) and he still pulled up RescueTime dashboards to berate people on how they spent their time. The RescueTime reports counted for more than our delivery reports (which he wouldn't understand, not "couldn't").

Never again.
It's surprisingly similar. Source: I lived as a Zen Buddhist monk for a time in my life. The article is quite insightful.
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One way is to allocate first. alloca(1GB) typically isn't going to cause a SEGV, so you can check the allocation after making it. With VLAs you have to make sure (this is not portable) that the compiler will put your loop iterator state variables ahead of the VLA.

If you can assume a linear stack (which is kinda the whole point of this discussion) then you can call a function that will repeatedly alloca() in small chunks and touch a byte and return on success or SEGV on failure, and then when it returns it will release that memory but then you know you can safely alloca() that much.
Look up what the young feed on.
> many companies do not sponsor them for foreign workers but only for the workers who are already in the country and on a nonimmigrant work visa

Yeah, because the immigrant visas take time - at least a year if you aren't Indian or Chinese, far longer if you are. What's a company to do with that employee in the meanwhile? What if the company doesn't have offices and/or isn't set up to hire in that employee's home country? What if the employee's team is all US-based and they don't want to deal with the timezone differences? And if you're suggesting "sponsor, get the green card, then hire" why would a company spend all that time and money for someone who doesn't even currently work for them? What's the benefit?

Pre-Covid, most companies simply didn't do remote work on any meaningful scale. And some jobs, even highly paid ones, can't be done remote - doctors or surgeons, for instance. Of course companies were going to want that employee working at their US office until their permanent residence was approved. And if not a work visa, how else was that going to happen?
https://llvm.org/docs/Passes.html#dot-callgraph-print-call-g...
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They can keep their lawn. She’s should just have to pay more money since the water has more valuable uses elsewhere
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> A different (and ultimately unhealthy) sort of "movement toward" is the choice to not go to bed as an act of self determination by way of rebellion.

This is actually what I've been doing pretty much my whole adult life. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination gives it a name and a framework to express the problem and (maybe) face it - which is something I found really exciting in the linked article (before the political angle was shoehorned in).
This is really well stated and resonates with me deeply.

The “doing things I don’t even want to do” aspect of this is what also separates this from “just staying up late”.

For me, I’ve had some vague notion of trying to build a time buffer between today and tomorrow. Something to separate today’s stress from tomorrow’s stress.
the new world order is megacorps being the only ones technically & legally competent enough to manage to the thousands of varying laws about.

cyberspace alas quickly lost it's high ground, stopped being for the user, for frontiers, & became a tool for control, manipulation, & survelliance, during a vast information-economy colonization of this possibility space. alas this means we've closed the frontiers, are now making the digital space far more constrained. and we're doing that in dozens of different jurisdictions, hundreds, thousands. now to do anything in cyberspace you need to understand & choose your way again and again amid whatever contexts the world wishes to throw at you.

this post is a victory lap. we did it: we can data share & ooerate internationally, and we think we're good with all the law enforcement types. we can send them what we have to, there are procedures now for all the countless asks we get.

we really need some p2p & user-sovereign internet capabilities to advance. this post pointing out the closing window of possibility, how much harder operations are. when ran by companies, at scale, not people, exercising their rights & navigating their ways. the window is closing as we demand enhanced mechanization of mass-scale information processing. society cannot/ought not shut pandoras box like this, trap us in a status quo of big powers able to comply in thousands of places, unwilling & unable to let out real freedoms & liberties, actively slamming Pandora's box closed, trapping hope.
We're totally aware of this and although we've tried our best in the past to avoid this scenario with the privacy of individuals in mind, it was unfortunate that bosses made their employees do this. This version is much harder to abuse that way, the reports are designed to be less exact and more of a guide to help the individual achieve balance, not to generate reports to be used to track productivity.
Tulsi tea apparently "melts" kidney stones.

It's all about keeping a balance.
> Also meaningless is saying that 2% of the kids have a high level of lead, without saying what "high" means.

Oh, that's simple - it's defined as above the 98th percentile.

(I kid, I hope...)
The problem here this is only soul-crushing for the competent.
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Ah, my thanks. I had somehow understood Promtail wrong. Its name, mention of Prometheus, scraping and such first tells me it's closer to something like node exporter. I had watched Loki release presentation and few others, but managed to still misunderstand. Oh well. Now, things make more sense. Moving forward with the installation... :)
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What's the censorship policy?

Is this going to be content-neutral, like Cloudflare was when fronting ISIS websites?

Or is this going to be fine-until-bad-PR, like when Cloudflare decided to stop hosting The Daily Stormer?

There is a special kind of lock-in when it comes to object storage, as generally you use something like this when the data is too big to store another copy of locally
or at another provider. It's not like you can easily maintain provider independence, and if Cloudflare decides one day that some of your UGC in a bucket isn't something they want to host, what happens then?

Is the data lost forever because your account is nuked? Is there a warning or grace period?

I am hesitant to put any large amount of data into a service without a crystal clear statement on this, so that I can know up front whether or not a business needs to maintain a second, duplicate object store somewhere else for business continuity.

If Cloudflare in practice is going to nuke the account the moment your site ends up hosting something objectionable, this DR requirement (a second provider that also stores all objects) needs to be factored into a customer's costs. (It may be that the bandwidth savings still make it worth it to use Cloudflare even with double storage.)
Sort-of.

You can port scan your own infra/vpcs etc -- but YOU MUST tell them you are doing so and why you are doing it, else they will block it.

again, as with anything AWS (and other providers) have a good rapport with your rep, and SEs in AWS and you have a lot more freedom than you expect just from boilerplate ULA TOS stuff.

You may not scan anything other than your own infra. And you can get your external monitors whitelisted as well...

Just talk to your rep.
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How do you implement a multi-site architecture solution with Apachekafka
Pros and Cons.

Consider ICE, the German equivalent to the TGV. Germany is not centralized, so you find ICE connections all over the place.

But few are as good or as high speed on the whole track as the ones coming out of Paris. Here, centrality made it easier to build and expand a high speed net that is much less piecemeal.

In Germany, you can go with ICE from any midrange town to another. And yet, only a handful of sections are 300kph
From another wikipedia link:

“In mythology, the bee, found in Indian, ancient Near East and Aegean cultures, was believed to be the sacred insect that bridged the natural world to the underworld.”

“According to Hittite mythology, the god of agriculture, Telipinu, went on a rampage and refused to allow anything to grow and animals would not produce offspring. The gods went in search of Telipinu only to fail. Then the goddess Ḫannaḫanna sent forth a bee to bring him back. The bee finds Telipinu, stings him and smears wax upon him. The god grew even angrier and it wasn't until the goddess Kamrusepa (or a mortal priest according to some references) uses a ritual to send his anger to the Underworld.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_(mythology)
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> Companies in the US are not an extension of the state in anyway near the way Chinese firms are, even if some collude.

In the US, the state is an extension of the corporation.