skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read about Level 2 solutions like zk snarks. It's really fascinating stuff. I enjoy the podcast called "Zero Knowledge." The last one with Professor Alessandro Chiesa is really great, but that's not the best one for beginners for sure.
There's a point to sharing how Covid has ruined people's lives, yes. It's the sneering and hate which causes problems.

EDIT: I feel I should clarify that I'm not saying everything on the sub is bad, just the sneering part of it is not good. Sharing stories of how Covid has hurt people is fine and should be done. Cheering for people to die? That's just ghoulish. Yes, I know they're not all doing that, but I've seen more than a few such posts on the front page of Reddit. I don't bother reading that subreddit, though. I don't need other people's stories of how Covid has hurt friends of mine, I have my own.
Theatricality and deception on both ends of this process, I am afraid
This stood out to me

> The bulk of the projects were migrated around August 2020. This was achieved by filing a GitHub support ticket

My team were repeatedly told it's not possible to move an existing organization into an enterprise account. The documentation also stated at the time.

GitHub only announced this functionality recently. https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-github-enterprise-c...
They meant http://www.shadowstats.com/.
> You can shoplift all day everyday now, and you will be back on the street in a few hours without bail.

Again, silence from the civil libertarians on using bail as a form of infinite detention. But more to the point: the bail reform doesn't apply here, since he's a previous offender. There's nothing (other than court capacity) stopping a judge from issuing a bail for him.
What government group said that the non-vaccinated were safe anyway? Do you have a single source?
Just so. It does take a little configuration. The system I was talking about had been band-aided since the company's two-person days, when I'm sure the builds were a fraction of the size. Good example of infra tech debt.
> Bitmap filters and blending modes?

This, in particular, is limited by manpower and reverse engineering. Simply documenting what Flash actually does would be a huge help. Volunteers welcome.

Rendering flash requires that you be pixel compatible to something that is not documented anywhere. That requires someone to do a lot of experiments on something that barely runs anywhere anymore, document what they find, and then have someone convert that into code.

As for Actionscript 3, here is the tracking issue:
https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368
> I think the bigger issue is that everyone feels they need to be an expert on every subject.

I think people tend to view the world through the lens of their experiences. Lots of us are basically technicians these days, even a good percentage(the majority maybe) of software "engineers". I think it's easy for people to achieve some mastery in a domain and begin to believe that other aspects of the world are also similarly mastered. I'll say that most of my life I fell into that camp. I'm somewhat gifted with technology and I let my successes in the simplistic world of programming(and it really is pretty simple if you're just following recipes and calling libraries) bias my view of the world. I think my descent into libertarianism in the 00's was largely fueled by that erroneous thinking.

It's only after working on harder problems that I've come to appreciate the limits of my thinking, and the limits to which I can step into another domain and outthink the experts within it.

I think there are a lot of folks who have never worked on something subtle and complex, and to them the world is just so simple. Certain people/substances/ideologies are just purely good and others are purely evil, with no thought to the complexity of the actual world we inhabit.

> The problem isn't that the world is getting more complex. The problem is that we're unwilling to admit it.

Exactly. We better learn quick or we'll be like a toddler holding a hand grenade.
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If you go to the wiki they have a photo of the car in a museum in Paris. Beautiful classic car too.
According to Sabine Hossenfelder, ITER will only actually generate 0.57 of what's put in. The large number out isn't the full story.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-close-is-nuclea...

> You have seen in the earlier quotes about ITER that the energy input is normally said to be 50 MegaWatts. But according to the head of the Electrical Engineering Division of the ITER Project, Ivone Benfatto, ITER will consume about 440 MegaWatts while it produces fusion power. That gives us an estimate for the total energy that goes in.

> Though that is misleading already because 120 of those 440 MegaWatts are consumed whether or not there’s any plasma in the reactor, so using this number assumes the thing would be running permanently. But okay, let’s leave this aside.

> The plan is that ITER will generate 500 MegaWatts of fusion power in heat. If we assume a 50% efficiency for converting this heat into electricity, ITER will produce about 250 MegaWatts of electric power.

> That gives us a Q total of about 0.57. That’s less than a tenth of the normally stated Q plasma of 10. Even optimistically, ITER will still consume roughly twice the power it generates. What’s with the earlier claim of a Q of 0.67 for the JET experiment? Same thing.
My idea is a different hash construction, which is 2D construction, which has a infinite internal state and infinite output length. Each row and each column also has a sequence number input, and then there are two mixing up functions (each of which has a finite input and output of equal size than the input); part of the result is propagated horizontally and part of it vertically, so each cell has two inputs and the input includes both the message block and the sequence number, which overwrites a part of the internal state (the rest of which has been mixed with the other state). Each output block (the output blocks are vertical and the message blocks are horizontal, which is why it is slow) is then truncated and concatenated to produce the final output, after adding padding at the end of the message (including the length of the message) to mix it up even more. If the message length is m and the hash length is h, then it requires O(h) space and O(mh) time. If ChaCha20 is in use, then it is easy to see (by the kind of calculations made by ChaCha20) that if the input is zero then the output will also be zero; therefore, the initial sequence number should be 1 and not 0. You can also compute a secondary hash which must be misaligned with the first one, so that in case a collision is found in one block that the collision will not be propagated with the other blocks too (unless a collision can be found within two consecutive blocks, in which case you would hope that the extra dimension (since it is a 2D construction) can avoid the collision).
Note that the sample population was recruited through Facebook and Instagram ads, which is not exactly a random sample. In particular, it's likely to skew toward younger residents (who tend to be more mobile in general), toward people who are not parents (who have more time to be on social media), and toward people who click on ads and have time to fill out a survey.

https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/sv-poll-2021-rep...
What time is the witch burning trial? coward.
The one defining advantage of a republic is peaceful and lawful transfer of power, and limits of the exercise of that power. Any fundamental change requires legitimization via a durable political coalition. While you may be better off under an enlightened king, what happens after his lifetime? In a monarchy a new king can be weak or crueler and nothing can be done short of bloody revolution. In a direct democracy 51% of the electorate can try to strip 49% of their rights. Republics avoid a single point of failure.
I hate studies that say "embrace flexibility".

As a manager, I understand that to mean "allow people to decide what works best for them; find ways to enable that and make it successful".

My team understands that to mean "I can decide what works best for me".

My boss, however, understands that to mean "mandate people be in 3 specific days, from specific hour to specific hour, but they can miss if they have a good reason, and they get two days to WFH"

This can only end well.
> The Peekskill meteorite is estimated to be 4.4 billion years old.

If everything in the universe is the same age (emerging from the big bang), is 4.4 billion years the last time the meteorite had a serious physical transformation (to it’s current form)? If not, what is meant with 4.4 billion years old?
At least they pretended to require amendments. But then they caved and gave in anyway, WTF.
How on earth is this a take on HN, of all places? I have a feeling people with this opinion stopped paying attention in 2017.
Clean architecture is worth a read. I like his description.

"Object-Oriented programming imposes discipline on indirect transfer of control."
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If, hypothetically, I wanted to defend myself from such meteors, what could I install in an attic?
When your output is "attending meetings", it's a lot more fun to be in office.

When your output is actual produced things, open space offices and meetings are an impediment.
My O365 displays my Google calendars just fine.
My iOS and macOS calendar apps display both just fine.

I use a handful of Google calendars, but almost never use the Google calendar UI directly and interact almost exclusively via the Apple or Microsoft UIs to the Google store of data. (As in I might use the Google UI directly perhaps once a year, and that's generally only to get the access/path to the iCal interoperability URL.)
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Like mattresses, office chairs, monitors, and other things that will get a lot of use over their lifetime, this is one of those things worth spending a little more on. Unless you're the type of person who also likes the shock of cold showers. The Totos are worth every penny.
Is this really a thing? i see this thrown around but... really? Can any software get built and and maintained long term with a 50% turnover each year? i find that it takes thing long to ramp on on anything even remotely legacy.

Here is Australia, a group of CTOs met together recently to discuss the topic. They think the skills shortage is related to Banks offloading investment businesses due to some rule changes. They feel like its a temporary bubble. My company is almost refusing to raise their pay rates and is struggling to retain.

My opinion is that the job market has changed forever. I worked remotely before Covid and always though dev jobs could be done remotely.
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It’s an interesting device and I am fond of e-paper so I was considering one as well. The expensive pen with an eraser was a strike against it. Requiring a subscription to use someone else’s cloud service and only in the top tier plan, that turns a strike into a complete pass.
> "...I could easily kill grandma..."

see, there's the hyperbole that makes you lose credibility. ~95% of those 65 and older in the US are vaccinated. visiting with grandma (or any family, for that matter) is an instance where wearing a mask (and certainly a number of other potential mitigations) could make a difference, so use your brain to make that assessment, not some brainless heuristic infringed upon you by an irrelevant affiliation.
Intercom. Their pricing is basically based on how many people you show the widget to and not how many people actually send you a message. Made it unusable for us.
Curious how you escaped a (browser?) With JS to do "native" net send? Assume it was some activeX?
That's all nice to say when you are not one of the Walgreens employees who may lose a job as a result of the closures, right?

Owner-operated pharmacies have been out of business for decades. I'm sure you yearn for the days of Blockbuster video or, better still, your neighborhood video stores. No Netflix for you, right?
> Which is fantastic; very useful backtrace; no notes. And why is this? Why can’t I shadow this function?

Not sure what the author means by "no notes". The transcript they posted does point to both the exact chapters in both the implementation and standard docs:

; See also:
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"
; The ANSI Standard, Section 11.1.2.1.2
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Looked promising until I noticed that Japanese isn't an option (despite practically every other language being listed).
yep, always good to get ads on your shell when you start it.

it's like those awesome ubuntu login motd's, I look forward to them every time I log in, just in case the ad changes.

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While of course oversimplified, https://model.energy is interesting site to simulate the issues, as it tries to model a "base load" generation using green energy. The moment the storage costs of hydrogen go beyond ridiculously low (based on assumptions of available salt caverns), or if you try to use batteries only, the numbers game is over for non-nuclear - unless you add gas turbines which defeat the 0-emission target.

For a simulated replacement of 2GW power plant (2-3 reactors, enough to provide for a metropolitan region base load, assuming Poland for weather/solar data) using only batteries for storage, we look at needing to build:

~29GW of solar power
~12GW of wind power
~46.7GWh of battery storage (with ~3.5GW output)

Going for hydrogen storage, the result is

~10.2GW solar
~6.5GW wind
~5.5GWh battery (with 0.98GW output)
~1.5GW hydrogen gas turbine
~760GWh hydrogen storage.

All of that, to replace a 2GW power plant with non-nuclear zero emission sources. (for comparison, polish base load demand is effectively around 14GW, and we don't really have any place for more pumped storage or hydro power without some funky exclusion zones and environmental destruction)
TL;DR This Westinghouse Project is to what we need, as Boeing's Starliner is to SpaceX's solution.

To reduce carbon emissions and bridges us until fusion (or some other tech) is more viable, nuclear still seems to make sense; ignoring the political and scaremongering issues.

This project suffered from corruption, mismanagement, and contractors who've gotten too good at "business" rather than engineering.
> return to work

Awful phrasing
Yeah, skimming the start of the Spanner paper (to take a random example from CS), can you really claim with a straight face that any of these would be intelligible to the average layperson?

> At the highest level of abstraction, it is a database that shards data across many sets of Paxos state machines in data centers spread all over the world. Replication is used for global availability and geographic locality; clients automatically failover between replicas.

> provides externally consistent reads and writes, and globally-consistent reads across the database at a timestamp.

> Spanner assigns globally-meaningful commit timestamps to transactions, even though transactions may be distributed. The timestamps reflect serialization order.
You're right. Commit id points to a commit object, that points to a tree object and subsequently to individual blob objects. Then it is sufficiently harder, you need to find a collision between 2 blob objects, both of which are executable and don't look suspicious.
So, 44% of executives are highly motivated by the prestige of their position and the ability to directly exercise power over people.

Yeah, that sounds about right.
This was representative of my late-20s friends; about half of them ended up leaving the Bay Area to have kids. It's not at all representative of my late-30s parent friends. Almost all of us bought houses and are presumably staying here for good, barring unforeseen catastrophe or major changes in life circumstances. It's like we passed the selection filter and now we're in the 50% staying.

The Bay Area attracts more aspirants than it has room for. That means that inevitably some will leave. I'd model this as tournament economics, tenure in academia, or the up-or-out culture at many big companies, though: you get lots of attrition in your first 10 years, and then after that you're in.
Maybe you need to do some reading. Appeal to authority is a fallacy only when the appeal is to an unrelated authority.

If I rely on public health authorities in determining how to deal with the pandemic, I'm in the clear, logically speaking.
I generally agree but in case it helps anyone:

> Apparently oo as envisioned by Alan Kay was supposed to work like cells in the body that pass messages between each other and take actions independently.

> Why? Who knows!

A very probable good mental model for what was intended is Erlang/OTP or the Actor Model generally. The idea of encapsulated systems which interface opaquely is very well represented there. And the reasoning and benefits are as well.
Could be somewhere in-between. There are very intelligent people focusing on the crypto, defi, decentralization and "metaverse" space. It's colloquially referred to as web3, but after "Web 2.0" people here have skepticism of such a term. Why would they be spending their time on this? Are they all just, as another poster said, "ideologically delusional and/or pathologically greedy"?
Imagine commanding 1000 employees and seeing them on a daily basis scurry around like ants, all of whom are making you wealthy. Then all of a sudden they are just numbers on a spread sheet. Must really strip some psychological power
Two reasons. Vaccines are waaaay cheaper, and second, covid patients are tying up limited medical resources (ICU beds, ventilators etc).
How do the French do it?
I think you are spot on, with the addendum that exercising this power comes with costs - see the very DAO hack we talked about. So while I fully agree this power exists, it is not unlimited and is invested by the users of the network. I also think Vitalik is aware of all these and they are actually using these principles in the ETH governance.
For reference: https://www.accc.gov.au/business/pricing-surcharging/display...

Mind you, those rules don’t stop such things from happening, even from purely Australian companies. I’ve tracked a Clevo-ODM laptop seller for years that’s perpetually at 25–40% discounts across all of their products (though they cycle through some of the specific components that are discounted), and I’ve been tracking one manufacturer’s only-sold-by-them 12V/100Ah LiFePO₄ battery for 15 months when they’ve had a $1,299 RRP marked down to $489–$469, with the alleged RRP recently reduced to $899. I’ve never complained to these companies or to the ACCC, but from other vaguely similar things that I have reported a couple of times I don’t expect much to happen.
The protocol is mostly lifestyle changes, there’s no meaningful way it could be double-blind. It has to be compared to standard of care outcomes.
it is deliberate
'Executives' tend to have their own office and better accommodations as well as (hopefully) believing in the company or at a minimum have some power to implement their own vision.

Employees are treated more like cattle so it is not surprising they would rather stay at home where they have more control.
What a coincidence that this pops up on HN as I’m halfway thru Blindsight. It’s somewhat of a relief to hear others find his writing style frustrating… I was starting to think I was just dumber than his normal audience
Yes, in the same way your car might be 5 years old the age refers to the time the object was formed not the age of the matter/energy in it.
Maybe they hardcoded the real gateway's MAC Address.
Yeah, I'm pretty bad at picking up jokes sometimes—it seems this one's on me :-)
I agree with a caveat: to actually produce things, sometimes meetings are not an impediment, they're vital. They're the quickest way to come to a consensus and share exceptions during design quickly
Not a gargoyle?
>The government never said that masks don't work, because "the government" is a thing which does not speak.

The government speaks plenty, it just has many voices. All the ones you hear are specifically chosen people to speak on the government's behalf, they are even told what to say. I'm not really sure what you are trying to justify with that opener. I mean you realize people on this form are more intelligent than the general population, right?

>If you're treating the government as a solitary nebulous entity, then accountability goes out the window.

I think qualified immunity has a lot to do with it. Also the fact that most of the machine wasn't elected and runs the same way regardless of who we put into office.
If the dev machine is the fastest horse and the dev is waiting on the CI, wouldn’t it make more sense to have an option that optionally self-hosts the CI process on the dev machine when desired?

I could be wrong but I’m concerned about the business thesis. Even if more cloud speed is the answer, GitHub can add this and at a lower cost, and for as long as it matters, lower margin.

Perhaps the CI speed is just an attack vector for the dev ops market in general.
pp. 324-331

Damn. I wish I could have read Byte in its prime. Great article.
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has the lignin story held up though? Wikipedia's article on Coal suggests that a 2016 paper "refuted" the idea. I don't really follow this area of research, so would be happy if someone more knowledgeable chimed in about it.
Alcohol kills humans in relatively small quantities as well, and it would certainly kill a bird with significantly less. Chocolate makes dogs incredibly sick as well, while not having the same effect on humans.

This isn't to say that we shouldn't ban PFAS. They're proven to be dangerous to humans, and we should absolutely be concerned about long-term effects. It's just that "it kills a bird" isn't a justification for banning something. I'm under the impression that burned food and smoke isn't great for you either; it's possible that the trade-off between a dirty oven and increased PFAS exposure is acceptable.

Ultimately it depends on the magnitude of the danger, and I don't know enough about airborne PFAS to know if it warrants a blanket ban on any products with Teflon.
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I'd rather quit than go back.
Object constancy
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...and the other 22% also lie to surveys asking if they lied before.
This is true, and I'd add that the more fluid and dynamic those meetings are, the better. To me, it seems like video meetings are anything but. Lots of people either interrupting each other or trying too hard not to. Obnoxious repetition. Whiteboarding is a sad joke.
Wait, what? You think it's retail gangs committing the anti-Asian violence? Based on what?
Though a bit of a tangent, it's quite reasonable to be able to use force against an intruder in your own house. At least in the US the police have no duty to protect or even respond, and depending on location may be many minutes or even tens of minutes away.

It's quite difficult to glean the (true) intent of an intruder, and the possibilities include burglarly, rape, and murder so it's quite reasonable to protect yourself.
My employer, VMware, has many teams working on Cloud Foundry that do pair programming. It can be more exhausting to pair program remotely, so I would reckon few do so 40 hours a week.
> would be more evenly distributed.

riiiiiiiight.