skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody holding a bag of poo believes there's upside. That's why they're holding it. I will grant that the cryptocurrency ecosystem is incredibly good at not just finding but creating greater fools. [1] But the fool supply is finite, and more than 10 years on cryptocurrencies still aren't good for much practical. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28781968
The disease that develops after being infected is called COVID-19 which means Corona Virus Disease (first seen in 20)19. The virus that causes it is SARS-CoV-2, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrom Corona Virus 2, which is one of many coronaviruses. The 2 is there because there was an earlier coronavirus caused disease (SARS) in 2002 for which the pathogen was called SARS-CoV(-1).
> not exponentially

We don't know that the growth was n^x and not x^n.
Almost every position I've ever seen says "BS or equivalent experience".

I never look at resumes when conducting interviews unless I'm asking the candidate about past projects. It makes you form biases. I don't look at the school at all.

As a data point, some of my coworkers went to MIT, CMU, and Stanford. Many others didn't go to college at all or graduated with entirely orthogonal degrees. I'm at a fintech with $500k total comp packages.

Degrees are bullshit unless you're doing research, using an expensive lab, or need mentorship. You can learn data structures, algorithm analysis, and distributed computing on your own from home using free resources. That's more than enough to land a good job.

Any interview pipeline asking you dynamic programming problems has a broken process.
I don't believe that people with PhDs have "unique attributes". There are, specially in the field of computing science, examples of exceptionally gifted and influential researchers without PhDs (e.g. Denis Ritchie, Simon Peyton-Jones...).

What a Phd recognizes, and is relevant to the project at hand, is the ability "to produce original research that expands the boundaries of knowledge".

(Per Wikipedia: "Because it is an earned research degree, those studying for a PhD are required to produce original research that expands the boundaries of knowledge, normally in the form of a thesis or dissertation, and defend their work against experts in the field. The completion of a PhD is often a requirement for employment as [...] a scientist in many fields.")
Does Landauer's principle not already create a very strong link between the two? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

It even predicts a direct equivalence between the unit of bit and Joules per Kelvin with the entropy produced in the erasure of a bit being equal to 9.6e-24 J/K

Unless I'm making some mistake, you can even use computer science principles combined with Landauer's limit to solve Maxwell's Demon.
You're really grilling someone for not fetching salts in psuedocode?
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Yes, there’s a technical legal distinction between a law (legislative) and a regulation (executive), but nothing in my comment above was intended to signify that I want one or the other to have broad authority to protect their incumbency or exercise power over the People to a greater extent than today.
I've done it with games many times. Well, disassembling rather than decompilation, but close enough.

For example, changing hardcoded key bindings to be more dvorak friendly in Touhou games.

I've fixed many Quake engine based games that have the infamous OpenGL extension string overflow bug.

There's another old game (possibly Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix?) that refuses to run if you have the string "generic" in your OpenGL driver name. This is common on Linux distros that ship a "generic" kernel.

Painkiller crashes if your uptime is too high, due to overflow on division. That's another easy fix.
Women are massively effected by birth control. That results in physical and emotional changes.

Granted it will vary person to person. But there are major changes happening in the body that result from messing with hormones
TechBench by WZT (v4.1.1)
> Probably the norm going forward to thwart ad-blockers. Also ads will most likely be generated server-side and served from the main domain in the future.

That sounds great to me; it means getting cross-domain tracking to work would be much harder. Hopefully that means we'll also get ads that are actually relevant to the page instead of random unrelated stuff.
Let's not forget that vc money is scarce outside of the US. If this is actually better or not is difficult to tell.
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The one with the blackmail to switch to make models was funny.

My parents were ~40yo in the 70's so they must have been the target of the ads, in France. Since women just got the right to open a bank account without the authorization of the husband they sound similar to what we must have had here.

The ads in the 80's were extremely sensual (or funny). Naked women, a bottle of water that slowly unscrews and explodes after having been fondled by a woman hand, etc.

Sex was everywhere, but this also made it normal to us. I think we were the most liberated generation (born in the 70's), without the pressure of porn but with a healthy approach to sex.
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What social media/social sites do you recommend?

Reddit seems fairly niche. Facebook and LinkedIn seem very spammy. I don't understand Mastodon. I love Hacker News, and it seems more "social news" discussion than a way to connect with people for offline interaction.

How do you connect with people, personally and professionally?
You are definitely correct that analogies are inherently flawed.

I suppose to be more direct, is Victim blaming ever the right course of action?
Gimli then!?
If the legal system was anything but a farce all EULAs and TOSs would be declared invalid, as all parties are aware that they aren't being read before being agreed to.
I didn't point it out as the first thing when his name was brought up. But apparently being Von Neumann is sufficient for your upbringing not to matter, hence why I replied.

There are no shortages of people in these threads who genuinely believe that Neumann was supremely intelligent, beyond the conception of regular people. I'm sure you'll find them. It's not even unique to Neumann.
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I am in Tech and following HN since 2008.

Seen very talented people on HN and quality of comments is really good.

I like this thread and good to see people from different industries and verticals. Going to bookmark this URL :-)
Well I've seen dormant accounts suddenly spring to life with an insightful comment or two about my own comments. Some of the 7 years old or more, suddenly coming to life.
I would imagine it's sequential: check exact match hash, if it fails check uppercase-initial-hash, etc.
There are labour shortages across the UK because people are still being told to self-isolate if they have contact with someone who is COVID+

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isol...

Poles are returning back home quicker than than expected post-Brexit because Poland doesn't have a vaccine mandate and was quicker to return to post-virus normal.

Part of the solution to fixing this is abandoning all COVID measures (including masks) and treating the virus just like any other seasonal illness - just as has been done by Norway, Denmark, Sweden etc. recently. People will be more comfortable moving to the UK, and working.
It reminds me of the issue of whether game cheats are legal or not. Activision is losing a lot of money because cheats are ruining the game for everyone.
Here, the only "victim" is Facebook itself. And it's not cheating as much as automating a manual process.
My opinion is that Facebook overstepped here. A net negative move with all the bad PR they got, of which they already have plenty. And the attentionthe plug-in got.
Jeebus, it's just meant to show that you could do a select in one go without having to do them one at a time cascading to the next one if no match. I don't know what you need to select, that's up to the reader. That's the point of psuedo code. You saw select and made the connection to "it's a database query". Boom. point made. Again, I understand the concept of user provided pass and a hash with a salt. If you can't really put 2+2 together to see that you're taking the 3 different options then I'm sorry for you.
I wasn't talking about the economy. Trump's presidency was a trainwreck, not only causing violence, social unrest, and loss of international standing, but also coming perilously close to governmental overthrow and civil war. All of this was foreseen well before he took office. But the system is beholden to the electorate, and the electorate is easily influenced by the powerful and unscrupulous.
I recently had to create accounts for work benefits at TWO different sites that had user name complexity requirements, and actually rated the strength of my user name! That's something I had never seen before, and it seems pretty misguided.

The worst of these also had a 20 character password limit (at least it wasn't 8!), along with several of these nonsense requirements that limit repeated characters. I couldn't manage to generate a password they would accept. Eventually I realized that not only did they allow only certain specific special characters, but their password length validation was wrong and would only accept 19 characters because they were testing for <= 20.
Tyler Cowen has separately observed that progress has stagnated and nukes have been stuck with 1950s era designs, without connecting the dots.

Explain: Why don't we have liquid sodium, thorium, or traveling wave reactors? Why don't we refine like the French? Why did we stop experimenting?

Often, tree huggers are blamed for nuke's decline.

Also true: nukes got stuck in amber. Suffered from their own goals. Early success locked in those early choices.

Enviros didn't shut down my state's nuclear power plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNP-3_and_WNP-5

Enviros didn't renege on cleaning up Hanford Nuclear Reservation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

Something else happened. Something financial, bureaucratic, political, psychological, or whatever.

Both public capitalism (USSR) and hybrid private capitalism (USA) favored massive top-down initiatives. Too big to fail.

We should acknowledge this tendency towards winner-takes-all, in all systems, and then adapt.

One great recent contrasting example is NASA & SpaceX.

Musk makes great points about SpaceX's progress: NASA had plenty of smart people and could have done a lot more. However, NASA stopped innovating because they weren't allowed to fail. So these massive projects, like the Space Shuttle, have to succeed, no matter the cost, and are not allowed to revisit bygone choices and assumptions, not allowed to adopt state of the art.

Another great example is Operation Warp Speed wrt vaccines.

One critical success factor was the US Govt's portfolio strategy of placing multiple bets, increasing the likelihood of success. (Leveraging the math of NPV, as detailed in the book Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.) Versus other nations placed single big bets. With very mixed outcomes, sadly.

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Also true: Easy wins are easily won.

Per Wright's Law, innovation and productivity progress may be proportional to investment.

But scholarship, our understanding of the world, seems to be punctuated equilibrium. Theories, ideas, metaphors, insights. This progress seems cyclic. Maybe because of Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions, aka "science progresses one funeral at time".

Sometimes I wonder if we would have had feasible solar power sooner if Reagan had continued Carter's energy self-reliance efforts. (I don't even know how to factor in obstruction, like Big Oil lobbying against alteratives.)

Surely, the economics of solar panels would have slowly improved. But it seems the path towards today's boom relied on advances in material science. Maybe there were other paths we could have explored, I dunno.

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I'm weirdly optimistic about our current times. Because of maths. Society is on the cusp of knowingly adopting risk management strategies. But unlike FDR's (necessary) New Deal strategy of trying everything, we have better tools for right sizing our bets.

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Thanks for reading this far. I really don't know how to talk about this stuff, am struggling to gather and articulate my thoughts.
Which is why it would be entirely reasonable for someone who is granted stock as part of compensation to do a full diligence on the company before accepting the terms. Companies deliberately offer options knowing most people simply won't and thats how they get away with it.
> which is one of many coronaviruses.

There's only like 7 coronaviruses that have been discovered to infect a human. Three of which are SARS, MERS, and COVID19.

Its pretty novel, all else considered.
I'm not sure we should demand non-profit or government funded media, but I do like the idea of media outlets being legally required to disclose any conflicts of interest or funding sources which may bias content one way or the other.
Sounds like two distinctions. Not sure if either is legally relevant

1) browser extension (which I guess is kind of a client side JS modification?) vs decompilation
2) bug vs feature addition

My uninformed take is that Facebook's claim is weak to begin with, but that this judgment doesn't really influence anything
Another very important triple to Peirce is what he called the three normative sciences[1][2]: Logic, the science of what is true; ethics, the science of what is good; and aesthetic, the science of what is beautiful.

Coincidentally China has been using "真善美"[3] as a motto since at least 2014. I know very little about scholarship in China, does anyone know if Peirce is studied there more than he is in the west?

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40319516.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_the_sciences...

[3] Truth, Goodness and Beauty
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So far, “Turing’s Cathedral” by George Dyson is the best von Neumann biography I’ve found—though it’s not explicitly a biography of him, but of the development of the computer (and the Princeton IAS). It includes lots of other characters who played their parts, but von Neumann is clearly at the center.
Those are like the Louis Vuitton of air filters. I think most people can get by with a Winx air filter.
Unfortunately the answer is get on Leetcode and grind
same, why should i get punished for buying something... when pirates get a better product in the end?
> There's actually no point in time where the opinions of the actual proprietors of lunch counters mattered either way. The Jim Crow laws legally mandated segregation until the Civil Rights Act legally prohibited it.

I’m sorry, but what do you think provided the political impetus for the Civil Rights Act? It was years of concerted protesting and civil disobedience, one form of which was sit-ins at lunch counters.
Wait, running a huge deficit spending program in a booming economy boosts that economy even more?

Is that really considered "impressively effective" these days? I don't think so. It's bad governance.
There are cryptocurrencies where transaction fees (I'm assuming that's what you meant by 'costs') are actually very low, if not zero (see Nano).

The 'costs' of proof of work are indeed high though. The amount of energy consumed for one bitcoin transaction to happen is astounding. My point above is that there are numerous alternatives (which in my opinion are poised to topple bitcoin), which don't have these costs.

I disagree with 'no benefit to the species' (even bitcoin has many benefits). But the costs of bitcoin are also high, and the benefits can come without those costs.
A decision model for programming language ecosystem selection
That's pretty cool. Though, again, that use case is viable because of encryption.
Could well be. I heard abiut this on the generally outstanding American Mind podcast => https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZOuvrIyfnonkf5BomSyuj
Kvark's good, but he's still fallible. And I don't know what games he made, but I can tell you, others that had experience with shipping games/software, laughed his articles out loud.

> he was saying the restriction made no sense

So presented with reality of a complex, buggy drivers, his solution is - to ignore it? Wow imagine in UTF-8 people just said, yeah 8bit 0 are ok everywhere and caused hundred of billions of lines of code to be written to deal with null mid UTF8 stream.

> I don't actually care how hard WGSL is to write

Awfully dismissive. Well, ok, you won't have to write it but someone will. And those someone are going to curse whoever wrote that abomination of a spec.

A spec that:
- That doesn't respect backwards compatibility
- Looks like pure torture to write in
- Misunderstands some part like OpRem

I'm not very confident in it to be honest. Looks to me just another overly elaborate moat for browser implementors.
I lived directly across the street from one of the "Long Lines" towers on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, WA. [1]

It was actively maintained, with various antenna arrays being attached or removed frequently. The building below was packed full of gear and service vans were coming and going all the time.

I was sorely tempted to try and climb it over the various years I lived in Seattle, but decided it wasn't worth either the arrest or death by electrocution or ground impact!

1. https://www.google.com/maps/place/315+W+Galer+St,+Seattle,+W...
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I like Excalidraw too, but in my opinion OurBoard has a different focus.

- Excalidraw is superb if you want to draw something freestyle.

- Ourboard seems to focus more on creating boxes (notes) which you can group and connect. If I understand it correctly, you can even load Github issues into your board.

At the start of the pandemic, I searched for Whiteboards where I could draw things freestyle (installed MS Whiteboard), but over time I noticed, that I used MS Powerpoint most of the time, because it was so much better at handling boxes in collaborative environments. I think OurBoard could be even better at this job.
I don't have sources, but I believe that half the sales happen around the first few weeks.
It's funny that you seem to think since I want decentralized long range encrypted mesh nets, I must be an idiot that doesn't know what I'm talking about. Or is it simply because I disagree with you?
As I already said, I know nothing about Von Neumann's history. You'll have to fill me in before I can answer that question, since you didn't really say what happened.

My criticism had a source which clearly explained what he did and why it had a negative impact. You may want to do the same thing, or I think no one will be impressed with your claim that Neumann personally was the decisive factor in killing a bunch of people that would've been dead a century later anyway. (Just a little joke.)
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I haven't participated in academic philosophy for a very long time, so apologies if this isn't what you're looking for. On a New List of Categories[1] is his work that I'm most familiar with that I imagine might be considered phenomenology. Have a look and if you like please let me know if it's along the lines you're looking for or not and if you have the time, why.

Edit: Some of the language is archaic, so as someone who is merely curious and of a pragmatic bent, I had to use care reading it. For example it was the first time I ever saw the word "prescision," which means the withdrawal of attention.

[1] https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/library/bycsp/newlist/nl...
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Here is a site in downtown Portland OR: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5230331,-122.6802471,3a,75y,...
“Hello?
Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mister Floyd

Will you accept the charges from United States?”

I always wondered what those beeping tones were in the recording at the end of that song (“Young Lust”). I guess I’m not old enough :)
They might do the same stupid thing Gmail does, and ignore certain characters. My Gmail is "first.m.last@gmail.com", but I constantly get mail from idiots who don't know their own email address, and use my "firstmlast@gmail.com" to sign up for things. This problem would go away entirely if Gmail didn't do this. Facebook might do similar things to make it "easier" to login, even though there are security implications.
Sadly, my wife passed and I shared the news with the bees. It was a beautiful morning in Tucson, AZ. The bees are still hard at work doing what bees do!
Miro has an interesting learning curve (at least for me). I absolutely hated it for the first couple dozen times I used it.

Then, there was one meeting where it was particularly effective in running a “sticky note” exercise and my opinion on it flipped that day from around -7 to +3 [on a -10 to +10 scale]. It’s grown slightly on me since then as well; I might be a +5 on it right now.
None of the animations show a successful parking manoeuvre, because the code is unable, after 40 generations, to produce a car that actually successfully parks itself. How long does it take to go through 40, 80, 120 generations?
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The US Gov is effectively Google Facebook and they will shut you down or shadowban you under some pretense. As well as the politically protected duopoly Visa, Mastercard refusing payment processing. If Cloudflare even allows your site to stay up. You survive that, you also have to dodge secret police assassins and top politicians calling for your murder as with Assange and Wikileaks.

But yes aside from that you are totally free to start your own media.
In response to a post about the AT&T Long Lines network, saying something "similar" happened in the military seems disingenuous because they were absolutely partnered on the same project. To imply something is "similar" typically implies that it is separate to some degree - that's not the case with AT&T and the US military in regards to the Long Lines Network.
Wonder why I cannot remember playing anything... Guess many more people will fall in nostalgia than those that ran a legal copy. Probably it would not have been so popular if there hadn't been a price tag on it.
The people that pirate games are not the one that would have bought it day one. It's always the same wrong reasoning about piracy, they think that if one person pirates the game the same person would have gone and bought it. It's not, someone that wants to play the game but not pay for it doesn't care about waiting a month (but sometime even just a couple of days) to find the crack online.

DRM was proved to not work, and only impact on people that buy the media with restrictions such as reduced performance, making the game size bigger, requiring an internet connection even for playing offline, having to activate again the game when they change hardware or reinstall the operating system, have even DRM that are basically malware and reduce the stability of the whole operating system and reduce its performance by installing some low level components that are active even when you are not playing the game, and so on.

In my opinion if games are all DRM-free people would still buy them, game studios would still make money, and users will be more happy (and possibly buy more games).
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