skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of people who don't trust the banking systems. If you've bounced checks in the past, you may also be blacklisted from them entirely. Quite a few Americans rely on check cashing places because they don't have an account.

(edit: 5.4% of Americans don't have a bank. https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html)

A person shouldn't be subject to seizure of their savings just because they're a little different than most in the handling of their finances.

I might be OK with the warrant you describe, but that's not what this was.
As you may already know, integrations are the heart and soul for products like this. I'm assuming you're already being bombarded by potential/current users asking "when will you have integration X?".

What is your strategy to scale out & maintain integrations? Speaking from experience, it's not something that is easy to scale out unless you have a dedicated team whose job is to build them out, or you have some third-party provider like CData providing OOTB connectors for your product.

(On a side note, this looks fantastic. Are you hiring any product folks per chance? I have significant experience tackling this same problem).
The problem was that we grew up in a time when the dreams died and we were having to deal with the tailwind of the post war growth boom. The protest movements of the 60's and 70's delivered nothing, the state-ist, interventionist keynesian economics produced low growth, high inflation, high interest rates, high unemployement. The right wingers Thatcher and Reagan, cleaned up the mess. Making money was the only truth to us, education and career were all important. The university protestors that preceeded us did nothing achieved nothing, and sold out anyway. Ultimately ideology is a pile of shit, and we dont want to waste our time with them. Technology and money were our gods. Of the two I fear millenials more, they grew up in a stable world without high inflation and economic stagnation, they want to invite the socialist tiger into their house but they dont know what the consequences will be. Their attitude to freedom is unnerving. They're dragging the world back into the age of the victorians.
How and why we built a custom gradient boosted-tree package
It’s obvious you aren’t arguing in good faith.
Ask HN: As a new SaaS business, how do you find your first 10 paying clients?
* you don't have SOC2 certification;
* actually you don't have any security certification
* you can hardly pass the financial or IT security questionnaires with big ticket companies
* you have two employees.

How do you get your 10 paying clients?

Greateful for your thoughts.
You want to have XXH128 for that right? 128 bit, portable, virtually impossible to collide, and only slightly slower than XXH3 while still way faster than most options.
You better not use a VCS that’s also a common insult then.
XXHash author last updated the following page on Aug 10 of this year:

https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/wiki/Performance-comparis...
And German-language content can only be directed at German citizens or residents? There are five other countries which have German as their official language, and many more where German is spoken. It's ridiculous that the court would consider this sufficient to grant them jurisdiction.

> The website was accessible from Germany

That's something Germany could control much more easily on its own by putting firewalls at their borders. There is no reason for the site to go out of its way to block access from Germany, even assuming that they could do so reliably, which they can't.

> The explicitly offered worldwide service ("anyone anywhere")

Just like most web sites are available to "anyone anywhere". That's how the Internet is meant to work.

> There was a disclaimer directed at people not located in the US

Which is a very large group of people, most of whom are not in or from Germany. They're seriously complaining that the site reminded people that they need to take their own local laws into account before importing content from elsewhere?
Engineering watching QA test their product
How do you explain Bill Gates completely missing the Web in the late 90's?

How do you explain Intel completely missing mobile?

Without 80's and 90s Ballmer, Microsoft would be a totally different thing and it's very possible there would not be a Microsoft today. And I don't care for any of these assholes, but he was very important for Microsoft and shaped the industry, like it or not.
We need better mental health in our way of living. Failure costs are too high, we aren't close enough to the earth, and each other.

Trying to throw a bunch of psychologists at the problem is not going to solve a systemic problem. I went to a university with a large mental health services facility, and they were constantly overloaded and generally not able to solve the problems of the distressed students.
"rce" is not a syllable here, so it's not that relevant. It's Wor + cester, and cester is always pronounced ster. So it's actually not very surprising.
Plenty of asset classes exist with fundamental risks.

The risk of investing in stocks is always that the underlying companies could have their business ruined overnight for any reason. The risk of swaps is always that the counterparty could go bust and be unable to pay you even if your bet pays off (see Lehman Brothers). The risk of leveraged futures positions is you can get liquidated on fat finger trades or flash crashes. The risk of structured credit products like CLOs or mortgage backed securities is that the pool is fraudulent. The risk of many quant strategies is that the correlations go to one and your capital gets wiped out as your hedges fail to protect you.

Do any of these risks mean those asset classes are doomed? No, all of the above asset classes are bigger than ever. Markets can and do live with disastrous risk looming over their heads all the time. Unless your name is Nassim Taleb, the reality is that you mitigate the risks you can, model out the risks that you cannot, then price the asset accordingly. The foundation of modern finance is “we don’t have to live in mortal fear of risk if we’re smart about it”

If inherent risk was an insurmountable barrier to the existence of a financial product, then I guarantee you the financial system would just be the old-timely community bankers like in It’s a Wonderful Life.
Cryptographic hashes mostly look at collisions for the whole output (or precisely truncated outputs). There can still be patterns or clumping in short ranges of the output bits for certain input families, as long as the full outputs differ.

For example, the identity function is extremely resistant to collisions. However, it doesn't mix the input bits, so it's not a great hash function.
The subjective element to legal interpretation is why our legal system is not purely algorithmic.

If it was, people will argue malicious compliance like you are, but intent has to be considered, both the intent of the developer and the intent of the exploiter (or loaner, is maybe a less loaded term for them)

“Someone read the rules carefully, then borrowed capital to move the rules in their favor”, you could say the same thing about an integer overflow, both are attacks of excess, with intent for massive personal gain, outside the intended use case of the system
So could we not just operate them on water? Many large cities are on water and already have ugly ports. Just build nuclear reactors in ships, park in port and connect to grid. Have coast guard/navy secure them.
Even if this is true, what in the world is the point of crypto platforms if courts need to step in and decide intent whenever someone doesn't like the outcome of a transaction?
> (II) You're establishing GP's point, which is that a special law was needed for extradition in this case.

I beg to differ. A law was needed to establish jurisdiction and a crime just like a law is required for every such case. If you commit a similar crime on Australian soil, it's only illegal because a law exists to make it so (rightly).

> Can you provide reference to the claim that (5) is squarely a (federal) crime in the US?

My point is that every "right" in the US constitution is not absolute or without exceptions. Every single one. The above is a thought experiment to prove that. Put another way: the First Amendment is not a blanket defense. In procuring a story that you publish, you will reach a limit on your actions beyond which you've committed a crime and the First Amendment won't shield you from that.

Like... that's just obvious.

So what particular circumstances lead to a journalist committing a crime is irrelevant. The point is that there is a line, not what the particular line is.
People need to know that if you have Post SSRI sexual dysfunction, your body usually learns to work around it.

Went I started SSRI's I didn't orgasm for 3 months, but learned how again. Also if you tell your doctor about the sexual dysfunction they will prescribe you Viagra, which I did not need but absolutely love using and overall sex + Viagra is way more fun than before I started SSRI's.
Can you explain how it is not more simple than running open source tooling and copy pasting the results? I am yet to see an 'audit report' that is more than just this. Its checkbox compliance. Are you paying six figures for this?

I agree that unaudited is worse. But what are you actually paying for with these clowns?
Dumb Zuck.
For the Ethereum attack that's similar to the CREAM attack, are you referring to the DAO attack, or something else? Can you please share some links on that incident?
This type of activity has been happening since the 90s and it's not limited to namecheap.
You need to purchase a domain if you check its availability.
Communication issues are inherently a two way street. Unfortunately for workers in Bangalore, Bulgaria, etc the vast majority of my customers are in the US, UK, or Canada.
Actually, if you were familiar with how these things work, the attack was pretty carefully worked out. That said, since all this code was copycat crap by folks who didn't really understand it - not surprised. In other words, the code really was fine - the folks running the pool were just clueless in terms of what they let trade (ie, not suited to code).
Zoning and building codes set forth by a municipality do not necessarily have to be followed by the state government (presuming the UC system counts as part of the state government).
There is no expectation of privacy in public. Public buildings (and increasingly, outdoor spaces) are littered with security cameras. That footage is subject to FOIA disclosure.

If you are in public, you appear in public. Anyone who sees you can tell anyone else that they saw you, and they are a lot less reliable than a camera recording, for now. Changing this would require amending the first amendment’s freedom of the press clause.
Yeah, just like the thousand other times. These kinds of attacks rely on contract state and unbalance of tokens. They are quite difficult to detect statically.
The problem with the Station wasn't the lack of egress, it was the lack of identified egress, a choke point at the main entrance which triggered a crowd collapse, pyrotecnics and combustible foam.
Sigh. I thought this would be about hair styles.
So... How was this not discovered 18 months ago?

There are plenty of people taking fluvoxamine already, which acts as a natural experiment. After a few thousand hospitalizations, this effect size would have been obvious (ie. March 2020). At that point, a double-blind study could have been run, which (if done in a city with many infections) could have given results within weeks.

What bit of health research dropped the ball on this?
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-todays-fastest-growin...

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-...
They didn't even try to hide the fact that they're stuck in the 90s.
MeowHash page last updated 2018.

smhasher page last updated several days ago.
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Oh? The overwhelming majority of people don't log into Apple accounts when setting up their ipads?

Do better.
Not being banned is nice, but keeping your accounts separate does nothing to prevent the data points you mentioned being linked, especially within the Meta ecosystem. Even outside of the ecosystem, there are billion dollar companies that are very very good at tying together all your 'unrelated' accounts/data points and selling these packages to the highest bidder. It's prudent to assume that big brother and anyone else who cared enough to look could link said activity to you.
If you're going to argue this, then there's no purpose on contracts or ETH
Yeah, I feel like most folks here are wildly out of touch with what it's like to be a college student, including the architect. I, and just about everyone else from my college, would trade just about every creature comfort for a private room to sleep. In fact my college had suites like these and they were fought over tooth-and-nail in the room draw process.

I think one of the most bizarre things we accept in life is college kids being forced into doubles and triples. College "kids" are adults, not little kids in camp.

Plus, even with my window in my single suite room, my sleep cycle was so messed up half the time due to the occasional all-nighter that having no window might have actually been easier for me to deal with.
Happy to answer any questions or take requests for future issues, HN. (This is the second issue of my new weekly newsletter.)

Edit to add: Incidentally, while I’m always thrilled when my stuff ends up on the front page, I’m also a member of this community and know that there’s a limited tolerance for the same sites ending up on here on a weekly basis. In previous years I spaced out releasing essays to not annoy y’all, but I can’t do that with a weekly newsletter, so if folks can be selective in submitting these here I’d appreciate it.
Eccentric Orbits is a really great book about their history, especially the near de-orbit with lots of fun tidbits about their fundraising and US gov response.

https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Iridium-John-Bloom/d...
First, you take an arbitrary probability number that depends on man-made models that are likely much more wrong than right. We've had a lot of hundred- or thousand-year events in the last two decades.

The models depend on predicting an uncertain future, and for this kind of stuff using past data has little meaning. It's not lottery numbers where probability really gives you some hard insights. We also have a lot more people, climate change and with it likely more movement from affected areas and a lot of other stuff going on that makes it hard to use data older than this century to gain insights into what will be.

Next, you interpret said probability as nicely equally distributed over time. I don't know what to say to such an interpretation.

Also, a pandemic is a kind of event that even if it indeed only appears rarely (which we hope but don't know) each time has a huge impact.
The mind may not work anything like the electronic computers we're familiar with (in particular, the hardware vs software distinction may not be useful for understanding the mind, which is implemented in "wetware" that's both and neither), but that doesn't mean that what it does isn't some form of computation. Indeed, information processing === computation, and there can be little doubt that what the mind does is process information.
I think that history is always written by the winners is often quite wrong. While sometimes on culture replaces another. More often its not about that, its not like the whole literate culture simply goes away.

Often we have text from both side. The Romans lost, and yet their text were preserved in the West. We know about the mongols from christian and muslin scholars.

There are tons of example. Fallen empires leaving behind tablets and so on.
You’re right. It was a useless comment. My bad.
Global IQ: 1950-2050
As I said: whatever I say, you're gonna Gish-gallop a bunch of Internet-sourced nonsense. The Internet can feed you unsourced paranoid accusations faster than I can refute them.

The only real question is from what place you sourced your accusation of groupthink. That's the real irony.
> If you say the words “financial innovation” many people incorrectly believe it is largely negative (or at least risk-taking) or not happening. This is incorrect. The world is actually getting better, within our own lifetimes.

I think what may be going on is that "financial innovation" is being used to refer to different things. I think when people say "financial innovation" is negative, they're referring to "high finance"/Wall Street type stuff like CDOs, but this article mostly talks about retail bank accounts.
> I can root it and install alternative store

Well if you can root an Oculus you can do whatever you want there as well. That's the whole point of... root.
Yep. Combined with vaccines we should be able to save more people!
I’m a total cryptocurrency noob. Could you elaborate a bit further on what an oracle is in this context? I’m familiar with the term oracle in crypto for things such as a padding oracle, but I feel that what you’re referring to is a different kind of oracle.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Meow Hash: A high-speed non-cryptographic hash function - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18262627 - Oct 2018 (68 comments)

Also:

Cryptanalysis of Meow Hash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27978878 - July 2021 (9 comments)
Put it into a metal chest and keep it around for after the solar flare hits and/or when retro-computing has grown a bit.
If you want to talk about "choice", this is not the hill that matters. So many colleges force their students to live on campus, and then squeeze them into forced doubles or even triples in conditions far worse than what's being built here.
> No, the design was so complex that its flaws were well hidden, and therefore not intended.

That’s no less true for a Chrome sandbox escape.

In fact, this Ethereum loan platform’s behavior is encoded in program source codes, just like Chrome. One expects that some exploitable issues in the Chromium code arise not from syntactical but conceptual errors. The code could match a mistaken programmer intent, and this often happens.
I'm a parent. I've had 2 employers in the last 7 years, switching in June of this year.

When covid struck initially, I kept my kid home with me. My job, aside from a daily standup and a weekly meeting, could be done while juggling my child. I worked really odd hours, bc I could. Early AM, later at night. But I got to protect my kid and my family from a disease I didn't know much about, for 15 months.

My new job disallows me to juggle him but it's still WFH. He started school anyways.

I exercise more. I meditate more. Go outside more - get little chores done, cut the grass on my lunch break rather than cutting in on family time.

The lack of a 45-115 min commute each way has been a lifesaver. Going to the doctor is faster and less time consuming bc my docs are near my home and not near my work. I can jog in the morning and still be to work "on time" rather than having to get up earlier and trade exercise for sleep.

And what's more.. When I do break, I get to see my wife. Or talk to my parents on the phone. At lunch I can catch up on a TV show, a podcast, a YouTube vid, that I'm interested in but my family might not be.

It affords me more ability to access my personal computer for things I might not do on a company machine.

I can do training videos and obligatory but time pointless and wasting meetings that never ask for my participation while in my "poor man's sauna" (hot bath + space heater in the room) or on a exercise bike or while walking around the block.

I miss being around people I like at work.

But alas.. I don't like anyone at my new job even a little
> What are some of the major decisions that Nadella

I think it's not so much major decisions that Nadella did right (although he did, with cloud, open source etc.), but small decisions, day in day out for years, to transform the absolute behemoth that Microsoft was into what it is today. Both technologically and culturally.
Very few companies of that size have been able to successfully steer their ship in a new direction while not suffering immensly in the process.
Make it look like a hubble-twist-lock that a 120VAC standard 15A recepticle accepts. No one would suspect. Scuff it up and make it dirty. Bingo.
I was only doing short < 1024 byte strings in L1 (like URI lengths-ish). I'm well aware no memory system on typical HW can deliver that (EDIT: "at large space scale"). The article itself mentions a similar calculation (but at their slower scale) which is why I included it.

And yes, warm up absolutely matters. My numbers are for the best case path which is among the only easy things to even define, IMO. Worst and average are sooooo much harder/assumption-riddled. Then you argue a lot about said assumptions.

I do the minimum times of many runs in an inner loop and the regression on those min-time results. So, the min-loops will warm up everything like branch predictors, etc. I'd suspect the regression model would hold up to usable L1 cache (e.g. 30 KiB or so). Beyond that, it's mostly just measuring the memory system not the hash function..and I'm not sure what the point of that is. Separation of concerns would suggest L1 perf is most relevant to the "hash calculation part". (IMO, many benchmarks confuse this.)

And, yeah..modern memory systems suck. Simple back of the envelope would suggest some DIMM-oriented workload would be waiting on the DIMMs like 95% of the time, usually much higher on Xeons with their low single core BW (maybe 98%!). The Meow article sort of alludes to that as well with less detail. Single core Xeon BW is always a huge disappointment. Forces you to go (very) parallel just to saturate DIMMs (EDIT: which in turn cannot saturate even a single L1!).

BTW, it sounds like you know all of this (and maybe more) and I don't mean to suggest otherwise, but I thought some numbers/details might assist other passersby.

{ EDIT: Also, the stderr on that slope is ~13%. So, it's possible 135 is really 128 (1.05x lower), the 2 cache line/cycle load limit or something like that. This doesn't mean the 640 GB/s rate number is wrong - it just underscores how mismatched memory systems are at their various scales. }

{ EDIT: and yes, 128/16 = 8x faster than meow, not 2x. Oops. }
I didn't mean strange as "unfitting", but strange as in "this is such an inside joke" from the front-lines of the Japanese tech industry. Admittedly, when I first heard the joke 10 years ago, (and only one more time since then), I didn't quite get it until a Japanese coworker clarified the Keyence sales culture for me. I've only heard confirmations of this since then, and now a decade later the international tech zeitgeist is aware too of their culture.
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