skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! I was confused by the ℎ∼𝑈[−1/2,1/2], thinking that it meant either that they both have a set of random numbers (in which case, how does the receiver know which one of them the sender used?) or that they both had the same single random number in that range (in which case it looks like it's basically the same as the randomised rounding case).

Your explanation that they are both going through the same list at the same rate clarifies that. They have n random numbers and are both using the same one for each transmission/receipt event.

I guess that in practice, synchronising that would be a pain. Either they sync on packets sent/received, which means that one dropped packet messes everything up, or they sync on time, in which case there's clock skew to worry about. Or they could have sync information in the data sent ("I'm using the 1234th item in the shared randomness"), which makes a bit of a nonsense of the whole "one bit" thing.

Am I missing something there?
> Could you explain what kind of projects nowadays use C++? I'm not up to date at all anymore. Used a lot of C++ until about 2010 (for simulations and Windows programming).

All browsers you use are written in C++ (Firefox, Chrome...). Node.js is written in C++.

We live in that bizarre world, where on one side we have C, an antiquated and simplistic language and on the other C++ a monster of complexity that provides also basic modern stuff C will never have.

Rust has complexity of its own but it's more like a "philosophical" complexity rather than syntactic. A lot of C and C++ developers just don't like how Rust works.
Even then, they will end up not firing the employee then and there, and instead find an excuse to fire them a couple of months later.
If you're actually in good faith confused on the downvotes I think it's because people are so sick of hearing and reading people shilling their pet "blockchain for X" company/idea/coin
What backdoors? Didn't the UK audit telecoms and networking equipment and say that they have shoddy security in some places ( like having telnet) but aren't worse than the shoddy security in "good" vendors like Cisco and Juniper.
As far as I know this is calculated into climate change models.

So I'm curious based on what study you assume plants will flourish unlimited to compensate all additional CO2.

The IPCC report analysis increase risks with more CO2. Shouldn't the risk go down if plants would just compensate it?

And apparently the Amazonas as a whole org is now no longer consuming CO2 and is a net negative.
Amazon Basics products are catching fire (2020)
It's unprofessional to stay there if they don't listen to your expertise.
If you think the last election was above board I have a bridge to sell you.
I think I'm going to take the anti-HN approach here and say this will succeed.

Video games are really popular, but they are not approachable for many people.

Digital social is really popular, but the form factor (scrolling feeds) is getting old.

Put these together and there's an opportunity for a totally new approach, throw in a multibillion dollar company throwing its weight behind it, it seems almost like a guarantee it will be awesome.
Doesn't matter if no one is held accountable. We don't have a "legal" problem in the US. We have an accountability problem, particularly amongst the "elites".
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This.

This feels to me like Elon Musk maintaining his 'genius' profile by doing a brain implant presentation 'thing' that'll go nowhere but keeps people talking and believing.

The American way of flashy presentations over substance does tend to catch up however, so we will see.

In the scheme of things, Facebook's enemy is facebook itself. They are by far the biggest platform with real identities and all the tools needed to make it a pleasant and compelling experience. They just don't know how to make it go 'moar money' every quarter and thus far, they've steadily ruined their own product to appease the stock market.

At some point, you just have to say 'we're not growing anymore, this product is great, everyone who wanted to use it is already using it and we're done trying to squeeze our customers'. Now whether or not the ego of the folks running these sorts of places can handle it is another matter.
One of the things I have never seen, is an original source that details the type of attack that was done on the African National Congress HQ in Ethiopia. The only original source I have ever seen is a short piece from (of course) Le Monde. I have never seen a CVE, much less writeup of the attack.

We hear that the device was sending uploads to China in the middle of the night. But what type of uploads? And was it firmware based, or OS based? That whole Hussein(-Addis affair just seems very suspect to me.
That’s why – despite being a free software advocate – I currently run Windows for all critical software, as on Windows I can scale content without re-scaling windows. (Qt and Android support it as well, but Gnome and macOS don’t).
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There's nothing intrinsically wrong with say ZK, it's very powerful, but my point is that you should avoid these systems if you can. Distributed concensus is not an easy problem, it's very error prone, and if you do this more than you absolutely have to you're doing it wrong.
This is not a great investment. It's pays it's base rate (0.0%) plus inflation (7.12%). The rate is based on inflation and is reset every 6 months, and I'm assuming the base rate of (0.0%) doesn't change. It may make sense for some people who are risk-averse and already have savings in a bank account that is getting demolished by low rates and high inflation.
The short answer is that the University of Florida, and American Universities in general, are not accountable to YOU OR ME, but rather a handful of bureaucrats in the federal government, and in this case specifically the NIH, which air drops the most cash on the institution.

Funding for NIH comes primarily from annual Labor, HHS, and Education (LHHS) Appropriations Acts, with an additional smaller amount for the Superfund Research Program from the Interior/Environment Appropriations Act.6 Those two bills provide NIH discretionary budget authority.

The NIH then presumably has the US Federal Reserve electronically wire it a few billion $ from an internal account they electronically added a few zeros to beforehand.

> UF received about $602 million in research funding from the federal government, including a record $250 million from the National Institutes of Health, the university’s largest research funding source.

https://news.ufl.edu/2021/08/research-awards-/
I examined closely and found both are exactly the same, a perfectly valid Latin script run and equivalent to the expression in escape notation "\N{U+74}\N{U+68}\N{U+69}\N{U+73}\N{U+3A}".

> perl -C -E'print "\N{U+74}\N{U+68}\N{U+69}\N{U+73}\N{U+3A}"' | hex
0000 74 68 69 73 3a this:

HN software likely ate the relevant details you wanted to show, can you please try again and use a notation that survives the HN filter?
I think you missed the '?' at the end of the verse ...
Fine, but from their blog post they pretty well did describe the root cause. I don't expect them to post code line fixes in a public blog post.
The fact that a small proportion of the atmosphere causes the greenhouse effect makes it more likely that the amount of CO2 we are adding is affecting the planet. It's easier to make a significant change in a smaller quantity.

If you have doubts about the scientific understanding of the greenhouse effect, study up on that. But continually bringing up that 0.04% makes it sound like you are clinging to that fact as a "gotcha" and avoiding learning anything more.
Personal note: My sister (now 26 yo) was diagnosed with psychosis about 6 years ago and I attribute it to her extensive use of social media. I can’t prove it but I’m sure that social media either created or triggered her psychosis. Today she’s still on drugs.

I would appreciate companies like fb to work more on the effects of social media on society and people’s psychology rather than creating fake worlds so that people get hooked more on it. But of course corporates only care about profit. Heck, I would still appreciate them if they tried to create a competitor to spacex or blue origin. Of course they are also commercial organizations but least there’s some side effect of space exploration that would benefit humankind in the future. But metaverse looks like just another social media platform packaged differently. I don’t see it helping humanity. And fb at this size should do more to help society rather than trying to plug everyone to matrix.
> So they are actually fully within their rights to do this, and really no one should be surprised.

They have the power, nobody should be surprised that they flex it. Maybe. Do you feel that it's always ethical to perform every action that is within your legal rights? Is the legal system devoid of examples, where an act was legal until it was exercised in excess, and found to be unethical? "Surprised" doesn't describe my response to this abuse of power. That would be "outrage".
From what I'm hearing the problem is you. at least to my understanding, because you sound like me(!) when you say "I have a habit of dropping people the moment things aren't going well." as well as "I feel we do complement each other well" and also there's the part time part.

of course I'm in no position to judge based on this short post, but I want to suggest for you to take it as a learning experience, to grind your teeth when needed but keep pushing forward, I know what it's like to feel like "you know better" (technically or otherwise) but instead of taking it to heart, think of yourself as a teacher and become a mentor. learn to overcome communication issues and you will earn greatly in return.

that's what I'm trying to work on. this old way of thinking has been nothing but massive setbacks for me.
Can you elaborate on this? That sounds insane.
> So they are actually fully within their rights to do this, and really no one should be surprised.

If it's a public institution the 1st amendment applies. Public institutions should not be applying any limits to employee speech.
You must know you're advancing a recent idea about Hegel? I believe your viewpoint has about fifty years of age to it, and few observers made these claims prior. Now, as popular as this 'recovery' of hegel has been- it has been strongly argued against with very manifest arguments from the major hegelian works. I guess it could be that people misinterpreted hegel for a century and then we managed to figure him out correctly in the post war.... but what I am convinced actually happened is that Hegel was so popular and influential that after his dialectical methods became seen as silly, in order to preserve the myriad fields that had been founded by their use , a hasty revision was developed so that we didn't have to throw away all his ideas had spawned.
The mortgage is in Belgium. Friends have even lower fixed rates. Some others have negative interest rates on their adjustable ones. Their bank literally pays them.
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CPI is 5% not inflation. If you believe the average American's monthly expenses are only up 5% this year I've got some bridges to sell you
Is it that complicated?

std::thread t([](){
std::cout << "thread function\n";
});
t.join();

With sane ground rules threading is not so hard. Don't try to use subtle atomics. Do use a mutex to protect all shared state. Do use scoped locks. Do use thread safety annotations.
Do you know if other conifers have edible & tasty seeds in the cones, or is it only pines?
That's really a description of a manager, such as the one who wrote the article.
> But the PM doesn't understand why you're changing the code you made

If that is the case, the PM does not understand red-green-refactor, always-refactoring, or even just plain refactoring. I'd say the PM doesn't even understand the idea of technical debt, in that case.

The problem is certainly the PM's disconnect to how to keep a codebase (and their team) sane in the most common programming practices. And not the refactoring itself.
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Some interesting charts on this page. The 7.12% rate consists of a 0.00% fixed rate and a 3.56% inflation rate.

The formula is:
Composite rate = [fixed rate + (2 x semiannual inflation rate) + (fixed rate x semiannual inflation rate)]

7.12% = [0.0000 + (2 x 0.0356) + (0.0000 x 0.0356)]

This rate is only valid until the inflation rate gets re-adjusted after 6 months. There is an interesting chart showing what the fixed rates and inflation rates have been throughout the history of this bond.

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2) United States resident.
3) Civilian employee of the United States, no matter where you live.

Parents can buy these bonds for their children, so a family of four could invest $40k earning 7.12% for at least 6 months. Eligibility requirements are here: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
I don't think the financial system of the 70s is the same financial system of the 2000s. We were were also pouring a lot of resources into countering the 'second world' including the Vietnam war, missile defence, etc. add to that the 'oil shock.'

As far as I can recall, the current system is 'calibrated' for 2-3% annual growth. 5-8% is entering the banana republic inflation zone. You, know, where they'd have to 'devaluate' their currencies to make up the difference?
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I have already acknowledged that but additionally requested on your side for such evidence to support your claim even if assumptions are involved. It still requires sources regardless, otherwise it is baseless.

Or is it that you don't have any evidence to your own assumptions and on top of the second claim I mentioned?
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They're not going to wonder if it's professional to lay you off if their finances turn shitty.

If you've got the means to leave and do a job search again, I think you absolutely should.
That site is a news aggregator, original link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/01/twitter-trolls-f...

Well... now what?
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Actually, Second Life was, in its time, quite successful. I honestly don't see the form factor, or VR, making a comeback though. If I was going to back anything (which I am not) it would be AR.
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