skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the general problem is NP-complete does not mean that it's difficult to solve all the possible inputs. Sometimes to get a long run time, you need to construct an evil example on purpose.

For example, if you have 1000 slots for numbers, make 3 of them with the last digit equal to 1, and the rest with the last digit equal to 0, and the expected sum a number where the last digit is 1. In this case, it's equivalent to asking that the algorithm choose exactly one of the slots with a number where the last digit is 1.

Now do something similar with the second to last digit. And now with the third to last...

You can select a lot of sets of 3 slots of the 1000 slots, and use this encoding to force the algorithm to choose exactly one in each one. The problem is that you need a lot of digits to use this encoding.

But you are selecting numbers with 4 bytes, so you have only like 10 digits. With a better encoding, you can get like 16 conditions.

How nasty can be an example with only number of 4 bytes? I'm not sure, but I think they are nos nasty enough. You should look for examples that are constructed on purpose to be difficult to solve. (I tried googling one, but I failed.)

> Some other interesting notes: - Goal=150: Set=(1...100), there are 19,378,091 subsets that sum to 150 (94 seconds to compute)

When the goal is small enough, there are some dynamic programing trics that are very fast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum_problem#Pseudo-poly... The problem is difficult to solve when the number is huge and the sum is also huge.
Definitely reeks of an inside job, if not an outright hack of the Instagram service.
https://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/read_princprog...

https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World
If you don't want to wait, you can pre-link a custom Python build with your own-built sqlite3:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28045550/452281
You can see any quantum event, such that is only described by a probability, as a fork. It produces two universes, in one if which the event has occurred, in another has not, otherwise identical.

Using this model, it is easy to imagine "parallel realities" which are very close to ours and thus amenable to fantasizing, but different enough to contain whatever makes the fantasies attractive.
Nothing, I guess. He might be found, he might not, or he might just be dead.
Could you please share it?
SpaceX Satellite Signals Used Like GPS to Pinpoint Location on Earth
In my area, OpenDoor was buying sight unseen. All they required was a 10 minute zoom call where you walk them through the house. Zillow actually sent out someone to do a home inspection (although a bit more cursory than what a typical buyer would pay for). This may have varied by market though.
I wish the game was something more productive like purchasing the rights to individual trees in the Amazon. I'd like to say "I own 100 trees in the Amazon rain forest and I'm not selling to anyone who wants to cut them down." But I could sell the rights if I needed the cash. At least I could feel like I wasn't wasting my time with fantasy investments.
You’re talking about using gigawatts of power, and detectors that weigh in at thousands of tons, in order to send a signal best measured in bits per decade. It’s an idiotic suggestion; fiber optics beat anything based on neutrinos hands–down. Authors who make their aliens use neutrino communications are idiots. But that’s ok, most authors are idiots, and most of them stopped taking physics in high school. Authors who take physics seriously are quite rare, even in the science fiction genre.

If you want a book written by someone who knows some real physics, read The Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan. He changed one simple law of physics, worked out the consequences for quantum mechanics and relativity, made up some plausible–enough biology, and wrote a series of books in the resulting universe. The characters in the book have to discover or teach each other those laws, so the book is actually a pretty decent way to learn something of the laws of our own universe too. He wrote a huge amount of supplementary material as well, going into all the details. Truly an astounding accomplishment.
Anecdotally, this occurs often in the game Escape from Tarkov. New game objects entering the world can cause client stutters. This was a larger problem during earlier builds of the game because it was more pronounced and the stutters could either be used offensively by degrading performance on enemies computers or it could just be used to gauge game state.

Also to note, Tarkov has several inherent design problems.
The API is essentially metal.
Would you advocate for the privatization of the entire justice system?
This happened to someone I know as well. The only reason they knew about it was some of us saw it and alerted her.

Really messed up stuff.
Org Roam (www.orgroam.com) add most of the Obsidian feature in Org mode
It’s a turnkey platform that’s ready to go for most verticals.

I helped implement a solution during the peak period of pandemic that ended up handling millions of transactions. Probably took 3 days from handshake to live.
> If the social media companies fails to do so then THEY will be liable for the defamation.

How do they collect if the company isn’t even inside Australia? What if it’s not a company at all and all identities are private (i.e. decentralized)? Or are they trying to make these kinds of services illegal?
Pretty disgusting behaviour. Reminds me of this high profile case: https://www.businessinsider.com/andres-iniesta-claims-instag...
Teachers & the educational system in general should give examples of why stuff needs to be learnt instead of being dictated to, because they have one of the largest influences on the future direction of a country's success. Teaching was a cop out, a cushy number for those who couldn't hack it in the real world and liked to take their failure out on pupils. Many teachers couldn't run a business the way they treated kids in the classroom so when they go on strike because they want more pay they are just demonstrating that bullying works, and hard work doesn't pay. Hypocrites!
Instagram is a dumpster fire.

I have a 3 letter instagram name and the amount of spam and attacks I get is insane... I get hundreds of password reset emails from instagram daily and constant DMs and follow requests from scammer and bot accounts.

I've tried contacting instagram about it several times but they never respond. Had to blackhole emails from security@mail.instagram.com to prevent my mail server filling up.
Cool, I use Typora for writing readme files and documentation.

It’s the best markdown editor I have found so far.
I don’t say it is communism rather it’s like communism in that both look good on paper and are disastrous in practice.
We use Hellosign at my employer for probably hundreds of thousands of docs per month. I'm neither recommending for or against them; just saying they're absolutely a viable option.
Whatever your browser shows, is shown from cache. So the picture should be in your cache, too.
I don't see any postmortems or any root causes on their incident history page. Just "problem resolved". Do they not make these public?
I think you're misunderstanding how the system works. The email or txt is just to send the link/code. In theory you could open the email and copy/paste the link to someone else and they could deposit it into their own account. You just click the link, it directs you to select your banking portal, you login like you would and accept the funds into your account. Works on web and apps. Canadian banks all use what is called the interac network, it's a real time interbanking network operated by a non-profit intermediary company funded by the banks, also has it's own consumer phone support etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac
I also wonder how they'll know. It's funny - almost like "if you cant tell it wasn't reasonable to ask in the first place."
Not specifically repair, but this channel has some great content on book care and book binding. https://www.youtube.com/c/DASBookbinding/featured
what they are really saying: we hzve realized we need to vet& pay IT like theyre cia agents becauze they vulnerable to all kinds of side channel attacks.
> The idea people seem to have is that the Fed will step in.

See. People can learn.

Cash reserves are only useful if things are allowed to fail. Then, the people with cash can buy the remnants and put the failed stuff to good use.

If, however, everyone who overextended themselves are always going to get bailed out, holding cash is for suckers--better to run up the credit just like everybody else.
That sounds dangerous. Rewrite it in Rust to make it memory safe, blazing fast, configurable, and minimal with only 1092 dependencies.

https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs
> eventually the people around the person realize they're all talk and no show.

That’s when they pull up stakes and move to the next company.
It's a good book at a certain stage in your career. Before that it's too easy to misconstrue it as absolutist (it isn't) or misunderstand the guidance (like DRY, which got a major rewrite in the 2nd edition to help with that). Too late in your career and it is all "obvious" (if you're a competent programmer).

On the other hand, as a mentor I found it useful to re-read it (or, read it through properly, I'd read large portions when I was younger but never all the way through). There's a problem of becoming too expert where you can't communicate with novices in the field anymore, at least not like they actually need you to communicate with them. There was benefit, for me, in re-reading it and nodding along and being reminded of the things I'd learned along the way, getting a name for them, and a discussion I could use as a basis for my mentoring.
Never let a good crisis go to waste!
How does one (A Nation State) - determine whom to trust in such:

Should any 'receiver' on whatever this network may be trust the telems comming from this?

If so, how/why?

If not, how/why?

---

What alt options does one have to the several GPS services?

SPECIFICALLY:

How easily can GPS Spoofing via Starlink occur?
Probably want to replace the link with https://docs.minaprotocol.com/en to avoid a redirect loop
You severely overestimate the technical ability of people and underestimate the general resistance for all things new. It's not that docusign is rocket science. But once you get various government departments and universities to use your thing, it's hard to move away. Their moat is their customer base.
I didn't know offhand before checking, but it seems that there are assemblers for Java bytecode:

"Some projects provide Java assemblers to enable writing Java bytecode by hand. Assembly code may be also generated by machine, for example by a compiler targeting a Java virtual machine. Notable Java assemblers include:

Jasmin, takes text descriptions for Java classes, written in a simple assembly-like syntax using Java virtual machine instruction set and generates a Java class file

Jamaica, a macro assembly language for the Java virtual machine. Java syntax is used for class or interface definition. Method bodies are specified using bytecode instructions.

Krakatau Bytecode Tools, currently contains three tools: a decompiler and disassembler for Java classfiles and an assembler to create classfiles.

Lilac, an assembler and disassembler for the Java virtual machine"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_bytecode
> wider roads

Surprisingly but not, at least compared to Russia (and Switzerland)

Lanes here are narrower than in Russia and of my memory doesn’t fail me, when we were driving from Switzerland to Italy several years ago, the lanes there were as wide as in Russia.
Most of the problems with Teams have been self-evident from the first release five years ago, and are only iterated on at a glacial pace.

It's especially frustrating as a developer integrating with Teams that so many basic functionalities that were available fifteen years ago with the UCMA SDK for OCS 2007 are still lacking or weirdly complicated.
Same article (2019) discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21720656
Yeah but it also makes her not a dog-killer. I guess the writers didn't feel up to the task of making that seem banal. It crafted a different character.
Weird article

> How much do we need to know about a TV detective to be invested in a whodunnit?

There are tons of shows that do exactly that. Turn on a random CBS procedural and you will get exactly that- 40 mins of by the numbers crime solving with a smartass quip thrown in every once in while.

On the other hand there are options for those who are bored by the repetitiveness of crime solving in these shows and get more invested when the characters in the show are full blown people not just vehicles for crimes to happen or be solved (say True Detective (Season 1) or Broadchurch).

I am sure there is a market for both these things and options for viewers that are interested in either option (or even both depending on their mood). Let the free market sort it all out. Not sure why the author of this article is so outraged.

> As one of the showrunners of Lost, Damon Lindelof was as responsible as anybody for the backstory epidemic, creating a time-hopping narrative tangle that concluded with a crushing disappointment.

> On his next show, The Leftovers, he learned his lesson and leaned into his characters’ reactions to the mysterious disappearance of 2% of humanity rather than the reasons for the event. Trauma was the cake rather than the icing, and therefore taken seriously. In becoming so comfortable with complexity and ambiguity, Lindelof made one of the finest shows of the decade.

Another strange argument, even if some people were disappointed by the LOST ending it was still one of the most popular shows of its era and is to this day considered to be one of the best shows ever made both in the critic and regular person circles.

On the other hand The Leftovers was widely panned in its first Season and was never a popular success. While it has its ardent fans, it's never going to come close to having the popular success or impact on tv as LOST did.

I like both shows. Like everything else it is not one or the other, you can have both and let people choose.

This entire article comes across as: "these are the things I like and anyone who likes what I don't like is wrong and everyone should only make art that fits my personal sensibilities" eventhough nothing is stopping the author to keep liking the things he likes and let others enjoy things they like. There is no shortage of content out there.
That's actually how the VMware training courses I participated in were run: each student had their own virtual datacenter made up of multiple VMs.
Most guys in tech are laid off around 50-55.

I know way to many Anchor-out, homeless, or stay at home dads (Kids moved out decades a ago, or sleeping in the basement. Wife begrudging hating your unemployed, but is still civil when you are around.) who were in Computer Managment.

Save the money while you're young. Computer skills seem to mean nothing after 50. An those ass kissing people skills (Managment) are finished the moment you are laid off.

You will not be the 65 year old working Doctor, or Lawyer.

The barrier to entry is just too low, and since you guys are above unions; I hope you have a sympathetic family.

It will make you liberal though.

If you have the right attitude you will get through it though. A divorce might be necessary, but you probally knew that one was comming for years.
poisoning the well
exFAT seems to be a decent compromise.
Very reassuring to hear that I am not the only one in a position like that; thank you for sharing! (I am planning on stepping pretty firmly off the path to Principal Staff to substantially alleviate work-related stress and anxiety)
I'd recommend books by Clayton Christensen such as the Innovator's Dilemma and How Will You Measure Your Life.

Just the section on correlation vs causation is invaluable.
You do in fact seem to negative, and have a take on life that is a bit more cynical than reality. Completely dismissing any value in actually being a good engineer for career advancement for instance is a bit over the top. Suggesting companies always don’t care about employee opinions as well. Real life is pretty bad sometimes but not universally dystopian.
Ok. So again, that's his father in law not Beto. but yeah the father in law did spend a few hundreds of thousands on pacs supporting Beto's political career. Which is chump change at that level.
China the government, people, and place are separate and which one is being referred to is basically always obvious from context.

People don’t do this naming a political organization instead of country name for government actions for anywhere else in the world
STRICT + BedrockDB will be an interesting pairing.

I wonder if this will provide more
adoption of this client server database.

https://bedrockdb.com/

EDIT: for this not aware, Expensify is a paid sponsor of SQLITE and there’s an official branch (Bedrock) of SQLite that has client / server capabilities.
Yup - it's a difference of both degree and kind.
How does this mafia operate inside IG? Is there an honour code “don’t steal an account that a superior has stolen already”
If your language is Ruby or Python I would recommend Practical Object Oriented Design by Sandi Metz
Here in Argentina, if you go to the bank and claim your wallet was stolen, they will not give you the money. IIRC you must call the bank, and they will send a week later a replacement of your card, and another day a new PIN written in paper that you must change in a ATM, so the thief must intercept both. Anyway, the PIN for the ATM is different of the PIN for the teller, so it's not so easy. And the teller will ask also for the national ID card, that is also difficult to forge.

In case of death, the bank ask for some papers signed by a judge that says you are the official heir, and they will check in the national death registry. No way they will believe in a piece of paper.

I don't claim it's impossible, but in both cases there is a lot of paperwork to ensure it's difficult.
> By being easy to learn, most people who try it can do something cool with little effort.

this is quite important - a good, smooth learning curve for a product (whatever it is) is important to adoption.

Being able to get up and running, and get a simple scene/game working is really great, but you also need power for the power users. Luckily for godot, since is pluggable, you can actually make it as advanced as you wish, and also have others contribute.

I hope godot success - it's one of the best open source engines out there.
And hostile depends heavily on your perspective.

If you are a woman who values access to healthcare, specifically abortion, he is very hostile to your wellbeing and interests.

But there are plenty of others who feel the exact opposite in Texas since obviously he is elected. Just brushing aside for a different thread arguing about lopsided representation lol.
Since we're doing the anecdote thing here:

I've had a Model 3 for 2 years now. Best effing car ever (I owned 3 prior to it). Haven't had a single issue that wasn't my fault. Service is super convenient, informative and fast. The lack of clutter, instant and sustained torque in addition to unreal handling, makes every other car, in its class or above (test driven cars twice the price), feel like a toy and pure junk.

So abso-lutely buy a Tesla if you've been on the fence.
Possibly but if it is able to evade the existing vaccination, even if it has a much lower lethality rate, its ability to infect everyone could possibly come out to more deaths and health complications. Narrower slice of a much larger pie.
IIRC, virologist have mentioned that this is the usual progression for new mutations of viruses like COVID-19. High vitality and low mortality. The virus wants to stay alive.
Right, and it is interesting because 'quantum events' happen very often, which would seem to indicate an infinite number of universes, which means that any particular fantasy you'd like to think about is occurring in some of them.

The bit I get fuzzy at: something I believe, but without proof, is that any scheme that involved any communication between universes would fundamentally violate a ton of basic physics principles. I mean, it would seem to violate the definition of universe as the totality of existence, but that's just a definition. But I'm sure (again, without actually doing any math or physics) that it must violate some conservation of energy rules as well.

Edit: I bet there's a really slick line of argument like: if you want to duplicate a universe, there's all that matter in the second copy to make, which you've got to pay E=mc^2 for. This is OK in the many worlds interpretation because <reasons relating to the universes being totally disconnected from each other, or something like that>. But if they were connected to each other <the previous reasons would somehow be invalid>.

But filling in those two blanks -- that sort of stuff is why I retreated to thermodynamics, with the rest of the engineers.
How to respond to crime - Enforce existing laws, else voters will eventually make the necessary changes.
> The runner-up was born to be homecoming queen; her mama was probably a homecoming queen. She’s a cheerleader, blonde and sweet and dingy.

Wow. OMG. The sense of entitlement here.
>> Used the insurance money to buy a macbook pro and never looked back.

And that MacBook will probably outlast 3 Dells.

When my new Dell failed out of the box, I switched to my 6 year old MacBook pro I had waiting in the wings and was able to keep on working. It worked great until the new work MacBook arrived.

When I have to turn my work MacBook in, buying myself another MacBook. And still have the trusty 6+ year old one in the wings.
I just want to say that I really appreciate your 'insider' comments in this thread. I have always found payments technologies a fascinating and underappreciated topic.
Well it is in Signal on Android. Support for other platforms will come.
The War of Art * is a must read for anyone and everyone.

* For those who don't already know, it's a very quick read. And the type of book you'll gladly reread every one to three years.
Looks like a bug in how HN parses URLs. That's the URL I used but it seems like it was changed between when I pasted it and when it showed up.
So, those who have had covid don’t necessarily need a vaccination or booster?
Wouldn't that be worse since private keys are king and there is no way to intervene?
> Unemployment benefits did not prop the stock market up. People have to be unemployed to receive those benefits and the benefits are (excluding some periods of fuzzy COVID unemployment policy) less than normal wages, so unemployed people were suddenly receiving an influx of extra cash.

That's not necessarily true. A study found that 68% of unemployment workers who can receive benefits got payments greater than their lost earnings. The median replacement rate was 134% so the median unemployed person getting benefits got a 34% raise.

>> As a result, though, many people may now be eligible for substantially more money while unemployed than they made while they were working. A new analysis by Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel and Joseph Vavra, economists at the University of Chicago,1 uses government data from 2019 to estimate that 68 percent of unemployed workers who can receive benefits are eligible for payments that are greater than their lost earnings. They also found that the estimated median replacement rate — the share of a worker’s original weekly salary that is being replaced by unemployment benefits — is 134 percent, or more than one-third above their original wage. A substantial minority of those workers, particularly in low-wage professions like food service and janitorial work, may end up receiving more than 150 percent of their previous weekly salary.2

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-gett...