skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty daunting when you're invested into something, spent a plenty hours only to realize that you're not in those 5% who's going to complete this challenge.

IMO AoC should strife to be completable by 80% of programmers (number is out of thin air, but you got the idea).

Project Euler is a different beast.

Of course that's just my opinion.
Identical arguments are made around abortion. Or mandatory organ/blood donations. Actually, nobody argues for mandatory blood donations because we can all tell that would be icky.
Wait, what? You get 'approved' to look for an actual job?
Most of the time they log your plain DNS queries. But DoH is encrypted, thus they won't be able to log your DNS queries. Cloudflare is not the only DoH provider. There are many. If you want you can grab a several lines of PHP code and create your own DoH link in another country. Becouse DoH is https they cannot distinguish it from normal https. Of course if the use deep packet analyses tool they will know what website you are visiting but they are not being used widely but are used to target specific people. To sum up; DoH is better than plain text DNS queris.
As the owner of a couple of domains (not .io, but these aren’t the only ones that go up in price in January) with no commercial use whatsoever, I am very happy to learn that you have decided that I should not get one. You sound exactly like those landlords who think it’s all jolly good when the average rent goes up at twice the inflation rate.

In the meantime, we got those domains because we use them, and not all of us actually get 2 Starbucks a month. The price going up 30% without any recourse and with a 1 month notice is a sad joke. We cannot seem to trust private interests with the management of public resources.
You might be surprised how many contributors you might gain with NSFW content. All the evil people need an occupation too. That business doesn't want to be associated with it is mostly due to other reasons.

If your open source project is for business, you can of course chose to have any content restriction you want. But there cannot be a general rule. Projects on github are endangered enough to be both, abused and helped by corporate input. I don't the MS embrace care program to be extinguished in phase 2.

Most projects are projects of passion and if that passion includes pictures of naked people, who am I to argue against that?
Here is a third party tool that lets you explore your Townscaper creations from a first person view.

https://meliharvey.github.io/threescaper/
My memory is hazy, but I seem to recall it involved a lot of parallelization and running it for a couple of days on high end gear along with luck. So definitely not the intended approach! :)
Yes, I am sorry you are getting such responses. The bottom line is there are multiple causes and types of Alzheimer's. So there are also multiple preventative measures. I'm no expert but, like you, have studied and read a lot, and that's my take.
I'm sure you can walk down the street and ask people "do you remember the war of 1812" and most will answer "wut?".

Obviously historians will care, but society as a whole won't. We barely remember the 1960s.
I think it's more that the puzzles should avoid having a "correct solution" in the form of a known algorithm. If the puzzle can basically only be solved by remembering a specific algorithm, and any other algorithm (or attempt) will grind for hours, then the puzzle isn't about algorithms, or about coding, it's about whether or not you memorized a part of a math textbook and can recognize that it applies to the problem.

Granted, I don't know the process of AoC in terms of vetting and building their puzzles, but it seems that the person/people involved all share very similar levels and domain of knowledge. Having more people reviewing or involved in the process that have a wider range of skillsets might avoid these situations.

Example from what I was talking about before: Day 13 of AoC2020 was basically "the answer is the Chinese Remainder Theorem". If you remembered that...great you could solve this in 10 seconds (hell some languages have a _function_ for that theorem!). If not....well good luck finding a solution that runs in under 6h. That has nothing to do with _programming_. Its just math, there wasn't even programming involved (literally some solutions were just "parse the input and pass it to mathlib.chinese_remainder()"). That's not satisfying to solve for the majority of people, I feel (opinion, I know).
The estate yes, I imagine that is what they do in the case of a death not caused by covid? I've also been wondering when insurance will begin denying claims for this, there's a basically free option to prevent most hospital stays, vs thousands in bills to pay, this is the responsible business decision to make in my mind.
> OpenGL is not dead until Khronos comes up with an API that is actually usable without an EE degree on GPU design and shader compilers.

Why would this ever happen? It seems like there is nothing in the works, nothing on the horizon, and no demand for a higher-level, less-performant API to become a new standard. Even OpenGL itself has been getting lower level and more detailed ever since version 1. People can build/use a wrapper API or game engine or something else if they want easy. It seems weird to say this right after defending Apple’s use of Metal to implement WebGL. Apple’s moves to get rid of OpenGL from the Mac ecosystem are one of the strongest forces pushing OpenGL out.
But if you re successful you ll inevitably need to buy the .com . Why not skip this unnecessary trouble
The issue is you will always be leasing versus owning unless you use Handshake. The same entity of interest, Ethos, owns most of the generic top level domain names since they own Donuts [1].

[1] https://donuts.domains/what-we-do/top-level-domain-portfolio...
No Data, No Problem: Unsupervised Learning and Transformers
You need a good rating for promotions and bonuses (at my company).
Failure codes themselves aren't back pressure though, its the client side "retry later" which creates that effect. But, if you have that behavior, its better just to signal it directly because a simple fail, back off, retry system actually increases overall load due to duplicate requests retrying. And if its gets bad enough, potentially results in livelock like behaviors. Simply slowing down ACK's or explicit "item queued, please wait before sending another" return codes are far more effective. See buffer crediting, flow control.

OTOH, I'm sort of amazed by the people who reach for queues to solve loading issues without first assuring that the system works properly at full load without any queuing. Queue's only serve to smooth out busty behavior and come with their own problems (buffer bloat related latency).
Can you do the analysis/visualization in Python? If so, you could use https://github.com/datapane/datapane to build and share a report or dashboard (either as an HTML file, or publish it for free on datapane.com). I'm one of the people building it, so let me know if I can help!
Does that mean you support a rollback of all vaccine requirements? For example the MMR, TDap, HepB, polio, chicken pox vaccines required for school children? Or the numerous vaccines required for military personal?

And would you be comfortable having a pediatrician who wasn't inoculated for diphtheria knowing that an infection could be fatal for your baby?
> Today, what’s left of our open internet is already less safe.

Twitter is not the open internet and never was. Free speech on the open internet is doing fine.
That description is amazing, it reminds me of Woot in the pre-Amazon era. Maybe they'll make more of them considering it seems like they probably already sold this first batch.
Unpopular opinion but here we go:

Engineering and tech compensation packages are increasing extremely quickly. Engineers in particular have market power to get great jobs with high pay. In an environment where the rate companies pay for labor is increasing, we're going to see more companies do things like rescind offers for shifting business priorities (or something wild a candidate said after offer acceptance, which has happened to me) or fire people after a few weeks at the company for non performance/poor match because the cost of maintaining an employee on payroll has increased and the consequences to that individual have decreased. At a high level broadly speaking the consequences to the employees are decreasing over time (its easier to change jobs), the consequences to the company are increasing over time (compensation is increasing). As an individual, you are directionally incentivized to behave more like a free agent/mercenary than you were 4 years ago, and its only going further in that direction. Just move forward and live in that future, its a good place for all of us, just realize that that is where we are now and behave accordingly. Most companies won't _really_ care if you sign and then rescind your acceptance if you get a better offer. It won't destroy your career it will likely be good for it.
> and they make sure that I can very easily move my domain between (hosting) providers

Is it so easy that I could "do it for you"?
> There's nothing about writing software in different languages that necessitates separating functionality with HTTP calls

I mean it's only computers and the only limit to what we can make them do is our imagination.

In this case though for the sake of argument what options would I have if I, say, needed to let a remote team add some functionality to my, say, Spring backend but they really prefer to write C# and have their own CI/CD system. I'm not sure how I would accomplish this in a monolith.
That's precisely the point though: telling people "what gets them to donate". That's manipulative.

And it's the inevitable result of a sophisticated, decade-long program of A/B testing. And this is the outfit, remember, that wants to steward "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge", the most-propagated information source on the planet.

I'd rather have someone in charge of that who's committed to telling "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth", rather than someone who tells people what "gets them to do what they want them to do". Wouldn't you?
> There's no mechanism to enforce this reasoning. It's whether the agency has the power to do it or not. For instance it could be argued that natural immunity is far superior to vaccines, so excluding healthcare workers with natural immunity from working is not about protecting patients.

I'm not sure what you're getting at, Congress gave the agency the power to set guidelines for requirements for caring for medicaid/medicare patients, that's what they do. If a guideline would not actually impact medicaid/medicare patients, then they can't do it and it would rightfully get struck down in court when it is challenged for not falling within their powers. That's quite literally the same mechanism currently being used to challenge their power to require vaccines.

Your point about natural immunity seems reasonable, it doesn't mean requiring vaccines for those without natural immunity wouldn't still make sense though so I don't think it really fits your point. Claiming that the particular way they went about this requirement is bad is different from saying they can't require a vaccine at all. I think your point makes some sense, but it could still be paired with a vaccine requirement making it effectively the same thing.

> ???

I thought what I said was pretty self explanatory. If Medicare and Medicaid are going to be worth it then we have to have some standard level of care that we're paying for - we shouldn't be paying tons of money just for medicare/medicaid patients to receive bad care. Why should my tax dollars to go a healthcare provider who doesn't want to get the vaccine when that money can go to one who will? The medicare/medicaid patients that we're paying for will get better treatment from those healthcare providers who require vaccination, and if better care is not the goal than what is?
Link: https://supabase.com/blog/2021/12/01/realtime-row-level-secu...
Back pressure, AKA flow control.
"it could be argued" is not a substitute for the judgement of the regulatory body. The regulatory body hears arguments and makes a determination, I'm pretty sure that's the mechanism. (And it sounds like the court has decided to overrule it on shaky grounds.)
If you're doing AoC you should join the subreddit /r/AdventOfCode:
https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode

There's usually a lot of different solutions (including many in esoteric languages or code golfed) along with screencasts and visualizations to explain how they got there. I find that even when the puzzles are easy I still learn a lot from the community by seeing all the different ways to skin a cat!
What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling
I did mean Day 13, thank you -- I updated my post accordingly. Sorry about the confusion!
Reddit is famously okay with hate if you hate the right group of people see /r/FuckYouKaren, /r/COVIDAteMyFace/ and of course aforementioned sub.
Donuts owned by Ethos Capital, owner of org and IO
> Academia only cares about publishing to get funding.

That's just not true. To do well in academia you have to be truly invested in your field. You can just about get by if you're only in it for the papers, but it's just like getting by in a job that you're only in for the money. At the end of the day, though, in a world where everyone is forced to be productive or be homeless, there are times when publishing becomes a necessity. This doesn't mean they only care about publishing, though.
In the case of failed background checks, the solution is actually quite simple - tell the candidate it's an offer contingent upon the background check.

But you're right - rescinding job offers is an absolutely vile business practice. Imagine resigning from your job after accepting an offer from Stripe, and then they just change their minds. Gross.
The 95% efficacy claim was the result of a scientific study of the efficacy of the vaccine against COVID infection. It was definitely not a lie unless you are an insane person with an outrageous definition of what a "lie" is.
Is it bad that I've actually found my answer on some of these sites haha. But yeah, they're pretty low quality in general.
> Forcing care workers to take a medicine against their will is constitutional you say?

They are not forced. They can choose to find another job if they don't want it.
Day 13 you really needed to know of Chinese remainder theorem; I would say this was probably the only day in the last couple of years so dependent on non-trivial maths. I would still recommend AoC though.
A reminder: just because you don't see any meaningful activities happening on www., don't assume that the owner is domain squatting. Folks make use of their domains in a variety of ways, not just for hosting a website on www.
And it will be weaponized immediately to destroy citizen journalism.
For Day 13, I played around with the numbers and eventually noticed that you could increment by the product of the numbers you consumed so far.
Drew Baye has a book on bodyweight HIT (High Intensity strength Training), which he calls Project Kratos[0]. It uses changes in leverage and your natural strength curves to achieve a classic HIT workout (intense to momentary muscular failure, brief - 60-90 seconds time under load, and infrequent - once or twice a week) using only body weight.

[0] https://drewbaye.myshopify.com/products/project-kratos-ebook
It's like you read 4 words from my comment and stopped.
Thanks to their last price increase I looked in to the previously not available .com and .fr for my side project and got them both for less than the .io I was using.
I’ve had to switch to !py on ddg because the official Python docs never make the first page. It’s really frustrating. :/
Right. If you give society both middle fingers while headed off a cliff at speed as the crowd shouts to you to stop, not much sympathy when you’ve run out of runway. We use your experience to encourage better outcomes for those still with us who can make better choices.
There's a part of me that thinks it would have been nice to do college again after I finished the first time but get paid to take someone else's classes (except for the moral issues).
> if you memorized some mathematical concepts and an obscure algorithm and also recognize that this exact algorithm is the only efficient solution to the problem then you can solve this in 5 seconds, otherwise it will never finish running with any other algorithm

well that's just not true at all.

I had no idea WTF the Chinese Remainder Theorem was and just worked out the issue iteratively. All you had to know was that if you are trying to find some large number that is divisible by other prime numbers, the deltas between the candidates will be the product of the numbers.

as in, if you are trying to find a number that is divisible by both 37 and 41, you really just need to find numbers divisible by 1517.

I forget what the name for this mathematical concept is, but it's far less obscure than the CRT.
Chances are they'll have to follow this price increase, at least, if they don't want to start actively losing money on each domain purchase.
First of all, we called these "distributed systems". We reserved those for rare cases where scale was THE requirement, and you jumped into it fully expecting to have no life.

The world did not finally "crack" distributed systems. Most companies created multiple microservices, putting their small dev team underwater because "this is the way at the FAANG".

All of your DRY principles are out the window, and now you have to debug in production - the new word for that is OBSERVABILITY.

Not to mention that the actual reason for distributed systems is to scale multiple parts of the system independently, but you need to KNOW what has to scale individually before you do it. What I see is that the topology really reflects the company structure, of course. It's not "what has to scale separately", it's "team Y is working on X, and team Y does not want to talk to team Z, so they will create a service to make sure they don't have to talk to people".

Except that this is a giant self-own. We all still have to talk to each other, like, a LOT, because things just keep breaking all the time and no one knows why.

Dropbox, Instagram, StackOverflow - these companies are largely monoliths to this day. You thinking that your small outfit needs to be like Google is highly arrogant.

And don't get me started on the amount of money, people, CPU cycles, and CO2 emissions wasted on this solving of the problem most people don't have.
NSW gov seeks verifiable credentials and digital identity
I suppose I'll still hold out hope that he'll come out of retirement one more time after this so that he can adapt Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End
Settled science matters is an oxymoron. The very nature of the scientist method is to continually question.

Public shaming of anyone who questions non-experts who only remain experts if they parrot the party line?

Sounds like you've moving into religion.
IANA has it as Internet Computer Bureau Ltd [0], which was bought by Afilias in 2017 [1] and is operated as a subsidiary, and Afilias itself was bought by Donuts in 2020 [2], and Ethos Capital acquired a controlling interest in Donuts in 2021 [3].

So it's accurate to say that ICB (inasmuch as it exists) operates .io, as a subsidiary of Afilias, a Donuts company, controlled by Ethos Capital.

Simple!

[0] https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/io.html

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Computer_Bureau

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afilias

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donuts_(company)
Everyone should install an ad blocker so these types of "businesses" become unprofitable. Installing an ad blocker is the ethical choice.
The sunnier the name, the darker the reality.
The results of Millikan's oil drop experiment were settled. They were also wrong.

Calling for people to not subject fact claims to scrutiny because they're considered settled is not a pro-science position. It's anti-science.

Matters of science don't need anyone to come to the universe's aid by telling people to give it a rest. They'll hold up.
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Could have figured this out years ago if we didn’t put epidemiological studies on a pedestal. Now excuse me, I have some egg yolks to eat.
Perhaps it should be specific to certain specific infringements.
Raph says Metal fails to support an important synchronization primitive that is therefore also not available in WebGPU, and limits performance in his font rendering pipeline.
After a former colleague of mine, Stuart’s rule of system naming: The whizzier the name, the crappier the system. Inside corporates the correlation is uncanny.
Normal deletionists strip Wikipedia of joy. Malicious deletionists are a whole different world. I propose the following example of the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

Free Flights to Italy was a minor political party in the 2018 Italian elections. The party was created by Giuseppe Macario.

Rolling Stone Italy published an article on Macario showing that many of his claims about himself were actually fabricated. This was picked up by other media outlets.

La Voce di New York published several not-so-positive articles on the guy at the time. The Points Guy published an article as well.

The account (Modulato) which proposed the deletion is Giuseppe Macario himself. He did the same thing on Italian Wikipedia. It is a strategic attempt to suppress negative stories about his past. You can see this behavior repeated in the history of rogeting article on English Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogeting&action=h...

Several years ago, Macario ran an academic cheating service called CheatTurnitin. One of the techniques used to circumvent anti-plagiarism services, like Turnitin, is rogeting.

Macario published an article on LinkedIn. He integrated the article as a source for the rogeting article (IP 5.170.* edits). A short while later, he added his service's website to the article as well.

This service attracted a lot of negative reviews on sites like Ripoff Reports. Toward the end of 2017, he attempted to clean up his additions (Adrin10) to the rogeting article. These were reverted by other editors.

Last year, he tried to propose the rogeting article for quick deletion. This was reverted by another editor. And that's when the Modulato account came in and removed the material without being contested.

While this content shouldn't have been there to start with, it just shows an example of not all deletionists being equal. Some are far worse than others.
Throwaway account.

We've a SaaS business that processes through Stripe around $200k per month.

Dealing with their sales team has been frustrating. We've been trying to switch to interchange fees or reduced fess for a couple of years already. At first, we've been told to reach first $80k per month, then $100k per month, then having more than 3 months above $100k per month, then having less international cards.

It feels the goalpost keeps moving. Meanwhile we've been charged with an extra 1% fee on subscriptions, something we never agreed to and we would have made different architecture decision if we knew subscription mechanisms would be extra.

All of this is fine as it's just business. However lack of transparency and misleading statements are super not okay. And it seems just the way Stripe does business across their organization.

/end of rant
HN just upvotes category theory to feel smart.
Given how badly companies treat engineers as soon as they have signed on the dotted line, I’m shocked that people ever stop interviewing.

The time to search for your next job is always. Give a crappy code review and spend that time taking a recruiters call.
You think they’re giving people placebo shots?
No, but it runs many other things: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTime_Development.