skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I get the sense that you are channeling a general distrust of the system into this specific case.

You said this about the other commentator. I’m not sure how you aren’t doing a similar thing here. Prosecutors words are believed at face value. Phrasing Swartz as a high net worth individual as if it was known he was still a high net worth individual at the time of his passing. Since now you said you believe he spent a lot on his defense. And the other commenter said he didn’t have money. If you spend all your money. You aren’t high net worth any more.

> so I think it's hard to complain that he was bullied by prosecutors when he was well-represented.

This is simplifying any justice system situation in my opinion. Which adds to the point of you doing similar to what you thought the other commenter is doing. And yes I am also doing a similar thing with my adamant defense of Swartz!
But they do - people ask each other if it's worth updating macOS for example - I've literally been asked if I'd recommend updating many times - I've asked people if they'd recommend a Linux distribution - etc.
Firefighters don't build roads.

That's it thats the end of the story.

In 15 years you'll have shed your PFY and will know and hate you PHB. Being a BoFH isn't bad.

Either you'll own the code or the code will own you. Choose wisely.
It’s also perfectly reasonable for people to not pay you if they don’t have to. Which is what happens 95% of the time.
So what would your ideal scenario look like? I buy the game download it, backup on S3, pay for that and then lost access when I don't access it in a few months?

I'm super happy I don't have to worry about storage for my large Steam collection.
That model works OK for the music industry. If you write code and people go 'wow, super useful' you ought to be able to make something off it. I mean, it's not so hard to figure out if a free software product is widely used or not. A lot of problematic situations you outlined had to do with expectations of either payment or performance. But if there's hundreds of thousands of people using A Thing that sort of speaks for itself.
No idea, but WireGuard mostly just uses get_random_bytes in the handshake, not per-packet.
What an excellent answer.
A loaded and offensive title, to me, and that's what stopped me from clicking through. Maybe it's a demotion if you're being compensated less, but I doubt that's the case at most organizations.
See, what do I know. Definitely not "most".
I haven’t had (or seen anyone else have) success with TA, but if you’re looking to improve your entry into existing positions why not try selling cash covered puts.

The premium for short-dated puts gives you some bounds about which the options market thinks the underlying will move, and I’ve been able to improve my entries in effected issues by 5-8% in terms of price (before fees for options).

It’s effectively a limit order that you can’t cancel, with potential upside if the puts expire worthless.
RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25733285
I think you're absolutely right: amortized, driving a Tesla for a decade is probably cheaper than driving a brand new luxury sedan. But I don't think that's incompatible with Tesla being a luxury brand: many (although) not all luxury brands advertise themselves through their amortized savings or durability. Put another way: a product's longevity is frequently a selling point for a luxury label, even if longevity itself isn't a guarantee of luxury.

The same is apparent in clothing: I have an expensive, recognizable jacket that I expect to last for the rest of my life. It's undeniably a luxury item, because it costs several times more than even a premium, high-quality jacket would. But it'll probably save me money over the next 60 years, since I won't buy half a dozen merely nice jackets instead.
The administration claimed that there was no evidence of transmission in classroom situations and I'm certain that what true up until the surge at the very end.

I work in a unit that runs a web site and we were all sent home early in the pandemic. Students came back the academic year after that but I think we had only two staffers from my unit who were authorized to come back to the office that year.

In that time frame Cornell kept in-person instruction running, they were testing all students twice a week.

My unit returned to the office last summer, they restarted instruction with most students being tested on a once weekly schedule. There was a panic early in the semester with the delta variant being brought in by incoming students so we had strict mask requirements both indoors and dense outdoor situations.

Throughout most of the fall 2021 semester both Cornell and Tompkins County were testing about 5000 people a day, Tompkins was getting about 50 positives a day, Cornell more like 5.

At the end of the semester we had the Omicron outbreak that was featured on CNN. Myself I have very little contact with undergraduates at all, my unit has only a handful of interns, once in a while I talk to undergraduates waiting in line for food or at the library or something.

I've tried to sort out the social hierarchy of frats and sororities by how expensive the cars are in the parking lots are but other than that I know nothing at all about their partying habits.

My son and I almost went to that anime convention at the Javits Center which had an Omicron outbreak but couldn't get tickets for Saturday so we settled for going to the comic-con in Scranton (in an equally overdense environment that seems outright cruel to the socially awkward attendees, some of whom we saw cowering under tables.) Looking back we're glad we didn't go because I bet attendees of that convention spread the virus all over the Northeast.
The thread wasn’t about voting. It was about Thiel’s active involvement. Which is the comment you directly responded to.

> Many libertarians support Republicans.

I don’t disagree some do that. However with you repeating this “many”. Any one can call themselves anything. It doesn’t make it so. OTOH I see no issue if the statement was “Many people who say they are libertarian support Republicans”
I haven’t researched this fully yet, but I believe that this is a nuance of x509 and certificate purposes.

If the intermediate is granted the permission “issue website/email cert” at the lowest x509 level, then it apparently (TIL) used to be possible to layer in higher-level constraints in order to disable that so as not to disclose it — but when these rules take effect, that kind of exception will no longer be accepted, since intermediates that won’t be issuing web/email certificates shouldn’t be issued with x509 properties that say “I can issue web/email certificates” anyways.
I had one issue with my 2019 model 3. The charge port door would sometimes not open. Tesla service came to my house and replaced it, under warranty. Now what other car manufacturer does that?

Sample size of one Tesla vs. one Subaru Outback, both bought new, I'll take the Tesla any day. The Outback had a chronic issue with the cable going to the rear door which had a ton of electronics in it. I had to repair it multiple times. Head gasket failures. Then the engine died and I had to replace it as well. It also had a few "recalls". Recalls, sometimes massive ones, are not that uncommon for all brands.
You need to pay taxes. It's conceivable that the IRS could have a system that at least made it easy and painless. Compared to alternative tax filing methods, you might recommend a really easy way to file taxes to a friend.
The previous scripting language was a I think a superset of JavaScript anyway, so it's not like it was completely different before.
Minecraft: https://www.worldql.com/posts/2021-08-worldql-scalable-minec...
I live in the neighborhood, but we are just outside of the evacuation zone. This part of Colorado is — in other times — a really nice mixed-use set of communities. It has a lot of open fields, farms, businesses, and “old town” town centers right alongside very dense apartment buildings and single family homes. We haven’t had snow or rain in almost two months, and everything is very dry. I saw the wind bringing flames along these open fields (like kindling) right into Louisville and Superior, and then it lights up the neighborhood, spreading house to house, fueled by wind that has brought down trees and power lines (friends in Boulder getting some rolling blackouts earlier). These nice parks and open fields are like turbo boosts from neighborhood to neighborhood. Any other combination - not as dry, not as windy, and it would have been a small localized fire. Everyone is packing their cars even if outside of the mandatory or pre-evacuation zones. We are supposed to have a massive snowstorm tomorrow morning as well, which makes this very painful - large fires normally burn in loosely populated areas, but this is as dense as any major suburban center.
I've heard great things about Clean Code. If I'm nearly done with the Pragmatic Programmer, does it cover a lot of similar ground (if you've read both)?
I'm not familiar with the kernel RNG specifically, but I think the hash function is only used with small inputs and outputs, and it's the stream cipher (ChaCha) that has the more performance-sensitive job of generating lots of output bytes. So the performance differences between BLAKE2s and BLAKE3 probably aren't very important here, and the fact that a BLAKE2s implementation is already in the kernel makes this an easy change.
“I forced a bot to watch over 1k hrs of startup pitch and ask it to recreate”
>That's for 16KiB inputs.

Oh that's a good point.

>But the question was why BLAKE2s instead of SHA-256, not SHA-1. SHA-256 has the same digest length as BLAKE2s.

Two things come to mind. Firstly, does it really matter to speed? The reseeding interval of ChaCha20 DRNG (i.e. BLAKE2 call frequency) is 300 seconds and it runs in the order of milliseconds. Best bang for buck at this point would result from ChaCha-NI.

Secondly, there's the aspect of reducing reliance on an algorithm that suffers from length extension attacks. While LRNG itself doesn't directly benefit from BLAKE2s's indifferentiability, it helps in phasing out SHA-2 which is less misuse-resistant, and that might be misused elsewhere.

(Finally, no more pointless flame wars about "An algorithm created by the NSA is being used in the LRNG!!")
Stay² – open-source iOS userscript manager
Bye Karen
just 39% could immediately come up with $1k according to this survey from January: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/financial-security-...
Ethereum “Giveaway” Scam Live-Streaming on YouTube
I am in Boulder too and I think the comment means, imminent in Boulder proper. But you are of course right, this is a horrifying thing happening right now for many people just a few miles away.
Thanks, that's very insightful. I feel like especially in larger projects, going for a monorepo approach where the integration tests are just another package that runs on the entire repo makes what you're doing very powerful.
Blake3 will only result in small incremental perf improvement due to reduced number of rounds (10 to 7).

Majority of Blake3's perf benefit manifests from merkle-tree structure and SIMD processing of multiple input streams at the same time.
Not sure how "read history" is a contribution to a discussion about the cost-effectiveness of abusing workers vs investing in better work conditions.

A history lesson on "we used to do things this way, but then we made a law that says we can't anymore" isn't an analysis. It just tells me that people got fed up with being overworked and lobbied for a law against it. Not that their employers were making informed decisions.

It's akin to the broken "butts-in-seats" culture that has been slowly dying. Many employers are realizing that more hours at a desk isn't always a net gain in the long term.
Are you sure it was a filter or just a lower-quality front facing camera that didn't capture details in low light like blemishes and smile lines? In an effort to reduce noise, sometimes a camera over-smoothes the image - not as a way to make your imperfections disappear, but to make the noise from the high ISO shot disappear.
ASIL = Automotive Safety Integrity Level.
Blake3 is still quite new (although it is a tested core) so I would say they made the right call.

It would only result in small incremental perf improvement due to reduced number of rounds (10 to 7).

Majority of Blake3's perf benefit manifests from merkle-tree structure and SIMD processing of multiple input streams at the same time.
> (The most irritating — and by far the most common — reason companies seem to measure NPS is that it’s standardized, but more importantly that everyone else does it. Which is fine for one-time-use benchmarking, but not a good basis for internal KPIs.)

Except the alternative isn't to stop tracking NPS the alternative is to use unstandardized customer survey metric's, this is worse because you have no true industry comparison & can be gamed more easily since they define the formula!
> recent iPhones contain the same M1 chip as last year's MacBooks

I mean, sure, but the A15 bionic is much more power constrained and effectively has less 'GPUs' and cores than the M1, likely because the SoC is also constrained by its size within the phone housing.
I do that too, but because I often use the shift+del / shift+insert shortcuts with my right hand. I find the proper "copy" shortcut: crtl+insert to be more awkward.
Well if politics is not gonna welcome him back, he has to work with the hand he is dealt with. One thing with politicians is that they are not easily embarrassed. If some other people are embarrassed then it is their problem.
Which of Thiel's companies was it? Palantir? Just curious what your contribution was in his longstanding efforts to make the world an objectively worse place.
If I take any OTC PPI I find I can't sleep a wink. I talked to my doc about it and searched the literature and didn't find any evidence that anybody else has the same problem.

I have no such problem with H2 antihistamine antiacids though.
We've gotten snow, and it's not unusual for 5000ft to not have snow right now (that's even lower elevation than boulder proper), but it's way less total snow than we normally have gotten by now. That being said, it's also pretty normal for a la nina year to be light on precipitation early in the winter, and we get it all during the spring.
non-paywall link - https://archive.is/LQUkO

this seems like something that should actually be able to be handled in bipartisan fashion, you need price transparency for a free market to function properly so Republicans should support because lower costs would stunt demands for universal healthcare.
Dumb question: why would a RNG need a crypto hash function? I get why it would be useful for a PRNG, but isn’t a true RNG simply supposed to gather entropy from the real world and just spit it back?
Submitting out of exasperation that the only option YouTube gives me is to report as spam, none of the categories quite fit “ongoing crypto fraud” - I was fooled into thinking there was really a live event given the thousand+ viewers, and was about to comment that doing a giveaway just trains users to believe these things, but alas, no comments allowed! Maybe it’s not an official event after all!

Edit: worse still, YouTube forbids impersonation, and this giveaway is hosted by an account claiming to be Vitalik. Ok, so I choose to report the account for impersonating someone else, so far so good:

I can not proceed without entering an existing Youtube Channel ID that is being impersonated. Is YouTube under the impression that every man, woman, and child that might be impersonated has a YouTube channel?
That is very much not true. I get paid to write free software. Linux, arguably the most successful piece of free software, is almost entirely written by people who are paid to do it.

You don't pay for the software, but that doesn't mean "there is no money" or that it is very different from "what we do at our day jobs".
Severs newsrooms?
Funny, I was just hanging out with some teens and preteens who were unhappy that their guardians are against vaccinations.
Tesla recalls almost a half-million cars over safety issues
I don't really get it but I was just trying to be helpful and clarify. :) Sorry if I failed.
If itcan guarantee too break every dish in abox, then its ready for moving companies.
It uses it to expose part of the randomness without exposing internal state and mixing in new random events into the randomness pool.

In essence hash functions are frequently used as Pseudo Random Functions as hash functions are PRFs with input compression.
I think we underestimate the power of those fairy tales.

There's something very valuable in a society that professes norms and social contracts and makes it socially unacceptable to violate them, even if people will always attempt to do so.

You want the violators to have to sneak around and do it in the shadows because there's a cost associated with being found out.

It reminds me of certain "political sentiments" that have recently come to the fore. A friend of mine argued that it's better to have it be overt, since we know the sentiment exists.

I took that argument, but countered that there's also a very real danger in mainstreaming or normalizing those sentiments. Societies should be aspirational. And, if a society no longer sees value in imagining itself as better then it has very little chance of becoming so.
The overall dryness is not normal, but Denver/Boulder does not generally have snow on the ground consistently in winter. (Up in the mountains is obviously a different story).

The joke in Denver is sometimes that the city's snow plowing plan for the sidestreets appears to be "wait for it to melt" ....which works most of the time. Even in January the average day is over 45F, which combined with the sunny climate often makes short work of snow.
Yes, NPS is an imperfect measure, as all are. What I’ve never seen is a great argument for what one should use instead.
>RAW just means uncompressed

This is not accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
interesting that FAANG is barely present in the top rankings
I like your point on community being potentially valued more than the trades themselves. One of the biggest issues I've seen first hand in these Discord communities however is the server admins constantly lying about trades/gains or selectively choosing to show the ones that win. This created a dishonest and honestly quite counterproductive environment to learn from. The goal of OnlyTrades was verified data (yes with the caveat that the trust part is on the creator to build).

Perhaps this could also just extend into a Discord webhook where creators/mods can get a live stream of their trades into the channel. This might be the best of both worlds.

And lastly, yes. I agree that index funds are the best way to invest but trading & stock picking is fun. There's always going to be a large segment of the population that's going to try it and want as much information to help them make money.
I miss my garbage pail kids and my atari 5200.
I too, after coming back to a code snippet or logic, and struggling to understand why or how I used it, now everytime I get help from stack overflow, i put that answer's link in a comment just before the code or concept starts.
Quite possibly completely unrelated, but I do recall helping some friends analyze build defects on early Model 3’s and making some comment like “boy I hope none of those high voltage lines [in the same harness] are ever active when the lv ones are [due to non-existent shielding and routed to the same MOLEX]”.

If memory serves it was power and data over 20 gauge wire intertwined together, unshielded, and pretty much every compute component in a Tesla uses Ethernet as a common bus. Could easily see the back harness being a single package where power for rear defroster, lights, and camera data were housed together. Lights! Camera! …no action
It has been many years now, but I recall a full floppy dump took on the order of a few minutes to complete. Small data sizes were countered by the incredibly slow floppy drive interface.
Yeah I work on HDR+. Depends on the phone though, only certain phones run full HDR+, but they all do some sort of multi frame processing.

If you were able to disable HDR+ and get a single captured frame, it would look horrible. You'd have to merge multiple frames yourself to get something decent. You can Google around for ways to do that but it will only work on a few phones.
The person with a honda in the shop every few months? Sorry to say, some cars are just a lemon.
As a linux user since the Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog days, this is the first time in 16 years I've been tempted to switch to a mac. From what it looks like, the M1 seems to be deliver incredible performance at little power consumption. If there was a way to put linux on it without tinkering, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

But because I can't, I'm seriously considering what it'd take to switch from my current setup (ubuntu 20.04, cinnamon, slide dock) to a mac. Keyboard shortcuts and workspaces are top of mind. I've also never been a fan of mac's dock where it groups all instances of an application together - I much prefer a classic Windows tray where each instance of an application has its own box I can easily alt-tab between. I also think mac's file manager isn't great.

Much appreciated OP - may shoot you some questions over email.
I said if done properly. My point is that in principle using a natural image prior to 'enhance' an image is not a totally crazy thing.
It is proof that you added an entry to a blockchain. That's it.

Your last sentence hit the nail straight on the head. You can in fact make a Brooklyn Bridge NFT and you would hardly be alone.
The phone will take a lot of shots at different exposure levels and combine them. It lets you take shots at night without having lights overexposed and the background underexposed.
Well, the singers might be giants after all.
"Yes I've called my Representatives I get someone answering the phone that says they'll take my concern or suggestion and that is the end. If you want to have a meeting with them then you have to pay for it"

I am sorry to hear that, a few of my friends met their MP's and discussed their concerns, for however little that counts. This was in UK.
Texas Team Applauded for Giving What Big Pharma Refuses: A Patent-Free Vaccine
> Of course they still own two cars and drive to work despite it being "only" a 15 minute bike ride. They are both MDs.

Yeah, I always marvel at Americans who think that Europeans walk, cycle, or take public transit everywhere. Some do, especially students and retirees. However, for working people, car is still king.
> It's simply a fact that people become incredibly irrational when it comes to compensation, and the minute you lay it out in the open, you open up a huge surface area for conflict.

Finland makes every tax-paying citizen’s salary public, and their society hasn’t descended into chaos.
If they’re smart, all of them. An index fund is probably the best investment for most people.

More seriously though, there’s widespread support for vaccines and even vaccine mandates worldwide.
> That's for 16KiB inputs.

BLAKE3 needs 16 KiB of input to hit the numbers in that bar chart, but BLAKE2s doesn't. It'll maintain its advantage over SHA-256 all the way down to the empty string. You can see this in Figure 3 of https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak.... (BLAKE3 is also faster than SHA-256 all the way down to the empty string, but not by as large a margin as the 16 KiB measurements suggest.)

On the other hand, these measurements were done on machines without SHA-256 hardware acceleration. If you have that (and Intel chips from the past year do), then SHA-256 does a lot better of course.
This is now popular enough that the owner should probably create an NFT out of this :)
This proposal makes a lot of sense!