skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you memoize you turn either of them into constant time.

At the risk of stumbling into the No True Memoization fallacy, I wouldn't consider that memoizing -- at least not in the dynamic programming sense. To get O(1), you're not temporarily tabling the results during a single run of the algorithm; rather you're building a semi-permanent database of answers and (effectively, in an amortized sense) discarding the algorithm altogether. I think that's formally known as the "just Google it" approach to optimization. :) From a DP perspective you can get O(N) from memoization on open-form Fibonacci, and no gain on open-form factorial, because the lookup table is ephemeral.
Do you think Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos were ever at risk of becoming homeless?
This is correct.

First, some background. The Green party in Germany has traditionally been anti-Russia:

Germany’s new political alignments paved the way for this revolution. Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) governs with the values-driven Greens and the liberal Free Democrats, both of which advocate a tougher line toward Moscow.

The Centralist SPD has in the past been pro-Russia, in particular under Gerhard Schröder:

Faced with indefensible Russian actions, the “dialogue” wing of the SPD has seen its arguments crumble. The most visible advocate for pro-Russian positions, ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of the SPD, has come under fire from the entire party leadership for his positions on the boards of Russian energy corporations such as Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and just recently Gazprom (although that is still pending). Schröder has in a matter of weeks gone from being one of Russia’s most valuable assets in Germany to a political liability.

From https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/27/putin-war-ukraine-germa... which has a lot of useful background.

It's green groups within the SPD that were funded by Russia, not the Green Party. From the originally linked article:

It is the creation of Manuela Schwesig, the state’s Social Democratic premier, who is an ally of Gerhard Schröder, Germany’s former chancellor and chairman of Nord Stream II.

Schröder has been attacked by political opponents for his close relationship with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president
This is just my experience. But I can point you to handful folks from my circle whose friendship worthiness depends on belonging to one of the "dominant caste". In fact, I can also share an anecdote when person A was really fond of person B since B had last name that sounded like one of "dominant caste" last names. Once person A came to know the subtle difference in person B's last name, there was noticeable behavior change in person A.
There is so much more to software development than just data science.
I think you haven't been introduced to any interesting systems projects.

Maybe try to work on a database or a compiler for a few months if you can manage the time?
OS projects work too, but it's more difficult to readily find interesting OS projects nowadays.
The mujahideen also had the mountains of Afghanistan. Anyone who is under the illusion that Ukraine can mount a similar insurgency to the afghans has not studied much history.
There's nothing worse in an American sports league than being the best team not in the playoffs.

Well, maybe being a perennially mediocre team in a state with high income taxes, maybe. Or a Canadian team when the dollar is strong.
> Windows can be installed on any computer, whereas macOS requires purchasing Mac hardware

Running Windows natively requires an Intel PC. an Intel Mac via Boot Camp (but I'd advise buying a two-button mouse with a scroll wheel if you do that), or a subset of ARM PCs for which Microsoft provides ARM builds. That's definitely not "any computer" or even "practically any computer."
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I'm well aware of your long held opinions but really we are advocating on behalf of people who believe the web is the future. Additionally we believe in competition and browser choice. There will always be others who think that other platforms are a better option, but as long as there is open competition, the best platform will win.

Our aim is to remove barriers and we will fight any anti-competitive behaviour by any operating system or browser vendor but in a priority order.
Why are you taking it out on the people?
There are conflicting reports on that. From a Reuters journalist in Lviv: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/t4ebff/comment/h...
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I see you haven't worked with the joy of gradle & modern Java development. By the time you stack up gradle, javac itself, proguard or for Android R8 which are basically required to fix the terrible bytecode javac produces, some annotation processors because WHY NOT, custom build plugins, etc... it gets big
Not true. Every gun has an ID registered to it.
GitHub needs to disable its Roskomnadzor filter
I understand that the .dev TLD is not supposed to support unencrypted HTTP (i.e. it is HTTPS only), browsers are supposed to know about this, and in fact the main ones supposedly do.

I wonder if we could also have a .restricted TLD that doesn't support javascript, the more invasive of these CSS hacks, transclusions of any sort except from the same domain, or cookies persisting longer than the browser session. That would make it a lot easier to have reasonable security assurance about pages with private contents, at the expense (or rather, the added benefit) of not being able to have blingy javascript effects on the page.
Yeah, but does that stop someone from starting their own company and hiring talented people in the same boat, as countless groups have done before?
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Lmao. It's stupid and I don't see how it's going to work. How many people that cut their children's hair to save money are going to buy into virtual haircuts? Lol.

Zuckerberg is a case of an elite dumbass surrounded by yes men where everyone in the room has so much money they can't fathom the idea of needing to choose what to spend it on. In their world, you simply buy everything you want.

I think it would be neat to see an attempt at it though. I would love to go into a VR world where I could see how many people are wearing the default clothes and haircuts vs people paying for virtual goods.

Is a virtual suit tax deductible? Imagine creating a virtual clothing manufacturer in a tax haven and having your US company buy $2k virtual suits for the entire staff. That's instant profit shifting and tax avoidance.

Would they have IP protections for virtual goods? Who owns a plain black tee shirt in VR? What's the difference between a designer purse and a knockoff in VR? Will people inspect my avatar to make sure I'm wearing genuine Calvin Klein (TM) (C) (NFT) underwear?
That's very strange. I'm too lazy to factory reset the Sony tv I bought this year to try it, but here's a link to a "q and a" from Best Buy saying someone set up my model without Internet during a hurricane, and Sony themself indicating it works without Internet.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/questions/sony-77-class-bravia-...

So assuming you are software savvy enough to not have missed the correct prompt, I have to assume there was a bug with the firmware version you recieved.

Some people like my 92 year old Grandmom don't have internet, and it would make no sense for Sony to have to deal with returns from them.
Just reading the replies to this thread it's unbelievable how out of touch people are with how software development happens in most of the world. I can guarantee that there are many companies in India where the entire engineering department has less than $1000 worth of hardware combined.
>I come from a low caste. The only folks who have asked about my caste and asked if I am from a higher caste are white Americans due to my vegetarianism (voluntary for ethical reasons).

Because other Indians will identify your caste based on your last name, food habits, dialect, your family business (etc). They don't need to ask you.
It must be great to live a life in perfect control of your impulses. Alas, as a mere human, being able to turn off all notifications, also means I can turn them back on when I get bored with what I'm doing.

Purposefully putting myself in a situation where any dopamine rush is more than a click away is one of the best feelings I've had in years. So yeah, I'd consider that a feature.
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E.g. how they implement CSS-only sidebar, with a custom checkbox: https://lanyon.getpoole.com/

I use this theme, because I disable js myself.
> This is not true (very easy to prove it’s false)

Please prove it's false.
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No, that is not what I’m saying at all?
Have you worked with SwiftUI or Jetpack Compose? The new tooling for mobile development requires basically building the app to simulate the layout engine. And when you're building interfaces, ideally you want < 1 second updates so you can tweak things that don't lend themselves perfectly to foresight and analytical thinking - you just need feedback. Jetpack Compose in particular is atrociously slow. When was taking 10 seconds before Android Studio would register my keypresses, I knew it was time to upgrade to M1.
> -Ofast to allow lax numerics

Please don't do this if you want your results to be reproducible.
> I don’t think so, at least not necessarily, because they are not part of Russia’s historical core.

Putin referred, in his war announcement speech, to the USSR as a historical Russia, and blamed it's leaders for allowing it to fall apart, implying that reversing that was among the goals of his efforts; his idea of the “Russian core” appears to be the union of former Soviet and Russian Imperial territory (possibly not including the North American holdings, but who really knows.)
I'm with you. As beautiful as it is IMHO it's too reliant on the mouse and has no obvious keyboard-only navigation. But, also, it seems like the mnemonics are there, just buried. I would like to see that stuff front and centre and on by default if not obligatory.
Putin has managed to get the EU to be pretty much united on a subject, that's something that I never thought I would see in my lifetime.
I think it is true. How can you easily disprove it.

Myself, from a more privileged background, was not even aware of the issues “on the ground” until I saw and lived it for myself. It’s very easy to see where personal bias can cause one to overlook or fail to notice the experience of others.

Is your objection to privileged background failing to notice privilege, or objection to the notion of privilege itself?
If the video game market is growing, that means the quantity of people playing games is increasing. Perhaps what's really happening is that a new category of players are being captured by the modern video game market, and that 'old school' video games are still alive and well. I mean, there are still great video games being released. Maybe the audience for those hasn't really changed in size as much.

A year or two ago, I watched @shroud (on Twitch) play Squad. I'm not a fan of playing shooter games, but wow it was quite a spectacle to watch! There were tiers leaders on your team to report to and receive orders. Anyone could pin enemy locations on the map. Every squad worked as a team to capture territory. The play development was entirely organic. etc. etc.

If anything, I hope someone carves out the 'old school' market from the belly of the beast and creates a name or brand that that market can rally around. It seems unnecessary to be concerned by the modern video game market. They are catering to an entirely different type of player. It doesn't matter that it's more profitable if they aren't taking away your audience.
> Seems like a lot of work to offer a less functional alternative to a VISA gift card purchased with cash.

Not sure about Taler. But with Chaum's DigiCash from the 90s you could do micropayments and other fun stuff.

The blind signatures gave Alice a way to pull out some amount of her "Cipherbucks" or whatever from her bank. Then she could PGP them to Bob, who could "uncryptography" them and redeem them at OverTheBorder Bank(tm).

If I read correctly, Alice nests a unique number in her sealed thingy, and the the banks would keep an append-only record of these unique numbers. So it's something like this:

1. Alice's bank knows she made a request for $X cipherbucks

2. Bob's bank knows he made a deposit of $Z cipherbucks

3. Bob's bank knows the deposit is good because the unique ID isn't already in the database

As for your question below-- doesn't that satisfy the "Know your customer" rules? It's functionally equivalent to cash so I don't see how it wouldn't

Edit: I'm not sure of the properties of the transactions, so maybe $X and $Z have to be equal? No clue. Still, you get the idea...
This is an incredibly cynical view. The purchase of that gas directly leads to the murder of Ukrainians and the death of democracy.
Who watches all the crappy superhero movies instead of great cinema?
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There are also other factors at play, such as that there are a lot more funds available.
Ignite works as you describe:

https://ignite.apache.org/

I wouldn't really recommend this approach, I would think more in terms of subscriptions and topics and less of a 'database'.
>"do no evil"

iirc "don't be"

>used to

they have
Are John Deer and Tesla still remote disabling cars if they've been repaired by an unapproved facility?
That press release links to a journal article in Nature. I can't read the Nature article because it's paywalled, but the same group published an article in Brain in 2014 where they said "We propose that the functional state of... motor neurons was modulated by the epidural stimulation, presumably driving them closer to their appropriate activation threshold, enabling intentional movement." [1] Basically, they're saying that the spinal cord was a bit blunted after the injury. Movement signals were fizzling out as they travelled through the injured area. The stimulator is giving the injured region of the spinal cord some extra juice so that it propagates motor signals further down the body. However, it isn't actually creating a signal de novo - that's still coming from the brain. As for the latest Nature article, based on what I can see from the abstract, it seems like it is an update where they used a computational method to decide where to place the stimulators and with which strength to stimulate. But it's still the same basic idea.

Another thing to note here. In the 2014 article, they mention that they only tried this treatment in patients who had an intact sensory pathway and an injured motor pathway. Kind of speaks to what I was mentioning earlier - the brain can't coordinate movement unless it gets feedback from the muscle. I would presume that this stimulator therapy can't help with the sensory component, which is why the researchers limited the study to patients with sensation.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999714/
Fair enough and I don’t disagree at all but I do think it’s a bit different to software development on that there is probably a limit to how far you can go without one firm spending serious money. As you say it may be Intel - which doesn’t really give me a warm glow.
I believe in competition and browser choice. But if your position was to win, we would immediately have neither. You are advocating solely for Chrome, whether you understand why and how or not.

Priorities are great to have, but yours are wrong and harmful. If you win, we all lose, and I fear you will come to understand it too late.
It's a shitty enough situation that some of those things would seem to be necessary in order to persuade your service provider to keep service up. Automatically billing your credit card for a few years doesn't really say as much.
They have skyscrapers. I would be terrified as a Russian soldier to walk in Kyiv. Only a matter of time until you get sniped, cocktail'ed -- or worse.
Then maybe you should go bone up on what has happened in the last week or so before commenting? Things have moved quite a bit compared to the state that you describe, to put it very mildly.
They probably think that being czar-for-a-week of a nuclear wasteland is something that's only attractive when literally all other options are exhausted.
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We want to open source as much of Socket as we can. However, our first priority is to build a sustainable company. This whole party ends with us losing our jobs if we fail to make this profitable.

As a maintainer I know how much time it takes to run an open source project beyond just writing code. There's triaging issues, reviewing PRs, answering questions, adding support for alternative operating systems/runtimes, and more. At this precise moment we just don't have that capacity, although I look forward to the day when we'll be able to share more of the code publicly.
If it becomes part of the stdlib, the update cycle will match the language. For now, improvements will come a lot faster as an external package
Developer happiness. Same reason my company doesn't make me fly economy when I travel. A cheap laptop says "drone on, you drones." A nice laptop says "we want you to be happy here."
Sure, in the same way that the confederacy's claim on the south is valid.
> The standard model does not describe the neutrinos. In the standard model neutrinos are massless particles, but in reality they are not.

That's a bit strong. The SM still makes good predictions for many processes involving neutrinos. We just know, since the discovery of neutrino masses, that the SM, or at least the original version of it (there are proposed mechanisms that can handle neutrino masses without modifying anything else in the SM, although they still have some issues), can only be an approximation regarding neutrinos. But the SM is pretty much considered an approximation (or, as it is usually termed, an effective field theory) anyway.
Thank you for a well thought out response. As I understand it, the LPR and DPR were actually funded by Russia to prolong instability in Ukraine. One of the reasons for that was because NATO wouldn't want to admit a country currently in conflict and that would suit Russia's interests.
Or drive there, the number of Javelins and RPGs in circulation handily outnumbers the number of tanks and armored vehicles. It would be like driving into a meatgrinder.
While we're at it, let's bring Active Desktop back, too.
I am worried they might create an uninhabitable belt on the western borders of Western Ukraine by nuking it with 10-100kT tactical nukes as they don't really care about people of Lviv and around and that would solve also their Polish "friendship" problem. A similar strategy was planned by French in the case of a war with USSR, nuking Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, so that the USSR army couldn't pass to Western Europe. I think all options are on the table, unfortunately.
Having your entire codebase and build process running on the machine in front of you has a lot of other efficiencies that an external cluster takes away. What about the overhead of syncing your code to the server every time you make a change, and getting the binaries back to test? What if you want to work from outside the office? What if the network connection is bad?
>>We generally should not give any advice to them

I disagree completely. Putin's decisions aren't the decisions of everyday Russians. And the Ukranian conflict is more complicated than the single-side narratives you are fed. Giving people advice is the morally right thing to do.
Russia is going to run out of money at this rate. This is not a rich country.
Sometimes you can't use OAuth because your client doesn't support it. If you ever run into that problem you might find my project useful - OAuth Hopper serves as a simple proxy that removes OAuth from services.

github.com/bjesus/oauth-hopper/
> None of them have significant money sinks with add on purchases. Most are modable, adding to their appeal and longevity.

over-monetization is actually one of the things that's ruining modding, because if you let players mod whatever they want there's no way to get them to pay 10 bucks for a vorpal sword +3 when they could just mod it in.

this is one of the major pushes away from story-driven offline single-player content at present, there's no safe way to monetize it. To monetize it safely you need always-online, DRM, and ideally it would be better if there was some minimal amount of "multiplayer" interaction (but not so much that you have to spend a bunch of money on servers).

the titles you've named are mostly old titles (Skyrim) before monetization really took off, or indie titles. To get an AAA developed these days it pretty much needs an online component.
> it’s the kind of method religions/cults/political parties use to indoctrinate

This kind of language ("cult" and "indoctrinate") is a conversation-stopper and does nothing to help anyone. If it's so easy to prove the idea is false, could you do that instead of using baseless invectives?
Necessity is the mother of invention. Kinda had to cook because my parents came home late while I was in middle school. Got hungry and my mom left meat out to defrost for dinner, so she asked me to make it. Watching my mom cook gave me a good idea of how it's done, and then emulating it was the rest. Knife skills are basically all a beginner needs to learn.

Yes, you will lose a few fingerprints, probably.
Russia can and in a way has won 'stage 1', the quick advance. But now they have to keep it, supply their troops and maintain presence and that is a very expensive operation in a country that really doesn't want you. Extra hard when it's cold you have no food and you're running out of fuel. Vehicles are being abandoned and there is plenty of evidence for self sabotage.
> It's used to study quark-gluon plasma

I'm not aware of any predictions it has made regarding quark-gluon plasma that can't be made equally well without it.
Why not? Because if they were to side with the "good", then they should stop serving their own US administration.
Off topic, but could you respond to my question in the Booking.com thread?
Such click bait.

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Don't smoke, don't drink, be physically healthy and active, continue education.

All good (common-sense) line items for actually making it to becoming an old person. How valuable this milestone is remains for the reader to decide.

Stupid fucking article.

Dear Arthur C. Brooks (author of this bin of an article): You are a content generation Tool.