skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the benefits of a capable JIT for numerical computing. Even including compile time, the overall execution time is way lower. Chris Elrod is an AVX2/512 whisperer.
RSA requires a lot of big primes to exist (so the search space is large), but doesn't require infinitely many. For each key size there's a maximum prime size that matters, and all RSA cryptography that's used in practice would work fine if there were, say, no primes with more than a million digits.
What ? Why? What is the use case your seeking that is undoable if you joined now compared to years ago?
It looks like it’s still under active development (on SourceForge!)

https://sourceforge.net/p/nas/activity/?page=0&limit=100#61f...
Writing proofs in proof assistants is still harder than writing regular proofs despite all efforts done to make it simpler, so I doubt that Euler would have managed to prove much if he tried to do it via computer programs instead.

Not to mention what it does to readability, humanity would never have gotten anywhere if mathematicians produced proofs looking like that. I'm not sure why programmers say mathematicians write hard to read stuff, when programmers trying to do the same thing comes up with that.
> Personally, I'm hoping all this share-everything is just a trend, that will pass by itself. Future users will look back at it with a sense of wonder: did people really post pictures of their food online? "Yep, and then we had buttons to tell each other that we liked seeing it. It was a weird time. Some people still miss it and argue we should go back to Web 2.0."

I expect future generations may well say the same thing about memes. "People thought that was cool???"
There are about 30 million coders in the world [1]

And about 80 thousand mathematicians [2]

So about 375 individuals programming for every 1 person writing proofs

If we assume this configuration is optimal, then my answer to your question is that if you had a group of 10000 people who like programming and proofs and have 9983 program and 27 write proofs this would be the best way to “accomplish more in life”

[1] https://www.future-processing.com/blog/how-many-developers-a...

[2] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/5485/how-many-mathematici...
Now it's actually used in this way with USB4/Thunderbolt 4.
>> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed by people with no knowledge of the respective fields, etc. ... The notion that all speech should be allowed actually seems stupid to me on its face, the more that I consider it.

Seeing this come from someone in the legal profession is deeply concerning, although I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a "Biglaw first year" is in favor of restrictions on speech that would elevate their corporate clients' interests over the public's.

It's important to understand history here, which you obviously do not. The Gutenberg press took the power of knowledge transfer from a small group of people (the church) and gave it to the larger public as a whole. You would argue that this did not accomplish as much as the internet has because people were still illiterate and writers still had to find a publisher; however, you are arguing quantum (erroneously, as well) rather than kind and so we should actually look at the quantum of change the internet has wrought. To do this we need to fast forward from the 15th century to the 20th and examine another technology that caused a fundamental change in the spread of information: radio.

Radio blew away your literacy barriers, and the early history of radio establishes that (prior to FCC regulations) nearly anybody could start their own local radio station. "Fake news" and anti-authority speech was rampant in the early days of the radio. There are numerous books on the subject and the government's attempts to rein in this speech, you can find most of them by googling the phrase "Radio Right." Along comes TV, and sensationalism grows along with people's access to information.

Now we can accurately compare quantum. Did the internet bring about as large a change in conditions as the Gutenberg press? That answer is not so clear cut as you have argued elsewhere here. The Gutenberg press took from the privileged few and gave to a much larger class of people. The internet took from a larger privileged few (radio and television) and gave to a much larger class of people. However, similar to the Gutenberg press's problems with literacy and access to a publisher, the internet's impact is diminished by its own barriers: access to the internet at all, access to electricity, and literacy (English is not the world's language, after all).

The history of mass communication is not as black and white as you seem to suggest, and it is certainly not as barren of important movements forward. Where we are today is just the end of a long, slow march towards giving the public more free speech and access to information, a march which has been subverted and fought by governments every step of the way. The government's primary way of fighting this has historically been the "rule of law" that you so passionately advance as the reason for our current situation, but you could not be more off the mark. The rule of law is malleable and its use changes as populism waxes and wanes. I urge you to become more educated on the history of mass communication.
Failing to answer Leetcode questions doesn't mean anything is wrong with you. Many will be difficult without spending a lot of time practicing similar problems.

If they were "easy"-ish Leetcode questions, it might not be a bad idea to practice some basics.

Many interviewers are looking at your thought process and ability to transfer your ideas into, not just whether or not you solved the problem.
In some places it's not the capitol getting sacked but villages of families of a certain ethnicity. All because someone knew which button to push and had that ability to amplify it in social media.

"Free speech absolutism"? Sounds more to me like ignorance that there are literally teams of data science monitoring social coordinated inauthentic behavior to nip mob violence in the bud. No I don't want Elon Musk anywhere near them.
Debian doesn’t work any more on PPC Macs, nor does any other Linux distro I’m afraid. At least I couldn’t find one when I was looking into this recently that was actively maintained.

Of course you can go with an older version of Debian.

Or you can give FreeBSD a spin. Still works nicely on those old machines, including the latest versions! (NetBSD and OpenBSD work too, but they are harder to install and their boot loader is pickier.)
It's a mental exercise similar to watching a movie."Willing suspension of disbelief", it's called. Why would you care whether Mr. Big Muscles is winning or not given that he's just pretending to be the hero of the universe?

From the Chinese perspective, what their government is doing to the Uyghurs is justified because terrorist separatist muslims. And anyway, from the Chinese perspective, nothing really bad is happening to the Uyghurs anyway, they're just being reformed into good citizens.
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I'll plug my employer: RideCo

We are a microtransit firm out of Waterloo, with operations across North America. Not quite T-town, but still a fine place to live and work. Company is about 80 people across engineering/business/ops. I'd say about 30 engineers so far.

Our team is looking to grow and we need full-stack talent. Python (Django), Angular and Postgres shop. The problem space is interesting and our product gets a lot of love from our clients. We actually just hired an EU employee who is working remotely and plans to relocate, so that is definitely an option.

We do a lot with a little and I've worked alongside some brilliant people here.
yes, general purpose, another expression for mediocre or garbage.

i think BT wwas first designed for exchanging photos. so mass storage transfer. it should have been designed for streaming latency sensitive data like audio first, and then the “easier” scenarios could have been built on top of that.

at least with USB there was the common sense to include ISO transfers although drivers for that in OSes happened relatively late and OS vendors have ignored the standard for many years, requiring the purchase of analyzers.

in that regard there is similarity with BT but with USB it seems easier to come up with a solution as a firmware/driver/application developer. at least in my experience.
The support reps are nice and will talk to you but can't do much. My experience has been the following:

I have Google One and it annoys me that the new Drive client automatically adds a shortcut to my favorites in Finder and Explorer everytime I restart my computer. Google has been made aware of this a year ago according to threads in their product forums from about a year ago (they have thousands of upvotes). They haven't done anything about it and I haven't heard any feedback from the request that the support rep forwarded to the product team.

So from my POV it looks like they have support staff that answers to your request, but they have basically no power in the company and can't make any decisions. They probably send their request into a void where they get ignored.

My guess is that the only way to work with Google as a business is to buy their services over a major partner that generates tens of millions in revenue per year and has a personal relationship with account managers at Google.
That's true, and is the case with Facebook as well. I'm mostly commenting on the overall effect Twitter has had on civilization, and not so much that on the individual level. If Twitter has enriched society, I've yet to have noticed. In contrast, at least Tesla makes electric cars, expensive they may be, and even Facebook Marketplace is an improvement over Craigslist.
Yes, you can block malicious actors and still be a proponent of free speech.
Considering the privacy issues related to Whatsapp handling of personal data (e.g. contact info sent to Meta servers, message metadata collection, etc.), why not using Signal, Matrix, or something alike? Or is it too difficult for them to use something else than Whatsapp?
It's simply software engineering malpractice to have ever sent any of those keys to the client.

There is no excuse.

It is a well-solved problem to handle secrets; there are better and worse solutions. An environment variable for a server can get exposed if the server is hacked; a secret sent to a client is exposed the second the server goes live. One of these is much worse than the other.

There are also better solutions than environment variables. A competent team would be aware of many options. Whoever coded this is not competent, full stop. It's not that they didn't finish; these services should never have accessed from the client at all.
What you describe matches exactly my view on webdevelopment. Every click is a new request (with some exceptions, which prove the rule). Instead of jumping from document to document by clicking a link, it becomes one big flow with fast page loads. If you have fast page loads (easily done with PHP), it feels and behaves like any other application.
Whether you can make a snapshot copy depends on permissions I think.

But, yes, what I'd really like to do in many cases is to basically create a symlink to documents I know I'll be referencing/working with somewhere that they aren't mixed in with all the shared meeting presentations and the like I'll never look at again.
> and that if they did a bug bounty program, they'd go bankrupt.

This is why the bad guys win so often. Even companies that do pay bug bounties often pay very little compared to what exploits could be sold for.
> and there are plenty of products that are just as good.

Other than MS Office, what's a good suite providing all of shared docs, spreadsheets, email, and a cloud drive?
> I'm not sure capture would necessarily be all that likely. Assuming a flyby and not a crash, capturing a probe would require the captor to accelerate to the probe's relative velocity first. If you wanted to bring it back, too, you'd then have to decelerate back into a non-escape velocity with the captive in tow.

This is a really good point. If you can make your probe fast enough you reduce warning time and make it very expensive to catch.

> Energy from destruction tends not to be very organized. How would you use that energy for sending a coherent directed message that isn't even known in advance (assuming it would actually transmit some of the newly collected data and not just "bye bye")?

I was assuming a signal that could not be distinguished from an explosion much like how cryptography can encrypt a message that without the key can not be distinguished from random noise.

If one wanted to get really deniable about this you could just design a rock such that its shape and composition would reveal facts about the planets atmosphere based purely on how it explodes, e.g. the wave lengths of the light of an explosion vary based on oxygen content. If the rock doesn't explode on schedule you could conclude with some probability intelligent life intercepted it for study.
> Twitter became a negative-sum game of people competing to debase themselves in service of narrative in exchange for nothing but the approval of others who had already done the same. Unlocking that negative cycle can release a lot of captive value for everyone. The best way to do that is to connect great minds and scale them based on their revealed desires.

What are you even saying here?
Big tech’s highest-paid workers get real on an anonymous social network
I need to run an old DOS program that communicates with a 9-bit serial protocol that need an ancient UART. This hardware is nearly unubtanium.

I think a good DOS emulator could fake this with an external - say arduino - device on the wire. I emailed the dosbox crew about this but got no response. Any ideas?
Event hosting – do not always ask for permission
I try to tell people not to do that all the time. If the bandwidth is dropping and you start moving more you are just making the distribution of the bits worse during times where there needs to be less fluctuation going on.
I preconfigure all windows machines in my family, and take away their local admin rights. No crapware installs, no disabling of updates or defender. No microsoft accounts.

They get firefox browser with adblocker preinstalled. I manage their important passwords (eg fastmail) and trained them to rely on firefox sync for the recoverable accounts.

I use MeshCentral for remote
administration (amt)… its amazing for the price (free).

OPNsense firewall in all the homes. Unknown devices are isolated and egress over wireguard VPN.
Lower than all of the deaths caused by Mao? Really?

Also, if intent is the greatest predictor of future deaths (as opposed to just tallying past deaths), a chronically tyrannical regime looks way worse than a democracy's bungled retributive invasion.
Browser, text editor, terminal. Seems to me old ChromeOS can do that.
The "Grand Parent" commenter - that is, the HN user "snowwrestler".
The thing is though, I want what Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok have.

I want to see what my friends, family, and acquaintances are doing and how their lives are going. To know what is "trending" and be able to look at the same thing everyone else is looking at. The crowd-sourced news and immediate updates from people who are on the ground where things are happening.

This article spends a lot of words on "us vs them" and pining for the "good old days" without seeming to consider what the faster-more-intense version of "geocities neighborhoods" would be like.
I use Lastpass with my family. The Lastpass plugin for Chrome has been reliable and convenient for everyone. It took a lot of badgering on my part initially, but now everyone is used to the process. For emergency access, I have that stored safely and can access if necessary.
> There's also the other possibility that Twitter, as a product, is limited to a more niche audience than something like Facebook.

You state that as if what twitter is as a product is set in stone and delivered as a commandment. It is defined by the product people, engineers, and the executives of the company who have been doing a terrible job at that. If they were competent and the way out was to be Facebook, they should’ve been Facebook by now. FWIW, Facebook was not Facebook either. It didn’t have news feed before it copied twitter. Ironic.
Snowwrestler in this context, I've always taken it to mean two comments above whatever comment says "GP" (grandparent/grandposter of current comment). But I've seen GP/OP used in slightly different contexts which is sometimes a bit confusing admittedly.
You can't have regulatory capture if there's no regulation. They want regulatory capture so others can't join their party.
> Not quite web 1.0 but I do wonder if there's a market for services that are closer to early web 2.0 products.

It has for a long time been my position that technical people who are aspiring entrepreneurs (esp. those itching to practice building something) should just clone an existing product and wait for the original to change or shut down. Whenever I say "clone", I really do mean that, and not "our own take on solving the same problem". Gmail's interface changes for the worse, or Vine gets bought and shut down? Boom, there you are on day 1 of the backlash, ready to capture anyone looking to (or forced to) jump ship.

This worked so well by accident with Reddit being able to acquire the exodus of the Digg userbase that I don't understand why people don't try to do it deliberately. And in cases like Vine, due to the nature of abandoned trademarks, you could (eventually) even legally "relaunch" it under the the same brand. This is something that pizza shops do all the time, but it doesn't really happen in SV.
LBO with Personal Guarantee and Tesla shares as security is strong.
It's funny they manage to have resource quotas but folks around here claim they couldn't possibly add spend quotas.
Advertisers didn’t boycott Facebook because Facebook ads are a money making machine. They demonstrably work because of the depth and breadth of Facebook’s data targeting. You can’t compare it to Twitter; advertisers may be more willing to dump Twitter as a platform as it isn’t as valuable.
1. The "MoGas STC" costs money per plane to buy

2. It only applies to low compression engines, which is a lot of engines, but which also rules out most airplanes made since the 70s. There's a few exceptions, but not significant in terms of manufactured numbers to matter. (the STC you're likely talking about is the one that let engines run on 80 octane)

If the MoGas STC mattered then pilots would have adopted it because rec fuel (ethanol free gasoline) is significantly cheaper than AvGas
The constitution (including amendments) is almost unique in that it makes actual guarantees about your right to freely express yourself, even if you views are controversial and out of line with the views of the government. That doesn't make it divine, but it does make it special at the moment. Hopefully the rest of the world wakes up, but I see few signs of that happening (although Dominic Raab in the UK has indicated that freedom of expression will be the top priority when laying out the British Bill of Rights which has been promised since brexit).
Every second my brain spends thinking about this man is unsolicited.
Lawsuits from who? The shareholders are the ones who are voting here.
Funny how businesses weren't greedy a few weeks ago, and just after inflation kicks in they all become greedy. It's all about greed and nothing to do with money printing
1Password family and encouraging rental insurance that includes some form of identity theft help is literally like the cheapest way you help people. Anything past that and I simply don't want to be responsible for things
> It proves something that I am completely uninterested in proving. But as a program, it's a program that I am interested in running.

Interesting that you contradict yourself in successive sentences

By running the program, you, in fact, demonstrate that you are quite interested in proving whatever it is you wrote
USB suffers similarly but it’s not as bad IMHO
This assumes Musk is serious about his offer. Recently he did the same with Doge

_buys Dogecoin_
"TSLA will accept Dogecoin"
TSLA does not accept Dogecoin. Musk sells Dogecoin for a profit
"Jk"
I don't really follow Musk, what has he accomplished?
Not OP but they're likely using Whatsapp already.

I'm a big believer in Signal (I have a monthly contribution set up) but Whatsapp is far more common for most people to use.

I have convinced my older parents and siblings to all use Signal though, so I consider that a win.
> No, you can not create your own website.

Yes, in the US, you can. Giving me an example of one site that was booted off a small set of providers does not disprove that.

I do completely agree with you that having e.g. Apple be the sole gatekeeper of what users can install on their platform is problematic, but I view this as somewhat orthogonal to the Twitter censorship question. IMHO Apple should be required to allow users to install apps downloaded from alternative sources, however I still don't feel they should be compelled to host apps in their own store.

I'm not sure there's a great way to map the above opinion to Twitter -- maybe something like forcing twitter to become federated/decentralized would be the closest. But I am not convinced that Twitter is of the same size as Apple where we should mandate that. I don't regularly use twitter and I don't feel that we, as a society, are nearly as dependent on it as we are on phone manufacturers.
I think the point is that Amazon is already taking a percentage cut. If there is inflation, the prices of the good would be raised by the seller and that automatically increased how much Amazon makes.

Them increasing the size of the percentage-based cut suggests that the work Amazon does (logistics, selling access to the users' eyeballs) would be more sensitive to inflation than what the manufacturers and sellers do. Seems unlikely.
It’s ok but it’s slow compared to Apple Pay. It’s slightly better than PayPal but has issues when traffic is high. I basically never use it for high traffic releases as it fails more often than not
Now you understand why Musk followers are a cult.
Right but this kind of reasoning presumes a world where everything is equal, truth in unknowable, and our priors for two statements like "women should be allowed to vote" and "a woman's place is in the home and they are too emotional for politics [1]" are that they're equally valid and likely to be correct.

So I can totally understand why basically no moderation is in this world is appealing but surely we can do better than that. Who's gonna argue that the extremely racist "Obama is a Kenyan Muslim baby photoshop" is well reasoned take that isn't based in hate? So when I say I like having moderation I'm not arguing that I'm fine with literally arbitrary completely unaccountable moderation.

[1] This was a real anti-suffragist take in the early 1900s. Which is hilarious because 100 years later it's overwhelmingly the men in politics having public emotional outbursts.
If he's so rich and sport, buy twitter and build on the shoulders of a giant.
transitory likely refers to the fact that supply chains and production of "stuffs" halted for an extended period of time due to the pandemic.

The Feds made a prediction, where all else being equal, that they expected supply chains to free up "soon", and it isn't a systemic issue. They guessed wrong, as the world wasn't ready to return back to prior productivity levels. This prediction, however, isn't supposed to be used as a basis for decision making for the common person.
Yes I guess if you don’t build apps you have fewer security issues.