skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I didn’t really want to sell it. I’ve had the same email address for 28 years – it’s like family,” he said.

This would be the biggest concern for me. Would you trust yourself to update the email address with every single account/organisation you've registered it? I use my personal email even for government-related stuff, there are hundreds of places where I've used it. I wouldn't trust myself enough to relinquish my domain for any amount of money.
Constraint solvers are indeed powerful tools, but 8M cases is just not that many. I don't have a python terminal handy, but I suspect that a brute-force triple for-loop wouldn't take more than a second.
Only $200 in your checking account is just logistically a nightmare. If OP has any autopay set up they’re very likely to overdraw
I'm working on it. I recently redesigned the landing page and plan on adding more info soon. I don't work on CubeDesk full time so it's mostly after work or weekends when I can make improvements. I'd like to add a whole help/docs section soon with all this info.
This one is my personal favourite poem for a troubled time[1][2]:

GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

[1] Video version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVaF6TkSUU (highly recommended due to voice)

[2]Text version - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata
It seems like there are ways he could have made that point besides obviously lying.

I'm not really defending or attacking Bitcoin at all in my statement. Just simply pointing out that he isn't being honest here.
Today? You don’t think that when people were writing kernels back in the day that they were not dealing with CPU “APIs”? Etc etc.
> All I think about sometimes is how we'll begin to see famines spreading across poor countries

Begin to see? I think I've found you problem. Life is not a Disney movie. Imagine, as a thought exercise, you are living in the Middle Ages and are just now realizing it.

Now, go tilt at them windmills.
Mockumentaries, e.g. Spinal Tap. It seems like everybody loves these movies yet they give me migraines. The brain pain these movies cause me is so strong, I hesitate to even bring them up. Even thinking of them makes me wince. I didn't know "painfully unfunny" was a literal sensation until I saw Best in Show, and all subsequent mockumenaries I've seen have been just as bad if not worse. I now refuse to watch another for the rest of my life.
Modules were added to C with 10 lines of code:

https://nwcpp.org/April-2022.html

https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html#__import

The same technique could be used with C++.
I dunno, as long as there is no contract I dont see why he can’t reconsider. I mean, offers are retracted all the time
Apparently not true - https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1520453770655805440

This is from Eric Berger of Arstechnica, who's been doing in-depth space tech coverage for ages. Probably most well-informed journalist in the subject area.
An update on our recent service disruption – 1Password
I think he's referring to the president of their crypto arm (not the whole company) who was an engineering intern when he originally joined the company 5 years ago.
> Why is it crypto people are so gross?

Yeah, I don’t get how they see this as a good move.
This is a common tactic when one of your accounts is frozen to ensure that you can't withdraw or use it as collateral in a loan. My guess, his account was frozen for suspicious activity or because of a request from some government agency.
Not in the standard, but the language does support it: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_79_0/libs/parameter/doc/htm...
Wait, but what if you have

std::string str1{"Apple"};
std::string str2 = std::move(str1);

Isn't str1 in an invalid (err, unspecified?) state and you shouldn't use it? It's not `null` sure, but it's not good to use.
You're giving power to those thoughts, you need to stop. Focus on the stuff you can do, at the local level. Join a maker space, reading group, poetry slam, photography forum, whatever.

Local action, local attention. Focus on the things you can help make better.

PS: I'm 58... it's always been like this, yet we find ways. Look at how fast electrification of transport is moving now. Renewables are growing at a rate that I wouldn't have thought possible in my youth. Soon, the focus will shift from weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and into, "What can we do with all this cheap energy to make life better?".
In addition to the aforementioned items, I've recently accidentally discovered that I sleep way better with earplugs. Silicon ones (they require some know-how when it comes to putting them in properly, which is mostly a process of trial and error) work best for me, because of their comfort and decent sound insulation. I'm apparently sensitive to all the small noises around me (refrigerator, random street sounds, etc).

Another thing that helped me is reducing my water intake (this might vary a lot per person). I suspect I had a form of electrolyte imbalance, because I've been drinking a lot of water, but still felt thirsty quite often. I've learned that balance is key when it comes to hydration, so now I drink a bit less of fluids but as a result feel overall a lot better. I also try to include more of magnesium and potassium rich foods in my diet.
You keep bringing the argument to the literal definition of “no difference” which no one is arguing against you on. One is heigh and one is race. They aren’t literally the same thing but it’s also clearly not what is being compared here.
Go live in Bangladesh for awhile. When my dad was growing up in a Bangladeshi village, 1 in 4 children died before age 5. (Even then, he remembers a happy childhood!) Today it's 1 in 40, about the same as the U.S. was in 1970.

People in America are "losing hope in humanity" because of things like the impact of climate change in Bangladesh. But folks in Bangladesh know that the 15% of GDP that's at risk under an RCP 4.5 scenario (https://www.reuters.com/world/climate-change-putting-4-globa...) is actually only a few years of growth, compared to the immense strides the country has made over the last few decades.

I'm quite partial to this prayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer

> God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

It was popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, but I think it conveys an important truth about reconciling yourself to the human condition.
What is the average person actually storing on their iPad, though? Photos taken with the iPad, maybe?

I think for most people it's just an expensive, nicer Chromebook. Everything they want to consume needs an internet connection anyway.

If you're a creative or just a nerd, then sure, you'll need to spend more money to get the specs you need.
That's a great review. It still blows my mind that someone much better educated and likely to have greater intellectual horsepower than myself could be so "stupid".

My guess as to "why" would be childhood programming that instills a warped view of the world that is beyond questioning.

Tangent: I worked for a blockchain startup that was run by "true believers" and they only used the technology so that they could tell investors that they were a blockchain company. They're bankrupt now.
>I wouldn't trust myself enough to relinquish my domain for any amount of money.

any amount? For 60k you can probably hire an assistant full time to go through all your emails/browsing histories and switch them over.
What are the options? Get -8% on your checking or savings or a very volatile stock market return? It’s perfect for saving for a down payment. I’d still of course max out 401ks and such in addition
Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art and Architecture (2008)
I'll try to do that the next time I'm going to create a banking product combining the services of the reserve bank, the tax authority and the stock exchange in my country of 4 million people!

Well, I suppose it's a bit of a choice to work on that kind of product, but an awful lot of economic activity stems from that kind of product.
Not the exact same but some similar work on wind: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/machine-learning-can-boost-the...
Sounds like the domain owner threw out what he thought was a preposterous price that no one would accept, in attempt to get the buyer to leave him alone.

Little did he know that Jump Trading has already spent $300 million propping up the legitimacy of this blockchain.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/crypto-network-wormhole-h...
Arc from 3 points, add tangent/normal to a curve on a determined point, measure length of polylines and splines, measure area of polygons arcs and ellipses, measure angles, library of elements, all the 8 snapping modes and indication of what each mouse button will do.
I think Apple has lost its mojo when they have started to sacrifice function to form, to make their Laptops even thinner. Remember the "revolutionary" butterfly keyboards that could not survive outside a clean lab? That was the moment.

Btw, the watch struggled rightfully so, because the battery still does not last a day. I can imagine how hard it was to sell it as a fashion accessory. It needs daily care, charging at least one time a day. Staggering! I have a different smart watch product that lasts a week! Now that's a fashion accessory!
The world as a whole is better than it has ever been, by nearly every measure. Life expectancy, poverty, child mortality, preventable illness; access to water, food, shelter; deaths from war, genocide; governmental corruption - all of these are trending better for people today than ever in the past. The world, as bad as it seems, is getting better all the time.

As to your health and your outlook, make sure you have the physicals covered: eat well, sleep well, get regular checkups, stay active, curb or quit tobacco and alcohol. Have the emotional side covered too: stay social, indulge the creative outlets, keep in touch with family and people who love you.

And avoid media that trades on gloom and doom scrolling. We are primed to see the negative, so you have to actively seek out the positive, to counter that bias.
Wouldn't it be neat if programmers could take back the copyright on their code?
We absolutely can update this consumer facing portal, and I believe there is a Treasury team actively working to modernize this portal.

Personally, I didn't even know of this portal's existence until I signed up for an account and and went through the same process the author went through. I noted the same security theater and passed it over to my USDS team to see if there's anything we can do.

At first glance, simply replacing the front end is a solution, but there are bigger problems here that the author did not try. If one tries to change your bank account number, having typed in it wrong, they'll have to mail in a physical form to have it changed. As the author noted, going over $10k per year will also trigger unintended consequences that can span 8-10 weeks before the money is returned.

There are problems here that goes beyond just replacing the "front end".
I think we've found the potential buyer.
Malcolm Tucker in “The Thick of It” made extensive use of the word “fuck”, my favourite being responding to a door knock with “Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off.” - an impressive 33% fuck content.
That's an interesting point - this uncertainty seems to really show up when pulling from creativity to create something new. I'm reminded of the Gene Fowler quote:

"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
Had the same thought reading the title. If N = 8000000 and I only need the answer once, I'd definitely just brute force and like... count to ten.
I actually haven't had good experience with most of this on the graphic design and UI front.

If I'm building, say, a Rails web app, I want my front-end stuff to integrate with Rails reasonably well. Which means ERB or HAML templates with common elements properly extracted out into shared views, maintainable CSS in SASS, that sort of thing. What most of these UI services and contractors seem to actually deliver is something quite different.

99designs output is literally just an image of what they think your website should look like. Actually writing all of the HTML and CSS to make it actually look like that is up to you. It makes me think, why am I paying money for a picture of what my site could look like that requires me to do all of the actual work?

Most entry-level contractors seem to want to deliver self-contained HTML and CSS that are usually written with some tool that creates incomprehensible actual code. They have no clue about templating and extracting common elements out. This means that I have to basically rewrite whatever they deliver to actually integrate with the web app. Which again makes me think, why am I paying for this?

IMO, if I'm going to pay someone for front-end design work, I want to be able to point them at my Github repo, with a functional site with ugly basic HTML, say basically "make this look pretty", and they open a PR with their work which works with my existing templates to add the appropriate HTML structure and CSS classes and IDs, and CSS, fonts and images all in the right places for the framework I'm using. I'm willing to help and provide advice and guidance, but I don't want to take delivery of something completely unsuited and have to integrate it myself.

As a side note, if anyone's looking to get into web design, if you learn enough about coding to do the above and are also great at making websites look good, I expect you'll have boatloads of money thrown at you.
>It seems smarmy to quote an offer price without a sincere intent to sell.

Merryman is 79, and receiving emails about selling the domain he's owned for decades. He has never asked for these emails, and just wants to be left alone. He throws a highball offer, hoping they'll go away. He then clarifies that he doesn't want to sell, which he is of course fully allowed to do. Then they sue him.

I would say there are smarmy actions in here, but not on the part of Merryman.
Exactly. That's why it's data augmentation.
I got to learn and program Swift at my last job. We needed to integrate a C computer vision library into React Native, so Swift was the answer. I really enjoyed the language. I felt like it gave me a surprising amount of low-level control while still providing high-level abstractions and automated memory management.
I believe they do actually do something like this - until power and voltage delivery change, wide instructions are throttled independently of frequency changes (which on SKX involved a short halt).
It's his domain, he is free to change his mind for whatever reason.

He's not obligated to sell it for any amount of money, and he's definitely not done anything that he should be sued over.

He's free to be as greedy as he wants to be, and the company are free to either pay up or go away. But bringing him to court because "wahhh he won't sell to us" does seem ridiculous.
Well, I'm pretty sure you can't even directly sue over ownership of a .com domain? You have to submit to UDNP arbitrage first (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en).

It doesn't seem they even tried this in this case? So this should be a dismissal right away, albeit at great emotional/monetary expense to the original owner. Unfair, but yeah, cryptobros will be cryptobros, and any harm to members of society is just for the good of society, I'm sure...

(Later edit: so, apparently I'm wrong, and there is no binding arbitration clause. Still, lame action, and this seems the exact situation arbitration is designed for, especially since 'local courts' is not exactly well-defined for .com...)
That’s not equivalent. Code changes every day (potentialy quite extensive), but the same thing is not true for infra, which hopefully stays mostly the same from day to day.

If your incident reporting is down, hopefully you completely stop changing anything about your infra.
I think it is the person perceiving that transforms the work into art. If they can perceive the metaphor, why does it matter if the artist cannot?
Why is it crypto people are so gross?

Sorry to shatter your illusions, that's not specific to crypto at all. Disney lawyers are far less child-friendly than the company's content, and so is pretty much every major corporation. Just this week, I remember Zara (the fashion retailer) sueing a one-woman-run boutique named House of Zana. A bit before they also sued a women's empowerment business called Tara Sartorial (yes, because of likeness of the names). The number of tiny independents that Jack Wolfskin has sued for putting anything resembling an animal footprint onto pretty much any fabric is countless. We could go on here.
Yes, and at least at Amazon, they all pay much more than the $130K that it takes to be in the 90th percentile income level in the US if you are at least a mid level (L5) employee.
Ukraine war made hacking Russia a free-for-all
They come from messages broadcast in media culture, and people saying disparaging remarks about height non-chalantly. All these things are malleable.
It is not easy to say who is right here.

From the little information in the article, it looks like this is how it went down:

Jump sent an unsolicited email to Dick, offering $2500 to buy the domain.

Dick did not want to sell and phrased that as "The price for wormhole.com is a firm $50000", expecting nobody would want to pay $50k for it.

Can the latter be seen as a binding offer?

Given the sum of the circumstances, my feeling is that it can not. A one-line reply to an unsolicited email with a price 20x the initial offering is not really signaling a serious will to sell.
The context is important. There is cultural difference among countries and fields.

There is also the difference from types of communication, i.e. face-to-face or email or slack.

There is also the difference from the audience, i.e. who are you talking to, coworkers or clients.

There is even individual differences, i.e. different people will perceive differently, simply because their personalities.
Horn Clause
I'm part of the remaining 10 percent.
Just phrase it as a question

“Do you think this is too complicated?”

“Is there any way we can simplify this?”
All I can say is thank god most of the stuff I work against has the source published on Github, and most of the rest is in decompiler-friendly languages.

This leaves the completely inscrutable and mostly undocumented REST apis that I've got to trial-and-error at, and always ask whether I did something wrong, the other party made a breaking change, or its just a Tuesday and the infrastructure is derped up.
That’s an interesting take. And probably true. The pasta that cost three times as much probably isn’t three times better. But if you really want that 5% improvement in quality, you can get it by paying three times the price.
Well if that’s the case, I’d like to buy your house for $50k. That seems like ample compensation for you just changing your address and you should take it.

The point here is:

- someone with knowledge of something’s value tried to by something
- person who owned it realized that they didn’t know the value
- person realized the value and decided he wasn’t going to undercut himself.

Now in this situation, you’re calling the 79 year old man greedy, rather than the company being greedy? The company that is fairly-clearly trying to run an old man over with legal fees to steal something that they don’t own?
Bunnymark GL in Jai – 200k sprites at 200fps [video]
i finally got around to writing an opengl "bunnymark" to check how fast computers are.

i got 200k sprites at 200fps on a 1070 (while recording). i'm not sure anyone could survive that many vampires
at this point it's more than just money.

lichess is my go example for what you can do with community driven open source software.
I think many people over attribute to innateness what is likely caused by childhood upbringing and conditioning over time, which can feel like its innate.

See this article about an isolated tribe that has developed an ability to see shades of green other humans cannot: https://gondwana-collection.com/blog/how-do-namibian-himbas-...

Even if part of it is genetics, it shows even that is easily malleable therefore manipulatable for long term goals.
These bond purchases have a 1 year lock up so it’s not really built for rapid moves
I really think that banning and blocking Russian people is counterproductive. You just create more division and you don't really gain much.
You create more hate against the west and you give the rulers an excuse for what they're doing (You see? The west hates you, they don't even want you to play tennis etc.).
>Well, I'm pretty sure you can't even directly sue over ownership of a .com domain?

Why not? The whole story seems like a contract dispute, which most definitely is in the jurisdiction of local courts.
This is the normal course of events for a country that controls the reserve currency. What you're witnessing is the tail end of the American cycle, where inequality grows until the country destabilizes internally, and another up-and-comer takes the throne. It's happened again and again, with the British, the Dutch, the Portuguese, etc etc.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/2447275-world-reserve-curre...
These guys have specialized in building super low latency, line of sight microwave networks for trading, across multiple continents (chicago -> nyc, frankfurt -> london, etc):

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/hft-in-my-ba...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-08/the-gazil...

http://www.amsterdamtrader.com/2014/09/hft-in-my-backyard.ht...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...

They employ skills such as kernel driver optimization specialists to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of network card drivers.

What the fuck are they doing messing with this? Yikes.

edit - I answered my own question. These dudes specialize in arbitrage and being faster than everyone else. The crypto markets are insane with this right now. The professional frontrunners have entered the game.