skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you don't believe they're doing it for votes

I don't believe they're going to get votes:
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/democratic-dominanc...

>I see politicians not outright saying this is the goal, but they cheer it on, because they anticipate the demographic changes actually changing voter demographics.

This started happening recently as a way to get attention. Before the engagement algorithms, you mostly if not only heard about it from that elitist faction of the Democrats that doesn't want to bother engaging with the noncollegiates.

>I've been asked why American politicians keep encouraging people to come up to the US.

Joe Biden was literally on TV saying "Don't come here". "Encouraging" is misleading language at best.

>Maybe they aren't actively encouraging immigration, but the people that I met and my relatives in Mexico seemed to think so.

Mexicans aren't huge fans of US immigration policy. Net migration to the US from Mexico is very small and sometimes negative; immigrants come from Central America through Mexico to the US. Mexicans blame the US for the difficulties they have with those people, and may be inclined to exaggerate our influence over the situation.

>why

Ultimately, it comes down to the political chess game that is American two-partyism. Democrats' immigration policy appeals to two subsets of their voter base, which, most importantly, are willing to change their behavior because of Democrats' policy position. The uncomfortable reality of the American political system is that it tends to screw over people who are loyal to a party. But immigration liberalization appeals to two "swing" caucuses:

- technocracy-inclined Democrats who like growth-promoting economic policy tend to support immigration and are willing to vote Republican if they perceive the Democrats as too welfarist, and

- globalist radlibs and a few Trotskyists who view nation-states and borders as inherently immoral and might not vote at all unless they get immigration loosening.

There's also the recent problem where Donald Trump froze aid to Central America that was meant to disincentivize migration by making staying put more attractive:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/17/7612661...

In this case the aid was too small to be a real problem for the federal budget, so it seems easier to interpret it as one of Trump's spiteful maneuvers (see also: telling Georgia Republicans not to vote in the Senate runoff). Democrats have been reluctant to criticize this obvious foible head-on because it would annoy the aforementioned swing caucuses -- in fact, Biden tried to talk about Obama's success in curbing illegal immigration but was harangued for doing so in the Democratic debates.

In short, the duopoly sucks, support the Alaskan election reform.
> Like what does a 12 year old who finished the curriculum do for the next 6 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doogie_Howser,_M.D.
I would also love more data on this, preferably before the next pandemic.

There was data from many flu pandemics. It led to the standard public health recommendation being against school closures. One more thing that just got tossed out without a moments thought for COVID. And no, COVID is not so novel that all prior knowledge of viruses and respiratory disease became irrelevant.
> I realize that "sexualized" is subjective but that's how it looks from my pov. To each their own ofc.

I wouldn't open this blog at work. I certainly wouldn't buy a children's book with this type of art in it.

You must have to admit that little red riding hood is usually depicted a lot more modestly.
I'm not talking about the technical complexity of crypto. I'm talking about statements that cannot possibly have a binary answer, as any reasonable answer lies on a spectrum.

You can apply that to any complex divisive topic. Even harmless ones...

"JavaScript sucks"

Position 1: JS is pure evil, it should be eliminated or even banned.
Position 2: Everything should be built in JS, no matter the problem.

Both positions are absolute and extreme. They should both be distrusted as absolute statements tend to be false by default. In the rare case where they are true, extraordinary evidence needs to be presented and the commenter needs to be extremely knowledgeable and experienced on the topic at hand.

Applied to crypto, a statement like "web3 is a scam" should be translated to:

"I don't know anything about web3. I've never read any whitepapers. I've never used any of its products. I've never engaged with the community. I don't stay on top of news. Yet I did hear it is bad so I'll just parrot that and present it as fact."

I mean, look at the original article: "keep the web free".

...which incorrectly assesses how "free" the current web actually is, but aside from that: what part of web3 is taking away the current free web? Does the author think that web3 will uninstall the HTTP protocol? There is no threat, it's entirely imagined.
By ad supported I just mean that if you aren’t creating enough value for enough people to pay, you may be able to get money from ads. But if the site is growing in revenue consistently that’s great!
According to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy

biomass is 5% of "clean energy" which includes a 28% share of nuclear. Hydro is 43% and clearly dominates.
Chances are if you can afford a nanny you’re intelligent enough to teach your children well and the kids are intelligent enough to do well fairly independently.

Most people that home school…not so much, in my experience.
It couldn't have it's main missile defence system engage these missiles because it only operates in 180 degree sector and the ship was turned into opposite direction because it was alerted by a decoy force of Bayraktar drones.

CIWS could fire though, and apparently they did fire, but missed.
Alan Kay's answer to What is the origin of model-view-controller?
Using the open source firmware (QMK) that comes with most custom keyboard PCBs you can set keys to act as modifier keys when held or tapped. I set my capslock up like this so that when I hold it down h,j,k,l become my arrow keys and y and o become my home and end keys respectively.

Some PCBs support a split space bar too so if you tend to hit space with one hand the other can be used for a modifier and the home row can house all your commonly typed symbols which are normally out of reach.
SSN's aren't secret – so why do we continue treating them so?
It would be awesome if you could join in to hack!
> they could carry covid back home and hurt those elders in the house

So why not remote school just the children with elders in the house, and not hurt the others' schooling ?
Tesla owner breaks window to escape after car bursts into flames
What about it is sexualized to you, exactly?

I'm not saying your POV is wrong. I'm asking you to explain it.

EDIT: Since you edited your comment, I'll edit mine.

> I wouldn't open this blog at work. I certainly wouldn't buy a children's book with this type of art in it.

Why not? I don't see anything wrong with this blog post. I'd happily share it with colleagues and coworkers alike because it's useful information.

The only crowd that might take offense to the content here are cryptocurrency enthusiasts, because of the shade thrown at secp256k1. But, personally speaking, I'm okay with them being upset with me for sharing a link to such a thing.

> You must have to admit that little red riding hood is usually depicted a lot more modestly.

I'm not sure the same rules of clothing apply to cartoon animal characters as to real-life humans.

I certainly don't shriek if a coworker posts a picture of their pet cat at work without the critter being fully clothed.

What are the standards you're applying to this situation?

Also, the image you linked isn't included in the blog post about elliptic curves, so it's a bit weird to cling to it in defense of your initial reaction.
I get what you're saying. I know of a few digital agencies that list every client they've ever worked with, but not list what actual projects they worked on. In a huge number of cases, those projects were almost inconsequential. One in particular at which I previously worked has a website all about game development and VR, because they aspirationally want to work on those things, but all of their actual work has been tiny RoR marketing pages that a friend-of-a-friend farmed out to them as a favor. It disingenuously makes it seem like they built full VR apps for those clients.

I personally take every company's website that lists all their business divisions and all their clients separately without actually listing projects with a huge grain of salt. If you can't at least make a press release about a project, then what's even the point of listing those clients for those projects?
https://archive.md/yTfz2
For Claymore characters it's usually quite helpful to hit either 3 or 4 times (I don't exactly remember) and then dash to the side to prevent waiting ages for the animation of the final attack to complete, otherwise you wouldn't be able to start attacking again.
American here, lived in Europe a while, but back.

I got decent with meters. Recently, I've been thinking about ways to visualize a billion. Here's one:

There's a billion cubic millimeters in a cubic meter (cubic yard). If you take a meter (yardstick) and visualize the 1000 millimeters in it, then make a plane of that 1000x1000, i.e. a million, then stack a thousand of those, that's a billion.

I still can't get my head around it, TBH. A billion is a lot!

But "billion cubes" are a nice unit; you can stack up a lot of them to get more billions.
The legal owner of the Parthenon gave Elgin the right to take the marbles. The issue is that the modern day owners of the Parthenon dont recognize the legitimatecy of that transaction. It's a bit more muddy than straight up theft.

I think the analogy to other historical issues is apt. Who is the rightful occupant of modern day Iran? If you could trace your lineage to an assyrian who owned a plot of land in Nineveh, and was displaced by the Babylonians, should you be able to kick out the current occupant? What if another person came along, and could prove their family owned the land under Babylonian rule but was displaced by the Persians?
> I started my PhD in Quantum Computing. Even though I basically didn’t have any previous knowledge about it

How does this happen?
While not a platformer, another example of a non-tiled, non-bitmap game is the Last Ninja series on the C64. At the start of each level you can see the graphics being built up by drawing/painting operations.
Good for you! A PhD is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition in most career paths these days. It certainly isn't a ticket to guaranteed prosperity. The opportunity cost can be very high.

Especially with a major research mismatch in available advisors and personal interests like the author describe in the article, it can be especially daunting.

I wish them luck in their next steps. I remember how difficult it was at that stage in my PhD to find the right mix -- especially with potential advisors who left the school.
Difficult question indeed. And that even leaving aside the technical questions.

But wouldn't it be nice? Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, all together? Or always cross platform apps? Is there any real benefit for the user that they are not interoperable?
After WW2 European countries came to this conclusion that war between technologically advanced industrial nations no longer makes economic sense.

Obviously it all predicates on politicians making somewhat rational decisions.
Unreal Estate
I'm not really thinking of the health of the professional music class here, I'm thinking of the mental and social well-being of a generation of people who may never be even moderately proficient at music.
Part of the capabilities of the Marines is being able to move quickly and rapidly deploy anywhere which is useful in a shock or front line component to move in in front of slower sustainment forces like the Army.
I still use Bluebird library for things like property based promises resolutions and the map is a quick way to run only so many promises at a time instead of all of them or in series.
note when you find something that impresses you, it has probably been curated by an editor or an institution with standards, and follow that thread. And look for things written on a slower cadence than daily.

To start with, the NYT has traditionally been considered high-quality but since the internet age is torn by interests in attention-grabbing topics, controversial and contrarian takes, having SOMETHING to say about everything, and "being fair to both sides" (and to various class backgrounds) to maintain its "centrist" / "paper of record" industry position. Sometimes the long-form articles are high-quality, but often they are the way they are for some of those other reasons.

Every publication is going to have SOME bias, but as a starting point the Atlantic (leans left) and the Economist (pretty much defines Sober Neoliberal Center) are good. I like Harper's but it's more literary/essay-focused. A nice mix of substacks can be good. Most good writers will be annoying to you in some way, you have to put up with that for good informed writing, as opposed to "comfort zone" writing that is going to validate everything you feel by oversimplifying reality. E.g. I like Matt Yglesias' and Noah Smith's substack as news and as statements of a certain centrist/economic-realist takes, and good zoomed-out commentary on politics, but I find their contrarian voices on twitter annoying (:

In all the work is: finding writers you like, and resisting the urge to fall into things that are too comfortable or appeal to your "baser" tendencies, for informedness, to know what-to-think-to-be-on-the-right-side, etc.
Why higher edu institutions are so disappointing and mediocre?

I dont think ive ever heard good things about phd except the chance to work in cool places like e.g microsoft research
This is really exciting. Congratulations, Ghost team!

To anyone who hasn’t tried ghost and is curious, you really should. I can’t think of many other products as long lived which have consistently improved and stayed true to their goals. Not only that though, it’s actually nice to use.

I got my start in blogging on ghost almost 9 years ago and I’ve tried probably a dozen things. Ghost doesn’t get everything right or do everything the best, it isn’t right for everyone, but it seems the most well rounded to me.
Having a supervisor roughly in the field seems like a reasonable expectation though? The complaint is not having anyone to discuss the topic with...
Did anyone notice that somebody was filming him from the back with a smartphone (visible ~2:13 to 2:34)?
This anecdote is misleading. TJ is a magnet school with a formal application process. Students study for years to get into TJ. Although many of their sports teams are excellent, students don't go to TJ for sports - they just happen to be over-achieving outside of the classroom as well.
>I have exchange student friends from all over the world and I would 100% lose contact with them if I left certain platforms/apps.

Then those folks aren't your friends. Feel free to disagree (as I'm sure you do), but if such folks actually gave a rat's ass about you, they'd use one or more of the dozen or so other ways to stay in touch should you leave such social media sites.

I can't (and wouldn't pretend to) speak for anyone else, but I want to be around folks who want to be around me. And not all of those.

tl;dr: If someone's "friendship" is contingent on the use of a particular website/app, then they're not really your friend.
Keyboard meetups are common and give you the opportunity to try a whole range of boards.
It's an exploit no matter how you look at it.
> Use barriers. Many data-structures are safe if:

> 1. Everyone is reading at the same time.

> 2. Only one thread is writing to any particular location.

I think there is a missing point here:

3. Reads and writes do not happen at the same time.
This is pretty cool, and a non-obvious application of a Large Language Model. The only rough spots are those inherent in the LLM itself, for example for suggestions that incorporate "self storage" the results tended to waffle between interpreting it as online storage and physical storage facilities. Perhaps some hidden disambiguation could be added to the prompt.
Right, scheduled less because she didn't want to jerk off her boss.
> I see this changing soon. We will soon have small cheap drones that will take down nearby spotter drones and the balance will change yet again.

That's hard to imagine. You can do the spotting job with a $400 consumer device. No piece of autonomous weapons delivery hardware in the modern world exists with a price tag less than 100x that amount. Drones are simply too cheap.

If there's a reasonable countermeasure, look to ECM (though frankly modern broadband wifi is remarkably resistant there too, given all the "jamming" present in modern coffee establishments!) and not drone killers.
So in treacle mines[1] people mine for sugar from a prehistoric sea?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle_mining
>> but a bunch of new bugs had been introduced.

That makes me sad. We aim to avoid introducing bugs. I am aware of one open NURBS issue that is an actual regression where the model works in version 2.3 but not 3.0. Of course it may be affecting others too and we just haven't been told.
Ah, right. In the meantime, they improved the entry point config substantially. When v2 first started, there was no HTTPS redirect and no middleware config to be found on entry points.

Never bothered to upgrade my config because it still works.
> School ideally goes at an appropriate pace to challenge them.

I think it's impossible for school to go at an appropriate pace for everybody, because all students are different and struggle with different things. Half will be bored, the other half struggling to keep up. And in my son, those halves definitely overlap.

In primary school, he did every possible gifted program they had and then some, skipped a grade, and did all his regular school work in half the time the other kids had. And now he's struggling with everything, doesn't know how to start work, finish work or plan it (despite planning being supposedly a primary focus of his school), and he gets tons of failing grades mostly because he simply doesn't submit his work or misses his tests.
Reminds me of the standard advice of "don't roll your own cryptography." There are a lot of subtle nuances that make it hard to get right. When you have well-funded teams of absolute novices writing rules for complex games with money on the line, this is what happens. Rather than just having user accounts taken over and having to do a mea culpa, the reward isn't lolz or dark web money, it's actual money, and a lot of it.
FTA:

> In their complaint, lawyers for Kellar and Day argued that two particular steps of the attack violated statutes against market manipulation and computer hacking. One was swapping almost all the UNI tokens out of the DEFI5 pool, the otherwise irrational trade that distorted the pricing such that Medjedovic could buy tokens out from under Indexed users, who were forced by the algorithm to sell. “The only purpose of that trade was to mislead token holders to part with tokens on terms they never would have agreed to,” says Stephen Aylward, a lawyer representing Kellar and Day. “We say that's a form of market manipulation.” The same argument applied to Medjedovic's interaction with the CC10 pool.

> The second illegal transaction, they argued, was when Medjedovic overwhelmed the pool with free Sushi, thereby tricking the algorithm into letting him bypass the size limit on certain trades. Aylward calls this “an intentional act by Andean to disable a security measure, like disabling the security system at a bank.” He argues that this falls under Canada's “extremely broad” legal definition of a hack, which can be interpreted as “subverting the intended purpose of a computer system.”
Downloading a giant electron application which bundles Chrome and Xbox joystick drivers just to write to a flash drive feels downright criminal when there's a 200kb program that will do the same job already on your computer.
> how useless it is

Very often on HN, we see new stories about how Payment Provider X stole $$$ from some individual/group/business, ruining their lives. Or we see governments blocking bank accounts from doubleplusungood protesters.

I cannot understand how people see this kind of thing happen all of the time and then rationalize that there's no conceivable use cases for crypto.
So, what's your argument? That people won't buy nuclear energy on an open market or that an open market for nuclear energy doesn't exist?

In Sweden, where I live, about half of our electricity is from nuclear. It's built and operated by a state owned entity called Vattenfall and while they currently have a politically appointed board that is against nuclear they operate (for profit) all of our nuclear reactors. The only reason we don't build more is because they've made it practically impossible (not illegal) to expand nuclear energy through various political motivated decisions. Sweden had a referendum on the continuation of nuclear energy after the Chernobyl accident, we did vote, though by a narrow margin to transition away from nuclear. However, this past winter we had huge supply issues and people ended up having to pay 4x for electricity due to the premature shutdown of nuclear (meanwhile we had to power up oil and gas burning to compensate). Right now, most people in Sweden are of the opinion that we should keep our nuclear reactors. I, together with several others would like to us to expand our energy production from nuclear to prevent a reliance on oil and gas.
I'm not sure. If every halftime band show involved someone trying to desperately play a saxophone while swimming, I vaguely suspect more people would actually watch halftime shows.
I find it hard to believe that a flag ship of a navy that was repaired in 2020 and was set to be in use until 2040, was meant to be scuttled in 2022.

https://tass.com/defense/1173927
Unless you think that every single child was previously slacking off and is capable of effectively working double time without getting overwhelmed, then it's still a problem to be concerned about.
Any concurrent algorithm, by definition, has branches of computation that are independent of each other, and is thus parallel.

Any parallel algorithm, by definition, is a (trivially) concurrent algorithm.
Human intelligence is distributed, like everything else, on a normal distribution. Students at either end will have vastly different experiences. The low-end students, sadly, will never catch up. The high-end students will catch up easily, and may even enjoy the challenge. The really bad outcome is if the average student (e.g. +/- one sigma) can't catch up such that when this generation reaches employment age, there will be a noticable dip in education, roughly equivalent to skipping half of high-school.

Why didn't schools keep going during the pandemic, but outside or in very well ventilated buildings? This is what New York did during he Spanish flu pandemic, and it seemed to work. (It did look cold, though).
100 reasons not to go to graduate school: http://100rsns.blogspot.com/?m=1
This is the best solution. Leave the pixel sliding to the computer, and focus on code instead. And it works when the font is proportional, too!
Not for a PhD, but I had similar feelings about supervision for my internship. When I was starting off, it was hard for me to tell how much initiative I need to take versus how much my mentor should guide me. He was always busy and at times I felt like there was no need for the role I was hired for.

In hindsight, I feel like my mentor should have guided me a lot more than he did. But it's hard to know that when you're just starting off, and you tend to blame yourself for not taking enough initiative (even if you are).