skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only way to acquire bitcoin is to be productive and contribute to society

This actually made me laugh.
> XPATH is generally more powerful...

That is a convincing argument is you can back it up with an XPATH expression.
A lot of smaller cities have developed gentrified cores. Mind you, these cores can be pretty small. You may have a relative handful of restaurants and bars you like and they may lack some of the cultural amenities of a larger city. But I know a couple who just sold their presumably very appreciated house in a major metro and moved somewhere smaller.
There are many long-term risks with the rise of self driving cars, but this doesn't seem like one of them. It was particularly novel to the fire department because it was a self driving car, but practically no different than a double parked car that a driver isn't in (which I do see from time-to-time).

Long-term this seems like a very solvable problem given the ability to remotely operate the car.
Bottom line is - the union needs to convince the company to listen to them. If they don't convince the company, then the company can ignore them. That was the original question.
Upgrading from scalar to SSE vector, I often see an improvement by a large factor like 3-4. Sometimes, for smaller integer lanes or bytes, much more.

When upgrading vectors from SSE to AVX, the speedup is very rarely by a factor of 2. More often it's within 30-70%.

I never programmed AVX512, but I would expect for real-life code AVX512/AVX2 performance improvement to be much closer to AVX/SSE than to SSE/scalar.
What alternatives have people come across? I know there is waterfall: months of planning followed by months of implementation, followed by a single deployment at the very end. Then there is the gradient of in-betweens along the line of scrum to waterfall. I've not encountered any other methodologies yet.
Here are some books that I've read with some remarks which you may find useful.

- "Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction" by Piper and Murphy - This is a book in the Very Short Introduction series, so is a bit light on the math. If that's what you are looking for though, this is a good resource.

- "Cryptography Made Simple" by Nigel Smart - The choice of topics is quite eclectic (in the best way possible!). For ex. it is the first general crypto book I've read which talks about lattices (most post-quantum world crypto schemes are lattice based) and things like commitments and zero-knowledge proofs. Develops just the right amount of math to talk about a lot of different things.

- "Cryptography: Theory and Practice" by Stinson and Paterson - adequate, covers the usual topics (plus a chapter on post-quantum crypto).

- "Introduction to Modern Cryptography" by Katz and Lindell - basically a reference for the theory side of crypto. Quite math heavy (or to be more accurate, notation heavy, like theoretical crypto tends to be).

- "Real-World Cryptography" by David Wong - I have not read another crypto book which tackles as many topics, it has chapters on e2e encryption, cryptocurrency and hardware crypto. Is a bit too hand-wavey and doesn't properly explain the math sometimes, but it is great for self-learners and people who are looking for a book on topics not covered in other books.

- "Serious Cryptography" by Jean-Philippe Aumasson - from the No Starch Press stable. The exposition is quite good, and finds a decent balance between making it approachable and getting the details right.

- "Understanding Cryptography" by Paar and Pelzl - decent coverage of fundamental primitives (block/stream ciphers, public key encryption, hashes, signatures etc) but feels a bit outdated. For ex. there is a whole chapter on DES.
Having done both for 20 years, I would recommend staying on the back end. The whole front-end ecosystem is a mess in so many ways, save yourself frustration and consider learning something new that you think you might like instead.
German drivers generally do a good job of getting out of the way of emergency vehicles, but they're also incredibly aggressive drivers (rushing up to red lights, making turns within inches of pedestrians) who also routinely break the rules.

Like I don't think I've ever seen people driving on the sidewalk in an American city, but it's a constant in Berlin. During a recent fair (Neuköllner Maientage) we had tons of people driving into the park and just parking on trails, including right in front of benches. Even coming from another country with an aggressive, entitled car culture, that was breathtaking behavior.
I wish everyone did. Everyone is certainly encouraged to do that. I've found it to be pretty rare that someone brings it up within a day unless they're prompted somehow.
We could potentially enable clustering for the Open Source version. One of the reasons it isn't already is that our clustering implementation is currently AWS-specific, since it relies on the AWS metadata endpoint to look up a host's internal IP, as well as networking rules that allow hosts to talk to each other.

This is why Vault requires another piece like Consul (plus a whole lot of tricky infra/networking work) to achieve HA.

That said, we could allow users of the Open Source version to specify a url via an env var to look up a host's internal IP so that clustering would work.

Auto-scaling is provider-specific though, so I don't see how that could be baked in. Same with secure networking.

I'll also just say that while we do want the open source version to be fully functional (if a bit more DIY), another motivation for us that I see as equally important for a security product is transparency.

While it's inarguably crucial for any clients implementing end-to-end encryption to be open source, I think there's a lot of value in open sourcing the server as well (regardless of how practical it is to actually run) so that users can know what's happening on the server-side, see that the code is high quality and tested, and so on.
The main employer in DC is the federal government, and those jobs are paid for by the rest of the country's taxes...
Rough diagram of my understanding from information I can find: https://i.imgur.com/VOp8cWi.png

Fire truck wants to use oncoming lane to overtake the double-parked garbage truck, autonomous car in that oncoming lane yields to the right to the extent allowed by more parked cars - but doesn't back up into the intersection to completely clear the lane.
"Mathematics is not a spectator sport". No quote was more useful to get me through Uni, and enjoying it in the process. I'm a software engineer, not a mathematician.

That being said, a decade later I still catch myself often "glancing" over equations in papers and textbooks, and have to force myself to really look at them and check that I indeed "got them". I don't know what it is, maybe I just need more training/habit around it. There's a tendency for me to half-consciously say to myself "yeahyeah I'll get it from reading the text" or "I'll get to it later", which usually does not work.

For more important equations (Taylor, sinc function, all the variations of Fourier Series, Fourier Transform, DFT, DTFT) I actually write them down as flash cards in Anki and learn them verbatim. Yes, I have to understand them otherwise it's useless, but being able to just "make the equations appear" in my head to look at and work with them is invaluable.

Even after understanding, I won't derive the Taylor Series myself (and even if I did, I would not always want to repeat that), so the old adage that understanding is better than rote memorization is useless here.
The existing cars on the road make at least some of that regulation necessary or at least not unmotivated.

That and consumers tend to want a bigger car than their neighbour either for safety or bragging rights.

One thing that always annoys me in the UK is people who buy big SUVs because they live on wet leaves and maybe a slightly muddy road. Totally ruins a lot of British roads (and kills people), and keep in mind that all modern cars have been worked on by a team of vehicle dynamicists to make sure they are safe and stable in slippy conditions.

The number of people I've spoken to who don't causally understand why the car has a gearbox (and thus what gear to be in, in said slippy road) is too many.

F1 cars have also gotten a lot bigger this year due to crash structures since there were a few pretty bad accidents involving cars basically splitting in half recently.
There’s no appeal to authority or need for me to know the ‘intrinsic’ value of things. It’s up to individual people what they will pay for things, or sell them for. That’s what a market is.

Short term paper pays interest because it’s issued by people who need short term money and are willing to pay for it. There’s no central authority setting its value, no objective criteria, no law of physics, just actual people choosing to pay for something they need. Same with equities, same with bonds. Same with money itself.

As I said even central governments don’t set the value of money, only it’s supply, people set its value. That’s why the currencies in Venezuela and Zimbabwe collapsed. The people selling things chose how many ZB$ they wanted to sell things for, and buyers decided how much they would pay, and it turned to be a lot because there was so much around.

Nobody needs you to keep money in a mattress. It doesn’t benefit anyone, so they won’t pay you to do it no matter how useful you think it is to you. An economy with a significantly appreciating currency is set up to incentivise not engaging in economic activity, not investing and not lending isn’t going to work very well because those incentives have to be paid by someone somehow. Why would they do that?
How are you defining the proletariat in this sense? It seems to me that both the janitor and the OP are trading labor for wages.
My mistake, it's so easy to forget something in the first paragraph by the fifth.
I've seen with my own eyes an Argo AI car not pulling to the side for a Pittsburgh police car in downtown Pittsburgh on Liberty Ave. The police car had its lights blaring and was forced to go around via the oncoming lane. It was awkward because every other car on the road made way for the officer, but Argo AI did not.
It's odd to me that your apparent revenue stream is from scraping difficult-to-scrape sites and you're broadcasting the exact tactics you use to bypass anti-scraping systems.
You're making your own life difficult by giving Cloudflare/PerimeterX/etc the information necessary to improve their tooling.

You also seem to advertise many of the sites/datasets you're scraping, which opens you up to litigation. Especially if they're employing anti-scraping tooling and you're brazenly bypassing those. It doesn't matter that it's legal in most jurisdictions of the world, you'll still have to handle cease and desists or potential lawsuits, which is a major cost and distraction.
You ask really good questions in your comment. Some of them I've pondered myself, and it is hard to put into words. Everything being more extreme here in the US is actually a decent way to put it.

You can simply take a quick drive just about anywhere and notice it. There is some kind of sickness that has taken hold. I couldn't even begin to list all the reasons why I think this has happened, but American society to me seems so far past the point of no return. One example I have is that I commuted a good bit before the pandemic - anecdotally I noticed an uptick in road rage in that politically charged circa 2015/16' + year range. I'm not sure if the data would back it up, but things seemed to be spilling over into real life to me.

Going off on a tangent here, but I am prior military and also a gun owner with permit to carry concealed. I do armed security once a month and some extra days for special events here and there. I was raised around weapons and I vividly remember going out by myself at 12 years old with a rifle and plinking, hunting and whatnot. At this point I own mostly sporting rifles and do some occasional reloading. Everything is locked away and if something happens to me they will have to grind the safe open. It is safe to say that I respect guns and their capabilities a lot, but I don't feel that's true with a large amount of the gun population. I personally know several.

If there was some kind of miracle opportunity presented to me that all this violence would magically stop if Americans got rid of their firearms, I would take that offer no questions asked. I have small children myself and have had tears in my eyes several times this week thinking about the horrific act in Texas.

I've racked my brain several times over the years about this and have no clue what the solution could be on a grand scale. I don't think our politicians are capable of realistic debate to any kind of solution either - everything is so politically charged anymore and that tribal stuff defeats the whole purpose. I agree with certain points from both sides of the spectrum, but either way seems hopeless. I don't want to see anymore senseless killings, but I also need to have the ability to protect myself and my family in this increasingly sick country.

Stay safe out there.
It will be interesting to see how much of this is Bay Area spread.

We've had a huge number of people move to Santa Cruz, for example, so I've wondered how much of this might be the Bay Area getting broader instead of smaller.
people,

machines, crawling, storage, etc.
Keep going. Needs to drop another 50% or so.
or at least shitting in their backyards to convert them into NIMBYs
Not sure what gave you the impression I voted red or the authority to assert that I did.

When a Liberal federal candidate came to my door last election cycle the electoral reform about face was the first thing I grilled them on. I didn’t get a satisfying answer.

First past the post is not going away any time soon.
Yeah my point is that with the energy tech implied, you might just be able to take a moon or the Moon instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31534464
This program talks about the way the policies of food corporations have led to a crisis of obesity worldwide, particularly in regions where the multinational corporate food peddlers have gained a toehold.

But it ignores one thing, which is condition of people's bodies and that of their children is their responsibility not that of the food corporations.

It is up to people to learn about the body, about nutrition and actually "feel" their bodies moods concerning food and change it.

Parents should take more responsibility here and press for cheaper healthier food, which for the most part involves substituting low starch vegetables starchy for grain, tubers and sugars.

I've seen some Tiktok videos about Americans who say migrating to Europe for work, they lost 40 pounds without changing the amount of food they ate, so US corporate food is to blame here. But still the effort and the responsibility and the persistence begins with parents.

Companies will always be companies, which is making as much money as they can within the legislative and regulatory frameworks, the laws and frameworks which they are always instrumental in creating and shaping, and find loopholes around.

Parents and consumers must be aware of this. Corporations are out to make money off you even if it harms you and your kids and leads to your premature death.
if you want 1% fewer driving tragedies, we should all just drive less
That's what I'm trying to get at, those things aren't self evident, they are a value system.
Not just Sicily, a similar scenario happened to me in Salt Lake City UT. People are strangely asshole about letting someone in need use their cell phone.
Most people are pretty rational about these things I think and can spot 'problems' a mile away A

Private Corps and Legislators tend to sometimes push things too far, or miss the 'dark side' etc..
She was born in 1981 so she is way too young to be a boomer.

VR is thought to be accessible to older folks because you don’t need to learn anything to use it. Also nothing gets breathless coverage in The New York Times unless it interests people over 50. [e.g. if it is ‘youth culture’, older people still find it interesting. For instance oldsters just love iPhones.]
They have them on the freeways in LA
If you’re designing a pavement structure based on the AASHTO Guide For the Design of Pavement Structures (1993), then you wouldn’t include anything other than trucks (semi-trailers, single-units, and buses) because passenger vehicles produce negligible wear. Even the devil’s own ride, the Ford F-250, produces 1/1350th the wear of one loaded semi-trailer.

Given this is D.C., I would assume this is just a manifestation of petty malice toward symbols their council associates with people on the “wrong” side of righteous causes.
When the emergency vehicle is delayed, what percentage of the delay is Cruise’s fault and what percentage is the garbage truck’s? I assign less than 50% to Cruise.
I think I understand what you mean, but what would that 'extra context' look like?

For example, could 'practical' knot tying be modelled as a sequence of states? So one state would be 'untied' and then the next might be 'looped under', then 'end passed through loop' and so on?

If i think about the enormous pain i had when first tying a bow-tie... then realistically there are all sorts of details like which hand you hold which part with :/
My thesis is a tool like Codeball would reduce the amount of rubber-stamping. Thing is, many devs aim to ship code "small and often" which inevitably leads to fast pattern matching style reviews. If software can reliably deal with those, humans can focus their energy on the tricky ones. Kind of like how using a code formatter eliminates this type of discussions and lets people focus on semantics.
Some would argue that Apple is the scalper ;), and you beat them by buying from other retailers a couple of months down the line for 10% off.
Did RED or Nikon get them from Pied Piper?
> I will also like to be compensated for what has been a frustrating waste of time

They shut down over a year ago. IANAL but you've lost your money, and the notion you'd get compensated for not handling your own affairs in a timely manner is ludicrous.
I find that reading math at all is sometimes not the best approach. When working out of a textbook I often find it more constructive to attempt problems first and then use the text as a guide to help me solve the problem, particularly when the textbook is quite dense. For example, even after taking years of analysis I still find Rudin impossible to simply "read" because the mathematics is so condensed and difficult to follow.
Retrospectives don't help when your problems are external and you do not have influence on them. If you get how much needs to be done and what needs to be done set fixed from outside the team cannot do much about it. And that what scrum often ends up in a lot of companies: all the responsibility when things go bad but none of the autonomy that would be needed.
I moved back to the bay area after spending 2 years back with friends and family during the pandemic, and it's got me feeling kinda down. I have some friends here which is nice, but for the most part nobody texts me, I barely know anyone around here, today I haven't talked to a single person, and it's just got me in the dumps. And the kicker is that this is probably how it will be from here on out for the rest of my life. I'm working out, I'm adapting, I'm making changes as best I can to deal with this transition, but I find myself with a lot more negative thoughts than usual.
Security software that puts SSO support behind a high pricing tier (and as far as I can tell has no other way to get e.g. any kind of 2FA) is a very bad look.

> EnvKey Business Self-Hosted runs in an AWS account you control. You can use it with any host or cloud provider.

Is a bit confusing, that section should be clarified a bit. Does it mean that you can run the systems using it somewhere else? Does it mean other variants of EnvKey can be run everywhere? ...
That's approximately one mass school shooting every 4 years. That's a _lot_.

Sure, there aren't 27 _mass_ school shootings, but the fact that someone can bring a gun to school and shoot someone - even just one person - that's scary.

And if we're looking at mass shootings in general, the GunViolence Archive has a list: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting - it's 9 pages long, and if I counted right there are over 200 of them already.

It's really not fun to be reminded of these stats, one can only hope something can be done about this. I won't pretend to know what that is, but it feels like we've done nothing and are already out of ideas.
Cheaper economy vehicles will use metallic brake pads that emit lots of dust. More expensive luxury vehicles (SUVs and trucks) use premium ceramic pads that wear much less per mile. EVs and hybrids add regen and don't need brakes to stop unless it's under emergency braking. It's absolutely not apples to apples, and people need to understand that fact.
Absolutely. I think it's worth thinking through the difference to software - because it's a competitive field, as you said, the relative rank matters, and therefore getting the best player is important for your team, unless they are for some reason no longer playing. E.g. Michael Jordan was a huge draw when he was playing, and made his team relatively better off (and the league as a whole).

In software, that's not the way it works. Or at least, the competitive business aspect of it is largely out of engineer's hands. Few businesses ultimately succeed because they wrote better code, IMO. Though interestingly, a bunch of startups only get big in the first place by having great code that allows them great speed/flexibility/etc. Stripe itself got big originally because its API was really great, which I'd attribute more to product than to engineers, except in this case it's kind of a merger of the two.
Also our phones are >= $1000 devices. How are we supposed to trust handing that to just anyone?
Depending on the needs of your clients then that could be a simple digitalocean or heroku, but as they grow out and demand additional services will you be able to offer those or will they have to migrate?

On networking, you could set it up for them but would it be opinionated, ie your way only, or provide the flexibility of AWS and azure networking, vpc, gateways, transits and topology flex, and if not the client may feel constrained.

To better help you then I think you should draft up the service you intend to deliver and test if the market wants that, vs competitor offerings vs AWS scale. And I mean lofi don’t build, test the well defined proposition.
We've been trying a more "Kanban" approach vs scrum, but who knows if we're actually implementing it correctly, which is perhaps the point of all this.
Appreciate the thoughtful answer despite the downvotes; I didn't consider how bad fraudulent email creation still is -- would CAPTCHA protection have solved this issue? I'm picturing a web GUI for your product, but I see a console offering on your website too.
There are still some payphones around especially in the working class areas of LA. I think a payphone must still be the cheapest way to dial family in some countries. They all advertise their international rates at least.
Why choose the least populous state as the standard for admission instead of, say, the median?
Unfortunately, ncspot is not truly cross-platform like Spotify-TUI. (Windows is not supported).
Sounds like the perfect sculpting experience if you combine it with modern VR.
My hope with this conference is to talk about this precise kind of stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Wouldn't the apples-to-apples comparison be: how many human drivers have been in the path of a honking fire truck, yet refused to move? Including parked cars and other "obstacle" cases is imbalanced.