skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The theory generally goes that what convinces people to use the USD is that it’s backed by the full faith (and more importantly, full military force) of the US government. The Breton Woods Agreement and after getting off the gold standard the “petro-dollar” solidified the USD as the reserve currency for nearly the past 100 years.

The flip side is that unfortunately the stability of the USD is in the hands of politicians and other stewards of the country, which is an immense power to wield, and highly susceptible to corruption and misaligned incentives.

The idea behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is that the code and protocol are simply open source computer code. China can’t arbitrarily decide that they have more bitcoins than they actually have, even if they dedicate an enormous amount of power and influence to try to do so. It provides a tool by which people can transfer value even with hostile adversaries. There’s also a fixed supply that will ever exist, and while deflationary money clearly has issues when it’s the only currency used, as a counterbalance to politically-driven inflationary money it seems like a useful hedge, even more so than gold (we have estimations for how much gold exists but we can’t ever say with certainty - but you can search literally the entire galaxy for more bitcoins and you won’t find them).
Sure, I just mentioned it in the off-chance it was good enough out of the box. Big jump from making a screenshot (or perhaps stitching a few together) to editing OSM vectors in QGIS/Inkscape, which others have mentioned already.
djbsort uses a sorting network, not a quicksort.
It is also designed to be in constant time, which is not the case with the linked blog post.
So the restrictions are different.

This is not my field, so I can't judge the relevance of this, but the author cites the state of the art.
It just seems that djbsort is not the state of the art and therefore does not need to be cited.

I still don't understand the hype around Bernstein, he is quite relevant in cryptography/cryptography implementations but not everything he does is gold.
Legal reasons; it's in a section titled "Legal Issues". The idea is if you're cloning an existing program, it needs to be clear that you're not copying code from the original. This may be less of an issue with the other free implementations we have now, but a lot of these were clones of proprietary UNIX programs, and then it's really important that you can tell it's not derived from the proprietary version.
> It is no different than been fired I don't understand the noise it is making

Exactly. Not sure what the fuss is all about other than these companies not caring about you.

I've seen worse and Fast straight up shut down [0] after assuming that the VCs will just bankroll them despite Fast making little to no money for years with an extremely inflated valuation in the multi-billions.

I think lots of people have also forgotten the change of policy that Tesla, Meta, Apple, and Google said about the 'Working from Home' option in the job description. Before it was 'we're 100% remote', then it was 'you can go remote but you'll get a paycut if you do', then it was 'back to the office by spring 2022' and now some employees who are back at the office are also having their benefits cut.

With any company, 'nothing' is guaranteed. Once again these companies DO NOT care about YOU.

[0] https://www.axios.com/2022/04/06/fast-checkout-startup-colla...
Rocky's Boots was aimed at young children, many of whom did grow up and do just that.
Coincidentally, the WEF's individual carbon footprint tracker initiative was recently announced. https://youtu.be/_j1d_2yTRRA
In 200 years when the planet is on fire our ancestors will look at us and won't understand how we could have made such bad decisions. Yes, there is a (tiny) risk of nuclear disaster that makes an area uninhabitable, but thats (in my view) better than the whole plant eventually become so.

(I very much hope this statement is hyperbolic)
If you have to go back a two centuries to prove a point, you're probably not right.
Water carries (IIRC) ~375x the energy of air per speed/unit volume.

Depending on the turbine design, you don't need to filter anything. The currents (gyre power) are far more consistent than wind turbines.

If not for the difficulties of siting, permitting, and maintaining subsea equipment, gyre power systems are far superior.
Persistent deep ocean currents exist in large part thanks to temperature gradients (cf. AMOC and thermohaline circulation). Climate warming, melting ice and reducing these gradients, has much more drastic effects on ocean currents (cf. Gulf Stream weakening) than a turbine could ever have.

Paradoxically, we would effectively be saving those currents using a fraction of the energy in those currents themselves.

Using these turbines would be a drop in the ocean and a smart move if it helps us tackle the big offender. We should get on it soon though, if we let it get to a point where thermohaline circulation falls apart using currents this way may no longer be an option.
It's surprising to see Risen write for The Intercept but honestly this piece would probably not get printed by NYT. It's definitely an incomplete story without any conclusive proof of who did what or why and is something of a personal narrative. I guess Risen just wanted this on the record somewhere since people were telling their side of the story elsewhere.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The Ocean has been a dumping ground for a long time. Do we know what kind of impact this might be having where this might be built.
Close to shore is where most of the Ocean life resides due to more light reaching in the shallow water. There were proposals to build wind turbines in the middle on the Great Lakes. Not sure what happened to those. Maybe it can be done so it improves the environment, but that tends to costs more.
> but what if

That's kind of the issue though. We don't in fact know what the source really had. Was it legal or illegal? Who knows?
Will it be a paid product?
...and than there are People who wonder why Germany is so reluctant with their personal data, leaving cash behind, having a general ID, and so on.

Sometimes it is wise to look at the past and learn from it.

Datensparsamkeit ftw!
Direct mail is a very effective means of marketing.

The recipient has to actively deal with it, and is almost always the “head of household.” If you want to send ads that are interacted with by someone capable of making a purchase - mailing works.

I don’t know if “waste” is quote right.
Go webassembly has a fair amount of glue to bridge over to js.Value's, but it's pretty formulaic and could probably be cranked out by a preparser / code generator (i.e. "go generate").
Depending on how old your kids are, text-based interactive fiction (that is, games in the style of 80s text-based games from Infocom and the like) could be fun and also educational. Thaumistry [1] is a particularly easy commercial game in that genre. When it comes to non-commercial IF, I particularly had fun with Counterfeit Monkey [2], and it has a good story IMO. There may be a little killing in both of these games; I don't remember for sure. But there certainly isn't copious violence as in an FPS.

[1]: http://www.thaumistry.com/

[2]: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl
It’s ok to be mad at a company if they fuck you over by rescinding a signed offer.
Didn't expect Tito's to have donated a million bucks to this!
It is ! Space before any “double” ponctuations ; like this. Isn’t ? Sry
The Arc Forum looks eerily familiar:

http://arclanguage.org/forum
What? The article is apologizing for a mistake (with questionable implications, as pointed out by other comments).
In Bruges is a fantastic film, one of my favorites as well, and makes for a poignant backdrop to this story, wherein the reporter unknowingly manifests its plot from his semi-ironic suggestion of meeting there. The imagery of the FBI guys waiting around in Bruges is just too perfect. Life imitates art.
I wonder how many excitedly gave their current boss a middle finger after getting that 7 figure offer from coinbase.

I know for a fact you can go back to the same team (and same level) in many FAANG companies without even interviewing. If you left on good terms that is.
No, it’s asking a question about our knowledge of the scale and power of the devices and forces involved.

If it is a analog to wind turbines, the math will bear it out, but it’s a perfectly valid question to ask.
Where can this be done legally in the US?
Of JavaScript? Really?

The concept of remote debugging is just one of instrumentation, that's from the 1960s, this isn't a conceptually new thing. It's a functionally useful one
> You have one packet loss, your download is doomed.

I’ve noticed that on my iPad with a few different video services. Makes me wonder if there’s a buggy video-download API.

In any case, absolutely maddening when you’re trying to “fill up” your device on hotel WiFi before a flight.
Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron and failed shorting Tesla, has been shorting Coinbase. He noted that Coinbase is making ~4% on AUM while Charles Schwab makes maybe ~0.5%. Surely this must come down.
The same could be said about wind power.

Ultimately, wind and ocean currents are driven by the 170,000 terawatts of solar irradiance continuously hitting the earth[1]. Human civilization uses about 17 terawatt[2], so we still have a ways to go before we get in the same ballpark.

(On the other hand, give it a few centuries of exponential growth and let's see where we end up.)

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2011/energy-scale-part3-1026
https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/current_world_energy_...

[2] https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/current_world_energy_...
Definitely !
Only a small percentage of the rubber stays on the road, and it's visible where you can see the black lines on the asphalt. The vast majority is carried away by the wind and ends up in the soil, in rivers and the sea, or even in plants. In some cases it ends up inside us when we breathe.
> people never considered widescale remote work as an option, when it became a necessity, we found a way to make it work.

That's literally untrue. Almost every job I've ever had has had some element of WFH for the last 20 years. Even if your false supposition were correct it wouldn't be remotely related or comparable.

> people deserve to live a life of dignity, what's the point of progress if it does not benefit all of us. not everything has to be driven by cold hearted free market ideas. we did not choose to exist.

As predicted above - imposition of an unsubstantiated widespread victimhood used to inversely justify a need rather than a natural driver for it.
FWIW, I prefer playlists to albums. Way back I used to make mix tapes, then burn my own mixed CDs. I love the variety in a playlist, and I can pick just the songs I like.
> That's... I mean that's the FBI's job. That leak is clearly illegal, it's a crime. Their job is to enforce the law.

I’m not sure this is true, considering the programs in the “leak” might themselves be illegal.

The problem with your position is it allows the following loop:

Government makes it illegal to report government crime, then government commits crime.

You can’t report the crime without breaking the law, so the government effectively is bound by no law. How do you break this cycle?

The only solution is to have it such that reporting a crime cannot itself be a crime, classification or otherwise.
I wonder if they had to use SwiftUI.
So it falls short of full fledged past time travel. It's more like you could stop the flow of time, fix whatever went wrong, and then restore time flow, as if nothing had happened. Short of what OP wanted, but still very useful. It avoids "Groundhog Day" debugging.
Yes but it will look like there's extrapolated frames. I'm sure you'll see something like that in a YouTube video or something on the Discovery channel but I don't see the point of NASA doing that.
It actually is not.
> Little Inferno

I was amazed playing through Little Inferno for the first time, that it had such a strong anti-materialism message. Releasing as a launch title for a new console seemed an incredibly balsy move :-)
Maybe not the greatest story but definitely one of the loveliest games I've played was A Short Hike.

It is a kinda short (~5-6h) feel good game in which you more or less just have to explore a holiday island and meet different other Animals

The developer held a talk on the GDC how he made the game:
https://youtu.be/ZW8gWgpptI8
What exactly should be cited? I had a quick look and djbsort seems to be a constant-time algorithm, presumably a sorting network. They report about 2 GB/s for 768 int32 on 3 GHz Skylake; IIRC our sorting network reaches 3-4 GB/s, but for a smaller input size (256 int32 or int64). Hard to compare directly, but djbsort is likely slower, and the sorting network is anyway a small fraction of the total time in a Quicksort.
Well, that hasn’t been the case any time I’ve talked to a recruiter in the last 6 months regardless. So there’s either misalignment internally or I’m just getting fed into the wrong pipelines.
The wording might be off, but public advocacy is basically what is meant by "in a manner to disturb the public peace". This does not include discussing facsim in your home, but does include you not being able to hang a NSDAP-flag from your window.

I wonder why so many free-speech advocates are hell-bent on enabling fascists to spread their propaganda. They are certainly not the first but not the last group they will drag to their camps or shoot.

To compare this kind of law to fundamentalist religious law is a special kind of ignorant.
A good legal question to ponder for when the first time an AI murders a human. Who's to blame, and what is the crime?
Author here, happy to discuss.
The stuff 3-letter agencies have gotten away with over the last century is insane. The NSA is a popular one to talk about now for good reasons but another one that always leaves me feeling angry is MKUltra and how the CIA basically tortured US citizens for science, Richard Helms destroyed evidence and died a free man. And we just seem to look back at it say “yeah these were bad people” and let it happen again.

In the end the only people being held responsible for anything seem to be the people who warn us and let us know.
Hasn’t been the case any time I’ve been approached for the last 6 months……………
Isn't this a promissory estoppel?
The FBI has been an enemy of the people since its creation. Throughout its history it has wholesale spied on the public, collected dirt on political opponents and has been used to discredit dissidents. This agency is used solely to protect power. Their stated mission is ancillary to the true purpose.

With a history like that the whole agency should be disbanded. But, power will find another way to legally spy on opponents. Before the FBI it was secret service agents that were loaned out for that kind of work.
I like Brave.

But they always seem to be "asking forgiveness rather than permission".
Are you not convinced this is correct, or not convinced it’s an American viewpoint?

You could argue you disagree with the concept, but I don’t think you could honestly argue it’s not a traditionally American position.
This sentiment seems common on Hacker News but I'm not sure its wise.

Companies that have high standards are far more interesting places to work at and with more interesting colleagues. They all require whiteboards and leet code.

It's definitely true that not all companies that use these algorithm interviews are worth working for. But, at least in my experience, companies that don't require them at all are pretty awful places to work. It demonstrates that management doesn't care who they hire.
What do you mean "tolerate". There was massive societal backlash against the NSA in the Snowden leak fallout but it's not like a bunch of angry people on the internet can unilaterally shut down a government agency.
Interesting, that would make sense. In the last six months/yr I’ve been told by two different recruiters “all of these positions are hybrid. You may be able to start out full remote for one or two of them, but it’s going to reduce your options significantly.” This is for UX Engineer roles specifically if that matters
I'm pretty sure this would be illegal for employees in Germany because of the "Scheinselbstständigkeit" (False self-employment?)
You mean the feeling of warmth spreading out is an allergic reaction?

If so I wouldn't care, because it feels good. I don't know how to describe this exactly. Maybe inducing a feeling of general wellbeing?
The energy harvested is only... a drop in the ocean :)
>What if it acts normal for a vast majority of users, but a user which is secretly flagged on Facebook's back end will secretly report plaintext?

You can see that by reverse engineering the binary.
:) FWIW we also use a constant-time sorting network as the base case of the Quicksort recursion, that's a widely used optimization.
Other people will explain why you are wrong to be concerned. However your concern is indicative of the concerns of a significant, potentially majority, of people. It shows how as a society we don't do messaging about this sort of thing well enough. I think thats an important take away.
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I think Brian Armstrong downsized his stake from ~300k shares to ~30k late last year. Has any company ever done well after such a sell-off from insiders?
> the explanation you provided about convergence, policy functions, etc. went over my head, sorry.

I was agreeing with you when I talked about convergence. You said that adding a cost would solve the problem and I agree that it does. I think you were probably thinking of a literal cost like "one cent". If you choose a cost like that then switching an infinite number of times has an infinite cost. You could instead think of the cost as a fraction of your expectation, the cost is 1% of whatever you end up getting back. Now if you switch an infinite number of times you end up having a cost of zero. That might seem counterintuitive, but recall that 1/3 is .3333 repeating. So when you sum 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 you get .9999 repeating. Yet 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 is equal to one. Infinitely close to something else is basically being the thing you are infinitely close to. Even though we never get the reward we know that the fraction is becoming infinitely close to zero. People call it "converging" when we have an infinite sequence we can sum to a real value. We know before ever seeing the value that we'll be multiplying it by zero. So we can refactor the equation to be 0*ev(switch) and then take advantage of the identity of 0x=0 to declare the result to be 0. Thus, the calculation converges to zero.
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We’re arguing semantics but on a big enough scale they would eventually. That’s why you don’t just line up 100 of them directly next to eachother.
Either way it's a lot better than walled-garden style messengers like Telegram or Signal.
Well, the reporter claims to have audio recordings of plans for the ambush (presumably, recordings reviewed by the reporter's editors at least), and the FBI apparently considered it important enough to send a whole big team to Belgium. Who knows if the source had anything, but it seems the FBI was very worried.
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sometimes the lesson is "don't concentrate radioactive isotopes, you haven't developed the institutional incentives to contain them reliably, and will eventually experience terrible disaster"
To submit to the app store, you need to provide screenshots for multiple sizes.

I could take a screenshot for iPad, and I could submit to testflight -> install on my iPhone -> take a screenshot on my iPhone.

But e.g. I don't have a 5.5" iPhone, and it is mandatory to provide both 6.5" and 5.5" screenshots.
You'd trust this guy?! He has spooks crawling all over him. This lawyer was informing the FBI on the journalist's source, and the journalist won't even name that lawyer. An NSA/TLA/etc leaker would need a death wish to approach this journalist now, having read this story.
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> only argued instead that winning against them is impossible so our only path is to submit

that is most definitely not what I said at all
Saying that it is just about trust can be misleading. The trust has to be rationally based. It’s not some kind of society-wide ex nihilo personality trait.

I think you can trust the government more in Scandinavia than in the US. Both dispositions are relatively rational.
>> the more we know about you, the more efficiently we can create policies to control your behavior

If I was an evil mastermind dominating you for my own nefarious purposes, I probably wouldn't start by monitoring the pasta in your pantry.
Inkscape is awesome!

I wrote a plugin for Inkscape that exports anything below rectangles as png images. I use this all the time for creating marketing material.

I also used Inkscape for creating images for my recent book, Effective Pandas. (Actually scripted the images with SVG then used Inkscape to convert to png).
Interesting, I did not know that, thanks for the pointer.
There is also an effort underway to update LLVM std::sort to BlockQuicksort, which can use some SIMD instructions similarly to what you describe.
Yeah, I don't get it either. Is there anybody who doesn't get this kind of mail at home addressed to them by name all the time?
This little stunt by Brave was clearly not the right move. Marketing is a necessity but if you sacrifice one of the core principals of your product i.e. privacy & security, what's the point?

The scenario is something like this:

Random person: recieves a physical mail right after installing Brave.

Brave: we are so so private and don't ever sell or use your data.

Random person: how did you get my address then right after I literally installed Brave?

Brave: you see, it's very private because we can't see the address or who the mail is going to go to. We just contracted a mailer who sent this marketing newsletter to everyone in their database.

Random person: ...

Brave: maybe you didn't understand but we, the brave company, didn't see who the mail would go to. That's privacy right?

Random person: deletes Brave

The problem here is that a privacy oriented company is accepting and making use of a very non-private method to spread privacy and Brave. Contradictory in it's core.

I still like Brave and what they represent. I am a fan. They do a lot of things right but this was baffling. I don't know how they could allow something like this to pass through the filter...
The OR is not an XOR, you get extra points for using Microsoft cloud that cannot be overcome by having an otherwise good project.

Welcome to corporate advertising.
> So the question I would have is does Crypto.com expect to make $35M ÷ 0.4% = $8.75B per year in trading volume.

That's $8B extra due to the stadium naming, not in total.
Does paragraph length follow a normal distribution?
I remember both Rational Rose and TogetherJ CASE tools. Round-trip engineering was supposed to be practiced by both Domain Experts and Programmers each modifying their models and still having them all consistent with each other. But what happened in practice was that only Programmers used them who did not see the utility of updating a UML class hierarchy instead of directly updating the Class itself. That and the exorbitant pricing is why they fell out of favour. It is really a shame because with the explosion of distributed apps using a variety of languages/tools a single uniform interface modeling all aspects of the software is sorely needed.

PS: Came across the book Software Visualization - Visualizing the Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Software by Stephan Diehl which seems to provide a good survey of the field.