skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is a minority. In my personal and work life, it does seem to be something like 80/20 or 90/10.

You might be right though, it's impossible to tell without doing some kind of vaguely rigorous poll.
It is mathematically useful to think of space as being full of virtual particles including quarks, gluons, and electrons, but there isn't actually a quark-gluon "fuzz" permeating the universe. There was such a physically real fuzz, or more properly a quark-gluon plasma in the extremely early universe (the first few microseconds) which "froze" into hadrons, but this is more akin to water in a cloud condensing into snow.

You can certainly formulate the math such that hadrons, or any other particle for that matter, behave like holes in a substrate, indeed this is the basis of quantum field theory. But unlike quasiparticles where that substrate is something in the universe like a block of metal, for regular particles the substrate is the universe.
That's how why it's not an ad hominem, but a more substantial argument.
On the other hand, I run a very small SaaS and I can tell you that abuse is really a big problem. Stolen CC and similar things are so common.
It seems like it was (at least arguably) impossible to exploit until they introduced a second issue:

>It turns out that during a routine upgrade, the Nomad team initialized the trusted root to be 0x00. To be clear, using zero values as initialization values is a common practice. Unfortunately, in this case it had a tiny side effect of auto-proving every message

EDIT:

Reading and noodling I'm 99% sure these are separate issues. The vulnerability talks about passing in an empty leaf to the prove function. But that's not what the exploit is.

The exploit is using an unproven message. So they are passing in an actual leaf to prove. The problem is that unproven messages have 0x00 as root and some jabroni set 0x00 as the trusted root. So every message was treated as proven by default when it should be the opposite.
Only way to truly learn biology imo is to read and do experiments. The feedback loop between those two things is what actually gives someone real intuition.
Generally, illegal trading resolves around the idea of trading on non-public information. And front running falls under that category (access to order data that other participants do not).

However, HFT's do not trade on non-public information. Every participant has access to the same market data. I could start my own "HFT firm" tomorrow; I would just be incredibly unsuccessful at it because I don't have the finances or computing resources to execute.
For now yes... But as millenials age, things will get really top-heavy.
This one is going to suck for the other crypto, Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. SIKE had the best performance in terms of public key size, under 400 bits. The next smallest I think is HQC which is 2k. So now signed block chain transactions will be at least 5x bigger
There are realities and realities. A (by now former?) good friend of mine phoned me in the spring of last year, very worried that I had gone into the deep end (those were not his exact words, but that was the feeling). My "mistake" had been in approving and liking on social media messages and public figures who were against the announced vaccine mandate. I was finding that mandate dictatorial, still do. I was also already vaccinated by that date, waiting for my second shot (also got the booster later in the year, as soon as I became eligible for it).

Meanwhile this friend of mine (whom I still care about a lot, even though our lives have taken different routes) also told me that he'd be gone for Afghanistan for a month or so, his company (the biggest European defence group) was closing up shop there and stuff needed to be taken care of. So, I was receiving "you're in the wrong reality" complaints about my view on vaccine-related stuff from a person whose company is in the business of killing people (because that's the business defence companies are in).

Like I said, there are realities and realities.
They have to work with a lot of other people. A comic strip writer doesn't. It's a different level. Wealthy celebrities can become out of touch with the working class or rural Americans or whatever, but a solo creator can become out of touch with everybody.
ETH had the benefit of PoW working and proven for years prior to deployment.

Switching to an entirely new consensus model, that has never been done before, is complicated and a big reason why it has taken as long as it has.

Furthermore, there is a giant target (huge sum of money) on ETH's back now. If you had an exploit for PoS, why would you reveal it early?

As the person below also states... they could just fork and fix things, but this time, it will be a lot harder to do so without entirely destroying the value of ETH.

This is a massively risky venture that takes more than just hope and prayers. As we've seen in many many hacks over the last few years, even the most competent developers can miss something crucial.
He explicitly endorsed Trump: http://web.archive.org/web/20190716163531/https://www.scotta...
In the fantasy world where Russia steam rolls Ukraine and also stops being evil, and Ukrainians just roll over and take it, sure maybe.
This article is timely for me! I think about this a lot while working on Notion — and I’m drafting an RFC for a change that future engineers will either praise or curse.

Right now the eng team is ~150, so we’re exiting the period when an experienced senior engineer (ie me) can easily make a profound tech stack change. Our database (Postgres) and backend stack (Express/Typescript) are already quite solidified. There is still time to change our front-end stack, although React is probably a given, we can change our API contract layer, our state management pattern, and possibly our client-side replicated ORM. It’s tricky to weigh continued speed today versus long-term speed. I think a lot about the tradeoff of “invest in infra improvements below the interface line” and “change the interface now, while there’s still time” when it comes to our ORM/state manager. We have a bunch of interesting challenges across all layers (see https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion) so it’s not obvious what changes today will really change the constraints on our solutions tomorrow.

My current philosophy is that we need to add new abstraction layers now if there’s a chance we need them, before detangling later becomes an insurmountable lift.
> This community is nowhere near consensus on this matter. A small minority of loud naysayers is

There's an information bubble. It's not the crypto skeptics. There's a reason when governments around the world have moved to ban crypto there's been little to no popular resistance beyond angry 4channers.
Oracle doesn't sell to you. Oracle sells to your vice-president, on the golf course. The reason they have this free-tier at all is to be able to say "yes, your engineers can go in and evaluate this for free".
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I don't get your point. Cryptography (especially new protocols such as SIKE or anything PQ) must undergo public scrutiny for years or decades, and sometimes get destroyed in the process, that's how it works. Coming up with a usable public key scheme not trivially insecure is already incredibly difficult.

Also, while the attack here is devastating there is no blame to put on SIKE authors: the field is immensely vast, complex and abstract, no one can know everything. The attack relies on a somewhat recent result that is definitely not classical crypto textbook.

Furthermore the cryptosystems used by these companies are the ones that have been tested and standardized through the years, not the brand new algorithm designed by cryptographers (as new algorithms must be scrutinized first).

Also, as another commenter suggests cryptographers are not the ones in charge of the actual implementation at their companies.

Finally, you are making a big confusion between cryptography and security.
He's clearly white.

The other face you're seeing is George Washington Carver, not surprising given that fin de siècle peanut science is a small field.
The law doesn't care if I argue it doesn't apply to me.
Based on your description, it seems like you are SEEKING WORK. If that is the case, it would be good to correct the text.
If you country is so insecure that you have to rattle sabers when a foreign dignitary visits a neighboring country, the problem is with you. Nobody is threating your security. Get over it- she's an 80 year old politician, not a shining angel of death.

Also your text reads like third grade propaganda. Get a better writer!
I love the concept and I will evaluate your tool soon!

First comment, not on essence: the difference between your starter and pro plan is $5. If people have fewer than 85k runs / month, you're asking them to commit to $500/mo spend to get longer retention. That's... fine, but you can probably charge more for that. For people with more than 85k runs / month, you're only charging them $5/mo for that retention - and making the pricing page more complicated.

One option: Increase your base price from $40 to $45, and say longer retention is only available for customers paying >$500/mo. You'll get what you have today but simpler.

Another option: Charge more for longer retention! $10/1k-runs makes sense, or even $15. If retention is the differentiation between the two plans, charge for it like it's worth being an upsell.
This line

> Dictators robbing the public purse to build cool monuments that make them feel special.

reminded me that there are pyramids not far away from where NEOM is to be built. Hadn't thought of them this way though, but now does sound very similar.
what is the next thing to do? wear fluo color clothing and have some piercings and wear bracelets with lucky charms, and end every sentence with “far out bro”?

like you say, we need to come together as a community and industry and oppose these and other forms of stealth discrimination.

i’m wondering if the coding interviews are organized to facilitate discrimination by age.
There's the famous LATTE method that Starbucks uses.

L - Listen to understand the issue being presented to you.

A - Acknowledge by showing the customer you understand their grievance by verbally confirming it.

T - Thank them for letting you know about the issue.

T - Take action to resolve the issue. Turn the bad experience into a positive one.

E - Encourage them to return and build loyalty.

Another tip is that you have to separate yourself(mostly your ego) from the objective nature of the request. I build products for a living and when a customer tells me something is garbage or unusable, that can hurt my ego. But there's truth in everyone's perspective. You learn from it, you see the perspective, and you take action to improve it a little more for the next time.
in order to sign up you have to provide credit card details, so you automatically have a payment method attached to your account
Most U.S. states have laws that only allow car sales to happen though dealers. Online car sales, even from manufacturers, just let you shop the inventory of dealerships. The purchase still goes through a dealership.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/the-future-of-car-shopping-fewe...
It was considerate of you to do that, on the other hand adults also need to learn to be assertive to succeed in social aspects of work. If you were cutting her off or not paying attention to a raised hand, sure try to change that. But otherwise you are not doing her any favors for her long term career growth, where she will have to participate in meetings with confident, knowledgeable and busy people focused on work rather than psychology.
yup, you let the free tier get into a suspended state without a VM for more than 24hr. happened to 2 people I know and myself.

Nice in principle, free gets no support or nobody to shout at and it's Oracle so, yeah, sucks if you put anything important on it :P
The Vic-20 had about that much, what a glorious beast it was.
I've always had a baby face and didn't grow out my beard until into my mid 30s. Overnight change. Although not gray, I was no longer treated like a new hire by groups in the large corporation I worked in.
How about a GSM jammer. Here in Finland, kids can keep their devices at their desks - cos you know, "family emergency" crapola. So they sit and tinker.
For UK people there's Lollipop: https://lollipopai.com (full disclaimer: I'm a co-founder :)

It's integrated with Sainsbury's with one-click basket transfer, an option to remove items you already have, and a recipe uploader for your favourites. Early days so feedback really welcome.

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The only place I ever hear this term is in the every-3-months thread on Hacker News like this one. IRL I never hear it.
Totally off topic but the site has some sort of bug where it triggers a reload infinitely. When I loaded the site up it just endlessly refreshed the page by itself. Seems to be a conflict with some of my extensions because it was able to load fine in an Incognito window.
It's unlikely. There's a diversity of mathematical approaches represented, including some who's underlying systems have been studied for the last 50 years
Data, Deaths, and the Damn Prison System
Oracle who?
Still my favorite console. 40 years later, it remains plugged in and used regularly.
correct. the real reason is they can push young people.
> what a great use of our tax dollars!

Correct. It shows the world where the real balance of power lays and gives confidence to American allies that America is not a fair-weather friend that can be bullied out of its commitments by loudmouthed tyrants like Xi Jinping. This is excellent for American global interests.
Some of the referenced strips from the article are just bad.

Who deals with this stuff actually and not in an imagined way? No one is complaining about made up cramps and if they did you would just tell them to file the sick day.

Dilbert used to be easy to identify with but these just don't seem close to reality at all.
Reception can be pretty spotty in many areas as well, so even if you do have unlimited data and tethering, you might benefit from a public wifi.
Yes. But there are also people capable who are not doing it, or not being compensated like I am. There are people who could have performed it given my opportunities and people who with less chances would have performed even better than me.

Stephen Jay Gould, a great biologist, once said that "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

I think your comment shows a profund misunderstanding of what meritocracy means. No one is saying everyone is equally capable. Merit, ability, knowledge, are all true and real. A meritocracy is a system where those who posses them triumph over those that do not. We do not live in a system like that, and as I mentioned its probably good we do not as the ethics of such a system are quite awful.

I just used credentials to defend against the personal attack that was implying the only people against meritocracy are those with nothing to offer.
Yesterday was 27 years since CPAN was first shared on the perl packrats mailing list.
They have no coherent vision. As a consumer I have no idea what I'm getting with a Google product, or what their ethos is. Their products and features are always randomly baked together, without any coherent story. Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. I can't rely on any of it. This is why I moved to Apple eco system last year. Google as a company seems analogous to the Linux eco system; TON of duplicated work across different teams, none providing an actual complete solution for day to day use. Such a waste of talent.
> eventually started passing so nobody remembers I'm trans anymore.

Exactly, so by presenting in a particular way, you were able to get people to use the pronouns you wanted. I think this is the key to why people find pronoun declaration so meaningless — pronouns are meant as a shortcut chosen by the speaker to refer to another person based on who that person appears to be. Making pronouns into a declaration breaks a fundamental piece of language functionality for very little gain.
My impression is that critical properties of these algorithms are not sufficiently understood/proven (in contrast to e.g. RSA), and that these are therefore open to yet unknown attacks. Be careful with those secrets...
Making an X-ray machine in your backyard
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Early decisions in every field have disproportionate influence, not because they were the 'right' or the best choice but because its much easier not to change, or its easier to improve the existing choice (making the current database faster) than jumping to another.

a) The politicians who drafted the US constitution probably have had more impact than most presidents since.

b) Train tickets, timetables, having different class carriages, ticket offices and train guards is mostly unchanged from when introduced by GWR in the 1840s

c) Car peddles, typewriter keyboards, pizza recipes. etc
Dealers are richest in their communities everywhere due to the anticompetitive franchising laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opinion/sunday/rich-happi...
More threats. If the CCP weren't so chickenshit they would have shot her down, but they don't dare.
TikTok to Geocities is what AstroTurf is to real grass.
Thank you for the suggestion. Looks like it's doesn't get published often though
I wait for the day that this conduct becomes illegal, because it can destroy people's lives. It is actually surprising that consumer protection laws do not yet address the issue of due process.
You sound like you live alone, or at the very least cook your meals just for you. Because this doesn't seem like it would work at all if you're making meals for multiple people.
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how do you get cookbooks recipes into the app? manual transcription or something easier / more efficient, i hope?
57M here and still love coding.
Ageism is very real - but so is the tech shortage. So it's a good time to be a greybeard. I was at a Google event a few years back. A colleague (53M) expressed to a Google PM his interest in coming to work for Google. The PM said bluntly "Google doesn't hire people over 50".

The employee average cost-benefit curve inverts at 40. At least that's what the beancounters will say.
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> In this case Visa was providing a service with little to no knowledge of the internal workings of PornHub.

Why should their level of knowledge of the internal workings of MindGeek be relevant, if they had knowledge of and actively chose to profit from the illegal activity at issue?

> Would you still be saying this if they were attempting to sue the banks? The datacenters? The ISPs? The manufactures of the machines in the datacenter?

Yes, I would say the same. Whether they can prove the requisite level of knowledge is an issue for trial, but they have certainly stated a claim that is sufficient, and would be sufficient mutatis mutandis against any of the others.

> If visa is liable for this so are all of those which does not make any sense.

No, Visa having actual knowledge of the illegal conduct and actively choosing to profit from it does not imply that all of those had the same knowledge and made the same choice. And, again, this isn't a decision that Visa is liable, but that the plaintiff has stated a claim under which Visa would be liable if the claim is proven, and part of proving that is proving Visa’s knowledge.

> They are already suing pornhub in this case. I don't see the value or reasoning that Visa has any liability here.

Whether either has liability is yet to be determined; this isn't a decision on liability but on whether the allegations made by the plaintiff if proven—which include Visa’s actual knowledge and active decision to profit from MindGeek’s distribution of illegal content—would constitute a violation of the law for which a remedy is available against the defendants.

> To me her getting a financial remedy quicker is not a valid reason to sue a different party.

Not sure why this strawman is raised here.
You're gonna love how academia works :)
>Kellogg’s “food compound” involved boiling nuts and grinding them into an easily digestible paste for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a spa for all kinds of ailments.

That sounds similar to boiled peanuts (except without the grinding), a favorite in the U.S. southern region. I've never had them but would like to. According to Wikipedia, there are even some claims that eating boiled peanuts not only circumvents peanut allergies but can actually help reduce them.

I grew up with the Skippy-style peanut butter, but eventually switched to the type which is nothing but peanuts and salt (no sugar, no hydrogenation). Stirring in the oil is not that hard with a reasonably-sized jar.

When I was a teenager (many decades ago) I tried to engineer a cheap, nutritious diet for myself, and a cup of peanuts every day turned out to be a great way to get a lot of protein for not much cost. Still have PB sandwiches several times a week even now.
Right. I think we're saying the same thing?
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They surely do know how to monetize the traffic. Banners are all over the website.
Nice! Also mentioned on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem/comments/amyahe/russ...
In France, https://jow.fr does all of it and even let you order all the groceries directly from the app.
I always use it since i discovered it.
It seems rather irresponsible to poke China in the eye like this, they are definitely going to scale up air, naval, and cyber intrusions in response. Very likely nothing significant will happen, but these heightened tensions increase the likelihood of accidentally sparking a real crisis.
I don't like the industry and I believe that, in general, its existence currently is a net negative for humanity.

Currently, I believe that most 'web3' and 'crypto applications' exist to drive fear of missing out leading to monetary investments in crypto by people who don't understand the risks leading to the story here (150 million lost or stolen). I think of my grandmother or uncle investing in crypto and losing their retirement savings. I personally know family members who have lost low 5 digits. Why? Because they wanted to invest because it was the future, web 3, fomo.

I actually believe the world is a worst place because of crypto.

Can that change in the future? 100%

Does this mean that you and people who work in the industry are bad? Not at all. I've worked in industries when I was younger that - now - I think were a net negative for the world. I'd be a hypocrite to throw stones at people just trying to live...

Maybe governmental regulations of this will change my view.
This is definitely not the first time he's allowed his comics to be a vehicle for his bad takes, though he seems to be doing it with stunning frequency because his retirement is imminent.