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I started programming in high school, probably around 9th grade, I picked up a book on c at B&N, it was written with devC++ in mind as the IDE.

The next year I took my first "formal" programming class. Programming 1 at my highschool was based on visual basic.net. I had already learned how to make my own "debugger" using console out, but being able to add watches and breakpoints and actually see the internals of my program shift about as I stepped through it was awesome.

Despite having a proper IDE, my Programming 1 class spent all of 1 class period on how to use the debugger built into visual studio.

Having taken programming 2 in high school (java) then Liberty basic in freshman year in college and then back to c/c++ again in college I can say without a doubt programming classes massively undervalue debugging skills.

Once you get your first language under your belt the other languages come easier, as most of them are vastly similar. variables, limits, etc, how things are passed around and referenced change, but the basic function and control structures if then else switch case, for,do,etc are all roughly the same. - edit- at least higher-ish level languages,

I think programming curriculums should include an entire section on debugging. How to isolate specific issues, watches, off by one errors, byref/byval issues, top down order of operations issues, figuring out how a language handles a datatype mismatch etc.
I also used BlueJ in the first semester of CompSci and it was an easy start but I think it can give a false understanding of how things actually work. The fact that you can instantiate objects and call any (public I guess?) method without using code is nice at first but doesn't encourage students to write tests or to concentrate on writing a proper main class. All things that arent't that bad when there's good guidance to the students that this is not all given. Also I'm surprised that this has an actual debugger and not just the inspector, could have used that feature very well but I thought the inspector was all there is.
Also a huge problem when your tech lead leaves the project.
While I hate ads with a burning passion, they do affect multiple orders of more people than cryptos ever did, even if that effect is far from positive (but not blanket negative either).
True, but if you find yourself in La Paz, Bolivia, visit restaurant Vienna. It's been a few years since I've been, but the food was excellent as was selection of dishes, some of which I haven't had/seen since my childhood (I'm Slovenian).
It is already happening. ANZ, one of Australia’s top 4 banks released a Stablecoin on Ethereum earlier this year.

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/anz-the-fir...
The crux seems to be “Instead of ‘going public,’ you could say we’re ‘going purpose.’ …100% of the company’s voting stock transfers to the Patagonia Purpose Trust, created to protect the company’s values; and 100% of the nonvoting stock had been given to the Holdfast Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting the environmental crisis and defending nature. The funding will come from Patagonia: Each year, the money we make after reinvesting in the business will be distributed as a dividend to help fight the crisis.”

I’m interested in this approach because it seems totally compatible with current business models (avoiding some of the worst non-profit incentive and oversight snarls) while still providing funding legitimately dedicated to advance the purpose. If this works, it might be a good framework for other purposes as well.
Ethereum was using an algorithm called "Proof of Work" to secure the blockchain's state and it was using huge amount of energy as it literally was using hashing power of GPUs to verify/generate Ethereum "blocks" (immutable units containing transactions) to get Ether as rewards.

The Merge changed this algorithm to "Proof of Stake", killing the GPU mining and the energy consumption completely (at least for Ethereum) and the new algorithm secures the network by giving incentives to Ether stakeholders (anyone can be, by the way) to secure the network instead of computing hashes on GPUs. This single event reduced world's energy usage by 0.2% overnight.
Oh, nice, my company is just integrating Okta.

Is Cuba still being punished for daring to host Soviet missiles?

I think the way we've treated them is really terrible.
The beauty of what I suggested is that it stops anyone forcing a new standard for something. If a browser vendor creates a new feature then it's up to developers to support it. If they choose not to that's fine. If developers were happy to pick and choose which features to support, and were willing to put in the effort to support different approaches, then Google wouldn't have any power to force change across the whole web. They'd just make something that only works in Chrome, and developers would choose to use it or not.
Wow, that is indeed a _very_ different headline. I'm glad it's been clarified.
To maximise survivability the seat needs to be able to orient itself optimally, then you need a number of sensors reading air speed, temperature, air pressure, and acceleration to determine when the best time for each sequence step is.

For instance, you don't want to deploy the drogue while the rockets are still firing. You also don't want to deploy it if the seat is oriented in the wrong direction and the drogue might get stuck in the seat.

Then, you don't want to release the main chute until the seat has stabilised and the speed is right. You also want to control the speed of release and inflation depending on the altitude at which the ejection happened, with a more rapid release at the lowest altitudes.

Early seats used simple delay fuses and didn't have the ability to sequence events based on sensor inputs, resulting in a lot more post-ejection deaths and injuries.
There are huge concerns over centralization. As it stands 2-3 entities (e.g. Lido, binance and Coinbase) over 50% of all validators. This is due to a mix of issues (no withdrawal making liquid staking very attractive, 32Eth limit leading to hugely inflates numbers of validators and no stake delegation creating the need for off chain pools). I would say there is about a 1-2% chance that BTC adopts PoS on a good day. Based on what Ethereum has delivered it's very close to 0.
The Ethereum people were very clever to call this extreme fork a merge :)
I think in this case OP isn't referring to a criminal act nor are they speculating to the possible guilt of a crime so of course there's no need for a a court of law to determine the facts.

Presuming t the facts that OP has concerns about are undisputed they're not alleging a crimes. But crimes have never needed to be the basis for boycotting something. Moral opposite has always been sufficient.
Indeed, for more nuance here's a full explanation of the problem being dealt with by various Proof of Whatever algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

They always rely on scarcity of something: scarcity of processing power, scarcity of being on the ledger of the blockchain and owning an amount of currency, scarcity of hard disk space, etc.
The “actual facts” are the numbers represented in the graph. (My bad, I thought that would be clear)

The shots were sold as “If you get this shot you won’t get the virus” but apparently people still are getting the virus. And not just getting the virus, but dying from it. And dying from it in greater numbers than before the shots! WTF is up with that?!

Clearly the shots don’t work as they were supposed to.

And they are killing people.
Excess deaths are way up in mRNA injected countries.

And they are preventing people from being born. Birth rates are way down in mRNA injected countries.

Not good.
TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018)
Not a big fan of crypto, but at least the ethereum chain is building a very interesting stack of technologies (smart contract, token, etc).

If any major crypto project has the chance of one day becoming useful at anything, my bet would be on this one.
Lessons from Plants
A remote Ugandan village became a hub of progress (2021)
So, are the risks of Covid lower than the risks of the vaccine? And do you have evidence to back your implied assertion?
No, I specifically called it a failure regardless of results, because results of surviving a base jump without a parachute doesn't affect the merit of the decision to jump.

See: Survivorship bias.
"Holes" is a really, really good movie.

Bonus: with Sigourney Weaver as the villain.
> We were warned about political parties by George Washington

That wasn't a prospective warning it was describing the then-current status quo, including in Washington’s own cabinet.

The mythology around parties around the founding is astounding (especially the idea that, despite adopting a similar structure to that of both the British government—which had parties—and the colonial-turned-state governments—which also had parties—the founders, who generally had experience in colonial government, did not generally expect parties in the national government. (And didn't, Washington personally aside, actively work to build them starting almost immediately when the new government was formed.)

> We'd be much better served without them.

No, we’d be much better served with more of them, and less disproportionate representation of party and ideas.
I think BlueJ is a fantastic intro to Java. Does a good job of teaching the concepts without creating the same IDE dependence of IntelliJ. And not as brutal as JGrasp thankfully.
Used it in 2020 for my uni, still utter dogshit.
Why do I suddenly hear some familiar jazz?
That's like saying "100% of USA controlled by one entity" - except that in the US people are stuck with one president for four years no matter what, and when staking users can go stake with someone else at any time at all.
It's absurd anyone thought those stupid translucent green plastic things would solve any of this, if anything more surfaces and greebles on the ATM just make it easier to hide a skimmer. If the surface was a razor thin slot on a completely flat surface you'd struggle to hide anything on it. Instead we have this stupid giant hunk of plastic that doesn't even look like part of the machine anyway.
They changed the underlying algorithm for determining who to trust to validate transactions in the system. This new algorithm requires 1% of the computer power of the previous one, and supposedly work just as fine.
It cannot possibly be controversial that the crypto ecosystem is ahistorical.
...for a given (and very odd) value of "fine".
What boggles my mind is that there is no withdrawal from staking and almost no one talks about it. That is, staking right now is a one way street with a promise to be able to withdraw some time in the future and returning only about 4% gross annually, which is laughably low for something that risky. It's well hidden in Ethereum press releases, the only mention I can quickly find is the FAQ entry titled 'Misconception: "The Merge enabled staking withdrawals."' here [1].

It's not just about transparency either. The whole system's security rests on game theory. Not being able to withdraw must affect incentives, which means the introduction of withdrawals will change the system in ways that were not tested yet.

[1]: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/
Google to face $25.4B damages claims over ad practices
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Ask HN: Why can't I find a remote job?
I have 17 years development work experience, continuously, across 5 companies with a full set of references. Currently I'm at faang as an underpaid contractor.

I apply every day. 80% will send generic "unfortunately" @no-reply email. other 20% won't reply. that 20% tends to be companies that have been advertising the same role for > 6months or even some > 1year.

The only interviews I had in last few years was from recruiters cold contacting me. I have not had an interview from an application in probably 4 or 5 years or more.

I'm worried, is it possibly ageism (i'm near 40). I keep hearing that companies are struggling to find good people, but i'm struggling to even get acknowledged. Not saying i'm good, but it doesn't correlate.
First of all. If I was the legal team of any company I'd tell developers to stay away from copilot, since the legal status is still undecided and microsoft has a disclaimer that any legal issues fall on the users (which is probably illegal but you'd have to sue microsoft to get it overturned).

Second… It's a work tool just like any other work tool, why should I buy it out of pocket? In the end it's to the advantage of the company if I'm faster at my job.

Now I'm thinking, precisely because it's not paid by the company but by the single user, in case there is legal action, the company might shift the blame on the developer. If they reimbursed they would have no way of claiming they weren't aware.
We do use just a specific one at work. My point was that it's a highly secured process limited to just a few companies, and becoming one is a lot of effort, if at all possible. There are even some RFC3161 servers just not trusted by Windows, ergo: useless for most timestamping uses.
I wonder if there's an Victorian -> contemporary English filter. While I actually like Victorian prose, I know some people (especially non-native English speakers) are put off from reading Charles Dickens and the like because of the Victorian style which can come across as stilted to to modern ear. Maybe a filter could be made to make Victorian prose seem more modern.
What? Mirrorless cameras use both full frame sensors and crop sensors based on price and line, the exact sizes you would get in DSLRs. While battery life is generally better on a DSLR you should also consider the feature set you’re getting with that reduced battery life. Further, I’m pretty sure we’ve seen the last of Canon and Nikon prosumer and pro level DSLRs: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/nikon-will-reportedl...

So yes, they are old and are being phased out in favor of the superior in nearly every way technology of mirrorless.
imo, Silk Road deserves the credit for solving Bitcoin's chicken-and-egg problem with network effects.

a single enterprising dealer could have started it off - exchange rate basically didn't matter, as long as someone was buying and selling BTC, it'd work to keep the dealer's identity private. SR tapped into a massive new market, regular people started learning about crypto so they could buy drugs, this created a flow of money through the market. honestly, I was excited to see my friends using Tor and buying BTC for cash - it's the gritty, cypherpunk dream!

whenever there's a real market opportunity like that, network effects don't seem to get in the way. Monero and Zcash got very popular from all the ransomware, though I'm admittedly less exuberant about hospitals being ransomed than drugs.
Looks like a mistake in the article, it should probably say:

I compare these bytes with the quotes and backslash characters.

Which would correspond to the two _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask calls in the source code.
You're making some very big claims here, especially has repeated infection by the same strain of Covid (nevermind differing strains) has been demonstrated to occur.
Ok, i agree with the later point. I don't know yet if I agree with the first.
You are right, it's 12-65+ decides how many doeses are recommended, and under 12 (not 15) unvaccinated.
The thing I've noticed about comments in a lot of HN threads about Crypto is that each comment posted is long, like really long and I'm none the wiser.

That raises alarm bells with me.
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Yes -- you can separate identities if you want, and rotating keys means changing a lot less places, so you can compartmentalize your processes.
I find this much more readable than the genuine article - kudos
America having invented the dining (later credit) card, we have some customs remaining from when they worked analog.

I understand why Germany, a poorer country which was late to electronic payments, wouldn't do this; I don't understand the hostility to it. But then, I'm American, we've been doing this longer than you've been alive.
Estonia uses a blockchain to act as an immutable way to store timestamped hashes of government data for security and verification purposes - they started building this a year before the Bitcoin whitepaper was released in fact. That's the only valuable use for blockchains I've seen.

https://e-estonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020mar-nochanges-f...
Curious how many banks you've worked for. I've worked for a couple.

And they pride themselves on differentiating themselves in the market by offering specialised products and services.

Not sure why a bank would deliberately want to turn themselves into the equivalent of a reseller.
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The commenter said he heard this through a friend-- aka that is his source. Why are you asking him to further back up the story? He (or maybe she) is not your research assistant.
Yet you’re in a thread about Diablo.
Are there any companies forbidding developers to use it?

If that was my role I'd totally forbid it, precisely for the reasons you indicated.

If a developer is paying on his own for it to work, who would have the legal responsibility in the end? The developer personally? Another good reason to stay away from it.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single ad since I bought AdGuard premium and configured it properly. It feels less capable than uBlock Origin but I find it honestly good enough on iPhone
> What do you propose other than a block chain for the public ledger?

A csv file, SQLite file, mysql database dump, ... The blockchain is a distributed, trustless ledger, which is not necessary for most applications.

If I may paint a picture of why this matters with an example from the gaming industry - simply because I'm familiar with it: There are projects being made where the inventory/achievement/whatever system lives on a public blockchain, so that you may use/display it in another game, website, whatever.

But this already exists without blockchain! If you play Spiral Knights or Half Life on Steam, you get a hat in Team Fortress 2. There are various third-party websites where you can display your Steam/Team Fortress/Dota/LoL achievements, inventories, ... because those 'ledgers' are public already. You can trade Steam items on third-party websites (which interfaces with steam underneath) that dodge Steam's 30% store tax and will actually pay money out unlike Steam.

The above applications only require public (or even just shared) ledgers. Distributed and trustless is not a requirement for these use cases.

> And if your system uses cryptography for the transaction security and has a public ledger, why would you not call it a cryptocurrency?

You could just as easily transfer USD, GBP or EUR using such a system. The currency itself need not be 'crypto' for the system itself to use cryptography for transactions. You wouldn't publish such a ledger for obvious reasons, but technically you can.
> everything "inside" the system is a legally registered entity. It is completely integrated with the legal system.

Well then, that's not at all solving the same consensus problem that crypto solves.
When I take the NYC subway, which now accepts contactless payment at the turnstile[1], I simply hover my card or device over the terminal and it completes the transaction in less than a second. Is there some trickery happening here? Why are tap transactions taking 10 seconds in other cases?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMNY
There was recently a souped up car from the 60s crashing in traffic in LA due to the brakes failing. Has anyone got the video link? They had GoPro's so pretty amazing to see their reactions.
That's so good I'm tempted to replace the existing rule with it.
Energy production is flexible to a degree and it very much depends on energy usage. Up to 0.5% of the total energy usage of the word just disappeared overnight, so it is safe to claim that a big percentage of that difference won’t even be produced, decreasing carbon emission.
The hint is in the word "excess". If there's a pandemic, and concurrently the amount of deaths in a population increases, there's a strong argument for correlation.

Excess deaths doesn't care what your cause of death was, it just compares deaths in period X to deaths in previous periods.

> When we are talking about the US, in particular, the whole pandemic has been politicized

Yeah, it was very sad to see the Republicans and Trump in particular pursue that course of action.
Now that's a claim that needs a citation or two.
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What's more, it's still impossible to withdraw from staking. Which means there will be another massive change of incentives some time later.
David Chaum opined then “As the Web grew, the average level of sophistication of users dropped. It was hard to explain the importance of privacy to them” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash

Not sure how this opinion relates to failure, but just in case, things only got worse since.
Alright, I concede I didn't think that comment through.

I was only considering a national grid, at peak consumption hours, where excess power is exported and hence "disappears from view", but of course taking a global view the electricity is just consumed somewhere else.

Still, with the current energy crisis, with prices at all-time highs across at least Europe, I don't know if there is anywhere where power production is not running at close to 100% capacity at peak hours. Right now it is extremely profitable to be a power producer in Europe, and you can sell every kWh you produce thanks to the countries being interconnected.

The regulation capacity you're talking about is on the margin. Certain plants (like most hydro power plants) will adjust their production to keep the frequency stable, but there is certainly no excess production capacity right now.
As a fellow digital nomad, I would never do a video call in a busy cafe or restaurant. Or in public at all for that matter.
There'll be statistics on influenza deaths, depends on the jurisdiction you're interested in.
That 30-40% is pulled from an earlier comment on the thread. I'm not actually a professional money launderer, nor do I rely on their services, so I cannot give factual current rates.

But to clarify, I meant the 30-40% as a total cost, i.e. I put in 100 dirty dollars and take out 60 clean. You are correct that an income tax would then apply.

If instead I kept the 100 as cash, I could spend the 100, and not pay any income tax.

Staying all cash probably works at the 100 level. Becomes dicey at the 100K level.
Thanks for the kind reply. I know it's not much but I wish you well with that process. It is far from easy and I hope that you and your loved ones make it through ok.