skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My partner is a doctor mainly working in early childhood prevention. When she did some recent training on evidence based early childhood care (which is surprisingly rare, most early childhood care is not really evidence based), she learned a couple of things that she said she really would like to have known when we had our children were born.

One is that you get told a lot about averages. So commonly parents get told that babies (should) sleep around 12h a day. What nobody talks about is the variance. There are babies who sleep only 8h a day and others who sleep close to 20h. So you end up with parents who thing they need to get their child to sleep, even though the child is absolutely not tired.

Also a lot of people talk about not giving children too much impressions/stimulation. Which is also generally false, giving them stimulation will actually make them tired and sleep better, they also learn stuff. Obviously you don't do that just before or when going to bed.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
> Indeed we have come a long way in car safety in the past sixty years.

I am genuinely curious where we would be now in regard to automotive safety without government regulation.
This is simply untrue.

Mass executions of (certain subsets of) the middle and upper classes, alongside electrification and land reform for the rural poor and trade unions and healthcare for the urban poor, meant an extremely significant improvement in the average quality of life for the Russian population.
You don't even need to jump through this many hoops - somebody from Iran can just do it. And maybe they do, but overall I don't think the market is that big. All of these companies operate globally because it's otherwise difficult to make a profit.

In other news, setting up businesses that go around US sanctions is not something the US will just wave off. Bullies don't accept their authority questioned.
I assume it is more of the "if the parent leaves me, I am going to die" reflex that is ingrained in babies, so the danger is great enough to warrant panic, even though it is improbable. Plus, very young kids don't have object permanence.
Dunno - it's not so different from American celebs - Kardashians and that. Not my thing but I don't really mind if people are into that stuff.
A good question to ask might be why salaries should go up significantly. We're lucky enough to work in a very well compensated industry but we're also in a kind of bubble where sometimes the economics are strange.

In the good times when VCs are falling over themselves to fund anything that might be the next FAANG there is a huge amount of money pouring into the industry and a lot of hiring going on and none of that is necessarily tied to getting good results. Businesses can survive for years while hiring lots of people for crazy money without ever making a profit. The VCs can still do very well because every now and then they do back a unicorn but on an individual company basis this disconnect between how much money they have and how much money they make is not "normal" and severely distorts the employment market.

It's unrealistic to expect the magic money tree to continue growing gold leaves in the economic bad times. Big tech firms aren't immune to a downturn and we'll see hiring slowing down in the places where it was artificially boosted before and compensation falling with it. That will partly be because compensation that is based on stock is probably going to take a big hit at a lot of companies.

With this in mind it wouldn't be entirely surprising if salaries today were similar to those 15 years ago. In the meantime there might have been rapid growth in some years but we've also had two multi-year black swan events. Time will tell whether the ups and downs have cancelled each other out in this case but I don't think that would be a big surprise.
sending money to family in countries with harsher financial systems, being able to donate to causes you support without it being traceable to you (through tornado cash and zcash/monero), being able to move large amounts of money instantly with minimal fees and no intervention, etc.
Based on parent comment, guess that wasn’t really the issue for the authoritarians.
Note how Russia is not on the list.
"You cannot sleep while enemies are nearby"
I'm not sure a criminal mind would advertize having found a bug in the algorithm. Instead it would probably try to capitalize on that bug for as long as possible while remaining quiet about it (assuming it's possible, of course).
Ethereum miners can now play Cyberpunk 2077 for the rest of their lives.
This is very different than Facebook. This isn't a company that also happens to provide auth to get more tracking for their main product. The auth is the main service for okta and it's used by people making decision about whether they want to build this in-house or outsource it.
That is true.

That said, there are few situations where the modulus being used is not a public parameter of a protocol, and it is very difficult to perform operations with a secret modulus in constant-time, as your comment points out.

You'll always be able to get an approximate guess of the size of the modulus too, since larger moduli will need more registers to represent data.
Some of em were spring loaded to where if it got past halfway it'd snap shut all the way. Flicking one of those makes a good noise.
Then I recommend the book "Why Cryptocurrencies?" That focus on use-cases of crypto.

https://whycryptocurrencies.com/
I distinctly remember a (the?) clock in the opera "La Scala" in Milan had the roman "IIII" on it.
8 Things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Match_deref. I made a proc-macro lib for long-awaited deref patterns
Twilio promises ‘anti-racist’ layoffs
Consider also Racket scheme! Has a great starter IDE, an absolute barebones teaching variant that exposes the minimum amount of primitives required to do computations, a repl, as well as a typed variant. Has braces for scope, extremely clear error messages with literal arrows tracing exceptions through your code, and is quite amenable to terminal prompt assignments.
Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse
I recently tried to make a separate work account in Discord.
To do so I created a new account with my main accounts phone number. This caused discord to delete my primary account phone number and used it for the new account.

However, this alone caused me to be instantly banned.
After reaching out to support, they basically told that me I could not use my present phone number for verification and that they couldn't tell me why, and couldn't help me further with that.

I would really like to keep my primary Discord account, is there anything I can do about it?

I have contacted Discord support through their ticket system twice, I have contacted Discord on Twitter (DM); but to no avail
Makes sense, that would conflict with features like branch prediction.
But from my experience thats basically the only channel that does that. All the other sponsors are just ad-text read by same voice as the rest of the video.
I posted this two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769291

And it keeps getting worse from the looks of it.
In Europe they've probably gone down the past decade I'd say.

Outside of the technology hubs like London dev salaries have gone up significantly, largely due to developers being able to work remotely for companies in the technology hubs. I imagine that's a large part of what's exerting downward pressure on wages in those areas.
I tried this recently on an M1 powered Mac. I was blown away with how well it handled playback and upscaling. Gives me hope for the future of these old games as disc rot takes over.
> The Merge is one of the largest technological events in the industry to date.

One of the largest financial events for sure, but technologically there is hardly any innovation there.
Maybe I'm being stupid but when I try to export the audio as a text file I just get a file without any spaces in. Is this by design?
A cleaner example without bit masking: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/crypt/ar...
Ironically, the long time contractors who work at Inland Revenue (tax office) in Telford (possibly though another company) have largely been deemed outside IR35 with a special exception from HM Gov, as otherwise it would be difficult to source contractors! I have a number of ex colleagues who've been in and out of there over the years.
Would be interesting to know if people agree with the Wikipedia definition on such a new phrase. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_quitting
As @Jolter noticed, I'm unwilling to share information that can reveal the company the friend of my friend worked at. I'm also, not aware of much of the technical aspects of what they did, as my friend was a scientist and the other guy had done much of the hard work, so he did not know most of the details. Hopefully, in another visit there I can see him and find a way to meet the engineer, maybe I can encourage him to share his designs, tuning method, and other insights he has.
David Attenborough's documentaries. Each of them are great. A few especially phenomenal ones:
1. Life on Earth (1979)
2. Blue Planet II (2017)
3. Planet Earth II (2016)
4. Our Planet (2019)
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135095/
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6769208
[3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5491994/
[4] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9253866/
curious, have you looked into the years worth of research and work that actually went into the merge? it didn't materialize out of thin air, people had to build it first.
The move away from passwords (especially replacing them with biometrics) is basically an attempt to implement DRM for human identity, and should be resisted.

https://nitter.net/sleevi_/status/1392903827712512001
> Most of the engineers in europe that want to make money work for an american company.

From my experience, most of engineers in Europe who want to make money work are contracting. Contracting money can be similar to what the FAANGs offer here (outside of Switzerland), but taxes are often lower and you don't have to debase yourself with multistage leetcode interviews and intracompany promotion games.

However, the US companies may start to up their game here salary-wise - I was recently contacted by a recruiter of a Tier 2 US tech company who said that the TC for a tech lead position in their branch in Poland is around 220k EUR. I hope this is a part of a larger trend.
Self-hosted serverless in 200 lines with Deno and SQLite
Crying garners attention from adults in either case. Any attention could be better than no attention I suppose.
Sure, whatever. I didn't mean you specifically. My point is merely that crypto enthusiasts and radical individiaulists often praise the concept of the government not being able to inflate their money with printing. Which, yeah, has downsides. But there's also downsides to your government going broke. Like your society falling apart, which increases the cost of local goods, and then bam, suddenly you've got inflation anyway even if the value of the coin remains the same on an FX level.
Always loving to read the progress updates on the Dolphin project.
Fun to see such technical difficulties being solved and explained how they did it.

As a macOS M1 owner the Metal support especially will be awesome, it's interesting to see also that the OpenGL implementation vs Metal has a clear 10 fps difference in some of the benchmark data both on macOS and Windows.

Not many projects that have both and OpenGL and Metal implementation, comparing those two is interesting.
> diaresis

It’s diaeresis. (Not sure if ‘ae’ can be replaced by the umlaut here.)
My question is, what does "free will" even mean?
That's substantially higher than the legal system in any country
Paying people interest created out of thin air is kind of new. Usually there is a borrower on the other side.
I'm pretty sure that this is happening with Bluetooth chips, as well.

Seems the way to find out if they are bad, is wait a year.

I have had a whole bunch of $100+ headsets crap out, after eight months, and have had cheap $20 exercise headphones last for five years.
low market cap out of those , high reward for okta/auth0. the fact that they use this to showcase their power is abhoring.
I understand that parenting is hard. However, I can't help but be sceptical about the "self-soothing" theory - how do you know that infants aren't simply feeling helpless and stop crying because they feel that nobody is coming?

This is an open question, I'm not taking any side because I don't know. But any answer should be supported by some kind of rational argument, not the argument of convenience, i.e. my child stopped crying, therefore they're okay, because I feel better when they are not crying.
this, this is the right response. this is the most telegraphed event in crypto, all the bulls are literally in eth for this, there is just as much likely to be a "sell the news" effect as there is a bull run. OP betrays his bias imagining only one outcome.
It's vitally important that America defends Batista, the Czar, and the Shah.
I live in Berlin and I’m not from the USA. I prefer restaurants with this “US hospitality” or something close. Sadly, lots of people in this city seem to pride themselves in “kind not nice”. There is nothing that says both can’t exist :shrug:
For sure there was a lot of work, but hardly any innovative work. Most of the work was busy-work/unnecessary complexity - As is almost always the case with mainstream blockchain projects. PoS was innovative back in 2016. Blockchain migration to a new tech and consensus mechanism is also not new; it has already been done by hundreds of projects over the last 5 years.

One of the reserve banks' two mandates is 'maximum employment' - IMO, blockchain is one of the clearest examples were you can see the reserve bank's policies working as planned. There is no limit to the complexity and job creation potential of these over-engineered blokchain projects.

Complexity compounds and so does the creation of (less-than-useless) jobs needed to handle all that unnecessary complexity... Solving problems while adding even more complexity on top.

The only innovation is the financial innovation involved in convincing so many rich suckers to pour their money into something which is so inefficient and poorly designed... Somehow tricking them into thinking that the charitable creation of unnecessary jobs is a profitable long term activity.

The real bright minds are those working for the Federal Reserve.
> Withdrawals haven’t been enabled _yet_. Per your own link it will be enabled in an upcoming upgrade.

lambdadmitry is aware of that, they wrote "that is, staking right now is a one way street with a promise to be able to withdraw some time in the future".

>Of course you can argue this upcoming upgrade will never happen. But you could argue the same about the merge upgrade, and this one did happen in the end.

They weren't saying that it definitely won't happen, their main point was "[the return] is laughably low for something that risky". Yes, you might be able to withdraw in the future, but it's not guaranteed and right now you can't, so there should be more attention paid to the risk as it stands.
Wait, are we the baddies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU)?
Interesting -- to my naive mind headaches and dizziness sound more like a brain problem (concussion) than a neck problem (whiplash). So, if you don't mind sharing, I'm curious what the actual underlying problem was and how the physiotherapy solved it.

I had a quick google but the only paper I found that proposed some mechanism ("vertebrobasilar artery insufficiency (VBI) leads to brainstem and cerebellar ischemia and infarction following cervical manipulation", i.e. bashing the neck might mess up blood flow to the brain somehow, causing bits of it to die off) looks complete bullshit.
Meaning there are many Cuban refugees living in Florida who hate the Communist regime and will not support a President who does not continue the sanctions. No political party wants to lose Florida, therefor politicians have a good reason to continue US policy.
They used top of the line parts, not parts from his company.
Would the people around you let you take a break? Would you still self-sabotage in other ways if you took a break? Will a break actually fix you burning out? In your case, my guess is, 'no'.
The AZ-900 exam reminded me of the Simpsons episode, "Pepsi? Partial credit!"
The elusive future of San Francisco’s fog
POW incentivizes wasting energy for a practice that turns it into money without the in between steps of creating businesses and jobs (read: progress), and that alone is a huge minus point. That energy is then wasted for more POW currencies, which implies that those who make the most money out of it can dictate energy prices.
The only way to bring back down energy prices isn't to create more, as it would quickly be allocated by highest bidders for more POW mining in an endless circle, but to reduce that toxic demand, and eliminating POW mining would represent a good start.
C'mon, it's only been 60 years! /s
Seems like it's an old issue that hasn't been fixed [0]

[0] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600556...
God no.

The utility of systems like email was very quickly apparent, and while the 90s web was much more about publishing structured information than any sort of interaction, again it was pretty immediately recognised as a powerful, useful thing.

I don’t recall any negativity to “the internet”, but a lot for the dot com hype cycle, which is what I think cryptocurrency most closely resembles, but it has dragged on for years
I'd wager that for most of human history at least three generations lived in the same room.
> we were never ever a live and let live country.

The UK is one of the most "live and let live" countries in the world.

However I think there is a marked difference between 2010 and 2022, especially in Scotland, who I used to think of as usually the sensible ones; the land of David Hume.

Free speech is being curtailed by legislation that is auspiciously about preventing "hate crime", but in actuality is being used as a tool to shut down dissenting opinions, such as the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill.
That's a great point, yeah I guess this is generating sell pressure on BTC.
Hey all, this is cleaned up code from a live demo I did at rust sydney. We integrated deno with a http server and sqlite to get your own mini "serverless" runtime with sandboxed access to a sqlite-backed key value store.

It was a lot of fun to build, and honestly I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to bring together 3 quite complex technologies with relatively little effort and time.

I think it's a testament, not only to Rust, but also the teams on these projects that it was so easy to combine them in a safe and convenient way. I probably spent more time fiddling with the example and the log formatting...
A couple of months ago I went with a friend of mine to get a kebab in a place we haden't been before.
It was a very large restaurant in an important street of town, and yet it was mostly empty and the kebab was very below average. There were also people talking at a large table and constantly getting food without even ordering.

First thing I said to my friend was: "Yep, sure as hell they're getting the money from somewhere else"
Bah, there goes the wonderful concept of energy backed money down the drain.
Uh, you can treat holes as being defined as entities by their cause and telos, just like any other object/entity.

e.g. A hole made by a hole punch (cause), for fitting into a 3-ring binder (telos). Done.
Good codebases don't need boilerplate to do basic stuff: in this sense, copilot is a patch over the real problem, which can be solved with better frameworks and more code reuse.

I tried copilot during the beta, and apart from the obvious legal licensing issues, I simply could not find a valid usecase for any of the codebases I usually work with.

At my day job, I spend more time thinking of better ways to do X, rather than writing boilerplate code :)
I did find that, and I'm glad they have something, but I'd prefer not to sign up for or need to be logged into an account. I'd also rather not have to audit/edit an extension. Ideally they'd have a URL for it, like https://dm.en.wikipedia.org

I'm guessing I'll end up either using an extension or writing something up in Greasemonkey. There might even already be a userscript out there I can use.
Cuba exports terrorism and misery across the region. The dictatorships in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua fly under the radar these days, but are no less noxious to humanity than the regimes in Russia, Iran, NK, etc.

You can argue whether or not sanctions are an effective way to promote regime change, or if they just hurt the regular citizens of rogue governments. I think they are often quite ineffective.

But there's no defending the Cuban regime.
>The answer is simple – stop using these services and look for privacy respecting alternatives where possible.

I can't say I agree with that personally - I still use google facebook et al. The answer for me I think is only to put stuff you are not bothered about being private on such services and if you say want to ship 1 ton of cocaine to N Korea in return for a nuke you don't do it on such services. Life's too short to be paranoid that google knows I'm having a coffee in Pret.
What is with all these "experts fear this might happen" articles?

It's weird. Not enough actual news to cover?
> How many years before a regular person can ditch the bank for their own personal hedge DAO?

That will never happen, since these things, by design, offer none of the guarantees that banks do.
And it will be the same group of people until the thermal death of the universe, because there are literally no mechanisms to separate those wallets from the tokens. The ultimate feudalism.
> and you can get it back when you unstake.

Interestingly, unstaking is not actually supported by the network yet so the staking only goes in one direction. The price and demand impact when that does go live will be interesting to watch.
- "The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the U.S. Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States."

That last clause has also encompassed things like Hague prosecutors [0]. If your interpretation of these regulations depends on your assessment of the trustworthiness of the regulator, this is a very relevant datapoint.

Imagine major tech companies geoblocking United Nations offices. Is that far-fetched fantasy?

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/14/us-sanctions-internation... ("US Sanctions on the International Criminal Court")
Isn't the determining factor not which companies your employer competes against, but where the jobs are located? For example Google pays "tier 3" compensation packages to its Bay Area employees, but compensation for a Google employee in Bangalore would be much lower.