skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reporters adds a detail that several from the WSJ article means 6 (which we all would have immediately known had chess.com simply published on their site instead of leaking the 72-page report):

>The report made no conclusions about Niemann's in-person games. But it also flagged his play from six over-the-board events, saying those merit further investigation.

https://twitter.com/andrewlbeaton/status/1577380477807300626
Arrogance of Thought vs. Arrogant Behavior
Qualified Immunity is US case law precedent, which means the courts basically are applying existing laws to novel situations to make new laws (Harlow v. Fitzgerald.)

Initially, courts ruled that the police lost qualified immunity if they performed an action that they knew violated peoples rights (Malley v. Briggs)

Lately, courts have basically said "how could the government know it was a violation of this guys rights? Sure, there is a very similar case which said you can't violate this right, but the details are slightly different, so how could they know the persons rights were protected in this specific case? Case dismissed." (Zadeh v. Robinson)

It's absurd, not just because the details are always different, but because the initial case law was set without any similar precedent. It basically takes a particularly egregious violation of your rights to overcome the qualified part of qualified immunity and sue the government (Taylor v. Riojas)

(Not a lawyer, but married to one.)
SQLite is supported until 2050, and will likely outlast many other platforms if this goal is attained.

I hope the bus factor is high enough to reach the goal.

"Every machine-code branch instruction is tested in both directions. Multiple times. On multiple platforms and with multiple compilers. This helps make the code robust for future migrations. The intense testing also means that new developers can make experimental enhancements to SQLite and, assuming legacy tests all pass, be reasonably sure that the enhancement does not break legacy."

https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html
He is a genuinely very good player. That also makes it potentially very hard to detect if he has indeed cheated. His current coach has been quoted in a past interview saying how easy it would be to cheat undetected if you were already at GM level. You only need the engine to guide you in 2-3 moves to swing a game.

2013 Interview with Max Dlugy: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-shoe-aistant--ivanov-forfe...

Also, before you ask, "if he is already at GM level, why does he feel the need to cheat?" the answer is that the stronger players and athletes often feel more inclined to cheat because they have such high expectations of themselves. Past cheating scandals in sports have proven this.
TAOCP was invaluable for a couple of jobs I had.

One job involved indexing arbitrarily large books (gigabyte+ was not uncommon) on an embedded CPU with less than 1MB of RAM available to the indexer (this is 15+ years ago, before smart phones). It also involved searching hundreds of those books in a few seconds with ~8MB of RAM available. Indexing was taking place on a single core CPU while the user was using the device, so the indexer had to be able to stop its work within a few milliseconds of any user action and resume later without losing progress. On the surface, Knuth's concepts felt old fashioned (abstract assembly language and talk of multiple tape drives for intermediate storage). But that mapped very well onto this indexing problem. Books and indexes resided on an SD card and individual files on the SD card could act very much like Knuth's individual tape drives. Doing append only operations on those files (as you would want to do on a tape drive) proved fast and reliable. My 1MB of RAM would have been an embarrassment of riches when the original volumes of TAOCP were released. I don't remember if any of the algorithms that shipped as part of that device were straight out of TAOCP, but the thinking involved was heavily influenced by those books. Whenever I was stuck, it was back to Knuth.

My next job was focused on distributed systems. We were rebuilding an ads system because the older one couldn't handle the scale needed. That involved lots of MapReduce and lots of stream processing (before there were good open source stream processing packages to build on top of, this started in 2010). Those same tape drive oriented algorithms came right to the surface again. When processing TB or PB of data, you want single pass algorithms wherever you can come up with them - merely linear isn't good enough. Same as tape drives - there's a huge benefit if you can avoid having to rewind. And so many stream processing primitives (windowed joins, groupings, etc.) are exactly what people were doing with tape drives 50 years ago. Now we were using many GBs of RAM spread across many machines, but relative to the amount of data being processed, it was still miniscule.

This all required spotting the similarities between the world Knuth drew his examples from and the constraints I was working under. But once I did, his concepts were quite useful. And the framework for thinking about things was more valuable to me than any specific algorithm or data structure. It was much more useful to me as a narrative to read rather than a reference to pull something out of.
"This was the first leadership interview loop in the past 12 months (20+ companies) in which anyone had asked me to write code."

Interesting data point for the question: at what point in your career will you stop being asked to write code on a whiteboard to prove you aren't lying on your resume.
Technically, they might sue you if you represent that you are working exclusively for them, which is a clause in most of these contracts. Still, not illegal.
The keyboard and the whole topcase if you do it the official Apple way.

I can see how someone would call that half the laptop.
There’s a difference between being given special powers and being above the law. Special powers are exceptional privileges that are limited in scope. Being “above the law” means you’re exceeding even those privileges, but no one will hold you accountable.

Let’s take your red light example. Cops are allowed to go through red lights when they’re responding to an emergency and they’ve put on their lights/sirens. That’s a reasonable special power. In practice, what I see happening is either (a) police briefly turn on their lights/sirens as they cross the intersection, then immediately turn them off, or (b) police simply run the red light.
Use Named Collections to protect credentials. They are very handy. Here's an article that discusses use in the JDBC Bridge.

https://altinity.com/blog/connecting-clickhouse-to-external-...

Disclaime: I work for Altinity.
That doesn't compare. If I go to Amazon, look for a Harry Potter collection, I'm presented a Buy for kindle button. Not a "rent for some time, but read fast because we might take it away whenever" button. If they said rent, lease, license, borrow, peek momentarily into, it wouldn't be misleading.
I don't think those titans posted for jobs on here anyway.
> I can safely run some static compute / storage / network at a fixed cost, you can't do this on AWS.

No provider on the planet gives you truly unlimited, fixed cost networking throughput. None.

AWS provides Lightsail for a fixed cost, static compute, storage, and networking solution. It's a not strawman argument just because you don't understand it.
Even funnier, when his brother moved the coins it was a “theft” from the feds? Can you imagine the feds saying we seized an iPhone with a banking app downloaded on it, and then someone else goes to the bank and withdraws the cash and now “stole” it?
Looks like you are partially trapped by the sunk cost fallacy.

As a generalization, profitable liquidity events are uncommon. Even VCs, after all their due diligence and experience only succeed 1:10 or 1:20.

Life is precious. Living it is our number 1 priority. So leaving is most likely the healthiest decision you can make.
I have more zigbee than i do zwave, never had a problem with either pairing to my Nortek USB Hub
FWIW, history teaching seems to have moved away from just looking at dates - at least where I am.

I graduated high school <10 years ago and most of our history classes (including WW1 and 2) were spent on what, why and how. A significant amount of time was spent looking at the leadup and aftermath of both WW1 and WW2 as well as the ideas of the time. We pretty much didn't look at troop movements, generals, battles, etc. apart from mentioning the really significant ones. Same goes for pretty much every other unit of history (mediaeval Europe, colonialism in Asia and Africa, etc.).

Maybe this is a reflection of differences in teaching styles in different parts of the world?
MongoDB folks started working on the SQLite alternative - Realm.
> Energy is the lifeblood of humanity. We can't demonize it, the only path forward is to embrace it and find a way to utilize the near infinite energy available to us in the universe in a fashion that is environmentally safe.

I didn't say that energy was bad. What I wrote was

> Capitalism incentivizes increased economic output, which incentivizes increased energy consumption. Barring regulations to internalize the externalities of co2 emissions, this means it incentivizes increased fossil fuel consumption.

I think you may have overlooked the part in italics.

In other words, capitalism incentivizes energy consumption. This is okay. But it's now important to regulate co2 emissions in a way where energy that does not produce co2 emissions is consumed.

(However, the reality is that capitalism is also having difficulty doing that.)
Ideology.

There's alot of people who are ideologically opposed to database backed message queues. They're usually reluctant to give detailed explanations why, because it's an emotional thing.
I like Twitter for all it's spaceflight related stuff from NASA and ESA, DLR and others, where live streams can only occur in form of text and photo updates. I couldn't think of a replacement platform for this use case. Or current news events for which the press is to slow to publish, or where they quote Twitter as the source, like today's "Fuck you" message, which is something which might make it into some history books. Sometimes some IT related posts are interesting, from people who are at the source or generally have a very good understanding of the topic.

I never scroll my "feed" or whatever they call it.
Clicking through to the most recent (September 2022) draft, we can see it talks about needing an "Attestation CA"[0], saying:

> In this case, an authenticator is based on a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and holds an authenticator-specific "endorsement key" (EK). This key is used to securely communicate with a trusted third party, the Attestation CA

Basically what they're trying to create is DRM for human identity, where you will only be allowed to access certain websites if you own a specific device which is approved by your government in order to verify your age / legal ID number / biometrics.

Putting this capability in the spec is a very dangerous idea as it will be abused by sites, if not of their own volition, then once pressured to by governments as soon as they realise the power it gives them.

[0] https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/#attestation-ca
Ah, Spring - freeing Java developers from the horror of typing "new" since 2002.
In the same way that any imports involve extraterritorial emissions. The US manufacturers a lot of things and and does so with pretty good environmental standards compared to most other places.
Right?!?

I'm not watching an hour-long YouTube video if he hook is some flavor of "Yep, right there a half step above chattel slavery, we have... writing 1,000 words a day."
APC has a DC UPS but iirc it's 12V only. Mainly intended for routers etc.
Not only that, but Depp is notoriously irresponsible with his wealth. Before he had to liquidate some properties because of the trial, he had an excess of houses, condos, boats, cars, and all kinds of expensive to maintain personal holdings. I don't know for sure, but from what I've seen of Elon Musk, he is a lot more conservative with his wealth—even considering the Twitter deal.
The commitment papers are publicly filed. True, Musk’s equity syndication terms aren’t public, but that’s basically irrelevant - Musk personally is on the hook for 100% of the required equity to the extent any of his coinvestors don’t show up at closing.
Ah, yes, taste, the most objective of the senses ...
Care to elaborate? I’m a fullstack Rails dev for 12 years and I had no idea either, just like OP. Why alienate potential users from the get go?
People complained, but I can't imagine the user experience of playing an NTSC DVD on a PAL player and TV would have been very good, or vice-versa. There isn't a clean way to convert between 50 and 59.94 fields per second. You would have ended up with either jittery playback or incorrect playback speed. The field sizes are also mismatched, which would have required some pretty gross scaling given late-'90s DVD player technology.

Region-locking on Blu-Ray is 100% unnecessary. Fortunately, it has become increasingly common for discs to ship with no region restrictions.

Of course all of this is moot when you're just slapping that disc in an optical drive and ripping it to a NAS, instead of using an "official" player.
A Delaware court has previously made an acquirer buy a company when evidence showed they had sabotaged funding to get out of an agreement. So while it may be possible, it isn't easy.
There aren't many helipads either. Outside of regular airports, only a few urban areas have any helipads available for commercial use. More can potentially be built but that requires large open areas free of obstructions. Adding helipads to existing building roofs is generally impractical due to weight and safety issues.
If HN can sink the economy it was going down either way
What next? Parag Agrawal fired I assume. Massive overhaul of the business?
Can you share the gory details so we can learn more about this? It would be interesting to study what happened, in detail. Perhaps there was a misconfiguration?
We use Redis for the source of truth for some of our data. More key-value store than cache.

Pros of Redis Cloud over Google Memorystore for Redis:

- Five nines uptime SLA, vs three in GCP.

- No sharding support in GCP, which limits scaling write throughput.

- GCP persistence is limited to hourly RDB snapshots whereas Redis Cloud supports append only file (AOF).

- During migration we needed to access our Redis instances from Heroku. We're not on Heroku's Private Spaces, so we can't set up a VPN. We'd need to set up a proxy like Twemproxy or Envoy to expose the Redis instance but with Redis Cloud we can just make sure the firewall is open.

- Redis Cloud's support is pretty awesome. Had an engineer available during our migration. GCPs support is okay at best.

Cons:

- Memorystore is quite a bit cheaper.

- No GCP IAM integration.
I detest pretty much all(including sqlite's) codes of conduct. None of them are about getting rid of toxicity but rather exercising power over people.

Alas, I have even been flagged by the admins. I must have been really off base with my comment in a way I don't understand.
if you have the article I'd be interested in reading it and saving to my collections. Another more updated book that covers a similar theme published in 2018 is Jerry Muller's Tyranny of Metrics.

1. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174952/th...
On the plus side, it gave Elon Musk a chance to sell some Tesla earlier in the year.
I think you are misunderstanding fractional lending and collateral.

Fractional lending seems a bit odd, but it's not like there is 'no collateral' - rather, there ends up being 'partial collateral'.

As it turns out, that 'partial collateral' is enough - it's actually reasonable thing to do, because the vast majority of loans are repaid, it's not necessary to fully collateralize everything on the whole.

Banks have to have some capital requirements, which means, if they 'screw up' too badly, then they go bankrupt! So they are acting in a capitalist manner and have to be careful about how they lend, and at what rates. If random bank acts irresponsibly, then random bank will go kaput by regular market forces.

Instead of thinking of fractional lending as 'missing money' think of it more like leverage.

Basically - the effect of fractional lending is that it's a 'multiplier' to whatever the Central Bank decides to do.

So it exacerbates effects in one direction or the other but on the whole, it doesn't change the real nature of the system.

The way we manage money is sound.

We need money to expand and contract, and we have good ways to measure that.

The 'danger' of fiat of course is political intervention, or a failure of controls.

We had a broad intervention in 2008 that favoured home owners over others, and there are attempts to use the Central Bank to do 'Social Justice' type things, which I think is very risky.

It's a bit like Nuclear Energy: it's very potent, you just have to watch it responsibly.

Finally - currency should be a 'current' asset, not a store of value. We just want it as a medium of exchange. So as long as it's not shifting too much one way or another, then it should work.

For 'stores of value' there are other things, like real estate etc..

"Inflation happens when the government prints money that has no collateral, and has no correspondence to added value in the economy and so it dilutes the value of the money that is already in circulation. "

This is misleading.

The 'government' does not print money, the Central Bank does. And as you indicate, the bank ultimately creates credit via fractional lending.

'Inflation' happens when the cost of goods rise faster than the money in circulation.

Thus 'inflation' can happen because 'stuff is more costly to make'. Like gas in Europe, is more expensive, not because 'money printing' but 'Russia'.

Also, inflation can feasibly happen without money printing or even a rise in inherent cost of goods, if the economy shifts in a way that ends up in excess cash.

But ultimately, if during normal course of 'growth' if there is no expansion in the monetary base, then you'll have deflation, which has bad externalizes.

So the goal then is to adjust interest rates / print or extract money from the economy so that prices stay roughly flat, with just a tiny bit of inflation. That is a dynamic process, not a static process.
Ah, thanks for the clarification, I think we've been talking about two slightly different things, then. For you, std::optional would have to make C++ more memory-unsafe than it already is in order for "anti-memory-safety" to be a fair characterisation. For me, that label merely implies that memory-safer alternative designs of std::optional were considered, and the current design was picked despite its memory-unsafety being a known potential issue. I think I would likely agree with you that std::optional does not make C++ less memory-safe than it already was before that got added.
I got a Google Home as a raffle prize and didn’t see the point.

But my house was built in the 70s and has almost 0 ceiling lights in the room. So I started buying smart outlets for the lamps so I could just turn the room off by yelling at it.

My wife switched us to Alexa because she had an app that would let her do her billing through voice (start working on John Doe’s case, stop).

I’ve expanded the lights through the house, I use routines to do stuff like turn off my bedroom light, turn on the fan, and turn on a “rain on a tent” sleep noise thing.

We use it as an intercom for the kids and to make announcements like “dinner time.”

I got an Amazon TV on prime day because it was cheap. It’s kinda handy to be able to yell at the TV when the kids lose the remote. Not super useful.

We all use the things to listen to music. I have mine paired with nice speakers in my office.

I gave up on being spied on. Everything I own is feeding back to Google, Amazon, and Apple. Probably China too with my cheap outlets.

I stick smart devices on a separate 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network that also can’t route to my main one, but that’s just to keep inevitable compromises contained and not fill my network with a bunch of chattering nonsense.

I wish Alexa would let me name it whatever I want vs the choose 1 of 3 names. There are more satisfying names to yell.
> he police are authorized to do many things that are illegal for us ordinary citizens. they can restrain people, go through stop lights, speed, threaten, sometimes even kill.

But not whenever they want. When needed. You could do any of those things legally in most states. The first to prevent a suicidal person from killing themselves, the next two when driving a serious case to the ER, the last two when defending yourself from an armed home intruder.
It's a bit different because it's more like a obsession to find something rewarding.

My school grades as a kid were fine, but I was studying at least 2 different books at same time because after a single paragraph it was already "boring as hell", even being genuinely intrigued by the problem and the possible outcomes. So to study simple math, multiplication for instance, I had a science magazine open beside to constantly remember the outcomes of studying math (understand astrophysics that apparently is cool), at same time I was studying history with a history book and the cover of Red Alert 2 to remember what can happen if don't understand the outcomes of a possible domination by a authoritarian leader.

So 4 fucking things at same time. All of that to just get a C or B- grade.

I was amazed recently to be able to do just few tasks properly done and managing to rest and remember to eat. Few properly done tasks was usually a result of super/hyperfocus where the toll later was extremely high, like eating lots of garbage food to compensate the lack of food during the previous hours, sometimes as high as 20 straight hours.
Really? I consider myself pretty economical, but I throw out much more than a few lightning cables worth of waste in a given week (probably more on any day even). Would they even really be noticeable in your trash can?
> So getting important people, politicians, celebrities use the best possible term I think is crucial.

Getting them to be consistent in their messaging is even more important.
How did the ancient Greeks and Romans have recessions without NBER's guidance?
I'm 36 and my grandfather was born in 1907. YMMV.
It’s a longshot, but it would be simply amazing if Musk managed to expose himself to criminal liability becaused he convinced himself in a pot-induced stupor that Zatko was going to somehow free him of his obligation.

Don’t assume that this prevents the matter from being looked at more closely though. Musk is a juicy target.
> There are some posters that will use their perceived skill at language to do somersaults of logic...

I can agree that some people try to reason using language skills rather than reasoning from first principles
Keep this in mind(!)

Magnus Carlsen is a majority shareholder in chess.com.
You never explained what a column database is. One row and unlimited columns?
VisionFive 2 looks like a great board. I'll know in six weeks or so when my super early bird 4 GB one arrives (and a regular 8 GB in February).

However it doesn't have a case, screen, battery, charger, keyboard, trackpad ...

$1500 seems entirely reasonable for any laptop that is being made in quantities of 1000s (only 100 before New Year) not millions, regardless of what processor is in it.

I've certainly paid far more money for slower laptops in the past ... PowerBook 100, Duo 230, Wallstreet G3/266, 1.0 GHz G4 17" to name a few.

In raw CPU performance, it's probably similar to a Core 2 Duo MBP ($1999 for a 2.16 GHz in 2006). But it's got twice the cores, far more RAM, far more "disk", far better GPU.

The VisionFive 2 is more like one of the last Pentium IIIs or G4s in performance, per core.