skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a local municipality where I used to live, they have a number of double-wide (two lanes in each direction with a median) roads in residential areas, with houses on each side. People often sped on these roads, going 45-55 miles an hour in a 35 zone, causing accidents and hurting pedestrians and cyclists.

So they changed the speed limit from 35 to 25mph.

Now, people routinely speed on these roads, going... 45-55 miles an hour in a 25 zone.

Why don't we just make the speed limit zero? That oughta fix it. What's the alternative?

I guess we could develop roads that are actually sized for the speed you want people to travel at, and thereby not make residential areas 100% road-centric, but I'm told by every civil engineer in America that that's crazy talk for some reason.
Oil consumption creates negative externalities for everyone. Mass vaccination creates positive externalities. It's not that hard.
The idea is fine, the issue is that verification is a hard problem to solve properly in an automated fashion and with actual money on the line, you can be sure there will be motivated attackers, trying to abuse the system. So you hire a small army of human contractors to do manual verification on top of automated systems. Except someone went and fired 80% of that team over the weekend.
Still words to live by.

Trump obviously does.

/s
> they write over the top accomplishments in their resumes that are hard to believe, at least without proof

Do you ask them for proof or reject them without asking?
"[inside] the course of a commercial activity" "Commercial activity is understood as providing goods in a business related context."

secondary self-promotion, donations and ads are imho not "providing goods in a business-related context". Paid consultancy and selling tutorials might be though, But I assume that judges will rule on that if it comes to it and I assume that they will set some monetary boundary to which this still counts as "outside the course of commercial activity".
Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps
Google settles with 40 states over location tracking practices
That leads to an article about the 420 mile marker sign getting stolen so often that they replaced it with a 419.99 mile marker sign.

https://www.denverpost.com/2014/01/10/colorado-hopes-a-mile-...
Ivy (YC W23) Is Hiring ML Engineers to Help Unify AI
The only thing they had to do was have someone's nephew draw a different symbol for the $8 tier and use that instead of the very well known Verified badge.

That's it. This whole debacle would've been instantly avoided.
Do you really think code tests like the ones you mentioned are an effective way to screen candidates? I will outright drop out of consideration for a role if Leetcode is mentioned. I'm not putting up with it.
We need to learn many things at just 101 level
That's better but composition is always the devil in the details. Which might be what you mean when you say:

> or neglect to carefully dampen the cross-fade functions

People with a 'caching problem' don't have one cache, they have a bunch of them. So that 1 in 20 chance of getting grey zoned on one cache, is 1 in 400 chance of getting grey zoned on two caches, and a 1 in 8000 chance to get grey zoned on 3. That is a very small fraction but when you're dealing with the Law of Large Numbers that's something that's happening at least once a second for many services.

But if you're using this you probably have a lot more than 3 caches, and then we have to talk about the odds that any request gets grey zoned at least once. which is going to be 1 - (19/20)^n. At six caches you're already over 1 in 4, which is going to potentially change your mean response time quite a bit.
I can speak only about Bitcoin, not "cryptocurrencies" generally (and in fact, all of the real innovation in secure storage that I am aware of is happening on Bitcoin, with crypto lagging by many years).

> But nobody has addressed that market.

Au contraire! You've correctly identified an important market! There is both existing work and ongoing development that tries to satisfy exactly what you've asked about (and doesn't involve burying etched steel plates).

Encumbering your bitcoin with the requirement for multiple, M of N threshold signatures ("multisig") is an important way to protect large amounts. Companies like Unchained Capital [0] provide a service wherein the user holds two keys and the company holds 1 key in a 2-of-3 multisig setup; if the company key is needed, video authentication and other procedures are required.

Other, non-company-assisted multisig setups use schemes such as you propose; one example is the Nunchuk wallet [1] which allows you to sign multisig transactions on your own, or request signature(s) from a key held by a family member or friend, passing the PSBT (partially signed Bitcoin transaction) over a secure communication channel.

Finally, two great examples of physical devices to protect your Bitcoin are (1) the Tapsigner [2], which is an NFC-enabled smartcard holding your secp256k1 private key that does on-card signatures; and (2) Jack Dorsey's Block (formerly Square) is developing a hardware wallet that integrates with your smartphone [3] -- one neat innovation here is that policies can be set such that the user may spend small amounts of funds with the phone only; but larger transactions require a thumbprint or pin on a physical device.

You also mentioned time delays -- this is also supported by Bitcoin script; advancements such as miniscript [4] allow you to express complex spending conditions in a tree-like way.

[0] https://www.unchained.com/
[1] https://nunchuk.io/
[2] https://tapsigner.com/
[3] https://wallet.build/
[4] https://miniscript.fun/
Publicly calling your CEO out like that will generally get you fired. It would be newsworthy if the engineer didn't get released.
I mean the German GDP is significantly higher than French GDP, so I think the main point is that a lot of good German companies are simply not listed (read: many Mittelstand companies). But there's probably a lot more to untangle (e.g. the German public is not as invested in stocks as in other countries etc.).
I had just assumed that if someone was sending out 200 applications, it was pretty much the same resume going to all of them (no catering it to the individual interests of the employer) - with perhaps some exceptions to jobs the applicant was particularly interested in.

I can't imagine sending out that many having spent large quantities of time on each one.

[edited to fix typing the wrong word]
It's partially a joke, but as anyone who has worked with a complex system, things like this can happen. A privacy control is changed somewhere, but not activated until later, and suddenly one day something stops working.
"You can't speculate that a specific tree was felled with an axe rather than a chainsaw when you weren't in the woods to see it happen."

-- on the contrary, I'm pretty sure a rational person could speculate that a specific tree was felled by an axe vs a chainsaw depending on what she knows about loggers in a given area from a given culture and during a given time period. It's a question of probability. It's normal and rational and fair to discuss probabilities when speculating. It's unclear that you understand the terms you are using though so I'm gonna peace out and wish you luck.
It’s not Twitter’s fault when stock market bots go wild.
>Maybe you should think about who the 'layman' is here.

Its pretty clear by the sidestepping and bad calculations in your responses.

> Blocks take fractions of a second to verify.

We were talking about spinning new nodes, why move the goal posts to make yourself sound reasonable? 10-100x the time it takes to download and fully validate 700,000 blocks in the big block world you want.

>I did all the math for you, you still have no evidence.

Cloud hosting 10-100x (5-50TB) is not a one time $70 cost, not even close. Youre doing bad math.

It's silly and we havent even touched the hardware update frequency required to store the volume of onchain spam this would introduce.

You may be out of your depth in this discussion. High degree of node centralization would be the outcome of the parameters you are proposing. I'm not surprised your posts get deleted from subreddits. Based on your description, the admins seem to expect users to think about 2nd order effects before posting.
Likely none: Ruleset is

type Ruleset []Rule

The original code creates a local copy of a rule and explicitly returns a pointer to that. Taking the ruleset by address wouldn't change that issue.
Pandemic means it is endemic "everywhere."

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/pandemic-vs-endemi...

It does not describe severity. Ebola is endemic in parts of Africa. I still hope nobody gets it.

We can change the meanings of words for political reasons but who do we do a disservice too?

Given that it is a word from my mother language I find it a bit insulting when politicians decide to change my language though to benefit for a year or two.

Tl;Dr: Saying that covid is "endemic" to the whole world, is an insult to my ears, logic, and a whole language and people. They should pick a different word if they want to disagree with doctors worldwide.
A Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment
iTunes match. But I don't think you can get it anymore. Been using match for a really long time, no issues.

Amazon Music whacked my concert archive at some point, which was unbelievably aggravating. Never again.
Neither RFC6920 nor magnet: URIs appear to support the "just add a url parameter with the hash to the existing URL" use case, FWICS.

CAS Content-addressable storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Op... : IPFS <CID>/path

RFC6920:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6920.html

Magnet URI scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

draft-sporny-hashlink-07 2021:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sporny-hashlink-... :

<url>?hl=<resource-hash>
> You can block gift cards in most payment gateways, I imagine you could do similar with Apple's system.

What GP means is to go to a grocery store and lay out 10 American Dollars for an Apple-branded services gift card (what used to be called an iTunes Gift Card). One of these: https://www.apple.com/shop/gift-cards

You apply it to the brand new Apple ID you've made and use those virtual funds to make the in-app purchase in the Twitter app that, at the time, was the method of paying for Twitter Blue. (The purchase page even said/says, "You can only subscribe on the Twitter iOS app (for now).")

No blocking of prepaid or gift cards here; you're doing exactly what Apple wants and it's not Apple's problem that Twitter takes IAPs for a "verified" service.
Can I enable it for the camera app and only the camera app?
In 1960, a US quarter bought about 0.80 US gallon of gasoline.

In 2022, a US quarter will buy you about 0.06 US gallon of gasoline.

In 2022, a 1960 US quarter's melt value will buy you about 0.95 US gallon of gasoline. (Gasoline production is more efficient, despite higher taxes)

Hard currency limited how much money could be added into the money supply through lending. Now the value of the US dollar is largely the result of our military leverage forcing oil producing countries to price their oil in US Dollars.

This makes us the "Global Reserve Currency", and "more stable" than the rest of the similarly floating currencies.
Is there any change in accident rates, or any other metric that would suggest that these are worthwhile?
This is such an obvious extension of the concept, but I've never figured out why they aren't used in the jurisdictions I'm familiar with. Privacy related to license plates? Numerical calculations not being valid grounds for incrimination?
Your post is completely made up, and remains so, so I'm not sure why you are criticizing my comment. And yeah, Buck is a result that hits from the past few months. I'm just wondering what you actually did to reach the belief that big democratic donors don't ever go to jail? Like, any research at all?
I’ve gotten some flak from dang as well ;) happens sometimes

I think we are describing fundamentally different economies. GitHub Sponsors is optional. I’m talking about a way to have mandatory payments in open-source, with fully transparent automatic payment mechanisms to all contributors.

And before you say well how, MakerDAO is kind of already working like this (I’d have to look into it more but that’s my impression).

Imagine you buy a piece of software - and it costs you 20$. It’s open source but when you buy it you get an NFT that lets you run the software. The commit tree and their importance are valued by the community. And when you buy the software everyone who’s contributed gets a piece. If you add or extend to it, you’ll also get a share, or you can sell your modules on the side and make your own money on top. But using the blockchain as a method of developer verification, open source becomes profitable in a way that’s verifiable, decentralised and permission less. Anyone can fork but whatever much of the software youve re used still goes to the original developers.

I’m talking about full open source software that would always be paid, where the devs would be IDed on chain, where anyone could write new modules for and get paid on chain for their contributions. All of this is not crypto Utopianism - again some DAOs are already there or close.

Im not talking about “hey sponsor this dev”. I’m talking about a way to earn money while keeping software open source and rewarding people for expanding it in a completely novel way. This is already partially true, even if my whole vision at the moment is a bit fuzzy, it would solve a major challenge that I think we have now.

I am a bit sleepy so I wonder if my comment will make sense but I hope it does.

But fundamentally I believe MakerDAO already does this, it’s just a web app and you pay to use it. Part of that revenue goes to Ethereum miners/stakers, some goes to the protocol, and the protocol decides who to reward.

I don’t see why that model wouldn’t work for a lot of other things. Essentially with crypto VMs you can enforce a model that A. Is open source B. Rewards contributors financially.

Asking why this is better than GitHub Sponsors is a bit like asking why people didn’t pay for digital art before NFTs. It’s just fundamentally different imo.
I didn't downvote you but if the 12 billion or so COVID vaccine doses issued world wide don't convince you that the vaccine is statistically safe, at least as safe as something as common as paracetamol or aspirin, then what amount of testing would convince you?
You probably got hit with whatever they're calling iTunes Match now.
the original tweet kinda made it sound like thats what the plan was. they already attach labels to politicians and such, having a label of 'us senator' and a blue check is redundant, by being labeled they must be verified. if they expanded the labeling to include a bunch more things(and make it more visible in the UI).. its a much better system, labels replace verification and blue just becomes premium(though to be fair id probably pick a different icon)
I hire people to annoy celebrities I don’t care for on Twitter. It got to be too much of a chore to torture such a long and ever growing list of people by myself.
I cannot agree that deterring others from undesirable behavior is an ethically valid reason to punish anyone. People don't break laws 'just because'. Behind every crime there is always a smorgasbord of neurological, sociological, economic, etc. reasons - these include white collar crime such as financial fraud [0]. Unless we assume the existence of libertarian free will (which we shouldn't), a 'choice' one makes to commit a crime is simply an illusion. If it is an illusion, and our hypothetical crime was not a real free choice on behalf of the criminal, what are they punished for, besides being in the wrong body in the wrong time?

In the majority of world's societies, including US, prison systems are a horrific environment filled with violence, rape, drug abuse and dehumanasing living conditions, which inflicts to the inmates the lifetime of trauma. While at the moment there are no better solutions to isolate truly violent and antisocial people (recurring murderers, gang members, and others - those who simply need to be separated from society)[1], throwing anyone in prison should always be the absolutely last resort, preceded by rehabilitation programs and psychiatric treatment. Throwing people in prison to deter others is ethically identical to chopping away the hands of market thieves - a measure that, while somewhat too barbaric for the modern era, follows exactly the same idea.

[0] - for example, many children, especially from middle- and upper-class backgrounds, are conditioned to 'succeed' at all costs; they often adopt cheating as a strategy early in life - not because they are inherently bad people, but as an adaptation to the constant pressure to be good enough for their environment.

[1] - in fact, the real problem is that people who commit these crimes receive no compassion from society and are universally agreed to be deserving to be treated like absolute scum. If we ever manage to reach a civilized future (which humanity might not deserve), our current methods of dealing with criminals will rightfully be compared to the treatment of people with leprosy in the medieval times - barbaric and evil, but they simply didn't know better then.
You seem to be conflating being eligible for vat with income that would qualify as “profiting”. Profiting just means you benefitted. And taxable income is nearly always profiting.
Mastodon itself as a software product/project _may_ be "impossible" to "scale" (scale to what?), but decentralization of social networking is not only not "impossible", it's actually inevitable. We'll look back at the 2010s and wonder why anyone ever thought the discourse on the web could/should become dominated by a tiny number of corporate media platforms.
It's not universal, my iPhone 14 pro with 16.1 does not crash for any letters I can type, spaces or not. Suggestions work fine for me. Clearly there is another factor not obvious causing the crash. In any case Apple would see a whole influx of crash reports (assuming they are as anal about them as I used to be).
While nobody knows the numbers required, we didn't get enough vaccinations for herd immunity.
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I'm not so sure actually. I think your hypothetical is actually exactly what would happen.
Beyond 6 years of experience (let's say 2-3 companies), it's somewhat a waste of time for an engineer to apply for jobs.

Your time is better spent reaching out to your existing network and ex-colleagues to fish for openings in my experience.
Ahh yes, the "unicode sandwich." A single phrase that solved ten-years of (my) wonder at why we were always doing .encode() and .decode() in Python. This after reading a dozen pieces on Unicode. Just add more until it works.

Completely understood Unicode itself on disk/on the wire, but couldn't write a proper program handling it, until then. No one until Ned (in my experience) bothered to mention it.
What do you consider a ‘long’ pause time?

I’ve had no issues with Java 17+ under heavy allocation/garbage collection (data encryption pipeline I haven’t tuned to reuse buffers yet), and it’s pause times are on the order of a handful of milliseconds, without meaningful tuning. I think it’s doing something like a GB/s of garbage collection.

And the jvm in question is doing a LOT more than just this, so it’s coping with millions of allocated objects at the same time.
As I understand it, they claim their worth comes in the algorithm getting someone to their user more efficiently. Still not seeing why all the leverage. For a cab company I suppose it’d be car and insurance/gas costs. This gets more fuzzy because I remember cab companies renting vehicles to drivers per day. I think the rent was the companies effective share of the rides.
> Would you consider adding a kqueue implementation?

Can't do, I don't have Apple or BSD anywhere. But if code for it were submitted to me, I would gladly merge it (and try to keep the CI happy).

The MPD version of the event loop is portable and runs on macOS/BSD/Windows, but no kqueue, only poll() (and select() on Windows). This old-school API has its scalability problems, of course, but that matters not so much for MPD.

The event loop can already do Coroutines on all supported targets; here's another open source project where I use this library: https://github.com/XCSoar/XCSoar/tree/master/src/event/ - it's a flight computer (yes, for real airplanes) which also runs on Windows and macOS and iOS, and runs libcurl (and other stuff) as coroutine.

If you want to use my library and need help with integrating it or with adding kqueue support, get in touch with me.
With Elon taking over Twitter and the mess happening there the migration to the Metaverse is on and Mastodon instances of ActivityPub will be the most popular options for the moment but those instances have serious performance issues when you get massive signup... whether this is because of Ruby on Rails or something else I don't know. I just hope Pleroma and the other Fediverse instances get some love too!
The good news is you don't need to coax anybody. Once you study how it works (legitimately), you realize it has a ton of intangible value [1] and can trade with others who think the same. Anybody who disagrees can choose not to use it.

It's quite beautiful. It's universally frowned upon in the Bitcoin community to tell people they're going to make X in X time frame. All of that nonsense takes place with the Ethereum/shitcoin crowd which gets conflated with Bitcoin.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33586717
FTX's problems were nothing that a government bailout couldn't solve.
You are completely right.

People who expressed concerns or some doubts just a few months ago were attacked, downvoted, silenced and socially outcast.

This is not science. This is the opposite of science.
The kool-aid is strong in here!
The war. He won the war, or is perceived to have. Simple as that. Churchill gets the same treatment in the UK despite, in my view, being far worse than FDR, both as a man, and in government policy. De Gaulle got it as well, practically apotheosized while still alive. Stalin too; in Russia he is still ranked as one of their greatest leaders. It would seem that being in power while prevailing in a total war translates automatically into sainthood.
This is so cool, I wonder what other tools, and where/which places, we can "rent" there are for people with disabilities who can't afford those tools? In Hawaii, I saw some people using "beach wheelchairs" which are basically loungers on big wheels, but not self-propelled.
One of the twists in the software industry is that something that looks braggy to a non-technical recruiter can look irrelevant to someone in the know, or from the other direction something that looks braggy to a tech person can be meaningless to a non-tech person.

For example, if you say that you "developed software that saved the company $X million/year," that might look good to a non-tech person but a tech person will understand that could mean nothing. Maybe you spellchecked comments in a sub-subcomponent of a project a thousand people worked on. On the other hand you might say you "worked on v1 of the Frobnicator library" which might look like nothing to a recruiter but which is a legendary accomplishment in the field.

In my case I just say what I did in plain language that includes a bunch of keywords and hope that's enough.
I commented on this before, but I’m surprised Microsoft screwed up mobile as thoroughly as they did.

They could have dominated, but instead they all but gave away the personal computing space to Apple and Google, and had to pivot the company to cloud computing instead.
The chance of a male under 30 having issues is also virtually zero.