skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say what you will about crypto in general, but this is a pretty epic level of engineering. It has taken a lot of time and effort, but the core developers have been knocking major features out of the park for the last couple of years. All with a ton of money on the line.

ETH has become deflationary, uses much less power (which also decimated most GPU mining in general), has a better gas calculation mechanism and now withdrawals from a system that securely earns interest, that even beats inflation.

Next up will be better scalability and zkproofs. You have to hand it to the developers, they are doing a great job.
The chart in this article tells a more balanced tale.

The size of the US EV pie doubled and Tesla's growth didn't. But while Tesla's share is not yet in freefall, the trend is quite alarming. The group growing share is fractionated.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1134120_tesla-is-losing...
"Open" is a heavily overloaded term. One of the main premises of Bitcoin is tamperproofness and permissionless participation.

That in itself does not equate to lack of anonymity. Just have a look at Zcash[0] or Monero[1].

In general, the idea that openness and anonymity are in conflict with each other has not been true for at least 40 years. There's entire field of mathematics dedicated to solving this problem known as secure multi-party computation.

[0] https://z.cash/technology/

[1] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/about/
If Nissan is so much better at building a widely affordable consumer model, why are they outsold massively by Tesla?
Get a tiny GaN USB-C charger, throw it in your bag, and forget about the public "charging ports"?

I bought like 5 of these, threw them in my bags and luggage, and I don't worry about charging like ever. And my devices charge fast.

If I'm doing long flights, I generally bring a single power brick.
>would you be okay if a Catholic theocracy persecuted you for your own belief in "hard DCT", given that according to Catholicism it is heretical?

I would not, but I'm not sure what that has to do with my broader argument, since it doesn't hinge on Abrahamic religions seeing eye to eye on all topics. For example, you wouldn't find Ahmed bin Hanbal saying that he would prefer no caliphate to one that believed in the createdness of the Qur'an, despite being persecuted for that belief himself.

>"Hard DCT" is the Asharite position

Yes, but it's also not exclusive to them. For example Ibn Hazm was a prominent theologian who subscribed to it, despite his vehement opposition to asharism.

>I'm not sure what the Atharite position on this question is, if they have one

My understanding is that Ibn Taymiyyah takes the view that goodness is based on the nature of God, rather than command or foreknowledge exclusively, and that individual commands may take either side of euthyphro's dilemma, rather than being confined to one or the other.
Apple in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand
#1 priority is optimizing the city you live in. What you’re looking for:

- population density: the more opportunities to connect with someone, the better. A densely packed city selects (or transforms others into) people who are open to meeting others. This also makes it the natural default to be within talking distance of someone; consider the opposite: you’re sitting in a coffee shop with enough square feet to comfortably fit 30 people, but there’s only you and 3 other people there — you’d have to conspicuously walk 15+ paces over to say hello to someone you’re interested in.

- transience: a city that is full of people who must be outgoing in order to not be alone means that you in turn will fit right in by being similarly outgoing and social. You’re looking for somewhere that people often immigrate to, or has a job market that brings people in from elsewhere, etc. You’ll be able to go out solo, make some friends along the way, and you just doing your thing will eventually attract the attention of someone in the room.

- walking-friendly: the more time you’re sitting in a car, the less time you’re surrounded by people. If you have someone giving you eyes while your walking down the sidewalk, that’s a perfect opportunity for a spontaneous date — but that will only happen if, you know, there are actually people walking around outside.

- social events: are there parks? Flea markets? Food trucks? Outside movie screenings or live performances? Food festivals? Meetups catering to your interests? Anything that gets people out and bumping into each other?

I’ve had fantastic long term relationships with people that I met in line at the airport, or at the coffee shop, and other miscellaneous random encounters. But your choice of city and its culture will determine the probability that you’ll hit off with someone that you randomly meet, and the odds that you’ll randomly bump into anyone at all in the first place.

I’m presently living in Dallas, Texas again (where I was born and raised), after having lived in DC and NY. Would not recommend anything similar: majority of people here have friend groups from their childhood and aren’t really looking to meet new people; coffee shops and other establishments are incredibly spacious (because land is cheap and people here generally want space from others, rather than e.g. communal bench seating); there aren’t many outdoors social events; you have to drive to go anywhere; etc. Only reason I moved back was due to some health stuff that I have since gotten over .

I suppose you could do online dating, but I’m not really a fan. If you have dozens of people lining up for a date with you, I feel that it screws up your perspective at the beginning, as you break prospects down into a matrix of pros and cons and try to prioritize who you go on a date with next — sucks the magic out of meeting someone. Vs bumping into someone, make eye contact briefly, look away for a moment, and then find that you both did a double take at the exact same time: there’s just you and that other person caught up in the chemistry of the moment.
This is an unfair characterization without more due consideration.

The IC was raked across the coals for years over being overly secretive and is still blamed for 9/11 because they had the pieces, but wouldn't coordinate.

Balancing security and communication is very tough and the nation specifically choose communication.

That 1000s of people had access and didn't leak it speaks to the strength of the system. I'm sorry that one guy was eff'd in the head and felt he needed to buy friends with classical documents.
I am currently a Financial Management Analyst at the Bureau of Labor Statistics working to support the Labor Market Information and Occupational Health and Safety surveys that BLS conducts. I write independently about economics, business, and public policy for a better world at apricitas.substack.com.

Prior to working at BLS I was a Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Uganda as an Business Development Advisor from 2019-2020. I graduated from George Washington University in 2018 with a BA in Economics and Political Science.
The vehicle looks very left-handed
Did you try Expert mode?
You can make your mind about what's wrong by yourself. What everybody is telling you is that it's real.
I would love it if this had a voice input feature. I’ve never used voice input for search in the past, but LLMs are so good that typing has actually become a significant bottleneck. I’ve been using whisper through https://yakgpt.vercel.app/ for this reason!
Growth as some kind of synonym for quantified (how?) technological progress: I'm unqualified to answer but I suspect it has something to do with reconciling macroeconomics and the ecological concept of net primary production.

Growth in terms of $ equivalent, adjusted for inflation: even for the mere world of atoms, this is untrue. Global GDP roughly dectupled from 1950 to 2008 and there's no way that's solely attributable to digital services.
I definitely wouldn’t ignore everything they say.
It actually is exactly like Hawala, and I've traded BTC in and out with networks that had roughly the same human topography. That was the original killer app or crypto.

FWIW, we Jews (speaking for my family) mostly think the Rothschilds were pretty smart for working out the same type of system by placing a brother in each European capital and banking to kings, keeping a ledger instead of moving physical gold whenever possible. It seems obvious now, but it was "moving fast and breaking things" in the 18th Century.
> I was planning to add those pages and did not expect Grep to be on the front page of HN.

Fair enough, but a privacy policy isn't a "nice to have", it's a legal requirement (in many jurisdictions) before you can start collecting email addresses and other PII. It's a very bad idea to push such things to later.

> From my testing, at least within your network, I did not notice any AI-generated content.

That doesn't mean anything. Humans cannot reliably recognize AI-generated content. Why do you think all kinds of institutions are so afraid of it? If it were obvious whether something is made by an AI, there would be no problem.
This is just part of the Bitcoin sales process: any time a case gets attention showing that a common marketing claim is wrong, the sales guys come up with a reason to say it was the victim’s fault rather than a weakness of the system they’re trying to get you to buy into.
You're splitting hairs. They're a source of negative value. Anyone with any sense doesn't need anything they have to offer.
I loathe Jenkins and it’s Jenkinsfile, and the older XML or GUI configuration for their plug-ins. So I do everything in gradle and have jenkins run gradle commands.

Just to share: there is value in the ability to run the build on any developer machine. Jenkinsfiles, GitHub Actions workflow yaml files, and GitLab CI yaml files can’t be run on any machine without some shim program to interpret and run those files.

So I see this as a separation of concerns problem. Jenkins is to run builds in a distributed manner, gradle or bash scripts are to orchestrate the build/testing.

Right now we have mix of Macs, Linux and Windows devs. I’m considering replacing bash scripts with Powershell Core in projects that do not have/want gradle. Powershell is promising and fully cross platform.

I personally believe gradle does to much. But there isn’t much choice in Java projects.
I don't know if this is sarcasm or not, but in case you're serious. The fact that you feel the need to approach this like you're a gladiator preparing for mortal combat in the arena of the mind, is really not OK. Our industry's interviews shouldn't be like this
They are equivalent.

If an asset's income increases, the value of the asset increases.

Purchasing is less liquid than renting, so it tends to lag. And some characteristics are more amenable to renting vs other use.

But overall their trends are equivalent .
Incel/misogyny isn't mentioned in this story. Not sure how that's relevant.
Can you make “concise” mode more aggressively concise? Usually I just want a one-liner, but even in concise mode I usually have to wait through a preamble that repeats my question, setup steps and imports, etc.
Yeah, I can also queue prompts and do things like X/Y plots and matrices. Also SD is free.

But I’m not saying one is better than the other, I think they each have pros/cons, just wanted to list numbers for the curious.
I don't think that's fair. The kind of candidates who are good at these questions won't view it as being walked through how clever the interviewer is, but as an opportunity to solve an interesting problem (and show how clever they are).

That is, if your reaction to the problem is "Eww what a 'clever' problem, are you showing off that you know such stuff?" then you are not someone Google is looking for. (Of course, whether Google is right here is a separate question ...)
This was a thorough explanation. Thank you.

It does sound like the history of corruption from 2013 means they have to stay alert to this problem.

And it also sounds like the revolving door of government has allowed a lot of the former investigators to get high paying gigs at crypto scam outfits. Not a good look.

Overall, it seems like the government dealt with the corruption adequately, however. It is not reasonable to assume that any institution will be free of bad actors. The question is whether those actors are punished or not.

I have become tired of the overly cynical and hostile rhetoric directed at law enforcement, especially just lazy stuff. But this thread was thorough and fact-based.
Bar, tinder, churches, open festivals, etc.

But the most important: Through friends. Trying to make regular friends and expanding your social circle increases the chances of being invited to private gatherings, where you can meet more people and so on.
A couple of reasons:

1. I care pretty strongly about the truth. When I see people actively spreading incorrect information whether through malice or their own misunderstanding I think it’s important to correct it to prevent the deception of others, especially when it’s happened on such a wide scale. He himself doesn’t seem to understand that it’s important to correct this type of thing early so there’s no other option.

2. I care because a lot of the future depends on the success of Elon’s companies and people use tearing down Elon as an excuse to attack his companies. They’re doing amazing things for the future while being constantly attacked for it.

So it’s a double-whammy of self interest and my own internal mental obsessions.
There are basically 4 options in EVs right now:

1. Excellent but north of $100K

2. Tesla

3. Solid EVs that are reasonably priced, but the wait list is > a year

4. Low range crap

The cars that this guy was talking about are in category 1, so, yeah, Tesla is actually the cheaper option.
I’d be more on board with things personally if the autonomous cars had their own sideshows.

It’d soften the image up. And the kids would love it…
>People keep saying that, but I don't see it.

I do. I care about my problems and what it does for me. I regularly employ ChatGPT to help me solve arbitrary tasks from writing code, debugging code, learning Korean, and cutting writing time in half.
Kinda true, but the speed and quality and scope make a difference. A principal moves much faster than a senior, who moves much faster than a junior, who moves much faster than an intern. The comp and responsibilities need to justify the title.
in reality, no, they don't know who I am. Back when LocalBitcoins.com facilitated face to face trades for cash around the world, you just had to have a high rating from previous transactions. Now... how safe do you feel showing up to meet an anonymous guy in a bar with thousands of dollars in Benjamins? That's the downside of being anonymous. /edit: The downside of operating completely outside the system.

/edit 2: I should also clarify that I never cashed out my casino's BTC in this manner. That obviously wouldn't make sense because anything that touched a casino wallet would be traceable to that nexus. I only used it to bring extra spending cash and rent money to countries where it was hard or expensive to transfer USD through banks.
I beg to differ, this is exactly the opposite of a manhole problem, which I tried to explain, which I clearly failed.
I come from a Lexus background and found Tesla just too damn uncomfortable. The seats were hard, the interior finish was just not up to my standards. The Model 3 is starting to look dated, the Y looks weird as hell, especially in the rear view mirror and the other models are just out of my price range. I'm sure the performance is just fine but I think I will wait for Lexus to come up with a good option.
This is not a great interview question. It’s not even a good interview question. It barely evaluates any technical abilities and it ignores most technical abilities that matter.

This question could be improved as follows:

* present the naive solution. Explain that this is a PR that was submitted in 20 minutes by our new intern from Waterloo. Ask them to help improve it.

* suggest to them the intern’s argument why the lookup is O(1) and explain that it’s actually O(n). Ask them to write a PR comment to break the news to the intern.

* explain the optimal solution with tries. Ask what happens if the vocabulary is big enough—and the prod environment is resource constrained—so that the trie is rarely in memory when the function is called. How would the trie solution compare to a binary search through a length normalized list of words?

This kind of question is barely useful to interview new hires—when you still may have basic questions about how much undergrad material “stuck”. Within a few years when they hit full-performance level you should care much less about this kind of question and much more about “higher order” thinking about engineering.

How do you communicate bad news? How do you identify, communicate, and mitigate risk? How do you plan large tasks at at appropriate level without over engineering the solution? What questions should you ask at different project stages to capture the right requirements, anticipate issues, and successfully execute over time?

But whatever, I’m sure you get lots of signal out of repeating “a hash table lookup is O(1)” “nuh uh” on loop for 10 years. :eyeroll:
Ehn, the world be that way.

I can definetly believe that someone heavily invested in an argument on social media might do something like leaking docs on what they assumed was a niche audience.

I've seen enough flamewars even on HN that have shown those kinds of characteristics (and Ik I myself have been guilty of getting overly invested in threads as well).

Humans be humans I guess.

Also from the demographics and description, I think the leaker may have been younger (early to late 20s). Being in your 20s, isolated on a base, and being bored can make people get overinvested in online communities.
I think you're missing the point of the comment about tools.

Programmers skew anxious. In theory there's no difference between writing basic code on a whiteboard and writing it in an IDE. But in practice, an interview is a novel, high-stakes environment with a bunch of judgy strangers. So if you then have people do the interview using tools that are unfamiliar, a notable percentage of them will be thrown off.

Once I switched to encouraging people to bring their own tools (own laptop, own editor, preferred language), I saw a marked decrease in people bombing interviews. Some of the people you might have put in the "they lied" bucket were, at least for me, just ones who got really nervous and so were unable to grab the brick.

To me, that's a bad interview, because the job isn't going to be high-stakes whiteboard coding. It's going to be sitting quietly in a comfortable and safe place and gradually improving things. The more an interview can be like that, the better.
We own a Model3 (me) and a Leaf (wife). My wife bought the Leaf more recently; she always defaults to the M3 when given the option. In short, Leaf:Flip-Phone and Tesla:Smartphone. The only saving grace for the Leaf is price. We should've bought a ModelY instead of the Leaf.
The paper is not so much a study as it is a de-growth position paper that will be used by other de-growth nut jobs to cross cite one another and make themselves appear relevant.

"Critical social sciences explain that these patterns are generated by distinctive political–economic systems that seek capital accumulation and perpetual growth to the exclusive benefit of a privileged minority"

"To conclude, theories on degrowth suggest that the only way to counteract the unsustainable and unjust patterns of elites is by reimagining a society in which elitist overconsumption at the expense of other citizens or the environment is not tolerated"

It's just anti-capitalist mumbo-jumbo.
No, it doesn't block those.
And all of your cloud hardware investments will be worth nothing
Not only LLMs. I couldn't answer that prompt.
if the interviewer is truly knowledgeable they can drill down into certain areas, or ask questions about the areas that weren't covered in the answer. i.e. if the answer was mainly browser DOM dynamics, ask about DNS and tcp/ip routing.

of course, the whole point of the question is nobody you're likely to interview can fully answer it. maybe someone like jim keller could but is someone like him really going to know about css stuff? maybe, maybe not.
The kicker is the final paragraph:

> To date, no federal law enforcement officials have contacted the young group member.

If this is real, it’s insane that WaPo beat the DoJ to get to these people.

Also, how stupid are these kids to publicly talk to reporters about their involvement and receiving state secrets (the kid requested his voice not be masked!!). People have been imprisoned for receiving classified information and this is one heck of a clown show the DoJ will want to appear completely on top of.

For real, guys: don’t talk to police or reporters or anyone when you’re involved in a mess (even one much smaller than this). Get a lawyer and learn how to say “no comment!”
"That's hard to do if you're in a small town, or if your interests are rare in person, but have online watering holes."

By no means am I presenting this as a good thing. For myself, I can get "generalized socialization" in person no problem but I have a lot of specialized online stuff, including yea verily this very conversation we're having right now. I've got the financial wherewithal to buy into communities as they start going closed and for pay, but not everyone will.
Interviewing is a separate domain from programming, and everyone should brush up, be prepared, before interviewing.

I usually have a project or two that I can speak-to in depth, to give examples of decisions made, challenges handled.
> 12mph than two SUVs at 40mph.
12 mph is the speed of a beginner bicycler. most bikers go faster then that.
most pedestrians are hit by cars going under 40mph and SUV's only make up about 8% of the total market.

These facts don't disprove the idea that one would 'rather' get hit by a bike vs a vehicle, but the fact that you keep saying that nonsense doesn't help your argument.

> I've lost several friends and family members to car accidents.

I'm not surprised, 76% of Americans require a car to get to work. that's a lot of car trips.

If you don't like cars, don't drive one. I don't. But stop pushing your views onto others.
VMware build vSphere on Angular. I wonder what they're using now.
Anyone who says that hasn't paid attention to the industry that spawned the most highly valued company for a while now. Apple captures like 20% of devices and 80% of the industry's profit.

Not saying that's gonna happen with Tesla, I'm not making that bet, but who's to say how it will turn out they could drive outsized margin from their peers with some mix of brand (not that Elon's been helping lately), differentiators and software add-on. In an industry where revenues are very high and margins very competitive (low), each percent of margin gained is really meaningful.
I once had money deposited in to my account, repeatedly, that wasn't mine. It was a pain in the ass. I didn't want it.

I asked my gf's dad, a lawyer, if I could spend it. He said no: it's like someone parking their car on your driveway. It's annoying, sure. But it doesn't make it your car.
I disagree. The only equivalence drawn is that there are people who try to tell me how I should feel about each of those groups.

I do not feel that way though.
What do you think of having to go to war and get killed, going down in a shipwreck saving women and kids, etc.
The lives of men were brutal back then.

If I look at history that is a bit closer, grandfather and great grandfather those were the opposite of oppressors. At least the mens that were honored were the ones that created the most and helped people around the most.
Women back then had they hands full with kids, house to keep and probably older parent around.
I think it was seen as a duty and pride of men to make her wife life as easy and comfortable as possible.