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TL;DR: Engaging with decentralized organizations and open-source communities allows access to global talent and diverse perspectives, fostering innovation and resilience. This approach, focusing on collaboration over ownership, offers potential benefits in R&D and innovation, outweighing traditional models that prioritize geographical and IP constraints.

1. Global Talent and Diverse Perspectives: DAOs and open-source projects, by their nature, often operate without geographical boundaries. This allows them to hire and collaborate with talent from all over the world, bringing in diverse perspectives and expertise that can be crucial for R&D and innovation. The traditional model of keeping all operations within a single country might limit access to this global talent pool.

2. Decentralization as a Strength: Decentralized structures can offer resilience and flexibility. In a world where geopolitical tensions and conflicts can disrupt traditional business operations, a decentralized model, with no single point of failure or control, might actually reduce certain risks. Intellectual property, in this case, isn't concentrated in one jurisdiction but is part of a global network, which could mitigate the risk of loss due to regional conflicts or regulatory changes.

3. Innovation and Experimentation: The open-source and DAO model is fundamentally about experimentation and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in technology and organizational structures. By embracing these models, companies can participate in cutting-edge developments and explore new ways of working that might not be possible within the confines of traditional corporate structures.

4. Intellectual Property Considerations: While there are legitimate concerns about IP protection, decentralized and open-source models often operate on a different paradigm regarding IP. The focus is less on ownership and more on collaboration, community, and building upon shared knowledge. In many cases, the value generated isn't from the IP itself but from the community and ecosystem that develops around it.

5. Regulatory and Tax Implications: It's important to acknowledge that regulatory and tax environments are significant considerations. However, for some organizations, the benefits of global collaboration and access to decentralized structures might outweigh the simplicity of operating within a single jurisdiction.

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Optimism $100 Million for Developers - Announcing RetroPGF Round 3 Recipients
https://optimism.mirror.xyz/37Bgum6MfTJWDuE41CH9RXSH5KBm_RCL...
Nothing going on at the moment seems likely to do anything about the concentration of power in the hands of the few.

Not a partisan issue. The only thing--and not without risk--that seems likely to affect the collapsing political architecture is https://conventionofstates.com/
it is somewhat common in garbage collected langages to fight the garrbage collector like that. Sure manual free probably adds up to more CPU time, but it is more spread out and thus not noticable (normally, real time still cannot allocate in the sensitive areas)
Good point, although that is not part of standard C.
2 Mbps is tight but can definitely support 0.1 Mb/s calls. The vendor needs to ensure the phones tag audio packets with EF priority and the router uses a strict priority queue. (Whenever a voice packet arrives it pauses handling non-voice traffic until the voice queue is clear. This ensures a voice packet is never delayed by more than 1500B / 2 Mbps = 6 ms).

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quali...
It is a very important feature. :P
ISO 3103
A little while ago I've thought of just getting a few people together and filling a small container with washers that for regulatory reasons are better in the US than in Europe (I forgot the exact details, sorry).
If you happen to have ideas for how to do such a group-buy, please let me know.
There's a story that the Egyptians/Incas/old civilizations split rocks with wood and water. The swelling pressure of wood breaking the rock.

I can't see any videos demonstrating it. I'd go with it's a myth like most of history.

I wonder if you filled it with water and put a little freezer over the top it'd work.
This worked great, it would be cool if HN added a button for it in the header!
This is like a collective action problem. Any industry with enthusiasts or which is itself a hobby is subject to this behavior.

People need to stop being so naive as to accept poorly paid jobs because they think the subject matter is 'funner'. Game Devs are the first example I thought of here.

If you love games, that's great.. but why not go work in literally any other software dev work for maybe 2x the pay and/or 1/2 the hours.

As Don Draper said 'That's what the money is for'.

Plenty more money and time to buy & play games.
It’s important to use the same allocator to free as you allocate with. You can’t assume that the same allocator is linked to both sides, so if you are allocating and then giving something to something else over FFI, you want to make sure you give them a way to call back into you to free.

This is true irrespective of language.
You're taking it too literally. The phrase "the children yearn for the mines" is a sarcastic meme phrase.
The $5-$10k mark for a high end home workstation has held pretty firm since the 1980s. That's the buy-in price point for a very early PC, an SGI Indy, a low end Sun workstation, etc.

We went through an amazing period of very cheap computers from 2000-2020. We just didn't need specialty or high end equipment for a while.

Now we do again.
Knowledge is knowing that sizeof(int) is implementation-defined.

Wisdom is understanding how likely your code is to ever run on any platform where sizeof(int) is not 4, and if the answer is "not really," then stop worrying about it.

To succeed as a C programmer, you need both knowledge and wisdom.
' ' in original C is the encoding for space.

This might be ASCII or EBCDIC or something else local to a specific hardware implementation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC

So, maybe 0x20, maybe 0x40, maybe something else.

At least you know that '0', '1', .., ''9' are contiguous.
If unionization were endemic to the global economy, that might work.

Lacking that, power dynamics are such that workers need protections enshrined in legislation. If salaries are a race-to-the-bottom, nobody benefits except the ones doing the hiring. You may have a "job," but the market salary average would be depressed while the companies enjoy a large talent pool of replaceable workers.

If I didn't know history too well, I likely wouldn't hold this position. But it's clear as day if you crack open a history book.
I write all my notion docs locally in markdown. Then import them into notion. Fortunately, I don't have to write docs collaboratively with others at work.

This way I don't have to deal with notion's horrible interface to write. Only reading, which is fine.
The second derivative notation makes sense when you think of d/dx as an operator on functions. (As someone noted below, d/dx is essentially a tangent vector, which is something that operates on functions.) d/dx takes the derivative of what follows with respect to x, so (d/dx)(f) = df/dx is the derivative function of f with respect to x.

Now you want to differentiate df/dx with respect to x, so you do "d/dx" to "df/dx":

(d/dx) (df/dx)

(This looks better if you write it with "real" fractions.) On the top you have "d d f" with is naturally written "d^2f". On the bottom, you have "dx dx", which is naturally written "dx^2". So the result should be written

d^2 f/dx^2.
Would you consider the Gulf Arab countries to exist along the same spectrum as Singapore, but "further down" in terms of oppressiveness?
I know for what it is used fo and who are using it. That was not the question. There is a lot of undefined platform specific behaviour in C and yet it is mainly promoted for its cross platform property. It makes me a little uneasy if I happen to think about it too much.
> There is _zero_ reason for you to _use_ exposed credentials if you find them. It adds nothing to the "security research" you may be doing.

Bullshit. For one thing, he wasn't doing "security research" he was trying to fix a problem his client was asking him to fix that directly involved the MySQL database in question. He literally stumbled across the security problem by accident. For the other, the vendor should be facing an investigation into exactly why they thought it was a good idea to have thousands of customers and millions of euros "protected" by one single password that was stored in plaintext on thousands of customer's machines. In a number of places that could easily result in criminal liability on their part--which is probably exactly why they contacted the authorities.

...and I'll point out that he didn't actually even have to know what these credentials were. With elevated privs on the local system, one can merrily let the application connect to the database server and then snatch that socket up and do with it whatever they wish and then the same information would have been revealed--that every one of MS's customers could quite readily access all the data of every other customer.
I'm not an author on this paper, but I posted it here because it's in my area of research and I think it's a great example of recent excellent results coming from "self improvement" of LLMs. Most of the authors are very well known in the deep learning academic community and have written many high impact papers between them.

Many researchers believe that using synthetic data and automatic classification/scoring, i.e. using LLMs to improve LLMs, is likely to be one of the most successful lines of research. We've been seeing a lot of success from this in recent months, including OpenAI's DALL-e 3, which used (IIRC) 99% synthetic LLM data for captions.
I like reading well-written articles about basic things, even as a senior dev. My job involves mentoring people, and it is always good to have some articles at hand to give them to read if they struggle with a topic. Moreover, it is interesting to see how the concepts are thought. I like to give people several explanations for the same thing in the hope that at least one sticks.
> Still, living conditions of people north of Kyiv, north of Kharkiv, or in Kherson is dramatically better than GP’s situation.

They are also dramatically better in Moscow, St. Petersburg, or Vladivostok. Of course being far from the front lines is better than being near them.

> GP can’t even freely talk to English-speaking stranger

People in Ukrainian-controlled territory can't talk freely either, there have been many cases of extrajudicial arrests and even killings of dissidents by Ukrainian government authorities. For example, peruse Gonzalo Lira's list (Lira himself died a week ago in Ukrainian custody): https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/15174577687976796...

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This is a war between two thuggish regimes. One thug might be a bit more brutal than the other, but the war itself is what's doing the most harm to ordinary people.
" " is a C string constant ... so a space encoding followed by a NUL encoding.
Meanwhile furry art is a fairly small industry that pays artists fortunes.
Yes, because they are right winged. They want it to be 1990 againm
If they did, we would have two subtly different dialects of C for cyclic shift and zeroing shift, and possibly even worse, combinations of the two.

That said, I am curious what the official answer is myself.
> In 2005, 43,096 labour unions in Japan, with a combined membership of 7,395,666 workers, belonged either directly, or indirectly through labour union councils, to the three main labour union federations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan
California will vary quite a bit. The municipal power companies are quite reasonable (in the Bay Area: Alameda, Palo Alto, Santa Clara?).

PG&E (the dominant player in northern california):

- lobbied hard against muni power

- spent its safety budget on executive compensation

- is recouping its maintenance costs and criminal penalties from its ratepayers instead of from its shareholders

- got Newsom to stack the regulatory body (CPUC) with PG&E sycophants

- is back to paying its shareholders dividends

- has one of the most influential California politicians (Willie Brown) on their payroll

Yes, it's obscene that in a climate as mild as the Bay Area, $400+ utility bills are the norm. Short of some major revolt, rates are set to go up in March as well.
Someone claiming they created something which I created is the closest to harm on that list. Fraud should be punished.

The others aren't harmful, unless you're defining harm to include the loss of something which someone believes they are entitled to, a concept which is fraught with problems.

Creating an image (or any non-physical creation) doesn't obligate the world to compensate you for your work. If you choose to give it away by posting it on the internet, that's your choice, but you are entitled to nothing.
In the 80’s, I always thought the Origin kids looked emaciated because they were working all night on games and forgetting to eat.

College kids flipping burgers made more and got leftovers. If there’s one set of people from that era I can never find on LinkedIn, it’s game developers. No idea what happened to any of them.
How would they have time for that with those overtime schedules..?

Jokes aside, though, yes they do. Though as far as I am aware, mostly in the traditional sense for the primary industry sector to keep companys from working employees to death physically but not really modernized in the tertiary sector.

Memberships are declining and I think a great many issues that make life difficult for people in these now more prominent sectors of industry are not openly recognized and tackled.
NASA’s got a history of their rovers overperforming like this. Between this and Webb, it’s hard to argue they’re not the best out there.

That's like saying I could change this button's text color in 5 days of work, but I did it in 5 minutes instead.

It's underpromising and overdelivering. It's a smart strategy because it's just hard to get stuff to work in space and on another planet. So it's best to underpromise.

You can bet that the internal goal is a lot higher than the public goal.
AFAIK, PaLM was up and running inside Google long before the hype with ChatGPT. So in the circle of frontier AI researchers, they miss know it. But Google kept silence because of the problematic hallucinations and the fear for litigation and their reputation.

Besides, in his analysis, le Cun consistently spoke of GPT as “writing help, no more no, less”.
Interesting. It reminds me a bet of janet-sh. I can see the utility if you are working with JavaScript or TypeScript. It might even work with ClojureScript using shadow-cljs.

https://github.com/andrewchambers/janet-sh
Right, and in this case, the superior alternative should be an animator who makes a decent living. Sometimes, unfortunately, we have to legislate the superior alternative into existence. I'm not certain that's a good or necessary move in this particular case (I doubt there are many if any animators where their choice is to be an animator for low wages, or starve and live on the streets), but it's an option.

I always thought it weird that we have minimum wage levels for hourly workers, but once you're salaried, you work however many hours your employer wants, or you get marginalized or fired.

For many HNers that's not that big a deal, as our effective hourly wage still ends up to be many hundreds of dollars. But there are salaried workers down at the low end who are required to work quite a bit more than the 40 hours a week their "nominal" hourly wage might be calculated off of, and some of those people end up well below what a minimum wage would be for hourly workers.
Getting YouTube channels RSS feed in an easier way
If there's someone like me that maintains a feed with RSS feed, maybe you know that YouTube brings a feed RSS for every channel, but it's boring to get it.

Being a lazy person, I wrote a simple website that does all the job, you just need to insert the YouTue channel URL.

It's open source, btw.
Can I get my money back?
Yeah, I figured.

This community tries not to do that, but instead of just downvoting, I was hoping to retain some value in their contribution, keep the conversation on topic.
or 0x40 .. or something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC
Try compiling C code using union types for their intended type punning purpose as C++. It will compile, but bad things could happen. :/
The problem with your analogy is that in this case the contractor was specifically hired to figure out why when they opened the door the room inside was filled to the ceiling with cheese. OF COURSE one is going to open the door to try and at least verify that there is in fact a bunch of cheese in there.
No problem! I wasn't totally convinced of the value of async myself, before I went through the exercise of building something that is in many ways more complicated than most web services.
Yeah thats what we're commenting on

(c.f. instances of itself, self-play)
You figured it out yourself, internally NASA is definitely talking about the risks, tradeoffs and more realistic expectations.

But officially the statements are always set as an "underpromise and overdeliver" thing because the clients are not sophisticated enough to understand the trade-offs.
> less lift... But there is also less drag

FYI, these two things are __directly__ related.

Lift = c0 r v^2 A

Drag = c1 r v^2 A

=> Lift = c0/c1 Drag

You should be able to reason this out too. Think about how you generate lift. The blades spinning have to push something, right? What is it pushing? Then think about drag. What is that dragging against? Is it related to the thing you're also pushing against? I think you know the answer.
How often do grandmasters miss checkmate?
It’s only going to get worse with AI now in the mix.
Not really. In theory you can, but in practice there are parts written by a different team and you don't know the scope of there parts.

I also know someone who maintains some Clinton era encryption. that code is controlled who can know about it as obsecurity was all you were allowed. There are other pathalogical cases where you can't know everything about your program-
But that’s not realistic?

If you have to have both and instantly toggle between them to notice the difference, then it sounds like it’s doing its job well and is hard to notice the difference.
zero mention of misra to boot
Looks like the example code does an eased animation on scale. So it makes the widget zoom into view instead of just appearing.
> I'd much rather if I make a change to an endpoint, my project literally won't build and my IDE yells at me. I can make sweeping changes and go to sleep knowing I didn't mess anything up. And I know if I bring another engineer on, they can make sweeping (or tiny) changes and not have to know all of the places that consume that.

I think you're making an allusion to GQL typing here, which I grant. A big downside of REST+JSON is that you've pushed most of the "interface contract" to the structure of the JSON file.

> I should also note that WG doesn't require graphql.

Sure. The common element to both (for me) is the layering of abstractions that hide what's really going on.
We implement a handful of the most common commands like cd, rm, ls, which, pwd, mv. Instead of using the system-provided ones, it uses ours.

Unlike zx/execa, we have our own shell instead of relying on a system-installed one.
Great tool! I like that the solution puts you in the eyes of the defender (so you can see all variations of the solution). I didn't really like how the board gets reversed though.
According to this ballpark calculation, it would take the same energy for a helicopter to fly on the Everest (with ultrafast rotors, which they don’t have) as in water (ultraslow rotors). Since the lack of helicopters in high mountains (>5000m) is a longstanding issue, it doesn’t look like a good approximation at initial glance.
Half-Staff American Flag Notifications
This is a fair response but I do address it when I say we can automate the tedious and boilerplate parts of programming so we can focus on the aspects we enjoy i.e. the big picture stuff that intellectually stimulates us and allows us to be artistic when writing software.

An analogy would be that I would appreciate a tool that could mix paints and give me any hue to paint with on demand, but I don't want that tool to take the paintbrush away from me completely.
The new place to get funding for anything that doesn't generate ARR yesterday
The article mentioned it’s mostly young people dealing with this. As a young person myself I see everyone from teenagers to people in their 30s glued to their phones any time I’m outside.

Constantly engrossing yourself in that misery mill doesn’t help. We already know social media is harmful. The article also mentions illicit drugs and other things. Idk much about those but that is also not good but probably less prevalent than social media use.

Most people I know around my age 20s and 30s that do not engage much with social media are happier than my friends who live mostly online and are always depressed. I get it they want to get away from life but life is all we have.

Sorry just rambling now. I’m pretty sure I’m not wrong when I say that putting down social media and going outside would do wonders for other young people.
Interesting, thank you for that.

What are your thoughts on documentation separate from the activity itself? Do you see it as something useful, or how do you go about approaching that?
That’s never going to happen unless they unionize. People are not going to voluntarily turn down jobs as a collective everywhere at the same time in mass numbers.
> single standalone executables (SEAs)

wat
This is a good point. There hasn’t been any writing since the release of the Gateway Solo in 1995
Japan had a very strong labor movement that was systematically dismantled in the 80s, as it was in the U.S. Miyazaki Hayao was a union leader at Toei early in his career and quite famously criticized Tezuka for establishing the exploitation and underpayment of animators as industry practice with his studio, Mushi Production.
It was sarcasm. The poster was referring to child-labor laws, that prohibit children from working in many conditions. Many of these laws are rooted in times when children would work in factories, mines, etc. in order to help their families make enough to survive, but, being children, were of course exploited.

"The children yearn for the mines!" is a hyperbolic response that a caricature of a human might give if they were against the elimination of (legal) child labor.
Popeyes? Seriously? Popeyes is da bomb.
Yeah because you have 20-year old white Toyota Corolla, you wouldn’t see it.

It’s likely you barely have any remaining non-hazed clear coat to begin with.

It’s still happening. You’re just oblivious.

Ask someone who actually owns a new car with nice paint.
Sorry, I said "overseas" but I was in Canada. After getting their computer shit in order Amex steadfastly refused to overnight a replacement card.
Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar is anti-blur monitor tech aimed squarely at your eyeball
> And if you went somewhere you're not supposed to and found out it's a master key by trying it in those places you're not supposed to access, you'd be accused of trespass.

Hard no. That analogy fails because all the contractor needed to type was `SHOW DATABASES` which would be the same as looking around and seeing everyone else's stuff just sitting around in piles, completely unsecured.

If you rented a storage room and the place was so lazy as to use one key for all the doors, that would be one thing, but in this case the storage facility used the same key for all the doors and also completely lacked interior walls to separate people's stuff into individual rooms.