skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price for dram chips has remained suspiciously high for a few years now (right around the time DDR4 came about). There's no smoking gun, but there have been lawsuits [1] and given the amount of consolidation that's happened in the dram business, it wouldn't be a surprise if there's more to the story. A lot of water cooler talk is happening right now that something is going on. Given that there is only 3 major players in the market these days with Samsung doing most of the heavy lifting, it wouldn't take much.

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/samsung-hynix-micron-su...
Macbook Pro 2018: Optimal CPU Tuning Settings for I9 MBP to Stop VRM Throttling
That rider sounds to me like the ATM itself has to be compromised. It wasn't. The hack was upstream and the ATM was just doing what the network rules told it to.
Pay-to-stay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_(imprisonment)
Ebay Add Support for Apple Pay, Partners with Square Capital
Many were in jest. But some were likely real, with more euphemistic words.
Can anyone recommend an app to block these robocalls?
I don't think I would agree with the usage of the word "lazy" to describe coders that want to rewrite entire chunks of code. They may have their invalid reasons for wanting to do so, but I wouldn't call that being lazy.
I'll throw a bitcoin into this (1.0 btc.) I suggest people do the same. Please post the bitcoin donation address.
Understanding Higher-Order Components in React and Gutenberg
Can you clarify what you're disagreeing with? I don't think I stated anything controversial.

No, ∞ is not an element of the real or complex fields, that's correct. But it is an element of the extended real and complex number systems, according to the following rules:

for all x ∈ ℝ:
1) - ∞ < x < + ∞,
2) x + ∞ = + ∞, x - ∞ = - ∞,
3) (x / + ∞) = (x / - ∞) = 0,
4) x > 0 ==> x(+ ∞) = + ∞, x(- ∞) = - ∞,
5) x < 0 ==> x(+ ∞) = - ∞, x(- ∞) = + ∞

Infinity is not just an artifact of limit notation, because the algebraic rules defined here formalize the analytic theory underlying calculus. This set is distinct from the hyperreals for a number of reasons (most importantly, it's not a field). But just because it's not a field doesn't mean it's not a coherent algebra. Which really circles back to the original point: you can usefully define an algebra such that division by 0 is not undefined.

In particular, note that by augmenting ℝ with +∞, -∞, we can derive (x / 0) = ∞ from the third rule. This behavior is only very slightly pathological because 1) it's (mostly) contained to the infinities, and 2) it still mostly preserves the order, completeness, addition and multiplication properties of the real numbers themselves. It's just not a field because we cannot do some propositional things that follow from Peano arithmetic (e.g. cancellation) and we can't e.g. take square roots of infinity.

To make this point even more technical, we can choose to define numbers as cardinalities of sets under Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory instead of under Peano arithmetic. This allows us to neatly define arithmetic involving infinities via operations on infinite sets.
Okay, I'll bite.

Why would strong-encryption be necessary for a video game guide web-page? Say, one about Factorio?

Some game communities are toxic. IE: Minecraft guides I'd host with https due to the threat of scumbags and hackers. But Factorio's community is incredibly lax and laid-back. So I would consider HTTPS to be a waste of effort and resources.
Definitely! The next coming of the Web, VR and AR based, will have history repeat itself with Netscape, Yahoo, Geocities, etc. We created A-Frame to kick it off, but really need a browser to make everything easy to consume. Current browsers are too tied down by 2D and legacy and giant codebases, so we're trying to create something unencumbered and really tailored for VR.

We're shipping features such as tailoring Supercraft for A-Frame development, being able to explore and navigate worlds, and dragging objects into your inventory for later use.
"Reducing equality to equality of opportunity is already a huge concession in favor of freedom."

I see the other 'popular' equality, equality of outcome, as, in it's most extreme form, a complete totalitarian nightmare, that doesn't hold freedom back, but completely annihilates it.

"Until you get restricted, because you posses an opportunity others are lacking and in consequence, it gets taken from you."

Why would this inevitably lead to you having an opportunity taken from you, rather than working to extend this to others. This is much more realistic as to how the world works. I don't have my opportunity to work taken from me because someone is unemployed, instead they are helped to get opportunities to work (help with education or transport etc).

I think the important step is to say, that we can't have unlimited freedom (or opportunities) for everyone in society, but that trying to reach as much as possible is a worthwhile cause. And that, of course, the devil is in the details.
Jonathan Haidt thinks an earlier child abduction scare sparked the overly fragile undergrads that started to appear in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snqXOvnHzcQ

We are raising kids lacking conflict resolution skills who can't discuss and would rather coerce someone who doesn't conform to their ideas.
that's nothing to do with price fixing.
Of course you can do that. And everyone can choose not to use insecure sites like yours.
why an inverter? I don't think DC-AC-DC is more efficient then DC-DC.
For a long time it seems like these places have made things more secure by building fences, adding giant rocks, putting in lights and cameras, other physical security measures to keep threats off site. Hopefully at some point they will focus on the network side of things now. It's been obvious for at least a decade that one bad guy, or even a team of bad guys can take out a single location with a truck, but one bad guy or a team can take out a bunch of places with a computer. From what I've seen the utility industry has been defending against trucks.
I have an old issue of "Inside Apple" (the developers' newsletter) that was an April Fool's issue. Maybe circa 1989 or so.

The entire 15-20 pages or so was entirely devoted to joke articles and parodies. I need to find that again and scan it.
Germany, the country that "bailed out" Greece the hardest, made big returns from it: 2.9 billion Euro since 2010 alone, with more profits on the horizon [1]. German defense contractors also sold some submarines even though Greece was effectively not able to buy them [2] and some regional Greek airports were bought by a large German airport company [3].

You can't deny that at least Germany made hefty profits from "bailing out" Greece.

Sources in German (maybe DeepL can help translate):

1: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/griechenland-hilfe...

2: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Griechische-Milliarden-fuer...

3: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/griechenland-fraport-...
How long before the Tesla bus?
There is a slightly different way to interpret that.

Some students, despite being in your classroom, are really being homeschooled. For example, my wife and I both got extra assignments from our parents. The parents aren't just helping. The parents are teaching. You aren't trusted to teach.

Other students have parents that trust you to teach. Your job is to teach, and these parents expect you to do it. In theory, they are correct.
And nearly 55% of Chinese don't use Internet.

Yes, that is nearly 800M still without Smartphone or Internet. There is going to be a very long tail, likely 10 years plus to bring the last 500 to 600M online. The rest are likely not going to be online in their life time or has no interest in doing so.

Out of the 7.4 Billion people on earth, there is 5B Mobile Phone users, 3.5 Smartphone users. So it will likely take another twenty years before we reach 6 Billion Smartphone users.
I got 10 of 11. Only one I'm missing is the speaker one; Youtube's blocked the channel (informally; 500 error messages and random exclamation points). Link to backup: https://u.teknik.io/xgX94.7z
Sure, but are you differentiating between run of the mill bitching, and actual serious concerns? Because if I whine about x internal library in stand up, that is probably not important. But if I come to you in person and tell you that x internal library is introducing more bugs than saving time, I probably really mean/am concerned by that.
Bayesian brain theories are more "in vogue", along with various other theories saying that the brain does some forms of statistical and causal learning and inference.
> You can absolutely have your probation or parole revoked for something like this.

Then maybe you shouldn't be PUBLICLY posting about things like this in Venmo. Good grief people - this twitter bot did nothing to expose people that a cop/PO couldn't already do using Venmo.
Hi everyone, thanks a lot for the advice. You have no idea how valuable it is to me and everyone else in the same boat (and neither do I, time will tell). I think my biggest takeaway so far is to take advantage of my youth, which I think is something I never really thought of since I'm as old as I ever was.

My biggest disappointment is my cubicle software engineering job. I'd much rather have a web development job since I seem to want to stay up all night making websites and web apps but not at all excited for work. I will start working towards fulfillment and not simply hoping the days pass faster.

Again, thanks for the advice (and future advice!)
When I click (touch) on one of these I get the selection bar to modify the color right away. It causes me to not see 50% of my screen, but in order to get rid of it I gotta click on the background behind it therefore "painting". I feel like touch-wise the UI could use some improvements. Though it could've been worse, too.
> You can absolutely have your probation or parole revoked for something like this. No conviction necessary.

If you're already on parole, how about not buying drugs? I agree drug laws are ridiculous and draconian, but maybe let the people who are not on parole poke that particular hornet's nest.

Or at least, if you absolutely must buy drugs while on parole, how about not publicly announcing it on social media? You don't have to put anything in the Venmo comment field, let alone a needle emoji.
> Nonetheless those of us actually raising children in this country don't actually do that stuff. Chill.

Except the ones that are?
Am pretty curious what kind of "skeleton key" ATM card they were using to access all of the ATM's as different users. Lest they were posed as repair people and stood there with a laptop hooked in.
Laid-Off New York Daily News Staff Are Victims of Class Warfare
Fines don't increase the EU budget. Instead the contributions of the member states are reduced proportionally. The EU itself does not profit financially from fines and therefore I can't see even see a hint of a conflict of interest.

But anyway, fines going into the general budget is a very usual situation which poses no problem in a stable administration.
I know it's just a joke, but to be clear everyone in the village was a debtor AND a creditor.
I expected more porn.
Of course he can. This is not a court room.
No jail? As an example, if a group of multinationals illegally fix prices and gain $1 billion in extra profits and they get a tax deductible $130 million fine, where is the deterrence?
Still not working on Chrome (67.0.3396.99)

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined
at update_mouse_position (javascript.min.js:1)
at HTMLCanvasElement.on_canvas_mouse_down (javascript.min.js:1)
update_mouse_position @ javascript.min.js:1
on_canvas_mouse_down @ javascript.min.js:1
Whatever method brings about action is optimal, as the largest developed countries don’t have the will to enact carbon or pollution taxes.
There are even those in which you are the elephant.
>one for people of colour and allegations of “drugs” works completely differently than the one for white Americans.

This is far more about social class ($$$) than color. I'm not saying there aren't racial injustices at play, but I promise you that whites (and anyone else) without means are treated similarly when they get busted. Don't completely buy into the picture painted by the media.
This is what happened to my father about thirty years ago. While he was naive about a lot of things and didn't have good legal representation, he knew enough to refuse to plead guilty.

The "compromise" that prosecutors arrived at was to threaten him with a massive prison sentence, and mislead him about what an Alford plea is. "We're not asking you to plead guilty, and you wont spend any time in jail! Just sign this!" My father avoided jail time but was branded a felon.

Every couple of years since I was little I'd see him spend a few thousand dollars on attorneys trying to rewrite history or fix a new fire resulting from that plea. It took the whole family 30 years, unspeakable amounts of money and a really empathetic journalist but we managed to convince the governor of Missouri to pardon him a few years ago.

A regular person who doesn't have the inhuman qualities my father does would have been ground up and destroyed. He managed to work 35 years at the same company even though a population of "vigilantes" wanted to find any reason they could to get him fired or just make him miserable.

Every once in a while he'd let a story leak about how someone had rubbed grease on his work steering wheel or we'd have to go to the DMV to get new license plates because someone managed to get past his locking screws. My dad responded to this shit in a dispassionate way that still impresses me to reflect on. Someone might break into his locker and cut up his boots. If he said anything about it, it would be like "I should have known better than to use my locker." Then he'd treat going to the shoe store like going to the post office. It's just part of the chores one deals with.

If I were in his shoes I wouldn't have made it.
Nasa Scientist Find Traces That Lead to Aliens
Some interesting responses from yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/vzla/comments/911mu4/do_venezuelans...
Here's a breakdown of spending:

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/mff/programmes/index_en.cfm
If you really decide never to set foot in the filthy dump that is NYC, why do you care about their claim on taxing authority anyways? Can they enforce that across state line?
Meanwhile in the USA we subsidize big oil and gas and bail out failing car manufacturers all while claiming market mechanisms and capitalism is the only way to go.
Because otherwise an ISP might insert ads, or some adversary changes the content and inserts malware. Also, as a consumer of your blog I want privacy, no need for ISP to know what I click on and read exactly. These are just a few reasons why.
Theresa May announces she will keep UK under EU laws for another 21 months
The problem is that most endpoint protection is a joke. Companies buy enormously expensive enterprise endpoint protection systems with big dashboards to tell them if their endpoints are protected, and one of two things happens: either the dashboard falsely reports that everything is up to date (and you have Outlook 2007 running in the wild) or the dashboard reports that you have 4,394,665 security issues that need fixing, and not only does nobody have a clue where to get started, the minute they move laterally in the org to try to update anything, users scream DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THAT!

You can't fix your security posture until you fix your update culture.
Train the employees by sending fake Phishing attempts and then letting them know when they have clicked on them. Do this regularly.
> "code someone else wrote that I’d rather rewrite than understand"

I've never seen this happening but it seems to be common in hipster environments.

Do not hire people that want to rewrite something just because it's not written in the popular language/framework of the year.
Why do you think TV dashboards are stupid?
How we are providing 15 designers for the price of 1
I think this is the right way to look at it. The twitter bot didn't give this information to law enforcement, because unless they're idiots they've been monitoring and archiving this from day one.
I agree, I came to NH from MA and was shocked at how nice the roads are in comparison. I'll never understand where MA tax money goes, because it clearly doesn't go to the roads.
I have worked at financial companies where they get it right, and it is not a problem. Having crappy infrastructure and procedures is never an excuse for poor security.
I question the motive to complain about tech debt with the “solution” already. For example, microservices will fix it.
Ohio didn't care that I moved out of Ohio in March, and Kentucky didn't care that I already paid Ohio.

I was honestly just happy to pay it and get it over with.
Don't stay longer than 2 years in that company, accept that bitcoin extra payment from your early-adopter boss, quit trying to become a professional boxer, marry and have children already.
We agree more than you think.

Most complaints about tech debt are not worth actioning, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to all of them and try to filter the signal from the noise.
Even if you "just leave", the state will often want you to prove that you "just left", in detail and with painful, aggressive tactics.
You probably want to replace the location instead of pushing onto it.
You may not do this but it is a trend nonetheless and we should try to understand it, discuss it...
Photo-based crop insurance solution for farmers in Kenya
> The price for dram chips has remained suspiciously high for a few years now (right around the time DDR4 came about).

There is no law about an upper ceiling on pricing. Would you say Nvidia is price fixing because their volta products are priced "suspiciously high"?

> There's no smoking gun, but there have been lawsuits [1]

There are lawsuits like these left and right, read any company's 10-Q about how random law firms file suits in the name of investor losses or consumer rights. Doesn't mean those suit hold any ground.

> A lot of water cooler talk is happening right now that something is going on.

Seriously?

> Given that there is only 3 major players in the market these days with Samsung doing most of the heavy lifting, it wouldn't take much.

Still more diverse than Google Search, Microsoft Windows, Intel/AMD CPU, Nvidia/AMD GPU.

Monopoly (or Tripoly?) does not equate to price fixing and collusion.
All 3 of the concerns GP listed are completely agnostic to the topic of the web page or the behavior of its audience. It's not your fellow webpage visitors or community that are most likely to be in a position in the network to be doing MITM attacks.
Of course it is colourful, but the reporter was a parent too and neighbours wondered why they let their children play unsupervised outside.

In Germany a court just ruled that a three year old can go alone to the bath room and their parents don't have to check on them. The child set the bath room under water and someone wanted the parents to be liable.

Also some years ago, I saw a video from a school parking lot, where the hundreds of pupils where dropped off by their parents. So instead of building several schools close to the pupils, they build one big school, to which almost no pupil come alone.
As with others, not a CTO, but an architect for many years, and I know the perspective I'd start out with, which is that the biggest problem at the CTO level is the mismatch between the people making decisions about what we work on next, which once you are no longer a 3-5 person start up is not the developers, and the people who understand where the technical debt is and what could be done about it.

Transferring the knowledge across that gap is very difficult, perhaps virtually impossible, because both sides of that transaction have a lot of incentives to mangle the message in the process.

The manager who is deciding what to do, and likely incentivized one way or another based on features, uptake, performance, etc. is going to always be very biased in favor of providing more to the customer, and will want the developers always visibly working on something that provides visibly more to the customers. They don't want to hear about why we need to rewrite this thing for no customer-visible change except maybe "fewer bugs", and probably don't want to hear about why the project is slower than expected ("just fix it! but without any additional resources") or what could speed it up.

The engineers have even more complicated problems. First, the engineer may not be able to correctly determine what technical debt even matters if they are not properly kept in the loop about where the product is going. That is, bad code on a feature we're about to dump or obsolete is way less important than on a core feature. Keeping engineers in the loop about future product directions seems to be a big challenge. (I mean, I've seen it done successfully, but it takes a lot of effort. It's just so easy for the manager to go to some four hour meeting with the CEO and the board about the product and all that ever gets back to the team is "We need feature #64." I mean, OK, great for distilling those 4 hours down to the next action item, but at least your senior engineers really could use a bit more guidance about where the product is going.) Second, the engineer is likely to have a personal connection to the code, which can have any number of effects ranging from being defensive about any suggestion that the code is less than perfect, to believing that everything, everywhere is "technical debt" and really needs to be rewritten.

To properly gauge the technical debt on a project takes an almost perfect merger of both the business side of the project and full engineering knowledge of the project. It's harder than even spec'ing out a new feature by far. I don't know that I've ever seen a great solution for this; the requisite bits of knowledge are structurally very hard to bring together.

(This is written from the assumption that technical debt is in fact a big problem. There's a distinct possibility that it really isn't, but I'm answering the question as written. In general if I was starting a new CTO job at anything but a very established software company, I would be surprised and pleased if "technical debt" really was my biggest problem, and not flawed processes, broken cross-team communication, or goodness forbid but all too likely, internal team communication.)
Maybe. German wages have been stagnant for a long time - the economy is successful at exporting things but not so much at raising living standards of ordinary Germans.

Leading Europe in terms of denuclearization and the green economy, on the other hand, is just not an accurate read of the situation. Yes Merkel shut down the reactors and insisted on green energy. Now Germany emits more CO2 than before due to the need for lots of coal burning power stations to provide base load. From an environment perspective it was a disaster.

Germany does well, for sure, I'm not criticising it. But it gets a lot of uncritical press too, especially with respect to its economy.
Don't forget too-big-to-fail banks. They got bailed out and now they are even bigger than they were after gobbling up a bunch of mid-level banks the past few years.
ISPs and other network operators are notorious for injecting content into webpages [0]. Even if someone is doing this for "harmless" or even "benevolent" reasons, someone else is cryptocurrency mining, tracking, nefariously manipulating content, etc.

[0]: https://thenextweb.com/insights/2017/12/11/comcast-continues...
Yes, it's called Apple Pay Cash. You can send and receive cash through iMessage, and it gets put on a virtual debit card you can trasfer the $ out of to your bank account, or spend via Apple Pay at a store or via Apple Pay Cash.

IMHO it's better and faster than Venmo, PayPal, or any other ones I've tried. Having the money on a virtual debit card you can spend anywhere tha accepts Apple Pay is really nice, and the bank transfers are very quick.