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>We caused outbreak of what was then an already obsolete virus. (Most of the machines had windows 98 in them at best... The virus worked on then surprisingly fine despite being intended for DOS, and in those machines specifically it would infect USB)

Well, windows 98 was essentially a GUI over DOS, so that is not at all "strange", what is more strange is the effect on USB, most probably the virus would affect any mounted volume (at filesystem/mount level as opposed to disk/mass storage).

As a side note, in my time (only slightly earlier) Lotus (more properly Lotus 1-2-3) was not at all a game but rather the "only" spreadsheet program available, what a number of people would now call "an Excel spreadsheet" was at the time a "Lotus spreadsheet".
Load/acquire and store/release are sufficient pretty much when you're implementing a mutex-style operations, so you have a lock on a single value guarding vanilla memory operations that are unused outside of the mutexes. In pretty much any other scenario, (including, notably, most lock-free algorithms), it's best to start with sequential consistency and don't try to relax the memory unless you can prove correctness.

The actual bug in question used relaxed memory ordering, and the fix was to use acquire/release. Relaxed memory ordering really should be reserved for scenarios where you need atomicity but absolutely no synchronization (statistics counters are the only case that readily comes to mind).
Syncthing does an admirable job here as well (also available on F-droid).
I've heard it mentioned with watermelons, which are closer (91% water).
Can you show me cases where a bridge collapsed because the engineers on the project said "this will be totally unsafe" and were overruled by non-technical business managers?
Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone sues AT&T for $224m over loss
Thank you very much for the feedback. Do you think it has to be in the front page -under each link, perhaps?
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Being median income I have a feeling that the US median is "pulled up" significantly by the top .01% of earners in the US - I have a feeling they account for a far larger amount than the top .01% of German earners.

Also - this does not take into account additional costs such as healthcare that will pull down the US amount.
Insanity? CEOs seem an awful lot like Kings to me. And everything in a company is essentially at the whim of the CEO or private owners.

>> you can change jobs

At the whim of the hiring managers and their bosses etc.

>> start your own business

At the whim of the financiers or by boostrapping yourself with the crumbs the capitalists leave to the working class.

>> move

In fact often one has to move away from one's home, community, and family to find work, because that's where the bosses decided to employ people.

>> do freelance work

Again at the whim of those who have money to pay for your services.

>> or not work at all

If you want to accept a severely reduced lifestyle with the dregs of an under-funded dehumanizing welfare state, designed to force people into employment.

I'm absolutely serious.
Some companies offer different classes of stock with voting or non-voting rights.

For example Google has Class A - (GOOGL) and Class C - (GOOG)
Who is not spying?
If that's true, then literally any plans for public hospitals or healthcare insurance are doomed from the beginning, isn't that right?
Is there a standard way to build markov chains with deeper memory than just the current state? For example in the rainy sunny markov chain our rainy probability should/could decrease as the number of rainy days in a row increases. In a pure state machine this would require an infinite number of states for SS...SSS and RR...RRR.
can you edit your hosts file or get it changed by IT?
Magento 2 Cron job is not working. What should I do?
Loads fine with uBlock Origin on, but not without JS, despite the content being in the HTML :| Firefox's Reader mode can pull it out, though.
When you help a country get richer and that country has a history of human right violations you are aiding the tyrants running the country even if you declare yourself "neutral to politics" and even if you have the best of intentions.
> The paranoiac's pain is real, even if the cause is imaginary.

That's exactly the point of the sentence.
If a poor person invests 10% of their money in the S&P500 no-load index fund, do they see different IRR than the billionaire who invests 10% of their money in the S&P500 no-load index fund?

No system has ever provided such high quality, low cost financial instruments with great liquidity and marginal trading costs accessible to anyone with a checking account.

The financial markets we have today are equitable and highly accessible. They are anything but rigged.
> Plenty of politicians want to "bring back those blue collar jobs"

Do they really, or is that a soundbite they can use to appeal to their demographic?
Right. Code Review should be about catching mistakes. The high level design is already known, and the low level details are checked by a linter. Code Review just makes sure that you didn't accidentally introduce a bug and that the code has appropriate tests.
Discussion from 4 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8103240
We could call it RedditNews, or maybe VoatNews.
I didn't know Medium did "white label" blogs on non-medium.com domains, but that's what this is.

The irony is that people go to medium because it's kind of .. expected somehow? And looks more authoritative?
The discussion about this proposal will be interesting: The groups which call people "leftist" will for sure argue that the economy will be badly impacted by these changes, as they always argue with.
Germany in contrast has a rather staggering economical performance for being so "leftist", which reduces the power of the argument. Those groups will then have serious issues argumenting at all (which arguments of the same magnitude are left?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany#Int...

I assume that a civilised discussion can still be held in the US.
Thankfully there’s no chance this bill will ever pass with the current Congress, and even if it did, the Supreme Court would likely strike it down on account of state’s rights.

It’s a bill trying to solve the wrong problem with the wrong solution. What value does workers electing their directors add for anybody? Firstly, the idea that director appointments should be political is patently absurd — a directorship is a job with well defined requirements and expectations, which the majority of workers are often completely unqualified to judge. Secondly, what right does the federal government have to dictate the internal governance of corporations? (Answer: explicitly none, as per the tenth amendment of the constitution.) This is such an awful, awful idea. One only needs to look at the government itself to see what happens when leaders are elected, not appointed. There’s a reason the private sector has a reputation for success and efficiency and the government does not... the idea of executives being elected by democratic process is so scary it’s almost comical.

Disclaimer: I am extremely skeptical of the motives of Elizabeth Warren and hope she doesn’t come anywhere close to the White House
Interesting discussion of bedrock

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12739771
Yes, companies should be accountable to their owners, who in many cases are shareholders. Property ownership is what aligns incentives toward the maintenance and improvement of infrastructure, which in the end benefits us all. There's no sin in profit.

When you strip property owners of control over their property and give control to people with no skin in the game, you misalign incentives and contribute to bad decision making and eventual decay arising from the accumulated consequences of bad decion making.

If you think companies make bad decisions now, just wait until they're legally obligated to obey people who don't give a damn about the company's survival and who want to hijack the effort for stupid ideological and status signaling games.

Utopian projects that amount to taking stuff from property owners and giving it to ideologues never work. They usually end up generating nothing but heaps of bodies.
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I'm a lot more annoyed by programs requiring entire desktop environments such as Gnome or, even worse, KDE to do things which would be perfectly doable without that dependency.
Those 50 lines probably won't become most people's favorite WM, but could be among the best places to look how to start writing one.
As Union membership rises, inequality declines. Worker representation is exactly what's needed. Don't ever say worker representation isn't a "real issue" because it sure is. The 'successful company' is likely successful in your viewpoint because the profits never went to the WORKERS who did ALL OF THE WORK.

https://www.epi.org/news/union-membership-declines-inequalit...
Weird... using an adblocker would be the easiest and most efficient way to improve security.
Well, it probably comes out to a wash after you subtract copays, deductibles, and other out of pocket healthcare expenses from the US after-tax income.
Crypto investor blames AT&T for $224M token theft, files lawsuit
It does take a non-zero amount of money, though. Depending on your source, 49% [1], 76% [2], or 78% [3] [4] of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, implying that they have no savings available to be automated.

1: https://www.gobankingrates.com/making-money/jobs/survey-grea...

2: http://www.fox19.com/story/22676408/bankratecom-finds-76-of-...

3: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

4: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-living-paycheck-to-pa...
> Google didn’t provide the information, the cops still found their suspect in the end.

Good.

> the FBI’s remarkable attempt to force Google to assist in its investigation will likely worry all who were disturbed by an Associated Press investigation published on Monday that claimed Google continued to track people even when they turned location features off.

That's not true, location history is but one feature != all location features.
TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: purpose built differently for time-series data
Freedom house is a US government funded agency that gives better press to countries allied to the US. A better index is the Democracy Index by the Economist [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Am I correct that it looks like a 3D lattice made of units like this?

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bi...:
> It might serve as a fine metaphor for human persistence but that's all.

That's what it's intended to do. It's not trying to be a statement about Geology.
Completely agree. Instead of complaining that it's a rigged system, empower students to learn about the power of compound interest, buying stocks, index funds, dividends, revinvestment plans. Instead academia is pushing outrage and that government should be the solution.
That's not how the median works though. You're thinking of mean.
from the article:

U.S. entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit on Wednesday against telecommunications company AT&T (T.N), accusing it of fraud and gross negligence in connection with the theft of digital currency tokens from his personal account.
I’d have to dig into the numbers, but the wealthiest Americans get their income via capital gains and dividends, which I’m not sure would be included in those figures.
Just the hassle/cost of flying someone to do an on-site interview is a deterrent.
I don't think it is too cynical to say that YC just cares about money, as it is not too cynical to say that all VCs and Wall St. financial firms just care about money - unless the VCs charter has some other purpose like social good clearly defined.

Moreover, here, it would have been OK if the political climate in China was improving, but it's not. In fact with Xi getting supreme power, it's worsening. So, with that in mind this does not send the proper message.

Having said that, YC is a private business, and from where I stand this is not PG/SL's YC, and I have no business projecting my ethics and morality on YC.

But, anyone supporting YC in here, should also not be critical of Google or any other company when they do business in China, nor should they be surprised when they hear of atrocities in Tibet, Uighur, Chinese police state etc.
I never made the claim that they are not employer sponsored.
When I meet my friends at a public bar it is always very loud and I have trouble hearing them. Some of my friends zone out watching the sports on the tvs. Some of my friends are always trying to pick up a date. A couple of my friends completely detest the experience and wont even show up. At the end of the night I'm out $40-$50 and I have to figure out a way to get home.

When I hang out with the same friends at their rickety basement bars more of them show up and we're all very engaged, we talk or play games and I drink more moderately. I'm only out $14 for a 12 pack and if I overdo myself I can just crash on the couch for a bit.

Personally I find the basement bar more fulfilling.
I think you are mistaking median for mean. Mean gets pulled up, median doesn't. It's literally what the guy at 50% mark has.
Not the OP, but I see what they mean - it's just a bit too heavy, so all the round letters tend to blur together or something.
People use Medium because it's the easiest way to write some plain text and have what you wrote look decent in the browser. That's all it comes down to.
There was a third group where all members acted independently with no communication. The difference in likelihood of finding the optimal solution between that group and the one with intermittent communication was not found to be statistically significant in the paper, which is probably why they don't talk about it much. I think that knowing about it really does color the paper's interpretation, though.

It makes the cynic in me want to say that the real take-away here is that greedy search is more likely to get caught in a local optimum in a problem where the search space is not convex.

It's also worth pointing out that, to achieve P<0.05 on their main result, they had to run a LASSO regression with cross-validation. IMO, that counts as P-hacking.
All that while producing a significantly higher happiness index than the US. Amazing.
If you feel the need to call the cops because of interactions with hotel security, the hotel has fucked up in a major way. The hotel should be taking reasonable steps to make their guests feel safe, and having security guards provide verification of their identity when requested is something that they absolutely need to be doing.
Not sure if management is right for #2. There should be some kind of tech lead in place to resolve technical conflicts. Design by concensus doesn't work well.
You've chosen one data point. This may support your claim, or it may be that they are a powerhouse and thus able to afford worker representation as a luxury.
I ran geekbench 4, the overall score was only 15-25% lower but the memory score was a lot lower like 80% lower
I don't know about the particular mopeds in the article, but for instance the Gogoro's that are used by Coup in Europe can go up to 90-95 km/h and fall into the 125cc category unless they are artificially restricted to 45 km/h (to allow for more people to be able to use their service).
The initial source is here: https://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/285128.htm

It says NOTHING about how the behavior is unusual and why it raises concerns. Would be interesting if they gave at least some information.
You can use https://github.com/coleifer/pysqlite3

It even supports user-defined window functions using the new sqlite apis.
In other words, Marxism.

You will downvote, but this was his central recommendation.
None of the things you mention can't be done while cycling. Many of us get up early to beat the heat, wear reasonable clothes, and drive or take the bus or whatnot if cycling is not possible. I have reasonable cargo capacity on my bike so a normal day's bag is not a problem. Cycling in this case could replace a workout for you which could overall save you time given that it doubles as a commute. I used to be a fairly dedicated runner, but I decided cycling was a better use of my time.
The people who sold you the LEAP puts were happy to take your money, I’m sure.

The time premium on LEAPs makes them, as I understand it, an extremely niche product to use appropriately.

Of course anyone is free to speculate, as long as you meet the option trading requirements at your brokerage.
Maybe ask some Cubans, see what they say. Sounds like you mostly want a quaint set piece to stroll through and enjoy the exchange rate.
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To be a little pedantic, sometimes they came on floppies or even just as source code printed in a magazine you had to copy by hand.
Well, because we develop more value than structural engineers faster than they do and have killed far fewer people than they have. Essentially, we’re economically more efficient so a 10% improvement in our performance is huge, while a 10% improvement in structural engineer performance is a waste of time for the cost incurred.

Therefore, software engineers get a lot more attention in terms of how to increase efficiency. The difference is akin to why there’s so much work to get CEOs to be more efficient but not that much work to get janitors to be efficient. It’s not a value judgment. It’s just economical reality.
> somehow the US system is generating significantly more disposable income for its people.

Then why are so many people complaining about the cost of living, housing, healthcare, education etc? Could someone remind us what is and what isn't included in "disposable"?
Ugh I knew I should have done more research into it. Thanks for finding that out.
Yeah that'd be a really neat application for AR as well, interactive examples displayed around the textbook for the current topic etc.
How I fired myself enough times to finally become CTO
This sounds like a great idea, let's take it a little further and spread some equity around.

If you come in every single day and spend the best hours of your life working towards a company's goals, why shouldn't you share at all in the success of the company if it succeeds?

Some allotment of shares or options per hour worked would not only help share financial gains but also align interests and spread voting power.

It sort of achieves Warren's idea without a new charter. If your employees are the shareholders then you serve your employees.
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Workers have a right to get paid for their work, but that’s pretty much it. They don’t have a right to influence company policies because they do not own it. Asking workers for their opinion is just politeness, but not something company necessarily has to do.
They're conducting full-on ethnic cleansing and using the War on Terror as a cover. The US is involved in enough human rights atrocities that it might not be in a great place to criticize, but let's not kid ourselves here.
>He's a bloomberg opinion writer. He is a bloomberg staff member. So it is bloomberg.

That's only your opinion of what it means '[to be] bloomberg'. If you have a good argument for why that is the case, then give it. But unless you do, I'll stick with the definition of an oped[1], and that Matt Levine himself took the job because Bloomberg gave him the creative freedom to write what he'd like to write in the manner that he likes to write.

>Not sure why you attacked the guy for giving his opinion.

I didn't attack him. I just noted the large difference in how much support Matt Levine gave for his opinion, and how little the poster gave for his.

[1]"An op-ed ... is a written prose piece typically published by a newspaper or magazine which expresses the opinion of a named author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board." (wiki)
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Based on current P/E ratios, the higher chances of an inverted yield curve, companies going private or not going public, and market analysis from folks like Vanguard about future returns being muted, my opinion is that most equities returns have been pulled forward, risk-adjusted returns will be comparable to bonds, and that there will both be a market pullback in the foreseeable future with total market value moving roughly sideways from today's highs for quite a while.
This reminds me of the mid-to-late 90s where everyone made their own window manager. You had the choice of 100s of them. But usually they lost interest after a version or two, and didn't implement much of the icccm.
and yet that disposable income doesn't provide a longer life expectancy or more happiness; germany beats the US in both categories (and others):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2018_Wo...
Alt+V+R goes into Reader mode on my FF (without any extensions for that).
The "normal" way to do this in the technology industry is via either an H1B or O1 visa. You do not qualify for either one.

An H1B typically requires a specialized degree. You don't have one -- your BFA will not qualify, especially in today's political environment.

An O1 requires you to be world-renowned in your field. Widely published, a long history of invitations to speak, etc. That's not you, either.

That leaves you with the considerably less desirable visa options.

L1 is an intra-company transfer. It is a temporary visa that is not dual-intent -- you cannot immigrate. But you can stay for several years. If you can find a European firm that wants to send you to the United States, this is often the easiest way to experience the U.S., at least temporarily.

F1 is a student visa. If you apply, and are accepted for a graduate program in the United States, an F1 will allow you to stay here for several years, and work under certain circumstances. If your graduate program is relevant to your field of endeavor, internships and externships under your F1 can be the link you need to an H1B.

The reason the F1 is not all that desirable is that it is very, very expensive to be a student in the United States. You will not be permitted to work a real job off campus to fund your tuition. You must have either very extensive funding from your university, or independent means of your own.
It's almost like Germany had to integrate a poor "foreign" nation less than three decades ago...
Just a soundbyte to sucker in low educated voters who get all of their political ideas from mainstream media.
Yes, Fermat’s library is amazing. But I wanted have a community exactly like lobsters and HN. It’s super easy to read and post.
Take a look at distill.pub (which wsa also featured on the HN frontpage today). Its essentially a Machine Learning Journal with a focus on clarity and visualization, and is therefore interactive and visual. Colah is around on HN and might comment explaining it better.
> no skin in the game

The presumption that people who spend 40+ hours a week of their lives there, and are dependent on the company for their income and healthcare have "no skin in the game" is odd.
My best advice is to quit caring about the downvotes.
Since this is the median and not the mean, it seems that the top .01% should have no impact or bias here.

The statistic here tells us that the person right in the middle of the American income distribution makes more than the person in the middle of the German income distribution, even when disregarding the actual incomes at other points in that distribution.