skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worth remember that unlike those home routers, Ubiquiti's EdgeOS is based on a production major network os, Vyatta, (as is VyOs), and therefor has a lot more scrutiny and bug fixing than those other things, which are often even more complicated by the lack of foss hardware or standardized ways to do things (many routers are stuck on whatever the manufacturer put on it in the factory). I'm sure Ubiquiti's code is probably ripe for fuzzing, etc, but a well configured EdgeOS device I would put against any cisco, cumulus , extremeos, routeros, junos, pfsense, ipfire, etc device any day. The main benefit of something like Ubiquiti being asic offload that wouldn't exist if you did something like pfsense on cots x86.

The real irony of how vulnerable these devices are, is that often they are based on tech that is foss that has updates to fix those issues but has been carefully packaged up inside a blackbox the consumer doesn't get to control and therefor doesnt get those updates.

Once again, why we need a "right to root".

For national security!
McKinsey ultimately can get away with far more mediocre people than Google. Google has to keep the website up at the end of the day — McKinsey just needs to make a slick PowerPoint.
Lmao based and redpilled
Recently, I've learned Nepal history just because I really like the nepal curry at a restaurant nearby, .

In 2001, Nepalese royal massacre happened, and King Gyanendra crowned. He stop the parliament and started absolute monarchism. Resulting civil war between The King, the Politicians and the Maoists.

Guess which side US aided with weapons? The King!

Fortunately, all the political parties came to term quickly and threw out the king, establish the parliament, publish interim constitution, separation of religion and state, and the rest of the things democracy should have.

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

To me, US is not a supporter of democracy and freedom, it's just a weapon merchant.
I've heard a lot of nice things about Romania, but what are the downsides? Honestly considering moving there at some point, though I likely won't.
Thanks. I didn't realize that.

But the first incident that stuck in my mind was when an American soldier greeted me in German on the sidewalk in front of the McDonald's across the street from the entrance to the American base. I had my very blond baby with me. Yes, I'm half German. Yes, my child is one quarter German.

But he was an American and Americans walked across the street to the McDonald's regularly. It very much weirded me out. Like "Why would you think I'm a German national? You're not. Do I not look American to another American on the sidewalk across the street from the American base??"
I mean at times they've certainly had outside help like Enron in the late 90s & early 00s screwing with it from Texas.
If a wife compromises, the husband is a happy man!

If a husband compromises, he is a wise man!
McKinsey used to be much smaller and fairly selective with its client choices, but as the firm got bigger it would appear they’ve let their ethical standards slip a lot.

There’s been a growing number of questionable activities over recent years from the insider trading scandal, recent bankruptcy deal scandals, this. They’ve always traded on their name but increasingly that name is being equated with scandal and ethics issues so not sure what they’re thinking.
oh. i didn't even notice the words at the time, probably because i wasn't looking for it since i had no idea who this person is. i had made the assumption that hacker news' link shortening did something to it.
> One thing you should realize about a fusion reactor is that the easiest (which is still really difficult to do) reactions for fusion release a lot of their power in neutrons. These can not be harnessed directly to produce electricity, unlike moving electrons or ions theoretically could be. They can be used to boil water, just like a coal plant, and use steam to run a generator to make electricity. This part of the power plant is expensive. And the fusion reactor is expensive. You don't just get a Mr. Fusion on your car roof outputting Gigawatts of power.

I would kind of expect a completely new technology to be expensive to begin with.

> As to it being a great investment, an electric power generation method is only going to be a great one if it is much cheaper than current methods. This is why ITER is such a boondoggle with its $10-$20 billion dollar price tag. It is very unlikely to be the path to putting fusion power onto the grid.

I'm not sure how that follows--this might not be a great comparison, but the cost of building the first two atomic bombs was orders of magnitude higher than the cost of building the most recent two atomic bombs. Even if it costs $20-50 billion dollars per fusion power plant, it still might work out if each plant can produce enough economy of scale.

> Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics is a hard subject matter. Investors with $30 million dollars to speculate on such a project are not going to know enough to distinguish a possible project from unlikely ones. Physicists who can know enough to see that some plan might work are unlikely to have the funds to invest. I saw Sam Altman had a fusion book on one of his lists at one point and Elon Musk might know a physicist he would trust, but getting those people to take a look is not easy. I'd be happy to make introductions though. :)

Yeah, that makes sense. There has to be some reason that a $30 million plan to build a proof-of-concept viable fusion reactor hasn't been funded yet.
The same assholes that posed as Doctors Without Borders so they could gather dna evidence to confirm where Osama Bin Laden was hiding, thus hampering any efforts to eradicate polio because nobody trusts DWB anymore? That CIA?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...

I can only assume they have spooks running around pretending to be the Red Cross.
>The state taking over anything eliminates all incentives.

And yet roads continue to be built and the CDC continues to function...
This is a complicated and fascinating topic. I wish there were more case studies and frameworks about how to navigate these problems.
Classes were introduced into a statically compiled programming language in Simula-67. C++ has a lot of Simula legacy, even down to some keywords (e.g. "virtual" is from there, although it meant "abstract" originally).
Interestingly, I noted I tended to use one letter variables when writing in Ruby, and the longest, most descriptive possible variable's names when writing in C#; And Ruby, I think I have read somewhere, is somewhat close to lisp. There is the readability of the language itself to weight in too, when its easy to see the important stuff, you can name the important stuff with short names. And there is the most important, what are you writing about; Strangely I always remember to myself that the only important goal is to write the slowest, most natural language, and above all, most natural/daily-life/ELI5 Logic. But always end with the logic looking like pure math notation, like if I looked at it not knowing it was me who wrote, would think is unreadable Dark Magic Math, and I end with it having zero Math or CS formal training (only highschool), so maybe it's inescapable.
> I can tell you first hand that when James Gosling was developing Oak/Greentalk which became Java, Pascal never came up ... the focus was much more on C++ and what to keep and what to discard.

The interesting thing is that at the time Java was released and then aggressively marketed by Sun, the AT&T folks had already come up with Limbo (the successor to Alef, and running on the Dis virtual machine), which was technically quite similar to the Java/JVM solution, and in some ways quite superior. But nobody ever mentions Limbo in connection with Java, or even with Go (which it - along with its predecessor Alef - was a clear influence on). History is written by the winners, and Java was a winning language/platform for quite some time.
In those cases, why not respond by explaining the risks or other considerations that might not be apparent from the code?

Frankly if there is real risk that the code is pushed to production by someone who shouldn't be touching it is a failure to properly safeguard critical assets.

Retaliating because someone tried to make something better is abusive and dysfunctional.
i've heard from a friend who works in MC that they outsource their slides so they can come in the next day with a completed slide deck
> Guess which side US aided with weapons? The King!

After the Vietnamese Army pushed the Khmer Rouge out of Phnom Penh into western and northern Cambodia, guess who the US supported over the next 15 years?

The Khmer Rouge.
Yes. Narwhal. Narwhal provides commission free flat rate brokerage trading via tradier and you can trade both in pre and post market hours.
Maybe it's because I don't understand how deposit insurance works. Maybe it's because I live in a country where there are relatively few banks. But is this insurance actually meaningful?

For example, if RBC "failed" in Canada, woulnd't the payout largely come from the Bank of Canada printing more money and all this could essentially happen without CIDC existing? You might get your money back, but now a loaf of bread costs $1000.

Again, maybe I don't understand how it works. Maybe it makes more sense in the US where there are many smaller banks.

Insight?
Algol-68 also had GC, operator overloading, nested functions (which were full-fledged closures), and lambdas.
C++ has no reflection either. Are you saying it's not object oriented?

Rust has late binding (also known as dynamic dispatch). Check trait objects. It's not really any worse than C++ virtual functions which is its form of dynamic dispatch.

See https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-02-trait-objects.html

And Rust has dynamic linking as well:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html

So IMHO Rust has enough features to be used in object oriented fashion.
> One is logic, the other is applied.

Not according to any formal or colloquial definition I've ever heard.
For those to whom this article clicks and resonates: at what stage of ego/mental development do you think this perspective unlocks?
I perceive this complexity now, but the me of just three years ago wouldn't have. In the past year I have wrestled with a complex software quality cultural transformation... But I don't think that's a reliable growth trigger, as people can stay stuck in linear thinking even as it fails. Is it solely psychological development into the self-transforming mind? Or, what would make this mindset "gettable" by more people?
I'd say that Algol 68's greatest influence is probably "void", given how often C, C++, Java and C# developers have to write that keyword to this day. ~
There are ways of awarding "equity" in LLC's as well, but it works differently than a traditional S or C corp. Even in a S corp you are limited to how many people can have shares before you are forced to convert to a C corp but you are still at least dealing with shares.

In an LLC you do not have shares, you generally have "units" which equate similarly but are geared towards "profit interest in the business", which usually ties back to a capital contribution but doesn't necessarily tie to cash.

IANAL so you should seek one out if you are trying to do anything along these lines. Anytime you set up a business pay the money for an attorney to go over it so you have the correct information and structure, it is so worth it and doesn't cost that much in the long run. And fixing things later can cost way more.

Personally, I always prefer LLC's as I don't seek venture funding for my own companies, and even if you do raise some money from friends/family or high net worth people an LLC is generally fine in these cases. If you plan to raise funds from large Angels or VC's always setup the proper C corp from the beginning and use an attorney that has done it before. If you aren't sure, you can always convert an LLC to a C corp, just tell your attorney that it is possible you will do this. That way they can include the proper language in the operating agreement to make that conversion as tax neutral as possible.
Nice try soyboy.
Textbook you should read: Computer Systems: a Programmer's Perspective, 3rd edition

http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
Legacy of Ashes is a good source.
the word "send" doesn't seem to have changed much; Meant travel, journey. Sandwich was a landing site for ships, roman beach head and all. So sandwich was kind of ... a postoffice? traveler's office? Just a marketplace and harbour? I mean, compare Stralsunt and tell me that's named for being built on sunt, err I mean sand.

On the other hand, the look and feel of hardtack (which cannot be Tolkiens waybread if that's brown on the outside and creamy on the inside) and zwieback pretty much reminds of sand. And they might sell it to ships leaving port. That doesn't quite figure with how we know a sandwhich today, but sure enough, there are other roots that can derive "sand-".

At any rate, placenames lend much better and hence more often to food names. And placenames in turn have often been related to milling and possibly mill-derivatives; to biblical proportions--cf. Bethlehem--which, again, may mean that bread words overlap with more figurative meanings; compare "sound" (healthy), from PIE reconstruction *swent-~sunt- (vigor); Then compare vigor and -wich ... Townsville might sound redundant, but there it is.
Well, this is very much the case according to the article, where James Gosling is quoted as saying:

“Then fast-forward a bunch of years, when I was trying to do the project that Java came out of. I had to do this architecture-neutral distribution format, and then I just went ka-ching! You know, this p-code translator thing would actually just drop in there.”

The article explained before how Gosling learned about the p-machine:

Gosling could have done this by making the requisite fussy changes in every application program and recompiling. But he found an easier way: He wrote code that turned the VAX into a p-machine.

Standing on the shoulders of giants.
> The only real problem China is facing is its political system, not its economy.

This how thread is about how that is changing. Also, most don't think politics and economics are separate.

> I have not seen _any_ US media reporting China truthfully

What are they getting wrong?
Lessons from a Failing Company
"I want your opinion on...." for me is a potential landmine. Such questions can be used to detect potential troublemakers.

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

In college 10 years+ ago, one of my roommates had a laptop with 500MB ram and took a 500MB ram chip from anther room mate's laptop to speed up a game he was playing.

He did this without the knowledge or permission of the laptop's owner who was sleeping and forgot to put it back.

Morning came, owner woke up to a laggy system. Discovered the cause and went straight to the culprit. Instead of an apology, he got insulted and reported to school authorities.

Culprit panicked and threw his own ram into another room mate's locker - not knowing that rams have brand names and serial numbers. The owner refused the found chip and after a search, found it in the culprit's laptop.

Case over right? Wrong!

We all got called up to an office and asked, "Who do you think took it?"

I naively answered with all the logical evidence. The "judge" accused me of slander. And warned me not to talk about it any longer or face disciplinary measures.

I later discovered that the culprit's father visited the official and our meeting's true purpose was a coverup.

In other words, be wary of higher-ups who ask for critique, advise, improvements, ideas...
TLDR;

11,000 words of gossip about GE CEO promotions with no insight into the actual business problems.

Makes the authors look like incompetent wannabe "journalists."
More than 62 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, maybe they were the ones up voting stories on 4chan and Reddit because they agree with him.
You’re probably thinking of design. Consultants will assemble the deck contents then ship to an offshore contractor to pretty them up overnight.
I'm going to try this. Thanks
I also would like to hear answers to these questions, but I suspect OP is another ethno-nationalist that perceives grievance against them for any and all actions.

The number one take away I have from interactions with all too many Chinese nationals, unfortunately.
The ability that the blockchain gives to economically coordinate across great spaces and at massive scale without a central authority may make Tim May's predictions come true.

"Crypto anarchy will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation." -Tim May, 1988

I would add that limiting the ability of the govermment to tax and control economic interactions does not imply eliminating the government's ability to collect taxes. It would instead mean governments shifting from taxing people's private transactions, which properly belong in the private sphere, to taxing immovable property within their jurisdictions, like land, which properly belongs in the public sphere.
Autocracies don't last as governments, not forever.
Life imitates art, sci-fi edition – Oumuamua a solar sail?
I think our health and feelings of happiness or sadness are fundamentally outside of our control is reality. Since, I can argue people have no real control in life from deductive reasoning.

I assume nature with what's described as evolution, is similar to how us humans build our emotional state. I observe human characteristics such as greed, greatly theorized as a survival trait and speculate how it alters everything else depending on the individual. Basically everything to me is similar to code and where logic lives to be discovered.

The stigma with drugs from what I believe is if you require it to function forever. Honestly I have nothing against drugs if the person taking them is educated.

> I guess I think of bad feelings like any other kind of difficult to pinpoint bodily pain... something is wrong with me, but the thing that is wrong is often not the thing that hurts.

I like how you wrote this.
You might be right, but I don't think ANY country welcomes a real deep dive into how much of the global economy is fraudulent.

No one will like the answer.
Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8
PSA: That site brought my Debian VM to its knees. Two cores at >90%, 3GB RAM, and swap at a few hundred MB, and growing fast. This is with Firefox 60.3.0esr(64-bit). Had to kill the process and swapoff/swapon.

After setting "Minimize Memory Usage" at "about:memory",[0] it still does it. Albeit more slowly.

So maybe I need to lose Quantum.

0) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1223605
I totally second that!
> Everyone is scared of China, so getting our allies to work in concert wouldn't happen

Wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
and not all adults need to be hand held by a newborn to realize others have different perceptions
> DC bubble

Far as I can tell, inside the DC Bubble they worship one thing and one thing only; power.

The idea that they should have to deal with other countries and peoples as equals or at least respect is alien to them.
I see my most people around me unable to grasp this simple fact of life. They are so engrossed in the struggle to keep control, they don't even realize the amount of personal and otherwise unhappiness they create.

Hinduism has a concept of 4 stages of life called Ashrams[1]. Brahmacharya the first stage is focused on learning and acquiring knowledge. Second stage Grihastha is to enjoy the family. In the third stage called Vanaprastha one retires from the household and takes an advisory role. In the final stage of Sannyasa one should completely detach from the desires of the world.

I am a born Hindu(never practiced) and was well aware of this concept but never thought about it deeply. Now as I approach 40 and have kids, I realize how spot-on this ancient wisdom is.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashrama_(stage)
he is probably leaving these things out because he didn't make the experience. or didn't notice it because it didn't seem out of the ordinary for him.

those wierdos and eccentrics showing up is a sign of the openness and tolerance that is lived in the esperanto community. so yes, esperanto is bound to attract those people.

eccentrics by necessity favor communities where openness and tolerance for their lifestyle is practiced. so they will gravitate to communities where they are welcome.

to the chinese for example, all western foreigners look like wierdos and eccentrics. the sideeffect is that weird and eccentric westerners in china are treated with the same respect as everyone else because the chinese for the most part can't tell the difference, unlike at home where they don't fit in.

but those eccentrics are part of the early adopters in the innovation adoption lifecycle. they have less opportunities to find acceptance elsewhere. esperanto presents an opportunity for them.

the challenge of the esperanto community is to break out of the early adopter phase and find a way to let the language appeal to the majority.
The insurance is meaningful in that its mere existence can prevent financial institutions from collapsing in the first place. If everyone knows that FDIC/CDIC will keep their balances safe and sound, they're less likely to make a run on the bank in times of uncertainty. Bank runs can turn a bank insolvent very quickly, especially when depositors don't need to wait in lines, but can instead tap on their banking apps. Also keep in mind that the financial system is in many ways quite fragile: the failure of one bank makes other bank failures more likely. FDIC/CDIC helps prevent the dominos from falling as easily as would otherwise happen if deposits weren't guaranteed.

As for where the funding comes from...the FDIC requires payment into the insurance pool by member institutions, so it's not the government bailing out the depositors each time a bank fails. But if the FDIC pot of money is exhausted, the U.S. Government will still guarantee it by act of Congress. I'm not sure how this works in Canada, however.
Makes you think about what they've got nowadays. You can finds lots of recordings of Numbers Stations uploaded by amateurs on Youtube. Also look at http://www.spynumbers.com/
> Western nations need to decide whether they care more about their values ... or economic growth

Isn’t the answer staring us in the face? We’d rather have a plush Western way of life than a planet capable of supporting life. Fortunately most of us will be long dead before the bill comes due.
> Java was also many developers' first introduction to a language runtime with a "fail fast" approach to fault handling.

Java wasn't just "fail fast" in some loose and hard-to-pin-down sense, it was memory safe. This was a killer feature in competing with C++ as the standard 'enterprise' language, and Sun rightly focused on it in their marketing of the language and platform.

Edit: And yes, as a sibling comment says, the "batteries included" factor was probably important in making the language popular with developers.
For what it's worth, the cake maker won that case at the Supreme Court. So they were, in fact, not compelled to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44361162
he's most widely know for his work on philosophy
Great point about Smalltalk. It had been around a long time by the time of UCSD Pascal, and had a byte code engine from the start.

Along similar lines, Burroughs had a line of machines that swapped in language-specific microcode on a task-switch basis(!!!!!) so the idea of language-specific instruction sets has a long history.