skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Blind claims on its website that its email verification “is safe, as our patented infrastructure is set up so that all user account and activity information is completely disconnected from the email verification process.”

"Patented infrastructure"? It smells like BS to me.
I would imagine if they were repeat offenders the FCC would just tell them to go f-off on future launches and there goes their whole business plan.
Thanks for writing the blog post. Insights like these and of such high quality are rare.

Can I ask what was the total cost of the migration?

If there was software that could do this database migration without downtime, how much would you/Guardian be willing to pay?
Point.

The difference, as the article notes, is that government response to bubbles has varied. And strong enough measures have certainly decreased the severity of downturns.

At this point in time there aren't a lot of remaining options, were the world economy to seriously get into trouble.

(One reason it was asinine for the US to cut taxes and deficit spend in an economic expansion)
Never heard of Schrödinger’s cat? You can’t know whether it wants to go outside or stay inside until it makes a decision
Set the habit from the beginning to do quick debriefs (a few minutes) after each meeting. The most interesting thing when shadowing very senior people is to see why they do certain things.

Try to have 1 question ready after each meeting/call/... Why did you agree to the terms? What was the most important thing about this call? Why did you handle it like that? What did you try to get out of this meeting? How did you know they were going to say X? Try to get a sense of why they make certain decisions, how they think about it.
I think Uber not being a thing might have been for the best.
Are we judging every institution by its history now? The United States has a history of discrimination.
Was there an option to use an anti-satellite weapon to blow these things out of the sky? These rules have been pretty firm since the 1970s so pleading ignorance just looks bad.
The author Georg Bocskay wouldn't have liked his name being translated to Georg Boschkay at all. He is Hungarian and already lost all his accents in the first transcription, being named Bochkai in the German/Latin version.

Augustus of Austria et al should be translated as King or Emperor of
Agree, but because it's JS and well designed plugins also affect the editor experience much less. Where in Sublime the Python based plugins which aren't designed around async and promise-like patterns often can lock up the editor waiting on them.

VSCode is pretty much the best Emacs there is right now. Uses JS, has good package management, allows changing settings per "workspace" including enable/disable plugins, has great git support, pioneered LSP, and more.

I literally want to hate VSCode, but there isn't much to hate and any weakness it has can/should/likely-will be addressed by a plugin.
THC (and smoking marijuana) show no scientific evidence of chemical dependence (aka, physical addiction.)

That's to say, THC is less physiologically addictive than nicotine, alcohol, caffeine -- even cheese.
You and jacobwilliamroy seem to be well informed on this topic. I post my hair brained notions here, in the unlikely chance they're helpful.

First is create a fleet of autonomous barges, like Baltimore's Mr Trash Wheel. They would do station keeping using the wave glider tech (submerged wings). Larger (manned) ships would gather up whatever debris the barges collect.

http://www.bluebird-electric.net/oceanography/Ocean_Plastic_...

jacobwilliamroy's comments about the by catch is probably spot on. So the barge notion may suck.

Alternately, garbage cleanup could become a massive jobs program. Which suits me fine.

Second is to gather the microplastics by creating "floaters" modeled after jellyfish. I imagine a future membrane tech that can filter out the plastics without scooping up too much microscopic life. Again, floaters would do station keeping using wave glider tech. Most of the "business end" of the floaters would submerge to optimum filtering depth, then surface themselves for collection and service.

https://www.liquid-robotics.com/wave-glider/how-it-works/
Why oh Why do not they care about security ?

Website scores an F for Fail on mozilla's

https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/www.nhs.uk

hosting platform is not secure :

https://internet.nl/site/www.nhs.uk/431794/

email is not secure :

https://internet.nl/mail/nhs.uk/179122/

Please fix this and not let it drop into bureaucracy
The root cause of the problem with Electron is that its performance on the Mac is just like the Chrome browser.

Compared to Safari, Chrome’s performance is like a fat pig hogging your memory and devouring your battery life.
I thought HN had a feature that automatically stripped sentence-ending exclamation points from submission titles? Similar to the feature it has that turns "1 million" to "1M"
Two string on the stack are far more likely to be cached at a low cache level and/or prefetched (but probably already cached).

A noticeable difference is much more likely to be because a string is too big and moved to the heap, which is in a different part of memory and thus not cached. Also there is the translation look aside buffer which caches the virtual memory to real memory address lookup. This also needs to be done on cold pages of memory and be expensive since it requires looking up in to the virtual memory table.
The threading feature that are not stable / experimental? There is not way someone is moving to Rust for this.
Same way we have consortiums for things like radio waves (ITU and such). There is no binding international authority for ANYTHING. The United Nations and WTO don't have bite to match their bark.
Yeah, as others have pointed out this RFC is from 2013 - so a bit dated.
"Allergy or preference?" is an interesting question. For many people the answer would be neither: they suffer physical pain if they eat a significant amount of wheat - half a slice of bread might be enough to produce symptoms, for example - but it's not technically an allergy and it's not life-threatening. You don't need to use different equipment for these people, but you should carefully check the list of ingredients.
We thought we would like Ibiza a lot, went there for a couple of weeks, turned out we didn't. While there I spotted a book on tax paradises in a bookshop, turns out there are a bunch of countries where you don't have to pay taxes under certain circumstances, which means you double your income when you come from europe. Made a short list, didn't like the top one, but really liked the second one. Have been living in Curacao (a Caribbean island 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela) for seven years and still enjoying it a lot!
Kudos to you... It seems you created an amazing game, and possibly you didn't get all the credit you deserve for it. I might be mistaken, but if I am not... Thanks!
The performance really isn’t that bad at all in my experience. The complaints you see are developer complaints, where they’re talking about resource usage that ordinary users would never notice or question, or UI lag that most users wouldn’t care about (I only add this because someone else in this thread claims to have encountered it, but I never have, or have never noticed). If you find web apps running in chrome to be acceptably performant, then electron is fine for your use case. But naturally, a native solution will be faster if you’re doing something that really is resource intensive.

VS Code is electron, I use VS Code every day without noticing any issues. I think the complaints about electron are moot.
> with exceptions, within reason

Well, how about applying those, then?

I also think you’re misunderstanding the sentiment. It’s not so much about negative coverage serving as additional punishment in this case, but about the coverage putting future would-be offenders on notice, and effectively preventing any profession of ignorance to serve as a mitigating factor.
> Say it with me: The stock market is NOT the economy.

Cannot upvote this enough. We don't spend nearly enough time teaching economics (and to a lesser degree, finance) in the US.
SMD in Rust, makes Rust faster than most
> You are responsible for the assumptions you make.

Very true! But the one who leads someone to make a false assumption with vague statement on a thread with other folks advocating for that, also share some culpability.

> You also make a good argument for CBD as a prescription drug.

Yup, I am. But until we can overturn almost a century of regressive policies and public perception based on a terribly corrupt “war on drugs”, not likely to happen. Sometimes we have to go radically the other direction before we can then correct course into the middle ground that always should’ve been.
That's not an "arbitrary" timer, it's your character's core motivation. Why would somebody wander aimlessly about the desert searching for side quests when their friends and family are dying of thirst? You're supposed to be searching for the water chip, and if you pay attention to the clues you should find it in time. And it's possible to extend the time limit with no consequences in the patched version.

The secondary timer is harder to justify, which is why it was extended to 13 years in the patched version (more than enough time to do everything).
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Not to mention putting money in the hands of the middle class also is a way out. Unfortunately the govt likely won't have that option since it just strapped itself with 1 Trillion in debt giving money to people who mainly purchase investable assets.

Meaning having the ability to cut rates is even more important.
Theranos wasn't bad because they skirted regulation, they were bad because they outright lied about the efficacy of their (non)product.
I would also like to echo this. Yes most of everyone on HN hate Electron and they can point out any number of reasons why it's bad, and they would correct. In spite of the technical problems Electron is still seeing growth and continues to ship in new products.

If you think Electron works for what you need I would say use it and just ship, once you have more resources reevaluate if it is or is not working.
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If you're bailing out the banks for writing off non-performing loans, then by definition students get their loans written off.
> I’ve never done this before

Really happy you mentioned this because on the face of it, this is a colossal waste of time.

Shadowing someone in the duration you have mentioned is the equivalent to buying a Tony Robbins book about Entrepreneurship, reading it and then proclaiming to be an Entrepreneur when really Mark Cuban has it right and they are just a Wantrepreneur.

I know this sounds pretty harsh, but you have no skin in the game. You won't be making any decisions, you won't feel the weight of them either. You won't be telling staff to start and project and then see all the problems associated with getting it finished.

There's no muscle memory to be gained here.

Here's what I would do. Tell your friend, instead of shadowing to make you a manager with a member of staff. To then give you a small project to deliver. Something that's well outside of your comfort zone. Ask him, to have himself or another manager to be available for mentorship when you need it.

Now you'll be in a position to find out for yourself:-

1) What makes a good leader

2) How to effectively communicate to staff.

3) How to handle problems that come up in running projects.

4) How to plan a project and then to complete one.

5) How to manage a budget.

6) Everything else in between.

Doing is far better than watching and by doing so, gets you a lot of experience for when you want to do it yourself.

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Honestly though. I would just start my business today and have the CEO friend as a mentor.

Fail and fail often: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNDA-o9yJNw
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Cue complaints about cats eating birds. And be sure to cite that one source that everybody cites just to make it sound reasonable to keep cats imprisoned.

I had two indoor outdoor cats that would run up to my car and hop in. I would go pick them up because I had a GPS collar on them. Some old lady stole one of them and she was super surprised when I showed up with his picture.
Any moderately performance sensitive code in C++, assuming it needs allocations at all will use a dedicated allocator.

While it is hard to beat existing general purpose allocators in all the scenarios, it is easy for specific use cases.
Looks like the Exult, the Ultima 7 modernization/remake, is still being developed:

https://github.com/exult/exult

Last time I played U7 through so many years ago it was via Exult. I wonder how far its progressed over the last decade? hmm.
Sadly, you're probably right. Investors seem to be only too happy to back sociopaths.
If it texted my wife I know in my heart of hearts the cats would quickly figure out how to abuse it for food. Neat video linked from the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqVNuYol6o
re: "The flaw with that argument is that something like 99 of 100 laws exist because, basically, they should. They benefit society, so essentially the whole population wants them."

Sometimes yes. But other times, the laws exists (and more than 1 of 100) to "protect" some industry (from competition from another industry) and not necessarily because it's a benefit to society / general public.

Not to get off topic, but this is the crux of the argument of (e.g.,) The Brothers Koch. That is, it's not gov they are against per se. But the fact that the gov leads to rules & reg that (too often) end up offering advantages to some and disadvantages to others - which is __not__ what should happen if benefit to society were the true goal. Put another way, they're not against gov per se. They're against the uneven playing field the gov is so fond of creating.

Note: I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with them. I only wanting to point out this finer-point is often lost when people scream "OMG...The Kochs...The Kochs...". The reality is, there's a fair amount of evidence / validity to their POV.
Really love this idea. I totally agree that there is a lack of good and easily accessible sales training/education. Would be interested in learning more about how the training itself is designed. Where do you source the training content? Are there real trainers that you meet virtually via video conferencing or does it work like a self-serve online course?
This sounds oddly similar to the movie Proof from 2005.
I cross-compile an entire Linux distribution (even if you're compiling on Linux/x86_64 FOR Linux/x86_64, it's still going to get cross-compiled since it's a different platform). This is around 300 external/upstream packages and 100 local packages. The vast majority of software that uses GNU autoconf has little to no problems. Some software that uses CMake has some small problems.

Building the cross-compiling toolchain is relatively easy, compared to dealing with the problems in software

I ran into a bug in bash [0], for example, that you would really only hit if you were cross-compiling it (there are other ways, because it wasn't related to being cross-compiled just features that were disabled automatically when cross-compiling). It took a while to convince people that this bug existed because it wasn't obvious that it was caused by being cross-compiled.

The real problems come from "modern" package managers as well as scripting languages in general.

Scripting languages and their extension mechanism are, in general, absolutely ignorant of cross-compiling and the idea that you might be building an extension to the language for a different platform than the running interpreter is completely foreign to most. Ruby fails especially hard here -- it looks ONLY at the running interpreter to determine how to build the extension. Python is a bit better because, but still rigid in versions. Perl's cross-compilation story requires having access to a system to SSH into (though there are alternative autoconf-based build systems that make this sane -- I don't know if they work for extensions, I just abandoned the idea of including Perl based on how poor their build system was). Tcl was the best, since it's extension system (TEA) is autoconf-based.

LuaJIT can't be cross-compiled from a 32-bit system for a 64-bit system [1] since it, at build-time, tries to do some stuff and fails at it.

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-06/msg00042...
[1] http://luajit.org/install.html#cross
Human as an individual is not a number. Yes may be for the philosopher king for an ideal which not everyone agree or vote for may or may not come or forever waiting, we just kill millions and millions.

Maos has it and starve 30 millions.

Soviet Union.

USA has its Vietnam and 2nd Iraq war.

I am not saying we should not try but Great Saint begot Great Thief. Be afraid of people who sit in their arm chair and talk about scarifie for the ideal.
> Both say more research has to be done. Let's hope this is being done in the near future.

Things have changed some in recent years, but it’s still very difficult to do accredited scientific research when something is a scheduled narcotic.
This article has an incoherent approach to monetary and fiscal policy:

"Yet, even after recent U.S. interest rate hikes, the Fed has nowhere near enough room to cut rates that much without going negative."

"Fiscal policy doesn’t offer much of an alternative. ... The U.S. government deficit is forecast to rise to $1 trillion as a result of tax cuts and higher public spending, ... Most economies are pushing against high and rising government debt levels"

"Ultimately, central banks might have to resort to QE variations such as “helicopter money.” Originally a thought experiment of Milton Friedman, the government would print money and distribute it to the public to stimulate the economy... Helicopter money would at least deflect criticism of QE programs as favoring the wealthy and exacerbating inequality, as benefits would accrue to a wider spectrum of the population."

Helicopter money is nothing other than a particular combination of fiscal policy and monetary policy. It is populist government deficit spending financed with money rather than debt. So a couple points:

- There are proposals for money-financed government deficits: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=31715

- Why give the money away for nothing? There's still unemployment, let's get something out of it. Let's use helicopter money to pay people to do things for the public good

- There are proposals for public jobs financed by government deficit spending: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=23719
The solution is for gov fix the laws to reflect society.

You assume that because something is new that it is better. Hotel and taxi laws were put in place for a reason. Just because a new business comes along and doesn't want to play by the rules doesn't make that business right and the laws wrong.

In a civilization, it's up to the business to enumerate the reasons that the laws should be changed, and then go through the same legislative process as any other business or member of the public to have those laws changed.

Breaking the law and then blaming the law is like a five-year-old throwing a tantrum and expecting adults to feel bad for it.
Facebook was hiring blockchain engineers during the hype late last year - so I guess they have to ship something to justify the team. I think nothing in this scenario requires a blockchain.
Tangent: 'Relentless, Twinsen's Adventure' aka 'Little Big Adventure' is officially available on Android. It's actually kind of fun and playable on the small screen.
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In trading, correctness is still a lot more important than latency. Using Java instead is about risk avoidance, which is why you also see people using OCaml.
Did I read that right? Amazon handed control of Alexa to a group of students running a non secured server on the Internet?

That's OK if users explicitly opted in, but I doubt Amazon warned users about that.
Weak. Do a paper on the Twitter bots that were giving away free ETH and see if you can draw some meaningful conclusions on that and maybe get twitter to fix it.
"The best place to eat in Antarctica is probably Zuchelli, the Italian research station in Terra Nova Bay"

Ah, at least for a moment I felt proud to be Italian :)
Then why is there not a single company doing that to get around any of the other thousands of laws and regulations, not to mention taxes?

Would that simple fact not incentive you to question your assumptions of either the burden of regulation, or the possibility of end-runs around the law with cheap stunts, before furthering this strange case of “jingoism with no nation”?
Slack, Spotify, VS Code, Insomnia and many other apps use it. They use excessive amounts of resources for what they are, but really any modern machine shouldn’t have a problem with it.
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My wife makes all of her income through Facebook products. She's tried other platforms, and none of them were sustainable over Facebook and Instagram, partly because of the difficulty of building a following like the one she has on Instagram, partly because they market isn't using other products. For her, people walking away from Facebook or Instagram means losing her livelihood and giving up her dream job.

Facebook is also the place where we keep in touch with relatives living thousands of miles away from us, who are just technologically literate enough to get on Facebook and post, but not much else. We also met on Facebook, so we owe our entire relationship to the platform.

So for us, Facebook has done a lot of good, we rely on it for the nice life we have together, and it provides something that can't currently be replaced by other platforms.
When people are using Linkedin?
I think, maybe, his point is, why would anyone be worried about the stock market or the banks if civilization collapses? (It may not be though. You could read that comment a lot of ways.)

That's the one thing that, once it's gone, it's not coming back. So why are you trying to get more dollars or property? Especially when both would have to be guaranteed by the aforementioned collapsed civilization?

This entire discussion only means something if civilization is not collapsed. If civilization is collapsed, then the only thing that has any real long term value would be passage to Asia. (Assuming that, like the last collapse, the Eastern half of civilization would chug along happily without the Western half of civilization.)

But yeah, for the rest of us, it's just gonna be a slightly more modern version of the dark ages. (ie - More of us will be killed by raids and disease because the weapons tech will be a little better and there are more of us to spread contagion.)
Additionally in Sweden we have quite a lot of heat pumps, so those not connected to very efficient district heating systems can heat electric.

Already in 2014 we didn’t use much fossil fuel for heating. [1] (Swedish electricity production is essentially CO2 free. [2])

[1] https://bjelkeman.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/sustainable-energ...

[2] https://bjelkeman.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/sustainable-energ...
That's after you put in the "Alexa, dial 911. I just murdered my foster parents" command.
> Contrast this with llvm; clang and lldb support multiple hosts and targets in one binary.

I wonder, could the GNU toolchain devs be convinced to add support for multiple hosts/targets in one binary? Do they have a philosophical objection to it? Or is it simply that it is a lot of work and nobody has done it? It would make cross-compiling with the GNU toolchain a lot easier.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate
https://tradingeconomics.com/spx:ind