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WhatsApp was sold for 20 billions and redhat for 32 billions. I think apple could easily buy it when time comes.
Why a multibillion-dollar FTC fine would barely faze Facebook
A good move, it must be quite nerve racking travelling by air with a severe peanut allergy. I was on a flight recently from London to Chicago where they requested that no-one consume any foods they'd brought that contain peanuts. We probably should have been told this at check in as my brother had some cereal bars containing nuts in his bag. Plus they'd only asked in English so I was surprised the announcement wasn't made in other languages too.
Hah that’s good one! I need to take a vacation and re-examine my vim life. So many good things to explore and muscle memory to tweak.
Simply saying that the world won't run without Internet.

Today's world is based on Digital Technology.

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The idea that someone “needs” a truck because once a quarter a friend moves is just something I do not agree with. It would be far far cheaper and more practical to rent the few times that you need a truck.

Truck owners are buying trucks largely for the feeling of self sufficiency, a fake one given the sheer amount of resources required to operate a modern vehicle, which is what makes it a status symbol. Its exactly the same as someone who “needs” a Jeep because it occasionally snows, even though their neighbor’s Honda Civic is doing just fine in the same conditions.

Also, the idea that a truck is a good snow vehicle makes me giggle. My Subaru always outperformed them in snowy conditions.
> everyone's worried about how degraded their batteries will be after 10 years, and there's no better way to get hard data on that than having EVs on the market for 10 years.

Jeff Dahn, now working with Tesla (exclusively I think) does not agree, and has a fantastic lecture explaining some stuff about lithium ion degradation (specifically, how normal accelerated age testing doesn't work, but they have a different method which lines up very well with long term cell aging)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxP0Cu00sZs
Christopher Columbus' Son Had an Enormous Library. Its Catalog Was Just Found
OpenBSD's choice is arguably reasonable, given their prioritization of security, since it reduces opportunities for user programs to corrupt kernel memory.

What is the problem with OpenBSD's plan for coherency? Why is the burden of explicitly calling msync(2) too much?
Paying for life extension treatment is a lot easier than actively exercising/dieting, at least if you're relatively wealthy. It's different when the cause and effect is immediately apparent as well, as opposed to changing ingrained habits to effect outcomes that might be 40 - 60 years away.
I'm an embedded C developer. I've not followed Java in years but as far as I knew it was slow, bloated, and full of security holes. I'm very happy to be corrected on that though
Everybody's brain works differently. Maybe C is the language for you. Maybe your tradeoffs are different from mine and you're ok with dealing with segfaults and security exploits. AFAIC if I never again have to write string handling code in C it'll be too soon."|"|"|"|
For the Java bit, I imagine that with modern Java versions with modules the app would be a lot smaller. The new Java versions are modular so you can include just what you use and I think it can even create a native package for installation. It should bring NodeNox 3 down from that 220MB package.
I doubt it. They could lose their license and still have to make their records available for audit, at least for tax purposes.
> But if you do some forms and basic UI controls, wxWindows does the job egregiously. Looks the way it should be on all platforms.

Word choice? "Egregiously" means "Conspicuously bad or offensive." [0] The context suggests you intended to say "adequate for the purpose," for which "competently" is the correct term.[1]

[0] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/egregiously

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/competently
I could not have said it better. I own a Model X, and I always tell my friends "Tesla is a tech company, but they have no idea how to build cars". I think I'm going to expand that into what you said.
Fund managers buy this crap to cash out the VC friends. See SNAP for an example: [1].

Few actual people are stupid enough to fall for this shell game, but the limited 401k options most companies offer all but guarantee some of your savings is going into these deadbeat companies.

1: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SNAP/holders/
Typical bbc bs diversion.
So what should I cry now or what. Millions of animals die daily fighting for survival.
It is still a lot of work if you need advanced things then the basic widgets. Thinks where usually you need to extend existing widgets like you want an advanced datagrid/table with sortable/dragable columns, with custom item renders for some columns (like a chart widget for the Trends column).

In this advanced cases you will need to create custom widgets for each platform, hope that all platform have the advanced datagrid widget(if not you will have to create it) etc.

For simple apps your solution works, and you could also make a CLI app too.
Who else here believes that AI and life extension are related?

If we live long enough we will witness AGI. And if we achieve AGI soon, then it will cure old age.
Why does electron have broken text rendering? Surely the Chrome browser’s tendering does a good job? Or do you mean something like “it doesn’t match system defaults”?
>Also, the Model 3 is a very attractive offering. It is the faster car, aims at the typical BMW audience

Until you find out your range goes down significantly when you drive fast... I was seriously considering tesla model 3 as most of my trips are below 40 miles, but occasionally I do need to drive to another city 200 miles away, and when I do I want to be able to drive at the same speed I normally use at the motorway (around 90-95mph, or 150km/h). Tesla model 3 will give you less than 100 miles of range at that speed and that is what will kill Tesla for many people who currently drive VWs and BMWs.
Our full-stack teams work with stories that are demoable, thin vertical slices of user-visible changes. While they can be broken into subtasks within the story, we see the biggest benefit to full-stack development being the ownership of taking the story to done across the stack.
iOS has the same feature: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
The article linked in the previous comment says

> While SCA is not legally required for businesses outside of Europe, we expect a small minority of European banks to require SCA for all payments regardless of where a business is located

I can believe this since the debit card associated with one of my european banks will only allow online transactions with 3DSecure.
Data Saver is now Lite mode
Polarizing figure can be a good thing, especially for early adopters and getting a foothold in the market.
This is not pre-optimisation. If you start writing your code using javascript, any development on top will continue to be javascript. Until you end up with a full project of javascript and you can't move to C because doing so would mean re-writing an entire project.
>Usage appears to have shifted that way. However, that wasn't the case not so long ago and the fact that a facility is no longer being used (as much) does not mean it's not there. If you need it, it's right there to use as you wish.

I recall having discussed this with you here again.

I'd say it was the case for as long as I'm on IT (so, as long as mid-nineties or so). Heck, even back to Delphi and co.

>Just because you tend not to open the roof doesn't mean your convertible is no longer a convertible, as long as you still can open the roof.

Well, if 99% of the car has been designed for one use (A), but has the option (that few use) to do B, doesn't mean the car's a B.

So, this is more like "just because the car has a lot of storage space in the trunk, doesn't mean it's a truck".
I completed the MIT and Harvard introduction to computation courses on EDX. I did it for fun, but both turned out to be truly inspiring on the subject on how to teach CS.

It depends on what you’re teaching though. If it’s bringing a new hire up to speed what works best for us is to give them access to a portfolio of how we do things and let them hack away at a problem on their own. If they have questions we help, and their mentor makes sure they aren’t stuck and afraid to ask.

The sad fact is that 95% of our learning curve is figuring out how the damn toolset is used, and it only 5% of what’s hard is actually programming. I’m sure it’s different if you’re a PhD at google, but in our shop we rarely invent new CS concepts, so it’s mostly about learning how to make tools work. We’ll get people who know JavaScript and .Net who have no idea how to deploy it on our IIS servers, or how to setup the config file so only a specific AD group has access to a specific API, stuff like that. I’m not sure where it all went wrong, but it did.
Agreed. The are using gross margin to fuel crazy growth. Much like Amazon. Tesla went from 0 2012 to #1 in 2018 in the premium segment.

Certainly looks like if they stopped expanding at a crazy rate that they would collect profits at a very healthy rate.

I'm sure just about everyone in the premium segment would love to "fail" by selling 63,000 cars costing over $50k each with gross margin of 20%.
Exactly. The first question that came to my mind is: "are the keystrokes logged?"
Ongoing but isolated to one colony so it's not a global catastrophe if that's what you think. Climate change may make it though.
Playing it super safe is the only way to go. Any kind of autonomy has to be done that way because if it isn't we'll see a re-run of the 'AI-winter' only this time it will be called the self driving car winter, Tesla is at risk of setting back the self driving movement a decade or more if they do not get their house in order and start treating this as if lives are in the balance.
Yes, nice game.

The first koan resonated more with me :) However I see beauty in that “be” is there twice in the second one. If we prune the second, we get: Doing through meaning becomes.

That’s not full capture of the thing.

I think this might be closer: “Meaning through doing becomes.”

It’s a little stilted and unnatural, but to me it indicates a loop, which is a life mechanism or pattern which CBT has pointed me towards.
A strategic stockpile of luxury goods would be silly.

In the event of a major war or other event that causes supply problems you need to provide people with their basic food needs. Doing that with canned goods or even protein bars/powder to the extent that a balanced diet requires some amount of protein is much more cost-effective and reliable.

Similarly you'd stock up on something like canned lentils or chickpeas if you're worried about the carbohydrate supply, not stock up on frozen bread.

But China might enact such a policy of stocking up on luxury goods since they're continually paranoid that their dictatorship is balanced on the knife-edge of "don't mind the totalitarianism as long as the trains run on time".
Some of those OS are still being sold, like IBM i, IBM z and Unisys ClearPath MCP.

Bell Labs was forbidden to sell their research, so they offered UNIX for a symbolic price to universities (vs what other OS used to cost), alongside source code tapes and a liberal license.

This gave birth to several startups that tried to create a business using UNIX instead of the alternatives, given the authors experience with UNIX at the university, e.g. Sun and SGI among others.

Later when the US goverment dictated AT&T split, AT&T was allowed to charge for UNIX and that is when they decided to go after BSD, because 10 years later, under such conditions, UNIX was slowing eating mainframes, given the success of Sun, SGI, Aix, ....

There are no safe array or safe string libraries, because they all fall appart under scrutiny, given C's approach to secure code.
GNU Gnash and Lightspark.
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I've made a toy page for it - https://naivesound.com/klavar/ Click on the columns to put a note, add more height if needed, edit the title, then print it to PDF. I often use it to write down simple melodies when playing the piano. Also, there are two blank PDF templates - https://github.com/naivesound/naivesound.github.io/tree/mast...
I see your point but Evergreen isn't exactly a mainstream institution for this sort of thing.
> what do the Waymo vehicles do during such a dust- or rainstorm?

Do what most reasonable drivers in Phoenix do. Pull over and enjoy the view. (Phoenix dust and heavy rainstorms tend to pass in ten to thirty minutes.)
The article is not about his contract not being renewed, but about the reason for that lack of renewal.

Saying someone who consistently rates amongst your top performers as having unsatisfactory performance is clearly false.

Which means that not only did Duke cave in to an amount of complaints far outshone by praise, it also tried to hide this fact (circumventing its own bylaws).
Maybe there's not enough academic jobs because too many people try to obtain them. And the reason there's too many is because of false advertising of what academic life is really like.
Who would really want to be a professor given what this professor is going through? And he probably didn't earn much.
In the media, though, a professor is always presented with respect. It's a professor! So kids get the wrong idea. They don't realize the professor is a bitch of the administration.
I don't know about screen reader APIs, but… can't you just send the text you're drawing to the screen reader when you drawing it?

How do screen readers work anyway?
Thank you for this.

Tongue-in-cheek answer to the headline is "Obviously yes, in fact you might be startled to learn that many popular food ingredients raise the risk for diabetes and obesity. Sugar is one example." :P
I figured it was not the latter behavior, because it would have been caught 15 years ago, not just suddenly now.
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The right is happy to agitate for firing people because of their positions on Palestine, for instance.
Thanks for the /r/savedyouaclick approach!
1 to 4 bytes.

How does utf8 make that difficult to answer?

When was the last time you iterated over a string of unicode points and said you know what would be handy right now? If these code points were split up into arbitrary and unusable bytes of memory.
> ours specifically could have easily been profitable if they had chosen to do so

There is a big difference between e.g. Amazon, which is unit profitable and could be more profitable at any time, Uber, which is unit profitable in some markets but not so in other markets, and something like WeWork, which is not unit profitable.
It is likely much easier to expand territory bit by bit and improving the baseline than it is to throw everything and the kitchensink at essentially unproven hardware. The first will likely work, the second will end in blood.
I did not find it rude and I agree that a short explanation would have been nice. I had heard the terms Immediate Mode GUI and Retained Mode GUI before but I couldn't remember the details. A short reminder would have been nice. Just a sentence.
> Can you imagine some open source toolchain used in corporate setting?

I am working on a multi-billion dollar project and we rely on GCC to build our software. It seems obvious when dealing with "pure" software. It seems unthinkable with "hardware level" software (for FPGA).

> Who’s supporting it?

Each time we have needed specific expertise, we have paid an external company (Embedded Brains) to provide expertise and updates/fixes.

Everything they do ends up being-opensourced. Their expertise is valuable. However, if they disappear tomorrow, we have everything needed to keep the rest of the project going without major disruptions.

> And who is liable?

I guess every entity involved is liable for its own scope/level. It's not like we will sue the company that provided the toolchain if they are the root cause for a critical anomaly makes it to the end product and nobody noticed that during testing.
The statement wasn’t “what will people be willing to do for longevity”, the statement was “what will people be willing to pay”.
In the early 90's C was still hardly a thing outside the UNIX computer lab.

Mainframes were written in a mix of Assembly and safe system languages (IBM i, z and Unysis ClearPath are the survivors).

8 and 16 bit home micros OSes were largely written in Assembly, and all system languages were in equal footing as platform guests.
I'm a developer by trade, but the nickel and diming of time tracking is something I'm well familiar with. A few thoughts:

1) If you can, give a fixed-fee model a chance. Since your deliverables currently are, "We meet on Skype for a discussion about your needs and possible solutions," you could very easily charge a set rate for each meeting and just make sure you set a hard timebox on it. Set a pair of timers, one at 15 minutes to remind you and them that there's only 15 minutes left on this consult, and one when the time slot is over. Stick to your guns as if you have another appointment afterwards (and you should have one in that slot; that appointment is for compiling your deliverables for sending off).

2) Getting paid is a pain everyone experiences, freelancer and traditional business alike. A good way to deal with that is to require payment up-front. A fixed-fee model is perfect for this, but you can do it with hourly billing models as well. If your consults are always at least half an hour long, require a minimum up-front payment for that half-hour. Or have it be for a full hour, just to cover yourself. This also gets rid of the tire-kickers who just want your knowledge without actually wanting to pay you. Forcing them to put money on the table up-front, even if it's not the full amount, leaves you with the serious clients only.

3) For invoicing and time tracking, I recommend Harpoon (https://harpoonapp.com/). For your purposes, you'd use the time tracking functionality during your consultations, and then create an invoice for that time and send it off. Click start on the timer at the beginning of the call, click stop when you've ended the call, create invoice, add time entry, send to client (via email through Harpoon). You can even integrate it with Stripe for online payment collection, which reduces their barriers to paying you. It also has automatic reminders sent to the clients for unpaid invoices.

I'd be happy to discuss more on your specific needs. My email is in my profile.

Cheers!
Why is insulin expensive? That market is huge.
I assume dealers would use a similar model to insulin or AIDs remediations; charge as much as (in)humanly possible, rake in the dough, and give no thought to those who will die because of it.
Because it can be.
I was expecting sugar to be the answer
Looks interesting. It would be helpful if you could show more examples of the JSON this produces. I can guess from the code, but it would be nice if this were explicit.
Not sure I understand where or why you are struggling. If you are doing hourly consulting you have to track all your hours and invoice for them. You are a one person show as a freelancer so you aren't tracking 10 people, so this isn't a big problem and trying to optimize on invoicing seems like there might be a different problem. You do have to set clear boundaries with clients on what is billable hours and what isn't though or they will kill you.

There are tools that can help make time tracking easier, I used to have my teams use an app (IIRC HoursTracker, or TimeTracker something like that) that let us setup projects, roles and rates and people could track their time in it. The app was inexpensive, like $5-6/per user and at the end of each week they would just use the app to send us their time. It would put it in a csv file and email to admin so we could then add the details to the invoices for clients. We didn't really use the rates section of the app, but the csv could've easily been converted into an excel invoice with a tiny bit of script. We did use the csv to import the time into our accounting tools too, made it nice to eliminate data entry mistakes.

I didn't do so much freelancing as I built consulting groups where we did software/hardware design/development, marketing and go to market planning for clients across numerous industries. So billable video calls and conference calls for strategy talks or status check ins were common. For the vast majority of clients we also stopped billing hourly all together and did weekly flat rates or monthly retainer agreements which made invoicing easier, but we still tracked time using the app.

Just a comment, not necessarily your issue, but something I council new freelancers and startups on quite often. A lot of business is done in excel and by hand, this is not bad, it actually forces vigilance and properly used is more powerful than a full blown ERP sometimes. Dismissing the use of simple tools or feeling like everything has to be automated and perfect is a recipe for disaster IMO, automate only once you have a repeatable process that has low to no variation in output etc.
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If true it sounds like 5G's going to mostly be useful in very congested urban areas not so much for very high speed for the individual user (which I guess won't be attainable in the kinds of congested areas where it's likely to be deployed) but mostly just to ensure reliable, reasonably fast connections in busy urban areas where you often can't get a good connection with 4G and earlier technologies... provided there aren't any obstacles, at least.
Ask HN: Looking for a stack-based VM that can run a simple instruction set
As a teaching assistant, I'm looking for a suitable stack-based VM that can run a relatively simple instruction set (I haven't got a particular instruction set in mind yet, but I've been considering RISC).

The purpose is demonstration of how programs can be created solely from opcodes (and then run into a stack-based VM).
This was exactly the problem during dot.com. I worked in optical networks and we all scoffed at Web business as vapor ware. But when dots went bust demand for bandwidth plummeted and optical networking cratered soon after.
The people that fired a great professor, it sounds like, are not pretty nice.
Actually, rather than having issue with liberalism, he seems to be defending it. His argument seems to be questioning the "bowing down" to "authority". All "authority" - scientific, religious, etc - should be questioned and we shouldn't be "bowing down" to them.

Religion and science are not the same thing ( thought social science is far closer to religion than science ), but authoritarianism and appeal to authority are the same thing.

After all, "scientific authority" was the basis of white supremacy and nazism ( social darwinism ). It was "settled science" not too long ago supported by every scientific authority that white people were superior and non-whites are inferior.

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

You should feel bad for anyone who is a victim of censorship. Being happy that someone is oppressed because they don't align with your political ideology isn't any better than enjoying seeing someone suffer because they aren't part of your race.

And if you are a true "liberal", then you should be against "bowing down" to any form of authority.
> they are horribly miscalculating at what German people expect from a car.

Can you be more specific? What are Teslas lacking for the German market?
Definitely doesn’t scale.