skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do stock buybacks work for companies that are net diluting?

I.e. a company pays employees with 2n stock units and buys back n stock units.

Is that akin to a ponzi?
Chromium-based Edge changes user agent according to the website
> basically, when you want to stop a behavior, the worst thing you can do is prohibit it.

The results certainly sound encouraging.

I'm curious though how people from those communities who tried to do the "right thing" and not get involved with gangs feel about this leniency.

I'd imagine there's a tipping point where too much forgiveness and inclusion for too many criminals leads to a lack of trust in the rule of law.
Makes me think of Portugal's move of legalizing drugs, so now people have medical problems, that they can get help with.
Star Wars API with React Hooks, light side and dark side modes
> I don't think typically criminals get pardons just because they do something nice later on in life?

It is this very question that the article poses, and it goes so much deeper than merely tech. "Do the sins of your past define you as a person today?"

Abraham Lincoln was likely raised as a racist and likely believed in racism for at least the decade that his parents' beliefs dominated his. Clearly his actions redeemed not only himself, but humanity; and I therefore believe that the person today is the more important person.

I've seen countless examples of people who have said stupid shit in the 90's or the 00's, who have changed their ways, who have been slaughtered by the larger internet. If you are to be ridiculed by Earth, why change your ways at all? Lose if you do, lose if you don't. If change is the goal, why attack people who actually change?

I struggle with my biases daily, I learned them from the South African government, but by hell I will better them and forget them. I am not the same person today as I was yesterday, nor are you and nor is Hutchins.
“People do get pissed off in clusters” is the best description of a team/company meltdown that I’ve ever seen.
We get full day salary if we are required to work on Saturday with free meals.

p.s regular day meals are compensated, we pay half of actual price.
Shoot the messenger. That should take care of the problem. /s

I'm puzzled as to how Samsung thought that this phone was ready for prime time. Was it being pushed top-down and no underling dared to speak up?
I can't believe how Black Magic has been eating Matrox's lunch lately, but I still love Matrox's SDK. One of the best.
So a hacker took all of Equifax's data including your SSNs, address, names, DOB etc. By your analogy, all of Equifax engineers should be in jail right now!

BTW, just in case you are unaware, Equifax got away with this hack with zero fines in US.
I think these are more like the basic rules of the game, rather than an official league rulebook. Like any other sport, additional rules would be needed for organized play, and those could vary from league to league.

For example, no one will eject me from the court if I commit too many fouls during a pickup game of basketball at the park, but the NBA, NCAA, FIBA, etc. each have their own rules regarding fouls and their associated penalties. League rules also evolve over time, sometimes in response to rule abuse.

So I wouldn't hold it against the game if the first iteration of the rules don't account for every aspect of competitive play. What's more important is whether the game is actually fun or not, and then leagues can evolve from there.
I totally agree with you. There is a deeper problem I think across the board, whether it is electronics books or programming tutorials, mechanical engineering, etc. For example, no one teaches you the way you see in this particular segment of an old EEVBlog episode [1]. Please watch this clip as Dave dives deep into how a simple 555 chip works at the transistor level, breaking down into modules and explaining how each module works.

What we need is a book that does the following: Break down REAL circuits from the wild, explain each module in isolation, then explain how it fits into the larger system. No one does this, not in my 15 years of experience in engineering. It is the same everywhere regardless of the subject, teaching is difficult thing to master. 3Blue1Brown is a rare exception, a unicorn of a guy. Richard Feynman's physics lectures are also an example.

Programming books are littered with content pages that list: 1. Variables, 2. Loops, 3. Conditionals, 4. Strings, 5. Functions, 6. Objects,..I am already asleep. YAWN. This is a wrong way to teach people how to program. I couldn't emphasize it enough. Most people won't remember what all these things are and they'll lose interest as they grind through this mindless mess of syntax that they have never seen before.

Instead programming should be taught by building a goal to automate something. Start out by hard coding everything, then introduce variables. Add functions to make your code modular. Then introduce objects, etc. As you build through a program...a real fricking program! with a real goal!.

[1] https://youtu.be/U6qZPx4uD0g?t=2344
You wouldn't have liked it if the government started regulating the Internet when it was young. There were proposals in the early 90s that it should be regulated like broadcast radio. So no 7 deadly words, for example. It was good that the government left it alone until its effects on society were better understood.
The link you posted doesn't even aim for replacing DNS, by the abstract and landing page it seems to be an experimental setup to replace the root zone which has been signed for nearly 10 years now. DNSSEC is a thing.

Don't really see what's hand-wavy about your parent comment tbh, the link you posted doesn't seem to address common scenarios like 51% attacks or even why our current system is flawed. The only tangible thing I can find in there is that they don't like trusting verisign - which is fine but really a weird narrative to demonstrate why the world needs that particular implementation.
Among the obvious things like the ability to be humble about the code and know bad code is bad code but you’re not a bad person is decent smelling breath. No joke.
Is GDPR Being Enforced?
That’s where the finance industry steps in. If you suppress wages and push a private debt bubble then you get the profit and the government bails out the banks when the bubble bursts.
You're confusing the colloquial meaning of "theory" with the scientific meaning. A scientific theory has been tested repeatedly and can be reasonably relied upon to make predictions (see relativity and GPS, for example). The colloquial meaning of theory is more accurately called a hypothesis.
Hopefully it's the people who thought the macbook pro keyboard was a good idea...
That reasoning doesn't matter for Bitfinex because when the money runs out they can just exit scam.
It is an inevitable consequence of the algorithm run by parents who raise academically successful children: each year, move to the school with the highest proportion of other academically successful children. (Not to say this is responsible for success but it’s definitely correlated).

Start with a perfectly even distribution of family characteristics between schools. Make a few random swaps. Now some schools have just slightly more academic-success density than others, but this is enough to attract some other successful families.

Run that out for a few cycles, and the differences quickly become extreme and permanent.

Even if SF could attain that even distribution, it’s inherently unstable.
I still own a 2012 MacBook Air. While the old keys have a hell of a lot of depth, they’re also much more vague and “mushy”. I too prefer the new keyboard, although I wouldn’t rank them anywhere near an actual mechanical switch.

My main fear with the new switches is the durability, but since my only new MacBooks are company machines, I won’t pay should some dust disable a key.
You should see a performance boost in the Haskell implementation by compiling with GHC's LLVM backend[0]. Another Haskell ray tracer ran 30 % faster than the native codegen this way[1].

[0]https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/commentary/compiler...

[1]http://blog.llvm.org/2010/05/glasgow-haskell-compiler-and-ll...
In all seriousness, the absolute crap that manifests from schematics developed in Eagle coming out of the open source community is a personal pet peeve. An example of almost everything you shouldn't be doing with respect to at least the following can be found here: color, symbology, scale, reference designators, typeface, labeling, orientation, functional grouping, density, overlap, flow, etc. It's a shame there's zero reference to industry standards like IEEE Std 315 and ASME Y14.44.

Abuse of color is probably the one thing that really drives me nuts. I'm of the opinion that if electrical intent cannot be cleanly and unambiguously conveyed in black and white, it's garbage.

I secretly wish EEs in general exercised the same level of meticulous attention to detail and pride that designers in the typeface community do, in the same vein as this comment[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19608359
You mean lynx.wasm?
It works that way if he transferred the private key and then they murdered him. Blockchains and meatspace have different rules.
The tech backlash started 5+ years ago (2013) with the Snowden disclosures.

The next backlash will be against institutions, and it started with Brexit & Trump's election in 2016. Interestingly, the response to Trump's election wasn't to defend the institutions (universities, the media, Congress, the FBI) which he attacks. Rather, it's to tear down different institutions - borders, ICE, police, the presidency, capitalism. There are relatively few people interested in defending institutions - mostly just neoliberals and Never-Trump conservatives, and they are dramatically outnumbered.
Link me to the VW thing please? Last I checked there was literally no reason to use blockchain outside of cryptocurrencies since you get the same benefits just using GIT.
Do you have a minimal keyboard?

Vim would be a particularly good editor since most operations are simple and elegant with only an occasional exit of insert mode.

but emacs... probably not as fun.
Interesting point, at first it sounded a bit harsh but thinking a bit about this.... in the end as software engineers we are the ones pulling the trigger and your statement highlights our ethical responsibilities.

The problem though is that software engineering doesnt require any licensing requirements, etc. so one can always refer to incompetence being the problem (ooops a bug) and might get away with it.
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"First foldable phone to market, take that Huawei!" probably sums up the entirety of the decision making process regarding whether to release or not.
useful, I didn't know about this. Thanks. How does the reporting of vulnerabilities work for npm?

No, Golang doesn't, but then it doesn't have a registry like npm in the first place. Gophers tend not to use third-party libraries if at all possible.
As someone who’s wearing an Apple Watch and listening to AirPods, I’m inclined to disagree that Apple’s ID is resting on their laurels.
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Thanks. I've never worked with React Native. However, everything is possible.
Yeah, it's not a 2:1 thing, but 40% more is still significant.

NATO countries are much more industrialized than China (the same applied when the SU was the opponent), so that certainly helps.
The kinds of projects that spawn full companies or have that on their future path tend to be ones with a more active community contributing to the project.
The story going around is this:

a) Samsung spent a ton of money and research in building foldable OLED screens.

b) This technology is allegedly stolen by a supplier and sold to BOE Display: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Samsung-supplier-...

c) Huawei uses the foldable BOE Display technology in its Mate X smartphone and is on track to be the first to release it.

d) Samsung panics as it learns that the technology it built might be released by a competitor earlier than them and consumers might think of them as less of an innovator. May sound silly but the Chinese companies have been getting a lot of traction recently e.g. P30 Pro.

e) In addition Samsung goes into lock down as it fears there might be more leaks to other companies.

f) Combination of d) and e) means that there is less real world testing of the device than for other phones. And hence how we got to this point.
You make a good point. CSS to SCSS doesn't seem like that big of a step up though. I don't really think nesting is really the greatest solution to the problem. It's got priority caveats over BEM, and can cause messes of it's own when used without precision.
Ahh, me: FF 66.0.2, not apple
It’s highly unlikely that there’s enough demand for Satoshi to cash out fully. Regardless of the panic that their coins moving would cause, the actual liquidity on the exchanges is probably far far less than what the exchanges state, meaning that anyone trying to move that many coins would tank the price.
In this context, he wrote emacs. But he also created the GPL, and the GNU project and wrote gcc and ...
Whilst difference is good, I am not sure many of the “attack” on the process etc is right. Whilst you can bring anything on old hardware (car and cdr come to mind and those strange intel register format), some gem can be argued instead of rubbish. Process is an isolation, small address is easier to debug if you do not need 64bit address etc. And driver issue ... lisp driver.

Really not sure the whole game.
If and only if you got your btc out of mtgox.
> Unfair to imply that everyone in Crypto is selling snake oil.

So, who isn't? Look throughout the blockchain ecosystem and all you will see are scams, illegal activity and get rich quick fools. I have personally yet to see a use of blockchain tech for useful legal purposes. Yes, you will see some companies "announce" that they are "investigating" blockchain or whatnot to get some free PR, but you don't ever see them actually release anything useful.

(I fully accept that blockchain has revitalized criminal enterprises such as child pornography, extortion, and Ponzi schemes, but I don't see any reason to celebrate that).
When I started learning lisp/Emacs/clojure I felt enlightened in a way I never did before with Java and Python
I mean, know what you're walking into, but if you have that, then yeah. My family makes me risk averse. No complaints. Happy as is, you can chase after whatever, as long as you're vaguely relevant in the field.
That is ironic. I bet in next 1000 years these tombs with all their hieroglyphic story will stay as-is, but digital material about their discovery may be gone in 10.
I suppose leveraged betting is done best when backed by worthless collateral.
there's a Debian package :) thanks for the tip :)
Is there a mirror?
The altitude the SR-71 cruises at is nowhere near where these sightings are occurring, it's practically in space.
I need more coffee, I misread "Sass" as "SaaS" until several sentences in...

> I also unintentionally, (at least at first) removed all traces of Sass from my codebase.

Especially this part, still thinking that was "SaaS" :)
>The benefit is that it allows the content of the articles to stand on their own merits, instead of involving the reputation of the author.

Exactly. Who emphasis should be on "is this true/ a good point?" over "is this someone I think I should agree with already?"
I met a couple subgroup of people that were weirdly proud of working a lot. And I caught a lot of them inflating their work hours (for example pretending they work 70 while they work a normal 40). To them it was a way to show off how important they supposedly are.

I really think that most people that pretend to work > 40 hours a week are not really working those hours. They might stay a lot at the office but are usually the least productive people ever
Life, the universe and everything: an interview with Paul Davies
Valid for n as n -> oo.

You can't pretend that a monopoly plays by the same rules as everyone else. For capitalism to work no one can be allowed to control a market influencing chunk of it.
Matrox Millenium with Topaz were great together for rendering in DOS.
Great. Now onto drugs next. That's the main way to reduce violence, get addicts help, and save a ton of money on wasteful police resources.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190425075411/https://www.ifixi...
It was much worse than that, long before that. Copland, Taligent, and the warehouses full of aging beige boxes. A million different product lines with inscrutable model numbers. Consumers had no clue which Mac to buy.

Then Apple bought Next and Steve Jobs came back and discontinued all of those product lines and all of the dead-end operating system development and set about turning NextStep into Mac OS X. He released the iMac and Apple finally had a recognizable consumer computer for the first time since the 80s.
I'm talking about fiat exchanges that convert one fiat currency into another, and never touch crypto. They seem to figure out how to operate in multiple jurisdictions... But that's possibly due to the part where they comply with KYC and AML.
I used Earthclass mail for a year, it was very good and worth the price. Last trip back home to the US I just changed my address to my parents since I get such little amounts of mail (it's either spam or year-end taxes)
I actually like the design of the homepod, it's quite clever.

The apple watch being held together by glue vs interlocking plate or screws although is something I don't like. It makes the water resistance fail when you are in a hot situation, like a hot sunny day, a warm shower or a hot tub.
Great, now we're getting Chips addicted to social media!
Snowden can't be pardoned since he hadn't been convicted.
What I really love about sass is using https://include-media.com/

I hate writing media queries, but

@include media("<desktop", ">tablet") {
}

Takes most of the pain away.
First Contact Goes Awry: The Mote in God’s Eye and the Gripping Hand
But would someone ever buy bitcoins from someone without actually permitting a transfer? How would you ever have an assurance that seller has relinquished control of the coins?

Example: I own one coin. I sell my private key to you for $5k fiat. You take my private key and sit on it thinking it’s yours. After a use a copy of the private key to transfer the coin to a new wallet I own. I’ve now stollen the coin I supposedly “sold” to you.

What am I missing?
> I would certainly say consciousness is 'something more', and that this something more has to be something non-material (or at least using 'materials' that have wildly different properties than what we observe using the scientific method).

If you're interested in having that idea challenged, I heartily recommend reading "Godel, Escher, Bach" - the book explains how complexity (perhaps to the point of consciousness) can emerge from "simple" systems.
SJ was good at his job, but I don’t think he is thought of as “being nice”.

That said I feel there are better ways to find out if people are competent.
I remember the crypto wars.

The US government has always controlled the internet. It just made the strategic decision that having a 'free speech' platform accessible to the thought leaders of the 21st century between 1980 and 2010 dealt more damage to its enemies than to itself.

Now that the internet is reaching the majority of people it's gotten worse, more regulated and less free. One only need to look at the 2016 election with it's 'fake news' and compare the US reaction to that of, say Iran in 2009 and see very little difference in rhetoric between the two countries.
Almost as annoying as being told the tech stack you've been using for decades is unreasonably difficult to use despite the almost literal millions of maintainable and successful projects deployed with it.

If you want to talk about strangely pervasive attitudes in tech, surely point of call #1 is "I just learnt <FotM technology> and can't possibly comprehend how people write software without it", no?
The Simulation Hypothesis: are we living in a video game?
I'm curious about how this has impacted non-murder crimes like racketeering. It's not like gangs were just honest, persecuted businesses that were being oppressed for no reason.
> it still trades 1:1 to USD today

On exchanges of questionably integrity. And where it is impossible to reliably short the instrument.
It could be one person was “we should have actual researched real news, not fake news”, and the other was “we need real news, but still politically biased”
I don't think that's necessary.

here's a VNC server in your browser:

https://github.com/novnc/noVNC

or an x window system tutorial, with an in-browser x server

https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html

personally I think this will lead to more hiding of what internet sites are doing, and prevent blocking of undesirable behavior.
Agreed. Just picked up my first Watch (S4) and it’s probably the most successfully “Apple-y” Apple product I’ve used for a long time (meant as a compliment!). Beautifully designed hardware and the combination of thoughtful software and hardware design has created a device that enhances your day to day life with useful functionality and keeps an eye on your fitness without being intrusive, annoying or addictive. I like it much more than I expected to.

I also think iPhone X and the new iPad Pro are fantastic pieces of design. As someone who used the iPad for music software, I really wish they hadn’t got rid of the headphone socket, but otherwise it’s a very well designed device.
Lincoln used the military to block Southern ports, which was what I understood to be what prompted secession.
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Out of sight but not invisible: Defeating fileless malware
Next crypto bubble: people mass-bailing out tether by exchanging it for Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc.
You are so right about the "in the trenches" mentality. I really crave for it sometimes.
I think there's 2+ Oz Yosefs. The one you linked to doesn't seem to have overlap with crypto/finance, just basic IT stuff.

Under the OZ49 Corporation's directors (as linked above), you see one of them, and IVAN MANUEL MOLINA LEE, a director of Crypto Capital Corp.
Personally, I dislike air driers enough that I'd often rather dry my hands on my clothes than use one. There's something about the physical act of drying your hands on cloth that the air blowing devices are missing.

I prefer the reusable cloth towel rolls over paper towels though; I wonder why they're not basically everywhere.
We built a data warehousing pipeline which handles 40 million events per day and we use BigQuery. We don't use any other tools like Kafka or Apache Beam. But we use redis very extensively. It's simple system but handles everything. You don't require a complex solution always. But yes you can minimize the complexity with tools like Kafka.
That sounds really interesting. You don't happen to have any pictures of it? I didn't find anything through Google, just that it existed.
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I also did. Given the Latin root (ēgregius, outstanding), I feel the pejorative connotation is out of place. The Italian term egregio definitely has a positive meaning, as it's also used to address people in letters.
Too bad, the article only deals with how to recognize individual components (like a french dictionnary that would be entitled "how to read french").
This video has been freebooted, the original is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwf080_Bfby/