skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DannyBee (Google employee) has said in the past that OEMs were fighting the idea of open-source.

It won because it was free for OEMs and it was subsidized by Google's clout and billions.

Google destroyed the market for mobile OSes, like they typically do with their predatory pricing.
Being away from work means exactly that, not coding and enjoying family and friends, life is too short to spend seating in front of a computer screen.

Many jobs do offer taking place into such events as part of the education plan, no need for holiday time.
But the design looked very similar to proptotypes who were confidential.

He did more than "inspired by"
Other way around. I consider myself as someone who writes extremely clean code. I consider many people who write messier code than me as people who are smarter. I self depreciate my own intellectual abilities in service of rationality. I write cleaner code because I am not intelligent enough to write messy code.

Honestly, I detect a thinly veiled personal ire in your response. Perhaps the bias is with you. Perhaps you write clean code and you use it to justify your supposed intelligence. If so, you wouldn't even know it. Such is the nature of bias.
If you want use it as a desktop, then plan for a Linux above or below.

Linux above: You need a hypervisor. See L4 or Genode.

Linux below: See unikernels.
No. Virtually all PalmOS software sales were either direct via dev’s web site, or via palmgear.com, which was a sort of app store for its time. They were not affiliated with Palm the company or its entities. Absolutely no platform DRM whatsoever, and all apps were basically “side loaded” onto devices, regardless of origin.
Taking 3 cents per kWh from coal and giving it to wind would not torpedo the economy.

Nuclear power plants are fine too.
> If you're single threaded then you'll never have mutex contention so they'll always be fast-path.

Concurrent algorithms (to which multi-thread capable allocators belong) typically necessitate design and performance compromises which aren't nullified by creating only a single thread.

> I'd suggest you actually prove that the memory barriers are actually a problem for you via profiling, since it's somewhat unlikely it is.

civility's reply to your post is somewhat rude, but they're right. It's rather arrogant to assume that the poster doesn't know what they're doing, without knowing anything about their specific problem. Modern allocators are complex pieces of software, typically with a lot of knobs and dials, and it is entirely plausible that an allocator tuned for single-threaded programs is more performant for a specific use case than a generic multi-thread allocator.
> coming to C and C++

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libdfp/libdfp/master/READM...

"libdfp

The "Decimal Floating Point C Library" User's Guide
for the GNU/Linux OS and GLIBC 2.10+

Contributed by IBM Corporation
Copyright (C) 2010 - 2014 Free Software Foundation"
And that their design is very similar to an internal confidential prototype.

Which says more about the situation.
Thanks for the suggestion but no, it says I'm in private mode and need to register to continue.
Reading at $500/hr by a pro writer might turn out to be a bargain. (Follow the link in the article)
Millions of Dell PCS on Verge of Getting Hacked – Update Immediately
Would it? They don't have free will anyway. So is that a cheatcode for death? I doubt it, because that means we'd be programed for survival.
That account wasn't banned. The comment was flagged by users.
Your second link also was flagged by users. No moderator did anything there. Perhaps it was flagged for being an overheated, unsubstantiated (and false) claim.
Meh. A heat engine. So it is subject to the Carnot engine efficiency limit. No thanks. Direct solar cells ought to be much better.
Brilliant. That would hopefully contain situations where the CEO knows about all the spelling error in every document and software.
I think it was Handango that set the 30% expectation. They were the first with such a high cut I think, and was among the first app sites for most of the PDAs of the time.

30% was pretty offensive after years of shareware.
I find this argument to be completely ridiculous, and it’s become remarkably common among those who wish to justify some of IPv6s shortcomings. Whether it was designed to be a security control or not, it is one, and it’s an incredibly important one. Anything that controls how hosts are allowed to communicate with each other is a security control. The argument is so absurd that I literally can’t believe people go around parroting it.
For an even cooler trick, check out pwnat, also from Samy: https://samy.pl/pwnat/

Server sends constant icmp pings with fixed payload to unreachable dead Internet IP. Client sends icmp time exceeded message to server containing original fixed ping subpayload, which the server NAT lets through because the payloads match as related traffic. Server then learns client IP and usual chownat udp hole punching tricks apply.
Batteries don't produce nearly as much heat. And like I said, we need both camps.

And I don't think you should take my comments as "that's dumb, it's not going to work." You should take them more as "we still got a way to go but we've made a lot of progress. But don't bet all your money on this horse."
Well done! It’s not really a “game” as there is no challenge, but it succeeds in explaining the issue in a captivating way.
NAT arose long before any address shortage concerns. Rather it was a response to ISPs attempting to charge "per user" by associating a fee with each additional address (note this is long before residential ISP service we know today: Internet service was for businesses with retail subs only having ppp access via dialup). NAT allowed customers to work around the ISPs pricing model at the time.
> As for "events of no consequence", there are no such things in the book. Everything is somehow tied together

By consequence I mean change and growth in characters. You can throw away every single story, detour, and encounter and nothing will change in the characters’ journey.

Is there a difference between Jonas and the namless boy dead in the mountains? Dorcas and Balanders? Vodalus and witches in the forgotten ruins? None. They come and go with no impact.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the way the books end and continue. Entire parts of the protagonist’s journey are just skipped from one book to the next. Does it have any effect? None.
> HN's algorithm doesn't do that. What made you think it did?

Good question. I think I must have read or misunderstood it in a other comment on here and said "that's plausible, must be true".

I didn't mean to impugn the quality of moderation here, in fact I think it's generally excellent. The fact that this site has seems to have an influential and affluent readership means somebody must by at least trying to sell astroturf, even if they can't deliver.
I work in the media industry, which is in full panic mode because of the competition from Facebook and Google. They have viewed software as an investment, we’re hiring more and more devs but we’re slashing the newsrooms and ad-sales departments every year.
> I don't think Wolfe is trying to present him as good, which would be hard to swallow. This is written entirely from Severian's viewpoint, not Wolfe's.

And yet we’re made to swallow the fact that he’s an exceptionally good person, an amazing leader whome people follow with no afterthought, and the Chosen One who brings the era of the New Sun.
This series of articles from the Drive has been very interesting.

So far my personal conclusion is that we are better of searching for the explanation by interviewing a board of world leading magicians and radar specialists and asking them how they would pull off such a stunt, given a couple of billions to develop it.

Here are some ideas that cross my mind:

- towed active anti radar / electronic warfare transponders as known from recent planes, but adapted to balloons.

- simpler devices consisting of ballons with a variable radar cross section (might be as simple as a radar reflector that can be folded/unfolded remotely inside a balloon).

- careful timed releases

- careful timed activation/deactivation og reflectors and disposing of (i.e. rapid deflating of the ballons that will then "disappear" as everybody is moving their attention.)

Edit:

Also the quote from some magician (Penn or Teller?) that people vastly underestimate the effort a skilled magician will put into perfectly misleading their audiences.

Finally: doing some good old fashioned magic - only this time mid air and with modern props - might make perfect sense to distract from something you really want to hide.
It's been barely any time at all since they gave up pushing that "We're calling our x86-64 OS and our ARM laptop/tablet OS and our ARM phone OS the same thing because they're the same system" horseshit. It may look like Windows 10 but none of the drivers work, half the x86 programs don't run, and the ones that do run make you feel like you're using a Transmeta CPU from 2002.
If age discrimination is illegal should not the age profile of companies be tracked the same way race and gender are, at least I think they are.
Note: you can do this yourself with a basic Linux VM, config to permit reverse ssh tunnel, and run some SSL proxy like Apache. And a DNS record.
We're Gonna Build a Framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2h0cbvsw8
You know what else will torpedo the economy, with nothing we can do about it at all? Catastrophic climate change.
How do you not sacrifice initial load speed if on initial load you need to load extra Javascript?

How is subsequent speed increased? In case of static pages everything but content is already cached.
You could produce very good photoshop fakes like these for a very long time now. It has had basically no effect on the politics and everyone knows that this technology exists and treats all the pictures they see accordingly (checking their sources etc). It will just be the same with video.
3.0, 3.1 came in '92
Would you please stop posting denunciatory rhetoric to HN, regardless of how wrong some people are or how much you dislike them? It's against both the site guidelines and the spirit of this site. Maybe you don't owe Oregon Republicans or anti-vaxxers any better, but you owe this community better if you want to keep posting here.

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A Man Who Brought Fila Back from Dead Is Worth $830M
You should consider joining the Citizen's Climate Lobby https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
I suspect the best option would be an integrated hybrid system of PV and heat systems. A friend of mine measured the efficiencyo of his solar panel roof. They got much less efficient when they're hot, and they heat up quickly in the sun. So we speculated that of we were to apply some kind of water cooling system behind the solar panels that would store the excess heat somewhere in the ground for winter, we might get even higher energy savings than just the sum of its parts
Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region
> The landfill was opened in 1948 as a temporary landfill but by 1955 it became the largest landfill in the world

Indeed.
My favourite connection ever was when I noticed as a kid that the Soviet Union anthem and Gummi Bears' theme song[0] can have lyrics swapped and still match perfectly. Try it!

--

[0] - the Disney one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCjQbKowUo, or your local language version.
The tech is in the hand of bad actors, they are wiping out civilization. If you have no privacy, you have no freedom of thought, you cannot learn to think, and cannot become a person. Water bags, yes ("the last man lives the longest"), humans no, civilization no.

Surveillance and militarization protect that undertaking of destruction, they don't prevent it, they get arrayed against those who would attempt to prevent it. e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/j...

It's like the people who invaded Iraq and made ISIS possible, then go on and tell people what to do about ISIS, and so on. How about bringing to justice the and seeing judged in our history books the "bad actors" in past and present we know exist for sure, rather than rationalizing continued obedience to them by squinting hard, to try and see "silver linings" in clouds they are seeking to force upon us? That's the mechanism here, it's not like we live in a normal world as free adults, and someone says "hey, tech is getting very powerful, let's talk about privacy". No, we rationalize what we see powerful conglomerates pushing over decades, in an arms race against civilian populations that begun before we were even born.

> It's pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advantaged' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

-- Noam Chomsky

> What mattered in our early, nontheoretical education in morality was never the conduct of the true culprit of whom even then no one in his right mind could expect other than the worst. Thus we were outraged, but not morally disturbed, by the bestial behavior of the stormtroopers in the concentration camps and the torture cellars of the secret police, and it would have been strange indeed to grow morally indignant over the speeches of the Nazi big wigs inpower, whose opinions had been common knowledge for years. [..] The moral issue arose only with the phenomenon of "coordination," that is, not with fear-inspired hypocrisy, but with this very early eagerness not to miss the train of History, with this, as it were, honest overnight change of opinion that befell a great majority of public figures in all walks of life and all ramifications of culture, accompanied, as it was, by an incredible ease with which life long friendships were broken and discarded. In brief, what disturbed us was the behavior not of our enemies but of our friends, who had done nothing to bring this situation about. They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazi success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it. Without taking into account the almost universal breakdown, not of personal responsibility, but of personal judgment in the early stages of the Nazi regime, it is impossible to understand what actually happened.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"
I knew a guy that did exactly as you describe above.
Probably most productive employee of the firm, solid tech skills.
He's was let go after about 14 months of the above.
Hi! check out webhook relay https://webhookrelay.com/ :) it has multiple ways to forward webhooks and internal connection healthchecks. Disclaimer: I built it.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Those discussions are repetitive and therefore tedious and therefore off topic here. They also tend to get nasty.

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You might want to point as to where in my previous comment I said that someone in those orgs is not bright.

And then to suggest how, being bright as a thousand suns, you would obtain fancy space rovers if you say “I want to check out moon chemistry” and the public goes “pffft.”
Do you not think this would introduce a ton of mental load just keeping track of everything?

You're almost a one man business, doing their own books, and then you've got the sources of conflict that come with that. What if you an a colleague agree to split the costs of a meeting room and he doesn't pay? So already you're introducing rudimentary contract law, and having to keep track of people that don't pay their bills.

This does raise an interesting question of whether you'd get meta employees providing services for the employees, perhaps credit ratings, banking, perhaps you could book up all the meeting rooms yourself and sub let them.

Ultimately in these situations you're doing the bidding of higher ups. If they decide you're having too many meetings, they'll find ways to cut down the number of meetings, then some thing will go wrong, lack of meetings will be blamed, and they'll be rolled back out again.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It's boring, other than to the most zealous of the long tails on either side.

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I suppose we have different perspectives, you compare the absolute numbers, I take China's size into consideration. Broken down to a country of Saudi Arabia's size, they'd have some 10000 people in prison, not millions. Nevertheless, I agree with you that their deeds are appalling, though I tend to have some understanding for authoritarianism, even the violent kind.

My problem with the way you paint Libya, Syria and Iraq (there was some overreach, but by and large, they were working with the locals) is that this shifts responsibility away from those that attacked. They removed the state and the stable equilibrium of powers and installed ... nothing. As expected, the territories degenerated into a tribalistic civil war with all kinds of horrible things (which, and how many, of these groups were created/led/funded by the CIA, we'll likely know at some point in the future). ISIS/ISIL are a direct consequence of this policy, and so are slave markets in Libya. Certainly these weren't declared goals, but I don't believe the top officials to be stupid, they were well aware of what happens when you remove the dictator of a country that is only held together by his iron first - especially when they did it over and over, allegedly expecting different results.

> Not saying the US shouldn't address and improve their own record of human rights abuses, and indeed address those that are currently ongoing (such as the detention of immigrants without a trial), but claiming that they have no business criticizing the ongoing, orders of magnitude larger Chinese human rights abuses is going to make the world a worse place.

But this wasn't stated anywhere, was it? The OP said that focusing on China would be a major factor in his voting decision. He was asked whether he'd ignore US abuses. As I tried to clumsily state elsewhere: it's much easier to change your own behavior than that of others, so if it's "I want less abuse in the world" that you want, start with your own and make "end the abuse" the top priority in your decision who to elect into the office of the president and commander in chief of the most powerful offensive military in the world. No Iraq, Libya, Syria and a million or two wouldn't be dead, with many millions more displaced and on the run. My feeling is that China, with all the terrible things they do, still has to stretch a lot to come close to that.
As far as I know ICBMs are still unstoppable once out of the boost phase and are moving at mach 20 by the time they leave the territory of the launching nation. The good news is that hypersonic missiles don't put us in any more danger than we're already in. The bad news is that despite being worthless we'll probably still spend a couple trillion dollars on them.
I don't know what you mean by "accomplish", but it sounds like there's a blacklist being applied.
HN is not for ideological flamewar, so please don't do that here.

Personal attacks will get your account banned, so please especially don't do that here.

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Edit: it looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines rather badly and quite repeatedly. Continuing in that vein will get your account banned. I don't want to ban you, so would you please stop doing that? Reviewing the guidelines and taking the spirit of this site to heart would be much appreciated.
You might want to look into finite elements. That's a bit harder conceptually, but it's not that hard to implement and should be far more realistic and robust.
Yes, but using Toshio Naito's system, these incur a cost as well.
No, NAT does not prevent connections, it only rewrites addresses. If your NAT router also has a stateful firewall, that is what prevents inbound connections, and removing the NAT from that equation does not change that.
I came across Chisel today -- it supports TCP traffic and isn't limited to 3 tunnels like Serveo

https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
That was terrible, and yet I finished the whole song.
Well other international companies are not banned, and there is a lot of info indicating that China actually has spying hardware/software in many of their products and actively trying to insert them elsewhere, so it's probably more about that than about USA's spying. (Even though they do a lot of that too of course.)
Ten times Chernobyl television series lets artistic licence get in way of facts
One thousand tons.

So, 29,000 tons, equivalent to a million tons of CO2. Plus the actual CO2, even more than that.
There are some examples mentioned in the link, like volatile non-pointer non-reference variables. This can't be used for the real purpose of volatile (memory-mapped IO, etc) and could only result from someone confusing volatile with atomic, so it's safe to deprecate these.
Please don't post tedious ideological flamewar comments to HN. It's not what we want here.

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> The guys who license kdb/q probably make more money today from service/consulting agreements and not the software licenses. So it's to their benefit to go open (a la MongoDB)

It's a public company, so you can go check:

https://www.firstderivatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/...

Software earns more than consulting, and the profit is better too.

Just because Mongo isn't good enough to make money on its own merits doesn't mean anything.

> Also, if you're building a tech stack from scratch - you want it to be "clean". You don't want to muddy it with expensive software licenses.

I've been in probably a hundred funding and acquisition meetings at this point in my life, and this has literally never come up.
Please don't do ideological or nationalistic flamewar on Hacker News.

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I have personally seen some companies divide the total facility across teams to try and focus on each team's ROI. Even non-core business activities like HR is spread across different teams so that the company has better view. I have found such optimisations to be an overkill. Because in larger scheme of things these costs are peanuts.

The same case appears to be with this company too. While it does sound great to have people not use meeting rooms for unnecessary meetings the bottom line effect is going to be negligible. The negative effect might be that either people will try to include as many as possible people to spread the cost or they might actively use their desk spaces for all meetings to avoid paying the costs.
>>Now that (part of?) the code has been released, it seems to be little more than a transpiler from V to C, with allowed inlined C, with most advertised features stubbed out.

>>Looking at the project it is really hard to come away with an opinion that isn't one of "this is a joke", "this is fraudulent" or "this is a well intentioned inexperienced developer that has no idea how high the target they've set for themselves is". I hope that if it is the latter.

You would be very interested in seeing the source code of Perl 1.
Please explain how NAT without a stateful firewall provides security against what.
Not perhaps solely. If we know something about a threat in advance and we do nothing to stop it from affecting ourselves, then perhaps we are not free from blame.
I don’t see the MAD principle changing in light of these new weapons. The major players will still rely on it, but to ensure they can hold ip their end of the “deal” I expect we’ll see a lot more submarine based IBCMs. Compensating for any early knockout of ground missiles like minutemen etc.
Thanks. I wasn't aware of that thread. ( And I was wondering why about the hostility towards it )
That was a bit of a disappointing read. I was expecting some technical details but it was mostly just about how they managed the project.