skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A whole lot of those problems are C++ related and a consequence of starting this very early and possibly going too far. A lot of companies have had good success with code sharing.
TextMate is such a wonderful editor. I tried them all, but always go back to TM. Also the fact that you can use ruby to write plugins is just awesome.
As a diver, my personal favorite HP-related disaster is documented in Last Breath (1), where a saturation diver was almost killed when they support ship's dynamic positioning system failed. Ultimately, the solution was to reboot all the control computers. You have to pay attention, but they clearly show (I don't think it's an accident or a prop) that they're rebooting HP machines.

That had to make somebody in Palo Alto flinch.

(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Breath_(2019_film)
> This is not true

It is true. The Sacklers will never see the inside of a prison and will remain billionaires after the lawsuits and settlements.
Vancouver, WA, United States...

I guess that is where the Vanwa comes from in their name.
"The elements in the same column and rows share some properties"

While this is what most are taught, in my opinion this is not the best way to understand it and this can actually lead to mistakes.

The chemical properties of the elements are mostly determined by 3 characteristics: valence, electronegativity and size.

Valence and electronegativity are usually similar for elements in the same column and size is usually similar for elements in the same row.

This is the cause for the similarities in columns and rows. However, while the electronegativity and the size have quasi-periodic variations with the atomic number, there are various reasons that shift their similar values in adjacent rows, so that there are many cases when there are much more similarities between elements in different columns than between those in the same column. Usually for the heavy elements grouping them by column is much more useful than for the light elements, which can be more similar to elements in the same row or to elements in a diagonal position.

For example, due to their closer electronegativity and size, carbon and sulfur resemble much more to each other than to silicon or oxygen.

As another of the many examples, in the first row of the transition metals the maximum density and the change from hexagonal to cubic structure is located at cobalt-nickel, but in the next 2 rows it is shifted to ruthenium-rhodium and osmium-iridium.

There is a huge number of such examples, so that anyone who wants to understand the similarities between chemical elements must not use directly the column and row numbers but must know how the electronegativity, the atomic size and the valence vary within the periodic table.
The US indeed has this concept, known as "piercing the corporate veil".

Excess payments to ownership (especially if you think the company is about to face a huge liability) is a classic example of one of the justifications for a judge to do just that: make the owners personally liable rather than just the company.
> China is definitely a greater strategic rival than Russia

I'm not sure what this has to do with my comment. China's "rivalry" with us might translate into acts of aggression, or it might not. It depends on their leadership.

At this point, I've never seen anything to suggest that China is actively trying to destabilize the US, interfere directly with its elections, or incite culture wars. Russia is doing all of these things.

I have seen evidence[1] that countries including China are trying to maintain access to our utilities as a future weapon, but that's not the same as Russia actually attacking us (digitally).

1. https://www.wired.com/story/triton-hackers-scan-us-power-gri...
What should engineering leads aspire to be?
As much as I'm impressed with Apple's public stance about privacy, I don't recommend using your current setup for establishing ~anonymous personas. It's just too connected to "you".

I run VMs on VirtualBox in Linux. Mostly Linux VMs. And I use nested VPN chains, implemented using virtual networks of pfSense VMs as VPN-gateway routers.[0] That guide is pretty old, but the basics are still OK. Specifics about pfSense configuration etc have changed a little.

You could probably do pretty much the same thing in MacOS. But I don't know for sure. I have some vague memories about VM sluggishness in MacOS, but I could be misremembering.

One cool think about Apple is that their online store is privacy-friendly. Just for fun, I managed to create a persona with an Apple account, funded through Bitcoin giftcards. And I managed to buy software for a Hackintosh VM.

0) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/advanced-privacy-and-ano...

Edit: The most secure way I know is using Qubes. But that may be more than you need. Unless you're already a target. Or you work with malware, or with people who work with malware, and/or are into exploits.
Understanding Paxos as a Read-Modify-Write Transaction
Not sure why this is downvoted. Shuffling assets and liabilities to protect from bankruptcy proceedings is a common crime and happens every day to companies large and small. The veil can be pierced if it can be established that key people were aware of the situation. Unfortunately it just means this process will be dragged on for years and it is unlikely to recover much from the Sacklers
Please remember that Purdue were the ones who marketed Oxycontin on the premise of one dose for 12-hour pain relief.

When they learned doctors were prescribing it for eight hours, they tried to "re-train" them to use the "proper" (read: their) dosing recommendation, because there were cheaper drugs with six of eight hour doses.

Sure, the doctors made the prescriptions, but you, and I, and everyone who thinks honestly about it for two and a half seconds realizes that no matter what the recommendation is, enough people who are in bad enough pain to be prescribed oxy will take it when they need it, recommendation be damned, that to have issued that recommendation in the first place was an act of bad faith.

They marketed the drug on a lie in order to get doctors to prescribe it, which fueled — if not created — an epidemic, which has killed tens of thousands of people. Their hands are not clean, here.
20 states and D.C. reject the settlement. They think there is a good change to prove fraudulent intent behind those transfers and claw back those funds.

The lawsuit is alleging systematic fraud and requests an order for the Sacklers to return any transferred assets; and to restrain them from disposing of any property. https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/oag_opioid_lawsuit.pdf

Interesting that these decisions are so political. States with republican majority and AGs agreed to settlement, the states with democratic majority did not. Only four AG's favoring the settlement are democrats.
One naive question - why are doctors who overperscribed opiates still allowed to practice medicine?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/piercing_the_corporate_veil

> "Piercing the corporate veil" refers to a situation in which courts put aside limited liability and hold a corporation's shareholders or directors personally liable for the corporation’s actions or debts.
No, of course not. Criticism of the state of Israel is entirely separate from "detesting most jews."
From a US West POV: I don't believe I've ever seen that kind of path through PRC to be faster. Their peering ports are insanely oversubscribed and lossy at peak in LA/SJ, and half-decent traffic via CT's Next Generation is absurdly expensive.
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I was discussing the comment I replied to - "Did no one watch Jurassic Park?" It's a good movie, but things that happen to imaginary scientists should not guide our decisions about real-world experiments.

I think the hypothesis of the experiment was something like "these genetic modifications will prevent mosquitos from reproducing". We know that the mosquitos did reproduce because the scientists deliberately included other modifications that would be easy to detect, and monitored the mosquito population to see if those genes showed up.

Contrary to your "we're so smart, we know what we're doing," caricature of the arrogant scientist, they made a hypothesis, carefully designed an experiment to disprove it, carefully gathered the data, and published a paper showing that their hypothesis was disproven. This is how science works. It doesn't mean that what they're trying to do is impossible, only that this approach didn't succeed.
Not the parent poster, but I'd agree that Nova would have to be pretty close to revolutionary to even get me to consider it.

People invest a lot of time into their existing text editors. For many people (myself included) a potential replacement would have to be more than a little better, because otherwise it's not worth the somewhat large cost (in terms of time spent on setup+mastery) of switching.
Quote from the lede: "More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency."
“I'm starting to feel like my generation may be the last American generation to remember a time when we weren't at war.”

I suggest taking a look at something like Max Boots _The Savage Wars of Peace_. The short of it is that the US has been engaged in near constant active armed conflict since the earliest days of the republic. Post tonkin, and especially the last 2-3 decades, the size and scale of that engagement has certainly turned up. And putting media first (like cnn on the beach during landings in somalia) has changed the public visibility. But we’ve always had men and women dying overseas in service to the country.
Would it be feasible to create DIY printer?

As in buy or salvage the imaging and paper handling hardware, add your own CPU and software.

Or maybe root and reprogram an existing printer, like an OpenWRT for printers.
Yeah, we have enough problems with MRI machines generating scary magnetic fields inside a building, imagine the same thing but affecting everything within a 50km x 100+km swath of terrain.
The rise of ISIS certainly suggests that basically just packing up from a military POV may have very significant unintended consequences...
Yes, though they used intermediaries.

https://katherineclark.house.gov/_cache/files/a/a/aaa7536a-6...
A handful of gems exist, though I'm not aware of any being produced now. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was really something special. Still is. Long (incredibly long, sometimes) takes, slow tracking, few cuts, lots of Mister Rogers talking directly to the viewing kids in his special, amazing way. So was pre-Elmoization Sesame Street, for that matter.

I really miss good nonfiction channels. The History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic. TLC (it wasn't always house shows!). All gone to hell. It's a shame. I picked up a ton from those as a kid, even though I rarely got to watch them (we didn't have cable except for a couple years) but now they're all reality shows and ancient aliens and other sensationalized junk.

Incidentally, I'm kinda worried about what all the auto-tune's gonna do to kids' sense of what good singing is. Check out Daniel Tiger for what I'm talking about, but it's everywhere in kids' programming (among other places, obviously). I suppose it saves money, but it sucks.
No doubt. I think the peak of patented OxyContin was late 2000s/early 2010s before it all went generic.
Bankruptcy exists as a safety net for failed capitalists.
Robert Mueller and the US intelligence community disagree with your assessment.

> "The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion," Mueller wrote in the 448-page document, which lays out new details about a Kremlin-backed plot that compromised Democrats' computer networks and targeted state and local election offices.[1]

The attacks were inexpensive[2] and affected the vote[3]. I'd call that "successful" by any reasonable definition.

1. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/mueller-report-rus...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/mueller-report-russia-hack-o...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/19/actually-...
Man walks into a shop and says "Three wasps please". Shopkeeper replies "We don't sell wasps". Man says "That's odd because you have a load of them in your front window".
--joke I heard the footballer Paul Gascoigne tell many years ago.
mcbain's comment that I am replying to, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981242 , is referring to the NYTimes story on $1B in transfers.

Those substantial transfers ($1B) were a decade ago.

The sentence you quote does not appear in the NYTimes piece and is, in comparison, peanuts. I do not have access to the Bloomberg piece for full context, but the sentence you quote does not say the movements were self-payments from Purdue rather than just personal transfers between personal accounts. It also does not say all $20M was in 2018; there could be a $1k wire in 2018 for all we know from the single sentence.
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No, I mean using a separate VM for each persona. And if it really matters, different hardware. The goal is preventing all cross-talk between personas. That is, compartmentalization.

Edit: Now that I think of it, I basically use VMs like applications. On a machine with SSDs, Linux VMs come up in just a few seconds.
My pick is what's appropriate for the situation - you haven't described yours so it's not really possible to help you! Flutter is imho Generally Better but there are absolutely going to be cases where RN is going to be less fighting against the system
And you can find a lot of the trusts on the Panama Papers. Law firm appeared to be Appleby.
If anyone doesn't know what's going on here exactly.

The Sackler Family – A Secretive Billion Dollar Opioid Empire
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcKURD_osM
Although unpopular on HN: Cordova-based apps with a good mobile look-alike framework can get you very far for a smallish app.

Advantages:

- truly one code base

- iOS, Android, and web apps

- JavaScript skills are useful

- experience is "good enough" for the average user

Downsides:

- almost no fine-grained control of input controls (like which keyboard to show)

- doesn’t respect users’ accessibility options of the OS

- small differences between the native widgets and the CSS/HTML lookalikes

- not anymore: performance. It’s really good enough on devices of the last 4-5 years

I use Ionic, or more specifically: Stencil with ionic web components.
Oh wow, I didn't notice that it went to a canvas! Thanks for pointing that out. Definite consideration for whether or not to do use that in the future.
High performance string processing in Elixir
Russian Navy to Be First to Field Hypersonic Cruise Missiles on Submarines
Sweet. That much VRAM will pretty much eliminate the need for the video system to be on the main bus.
I can't admire them for biting me in the leg, sorry ;-)
Please don't be sorry, it's important to know the risk we face daily. Trillions are spend globally on security, but we are more insecure daily. There needs to be a change in the way we ensure safety. The elected officials who are suppose to do this are too busy in bed with the military industrial complex. Basically the dog is napping and letting the wolfs "watch over" the sheep.

This is a security nightmare. I presumed that the Saudi attack happened due to the incapabilities of Saudi forces. I did read that despite all the fancy toys from Uncle Sam, they dont know how to use the toys well.

How is it compared to the Russian s400? For the trillions that the Americans pour into their defence, do they have some way to fight this "swarm of drones"? Aren't the US leading in drone technology?

Guess in an IT lingo, I can say that distributed systems are better than a monolithic system.
A quick google search brings up multiple articles about doctors going to jail. Here’s one where the doc got 13 years for prescribing over 1 million units[1].

[1] https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2019/05/13/pill-mill-doct...
OKEx Korea Axes Privacy Coins as South Korean Purge Intensifies
I'm not an American, but as far as I could tell Americans grow up learning the history about Russian being the arch-enemy, so Russia hacking is so much easier to digest.

China's is a relatively new threat. On top of that, it could be hard to get a grasp of how hostile China is when the Chinese officials on TV often sound so normal and friendly.

It's similar for the rest of the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
I think you are right. And I started out doing just that with my business. I could easily run the core of the business on a single server. But I have found that what really starts requiring scalability are all the add-ons. Then we needed caching with redis, then elastic stack for logs, then prometheus for monitoring and on and on. Also, OVH doesn't have much presence in the U.S.
I wrote this article... on the basic differences.

https://medium.com/@andrewt3000/flutter-versus-react-native-...

I love react for web development, but... idk. If you're interested in material design and don't mind that your app will look like a google app, I would seriously consider flutter.
See the Amazon Fund project, mainly funded by Norway, where donations are invested to fight against deforestation.

http://www.amazonfund.gov.br/en/home/

Unless it gets 100x bigger, this is a drop in the ocean, though. A lot more money could be made by exploiting that land.
I have no idea what the truth is, but its possible that they mean they have found a coin issued by Alaric and that the house was (later) destroyed by a cannonball?
David Berman of Silver Jews Remembered
The smart way is to pay yourself 10% dividends every year into your own holding companies from the start. Sounds like that’s what they did.

Don’t store your gold next to a nuclear reactor and all.
Can Physicists Rewrite the Origin Story of the Universe?
Point is, that nature doesn't even try them.
FATF guidelines push UPBit to issue investment warning for 6 privacy assets
I suspect that the paper would have gone down much better if it wasn't phrased in such a snarky way. If he had just presented his results as b-heap is faster under VM pressure it would have just been accepted.
> To be fair, we didn't try to go around selling businesses on "decentralization idealism"; that would obviously be silly.

Sorry, my comment should have been more clear. I wasn't referring to Sandstorm or you in my comment and I didn't mean to accuse of you of such silliness. It was more a reaction to the poster above who said they were targeting "small business" without specifying which kind of small business and what they are solving for them.

Anyways, yes, there are many reasons for businesses (even small ones) to self-host. Other reasons include the ability to customize (you can't customize a saas, unless you're a gigantic customer), and longevity (Saas come and go, and switching costs can be high).
When used with kubernetes?
> In March, Purdue settled claims brought by the state of Oklahoma for $270 million, and another defendant, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., also reached a, $85 million deal to avoid trial. J&J, which refused to settle, was ordered to pay $572 million for creating a public nuisance in the state with its over-promotion of its opioid pain medicines.
Can poor people get in on this? Being sentenced to a middle class life could be ok.
Good luck. Even schools are pushing that crap now. They'll need to be online to do homework not later than middle school—and that's the state of things now, may well be worse in a few years.
The big question, of course, is "Why would you bother?"

What are you trying to hide? What benefit is there to you in obscuring your code?

Why do you think your code is so wonderful that anybody actually cares? Why is your code so unique that nobody has ever produced it, or anything like it, before?
Strongly seconded, along with the Hitachi 6309. But the latter is hard to source.

6809 would be just fine.

I keep a Color Computer 3, which has the 6809 stock, just because it's so much fun to program. Best of the 8 bit chips, if you ask me.

You know, when David gets done with this system, it's not a big stretch to make one with a 6809. Maybe someone will.

The 6502 was used because the Commodore kernel can be reused, or something like it can. It's not a total rewrite and that gets the project somewhere useful and familiar quickly. I don't blame 'em, and the 6502 is fun too.

I also suspect a rewrite of those components, BASIC, etc... in 6809 would end up smaller, faster and more feature rich too. Big project though.
Bug-Proofing Our Application with Error Boundaries and the Strict Mode
it's to expensive for personal site
I agree. With good frontend development practices (state management, caching, etc) it behaves a lot like a native app, it's quick to get up and running and easy to maintain. Not to mention you can deploy as PWA/mobile web if it suits the situation.

What framework are you using? Angular or another framework? I'm interested to explore this approach using Svelte.
discussion of a different article on the same topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20141217
It's ok, they've already moved all their billions away.

Their fortune is safe.
View colleagues from another office through always-on video window
How many of those people started on prescription opiates?
It's not like US infrastructure does very well in China.
> What would be even more interesting (to me at least) is to see the United States withdraw all our combat personnel from the region and let the players in the region figure it out for themselves.

Well, that's partly what the Iran nuclear deal was about. While not necessarily intentional, the fact that Iran was free to go about building their conventional weaponry was a feature--it prevented a power vacuum from opening up. You want a detente between the Iranian and Saudi Arabian spheres of power. Power imbalances create instability. Not just because the more powerful will try to grab more resources, but because (as here) the weaker are politically incentivized to antagonize the stronger powers.
Xamarin.Forms: the joy of single-codebase for many frontends, plus decent language to code with (F#, C#).
Agreed. It is the long, complex privacy policies that should make you question things.
how so? they can track where i am connecting to, but that's about it.
Neovim v0.4.0
Absolutely, that's why I recommend only using OpenInternetAccess
It's really good machine sympathy for keeping the unfunded service cheap to run, but it's one bad fan bearing away from losing a lot of messages, so I wouldn't say its design assures four nines. And the optimization work to get all the way down to n=1 wouldn't have paid off if Tyma needed to hire someone at market rate to build that and maintain it, because an engineer-month costs hundreds of instance-months.
There I fixed it for you
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
That's also true, especially in the case of end-to-end asymmetrical encryption such as SSL.
Geniuses
Additive manufacturing has come a long ways. Still would take some complex electronics, but I’m sure there is a way.
75% of opioid/opiate addicts started with pills.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24871348
there are now hundreds of top-level vanity domains. plenty of good ones that rival .io. pick any you like.
I've actually toyed around with that idea, one interesting application would be to convert Rousseau style youtube videos back into midi.

I'm quite sure it is possible but it would still require a lot of set-up. The microphone is such a temptingly simple target that it makes sense to pursue that one first.
No cannons then, but it might have been destroyed by a projectile from a ballista (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista) or an onager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onager_(weapon))
That was my guess as well. Maybe a first part of a sentence was edited out by accident.
Wrote a bit about this: https://beta.trustory.io/claim/1226/argument/3011. I would also consider Kotlin Multiplatform.
Do you happen to know which brand or even model of TV that is?