skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing about these non tech companies though. They have fixed costs per transaction, something pure tech companies don't. So tech companies can grow at a loss because their marginal cost for each customer is zero or close to zero. As long as you are selling more, you are getting closer to profitability.

This does not apply to all these "unicorns" that have a non negligible marginal cost on their services.
Hi, I'm an end user who refuses to pay for software.

Why should I when all the tools I need are online for free?
Ontario solves that by having there be a left green arrow + regular green light. The left green arrow indicates a protected left but you are also free to make an unprotected left on the regular green light, once the left green is off.
A closed ecosystem certainly provides more value to the person that controls the ecosystem, but that's never in an end-user's best interests. Google wants to bring that "benefit" in so they can monetize it, like Apple does. This is not for or about the users, it's for corporate profits, nothing more.
So maybe shipping is more efficient than manufacturing?
>What was wrong with being able to run both old and new software?

There's wasn't much wrong with being able to run it but there's a hell of a lot of technical debt that comes with being able to support and maintain it. Every binary that needed to run on 32 and 64 bit OSs had double the code in it, double the dependencies, and literally double of everything. Developers were all notified about the change more than 3 years ago and 2 OS versions ago. This was not a surprise.

>I would pick Linux instead.

And you have that option. Godspeed.
I think they're referring to the reported costs of social programs used by WalMart and Amazon workers because they average pay is so low.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

https://newrepublic.com/article/146540/amazon-thriving-thank...
Let's not forget all the bridge days as well, which are over and above vacation days.

For those reading if a stat holiday falls on Tuesday or Thursday in Switzerland the Monday or Friday is a bridge day and also a holiday.

It gets fantastic when Thursday and Tuesday are holidays so you get a 6 day weekend.
I don't see that as any sort of a solution. How can a physical switch authenticate itself?
What’s the lie?
Learn to code, Artsy edition.
That the free internet gave us the likes of 4chan is exactly why we should defend it.
If you sell a pig to yourself for $72Bn, does that make it worth $72Bn?

It was valued at $20Bn in 2017 based on a $4.4Bn investment from SoftBank (where they were the sole investor). It was then valued at $45Bn in 2018 based on another $3Bn investment from SoftBank (when SoftBank was already the largest investor -- by far). Then, SoftBank made ANOTHER $1Bn investment later in 2018 "valuing" WeWork at $47Bn.

WeWork was ever valued at $72Bn. Maybe you're thinking of Uber.
One of the nice things about slack (and it's alternatives) is that it is really easy to hop in a channel and see what is happening in a part of the company. Lots of times I find a bug or issue with an internal tool, and go to the related channel, and right away I can see they noticed the issue and are working on it. With email you don't have that kind of visibility unless you are sending company-wide emails every time there is an issue with some tool or system, and that doesn't scale very well.

Also it's nice to be able to search through history for things like error messages, or just keywords related to what I am working on. Plenty of times I have just searched for an error and found the solution right away, also not possible with email unless every single time you discussed an error message, those emails were sent to everyone (and then new hires still won't have access to data before they were hired).
The independence of infrastructure is the stated goal.
But I doubt it's the main one. They've been trying to shut down opposition political commentary[0] by forcing them to move outside of the .ru domain. The next step is to limit the access to non-ru TLDs since they can't control those.

[0] For example, grani.ru had to move to graniru.org several years ago, which was then blocked by most ISPs in Russia due to a government order:

https://grani-ru-org.appspot.com/wiki/Blocked/
Why do I care whether it's a "debt transaction" or a "value transaction?"
I was working on software in the 3D printing space back in 2012, and I too thought it was going to be something big that looked like a toy.

However, I got out once I realized that speed of prints mattered a lot of consumers. And the current methods of consumer 3D printers were FDM (fused deposition modeling) and Stereolithography, which both had asymptotic limitation on how fast you can get a print to go. For FDM, there's a head you need to shunt back and forth. For Sterolithography, the consumer printers like Form 1 had a mechanical step between each layer.

Unlike chips with Moore's law or LEDs with Haitz's law, 3D printers aren't going to get much faster. That's when I got out.

So in order to get an order of magnitude faster print, someone needed to invent a completely different method--a step function.

So I think it's not just that it's a hobby, but you might need another criteria, like there's at least a plausible incremental path to improvement along the parameter that the market would care about.
The internet is awesome. It's those goddamn users that is the problem.
America's Test Kitchen does the best appliance reviews IMO, not sure if they cover espresso, but their pick for drip coffee machines was spot on for me.
It's actually cheaper when you want global redundant storage. Cloud providers often charge twice as much for global redundant data. RAID 2,3,4 offer global redundancy, but only take up 1.5 times us much space. Instead of paying twice as much you only end up paying 1.5 times as much because you can get away with locally redundant pricing. If you're large enough you'll actually save money by having more negotiating power since you can walk away from a provider at any given time.
> could softbank be a systemic risk to the entire world economy?

No. The Vision Fund itself is nowhere near large enough to be systemically important, even given a complete loss of all principal.

Also, a lot (most?) of the the risk from SIFIs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systemically_important...) is that they're counterparties in tens of thousands to tens of millions of relationships, many of which assume the counterparty is completely reliable. That's not true here; all Softbank and Vision Fund shareholders understand their capital is at risk. Banks also almost inherently use leverage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III#Leverage_ratio) more heavily than most other industries.

The other possible results you mentioned are market mechanics. For example, a reversion to more historically-normal P/E ratios is not something that SIFI tries to prevent (or encourage).
> There are intersections here where 3 or 4 cars will continue to turn on a red signal - it's insane.
Sounds like targeted enforcement at those intersections is called for.
I was pretty surprised recently when I visited St Petersburg. I went on a tour and the tour guide spoke flawless English for the whole three hour tour. Until someone asked her a question in English. And another. And another. And with each one it became more apparent that she did not speak English, she just memorized the tour in English.

One of the more interesting things I took from the trip.
I believe Russian media does exaggerate about US problems. But just as well, I also believe US media exaggerates about Russian problems too.

Paraphrasing your post, I could also say US mainstream media is indirectly state-controlled, and independent journalists are fired or discredited for speaking out against the current regime.

I really hope we all could move ahead of this Cold-War mentality, that puts the whole world in danger of a nuclear holocaust.
Thanks! Here is the meat:

WITTES: He was writing about a tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar. And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War. And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto. Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it.

SIEGEL: So far from being a pro-privacy quotation, if anything, it's a pro-taxation and pro-defense spending quotation.

WITTES: It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it's almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means.

However this misunderstanding alone is not a reason on it's own to dismiss Ygg2's statement.
> America's startup culture and competitiveness is our biggest advantage

It's not an advantage against China though when they can do both of:

- Block US apps from the Chinese market
- Encourage wholesale copying of the best features from US companies

If I were to start a FB clone of <insert any social app> in the US, it would fail miserably. China can ban the US version and simultaneously fund a clone for the Chinese market. Combined with the fact that Chinese networks (e.g. TikTok) have full access to the US market, this makes competition very asymmetric.
This. Paying for n+2 capacity is really expensive when n=1, but pretty reasonable at n=5 or n=10. Until someone gouges you on data transfer …
Blawn programming language (created by 15 years old boy)
> My limited understanding is they are avoiding an IPO because their financials are not up to snuff.

My understanding is that they're avoiding an IPO because it would jeopardize SpaceX's mission of getting to Mars. When they're privately held, Musk can vet investors to be sure that they're aligned with SpaceX's mission, or ensure that they're powerless enough that they can't make problems if they're not (eg. no board seats). When they're publicly held, things like unveiling Starship when NASA is pissed about Crew Dragon not being ready yet is just inviting a shareholder lawsuit. Wall Street tends to take a dim view of long-term highly risky bets, and going to Mars with privately funded R&D is precisely that.
This content of this article does not even come close to supporting the assertion in its title.

The claim it is making is that wealth and intelligence are not correlated linearly.

Its not even claiming they aren't positively correlated, and the surely are to some degree, more or less getting into some type of causality as is implied by the title.
So, say you have some amount of personal information leaked in a scenario like this, if you could argue that having that information leaked would make someone more able to commit identity/credit-card fraud against yourself, and it happens, would the company -Equifax in this case- have any direct or indirect liability that could be pursued in a legal capacity for your own personal case?
It's done. After each round the player gets 15% of their health back.
"This is something that I took long to learn and now preach to all friends who will listen:

"You're smart. For many life situations, that's not a positive..."

Sounds like you're smarter than all your friends. Had you considered making friends with someone who is smarter than you?
In Atlanta, where yellow means "hurry up" and red means "ok go if traffic is still moving" I am not confident that longer yellows will result in higher safety.

Most accidents i've witnessed have been rear endings where a driver was not from Atlanta and stopped at a yellow.
Jarlström’s website is http://redflex.jarlstrom.com/ and his report (long PDF) is http://www.jarlstrom.com/PDF/Exhibit_1_FINAL_An_investigatio...
Agreed. If I could search the web of the year 2000 using the Google Search of 2000, I would prefer it to searching the web of today about half the time (specifically, when the knowledge I seek hasn't changed much since 2000.)
I would not characterize the number of people who have single given names as "small". This also differs a lot by region.
I was a lucky one I guess. One day we came into work and there was guards at the the door checking IDs. About 1/2 the place got let go that day. We went from having dreams of being millionaires to just being happy we had jobs. I bailed out at some point, but the place is still going, some of the same people are even still there! It was scary as hell to see this place go from 80 people to 100 something and back to 80 in just a year or two.
The value-add from this service, I'm assuming, is less on the candidate side and more on the company side.

For context, it is really hard for companies to build a pipeline of candidates for technical roles. If your hiring for a technical role, 99% of the ideal candidates you'd like to hire are already employed.

Big layoffs at tech companies release a ton of qualified, immediately-employable technical candidates into the market all at once. For recruiters, and 3rd party recruiting platforms like this one, these candidates represent a massive opportunity. Any engineer who has been laid off in a big round has had to deal with marketing/outreach from recruiters and recruiting platforms (Hired, AngelList, Vettery, etc.)

From what I see, this platform won't give you, as a candidate, any advantage another platform won't.
Fair point, the way I said it exaggerated the issue. But I still think any company sold more than once has an issue. Boston Dynamics was first sold to Google, and then sold to Softbank - so they meet my criterion.
I can't make sense out of your comment.

The concept of "git bisect" is inherently predicated on a simple linear history consisting of commits that were applied on top of each other. We are searching for the bad one which flips the test case from "good" to "bad".

If you throw an ugly graph into it and merges, it's not even comprehensible. Say that instead of git bisect we just go backwards, commit by commit, starting at HEAD. Oops, we encounter a merge commit: which way do we go now to find the breakage? Parent[0], or parent[1]? Or [2] ...? What is the correct traversal order? Do we go down [0] first? At which commit do we backtrack and try going into [1]?

There is absolutely no issue with git bisect over a repository where you have the unmodified upstream commits, and your own local ones rebased on top of them. It nicely finds the bad commit in one or the other.

Now of course the rebase rewrites your code by merging it (in the real sense of the word). If you discovered the bug yesterday (and it's in your own commits), then you rebased this morning, you're now chasing that bug over different commits that have been subject to auto-merge and maybe even manual conflict resolution. Oh well; yesterday was yesterday! Repro the bug with the newly rebased repo and bisect away.

Or, here is an idea: if you're chasing a bug, don't fetch anything and don't rebase! Right? If you've repro-d a bug, you don't want to start changing code, so the last thing you want is to bring in reams of changes from other developers. I've never rebased while chasing a bug with git bisect; I stopped what I was doing until I found it, in the nice linear history as it existed at that point.

If external forces cause you to drop what you're doing and rebase while you have some bug, what you can always do is "git tag bug-hunt" to set a bookmark where you were. Do what you have to do, and then when you pop your stack, return to that tag and debug from there. You can find the original bad commit. If it's in your uncommitted work, you can cross-ref it to the latest rebase. (There is a chance it might not exist any more; e.g. upstream changes made some of your local code obsolete, so you threw them away in the rebase, and the problem was in those discarded changes.)
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Drugstore drones: UPS will fly CVS prescriptions to U.S. customers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
http://termux.com, tmux, vim, git, ecj, dx

aapt, apkbuilder, signer (for android apps)

bluetooth keyboard + ARM quad cortex-A53 1.3 GHz, 20 GFLOPS GPU, 1 GB RAM - for 70's era unix tools, it is unbelievably powerful. Specs in the billions.
All Plastic Could Be Recycled Into New, High-Quality Plastic with New Process
That is awful. If you had more money could you have fought it? Was prison threatened?
Good for him. My first street accident happened when I was 16 (two years before I started street racing--which btw is very dangerous, and for sure I don't advocate for it. Street racing is irresponsible, and street cars are sooo much flimsier than race cars, it's not even funny). I was in the Bronx (it was not legal for me to drive there at 16 btw) at an intersection crossing Mosholu Parkway. I was Not speeding, I was a novice driver--I looked up at light, it was green; when I crossed the intersection I was T-Boned by another car. Thankfully everyone was ok.

Back then, in certain areas of the Bronx and unbeknownst to me, there were traffic lights that only had two bulbs; one was green, one was red. There was No yellow light--the green and red lights would come on simultaneously which denoted "yellow". That almost killed us.

I took that as a good lesson a few months later as I started down the path of becoming a racer, And I follow this Rule assiduously to this day (to be clear;I no longer street race But I am still Extra careful on unknown roads); make sure you KNOW the road you are on before you drive fast on it. And TBH in my street racing days I would even take a drive by first to make sure there was no construction, broken water mains, ice or whatever happening... it's one of the main reasons I'm still alive.
UK Man Invents Aluminum-Air Battery in His Garage
I feel hitting Google with monopoly lawsuits without going after the others would just make it worst.

Atleast Google somehow competes with the Facebook and Amazon which in my view are "more evil".

My other concern is, big co can resist stupid stuff government agencies want, they failed on PRISM but I feel they might have a better chance next time around as employees unionise and demand the company drop supporting unethical contract such as Googles' search engine for China (Project Dragonfly) case etc.
Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass.

It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
On a related subject, don't forget about the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in your city. The stock varies all the time and you can get some real bargains on new household goods and construction materials that were donated to Habitat for Humanity but couldn't be used in their builds. I've bought a new Kichenaid trash compactor in the box for $35 and a used but in very good condition Steelcase Leap chair for $15. Those were exceptional deals but it's always worth checking out for lesser but still good deals.
For what it's worth, Google did give DDG the domain duck.com, even though they didn't need to. A four letter word .com domain that matches your company name is hard to come by.
Yale study shows class bias creeps into the hiring process in just seconds
Just look at what's polarizing, what you might dismiss without looking deep into it. Cryptocurrencies is a good candidate. So is VR and AR.
Agreed and the vaguely proposed solution for their hypothesized problem sounds far worse than the problem.
https://www.millionshort.com/ Can be a big help here - search without the top million (or 100k etc) results - the SEO driven and commercial giants. Results vary, but I find it really useful when the main results are all engagement ad driven crap.

Some of the old-school web is still around, it's just down on page 20+ of Google and Bing.
I'm not arguing against gut instinct being a necessary factor. My point is that when it's the only factor, and when people rationalize it as being the only factor, without any quantification, then that's the problem.

How do you define "bad team fit"? Can you make a checklist of things that are associated with "good team fit" and "bad team fit", and aim to assess for those items individually, before coming to a conclusion? You don't need artificial general intelligence to make a spreadsheet and a checklist. If you don't do at least this, how do you even know in your own mind what a good team fit really is? You don't need to have perfect accuracy with this list of criteria, but not having a list at all will be less accurate than any list you come up with in good faith.
one of my favourite puzzle game creators is Everett Kaser games... http://www.kaser.com/

HoneyComb hotel being my favorite!

The games have been around for a long time, and seem to be updated for modern platforms. But the website is still a blast from the 90s, and the graphics are joyfully 90s amateurish :)

One of the interesting things he did was invent his own language, and virtual machine for doing his games.... http://www.kaser.com/kint.html
> no os choice, no hardware choice, slow provisioning

These are probably positives from large org internal perspective.

"We want to switch x from y to z." "We can't. In fact we want to switch u from z to y."

> If they have 50 000 IT employees

BofA has 205k employees in 2019 as per Wikipedia. No way 1/4 of them are in IT.
I think only Americans can really swallow the canard that “Western European culture” is some uniform thing. If you’ve spent any time around people from the various parts of Europe, you’ll know that they have all kinds of opinion about their neighboring countries, some gentle, some cruel. But all see themselves as quite distinct. Certainly the Swiss do!
I would like to see a mini quad copter take the recoil of a 1 g "shaped charge" (aka bullet).

EDIT: ok, i found a clip of (a fairly big) drone firing a gun and it looks... not stable:

https://youtu.be/FI--wFfipvA

still, pretty worrisome.
The conflicts from a later time happens because rebase applies one commit at a time.

If you solve a conflict from your first commit by applying changes that were made only in the later ones, you'll need to solve this same conflict again and again.
I use ddg as default search and find it perfectly capable.

I tried that same search query and the first result is https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd/issues/236

Strange that the first result you got does not appear at all in my first page of results, although I get plenty of other pages related to the same react issue (and neither do I use or search for react issues).
Don't leave us hanging, whats #1?
As long as you have the RAM available and your OS has reasonable file system caching behavior - you should already get that effect.

On Linux, I can run a build repeatedly that touches several GB of files and there is basically zero IO during the build, because everything is in the page cache.

There is some IO at some point after the build as the dirty files (e.g., .o files) get written out, but if if you delete them fast enough, even that doesn't happen.
Do you specifically mean "right now" ? As in it has been disabled at the current moment? Because there are plenty of questions that have been moved around from one site to another in the past.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aserverfault.com+%22migrated...

Edit: Eg here's one from June this year: https://serverfault.com/questions/971652/windows-how-to-kill...
This post explains it better than I can in a comment: https://medium.com/@fredrikmorken/why-you-should-stop-using-...
Bostrom is well-aware of the downsides—corrupt actors in a state could exploit this surveillance for totalitarian ends, or hackers could blackmail unsuspecting victims. Yet the fact is that it may still be a better option than suffering one global catastrophe after another.

Aspiring fascists are always trying to save us from ourselves.