skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's Xi urges development of blockchain technology
Yea, I really fail to see the point of linking to something that is inaccessible.
Bluetooth Vulnerability Could Expose Device Data to Hackers
Interview with David Zilber, Director of the Fermentation Lab at Noma
Lisp as end-user extension language?

> The language that you build your extensions on shouldn't be thought of as a programming language in afterthought; it should be designed as a programming language. In fact, we discovered that the best programming language for that purpose was Lisp.

> It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was (2). He wrote a version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.

> (2) Bernie Greenberg says that Dan Weinreb's implementation of Emacs for the Lisp Machine came before Greenberg's implementation for Multics. I apologize for the mistake.

~ "My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs" (Transcript of Richard Stallman's Speech, 28 Oct 2002, at the International Lisp Conference). https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20374467
I feel like there's a lot of founder/non-founder equity disparity that doesn't quite make sense. If it ever got to a point where startups genuinely had a hard time recruiting good talent, I would think/hope that one lever available would be to shift the equity balance a bit.

Another might be to just pay engineers in cash closer to their market value. I think (not sure) that people in other fields who work at startups end up having a smaller gap between elsewhere comp and startup comp? Though that also usually comes with even less equity.

All that said, most startups seem to still be able to hire. Maybe people find the experience rewarding enough relative to FAANG to accept the gaps. Maybe people don't quite do the math to understand what the outcomes look like.

Personally, I had left FANNG to go to a startup a few years ago, was recently looking for a new gig, considered going back to FAANG, but decided on another startup that I liked for a lot of reasons, and got myself to a point where I thought the break-even valuation wasn't too crazy. But it's very much not "this will make me rich" and more "this seems like it'll make me happy and I feel like I'm not literally setting money on fire by going there".
“Dear MSFT, enjoy the gift

xoxo,

Oracle”
A key ammo that Microsoft has to get customers to its cloud is their Windows and Office 365 franchise. It is likely like many traditional companies Pentagon wanted to move their mail, storage, powerpoint/excel/word, etc to this cloud rather than use lambda or other hot features that AWS has.
Twitter thread about questionable benefits of full-body MRI scan
It’s easy to be cynical when a megacompany does something that saves money while arguing that it has nothing to do with saving money.
Lack of patience. We’re living in a instant gratification society now.
The Zx has a Z80 3.5 MHz where the C64 has a 6510 1.0 MHz. With this difference it would take major limitations in the graphics/sound hw of the Zx to come off worse.

Edit: I had an Atari 6502 1.79 MHz and I wouldn't say it was clearly superior to the C64 because the C64 had more flexible sprites and sound. What I would say is that the Atari peeps I met were more hacker-like than the C64 folks who were more like users/gamers.
We usually called it the liquidation stack.

Because of different trigger points, whether different investors are participating or non participating, you needed a spreadsheet to figure out what common gets, for each potential outcome. There is no way to have a conversation with a potential employee about the liquidation stack, it is usually far too complex.

More insideously, the buyer can change the rules. As long as the sellers vote for it, you can do things like wash out common, recap common, give new grants that are incentive grants with a one year cliff.

Option holders don't vote, so you won't even see what they are voting on.

That kind of stuff invites shareholder lawsuits, but it is ill advised to sue because then you are a trouble maker. Otoh, not suing means you are a pushover.

An example of a shareholder wash out was when jobs took over pixar, so i was told by a friend who had shares.
This. I bought it for one reason- to read eBooks. Nothing else. The fact that I can buy eBooks on there is great. Spelling and a dictionary? Even better.

The one thing I did not buy it for was to use as a tablet. The fact that there is a web browser on there is a neat feature at best.
CO2 is indeed fungible. I simply suspect that a lot of companies are requesting government money to research and develop something that they would choose to research anyway even without government money. (because it increases oil production).

They get away with that because many governments don't have good tech advisers.
Photo Backup on Raspberry Pi
They already got several checks from the government, and failed to provide anything in return (except for lobbying money to stifle municipal broadband): https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6c5e97/e...
> I wonder if trump has it in for Amazon since they have a monopoly that so far hasn’t been challenged much.

Trump rather openly has it in for Jeff Bezos because of the existence of WaPo, which has spilled over into attacks on Amazon more than once before.
You don't have to guess. The process of upstreaming and the [then] current state of ARM support is described here: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/29/ispc-retrospective.ht...

Not sure what conclusions to draw from that, but it looks like ARM support was finally made first class this past August: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/cf90189/docs/ReleaseNotes....

I think it might be difficult to purposefully cripple AMD in an open source project.
Investor are short-sighted when they steal all the money from startup employees. Equity used to be the one way that startups could compete for talent but the more the word gets out that it's a scam the less that startups are able to compete.
My understanding is that DNA is basically unique, but the patterns use for conventional DNA analysis are not. While they may be statistically close enough to unique to trust over the whole population, there have been different issues when you start scoping things to different racial groups or areas with smaller gene pools (not dangerously small, just smaller).

Because actually sequencing and comparing someones entire DNA would be prohibitively expensive if done for every case, they just look for a set of markers and assume that a large enough collection is close enough without accounting for distribution patterns of those markers AMONG THE SAMPLE POPULATION. (e.g. you don't have to look hard in small towns or in populations of the same heritage to notice a lot of physical characteristics that are quite common in that sub-population while being pretty distinct in the human population at large, the same is true for these markers.) . Since crimes often involve suspects from the same location and/or racial profile, a rule that is pretty reliable for the earth is not so reliable for this town/community/group of suspects.

So the science is a problem even before you get to human error. The odds of a false match take hits of multiple orders of magnitude.

Note: I'm not qualified to speak on the topic, but I've followed the topic with interest at a layman level for a while - be glad to hear from someone who IS qualified to speak on it to shed more light on why I'm right/wrong.
I want to read this article, but I can't handle there being some sort of ridiculous rapidly-flashing GIF on the screen at almost all times. Reader Mode doesn't work properly and loses a lot of the text.

If I want to get through it, I'll probably have to adblock all the images or copy-paste the text out into a document or something.
And this is an even bigger issue because several popular benchmarking tools were compiled with ICC, skewing CPU reviews in Intel's favour.
Indeed. This is also why you should make sure any equity you get in the acquirer as part of the deal is as high up the preference stack as possible.
Selectively disabling JavaScript and/or cookies using a browser add-on such as uMatrix will get you around the NYT's paywall and many others. (Some paywalls you can get around just by going into Reader View in Firefox.)
Like when you double click a .cpp file intending to take a quick look in Notepad, and your whole computer grinds to a halt as it fires up VS
It's good to have competition in the cloud space. Amazon
already has two government regions, I guess (1 US and 1 CN). Can someone confirm if these are already operational?
you are supposed to slow down before running over people. bicycles are still vehicles.
Original post from U.S. DoD: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/...

There's several other contracts mentioned in the post. It's a good reminder of how much money goes into the military–industrial complex. The JEDI contract was by far the largest contract awarded in this round. The rest of contracts total roughly 1.5 billion dollars.
There’s not much to the article right now (developing story), but how big of a blow is this to Amazon? And how big of a boon to Microsoft? I realize that this is likely because of the people that I surround myself with, but I don’t know anybody who actually uses Azure. Is Azure’s core business large corporations/government?
TIL Will.i.am ha(s|d) an AI startup
The Space Force is really ramping up
Owning Post seems to cost Bezos quite a fortune.
There are no "designated defecation streets". Stop bullshitting here. At least the poor in India aren't filled with the filth that some of you carry in your rotten minds.
Which is partially why the VP makes several times more at a stable firm vs options/stock/equity that are a lottery ticket, more or less. The VP won't get paid if the company sells but they can by a new car each year.
I loved watching this talk — After watching this I gained a new level of appreciation for the VC model they pioneered.
I don't think he cares about any issue of monopoly. It has much more to do with negative coverage of Trump in the Washington Post. It appears Bezos has a very hands-off approach in terms of editorial direction there, but Trump still blames him for the coverage.
I imagine there has been many a time with someone making a hateful speech where they believe every word that they are saying (regardless of whether are right or not).

Politicians are also masters of speech where they are technically correct, they sound like they are saying one thing, but remain evasive/non-committal.
It's unproductive to talk about a "C abstract machine" then go on to say how a hardware cache invalidates a program's correctness.
It is clearly not an article, it is question someone posed. Here is the answer.
I don’t understand the repulsive feelings towards helping the govt. Would we rather have the people in control of the military and our troops use out-of-date tech?
I cleared my cookies and it let me read it.
This is what I see: https://i.imgur.com/nmi0FHQ.png

For me the hamburger button's media query is set to a width of 1366px.

I don't have a dropbox account. I do notice no matter what I always end up at `https://www.dropbox.com/?landing=dbv2`, so I may somehow be being put into an AB test. Even an incognito window does that. The name `dbv2` might imply a new version of the site that is in the works? Shrug.
Bad typography on a device whose entire purpose is reading is not a feature by any stretch of the imagination.

Even if all you expect from the kindle is an "electronic book," they should at least attempt to reach parity with the typesetting of paper books, but they clearly don't care to.
That wasn't really the question being asked - the question concerned more, whether, for instance, people feel happy working for wages, under working conditions that seem set fifty years in the past to any Western observer, and what the quality of life is like in conjunction with the regimes which typically administer these policies. The argument, to me, seems rather similar to the argument the English bourgeoisie made during the industrial revolution - and it rings even less true when you realize that this new wage earning class is largely not composed of the same group of people who were subsistence farming.

From the perspective of a critic of wage labour (and class society), one form of domination in substinence farming has been replaced by arguably a quantitatively better but much more cunning and egregious one, which disguises its aims through the mantra of freedom to buy and sell - and you won't find many people who would give up that freedom now. That doesn't mean the freedom is desirable, it just means it's better than what came before.
Since the early 2000s, Microsoft has done a significant amount of work for the NSA. AWS has had GovCloud, and it is true the CIA uses AWS, but MSFT has built out quite well some of the more exotic requests of the NSA.

The crown jewel of the NSA’s MSFT partnership is the San Antonio, Texas data center. The “5150 Rogers Road” data center was chosen because Texas has cheap electricity, which is an enormous cost outlay for the NSA. Additionally, and the FBI chose San Antonio for a significant presence as well because of this, is Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US.

Also San Antonio has something like 4 military bases. Ft. Sam Houston where the Army medics train, Lackland Air Force Base (home of cybercommand for the Air Force), Kelley Air Force Base, and perhaps even 1 or 2 I can’t recall.

120 minutes to the north is the recently established Army Futures Command in Austin, along with Ft. Hood in Killeen, the Army’s largest base in the world.

AWS does not currently have a data center in Texas, which has always frustrated the Texas government. They did establish a shipping center in San Marcos, but even GCO is building out in Dallas where IBM Cloud has a data center, and Oracle Cloud has an Austin data center.
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/269
If Amazon losing this deal makes US oligarchs think twice about getting involved in politics, it's probably a good thing.
Press the "Stop Loading" button after the article loads and before the paywall comes up.
The platform economics of streaming services incentivizes musicians to release a larger quantity of short, catchier singles that work well in playlists, instead of putting out a sonically diverse album.
Former Microsoftie here.

I imagine there will be a lot of unrest inside the company about this, and I think things are about to get tricky for Nadella. Up until now he's been largely able to be above a lot of the labor disputes that have been roiling the other FAANGs recently, but that's mostly out of luck: Microsoft's business doesn't involve arbitrating culture war disputes on social media or search reuslts, nor employing underpaid warehouse workers. But now there's going to be no way to wiggle out of the fact that this money is coming from Trump's DoD, and $10 billion isn't a paltry sum that they can just wave off to claim the moral high ground.

Satya's next "fireside chat" is going to be tremendously awkward, I think.
I had the exact same childhood. Somehow I feel that the limited resources of the computers back then made the games more fun and original. There was a lot of creativity. People would come up with new concepts all the time, you never knew what the next cool games would be like.

Another notable point is that not everybody had a computer (at least where I lived). Something like 10-20% of the kids were actively using their computer, so you could be part of a tribe.

It was also easy to get into programming. The OS presented itself as a basic interpreter, and any manual that you would buy with your computer would explain how to write simple programs.

It was definitely a particular era. I wonder if there is something equivalent today. What do 8-years old kids do nowadays? besides watching youtube videos.
If nothing, this will prevent AWS pulling out much further ahead in the cloud computing space.

Wondering if its Jeff Bezos v. Trump or the Office 365 possibility that did it (my bet is on O365)
Im sorry, can you expand on how your first assertion leads to your second?
Just from a usability standpoint, what is it about the ZX Spectrum that could possibly make up for the horrific rubber keyboard?
Why would I directly address someone who didn’t respond in good faith in kind to me last go around, but instead played semantic games when they exhausted their argument?

Here’s my perspective: for profit healthcare is a form of eugenics against the poor and disabled. Insurance companies are parasitic middlemen who are directly responsible for the deaths and bankruptcy of many. Denial of claims under the ACA is done to preserve the existence and profits of these middleman. Thinking you can suss out whether the 20% of claims they deny are moral or necessary entirely misses the point.
Our president is a very public with his wild complaints there's no need to wonder why things happen:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/10846274519830732...

> "So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post. Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-spites-jeff-be...

> "Trump has privately bemoaned the windfall the Pentagon’s upgrade could represent for Amazon and Bezos, the New York Times reported Thursday, and has also raised questions about the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure deal in comments to the press. “They’re saying it wasn’t competitively bid,” Trump said in mid-July. “Great companies are complaining about it, so we’re going to take a look at it.”
I have a 40 minute Silicon Valley commute. A year ago, I casually counted 25 Tesla Model 3s. A month ago, 75.

If there were no Tesla, and the majors took VWs approach, I'd say it's multiple decades for EVs to overtake ICE units on the road. Tesla confounded the EV pundits by making not just the fastest and safest EVs, but the fastest and safest cars, period. They set the bar very high for the majors and in doing so will accelerate the transition.

In all seriousness, I recommend that you spend a few days driving a Tesla, any model, before making predictions about the future of EVs.
I like this tweet. I was just thinking earlier today that I wish they offered a larger model with a button so that I could upgrade my parents' phones. I don't think they will like the gestures.
> Employees that are paid common stock didn't put any money.

> It is like playing a lottery, but only with opportunity cost.

So, they did put in money. It's "opportunity cost" money as opposed to literal cash, but logically it's still value being invested in the company (the company has $X more in the bank because the employee was willing to take a $X pay cut).

Compared to VCs, engineers are making a lot more of an investment in terms of % of their potential value for a less favorable return.

I think VCs get better terms because A) they control an amount of capital that's rarer and have more leverage, B) they do this professionally and are better at negotiating things. But probably mostly A?
Oh cool!

If you ever want to grab a coffee or something, let me know :) we’re also doing rust lunches every other week downtown.
How much of that is just the recursion though? If a bus driver in Washington got paid the same as a bus driver in China, they couldn't afford to take the bus. Except that if they got paid the same as a bus driver in China, it would cost less to take the bus.
It’s depressing to think about the whole industry operating like this. Other than being very flexible on where you work and moving soon as the BS train picks up steam - any other tips to survive?
Don’t forget Windows ME which was truly a turd in a class of its own.
It is exactly what it is. Poverty tourism. Tourists are deliberately taken to slums and poverty stricken places as that is what they wish to see. And no I don't blame the tourists alone. There is an entire industry that works around poverty tourism. There are tour guides in India who know exactly what the tourists are after and they lead them to the filthiest of places (some are deliberately kept that way) so they can take their photos and publish it on the net and the guide earns his buck. Only the lucky few tourists who manage to break out of the clutches of these pesky poverty tour guides get to experience "real India".
Isn't the Washington Post(and in turn Bezos) that Trump has an issue?
There's really a very fundamental lack of imagination going on in economics if people there are defending a state where there is clearly work that needs doing (bridge repair for starters), and people available to do it.

The equivalent in a computer would be a bunch of processors sitting idle, because the programmers couldn't figure out multi-threading.
Azure is a little under 1/2 the size of AWS in terms of revenue, and growing a little faster.
Red quits the smartphone business after a single, terrible phone
Ah, but the assembler was built in, for other computers that was extra, and the 'reset' key (aka the 'break' key) was annoying but the BASIC interpreter had the 'old' command which would usually - but not always... - restore your code.

Still, to make that key a keyboard key right next to a function key wasn't the best UI decision, to put it mildly.

As for speed, it wasn't very fast in absolute terms, but it was very fast compared to other BASIC implementations, and pretty much bug free (only one bug was ever found in the code, which I think is absolutely amazing for a ROM that size).
$1M over 4 years is L4 at Google. https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/SE/L4/

edit: Oh, well I guess that's not counting the startup's salary. If they were getting paid $200k/yr, that's L6 at Google https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/SE/L6/. Less easy, but not as hard as getting to VP.
Just speculation, but I'm thinking, just like with New York, Bezos and Amazon are happy to be rid of JEDI. Too much politics for 10 bill in revenue easily made up elsewhere in the world.

They just seemed to let go of New York and JEDI wayyy too easily for being one of the wealthiest companies in the world. When someone like that bows out of such large projects so easily, something's off. And I have to take it at face value that they maybe just want revenue and not politics. Because no other reasons seem to present themselves here.
That is very encouraging. Given that we Indians are such foodies, it is not surprising that Swiggy and Zomato are doing so well.

I am trying to keep tabs on electric two-wheeler startup industry in India. Ather energy is emerging as a big name. Anyone knows how they are doing?
Fair enough. It was just a pamphlet I found on the ground in Boulder CO one day.

Circular runway made me LOL. Cheers!
Are you sure you didn’t work for “Yogi” Berra? That second quote is beautiful :’D
Wow, that's an elegant solution!

I also have a difficult time reading large numbers without commas. Because I use Alfred (mac command launcher) quite a bit, I wrote up a simple workflow to re-display selected numbers with commas. Not as universal as the font-based solution but might be useful to some:

https://github.com/abhik/tres-commas