skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RAM Doubler for the Mac wasn’t a scam. Because of the piss poor way that Classic MacOS handled memory where you had to manually tell it how much memory an application could use and applications needed that much contiguous memory, you could easily find yourself with plenty of RAM but it being fragmented and unusable. Also, you needed to have as much disk space as you had RAM + any “virtual memory”.

RAM Doubler used the “System Memory” that could auto-expand and made applications think they had contiguous memory. I don’t know if the “compression” was a scam but the better memory management definitely wasn’t.

Also for PPC Macs, it was usually bundled with “Speed Doubler” - a much faster 68K emulator than what came with early PPC Macs. The operating system itself was also partially emulated, you did get real world speed improvements.

RAM definitely wasn’t cheap in 1994, I paid $500 for 16MB of extra RAM for my PPC 6100/60 for a total of 24MB (third party reseller). I remember in 1996 though buying a 32MB RAM stick for around $350 for the DX/2-66 DOS Compatibility Card in my 6100/60.
The difference is that Aramco valuations are pushed up with physical threats:

Saudi Arabia renews push for $2tn Aramco valuation https://www.ft.com/content/0043ccf6-1b42-11ea-97df-cc63de1d7...

>Many wealthy families, some of whom were caught up in a 2017 anti-corruption crackdown masterminded by Prince Mohammed that resulted in hundreds of businessmen and princes being detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, have already bought shares. Some are now being asked to pledge further funds, advisers to the families said.

>“They’ve been told it is their duty, and everyone understands what that means,” said one adviser to local wealthy families.

>“This is another Ritz, through different means,” said another banker working on the deal.
I don’t like restrictions as well. I am quite capable of working within the law without mandated restrictions. It seems weird as well since from about 8yrs old I would go to my local hobby shop myself and buy model rockets capable of reaching several thousand feet easily.
Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's Dynamic Loader
Shouldn't it be easier to scale up at least to a point? Cross section increases slower than interior volume.

Scaling up on range is different, but just scaling size/passenger count I would think would be easier.
First class failure scenarios in Java
Sure, but what happens when you are no longer? Have you set up a foundation to run it?
I dunno dude, you can make some pretty good money working under a bullshit FAANG point system ( levels.fyi )
Just a friendly reminder that many trans women and some intersex women do indeed have prostates. So although it’s a safe bet statistically that the commenter was not referring to prostate cancer, it’s not a particularly absurd hypothetical.
Implementing restricted access with nested permissions and folders
Malicious Relays on the Tor Network
I’m certainly just learning myself, but quite enjoyed Never Split the Difference...

https://info.blackswanltd.com/never-split-the-difference
curl https://www.bloombergquint.com/amp/bq-blue-exclusive/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in |sed -n 'N;/story-element-text">/p' > a.htm

firefox a.htm

Replace "firefox" with any browser that can process basic HTML. No Javascript or CSS needed.
Let's say you're selling a CRM. There's lots of CRMs out there and yours might not even be the best.

But out there, someone is hacking together a CRM on Excel and it's just not good enough. Someone out there is afraid of doing sales because they'll worry they'll drop someone or double schedule a meeting. Someone out there is struggling to pay their staff and can't raise wages because they can't make enough sales. They've got a good development team, but just have trouble taking their product to market.

If you don't sell to them, they might never know how you could help. Or they might go to one of the many inferior CRMs. I worked with a CRM company once and we used to run experiments on production, code had no tests and was highly unstable. Some bought it to "support local businesses" and later on lost trust for all "local businesses". So even if you're not selling the best product on the market, it's unlikely you're selling the worst.

Don't rely on charisma. Don't charm them. Some people hate those kinds of salespersons. A shy salesperson can build trust.

All you have to do is try to help them solve their problems. You're not trying to convince people of anything. You're just explaining your product to the people who already want to buy it.
Interestingly this page started showing up in my server logs recently. I was actually thinking about putting one up but after reading your post I should probably think twice.
I've tried it and I think it works great for a closenitted team. I'd have some reservations for a company-wide session.

Related: if you need someone for accountability purposes, this is a great service: https://www.focusmate.com
This attitude is exactly why Unix has never managed to attain the same kind of software ecosystem that other OSs have.
Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
or the Safe Network as well
I've honestly never found myself in a position where I didn't had some spare time whilst at work. Even at my current job, I've transitioned from frontend work to backend work (I had backend experience already in Node), and I've always been able to keep up with our sprint.
Other engineers complain they don't have time to improve our code base, or they can't learn anything new because they're always busy, but I think that's just an excuse. It's just a matter of organising yourself and looking for opportunities to learn.

I actively picked up stories I wasn't familiar with, just to learn it. Other engineers pick up stories because they're already familiar with the subject, that's not how you learn new things.
> It's very possible they are good at something youre not perceptive to.

This is entirely possible but in the case of OP, and in the larger scope, it's irrelevant. If you have a product manager, for example, who's job it is to oversee the development of a product, they can be the best damn communicator, they could be the nicest person, they could be financially minded and have great marketing skills, they could have excellent personal hygiene and be fantastic husbands. All of that means precisely nothing if they are so bad at managing the product that they cannot deliver that product. I'm not saying that everybody like OP's boss here should be fired, per se, there's probably a place in the organization for them. But once they become entrenched in a place they don't belong in the organization, again, it's cancer. And it's fatal.

> Too often, the response to perceiving someones incompetence is the perceiver shutting down, instead of taking a rising-tide-raises-all-boats attitude.

Except this assumes a rising tide. If the tide falls, perhaps because your captain is not good at gauging tides, you're beached.

> It was clear management, maybe the business, not technical leadership, asked for a new product. Saying "our old product does that" is missing the forest for the trees.

Or it's recognizing that the problem management is trying to solve has already been solved. This can mean one of many things, but the two that spring immediately to mind is that a competitor (or competitors) have already solved this problem, and that management just wants a slice of that pie too, failing to consider that simply offering isn't enough, you need to have a differentiator. See, for example, all the game developers who chased the various trends like Battle Royale, and before that Military Shooters, and before that MMO's, and all the failed businesses that those trends left in their wake. Alternately, and this seems to be the situation where OP was, their own business had already solved this need; this is a good place to be, and wanting to increase revenue by providing a new product is a damn hard, borderline arcana level task to do without either A) alienating existing customers or B) cannibalizing the users of an existing product.

I don't think management is by default full of shit, and must prove themselves wrong. That said, I have never seen a healthy business that stays afloat long term where the response to criticism of decisions being made is to simply ostracize employees. If I have questions you're damn right I'm going to ask them, and I want answers commensurate with a level of respect that I'm sure my given boss would expect from me. And if your answer is to out me as a nonbeliever, I'm sending out resumes. I have no interest in finding out how this place is going down.
Jonah Complex
The FAA estimated the 737 Max would crash roughly once every 2-3 years. That is 8x more often than the rest of Boeing’s fleet.

This apparently was still within FAA guidelines. I gurantee the flying public’s risk tolerance is lower than that. I know mine is.
If you just want to know the truth, not "prove" it "globally" in a "study", which essentially amounts to proving to the wolf that he is dangerous to the sheep, all you need to do is look at the ingredients list.

For extra credit, look the ingredients up and see how many of them have above-zero blue hazmat ratings.
It’s sad but with enough money, a good legal team could almost certainly win it back. Most likely when the holder realized a modest payout was cheaper than their own legal fees to defend it.
"Promoted to their level of incompetence" is a phrase I've heard before to describe this phenomenon.
For instance:

- Text fields are not backed by native NSTextViews, so automatic substitutions, spell checking, and the options you usually have in the right-click/Edit menu are all missing.

- Pop-up menus (but not top-menu-bar menus) are also custom, and the appearance and animations are way off. And there are some discrepancies in behavior:

a. Suppose you right-click and hold (which opens the right-click menu in a mode where you select menu items by releasing instead of clicking), then release while over a menu item that's either disabled or a submenu. With native menus, the menu gets dismissed; with Qt menus, it stays open. Sounds incredibly minor, right? But it's something I grew to subconsciously rely on, over years of using macOS. When I started using a Qt app, I kept instinctively trying to dismiss menus that way and getting frustrated when they stayed open.

b. If the mouse cursor leaves the menu area, native menus stop highlighting any item, while Qt menus keep highlighting whichever item was last highlighted. In the press-and-hold mode, this makes it seem like releasing the button might choose that item; it actually dismisses the menu, same as with native menus, but it's confusing.
Deval Patrick Inspired Obama and Obama Inspired the Nation
Wikipedia's standards have tightened over time. Its current requirements are much stricter than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
Thanks a lot for all the info! :)
It wasn't one or two comments that caught my eye, it was the overwhelming anti-science sentiment of the audience in those videos.

Judge ideas for the ideas themselves, but this is a clear red flag and points to the type of community she is building.
I second this. All the top salesmen I knew, even the charismatic ones, were really introverts.

Part of their charm was practice, part of it was excitement for the product, part of it was some kind of inner fanaticism to help the customer.
> It seems like a lot of programming ideas are just ways to manage spaghetti rather than reduce the spaghetti.

Agreed! This is why I built this approach in a ~1000 lines of code. The ability for tools to create new problems was very much on my mind.

My current project using this approach is a bootstrapped computing stack from scratch: https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme. It's at ~40k LoC (of machine code) and self-hosted, and it can create bootable images (when packaged with an OS kernel). I expect to get to approximately C's level of expressivity in another ~20k LoC or so. So I care very much about what I call the "thrust to weight ratio" of a codebase. The less code you have, the less spaghetti you can create.

My implementation of layers will keel over and fail terribly for large projects with many team members. I consider that constraint to be a good thing.
Australian government unveils 'world-leading' regulation of tech giants
Continuous Documentation in a CI/CD World
No, I don't, because they're not: are identical twins more likely to live in the same zip code as fraternal twins? Seriously, think about it for a second. Or I'll put it this way: how much more likely are identical twins adopted out to live in the same zip code?

Nor does zip code predict remotely as well as IQ.
We can only pray. Oh, and petition, comment and vote, too.
Interesting timing that this gets released 2 days before they are due to take industrial action/strike... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-11/jetstar-flights-cance...
Someone who asks for reduced hours is probably shooting themselves in the foot wrt comp. It suggests you are negotiating against yourself. If you aren’t asking for more money you are leaving money on the table. Just work effectively for 30 hours and nobody is going to know you aren’t working 40. Measurement of productivity in software is very vague.
Some trans women have prostates? TIL. I honestly didn't know.

But you're right that I completely forgot about the intersex group.

In fact, I initially wondered if homosexual couples (of either sex) could refer to their SO as "wife", but then the comments also use "she", so I kinda dismissed the possibility of a biologically male "wife".
If the matching helps persuade people to donate, I'm all for it.

The Internet Archive is a world wide treasure. Please donate!

And it's really easy to set up an automatic monthly donation as I have done. One time donations are great. Ongoing income helps insure that this precious resource can continue to fulfill their mission.
> The global dearth of available IP addresses has turned them into a commodity wherein each IP can fetch between $15-$25 on the open market.

So a whole class C is only $6,500? Or is there a bonus for a contiguous block?

Even so, my friend owns his own Class C (since 1994), and I doubt he would part with it for a mere $10,000.
> That said, I have never seen a healthy business that stays afloat long term where the response to criticism of decisions being made is to simply ostracize employees.

100% agree with that line. If negative upward feedback is a dead end or met with retribution, an organizations communication structure and culture is broken.
This entrepreneurial spirit lives on nowadays at https://www.downloadmoreram.com/
Any idea what to look for when searching for such a job? I have asked about micromanagement in interviews before but I usually just get bullshit answers.
> I mean jesus, of course family background is not independent of IQ

Then what exactly do you think you are doing when you rant about how they didn't control for it?

> Your suggestion - with this fringe talk about "the sociologist's fallacy - is to eliminate any explanation from any study which does not assign success to invariant psychological metrics.

Nothing fringe about it, I'm afraid. This is well-understood in the statistics fields like causality you seem so loathe to actually learn about.

The point is: when you control for something and then go on to make causal claims, you are not making a minor tweak. You are assuming an extremely implausible causal model and making strong inferences from there about what are real causes and what are not. You have entirely failed to argue for a causal model which would justify simply controlling away family background etc, and it seems from how your comments handwave it away in favor of nothingburgers, you don't even understand what you're arguing for.
Glassdoor says the salary average is based on 11 reports. 5 reports included a bonus averaging $82,701 (and 2 reports included profit sharing averaging $10,345). The question is why only 5 of the 11 reported a bonus; or more specifically, did the others receive bonuses that they didn't report? If Glassdoor assumes that the other six didn't receive bonuses, then the average total pay of $114K makes sense.

84,315 + 82,701*5/11 + 10,345*2/11 = 123,787

The simple way I see to count these doesn't match the $114K, but it's close enough that I can buy that that's a big part of it. But the question is still whether the assumption (that nobody else received bonuses) is correct. It's plausible that many people fill out only the base salary figure, even if they have other compensation. If everybody gets a bonus, then the $160K figure reported in the other articles could be justified.
It is still a good investment, but the timelines are getting longer as the challenges get larger. This is happening simultaneously during a time when attention spans and patience are decreasing.
I need to disagree with you here, I consider myself full stack, but if you were to ask, FE would be my deep experience. And for me this is perfect, I have no problems with any FE work, and the same goes for BE work.
Sure, we have BE engineers with very deep experience, but I've never found myself in a position where I couldn't keep up with them. I acknowledge a lack some knowledge in BE, especially when it comes to deeper CompSci domains, but it has never held me back.

But in general, I think this is just a different mindset, I love being able to be independent, and complete a stories from FE to BE. I used to be in a position where I could only do FE work, and it really scared me. I had no clue where critical data was coming from, if something went wrong, I couldn't debug our APIs, I was in the dark constantly. Now if something goes wrong, I can switch over to our backend, debug, write extra test cases to cover the bug and push code. I also understand what BE engineers are talking about, and when designing a new feature, it's much easier to come up with new APIs.
>Companies need a few skeptics around to put the brakes on crazy ideas.

Absolutely. And not just crazy ideas, but maybe we'll intended ideas that are misaligned with each other or the overall goals and strategic roadmap. Too many autonomous silos that are all high functioning tend to not like a skeptic saying, "this is great in isolation but the sum of these parts don't fit coherently." They also don't like "this works, but it's an MVP at best, and isn't sustainable." Skeptics cognizant of technical debt, may meet unwelcomness in an org not willing to acknowledge it.
One person's straightforward is another person's rude. Delivery matters!
> I also think there should be a similar file for the regular expression that expresses a site’s allowable passwords.

I disagree. Password "complexity" requirements need to die and instead every site's password regex should be `.{12,64}` and then verify it's not in the dictionary or a list of leaked passwords.
I think they still keep the data.

I've always wondered why it was called the "The Oakland Archive Policy".

http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/archive/aps/removal-polic...
The burden is on the person saying that 'such-and-such a thing should be done' to explain themselves. You failed to do that, and you have still failed to do that, and you spend your comments complaining about being criticized, so your comments remain nothingburgers.
Rise of Open Source Softwares
A smaller place can revolve around one or two personalities who create/drive/dictate the internal culture. These people are needed and doing a bad job is only one factor when letting someone go.

Big companies have these people. They are act all social events, know many in senior management. They make friends with everyone have been promoted in areas they have no background but can force a project through because of relationships or understanding internal policy.
Honest question, hopefully not too ridiculous:

With a plane and engine like you were flying, if you were getting low on fuel and flying over a highway with little traffic, could you have successfully refueled at a roadside reststop?
No, that's just what youtube comments are like, you get so much garbage on pretty much anything. It's not like the author vets the comments, or even reads them. Like I said, I don't think it supports your argument.
With the popularity of 10+ minute videos that obfuscate the content to drive more ad revenue, a TLDR for YouTube videos would be a fantastic initiative.

It could work as a community service, perhaps as a browser extension, though curating the summaries could be a challenge.
(guessing...)

It's a non profit consortium. If you look at the list of members, you can guess that some are more interested in 32bit MCU type applications, some in 64bit CPU. So this keeps both camps happy.

Edit: Read it again, and it mentions NXP i.MX. The i.MX7 SOC has the same setup...64bit + 32bit core on the chip. The idea is run Linux on the 64bit chip, and a RTOS on the 32bit. So the 32bit cpu could do real time stuff, like signal processing, while the main chip has a more dev friendly OS for integration, administration, etc.
"It's our culture that has turned education into some kind of "investment" in future job prospects"

A liberal arts degree should not cost that much compared to the current tuition in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for many of these degrees.

It's an 'investment' because otherwise, it is a luxury for people that have money and don't need to work to pay back their loans.
The SRBs were to reduce development costs. NASA wanted to go full liquid, but budget issues caused them to cancel those plans.

As for gliding, the AF did impose a special requirement to be able to land at VAF which required larger wings than originally designed.
> Jesus Christ you couldn't pay me enough (or maybe you wouldn't want to) to live by point systems.

I took the gig to get myself straight after a failed business venture. It took 5 long years but at last I'm ready to launch another venture.
If you compare it to other server systems, it is pretty typical. I remember talking to Cisco about buying some lug nuts for our rack and they quoted me a price that was one-hundred times more than you could easily buy them for from a local supplier.
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LOS ANGELES — Five men were charged Tuesday in connection with what federal prosecutors called a lucrative cryptocurrency scheme that fleeced investors out of $722 million in a business model that one of the defendants described as built "on the backs of idiots," according to court documents.
America’s Top Foundations Bankroll Attack on Big Tech
Anyone who claims physical laws are inevitable in the sense of the Quanta article should please take a small course in formal logic.