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No matter how detrimental software patents are to the big players, they are far more detrimental to the small players. If it can keep the smaller players from being real competitors, it's in the best interest of the big companies to just pay the patent tax. They stand to lose far more with a lower barrier to entry to their markets.

Software is kind of unique (and even moreso now with the prevalence of cloud providers) with its otherwise low barrier to entry; as capital expenses are extremely low compared to other industries.
It's funny to say "100% green", since in this particular case you need also to look how much pollution was made in the building process of a yacht, and if the price pays off with it being 100% green.
Do you mind posting a link to your dissertation? That chapter sounds interesting!
On the second point, the OP is complaining more a about the lack of a way to directly access anything smaller than 4 bytes, i.e., that there are no 1 or 2 byte reads or writes.

In addition to being slow for e.g. text processing, you couldn't implement a modern memory model like Java's or C++ on it, without serious compromises, due to the inability to make non-interfering writes of adjacent elements.
This was a surprisingly good article and I had not even really (odd actually) heard of Tim until literally the other day. Maybe I came across his name somewhere in the past but thought "he's a self help type author no interest". That said the thing that surprised me is the fact that he is doing the least likely things to make himself less of a target. You go to the blog there's a big picture of him on display and not exactly understated. So sure he could write his books and provide information and make it less likely that people would get mental over what he has and his success (because they would be less likely to focus on him and be jealous). After all something sparks the person who stalks him and I don't think a large part of that is words. Yes writers and others (w/o pictures) get stalked but for whatever reason my guess is it's much less.

Let's look at it this way. Not saying it would be possible to be famous w/o displaying yourself personally in a prominent way but what if he provided his helpful info and never had a picture of himself and/or used a pseudonym for his name?
Quality of life is subjective, and there are no cities that offer as much financial and career opportunity to the average senior software developer as SV does right now. Yes, cost of living is high, but you’ll still come out far ahead the average senior software dev living in some midwestern city. There are exceptions / edge cases, but they’re just that.
Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look. What I am trying to accomplish with Contextualise is a straight-forward UI on top of a powerful, but still conceptually simple data model (topic maps).
It used to be much less accepted to have a "foreign sounding" (non-anglo-saxon) name.
As mostly user of commercial software, it hardly affects me, but it is going to be interesting to watch when all copyleft software gets into a niche and we get back what was basically shareware and PD on the home computing scene.
Huh. I have a list of things I feel it needs before it's really ready for broad adoption, but data loss? I haven't experienced any, and yours is the first mention I've come across. That said, it's still beta quality and they're moving really fast; since it's still free I'm reserving judgment on the reliability front. It's so good, w so much potential; rooting hard for them to get it right.
Most of us. And it's by choice due to convenience.
The case of Li Wenliang is really sad. He knew about the Corona virus epidemic at an early stage and tried to raise the alarm. He posted about it on social media. Police showed up and arrested him for spreading "false" rumors.

After a while he was released but it was too late. The situation was out of control. He got the virus himself and died.

It really scares me that increasing numbers of developers write software enabling tyranny and abuse like this.

We must not censor the rumors, but give people the tools to evaluate for themselves what the truth really is.
>>"have enough money to have a great quality of life without stress" is how many people define "rich".

sure, but "great" is not easily defined. A new car or a jet? A $500K home or a $15M one to host parties with rich and famous. But people usually like to show off, one way or another.

If you hit it big with a company, and have, say, $10 Million you can live extremely stress free everywhere in the world. And very few would know, at least no one in your town or extended family. But quite a few hint at their wealth, political donations, charity (announce it publicly) etc etc. It's tempting, but once you hit the news is over.

In USA people might sue you for one thing or another, but in banana republic countries you can "taxed" by criminals: Give us $1 Million or your child is...
Dear HN: Stop referring to women as a monolith. Thank you
Today I read a handful of comments that included a sentence starting with “women” as if women are a monolith.

For example, there was an argument about whether “women like bodybuilders” or “women don’t like bodybuilders” — there are billions of women in the world, with dozens of intersections across race, class, culture, and sexuality to name a few. The argument doesn’t make sense.

“women” are people who read our comments. I roll my eyes when I see women treated as objects or stereotypes or monoliths on hacker news. Today I thought I’d do something more.

Thanks for reading this post. Now we all know that referring to women as a monolith, as if speaking only to other straight men (who we falsely assume are ok speaking about women this way), is as rude as referring to “the gays” or “the [not-whites]” and as eye-sore as writing “you’re [possessed object]”.

Anyone else feeling this way? Thanks in advance for the thoughtful discussion.
https://thehustle.co/

https://www.accessnow.org/
> sharing your phone number with them shouldn’t change the level of privacy

It's not sharing that is lowering the privacy level, it's having to disclose all the information to the mobile operator, in addition to the hassle of needing an additional contract with a third, unrelated party.
Does anyone have a concrete set of requirements before going remote? My managers want to do this but I'm not convinced we have the right stuff, in terms of process.

Stuff like:

How should we/should we not set up our git repo? How should we organize our slack channels, meetings, team documentation, etc.
Good luck if you have young kids and a wife
If you don't become rich, the money that you would've earned will land in somebody else's pockets and presumably they can also use it for some good (possibly even greater one).
You are also never 100% safe if you are poor.
This is data for 2/8, where the redditor’s death count prediction was 721.
At the end of the article, it says “However, despite the rumours of a Gates investment, the Aqua is still just a concept.” It’s unclear what exactly is the truth.
Reading through the site feels like a breath of fresh air in today's convoluted web development. This is how it should have been right from the beginning.
I am not yet ready to become a hermit. But when I do I would rather live without a phone then without phone and a bank account. :-)
At my company they often forget the remote people with stuff like this.

This is my biggest fear having recently been asked to make a few infrastructure changes to allow remote workers. My company is beginning to allow support staff to work and connect to key systems remotely, and while I can’t say how effective the individual workers will be, after a few years here (and soon about to depart) I have to place a vote of no confidence in my leadership to actually put any meaningful weight behind their words of “we are now supporting remote workers”.

the reality is they’re now allowing remote workers in a part of the company that sees the most attrition, has the lowest promotion numbers and historically has not received near the same treatment as other departments. I don’t have confidence they’ll be well supported judging from how other remote teams are “supported”, mine included.
Or where the hydrogen comes from (currently the huge majority of commercial hydrogen originates from fossil fuels)
Came here to quote that. Rumors? This article is garbage.
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There are also the Pinephone and perhaps the Fairphone, for varying degrees of openness. Maybe a few others even?

Neither of these are completely in the open but all three are probably good enough for making an enthusiast operating system run. They are all variations of relatively well known, sometimes even documented, hardware, with lots of necessary peripherals with non-free firmware blobs.

Some make efforts to only communicate with these non-free peripherals over standardized protcols, which is the "good enough" part. For community oriented mobile operating systems, 2020 is probably going to be the best year yet.

Price is also a factor. Many more people will tinker with a $200 phone than a $800 one. It's probably better to cut corners with your first model in order to hit a price point that gets enthusiasts on board. Raspberry Pi did that and have gotten incrementally more open with time.
Worked at VMware in 2016.
They fired all of us and told us that in order to collect any severance we would have to train our Chinese replacements.
It was a fuck you moment as I trained my Chinese team all I knew about VMWare workstation kernel in a month, fuckers didn't understand any of my deep institutional knowledge at that level, I didn't care. Got my severance and they do literally nothing except new splash screens and GUI elements. I guess that's Dell/EMC/VMware in a nutshell. Wouldn't trust anything to them anymore.
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I can only speak for myself, not the earlier post, but I have written about this at length (I hope skimmably), at http://lukecall.net .
Ask HN: How comfortable is your FAANG job?
So I'm a software consultant, and having worked with a few large clients now, something has become very obvious: the less profitable the company, the more miserable it is to work there (for myself and the company's employees).

Working with hugely profitable companies, we can charge $200k for a project, and it's relatively lax, expectations are reasonable, and deadlines are flexible. Even if it's a total flop, it's only $200k and they can write it off as an experiment. Working with far less profitable companies (within the same sector), even our $50k projects are miserable, scope-creeping, infighting experiences where the employees will try to extract maximum value from us while also trying to claim credit for the work (to obtain promotions and raises, which are limited due to the aforementioned limited profitability).

So I'm curious to learn about your personal experiences working at these companies that we generally consider to be hugely successful. I'm sure there is massive variation amongst different teams and projects, but I'm interested nonetheless. Are you still working against tight deadlines and fighting for promotions? Or are you enough of a cog that you can get by while doing the absolute bare minimum to get your annual raise? How does your job now compare to your previous experiences?
Guys, here there is the same page but with examples: https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/redbeardlab/simplesql.r...
There are also turn-key OS7 and OS9 apps that can be run under Catalina with minimal fuss
The Bloomberg candidacy will be an interesting test of this- he is emphatically not a charismatic personality, I’m curious to see how far his unlimited budget will carry him.
I think China is the biggest threat. Where is that in the media. Oh wait, they own the media. Reddit too.
Another metaphor: if someone decided not to pave their driveway, because they don't want it to get so hot in the summer, would you tell them, hey I'm not going to visit you until you pave your driveway?
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From the linked text:

> In particular, the GNU make jobserver code ends up using a pipe as a way to limit parallelism, where each job consumes a token by reading a byte from the jobserver pipe, and releases the token by writing a byte back to the pipe.

Umm, that's what semaphores are for.
It's not selling this version to "the public" as you explicitly have to opt-in to these batches.
Let’s say your hardware cost $1 million. Then, a compiler that brings you a 1% speed increase compared to a free one should be break-even at a license price of $10,000, possibly more if you factor in the cost to run that machine. $1 million computers are rare, but not that rare (The fastest in the top-500 cost over $100 million), so, _if_ you can build a compiler that consistently does that, there should be a profitable business there.

I would think margins on CPU sales and on consulting would dwarf that 1% margin, though. Because of that, I think it’s more “winning the benchmarks game, because that’s what sells hardware there” then revenues from compiler sales that keeps intel’s compiler alive.
C++ and Go.
What was an example of a simple thing that took too much effort in Eiffel?
All but one Dutch bank (newcomer Bunq) offer authentication methods that do not rely on owning a smartphone. Most often this takes the form of a complimentary card reader that uses your debit card as a hardware private key to generate OTP codes.

Most banks do try very hard to push you to use their Android or IOS app though. I agree that it is becoming increasingly hard to exist without either an Android or IOS smartphone.

The Dutch government is mandating the use of a stronger level of authentication to access your personal medical data. Currently, the only system that meets this standard is the government Android or IOS app. An alternative is being considered that allows people to use an NFC-reader on any modern computing platform with a suitable driver's licence or ID-card, but this won't be available to every citizen until 2029 due to the renewal cycle of these government issued cards. But even then I can't escape a certain sense of complacency with the government branch developing these techniques; they really seem to want everyone to either get an Android or IOS smartphone, or authorize a relative or friend to manage your digital affairs on your behalf. This latter option is of course geared towards the elderly and the digitally encumbered.

It was possible to participate digitally as citizen in the age of the personal computer even if you didn't get Windows or Mac OS X, but in the smartphone era this freedom does not seem to exist for much longer.
Creepy AF
Antarctica is teeming with microbes
I am just me, not a Church leader, but I think it is for several reasons: 1) prophetically-encouraged preparedness, like in the days of Noah (food storage, avoiding debt, save for a rainy day, etc), 2) to best be able, long-term, to fulfill the divinely appointed mission of the Church to spread the teachings and voluntary systems that bring peace in this life and eternal life in the world to come.

I have collected a bunch of links (official and not) w/ further info, at my personal site, such as at:
http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854578831.html

and http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854589754.html

and my own thoughts on this and various subjects at http://lukecall.net , such as http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854587122.html .

ps: It strikes me after many years of general reading & observation that economic up/down cycles would be very reduced or different if we used savings instead of debt, more. And, being in debt leaves one under the control of others, to some degree, reducing independence of planning and action. I'm not saying it is never appropriate, but it also has some somewhat predictable effects.

Edit: I see that others have also posted these links that give some official responses:

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-fina...

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presi...
I have a small hobby project - FIDO2 Authenticator built on ESP32 chip. For cryptography, I'm using ATECC508A co-processor. I want to use biometric authentication so I connected fingerprint scanner.

So far the device can be used both for user registration and authentication. However, fingerprint recognition is not implemented yet.
The misperception I feel many of us have - myself included - is basic privacy means nondisclosure. I don't personally trust Google, nor do I have a Google account. But if I were to have a Google account I'd rather share my data - whatever it was I chose to share, which should always be opt-in - with Google's nemesis (Huawei?) and let let them pay us to fight over it.
Trying to profit from someones death is unfortunately as old as mankind. From the company that orchestrated and managed the recent funeral of Muhammad Ali (against the best wishes of his family) to conspiring surrounding the death of Stalin. This dark comedy “The Death of Stalin” explains it best:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/

The company that controlled the funeral of Muhammad Ali:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Brands_Group
Those were the days, when Vision 1 still seemed optimistic.
What about https://crypton.sh? I saw they do SIM cards (also with encrypted storage), servers in Iceland and privacy stuff.
StrongARM is dead anyway. Take a look at what Threadripper and EPYC can do, especially for the cost - now that's what a real leader looks like.
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I have recently accidentally created a folder named “~”. Then I tried deleting it through shell.
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ARM’s memory model is stronger than Alpha’s especially on ARM64.

It’s not about just whether it’s possible to write a mutex but also whether you can write a really good one. The best concurrent algorithms - whether mutexes or lock-free data structures - benefit from a careful mix of strength and weakness in the memory model. I think Alpha is too weak. X86 may be too strong - so say smart people - but it still manages to be fast as fuck.

No idea what you’re talking about wrt alignment. On x86, you can load/store misaligned. On Alpha, you can’t. On ARM, you can on some but not on others. The CPUs where you can are easier to program.

No idea what you’re talking about wrt memory barriers. It’s not a solved problem. Memory barriers slow things down so it’s better not to have to use them. X86 and ARM64 give you tricks to avoid using barriers, or to use cheap barriers, in many important racy algorithms. Alpha gives you fewer tricks. (Specifically x86 gives you lots of ordering “for free” while arm64 let’s you use the self-xor dependency trick to cheaply order loads and has a generous buffet of half fences.) The memory model matters a lot - the weaker it is, the fewer tricks programmers have to avoid doing expensive things to request specific orderings.
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> 'But it's not what they own, it's what they impose on others.'

But I haven't imposed anything on anyone. It's society--or rather, a certain loud, vocal, and extremely selfish segment of society--which is attempting to impose something on me.

It speaks volumes about the mentality of such people that they somehow think I'm imposing on them, because they're 'forced' to think and plan ahead a little bit if/when they desire to contact me, rather than me being instantly available at their beck and call 24/7/365.

> 'they're constantly relying and leaching from others. That can be annoying, and people tend to not like annoying people?'

Exactly my reasoning for purposely disconnecting from those who always have to be joined at the hip with their digital devices 24/7/365, and who insist that I need to be also, for their convenience.
I sense an optimism of someone who yet not lived through a major recession. When the economy takes a nosedive, even janitor jobs can be hard to come by.

And welfare, even where it is available, is usually severely capped both in amount and duration. You may not die of hunger but losing your place to live is entirely realistic.
I really hate it when people do that and don’t provide a way to disable it.

There are a number of python libraries I can’t install on my laptop easily because the native code runs out of physical (4GB!) memory spawning compiler jobs and everything starts thrashing, it’s just dumb to go forking without asking the user first. People who really want it can give make the -j flag.
My girlfriend's family has a bunch of software engineers who worked on various space programs as employees for the major defense contractors (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon), and they had nothing but bad things to say about NASA software engineers, and working with NASA in general. Maybe things have changed in the past 16 years, though. Could also just be typical private vs. public rivalry.
Tom and Jerry is one of my favorite cartoons and I still watch them once in a while.

> When their department was closed down in 1957, Hanna and Barbera set up their own production company.

> But only a few years later, MGM decided to revive Tom and Jerry without its original creators. In 1961 they outsourced to a studio in Prague to save on costs. Chicago-born animator Gene Deitch was tasked with heading the remake, but struggled with a tight budget and staff with no knowledge of the original.

> His studio also secretly made episodes of other cartoons, including Popeye. Czech names were Americanised on the credits to stop viewers associating the shows with Communism.

So much in here. I hope we also remember these instances when we talk about copyright, trademark or stealing IP.
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Yeah most things have a lot of comments. It’s very nice to read.
> However, despite the rumours of a Gates investment, the Aqua is still just a concept.

I think this makes the title misleading: we're not even sure that he invested in a boat that does not exist yet.

> a $645 million 100% green luxury super yacht

> meaning that its only emission will be water

Production by-products aside, hydrogen production is majorly the processing of fossil fuel[^1], which rejects carbon monoxide. Introducing the boat as 100% green is misleading.

[^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
Things might have changed, but back in the days they usually just flared off hydrogen sulfide because it was hard to deal with and not very profitable. You more or less had to force the oil companies to collect it.

So yes - often a byproduct of oil production, but if the oil companies had it their way, they'd burn it on the spot.
Honest question: why would those things be different? I mean, of course meetings can't happen if everyone is in a different timezone, but everything else should be just the same as with a non-remote team.
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I find it incredible that anyone would use a Kindle (or similar device) when they know beforehand that data-gathering is the name of the game. I find it even more incredible that they are actually surprised by the extent of the data collected.

I've a different worldview wherein I automatically assume that any online, phone or interactive activity that I engage in will be monitored and recorded automatically and I take steps to either not engage in them or I actively take steps to nuke the data collection.