skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can safely conclude that the content at the site cannot lead us to conclude that Dijkstra invented the nul-terminated string.

https://www.museumwaalsdorp.nl/en/history/comphistory/comput... says:

> A Control Data 6400 system was installed in May 1974 ...

> The Laboratory, like all other computer centres in the Netherlands, had opted for the so-called 63 character set. Control Data only tested systems with the 64 character set in America. Unsatisfactory code or code from “new” programmers yielded one or more errors with almost every new release, which we corrected at the TNO Physics Laboratory and made public with a lot of misgivings through the Problem Reporting System mechanism (PSR). Every two weeks a set of microfiches with all complaints and solutions collected worldwide was sent to all computer centres by Control Data. At every release level, it was exciting whether the errors we found were the first to report or that our colleague from the University of Arizona was going to blame

That gives a mismatch between "University of Austin, Texas" and "University of Arizona".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra says he joined the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. In the 1970s he lived in the Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string says that the PDP-11 in 1970 had NUL-terminated strings ("Null-terminated strings were produced by the .ASCIZ directive of the PDP-11 assembly languages and the ASCIZ directive of the MACRO-10 macro assembly language for the PDP-10.")

This was when Dijkstra was at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Therefore, whatever is described at the link cannot be used to conclude that Dijkstra had anything to do with nul-terminated strings.
What work intervals are more productive: short or long?
> There are countries in the world other than the United States and Sweden. Also why should any country have an obligation to open their doors just because you're willing to throw money at them?

Yea not none is really pro business the same way as the US is unfortunately. Also the US offers multiple states with multiple jurisdictions so you can decide for yourself what level of regulation you are willing to tolerate and move accordingly. That´s like 50 countries in 1 :D

Also, no one has to open up their doors. I am just personally disappointed because I want to work hard and prosper in a place that is pro-business that speaks English. I have considered moving to Asia for a long time but I dont think that I´d enjoy living there.

> That aside, one of my Canadian friends spent a year in Chile creating a startup because the Chilean government paid a good chunk of his living expenses in an effort to bootstrap their tech entrepreneur scene. There are many interesting options around the world of you seek them out.

I tried South America for a while. It didnt work for me as I dont speak the language and English isnt very dominant at times. So I´d need a year or two to learn the language before I can even get started in a place like that.
This seems like a decent model for a lot of situations, but the difference between "development time" and "run time" gets increasingly blurry in the real world when you reload config live, do canary deployments of new code, etc. I think there's really just state with a spectrum of different lifetimes, from years to nano-seconds, and also cached/pure-functional data.
The idea would be that you abstract it as a pure function and then you can layer on caching later, when you find out it's needed. The idea is not to always cache values, but to recognize when that's what you're doing and keep it separate from the rest of your state.
So this interested me - and am quite astonished by the outcome

If I use unicorns (parent post) per millions of population (figures from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio... - rounded up to nearest million .5 up - thus Estonia (1.3M has 1M in this calc, giving it 2 unicorns per Million people!))

Estonia 2.00

Israel 0.78

Singapore 0.67

Sweden 0.50

HK 0.43

USA 0.37

Portugal 0.30

SKorea 0.22

Belgium 0.17

UK 0.15

China 0.08

Australia 0.08

Canada 0.05

France 0.05

Ukraine 0.05

Germany 0.02

India 0.02

Indonesia 0.02

Sweden is forth in the list, with Estonia and Portugal as real surprises. Guess the effect of just one Unicorn / outlier is high but even so ... SV is clearly not the only way.
More about ispc, from Matt Pharr: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html - includes some discussion of Intel's corporate culture. Interesting throughout.
Germany's economy is characterised by decentralisation and small and middle-sized family business, the so called Mittelstand. Germany is home to a significant portion of the world's 'hidden champions'[1], which as the name suggests, largely fly under the radar of the consumer focussed start up sector.

Startups mostly profit from access to homogenous large consumer markets and extreme clusters. Neither has ever been the goal of German economic development, largely because it's incompatible with the sort of cultural values German's consider important.

[1] https://hbr.org/1992/03/lessons-from-germanys-midsize-giants
"Access denied"
Is there a list of successful Softbank companies? It's starting to feel like the only time I ever hear about them is when some batshit Web 7.0 gig-economy company that should never have existed starts losing its shirt, and then it turns out that Softbank has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in it.
Not burn their customers so badly they were put in the hospital.
Chromated copper arsenate, which is highly toxic, used to be used to make pressure treated wood. Throwing a piece on the fire would have released a good bit of arsenic.

Since 2003 pressure treated wood is made with alkaline copper quanternary, copper azole or micronized copper azole. They are all very much all less toxic since they are believed not be be able to be absorbed by the body, but I still wouldn't throw any on a fire.
Agreed. I’ve found that most people don’t spend time thinking about the ideal society. So when you talk about an ideal society and you describe one aspect of it, they imagine you’re talking about a society where everything is the same except that one aspect. They have a very hard time imagining what the world would be like if many things were different.
> Do you believe that China's massive and uncontrolled supply had no effect on the opioid epidemic?

That's not a bizarre position to take when most addicts started on prescribed meds, whether those meds were prescribed for them or diverted from friends and family members. People move onto fentanyl when they've developed a tolerance for prescription meds and can no longer get higher doses.

Why don't other places have such a big problem with fentanyl?
At this point I've had 3 phones with USB-C.

My first, a Nexus 6P, eventually had it's connector fail to tightly grip any cables, resulting in an easy to disconnect connection.
While this sounds like the common USB-C problem of lint/material in the phone side, no amount of cleaning ever fixed it.

The second phone, also a 6P had no issues.

My current, a Pixel 2XL has had the phone side connector metal slightly bent inwards from a bump, resulting in a quite sturdy connection.

So far I haven't had any cable connectors fail for me.
Someone claiming to be an early employee that wrote the first scheduling software showed up here a few years ago and said that story is BS, FWIW.
What exactly do you gain? The leave pay is paid by the government and you still need a new employee.
I recently pivoted out of my org's DevOps & SRE team to something in middle-management and product facing (many drinks have been spilled over this decision) and one of my colleagues who still works on that team pushed traefik enough that the team pivoted to it.

I couldn't tell you if it was the right or effective decision any more quickly than I could tell you he's been battling with it constantly since getting the greenlight from his PM to do so. Exposure is admittedly limited to hearing about the struggles the team has faced through the water-cooler/coffee room chats.
What applies to wasted lives?
Sorry about that. Re-posting this, I added an additional 'w' to the subdomain! It's www.pixelic.io/userflow
'Enkel' translates to 'simple' in Danish (and some other Nordic languages as well).
Wiki says "Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.[26] The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The first public beta version was released on 29 August 2003."
https://archive.md/byuYt
"a country" ? which country is that ...
From tfa it sounds like they’re using the traditional definition of hacker and not shorthand for someone who uses computers to steal from people.
I have seen some USB-C devices (laptops, tablets) where the USB-C connector doesn't seem well connected to the motherboard and for which I imagine it might fail quickly. Other devices and sometimes other connectors on the same device seem better.

I've had Lenovo and Dell windows-based desktop replacement laptops and I'd say both USB 3 and USB-C ports are iffy in various ways. My Dell at work works perfectly with a Dell dock. I've never found a USB 3 or USB-C dock that works right with my slightly older Alienware (also Dell) laptop, although I've had good luck with monitors that do both USB-C /Thunderbolt and video on the same card. I think macs do better than in that department, particularly in how fast they can inspect the USB-C bus and connector all the devices.
Klarna
Make drinkable coffee?

Starbucks success imho was due to their having a sufficiently well controlled process to make a consistently decent (if not excellent) cup of coffee in _all_ their stores. Their competitors are all over the place in both the time and location axes.
> as long as everyone else is doing it too

That right there never ceases to amaze me. How everybody just willingly joins knowing they’re hurting themselves but out of the need to be in the loop with everybody else.

I’d say you hit the nail on the head. Crazy things indeed.
Nintendo Labo – Something we could only do with Nintendo Switch
I think as long as the mutators are cohesive, the design is more coherent to the users.

In a purely pigeonhole principle sense, more pure code crowds out impure. But if you can put all of the impure code into one or two phases of an interaction, you’re improving things without really changing the ratios at all.

We often get sucked into analogs of the things we really need and I feel like this is one of them. You want the state changes to be comprehended. Fewer of them might help a lot or make things worse (legibility or performance). I believe it’s another quality over quantity situation.
Yes, https://netlify.com is great for this too and supports most static site generators.
Aspettativa is subject to conditions, though (i.e. it can be denied).
This seems to achieve the blockMesh functionality.

http://tkeskita.kapsi.fi/blender/SwiftBlock/docs/swift.html
Why the heck would anyone want to do this?

"Hey honey, let's cash in our retirement plan and doom our children to a life where they'll never see the sky except through a visor or viewscreen and never again feel the wind on their face."
2019 Breach Trends – Based on Open Source Data
Have you read "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley?
Traefik is nifty for quick and simple Docker deployments, making it quite easy to add additional services to the existing proxy/load balancer, with a few additional lines in that service's docker-compose file.
Interestingly, my lab has been working in emulators for one of our simulation models, and we're really struggling to make meaningful improvements.

It's faster, but we're not there yet on accuracy.
Rule #22: My experience is the opposite. For our professional audio software [0] we met almost all of the initial customers at conferences. They tried out our software, enjoyed working with it, and then later purchased a few licenses for trying things out back at home. Some of them later purchased licenses for every seat in their company. I believe it would have been extremely difficult to sell audio software without giving people the ability to test-listen.

[0] https://newaudiotechnology.com/products/
Posts like this make me really appreciate this form.
MERS? (there's a paywall, so I'm just guessing here)
>The automation in that video seems less than helpful, all the labor-intensive steps are being done by the humans

The saucing of the dough in particular was absolutely slower than a reasonably experienced human worker. For a human worker in a typical pizzeria, the sauce takes two seconds.
In Russia, Bing shows Crimea as Russia. When I'm using it with VPN terminated in UK, it shows it as Ukraine.
Configuring CORS is probably the biggest pain about this approach and is necessary if you want to send data to and from an API. This guide should probably mention it or link another guide.
They don't, because he will just straight-out never hire a woman again (though he cannot say that).
Thank you. I have yet to see an example in this thread or anywhere else that did not fall into this category.
This kind of behavior is appalling! Imagine if someone had ever said or behaved these ways to give men a leg up that they didn’t deserve! I certainly hope someone would keep the careful tally of a handful of anecdotes that you have.
> Why can’t any healthy functioning adult do the exact same thing on their own ?

Because they know it would be very hard to be re-hired if things don't work out.

> is 6 months living expenses really holding back your entrepreneurial dreams?

No, for most people it's the thought of renouncing a guaranteed job. With this sort of thing, you know that there is a safety net if the business doesn't take off in 6 months.
What's wrong with that? Much excellent software is still purchased in just this way

Or is trust a forgotten skill nowadays?
My first thought:

Imagine if William Randolph Heart and Ma Bell had a love child.
That depends on who the clients are, and why did they hire you. If you're just a subcontractor in an org run by smart people, it may very well be that they're asking for X, actually need X and expect to get X - they just outsourced the boring work to you.
I hope this wasn't a reflection of me being obnoxious
I think the "default allow" of a social media platform is materially different from the "default deny" of a typical publisher. That's kind of tricky to build a sharp distinction on, but it's where I would start.
Netlib BLAS is a very low bar [1], and not at all how one should go about writing a performance portable BLAS. BLIS (https://github.com/flame/blis/) is a much better approach, and underlies vendor implementations on AMD (https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocl/blas-library/) and many embedded systems.

[1] GEMV is entirely limited by memory bandwidth, thus quite uninteresting from a vectorization standpoint. Maybe you meant GEMM?
If only we could go back to the good old days when things were a meritocracy and no one was getting promoted unfairly because of their race, gender, or relationships.
Flashloans are a kind of loan where you can borrow a potentially large quantity of a digital asset with no collateral for a small fee — as long as the asset is returned by the end of the atomic transaction.

It looks like somebody very cleverly used a large flashloan to, essentially, create an arbitrage opportunity by moving the price on a relatively illiquid asset.
I researched Zume quite deeply for interviewing with them and I never could figure out how they intended to make money. They had a vast plan that was way to big to execute all at once and none of it was ever going to be complete. I got the sense that they had received way too much funding and had gone on a feature-creep binge as a result. I learned a neat lesson from that: you can kill a startup with too much money up front.
Twitter says Olympics, IOC accounts hacked
>I thought being Europe's strongest economy would help.

I don't think that reducing a country or an econonomy to a single metric (here: gdp, I guess?) is the right approach; we are looking at very complicated systems here. One thing that makes Germany unique is its Mittelstand-phenomena [0].

Historically, innovation isn't driven by wealth, but by pressure, see: times of war, or the US' "make it big or die"-mentality.

Germans are very well off: cabs in every village are high-end mercedes models (suggesting that the entire society is rich), and social security is simply unmatched globally (afaik, no other country pays you 400eur+rent until you find a job, no matter how many years it takes).

Growing up in this environment, I never felt incentivized to come up with ways to become super-rich (which is the idea behind being an entrepeneur, isn't it?). Theres just no point to that hustle if you can live a really decent life working a normal job.

Sure, there is some class struggle (and there always was), but generally speaking, people just don't need to "make it" on their own - opposed to the US, where status is everything)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
I'm quite aware of the taxes involved -- as I said, I've been working as a consultant for some time now. What you might be forgetting is that, with a company, you can plan your taxes better. Take out a minimal salary and put everything in an ISK and you don't have to pay any capital gains tax, for example.

You're also going to pay taxes being self-employed in the UK, and whether you prefer London over Stockholm is subjective; what you need to consider is the cost of real estate mainly vs statistical incomes, rather than anecdotes.

Regarding how "massively fucked" the Krona is, check this chart: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=SEK&view=5Y
If you have strong technical oversight that can align outsourced development to your technology strategy then it can work.

I've worked with many non-technical founders saddled with a surprisingly expensive outsourced MVP weighed down by poor architectural choices or tech debt that limits future growth.
Rebasing Is an Anti-Pattern
SoftBank is a Japanese company heavily invested in companies all over the world. I am not clear on the direct link between US Fed QE and SoftBank's Zume Pizza investment.

If you are going to blame the US government for this bad investment, then you'll also need to give them credit for all of SoftBank's good investments too, right?
"Tracing the US opioid crisis to its roots"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02686-2
Cinsel Sohbet
A Snake Egg Puzzle Solver
At least in America it is extremely difficult, if not practically impossible, for "any healthy functioning adult" to just take six months off to do something like start a business. Very few households have even one month of expenses saved up (most can't afford something like a $400 emergency, e.g., car repair).
I was at a talk last week where the speaker spent a little bit of time on using machine learning on a regression matrix that is trained by the results of a simulation. The simulation and variables in the regression matrix were chosen such that the AI could recreate an approximation of a known physical law. This is fairly exciting to me because if used to recreate a lot of laws in this field, it could then be used on experimental data to untangle some of the mess and identify the relationships for us. I could see this speeding along development of science.
I used open shot while on vacation recently and it was a pleasant experience. At the very least it was among the better open source productivity apps that I tried recently.

By this I mean it has a complete installer for my os, it installed without a hitch, the UI is "normal" and intuitive enough, it handled my dpi just fine, and the functionality is solid.

The only issue is that it was a bit sluggish at times.

Got my video done and will surely drop a donation if I adopt it as my go to video editor.
Thanks for the clarification here!

Since you are using freemium at the moment do you have some way of quantifying the hassle that this decision has created? It would be interesting to know more about how you navigate this kind of tradeoff since this is really what matters when it comes to detemerning whether a decision like freemium vs no-freemium is actually a good decision
Human digestive tract and limb power share is evolved around omnivorous diet.
You actually made me search, when these things are obvious. Here's one, since that's all I "owe" you:

7-year jail, Rs 100 crore fine soon for showing PoK, Arunachal as disputed

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

Edit to add another one:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3ddmzv/if-youre-a-foreign...

According to Sohu, China's surveying administration investigated and handled nearly 40 cases of "foreign illegal surveying and mapping" since 2006. An amendment proposed last year to the national law on surveying would impose fines and jail time for makers of maps that “fail to demonstrate China’s complete territory.”
> But isn't that simply the nature of venture capital? Invest in a lot of different things, most of which will fail, and make up for the losses with the Ubers of the world.

One, if that's really the model, then founders had better stay as far away from venture capital as possible. Whether your motivation is "change the world"/"deliver on the vision you have" or "make money," that's not your investor's model. Your investor's model is to convince you and a hundred people like you that each of you is special and going to change the world, while expecting only one of you to succeed. Your investor's model is to push you to be Uber-scale even if you're overextending yourself and to convince you that you can do it even if you probably can't, because it's better to let you fail and cut you loose than to let you have a modest and small success that doesn't make a dent in the portfolio. If you and everyone else is aiming for safe successes instead of high-risk-high-reward gambles, then the let-a-thousand-startups-bloom approach stops being profitable for the investor, so investors can't let that happen.

Two, I think the rest of the world - and perhaps even the industry itself - doesn't quite intuitively understand that. If that's really the model, "We have $375M from SoftBank" isn't an indicator of anything, neither to other investors nor to potential employees.
GitHub’s import feature worked well for me. You’re obviously going to lose the wiki, issues etc. But at least you’ll keep your repo history, branches, ...
There is one. Has been for a long while (1.5 years or so) if you signed up for the Unreal Studio beta and all of the Unreal Studio stuff came to vanilla Unreal Engine in 4.24.
Interesting article thanks. Maybe add a link to the previous article in the "Blog Series" like it does in part 1.
> Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs

Shouldn't it be the choice of the employees what they do with their unpaid time off?
> See, that's the problem with every developer in Silicon Valley calling themselves an "engineer"; they want the title without the obligations that a professional engineer has. "Not my problem" would cost you your designation.

All engineers make mistakes and misjudgements, even the ones working in long-established fields, as we can see from the 737MAX saga. It's management's job to design a organizational structure that puts enough safeguards in place that mistakes get captured before the product rolls out. That's what management literally means.
Not all data points are useful. Different pools have different profitability advertised in different ways.

Some highly useful data is hard to get directly or requires significant and/or stealthy spend.
Reasons we don’t write code like we used to
This is very odd to read as a founder. On one hand, you have VCs and Angels telling you you have to be "10x of everything's that's out there!" to get a 1M seed check. On the other, you see someone who's arguably 10x worse getting a medium sized bank given to them.