skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it was not just Payoneer's users that were negatively impacted by FCA suspending the license of Wirecard Solutions in the UK. The users of Curve and various other fintech companies experienced the same.

It comes at no surprise that Wirecard's competitors are already ''hunting'' for Wirecard's and Payoneer's clients.

Transformify, a customer of Payoneer, has been pitched 3 times per day on average last week by a variety of payment providers.

So, which competitors may attract Wirecard's clients?
https://www.transformify.org/blog/blogger-s-island/competito...
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Steam doesn't use a carousel, it has a gallery with thumbnails. Those two are not the same thing.
...and also likely more deliberately demoralising and horrific art being created today than ever.
Hey ! I'm just doing that on Apple 2 :-)

Coding with modern tool sis fun because you can go much faster to handle the technical challenges of demos. Meaning, in my case, I can reach the algorithmic (the most interesting to me) aspect much faster.

For example, I've made a "bad apple" demo and I was able to quickly prototype a running version thanks to emulator, assembler, etc. Then I spend the remaining 80% of the project of figuring out the compression scheme.

Today, I'm working on some 3D stuff. Spent some time on basics (line drawing, assembler, etc) and again, I've reached the point where compression is the issue ! Back in the old days, this would've taken so much longer...
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Strategically, could this be part of a response to Apple silicon?

Or put another way, Apple and Google are both responding to Intel/the market’s failure to innovate enough in idiosyncratic manner:

- Apple treats lower layers as core, and brings everything in-house;

- Google treats lower layers as a threat and tries to open-source and commodify them to undermine competitors.

I don’t mean this free fabbing can compete chip-for-chip with Apple silicon of course, just that this could be a building block in a strategy similar to Android vs iOS: create a broad ecosystem of good-enough, cheap, open-source alternatives to a high-value competitor, in order to ensure that competitor does not gain a stranglehold on something that matters to Google’s money-making products.
Have you looked into Montessori schools[1]?

I had the great pleasure of visiting a school based on that model and it allowed a lot of flexibility for students. In my instance there were 4+ hours of "Free-work" blocks everyday, where we could work on whatever we wanted, we just had to make sure we finished certain (personalised) workloads by the end of the week. Pacing and what we wanted to do with our time if we finished early was up to us as a student and we could work on more advanced topics. Students were also encouraged to ask older members of the mixed age class if we got stuck, which made most students quite good at explaining topics to each other while giving older or more advanced students something to do if they didn't want to advance further in their own studies.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
I worked on a legacy system that had no tests for years. Just as I left tests were slowly added. The project went from a painful quagmire to a maintainable code base in months. The transformation was unbelievable.
could that law conflict with GDPR under any circumstance? If they can ask for user data about someone in the EU, I guess yes.
I think John Ousterhout's recommendation of 'thin' interfaces and 'thick' implementations is a good heuristic that's worked well in my experience. This acts as a force that resists service proliferation that hides behind "modularity".

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/cs190-spring16/lect...
> The burj khalifa is vastly more impressive than the notre dame from an architectural perspective.

Seriously? Or are you being deliberately provocative? As I understand it the Burj is considered pretty vulgar.
"...an excuse to comment rarely"

Well you can also look at it from another angle: unnecessary comments are a distraction and make code less readable.

You are not writing comments just to comment. You write them to make things clear.

Sometimes I also write comments to explain what, but most of the time those are written in large peaces of logic with multiple steps that cannot (or should not) split into multiple functions. But even then those comments tend to be in the form of 'why'.

For example: "// First we do this // Then we do this because.. // And as last step we do this because..."

My personal rule for comments:

If I come back in half a year, would I still understand what is going on here? No? -> Comment!
Ah that's a shame. I suppose this could be used to perform a revival of 68k without the Apollo core, but it's a shame that the engineering effort already there would not be available. Maybe this would be an incentive for them to open source it, but yeah.
Everyone agrees alcohol is a drug like any other but then treats it far more tolerantly. Suppose we had cocaine snorting games or heroin smoking games. I like my drugs and believe they should be legalised but our socially sanctioned, even socially expected, abuse of alcohol is rather ominous.
Seems the first constant is wrong

>>> 1/(2 * (1 - math.exp(-2)))

0.5782588213748329

Instead it should be

>>> 1/2 * (1 - math.exp(-2))

0.43233235838169365

Which handily appears in OEIS (a great resource for random constants and sequences) as http://oeis.org/A247847
It wasn't clear to me in reading this article whether or not this is actually cost competitive with existing hydrogen peroxide production methods. Or is it more about it being an environmentally-friendly play?
From talking to VC. NDA are useless. It really comes down to whether you trust the people or not. It is like patent just a gesture. Everything is in the implementation.
Important to remember that things like React or Java, they aren't ever finished, they are constantly being worked on and improved on, so while there is a central brain trust (React has the React team at FB, Java has the Java Executive Committee comprised of devs from Oracle and other big companies like IBM, Twitter, others. these devs are eventually going to retire and will need to be replaced by community experts) these open source communities are still very much dependent on dev community assistance/feedback for the successes of these languages/frameworks to keep the gears churning.
It's not really hard, you just want a system that let's you save your history through a reboot.
Yep, and at a time when interstate borders have not reopened, let alone national borders, the Australian federal government is making an exemption for one group - international students

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/07/austr...
You're conflating two separate things. There's hardware-level page size, which is the logical unit of the mmu. On x86, this is always 4k. The kernel can map mmu-level pages into the address space of running processes. As an optimization, it might always map these mmu-level pages in batches. The batch size comprises the virtual page size; for instance, it could always map in batches of 4, for a 16k virtual page. But the CPU-level page size is completely fixed.
In the case of AI: just train again. Good or bad luck with the random weight initialization can have a huge influence on your results. Nobody really talks about it, but many "pro" papers use a global seed and deterministic randomness to avoid the issue.
I only write broad blackbox tests that make the same actions as users and look at the end result (e.g. has the DB been updated accordingly).
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> People have ceased to debate Emacs vs vim not because any consensus was reached or either one disappeared, but because both are now such exceedingly niche editors that they are far more threatened by the giants like Visual Studio Code or Eclipse or Sublime Text.

Citation needed. From the latest Rust survey [1], Vim was in second place at 23.6%, behind only VS Code at 34.9%. Emacs was lower at 7%, but still beat Sublime at 4.3%, and Eclipse doesn’t even show up on the list. Not that Rust is representative of programming as a whole, but its results are still probably more accurate than what seem to be anecdotal impressions of editor popularity.

[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/images/2020-03-RustSurvey/31-edit...
you can do islands of communications in a monolith as well, with the added advantage of significantly lower deployment complexity as well lower incidental complexity
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Ayn Rand posited that taking government help is moral, as it was already paid by taxes many times over.
Let's build a Ryzen 9 inspired RISC-V with more care for latency please! :)
If you tell it to _navigate_ home it will actually pull up the directions and the go button will have a autostart timer so you don't touch anything. Ask for directions and you will have to start touching the screen.
The author's consent form is very simple and isn't using any shady UX tricks to get the user to consent. One action will opt you in, one action will opt you out.

I wonder what results you would see for something like yahoo, the daily mail, reddit, or other sites that heavily rely on ad revenue, which attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookies.
> One way I like to consider this is to look back after a bug is found, and ask how many tests would have been needed to detect it. The minimal answer is of course one, but we can't reasonably believe that this exact test would be the next one added.

No, you can't. That's why when the bug occurs, you can add that test and then that bug never happens again.
I find series even more fascinating than unexpected constants. Series also show up in the weirdest places and it's often very non-trivial to explain (or not yet explained at all) why the some series shows up in two different areas/applications. Check out the comments in OEIS[1] entries, it's fascinating.

[1] https://oeis.org
The current state of the Whole Earth Catalog's online presence is a very sad state of affairs. http://www.wholeearth.com has been posting php errors for years, it has no support for ssl, it relies on Flash for core functionality, it makes no attempt for mobile support, and worst of all the archive is completely inaccessible. I find it hard to imagine that there's not enough good will in California to give Whole Earth the kind of website that it deserves. The fact that this hasn't happened makes me speculate that either there's some kind of interpersonal issue with the project, or that companies like Apple have no concern for their own origins and history.
German boardgames became popular in the late 90s in the UK (although even before then several spiel de jarhes games were in mainstream shops like Toys R Us -- Hare and Tortoise and Scotland Yard come to mind)

Earlier in the 90s the games that were mainly for sale were games like Britania, History of the World, etc. Axis and Allies was always around too.

The German games brought in shorter games though, which didn't take an entire afternoon to play.
When I grew up (in Malaysia) our high schools were like that: split into two general streams - arts/humanities streams and STEM streams.

The problem was there is a glamour to the STEM streams and so parents pushed kids towards that. If you got into the arts stream you were looked down upon
It will be interesting to see how much of the pull of a US education is the education and how much is a Visa, American contacts and the "American lifestyle"...
I must say I'm really surprised. I'm a frontend developer and probably more keen to keep an eye on this stuff but there are lots of times where I just say yes because the popup is in-my-face and I just want to scroll to the content.

I guess where the article falls flat is where the author says a "proper GDPR content banner" was implemented. No online publication will do this. At least they will trick you with button colors, or some kind of double negative mind trick. Sometimes they will require you to tick all the checkboxes out.

GDPR was a good idea from the start but it's implementation is rather dull - they shifted responsibility to each country without penalization for relaxed enforcing, and now there are countries like mine (Portugal) where we have less than a hundred fines.
Unless they do browser fingerprinting, the number will be overinflated by all the people like me who clear their cookies regularly, if not on every browser session, and are therefore re-asked consent on every single visit.
Didn't Rand herself live off government handouts while she wrote her "books"?
They bio-engineered something.

Probably forbidden here, or really difficult to get approval. Europes public and leadership fears bio engineering and has not yet realised its importance in the future.

Someone with more insight into Biotech correct me if I am wrong.
Verizon/Yahoo/Techcrunch is such a blatant offender, and especially noticable because they get posted here often. Their modal is a giant obfuscation dark-pattern, and far as I can tell, there is no way to opt out.
and that's the reason for the above suggestion. Or you aren't following the discussion?
I'd imagine the people who do that to be a very small percentage.
I was only agreeing with the parent that students need to pushed out of their comfort zone, but just a little. Not a lot like the Jewish Problems were doing.
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When people say "testable code" I always wince. Unit tests fucking suck at testing most code. Really suck. They're ok (ok, still not great) for things like parsers and algorithms... which isn't most code.

But, rather than improving test tools to handle more types of code, developers say that they want to completely restructure the code to make it more amenable to the fact that unit tests suck. Unit tests can't handle database? You need "Testable code"! No...

Developers code to a spec, but unit tests suck at encoding a spec except in the few cases you alluded to simply because most specs are not easily, clearly encoded in the form of your turing complete programming language with its mediocre tooling.

The practical upshot of this theoretical brain damage is that when people write unit tests on code where it isn't a suitable tool it tends to be an expensive waste of time. The tests cost time to build, time to maintain and when they fail it means... "oh, you changed some code". Thanks, test.

And then religious unit testing people always argue that it wasn't the tool that was at fault it was you.

Working on projects with excellent integration test tooling really opened my eyes to the possibilities of another world - one without unit tests.
Thing is, if someone can show that they were tricked into giving consent when they were not willing to, then you're still in violation of GDPR. So those convoluted forms might not give those companies the legal protection they they hope for.

And yes, I'd assume the "phony consent" rate to be much higher, because in some cases I also cannot find the no button and/or accidentally tap on the huge yes button on my phone when my intention was to click the tiny no link next to it.
Is this not a brand loyalty thing ?
A lot higher, that’s why they are shady in the first place.
I am not convinced that GDPR will ever really be enforced. Severe breaches have mostly been ignored so far and the minor dark patterns that dominate GDPR compliance popups and wrong defaults are going to be the tail end of compliance enforcement. Just like cookie laws before it GDPR will probably just make websites annoying with obnoxious implementations and remain largely unenforced until the EU does something else to try and fix this class of data problems and the cycle will continue.
Can someone please tell me how photo-masks are produced? I don't understand how can tiny features be printed at almost the same scale as a final structure? With a laser beam?

Say, as an input you have a layer description (schematics) - how can you transfer it to a tiny scale so precisely to produce a mask?
Sort this table[1] on the last column and see how far down Japan is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gender_Gap_Report#WEF_G...
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But... but... there is ample room to literally experiment, change variables, optimize methods, eliminate smaller problems, and more importantly to test other hypotheses.

it should not depend on mindless/random trial-and-error guesswork and faith-based replication.

yes, it's hard to write everything down well. look at the recent DARPA paralell replication study. but it gives very high quality research/science for a little overhead.
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I think ByteDance is in an unresolvable situation, on one hand they absolutely can't afford losing the China market, that means they have to stay Chinese and loyal to the party; but on the other hand, if they don't sever with China completely, a global ban looks inevitable.

As for the public opinion in China, the majority thinks this is unfair, coz FB, YT and Twitter "wasn't banned, they themselves pulled out coz they don't want to respect Chinese laws".
> but there are lots of times where I just say yes because the popup is in-my-face and I just want to scroll to the content.

I am exactly the same. I use UBlock Origin and Privacy Badger so pretty much nothing gets through anyway but just to get rid of the banner, I click on OK.

However, that being said, I only do it if the other choice is "Manage Preferences" or something equally vague: If I am given a clear yes-or-no choice, I always choose "No".
I used to believe that the sentiment against bad immigrants was justified. There are some really good reasons why you wouldn't want to open up your country to desperate people who are willing to be exploited because their home country is an even worse place. Of course none of those reasons matter when you even kick out the type of immigration that is actively beneficial for your country. At that point it's just plain old xenophobia which is never acceptable.
Wait. You tracked users after they opted out of tracking? How else did you get this data?
> Regardless of whether you’re dealing with monolithic or distributed system

Agreeing somewhat, but not totally ; monoliths are much easier to test and stabilise. All bigger microservices projects I know (personally, not what I read from Uber etc) have tremendous overheads compared to their monolithic counterparts. Some of them are really nicely done, but there still is a lot of overhead in support (usually the services are written by different people (and possible different languages/environments, for instance .net core, .net framework (for Windows specific services) + Typescript/node), so other people need quite a large ramp up to get into them), networking, monitoring, etc. As far as I have seen, it needs a larger team.

And it is very different from having you modular built monolith in your IDE for a spin, than doing a little (local/dev) testrun of 25 microservices + the one you are working on. I can feel the benefits but I have yet to encounter them in real life; so far I have seen (smaller; ~100m/year rev) companies going back to monolith and most of the stories I read are from very large companies with massive development+deployment teams where you actually can have 3+ people per microservice.

If you are working with 3-4 people managing 20+ (changing, forming a complex system), I don't really seen it happen (but would love to see practical examples of that) while monoliths of the same complexity/functionality (literally; I worked on a few 'just because scaling!' rebuilds from monoliths->MS(->back)) have no issues at all with that.
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My first reaction was that it could be a recruitment drive of sorts to help build up their hardware team. Apple have been really smart in the last decade in buying up really good chip development teams and that is experience that is really hard to find.
> attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookies

If I understand correctly, this sort of trickery is forbidden by the GDPR, but so far no-one has seen any consequences for doing do.
The headline is somewhat misleading. If you read the top comment, you'll see that many other apps also were "caught in the act", including ones that most people would agree are innocuous.

This by itself is not compelling evidence.
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I actually take it forward a bit more in that article, to where clear naming eliminates the need for a comment at all:

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With a good name, we could probably do away with the comment entirely:

let numberOfIterations = 3

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It’s a fairly exhaustive article (but kind of a long read).

Documentation is an important topic.

https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/leaving-a-legacy-1c2ddb0c...
Check the editor stats for C, C++, Java, Python. Rust is a niche language today.
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So you're telling potentially distracted drivers that hey, it's OK to be distracted, the AI will take care of that for you? Like with Tesla's auto-pilot, it doesn't matter what the product manual says - too many drivers will interpret it to mean you can pay less attention and the computer will take up the slack for you.
Lenses are used so the feature size on the mask is larger than the feature size on the wafer.

https://www.nikon.com/about/technology/product/semiconductor...