skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this is meant to try and make it more of a political issue.

> To be fair, Trump probably did cause the contract to go to Microsoft.

Ironically, you're right, most people don't care about the issue at all (I certainly don't). But it sounds to me by your own account it's already a deeply political issue.
> "You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."

Well of course not; that would be "tunefsh", which no one has gotten around to writing.
The efficient market hypothesis just states the market represents the sum total of all available information.

If everyone thinks stocks will go up, then the efficient market hypothesis would support a bubble.
Must include 1 special character, except for the following: ;`'"-
Buy them in person, any good glover will fit you for gloves just like shoes. If that's still no good, buy tailored or bespoke.
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> Amazon was never going to be able to walk in thirty years into the Federal Government / Microsoft relationship and steal this contract.

And then, just like Boeing, we have yet another state-subsidized, substandard, doesn’t need to compete, “too big/important to fail” defense vendor. (Remember who you’re supporting with each GitHub push and npm publish. Let’s not forget that the PRISM slides are PowerPoint.)

What’s the material difference between these and state-owned enterprises?
The old “abchkkunenukzimejienejsidmdjiwknevgjk bgiknhhhnnisplwkslandhgabsndmskalpaapowhsoslxiaiapjsbsnsnaja” is not secure, but “P@55w0rd” is super duper secure.
Also, its not possible to write your own DSI/MIPI drivers for a phone LCD that you can buy on eBay, partly for not having the DSI/MIPI specification unless you pay upwards of thousands of dollars a year and Raspberry Pi doesn't allow access to the DSI/MIPI HAL layer - its part of the SOC which Broadcom controls.

About the only way to make a device with an LCD is to use the built-in HDMI.
It is possible for open source replacements for those blobs to be written, but I have not heard of any serious effort in that respect.
What's the opposing view, other than "they are rich, they can afford it + we really need the money for $good-things"? I'm not sure if you are disagreeing with the math or making a separate point about why we should do it anyway?
I could have been clearer but the url DOES include the date therein. I just wanted to illustrate the absurdity of the content industries positions which are regularly full of complete nonsense. I think Hatch's positions might just be peak crazy though.
- If there isn't any danger, danger will be exaggerated or simply invented.

Citation needed
TXR Lisp:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 243.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.

Give me all the .c files:

1> (glob "*.c")
("abcd.c" "args.c" "arith.c" "buf.c" "cadr.c" "chksum.c" "combi.c"
"crazyffi.c" "debug.c" "dict.c" "eval.c" "ffi.c" "filter.c" "ftw.c"
"gc.c" "glob.c" "halfsip.c" "hash.c" "highest-bit-main.c" "highest-bit.c"
"highest-test.c" "isqrt.c" "itypes.c" "lex.yy.c" "lib.c" "lisplib.c"
"match.c" "parser.c" "protsym.c" "query.c" "rand.c" "regex.c"
"signal.c" "socket.c" "stream.c" "struct.c" "strudel.c" "sysif.c"
"syslog.c" "termios.c" "test.c" "tree.c" "txr.c" "unwind.c" "utf8.c"
"vecho.c" "vm.c" "y.tab.c")

OK, which ones are over 100000 bytes:

2> (keep-if [chain stat .size (op < 100000)] (glob "*.c"))
("arith.c" "eval.c" "ffi.c" "lex.yy.c" "lib.c" "match.c" "stream.c"
"y.tab.c")
For those who didn't experience it the first time or perhaps would like to do so again, I feel obligated to mention your version is on sale for $3.49 at Good Old Games aka gog.com. No affiliation myself other than a customer and someone a bit in awe of what you guys wrought.

https://www.gog.com/game/the_secret_of_monkey_island_special...
The WSJ article on the topic has a little more specific information:

Japan’s SoftBank, which bought options tied to around $50 billion worth of individual tech stocks.
...
Regulatory filings show SoftBank bought nearly $4 billion of shares in tech giants such as Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Netflix Inc. this spring, plus a stake in Tesla. Not included in those disclosures is the massive options trade, which is built to pay off if the stock market rises to a certain level and then lock in gains, the people said.

SoftBank bought a roughly equal amount of call options tied to the underlying shares it bought, as well as on other names, according to people familiar with the matter. It also sold call options at far higher prices. This allows SoftBank to profit from a near-term run-up in stocks and then reap those profits by unloading its position to willing counterparties.

So they are buying stock in tech companies, then compounding the bet that the stock price will go up by buying an equal dollar amount (in this case, corresponding to 11x the number of shares) of Out-of-The-Money calls. Then they wait for the price of the stock to go up, fueled in part by the Market Makers need to buy stock to hedge their exposure to the calls that SoftBank bought.

Once it's gone up, they then sell (presumably In-The-Money but at a greater strike price than they paid?) calls for more than they paid for the initial OTM calls. When those calls are excercised (because they are ITM) they sell the stock for a profit (price increase plus the premium of the covered call). Because they are buying large enough amounts of calls to cause the Market Makers to buy enough to increase the price of the stock, their strategy is more likely to work than it would be for normal investor.

One big unanswered question: do they sell their OTM calls before expiration after they increase in value? Or are they able to exercise them once they are ITM? I'd guess their goal is to exercise, since that helps them put more pressure on the MM's to hedge and while also letting them continue the strategy.

The reason this question matters is it affects how much stock is going to flood the market once SoftBank stops buying calls. SoftBank will presumably sell the relatively small number of billions of dollars of tech stocks they are holding at the right time, since they know when they'll stop buying calls.

Once the number of outstanding calls drops, then next thing that will happen is that the MM's will presumably sell their enormous hedge, causing the prices to drop rapidly. But obviously, the MM's don't want the price to drop until they have completed their sell off. Are they allowed to use the same strategy that SoftBank is using? That is, can they pre-sell a sufficient amount of (possibly discounted) ITM calls so that they can unload their hedge without affecting the price they receive? Or do they sell them on the market? Is there information available about what the MM's are holding as hedges?
Your updated comment is much less untrue, though the GAO reports widespread fraud in the procurement processes for these minority, veteran, and women owned businesses as described in the above link.
https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/ not so secret
Thanks for making these points. They seem less hyperbolic and more grounded than your earlier claim ("it was one of optimizely's best decisions") and I appreciate that change in tone.

You characterize my arguments as theoretical, but they are empirical. Optimizely's valuation didn't increase after the decision to kill self serve was made, and VWO was able to build a successful business without killing self serve.

Also, as you now agree, optimizely would have had a better source of enterprise deals with self serve intact. That's important.

Stepping back, every SaaS business has issues converting self serve users to enterprise. Fixing those issues takes hard work, which optimizely was not willing to do. Similarly, every business has higher churn in monthly self serve plans than annual enterprise plans. Fixing this takes hard work too. Things were not unsolvable, optimizely simply had no appetite for solving them.

To address your other points:
1. I donbt that labor costs would have made a difference, but say they would have. Was anything stopping optimizely from reducing costs to have overseas development in india?
3. Your comments about the various foci at different rounds of funding is irrelevant. I'm not arguing that building an enterprise business is bad, I'm arguing that killing self serve was bad.

Ultimately, as Dan predicted in 2013, Optimizely died of indigestion rather than starvation; the market was always there, and still is.

Hope this helps clarify my position, even if we still disagree. If you send me an email, I'd be happy to help squash your skepticism about the $100k too.

PS. I don't think that killing self serve was the only thing that led to optimizely's demise, but I do think it was a factor.
Irrespective of the legal issues, Amazon needs some competition in the government market.
My feeling is that the paralyzed vocal cords are more an effect of the root cause.

I think Larry did not like anymore most of what he had to do in his role and created so much stress to him that his body ended up helping him to get out of that role.

From what I heard on some videos Larry and Sergey were still actively involved in the creation of new things in Google X etc. They are engineers and they love to build and create new ambitious things. But if you are high in the management of a big public company that is not your role anymore.

I think they hoped the creation of Alphabet would have given them the opportunity to go back to work on new products with an impact for good in the world instead of having to keep focussing on the dull and stressful management of Google itself.

But in the end they probably realized that it was not the case and they left.

I know they do angel investing. I guess that with their experience and money, it is more effective to help younger enterpronurs to make the world a better place.
Thta's not what was being discussed, though.
MongoDB still has an awful reputation on Hacker News but I really appreciate the take from "Why RethinkDB Failed" [0]:

> People wanted RethinkDB to be fast on workloads they actually tried, rather than “real world” workloads we suggested. For example, they’d write quick scripts to measure how long it takes to insert ten thousand documents without ever reading them back. MongoDB mastered these workloads brilliantly, while we fought the losing battle of educating the market.

> almost everyone was asking “how is RethinkDB different from MongoDB?” We worked hard to explain why correctness, simplicity, and consistency are important, but ultimately these weren’t the metrics of goodness that mattered to most users.

> But over time I learned to appreciate the wisdom of the crowds. MongoDB turned regular developers into heroes when people needed it, not years after the fact. It made data storage fast, and let people ship products quickly. And over time, MongoDB grew up. One by one, they fixed the issues with the architecture, and now it is an excellent product. It may not be as beautiful as we would have wanted, but it does the job, and it does it well.

In my mind Mongo is a database that had great developer experience, excellent marketing, and some seriously bad technical gotchas. But marketing drove momentum long enough to cover bills, grab the market, and address most of the gotchas, so now it's a decent DB.

[0]: https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.htm...
I still don't like it even for real time conversations. As they don't have threads, or any way to reply to a specific message, sometimes it's confusing to have 3 different conversations going on in the same channel
Ah ok - I misinterpreted the scope/emphasis.

It is open to a degree:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
I disagree, slavery is what you get when a _market_ is extremely free. When there are no laws about whether you can imprison someone and force them to do labour on your behalf for no compensation; slavery is made possible by a lack of regulations or laws about what you can and cannot do: a totally free market.
Everybody’s worst nightmares when it comes to surveillance keep coming true. I’ve started to suspect the “I got nothing to hide” attitude that many privacy advocates criticize is at some level a defense mechanism for the realization that you’re completely owned and completely powerless. In other words, they know that if they really sat down and thought about what was in their Google searches, DNS lookups, or credit card purchases they would be very disturbed, so they choose not to think about it to maintain sanity. People are smarter than we give them credit for.

Because many on HN know and consciously recognize the facts here, my question would be: how do you all cope with surveillance?
I have worked with excellent people at ING in Amsterdam as an external IT consultant. While helping them to engineer their new platform strategy, I experienced that they are one of the best companies I have worked with in terms of culture, tech stack and hourly rate among all European clients we had during the past 11 years. Many employees opt-in for a 4-days week since it became really popular during the last few years.

I think a 4-days week is more attractive for employees and tech companies in many aspects than a 5-days week.

The 5-days week was established in times where work was mostly manual or repetitive. It was a historical trade-off between companies and the working society that evolved over the last centuries.

But nowadays many jobs require creative and mental work which can not be placed into a linear time-scale in comparison to the idea of assembly line workers where companies can add more persons and the productivity output is mostly increasing linearly. People pursuing occupations with a high amount of mental work keep solving complex problems during and outside their working time.

Probably you also remember a moment when you thought about a problem you are trying to solve and you found the solution at any random place and time.

The 4-days week enables people more flexibility to organize their life around the the complex challenges that are being solved by companies they work at.

P.S. +1 adding ING to the list
The popular Cypress/Infineon FX3 USB3 controller has a 200 MHz ARM926EJ core on chip.

https://www.cypress.com/file/140296/download
MongoDB is the fastest and easiest to scale schema-on-read document store.

So if your domain model is document orientated e.g. a star schema with dozens of joins, where you don't know the schema upfront or you have polymorphic relationships it is a really useful way to store your data.
That's interesting!

I'll clarify my comment on the antenna end: If you do a standard pattern (a yagi, a quarter-length dipole, or whatnot), it's well-understood. What's deep voodoo are the radiation patterns from complex shapes. I've seen research projects where this is basically just done numerically -- a computer tries a bunch of shapes, computes their radiation patterns, and you get bizarre antennas.

EMC looks a lot more like the latter than the former. Our design had a PCB with several daughterboards, and a whole bunch of cables going in and out. That was voodoo. We'd add shielding. Emissions would go up. Or down. There was little rhyme or reason.

But in the end, we didn't break the bank. We went to the test facility twice, I think. We didn't have any sensible kit in-house, but we did have a scope with an FFT function, and we could make loops our of wire. We couldn't measure in real units, but we got a sense of when things went up and when they went down. And, I think, we had a healthy dose of luck.

I totally believe your equipment was superior than commercial. For defense, you want things like stealth and rad-hard. For us, we just want basic compliance.
> Suppose they just have a SQL injection ....

But what about having separate auth sub-service with separate database.

Who says a SQL injection allows yourself to update your account to be admin. (SQL has their own permission system even through its not used that much).

Who says making yourself application admin allows yourself to do more then banning users.

Sure for many especially smaller systems pepper won't help much and AD (additional data) is even less likely to help.

But for many (especially bigger/enterprise) systems this might very well not be the case.

Furthermore pepper usage tend to not really hurt.

I think it's a fallacy to assume just because many less well build systems allow SQL injection to escalate that all do so and pepper is useless. Especially given that most systems need to have some config secret management system anyway and as such adding a pepper tend to be somewhat cheap to to (dev effort) and doesn't really cost much at runtime either (normally).
May I ask? In English: "I presume" means that "I have no data and am speculating". I that correct?

If that is correct, why would you give an answer?

My query should not imply any criticism - just that I don't understand. Could you explain to an (Sincerely, From: obvious problematic person, who does want to learn)
The real crime is why Amazon is needed at all. For $10b you can't build and staff your own cloud center?
PayPal has this problem but only in certain change password forms. I think it was a password reset form. this happened to me recently. It was incredibly frustrating.
You are probably right in some way here. But it was also Larry that started killing a few product at Google after talking with Steve Job that said "Focus!"
Research paper: Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
Social safety net and sustainability regulations. It’s not normal in much of the world to spend your life with the looming fear of being bankrupted by a serious illness or to treat natural ecosystems as a zero sum game to be exploited.
I've been missing Matt Levine. He needs to get back already! Best newsletter on the internet, hands down.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157047 (2018)
Some Historical Reflections on Nsfnet
Theoretically, more separation means more security. On the other hand, securing many things is harder than securing few things.

PostgreSQL as a service (or whatever DB you prefer) is worth it, that means somebody else can get backups, security relevant settings, patches, version upgrades etc right. Everything else is probably fine on one server, but it doesn't sound like that would be much besides the backend in your case anyways.
Sigh.

“Don’t be evil” presumes a lot when there are organizations that have machine guns and legal jurisdiction over you, and a public, decades-long track record of doing evil.
I've recently purchased a Sipeed Maix Bit, which is based on the Kendryte K210 (RV64GC dual-core), just so that I can start messing around in the RISC-V 64-bit ecosystem. However, the K210 has just 8MB of on-chip RAM, limiting the applications. It ships with MicroPython, and you can run microcontroller Linux, which is a fun little hack.

However, I'm primarily interested in Rust development on the RISC-V. For bare-metal programming, the K210 is enough for me to get my feet wet. Thanks to the wonderful community, you can already run gdb for source-level debugging of Rust on that platform, with the addition of a $7 USD JTAG adapter.

That said, as long as the PicoRio board (even without a GPU) is available for less than $100 USD, I am totally buying one as soon as they are available for order.
What he is doing is legally considered piracy.
>Does he really not want to take his $110B and do...literally whatever he wants in peace for the rest of his life?

I mean if I got the chance of running a company of that size, in particular if I started it I wouldn't leave it voluntarily either. He's still in his 30s, what is he going to do with his time, play bridge?

I personally understand Zuckerberg or say Musk much more than Brin or Page. I couldn't retire when I'm barely 40 to sit on some yacht, I'd think I'd be wasting my life, money aside.
One of the major issues with helicopter design is that the effective speed of the rotor tips vary by twice the forward speed of the helicopter as it swings around from back to front to back again. The rotor going from back to front experiences a speed that is the tip speed due to rotation plus the forward speed of the helicopter. As it swings around to the front and then towards the back it experiences a speed that is the speed of the tip due to rotation minus the forward speed of the helicopter.

So if your helicopter is going at 200 mph and your rotors - which have been noted here several times need to stay below the speed of sound - are going at say 400 mph at the tip, then the rotor tip speed varies from 200 mph to 600 mph on every single rotation.

It’s hard (for me) to imagine an air-breathing engine that could operate efficiently with its intake air speed changing that much that frequently. Much less a ramjet which has no turbines or anything to even out the intake velocity and which normally wants to operate well above the speed of sound.
Ask HN: Need help porting macros from EOPL first edition
Not only is the SoC and board RPi uses open hardware, it has hardware DRM in place to prevent people using custom camera modules: https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/10884725497159188...
It's all pretty well covered in the Methodology section of the about page: https://takecongress.org/about.html
> What’s the material difference between these and state-owned enterprises?

Where the profits go.
I have a fairly automated hydroponics system but I haven’t yet started with always submerged ph sensors due to the cost. I’ve seen cheap ones but from what I understand they are so inaccurate as to be useless. Most people seem to recommend atlas.

I’m hoping these will be good enough.
Dwarf fortress is a pretty good stochastic story generator, it's head and shoulders above anything else in that vein. But yeah, those kinds of stories will never really be quite as focused or meaningful as human-crafted narrative
I think what set CHOP/CHAZ apart was that they actively tried to self police. Violence monopoly is a common definition for a state.

I don't recall Occupy Wall Street having their own policing task force (maybe they did and I'm misremembering).
There is this myth that schemas must be enforced at the database level.

But the majority of databases are only accessed by one web app. And in that web app you can enforce that schema in code. In fact in code you have much safer and powerful options e.g. enforcing business rules such as this string field must start with aaa.
That's totally fair, and the other replies mentioning how movies are actually not all that available right now make a valid point.

This year I've been signing up for whatever has the movie I want to watch at the moment and then terminating right away so I'm never really subscribed to anything and have a time constraint to max out the other content on the service over the next 30 days.
They're not actually using it to zero in on someone, though. What they're doing is using it to build a case against someone they already suspect: Roger Stone.
Well, it fits with my experience.
And polls are used more often to drive opinions than to report on them.
I expected to see Dungeon Keeper on that list. A remarkably cheeky, dark and funny game which I played way too much as a kid.
Haven't tested on ESP, but that would be a great idea, given its ease of use with IoT/connectivity. I've only tested on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and STM32.
To acquire smaller companies that the vast majority of the population are legally prohibited from investing in?

It’s turtles all the way down.
Not this https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb ?
Until I was about 28, myself and my whole group of friends would 95% of the time give bullshit (usually whatever was funniest) answers to anything resembling a poll. Didn't matter how 'private' or anonymous. We thought polls were bullshit, and we treated them thus. Other classmates, even more than us, filled them out as the person they wish they were.

We CAN'T be unique...this happens a LOT!