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> Nikola is worth close to $13B right now.

This worth is based on what exactly?

> Why mention August 2020?

That was their most recent valuation.

> Your Uber valuation numbers are misleading as well. Uber was worth

You concentrate on numbers in my post and completely miss the point of my post. Uber has lost 20 billion dollars in 11 years of its existence, it has never turned a profit, warned its investors it would probably never turn a profit. It would fold within a day without unlimited investor money. They needed to burn through at least 22.5 million dollars a day in 2019 just to stay afloat. In what world is such a business worth anything but 0 dollars?

> None of this changes anything. I don’t see why the numbers and data need to be presented slanted.

There's nothing slanted in my presentation of data and numbers.
The perfect is the enemy of the done.
html/css has a similar problem. A lot of my email is just a collection of images that contain text.
I disagree. You would need to discriminate against others, the resolution of people fighting for their rights is that they want to be treated equally. Your compensatory justice wouldn't work. Judges confirmed that white and asian students are discriminated against. They don't deserve it because it wasn't their racism. You may be able to convince them that they should take note that segregation wasn't that far back in history to nurture awareness.

So, that is that problem with that logic and there is even more since people getting unfairly discriminated could even increase animosity.
There's an even easier way than drag soldering - just solder it normally, without worrying about bridges. You can put tons of solder on it.

The use some desoldering braid to soak up the excess solder. It will remove all the bridges and leave perfect joints.
Also sometimes stupidity and malice amplify each other.
You mean the 2012 password breach that happened 4 years before Microsoft acquired the company?
If I remember the argument by Bostrom correctly, finding life would increase the probability that one or possibly a number of great filters are further up in the evolutionary development of life, as a corollary this would mean a higher likelihood that such filters still lie ahead of us.
And it's not difficult to see why. For about 25 years (before Trump) the government of the United States made it easier to manufacture stuff in China than in the US, stripping the country bare of vital manufacturing capacity. The process is still ongoing in Europe, with no end in sight. Of course there won't be any manufacturing capacity remaining, and of course fresh grads wouldn't be interested in training for jobs that do not exist.

That's not because the Chinese are inherently smarter or more talented. That's because the US government had allowed the business establishment to ship everything overseas for a quick buck.

To say that China somehow "caught up" to the US using nothing but their own wits is, well, dim-witted.
My kids aren't quite kindergarten age yet but I doubt they won't need attention just because there is an online class. Better off sticking them in front of khan academy or similar.
There's also a fundamental threat to ARM in the raise of RISC-V.
It's quite interesting because if we stoped all emissions right now the temperature would increase due to lack of aerosol emissions. It's speculated that air quality regulations in Europe led to warming of arctic by 0.5°C (https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2673).
Jesus christ. Just get a cheap wacom tablet.
most dates that one use involve current year (or current year + 1 if you are close to the end of the year)
2) Russia already launched a balloon equipped mission to Venus. There are ideas for a new NASA mission with a balloon. If this discovery resists abiotic explanations, this type of mission will receive a massive priority boost. Sending a probe for preliminary analysis seems relatively straight forward, what is harder is to designs systems that would operate long enough in an acidic environment to get resuls. Return to Earth is also hard as Venus has gravity comparable to Earth but with enough funding I am sure it is possible.

3) What is more interesting to me is if there is bacterial life on Venus, is there anything more complicated?
bicycle theft maybe? 34% of people living in Freiburg do their daily commute on a bike and I guess most households own 2-3 bikes. I couldn't find any statistics, but Münster, for example, also has a bike usage of >40% and they have a horrendous crime statistic beacuse of bike theft (on average 13 people will have their bikes stolen each day).
In Sweden, all users are locked to whatever OS:s our mobile ID verification app BankID [1] supports. Yes you can opt to use a physical 2fa device to log onto your bank, but you're missing out on 99% of the digital banking infrastructure.

So, even if I'd like to order one, I won't. The friction is too great.

[1]: https://www.bankid.com/en/
Central banks around the world jump out of their pants to increase consumption, the speed with which money moves along the economy pipelines and helps produce value.

Deflation and increased rates of saving (opposed to consumption) is the hobgoblin of the mainstream economy. It makes the money lie dormant, doing nothing.

Read about the multiplication effect if you forgot the idea. Money must circulate as fast as possible to help produce most value. This absolutely needs constant consumption.
>From where?

From being down by 21% in Q2.
Well yeah, but they would need the software as well, and instead of just shifting a mirror they would have to work that software in combination with their webcam etc. There's arguments to be made in favor of simple hardware solutions.

Anyway as others have pointed out, if the schools won't fund that, should the teachers be shelling out for supplies like that themselves? Where's the excessively rich tech companies now? They could do some dank virtue signaling and give free hardware to teachers for example. They've earned tens of billions in the past month anyway, if the government isn't doing anything for society, it's down to the companies.
I worked at Uber before. The team and the project is pretty much gutted after last couple layoffs. Check the commit history/contributors and go figure.

It was some amazing tech, but it falls into the category of "when all you have a hammer, everything looks like nail". sometimes you really need a company culture to reward people for creating values instead of deliverable for promotion
Do you know if they are going to keep developing the Developer Edition after all the layoffs?
Thierry,

Thanks for your kind post.

I am sorry that your mother has SLA. Keep hope, not all ALS cases are similar, some are less frightening than the textbook ALS.

In France as in other countries there are ALS centers or ALS clinics. I hope that your mother's neurologist discussed about exams at the most convenient SLA center [0 -1].
Unfortunately and as recounted by "Agence Régional de Santé", patients' outcome is better in "CHU" than in other French hospitals.

At the moment there are two drugs, Rilutek and Edaravone. Make sure your mother got also Edaravone, it was not prescribed to my uncle. And as Herodotus38 told in another thread there are encouraging results from a clinical trial about AMX0035, a combo of two common drugs.

In a few months we will have the results about Arimoclomol from which I expect really good news, and also about Nurown, a new kind of therapy.

All those drugs do not heal but at least they buy time.

Jean-Pierre

[0] https://portail-sla.fr/liste-centres-labellises/

[1] https://www.encals.eu/centres/
The user, as the government agency getting the outcome of the contractors work, already has access to the source code most of the time.
> So your comment makes me wonder: would it make sense to have a system where everyone would simply be called "Engineer", but allow engineers to vote secretly after having worked with another engineer, on various aspects of their colleague's technical expertise.

I worked at a place that had a system like this. Started great, but turned toxic after a hiring spree.

> Everyone would have responsibility to be a solid engineer.

You would think so, but people with other intentions try to find ways to manipulate the system to achieve various strange goals. They're often successful.
> pretty sure that Linux accounts for higher than 0.000001% of developers

Definitely! As an quick example, I make a cross-platform developer tool with no particular focus or obvious bias towards any OS (https://httptoolkit.tech), and the active user base is:

44% Windows

42% Mac

14% Linux

Developers are everywhere - limiting tools like Apple's to just their platform is a huge disservice.
Then you can omit the year.
Neither of those are required to violate anti-trust laws.
PipeAwesome: I added loops, branches and joins to Unix pipes in a sane way
Julia Child Cooks Primordial Soup (1973) [video]
I dimly recall reading an interview with one of Intel's Sr. Managers on the Itanium project where he explained his thoughts on why Itanium failed.

His explanation centred on the fact that Intel decided early on that Itanium would only ever be an ultra high end niche product and only built devices which Intel could demand very high prices for. This in turn meant that almost no one outside of the few companies who were supporting Itanium development and certainly not most of the people who were working on other compilers and similar developer tools at the time, had any interest in working on Itanium because they simply could not justify the expense of obtaining the hardware.

So all the organic open source activity that goes on for all the other platforms which are easily obtainable by pedestrian users simply did not go on for Itanium. Intel did not plan on that up front (though in hindsight it seemed obvious) and by the time that was widely recognised within the management team no one was willing to devote the sort of scale of resources that were required for serious development of developer tools on a floundering project.
> A technological civilization will, eventually, encase their sun in an energy extracting Dyson swarm.

I always wonder, when I read this and similar claims, how on earth the tone of 100% certainty is justified. It seems pure bluff.
Is there a reason why the US economy still grows while most of the rest of the world, and EU in particular, stagnates? Maybe not stymied demand plays some role in it.
How is a video streaming app making your phone overheat? Doesn't that phone have specialized hardware for video processing?
It also doesn't have an IDE experience that matches SQLDeveloper, including for debugging stored procedures, doesn't do distributed transactions, integrate with OLAP, provide a Web based framework for quick CRUD applications, bare metal deployment where the RDMS is the OS.
Probably preaching to the choir, but for me step one is to use popper tools.
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The UK government never learns. Kraft made similar promises when buying Cadbury regarding jobs,but quietly reneged on them over time. The Kraft CEO was asked to show up before an UK parliament committee, but of course declined, and that was the end of the story.
The problem is that to sort it out properly we need a complete EU based stack, starting from the hardware.
Well, the commenter is actively worried about Nvidia destroying shareholder value. If you destroy ARM in the process of acquiring it the combined company will be worth less in the long run. If the acquisition was actually motivated by synergy then Nvidia could have gotten away with a much cheaper license from ARM.
If only they were affordable. You can get a good enough laptop for $300, an ipad pro is thrice that, more if you need the keyboard / stand to go with it.
I once took a job for $25 to replace some text on a set of PDFs programmatically assuming it would probably take an hour max, only to end up spending 8 hours before I found a decent enough solution. I have never touched PDF manipulation tasks after that.
Ignores the fact that the UK has closed all its coal fired PowerStation's
Correct, if it's shares, they just dilluted the value of the stock. If I owned 1% of the company, after printing and handing out $40bn worth of stock, then I keep the same amount of stock, but now it's (e.g.) 0.5%, which means I just lost 50% of that investment. Which means I will receive 50% of the dividend (since out of the next year's dividend 'pool' someone will get a big chunk. Which means NVidia just screwed the existing shareholders (for the time being, and once the numbers/$ are merged I should be getting my dividend by two parts, one from ARM and one from NVIDIA).

If they gave away cash, that's a different story, it all depends.. if they were sitting on $1tn cash, and the spent $40bn, that's no biggie. I mean we went through COVID, what worse can come next?
Thanks! That's exactly the aesthetic I was going for :-)
They could literally go to Apple's doorstep and ask for sponsorship; I'm sure Apple can use it in one of their saccharine marketing videos.
if you're looking for software hacking, any new contributor on https://github.com/ossia/score would be very welcome :p
Well, in this specific case, the majority of the forestry in California is owned by the Fed.
Could be abused as a non tariff barrier see the chicken tax on light trucks and other ways the us protects its local car industry.
Part of this is showing to children that there are rules and the rules should be followed. If there are a bunch of people waiting and no kids around, it takes just one to step into the road and the rest will follow. If you do the same with kids watching you, somebody will yell at you.
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You still need tons of fuel for that, in the order of tens of tons per year travelled - unrealistic for travel outside our solar system. Thrust doesn’t really matter at that time scale.
Do you use static analysis for your projects?
Do you find it as a key factor that improves the code quality or it's not that strong?

I think it can be an important element of the build process, but some tunning is needed to match the project needs.
Eleanor Roosevelt's son authored mysteries in which his mother solves murders
Same here. I’ve been down the rabbit hole of Forth and embedded systems for about a month now. I’ve been learning more and more every night since I got started in it, and it has also consumed entire weekends. It’s fascinating.

The “hook” for me was seeing things like ifs and loops being written in Forth itself from simpler primitives. I’ve always been a fan of bootstrapping a general purpose computing environment from a small set of primitives, and Forth lets you do exactly that.

> I’m bored of the internet and browsers. I want to have fun with software AND hardware

I can 100% relate to that feeling. Discovering Forth has been therapeutic for me in a sense. I spend the day dealing with AWS and Java and logs and metrics for large distributed systems, and that brings me zero joy or motivation. I spend my work days looking forward to my time with Forth in the evening.

I think it was CollapseOS that sent me down this rabbit hole :)
Factor: An extensible interactive language (2008) [google tech talk]
This is the content that really gives me hope. I think Purism is doing great work. But somehow I can't stop thinking that they are too small, and that these companies striving for user privacy and user choice should unite to make the fight against the Duopoly (Apple&Google) easier. I hope one day we can see a curated AppStore, ruled by an alliance formed by companies like Purism (e.g. Huawei -> HarmonyOS, Samsung -> TizenOS), but which doesn't impose what to install (people can opt-out without jail-breaking, like described in the article).
This is common knowledge for people who work in banks, or understand how banks work. The idea that you go to a bank to borrow a million dollars, and they put you on hold as they wait for a million dollars to be deposited by some stranger is, well, bonkers. How could that possibly work? Does that match anyone's experience? Has anyone been turned away from a loan because the bank "ran out of deposits"? And how would you explain investment banks that don't even accept any retail deposits but make huge amounts of loans?

It's just a very odd belief and I can't understand why econ texts don't describe this correctly. Yes, the full answer is a bit more complex, but surely econ textbooks can spend a few pages explaining this stuff. It's not that complicated.

But then again, economists historically have not done well with understanding the financial system -- it seems to be a blind spot, as evidenced by their performance in the great financial crisis. There are alt economists like von Mises and the Austrian school that really harped on loans create deposits, but mainstream economists tend to ignore how the financial system works.

For literature, I'd take a look at this educational primer published by the Bank of England. In general you need to turn to literature published by the banking industry. Here's a link:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

Here is a quote:

"In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is often misunderstood: the principal way is through commercial banks making loans. Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money.

The reality of how money is created today differs from the description found in some economics textbooks:

* Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits.

* In normal times, the central bank does not fix the amount of money in circulation, nor is central bank money ‘multiplied up’ into more loans and deposits.

Although commercial banks create money through lending, they cannot do so freely without limit. Banks are limited in how much they can lend if they are to remain profitable in a competitive banking system. Prudential regulation also acts as a constraint on banks’ activities in order to maintain the resilience of the financial system. And the households and companies who receive the money created by new lending may take actions that affect the stock of money — they could quickly ‘destroy’ money by using it to repay their existing debt, for instance."
Does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-yTrFDHpbw&t=330 demonstrate that the warnings of The Human Use of Human Beings have crossed the chasm from highbrow adult books to lowbrow children's cartoons over the last seven decades?
In increasing range of expense Tone.js; teenage engineering boards, ebay for modular synth modules.

The latter can bankrupt you easily ;)
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Well yeh

The UK economy has cratered due to COVID [1] and Brexit uncertainty both of which will get worse this winter.

[1] https://www.accountancydaily.co/uk-officially-falls-largest-...

UK government has handled both issues terribly, in both cases making things worse.
For context, this is not just about banking services. This is our trusted e-identity card. It is used for tons of systems where we need to prove that we are who we day we are. Everything from declaring our taxes to signing documents electronically to, yes, various banking apps.

Also, I feel the same as you, notemaker. I would if I could, but without BankID, I could just add well get a dumbphone.
Indent by two spaces if you want to quote some code, otherwise the asterisks get turned into italics.

plot3d ([cos(x)*(3 + y*cos(x/2)), sin(x)*(3 + y*cos(x/2)), y*sin(x/2)], [x, -%pi, %pi], [y, -1, 1], ['grid, 50, 15]);
I find it interesting that I know an enormous number of bands that were influenced by Kraftwerk, but I'm pretty sure that a lot of Kraftwerk was inspired by Silver Apples.
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The shift away from WP should be a game changer once marketers start working on the Jamstack.
Almost certainly why would they use a third party for stuff they offer themselves?
How many backdoor accounts have been found in Cisco products so far? Dozens?
I'm not usually one to point out typos, but the name "Austin Kleon" is misspelled three times in a row.
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A small radiation source works well, although the data rate is low.[1]

The idea is to count the number of events (beta particles here) per time interval. Do this twice. If count A > count B, output a 1. If count A < count B, output a 0. If count A = count B, skip that result. Von Neumann came up with that trick.

Don't use the low-order bit of the count. That has a bias.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
Video: The Primordial Soup with Julia Child. (Click on the small thumbnail in the second row with the (>) "play" icon to see the video.)

https://massasoit.instructure.com/courses/346438/pages/video...

The National Air and Space Museum used to show this delightful video in its "Life in The Universe" exhibit, in which Julia Child recreates Stanley Miller's famous experiment, cooking up a delicious hot batch of Primordial Soup!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/julia-child-an...

>Julia Child and the Primordial Soup

>Scientists don't yet know how life began here on Earth. Mineralogist Bob Hazen, who is profiled in the October issue of Smithsonian, thinks that rocks were key to the development of life. Reporter Helen Fields wrote:

>It’s the complexity of the hydrothermal vent environment—gushing hot water mixing with cold water near rocks, and ore deposits providing hard surfaces where newly formed amino acids could congregate—that makes it such a good candidate as a cradle of life. “Organic chemists have long used test tubes,” he says, “but the origin of life uses rocks, it uses water, it uses atmosphere. Once life gets a foothold, the fact that the environment is so variable is what drives evolution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment

>The Miller–Urey experiment (or Miller experiment) was a chemical experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time (1952) to be present on the early Earth and tested the chemical origin of life under those conditions. The experiment at the time supported Alexander Oparin's and J. B. S. Haldane's hypothesis that putative conditions on the primitive Earth favoured chemical reactions that synthesized more complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, it was conducted in 1952 by Stanley Miller, with assistance from Harold Urey, at the University of Chicago and later the University of California, San Diego and published the following year.

https://www.wired.com/2009/05/dayintech-0515

>May 15, 1953: Cookin' Up Some Primordial Soup

>1953: Stanley Miller, just 23 years old, publishes his landmark work on the production of amino acids, a necessary component of life, in a jar.