skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the hp-Agilent split was really the turning point but the seeds were planted much earlier. Apparently the board and various advisors realized that the PC market was going to be huge and wanted to grow that part of the company. hp PCs were okay but splitting off the instruments, which were really the original hp business and focussing the new hp on PCs and consumer products was effectively what ended the original company. It wasn't until the Compaq acquisition (which also brought the old DEC into the fold) that the transformation to consumer was complete.

At that time injket was doing so obscenely well that a lot of mistakes were paid for and papered over from those profits.

I joined right around that time, a few months before Carly was hired as CEO. She was okay at first but got worse and when she left we were singing "ding dong the witch is dead", you could actually hear it throughout the entire floor I was working on. Unfortunately, the CEOs up to Meg were a total disaster, I think with Meg the recovery started and now, after spinning off HPE it's been a super-fun place to work at again.

Despite all the bad press there's actually a ton of interesting R&D going on still but the consumer doesn't really hear about it. It's a deal with the devil when you switch from selling to nerds to grumpy consumers around the world.
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Basic economic rules are not designed but result of trade.

If you buy in the present what others want to own in the future, you create value for yourself as the price of the asset rises.

You can also understand Bitcoin as a business. Assuming it's a better form of money, it allows any agent of the system to better store or transfer money.

By owning Bitcoin you are assuming a risk, but also making the total value locked (TVL) bigger, through making the token less volatile. That helps. :-)
Studying through UNED is pretty hard though. Spanish universities are still pretty opposed to other countries style of handholding education that Bolonia (tried) brought to Spain, and UNED is probably the most extreme version of that.

Also, depending on the faculty, UNED books can be pretty bad (and expensive), although I heard this changed lately.

From what I gather from people in other countries, they also require you to study and to be competent, but it is extremely rare to find teachers and professors with ridiculous standards that you often find in Spain. So, If you have the opportunity, save yourself the pain. You'll still learn, be respected and it will be easier.
"From there, paper currency and credit was added as a more convenient layer onto gold."

It's not a universally accepted opinion but I take Martin Felix's view, articulated in "Money," that credit predates coinage.

It's turned me off the article and as a consequence I can't read any more.
The 1990's were big on passing a metric fuckton of laws impacting technology as that is when most of the people started getting "online" as it were.

Wargames came out in 1984. It took about 2 years for there to be a law against computer intrusion (hacking). 18 USC 1030. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

But it got most of it's teeth in the 90's. Newt and Bill pretty much ran the 90's. Along with Janet Reno and the rest of them. People may have happy memories of the 90's but for "hackers", it was a terrible time as people were passing bad laws with little info. It's only gotten marginally better over time due to people gaining better comprehension of technology - yet somehow we haven't caught up with our own privacy invasions as a whole. (ie: GDPR and data collection)
> This is the petrodollar hypothesis, a debunked theory of global trade.

You keep saying this[0][1], without providing any citation. What sources do you have to back up this claim?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22829420

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
How on earth would the economy be fine when people die left and right?

Do you really think shops were full and everyone was out an about just ignoring their health (and potentially death) just because of some government mandate? Do you think people don't have their own will or brain?
11 years worth of evidence so far.

That's a fairly decent sized prior in my book.

But then, for some people, that's very little.

YMMV.
This is a great tip. My workaround to the arrow-keys issue was to learn the (readline?) shortcuts. ie. C-b/C-f for back/forward, C-e/C-a for end of line / start of line, etc.
There hasn't been a lack of testing. The vaccine in question went through all the usual required testing phases.
In regards to global vs local optimum it is useful to look at the alternatives like pattern matching.

For languages that don't support pattern matching or passing in functions as values, "if" is probably the best you can do with. You might be able to do something with boolean short-circuit operators but it's debatable if that that is better than the if statement.

In React, if you are using JSX, they don't have "if" statements within the markup they just use the boolean short-circuit (&&) operator.

For more ML style languages that support pattern matching, it is often easier to express solutions that way than with traditional if statements. In those situations I would say that "if" is less desirable in terms of expressive power and code readability.

Also, "if / else" only supports 2 cases, with pattern matching you can have an arbitrary amount of cases.

Without pattern matching, expressing more than 2 cases becomes a combination of nested if statements combined with "&&" and "||" expressions. This makes it much harder to read and write.
lol

I added Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and got Shakespeare.

10/10
AstraZeneca hitches ride with Russia's Sputnik in vaccine race
Pfizer trial demographics are on page 31 of this PDF:
https://www.fda.gov/media/144246/download

You can compare that with the demographic table of the US. Looks like they don't quite align, but are presumably within the guidelines. FWIW, all the comments I saw from people more familiar with medical data were pretty positive about the demographic spread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
That seems backwards to me. The entropy should be relative to how the password is guessed, not how it was generated.

It doesn't make any difference to the attacker if I pick "bluecheese" out of a dictionary or as a result of successive random letter draws.
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Well it is still preview, but definitely much better than the classical one, from my point of view, which looks like created by kernel developers first attempt at a GUI app.
But don’t confuse that tendency with the idea that there are no delusional belief systems.
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Over the next 6 months, quite possibly.

Over then next 5 years, highly unlikely.

If your investing horizon is 6 months, Bitcoin is certainly not for you.
Inflating the dollar is probably the only way we're going to get out of the hole we're in, so that'd kill two bird with one stone.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that NVC doesn't want you to be curious. Just that the book focuses on getting you practice curiosity without telling you that the point of these questions is to spark curiosity, which leads to empathy.

The problem the author had with the example is the response has a little too much mirroring. Your response:

> I would say that it's pretty clear that the person is feeling furious because their need for support isn't being met.

Is better as it is rephrased, and mentions support.
That’s not what the Princeton study said. Regardless, the policy preferences of individuals drive our punitive prison system. Even among non-white people, under 1/4 of people polled in 2016 say the criminal justice system is “too tough.” Among non-whites, 30% say it’s not tough enough, and 40% say it’s appropriately tough. https://news.gallup.com/poll/196568/americans-views-shift-to...

In 2003 just 8% of non-whites said the justice system was “too tough” and 57% said it was “not tough enough.” It takes time for changes in public preference to be reflected in changed laws. Especially since the people who actually vote in state and local elections (where criminal justice system is mostly handled) are older and more conservative than the whole population of people represented in polls. 2003 was a decade after the 1993 crime bill, and the people who are the most affected by the criminal justice system overwhelmingly demanded an even tougher system. You’re starting to see laws changing now but it’s going to be a long process.
“While the DrRacket REPL can display pictures directly, it cannot display animations. However, we can extend the REPL to support this”

I love the extensibility of the Racket IDE. I wish more IDE’s were like this.
Sometimes you need engaging entertainment to educate people about the horrors many people face, unfortunately.

Narcos from Netflix triggered me to learn about drug cartels and money laundering
Yep. I remember naturally writing assembly like that when I was a kid. When I picked up a high level language if statements were not mind blowing, it was already what I had been doing the entire time.

What did blow me away was seeing a function for the first time.
> Norway is also 85% ethnic Norwegians (making for a pretty culturally homogenous society).

Can you cite a source that shows that this matters?

It's pretty obvious how the difference in methods between the two prison systems can easily explain the difference in outcome, without having to jump to the 'race/culture'-card.

Simply put, having prisoners cost money. You have to pay for housing them, and the opportunity costs of them not being able to contribute to the economy is probably many times bigger.

European systems recognize this fact, and try their best to get prisoners out of prison as fast as possible.

Prisoners in European systems can get counseling for mental problems, access to education, and the structure in the prisons allow the prisoners to adopt a 'normal' lifestyle. They are supposed to get up themselves in the morning, go to their education, or labor, and having time off in the evening to do their own thing.

Although American media often shows otherwise, most crimes can be explained by circumstance, rather than a particular 'evilness' of the perpetrator. Nobody wants to be a criminal. European systems help prisoners to live a life free of crime. American prisons make it harder.
Forking the Linux kernel would just result in another monolithic Linux kernel, with all the drivers all tied in.

There are microkernels, which is the specific thing Linus Torvalds didn't want to do when he started Linux. In capability based systems, not even the drivers have access to everything. Any given process is giving a list of capabilities, like file handles to resources, and those are the ONLY things that process can access.

Consider a word processor... under Windows, Linux, etc the application calls a system dialog box to select the directory/file name, the uses that name to open a handle to the files, because the assumption is that any program you run should have full access to all of your stuff.

The fork of that word processor in a capabilities based OS would call the OS, and the OS would show you a similar dialog box, but the OS would then return the file capability to the word processor... it wouldn't be able to access anything else.

Consider the Linux model as handing over your wallet at a checkout, and the Capabilities model as handing over exact change. People are used to handling actual money and thinking in terms of risk like that... thus they would do well in a capabilities based system, and from their perspective not a lot has changed.

From the application programmer perspective, opening/saving files is a bit different, but everything else stays the same. The big plus is that no matter how bad any application crashes, due to bug or deliberate fuzzing, etc... it can't be used to take over the system, like it could in Linux.

We could stop having to worry about security when writing applications, and only worry about it in systems programming, where it belongs.

Does that help?
I had to buy a TI-86 in 1992; 8th grade math. I still have it, use it almost every day, and love it.
Gold's price is due to intrinsic demand. Whether that demand is for semiconductors or for somebody to buy it and bury it, that's intrinsic. If somebody handed me a bunch of blank pieces of paper from the same source that the US BEP uses to print money, I'd probably start a fire with it.
So much of globalization up through the 2000s was exploitation of emerging markets for cheap labor and lax environmental and safety standards. This was not wholly without benefit to the people in these countries though: it has dragged a lot of the third world out of abject poverty despite some of the dystopian aspects. Hopefully the next three decades will be better on a number of fronts.
Why Americans? I think the whole world would enjoy it.
I recently discovered a Linux debugger & tool which allowed me to solve problems 10x faster than gdb: pernos.co (which is layered over Mozilla's rr time-tracking debugger).

Pernosco's tool is described pretty well on their website (which is full of minimal fluff and marketing -- another good sign). But basically it allows you to view a program inside and out, forwards /and/ backwards, with zero replay lag. Everything from stack traces to variable displays (at any point in time in your code execution) is extremely easy to view and understand. The best part is the lightning fast search functionality (again: zero lag).

On top of this: extraordinary customer service if anything breaks (in my experience, they fix bugs within 24 hours and are highly communicative).

I'm not a paid Pernosco shill. I'm just so blown away by this product that I wanted to word-of-mouth spread it around because it's saved so much time for me.
All the tests I have heard about have shown the new vaccines effective. The natural conclusion is that this whole test-first-use-later approach is stupid, and we should have given people the option to use the experimental vaccines without them having been proven effective. Then the pandemic would have been over by now.

Of course, it’s even more obvious that delaying the tests for their whiteness has also been stupid. I am not white, and testing other populations matters, but delaying the tests needed for the authorization is just stupid. Humans aren’t that different.
This is 100%, the fact the US can barely manufacturer face masks during a global pandemic is embarrassing.

On the other end, how do you compete with slave labor in the Chinese factories?
Economists writing about the end of the dollar as a reserve currency is not a new thing. With the Fed printing money tho at record rates this would be the time for a shift to happen.

The problem is there is no alternative. The Euro has it's own structural issues and as we saw in March when folks got scared they sold alternatives like Bitcoin down hard. In short, there is no alternative without international cooperation to make a change which doesn't appear likely any time soonish.
Interesting, it looks like there was a move from V8 to QuickJS more recently than that: https://frida.re/news/2020/10/28/frida-14-0-released/

EDIT: and then the default moved back in https://frida.re/news/2020/12/01/frida-14-1-released/
History repeats itself. In the 1980s the State of Alabama was sued by prison inmates over the same concerns about the conditions they lived in. At trial the State pointed out that the student dorm rooms at Auburn University were not only smaller than the prison cells, but students had to pay for the privilege of living in them. Don't know how much of a difference it made, but the inmates lost their case.
Dreaming in Code is an excellent book. At one point, someone (I believe Steven Sinofsky) bought copies for the entire Windows 7 team. This was before I joined, but there were enough copies floating around the office that it wasn't hard to grab a copy from the kitchen or the supply room and go through it.
I've never thought that preemptive multitasking is "such a giant fragile pain in the a". I think it's pretty useful. What has been the problem with it?

We could probably do with partitioning the desktop though, but that's easily done with a bit more cgroups.
If-then-else is pattern matching on a value of type Bool. I think of general pattern matching on algebraic data types as a generalization.
To be fair there are examples of unconstitutional behaviour also in many democracies, that theoretically should follow higher standards than authoritarian governments.

Take for example the Guantanamo bay detection camp

In 2005 a judge ruled that

A federal judge ruled Monday that some foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people indefinitely as “enemy combatants,” saying that doing so unconstitutionally violates their right to due process.

But no one paid for it and Guantanamo bay is still open, bi-partisan executive orders have been issued over the years to keep the operations running.

Obama promised to close it, but didn't (TBF he had the entire Congress against, but in the end he didn't keep on his promise)

In January 2018 the Trump administration signed an executive order to keep Guantanamo open indefinitely.

As of today there are still 40 people detained awaiting justice.
How does this deal with carrier NAT?
The protocol foundation whitepaper looks like an interesting read - how far along are the open source implementations?

I'm particularly interested in applications of dynamic open-sourced metrics (ranging from corporate carbon footprinting to labour tokenization) - is this the vision for hmt? Only things I've found online so far are Grafana/Prometheus (etc) and Uber's m3, which is built on top of the former. Anything else you know of tackle that topic?
Public opinion.
How familiar are you with religious-right people in real life? I can't stand reading about it b/c I grew up in the thick of it: brings back bad memories.
Wow this is some impressive "you should open your mind, provided you disagree with me."

The whole point of this is to show you stuff you wouldn't normally read. You don't need to have "intellectual respect" (whatever that means) for a topic to read a book about it.
Whoever is able to demonstrate the value of a sequence of work to the business will get their work prioritized. Product’s job is to shape and predict the value of adding new features. Customer complaints about slow reports help Customer Support justify performance optimizations.

If engineers want the business to pay them for simplifying maintenance, they can identify a collection of support tickets that have a compelling root cause, and propose refactoring that system to eliminate the bugs and maintenance issues.

What I usually see is us engineers calling it “tech debt” and complaining we never take time for it, which is about as effective as the bookkeeper complaining about the paperwork that debt payments create for him. Businesses love debt. It’s a useful financial tool. The business doesn’t get the issue.
Support reps that introduce laws to legalize and regulate hard drugs. Decriminalize addiction. Donate to causes that help addicts and prevent new ones.
It supports both, and they've switched back and forth on what the default should be. They also supported duktape in the past.

I always use v8, because it has better compatibility with libraries and tools.
looks like the $250/night hotel room I got in Stockholm, too
That's a completely unsubstantiated allegation.
It used not to be so expensive. :-(
I listened to over 500 totally different genres on spotify lately, it's not difficult, it just means you have to do slightly more work than blindly listening to whatever spotify shoves you? The trick is to pick a specific genre of music -- soul, rock, whatever. Use spotify's playlists to get a rough idea of the genre and then use the radio feature to suggest more. There are good genre explorers, too -- i seem to remember one posted here that introduced me to tanci/pingtan, and managed to find some example works to listen to.
The cache-less society is no different, it's just the bandits that has changed. And it's for protecting the banks money, not your money. Paypal has always been on the consumer side though.

Not trying to make an excuse for all the horror stories, just some advice: Make sure you have backups/exports of the 2:nd factor keys so they can be imported when lost.
For example print your password and store it on one location, for example in a safe, then print the 2nd factor key/export (QR code, or backup codes) and put it in another safe/location. Or make several copies and store on many safe locations. And don't forget to TEST YOUR BACKUPS on regular intervals to make sure they work when that day comes.
M2 doesn't tell the whole story. Inflation of the money supply is being countered by deflation from debts that are likely to default. When a borrower defaults that essentially destroys money. Banks are still not properly marking to market a lot of loans on their balance sheets. This deflation is kind of hidden in official statistics but is priced in by markets.
It would have been a lot better as "Having CPU Load Issues you can't identify? This might be worth a try"
A coronavirus vaccine that has only been demonstrated to work for white people would be great and well worth pumping billions of dollars into. Any drug company executive would agree.

It's still reasonable that the federal government would be reluctant to fund such a vaccine, though.
Having watched my children learning foreign languages, I believe there's no single way of doing it, hence the article is somewhat quick to reach conclusions.

My son was not interested in learning a foreign language until 8, we bribed him with a long summer holiday in US that year if he consistently reach a daily goal in English on Duolingo (30 or 50 xp, I can't remember). He did that for six months and when he got comfortable with the language, we also bought a Kindle and bombarded him with books and videos. Two and a half years later at 10 yo, he scored 690/800 on SAT. He's a scientific thinking person, quite intelligent, loves working on math olympiad problems and consumes insane amount of content in English from YouTube. But he doesn't have a photographic memory and not interested in learning another language, maybe Gaelic as an unknown-to-us inside joke in his math olympian community.

My daughter is 8. She can speak English, German very well along with Turkish as the native language. She's working on Chinese now. For German she used Duolingo daily, every second-hand Lustiges Taschenbuch we can acquire in Turkey, Die Maus on iPad, channels from YouTube (from Peppa Pig in German to Checker Can|Tobi|Julian) etc [1]. When she first actually talked in German for an hour, it was after more than two years from starting learning it, and she managed almost perfectly according the lady she was talking with. She's not that much interested in science as my son, totally not into math, more of an athlete/jumper/dancer with way less attention span. Language learner is one of the identities she describes herself with.

For my two children with two different personalities, consistent daily introductory work on Duolingo or similar apps followed with lots of online content worked really well.

[1] In terms of quality (but not quantity) of the resources, we found German is much better than English for kids.
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It should work - I had an old, unusable number in file, too.
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