skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your last sentence is literally saying the same thing, the reason they are less dense (today) is because of preference for cars. Most city centers that developed before cars are much denser than the rest of the city. Routinely these parts were hallowed out for parking and often were where the poor (read black and immigrant) people lived.
As an aside, it's possible to modify Laurikari's algorithm slightly and obtain PCRE semantics w.r.t. capturing groups, and those correctly. (POSIX capturing semantics are designed for standards specs. I've never met an actual practicing programmer who wanted those semantics instead of the PCRE ones)
This is obvious not good, but just to note, when they say "the Office of the President of the United States", they're most likely referring to the Executive Office of the President (EOP), which consists of a few thousand employee, most of whom are non-partisan career civil servants. It's a much broader group than what it sounds like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_Presid...
I don’t put my money in a women only venture fund for the same reason I don’t put it in any other venture fund... I don’t have venture fund money.
That just imports the problem at a faster rate. Even Merkel realizes she turned a migrant challenge into a migrant crisis with open borders.

It also spreads the nonsense that there’s nowhere safe in Mexico. I skimmed the article and saw she lived in Tamaulipas. No reason that moving to the US should come before moving to a safer state in Mexico like where I live or where any expat chooses to spend their time.
If we're not able to enforce existing rules then it's hard to see how introducing new rules could ever help anything.
It’s insane how upset you get over people downvoting the shrugging off of idea that women should have better access to capital or have unfair standards.

“OH iT SHoUlD PeRfoRM BetTer”

There are people putting money directly into women owned and found businesses. MOSTLY women because they’ve experienced this bullshit and higher more unattainable standards. It’s a nascent movement a few years old with tiny drops of money comparative to the annual investment pool.
Everyone is looking at these sort of headlines and being surprised at how high Tesla's valuation is, but I find it equally interesting as a sign of how low all the other automakers' valuations are. In that light, one hypothesis is that other automakers have pretty convincingly demonstrated that they are not able to sell significant numbers of cars at large profit margins, dooming them to perpetually hover slightly above or below breakeven depending on whether the economy is growing or in recession. Tesla hasn't proven they can do this, but they are unique among automakers in at least _not_ proving they _can't_, leaving open the potential of growing into an Apple-like position of commanding the majority of the profit in their industry, even if only a minority of sales.

Ford's success with the F-150 line might be an exception here, but the pickup truck market will always be much smaller than the rest of the automobile market.
So VCs aren't investing in women owned startups because sexism makes it harder for those businesses to succeed causing women owned startups to receive less in VC investments based on sexism? That's an apt validation of the study and I'm glad you agree.
Question on the stall issue: if a pilot starts to stall, wouldn’t they simply maneuver to get the nose down until they get enough speed to break out of the stall?
That is likely due to the Chicken Tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

With a little sanity, luck, and changing political winds, it could disappear in an instant.
I agree but an easy fix for those lanes are already there, there is already too much space in American cities devoted to cars. The easy way to do this is to take out a lane for cars and devote it to cyclists or scooters and what not. Also take out street side parking.
Organizations that are serious about security should not allow random OAuth apps. Both G Suite and O365 admins can restrict what OAuth apps are allowed.
This article is more evidence that major media outlets hate tech and will slant every article to find a way to smear tech.

Here’s how: imagine a Miramax development executive, circa 1999, bringing in a movie that was about an actress who was molested by an overweight studio executive and then was blacklisted when she spoke up.

That executive would be fired in an instant.

Tim Cook is obviously no Weinstein, and he has the moral high ground here contra Gawker. But the principle is the same: don’t expect The Boss to greenlight a topic they’re sensitive about. This has nothing to do “Big Tech has so much power these days”.
Original poster of this comment chain discussed how investing in female founders can be profit maximizing. The parent of your comment pointed out how it might not be because external sexism poses challenges to female founders which makes them riskier than their male counterparts. I agree that one can (even should) invest for reasons other than strictly profit maximization, but if one invests for profit maximization (as was discussed by comment chain op) then sexism in the broader market definitely has an effect that cannot be discounted.
Bu then, if everyone stops to work alone at different times, you have a problem scheduling work things... I.e: if you want to take Tuesday afternoon to do your things, but then they need you for meetings/work on something else.
Ah they're emulating the windows syscall interface, that's not so bad. I was worried they were making it easier to install rootkits, that seemed pretty weird.

Eventually Linux and NT will converge until the language runtimes will run on both and apps will run on both. Which works better will be largely a question of linker flags.
But it is, because it means the market will correct the problem quickly - unless there is actually some differential outcome between genders.
The decision of which wire service stories to run is an editorial choice, too.
Yes, and that shouldn't be a crime.

Now a more relevant example:

I discovered a security vulnerability in FB.

1. Publish the vulnerability publicly (legal)

2. Sell the vulnerability to exploiters (illegal)

3. Accept FB's bug bounty reward (legal)

4. Attempt to negotiate a different amount with FB, falling back to #1 (illegal, blackmail)

5. Attempt to negotiate a different amount with FB, falling back to #2 (illegal, extortion)

6. Attempt to negotiate a different amount with FB, falling back to #3 (legal)

I assert that treating #4 as a crime is to use the police powers of the state to protect FB's wallet.
I used to think so too, but markets can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent. What makes PE a unique edge case is that it's also highly illiquid as a market. Transactions are rare/infrequent, there is no continuous mechanism or exchange for valuing stock. Exits, for a portfolio, are also rare enough that such a mis-pricing can take more than a fund's lifetime to correct.

Women, in recent history, have always gotten the short-end of the stick. It has taken a long time for the biases in academia to be addressed at all, and even now we aren't quite there yet. Here are a few examples from history,

Lise Meitner was the second woman in the world to gain a doctorate in physics. When she started, women weren't allowed to go to college, one of humanity's greatest minds spent her youth as a teacher. It was the only career available to her. When she tried to start doing research, she was refused,

> The only difficulty was that Hahn told me in the course of our conversation that he had been given a place in the institute directed by Emil Fischer, and that Emil Fischer did not allow any women students into his lectures or into his institute. So Hahn had to ask Fischer whether he would agree to our starting work together. And after Hahn had spoken to Fischer, I went to him to hear his decision and he told me his reluctance to accept women students stemmed from an unfortunate experience he had had with a Russian student because he had always been worried lest her rather exotic hairstyle result in her hair catching alight on the Bunsen burner.

- https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...

Fischer relented with pressure from Hahn, but in some cases, it took nearly half a decade for people to allow her to work with them. She lost years banging her head against the wall. What else could she have discovered had she gotten the right resources from the start?

She prevailed against these barriers, but she was never recognized as an equal. Recognition eluded her. Lise and Otto discovered fission together, Hahn got the Nobel, she didn't.

Decades afterwards, the first Pulsar was detected by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She helped build the array that made the discovery. She spent her nights looking at the data. She noticed the anomaly. She championed it when her supervisor dismissed it as a glitch. Her persistence paid off, and her supervisor got the Nobel.

Women have never been accepted as equal. Even in bastions of "non-conformist" thought such as universities. After all, how radical and non-conformist could these systems be if they repeated the same mistakes as the societies around them? They excluded people for being Jewish, for being born with the wrong sex organs, for having the wrong skin color, for being the wrong person. They were radical along some axes, but conformist along others.

VC/PE is much the same. The industry is radical along some axes but extremely conformist along others. And it's not an easy thing to "correct". Banging against this wall will crack your skull far before it shows even the slightest crack.

I don't know the answer here. Except that it wouldn't be the right stuff to give up.
To make it more concrete with one example: if you're a partner at a seed fund, you're partly betting on a founder's ability to raise funds downstream from A, B, ... round investors. If those investors are biased, it will make investments in female founders underperform male founders. Issues like this as well as the very long feedback cycle for VC is what makes change in the industry so hard.
I had to check whether my memories of my first programming language (AppleSoft BASIC) were correct and they were: that language did not offer an ELSE statement. There were just IF expr THEN cmd and IF expr GOTO line. I don't remember being shocked or overly impressed by the existence of else when I first encountered it in UCSD Pascal, but I do have vague memories of having to write code in AppleSoft BASIC that either was structured with IF this... IF not this or perhaps IF this GOTO 40, do what would be in the else then goto the line after the code starting at 40, then the code for the if statement.
I'd scrutinize the study more before jumping to conclusions. for starters, there may be few actual women affected by it, as few female founders tackle "male dominated industries".

Another thing that stuck out to me immediately was the "venture quality" metric - apparently an evaluation by the Tech Crunch Disrupt competition? It seems possible that women got elevated scores there (as for example girls are known to get elevated grades in school), as no money is at stake for the judges, but the elevation bonus goes away once real investor money is at stake.

Other factors might play into it, too (just as with the gender pay gap, which is not at all what it seems), but it takes more time to parse the paper.

In any case, the suggestion to use the results to beat other investors by specializing in women seems sound. If you believe the study, why wouldn't you?
Ada and Pascal have some syntactic similarities, but I'm not sure they cover the same kind of niche enough for someone to say "I'd learn Ada prior to Pascal".

Today, Delphi is used in some shops the same way C# or Java is used in others. Free Pascal with Lazarus is kind of like a free version of that. You can quickly build desktop apps.

Ada is nothing like that. It's almost exclusively used in the defense industry and others like aviation and infrastructure where the code is likely to be embedded and can NOT fail.

One is for standard business and one for critical infrastructure.
I have been looking for a place like this. A small cabin with good internet where I can be alone but also a communal area where I can meet other people when I get cabin fever. It would genuinely be perfect for me.
His autobiography, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life is very good, and an excellent audiobook because it is read by him, recounting his own memories and doing his own accents of other people he once knew.

The book is a little more compelling if you've read a lot of his work but even if you've only read one and loved it, its almost certainly worth your time.
Looks like LinkedIn is a big security concern, I won't miss it. Imagine if companies require that you're ~not~ on it.
Perhaps? I can't find any evidence easily that Dan did have such tool, but "by the early 2000s" it's not at all unthinkable certainly. If you have a link that'd be great.

However the trouble is MD5 collision isn't like that hilarious "Send all zeroes" Microsoft bug from a few weeks back where you just try it a few times then it works because someone was very stupid - the MD5 collision is pretty hard, the Merkle–Damgård construction actually works, your attack avenue is hammering on the compression function, everything else in MD5 (and any other Merkle–Damgård construction) works because of mathematics unless you can break that compression function - so having a program that when you run it spits out an MD5 collision with your preferred shape is great, it's a cryptographic breakthrough - but maybe it'll take 5000 years to run on a typical home PC. If you're a government or a big crime boss then money turns that into 5 days or (if you've enough of it) 5 hours instead, but if you're a bored teenager or small time crook not so much.

And like I said, Flame depends on a never before seen collision, so it isn't like they just re-used work somebody else had done.
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By the way, though I agree with your sentiment re history of money, his allusion to the progression of economies from barter to coinage to credit was really just an aside and not relevant to any other part of the article.

I did read the rest of the piece and found it very informative and enlightening, I highly recommend reading it, especially if you are interested in the nature of money.
True. However, now that APT tools have been leaked to the world I think I can still argue that even layered defenses are no longer sufficient. I listened to security researchers say for years that there was no point in trying to address APT's because they were just impossible to stop. Now APT methods are public knowledge and being used in common attacks. Some types of APT attacks are still too costly to be widely used, but some that used to be considered very sophisticated (like hiding an MCU in a computer cable) are not.

The reasons you list for a weak defense posture don't really apply to a government. Also the GAO has issued a constant stream of reports saying US government agencies have poor security. It was likely only a matter of time before something like this incident happened. Similarly it's probably only a matter of time until the IRS, Social Security, and other agencies are successfully attacked on a large scale.
Agreed. However some service providers (like GitHub) allow a user with admin access to approve any OAuth app the first time it’s “launched” if they are the ones initiating the request, rather than using a pre-defined allowlist approach which I believe is what Office 365 does.

My wish would be for some sort of multi-person approval process rather than allowing anyone who is an admin to authorize an app. Even admins can be susceptible to a targeted and advanced attack.

Also, many people (like myself before my own “failure”) simply aren’t aware of OAuth apps as a serious attack vector. Most remedial training around phishing campaigns covers things like fake login pages but not “An attacker has spoofed an internal domain and an OAuth app with your company’s name in it”.
IIRC the confusion over "Don't Be Evil" started due to changes by Google's parent company Alphabet when they restructured.
This doesn't work like "else" if doSomething() can change the value of x.
thats great it exists for you but having worked there a while and known dozens of other googlers, ive never met anyone else who worked on one.

so for a lot of people it doesnt exist.
Another Atlassian here... I'll vouch for everything here, but I'll add on one thing.

> It's not always visible from the outside, but Atlassian now has swathes of valuable internal tooling, built with love by developers who were invested in solving their own productivity problems.

The flip side of this is that we have countless nonfunctional tools because the core maintainer has either left the company, switched to another project, or simply does not have the time to adequately adapt to new user/company requirements.

We do a great job encouraging innovation through 20% time, but we don't seem to be great at supporting these projects past the initial "hack it together" stage. The process can still be incredibly rewarding, but it is not without some shortcomings.

I wonder if any other companies implementing 20% time experience similar problems.
It doesnt if the differential comes from systemic sexism. If female founders underperform because of external sexism then vc that fund female founders will also underperform. This is why it is important to fight sexism even if it costs more. Sexism/racism/etc are not self-correcting under market forces.
I’m quoting @Travis_Kling:

"Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global, immutable, decentralized digital store of value. It’s an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally."
The average operating margin for the S&P 500 is 10.53% (although that may have been 2018). And economists are worried that even that is high - traditional manufacturers like Ford typically manage operating margins of ~5%. Workers are already getting 95%. And then everything after that like R&D, marketing, and capital amortization has to come out of that 5%. And then finally a bit is left over for earnings for the owners. You’re mistaking wealth for income. Surely the workers could use more wealth, but what we’re discussing is the price of goods and this is operating revenue and income. And workers already get the lions share of this.

If you’re going to make US manufactured goods cost competitive with foreign goods, much of it has to come out of that 95% operating revenue that is operating expenses, most of which will be employee wages. There’s no way around this.
Where I work, many teams also don't push to prod on Fridays - although on our case we continue to work normally.

For user-facing things, we also have code freeze at the end of the year, over the holidays.
I assume you may be talking globally. In the U.S.[0] trucks are about a fifth of sales, crossovers are two fifths, and SUVs are just under a fifth. Cars like the Model 3 and Nissan Leaf fall into the "midsized car" category which is about a tenth of sales.

So watching the Model Y is probably a better indicator for the long-term growth of Tesla, and there's plenty of competition.

Just as a data point... GM's 15% profit margin[1].

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/276506/change-in-us-car-...

[1] https://www.cfo.com/financial-performance/2020/11/gm-posts-4...
Capital to get started, how many people need to be involved, how many people need to be convinced to get started, how long will it take to start, etc
> The Man in the High Castle

It was very good in its first season. Then it rapidly lost steam, since the writers had no idea what to do with the amazing characters they brought to life and the moral dilemmas they inevitably ran into.

As a result you had most of the characters just aimlessly wander around looking forlorn.
What is a good beginners guide to Free Pascal? I see the user's and programmer's guides, but those are only useful once you know the syntax and so forth.
One way to outdo amazon in your niche is a better user experience. It’s not to hard seeing how bad amazons ux is. You need to attract people who value trust over pure price.
Would you say it's more like 120+% time or is that a misconception of the policy by HN people that have never worked at google?
You’re trying to make a joke, but the website could definitely be looked at again with modern expectations. It’s unusable on my iPhone. Even trying to pinch zoom somehow interacts with it. I couldn’t figure out its purpose before I lost interest and closed the tab.

The sarcastic attempt to say “look how amazing this without any modern tools” is out of place when the website isn’t very usable.
Agree with this. 15x in 1.5 years shows that the stock price is not only made by real value.
> I frequently see cyclists breaking traffic laws and norms.

More frequently than cars? There are over 5 million car crashes in the US every year. 30,000+ people killed.
I'd like to see a NeXT documentary produced by anyone. The General Magic one was great.
There's this concept of "mature" technologies that have reached more or less the optimum characteristics and are only going to see slight tweaks until requirements or materials change.

eg the assault rifle has seen only one major change since the '40s (the switch to small caliber high velocity in the '60s), transonic passenger and cargo airplane airframe shapes have settled on a single general configuration, &c

The '60s in particular just happened to be a point when lots of aerospace stuff happened to reach maturity, along with our understanding of the common-case aerodynamics.
> The modern "printing press" is a computer located at the central bank of the currency in question

Ok, that further supports my point then.

If the US is in "collapse" then the people who control that currency will still have a large incentive to digitally "print" more dollars.

Whereas they couldn't similarly print physical gold in the same way.
> I would happily pay for all of the services I use.

Idea: Move all online businesses to a new digital-only currency. Let people earn that currency by donating the processing power/storage/bandwidth of their devices, like the @Home projects. Of course people could always current existing currency to the new e-currency.

Let's say an hour of donating an average laptop = an hour of using Google, Facebook, etc.
The Atari Web Server he's using is one of my favorite pages on the internet.
https://humanclock.com/atariserver.php

For real, I traded Atari games with Craig, the author of this site, in the late 1990's. He is an amazing dude. He also rode his bike around Australia and did a website about it: https://lunky.com/.
Depends how you weigh timing. If attacker doesn't know when you update, they have to hang out and risk detection at the supplier. (Who added this update?) If they can push updates, they can move quickly and compromise the target.
Also "Remembering the Dragon Lady", a collection of stories from pilots.
Also, user review, lists and tagging/bookshelves. Just massive data
Kodak $40 Mobile Film Scanner Is Like Google Cardboard for Scanning Film (2019)
Ha! This is more or less how my shell script works, but it looks way less kludgey. Thanks!
So did I understand correctly? The "bootstrap" stage which is best to be in C (for the targets which don't have LLVM) will be just the output of the compiler compiling itself to C, and that will be regularly produced and pushed as the compiler grows? And that's one of the steps to make it LLVM independent?

P.S. Amazing work up to now! Kudos! I'm a fan just for everything it does what other language designers ignore, like designing the language to both compile and link fast. Cross compiling always available is a masterpiece. I guess that feature wouldn't have to be present on the platforms which don't have LLVM, if the language is to work on such too?