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There's a common thread in every one of the good sources of search information: user curated content.

Usually: voted on/curated by members who are specialized in some way (reddit, so, hn, wikipedia to a degree).

The fallbacks are editorial sites.

If you make a search engine that focused on indexing user-curated sites + results outside of that that are themselves curated/voted-on by your search engine users (ie, you and others could upvote axios and Amazon as a good source), I think you'd have an interesting model. Basically, take the HN/reddit model to search itself.
Right, and like I said, if the higher ups are happy to make big investments in long-shot projects, then that is what will be done, regardless of whether or not the result is profitable.

This is not unlike biomedical engineering: invest in big expensive projects expecting several to fail and a few or one to recoup the costs for the rest and then some.
>>The US also didnt secure such contracts, they simply forbid any export.

USA bought vaccines from everyone a year ago and opened the check book, giving them billions without knowing if the vaccine will work. And then put all their weight to help them find factories and stuff. So USA gambled relatively nothing (Covid has cost many trillions) and gained a lot.

EU doing what they do best...meetings. USA bans exports in this sense: if Pfizer agreed to give USA 50 million shots in March, no exports until that number is delivered. Seems fair.
We're talking about who's morally in the wrong here, not whether it's a good idea to do this.
ah, thanks.

Well, to that I'd say, if my money had anywhere near the impact of everyone's money pooled together I'd do it. Until then I'll keep advocating for public funds to be spent this way, and I assume OP would as well.

If you lend each completely broke person $100 they are still about to be completely broke and your investment will be wiped out after a brief respite. But if you hand each bankrupt person $X,000 then many might be able to dig themselves out of the hole and remain productive members of society.
>> It's a 9V battery. Relax.

>That's the kind of thinking that leads to stuff like this

It's also the kind of thinking that leads to getting killed by 9V batteries. https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
> Living within your means over the course of 80 years instead of balls-to-the-wall for 30-40 and then a quick and silent death for 30 seems to be a better course of action and would lead to longer lifespan.

I think you have two things wrong here:

1) Most people don't plan to live "balls-to-the-wall" for 30-40 years before retiring. They work hard (maybe too hard!) so they can retire early. They don't live like kings and queens for that time; that would probably make it impossible to build that nest egg and actually retire. To do this right, you need to build enough wealth to maintain your lifestyle post-retirement. For most folks this means that their pre-retirement lifestyle won't be particularly extravagant.

2) Just because you retire, it doesn't mean you have a "silent death for 30" years. That's absurd, and plays into the whole "life is meaningless without work" idea, which I categorically reject. Maybe life has no meaning for you without work, but that's you, and not everyone. There's plenty to do in those last 30 years of life that will keep me fulfilled, happy, and busy, and none of it needs to have anything to do with drawing a paycheck.

"Retiring" doesn't mean not living, or even not "working". It just means that you get to do whatever you want without worrying about whether or not you're getting paid for it. Which is essentially what FI is as well, just with the added bit that you've decided to avoid gainful employment.
For a $200,000 down payment on a $2500 a month mortgage (with 50% going to principal) versus $2000 a month rent, you'd need ten months to get past the $10,000 closing costs even assuming 10% return on next-best option and that the value of your home remains flat. Owning the place you live is probably the best investment you can make.
Not sure why they'd do that - there's far more infrastructure for ARM. RISC is a backwater. But maybe economic viability of products isn't the goal.
Task Manager’s CPU numbers are all but meaningless
> Every headline that right now seems like a "sad story" - a parent losing a child, a child losing a parent,

> kids in cages, a daughter and father who are estranged, etc -- becomes an absolutely wrenching sadness if

> you even FLIRT with the idea of "what if that happened to me/my child"? You develop sensitivities that you

> are surprised at. You realize you have inherited an impossible and awesome responsibility of providing for,

> protecting, loving little blank slates of humanity... in a chaotic and dangerous world.

This was something I was not prepared for when I had my son. I cannot watch media or news stories where kids suffer or get hurt.
No explanation of consciousness cuts it if it does not address how first person perspective comes about. No computation results in first person perspective.
I've been migrating my vacant rentals to Airbnbs during the moratorium for this very reason. I may not rent them out again to long-term tenants for quite some time.

Local governments should consider all of the perverse incentives they create when making these sorts of changes.

(If you do this, note that if you let someone stay in your Airbnb for a month, they also cannot be evicted in some jurisdictions.)
This reminds me of privateering during the age of sail.
The EU has exported 41 millionen vaccine doses of which the UK has gotten 8 million so far [1]. Meanwhile, the UK and US do not export any vaccines at all. So just as a back of the envelope calculation, with 41 millionen doeses the EU could have vaccinated an additional 10% of its population, while the UK would have had more than 10% less vaccinatetions without those 8 million. This would not completetly close the gap, but the numbers would be quite different then.

Anyway, you can interpret this in a postivie way: the EU is trying to be good and is sharing its vaccinations more or less fairly with other countries (for now). However, you can also see it as the EU has no real power at all and is just an easy target to get fooled over by other countries..

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-eu-not-ready-to-share-covi...
This doesn’t terribly surprise me. Community isn’t just the people but also the customs and idioms within the community. It’s probably similar to ‘code switching’ in verbal languages. People talk (and act) differently depending on who thay’re talking to.
> In fact, many European companies, especially from Germany, are quite agile market leaders.

Can you name a few?
I had a business idea last year that would take advantage of a similar concept.

Basically, it would be like GoFundMe, but users could also pay money to defund a campaign if they so desired.

For example, if there was a campaign that people thought was distasteful, they could pay $10 to take $5 from the campaign and allocate the previously funded $5 and $5 from the defund fee to the antithesis of the campaign (selected by a site administrator).

The remaining $5 of the defund fee would go to site operations, allowing the defunding payments to pay for costs rather than taking costs out of campaigns themselves.

This would allow sites to respond to pressure from the public about controversial campaigns with less threat of being deplatformed by their ISP, host, or payment processor.

Numbers are just examples, a lot of changes on the pricing and fee balancing would have to be determined, but the concept intrigued me.
This is an incredible opportunity to set the legal precedent to make the tech standpoint no longer acceptable, and hence, compel it to change.
and what if employee brings infected USB drive and plugs it into computer?
Damn, I'd pay a good part of my mortgage in 4 days with that. You played your cards well.
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This is a really interesting article! Typestates are one of my favorite patterns, and this helped me see some uses of generic types in Rust to really take it to the next level using const generics.
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>> ...still need health insurance...without insurance..

I think the point is that even with health insurance you can be wiped out. I dont think any reasonable definition of FI/RE would suggest being without health insurance.

The thing is that in a small % of cases, even with health insurance, you get one bad examiner, one by-the-books administrator who denies coverage for something, and you're done for.
Possibly more interesting if information on acceptances was also provided.
> This thread makes a convincing case for why the original USB connector couldn’t be reversible

The sole reason as stated by Ajay Bhatt, the project lead at Intel, was cost. They wanted to encourage mass adoption of USB and every cent saved helped in that initiative.

The compromise for UX was to make the connector rectangular rather than circular, so that there was a 50% chance of getting it correctly orientated on first try.
Pencil is a simpler medium than oil paints, but that doesn't make it any easier to do a good portrait with it. Saying its a simple language is expressing a trait of the language that some people may like or find they have an affinity for. People seem to get stuck with the idea that programming languages can only be compared via objective criteria where as we seem to use these sorts of signals to help each other find mediums we like.
I think you are wrong. UK gov blocked exports to the EU.

"Two factories in Britain run by Oxford Biomedica and Cobra Biologics are also listed as suppliers to the EU in the contract with AstraZeneca, but no vaccine has so far been shipped from Britain to the EU, despite Brussels' earlier requests."

"AstraZeneca told EU officials that the UK is using a clause in its supply contract that prevents export of its vaccines until the British market is fully served, EU officials said."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-uk-...
So.... reduce production, and supply/demand curves should get you back financially on track?

Of course, you might get pilloried for the artificial scarcity, but hey... nobody ever likes the capitalist :)
> I can't count the number of times she got something out of the New York State Lottery. $50 here, $100 there. It was enough to keep her feeding the beast.

Sounds like intermittent reinforcement. If you want a rat to press a lever many times, you don't make it dispense a pellet of food every time but only dispense one sometimes.
Hi, author of the aho-corasick crate here. Your use of it piqued my interest and caused me to take a closer look.

I believe your use of `unsafe` on this line is unsound: https://gist.github.com/daaku/58557e2545612df8f40b13b66b7d3b...

Namely, there is no guarantee that the bytes between `<page>` and `</page>` will be valid UTF-8. It may be the case that you only run this program with UTF-8 input, in which case, UB is never triggered. But it's worth pointing out here since there is nothing actually stopping your program from hitting UB.

Also, as long as you're bringing in the twoway crate, you might as well use it on lines 43 and 48 since you're just searching for a single needle.
But so few people use DDG. It probably isn’t much of an issue for stack overflow. If Google started doing that, my guess is that stack overflow would feel it.
Slightly OT, but since the focus shifted to safety: is that battery really dangerous? I'm really asking.

I remember, as a kid, testing for charged 9V batteries touching the bare electrodes with my tongue. It was a funny feeling, but that was way before the "little chemist" became the dumbed down shadow of itself and everyone was screaming "safety".

For science, ladies and gentlemen, I'm now measuring the resistance of ~5mm of my tongue: it's 90kOhms, that should be a lower bound regarding the experiment.
ITT: "Why would I want the choice about when/if/where/how I work? I want my exact work specifications to be imposed on me, without any negotiating leverage."
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Is that wording correct? It sounds like actual real estate agents are for sale.
In this context, the argument that my position is invalid unless I’m willing to pay out of pocket to enact it in whole (20k$) acts like the barrier to file a lawsuit under a minimal amount of damage. Like flipping that argument around to be used against one another. Not what I’d call a worthwhile contribution to discussion.
Isn't the Nim GC optional?
That's not unrelated I think. It is interesting.

Does it mean it will be slow? Does it mean it is basically based on Node.js?
There are USB drives that do vaguely similar things but it's all in software. It's difficult to do that unless the filesystem has append only functionality, metadata blocks are rewritten all the time even if data isn't.

For anyone who has serious (I.e. $$$) need of that they already have tapes and optical WORM media though.

You can do something conceptually similar with any sort of NAS that provides immutable snapshots as long as the management and control is effectively out of band.

The out of band part is the key. Our SAN data has snapshots. The backups are written to another storage device that only has an API key to write them to B2 storage. An attacker would effectively need to completely compromise multiple admins in the organization to get at all the stages of data duplication, and frankly there is no additional line of defense for total compromise if the attacker is willing to wait for physical tape or disk swaps.

Fortunately for ransomware, time is money for them too.
I think this is often the case where the only real product is information.

If you and I have the same information as the agents, then their use goes down a lot.
Don't trust women. Ever.
The UK has partially funded AZ and added a clause into the contract that will prioritise UK for future vaccine exports from the UK. And that's exactly what's happening, all AZ produced in UK stays in UK)

Whereas a similar contract between Germany and Biontech (Germany paid biontech $445 million to help develop the vaccine) didn't include a clause defining export priorities.
Pfizer-Biontech is exported all over the world.

Canada, for example, gets their Pfizer-Biontech from the EU, instead of Michigan where they're also produced.
One of the best episodes of Archer touches on this topic - El Contador.

https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/El_Contador
Probably irrelevant. There would anyway be some number N of operating systems, and a number K of computers, and the number K will always be very much larger than N. So there would be a huge possible 'market' for these criminals, even if they targeted just one of the N operating systems, as long as the number of vulnerable computers is large enough.

(edit: removed some meaningless words)
Isn’t that the point of financial independence?

So that you could invest time into finding a way to spend your time that pays less (or nothing) but which you enjoy?
Everyone who downvoted you would upvote articles about the risks of monoculture farming, without considering that the two are one and the same.
Money hoarding has nothing to do with your life quality as life quality is a logistical issue not a money issue. If I give everyone 1 million dollars for example, there are still only 30k nurses in the country for 320 million people. Nothing changes except for the price of nursing services. The same goes for homes, education, etc. And rich people dont take 50 nurses, buy all the single family homes, or eat 1000x their portion of food. Quit making excuses and being a negative person and learn to understand that life quality is about expanding economic production and efficiency through entrepreneurs, not being a negative jealous person trying to bring everyone down so its all fair and square but production comes to a halt and everyone is worse off. Socialist thinkers like yourself are really short sighted and the Karens of the economic world.
Not too long ago a friend witnessed the SVP GM of an $5b a year division quit with two weeks notice.

I’m senior enough that I give at least a month, often more, and this made me realize that I’ve been perhaps overly generous.
You're terrified that you might treat your employees so badly that you would need to pay a lot to resolve a situation? Seems like that's entirely within your control.
With synfuels the status quo is an option. Nothing fundamentally has to change.
Thunderbird already needs HTML and CSS for rendering emails, and needs JS for XUL anyways, right? So Thunderbird already needs HTML, CSS, and JS engines at any given time. Where will the memory bloat come from by moving to using HTML, CSS, and JS for the UI?
In this situation, you could always just tell the former employer to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut, and not respond to them.

That's probably what they deserve, if they come asking for a favor and then start getting abusive.
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How is it that Operating Systems don't default to a configuration that can't ever be changed by a rogue application process?

Why can't the OS be write protected? Why can't the configuration also be write protected?
> permanent orbital assembly

Sorry not familiar with these plans - does this mean that we assemble a bigger rocket (by using earth based rockets) at ISS level orbits and then relaunch to another planet?
tbf he does talk throughout the post about what he was missing out by not having a "normal" lifestyle.
They are just mirroring Firefox's (and thus Gecko's) own deprecation of XUL in favour of (X)HTML. Firefox's top level windows are now (X)HTML with XUL elements, and XUL specific elements and code paths are gradually being replaced with standard HTML elements or custom elements.
>> Selling OTM covered calls is not a trade that's going to blow up your account. The worst case is that you suffer a drawdown in your account (which is a risk of all investing). The second worst case is that you miss a massive, short-term rally.

Depends on whether youre fully cash secured or not. If you are fully cash secured, you barely make $. If you're not, now you're leveraged and a steep draw-down can wipe you out.
I see no problem with any of those things.

But I still see a problem with making a move onto a subordinate, which can put that person in a very awkward position. Same way as you don't hit on your friend's partner. Some people are just off limits. If they want something, it's up to them to make the first move.
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This is the wrong conclusion. This is a very common scam. People will reach out to people not selling their house and offer them below-market prices.

A small number of people (often elderly) have no idea how much their home is actually worth and will sell it for a lowball offer because the price seems so high to them.
Not just FIRE people, but 99% of all retirees at any age end up doing nothing of note with their time. But, and I think you aren't saying otherwise, this is also true of everyone who still has to work, while they are working. Your job is just the thing you have to do (if you are lucky you actually enjoy it). Bottom line, most people don't actually have a purpose or strong passions in their lives. Being retired young doesn't make that more or less true but at least you have more space to confront that void and just maybe find some purpose or passion. If you are totally time strapped with career, family, and other responsibilities, then you really really have no chance.
OTOH maybe our outside judgement that these people are wasting their lives is misguided. Subjective reported happiness for retirees is much higher compared to the working world.
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I appreciate the author writing this. Cutting this down to its essence, the guy managed to quit working for a significant chunk of time, went through a major health crisis, lost his wife, and still managed to increase his net worth over that period. The emotional aspect is obviously tough, but the fact that he was financially responsible and had a big nest egg gave him a huge cushion to work off of.

Financial independence doesn't have to be a binary thing. I'd like to achieve it not so I can sit around and do nothing but in fact so I can do whatever I want. I appreciate the author's candidness. It's important not to look at any of these things as fixed, and it's important not to oversimplify.
Game 1: Every time offence scores, they get $100 of defense's money.

Game 2: Every time offence scores, they get $100 of my money. Defense loses nothing.

Neither is fair to defence, but game 2 is unfair to me, and that's what's important.
Yes, I agree. Also (with the big caveat that I am not even a little bit of a language designer / implementer / lawyer, just a guy interested in these PL topics from early in my career), the use of comments, which are meant to be ignored by the compiler, to make certain actions happen, seems non-orthogonal and not a good choice. Like shoehorning something into something else it was not meant to be or support.
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I think there's a reasonable question of whether a Monte-Carlo simulation is better or worse than applying actual sequential returns from all 100+ starting years (which is what cFIREsim does and the data of which is available to all).

For me, I'd rather backtest against all the actuals than to look to a Monte-Carlo sim with a distribution which is the same as the per-year returns, because I don't believe that sequence of returns year to year are entirely independent, but rather have a relationship to each other because of the longer-term business cycles. This is naturally accomplished by using sequential year actuals.

I agree with you on focusing on the low-end/worst-case outcomes. I'm planning our family's retirement based on a 98% success rate as a minimum (and where the 2% cases can be managed by scaling down lifestyle rather than by starving).
His CV is linked in there.
No. Mozilla Corp is a separate entity from the Mozilla Foundation, and Google pays Mozilla Corp. (The arrangement with Google is exactly why Mozilla Corp is a distinct thing from the Mozilla Foundation: it means profits to Mozilla Corp can't influence the Mozilla Foundation.)

Mozilla Foundation is purely a donation-fed nonprofit, and most things you associate with "Mozilla" are made by the Mozilla Foundation. In fact, even Firefox itself — the open source project — is made by the Mozilla Foundation.

Mozilla Corp is just a company that employs engineers to work on Firefox. (I.e. their job is to be ordinary FOSS contributors to the project.) Those engineers might have a profit motive to do things Mozilla Corp investors/shareholders like, but that's fine, because those engineers mostly aren't part of the Firefox steering committee. The Firefox steering committee (along with all other Mozilla projects) is composed of people who are employed by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation; and/or FOSS people external to Mozilla as a whole.

(ETA: fixed the names. I originally called Mozilla Corp "Firefox Corp" — and it really basically is, as Mozilla Corp doesn't employ people to work on anything other than Firefox. IMHO "Firefox Corp" would be a strictly-better name for it.)
The title is off. It should have *undesired in it.
I can't help but wonder how long it'll be up before a massive data leak occurs...