skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real-real-real true genuine answer is: it doesn't matter. We are not capital constrained. The central banks of the world issue/print money to keep the economy growing at a steady rate of ~1 percent. (For example the official target for the US central bank [the Federal Reserve System, aka the Fed] is 2 percent year-on-year PCE [personal consumption expediture] growth. But (!) at the same time the Fed has a dual mandate, to ensure close to full employment. And recently the Fed started becoming even more aggressive in addressing that: https://www.stitcher.com/show/voxs-the-weeds/episode/fix-rec... )

So it doesn't matter if Apple has a trillion dollar in the bank just sitting. The central bank will conduct open market operations to lower the rates of credit so people/companies are incentivized to start new ventures, finally invest in upgrading their old shit, buy a house with a lower APR, etc. And similarly when Apple starts "dumping money into the economy" the Fed will promptly raise rates to keep inflation in check.

Technically for those particular shell companies, yes likely.

For the general offshore companies (like Apple's), a very big yes.

This is a very accessible and detailed paper about how FDI (foreign direct investment) through offshore companies work, and how the high-tax-regime countries benefit the most (eg. the US): https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
I just found this poking around on their website:

https://crowdstorage.com/faq/#where-is-my-data-stored

Where is my data stored?

Your data is intelligently encrypted on your My Cloud Home and sliced into tiny pieces that only you can put back together. The encrypted data pieces are scattered across our community of users, using small portions of our member’s unused hard drive space. Spreading your data out in this way makes it more safe and secure than it would be if it was all stored in one location.
> It's often talked and complained about, I don't think "nobody tried so nobody knows" is plausible.

Can you find evidence it's been tried? By a major brand?
I'm not sure anyone's making the claim that pocket size would be the number 1 determinant in jeans purchase, fit and style are still going to be important, as are perceptions of quality.

This in particular gives me pause about all the perfect-free-market responses here - women are complaining they don't get pockets. Not saying "I don't buy jeans because they have inadequate pockets". I'm not even sure they're saying "I would switch brand because of larger pockets". Just "Why no decent pockets for us?"

> What powerful force is there to keep everyone in check

Inertia?
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looks like they're just multiplying two 100x100 matrices, once? (maybe I'm reading it wrong?) in Julia, runtime would be dominated by compilation + startup time.

A fair comparison with C++ would be to at least include the compilation/linking time into the time reported.

Ditto for Java or any JVM language (you'd have JVM startup cost but that doesn't count the compilation time for bytecode).

Generally, for stuff (scientific computing benchmarks) like this you want to run a lot of computation precisely to avoid stuff like this (i.e you want to fairly allow the cost of compilation & startup amortize)
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This sounds like someone who yells at the cashier as though they're the one that makes the rules.
Yup. I know a guy who got all scared because he got a letter from the government indicating call(s) of his had been recorded in a wiretap.

Fortunately for his peace of mind I immediately suspected what was going on--he had called a business that had been wiretapped. (I didn't know about the wiretap, I knew about the investigation from the newspaper.) A complete nothing, but it scared an educated guy.
Co-founder here. As jpohalloran noted, we're working toward fully decoupling Tina from your production site.
Who is in the portrait behind him?
While CGI scripts written in perl and shell script were all the rage, I remember using C (and ODBC) quite fondly and successfully. It wasn't until I encountered the webscr.cgi at PayPal that was more than a GB compiled and spanned millions of lines of C language that I realized the error of my ways.
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I do think what you describe here strikes a better balance.
Yeah, Wal-Mart and other super groceries like this are the seed of the problem. It goes like this:

1. You have a handful of nice small towns each with their own little commercial center with a small grocery store and a collection of other shops and restaurants.

2. Wal-Mart wants to move into the area. Their efficiency is driven by logistics and scale. They don't want to open a small Wal-Mart in each town that they have to drive trucks to. So they pick one of those towns and put a mega-Wal-Mart there.

3. People in the neighboring towns start going to that Wal-Mart occasionally because it has a few things the smaller local grocery store doesn't have.

4. Business dries up at the local grocery stores. They already operate on razor-thin margins so it doesn't take much to put them in the red. They close.

5. Now even the people who don't want to go to Wal-Mart have no choice.

6. People tend to visit the other shops and restaurants as an additional errand tacked on to their necessary grocery run. Without a local grocery store anchoring those trips, people no longer stop at the restaurants or other shops. Those satellite businesses close down.

Ta-da, now you've got a bunch of dead towns with no functioning city center and one bigger town with a Wal-Mart. Traffic gets worse for everyone. Wal-Mart rakes in the cash because instead of them having to pay for last mile product shipping, customers do it for them by driving thirty minutes from their food desert dying town to the nearest Wal-Mart.

Did I mention that all the people who used to work at these small stores and restaurants now have shitty jobs at Wal-Mart and awful commutes?
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I'm a subscriber so I have self-interest in you being successful and I've paid money to help support that. If there's one thing I would encourage/plead you to do, it's to hire one person who will do "advocacy marketing". You said "Marketing is hard" and there's no doubt. But you'll know the right person, because they'll be __more__ excited about talking about your product and how it can be used, and who can use it ... than even you are. Most importantly, they'll just do that one thing. RSS/Newsletters is an area of content that geeks love - so finding someone who wants to __regularly__ talk about that in content, video, <forums that count> would be massive. I'll stop there ;-)
> Meanwhile I suspect a lot of men wish they could carry handbags.

Men can and frequently do carry handbags or the fubctional equivalent (and not just the “murses” that get mocked for violating classic gender norms: a soft-sided briefcase/laptop bag with a shoulder strap, or a messenger bag, or...)

In fact, I'd argue that this, as with pockets, is a case where the masculine-coded offerings are often far more practical than the feminine-coded ones.
I love Montreal, but it seems you are describing the Plateau/Mile-End rather than Montreal as a whole.

But I agree, from the North American cities I visited, Montreal has the nicest, livable higher-density housing areas.
What do you mean by that? Do you mean his ideas on FOSS don't align with yours? He isn't representing your interests as a developer/user etc? Or is it because he is an old white man and you aren't?

For the first two perhaps there is an org that better aligns with your goals. Unless you are heavily invested into the FSF and wish to change its direction I think putting your energy into an org that aligns with you is a better way to spend your time.

If its the last one please explain to me how that isn't racist/sexist.
Nice little bit after the interview is over (at 18:30) where Steve says: "I haven't taken a vacation in a long time. That's how I measure whether I'm successful, is whether I can take off for three months. So far I'm not successful."
I don't see how it could. If they had a test that X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT carried out the intended additional checks, and a test that non-CA certificates could not issue other certificates, and a test that valid certificate chains were accepted, wouldn't that cover all the branches involved without ever detecting the particular problematic combination involved in this bug?
Longer school days = keeping the kids bored out of their skulls for even longer.

Oh yeah, I taught IT at a community college for a few years (and paid union dues for not even a newsletter). Teaching, even to adults, is hard work and you're only good for a few hours a day. Full time and sessional faculty had 12 contact hours a day. Then there's prep, marking, student counseling, committees...

I have no idea how elementary teachers get through a day.
I can so recommend this.

I've switched to emacs few years ago for the same reason and spent about a year using it. Although I've switched back to vim afterwards, having spent time with emacs was fun and not a waste of time.

Have a leap of faith, find the advantages of one (or the other) for yourself. If you don't like at any time for any reason just switch back: after all, it all text files you're editing.
This is not true. Ubuntu MATE works ootb. Linux Mint Cinnamon works ootb. Both have GUI to install apps. Just like KDE and GNOME.
It's worth noting there's a disconnect between the JEDEC standard latencies and what's actually available. It lists the DDR4 latencies at around 13-14ns but 10ns latency kits can be bought without paying a significant premium[1].

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#Z=32768002&sort=pr...
If u just look on the main page u would see they are excluding jitting time (using warm start to measure jitted languages)
Dunno why this people cant just read few lines of comments in github page before posting :D
I've been thinking about this a bit lately. I think what we need more than anything is consensus among developers to not accept specific conditions. I think it's easy to get excited about opportunities; and especially in junior devs to want to "put in the work" to prove that you care and "go the extra mile" for "a stake in the company" .. Things I've heard far to often.

If their was more mentoring between senior and junior devs, and the junior devs we're enlightened to the all the employer bs, I think that would help solve alot of bad contracts; at least it would prevent juniors from accepting horrible deals.

Also, it seems to me that their could be something here beyond a standard union. Block chain / decentrailized union?... maybe. Let's not forget that we, the labor pool are selling our labor to the employees. And, tbh, devs are a hot commodity and with consensus among them, would have significant leverage as a group.

This could potentially cross borders too. Pulling up all devs from all nations.
Mostly UPS. Occasionally FedEx.
See also Lyndon’s blog post [1] about what all has changed since 1.0, for anyone who’s been away for a while.

[1] https://www.oxinabox.net/2021/02/13/Julia-1.6-what-has-chang...
True, it's not all about computing cycles :)
There is no comparison really possible here. One supports MySql/Postgres SQL syntax and the other support GraphQL and a made up QL. This "comparison" is really only useful for greenfield development.
> Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.

It's goes deeper than it should Cars usually ship with small patches of carpet. From Java 8 until 15, Java shipped with a JS interpreter. It was actually the only JSON parser I know of that shipped with Java.
Interesting. In German there is no such strong distinction, so I was not aware of this distinction in English.

E.g. the word "Vogelfrei" refers to somebody who is free but excluded from society, an outcast. So definitely not a tiny bit of positive freedom there.
If you think that’s crazy, check out the reason behind argument limits in scala. There’s just hard-coded Java functions like:

func(a)
func(a,b)

Etc... some languages have really weird bit :)
I say this half-jokingly... are any parts of these missions insignificant? I feel like every component and mechanism has some sort of Easter egg or hidden meaning.

If someone is like "hey I need screw" do I first have to start with melted down metal from the door frame of the first space mission ever or can I just go down to parts and grab a screw?
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I think the author is conflating Linux "culture", for the a lack of a better term, with the Linux "tech-stack". A lot of people like the extensibility of a "Linux phone" (here, meaning the tech), but do not give 2 shits about the culture-slash-zealotry, as exemplified by a distrust/dislike of technologies just because the are from megacorps like Google: what's wrong with writing Flutter UI on the Pinephone? Is it because Flutter was originally authored by Google?
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Something like this ? https://licensezero.com/
i think a lot people who make their own language is for personal engineering instead of making an PL argument. "boring" languages are underrated imo, almost every language have some bloat like OOP or whatever, to me it's interesting to think about what's the barebone of imperative scripting and how we can do subtraction instead of addition
Why do tired guests drown slower than energized guests in RCT2?
It is primarily an architectural and operational comparison.
Many people are quick to say that no one should trust an opinion piece (some claiming further that WSJ in particular is suspect). People should be cautious of anything they read from any source. Further, just because an idea is expressed in an opinion piece doesn't automatically make it invalid.

In this case it is not difficult to get at the cited document from which the author's claims are drawn. For those interested, it is available here:

https://www.cmadocs.org/Portals/CMA/files/webinars/COVID-19%...

These data don't necessarily mean anything without an understanding of the context, but they are definitely useful and shouldn't be ignored out of hand, even if the author is using them to support a conclusion different than your own. In other words: accept the data for what it is worth and then use it to form/strengthen a reasonable conclusion.

EDIT: Punctuation
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They are measuring compile time and runtime speed, not just runtime speed like for statically compiled langauges
Netlify CEO here. I'll try to answer the questions from the thread so far:

Some of our customers are affected by an outage of Googles Load Balancer.

These customers are not taking advantage of our DNS management, or they are not using a DNS provider that supports CNAME flattening and are using their root domain name for their website (ie, no www prefix).

While we don't recommend the setup, we do provide a single IP address to bind an A records for customers that want it.

In general we run our edge infrastructure as a large multicloud setup spanning several different network providers, and offer two separate networks, one for free/self-serve customers that will get newer features faster and one for enterprise customers running mission critical projects where we guarantee very high uptime and reliability through formal SLAs.

The single IP mentioned above however corresponds to a Google Load Balancer, and they are unfortunately currently having an outage for all load balancers in the relevant region. Read more on https://status.cloud.google.com/

Again, while we generally don't recommend using the A name setup for anything mission critical, we are currently doing everything we possible can helping enterprise customers that have chosen this setup to change their configuration.

Really sorry for all the trouble this are causing for our users, full RCA will be forthcoming.
It's basically a pirate ship.
Exactly, many forget the little detail that they should use the backup feature, rather than just copy the database file.
Aw. They're fun for the tourists.

Also look at our neighbours who got rid of their royals and ended up run by Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and Franco.
Ask HN: Which book/essay changed your life?
Is there any book or essay that has lead to a change of perspective, a new view on reality so novel to you, that you decided to completely change certain aspects of your life based on the premise of the text or your conclusions resulting from it?
Ideally if you have some big geographic dependent job center, you would have transit to move workers from this city center to this job center. That transit could be anything from a sad bus that shows up once an hour, or a subway that shows up every 90 seconds, depending on local political climate most of all, depending on need. For example, the subways in NYC don't really help you out if you need to get across town. They are designed to funnel workers from where its cheap to live elsewhere in nyc, to where they can find jobs in midtown or lower manhattan, like a big toilet bowl. Los Angeles also built the green line to service people working for the defense industry around LAX. Planners recognize needs for movement and have this data, but I'd say the biggest barriers are locals not wanting to see a train and the working people it carries, and a lack of strong federal support in recent decades (in contrast to highway funding).
How so? I have repeatedly said his public manner and communications skills were atrocious and likely responsible for a good deal of deaths.
"useful resources for students and families"

"and even works without internet access."

"free for individuals and non-commercial use up to 500 computers"

I'm confused- who are they targeting? At endlessos.org, I found this:

"We're not changing the way technology works... we are working to make it better.

We develop our tools to meet the needs of real users with diverse technical challenges to work with.

We design them with access, agency, and usability in mind. This approach allows us to create as much positive impact as possible for our communities."

Am I the only one who finds such marketing speak to be a sure sign to run the opposite direction and stick with a well known FOSS distro?
On this day, March 25 2021, Google Reader has been dead for longer than it was alive.

source: https://twitter.com/ZackMaril/status/1365834285463257091
Looks awesome, replaced my pinned tab with the beta version and will put it through it's paces. Thank you!
Also they’re effective at stymying pickpockets.
I am still holding out naive, idiotic hope that someone will build an Inbox replacement. And not the box-ticking feature-parity that they still haven't delivered on, but the actual intelligent workflows, while maintaining a clean uncluttered experience, that Inbox was so good at. I do understand though, that a lot of people who didn't "get" Inbox will not understand this sentiment either. But there are dozens of us!

The closest I'm finding now, strangely, is Outlook, and MS Todo. Through a combination of flagged emails and the archive function. Though it's still in multiple places and not one. SparkMail app helps as well with slightly advanced snoozing, but nowhere near the Inbox experience. I'm bitter now, thanks
Their job was moving stuff. He was was being forced to pay for them to move stuff. So he got them some stuff to move.

How does that count as "yelling at the cashier"? He wasn't yelling at them at all. He just made sure they did the job for which they were getting paid.
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The bicycle quip appears in so many videos from around that time. Interpret Jobs videos as case studies in a type of marketing.

He's framing Apple marketing as "it's so exciting that we can help people so much", but it's honest and actually true.

The best videos of Jobs are the rare internal ones.

Also, he's 25 in this video? wtf
One could, for instance, run “static” sites with the data stored in a SQLite database. Update on write apps often can do okay with 90% uptime. It’s the “generate everything in every request” crowd that needs an HA solution and why do we keep doing this to ourselves?
Doesn’t mean it’s adopted though.
Feels like we live in a society where self-compassion is not tolerated. How can we be kind to ourselves if there are mechanisms in society that keep us distracted from ourselves?
Clickbait title. "Taxes" refers only to income taxes. Obviously, income taxes do nothing to huge, accumulated, generational wealth.

Edit: especially when you have individual families that haven't had an "income" in 200 years.
While expensive, though cheaper than NYC, Seattle and Portland can claim walkability too. Portland has the better public transit in the city and from suburbs in, Seattle has much more going on though, between the two.

But I also think, most people really just dont like living in a downtown. Yes, there are plenty that do. But not everyone. It's really weird to keep pushing this idea that if you dont want to live in a dense area, there's something wrong with you.
Very true. Not sure why we tolerate it, regardless of political side or alignment.
I'm using Flym, although TBH I'm not a very demanding user not have I carried out a thorough survey.
> There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.

I heard it as the much funnier "LSD and BSD."
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This is amazing, thanks! Not sure how exactly you calculate, but couldn't you extend this tool "automatically" (I know there are pitfalls) to all places in the world which are well covered by OpenStreetMap?
Many banks still “shutdown” for hours every night to do backups.
1. Refrain from calling yourself an expert. Cybersecurity is too wide a field for one person and it sets off warning bells.

2. Start general, read a wide variety of topics, maybe get a Security+ certification -- it's a good toe dip. Maybe the Certified Ethical Hacker (another toe dip).

If you want an affordable, but time-consuming deep dive into pentesting, take Offensive Security's OSCP course.

3. As you get more of an idea on what areas of cybersecurity interest you the most, drill down into those specific subject matters.

4. Become a subject matter expert in the areas that interest you. This will involve social media, quality blogging, and speaking at conferences.

5. Profit!
Yes. They dated in the 80's.