skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PayPal's Technical FAQ from Oct '99 (cobbled in response to a Slashdot post haha) demonstrates how ahead of the game they were: use of ECC (with tech advice from Stanford's Dan Boneh & Martin Hellman), privacy policy that prohibited sale of user data to 3rd party advertisers, generating cash via "the float" in a Merrill Lynch Money Market Fund, etc.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991012084438/http://paypal.com...

But I think it's probably the "synergy" with eBay that was the biggest surprise. I recall having a neighbor at that time who sold old movie posters. Rather than driving around the country to comic book conventions, he was able to do more in one month in online auctions than the past decades he had been collecting. That was the great awakening. PayPal went from "college kids requesting cash from parents" to trading rare sports memorabilia with instant clearing by March 2000.

>>> If you needed to integrate with an outside vendor, you picked up the phone yourself and called; you didn’t wait for a BD person to become available. You did (the first version of) mockups and wireframes yourself; you didn’t wait for a designer to become available. You wrote (the first draft of) site copy yourself; you didn’t wait for a content writer.

"You must unlearn what you have learned" ;)
Less rich and more upper middle class (doctors, lawyers, etc) who are buying lots of properties as rentals.
1. String are not executable code

2. Can be sanitised to be valid UTF-16

3. Can be intentionally mangled in memory to prevent abuse
4th paragraph of that Wikipedia article:
"The name "homeownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults that own their own home. This latter percentage will be significantly lower than the homeownership rate because many households that are owner-occupied contain adult relatives (often young adults, descendants of the owner) who do not own their own home, and because single building multi-bedroom rental units can contain more than one adult, all of whom do not own a home."
It was about 1.7 miles two-way, or about $3.4 million, or ~$15 million per mile including the stations and “rolling stock.”

The tunnel in Hawthorne is about $10 million for a mile.

The advantage, of course, is in the very thing you’re not considering: right of way costs. Of course it’s cheaper to not have to tunnel at all, but there are buildings and people on the surface. And NIMBYs. So including the right of way costs, tunneling is cheaper than an urban road per lane-mile.

Tunneling projects (for larger tunnels) are about $900 million per mile in the US (can be even greater). $300 million per mile overseas. So about $10-15 million per mile is indeed about one or two orders of magnitude cheaper. Making do with smaller tunnels is a big advantage, one that I think other companies and transit agencies in the US should strongly consider as a method to address the insane infrastructure costs we have. If we have to use smaller subway trains like the London Underground uses, so what? At least we could actually get them built. We’re unlikely to saturate their capacity anyway, and I’d much rather have 4 times the routes than twice the subway train diameter.
In the US at least, I would put healthcare and education costs way above house prices as bigger problems.
Ad industry expected to make major comeback post Covid
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but, there is no right way. Ever.
I've still seen what I consider tech debt just poorly written overly complicated code. This post seems to ignore the experience and skill set of engineers writing the code.
You can get around this with an I2C multiplexer[0]. It allows you to connect 8 devices to the multiplexer and then occupy one address on the main bud.

0 - https://www.adafruit.com/product/2717
Well, you were there and I was not; all my impressions are secondhand. But, looking back at my grandparent comment, I worded this really poorly.

It was not whether the people were talking, but whether the components grew in convergent directions. My impression was that for extended periods they did not. Am I wrong?
Are you suggesting an entirely free-market approach is the right answer, with not even any safety regulations on products/industry?

Also when did liberal and free-thinking mean someone was supposed to be in support of allowing costs to be externalized on to others?
The only way that it's possible for energy-containing raw materials to be more expensive than complex, manufactured sources of energy generation, is government interference (and the corresponding lack of in the places that the solar panels and the like are actually manufactured, as well as an abundant source of fossil fuels to power that manufacture).
Isn't the minimum wager higher than that? Maybe you are mixing something up and are talking about after tax income.
I liked the cube for the same reason - virtual desktops just kinda clicked when I could rotate the cube to get to the stuff running just off screen. I've never really bothered with them before (or since).

You could make the 'cube' have an arbitrary number of faces, but I don't think there was the zoom mode you talk about.
Hedge fund technologists are pursuing 'bare metal' peak performance
All women of childbearing age. Aren't blood-clots a known risk of estrogen-based birth control, too?

And if all the people with blood clots were women, why not stop it in women only?
it took a while to reach the bottom.
I’m really surprised. It went up a lot from 2018 and 2019 so I don’t fully trust the result but that might be bias talking.
To cover the mortgage, the owner has to pass it to the renter. If the renter could afford the rent, he can afford the mortgage, which mean he can probably afford the house in the first place.
Sounds like the stupid people outbidding each other will lose money on the rent because renters are not outbidding each other.
> Renting is good

[House] renting is only "good" for the people making a profit off it. For the actual renters it's patently absurd.

"Rent-seeking" is a term with negative connotations for a reason.
It’s also possible to use fiducials that have a human-readable component (like QR code’s with a logo in the middle).
Something that outgrew its objective shouldn't be called tech debt

I agree with the rest of your comment, but something that outgrew its objective is almost text book tech debt. Instead of taking the time to build something new, or refactoring, you tacked it on to something existing.
Avec who?
Property taxes in certain areas of the US (most of the East Coast, for example) are already ridiculous. You could buy a house in the midwest for you what you pay in property tax alone in New Jersey.
Oof, yeah. Have spent so much time trying to get multiple devices to work reliably on the same bus. As more devices are added rise and fall time of the data line also becomes a thing. It can be really hard to get things working reliably and handle edge cases. Have also found different host MCUs are able to handle signal errors varyingly well. On some chips I’ve worked with the I2C peripheral won’t recover from an error on the line until the MCU is completely powered down and back up. This poses its challenges for overall system reliability.

All this is to say I’m always impressed that SparkFun has managed to build a product line around plug and play I2C with their QWIIC stuff. I’ve never used it though, so not sure how well it holds up with multiple devices.
How is the allocation of addresses done typically? Are they always hardcoded? Is the same chip then available with different addresses (different SKU)?
>the original claim was that they were 'upper class'! Which is obviously ludicrous

This goes back to the above post regarding the ambiguity around defining class. The traditional definition that I’m aware of uses quintiles, so “upper middle class” is defined as being within the top 20% (minus the top 1%-5% reserved for upper class). With this definition, the upper middle class will always be 15-19% of the population, on a sliding scale of income. This threshold comes out to about $87k/yr. at the individual level currently, I think.

But then people redefine that meaning. There was an article recently on HN saying the middle class is shrinking because more people are moving into upper middle class. They defined it based on absolute (as opposed to relative) income. But if you dig deeper into the research methodologies they normalized income so that a person making $58k/yr is equivalent to $100k if they are single. Magically, the threshold for upper middle class on an individual basis is reduced by 33%. (To be fair, they had reasons for this like the way poverty is defined by the government to factor in the number of people in a household).

I have a couple problems with this. 1) research indicates people are single, longer without kids because they feel less financially secure. It’s hard to square being single as a reason to be vaulted into upper middle class in that context 2) out of curiosity I took the average expenses for a mortgage, utilities, taxes etc. and tried to balance that against the $58k definition of upper middle class. In that case, if you have the average student loan debt you can’t afford the “average” American lifestyle even on an upper middle class income.

The point of all this being, we need to be careful about how we define economic class.

“If you torture numbers enough, they’ll confess to anything. “
A First Look at Allwinner D1 Linux RISC-V SBC and Processor
While this is indeed amazing I think it suffers from not being a PWA.

Being able to stuff it on its own little instance with no "back" to go to would allow people getting a cursory look at it to divert attention from the whole usability etiquette and concentrate on the thing itself, plus there might be some interesting gains in doing so too.

One other thing I'd love to have is an interactive tutorial, I'd love to be able to follow some steps to understand the thing better.
With a name like 'gilfoyle', I'm compelled to remind you that son-of-anton's debugging capabilities proved rather useful at creating a third category of technical debt - namely technical debt resulting from unintentionally deleted code.
Well they also prepared for a trenched war before the confrontation with the Nazy...
> most microcontrollers use C99 or even C89

Most microcontrollers are ARM Cortex-M and are programmed with a recent GCC toolchain
There was a related announcement 1 month ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/m18rbg/donate_your...
Locked article.
I could go ahead and say diable internet unless you dont want to be particularly safe.
I mean there are CPU level zero days.
But on a serious note, how would one protect oneself from Apps other than browser and talk to internet?
I mean we can't ask regular users to learn and turn off stuff.
Which is then snapped up in a lot of cities (London SF Vancouver) by the newly rich from places like China / Russia as a way to get their money out of the country.
Any explanation for the jump from 2018 to 2019?
Yup, I’m a fan although disappointed they have only announced the testbed instead of an orbital rocket.
https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev
Proponents of green energy and electrification of various domestic items are perfectly willing to support externalising various costs onto others, just to give one example.

Edit: Allow a lithium mine, or a rare earth processing plant, or an electrical waste site, in your back yard, and be happy that it provides employment for those around you, and then we can talk.
had me in the first half ngl.
then i was really taken aback when he just went on to totally dismiss FSF by saying it has failed so utterly and completely because...

it doesn't do accessibility?

because rms is "incapable of being kind"?
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Yeah Bill Gates - terrible guy. Spending money trying to eradicate diseases that kill poor people. What's worse, here's him in 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI) wasting money and faffing on about some pandemic. As if that's going to happen, and even if it does the pandemic won't affect rich countries in any way.
As someone in their mid 20’s with a tech job, it blows my mind that 60% of people own a home. I can’t imagine having enough money to own a home in a major city.
How Could an Officer Mistake a Gun for a Taser?
Well to be more precise they're saying that "use-cases like multiple family members sharing a single PC" are quaint - by contrast with "the modern era of cloud computing and IoT". A charitable reading would perhaps count it a fair observation that an increase in computing ubiquity has led to most machines, even workstations, being single-user.
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it's not as simple as that - poisonings, beatings, imprisonment etc have a chilling effect. We have no idea which leaders would step forward if it weren't for the effects of intimidation.

That is to say, someone smart enough to become a political force to be reckoned with is probably smart enough to realise that they will be faced with some terrible consequences for doing so. Their chances of success are extremely small and the chances of punishment is high. The smartest move is not to participate, and so this filters out all but the most principled or naive and foolhardy.
Discussed two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26634839
Good question.

The whole point of globalization and disinterventionism was to avoid hot wars. And, given their potential foes, I’m not sure they want to get into a hot war.

More importantly none of the powers have high reproduction rates so they won’t have a large fresh pop from which to draught troops and the robots aren’t quite ready yet, so I don’t know what gives.
Paying for things is a sucker's game.

Pay for movies, DRM breaks it
Pay for software, it's discontinued
But the "semi-socialistic" policies people advocate are the usual Nordic policies of free healthcare, free education, proper maternity leave and safety nets. Or were you talking about some fringe discussions? I don't think anyone is planning to seize the means of production if that's your worry.
Neat but the back button hijacking is not cool.
My brilliant* idea to solve the real estate problem is to tax the hell out of properties that are sitting empty.

Something like a 2x or 3x multiplier on property taxes or something, especially in densely populated areas, and especially in areas where there is rampant housing insecurity. The tax needs to be greater than the potential gamble of waiting for occupants. This should be both for residential and commercial use real estate.

*facetious
According to the free portion of the article they envision Turkey, A North African state (Algeria? Egypt?) or Russia.
Well, yea. They're going to try and manipulate American policy because so much rides on how Americans feel about Israel. Certainly they should be careful to not stir up angst and get cut off.

I'd also like to add that this is unfortunately very common. Everybody in the world wants Americans to think a certain way because of the amount of military and economic power the country wields. This ranges from "come visit Mexico" to "the Palestinians are terrorists" to China using Tik Tok (or Russian disinformation campaigns against vaccines) to manipulate people into pro-X stances.

The whole world has turned into an ad.
You cannot just shoehorn this expression. It is overloaded and depends on context:

- fixed price was paid, software delivered, nobody else cares == it is not a debt;

- fixed price was paid, software delivered, but more potential buyers == tech is most likely in a debt as you'll need to accommodate more changes;

- subscription based income, software needs constant improvements == tech is most likely in a debt;

- VC based income, software needs constant improvements == tech is most likely in a debt as you do not know what you're building;

- no income, software delivered, people want more == dunno;

- no income, software delivered, devs say it is crap == no tech debt;

I think debt should be tightly linked to the potential financial gains. But not only it is hard to quantify it, developers are not usually participating in the financial projections. Because of that you get a speculation on the importance of various refactoring exercises that do not yield any income improvements. Besides developers are usually biased towards improvements because otherwise they (devs) are not necessary anymore.

An outrageous example. Imagine you are painting a naturmort. If you're not careful enough and do not do it right from the beginning it might end up being shit and beyond repair. But who cares if nobody buys it.
> de-facto for drawing

I don't think that this is still true - most artists switched to CSP, Procreate, various other programs. There isn't really an industry standard any more.
Of course you can choke crime if you make the earnings useless. Same way as painting the cash in a vault in case of theft.
Hover works like a charm to unlock these —

https://github.com/hover-inc/hover-paywalls-browser-extensio...
> GNU Name System

Really? Can you elaborate a bit on the why? As far as I can tell, GNS has been around as a proposal for years and has gained no traction.
"Planned for 2023, Exercise Orion is a full-scale divisional exercise that will last several days, based probably out of camps at Suippes, Mailly and Mourmelon. It will involve the full range of French military capacity on a scale not tested for decades."

Saved you the trouble ;-) The title is clickbait
>save money in the bank

This money is effectively lent to the bank, which will then re-lend it. A small share to the Federal Reserve, the rest to mortgage holders, businesses trying to meet payroll and so on.
Well that's because he's trying to stomp out Malaria, a problem the US doesn't have but is still a terrible thing that kills a lot of people (and especially children) every year. It's one of the biggest life-saving impacts he can make with the money on the planet.

Not really disagreeing with you for anyone else, though.
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I switched to Gimp, Inkskape, Krita years ago as a heavy user of Adobe products and I have zero regrets. Once you get past the new workflow learning curve life is drama free. They are 95% equivalent and always free.
The Problem with Male Birth Control
cough Grenfell Tower fire.

Lots of tiny Jerry built flats in tower blocks are not the answer - even more so when the rise of WFH is taken into account.
Militants in Africa are the current enemies.
Destin des datas détournées du demi-milliard de comptes Facebook
This organisation makes some convincing claims about direct government involvement in drug trafficking in Venezuela. https://insightcrime.org/investigations/venezuela-mafia-stat...
You Don’t Need Docker
They have a lot of money, and can easily store the radioactive waste, but - out of sight - out of mind for the Japanese. I lived in Japan for many years, and the feeling I left with was that the Japanese do not care about the environment.

EDIT: Some do, but they are the minority, and easily dismissed by real Japanese.
I think because it is too early to draw any conclusions from the gender correlation. In my country (Denmark) most people who got AZ (which is suspected of having a similar problem) were front-line personnel in healthcare, which has more women than men.
My parents own a home. They bought it in the 70's for a fraction of what the land is worth now (inflation adjusted). My dad was a blue collar worker for Ma Bell, my mom a part time teacher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
The trick is that your local employees receive training and good salaries from the international corporations and create their own companies.
Yep. I grew up very financially comfortable, but my mother died when I was eight, and even now in my forties I still see mother-child interactions in which I notice an implicit lesson or guidance that I missed out on.
lots of links: https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/
Is this related to the scenario described in the following comment at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26659709
While mask effectiveness may be skewed the direction you state, you can't tell me that wearing one along with other precautions has no positive impact on your own infection risk.

For those willing to receive vaccination right now under informed consent, I'm all for it. I agree people are over the pandemic and making the situation worse. I disagree with many commenters here that are shaming and/or implying that people like myself are anti-vax vs simply being willing to wait for much more evidence before jumping on board with incredibly widespread usage of an incredibly not well understood treatment.
They gave a discount from a made-up price to another made-up price. The "contract" is a pure marketing fiction here. You can condescendingly explain what a contract is all you like, but the point of contracts is to reflect some underlying reality of the parties that needs mitigation so that they can have a mutually beneficial relationship.

For example, apartments are rented with an annual price and a monthly payment because a) both landlords and tenants have a lot of switchover costs, and b) tenants want to avoid landlords exploiting the pain of moving by jacking their rent up after a month.

But this is just exploitative marketing BS. When you sign up, Adobe is not buying a physical server that they have to depreciate and would sit empty when you quit. They did not buy extra buckets of pixels that will now sit unused in a warehouse. If a person stops using Photoshop, both the the provider expenses and the renter benefits cease immediately. There's no legitimate reason to charge people a cancellation fee here; it's pure exploitation of purchaser optimism and cognitive bias.
This seems like an awesome idea, at least on the surface. I’d say fines should be paid in issued capital - I’m going to be thinking about this for a few days I think!

Several problems remains however.

Simply knowing that the company was breaking the law isn’t sufficient for a shareholder to be able to do anything about it. If you own <5% of a company’s shares[0], you have basically no way to change the behaviour of a company even if you know it’s wrong and want it to stop.

Also, the value of a privately held business is difficult to compute. Although setting fines as a percentage of issued capital rather than a dollar value would ameliorate that.

Finally, what would the government do with those shares? If the government simply destroys them then the actual value of the remaining shares won’t change. And the market for privately held shares isn’t huge.

Still I love the basic idea. Can’t imagine it happening though, nobody wants to be held accountable.

[0] if you’re a shareholder with less than 5% of shares in Australia you basically have no right to access anything other than the annual reports, so your ability to even know what’s going on is extremely limited. Don’t know if it’s the same in other countries.
I hate to give an 'it depends', but it depends.

Typically, no. In SPI all lines are actively driven high or low rather than an open drain configuration. The bus master drives SCK (SPI clock), MOSI (master out, slave in) and CS (chip select), and the slave device(s) drive the MISO (master in, slave out) line(s). From an operating perspective, pullup/pulldown resistors are not required.

Now having said that, in some cases it's considered appropriate to add weak pullup/pulldown resistors to the data lines to ensure that they're in the expected state on power up and to prevent glitches from putting slave devices into weird states.
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Fair enough. And I'll admit the above statement is exactly why I'm not a business person:)