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CBOE has a market cap of $10 billion (on revenues of $3 billion)
ICE has a market cap of $66 billion (on revenues of $8 billion)

Coinbase's market cap is going to be higher than both exchanges combined - while doing a fifth of the revenue.
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It's just in private browsing.
I've used I2C and CAN.

I2C is electrically far more fragile than CAN. CAN is robust against all sorts of electrical faults. While you might not be able to transmit data, you won't fry the controller, and once the fault is removed it comes back.

I2C is often more tolerant of unexpected traffic on the bus. There are far too many ECUs that will put a vehicle into limp mode (limit speed drastically) if they detect unexpected CAN traffic, even traffic not directed to them. Protocol-wise I2C is significantly simpler to get right.
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> those sailor knots who should be strong enough to hold for a while, but easy to dismantle when not needed anymore

A slipped knot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_(knot)#Slipped_knot https://www.101knots.com/slipped-constrictor-knot.html https://www.101knots.com/mooring-hitch.html

You could say we need to create "slipped code".
Paint discoloring is removing lead, I think
Modern OLEDs do last over 100k hours.

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2016/06/133_206377.htm...

California is a single state, and plasmas failed to keep traction anywhere, despite still being sold everywhere else. It was price that killed plasmas.

That said, I don't recommend throwing out your plasmas. They're a neat technical artifact, like CRTs (which many people would argue are better than both plasma TVs and LEDs). Hold onto them!
> So the investment is not paying off unless you are writing highly performance critical backend services.

You took it too far. C opens the door for today's embedded, like, you know, blinking an LED with some microcontroller.
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Let's not forget (at least in the EU), power-limited vacuum cleaners that don't clean.
Yeppers. This is true.

It sucks to be poor.

But being bit in the ass later because something has changed and you want out will hurt a smaller percentage of people than a large upfront fee that makes it unattainable for many. That denies many people opportunity in the name of protecting some portion of those people from potential negative consequences.
I’ve always wondered how many of our problems with technical debt are self inflicted by trying to design for some future that may never exist. Simple, direct, and declarative code with tests are very maintainable.
@ncmncm Thx for the comment. Yes ROS 2 is the robot operating system v2 - www.ros.org - which is historically a challenge to interface with uC's, hence the post share. I'm trying to build a cheap platform for people to learn ROS (2) and robotics hence the interest in using cheap (yet capable) uC's like the ESP32.

The example actually does use HW timers to blink the LED from a ROS message.

Let me know if you have other suggestions.
CUDA has stopped being C in version 3.0, update yourself.
Best intro video in years
It's an incredibly disingenuous article. I have a few of these gas cans and don't have any trouble with them. There absolutely is a vent in these cans. The article even mentions that they're still there, but aren't opened until you activate the top. My cans have a trigger that you pull to pour gas. As soon as you pull it, the gas flows freely. No more trying to invert the nozzle to reassemble the lid to close it anymore.
You read my mind! I was going to add a PS about that but deleted it.

The Nordics are not nearly as socialist as you might think. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Socialism-Sucks-Economists-Through-Un...
Is this a general problem with regulations? These regs look fairly sensible to me:

https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/portabable-petrol-st...
Wouldn't you expect that to be a one-off change that exhausted itself within a decade? And then a return to old income growth rates?

Like, middle class income growth has been stagnant for several decades now despite steadily increasing productivity, how can you explain that whole period using demographic shifts around 1972?
I'm not actually arguing against prioritizing shipping. My criticism is with the way that people wield language to enforce their choices and avoid responsibility.

Defending a choice means actually defending it.

"If we don't ship this by X date, there won't even be a company to have the problem you're talking about."

"This choice will have less impact than you think for X reasons."

The problem is the specific reasons are often more in the family of "Shipping this is one of my KPIs and I'll be on some other team when the problems you're talking about are realized."

It's not just business vs. engineering anyway. Slow to ship? It's cause of all the tech debt. No tests? It's okay, just tech debt. No docs? Poor abstractions? Lack of understanding about the problem? Low skill with the technology at hand? It's all fine! Tech debt can be your scapegoat or hall pass for anything.
It looks very interesting! I'll definitely give it a try!
I call it the least worst option. I call it the requires-2-hands-to-accomplish-what-I-used-to-be-able-to-do-with-1-hand can.

And no. It's not better than a simple spout and vent can.
The general structure of the quip/aphorism/joke/snark pre-dates the industrial revolution dating back (at least!) to Edmund Burke's [1] "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
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Many of these packages have no dependencies.

A new package that depends on this and anything not already downstream would have more dependencies.
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But my point was that that's a false dichotomy: where is the option that they were thinking cogs that found themselves unable to change the shape of the gear system around them?
How can you back out of a contract without paying consideration/fee?
There's no such thing as money laundering, it's a recently engineered legal construct that was hoping to help reduce actual crime (the proceeds to launder). It totally failed.

Prosecute the actual crime (be it illegal drug distribution, illegal weapons dealing etc) and do old-school police work infiltrating such networks, or even work on the tax evasion angle if needed... instead of increasingly orwellian surveillance on everyone for increasingly small value transfers.

The whole AML/KYC experiment has completely failed and has caused billions of damage in added costs for small businesses and people excluded from banking system all over the world [1]

Similarly to the war on drugs... it's time to give up on all that craziness and get back to the basics of prosecuting and investigating the actual crimes, not the money transfers...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...
Another factor seems to be becoming sedentary as a species and gaining more sugars favoured the energy needs of the brain. That in turn allowed for people to focus on land ownership and dominance over others to secure this income.
I think they got most of that pretty correct, but I agree that making such a long list of claims should inspire a list of citations before being shared.
Land use is inherently zero sum.

There are ways to mitigate the negative effects there, but you can't get rid of it entirely; there's only ever so much land around. The more money the affluent have, the worse off the working class are, even if the working class' wealth itself stays constant.

You tend to see this with home prices in booming areas: if your income stays constant as the metro's economy booms, you'll end up worse off than you were before, unless you managed to buy a house before the boom.
This is an amazing quote, thank you.
Though, the more I read into it the less I see it applicable to the PGs quote, mostly because I disagree with this statement:

>Silicon Valley money wants to remake people in their images, they have a Protestant zealotry associated with their money that makes any oligarch look straight up sympathetic in comparison

Tech became a global catalyst for many people to get out of poverty. A lot of people in countries like India, Nigeria or Ukraine would never had a chance to get out of poverty otherwise. I do not observe any increase in the sentiment in them remaking people in their own images. Half a century ago Ayn Rand was getting enough followers well before tech was even a thing.

The quote that you have provided reminds me of the zealotry of communist regime that my country went through. As well as the arguments of the woke marxists that are sadly getting more frequent today.

Anyway, thank you for an interesting take on the problem.
> The aristocrats and oligarchs of the olden days might have been corrupt, debauched and half-useless, but at least they knew it.

Corruption is an incredible poverty multiplier, combined with debauched and half-useless is just insane. Living in a society led by such people isn't fair by any means.

Arrogant new wealth is 100x better then old corrupt wealth that only seeks to entrench itself and friends.

New wealth in proper democracies at least has a proven track record of competency and general societal good, it can also do a lot of good when spent (see Bill Gates)

If you are all worried about wealth, just put 99% estate tax, will cover both old and new wealth.
As long as I have to write C# wrappers to launch commands like I would in unix with xargs or parallel in PowerShell it's still not the ticket.
Did it show up on your credit report?
Those breakout boards are just for experimentation / prototyping.
You typically design a proper PCB for the final project and of course you can also buy individual sensors.
And arguably today's silicon valley was built on top of this. I mean it's still in the name "silicon".
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We talk about Career management, how to deal with burnout, imposter syndrome, how to become a better engineer, what influences our decisions when planning software architecture... and wherever the discussions lead.

I had some great feedback and responses from HN about 3 weeks back when I mentioned it in a nested comment reply. I had just published my 7 minutes intro piece and was blown away by the support and encouragement I got from ya'll.

Now that I'm up to near 10 hours content. I thought it was an appropriate time to post a show-hn. I've addressed a fair amount of the low-hanging fruit from the last round of feedback. There's enough content for people to get a better sense of the show's intentions.

I'd love to get more feedback from the HN community and hopefully cross into the 100 subscribers range so I can get the branded-url version of the YouTube channel name.

I'd be so grateful if you took the time to check it out and let me know your thoughts.

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intellectual property is one reason[1] but for the mRNA vaccines, the technology/machinery required to mass produce them is also part of the bottleneck along with raw materials[2]

1. https://theconversation.com/how-patent-laws-get-in-the-way-o...

2. https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-it-will-be-hard-to-r...
One thing I've been thinking of: how about making typed file descriptors?

Besides stdio and stdout, one of the best-accepted conventions on modern operating systems running a graphical shell seems to be the clipboard.

Programs can offer different mime types trough a clipboard, so why not do so trough a pipe or file descriptor? That would bring us a bit closer to powershell, while remaining backwards-compatible.

cat pipe.dot <- text/plain
| dot <- text/plain, text/dot, image/svg+xml, application/pdf, application/postscript, etc
| xclip

Instead of xclip in the above example, one could use an image viewer, a multiplexer a bit like tee (1) but to redirect to standard input, etc. One could force a pipe to filter out some mimetypes, or use a program dedicated to that. One could imagine bidirectional communications over a channel.

xeyes | ssh somehost
record-audio.sh | mail someone@somewhere
nmtui | guitoolkit
rsync | guitoolkit
ssh somehost rsync | guitoolkit

Basically, building on the strengths of UNIX.
Proper VT emulation gives you multiple fonts, mouse and windows.
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What protections are you lacking in the UK that Germans have?
Adobe has expanded into digital marketing space. I think they have made several acquisitions in that area and now they are a digital marketing company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/forget-ph...
I feel that the closest we can get to a Lisp machine with modern components right now would be to get PowerShell, Emacs and StumpWM (or EXWM) to deeply interoperate.
That's a very useful analysis, thanks!
No fantasy for comment , but looks promising
As long as the recurring charge wasn't created while the card was lost/stolen, what's the problem?
Dangote $2 bln Fertilizer plant starts commissioning process ~ED
I couldn't find mention of Anand Giridharadas in the comments; He wrote a book called "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" ; I haven't finished the book yet, and I don't find myself agreeing with him on many things, and his criticism at times is more simplistic than I would like it to be, but I also found it to be an intellectually challenging read.

He argues that the rich do much for the underprivileged, but what they never do is challenge the system which made them so rich in the first place. Philantrophy and the associated virtue signaling has the perverse effect of keeping the very system alive, which is (so he argues) fundamentally broken to begin with, and needs major overhaul. I think it's relevant to the discussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners_Take_All:_The_Elite_Ch...

I found his conversation with Andrew Yang to be quite interesting https://youtu.be/2Ye-Jkql_jA?t=1742 (not pitching it out of ideological / political affiliation to either).

I personally am torn. From "the left" I think that personal responsibility often gets too little credit. The last thing you want to tell people is "it's not you, it's your situation, the government will fix it". The government is bad at fixing things, and you create a race for handouts, and a perverse game of victimhood claminig, to get sympathy and handouts. "I don't succeed because of X and someone else has to fix it" is not an empowering message. But many rich and privileged people are really blind to the sociological complexity in what determines success. Abundance of wealth doesn't necessarily make one happy, but lack of wealth and financial security makes one unhappy. And stressed. Stress in and of itself diminishes intellectual reasoning, decision making, affects mood, can be associated with psychological disorders, etc. "Well he's a truck driver, unhealthy, fears for his job due to automation? Well, he should become an app developer, or something similar. There are free courses everywhere, there are so many things to do. If he applies himself, he will find something, it's competition and our market system, which has made us so rich to begin with..."

I'm caricaturing ... but I don't know by how much.
Technical debt as disagreement is an interesting take. The pragmatic discussion between two members about practical debt is rarely a contentious thing. If you moved quickly or flexibly to get a piece of functionality up with obvious corners cut, we all recognize it and have no problem with it mostly because the fix is also obvious (as obvious as why it happened in the first place).

If you challenge someone’s larger architectural decision that is the root of most of the problems, now you’ve entered dangerous territory. Usually, the defense will try to reframe the issue as ‘practical debt’ of the kind I described above. ‘We needed to do this, we thought it was the right way to go, you get it right?’ - not really, no. Those decisions are handicapping the team.

Technical debt is the number one contributor to quality of life imho. Good design that isn’t over engineered on one extreme end, or duck tape everywhere on the other extreme end, can help developers withstand everything the project throws at them.

When a developer can easily understand and make meaningful changes to your codebase within an hour or two on any given day, they can withstand any type of siege (business shifts, design shifts, bugs, users, life). When the debt is too big, any one of those things can break the technical debt dam. It’ll be obvious when simple design changes can’t be made, or when a developer can’t adjust their workload down (will appear slow), or when new developers take time to make an impact (will appear dumb), or when the business changes and the product needs 5 new features that get push back (business will perceive friction).

If we agree to disagree on tech debt then we’ll all pay the price.
Increasing your chances of being eaten by a dinosaur by 1/8th also sounds bad. I'd gladly increase my chance of being eaten by a dinosaur by 1/8th for a dollar.
The only reason we think that is because vaccines in the past have had most of their recorded side effects present in the first few weeks.

Past performance...
Thankfully, I think a whole generation (and every one after) won't care about gas cans, or gasoline.

Thanks in part to government policy, research funding, and subsidies, that have enabled market-based innoavtion in solar, batteries, etc, to the point of being practical alternatives.

They might care about mega-corps blaming government for absolutely everything.
Waiting for your feedback.
Bitcoin mining is defense spending. The only fair comparison is to compare it to the US army energy consumption and when you consider that the protection granted by the US army spans multiple countries and partially protects Bitcoin it is entirely stacked against Bitcoin.
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While you'll be able to invoke methods on returned objects, if you are piping stuff, you'll still need to deal with hammering the output of one program into the input of another.
The one thing I would add is sometimes tech debt needs to be paid off at unexpected times. There have been several instances in my current work where a piece of the application broke due to poorly written code, and refactoring was an immediate need, no matter what else was going on.

I imagine home loans would look a little different if there was a small percent chance on any given day that the bank would show up and ask you to pony up.

But in general, debt can be good given the right agreements in place.
Why not your personal calendar?
https://github.com/NVIDIA/libcudacxx
One caution here; at least with AZ, apparent rate of clots varied dramatically by country, and rates generally went up once people knew what they were looking for. It's plausible that a lot of early ones were missed entirely or misattributed.
you might not like this, but 2k was over 2 decades ago, nobody gives a fuck about it now except some HNers and Linux people

recent fake news about Bill Gates connections to covid/vaccines probably caused more PR damage to him than all of you combined
Thanks for all the great work on both 'ecryptfs' and 'fs-crypt'!
Not at all. At least in Australia, loads of companies have outside “trophy” chairs or directors who don’t own shares, and just earn a wage; it’s an arrangement that is intended to effectively buy prestige for the company. This may be because shares must typically be declared and taxed as income at the time of issue, which means there’s a significant out of pocket cost to the recipient, and which probably makes it more common for non shareholder directors than in the US? I’m just speculating, but the situation is pretty stupid here. There were some reforms a few years ago, but they didn’t go far enough.
> The problem is that, at same time I feel that coding can't be a lifetime career: what will happen in 10 years from now? Maybe company will prefer younger coders to hire and I will not be able to find a job anymore?

What will happen in 10 years? Who knows? Things change a lot in 10 years and your perspective on things will change too. I think you may be overly stressed about ageism (keyword being "overly"). All of these young engineers will hit their 30s/40s/50s/60s too and the age group distribution will reflect that in the years to come. I'm in my 40s and most engineers I socialize with are my age or older. None have any intentions of becoming managers. Keep a level head on HN, the attitude here is very SV focused and doesn't necessarily provide an accurate depiction of the overall industry.
I think it could be useful - from PowerShell's perspective, all you need is to wrap your "classical" executables to somehow accept and emit .NET objects, and you can carry on from there. Importantly, no more writing parsers in the pipeline or in your scripts.

I could see a whole library of such wrappers being built for common executables (and new popular OSS CLI tools could provide their own wrapper along with the tool).
... is a pretty decent indicator in this case.

Vaccines are not the stock market. No one doubts gravity because "past performance is not indicative of future results".
Ok fine. Here ya go:

BoA/Merrill Lynch

Shell/Royal Dutch

Sanofi/Avantis

Glaxo/SmithKline

P&G/Gillette

Roche/Genetech

Exxon/Mobil

Conoco/Philips

Disney/Fox

AT&T has had so many successful mergers that the government has basically had to split them up every time because it made them into a monopoly.

Should I go on?

EDIT: PS - DoubelClick in 2007 was considered "BIG". It had 1200 employees and was bought for $3.1B. Which was A LOT at the time.
From the article:

>The government never said “no vents.” It abolished them de facto with new standards that every state had to adopt by 2009. So for the last three years, you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. The top has to close automatically. There are other silly things now, too, but the biggest problem is that they do not do well what cans are supposed to do.

Indeed, if you drill down into the regulations you linked, you'll see the same requirements listed:

>The closure should not show any visible signs of leaking even if the container is on its side or accidentally tipped over.
You can easily order them from Digikey in unit quantities. E.g. here is an accelerometer that I've used before: https://www.digikey.co.uk/products/en?keywords=MMA8653FCR1

Most I2C interface sensors require minimal external components (often just a bypass cap), so they're are quite easy to use without a breakout board.

The one non-trivial thing that a breakout board might do for you is level shifting, if you're using a 5V microcontroller.
Which is ludicrous, because none of those actually made the products worse.

To go into one I'm really familiar with: light bulbs are fine after banning incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs (which were still available at time of the regulations) are better than incandescent bulbs in nearly every way, as long as you don't cheap out and go for one that flickers at under the rate of an incandescent.

The problem is poor consumer education, not government regulations.
This article is designed to cast doubt on vx causing clots. Shills,dupes, or worse Nature crafts their articles to uphold statism.