skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are two lone nuts, plus two juveniles on a crime spree. None required significant funding or organization.

There will always be crazies. Although, crazies who can shop at a "Guns Galore" store cause more trouble than unarmed crazies.
Very much doubt that. Glassdoor has average base pay for SW engineer in Amsterdam at $61k/year https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/amsterdam-software-engine...
Google Assistant is pretty good. But Google's on-device voice transcription in GBoard (unsure if it's a Pixel exclusive) is borderline magical. The delay between speaking a word and having it appear on the screen is shockingly short.
Backed by crypto means for every stablecoin worth 1 USD someone has locked away for example 1.5 USD in crypto.

Whoever locked the crypto away and created the stable coin needs to buy it back to unlock the crypto again.
If the price of the stabelcoin would drop below 1 USD everyone who created them and sold them would make a profit buying it back lower. This essentially makes the coin stable.

I'm not going into further details as you can easily google how this technically works.

Also no one said there is no risk you have all kinds of risks including meteorite impact event.
Backed stabelcoins simply reduces/decentralizes and shift the risk to code/market dynamics and other stuff rather than a single issuer of a coin. Nothing ever is without a risk.

BTW if finding a flaw in the code makes you rich that kinda a very good incentive for people to find flaws. We dont really have anything better than that in your "real world".
Encyclopaedia of Design Theory
> If there is outrage over CEO pay, it doesn't make sense to come from the unions or left politicians, it should be coming from activist hedge fund billionaires, which it does.

One doesn't have to be a shareholder or even a direct stakeholder in a specific company to claim the right to outrage over this growing inequality in pay.
ah, crypto is big one. VitalikButerin perhaps? smart contracts on public block chains will possibly change the way most contracts and transactions happen. of course, none of the crypto folks need the prize money :)
But in many languages, the cases need to be compile-time constant rvalues.
"Attorneys do that all the time; namely, represent people who lack understanding."

For large sums of money. They are also held to higher professional conduct standards than politicians. They also only need to represent the best interests of the client. This also involves detailed explanations of the issue at hand (hey look, the education I was talking about) so that the client can make an informed decision.
In English, the usual terms are theory and practice. Praxis is a synonym of practice, but it is rare and formal (for the marxist connection, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_School).

At any rate, what you wanted to say is maybe best expressed as "the solution to guilt is more speech instead of action."
http://economics.mit.edu/files/1769 [pdf]

Abstract: This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO’s pay depends on both the size of his firm, and the aggregate firm size. The model determines the level of CEO pay across firms and over time, offering a benchmark for calibratable corporate finance. We find a very small dispersion in CEO talent, which nonetheless justifies large pay differences. In recent decades at least, the size of large firms explains many of the patterns in CEO pay, across firms, over time, and between countries. In particular, in the baseline specification of the model’s parameters, the six-fold increase of U.S. CEO pay between 1980 and 2003 can be fully attributed to the six-fold increase in market capitalization of large companies during that period.
> This appears to be about events that are at least 15 years old, if not older?

What would you consider an appropriate statute of limitations here?
Looks good for prepping as it takes stream water too.
Many many examples? The GME thing was unique, which is why it was in the news. It was a short squeeze. It was in the news for days, meaning it is an aberration.

As for the Hertz thing, which I know nothing about, it sounds like the buyers thought the stock had long term upside potential.
> Can I file a restraining order against Facebook? Or Google?

Not as long as you're maintaining an active relationship with them. First step is to break up and stop using their services entirely.
The common law arguably put the question you ask in the hands of a jury.[1] It is public figures whose lives are fodder for public consumption; more generous privacy rules traditionally have applied for the more mediocre among us.

[1] https://law.jrank.org/pages/9409/Privacy-Common-Law.html
This is hilarious, Kinedryl is a brand of medicine for motion sickness (Kinetosis) in Eastern Europe.
Taiwan says PLA flies 25 warplanes into its airspace, the largest incursion yet
This is an interesting point of view, do you have any sources where I can read more about this?
Eh, when the Archegos fund leveraged at $100B collapsed a few weeks ago, many banks cashed out many billions. It made the news because they gave lots of leverage to a big gambler, not because that event in any macroeconomic sense mattered at all.
There seems to be a survey of the European Commission that implies increased cancer risk around La Hague putting it in relation to the wast disposal. I say it seems because due to articles quoting studies quoted by articles and only listing the article as source and paywalls I can't trace it back without spending a lot of time and or money.

But looking at searches for medical/scientific papers you find very mixed result. Ranging from "there are more cases, but it's statistically not significant" to there is a statistical significant increase but it's not that strong and it's not possible to prove that it's because of radiation exposure (or radiation exposure alone).

Generally it seems that the articles I read had a very different interpretation of "close". As e.g. one of the studies I found, found increased cases for people in a 10km radius around the was disposal factory, which might very well be related to other things then them pumping some of the wast into the sea. Widening the radius caused increases to be non statistic significant, which seems to match with other studies I would.

But disclaimer: I just did a very short dive into it. E.g. I looked only at the abstract & summary/conclusion of papers etc. and spend maybe 20min on it or so. So not very reliable.

EDIT: Looking more into it finding like following quote become more common:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9006467/

> There is some convincing evidence in childhood leukaemia of a causal role for environmental radiation exposure from recreational activities on beaches. New methods for identifying the environmental pathways, focusing on marine ecosystems, are warranted.
A lot of the code you're going to have to be dealing with in the wild is going to look fine, until it breaks at 2am on a Saturday and you're 3 drinks in and production is down.

You're going to hate your former cleverness then.
That's a question I've wondered about too :)

Just in case anyone isn't aware, Tomte's reposts are fine, because reposts are ok if an article hasn't had significant attention in the last year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. That's one way we try to give good articles multiple cracks at the bat, to mitigate the randomness of /newest. So there's no problem (and it's definitely not a good reason to flag a submission).
How about PKB - Personal Knowledge Base
His blog clearly states: "This is the personal web site of Richard Stallman.
The views expressed here are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project.
For the sake of separation, this site has always been hosted elsewhere and managed separately. "
There's also a Firefox extension called "I don't care about cookies"
You'd think. But it wouldn't be the first time a new product is hampered to not slightly theoretically cannibalize an existing product family.
Several people who worked there don't agree it ran just fine.[1][2]

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

[2] https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1377079987950395393
Correct, I think the best use case for this is if it functioned as a dedicated Tor Exit Node, but I don't get the impression that it does that
Digital vaccine passports, as in the HealthIT that revolves around that space
I think so. Basically things to make it harder to fake them.

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> CEO salaries today are still about 20-1

Base salaries are not significant to the discussion. Sometime high profile CEOs make $1 salary.

What matters it the total comp, just as with any employee. Some FAANG engineers might make $175K in base salary but total comp is over 1M.
this focus on the value of his stocks, and their fluctuations, is silly.

not only could he not liquidate all of his holdings in under a few years without killing the stock price (and making the later sales worth less), but part of the value of amazon is bezos' oversight. if he dumps all his stock, the public elects a new board, which elects a new chairman, and they pick some new CEO, amazon wouldn't be worth as much as it is now.

(also he'd bleed away a chunk of whatever he sold off in capital gains taxes. his cost basis is presumably somewhere near $0, since he founded the company and has held from the start.)
I'm surprised the Guardian doesn't seem to raise this but the ever-increasing CEO pay packet I think is of less importance than this: real wages have essentially been flat for 40 years [1].

At the same time we have:

1. Corporations are paying less tax, largely due to tax avoidance schemes that mostly revolve around transfer pricing, particularly of so-called "IP";

2. Wealthy individuals pay less taxes. And here the tax rate they pay is a bit of a red herring. You see for most people they pay tax on their entire income. For the wealthiest individuals, they only pay taxes on what they (choose to) realize, which is significantly less than income. The counterargument is that this is simply deferring tax liabilities but if you can defer something essentially forever, it's basically the same thing as not paying it;

3. Zero interest rates mean that both wealthy individuals and companies can borrow money at little to no cost instead of realizing income or profits to gain disposable capital. You need $50m? Well, you can realize $100m and pay taxes on that or you can simply borrow $50m at 0.5% interest rate and not pay any taxes.

Here's an accounting change we need: borrowing money is treated as distributing a profit (for a company) or realizing income (for an individual).

So, back to CEO pay. Here's the problem: a lot of very mediocre CEOs earn astronomical pay packets because of justifications about "market rates", "large companies" and the like. Their impact is overstated due to outliers like Steve Jobs.

Here's a comparison. Steve Jobs earned roughly $2.1 billion from his comeback to Apple CEO [2]. Considering the transformation and the value returned to Apple shareholders, paying him 10x that would've been a bargain.

Compare that to... Sundar Pichai, who seems to earn ~$250m/year as Alphabet CEO... for what exactly? I mean what has Google done since 2015 (when Pichai become CEO) other than extract more from the ad golden goose?

Here's the problem: boards set CEO compensation. Who sits on boards? Other CEOs of course. How is that compensation determined? In part by what other CEOs earn. It's almost like the top 0.001% have been put in charge of setting their own compensation.

[1]: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45090.pdf

[2]: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/what-was-steve-jobs...
Twitter side steps Nigeria as it opens first African office in Ghana
>Wait until you hear about cash.

What if I told you the Treasury Secretary doesn't think your book keeping system in the same as legal tender?
I love Heroku, I still use it to this day for a couple databases. That being said, when a company stops innovating you know it's just a matter of time until they're left in the dust. The thing is, Heroku is currently increasing profits, they could use that money to innovate if they wanted to. They just seem stagnant, which is never appealing as a customer (at least to me).
I certainly would. But I love the idea of worker co-ops. Hell, I'd be looking for ways to select suppliers based on their CEO comp ratios.
I think your version isn't really as different as it seems to some. To me, the essential bit of early return is that you handle cases that eliminate the work first. That is, it's less about singular if statements separating the rest of the body of the function than it is clearly short circuiting the code as early as is clearly possible.

That is, I don't think it matters too much whether you do:

function div(x,y) {
if (y == null) {
return null;
}
if (y == 0) {
return null;
}

return x/y;
}

or

function div(x,y) {
if (y == null) {
return null;
} else if (y == 0) {
return null;
} else {
return x/y;
}
}

as they both accomplish the same major benefit of the pattern.

The real thing it's helping to avoid is accidentally creating something like this:

function div(x,y) {
if (y != null) {
if (y != 0) {
return x/y;
} else {
return null;
}
} else {
return null;
}
}

which can quickly get very hard to reason about without in more complex cases.
None of those people should be on the FSF board either.
I've been using https://spacevim.org/ for this purpose for some time, though Vim per-se isn't my daily editor -- I use PyCharm with VIM emulation.

It lazy loads everything and supports most languages, has help throughout, and a responsive community for any issue you may encounter.
Back when I had a large python2 and python3 code bases side by side, I had a small handler that I installed for .py files that read the #! line and tried to figure out which python version to call, and defaulted to Python3 if it couldn't find a #! line. I always felt this was the "correct" way of solving this.

Nowadays, I just only install Python3 on machines, so it's not really a problem for me anymore.
That's why I abstain when I'm oncall (or backup).

That's what the oncall bonus pay is for.
My stance is: forget about this "blockchain" rhetoric thing. What was interesting for cryptocurrencies was the ability of producing scarce, unique, digital assets. That was groundbreaking. Then other cryptocurrencies expanded on that.

Write only data structures themselves are not new and not that valuable on their own.

But the interesting thing is the decentralized, trustless structures it enables. And just pinning that on blockchain sounds bad.

This whole things is still early and it is the basis of _a lot_ of speculation. But I see this whole ecosystem enabling a whole new class of self-governing communities, websites and structures, some good, some bad.
> Worth noting that elses don't require curly braces

True. I still think the first is clearer though.
Either all tests pass, or they don't.
I don't know enough about NativeScript to comment but Flutter is a great platform, I'd pick it up over native any day.
I'm getting tired of seeing this second uninstallman dramatizations everywhere, FOSS blogs, Linux distros, Twitter, HN, but what do I know, the witchhunt will go on.
Depends on what you want to do. There are waterfalls, national parks, mini safaris, night clubs, beaches, culinary festivals and art events. There is always something going on.
Hedge funds are another group who manage to avoid just taxation. All that "carried interest deduction" crap means a hedge fund manager never pays the top marginal rate, no matter how many millions she socks away.
> They come from diluting Wall Street. Knowing this, the whole thing is way less
of an outrage.

The outrage is why all that dilution goes to the CEO. Options can be granted to all employees more fairly than common these days.
ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request[1]. This is an article about a TCP competitor boasting lower latency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_repeat_request
(also I'd be very skeptical of such an if..else ladder. Prime target for bugs.)
Under 2k/mo translates to an annual earnings around 12-15k (when you account for employee overhead) which is somewhere between 6.15-7.69/hr - even if we allow for the full 2k to be an actual employee earning you're still only looking at 11.79/hr which isn't nothing but is still absolute peanuts for software developers in euros. I guess, going by median salary, you'd probably be able to snag two devs in Belarus[1] for that much?

1. https://www.payscale.com/research/BY/Job=Software_Developer/...
For me this was the most interesting tidbit:

> In tests with mice, however, the animals did not seem to prefer drinking heavy water over regular water, although they did show a preference for sugared water – suggesting that in mice, D2O does not elicit the same sweet taste that people can perceive.

I was reminded that rodents also can’t taste aspartame[1], and that in general human taste buds are more finely-tuned than many other mammals (we can detect isomers and many complex bitter chemicals, whereas many other animals can only do the amino acids, sodium, and simple carbohydrates).

Having never drank it myself I was wondering if the sweet taste of heavy water is distinctly “artificial” in the way that sucralose/aspartame/etc in water is immediately distinguishable from regular sugar.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature726
I think that only works for ISOs (incentive stock options), and now the rules on who can get them and how many can be issued are very restrictive.
This analysis is about as apt as saying, "Larry Ellison's salary was only $1, so what are you complaining about?"
Is there any good that done by Amazon to support OSS? Like ever. They started with cloning MongoDB and now Elastic with actually zero contribution to the community regardless of their insane profits. This is a clear single. Amazon can always clone and redistribute any open source software then lock it in for AWS. If we've started to witness declining in OSS, well at least we know now who started the wave.
Most importantly for adoption, it is backed by the major Telcos.
You're right that both technically qualify as early-return, which is why I qualified my original statement with "if you don't put the rest of the function in an else clause".

In practice, in C-like languages, I tend to see the "else-less" version which is why I brought it up
As I've gotten more experience in tech, I came up with a saying -

"Everything great was created in the '80s, and we've been rediscovering those things every ten years since."

I'm not firm on "the '80s" - maybe this stuff is older than I think - but I think the principle still holds. If it's a problem today, somebody probably thought about it before, and then others came around and wrapped things differently.

It's not BAD to wrap things differently, but the old stuff had more of the sharp corners sanded off, and sometimes we lose that battle-hardened aspect when we rewrite code.

Except for garbage collection/whatever is happening with memory safety today. That's the good stuff.
A lot might. Thanks to covid a lot of Ghanaians simply returned home to work remotely. The embassy even suggested it was the best course of action.
--"I'm inclined to think we're entering a new oligopolistic era. Just because these companies were recently start-ups doesn't mean they aren't entrenched"

Your comment is on start to end, just to add, these "companies", are nothing more then dystopian mirrors to the public, their fronts(all individuals in the public eye, greatest example of a nobody(Leon Musk)) are just second rate actors. The virtualization of "finance", it's moral justification, nothing more is at stake.

Real power, ...dwells in the shadows. This goes from the White House, to Hollywood, over Silicon Valley to Mar o Lago in the Swamp State.

The measure of a dollar between a billionaire, and a homeless dweller as to the price of a loaf of bread is meaningless. What counts is the grab for the hard assets, power, control, that probably starts at multiple billions. A second measure of any meaning is the time line power and influence can be stretched. A professional politician is seriously handicapped there, hence the proof of the above as to what is "wealth".
Better cryptocurrency Chia
I wouldn't say AWS has a monopoly. There are tons of providers ranging from Digital Ocean to Google Cloud. AWS is just the largest because they've been around the longest. They're so deeply entrenched in Cloud that most people automatically think of them. I think things such as Netflix talking about their engineering and how they use AWS was a major boost at the start. Now a days people are literally studying to become AWS certified. We even have a AWS specialised working at my company. AWS and other cloud providers are also very smart in locking in start ups by offering them thousands upon thousands of free credit. Build your MVP on there and then end up vendor locked in but think it's a good thing.

I heard a tidbit that I don't know if it's true or not but I would like to think it is. AWS has become so expensive for some companies that they're starting to migrate back to their own datacentres.
I am also curious what you mean.
I think displayport does optical right now. all the dp 8k cables are fiber.
Never ever use if without curly braces. That's one of the worst ideas of C's syntax.

Your first example would still look clean like this:

function check(x) {
if (!test1 (x)) { return false; }
if (!test2 (x)) { return false; }
if (!test3 (x)) { return false; }
if (!test4 (x)) { return false; }
return true;
}

And it would be much safer from stupid copy/paste errors.
and this an implementation: https://github.com/nicosta1132/atp-go
Time travelers unite! Is JSON-LD the modern incarnation of semantic web? Which organizations are contributing to, or using, concise-encoding?
I think I pointed that out - that a lawsuit as an individual is very hard to prove for a lower cost than any amount that you would recover

I.e., a lawsuit is not scaleable as an individual.

Tesla are taking advantage of that advantage of that asymmetry in scale, and basically saying "this is wrong, so sue us", knowing that few or zero will, and most will just eat that dung sandwich.
Imagine where elastic would be, as the whole success of elastic is based on a apache licensed project (lucene).
$13B is not even close to "all of his holdings". It is about 6% of his total net worth.

It would also be around $17.5% of what he earned in 2020 alone.

The capital gains taxes would be offset by having a 13 billion dollar charity donation. Amazon Workers Fund.
In 2018 or 2019, I finally had a layover at Dulles that I was able to make into a long enough stretch that I was finally able to grab a ride and head over to the Steven Udvar-Hazy Center for a few hours.

The Museum of Flight outside Seattle is also well worth the visit and has quite of bit of space hardware in addition to planes. (It's next door to the Boeing factory.)
Crypto is a better version of gold and a store of wealth that whose supply isn't at the whims of central banks.

Gold has a purpose. Central banks may pretend that gold serves no purpose in a modern economy, but they still hold on to trillions in gold. I hope eventually they'll get around to holding a crypto currency like Bitcoin. They're just upset they don't have a head start in accumulating a reserve.
That wasn’t my impression 3 years ago when I worked there.
You're asserting that they have forked OSS and then not provided back the source code for their own improvements.

I guess we can check their github repos to see if that's the case.
There are also ways out of vendor lock-in. Alternator comes to mind as a way of migrating DynamoDB workloads out to other cloud vendors or your own servers: https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/alternator/