skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assange is not an opportunity for a profitable Cold War v2.0-alpha, but Navalny and NATO in Europe are. Creating friction between Ukraine and Russia is just a continuation from Obama's times when Hunter Biden was placed in the board of , too, and when the US poured billions into anti-Russian propaganda during the Euromaidan, which led to thousands of civilian deaths. Remember when Hunter Biden was put on the board of Burisma in Ukraine and when Academi was spotted multiple times training the Western Ukrainian army?

I am not sure why the West expect preferential treatment for Navalny when in the West people sometimes wait months to see a specialist! A friend of mine just her earliest-available appointment for the month of November! Okay, she's not Navalny and she should suffer, right?
Biscuit, the foundation for your authorization systems
And this is one of simpler spacecrafts.

I'd really prefer Dream Chaser to get completed, I think failure modes on winged crafts are better.
If you think AWS is expensive, give AZURE a go and be appalled.
Your intuition is wrong.

Suppose, 10^-9 odds of a startup making 10 billion. Let's assume the other terms are negligible.

E_startup = ... + 10^-9 * 10^11 = 100$
E_faang = 10^-1 * 10^5 + 10-2 * 10^6 + ... >= 10^4
So what you're saying is globalization is concentrating wealth at the top and policies are required to counter this.
US Europe holding back critical raw material needed for Covid vaccine production
1) Dr. Rafael G. González-Acuña's analytical solution on the Wasserman-Wolf problem

TLDR: We can now make lenses in any shape we please, not just with parabolas and circles (kinda).

Should have implications for anything that has to do with light: Telescopes, lasers, com-sats, AR/VR, etc.

https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-...

2) Memristors. We've not found a cheap and stable little component yet like the rest of the 2-lead elements, but it seems to be on the way (says every futurist)

TLDR: We'll be forced to re-do a lot of computer HW as the memristive ones will be (likely) much faster and cheaper on power. Think coin-cell batteries powering very good image recognition systems cheap as a dollar-store watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
I think the bigger problem you may be experiencing, if I had to guess, code structure.

If people tend to write:

function foo(x) {
if (x == null) {
return null;
}

// do some stuff to the code

for(a reason) {
// do some more stuff
if(some detailed reason) {
return null;
}

// more things
return 7;
}

Then the shape of the code and the "pattern" of early returns gets broken.

If you read code where all of the short-circuit, early-return logic is at the start of the function, and then all of the work is done, do you still have this opinion?

E.g.

function foo(x) {
if(x == 1) { return null; }
if(x == 2) { return null; }
if(x > 7) { return null; }

// do things with x
return 7;
}
?
'I am stepping down from Perl Steering Committee and Core effective immediately'
If Microsoft's interest in Flutter becomes more substantial, it might diminish the perception it's one of those projects Google could abandon on a whim.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/surface-duo/flutter-dual-scre...

Shipping phones with Fuchsia (which as I understand will support Flutter apps) would also help.
Now do 2025 :D
Perhaps they submitted it before you and then changed the submission (e.g. title)? Just a guess.
Nice!! I just converted a few low volume hobby sites: simple setup, and I like the simple git push to publish.
In all three cases, Lucene is used as a "low level" (Java) API which provides search capabilities. OS, ES and Solr turn Lucene into a server, with features like horizontal scaling (ES Cluster, Solr Cloud). The major differences are in how well that all works, how easy it is to administer, how much caching and optimization is done on top of Lucene, etc.

I haven't extensively used ES, but I've used Solr a lot (and contributed to), and I can say that it's a mess. The community is not one of the better ones I've seen. Bugs and stability issues are often ignored. Patches sit around gathering dust. There are some gems and very clever people in the community, of course, but it seems like there are too few of them to cope with the large beast that Solr has become. If I were starting a new project in the search space, Solr would not make my shortlist.
You mentioned that 'the back of our tongue is sensitive to bitter'. I believe this is a myth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map
I attended in 2012. I found it amazing to be part of a huge crowd where nobody was allowed to even carry a phone in their pocket
Tech M&A guy here.

This is survivorship bias at its finest.

How about Facebook's acquisition of Instagram? Google's acquisition of YouTube? Android? DoubleClick? Amazon's acquisition of Twitch? I could go on.

For the record, yes there are VERY many acquisitions that go wrong, especially when you get to the $B+ value. The parent's characterization seems in line with the "no one ever got fired for using IBM" and that sentiment is grossly unjustified for M&A. There are a bunch of other factors that go into corporate strategy. One example - buying a competitor to eliminate competition and thus protecting future dollars.
Exactly, pensions were considerably more common in the 1960s also, but at the end of the day, I don't really care if my retirement is actually funded by a pension or a 401k or by stuffing dollar bills under my mattress, I want to know when I can retire and how comfortably I can live when I retire.

Yes, getting into the weeds is valuable, but here we're talking about the money in your bank at the end of the day, and that CEO salaries haven't changed much doesn't say anything.

Yes, a CEO should be making more money than the average employee. The debate is over how much -- why do CEOs get absolutely massive bonuses and golden parachutes and stock options and for employees it's expected that you put in the work in the hope of future recompense in terms of bonuses, promotions, etc.
I agree; compiler-type code will miss the cache most of the time. A simple test with clang++ compiling some nontrivial piece of C++:

0 lsd_uops
1,092,318,746 idq_dsb_uops ( +- 0.49% )
4,045,959,682 idq_mite_uops ( +- 0.06% )

The LSD is disabled in this chip (Skylake) due to errata, but we can see only 1/5th of the uops come from the uops cache. However, the more relevant experiment in terms of power is how many cycles is the cache active instead of the decoders:

0 lsd_cycles_active
378,993,057 idq_dsb_cycles ( +- 0.18% )
1,616,999,501 idq_mite_cycles ( +- 0.07% )

The ratio is similar: the regular decoders are not active only around 1/5th of the time.

In comparison, gzipping a 20M file looks a lot better:

0 lsd_cycles_active
2,900,847,992 idq_dsb_cycles ( +- 0.07% )
407,705,985 idq_mite_cycles ( +- 0.33% )
The USG cannot hold copyright in the US in certain cases, but it can still apply copyright outside the US. So one approach is to say "no copyright within the US, outside the US use this license".

The USG can hold copyright in some cases (e.g., copyright can be transferred to the USG). As often happens, "it's complicated".
Uhh PMS?

Might want to consider other acronyms.
Iirc this is part of a podcast series in which Naval talks about ideas stemming from a book "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch [0..2]. The conversant Brett is of the TOKcast podcast [3].

0. https://www.thebeginningofinfinity.com/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_of_Infinity

2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-o...

3. https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/
I like that it stores passwords. I don't think it's an especially good idea to use a simple piece of software like this, but I don't think it's a good idea to use some popular commercial password managers either, and at least this is open source and self hosted.

I recommend using 1password though. It has issues but is a solid piece of software that syncs to multiple devices.
These are political problems. If you think that an additional form of currency will solve them, I have a bridge to sell you. Even if you convince the US government to switch to BTC (this is probably a harder political project than defunding the defence department), I'm sure they'll think of something if they need to fund a war or two. BTC would be a mere speed bump.
If you want to use javascript/typescript angular for hybrid development use ionicframework. It has it's warts too like all things, but it's much more mature than NativeScript.

Living with the warts is sometimes worth it, if you need to get to mark in a few months and have no mobile dev experience, it's worth using one of these frameworks.

Then start learning the native landscape and building out what needs to be done. After a few years for most app it would feel like as if it would have been easier to go native all along, but the reality is that if you did, you would be much behind.
Heat pumps and better insulation. It's magic how heat pumps pull heat out of thin air. I honestly think part of the reason they are not adopted as much is people can't understand them and don't trust them because of their ignorance. Insulation seems pretty boring until you start to realize how much energy can be saved by modern insulation.
They should really use both
I am sorry but that’s a very weak argument about cash being involved in illicit transactions. As it stands right now cash is still TANGIBLE. If you want to launder cash you still need to be physically present. Crypto not so much.

I will leave you with this: the reason why crypto will inevitably fail is because no one and no country will be willing to go to war to defend it. As for USD? There’s the single greatest military power assembled by mankind backing all US interests.
Lean teams of A+ engineers deliver great results, but they still do so at a slower pace, though more consistently. And contrary to popular belief, it is quite difficult to maintain such a team, attrition will happen naturally and cause problems for it over time.

For a big tech company, it is thus faster for them to just grow the number of teams and engineers, and give them each smaller and smaller chunk of an overall more and more complicated set. Basically, it's like throwing money at the problem, but it works.

You bootstrap some new product, program or feature quickly, the effort could be led by a single or a handful of A+ engineer and some PMs. And then you create a whole team to forever maintain it composed mostly of junior and mid with high attrition rates.
I will tell people to not read resources that state blatantly incorrect information as facts and don't even bother to cite where they got that information from, especially when the actual facts can be easily checked by anyone since all the information about how those firmwares work have been publicly available for many months now and the phone is already in hands of many users who can check it themselves on actual devices. It's not a matter of opinion or interpretation where my affiliation could actually make a difference, that post is just demonstrably false and not worth anyone's time (and if anything, the fact that I work for Purism on the Librem 5 makes my position stronger, because I know how these phones work).
DeFi's main value proposition is the automation of money.

NFTs main value proposition is fractional ownership and assertion of ownership rights in a transparent manner.

Imagine owning 1% of a Drake song - and getting paid 1% of the royalties every time it plays on Spotify. Or creating a yield earning strategy that automatically moves money around based on fixed paramters without ever interacting with a banker or fund manager.
This makes no sense. My roommate is an christian arab, he has the exact same rights as I do, only he didn't have to do national service or military. The Russians that run the grocery store are orthodox christians, they also have rights, bedouins, druze, the eritrian coptic christians, ethiopian jews, jews from literally every corner of the world and of every race, who knows what some of the georgian guys religion is who make pastries down the street. There are so many ethnicities in Israel, and so many religions. I can't blame you because you have never been to Israel and have no idea the type of people that live here, you just have big opinions from the obvious propaganda you have been spoonfed, otherwise you would never say something like "Israel is an ethnostate" .
There are a lot of Ghanaians in Silicon Valley (relative to other African countries). I wonder how many of them will take this opportunity to move back home. One problem though is at least right now you’d be tied to one employer.
Isn't this exactly what salting (and peppering) prevents?
The bigger myth is that CEOs need to be paid more to be more productive. There's this silly idea that if you pay the same CEO 10x more, they suddenly become 10x as valuable to the company. CEO skill isn't some magical thing that scales infinitely with compensation, and these hundred million dollar compensation packages are grossly inflated to what they should be.
Have you tried `jq`? https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Maybe you can skip a step with pasting online.
Put another way, the $11B Goliath is .55% of Super Goliaths size.
One problem with click-bait titles is that people don't click; they just stop at the title and discuss and promote that message.
Fusion power.

I think traditional tokamaks are 5-10 years from positive power due to better superconductor tech. There is finally private investment in the space and it has been growing at an absolutely crazy pace.

I think in about 5 years there is going to be a fusion power gold rush.
Don't know much about nativescript, but picked up flutter 3 weeks back and am almost finished writing my first flutter app just coding during my free time. Feels great coding in it and seems well thought out. Just my 2 cents
I don't agree with you, but "steering and shaping" could very well be construed "to serve the public conversation". Nothing in that servitude implies passive impartiality.
My (newly discovered) favorite trick is using the comma operator. Using it, you can (admittedly horribly) log anything in the middle of any expression.

This for example will call `console.log(myVar)` and still call `someFunction(myVar, someOtherArgument)`.

myVar = "12345"
someFunction((console.log(myVar), myVar), someOtherArgument);

Pretty handy sometimes :)
> get to mark

Freudian slip? /s
3D Printing.

I believe 3D printing will change the world in less than twenty years. We currently in the hobby-est stage–think home computers in the later 70's early eighties. It took a company to see the potential and package it up for anyone to use. I think there will be a breakthrough home 3D printer that will start whole new industries. You will be able to buy physical products direct from anyone. Anyone can design and sell a vase or a bowl or a boomerang because manufacturing and distribution are no longer barriers to market. Think of when music and video moved from mostly only possible with studios to being able to record at a studio to home recording. Anyways... I'm super excited.
Sure - I agree; that was only the slice of the pie attributable to the extreme success (1%). There's also exits which are non-unicorn but non-trivial which probably bump that number up quite a bit.

It's a tricky problem in the general case because the skills that would allow you to capture a high compensation in FAANG probably correlate with the skills that would lead to a successful startup (not perfectly, but somewhat), so the better your options in FAANG the better your potential outcome via startup (with much higher variance).
I put up a temporary email address in my profile. Email me there, I’ll be removing it tomorrow.

Don’t expect a response before 6PM Pacific, I’ll try to get back to you sooner than that, I’m still working right now.
Yes. OpenSPARC has been free/available since 2005. There are a multitude of others of similar vintage that can also boot Linux.

It's a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist.
When I say people are starting more companies, I mean the type of company meant to grow very big. There has actually been a decrease in the last couple decades in the overall number of new companies. But the vast majority of companies are small retail and service businesses. So what the statistics about the decreasing number of new businesses mean is that people are starting fewer shoe stores and barber shops.

The news has gone from bad to worse. Winner-take-all regulations, customs, and market manipulations are good for Bezos, but not for normal humans and not for the economy as a whole. It has been even worse in pandemic time, since the small shops just closed down while the bigger firms were somehow exempted from those requirements.
I am a lifelong sysadmin, and have thought about #2 frequently. I am thinking seriously about making it a research project. Who is behind this document you linked to? Is it tildeverse? Parts of that document are pretty up to date, so it does not seem very old. I am not really familiar with the null pointer site, or even how to find things on it (as in, every now and then I am surprised). I am surprised I have not seen this before.
But Reagan gets the credit. And Gov Reagan and others had agency too. "Reaganomics" is just short hand for when that agenda became the dominate policy.
Chrome 0-Day
I think it's impossible to accurately determine the ROI of an acquisition with incomplete data. There's way too many factors at play.
I recall this pattern being taught in my first year or two of my computer science degree. Emphasizing only one return statement per function, utilizing a shared return variable.

I much preferred (and still greatly prefer in industry) the pattern of exiting the function as soon as possible.
Hmm the number days between events ranges from 13.91 to 15.61 always some weird fraction of days. If you look at today's data:

1237320 2021 April 12 2:32 UTC 14.32

1299660 2021 April 27 3:33 UTC 15.04

It was 14.32 days since the last one and will be 15.04 days until the next one. How does 86400 relate to 1299660 will "advance" to 1265280 on May 11?
I’m not partial to the “I say the universe is infinitely subdividable; since we can obviously move despite Zeno’s paradox, then there must not be a tension between these two” logic - it’s weak.

FWIW, I believe that I can move. I have no idea on how small things get.
I corrected it in an edit. I originally spelled it Ordinance.
There are plenty of three-letter acronyms that are used despite being overloaded with something worse.
I love Rust. I hate when people dismiss things as soon as they see it's written in Rust. But there's no reason for it to be a selling point here. You can have that info as one of the notes on the page, but the key selling point in the title shouldn't be that it's written in Rust.
Ancient History Sheds New Light on Connection Between Weather and War
Capture US regulatory agencies while you can.

I'd perhaps quibble a bit to say US financial regulatory agencies can't be captured in the fashion of traditional regulators (where the "revolving door" is awful). This is because they were "captured from the beginning", operated specifically for the benefit of large financial firm from the very start. The Federal Reserve isn't even a traditional agency but public, private partnership ("has a 'unique structure that is both public and private'). EPA theoretically protects "the environment" a thing outside markets. Financial regulators protect markets. Protecting markets is completely compatible with protecting the profits of the largest players in the markets. So it seems logical regulators will remain "objective" in their assessments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
The ingredient list on the sandwich label doesn't leave a lot of room for secret ingredients; it's just cheese (american and swiss), cream, emulsifiers, lactic acid and pimento, plus the white bread and mayonnaise.
The value of Amazon is based on their labour force and their willingness to work under the conditions they do for the pay they get.

If you give all of them 22k, a lot of them will use that money to jump ship. The value of Amazon will go down.

The value of a corporation is the _willingness of their staff to cooperate_. For low skill workers, higher pay can enable them to work their way up to higher skill jobs, which reduces their willingness to cooperate at the low wage job, which reduces the value of the cooperation.

I feel like I just earned a nobel price in economics, but I guess a real economist will quickly put holes in my epic bubble^^
Really ?

sh.ls("-l", "/tmp", color="never")
Not everybody have already learned everything. Sure, documentation is a really good source of truth, but for some people simpler introduction than a whole whitepaper's worth of information, which you get in MDN, might be more digestible.

I don't think closing on people just starting to learn is a good way to expand the field of software engineering.
The problem is definitely much worse when returns are scattered throughout the function instead of grouped at the top, but I still prefer them to be "elsed" together (or in a switch/cond/match statement or whatever). Worth noting that in Lisp - one of the classical languages where early-returning is popular - there isn't a problem because it is done as I describe:

(cond
(early-return-condition early-value)
(second-early-condition early-value2)
...
(t final-else-value))

The "default case" is on the same footing as the other cases. Only in procedural languages does the control-flow get confusing if you aren't careful.
> this is the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine

Salty, but I think I agree.

It seems that with AI/ML, choosing/defining your problem well is hugely important. Text to speech, even computer generated natural language is a definite enough task that engineers (and machines) have the feedback to make progress.
As someone currently working though the entirety of brilliant.org, I can say that even merely being able to comprehend the Einstein field equations well enough to produce coherent results is impressive — inventing it, even with help, more so.

Everyone leans on the shoulders of giants; it is neither secret nor shameful.

This is not to deny there are embellishments in his life story. Personally, I suspect his “Miracle year” was him publishing his wife’s work as his own [0]. Given systematic sexism of the era, there is at minimum reason to at least suspect she would’ve had difficulty publishing herself, so even this isn’t as harsh a claim against Einstein as it would be if it happened today, yet it would still be embellishment even at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Marić
Qualcomm no longer makes their own cores - they just use ARM reference IP designs since the Kryo.

That will probably change with their Nuvia acquisition.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Hard-to-work-with individual have been a problem in open source projects for a long time. What I think is changing is less the personalities of new contributors and more that [sub]projects controlled/significantly influenced by such personalities are getting harder and harder to route around.

It's feasible to fork a project / create an alternative if that's single-digit person-year/year of effort. There's plenty historical examples of that. If however maintaining / creating an alternative would take very significant resources, it's only going to happen if some large corporation foots the bill. Which has its own problems.
"Woke" is just an insult these days. And few activists sit around discussing Derrida.
Collection of identifying data also needs consent. It would be perfectly legal to have an AAID and never disclose it to anyone, but that wouldn't be very useful. :)
It could be the national government's legally authoritative survey :)
A cgit/webgit alternative, written in Rust