skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting because there was a post yesterday about how companies hollow themselves out by outsourcing all the pieces, (the example he used was a toaster) until the entire toaster is built by outsiders and the toaster company is just a sales and marketing unit, unable to innovate, whereas apple is the opposite it is basically the only company that is a real outlier to this trend.
> This is true for books and other sources too.

Yes, agreed.
This function will fail when given an argument with a space, which would be quite frustrating for a beginner, which is presumably the target audience for such a document:

> mcd() { mkdir -p $1; cd $1 }

It should be more like:

> mcd() { mkdir -p "$1"; cd "$1"; }

The trailing ";" is also required in bash for oneline blocks like this.

Same goes for most of the other functions on page 70. "$@", etc.

Just trying to make the learning experience less frustrating, not trying to tear down the effort :)
What you get from the flexibility of having macros, it seems like you lose by being unable to do static analysis at any level other parentheses matching?

In particular, consider trying to figure out all usages of a function without executing code. I don't think you can even resolve imports without possibly getting fooled by macros that you didn't hard-code an understanding of?

(But on the other hand, it's not going to be 100% in languages that support reflection either. We just assume that's rare.)
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I've suspected that the point of NFTs is to transfer cryptocurrency into an asset with a different volatility proifle without "realizing gains," or even use them as loss makers to offset capital gains, so indirectly, maybe?
Verifiable donations, fully transparent reporting/auditing, no restrictions on who can donate, NFTs tied to donations that can be used for virtue signaling online, etc.
Rebrand it as Google Games.
GKE is on the roadmap and coming in a few months with UI, but we already have it running in the backend, so feel free to contact us/book a demo https://cast.ai/eks-optimizer
I want to be excited by this but 500 million dollars to create 10 jobs doesn’t sound efficient. Maybe there’s more to this than just job creation?
> a cambrian explosion in third parties

Which is all that is needed to create a fair bargaining position for the consumers.
"The data released on Monday, from the Chinese ministry of public security, showed the number of new birth registrations in 2020 was 10.035 million, compared with 11.8 million in 2019. The 2019 figure marked the lowest point since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949."

"Zhang Lijia, a writer, journalist and social commentator, said there was a change in attitude and many women – especially urban-living and highly educated – no longer regarded marriage and parenthood as “necessary passages in life or the essential ingredients of a happy life”."

“In another word, it is about choice. Better education, higher income and more career options grant these women the freedom to choose a lifestyle they desire. They are assertive enough to resist the pressure from their parents to produce children. And the society is more tolerant than before.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrat...
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Virtually anyone who is using google cloud to run their business is surely paying for access to real human interaction. This costs as little as $100/mo for basic support all the way up to dedicated support.

I agree with your pout for consumer, but GP is talking about b2b cloud, where google behaves very differently than their general “no there is no customer support” behavior.
Are purchases from charities tax deductible? I thought it was only donations
> Removing the need for a gaming PC reduces the barrier to entry and increases the number of people with access to PC games.

This is not important at all for someone who is a gaming enthusiast and doesn't want services like Stadia to become the new norm and have their enthusiast hobby heavily locked down by publishers and cloud services.
In my experience, GeForceNow was even better image quality than Stadia. I'm a paid subscriber and I enjoy the heck out of it. It also works with your existing games from Steam and other major digital storefronts.
"Alexander Graham Bell originally suggested 'ahoy' be adopted as the standard greeting when answering a telephone, before 'hello' (suggested by Thomas Edison) became common." - from the Wikipedia page on 'Ahoy'.
The companies that FAANG acquire are usually mid sized, 50+ employees. Getting to that size, in a particular industry that will be of acquisition interested is not going to be easier than getting hired.

Might get you hired at a higher level though, but yeah delusional to think it would be easier.
Maybe, but as of now the ETH2 beacon chain is running with > $14B of ETH locked in it, not launching honestly seems unlikely at this point.
Contrary to the Interests of Civilization
I had no idea that draw.io had a desktop version. Cool.
Ah thank you! I will fix it.
IC = Intensive Care
Why do you think this is the only bet? What about things like Snowpack, Vite, and Esbuild?
If leetcoding and going from 0 to acquired by Facebook in a year were just as hard, we’d all be rich.

Even if it was only an order of magnitude difference, the expected value of starting that startup would be so much higher.

They aren’t even in the same ballpark
Somewhat off-topic, but I feel like the "patronage economy" is really taking off, with Patreon and GitHub sponsors. Content like this is really interesting, and I've appreciated this blog's various write-ups in the past.

There's another great blog, with writings supported by patrons, whose name escapes me (I think the domain ends in something about "lime", with the '.me' ccTLD).

Whenever I see those domains on HN, I always click, since I have a high expectation the content will be good, given how it was created.
The free market responds to these inputs.
We rejected an invite from YC to join TinySeed S21
A blockchain isn't necessary for any of these things, though.
Can we get away from the politics and get back to the topic at hand?
The dangers of Quake as a hacker training ground for young impressionable minds?

Don’t get me started on the potential pitfalls of AMD processors.

Related story:
I one time almost got our internet shutoff by trying to telnet into various ISP (EarthLink) IPs when I was like 13.
Warren Buffet takes this even further. He doesn't spend any money on consumption, choosing instead to invest it for 21+ years. And then he keeps it invested and refuses to give it to his children.

(He's giving it all to charity, though.)
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From the security company's report at https://labs.sentinelone.com/cve-2021-21551-hundreds-of-mill... :

> The firmware update driver component, which is responsible for Dell Firmware Updates via the Dell Bios Utility, comes pre-installed on most Dell machines running Windows and freshly installed Windows machines that have been updated.

Dell's security advisory page (https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000186019/dsa-2021-...) suggests that it would be installed if you installed any of a number of their update programs:

> This driver file may have been installed on your Dell Windows operating system when you used firmware update utility packages, Dell Command Update, Dell Update, Alienware Update, Dell System Inventory Agent, or Dell Platform Tags, including when using any Dell notification solution to update drivers, BIOS, or firmware for your system.
Depending on how long ago this happened, you may either already know this or have since worked through it but this was probably not really just about the ring.

I think the comments attacking your partner may be assuming that this "uncharacteristic tears and shouting" was some sort of irrational hysteria rather than the boiling-over of simmering problems.

Maybe I'm the one reading too far into it though.
FORTH is very different from LISP but it's very similar in that you can use the quote operator to write control structures the same way you write any other function.

Common LISP had CLOS that implemented object-oriented programming in a style not too different from Python, but as a library without compiler support and that was also true for late 1980s FORTH.
Because I'm not in college anymore. It was much easier, then, to find people with similar technical interests. After college, not living in a tech hub at least, it's much harder to find them in person. Which is where HN, Reddit, and similar forums come into play.
There is 1 bidder, paulg1
> My understanding is that the vast majority of these M&A destroy capital.

I think this would be very difficult to tease out of the data. Many acquisition are de facto defensive, even if they or not anti-competitive from a legal monopoly perspective.

How could one measure the the loss of brand value if the acquired companies were allowed to mature or be acquired by a competitor?
Destroying the environment I guess. And surfing on the sad hype that the NFT buzzword have.
Sure you can short some NFTs.
Their ‘live’ service was something they have been working on for over a decade with the Xbox. It’s finally all coming together now with the digital only consoles.

MS gets gaming believe it or not. Windows has no competitors on PC, sure, but MS has competitors in the console and platform space that they are doing well against.
a beginner would not likely quote the argument, so the point is moot...

besides, what kind of savage wants a directory name with spaces?
In retrospect, yes, this is absolutely true. One is much more effective with slack. The question is how to set one up for that. Ironically, slack (the app) is really counterproductive here. It takes some effort not to react immediately to every request. While this might look like the setup of Gloria, the secretary, often the sheer amount of requests kills any slack.
The article mentions close to 1.1 million apps (962k for policy, 119k for malice/spam), so those efforts are off by an order of magnitude. Then the question it represents that much benefit to Google. Keep in mind that Google is a business. They don't have to concern themselves with being just. They only have to worry about their reputation and operating within the confines of the law. Keep in mind that legitimate violations may be more of a liability to Google than the revenue generated by approving it (may that being the sale of an illegal product or of something that violates their policies).
It works very well for all of them though.
The first time you heard her casual use of glory hole must have been alarming, and later hilarious.

(I’m sorry to hear about your mother, my condolences.)
The strategy at hand is self-destructing by nature. Per evolution basic theory, the gene most adapted to the environment and which produces more offsprings, survives.

Therefore, offsprings of unmodified mosquitos have twice the chance to reproduce, as both males and females can reproduce and both will yield unmodified males and females. I wouldn't know the rate, but even if slowly, unmodified strain will come back, unless it is overwhelmed first. In which case both are extinct and unmodified can come back imported from other countries.

There need be no female preference for this to happen, but of course if they evolve to detect modified males it would accelerate the rate which modified mosquitos get extinct. So, even if there damage from the experiment to the ecosystem, it would self heal in this case. (and apparently no major side-effect happened in Brazil)

Edit: my understanding, I'm not even from this area
There's usually (always?) an "other" or "I would prefer not to say" option though.
For sea borders, sometimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars#Third_Cod_War
The scheme distributions I'm familiar with (Chicken, Gambit, and Gerbil) have well-defined FFIs for C.

I think with Gambit you can have C inline with your Scheme:

https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/doc/gambit.html#C_002di...

This is no help for programming for embedded targets? Maybe? I'm very close to clueless (I RTFM, but I still don't understand a large portion of functionality of Schemes of FFIs).
>The environmental harm of a single ethereum transaction is very low.

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" ~ Stanisław Jerzy Lec

No transaction individually harms the environment. The collection of all transactions harms the environment. This one transaction is part of that collection and it has potential to help attract people to the platform which will encourage more transactions in the future.
Maybe in the West. I would have a hard time believing Chinese researchers feel this way.
Many FORTHs were based on 16 bit ints but I knew somebody who wrote a 32-bit FORTH for an 8-bit machine because they needed 32-bit ints.
As Matt Levine would say, the way to do that is to mint and sell your own NFT. That way you are on the opposite side of the trade as the bulls who you believe are wrong.
Online Multiplayer on the GameBoy
> - U.S. citizens living abroad in a low-tax country with a foreign spouse can engage in advantageous tax planning.

Can you please, please elaborate on this?
But it raises the question in people’s minds. If you are building your company on a cloud platform why would you risk GCP after seeing that?
One of those reviews is dated 2005(!!)
Did you forget about the Xbox?

It's arguable that gaming really didn't reach mainstream in a big way until the Xbox and Halo. The PS2 was a very successful system but it didn't cause the same kind of culture shift that the OG Xbox did.
No, people have not been saying that ethereum is already partially on proof of stake for 4 years. I realize that isn't what you meant, but what you meant seems to be missing the point that it's actually happening recently.
This a point that is missed by the people who still say the the big tech companies got there "by merit and by the choice of consumers". Most big tech had a single idea, and then used the money to buy others who could pose a threat. So in effect the consumer has little choice. For example, consumers didn't have a choice in selecting Google to watch video, they had to accept the fact that Google bought Youtube.
At least in India it's because interacting with the government is a huge pain in the ass. You don't do it unless you have to. It just so happens that it's rapidly becoming the case that you do have to.
I see that on the 16 bit micros, numbers range from -32768 to 32767. Which means that bits aren't being stolen for either tags or garbage collection marking. Does that mean it uses boxing instead of tags, or are the tags just on the pointers, or is there some magic during the compilation step? I'm just partway through mal, which uses boxing, so I'd like to look at a simple implementation using tagging or another memory friendly implementation.
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I resented personally being called ignorant. That is all.
> Also marriage between members of different religions is not possible. So one person must convert to the other's religion before they can be married.

Ah, a strongly typed country!
Well said! In contrast to Apple which gives its projects time. Apple Arcade is growing slowly but surely. People who have kids don't mind signing up for it because it makes sense.

Apple can iterate on Arcade with their now impressive chip design advantage. They can come to the consoles market at some point. I personally use my Xbox only for FIFA. It's a game that can probably run on M1 with no problem. I don't mind not spending $500 for my next console and have access to my FIFA on my iPhone and Mac
It's part Google's shitty product culture, but also part insurmountable technological barriers.

Streaming games is not going to reach mainstream adoption because the latency of the Internet is too large. There's no coding around that. Barring some new material that allows light to travel faster through it, game streaming just isn't happening.
> Is it better or more efficient for the people who assemble the phones?

yes. Factory work is better than subsistence farming. And big tech has done 100x more than anyone else in the consumer electronics supply chain to push for better working conditions in those factories.

>Is it better or more efficient for the retail employees making minimum wage?

Yes. Improved margins are what allow wages to rise. Inefficient businesses don’t have the money to pay employees more. Apple retail stores pay on average 18$/hr vs the 10.50 a mom and pop might be able to afford to pay someone.

>Is it better or more efficient for app developers who lose 30% of their revenue to private taxation, or the businesses that never reached their potential because a BigTechCo launched a competing product at a loss?

Yes. Software distributors used to pay 50% to retailers.
I also noted in my first comment that "technically you are not increasing the supply". Cheers
Isn't this just a receipt? like when I donate shirts to goodwill?
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Can you explain what might happen if the solar projects aren't up and running in time?

Delays in constructing power plants are pretty common, but I'm not sure what the practical consequences are.
The real meat of any the cryptocurrencies is in their consensus algorithm, which can be difficult to understand. Chia has these resources listed:

> We have academic papers and presentations that give detail about our new consensus algorithm and blockchain software. In 2019 we revealed our Green Paper outlining the construction of Proofs of Space and Time and illustrating many of the design choices of Chia.

>

> We have updated our consensus algorithm and you can review and commment on our working document.

>

> There is also a 2019 talk from Mariano Sorgente at MIT on how to achieve Nakamoto consensus with Proof of Space and VDFs.

>

> Bram Cohen presented at Stanford on February 2018 on Proofs of Space. Our advisors, Dan Boneh, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch published a survey of VDFs which are the underlying technology of Proof of Time. Lipa Long published an explanation of class groups that our Proofs of Time is based on. Bram presented Beyond Hellman’s Time-Memory Trade-Offs with Applications to Proofs of Space at BPASE ‘18 in January 2018 based on the academic paper and these slides by Hamza Abusalah. Ben Fisch gave a talk at BPASE 2018 in January 2018 on Verifiable Delay Functions. Bram spoke at Blockchain at Berkeley (which starts about 20:00) in March 2018 with slides. Bram gave a talk at BPASE 2017 in January 2017 on removing waste with Proofs of Space and Time (slides).

>

> Bram gave a talk at SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar about data structures for scaling Bitcoin with slides and Merkle Set code. Bram gave a talk at SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar about removing waste from cryptocurrencies.
It is a false dichtotomy.

Inefficient decision making creates environmental pollution.

Regulating to make companies less good at decision making under the belief that this will increase opportunity is literally making society stupider. It is the path to idiocracy.

I’m not against government intervention.

Let’s invest in alternatives, and let’s invest in making people’s lives less precarious.
It is not. There are some free games you can claim while a subscriber, but they are nothing you'd want to play. Games are purchased at full retail (or more) from their storefront.
Plus it gives credibility to what is effectively a scam. People will be able to point to this and say "look, they're being used to do good" and others will take that as social proof that there is actually something legit to an NFT (and the rest of the various "crypto" scams going on).
I don’t think YouTube cares if you use hardware of software decoding. I also don’t think they care if you use their hardware decoder or someone else’s. The issue with roku is they don’t want to include any extra hardware to support vp9, and they use such cheap/low spec hardware they can’t reliably decode in software.
This is intense.
ASICS making a comeback again.
It’s weird how the computer market is so cyclical with regard to trends.
Fortnite's 2020 revenue was forecast to be down almost 50% from 2018 level
This is peak absurdism. Why not simply donate the money? How is this better than a Kickstarter?

How many lives could pg have saved by donating the billable time it took him to write this post?

It gets even better, from the NFT article:

> • What about the environmental costs?

> We plan to make a significant carbon offset to mitigate the environmental impact of this NFT. Within one week of the closing of this auction we will update this page with details of the steps we took.

pg giveth, pg taketh. If you agree that carbon emissions kill, you'd basically donate for a good cause through an absurdly convoluted money laundering scheme called NFT, and cause massive environmental harm on the other side of the planet, killing even more people, again.

I might even draw several trolley problem comics, but the fact this is from pg himself makes me question his sanity and everything he's ever written.

It's the same feeling of betrayal like when Signal turned around and decided to implement a payment token after several of us went ahead and invested time to convert family members away from WhatsApp.

Profit over reason. Pyramid schemes disguised as benevolent startups saving lives.

Startup culture needs a reboot.
>Our current tax laws make vertical integration or even conglomerates more tax efficient.
>...we should also make separate companies just as tax efficient (VAT tax, etc) and otherwise closely examine how we can change economic incentives here.

related:

"Biggest companies pay the least tax, leaving society more vulnerable to pandemic – new research (2020)" --
https://theconversation.com/biggest-companies-pay-the-least-... -- (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786371)
CloudForecast(www.cloudforecast.io) is super excited to be part of this years TinySeed batch. Couldn't have asked for a better fit in terms of mentors, program and fellow companies.

It's great (and funny) to see how far our journey has come since we first launched on HackerNews almost 4 years ago [1]. This "launch" was a spring board for us to who we are today.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551796
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