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What would an upside even look like? We expect SO to be free, which it is, always online, which it is, and have decent enough moderation to weed out the nonsense posts, which is generally the case. So the best thing that can come out of an acquisition like this is that nothing changes, so there just isn't really anything to get worked up about one way or another.

There don't appear to be downsides in this acquisition, but acquisitions usually destroy the thing that gets acquired (because they either get overhauled, regardless of whether it needed it, or they get folded into a different product, destroying its identity if the old product is even kept around at all), so the expectation for an announcement like this is that the acquired thing is now living on borrowed time.

We'll see what happens.
excellent point - I had a nagging thought about that, but just figured the LED had turned off when it started to evade?

But yes, NVD malfunction could be a possibility.

The other possibility is that it was and IR NVG, and the device is very well heat-shielded, which puts it in an entirely different class...
There are only 6000 pysch beds in all of California. Psychedelic drugs can induce serious mental illness.
If California wants to decriminalize this is a good opportunity to greatly increase psychological services to help drug casualties and provide long term care.
It's not possible for moderation to be perfectly consistent. For one thing we don't come close to seeing all the posts, and we can't even read the ones we do see particularly closely. There's just way too much content.

I've taken a closer look and agree that the originating comment was also bad, and have posted a reply up there now.
Possibly how weird it is to think of the ownership of ownerships and stakes. Nested

Say there is a large [activist] investor ->

who owns 5% of Naspers ->

which has a sizeable stake in Prosus ->

which has a sizeable stake in Tencent ->

which has a sizeable stake in Epic Games (40%+)

OR

a majority stake in Tencent Music ->

which has a respectable stake in Spotify (7.5%). Not to mention Tencent’s own stake in Spotify (1-3%)
I just set the iPad up in kiosk mode and refresh a webpage every x minutes.

I don't have Safari crashing issues like the other commenter.
> You're incoherent.

I am very coherent

Ok. Let's be very coherent. Let's talk about one single thing.

Not so long ago Twitter redesigned their website. Mind you, Twitter is far from being a complex app UI-wise. It's basically text plus images. All they did was re-implement infinite scrolling using a well-known paradigm called a virtual list (or a virtual table).

Here's a small video of their original result: https://grumpy.website/post/0RQvmdNmN

Note: I implemented a similar functionality in C++ Builder circa 2004 and in Qt circa 2005. This entire functionality is either available right out of the box, or will take a first-year CS student a day or two to implement by following a simple tutorial (because virtual lists are a thing available in all UI kits since probable early 80s).

It took Twitter close to a year to fix this functionality.

Now, tell me: why is it that such a powerful platform:

a) doesn't have this functionality out of the box

b) requires a company the size of Twitter almost a year to implement somewhat satisfactorily

c) why didn't Twitter just "go ahead and download a package" that implements this trivial primitive functionality that is so readily available, once again, everywhere else.

From here on we can discuss all the other trivial and primitive things that require you to depend on someone to spend untold man-powers to implement them in the "so powerful a platform".

And from there on we can move on to discussing why these trivial and primitive things require orders of magnitudes more resources to run to do a fraction of a fraction of the things available, you know, everywhere else.

How's that for coherency?

Edit: In a comment elsewhere I actually linked to a nice example. The Web is such a powerful platform that you can't even animate shadows without thinking hard and long about causing page repaints: https://tobiasahlin.com/blog/how-to-animate-box-shadow/ MacOS did shadows almost 20 years ago on hardware that's probably 100 times less powerful than now.
I cannot stop myself but flip this around - how can you possibly call this an equal opportunity?

It's like having a race where some people start 100m behind others and saying "well if they try hard enough, they can still win! The race itself is fair after all!"

>>Success is hard work with a measure of luck.

Of course ,but the American system is 1) ignoring that some people started at a much worse position in life and expecting them to "just work harder" 2) assuming that any problem you might encounter in your life is of your own doing, after all if you get into an accident and end up in lifetime medical debt.....well you shouldn't have gotten into an accident, right? Or again - just work hard to pay it back and you're fine?

After all it is possible. Yes, and winning lottery is technically possible but I don't think buying Lotto tickets is a valid way of living your life either.
This sound tempting.. I'm building an interpreter (https://tablam.org) ad one of the reason is the interpreters are better for exploration/repls and such.

This looks like it will fix a major point: I could compile everything that is typed and left the rest for runtime.

I'm wondering how much easier could be the life if I compile to WASM to be run on my host...
> Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition. Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.

Ehhhh not so sure on that one.
Having stopped writing COM components in the early 2000s, back then there were very good resources at Microsoft's site (MSDN) as well as within the Visual Studio help. It's interesting to hear it got worse just ten years later but kind of doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't upkeep that kind of documentation.
If we are talking injury rate per holes dug or packages shipped then the number of people working on the task doesn't affect the injury rate.
It's nice to see this here -- as Ellen Fullman said, instrument building is composition.
You don't understand what I've already written if you think that any of this hinges on how many years you've lived in the neighborhood, or high integrated into the community you are.
The point I'm making isn't that you can't get insurance, it's that the insurance you have changes every time you change jobs. At one employer you might be on an HMO plan like Kaiser Permanente and be limited to their providers. But then your next employer uses Blue Cross / Blue Shield or United Healthcare and you can no longer use your Kaiser Permanente doctors. So you're not guaranteed continuity of care, and you might lose coverage for certain optional things if you change jobs. And your costs, which are nebulous to begin with, might change substantially depending on who your employer is. It's a crap shoot.

Also you're not required to have insurance. The individual mandate was repealed a couple of years ago.
I think you're onto something. I remember myself, as a young developer and a fresh university student mostly reading programming forums or browsing newsgroups. Even more so official documentation for a programming language or a library.

Only know, having 10+ years of experience behind me, I find myself stumbling upon SO because I know exactly what I'm looking for. In other words, my path to finding the answer is shorter. So it's just a time saver.

I find issues on Github (for open source software) to be frequently of a similar value to me.
The NSA doesn't need a warrant to intercept foreign communications, for just one example.
Compare the project fundings?

Chrome funding is probably in the XXM$/year, while Zerodium offers 500k$ for a vulnerability, that's an approximate 20-100 funding / vulnerability ratio.

Pidgin is at 25k$/year, for 100k$ for a vulnerability, so a ratio of 1:4.

I think the only reasonable conclusion is that community-driven opensource projects are 100 time safer than private company-funded opensource projects /s
> The popular, naive implementation is, as above, to repeat same simple operation over and over again: read from source, write to destination, read from source, write to destination.

Reminds me of the kind of patterns functional programming languages introduce, where you process data by describing operations on individual items and assembling them into "a stream". I'm always wary of those - without a good implementation and some heavy magic at the language level, they tend to become the kind of context-switching performance disaster you describe.
What Is a Vulnerability Scan
For anyone reading along, if you visit https://www.google.com/chrome/ from a Linux box, then click the big blue "Download" button, you are offered the choice of a .deb or an .rpm. I take it that that is what parent means by "the official releases".

>massaging them a little. It takes a few seconds.

Interesting and surprising. When I run ldd on my Chrome binary (which comes straight from Google, not my distro), it lists 101 dynamically-linked libraries. I believe that that means that the binary contains references (i.e., file names) to those 101 libraries. Does the massaging process just replace those references (file names) with the appropriate names beginning with "/nix/store/"? I.e., does the massaging process edit the binary?

(If so, I'm a little surprised, what with how paranoid Google is, that Chrome doesn't refuse to start because the binary has a different checksum!)
I don't think cognitive dissonance is the right label to apply to this. I read it more as a misalignment of incentives. It's a sad comment on the state of things that a year of effort to produce some popular software is worth only a quarter of what somebody else is willing to pay for exploitable bugs in that same software.

Like, I understand why that's the case, but it still sucks.
Stackoverflow about to add that copy paste subscription they previewed on April 1st
Stack Overflow doesn't run on social capital, it runs on providing ads to people who need to find answers to their incredibly specific problem.
why just 1.8B?
If the total accumulation of year to year profits was higher than 1.8B, then the current owners of Stack Overflow would've never sold.
> Always funny to see a European head to a "US-Centric" site just to constantly take jabs at the US, which your posting history confirms.

Oh well, good job Trump. But we're getting political so let's shut up.
First, offline only works when an institution chooses to extend credit to the user. That's not nearly as widespread in other countries as it is in the US. Second, QR codes don't need a battery either. Third, having someone send money (i.e. authenticated user actively tells their provider/network to send money) is far superior to having merchants take money (i.e. charge a CC, even over NFC, even with temporary CC numbers).
This has literally nothing to do with Elon. Did you even read the article? Somebody paid SpaceX to transport something from A to B, that all.
This isn't news anymore, its weather. If your company does not have a full time cybersecurity team, they soon will, even if they say they don't need it.
Indeed, there are many "horizontal" and recurrent connections and simply thinking of it as a 6 layer feed forward network is a gross oversimplification. It's more like a complex network of complex networks... of the spiking variety
I remember taking over a website around 2007 that was built completely with tables. I was having a bit of a layout issue, and found many missing </td> and </tr> tags throughout the code. A ha! I'll go and fix everything and validate the HTML. The entire layout was built upon those missing tags, and once added in, everything fell apart much worse than before I had gone in and "fixed" everything.
Any hint of nuance or context is absent, it implies that he specifically advocates for their creation _as_ weapons of mass destruction when the opposite stance is evident in the article, it's paywalled so many people won't check, it has little to nothing to do with the HN story.
I'll just be happy if they keep their Creative Commons licensing.
Unreal is written in C++ but, like Unity, can be scripted in other languages. Like unity it fits the "GC language for high level scripting of non-gc code" pattern. There is certainly no debate about the feasibility of implementing game logic in Lua. Reference counting in graphics drivers is not comparable to GC in Java or C# because its lack of generality permits the use of faster algorithms that don't GC pause. Swift is a workable systems language with reference counting built in, but you should bear in mind that it doesn't have "a garbage collector" per se, like you would imagine when you hear that a language is GC'd.
FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group
Ask HN: Where can I find list of companies that went fully remote
I am thinking about changing my job to fully remote as pandemic is nearing its end, and I am trying to find the list of companies that went fully remote so I can apply to those companies. Thank you
I'm not really sure this provides a meaningful moat these days. Talking to people on the business side is not difficult -- it's probably even less of a moat than knowing how to copy/paste javascript.
Did Prosus read the documentation first before just coming to SO and asking questions about acquisitions?
It wouldn't reduce the incentive for state-level or state-funded attackers to target foreign infrastructure, though.
Yes absolutely. If it's running and you can get access to I/O on it to copy data off via serial or something (let's say it's running MS-DOS 3.3, 5.0 or 6.2), use something like laplink to transfer as much off as possible before taking it down for intrusive maintenance.

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=lap...
Didn't you also need a few upvotes on comments before it would let you post an answer?
Meme stock mania continues as AMC shares double again
Correct. Because the whole system is filled with anti-incentives. You can't attract money by demonstrating that you can be frugal. It's absurd.
Oh boy. I was thinking USB 2.0 is main reason for Android<>Windows copying of photos to suck so much, but the rabbit hole is much deeper.

It's sad that with cloud being the solution for everything those days, this will probably never be improved within next decade.
Currently I use TextAdept which is kind of the inversion of "scripting" the editor - the core is basically a SciTE wrapper and the editor is Lua. It boasts a tiny source code footprint. There aren't many features or integrations, but I am aiming not to need those.

(Becoming IDE-dependent is definitely a thing, but when it goes in that direction, I look for a full-fat IDE experience for that specific language and then use either my text editor or IDE situationally. It's just not worth it to try to configure your way into Nirvana when the language you're using is probably going to change again.)
I have a better idea, we should make ransomwaring illegal. That'll definitely stop it from happening.
I think it used to be, but IIRC some time after Stack Overflow became popular they started actually gating it. Probably because there were people researching questions posed on SO and answering them from info on EE.

If so, that was a catch-22 for them. Either leave them available and watch the only thing making your site useful be rapidly transcribed onto a different and now more popular site (whether by people playing into the gamification or scraping as used to be the norm doesn't make a difference here), or close it off and allow their more use hostile experience to force them into irrelevance. That's a tough place to be. By the time it became an obvious problem SO was probably too far ahead to catch even if they pivoted immediately, as I'm not sure anyone ever really felt any loyalty to EE with it's poor usability bordering on UX hostility.
I can't wait for this fad to be over.
there are a few examples of those, but they are pretty much one-offs. This is mostly because one blade pitch mechanism is messy enough with a helicopter, 4-8 with a multi-rotor is just too many critical moving parts to be effective.

Most of the fuel powered drones will be basically an internal combustion engine powering a generator, which then feeds into the regular battery & ESC circuits (that's the type of machine I was working on).

EDIT: Also important is that much of the yaw control of multirotor drones is done by changing individual rotor speeds to create a net yaw reaction from the acceleration/deceleration of the rotors. With constant-RPM motors, that goes away, along with a lot of yaw control authority.
The street people of CA are already breaking drug laws. Smoking crack on the sidewalk is illegal, but they do it right next to transit security the metro station in my old neighborhood no less. This doesn't realistically change much, since this sort of thing hasn't been enforced for these people in parts of CA.
Let's see if fujifilm has better network security and backups than others. Cutting the network seems like a good way to gain time to figure out what is affected and how.
Now that's pretty cool. We'll worth the price of the drone.
If there are any e-mails in there that you consider interesting enough to discuss on HN, could you please identify them? Most of them just seem to be routine, bureaucratic stuff.
They are trying things. I read an article recently where they’re going to try lowering Naspers impact in South Africa as such a giant part of the market and other lower valuation issues for both companies by exchanging or buying one anothers shares so both companies will own sizeable portions of each other. Versus right now it only goes one way.
TomTom and BlackBerry had great brands, marketing and great software stacks. I still correct the google maps voice when it tells me to take the third exit on the roundabout. It’s “roundabound”. The people who ran those companies didn’t see anybody stealing their businesses either. Yet they are well and truly gone.

https://youtu.be/ATulnxruvhQ
What a great insight!

I absolutely loved his first album. Even better when he teamed up with Conan Mockasin (who I’ve always kept an eye on because I went to school with him) to form Soft Hair. Their track, The Lying has to Stop, is a work of beauty.
> Am I crazy for thinking that this misses the whole point of the technology?

Multi-cluster is not an accidental evolution. It was largely inevitable. Kubernetes has no hard tenancy concept (no, cobbling together a pile of namespaces and feature encrustations and calling it "tenancy" doesn't count). Instead people simulate tenancy with multiple clusters, because that isolates a particular API server's data completely.

While early attention and nerd glamour may have attached to the idea of workload consolidation, the true nexus of value these days is the API itself. This will probably remain true even while people are being burned by multi-cluster waste. There will be some movement to one of the various I-can't-believe-it's-not-multi-cluster solutions that are currently swirling around. Vendors of all sizes will be standing by to sell their take on the Kubernetes of Kubernetes.
Projects like Mozilla and GNOME have naked contempt for user feedback and go out of their way to avoid and disregard it. They say we're all idiots who "want faster horses instead of cars". But really it's about power. If user feedback were valued, the personal whims of the "UX experts" would be accordingly devalued. And they simply cannot stand giving up that power.
That's definitely true. I have a family member that was doing a running program as part of physical therapy. One day they said they were afraid to go running alone because they read about a girl getting kidnapped while she was out for a run. Turns out it happened over 1000 miles away, but the constant fearmongering and outrage bait has warped their perception to think that kind of stuff is happening everywhere all the time.
> This is meant sincerely, not glibly: How? How can cryptocurrencies be banned in any meaningful sense?

The only way to buy or sell cryptocurrency for the vast majority of people is through exchange companies that have the blessing of the US to continue operating. Even LocalBitcoins goes out of their way to follow KYC laws.
You know Prosus will get all their money back and then some . time to build a new one [thinking face...]
The UK Labour party (a left leaning major political party) is been investigated for anti semitism, and found to be guilty:

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/investi...
It is, and it has proven very effective. Robberies against banks and stores have been cut in half during the last ten years, as cash is getting harder to access.

Many store open after 19:00 don't have much cash on hand so robbing them is not really attractive any more. There are almost no bank robberies, as even banks doesn't actually have cash.

The people who get mugged are normally forced to go to an ATM to withdraw cash.

I'm not suggesting we just randomly ban stuff to avoid the criminals from exploiting it, but it is working.
> For some reason I thought wasm code could be a SharedArrayBuffer. And I thought that would be mutable.

No, this was an explicit design decision for security reasons. Data is mutable, but you cannot exec it.

> You might maybe have to round trip back to JS to modify this?

Yes, this is technically possible but you're unlikely to see savings. I'd suspect a "JIT" that instantiates a WASM via the JS API using generated bytes from another WASM call won't help much (the "exports" would have to be JS calls too or you'd have to re-instantiate all the WASMs together to link exports).
PySpark 3.1.1 Cheat Sheet [pdf]
I think there's a happy medium where you have validly marked up templates, and then give your end users rich-text editors to create their WYSIWYG content.
U.S. Military Personnel Spilled Nuclear Secrets in Online Flashcards
In terms of generating pure alpha, quant funds will arguably be dominant through 2030s. 2 Sigma, Man Group, BlackRock, etc. Even main street banks are using Aladdin for portfolio management. Try their community outreach. You may be able to score a direct video chat for your class with one of their mentors. I think what's surprising for students to learn is that you can do a stint in pure science or math, and then naturally transition to financial engineering ;)
Clearly they are messing with the wrong people from Martha's Vineyard :).
> Problem is that those changes will be prohibitly expensive for a lot of people.

There's this idea that we introduce a carbon tax, and pay out the money to people. Seems like this could be designed in a way those people don't suffer.

> If rents go up due to climate-saving efforts, they will have to give those up. Because landlords won't give up their profits.

That's why we can implement laws forcing them to. If they add insulation to the house, the cost for heating will go down. So we just got to make sure that the one makes up for the other.

> Change incurs costs. Costs means someone is paying.

But its an investment, isn't it? Its not like we're throwing the money out of the window. We're investing, we are building things that will have a positive net return in the long run. For example, solar and wind are so cheap now and don't require constant imports (or digging up of) fuel. So in the long run, we'll have a more robust and cheaper energy production. Or from above - insulating a house will cost money now, but we'll save money in the long run.