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>what they bring that's so much better

how do you generate recursive designs in vhdl? e.g. reduction trees?

>preprocessing/templating can't fix

so your tool (vhdl/verilog) requires using another tool (perl/tcl/python) to be productive and you think that's not a failing of the (first) tool?
It’s not quite the same, once you’re down to level ground with stop lights, or stopped engine breaking doesn’t let you drive 3-5 miles for free or get back up to 25mph for “free” if it was just a stop light. Quotation due to the penalty of accelerating a heavier car or lugging it up hill.
One way to forward a conspiracy theory is to make vague assertations about an idea that are impossible to disprove. To say Does anyone know why so many people in power are encouraging conspiratorial thinking... without giving any examples seems conspiratorial to me, someone who honestly hasn't seen anyone of note make these claims. I mean, it is a leading question and is impossible to answer without first taking it as a matter of fact.
For 5 years now I've actually been receiving Amazon returns at my office for some reason, and only for Raspberry Pi sound card components. I've tried contacting Amazon every way, including emailing the personal address of Jeff's (which led me to priority support), but they still keep shipping me these returns.
Had no idea Hangouts still had XMPP connectivity, wow!

I really feel like the article is massively missing out for not mentioning that Talk/Hangouts had interoperability, that you could Bring Your Own Software.
But that also ignores that most humans do have opinions/beliefs on a wide variety of topics, including whether UFOs are of alien origin. It's legitimate to ask whether in someone's opinion the evidence is such that they think XYZ. Do aliens civilizations exist somewhere out there? A majority of scientists think they probably do. Of course that doesn't mean they have visited or even know about us, but it also means one can form beliefs about things which aren't known for sure, unlike the sun.

The point isn't about UFOs specifically, as I don't believe they constitute evidence for ETs, but rather that facts and data don't exist independent of the various webs of human beliefs, including what that shining thing in the sky is we call the Sun.
Conquering a couple of things that intimidated me, that I thought only wizardly programmers could do: took the Coursera Compilers class and built a compiler. Built an emulator.
I often say to myself (tongue in cheek) "Chrono Trigger for SNES fits into 8MB. Chrono Trigger is a better piece of software than anything I have ever written. Why does my software need anything more?"
If the effects are minor I think it will be difficult to measure the impact on any one company given the number of confounding variables. In that case the only way to determine the correlation between these kinds of things and business success might be to gather enough statistical evidence across industries.
It doesn't seem so dissonant to me. Conspiracies regarding vaccines are squashed because they could damage public health efforts.

With UFOs, even taking the more wild conspiracy theories, widespread belief is unlikely to actually interfere with normal government functions.
Of course there's a cost, but there's a cost to climate change too. The barrier reef is one of those costs. So if you're not paying the cost of reducing climate change, then you can't claim you're looking after the reef.

Australia has very sunny weather plus significant deposits of lithium. They could very well invest in PV + storage technology if they wanted to. Instead they have been actively protectionist of the coal industry.

I'm from the UK, we had our own shutdown of the mines in the 70's, and it's still scarred into the collective psyche of the working class. But it doesn't have to be like that. If the jobs had been replaced and investment had been put into alternative industry then it would be a very different story. That's what should be happening.
I don't know what triggers the "keep it" option but I suspect there's a formula involving shipping price, whether it is a shipped/sold by Amazon or a marketplace vendor, account standing, etc.
Did I say Trump did anything against Russia? It helps that his son didn't receive $3.5M from some Russian billionaire...

So nice of Biden to give Putin a free pass on the pipeline attack too. I'm sure Putin is just shaking in his boots from that stare down during their handshake.
I still don't see how you get to a cryptocurrency that's broadly useful as a currency without enough price stability for it to be a unit of account in some sense. Tesla may have accepted BTC for payment, and it might do so again, but is it really going to commit to pricing its next model at (say) 1 BTC and just let the dollar-denominated price swing wildly? Probably not - its competitors price in dollars, so if BTC goes up it would become less attractive, and its suppliers price in dollars and other fiat currencies, so if BTC goes down its marginal revenue could fall below its marginal cost.

On top of that, BTC-denominated debt is potentially toxic for the holder. Imagine if you bought a house for, say, 1000 BTC in 2016 and your mortgage was denominated in BTC. Gradual devaluation of debt is one reason that central bank inflation targets in developed countries tend to be small positive numbers. Monetary policy is hard, and despite (totally valid) criticisms of central banks' monetary policy decisions in recent years, I'm still skeptical that anyone can do it purely algorithmically and have better results than the Fed.

I still think Libra was the only token (besides explicitly fiat-denominated stablecoins) I've seen that had a real shot at being broadly used as a currency, though I'm glad that FB won't be the ones to "own" a global currency. The "problem" is that any token that's stable enough to use as a currency is inherently too stable to have potential for large speculative gains (except if you lever it to the hilt as FX traders do today) - and IMO demand in the crypto space is still predominantly driven by speculative potential.
I’m saddened by the pushback against the notion of firing assholes. There are some people I just did not want to work with, and on a few occasions management came to the same conclusion.

And I wouldn’t want to work for a company that wouldn’t fire people who were acting terribly in public. Who wants to sit next to someone awful all day?
> The appeals court agreed, ruling that the judges performed important work without supervision and so were “principal officers” under the Constitution, meaning that they had to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

What bothers me is that granting a patent is easy, but invalidating one requires a "principal officer" and is treated as a huge infringement on property rights. What about the rights of everyone else, who are forbidden from using a technology by the patent-holder? Isn't that a much greater infringement upon liberty or property, than invalidating a patent?
My company has been springkling extra days off throughout the year ("day for me") and its been great.

As someone with a family, we've been mostly doing ok through the pandemic. The biggest stresser for us is the lack of babysitting / kid swaps for being able to get project or personal time in (e.g. my half bath remodel has sat untouched for 6 months now).
So when I asked you for reading material that might convince me of your side of the argument, to "get out of [my] bubble", the best you could come up with was a tangentially relevant amicus brief that you hadn't even read, and didn't even know to which case it was submitted?

You seriously don't have anything more substantive than that?

I have listened to hours upon hours of the actual court proceedings in Epic vs Apple. Have you listened to even a single minute of it? I found Epic's case to be muddled and oftentimes contradictory. Most of their ambitious claims fell quite flat when tested in court. It certainly isn't helped with Tim Sweeney making some fairly ridiculous claims on Twitter, e.g. that Apple's commission should be more like credit card rates. Fairly ridiculous when Epic run the own store, which they admitted isn't yet profitable at a 12.5% commission. And I'm really confused why they couldn't make money on 12.5% since the Epic Games Store is barely more than a shopping cart and game downloader.

Hoeg Law's final video includes a contextual refresher on the Sherman act. It's really worth listening to. Just six minutes, or three minutes at 2X speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5WS5D6GydY&list=PL1zDCgJzZU...
Its naive to think there will be a single “winner” who will “eat the space”.

Cryptos have different design decisions at the base layer, and people are going to diversify. Supporting things like smart contracts is just one feature upgrade to stay competitive.
This comment feels like it shares a lot of the attitude found in the "I could build this in a weekend"-style comments. Even things that seem relatively simple become quite complicated when scaled out internationally to millions of users.
Some times you get a IP Range, or a domain-wide scope
From a practical perspective, doesn't inflation naturally destroy large capital accumulations and debts? From a policy perspective this would seem like a viable remedy to the current extreme income inequality and debt burden.
You're still increasing demand by reading the article, posting links to it, discussing it, upvoting the post, etc.

Don't consume and promote the content. You don't want to compromise the ethical stance you've taken against their monopoly do you?!
I've been working remotely for about five years, now, and I love it. I've always been curious about working at Twitter and Google, and I was vaguely hoping that they'd start looking at full-time remote hires across their engineering orgs. I value remote work more than I do the possibility of working at Twitter or Google, so it is a little wistfully that I realize I might never follow up on that curiosity.
> the point of a currency is to act as a STABLE unit of exchange

Very few informed observers seriously expect crypto to become a general-use currency. That's a role it detached from years ago, first in practice and then in rhetoric.

The closest analog to what crypto seems to want to become in our financial markets is in risk-free assets. Universal collateral. This used to be gold. Now it's Treasuries and Bunds. None of those markets are terrifically efficient or universalized. And neither requires long-term price stability; just predictability.

(Note: it does not follow that crypto will be as valuable as e.g. the Treasury market. Treasuries serve as a safe asset. They also finance the U.S. government. Figuring out the worth of the former detached from the latter is difficult.)
I had my first allergic reaction to red meat in 2013. My diet currently consists of some form of chicken at every meal, or ground turkey.

It was 6 months of torturous experimentation to figure out why my stomach was burning like lava after every meal. When I had something important to do that day I knew I could eat bread or crackers to avoid a food reaction.

The allergy is rare in my home state so I had to see a doctor from South Carolina to recognize my symptoms and order the correct test.
For what it is worth “[sic]” does not mean that something is incorrect, just indicates it is a direct copy of another source. Could be an error or typo, could just be idiosyncratic, archaic, or potentially confusing.

In your case it would not be appropriate, because like it or not the quote usage has become normal usage. I understand why that annoys people, but it’s done.
Same reason we have religion in 2021 - People suffer in some way or the other - They crave/need an escape from that reality - A whole bunch of jobless people find employment catering to that need to escape giving them stories they want to hear. Large parts of the Media have been programmed to chase this crowd because the Like/View/Click data makes it easy to targets these people.

And don't have any doubt there are people with serious delusions and mental health issues in journalism, military etc who find each other and reinforce beliefs.

A networked world and its network effects makes escape easy. Some people even suggest its not a bad thing cause society isn't sophisticated enough to provide anything better than escape at scale - https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3061712
The Fed pumped almost $6 trillion into the money supply. That is 3 times more than was done for the 2008 crash. I do not think it is hysterical (which is loaded and gendered term, btw) to worry about the impact that could have on the value of my hard earned savings.
Yeah, I liken it to what it would be like towing an open parachute behind you.

I'm disappointed at the terrible efficiency we're getting from this rig, to be honest. Based on experience I was expecting more like 10mpg. It doesn't make a big difference in cost, but Ford only gave the 6.2L F250 a 30 gallon tank. For something that gets such abysmal gas mileage, that is a really questionable decision. Our last truck, an F150, had a bigger tank even with a shorter bed. I have no idea what Ford was thinking here.
Replying to all sibling comments: oh, well. Maybe I know that wrong. I'll have to go back to find the source where I took this. I don't remember what that source was.
> The report would be a lot more useful if there were some context for this data.

I disagree with this, or at least the implication that there should have been more information gathered before publication.

If the data is surprising against a common-sense set of expectations, it's Amazon's burden to provide a context for interpretation where the surprising information makes sense, not the report.

Assuming the report's facts are in order, reporting accurate facts and leaving "contextualization" to someone else is good journalism, especially if the facts themselves are not widely known or actively hidden.
On my bubble plenty of people care about hiring devs to produce Qt, WPF, MFC, WinUI stuff to keep running on Windows.

There are still so many use cases that a browser cannot cover.
> It does contain a bit more information than required, such as the specifics of the vaccine

That seems reasonable; it's totally plausible that a future variant defeats a vaccine, and at that point you would want to be able to detect people who'd been given that one.
It seems to be a very polarizing topic. People who like Haskell's syntax find it very readable, others don't. In my estimation, there are a lot more in the "others" category than in the Haskell category. Whether my target audience has trouble with Haskell syntax because of some inherent property of the syntax or merely because their background isn't in Haskell doesn't ultimately matter--the requirement is that my users can quickly be productive (minimal learning curve, etc).

To be very explicit, I'm dodging the question because it's ultimately subjective and people come out of the woodwork with the same predictable talking points ("syntax doesn't matter", "but it's VERY readable! look how few characters!") and I don't have the energy this morning.
Yes, 41 characters would be sufficient.

I would have omitted these four (the asterix being there only to have a consecutive subset):

36 Space
37 $
38 %
39 *

Especially % can be confusing, as %20AA seems like a valid base45 both before and after urldecode. The $ is a lesser footgun.

I'd be keen to learn why they decided to use full 45 characters available in alphanumeric QR.
Thanks, an interesting comment. The word "anarchy" has bad connotations, but anarchy sometimes works well. For example here in the USA, the relationships between states seems like a well functioning form of anarchy to me.

Obviously our system is rigged, and has been for centuries. I accept this and don't spend much time worrying about US Congress people being able to do insider training, accept more contributions than I am comfortable with, etc. That is the way the world is: corrupt.

That does not mean that we can't push back when we can by not accepting corporate news media (MSNBC and Fox News seem like the very worse, but they are all bad) and focus on our own productivity and on treating other people with kindness. I am very socially liberal but I would like to see a much smaller government - a weird combination that is probably impossible to achieve.
Ask HN: How does your SaaS collect monthly fees?
What tools or services does your SAAS use to bill and collect monthly fees from your users and would you recomend them to a new Product team?
Has someone tried this with the California QR code? I cannot find the specification for it.

When I scan it on my I iPhone it just gores to the Apple health app with no information.
I would love to see revenue comparison of these companies.
> Phone lines have this solved.

Never bring a hardware solution to a software problem.

Communications should happen on the internet. Not on switched lines. Hard disagree with the proposal here that phone lines solve interoperability. Have you tried starting a phone company? How fun was that?
I found the first 2/3 of this mostly acoustic-woo, but by the time it got to the actual 2D "HarmoniComb" I was quite excited by the concept of this as a playing surface.

However, then I decided to go visit another page at the same site, the one on "Tuning". It has a section on digital sample rates that is just so completely incorrect that it made me wonder about everything else I had read. The page linked above is specifically about "combining harmonics". However, the author doesn't appear to understand how the exact same concept (more specifically, how any waveform can be represented as the sum of a (potentially infinite) series of sinusoidal waves) makes their musings on digital audio totally wrong.
Sounds like a fair trade, if it gets underemployed Americans good jobs with fair benefits.

The costs of housing and medical care completely dwarf everything else in my life, so the cost of consumer goods hardly matter at all compared to those things. We pretend we don't have inflation just because consumer goods are still cheap, but we're not looking in the right places.

I may as well buy fewer goods at higher prices and get Americans back to working higher paid manufacturing jobs in the process. My dollar's already worth less towards the things that really matter, anyway.
Given that the various "tictac" reports appear not to be natural phenomenon, what's more unsettling? That there exists terrestrial technology that can confuse top-quality domestic military flight sensors, or terrestrial technology that can replicate the motion and behaviour of the various "tictac" videos and reports from domestic military observers, or there's extraterrestrial technology that can do the same?

IMHO, the ET solution is both the most boring and the least unsettling. If there is a terrestrial explanation for this phenomonen then that means there's a foreign adversary decades or more beyond American flight technology. If it's ET, then they haven't hurt us yet, and don't appear to be interested in doing so, and also not interested in sharing tech.
Another way to frame this is that the primary viewing format is portable html, and can easily be viewed locally or shared with someone else or incorporated into a blog post, etc.

The true value here is the backend and its ability to return data in a form that can be visualized, and the output format/UI can be adapted/enhanced as the project matures.
Another example of why this sort of testing is important - without pressing the "because nuclear" emotional button: In WWII, Germany's new "pride of the Third Reich" battleship, Bismark, had her main radar equipment disabled during her first major battle. The cause? Concussion from firing her own guns. You'd think they'd have designed for and tested that, but...

(Your friendly, local WWII naval warfare enthusiast - or a few well-chosen YouTube contributors - can cite many, many more cases where shock/concussion damage was a painful or fatal surprise for the crew of a ship. Especially in battle, damage to important ship systems or structures tends to cascade rapidly out of control.)
Give it a shot, but for me it's simply one component in my laptop. I'm not going to bother unless there's a class action lawsuit.
Where does the article suggest that the AIS data was spoofed by the Russian side? I see a suggestion that it was spoofed, but not by who.
I don't think this is how most introverts have felt. Introversion doesn't mean you dislike interaction with other people. Like others mentioned, what you're describing doesn't sound like just being introverted, it sounds like ASD or some other personality disorder.

Definitely subjective though. I'd say I'm an introvert, and I've made it through ok, but it still very much feels like I lost a year of my life. It's really not been too different from being in prison in the country where I live.
ThinkWhy applies AI to better determine compensation
Liquid Swipe – “Can it be done in React Native?”
Unlike self insurance they are still pooling risk among all their policy holders.
OK, so 1 animal suffering = 7 to 10 plant sufferings, yes?

There's a quantification of suffering according to which the suffering of one animal is equal to the suffering of 7-10 plants, correct?
and buy a gun
Are you offering remote positions?
This is awesome. As our userbase grows I've been wondering how to best address this problem.

When we have a migration that requires more than 500 batch writes, we first got around that by building an array of batches with 500 writes per entry, then committing all of it at the end. Then we discovered the bulkWriter API in the node.js library which gets around the 500 batch limit. It looks like `createBatchMigrator` only supports up to 500 writes due to the firestore batch limit. Is that correct?
I thought you where joking about the Motorola 68000 in the A320, but nope, it’s part of the flight control system.
It's strange. The biggest change isn't with the evidence, but with the narrative. For decades it was just pure crankery, but now we have 60 Minutes with a big episode with US Navy pilots, Obama talking about it, the mass media, late night shows, etc, all taking it seriously. This all would have been considered crazy just a year ago.

It would appear we are being prepped to get comfortable with a new narrative. Sam Harris, who I'd consider trustworthy and hard to fool, was given a heads up about what's to come. If he's right about his source being reliable, then we may have to have to contend with this:

"I got contacted by somebody who gave me a heads up with respect to all of this happening and he more or less told me listen, when this other shoe drops you’re going to be in the position of having to acknowledge that all the experts are on the same page, and there’s just this blanket declaration that we’re in the presence of alien technology, and we don’t know what to make of it. So prepare your brain for that and figure out what you’re going to do."

https://samharris.org/podcasts/252-alone-universe/
I would be super interested in truly unbiased news and I am willing to pay quite a fortune for it -- through I am quite sure it wouldn't, philosophically, be possible to find.
I know, it shouldn't be possible to mess it up that way. .. _But_ the links didn't stop working. You probably made the "wiki column size" (aka story-river) wider and didn't move the sidebar out of the way. So the story-river did "catch" the clicks... There are some changes on the way, that should make it harder, to create confusion like this.