skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minority equity in a company means nothing.

Let's vote on the $20mil bonus to the CEO or distribute it amongst the owners of the company. Oh, the CEO (and majority owner) gets it all.
By your definition a company that sells refrigerators could be considered a software company.
The Fed strikes back. The most disturbing thing about this article is that Mailchimp is worth 12b and that Intuit had 12b to spend on it. Couldn't have happened 2 years ago, regardless of demand/supply, product market fit, business strategy, etc.
> In most languages, freeing all all the heap-allocated objects of a big array will take longer than in a language with GC.

Only if elements of the array are separately allocated (boxed) or have destructors.
I thought the whole point of the ongoing systemic racism debates in the US was that even after correcting for poverty, African Americans still had worse outcomes on essentially every metric from college graduation to murder rate?
Third point actually sums up your whole post. Are there any positives?
thanks for the lecture, but I already have a garage full of hobbies (to which I apply computer optimization techniques) and a family (to whom I've tried, but failed, to apply computer optimization techniques). I read for fun, etc, but I don't think any of that is going to change my mind.
Doctors HATE him!!!
> It's yet another 'let's recreate git from scratch, kinda' post.

I don't think that's what it's doing. It's just trying to explain what git does through analogy and example.

A remarkable number of people never grok that git is basically just a version control repository for source code (checkout/commit) that itself has been checked into a version control repository for VC repositories (pull/push). There's lots of reasons for it doing that, most of which are grounded in the fact that lots of developers only learn just enough VC to satisfy their immediate coworkers, and otherwise treat it like a magic black box.

Did you ever notice that after git became popular that colleges started to teach CS students to use version control? Ever think about why that might be?
Are there any positives?
The cultural change you describe seems to be minor: enjoy music privately, (minor) decline in social interaction.

The iPhone doesn't get credit to be the first, as you said, but triggered the broad adaptation and therefore has the bigger cultural impact across many dimensions.
Resource intensity refers to resource use per unit of output [1] not resource use in absolute terms, which is a meaningless statistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity
AIUI, the key word is "exploitable". Natural resources are worthless without the infrastructure to mine them and transport them to somewhere they can be used. Afghanistan, being landlocked, covered in VERY rugged terrain, and with relatively west-hostile neighbors (with lots of their own problems that make "develop port access for Afghanistan" a low priority) is a very difficult geographic place for resource extraction.
Being sedentary or burnt out could happen in any industry so I’d argue those need to be categorized more specifically. Perhaps:

Language fatigue, zealotry in discussions (e.g the more one deals with logic, the more one thinks their way/language is the best), pace of evolution (keeping up with new trends is sometimes pointless effort because it’s a rehash of yesteryear—e.g markdown when asciidoc/html is good enough).

Sedentary can be expanded to hyper focus on solving a problem leads to self neglect. Programming can be an isolated behavior. I’d recommend social coding and attending hackathons and meetups.

I’d like to add positive notes: programming has helped me reason about the world effectively. For instance, data organization, parallel work (applied to people as well as machines), iteration methodology (agile mindset can be applied to real projects like home renovations), problem solving ability (how to isolate issues and reduce a problem into something solvable).
Like: Even if it's my personal account, I have access to anything a serious business does.

Dislike: Due to expansive options, it can be tricky to combine pieces together.
Search engines should be like libraries. At least some tiny sliver of the billions we spend on education and research should go to, you know, actually organizing the world's information and making it universally available.
A mail server is one of those things I consider way too important to trust myself with. How do you run one without constantly worrying about it being compromised?
So in the US there was a big kerfuffle about how Russia paid for some Facebook ads and interfered with the election. Russia bad.

Here you have an app that literally tells people how to vote. This is pro-US, so again, Russia bad.
But a mix of people from different backgrounds will most definitely affect the group culture.
Oh sure, they have a lot of other stuff.

And all that other stuff would be a nice package that you would probably be able to buy for $99.

It's the market that https://sendy.co/ is in, but we would have plenty of competition there and better options.

The reason it is only Sendy and a few open source proj's are that SES delivery is not even in the same ballpark as Mailchimp's (I have used both).

And if you want the delivery, you need to pay for Mailchimp or Mailjet anyways.
Its the reason you don't save much when sending via the Mailchimp API. The product is not the newsletter builder etc.
Genuine question, what's the risk? Usually owners aren't liable for corporation debt, which I would imagine reduces financial risk, are there other types of risk?
How Do Authentication and Authorization Differ?
The problem is that there is not benchmark for GC, but from my experience the Go GC is very good, aka sub 1ms.
Draftkings Clone App Development Company – Fantasy Sports Tech
Well spotted. I can see Humphrey's smile already.
What does “cleverness” refer to then? Couldn’t I equally argue that idiomatic Python (or any other language) doesn’t require I use cleverness? And if so, what sense is there in praising Java for its lack of cleverness?
Monocles
Some hardware companies expect the software people to work around the under-specification of the hardware that has already been designed and sold.
I have an old refurbished iPhone SE, and my AirPods don’t have long battery life but it’s still usable years later and third parties will put in a new battery.

Lots of people use Apple products because they have a long life, not everyone is jumping to the latest and greatest.
The article mentioned a victims side "patriots.win" now tell me this does not look like a cult or that ALL CAPS is an indicator of reason.
Let's do the math on that shall we.

Aegis is built for defending against missiles going at most mach 4-5. Mach 5 is ~1700 m/s, so during a millisecond GC pause it will travel slightly under 2 meters. Ship-based SAMs will have proximity-fused fragmentation warheads and even back in the 70s those had a kill radius of >100m (see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-75_Dvina). So even a GC pause at the worst possible moment would not significantly impact the probability to hit the target. Even really fast things in the real world are really slow compared to computers.

(Of course, in practice the Aegis system will only provide midcourse corrections to the missile. The fuse and end phase guidance control software would not interface much with the rest of the combat management system anyway.)
>Ubuntu to Arch to have a vanilla Gnome 40

I did exactly the same ~4mo ago, vanilla Gnome on Arch is blazing fast compared to the Ubuntu one...hell the whole system is, and the archinstaller is great! Perfect KISS i would say, if one need's more then do it the "old" way.

However Gnome40 was just installed to test it, since i use i3 normally, i cant stand the Windows shuffling anymore, it makes me just angry to sort the space on my screen, and i don't even use the tilling thing "correctly" just tabs, virtual desktops and sometimes a floating window.
These are the ravings of a madman, completely out of touch with reality. Go to Cuba and ask them if, since they're communist, they're free of all of these maladies of capitalism disguised as a public health crisis. I talk to people living in Cuba on a daily basis, and I can assure you that the lockdowns, social isolation and public health crisis are happening there as well. In fact, the situation has been even worse in Cuba than many other countries. There are also several capitalist countries who have now decided to eliminate lockdowns: the UK, most of Europe, (excluding Germany, France, Italy and Greece), Mexico, etc.

I'm not even sure why I bothered to respond to this non-sense.
The fundamental git model you can. The tools needed are above that in some form such as diff. git does the equivalent. Stop being pedantic.
Toyota to spend $13.6bn on battery development in effort to win electric battle
Better switch your wifi to metered connection then, like recommended upthread. Prevents automatic updates and being upgraded involuntarily (hopefully).
Isn't Chrome on iOS, just like every other browser on iOS, just Safari?
I'm talking about integrity, not criminality though.
They could have rolled out an update allowing users to install apps outside of the store instead of just removing the app from the store for example.
This was published in 1986.

Tunneling with nuclear machines on Earth had been under consideration for decades before [1]. It's not entirely clear why it was abandoned, but most likely something didn't work out in practice like it was supposed to do in theory.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/americas-mad-scientis...
4) You can't stop noticing how poorly optimized many of the things in life are.
Would be really cool if we could see those metrics per ASNs. Awesome report.
That's 1.5 times the Russian regular army, which could be tripled in a week with mobilization. Not gonna work.
I’m at a bar, a doctor and a highway construction guy walks in with his buddies. They talk vaxxing. The doctor has his opinion, though he’s not a virologist, the crew have diverse opinions maybe unsettled but giving me their opinions. What, the barmaid throws the doctor or the highways guys out, whichever she disagrees with?

That’s not her job. She’s not there to suss out truth or even narrative. We’re all there for community chit chat.

The WHO and the CDC have changed their minds over and over. Yeah, I get it -things change. Exactly, what's true today may not be true tomorrow and that is the point. People should be able to have a discussion.
Yes, there are plenty of games written in Java, but afaik there are no big game engines written in it. I'd love to be proven wrong regarding this.
I'm downvoted because discussion is not a priority on this site.
I certainly don't want to start a war and I'm glad there are some who think differently.
I have many very good colleagues who love JS and love its portability, I respect that.
But for me it remains a badly conceived language,
A technical debt that penalises the progress of browsers and mobile phones.
It remains famous only because it is simple and ubiquitous.
And I am deeply convinced that sooner or later it will be replaced by some interpreted language that is more consistent and less error prone (The end that PHP is doing, hopefully?).

I'm not criticising the article per se, that such work is cool (hence the "technically cool").

Peace and love.
>a few hand-me-down Hot Wheels made in England in the 70s

That's interesting. I thought they were all Hong Kong or US manufacture. I wonder when that started.

Looking back, the car culture was really something. Not just cartoonish new cars like Superbirds but George Barris models, racing windbreaker jackets, the entire universe of slot cars, cars in songs, on pinball machines, CARtoons magazine, STP stickers, Sting-Ray bicycles, etc.

Shame that it's mostly gone but then the whole industry based around draft-horse farming or treadle sewing machines is largely history too.
I had to switch to upstream GNOME on Arch to realize that my misconceptions about GNOME are largely from lackluster integration in the distros and bad theming from the apps.

I can stick out my neck to recommend upstream GNOME to any coming from macOS or perhaps even Windows. All default apps work great, often better than 3rd party alternatives. Where as in other DE's, I often had to replace default apps including even file manager!

So if preventing theming can preserve this usability, I'm all in for it.
A few big fish is nothing compared to a net of every small fish independent contractor, small business and dude with a side gig who doesn't report that income.

The cynical take is that it's not about the money, it's about having the power of arbitrary enforcement coupled with the longstanding ability to freeze accounts and seize assets in response to tax evasion. Imagine if the feds has an "off switch" for most small businesses and self employed individuals they could use to enforce compliance.
> It not reasonable to hold Apple to pledges they've made to western customers, when talking about a service provided to non-western customers.

I think it's reasonable: We hold people account across borders for serious violations (extraditions), so it's completely reasonable to hold a company accountable for its serious violations outside of the country that you're buying from.

No-one is forcing Apple to support those countries with oppressing citizens either.
The Guardian is great, also I think they still have a free full text feed (although I think donations are appreciated)
The fact they didn't give equity to employees is totally OK. It's their company, they don't have to share it with nobody. It can still be a great place to work with great benefits. I worked for a place like that early in my career.

But when you sell for $12B and didn't take investment so all goes directly to you, how can you not allocate at least a million for each employee and change their life? With 1200 employees that's only $1.2B. They can easily give everyone even $2M and have zero impact of their life. What two people can do with $12B which they cannot do with $9B? (Yes I know, the final amount is much less after taxes, fees, etc)

Obv they don't need to allocate money equally, it makes more sense to do it based on tenure.
This is key information I missed all those years ago, thanks.

I just remember feeling bad for FJ because something felt off about the whole thing.
I am wondering if this will cause an increase in Firefox's market share, even though Ubuntu user base is small compared to other OSs (I'm assuming).
Tizen just uses the library's (EFL), he means something like that:

https://www.enlightenment.org/

https://www.bodhilinux.com/

https://www.elivecd.org/
The ancient (read 90s) distros are a lot of fun to play with. Redhat still have a lot of their legacy distributions available and they are installable on vmware. You can learn a heck of a lot with really early distributions. I remember how complicated they seemed at the time but compared to nowadays it's pretty easy to have all the system components in your head at any one time.

I spent a week or so upgrading component by component redhat 5.0 (hurricane) to be able to run a more modern version of glibc learning a lot about the c runtime stack under linux in the process.
Casper cuts its CMO, CTO and COO amid further layoffs
Well the actual implementation of it is totally separate from understanding the requirements.

Its not clear, at this point, it will ever actually happen, but that doesn't itself speak to the main point, that there is a fundamental separation.

and either way, you will find history is full of events where people act outside of their current political world in order to change it!
I do this, and I never worked in any supermarkets.

It's just so mind-numbingly boring and frustrating in itself so turning it into a challenge helps me cope and even enjoy it.
>So, what was required to obtain the print and how does it differ from obtaining a password? […] A knowledge of spy tradecraft, specialist equipment and perhaps most importantly, physical presence."

Physical presence isn't needed, a photo is enough.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens...

And then try to argue it wasn't you who unlocked your phone and made the expensive purchase because someone stole your fingerprints.
"I don't think anyone's specifically concerned about gun murders. " That's because they don't exist. They are made impossible because of the restraints.

Consider that Japan has so effectively kept gun violence out, that we consider their 'no gun deaths' an artifact of their culture.

Reference my comment on this thread for data on Japan, France, US, Canada.

If you add in Korea, which is similar to Japan, you see that guns are not completely restricted but very rare - and guess what - homicide by guns, though still rare - does materially exist above the levels of Japan.

So yes, if you allowed 'some guns' in Japan, there would be some gun crime.

The homocide rate in Japan is about 1/2 that of Norway, which seems about right, it's not like they don't murder people there.

My bet if that gun laws in Japan were the same as Norway, you'd see 1) that more of the homicides would be by guns and 2) the homocide rate would creep up a bit because it's just so easy to reach for a gun.

Of course, if guns were as widespread in Japan as they are in the US there would be much more homicide, but still considerably less than in the US.

Put another way: while culture is obviously an important factor - that culture is driven by gun availability.

And other things as well of course: if everyone has healthcare/welfare, well, that's going to start to limit the very negative situations people get into on the margins. I'm not making an ideological point here, rather than trying to illustrate systematic effects.
In the presence of others – Thoughts on remote working relationships
So you agree that social problems are independent of GDP and have no explanation for why you think America should be embarrassed? Seems like just baseless anti-Americanism.
I was an in house dev and have friends that do it. Con is low pay. Pro is usually great WLB, as delays and confusion aren't up against a hard deadline.
I guess that's the silver lining for us Indians. We are so poor we can't afford printer paper or toner. So we have to use a digital display.

Actually I am kidding, both paper and toner are cheap here but we are not luddites like you guys :)
I was listening to NPR this morning when they reported on this. They stated Facebook “banned far-right German groups that spread conspiracies that the government was responsible for covid”, and no mention of lockdowns. NPR used to seem so center of the road but they have gone in full hog on the leftist perspective.
I mean, the #1 job of any optimizing programmer is rather simple when you think of it.

1. Program attempt A.

2. Program attempt B using the same interface.

3. Develop a suite of tests.

4. Profile A and B using those tests.

5. Choose the methodology that uses fewer resources (in particular: time, memory, cache).

6. Use experience from 1-5 to make attempt C. Then repeat again.

#5 is worded like that on purpose. Different programs will be constrained by different resources. Time itself is often times a constraint on resources (run out of RAM, your program can continue but only through Swap. Run out of L3 cache, your program will continue, but through RAM). A methodology that uses less RAM will stay in L1 cache longer, but if everyone's data is so huge you're in DDR4, maybe a different methodology would work instead.
0. if you send an email with a command, 99% of mail services will not spam-filter the reply to it

1. Spare emails, like, lots of them

2. Users of mail.ru and such are their own worst enemy, and it's not like getting gmail address is particularly difficult
Frere-Jones has his own company https://frerejones.com/
Not really... cheating is always profitable, regardless of how expensive winning a block is, since the cheater can double spend any amount they want.
I agree. Bitcoin is an incredible innovation but things like Ethereum, that extend that innovation to more generalized computing, are much more interesting now. I still consider Bitcoin to be a proof of concept, and explaining Ethereum to a lay person is nearly impossible at the moment.
One thing I don't see addressed here that is critically important is injury prevention, specifically as part of your workout plan. Getting injured will derail you (in some cases permanently), and I've dealt with that myself.

Climbing was recommended here, and I think that's a great idea. Hiking is usually a better idea for those just starting out though.

Look into Training for the New Alpinism and Training for the Uphill Athlete. The core tenets of these are Injury Prevention and Endurance training, not pure strength. This is remarkably similar to how special forces train. The basic idea is that you do a long, easy introduction, then strength building, then endurance. This is a 6-12 month cycle with a goal you target at the end. Workouts are made up of some long, low effort (Zone 1, so you barely feel winded) workouts that end up being walks for those out of shape, and one high effort jog/run type workout, with a couple strength days a week. None of this should be difficult; it's the volume that makes it so. One critical note: your cardio can be whatever aims towards your goal, whether that's running, rucking (hiking with weight on), swimming, biking, etc.

I'm actually preparing to start a cycle myself after some life events. I'm by no means an expert, but this system has worked for me.

Here's a training spreadsheet; feel free to copy it. I got it off of a forum a while back, so I can't easily give credit, but I did not make it so I can't take credit.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zlIF6sCvO4je1YfXohIF...

I use TrainingPeaks to track my actual data and have found that being able to parse my own data and do analysis has helped immensely. Also, Garmin Running Dynamics changed my running for the better, once I knew what the heck to DO with the data.
Right, and I haven't seen estimates for the resource intensity of traditional finance. (We do have good estimates of the total volume of traditional finance, so an estimate of the total resource usage of traditional finance would be just as good as resource intensity)