skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I replied that our last round had been two years earlier, pre-launch, at a $50M valuation. Since then, we’d amassed 50M+ active users.

> Steve said, “we’d probably acquire you for $50 million.” My heart sank. I couldn’t imagine telling our team that their years of work had created no new value.

It was probably the valuation that was incorrect, or is invalidated by recent market changes. It could have been worth that much then, the value of the then-static product/users decreased, value was created since, but it's still only worth the same now.

> “Did you say you ‘know’ you’re worth more? You have another offer?” Steve Jobs's gaze pierced holes through me. “Bullsh*. You’re lying to me. You’re full of sh*. We’re done here.”

Steve had keen senses and didn't appreciate being lied to. Basically if you don't have another offer, how could you 'know' that?
A while ago, I used to recommend Waterfox. Its mostly a dead project now & differing by a wide margin with Firefox upstream. Updates are few and rare.

I use Vivaldi at present. It is mostly fine. Plugins work fine & the web/mobile sync is decent. No crashes or memory overflow on either platform - using since 6 months approximately.

My SO uses Edge and she has been reasonably happy with it
video is from 2019

It talks about the use of 13.5 nm Extreme Ultraviolet light in chip manufacturing
Arab funded. Built and researched in the US and launched by the Japanese.
Odd that it doesn't say anything about companies that sell bulk liquidation and returns direct to consumers/resellers (in some cases you need a wholesaler cert, which is really just paperwork)
the web initially would have given us access to a myriad of information and therefore ultimate freedom to make our own decisions

however it turns out that how sad, the web is going to restrict our freedom. QR codes, biometrics surveillance, payment discriminations and people like #blm who can act on Facebook and other networks.
Interesting. I was about to start on some web automation and so far I've had hammered into my head that Selenium is the 'language of the internet' or something along those lines.

What would be a better solution, if you have any to recommend?
Apple Files Appeal in Epic Games Lawsuit, Asks to Delay App Store Changes
I stand corrected. Again, if Excel makes it easy to do some data task, then by all means, use it. I've been repeatedly frustrated by Excel's sluggishness, silent data mangling and truncation, and overall lack of ergonomics, so I prefer VisiData for the same tasks. Maybe someone can use Excel to flatten a JSON API response and save it as a markdown table in 5 seconds flat, but it's not me.
> I don't appreciate this YouTube channel doing what they are doing, it is pouring fuel on a giant nothingburger.

That's their MO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas
> “She didn’t know how basic stacks worked,” wrote one Facebook engineer, referring to a term used by the engineering team to describe how data is structured in computer programming. He said all of her testimony should be disqualified.

This is a magnificent illustration of the bizarre arrogance some developers have about programming in relation to other disciplines (though usually not this ridiculous degree).

Every software engineering and computer science program should have a "don't be that guy," module where this quote is studied.
What would be the ballpark price of the materials for this?
PHP

$numbers = [];
for ($i = -10000000; $i < 10000000; $i++) $numbers[] = $i;
$lowest = PHP_INT_MAX;
foreach ($numbers as $i) {
if ($i > 0 && $i < $lowest) {
$lowest = $i;
}
}

1.08 seconds

PHP Optimized

$lowest = PHP_INT_MAX;
foreach (range(-10000000, 10000000) as $i) {
if ($i > 0 && $i < $lowest) {
$lowest = $i;
}
}

0.56 seconds

Make sure to enable JIT (tracing)

Node for loop version for me took 1.25 seconds (I have a very old rig)

php --version

PHP 8.0.11 (cli) (built: Sep 21 2021 18:25:57) ( NTS Visual C++ 2019 x64 )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.0.11, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v8.0.11, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

node --version

v16.1.0

Note: I measured time within the script and not outside to avoid any bootup time.
There's none, to be quite honest.

Chrome is spyware, Edge is spyware, Brave has too many crypto sponsor for my liking, Firefox is going off a cliff, Vivaldi is the definition of bloat.

The web browser ecosystem is frankly appalling, and it's so complicated it's impossible for new competitors to appear and improve the status quo. We just have to put up with it, and I am furious Mozilla, one of the shining beacons on that landscape, now is sitting idle redesigning the UI just to justify their existence.

I use Edge, with custom scripts to turn off as much phoning home as possible, and it's still bad.
Build your own Ethereum in 200 lines of Python
s/US/common law/

The fines are not enough right now, but they'll just keep on increasing until compliance is satisfied. There's no reason to start high and bringing small companies to ruin when everything will work out in the long term
Neural Networks are a graph more specifically a Weighted Directed Graph.

They are also very much modeled after the brain, more specifically they originate from a 1943 paper by neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts who described how neurons in the brain might work by modeling a simple neural network.

Of course it’s not an accurate model, but it very much is based on early understanding of biological neurons.
I would love to see Wall Street prevent a Coronal Mass Ejection.
> I really get nervous that this is such a widely held POV.

Start doing something about climate change then.

Something that seems to be missed in these discussions is that the argument over how bad the impacts will actually be (vs how bad the childfree people think it'll be) aren't actually relevant. It is a problem and the issue is that we've largely tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. That creates a feeling that we're incapable of solving any of societies problems which is probably the psychological root of the issue.

And wanking about fusion reactors doesn't start fixing anything.

We can't even do anything to eliminate and shut down scam phone call schemes, which is a problem created entirely by technology.

Start doing things to address climate change, address wealth inequality, address private issues caused by technology and other technology ills rather than just blindly hoping that more technology will magically fix the problems caused by prior technology. Those would all increase confidence. Right now what we have is a crisis of confidence in society on the whole.
Google's report says culprit is unoptimized JavaScript code(lots of it) but I don't understand that WebArchive can not hire someone who knows how to optimize JavaScript.
2021 Nobel Prize for Economics
>bullshit justification

"The people who haven't gotten the you-know-whats are killing my kids from myocarditis"

(redacted to prevent HN thought-crime violation)
At some point when designing a data store, decisions must be made with regards to memory layouts, integrity, transaction guarantees, ease of replication, etc. These choices typically involve reliability vs performance tradeoffs for various use cases.

I mean, you _can_ store graph data in a relational database, but its' not typically easy to insert or query, there are serious performance penalties, etc. Purpose-built data structures will always out-perform generic ones.
> I agree [...] actually proving it correct is not something that the compiler does

Yes. Unsafe blocks are bare assertions, no more. Everything you described about what happens in Rustc when you use it is better described as making a bare assertion to the compiler. Everything beyond that is socially constructed. Saying it's a proof sounds even more silly when you recall that Rust programmers treat it as quite the opposite -- radioactive markers of places where the program might cause UB.

You were trying to characterise it as a proof because you're claiming that "Can Rust prove Linux RCU APIs correct?" is an interesting question. But you are actually asking "Will Rust compile RCU code if we assert to it that using the RCU API is safe?", and the answer is unconditionally yes. It is not an interesting question at all. Your misuse of the word proof led you there, so I am suggesting you stop calling the unsafe keyword a proof.

In the broader scheme of things, yes, the way in which Rust encourages you to isolate unsafety is helpful, and so if you wanted something formally verified Rust is a good language for that. That doesn't really translate to RCU, because the hypothetical Rust API would not be an implementation of RCU. All the Iris proofs that have come out of the RustBelt project are bad examples here, because they were actual implementations of things, not APIs around black box implementations that change under your feet when you set kconfigs.

As a final thought, here is a supposedly safe-encapsulated Rust API for RCU, I would invite anyone to suggest how writing down this very simple API or similar + a few calls to extern "C" wrappers for the RCU macros could possibly help "prove Linux RCU APIs correct", whatever that means: https://docs.rs/rcu-clean/0.1.6/rcu_clean/struct.ArcRcu.html

(Little edit: if you're interested in what circumstances will lead Rust wrappers of C code to elucidate safety, look into rlua, a project to create a safe wrapper for Lua (https://github.com/amethyst/rlua). Arguably the main outcome is that we now know that the Lua API cannot be wrapped safely with zero cost, in no small part due to the use of longjmp. Some of RCU's APIs require you do not sleep or block in any way while using it, lest you wake up with the GC train having left the station. For this reason I imagine you won't be able to encode all the usage requirements in the Rust type system, let alone make an actual safe zero-cost API, let alone turn that into a proof of anything.)
> the truth was I didn't want to be there anymore but I didn't know how to quit on my own.

This is what it comes down to. A lot of junior employees have a feeling that something is wrong, but they don't quite know what to do about it.

One of the best things young engineers can do is keep in contact with their peers from college, prior education, or other jobs. Don't be afraid to discuss your job and compare notes. If you're consistently the only one in the conversation who's miserable or even embarrassed to admit your job is bad, it's time to start interviewing.
Everything increasing in prices are mostly needs rather than wants too. Not that you don't need any of those thing decreasing in prices, but increasing is housing, healthcare, and education. Those are pretty fundamental needs.
European governance really seems to work in that they keep getting common sense legislation right and passed over and over.
> How did you get this knowledge?

Medical curiosity and some research. My friend and I got the idea, discussed it, and he decided that he should put it to a test. It worked! He has done a lot of experiments on himself.

> Would it enable the ability of having unlimited orgasms?

This is an interesting question. I will ask my friend to do some research on that. I am not sure that ejaculation is necessary for the compounds responsible for the longer refractory period to be released.
Productize Your Service
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981)
>try 'covid vaccine sceptics' instead of 'anti-vaxx'

Call it whatever you want, the position is still unsupported by data. Ironically, that side is typically against any form of 'political correctness.'

The UK data also doesn't support what you claim elsewhere in the thread. When adjusted for confounders, unvaccinated case rates are higher across all age groups in the UK according to the twitter link you cite above.
Well, yes, but you need half the tankers, half the pipelines, half the refineries, etc.
For those who are into an inflation of inflationary quotes this a true gem:

One frequently quoted passage from the work of John Maynard Keynes is that

“the best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency.”

The passage, attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, appears in Keynes’ book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which became an international bestseller when it was published in 1919.
OCaml’s Lambda Soup (https://aantron.github.io/lambdasoup/) is a amazing library/, especially for those that prefer functional programming
Old medicines are still evaluated for ongoing safety profiles, including interactions with new classes of drugs that may come on the market. Users of these medicines benefit from this.

As an example, here's a 2018 study on Tylenol using the HEK 293 line: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29273526/
Taiwan (i.e. the ROC) is not a "de-facto" country, it _is_ a country.

I don't get the feeling you're anti-Taiwan, but I think calling Taiwan a "de-facto" implicitly questions its status and should be avoided.
Scraping things that don't want to be scraped is one of my favorite things to do. At work this is usually an interface for some sort of "network appliance." Though with the push for REST APIs over the last 6 years or so, I don't have a need to do it all to often. Plus with things like selenium it's too easy to just run the page as is, and I can't justify spending the time to figuring out the undocumented API.

My favorite one implemented CSRF protections by polling an endpoint, and adding in the hashed data from that endpoint and a timestamp on every request.

When I hear a junior dev give up on something because the API doesn't provide the functionality of the UI, It makes me very sad that they're missing out.
As I was scrolling through I surprised to see how many Nike logos (or close to) appeared in the generated sneakers.
> the core scaffold underpinning current global system at UN is based off Westphalia.

Somewhat, but a key change from the League of Nations (which was very Westphalian) to the UN was the UN from the outset grounded Westphalianism as an imperfect expression of, and dependent on, higher ideals such as the right of self-determination, and the UN system has proceeded to flesh out and expand the understanding of the higher principles, and mechanisms for deciding questions of where and when those principles call for deviations from Westphalianism.
I wish I could give you more than one upvote here.

PSA: I'd also like to point out sometimes people who are smart but suffer from anxiety or depression concoct elaborate philosophical systems in order to rationalize their maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.

For all readers who have anti natalist passion: Depression and anxiety are so common now, please get help if you need it. Please do so before diving into philosophies or movements that reinforce depressive, morbid, or otherwise unhealthy views and actions, like antinatalism
‘Solved’: the mystery of the ‘slut’ scrawled on The Grapes of Wrath manuscript
Trans Showrunner on Dave Chapelle’s Netflix Special
> Though I think the biggest benefit of JSON is that it is so simple, at least compared to XML. It makes it harder to just dump your internal data structures as is. Which forced people to actually serialize their data. Though with time people have overcomplicated it with objects that have "type" and "value" fields, basically designing their own standard.

XML is a document language with features like mixed content to represent concepts like subsections of formatted text. IMHO quite a few of XML's failings were in the "data format" crowd being a separate camp, and the two never really pushing for good middle ground.

For the crowd that wanted a common scaffolding for document formats, having the rules between say namespace usage in XHTML vs Docbook-XML would not be a problem. For instance, HTML states you should ignore unrecognized tags and instead just show the text contents.

That all came back to bite hard when the data model people started to try to do canonicalization and document signing.

A "strict" variant of JSON fits on a napkin - basically, reject documents with multiple identical keys in an object, represent native numbers using IEEE double-precision floating point, reject documents which do not meet the grammar.
Holy hell. I'm speechless. Not even by the article - I'm yet to read it - just by this discussion thread. The links posted here by various commenters - the CAAIR labor camps, Elan school, hundreds of children dumped in hidden, unmarked graves - I've seen most of those stories at one point or another, but to be reminded of all of them together here...

I don't know what to say. How do things like these happen - and keep happening - in otherwise civilized, enlightened countries?
It's not "made up".

https://www.google.com/search?q=supermarket+chain+buying+pro...

Next time when your personal incredulity finds something unbelievable, instead of assuming you must be right and the other person is wrong, just try a simple google search.

In my area property is constrained and in high demand so deed restrictions that only block one industry don't inhibit sales much.

Our population is not "super low"; our county has a third of the population of the largest city in our region of the US.

> people can buy real cheap at farmer markets where they just sell direct

Just because I said "rural" doesn't mean there's farmland.
My favorite block explorers (both self-hostable for the privacy-conscious):

https://blockstream.info/

https://mempool.space/
He was my colleague several years ago, sitting just one door from mine (but not working on the same projects) He had an office with lot of hardware stacking up. I tried a few times to talked with him about new promising techs like Nix and Rust, to push him a bit outside of his boundaries. He did not really cared and derailed the conversation and asked if the Nix shell was POSIX compliant (I think it was more or less the situation, time has passed...). I didn't follow all the drama with regards to the licensing of his code but it was clear that he had strong opinions and it was not easy to change them.

He was super specialized in C and Unix and I had a lot of respect that he used the same tech his whole career.

You could not ignore him when he was in a room, he had a strong presence. I always saw him joyful. He used to told me some stupid jokes regularly also.

My sincere condolences to everybody that will miss him.
> None of these languages catch data-races, so writing multi-threaded code is pretty much as hard and error prone as in C.

All real world languages have facilities for various kinds of safe concurrency, e.g. actors and other kinds of message passing. When it comes to concurrency, Rust isn't anything special. It's not even that good.

Rust has one killer feature: memory safety without GC. Except for this feature, Rust is mediocre. If you don't need the memory safety without GC, you can use almost anything else and be better off.
California first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation
I have honestly never seen an image submitted to HN.
TBH, neither is The Atlantic.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/07/atlantic-editor-concede...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/16/im-at-a-loss-for-words-...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/02/washington-post-atlantic-...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190911050141/https://www.daily...

https://archive.ph/MWN6K/again?url=https://www.theatlantic.c...

And many other examples.

OTOH, Derek Thompson predicted in 2017 that Bitcoin is overpriced at $16K, so maybe he knows something we don't?
I feel average is not meaningful for me as I have 2 types of days; focused (1-3) and scattered (10+). My goal is to have 3-4 focused days per week and group all the scattered type stuff on the same 1-2 days of the week. This is my current setup, I've had this completely inverted at times
If it only we have some kind of country-wide entity that was run by the people through elections and that could create a centralized payment system with open access to everyone....

But no! The state! oh the horror! Cant have state-run things!!!!
Dang! I'm sure you're right, then. I really want to like Flutter, but it just feels so unnatural.
you guys are such a bunch of entitled brats

"NAH 10euros for a tuner that's all the time on me but maybe not perfect is WAY TOO MUCH."

omg. as a guitarist the apps were life changing considering i lose my tuner every two month and forget to take it anyway one every two rehearsal. Be grateful.
Seeing all those comments about low tech being exciting to people here has really made my day. It's something that I've been increasingly interested in over the years, but I thought I didn't have much company in that.
I haven’t kept up with Edge, is Microsoft adding all sorts of weird feature or are they just delivering a good browser without the bizar stuff Firefox, Chrome and Vivaldi seems to be collecting?
Show HN: Spreadsheet web component work in progress
There are also coursera specializations from Andrew Ng at https://deeplearning.ai.
That is a very small and seemingly cherry picked (by the CDC) study that does not correlate with much larger studies. The study I was referring to came out of Israel, where the vaccination rate is very high and involved far more people. In fact, natural immunity delivered 27x the protection that the vaccine does.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-covid-recovery-gave-isra...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
https://www.google.com/search?q=supermarket+chain+buying+pro...

It's a wide-spread tactic in the grocery industry.
All government action and regulations are back by the threat of violence. This is an irrefutable fact, since the is the way government enforces their actions. Sure the first stage maybe masked in the guise of non-violence in the form of fine or other punishments but underlying all of that is the fact that if you resist a person with a gun will show up to force your compliance

Your are correct that I do not find the small risk vaccinated person's have from an unvaccinated person to be at a level to justify mandates as reasonable
It sounds like this guy just assumed that the initial valuation had to be correct, which is of course a childish way to look at the value of something. The value of anything, whether that's a multi-million dollar company or a Snickers bar, is decided by the market at the time it's placed in the market. If Apple is offering you $50M and everyone else is offering you less (or nothing), guess what, you're worth $50M. Maybe that's because you didn't sell yourself very well, but regardless your value is what other people are willing to pay.
Disclaimer: I have not yet tried this browser, so I am not sure if it will meet your performance needs. I think it is worth looking at though, since it is fully open source and community driven.

Falcon

GPLv3

URL: https://www.falkon.org/

source: https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon