skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buybacks are examples of return of money to investors without dividend. In fact, this is a more tax-efficient way to return money.

But return to investors is not even the important thing, it is that normal businesses should get outside money by providing some kind of goods or services.

The problem with axies is that they claim everything is exchangeable back into money so there is essentially no “outside” money.
Key size determines number of bytes the signature takes up, which is one of the determinants of the complexity of a QR code. I suppose if you don't know what you are doing, and want to reduce QR code complexity, you lower the key size.

To turn up speculation to 100, this might also be a third world issue, because here in the west we have high quality smartphones with good cameras, but the smartphone cameras there might not be as good, so they might be challenged reading QR codes. 8 years ago I built a thing that had customized links accessible via QR codes, but my buddy's cheap phone couldn't read them due to issues with the camera resolution. A lot has happened in 8 years in terms of progress, but they still put crappy cameras into cheaper phones, and this might still pose a problem for reading complex QR codes.
Infectious diseases spread by human contact. Reducing contact between infected and uninfected people should therefore slow down spread. We can use this time to gather information about this variant in order to make better decisions about how to deal with it. The precautionary principle dictates that we act by assuming that a very bad outcome is likely until we get more information.

A very bad outcome (which we don't have enough information to rule out) is hospitals being overwhelmed with sick people, so that some patients are left untreated, with a greatly increased rate of dying as a result. The reason this is possible is because there are a large number of mutations in this variant, which might allow it to bypass people's immunity. This can make immunity acquired through previous infection or vaccination ineffective.
> take our bugfix or leave it.

Why do you think people should unconditionally accept code into their own codebase? Your wording also suggests that you think the maintainers are somehow leading you on to doing more work. Have you considered how much work doing proper review is?
Not the best solution in this case, but coincidentally one that I used to revive a handheld multimeter last year: A pencil eraser will polish up old copper contacts very nicely. It's the gentlest way I've found to cut through the oxide layer and a nice hack to have for cleaning up delicate contacts in old electronics.
In order to save you a step of using Edge to download Chrome we downloaded Chrome first and renamed it Edge.

Imagine if they never told anyone about this and just released it.

"Microsoft was apparently hacked today and someone managed to install crapware into the default install of Edge. Crapware, mostly known to be installed by dodgy software installers when you forget to untick something, has been a problem for many decades, but this is the first time it's been installed by default in a Microsoft application (Unless you count Windows 10)"
I'm reading everything you're reading, and my takeaway is: it's simply too early to be sure. The best thing to do is roughly what's happening - take some sensible precautions while we figure out what's going on.

My back-of-the-hand barely-estimated odds are something like:

50% chance it's similar to, a little more prevalent than Delta, with similar immune escape. A slightly worse version of the current problem.
25% chance it turns out to be way more dangerous than Delta for some reason (requires a new vaccine, more deadly, way way more infectious etc).
25% chance it ends up being no big deal/not worse than delta/less deadly/little to no immune escape

But this is based on how these things have seemed to shake out over the last two years, not any sure science. Don't rely on me.
To be fair, big O and little o have different meanings in asymptotic notation, and I guess it doesn't pronounce as well as "big omicron" and "little omicron". (Although Ω and ω are both used as well.)
There is logic, and there is statistical inference. The latter might require empirical indicators and analysis; the former does not.

This is a matter of logic, not statistics.
You are right. After I wrote my text, I realised that there must have been some kind of paging. Of course, with 8 Kbyte pages in a 64 Kbytes it is not the same granularity as today. Imagine unmapping one page to keep the stack separate from the heap. That's 1/8th of your already small address space.

But the part that is also missing the ability to restart instructions after a page fault. If I remember correctly some old discussion, that may have been possible for many instructions but not some popular instructions.

I found an online copy of the reference manual which states: "It is not generally possible to recover from these aborts."

So paging yes, but not in the modern sense where you can recover from a page fault. Which is key to many aspects of a modern unix system. For example, copy-on-write forks.
That's not what contagious means.
Yeah, but I’ve been able to stream music from my desktop to my phone while driving and run a web server with reasonable performance on one.
> Bit strings of arbitrary length, with bitwise Boolean operations
plus substr and catenation

This one actually piqued my interest in PL/I recently. Closest thing I’ve seen in modern languages is bitstrings in the BEAM.
>So in 30 days I should be able to get $200 back out, and in 1 year I should be able to get out ~$725000. 2 years and I can take out over 3 billion. Yeah okay.

That's why these APYs make zero sense, I don't understand how anyone can pass this off with a straight face (unless this truly is just a game to sucker in people bad at math).

You can't turn $100 into $3 billion in two years. Obviously.

They are claiming a return of 2% per day. Please.

A penny stock can claim it's "average return" is 100% per year because it went from 1 cent to 4 cents in 2 years.

That isn't saying much.
No, stripping unvaccinated people of their fundamental freedoms (as happened in countries like Lithuania and Austria) is a harm to society. More than harm, it's a complete disintegration.
It really wants 5V3A. I believe it will take less than that, but if you are using it at the same time it might still drain the battery. It uses 1.7W while in s2idle in my (rough) testing. I power off every night.

This might work for you: https://www.amazon.com/Charmast-26800mAh-Portable-Li-Polymer...
The 8088/8086 did not have an MMU.
Colombia too. It was weird as hell when Starbucks kept asking me how many installment I want to pay for MY CUP OF COFFEE in.
> Candidates that are doing well are literally being ejected from the hiring process because they don't help diversity stats. On more than one occasion I've seen a hiring manager with open roles tell a recruiter to not bother them with any applications from white males.

That's illegal per US law. It's also racist, but that particular flavor of racism is illegal.

> The nuance has gone in recent years, and it has become common for interviewers to think nothing of directly and openly identifying "white male" as a negative trait when discussing a candidate after an interview.

I've heard the opposite. The HR rep seemed not to be thrilled by the applicant but the technical team really liked him. Afterward with just the engineers someone said out loud "Hey, and he (the candidate) went to X and he's white so you know he's there on merit".

At first I was shocked but then over the years I've seen firsthand "affirmative action" push for candidates that were less qualified (despite being told that the diverse candidate was only preferred when both were of "equal competencies").

> I will inevitably have to either challenge something, and be labelled a bigot or misogynist, or live an increasingly bizarre existence with things happening around me that I consider to be clearly wrong.

Don't discuss this openly. You'll put a target on your back and get cancelled (just look at the MIT lecturer). These discussions, sadly, will have to happen behind closed doors.
New in C# 10: Easier Lambda Expressions
Émile-Antoine Bayard's Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
I really wish I could do this for you. But you see, collecting all references will end up taking several days of my time. But you can start with these 2 people here:

https://shawn-baker.com/about/
http://www.ketotic.org/

Their talks do cite many references.
so 30
I'm not embarrassed to admit I just tried this. I will walk around with thumbnail oriented thusly and make my observations. Perhaps the origin of the thumbs up? If anyone asks I will casually explain that I'm reducing my thumbail cross section to minimise the unknown effects of solar neutrinos.
What an empty, canned criticism. Just off the top of my head: when Susan Rigetti wrote her exposé of sexual harassment at Uber, HN was full of comments supporting her and condemning Uber. HN has been a locus of support for women and minorities who suffer genuine harassment and discrimination.
regarding caffeine, I noticed that if I drink caffeine at any time during the day it has some effect on the quality of my sleep. Removing it completely has made a profound difference in my sleep quality. YMMV.
Disabled? Throttled down the speed by half? Yes. But to disconnect whole regions, you have to do conscious sabotage and even Mubarak did not manage to switch off Egypt when he wanted to and gave orders to.
Sure, Apple's prepay financial arrangement might have some outsized influence in smaller, riskier, or declining businesses, such as GTAT or JDI, but there is nothing special about pre-pay, especially in this market and this particular industry. Top fabless makers from Qualcomm, to nVidia, to AMD, to TSMC are flushed with money and are desperately competing for capacity. In fact, TSMC recently disclosed that they received over $3.8B in such prepay, or "temporary receipt" from various customers for their future nodes [1].

Further, Samsung and TSMC routinely spend many more billions on capex every year. Both companies not only have many billions stashed away, but also have the means to finance them without relying on Apple. For instance, Samsung's capex in 2020 was nearly $30B; TSMC ~$25B, vs Apple's $7B.

Sure, Apple is a big consumer of the latest nodes, but the process nodes will advance with or without Apple or Apple's money.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-collects-huge-prepaym...
They are working on that feature where you can play for free without earning tokens. I expect that to be done within a month or 2.
PL/I was the software-engineering language in my undergraduate computer science classes also, although it was beginning to be displaced by Pascal in the introductory courses, and C/C++ in the advanced courses. (Mid-1980s, in case that is not already clear.) It hung on because, we were told, it was still in demand in industry, particularly at telephone companies.

I did a group project with it, and the language was large enough that we found that each member of the group seemed to have learned a slightly different subset of it.
Yes, you did. Those posts make the front page very frequently.
I think you underestimate the number of people who'd accept a relatively comfortable life. Not everyone wants to max things out.
It's clear that you know a lot about this stuff, but I think maybe not quite enough.

The Linux kernel retains the term "task" for "execution context", and the term "thread" is used exclusively in user space purely because of programmer conventions (pthreads, specifically). This makes a limited amount of of sense because "thread" has also come to mean things that are very definitely not full execution tasks (user-space and/or so-called "green" threads). This overloading of the terminology in user-space is not reflected in kernels, but allows for developers to play with alternate implementations without changing their fundamental terminology. After all, there some things where user-space threads are precisely what you want (and these absolutely do not correspond to kernel tasks).

> This is almost never what you want.

I would beg to differ. I've been writing multithreaded code in C++ for nearly 30 years, and I don't remember any time that I wanted to join on a group of threads. My current project (20 years old) is heavily multithreaded (typically 20-60 threads) and there is nowhere that a thread primitive to join on a group of threads would make our lives easier. The only context where I could even think of using it might be to wait on a thread pool, but in general this tends to be unnecessary and if it is, can be trivially handled without a multi-join.

> Already in 1965, PL/I had a wait that could do anything that can be done with WaitForMultipleEvents/WaitForSingleEvent,

WaitForMultipleEvents/WaitForSingleEvent are not part of the C or C++ language, but Windows system calls. While their semantics are very powerful and useful (which obviously would thus apply to PL/1's wait), their absence cannot be laid at the feet of C or C++: no Unix-like OS has had this operation, ever (it is almost possible with contemporary Linux).

You could make the argument that it's not part of pthreads because this operation was never a part of posix, and so pthreads could not build on it (you can use those calls on Windows even in a single-threaded task, and that would be true in a POSIX system if the call existed). So it really has almost nothing to do with pthreads at all, other than that one could imagine a pthread wanting to block on "wait-for-something-anything".
Can you elaborate? I agree water cost does not tend to incentivize conservation and leads to what seems to be inappropriate choices of crops for example. It’s also interesting how the idea of water rights in the East/West evolved differently because of scarcity. Is your point that the problems in the West would be solved by more expensive water?

I’d worry that it would upend agrarian economies (in the short and medium term, at least $
Sidestepping the specific, delicate topic:

Once a business starts making decisions based on anything arbitrary (e.g. nepotism, or meeting specific quotas that aren't related to the business), it's a slow downhill slide in my experience.

Practically: There's not much you can do other than quietly exit.
I'm not an American but you can't even turn a newspaper page without hearing about it from left to right, every single institution and newspaper is talking or working on it so it's OK if white men discuss thing or two that affects them here. Reasonable enough?
Are there laws against this form of discrimination in your jurisdiction?

If not, do you own the company or have significant leverage with the owners?

If the answers are "no" and "no", then the answer to your question doesn't matter, and any discussion is at-best therapeutic kvetching.

In the USA, in software, laborers have very little recourse other than finding a new job. We are explicitly carved out of what little labor protections are afforded to most other professions. This means that, from the perspective of tech employees, companies operate as feudal kingdoms and your only savior is a favorable labor market.

Practically, this translates into the following advice for questions on any number of HR-related topics: if there isn't a more powerful king who can step in for you, and you're not willing to challenge the king or find a new one, then go back to the fields and quietly work your plot of land.

I find myself giving this advice more and more often. Software people have been been empowered by excellent supply/demand dynamics for a couple decades and seem to have forgotten how capitalism sans labor power works.
The CF-18 got two rounds of modernizations, so I’d assume any replacement that served for a similar period of time would get at least one.
> Don't even get me started talking about how bodged together corporate codebases are. Banks are perhaps the worst offenders. Old hardware running with bandaids and bubblegum. Software that more than 5 different teams have had their fingers in, mucking about, and some codebases have orders of magnitude more than that.

And yet, perhaps counterintuitively, the main downside of such systems is that they are slow and expensive to change, not that they are unreliable.
Assuming you're going to live for 50 more years from today, wasting a year of your life is only worth it if it prevents a 2% chance of death.
Yeah, so did mine, and one of them worked a late shift that meant they basically slept all day, but that was in the 80s and early 90s. I don't know if you've noticed but the economic reality for the low rungs of the economic ladder is much worse today.
Love in a Dark Time
How is it even legal in America? Can anyone who actually knows a law tell me why they haven't challenged it more?
...and they're usually immediately brigaded by commenters claiming that there is no real discrimination against women and POC, only discrimination against white men by woke progressives and feminists and POC blaming them for everything. Outrage is what tends to keep those articles on the front page, not sympathy.
Please correct me if you think I am wrong (disclaimer, never been to India) but my understanding of the situation in India is "vote banking".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votebank

» Votebank (also spelled vote-bank or vote bank), in the political discourse of India, is a term referring to a loyal bloc of voters from a single community, who consistently back a certain candidate or political formation in democratic elections. Such behavior is often the result of an expectation of benefits, whether real or imagined, from the political formations, often at the cost of other communities. Votebank politics is the practice of creating and maintaining votebanks through divisive policies. As it encourages voting on the basis of self-interest of certain groups, often against their better judgement, it is considered harmful to the principles of representative democracy.[by whom?]
If I spent US$ 1,000 to play a mobile game my wife would kick me out of the house...
I'm Indian and I had the exact same reaction. It's like naming your company Dukka. Or maybe it's more like the Sanskrit Maya, which I suppose is not a completely negative term (but can be in certain Indian philosophical-theological discourses).

EDIT: My mother just pointed out to me that Samsara can also mean "talk", which is exactly what it means in my native language, malayalam. I've just never seen it spelt out that way. If that's the meaning they're going for, it's actually quite apt!
There’s a strong probabilistic argument that says otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

Note that the argument is not dependent on any sort of cause, such as climate change or whatever. It is entirely probabilistic.
Thank you for the suggestion, I just ordered one as a christmas present for my girlfriend!

Worth noting they offer a really cheap personalized message option and are on black friday sale till the 30th!
a) There are still soaring case rates because vaccination rates are not 100% and you have waning immunity. People who are dying are the ones who are unvaccinated. But you will still get breakthrough cases which nobody has ever denied will happen.

b) If you some independent study which proves your statement that vaccines only "marginally" affect transmission then please post it.
How did the government recognize the fake passes? Just asking so I can alert my government if I see them somewhere.
> they simply don't have the same taste profile

People who eat meat aren’t the target audience. The target audience are people who don’t eat meat but still go to MacDonalds or Burger King, it’s a growing segment, and don’t worry, noone is going to try to force you or others like you to join, but just like there are likely 90% of the clothing brands out there that you don’t care for but are still hugely successful, it’s ok that you aren’t in the target audience, they can still be successful.
My guess is Vietnam’s spec was to achieve the same level of integrity as a paper document (ie. Minimal) and optimize for cheap/poor quality cameras.

Longer keylengths make it difficult to deliver sufficient payload in a QR. not sure about EU, but the SMART health passes that are the emerging standard use ES256 signatures.

The lack of global leadership for interoperable standards early on made this more difficult. You had the EU, Israel, US states and others who were ahead of the curve, but that approach had limits that were reached.

Now in the US we also have the issue of dealing with states with wacky political stances. States like California, New York and Louisiana, combined with private sector leaders like Walmart and Epic made SMART the defacto US standard, and other countries are recognizing them.
Machine shops are also private goods and their owners have a lot of incentive to keep them working, so I don't think this example is very accurate. In any case the chance of breaking anything with a partially stripped screwdriver is pretty minimal.
New Covid-19 variant: How dangerous is B.1.1.529?
The negative framing is warranted. There is a reason William Heath invented the vacuum train 200 years ago and it never took off.
So choose an ORM that lets you easily drop down to plain SQL in the rare cases where it's necessary and you get the best of both worlds.
I appreciate your perspective, and having thought about it for a few hours I find that I disagree. Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc. as operating systems are within the same domain of users; power user differentiation is currently a difference of preference, not of class or kind.

For other technologies, defaulting to open and targeting power users (and encouraging reasonable onboard skilling) is how we target all other tools, such as vehicles, power tools, and so forth that are used with a craft. Tradesfolks know their tools, and their most important tools they know enough to modify to suit their needs.
... and the topic only lasted 20 minutes before getting flagged!
> Of all the FAAMG out there

Of all the MANGA* out there

FTFY
Have you heard of Steam? PC is open hardware. There is a minimum bar of quality. Steam controls which games you can buy through it. Very profitable too.

Steam theoretically can control quality as much as they want. The bar they choose is entirely arbitrary and completely upto them.
I see the desirable state as being two-pronged:

1. From any given candidate’s perspective, I want them to be treated equally and evaluated fairly.

2. From a candidate pool perspective, I think we need to ensure that the candidate pool is opened more widely than to the top N schools or top M companies.
How "pretty" your cable routing is doesn't effect performance / reliability.
On one ISP that I host sites on, they restrict cert installs and don't allow SSH access. It's done in order to sell their cert services. I have too many sites on there to move easily... It's complicated. Eventually I'll bite the bullet and move to a new host. :/
>The grim reality is that there hasn't been a single policy that's been shown to have made any difference at all. NONE.

BULLSHIT.

How delusional can you be? There is plenty of evidence that masks and contact reduction in various forms have a massive effect on how quickly the virus spreads. Infection numbers and their development over time varied wildly between countries, clearly correlated with such measures, long before vaccines were available.
One thing to be aware of with RNA viruses - they mutate all the time and almost all mutations are nonviable (unable to infect cells or unable to replicate) and die off immediately. The fact there are so few variants (and there hasn't been a new dominant variant since October 2020 ) illustrates how fragile its mechanisms are.