skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People were being murdered for not wearing their hijab last year. The year before. The year before that. Why didn't large scale 'spontaneous' protests erupt at any point in that time period but instead happened right within 2 weeks of SCO membership...

> Iranians can't possibly have any agency. Is that what you're saying?

As someone who grew up in a country that had experienced FOUR US backed coups, multiple 'spontaneous people's movements' of the same nature, yes. That's precisely what Im saying.

The agency that the locals have in such situations is co-opted and subverted by the source that organizes the protests, leaving only a husk of their original intention represented by various symbolism and paraphernalia. The resulting government NEVER does anything in line with the original protests. The policies are always privatizing the nation's resources, setting up US bases, borrowing more from US-controlled financial institutions, reduction of labor protections, deregulation. The same ills that plague the US.

Even if one is not a student of geopolitics or has no knowledge of recent political history, he or she can easily tell who backed such a regime change operation by the resulting policies.
Tech is much more integral to our lives than ever. I think what we might see instead is earning decreasing to a certain extent though. Non-FAANG type of companies still need plenty of tech; and they tend to pay decent enough.
> Also talking about missed upside...once your net worth is 10M (Parag should be there I think)

That's way less than even yearly compensation as Twitter CEO.
I actually didn't blame you for your situation.

I pointed out that I find it gross to prioritize federal spending for your vacation home over victims of war.

Also, ordinary Americans certainly don't have vacation homes.
Dividend is different than a buyback. Buying back at a 3% earnings multiple is not equivalent to a 3% dividend.

It's much worse for shareholders. The company is investing in something that yields below the risk free rate of return.

Put another way, if they gave that same money back to shareholders via a distribution, the shareholders could earn more buying US treasuries with that distribution.

Buybacks are largely motivated by execs using company funds to increase their compensation, even if ROI is poor on the buyback. Otherwise they would never buyback at such low yields. Dividends don't go to option/RSU holders.

But anyway, a buyback at 10% earnings yield like Meta has, roughly, is a good use of funds
On a related topic I wonder if the Japanese phenomena of Hikikomori is a result of small living spaces and a lack of economic opportunity that fails to nurture independence. In the US we also have "failure to launch" as a close analog.
> I am not sure if I remember it correctly, but wasn't the problem that you had to explicitly call INTO after every operation? You didn't have a global flag to set or a flag bit in the add instruction, you had to explicitly emit the check. So using it carried a significant performance penalty over leaving the operation unchecked.

Correct.

> Except if the behavior had been well defined any attempt to catch overflow would violate the standard - see unsigned integers for reference.

Then the compiler could emit them only on signed operations, but they don't.

> Are you sure that having a potential branch every second operation, that depends directly on the result of the preceding operation, has at any point in time not been horribly slow?

Yes; it's been shown that `INTO` is slower than `JO raiseOverflowError` because, by the nature of `INTO` being an interrupt, it doesn't get the advantage of branch prediction, but `JO` would.

On an older processor without a pipeline, sure, it'd be just as slow as an equivalent check, but with how massive the pipelines are on today's processors, it's bad.
Making Lab-Grown Brain Organoids ‘Brainier’
Doesn't it? [1][2] suggest that Germany paid $25bn for fossil fuels to Russia in 2021, where a large portion of this must be gas. The cost of building Nord Stream 2 was less than €10bn and some of that was probably covered by Germans. So, it might cost something similar to one year supply. Keep in mind that gas contacts are often long-term.

Also, you assume the pipelines are irreparable, but we don't know that.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-ge...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-dependent-is-ger...
And every time people are advised to keep a local copy. I have a bunch of stuff on an Amazon Glacier account for convenience, but I still keep an HDD in the closet
Family owned/controlled businesses think in terms of "what will the next generation inherit?"
How many of them were such large scale 'spontaneous' protests that were televised this much like this one...
It was obvious to the founders of google before they founded google:

> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
The signals are electrical, not optical.
Magento lets you send many types of emails but there are also limitations. Luckily, with a bit of code, these can be easily overcome. Let’s see how!
I can’t open it, but here it’s the opposite :( OSM used to be amazing, better than google, now it’s horribly outdated. It shows several stores in my street that have closed over 6 years ago.

I actually found StreetComplete a few days ago and have started fixing issues, at least for my neighborhood.
I recently found my Dad still uses the Picasa library I setup on a home PC maybe 15 years ago.
Could you elaborate? The article does.
> Like really, if we accept that proposition how would society function? Youd have people in charge of tens to hundreds of thousands of peoples daily lives and output who just pass the buck on any issues because they got orders? Is that in anyway functionality different from a monarchy?

1) Exactly as it does. You're looking at it.

2) Yeah, that's pretty much how it's going. Like, half the time they pass the buck even when there's no-one "above" them and they were the originator of all the orders, and somehow that seems to work out much better for them than one might hope. Did you see that last presidency the US just had?

3) More like feudal aristocracy in general, not just a monarchy, except that the serfs get to pick which of several bad lords they'll serve, but you're on the right track.

Welcome to the first steps toward left-libertarianism.
> Countries in Europe have been pretty clear that no-one is going to back down on supporting Ukraine in order to get some cheap Russian gas.

They've said it, but what prevents them from changing their mind when domestic political pressure during winter increases? Well, blowing up the pipeline helps prevent it..

It's called planning for contingencies. Even if there was only a remote possibility of Germany folding, that's a contingency worth planning for.
It is if your hobby engages in psychological dark patterns to manipulate you to keep playing.

There's a difference when your hobby is, say, lifting weights a couple hours per week, vs being manipulated into playing a video game 6 hours per day and buying lootcrates every couple of days.
Its strange, but I find myself agreeing with Musk heavily on the direction of Twitter.

Twitter has a lot of potential but major cultural and directional change is
needed at the company, it's become too much of echo chamber for one demographic being progressive liberals and cancel culture.

In the early days of twitter, one of my former companies had ALOT of success with niche lead conversions to their SAAS. Twitter used to be a critical part of their sales funnel. I used to be able look at customer conversion data, and tell exactly what year the target market started checking out of twitter.

I think there is still a strong market for extremely short-form content like tips/tricks, daily anecdotes, jokes, etc for users. We all have times in the day , where we are stuck waiting for a couple mins for something like a keurig or starbucks. This is where short-form content is king, and can drive engagement effectively to other services.
expertise != good decision making

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/expertise-liability-experts-may...
I similarly have had very few issues with firefox and use it every day.

I fall back to edge if I have an issue but it's not common.
I have never seen a 'product ad' anywhere on my brave.
Crypto got turned off (and i also have an extensive hostsfile for that, too).
Never seen an affiliate code being injected anywhere.
Your metaphor would work if we discussed whether or not to contact some isolated tribe in Amazon.

Then we could have discussed pro/cons of destroying someone way of life by introducing our civilization vs. turning a blind eye to the poor (by our standards) living conditions of the tribe.

Iran (even if you don't like its political system) is not it.
Or massive amount of bloat everywhere, depending on how good initial framework design was.
With the right hormones, stimulus, and/or medical issues you can get a male mammal's nipples to produce milk [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation
Not saying that this is anyone's fault, but it does sound awful that people have to pull in all-nighters like that to be successful in the indie game (or any game) scene. I imagine that news a small company like theirs can't control, like a major platform is shutting down, or a target market is now under international embargo would not feel like such blow had they managed and been allowed to execute at a calm, healthy and sane pace.
On the political stage, China is a huge frenemy. The US and China are deeply tied to each others' fates by trade, but they certainly compete in many areas of national prestige, technology, ideology, etc.

I think it's a fair claim to say that a major US trading partner and ally in the business of international peace has adversarial ideological positions to the United States on the topic of free speech.
I’ve probably logged in thousands of hours watching, discussing, analyzing sports (not playing - that’s a separate metric)

Most older people have likely spent even more hours than this.

Yet spending 2 hours watching football, then another hour watching a bunch of talking heads discuss the game, is somehow considered “normal”.

I’m not a gamer, but what about this hobby is any different from any other passive sedentary hobby? Even reading fiction isn’t any particularly different, is it?
Spies vs Spies: Research Company Counters Spy Op Targeting $NKLA Whistleblowers
There's always sound or image generation, or programming a game like Pong. That's always looked cool to me. There are some "easy" entry points, e.g. https://maker.pro/arduino/tutorial/getting-started-with-fpga..., but I've never gone as far as actually try them.

With a bit of luck, someone will reply with better options.

Edit: or look at this list: https://hackaday.io/search?term=fpga
Your own wikipedia link references the standard - the standard used by the media and the traders that it's two quarters of negative GDP. NBER does tend to be considered the official source.. and they tend to announce them about a year after they happen. NBER is important but "determiner of recession" is not quite their job role.

You need only to glance at the markets to see the reality of the situation we are in.

The argument the WH made for us not being in a recession is that employment is high. That situation is quickly changing.
This definitely sounds like a shit take, but I largely agree. Twitter had the original TikTok but was too incompetent to see the potential. I’m not going to say they haven’t added any features this decade, but I will say that none of them have been successful.
For someone making hobby electronics experiments, an FPGA can be used to make a cheap (but with modest performances) logic analyzer and digital oscilloscope (and test signal generator, if desired).

Many years ago, that would have been the only solution to avoid paying thousands of dollars for a professional instrument.

However, nowadays there exist a number of commercial solutions for such cheap instruments, which are made exactly like this, i.e. with an FPGA surrounded by appropriate I/O circuits and connectors, some USB or Ethernet interface for the PC and some capture software.

These have the advantage that are ready to use out of the box, but making yourself such an instrument can be instructive.
They do not. http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/03/gplv3-user-products-clause....

The FSF felt that consumers needed protected from tivoization but commercial users did not since they had the financial resources to fight for themselves with contract law.
Yeah fair that's a fucking lot.
At least they can release an update for the controller so you can use it with other platforms. What a waste of earth's resources.
The Rust based MQTT broker (Rumqtt) gets new internals
Rumqtt is an opensource set of libraries written in rust-lang to implement the MQTT standard while striving to be simple, robust and performant.

Our github repo: https://github.com/bytebeamio/rumqtt/

Release notes: https://github.com/bytebeamio/rumqtt/releases/tag/R17
I moved from PC to Mac at work. Anyone have any suggestions on the best guides to get up and running on default hotkeys?
RDR2 was released on Stadia on November 19, 2019, which was 1046 days ago. 5,907 hours over 1046 days is around 5.65hrs/day, 39.55hrs/week.
I cant believe these are real or fake. I wonder if this was SMS or Apple Messages? How are these obtained?
> Elon Musk was definitely privileged, but he built himself up.

Mostly he got lucky that his early crappy company got acquired by Paypal, and then he won the Paypal lottery. The Musk story is about 70% right-place-right-time, 25% great salesmanship and 5% actual engineering genius.

Keep in mind this is a guy who thinks a billion dollar explosive vacuum tube[0] is a better idea than... a train.

[0] https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/'serious-engineerin...
Depends on each individual personality.

For me that number could be around 100k because I have no problems overriding my passions in order to not deal with bullies BS.

For some people their passions are strong so they need a higher number.

For some unfortunate people there is no number and put up with bullies because some craft has penetrated their brain so much that they cannot stop doing it .
> i don't think most countries levy extra random taxes on the super-rich until their military budgets are met

Most countries don't do that because the funding for military is never excluded from budget calculations. But when such a need arises, like in wartime or emergencies, they do.

> i get really fed up with people pretending that military spending is anywhere close to entitlement spending these days

Only in the US, where military has been made into a teat from which the military-industry sector sucks as hard as it can. That way you end up with gigantic flops like F-35 that go on forever. They are flops for defense, but they are major successes for channeling public money to the industry...
Saturating arithmetic is probably not all that expensive, since its been in every ARM SIMD unit (and sometimes also scalar) for many years. You just pay a little bit in latency when using those instructions.
Russia won't but the West will. If you have a clear cut case of contract breach, then it's pretty straightforward to confiscate the property via courts and so on. The sanctions, on the other hand, are more complex, they might involve freezes (even if permanent, it's not confiscation), have different extent, not all countries subscribe to them, etc. The world is complex.
I have zero chemistry education and I find it completely readable and easy to understand.

100% agreed that people should seek second and third opinions from medical "professionals" - from whom medical malpractice is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the USA.
An excellent object lesson on why you never, ever rely on Google. We're all just pawns in their ongoing quest to create and destroy entire online systems, seemingly at random.
Simple. The platforms would have to enact different filtering and moderation mechanisms for different countries based on the law in those countries. That would make them compliant everywhere.
"What did you get done this week?" I've heard that before and my answers have rarely been great.
arent the clips voluntarily submitted?
Probably not but it’s still a shit view from OP. I know lots of startup founders than burn a year with a failed idea who only get praise.
I'll just chime in to say that logged hours don't always translate to hours spent playing.

I'll often launch a video game, play for 20 minutes, and then alt-tab into my browser and get back to work, with the game paused in the background. At this point, Steam thinks that I've spent 500 hours playing a game, where the actual value is closer to 40. The same effect might be in play here.
The social elite and old world families like calling their shots. It's how they communicate with one another through subtext. Everything released that has the "potential to blah blah blah" is actually intended for that purpose. It's the "doorbell security" that's the illusion.

People are animals and you have to entice animals with meat before you can start training them with it. Amazon had to sell people on the idea of easy security so it could popularize and normalize the intrusiveness of a surveillance state. Next will will weaponize our relationships based on a perceived threat so it can finalize the intended use for it's RING sytem.

It's not like Jeff Bezos' grandfather oversaw the construction of the internet and was a director for the atomic energy commission. No no, he's just a 1 in a million lucky nerd who was basically the sole survivor of the dotcom bubble. Not like he was a VP on WS before moving to Seattle...
Hear, They're and Everywear (by Brian Bilston)

I here that their everywear,

those people who don't know

there their from they're.

It were's me down,

they're choice of word;

there grammar shoud not be scene

but herd.
Fiat would be more useful!
> Did the game interrupt important events or cause OP to neglect certain responsibilities?

It's Factorio, so, yes.
Are you installing Firefox and signing into them on new machines? I don't have hard evidence but I feel like when I install FF on a new box and sign in, the pinned sites sometimes show up on other machines when everything is synced.
Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
You pass the test
Yeah that blunts my immediate reaction of "This is blessing in disguise", that said I'm really hard pressed to understand how this person doing this for a job thought Google's streaming service would be the best choice.. at a certain point dedicated hardware is a very sensible business purchase.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/03/gplv3-user-products-clause....

The FSF felt that consumers needed protected from tivoization but commercial users did not since they had the financial resources to fight for themselves with contract law.
Thank you for the context. Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.
ex-googler here.

The average Googler hated how many good products were killed. Many want to continue/improve many of the (countless) products that were sunset. I'm sure memegen is on fire as we speak and how Google should be and do better.

Sadly, that's not how it works in a corporate. At least not at Google.

If your boss moves you off the project and hands you new work, that's how it is. You need to spend ~8hrs/day on your next project. Doesn't leave you with any time to work on that project you know is being sunset, and definitely won't help with your Perf and yearly bonus.

Many products have like 2-3 people keeping the lights on for months before eventually the plug is pulled. This rarely happens overnight -- the teams have been moved/offboarded months ago, working on other higher priority stuff.

I don't know how it was for Stadia though -- but I assume it was the same.
This claim sounds vaguely familiar...
> What it sounds like you're proposing is, if Denmark has carte blanche topless legality, that websites that want to operate in Denmark must respect their liberalism and allow said content

That's precisely what I'm saying.

> Americans

The platforms will need to apply a different set of filters and moderation tools to anyone connecting from within inside the US. Just like they will do for those who connect from within Denmark.
>the NBER defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales".

Which we have right now. But don't trust objective observations of reality. Just Trust the Experts™ and call anyone who disagrees a conspiracy theorist.
I don’t understand why Google doesn’t ever try to sell these aborted projects off rather than just killing them. Stadia is (was) a means to make recurring revenue off other people’s games! I’m sure margins are thin but I also don’t doubt that there are some scrappier businesses out there would love to take a crack at it.
This one has everything listed but pressure and it’s possible to replace the sensors if you think they’ve gone bad, or migrate them to a new project. Since it’s obvious what the sensors are, it’s also possible to read the actual data sheet for each one and decide if they individually meet your needs.

https://frdmtoplay.com/patching-in-fahrenheit/
Website doesn't have any CSS on Android after 2 secs?
Who are we to say how much is the right amount for this person? To play 6,000 hours of this game he must have a reason. Perhaps he's particularly passionate about it, perhaps there is someone in his life he loves to play it with.
Which is why major power lines run at thousands of volts as I understand it.
Ergo the need to legalize.

It's not that drug abuse is good or that we ought to encourage it, it's that criminalizing it only makes the situation worse without solving the original problem. Criminalization is an entirely unnecessary added harm, while simultaneously failing to deliver on the premise of the justification for it.
Figure 2[2] from the article is pretty good.

[2]: https://blog.uber-cdn.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=2216,quality=8...
It’s not healthy to have too many zombie products and staff around your company. Especially at the rate that Google introduces products and then shuts them down, at this point they would have tons staff working on sunsetted products. Besides how incredibly expensive that is, it’s bad for morale.

The question is just how to shut things down in a good way. Honestly it seems like Google has done better than they usually do with this one (refunding everything), but it’s never possible to make everyone happy who depended on your service.
HN is an English-only site, so here we are. I'd love to see a Romanian HN, but given the general level of discourse I've seen in most Romanian communities online (and in most communities online period), I'm not holding my breath.
I don't know about Stadia, but GeForce Now would kick you out after a minute or so.
I agree. My read on this set of texts is Musk trying to get Dorsey on his side to help with the acquisition.
Not necessarily cool perhaps but a critical piece of OSM infrastructure is osm2pgsql[1].

Also important tools in OSM land are osmium[2] and imposm[3] but the latter I think is Go not C++.

[1] https://osm2pgsql.org/
[2] https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/
[3] https://imposm.org/
I use both Chromium and Chrome. Chromium is of course not affected.
www.fitbit.com - add it to your hostsfile.
It has even less than no merit when you consider that the guy is a content creator and the math works out to 8 hour week days with the weekend off. Basically a normal work week.
Is this IaSQL reborn or a completely new product?