skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solving this problem with law wouldn't be easy, though. The taxation laws would need to be made extremely complex. They would have to take into consideration the situation of the whole family, for example. Would that be fair? Also, would it make sense to consider potential inheritance? The potential for abuse is enormous. Probably higher property tax for high-value properties could help a bit, bit it's just a drop in the ocean.
Empowerment vs. Standardisation
Ugh. I initially wrote currency, but knew I'd get a pedant to disagree with that definition, which I did get anyway. You're arguing its legislative and societal role, I'm calling it for what it is: a thing whose primary role is to store and exchange abstract, agreed upon value.

Just tell me what to call that.
Is this a possible solution? Gravitational lense telescope?

https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI?feature=shared
AppStore and PlayStore are not open source, so you trust the distribution mechanism, is what I think parent wanted to say.
While I disagree with your opinion, I appreciate a lot that you've stated it. That's a very honest thing to say.
The Qatargate Files
Hard to get much more transparent than bitcoin.
i wanna see them try
It surprises me how people still love to try to think that “oh this is such a horrors!

You got me there, fella. Deeply dreadful nihilism has never been one of my strong points.
This has been driven by reflections on my most recent role, plus an interview process that brought this to the fore a little. Made me realise that I am leaning more and more towards standardisation in my old age!
Picasso was a phenomenal artist. He'd mastered figurative painting by his mid-teens.

https://www.openculture.com/2018/08/pablo-picassos-masterful...
Egosoft was founded in 1988 and is still doing its thing
That one literally states it's uncertain if it is the case that corporations that are public have to maximize profits in the interest of the shareholders.
Isn't US using prisoners for (effectively) forced labor ?

US and EU are abusing (often illegal) immigrants and turning a blind eye to their terrible working conditions (eg. the slaughter house scandals in the EU that broke out during COVID).

Plenty of shit on our doorstep and people don't seem to be bothered that much stepping over it. Why would we be upset about a larger pile of shit a continent away ? We are so isolated from Chinese culture, I know very very little about China compared to NA and EU.

Also the west is happy to trade with way worse systems (by "our" standards) than China, middle east being the first to come to mind.

Not justifying China, just confused where these moral standard expectations are coming from.
Not quite, this blogpost is about a different problem
One the biggest challenges I am facing with a colleague I hired (I was not the hiring manager but technically it was my say finally) is their communication skills. They find it really hard to explain a problem to others. They also do not listen properly or adequately and it is not malicious at all. I did not consider communication as a deciding factor at least to some extent. Lessons learnt.

Also, I have been focussing a lot more on “coding” problems (as in that whiteboard thingie) because that is what I guessed asked whenever I interview. I am going to work on that as well. That, while shows candidate can solve that coding challenge, is more of a GRE - GRE shows the person is good at taking GRE and may not necessarily be good at english, maths or reasoning at all.
Good point. Though you can probably use 'blocks' (think like hard-disk blocks) instead of complete mail boxes. You download random blocks that also contain blocks from your mailbox.
> Take BYD for example, they absolutely dominate China. In China, EV buses are a common thing.

China seems to be electrifying their fleet extremely fast. My girlfriend was working in Guilin and was surprised on how quiet all the traffic was because most of it were EVs already. Scooters, cars, busses, EVs were much more common than ICEs.
Major proxy providers implicated in attack on Philippine media giant Rappler
>I appreciate a lot that you've stated it

Well, from an anonymous account, it means jack. Bull, even.
The consequence is due to the impact of the Lugano Convention 2007, as the piece mentioned.

So it is not just German courts, it is any court of an EU member state, plus those of Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

Which is possibly the same mechanism whereby they're now subject to action in Italy.
But you don't need to install them via their store. Also, you can always check the hash code of the binary.
Possibly good for meta (if they were forced to do this by law, this means they did not want to do this them selves, which by definition makes it "not good for Meta").

Certainly not good for their user base, as (as many pointed out) it's not safe if the clients are all closed source. This promotes a false sense of security, which is worse than an understood lack of security.
But it's what ambiguous about Python's syntax. And I can make it a bit worse:

if a:
print("foo")
if b:
print("bar")

This is not a huge problem, but problems with syntax never are (in non-joke relatively modern languages). But it's still something I prefer that languages fix in their syntax if I get to have a choice.
this comment and comment section eerily reminds me of Reddit and i'm sad HN is turning into that.
talk about mental gymnastics - you just said

"I can sort of accept, reluctantly, that the Chinese have a different way to thinking than I do and that I can't necessarily apply my moral code to China."

so, give them a pass with what they are doing and then criticize others that are giving them the same pass, and also choose to profit from it.

What about people who buy stuff made in China? do they get a pass too? So the only party at fault is the middle-man? slave owners get a pass, consumers that enable the slave owners get a pass and the only party at fault is the evil middle-man corporations?

If its wrong, its wrong for all parties, if its OK, its OK for all parties.
Javelin Missile guidance computer – Part 2: answers [video]
Woooow. Have you lost credit worthiness and a child and can do such a comparison? It feels like trolling, making such insensitive comparisons. I hope this is not based on your personal experience... That would suck on multiple levels.

Secondly, my theory is, it's all worth it to him. (It's called an obsession, or being crazy.)
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I'm not so sure. Google does deindexing at the request of others, and does it kicking and screaming.

Maybe it also does it on its own and we don't notice it -- but in any case you can find as many "inappropriate" things as you want, searching Google, including images of all nature, or recipes for bad things, or descriptions of crimes, etc.

So if Google is actually in the business of editing the web so that it conforms to puritain standards of appropriateness (which I doubt), it's not very good at it.
Sandals with socks are great.
You need to read the article - the point is that the president has given no details of the holdings except in tweets, and has not answered questions about the enormous sums of money used to promote the scheme, including a $30 "bonus" for all citizens over 30.
I barely even care about the JVM. I'm happy because it is an impressive feat of engineering, representing tens of years of huge investment into development, compiling my code to levels of performance that poorer VMs cannot reach. But JVM is just one of the environments where my code runs (the other is the JavaScript VM in browsers).
Church–Turing Thesis
The historical precedent of dropping ARMv6 support from Apple SoCs, for instance. No matter what the secrecy level of a corporation is, no one will waste their CPU area for backwards compatibility when it's no longer demanded by the majority of the user base. It runs agains the economics of hardware production.
"How can we be sure a 3rd party implements the encryption properly" is the counter-argument.

How would you refute that? Trust users to check that some code is the same on both devices? What would prevent a bad actor from MITMing the whole thing from the start?
> If anyone made a decent Symbian device

My personal favourite was my E90 Communicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E90_Communicator

In terms of hardware form factor was the best smartphone I have ever owed.

What was good about it:

– Metal case, metal hinge, rock-solid clamshell design

– But small enough to use closed as a candybar phone with T9 text input;

– Good 1-handed and two-handed operation;

– Able to view A4 width PDFs at readable size on internal screen;

– Fast accurate thumb typing on internal QWERTY keyboard;

– Data port plus charging port plus headphone socket.

It wasn't perfect. The external numeric keypad needed better spacing, like a 6310i keypad. The internal QWERTY one the same. It needed USB instead of a Nokia port, and a standard-sized headphone jack. It needed an internal touchscreen. It needed more RAM and speed and battery.

But the gestalt, the whole, was better than any Apple minimalist thing.

Second favourite:

Nokia 7710.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7710

My first true smartphone.

What was good about it:

– Landscape touchscreen smartphone, with a design that made that the primary orientation, although perfectly usable one-handed in landscape;

– Usable physical buttons for up/down/left/right/select in one hand, call/cancel/hangup in the other hand. So, usable in gloves or without access to stylus and fingertips, with tactile feedback, with both hands. Meaning also ideal for gamers;

– Removable battery;

– Last device with the Psion EIKON UI.

Third favourite:

Sony Ericsson P910

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P910

Very much oriented to touchscreen operation like an iPhone or something.

What was good about it:

– Familiar and accessible to non-techies;

– With a handy physical T9 keypad, covering part of the screen;

– Flipped down to reveal a bigger screen and tiny QWERTY keyboard. Not much use but clever.
https://constantinecannon.com/whistleblower/top-ten-whistleb...

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-89

https://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/sherry-hunt-took-on-one...

Some (many?) of those folks did suffer discrimination and even outright persecution from their employers, and horrible financial strain before the eventual payout, but their cases eventually ended up quite well for them.
How to Live Like a Cynic
Fwiw I was able to find the rest of the article by searching for "PPP" — but since that seems to be the entire argument, this is stale news; PPP-wise (what goods and services are produced, not what may be imported) the chinese economy has been bigger than the US since the late teens.
That's how the conference organizers see it, but other people have a different context.
For example: why should a whole community implicitly support LGBT persecution by supporting a conference in a "less than enlightened" country? Why should I go to a country where I am hated and concretely risking trouble for my sexual orientation? Why aren't these organizers able to find a more suitable location, like South Africa a few years ago?
It says here latency for Optane read is about 10 µs.[1].

It says here an SLC drive has the same latency for sequential read (random read is 5x higher though). [2]

[1]https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory...

[2]https://www.solidigm.com/products/data-center/d7/p5810.html
You can do ice skating at Planten un Blomen!
The west is built on the back of slavery, and this has never changed. It has just been moved to where we don't need to see it.
I'm not sure about that. But true, in that case only the fact that's not open source is still in the way of me giving it my "baseline safe" approval. :)
The faithful care not for your evidence; all that matters is what Dear Leader _says_.
Also: Where are you messaging

You clicked an ad about Product X, you're messaging your friend B from a store that sells Product X

-> Serve ads about Product X to B.
You want me in your team. I am the voice of reason, of clarity. I will take your happy flow and make it sadder than a wheeping willow. I will write the tests, verify the work, highlight the blind assumptions. I can coach juniors into mediors and seniors. I build bridges across teams and companies, pave ways and smooth paths so other engineers have an easier time getting results. And I cannot pass a coding test. Because I suck at tests.
In that case they are simply trying to filter out the pool of candidates. But there will be a step downstream that involves storytelling.
in other words, the proposed is a policy for which other people (whom you view as having more wealth) gets taxed for a benefit for which you will gain.
It will be cool if some of these researchers actually work out how to improve our own brains...
Every time I see people proud of ChatGPT all I see is it being wrong. Is this really what people are so hyped about?

Cookies are fine if you're just storing user preferences, no banner needed if the only type of localStorage/Cookie banner you have is a purely functional one that doesn't serve tracking purposes. Github for example doesn't have a cookie banner as far as I remember, but they're definitely using various cookies.
> it’s possible

Nope it's not possible and it's more than obvious way.

The cocaine content in coca leaves is 0.23% to 0.96%. Sugarcane has a magnitude or so higher sugar content.
> Symbian was very popular, well liked and ahead of anything on the market

100% this.

Remember there are 1000x to 10000x as many users as developers. (Extremely conservative estimate.) If users love it that's worth some developer discomfort IMHO.
one starting point is to try and build one of the simplest synth components on the MFOS site (IIRC they are categorized by difficulty) as mentioned in my GP post, the MFOS explainers are incredible. But it does also help to have at least a little background in electronics. I started out by messing about with stuff as a kid (having a dad that was a ham helped) then eventually doing an EE degree at uni.

Fast forward 20 years and I didn't use the EE part of my degree in a career path except for the software eng part so I'd forgotten most of the theory. However the MFOS troubleshooting guide (for the WSG, and I assume most/all of their self build kits) is absolutely comprehensive, telling you exactly what points to probe and what you should see in a step-by-step logical progressive manner. You do definitely need a scope though.

For debugging analogue synths, you could probably even get away with a $25-40 STM32 based one from aliexpress as you're typically checking for DC voltage levels and human-audible waveforms ( < 20 KHz and probably realistically ~1-5 KHz) and the cheapest of cheap scopes can handle that.

so to recap:

tools:

reasonable to good multimeter - DC/AC voltage, current, resistance, continuity. (doesn't have to be a eevblog couple of hundred bucks one, but auto ranging would be useful, an audible continuity beep is a must though as is a diode check.)

Oscilloscope. for doing analogue synths, anything capable of displaying a waveform($). for anything else, the more you can budget the better. for debugging digital electronics you'll probably want multi-channel ($$) and/or MHz of range($$$). For doing RF, you'll want GHz ($$$$$)

Logic Analyzer - for digital electronics and reading the logic levels on multiple paths (bus lanes) at the same time.

Bus Pirate - for analyzing and debugging the content of various serial busses like I2C, SPI and CAN etc. not necessary but makes things easier than trying to do it with a scope or logic analyzer alone.

most importantly -

Curiosity! cannot overstate this enough, as most of the process would be very frustrating unless you have the innate curiosity to push you through.

Resources:

MFOS site in the OP. build guides with ELI5 level explainers and comprehensive troubleshooting guides

EEVblog youtube channel[0] (especially his older stuff) and forum [1]

Great Scott Youtube Channel[2]

BigClivedotcom youtube channel[3] for some hilarious teardowns and circuit explainers
once you have a few videos of those in your watch history, you'll start getting plenty of relevant recommendations of other EE-tube creators

[0]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHsCTtj-T_vk... (just one of many suitable playlists)
[1] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAROrg3NQn7cyu01HpOv5...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom
The only information on the actual Bitcoin holdings has been released in tweets by the president, which don't include anything like a Bitcoin wallet address, so there's no proof that the government actually owns them, and no public body is tracking those investments. If the article is true - and I have no reason to doubt those particular details - then this really feels like a "trust me, bro" situation.
Neverinstall launches an affordable Windows Cloud PC
Ask HN: How do you DIY GPU server?
Nvidia H100 server is extremely expensive. If anyone here build you own RTX4090*N server, I would like to hear the details about that.
Sometimes I use this to abstract boilerplate https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter

It can use a repo as a template.

It supports some interactive questions to choose options but mostly it is jinja templates.

Having libraries would be another option.
Europe needs a new law to regulate moderation, obviously.
A prison that builds things is a factory. It's insight into the fact that in fact the norms are no different in the US.
No, most of us don't have that kind of secrets.

I have secrets, but if someone were to leak them nobody would seriously employ the term "whisteblower".

Implying that because someone doesn't want to stay quiet when he sees unethical/unlawful things they can't be trusted on a personal level is a dehumanizing thing to say.

I might be breaking a rule here, but this comment could probably be found verbatim in some company's playbook to discourage whiteblowing.
They make and sell cars, they are a car company. Their added value might be some software but what you are saying is akin to calling WeWork a tech company. No, it's a real estate company.

Software has eaten the world, it's not because there's software as part of the product offering that it makes it a software company... Without selling cars Tesla would have nothing (and no, the power business wouldn't exist without the cars).
$120M is, as you said, not that much in the Bitcoin market.
People often lie not only to others, but also to themselves. Also I don't see a problem with somewhat controversial takes from anonymous accounts; given today's internet opposite would be brave/stupid.
And I couldn't trust someone who couldn't trust a whistleblower. Like what the hell did you do that you really don't want others to find out..?
It's "source available". They make changes to their server code, run those modified servers for a year or so and then release a source.
Of course it buys a lot, you don't blow away program state when you change the program. That's huge for highly stateful programs.

Also ecs is a prime example of composition over inheritance
From the point of view of a solo developer maintaining a large app over many years: I would not want to deal with static type checking and I would not find it useful, except for simpler subsets of my code.

I do use spec, and I've used other checking solutions before. I also use :pre/:post conditions a lot, as well as plenty of assertions. But in a large and complex application the errors I'm likely to run into are not as simple as a mismatched type. My most valuable checks and specs constrain multiple data fields.

Thinking about stuff I run into, I would say that the majority of errors are due to optionality — where a key is optional in some contexts, but mandatory in others.
oh! thanks for correcting me there. I didn't know that it was a new company using the old game.

Given that I am super interested in the indie titles they are publishing right now I will still be cheering on for the new company!
Fascinating. Thanks for that insight.

Do you think that would be fixable nowadays? The OS is FOSS now.

Could as much of the weird/obsolete/proprietary stuff as possible be ripped and replaced with current, modern, standardised FOSS stuff, while keeping the tiny elegant OS? Given that backwards compatibility isn't an issue any more, as the existing apps are old and proprietary and irrelevant now?
I've never worked for any major tech corporation. I've had opportunities to apply to Amazon and Facebook but never followed through with any of them.
It's partly for moral reasons but also partly out of fear because I'm worried about what that would look like on my record in 10 or 20 years' time if the world returns to sanity.
We've seen what happens to members of distrusted groups during periods of social upheaval.
I just cannot bring myself to bet on never-ending insanity. I cannot imagine such world. I'm already worried about my background in tech causing problems.

Admittedly, I couldn't imagine the world we have today 10 years ago and I can't imagine the world in 10 years time if it continues down that path. I just don't see the point. I don't want to be rich in such a hypothetical hell hole so my mind doesn't see the point going there.
This argument always felt like a cop-out to me.

"Amazon is squeezing employees for maximum profit!" "Yes, they have to maximize profit by law" right, but there are also laws against union-busting, about workplace safety, etc, etc however _for some reason_ these other laws are second tier to a corporation's legal profit mandate.
It's all about price. Attacking Linux will be harder, thus more expensive.

You make it sound easy, if that was the case they'd launch one attack every few months or so. This stuff is expensive, and making it 100x harder means 100x less attacks before the budget runs out.
I'm no python expert, but if python really has a way to define named functions inside an expression, I'm not sure I want to know how to do it...
Looking for a tool/shell that combines navigation and history. E.g. it would tell which commands I previously used while at the current directory.
Not sure that's needed. The Reg isn't going anywhere for now.
LLMs seem to mechanize poor average human performance then. Not noticing a "mis-placed" clause in a long contract, for example.

Another point against use in high risk applications.
No fuck that argument people use to whitewash bad/harsch working conditions. "A low income is better than no income". "Better be employed as a slave than unemployed" is basically what they say. Inless its not a close relative or your own kids working there. You would immediately change your opinion if thats the case.
That fucked western hypocritical way of thinking needs to stop. Its really bad.
Better everyone being a poor rice farmer than working in shit factory.
As there is FIMI, is this DIMI?
Is it that you morally disagree (I agree that it is a poor reward for doing me a service) or you have a disagreement about why society punishes whistleblowers?
the esp32 also has a mask ROM (which includes BASIC for some weird reason). Hence fully deblobbing it is a hopeless battle.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v4.3/esp32/ap...