skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not certain what conversation you think you are joining, but this is one about "people invited by Apple to take part in a bug bounty program--one with an in-person onboarding process and which involved a meeting with Apple's security team, all expenses paid, in Cupertino--with the stated goal of working together to improve the security of the device have asked to be given the ability to modify the software on a limited number of test devices to aid in their security research". Your response is trying to tackle the general argument for arbitrary customers. I still think you are wrong, but that isn't the argument today.
It's the southernmost neighbourhood in Mississauga, not south of it. I live and work (in IT) here. I can walk to several award winning restaurants within a couple minutes from my office at the marina here. Just look on Google Maps, this place is more walkable than most of TO and my rent is <$1000.
> So, essentially a subsidy by the EU to the rest of the world in two separate ways.

Maybe, but as an EU citizen, I'd actually like them to do that - as long as I can hope it'll make a lasting change on the market. The market doesn't always find good solutions by itself; often it takes a powerful actor to push it in the right direction.
> And OS X certainly doesn't have anywhere near all the kick ass monitoring tools that Windows as, such as the ones shown in this article

It certainly helps that Intel really likes Windows, but I haven't seen Mac users complaining as much as Windows users do, so, it may be for lack of demand (and the bundling of dtrace, for ages).
How does it know which threads are UI threads?
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Sure, but there's no fundamental law of the universe that says we have to just accept that unconditionally and let them do whatever they please.
I 50% agree with this, and 50% can't help notice (in the US) restaurants are full, it is common to have a recent iPhone, and 85% of vehicles on the roads are newish SUVs.

Many people are scraping by on minimal income and have minimal expenses.

Many others are scraping by because their spending is out of whack with income.

Of course, reining in spending doesn't address the societal stagnant income problem. It only helps an individual not find themselves in a desperate situation because of job loss.
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Nobody is saying Git is unusable, or that it doesn't work, or that it isn't powerful.

We're saying the alternatives are easier to use. You freely admit you haven't used any of the alternatives - you haven't even used SVN from a command line, so you have literally nothing to compare to when using git commands.
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Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It relies on LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/
Two-factor authentication is a mess
It's interesting that 'vampire squid' stuck though. Also his work with Mark Ames in Moscow at 'The Exile' through the 90s was stellar and very funny to read.
As an European, I don't mind that as long it works and makes the world a little bit cleaner. Your RoHS example was spot on why this works as even cheap Chinese knock offs are usually RoHS compliant now.
I was once worked with a technology project manager (in this company they were more like junior CTOs) who said he didn't need to understand technology, he managed people. Of course he also made all the technology decisions.
Seconded. I have yet to have any problems with my Baratza grinder (which I've certainly had for more than two years) but if I do I've heard time and time again about their excellent support.

Also completely unassociated with them in any way.
The door gasket is likely a 5 minute repair. Pulls out, snaps in.

I recently did it. The biggest issue was that the first one the company sent was dirty and poorly made.
The question is, why do modern fridges seem to break more frequently after a few years than older fridges. Is it:

1. modern fridges are more complicated, thus more things can break

2. The manufacturer wants it to break after about 5 years so you buy a new one (planned obsolescence)

3. Old fridges did indeed break as much as the ones today... and the ones we see now are just the survivors (Survivor bias)
There's a lot wrong with the Daily Mail but one thing they often do well is showing good quality pictures.
A dose of realism would have anyone with >$x be able to reduce the amount or frequency of giving away money. Or be able to spend some of their wealth on 'marketing' and increase the likelihood of being the recipient of any particular dollar being given away.

Not to demonize accumulation of wealth but just to model reality where rules can sometimes be changed by those with enough wealth accumulated.
They seem to be worse, but does anyone have information on how it scales?
Weird, there are a bunch of software companies/jobs in the northern Atlanta suburbs. I've spent time in Oakville and Burlington and they are a lot like the suburbs here, can't speak for Mississauga. I feel like there is a cultural difference: here people will think nothing of driving 45 or 60 minutes across the city not just for commuting but for restaurants, entertainment, or visiting friends, but a similar drive there, Toronto to Hamilton for instance, is a major trip!
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Severance just accelerates the firing process. If you've got to provide 3 months severance, you're laying people off at least 3 months sooner than you otherwise would. I'm sure there have been companies contemplating layoffs that have been able to just barely make numbers to avoid it.

Not arguing against severance just saying that "well throw some money at them" doesn't necessarily make it any better.
I think the idea is that if you want a high quality phone--and you essentially need a high quality phone to be competitive in the workforce and even to engage in many social activities and functions--you are going to end up buying a device from one of a small handful of companies (Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, HTC), all of which are closed down and locked experiences. This is a problem that can likely only be solved by legislation (which the EU is thankfully looking into, as the EU actually cares: I <3 the EU).
what course of action -- either individual or societal -- do you suggest?
This should be on Apple's upcoming iGlasses ;)
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author of the article here! i specifically left out hoosier because, well, it's TOO interesting. keep an eye out for a future article about it.
You seem to be saying market forces will sort it out, but the premise behind legislation is that they haven't.

(In my specific case, as an iOS developer, I can't buy anything but a Mac.)
Careful with equating "Facebook is a wildly market-successful product" with "Every engineering practice at Facebook is industry-applicable and should be emulated".
One of the other three suggested it, not sure why, and then we did it.

For each question we would take turns answering it. We were allowed to say, "Pass," if the question made us too uncomfortable or, if we couldn't think of a good answer fast enough, we could pass and come back to it after everyone else had answered.

We were already at the level of acquaintances, close enough to be at the same location, hanging out, but I didn't trust any of them yet, and they barely knew me.
But ion channels (and their function) are on a much higher level than quarks. Looking at things at the quark level doesn't tell you anything about ions, or salt, or, for that matter, people. :-)
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Looks like this article was sponsored by MSFT.
Many cities already have industrial cameras installed on the streets and inside public transport (buses, trams, subway), as a way to prevent crime.

Until recently the issue was that no one had technical and financial resources to analyze the data, except on court warrant, but once Big Data and computer vision technologies become cheap enough someone will definitely use that as real time surveillance tool.
Yeah, shame we were pushing too much for the 5GB/s cap.

Also, their consistency model is hidden and they've lost data before.. so not selling points.
> "there's been talk about a "British Bill of Rights" along these lines for years"

Some would say it already exists...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA
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I don't understand this metric thing. If we're going to go imperial, I need cubic yards.
My Linux desktop never locks up. I'd suggest messing around with a different kernel, double checking graphic drivers, etc.
>Either they give up their content for free or Google drops them, and they hurt even worse.

They haven't give up their content to Google/Facebook; they give up their distribution. Links to news sites on Google and Facebook are a form of distribution that link back to the original article. As for antitrust, that's somewhat difficult to argue when a new entrant (Facebook) is currently taking a massive amount of distribution and ad revenue away from Google. Who's to say that another new entrant, funded by the legacy news industry, couldn't do the same?

The legacy news media should have, and still should, focus on making or buying new distribution channels. Instead of whining to the government, they should compete in the market.
I don't believe in full fledged Survivor Bias here. Too many people were naturally angry at recent devices. They all noticed a substantial regression. Especially since you also naturally expect companies to have mastered and made progress and provide something better.

In my electronics/audio experience, the market twist the design toward shittier components that provide acceptable function with a few marketing buzzwords (HD audio, 24 bit audio) that will make people buy something; where their old gear was clearly superior in terms of quality. It's a reflex to think economies of scale provide improvements and progress.
> There are many entry level positions open, just you need to be able to be in the chair.

This statement proves my point exactly. Either you need to be skilled enough to have the leverage to work remotely, or you need to be lucky enough to live in one of the few cities that happen to be growing economically at the moment. When economic growth and opportunity for the unskilled is concentrated to such a small portion of the planet and country, the rest of us suffer for it. It's a continued assault on the middle class of most of the world, and has profound destabilizing effects on those areas affected by these trends.
How many would have lasted years longer, but the owners decided to upgrade to better features?
Let me just clarify that I don't use Linux on the desktop. I find it quite horrible to work with, particularly since the demise of Gnome 2. On the server and for development, it is fast and efficient. Most of the development work I do is from the Mac desktop to Linux machines.

I find macOS the "least bad" desktop experience. I think that's the true assertion from my initial comment. But I have a very high end MBP.

As a point for comparison which holds true across different applications, if I take the Photos application on macOS and port the data to the Photos app on Windows 10 and on Android, both of the latter are unusable with a dataset of 30GiB. I have tried this (in reverse!)

I haven't had any problems with Mail.app but I only use that for trivial home email. I use Outlook. Now that's a turd.
Soti ONE platform, explained by Carl Rodrigues:

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I think the problem is with the ubiquity of firearms in the USA; you want to escort someone out of the building before he/she tilts and starts shooting other people, starting from the manager that just threw them under the bus...
> Humans will never solve war

We can't say that for sure. A lot of conflict come from the fear of scarcity and, if we solve that, we will be largely without conflict.

What will be really complicated is a transition from current economies driven by scarcity to economies based on abundant resources and perfect distribution. A lot of people would rather die before allowing others to have the same they feel entitled to have.
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Great Bubble Machine somehow doesn't sound as intimidating as Giant Vampire Squid.
Is that a sanctioned way of doing it though? I don't want this to break later. Their https://api.instagram.com/oembed/?url= endpoint is at least documented but doesn't give full resolution photos and only limited metadata.
Number 1 based on plausibility is refrigerant management.

I have a story about that. Someone I knew in Eastern Europe working with large refrigeration equipment hoarded the bad kind of Freon knowing it would go up in price as the supplies dwindle. Then they charged an increasingly high price for it on the black market. Eventually equipment that uses that king of refrigerant will break down beyond repair but that might take a while. Industrial equipment like that often built reliably and is pretty maintainable.

This is just one individual business owner. I am sure there are more. So officially on paper it might look it's all good and "we've eliminate CFCs" but with corruption mixed in things are not that simple.
SMF without XML is gods init system.

It's so cleanly engineered, just like ZFS.. makes me sad that solaris died a death.

(Their package management was crap though tbh)
Amazon Prime does more for northern food security than federal subsidies
Counter-example: after GaTech, I refused any job offer outside biking distance of midtown.
It's interesting to see that apparently only now do news organizations now realize who their real masters are.

Did they not see the writing on the wall when their analytics showed almost all of their traffic originating from Google and Facebook?
It's pretty paltry in the US. You can't take social security until 65 (I think it's 67 now). You get unemployment but it's administered at the state level and in most states it caps out at under $800 a month, but it's been a while. A moderate mortgage is twice that.

Also, we get our health benefits from companies and not the government, so as soon as you are laid off, all your health benefits are no longer paid by the company. You can pay for it yourself, but with a family, it's easily over $1000 a month with even meager health insurance.

Welfare is hugely capped as are food stamps. You can only be on them for so long and it's such a social stigma in the US, most newly fired people don't even consider it.

On top of that, US companies don't like hiring people who have been laid off. They think something along the lines of "well if they got laid off there, there must be a reason." It's ironic because layoffs are generally the fault of the leadership, yet the workforce takes the blame. Corporate leadership likes to think they are there for a reason too and therefore infallible.

I never thought I'd be playing the, "who has the worse government." between the US and India. Honestly I thought India would be better at social protections than the US is, simply because every modern country is better than the US is.

All that said, I'm sorry to hear India is going through this. It really sucks. We have the highest percentage of people who gave up looking for work than we've had for a long time (if ever). It will taint your workforce for years to come. The US still hasn't gotten over it and it's been going on full force for 20+ years now.
I'm not so sure. You know the saying, "I'm too poor to buy cheap". Cheap crap often ends up being bought again and again, because it breaks so often.

I'm not convinced that raising the minimum quality floor would increase prices or make cheap products disappear. I give two reasons for that: one, manufacturing costs are usually only a fraction of the sticker price, and two, supply and demand - people of limited means are a market too, they have some money and want to buy stuff.

My biggest worry here is that companies could respond by changing their business model from selling stuff to "hardware as a service" - i.e. since crappy products are disallowed, we'll make only premium products, but we'll only rent them out.
I still haven't found an easy to remember command which prints journal log for the past 10 minutes.

While dmesg did that by default.
They were already making money with the planes they had, realistically they can't suddenly make £10s of millions more just because they have replaced those with new planes. They can buy/set up new routes but that's going to be more cost.

They only way I see it working is something with investors, but how does that work with a public company, surely not a new share class?

Most likely option I see is that this is mainly spin from Branson??
You framed the problem as a moral one. dguido framed it as an economic one.

You responded to his rebuttal with "I know how these things work, don't you know who I am?" reiterate position without adding any further points or addressing the opposing party's points

How is that not an appeal to authority?

I don't know who you are (and maybe that's why I'm the only one calling you out). If you are as influential in this space as you appear to be, it's important to take the initiative to present strong arguments rather than rely on your name.

Sorry to hear about the insomnia - I'm in the same boat. Hope it gets better.
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So read the section that relates to the late 1990s tech boom:

> The basic scam in the Internet Age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. Companies that weren't much more than potfueled ideas scrawled on napkins by uptoolate bongsmokers were taken public via IPOs, hyped in the media and sold to the public for mega-millions. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out 50-story windows and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

If you know something about that tech boom, you'll recognize this description as mostly (though not entirely) garbage. Given that, what gives you confidence in the rest of the article?
While it does little good for me to say it, that is something that probably needs to change. Failure to do this could lead to some skewing of labor markets. It is in the same category as taking the passport of a foreign worker and indentured servitude.

Workplace stack exchange has a few stories of these letters: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/relievi...
This uses the google contacts API to sync gmail contacts between accounts. Attempts to match on name or existing email, then updates or inserts the contact.
How can upgrading RAM or changing a broken fan in a laptop be more damaging to the environment than replacing the whole laptop? I just don't follow your logic.
> You are always going to get more money by going to the black market than by selling it to Apple. [...] , then Apple is kind of screwed as that person likely does not have much in the way of _morals_ [...] If you were morally OK with selling you really bug on the black market, Apple can't be going around trying to outbid _evil_,

(_emphasis_ was mine)

I agree with you that dguido has framed Apple's Bug Bounty program incorrectly. The money amounts are deliberately not structured as a incentive to build a remote "red team"[1] to do speculative work. (I would go farther to say it would be folly to attempt to create such a salaried red team to uncover security bugs since history has shown that many types of security exploits that come to light had leaps of creativity that exceeded the imaginations of the systems' designers.)

However, I'd add some nuance to your moral scenarios by stating that a sophisticated buyer of Apple bugs would not present it to the hackers as "selling to evil entities". Instead they're actually selling to the "good guys" -- it's just a different set of good guys from Apple. (E.g. Zerodium may in some instances act as a front to buy the bug on behalf of NSA/FBI/CIA).

The article talks about hackers that are willing to go to dinner with Apple and meet-&-greet Craig Federighi. Since these "security researchers" are willing to show their faces to Apple, we'd probably classify them as "white hat" or "grey hat" hackers instead of evil "black hat" hackers. Therefore, one way to persuade these researchers to sell the secret to the black market is to convince them they are still serving "the greater good"... it's just the black market group is paying $500k instead of Apple's $200k.

Summary of my interpretation of Apple's Bug Bounty:

1) Apple did not set it up to incentivize speculative work. This looks like an economic design flaw but but it actually isn't.

2) Apple is not trying to persuade immoral black hat hackers to sell to Apple. Apple already knows the amounts are too small to compete there. The audience they are trying to appeal to is the white/grey hats.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team
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Not to take away from your point, but in my experience the vast majority of C++ build pipelines even at major companies can still be improved. Few people enjoy 'improving the build', it often touches everything, and requires discipline to keep it working. Most of the projects I've worked on have been larger than Chrome, I've seen the compile time for BioShock Infinite go from 2 hours down to 15 minutes with serious work on header use, precompiled headers, and all the other tricks people use. Epic's build system is a pretty good example. There is even a older book, Large-scale C++ Design, that is specifically about this point.

Starting with a full build that initially takes hours and it shrinking to < 15-20 minutes and better seems pretty par for the course for truely large C++ projects. You don't get a fast build process for free, but if the team makes it a priority, alot can be done.

EDIT: Times mentioned were for a full build, often you rarely due a full build, incremental builds should be majority. Places that don't make incremental builds 100% reliable drive me crazy and waste so much developer time. This is common, but it's a lame excuse. Just do the work and fix it.
Not necessarily. In my own case, if I had known, I'd have hacked my now dead fridge. The new ones are below it in every department. The market can aim at stupid if it provides sales and profit; while old models were designed to be actually useful.

We even asked with a two doors large fridge was the same price as vertical-stack slightly thinner one, the salesman ended up admitting that it was because it's designed to be more practical (better volumes).
Same in Finland.
Maybe something like subtle memorization?
We need to accelerate our search for carbon capture technologies. AND prevent the effect of induced demand with carbon taxes!

https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/january/the-potential...

Or perhaps it came time to really have a conversation about which families are having 7-10 kids?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth
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