skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this assumes trusting a 3rd party wallet to not generate weak keys or backdoors, as has happened many times already

if you're concerned about security just use the official client
It could be a $10 operation you could do while walking, as on many older phones. But marketing studies indicate people initially like the look and feel of glued-up phones, and shortsighted capitalism is winning out in part because consumers have little choice and they are uninformed about the long-term consequences, like iOS throttling based on battery health.
Nothing to do with batteries. Planned obsolescence. They want you to buy a new iPhone.

Next time I'm going to buy a generic smartphone, like a Xiaomi.
2005.
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but going civil requires your own lawyers, while a criminal fraud case is initiated by the state prosecutor. if you can't afford a lawyer...
Most of the conversation in this thread is around engineering, IT, and whether grey hairs code better than non-grey hairs, and whether there is an ROI vis-a-vis money and time.

I'll add a few things about Sales.

Through an acquisition, I spent a few years at one of the largest enterprise software company. As a PM, I interacted with a lot of grey hair sales professionals--right from Key Account Directors to Sales Ops to Sales Engineers to National Account Managers. These were some of the finest. Thanks to their mentorship, I have not measured, but in 2 years, I became expert at navigating the buyers of software at large companies, doing calls, replying to RFPs, handling exceptions, and to a certain degree schmoozing.

Who else would you learn these from? Sales is not taught anywhere!
Setups like this completely invalidate any individual effort.
Or you could pick a "flat logarithmic" tax since the value of money is roughly logarithmic as it increases. Replace tax brackets with a simpler continuous formula that is the same for everyone.
AI used for selecting Courtroom Extras for Law and Order SVU Season 31.
as someone notes above, all Xen versions (including enterprise) are OSS so you can build and run them without paying for commercial support. the packages are just the supported, pre-built, “easy” path

VMWare has very little OSS, especially for their equivalents of Xen server. Id support KVM and co before VMWare just on those grounds alone

EDIT: clarity
While it would be great to see Berlin copy the UK cycling capital — Cambridge is brilliant in that regard — Berlin isn’t particularly bad. I’m looking for work in Berlin at the moment, and Berlin is less busy per square meter than any UK city I’ve been to (other than Ely, which shouldn’t count as a city).

Berlin traffic isn’t perfect, but on the other hand it is also more lawful than UK traffic, and less intimidating than CA traffic.
They do quite a lot?
Pretty dumb, like most "anti-piracy" time wasting. They should start releasing video DRM-free, if they want to do anything positive about it.
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I am not sure that agile is the right term for what you are both describing.

It doesn't mean releasing things before they are ready. Agile is about potentially shippable increments and customer collaboration. Again this doesn't mean testing in production.

While the manifesto was written for software, with minor changes it can applied to most industries. Even with hardware, agile principles can be used to iterate on design, not necessarily physical production.

http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
“The ACA was formulated in an almost entirely bipartisan way,“

While the idea for health exchanges initiated with repub policy people, the implementation is really different. So I don’t think it’s accurate to say the ACA was bipartisan. That’s why not a single republican voted for it, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2010/h165.

I suppose you could say that this bill is bipartisan because a democrat came up with the idea of lowering corporate tax rates. While true at face, the implementation is super different. Thus the zero democrat votes.

Interestingly, the ACA kind of set precedent for shoving stuff through with only a single party. If the ACA hadn’t been so super partisan, it would have been a lot harder to pass this bill.
You can click on any Trump tweet and see a myriad of bad jokes from blue-checked journalists who live in New York
According to a 2011 article[0], the US has (or at least had) the largest number of deaths per passenger-mile in the world.

It’s easy to overweight recent events. Can this be true? It feels like there’s a piece missing somewhere.

[0] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/06/02/comparative-ra...
Or like Facebook has with two different levels/color verification checkmarks. A gray check for verified business which doesn't mean much other than they verified a phone number, or a blue check for verified person/business/etc.. of greater importance.
>2 x86 64bit Cores

>2GB Memory

>50GB SSD Disk

wow, how are they able to offer this for 3 euro/month?
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>The more the practice is viewed with a shrug, the more it creates a dynamic where people believe it’s acceptable. And it’s not.

This kind of diktat is actually pretty comical. Social consensus is pretty clear on how little people care about this, but for cable companies isn't not only a profit impact but a deep moral wrong. Might they not have more success by understanding exactly this disconnect in mentalities over streaming services, rather than trying to pump petulant propaganda?
Xenserver in my experience at least the free edition is not as polished or stable as ESXi or even regular libvirt/KVM.

I experimented with the 7.2 Free edition and right from the installation not succeeding at first to many other things not working as expected it was not a very good experience. The management client UI is also Windows only I think and it's very sub par.

Given the new changes I wonder anyone would have any reason to run xenserver free edition. There's always ESXi, HyperV and good ole KVM (which maybe an issue if you run Windows server as a VM.)
Nothing in the article about a “rush to launch”. I would love all safety tech to rollout immediately but it doesn’t and it’s not reasonable to expect no new lines to launch. Pushing to delay installs for cost reasons though still doesn’t sit well.
I gave it a quick try - Coinsapp only seems to support a very few coins while there are plenty of portfolio apps out there that include pretty much every single altcoin out there (Blockfolio comes to mind).

For me, this is not yet the killer app that lets me track all my coins that are spread around various wallets and exchanges.

One more note: not all coins are bought, some are mined. It would be nice to have an option when adding a holding that it has been mined and not bought.
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I think all those laws are stupid, people will hire whoever they want, you can't force people to hire someone they don't really want. They should let companies discriminate as much as they want, if someone is valuable they will find a job, if not they won't. At the end of the day there are x amount of positions to fill up and y amount of people to fill those positions. Why do we care who is actually going to get the job, at the end of the day all people are equal and someone is going to miss, who said the old guy suppose to get it rather than the young?
Yeah this is worse than anything a newspaper has imagined doing in the last several decades.
My advice to graybeards: when somebody is excited about a new technology XYZ, don't say "oh, we did that 20 years ago and called it ABC". It annoys people, because generally XYZ has important differences that prevent ABC from being a drop-in replacement.

Instead you can say "that reminds me of a similar concept we used to implement using ABC", and quietly appreciate that you got a leg up in understanding because of your experience. If young people are smart and curious, they'll want to know more about ABC, and ask.
I recently moved my homelab to NixOS, since it lets me use the same system to manage the hosts and the guests declaratively.

I wrote up my approach at [1], in case you're curious.

1: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Virtualization_in_NixOS
Woodshed replied: https://medium.com/@jeff_52578/how-a-failed-kickstarter-camp...
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I love this!

> But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. “In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”
Can we just be honest?

Us older folks won't build things we know doesn't work against synthetic deadlines, then work overtime to fix what we knew wasn't going to work in the first place, while taking the blame politically.

Engineering has in my lifetime become "unwinnable." I'm either not "a team player" or "being negative" for planning for reasonable failure scenarios. Then politically I still take the heat when they happen.

This is not a quixotic aspect of engineering, it is a design feature at bad employers. "Heads I win, tails you lose"
Too expensive. And it then becomes too costly/inconvenient for the client to use. I discarded my Amex cards years ago, and have refused many bank offers for another Amex card ever since.
Why completely? is there room for marginal profits at the individual level?
Every CS student at Georgia Tech does this as their final Computer Organization assignment. One of the most memorable and instructive experiences of my undergrad, thus far.
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Interesting to know - so you're paying for the support contract, but just indirectly?

Makes me wonder if that gives Citrix an interest in opposing deterministic binaries.
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Counterpoint: http://www.kguttag.com
Unity probably accounts for 90% of the iOS games.
If you buy a car with a V8 engine, and after a few months it decides to become an L4 engine, without telling you, is that ok? The headline is completely correct.
This is a false premise, if they actually sell that way.

Newspapers used to estimate IIRC that each paper was viewed by an average of three people, therefore the advertising “reach” was standardized as such.

It’s all a bit arbitrary, in the case of paying for eyeballs, as opposed to clicks.

The only revenue they are losing that is real revenue is subscription revenue.
Sony has never really handled their online game service stuff well. This sounds incredibly bogus.
Most people don't understand boards and boards vary by company and over time. Brad Feld, author of the excellent Venture Deals, has another book Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors.

https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Boards-Getting-Board-Director...
Self-Driving Ubers Driving in Bike Lanes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TM-LGDt5M

The Pennsylvania Railroad had the equivalent of positive train control on all their mainlines by the late 50s. It's sad that we don't have it everywhere almost 60 years later
They are already the two most likely candidates involved who would want to sweep things under the rug. Bringing attention to those type of situations going on in the workplace, hell even less severe stuff like basic crime, is not what schools and businesses want to do.
On the 33c3 (last year‘s Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg), some folks brought their self made directional loudspeaker, mounted on a camera tripod.
They set it up so it hit the ceiling right above an escalator, so everybody on the escalator was rickrolled, but only for like 2-3 seconds. Short enough to get confused, but not long enough to be sure it was actually meant for them.

At the top of the escalator was a growing crowd of confused people looking around for what the hell did just happen ;-)
It’s totally believable. China and Europe both implemented some form of positive train control, largely because much of their passenger traffic runs on relatively new track designed for passenger traffic. In the US, we’ve not built significant passenger rail track in a century. The only part of Amtrak’s network owned by Amtrak is the northeast corridor. Key parts of that infrastructure date to the 1800s (e.g. the tunnel under Baltimore). Everywhere else, Amtrak runs in freight track.
This reminds me of the time the [1] Head of the Linux Foundation used an iPad to give a talk about the future of Linux on the desktop...

[1] https://itsfoss.com/linux-foundation-head-uses-macos/
That's not how things work. With the almost 0% interest rate do you really think that if AT&T found a worthwhile capital investment they wouldn't do it regardless of the tax plan?
Yeah, definitely, the focus that Jobs' provided was far more important than the tech.

I doubt Copland was going anywhere, though, no matter how much time they gave it. The underlying tech of NextStep was just so much better than the classic macOS assembly/pascal, cooperative-multi-tasking, single-memory-sapce, GetNextEvent() universe. Just too hard a problem to try to modernize while still so closely tied to MacOS in your mind...they needed to make a clean break.
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Cool! On a related note, having recently cracked open my old k&r c programming language book, I was reminded they cover a fairly complete implementation of malloc as a case study.
I really don't think that's the case here. This issue is probably related to the battery, but the fact that there was no notice indicates to me that there are ulterior motives at play here. Obviously their corporate-speak is going to highlight the one kernel of truth in the matter, and they'll never admit that this was done for the side-effect that it would have on sales of new devices.
> It's hard to build high-enough fidelity into the hardware at a reasonable price point.

It's more than that. With the current state of the art, it's impossible to make a "virtual monitor" that can match the display density of even a plain 1920x1080 display. You can make "giant spreadsheets", but only because you have to blow up everything to multiples of normal screen size for text to be readable in the VR environment.
If some options are more expensive than others then there are bound to be demographic differences, even if the more expensive options aren't better. But so what? What's so terrible about traveling with people outside your demographic?
Getting a bit off topic here, but I've always interpreted that aphorism differently, and apparently the history of the saying agrees with me.

I've always interpreted it as being a corollary to "actions speak louder than words". Simply saying something, or having the intention to do something does not mean it will actually get done.
looks like the story is deleted already.
There is a Finnish startup around using highres displays in vr https://varjo.com/
So Apple, in order to improve performance degradation due to aging batteries, is... throttling device performance.

Consider me not sold on this line of reasoning. It might be more believable if there had been transparency on that feature before it was found out. Say, if Apple auto-enabled low-power mode 100% of the time after X number of duty cycles. And allowed users to opt-out and simply run down the batter faster if desired. And it didn't happen to coincide with the drop-date for the next iPhone version quite so neatly.

So, color me skeptical on this one. Anyone aware of similar shenanigans on Samsung sets?
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> That's not even remotely true. Stocks are directly tied to the performance of a company providing goods or services. There's something you can directly gauge.

I'm no stock expert but isn't the majority of a stock's value due to speculation on what it will be worth one day in the future?

I think the parent made a valid point. Sure, stocks are generally easier to "gauge" (and therefore lower risk) but you're still just speculating that it's future price will be greater than it's current price after all.

Low-risk gambling is still gambling isn't it?
You had to go there, didn't you? You just had to say it. When we're all dead in a week, I'm blaming you.
I didn't write this blog post, and it was actually mostly written before the previous HN thread. It's not all me!
Unchained made int 13h easier than regular int 13h, but what about mode x was much more difficult to program? You got a faster display, square 4:3 pixels, and double buffering in 256 colors.
Strange because the price is nearly the same.
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I was in Valencia (Spain) a few weeks back. This city is one of the most ideal cities I have been to for cycling; flat, perfect climate, riverbed running right through the middle of the city, spacious roads and high density. One of the inhabitants told me they dedicated cycling lanes a year back or so. That was visible: They had painted bicycle lanes right over roads & pedestrian areas. I guess when the Valencian people start to see how much fun cycling ones life makes, Valencia will become the cycling capital of the world soon enough.

Berlin has quite some traits for a good cycling city as well. A flat geography really helps here, along with a willing population.
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"I just wish they'd been more transparent "

I don't see it as a lack of transparency. That smacks of underhand and fraudulent behaviour. I won't buy another iPhone.

In a similar vein, you can no longer move photos from your computer to your iPhone unless you subscribe to the paid Cloud service. iTunes will no longer allow you to do that.
The equivalent of Xen is ESX. It's been the gold standard for virtualization for a while and there is a free edition for as long as it existed.

Couldn't care less about open source. I'll prefer something that's free and works perfectly without hesitation.
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except that it's not hackers, but somebody else claiming to own the website.
https://clyp.it/01ylefbr
I like how its truncates at the end making it harder to identify what it is that you're hearing exactly. Smart move, if it closed with the last handful of notes I think it would have dawned on folks a lot sooner.
> I presume you wouldn't hire someone who expresses a strong distaste for your software stack, regardless of age (unless their job is specifically to replace it).

I'm not sure if I'd want to hire someone who is unable to point out valid criticisms of the technology stack I'm using.

People need to be aware of the limitations of their tools. I spent years in pure C, both complaining about it and singing its praises. Right now I'm in JS land, and I can do the same thing.

I started off in C#. No real complaints there, except for the lack of stack alloc, and that got added in the most recent version. :-D
How do you deal with sidecar containers in CronJobs (and regular batch Jobs) not terminating correctly?

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/25908
Every time I load a page on this website, Safari asks me “This form is not secure. Are you sure you want to submit it?” in a modal.

Very annoying.
I have considered this. Most things I do are in text editors and a command-line. I have iOS apps that I need to consider thinking about, but I also have a Mac Mini.

Let me ask, how is the hardware support on a MBP, say the latest Ubuntu? I like to be able to close my lid, toss my laptop in a bag and go. They open the lid and continue. Linux distros I tried to use as my main OS years ago never let this happen. Any other hardware support that is lacking? Touch pad, I have a Magic Trackpad 2 also, wireless, etc should be supported I would think.
It's crazy to think: you design a city for people, rather than cars, and the city becomes more livable.
I STRONGLY disagree.

My experience is that programmers who become "architects" and are only responsible for design and code review tend to go downhill in their skills. It SEEMS like an efficient way to use experienced people, but it is actually an anti-pattern. Their tendency is to develop ideas that sound good but don't work well in practice, and there is no direct way to correct the mistake. (Any time it doesn't work, the tendency is to blame the implementer. And there is usually enough to blame that their own contribution to the problem gets missed. You're less likely to miss the problem when YOU are trying to make the implementation work.)

In fact the problem is sufficiently bad that in interviews it is important to have people actually write code to show that they still can. When you get an "architect" who takes offense at the exercise, that's a non-hire. They might have been good 10 years ago, but they aren't worth hiring now.

This was something I'd sort of noticed, but didn't become conscious of until I worked at Google. There they were very conscious of the phenomena. Every programmer from the most junior to the most senior (for the record that would be Jeff Dean) writes code. If you're not willing to write code, you're not a hire.

That said, the exercise goes both ways. If I interview with an employer and I discover that they design things up front as UML diagrams, odds are that this won't be a workplace that I want much to do with. If I'm working in a job and they force me into an abstract architecture role like you describe, I'm going to quit and find a better job.
Except in the title and the first line? Did you read the same article I did?
"somewhat success of Microsoft in this arena"

MS has failed miserably. Windows phone is dead and Windows 8 was just a disaster. Windows 10 is just an attempt to salvage things.
Yeah, of course, the main thing is to test the rocket and that's valuable by itself.

But still, couldn't there be SOMETHING more useful to mankind than a giant paperweight to send into orbit around Mars?
And this is why I don’t pay for a Netflix subscription.

What is it with engineers willing to brainwash themselves regarding what constitutes a “good compromise” within the context of what their paycheck depends on?
That's a circular argument. On the other hand, all other disputes and infractions are handled in court. Say someone's daughter is sexually harassed on a neighbor's lawn. Is the lawn the place to investigate and punish the accused?
They should just keep verification as a technical thing, verifying that someone is who he claims to be, they can charge a small amount for the procedure and that's it, everybody happy.
As for all the other banning stuff, just take a queue from much smarter people, the founding fathers and apply the first amendment to Twitter. This way people can say whatever they want and they will not have to deal with all those procedures of who to ban and why. The American high court already ruled what is included in this first amendment so just follow their ruling and ban people if the break the low, simple.