skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say "do you have proof?". But nobody can have proof beforehand. That's how these things always go -- something is done under cover and later (usually much later) somebody uncovers it and shows it to the world. Why do you ask of a proof that can't possibly be in the spotlight right now? Many historical facts have been denied and met with skepticism and mockery until they have been proven to be indeed facts. Why is this case different in your eyes?

Why aren't you viewing the possibility of intelligence agencies ordering the Intel ME as one of these future historical facts? If the proof for that became known today, both the agency and Intel would scramble to introduce a better backdoor in the next generation CPUs / MBs and devise a marketing campaign to make it sound good -- and to bash their former selves for "making a mistake" while simply thinking "OK, we're gonna cover it up much better this time and we're gonna twist it in such a way that people would flock to buy it". It's what marketing and spies do; they twist facts. Why is that so non-legit for you?

Furthermore, you're asking why didn't they do a better job if it was a conspiracy. People in closed circles aren't exposed to public criticism and their thinking is affected in the process. They usually think "meh, good enough, nobody will ever find it anyway". They are humans like you and I and are susceptible to bad days or negligence due to being tired. Furthermore, it's very likely they were under pressure to make it work quickly so they took shortcuts. What makes you think the programmers of the intelligence agencies have godlike powers over their (very likely) military superiors? Answer is, they don't. Programmers have no executive powers and their counsel is usually met with skepticism if it doesn't fit the management's agenda.

When talking about intelligence, our best bet is to do educated guesses. If we had hard facts we would be targets. As mentioned in another reply of mine directed at you -- it's their job to hide the facts. So you requesting proof of these matters is basically refuting all possibility of intelligence agency commission of the Intel ME on the grounds of "hey, you are not the next Edward Snowden so your arguments are invalid".

Meh. You come across as a guy who basically says "my speculation is better than yours". Not constructive.
I recommend reading about Shamir Secret Sharing. You could have a system setup such that (for example) you give 16 friends each a code and 9 of your 16 trusted friends all have to work together in order to get the original secret.
> Government employees tend to excel at working organisational politics

I think that any large bureaucracy, including ones in big corps, attract people like this.
Applying SIP on the KEXT makes sense, since any KEXT that’s writable by the user is a huge security risk. The only thing that appears to be broken here is the BlueStack uninstaller that is apparently not SIP-aware. There’s probably some way to do the SIP procedure you did to install the app in reverse.
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I'm from a small city in a poor region of the UK. I find that many friends from that area work either at the local council or the NHS (hospitals etc), Education or decentralised government agencies e.g. Tax, vehicle licensing, immigration etc. They tend to be one of the few employers with highly skilled work available in those areas for people who don't want to or won't move to more affluent areas where the big companies are located. This is a primary reason for people working for the government and I'm sure this is true in small town US too.

Not for me, I moved to London as soon as I graduated, but later moved back to a medium sized city, as a compromise.
It will not. A lot of people, even very rich, use Bitcoin as a store of value, something like an electronic version of gold.
>>I generally despise the concept of ~infinity recurring payments, I want giving someone money to be an active thought.

And I generally despise the concept of having to actively think about things like this, I want to sign up for it and forget about it

I also sign up for automatic bill pay, and put most of my bills on a reoccurring schedule when ever possible.
That's delusional. When a surgeon sees he can make $2M at one place and $40K at another to subsidize the janitors, only a complete moron would choose the second option.
> I never said it was. My comparison would be on termination for dissatisfactory work.

My comment applies to that too: One fired out of hundreds of people I've worked with.

It costs money to hire and fire people all the time - most of the time chances are good it's cheaper to shift people around than get rid of someone to hire a replacement.

> Regardless, the attitude that poor performing people can just be reassigned and/or languish seems to be one held exclusively by those working for companies that can absorb waste (or governments).

In my case my career has been almost entirely startups. It's worked fine.

> But you're telling me and other SMBs that now in my small business of 6 people I can just move people?

That's how it's worked in every small company I've worked in.

> Or otherwise that I now have an unhealthy corporate culture?

Yes. I for one - as someone generally seen as high performing - would leave if I found myself in a company where people got fired all over the place. I don't want to work in that kind of toxic environment. As such you're creating additional risks when you keep firing.

> Though your intentions and sympathy are admirable, the approach has led to corporate bloat and an inflated supply of employees in the field (at least in software).

I work in software, and as I mention, I'm not seeing it. What I keep seeing are low performing people who often become good at obscuring how poorly they perform because they know if they stick their head out, they'll face the axe rather than a chance to find a better fit.

And many are very good at it. I've had CV's from people with very distinguished careers that couldn't code fizzbuzz if their life depended on it.

A sign of how dangerous that is, is how often I see people call out e.g. performance improvement plans or training plans as a "trick" that will get you managed out. Because some places they are used mostly to get rid of people rather than to improve people.

It sets up an extremely adversarial environment, and I suspect that given a perpetual lack of understanding of the need to actually provide proper training and support for new managers in tech, that peoples capability to obscure low performance far exceeds managers ability to root it out most places.
The US system allows one party to freeze out another for periods of time due to control of different chambers. There were government shut downs under Obama.. I think that shows how terrible the US system is at the moment.

Other countries like the UK and AU will typically have the ruling party in control of a majority. The US seems to almost always be running some sort of minority government due to loss of one of either the senate or house.
Wow this a great explanation! The level of complexity is higher than I thought at first. Thanks for this!
Yeah, IE has at least two parts: "mshtml.dll" which is the rendering engine, and "iexplore.exe" which is the UI frame around it. On my system mshtml is 23MB and iexplore is 800kB, so I think we can infer where most of the logic is.

Microsoft made the integrated help, "active desktop", and I think a few parts of Explorer depend on mshtml.dll.
Found a source: https://www.apple.com/batteries/service-and-recycling/
It will show in details regarding the price/payment here (Netherlands)
Beats getting unexpected extra costs suddenly added for me personally... and in Amerika when eating out you even have to pay part of the salary for the staff afterwards...
Can you back this up? I googled and didn’t find anything relevant.
> Atlassian already plays well with Github and other services. So you can have your cake and eat it too.

This is really the benefit of Atlassians wide product funnel at the top. JIRA might be the Worst Thing Ever, but it can be configured to needs and integrates well with most-everything. In a lot of Enterprise scenarios the most win/win solution can be using JIRA as your default and master data while teams and projects are using integrated too stacks.

That way your suits can have standard tooling across the board, your sensitive issues are all registered in an on-prem installation, and your dev teams are free to find The Right Thing for them.

Atlassian/JIRA is a platform as much as a product. With its integration story and plugin market you don't need to swallow it whole parcel, and it's easily an industry leader in that regard.
I read this in Sir Humphrey’s voice. Thanks for that.

You’re not wrong though. I know someone denied an MOD posting because they were Irish and had a chemistry degree.
my guess is that the cache tags or tlb entries loaded on failed speculative accesses are wrong (maybe the valid bit is set but the address wasn't changed, or the user/supervisor protections are munged), that could leave you with a cache line or page tagged as user accessible but really protected kernel data
Considering you make it into 15 years of usage I think the price might be well worth it?

CRT in the old days, especially Sony's Trinitron CRT were extremely well designed and well made. Pretty much like ALL "Made in Japan" electronics sold were designed to last. I have a LCD TV from Sony that is now on 12 years of services, still going strong.

But as tech improves it seems the life expectancy of the product are taken less into account.

I would bet the Sony CRT monitor will out last my Sony LCD TV. And OLED is only going to be worst.
I believe it's this one: https://blog.xenproject.org/2012/06/13/the-intel-sysret-priv...
Only "better" in the sense that tax withholding is, i.e. it hides just how much of your money the government seizes.

A friend of mine has a print of a painting showing soldiers around a large container holding goods and money that citizens were being forced to pay in tribute. The central figure in the painting is a man--I think his family is with him. I don't remember whether the painter shows him actually putting something in the container or not, but he's looking daggers at those guarding the tribute and enforcing its collection. That look reflects how people should think of paying taxes, and things like VAT and tax withholding that lull the host into not realizing just how much he or she is being taken for need to go away.
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> Although Java has a huge standard library, if you don't use a lot of third-party libraries, you will be viewed as a non-professional Java programmer.

The standard library is where modules go to die. The fact that this phrase originates in the Python world tells you that this isn't a Java peculiarity.

> Most popular Java tech stack look open sourced, but are backed by lots of money provided by many companies with bad reputations on pure open source culture.

The sad reality is that those companies are the only organisations that commit serious resources to open-source development, outside a couple of specific niches (web development, unix-like OSes, scientific research up to a point). Those stacks aren't open-sourced in other languages, they just don't exist. And the whole point of open-source is that it benefits everyone regardless of how pure or otherwise the original motives were.

> the library use way of Java, by putting library jars into your projects, is not good as the way of other languages, by putting library sources into your projects. By putting library sources in your projects, you can view how the libraries are implemented easily. Yes, you can also put Java library sources into your projects, but the main stream culture of Java doesn't recommend to do this. Just look at maven.

WTF are you talking about? You declare your maven dependencies and they can be resolved as source or binary. In eclipse I can click through to any library function and see its source immediately. (It's one of the best dependency-management systems going, in any language; there's a single central repository that everyone uses in practice, but it's easy to run your own if you want. It's years ahead of everyone else in terms of package signing. There are multiple independent codebases using the same repositories, not just in theory but in practice).

> [edit 2] just my personal opinion. I don't like the way to use a separated VM to run many apps. This makes it is hard for me to use a different permission setting for each app. Sometimes I want to block a Java app to access network, but I must block the whole Java VM to achieve this.

Again completely normal - Python, Ruby, C#, OCaml... will have exactly the same issue. Get a better firewall.
Do CRT monitor, given today's technology advance, still offers any benefits? Does it still wins on colouring and latency when we have OLED?
> you got dedicated äöü keys on your keyboard?

Yes, the German QWERTZ layout has 3 dedicated keys for äöü. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/KB... (just left of the Enter key).

However, the virtual keyboard I'm currently writing ^W swiping this on does not have dedicated keys for them. I have to long-press [a] to get a popup with variants, including [ä].
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I'd add that meeting and interacting with international students is one of the perks of going to a good university. It expands your worldview.

This is true for business degrees especially -- it's all about making connections with people who can help you in your career for decades afterwards.

I think it applies to science and arts degrees too. Certainly if you stay in academia, having international academic connections can be very useful.
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Government wants to have two kinds of people: The mediocre slackers, because they usually don't break stuff, and people who really believe in what the government stands for. Both are coming to you independent of having the best pay or not.

Therefore I think government jobs shouldn't even compete on pay. In some areas they are higher than the free market though, and this is actually weird.
1 and 3 seem like a weird form of colonialism.
A few years back I booted my beloved diamondtron. It felt ... better. It's no scientific measure, but even compared to 4K OLED, there's something pretty that is visually pleasing. Kinda like looking at kodachrome films.
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As well as, what was the first wave of "Electron" apps, thankfully largely ignored.
On the other hand, I've probably used A instead of Å at least 500 times in the last couple of days alone. It seems like a fair assumption if the word fits when changing.
Did you do know the median US wage is $31,000?
replace prison with getting fired and you have the same in the industry.
Exactly, right? Maybe they are not even angry about losing the analysts.
The US IS the greatest country in the world (* AT salesmanship *). That about sums up the concept of "The American Dream" for me.. their government is extraordinarily good at selling certain worldviews & suppressing others, both to their own citizens and to the world. Turns out that salesmanship, psychological influence & media control is a pretty powerful combination. They even routinely manage to sell invading & plundering other nations as "defense".

Its a brilliant idea to sell to your citizens as a nation or industrial tycoon... that "we are the greatest because of hard work, hard work implies success, and success implies hard work", and then watch your citizens/employees define themselves by work so that the nation/corporation gets wealthier and more powerful. All the while common sense (or statistics) will tell you that money begets money & power begets power, the rich get richer and the poor usually stay poor. Unfortunately the American Dream idea is not always good for the workers themselves but the people selling the idea were not too concerned about that :) They simply sell just enough mental health care to keep you productive but docile on the side!
The NHS has been failing for at least the last 25 years.

We've had labour, lib-dem/con and conservative Governments and countless health ministers in all this time.

I fail to see the political connection?
They didn't. They compared a hello world app with minimal GUI (implemented with Electron) to a hello world app with minimal GUI (implemented with Java).
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And who are you? Working for a hospital or something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8gaoEQqoA8

Your website can't be reached btw.
How does double_of_uint work? Float 5.0 and (u)int 5 have different representations so you can't just do static type change and get correct result, you need a runtime conversion. I suppose it might be special cased in the compiler, but in that case it's bit of a poor example.
The phrase possibly originates originates from the old quip, "ISO standardization is where languages go to die".
Why? Those characters are not used in the Swedish language.
With the speed of development in government organisation one could wonder if the current fallout is Trump's fault or Bush's faulth, though.
We do not know the details about the bug, it may not be the RAM chips but from the AMD dev commit it seems that Intel CPUs perform some insecure optimizations.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, cops are lynched by a mob of blacks and arab thugs for daring to respond to a call for help (Champigny in France on New Year's eve).

It's a different part of the world...
On 6 June 1523, Gustav Vasa was elected king of Sweden. Swedes celebrate this date as “Svenska flaggans dag”

I doubt even 10% know when this occurs, or why.
The point is that white rice alone has a high glycemic index but eating it with vegetables makes a huge difference:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-white-rice-is-linked-to-...
Consider it has such bad reputation and public image, and subpar salary this is not surprising at all.
I agree the sum total cost may be significantly different but I was simply acknowledging that inefficient health care administration wasn't purely an American phenomenon.
It's satire, and a little funny. They have the correct pronunciation for Norwegian at least, it's similar enough in Danish and Swedish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f488uJAQgmw
That is the true counter-point here. Even if one person protects themselves better they are so connected to several (or many) others that the overall protection gains are miniscule.

And this is not gonna change before a huge paradigm shift in network protocols and network apps.
> It seems like it's pretty hard for the government to compete with private industry in compensation. Federal pay grades are capped by Congress, and the top grade is around ~$150k a year [1]. And note that since it's the top of the scale, you have to start people off lower so that there is salary progression.

> Pretty sure a top cryptographer or security expert should be worth several times that, especially if they are also dealing with classified information and safeguarding all the data collection (e.g. if the NSA is going to spy on us, wouldn't you like that to be as secure as possible?).

I don't want to deny your argument, but as I often write on HN, the "interesting salary metric" is not the salary per se but "salary minus cost of living [in the respective region where you work]". I would bet that the costs of living are much lower near Fort George G. Meade than in the Bay Area.
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Data >> anecdotes

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Posted and discussed 4 months ago (254 points/39 comments):

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For the benefit of the kids, let me dredge up how these used to be lovingly pronounced "tri nitron". :)
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You are missing a very important point which is that the US is a country of immigration and of different states and the US is a very very very big country.

You can't compare it to Holland or Denmark or even Germany. These solutions won't work here.

America IS the land of opportunity and I would challenge you to find any other country which provides better opportunity and still protect your rights as well.

Edit: The land of opportunity doesn't mean the land of equality and the expression was never intended to be that.

America is not egoistic it's just a very hardcore country because it's built on top of people who with their lives at stake started exploring and setting up local societies.

So the country is build on tough women and men. They aren't more selfish or egoistic than any other person, their reality is just different than a little country like holland or my own (Denmark).
What's with the use of female pronouns? I've seen it third time this week I think, referring to an imaginary/unknown developer as a woman. Isn't the norm to use "they" if one wants to avoid using specific gender?
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This is a very good point. I recently moved to Denmark, and the biggest cultural shock is the huge trust Danes have with their public sector..
Meld is another popular Linux one, but I've somehow always been more confused than helped by the 3-way diff.
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Our company is switching to bluejeans. I'm optimistic because they actually appear to support linux. I made the switch from OSX to linux laptop last spring. I can do almost everything I did before... except share screens easily.
Not as far as I can tell.

My backout plan is to manually copy over all the artists I'm following. It'll take an hour or two, and I'd have to remember which of their albums I liked the most.

For custom playlists? Currently you're shit out of luck, you'll have to do it manually.