skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is persistable malware that installs itself on your fresh windows [0]
I only use old thinkpads like the t420 (my x61 needs fixing) and w520. Coreboot on the t420 and soon on the w520.
Dell Laptops for work.
[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...
Thats rather cynical... Sure!! The team of privacy and security activists backed by internet hall of fame member Phil Zimmerman who created PGP and fought the US govt are all actually closeted evil capitalists just out to get everyones data..
As did I to the point of reading Stephen Hayes books on the subject, the history of Hattori Hanzo, and learning the martial arts techniques. I was a horrible child in retrospect I could take a long rope tied to a weight and use it to climb onto a branch 20 ft. in the air. Somehow I thought my parents would think this was "cool" and send me to Japan for more training. As it turned out I was grounded a lot :(
Apply static code analysis to apps for guarantees like "This app access your addressbook but never sends it to the internet".

Some of my ex-collegues were working on this: https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/publication.php?id=jodroid2015atps

Turn the research prototype into a practical tool. Hope to get acquihired by Google or Apple for their app store.
I think you have to separate:

- hard to use because governments willfully get in the way

- intrinsically hard to use.

The former is very easy to get around (it kind of being the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place).

The latter is a real hard problem for crypto that will require an entire generation to die off (those who can't understand and will never understand that using a 3rd party to manage your money isn't compulsory or even desirable anymore) before things evolve.
No, they're different physical locations.

From https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Conce...:

> Each AWS Region has multiple, isolated locations known as Availability Zones.

And from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-re...:

> Each region is completely independent. Each Availability Zone is isolated, but the Availability Zones in a region are connected through low-latency links.
OP here: I wrote this post to shed some light on everything I've learned about managing remote developer teams when you're nontechnical (as in you don't write usable code for your product).

I also wrote this to shed light on how we build product at The Lobby, in hopes that it will attract the candidate we're looking for to lead our engineering efforts in NYC.

Happy to answer questions or discuss anything here!
Nope. They aren’t even in the same city. For example, each of the AZs in us-west-2 are separated by about 50-60 miles.

This doesn’t list all the locations, but is a good map to get an idea:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=50.9584270000000...
Haha i love it
Iron Ox is hiring a Project Manager to help build the robotic farm
You're welcome! I also hadn't thought much about this topic before, which is one of the reasons why I shared this video. I did hear about the Minecraft subtitle/closed caption initiative back when development of it was active, but sooner or later forgot about it again.
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"carrying along more than a liter or two of water is just plain realistic." Well if you say so!

Also, I hike a ton, many miles up many mountains. 3 liters really isn't that much weight at all, many camelbak style products support that volume, and will get you through a pretty long and arduous day. In my experience 12-15 miles in hot climates.
Turkish breakfast and more broadly Turkish food is great. You don't need to go to this particular city to experience that. Though let's celebrate the funny ways word of mouth has to spread the news.
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Ambient Mode for Chromecast
Do you really think there are 100M people on the planet willing and able to pay for the absurd fuel cost this would require, just to shave off a few hours heading to a holiday or business meeting? There’s a reason that present day jets are so slow, and it’s not technological, it’s economical.
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You're okay with a society where people die on the street because they didn't have enough wealth?

How much money you have isn't a determinant of the moral worth of your life, it's not even a proxy. So why do consider it as a relevant detail in the allocation of healthcare?

Why should the obese, smoking trust-fund kid get the heart bypass but the obese smoking poor guy not? Liberalism (classical or otherwise) requires some base level at which we treat people as equals, it seems the ability to continue living would be about as base as we can get.
Additionally, it implies that data needs to be spread across 10,000 drives, which is unrealistic anyway.
The exploit vector for softmods is almost always WebKit, no matter how recently updated. The problem isn't open source software, but poorly documented corporate-maintained open source software.
Social media companies defend filtering practices before Congress
I'd be happy if Macs running Windows via Bootcamp had their touchpads work anywhere close to how they work under MacOS... identical hardware, but the software just falls short. Microsoft has a lot of money... makes me think this isn't a simple issue to solve.
You really should have health insurance when travelling around Europe. A friend of mine broke her arm and had a one night stay in a hospital in Germany. It came to €1000.

Her insurance were excellent and paid the hospital, in full, directly. The insurance company is STA - http://www.statravel.com/travel-insurance.htm
You're editing your ACPI tables, compiling the result, and telling the kernel to use it instead of what it gets from the hardware.
> The US government already pays more per capita (that is, more for every single living person in the USA) for healthcare than any other nation on earth.

The US also implicitly subsidizes all of the research and operations of the rest of the world. Over half the medical research in the entire world is directly funded by the US, and a significant portion of the rest is indirectly funded by sales in the US market. Biomedical and pharmaceutical companies in Europe make the lion's share of their revenues from the US, despite the US being half the population.

You can't compare the US and European healthcare markets without accounting for the fact that they're deeply interconnected, and the biggest beneficiaries of that interconnectedness are, in fact, European patients.
Unfortunately, most Americans don't know that bankruptcy courts will almost always protect retirement savings. If you're staring down a giant health care bill and have only retirement funds to pay for it, you should just file for bankruptcy. You'll almost certainly come out of it with your retirement savings intact.
>The chance they can recover all their data is only (1-0.003)^100000... Which means every customer suffers data loss :-(

You just made the same mistake you're criticizing. You assumed the 100K files were uniformly and independently spread. They're also likely clustered, and perhaps not even at the same data center. Given the variety of drives Backblaze uses, the drives are also not likely to all be the same model, so your failure method is also unlikely.

You also only looked at the case there are exactly 16 good drives. The proper failure estimate is 1 - (odds of 17 good + odds of 18 + odds of 19 + odds of 20). I'm not sure where you got the 20 x 19 x 18 part either. Did you mean 30 choose 16 or something like that? Using the proper 1-... method I get 0.00267, not 0.03.
So they had to work with a few algorithms and tweaks. I wonder if there would be value in exposing the GC (and alloc) iface so others can implement without recompiling the language. I would love to toy with a pluggable GC. Last I looked at .Net's when it was open sourced, it was a gargantuan cpp file. I know LLVM has it somewhat pluggable. We can see a lot of Go GC's work at https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/mgc.go but at quick glance, I couldn't see how I could plug in an alternative impl. Surely they had to build an experimentation abstraction to test their ideas, right? Or are GC's just so specialized and use so much internal knowledge that extracting a common iface is unreasonable?

Also,

> The math is absolutely fascinating, ping me for the design docs

Ping! Publish them please.
It‘s insane to see how the author is unwilling to give the touch bar a chance, even after they themselves gives exhaustive proof of Apple’s expertise in UI.
Yep - almost as scary as the stat that "40% of American adults can't cover a $400 emergency expense"[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/fed-survey-40-percent-of-adu...
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It's honestly easier to just create a bucket labeled 'beliefs' and make your own mental model of keeping track of which things are beliefs and which things are actual fact. You can still pull things out of the bucket and put things into it. It's just easier to manage that way, because you might have to deal with some statements that go from being empirically disproven to proven to disproven to proven and so on and so forth for a long time. Just a consequence of too much information and a brain that can't handle all of it independently.

Being able to trust others in their understanding is helpful but it's probably not going to help you sleep at night trying to figure out what you know and what you don't.
I think the point parent is making is that there's (nominally/supposed to be) smoothing across people too. The uncharitable description is that "healthy people are subsidizing sick people". Part of the reason we accept this is that each individual doesn't know whether she will get sick. She pays the premium, not because she knows she'll need it, but because she knows not having it is worse, if she gets sick. But the insurance also has price proportionate to the chance she will need it.

The more finely the chance it'll be needeed is known, the more closely individual prices will match the probability, and thus less smoothing will take place.
And when you learn about the government contracting and procurement process it gets even worse.
I don't think this is even S0 suspend. At least a few year ago thinkpads have already moved to something called IRST, Intel's "suspend to SSD after sleeping for several hours" at firmware level. See https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26022.html for details. I actually got it working with the latest kernel at that time but didn't feel comfortable using it because of all the horror stories with firmware level shenanigans.
Just for fun, here's my report of Nirvanix in 2008. I feel no problems sharing it since both NowPublic and Nirvanix is long gone. Let's just say there were reasons they went under:

1) Sideloading. I was unable to benchmark or even to get this to work. Images requested to be loaded from media-src.nowpublic.com to node4 @ Nirvanix never showed up. I showed my code to [nirvanixcontact] who said that the
code looked OK but someone did a load testing on node4 without informing Nirvanix and that steps are made so that such a situation won't occur again. He told me that the requests are not lsot but they still have not landed. Again, my code can be at fault and I would be happy to run a sideload example code.

2) Upload speeds. I have uploaded from d2 to Nirvanix 100 images each between 180-8584 kbytes totalling almost exactly 100 MB (101 844 931 bytes). The upload was a single HTTP request. The uploads took 18-19 minutes (I repeated the experiment). To give us a comparison I changed
the URL in the script to a one line PHP script on another server (at hostignition.com) which just echo'd the number of uploaded files. This took 16.25 seconds and echo'd 100 so seemingly the files landed.

2a) I tried to get another node via the LoginProxy method which we would need for uploads anyways. While LoginProxy itself did work, GetStorageNodeExtended
https://services.nirvanix.com/ws/IMFS/GetStorageNodeExtended...
always fails with ResponseCode 80006, ErrorMessage: Session not found for ip = 67.15.102.70, token = e7b00d25-fc35-431c-9437-9a4302767f46. Seemingly, does not pick up the consumerIP.

3) The image conversion itself is blazing fast though. These images took a total of 101.58 seconds to convert and this includes 300 HTTP requests (200 sent to d2 from Nirvanix, 100 to Nirvanix).
Tangent: you might want to stay away from the name "dasm" since there's a well known assembler with that name already[1].

1: http://dasm-dillon.sourceforge.net/
> In many states in the US, there actually are checks done for these things to make sure the car has had its routine maintenance performed... but they're not done by the insurance company. They're done by the government.

There are a whole lot of things that you can do to reduce your premiums for car insurance, homeowners' insurance, renters' insurance, and so forth. Those are determined by the insurance company, not by the government.
At what cost? Specifically, at what price point are the insurance co's limited to charge for PECs? Mandating w/o cost-controls is an invitation to charge as much as necessary to rid themselves of the liability, no? So my question is, where does it mandate what PEC costs are allowable to avoid abuse by providers?
Magnetized wire could be used to detect cancer
But he hasn't been imprisoned for ordering murder for hire, something he apparently still awaits a separate charge for in Maryland.

He's been imprisoned for amongst other things, "continuing criminal enterprise", and the transcripts of him talking about hits were presented at trial as at evidence that this involved preparedness to take extreme measures to protect his narcotics suppliers comparable to those of drugs kingpins, and not simply being an innocuous libertarian-inclined middleman who built a web platform people chose to buy and sell drugs on, or even your friendly neighbourhood pot-grower. His defence team had the opportunity to challenge the validity of that evidence in determining his guilt and sentencing for the crimes he was charged for and evidently did not succeed in doing so. The difficulties with targets being mostly anonymous (and in some cases possibly nonexistent) and the pseudonymous entity who offered supposed hitman services probably intending to scam Ulbricht might have made a prosecution for five specific instances of murder too uncertain to complicate the case with, but as evidence of Ulbricht's willingness in principle to purchase murders was it certainly relevant to the continuing criminal enterprise charge he was convicted of.

The only thing the authorities decided they could certainly convict Al Capone for was tax evasion. This did not mean that Al Capone was unfairly treated, it simply meant the tax charge were relatively straightforward to make stick.
The idea that the qbits choose which value they'll collapse to at time of entanglement is called local hidden variable theory, which John Bell disproved in 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory

In more practical terms, the theory also falls apart when you start doing more complicated things with entangled qbits than just measuring them, like quantum teleportation or error correction.
sites working just fine! find some other thread to troll..
Forgive me, but I'm struggling to understand how much useful work one could extract from a computer with only 32k of RAM. A microcontroller for an appliance, sure, but a mainframe? Could you tell us more about the work you were doing?
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Lenovo Service Engine was BIOS-level bloatware loading garbage into clean installs of Windows over HTTP. Lenovo's drivers were so bad that they couldn't get Microsoft WHQL certification, so their BIOS was sideloading them in a very unsecure manner.
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> How granular are the data fields per record (/person) ?

You can see a lot of the data they have on you yourself, by requesting your own report(s):

https://personalreports.lexisnexis.com/access_your_full_file...

I don't think you'll get everything they have on you this way, but I got a printout that included about a dozen individual reports when I made my request.
Why should freelancers be forced to become employees? And how is Lidl supposed to find suitable candidates, if - as I said - the most capable and suitable ones, are freelancers?
The incentive to say so is pretty clear: if he flies away, not only does the doctor lose a 15,000 costumer, he can also be liable if anything does go wrong.

Maybe he was indeed in no shape to fly, but he should have argued it properly in those days. Even now, it seems more like "it would have been awful to fly economy" and not "it would have been dangerous".
They are separate datacenters, I don't think they make any promises about how far they are apart from each other, but at least in some regions they are 10+ miles apart.

The AWS Cloud infrastructure is built around AWS Regions and Availability Zones. An AWS Region is a physical location in the world where we have multiple Availability Zones. Availability Zones consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-technical-content/latest/aws...
Sounds a bit like SEPA to me. At least that's how most donations and similar are handled here. AFAICT there's no need to have a special processor just to accept payments.
This is an outstanding list and should be required learning on every software manager's todo.

I can't tell you how important 3. is.
Fantastically actionable advice! Love the manual idea testing and leadership tips
What kind of project are you working on with Arc? Or are you just having fun for now ;-)
Oh boy have we have had success with tongue in cheek, at least 100 twitter messages regarding those flat earth examples on the tour page, incl. support emails from astrophysicists...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17486633
I could see something like "If you need to make an insurance claim, we'll provide you a lawyer and/or other professional bureaucracy wranglers to push the claim on your behalf." I'm not sure of the exact best pricing model, but it could save the customer some serious money to have a professional involved in the claim, and arranging it ahead of time in case you need it seems reasonable. Probably this is just having a specialist firm on a specific retainer contract.
> The thing is most of us already subsidize the healthcare industry. The hospital has to treat someone in an emergency if they take medicare or medicaid.

The "subsidies" run the other way. Medicare reimbursements do not cover COGS, which means that providers cannot sustain themselves solely on Medicare reimbursement rates; they need to take privately-insured patients (whom they charge dramatically more) in order to stay afloat[0].

These costs get passed on to privately-insured patients in the form of higher premiums.

[0] Medicare acknowledges this, and in fact, Medicare even runs multiple stipend programs to essentially pay extra to hospitals who don't see enough privately-insured patients that they can make up the difference. If they didn't, those hospitals would close, because you can't lose money on a per-patient basis and still run a practice, even if you managed to recruit doctors, nurses, and staff who agreed to work for free as volunteers.
Because of the expense it will have to start off as QCaaS. You send the really hard part of your problem to whichever person actually has the hardware and they'll return the answer. If you are concerned with them not knowing your data, there are workarounds to that as well. So available to general public in a weaker sense.
If you run through the ~15 years of my blog, Fight Aging!, you'll find scores of promising lines of work that never made it much further than the initial reports. Medical science has a huge chasm of death between research and commercialization. It is comparatively rare for failure to proceed to be a matter of technical failure. Other causes are, I think, more common.

Part of this is that researchers don't know how to launch it, and most are not entrepreneurial. Part of it is that many technology transfer groups are like dogs in a manger, toads squatting atop things they'll never put any effort into helping along, and whose job in life is to make it slow, expensive, and hard to deal with their IP. Part of it is that funds, VCs, and to some degree entrepreneurs sit around waiting for something to be handed to them, nicely packaged.

I think most of the fault is with the funds and the incubators. They have the money to craft a solution, to make a landing pad for scientist outreach, to give them a beacon to aim at. They can reach back into the research community to a much greater extend. They can build BDCs that increase the ratio of projects:entrepreneurs that can be tackled profitably. But very little of this actually happens.

My company, Repair Biotechnologies, has found two immensely promising technologies for human rejuvenation that have been in the first case dropped on the floor at the chasm of death, never carried forward, and in the second case died because the institutions involved couldn't convince their funding sources to back the incredible potential of the work. This happens. Many institutional sources of funding don't want to see biotech barnstorming, don't want to see imaginative, radical new directions. They shut it down.

All of this combines to form a dysfunctional environment in which knowledgable entrepreneurs can pick up truly revolutionary projects, but there really needs to be institutional change that only bigger organizations and wallets can bring to bear.
I agree that this is not the core issue in this post, and we shouldn't turn this into the classic Mac vs. non Mac that leads nowhere, more so when there is a guy/girl who actually volunteered to fix the driver issues.

I reacted to the comments bashing Linux and such, because I cannot relate to the level of discomfort that people express with their non-apple touchpad. I mean, I use Linux and I use those same shitty touchpads, but I do my work just fine and don't stress about it. I mean, if you think your touchpad is shitty you should try the Lenovo x220 one, it's terrible lol.

What I wanted to understand is what are the uses cases of users like you, where you get to the point of hating a touchpad and make you work slower. Maybe the way I use the mouse it's pretty basic and I need to up my game with multi-gesture magic. But all I need from a mouse is: interaction with my desktop environment, scrolling, copying and pasting text, some basic image editing, and using the office suites which require a lot of mousing. And I can do that with almost every mouse/touchpad.
Intel Management Engine is worse than secretly installing an SSL MitM and sending browsing data to an adware company run by former Israeli spies? Give me a break.

Intel ME is worrisome. Lenovo's behavior was actually malicious. There's kind of a difference.
Fair enough, I'll check out the book.

I'm not trying to argue that ancestors were smarter.

For our own political purposes, it's probably best if the narrative becomes "all of our ancestor societies binged themselves to collapse, so we need to be very careful about our own habits" although it's not exactly true that all groups did that.