skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One incident, three years ago, which came to nothing in any event? I think we must differ in our definitions of 'enough'. Are we looking at an established pattern of behavior which is suggestive of current intent? Or are we instead looking at a single moment of excess, whose outcome provided a salutary lesson since taken firmly to heart? There's not enough here to know - the claim has yet to be substantiated, if substantiation there be.

eta: As it happens, I'd take Alex Jones's patch, too. But I would require it be resubmitted anonymously, and without inflammatory verbiage. If not so resubmitted, I would not merge it. Yes, it does the project a disservice to reject good code. But software, like every made thing in the world, is made by people. It is not unreasonable for me to look at the sort of people who attend upon Alex Jones, and then at the sort of people who find his presence so distasteful that they will not associate themselves with anything he's touched however fleetingly, and decide which sort of people I prefer to include, by my actions, in my pool of potential contributors. If the latter group seems to me to be more likely to contribute good code, then I'm not going to put them off by having Alex Jones on my contributor list. If that costs the project a good patch, then that cost is still less than the other - if I've evaluated correctly, and if the patch has merit, someone not so divisive will submit another like it before very long.

Of course, most people don't give a damn either way, and mainly just want to do the work they're doing and land their changes with a minimum of fuss. Which is more or less the point that I'm trying to make here: this is neither an attempt to install a blood estrogen titer in the code review process for Linux kernel contributions, nor to ensure that Linux kernel development is a clubhouse admitting only pale penis-bearing people of power. Everyone attempting to make a substantive contribution, of whatever sort, to the process, is doing so in good faith, out of a genuine belief that their contribution will improve the quality of the result. But I appreciate that's hard to keep sight of, when Twitter and ESR and /g/ join in, in their inimitable fashion to add only heat and no light.
Does that actually matter in practice? I don't remember the last time those files actually caused problems, other than the fact that they take non-zero disk space.
Intel's HAXM is a lightweight hypervisor (supervisor in charge of VM supervisors) that is so lightweight because it is primarily a thin wrapper around hardware support (which should seem unsurprising given Intel's direct involvement), bypassing the Operating System (for the most part).

Microsoft's Hyper-V is the hypervisor platform built into modern versions of Windows and which shares/follows (for the most part) Microsoft's overall Platform APIs and Driver APIs, making for a better communication channel between Hyper-V and the usual Windows supervisors/kernels when hosting Windows virtual machines. (Similar to the integration services offered by other hypervisors like VirtualBox, with the "magic" that such services are easier because the OS and the hypervisor share very similar "languages" already.)

Microsoft's Hyper-V is also the base component for other systems such as the Windows Container Platform, some of Windows 10's more optional enterprise sandboxing systems, etc.
WTF. I had no idea. That is insanely helpful. Thank you for making my daily life better.
Package repositories and their versions across the distros
> I'm going to invite everybody to think like
a game theorist for a bit.

I knew from this line that this post was going to anger me.

I was right.

> It is perfectly consistent to be pro-tolerance and pro-inclusion while believing this subculture ought to be all about producing good code without regard to who is offended by the process.

It's not.

> That last paragraph may sound like I have strayed from neutrality

Is he really writing this and claiming to be neutral? This reads very much as an anti-CoC message.

For example,

> If the normativeness slider is set low, the group as a whole will tolerate
behavior that some people in it will consider negative and offensive.
If the normativeness level is set high, many effects are less visible;
contributors who chafe under restriction will defect (usually quietly)
and potential contributors will be deterred from joining

having to work within a code of conduct will cause people to chafe and leave, but he mentions nothing of the idea that having someone treating your horribly will cause you to leave.
"...have logic flows having no obvious connection to one another, or transition through async handlers connected by a convention which isn't immediately obvious to the developer"

This is very true. I hate parsing code written like this, or code written using a mashup of concepts, requiring mind gymnastics to fathom an implementation of a solution to a relatively simple problem. It makes the job so much more unnecessarily difficult.

Points for simplicity if you ask me.
It's a shame that this is where identity is going. Google had such a great opportunity to do this in an open way by making this a more extensible format...perhaps by dusting off OpenID. Identity is probably the most under-built part of the web, and anything Google could do to positively move that forward would've been hailed as a huge improvement.

Instead, because it's closed, it'll set the web identity conversation backward...hopefully it doesn't set it back too far.
XMLHttpRequest was nice but hardly necessary, you could do same thing with frames. Just another little trick so Outlook Web Access would suck on the standards browsers. Oh, and of course it required ActiveX for no reason but to limit it to the Windows platform.
Why, good you asked: a native app called NewPipe [1] which eats Youtube URL's and plays videos (and allows the download of such), no more - and that includes no ads - and no less. It only sends such data as needed to get the video. Lately it has started to support Soundcloud as well, I have not tried this yet.

[1] https://newpipe.schabi.org/
It's faster, but still incredulously slow. For example, when you launch it it's just a black rectangle for 3-5 seconds (2018 Macbook Pro). And the UX is all over the place, with 3-4 different ways to go back/close whatever you're looking at. The way you navigate reviews with side-swipes might sense on a phone but makes no sense whatsoever on the Mac.

You can tell it's made to spec and with zero developer love softening the rough corners, because no developer who cares would make a full-screen screenshot view mode you cannot exit with Esc.
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It's more hidden after iOS 7. If you want to start looking, check old GSCapabilities and go from there.
This article makes me wonder if adding FPGA units to existing CPUs and GPUs that integrate with existing silicon makes a lot more sense than having a completely separate FPGA.
We're starting FIDO2/U2F only, but we'll have the possibility to upgrade the firmware. PGP/SSH are the top feature requests, so we'll add them right after the Kickstarter -- unless the community builds them first.
Actually owning your music and storing it on your devices in open formats helps even more.
I will fight and die for the Five Eyes... The best, most sophisticated nations on earth. The Five British Countries: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, UK, US. Everywhere else? Protohuman. The Five Eyes combined with all other European nations are the best places to live on earth. We respect private property and human rights. Anglo Saxons for the win!

People don't realize only 15% of the world is free.
>>Don't get "voilà" confused with "viola". One means "there it is" and the other is a tiny string instrument. Yes, I did spend two hours drawing a viola just to mention that

madness,
This really is whataboutism. Two things can be differently oppressive at once, and if you don't push back actively the line moves on you.
> I do not believe we have any framework for understanding paedophilia, let alone any category for all other forms of child abuse.

So, I'm saying perhaps there is something to be learned from examining the problem in depth rather than taking a "shoot on sight" sort of stance. Nothing about that required there be some single unifying framework, it's simply calling for an evidence based examination of whether there are methods that have a more beneficial outcome than that.

E.g. In the case of trying to reduce crime in general, you can increase criminal punishments or you can try to prevent people from becoming criminals. I suspect the latter is a better return on investment socially, and for the victims and criminals in particular.

> There is a framework for understanding say schizophrenia, and so potential for a cure

Good! All the more reason to look for additional frameworks that can help in other types of situations.

> Till then we should treat them all as crimes and prosecute accordingly

I'm not sure anyone here has said they shouldn't be prosecuted. I certainly haven't. I'm confused as to why you keep bringing it up, since it seems to assume people are arguing against treating sexual child abuse as a crime. Who here is proposing that?
It'd be difficult to get all the holes lined up correctly
Actually they do if they cause the opposing side to justify the cost of not acting. Everything new has possible unintended consequences or side effects. Do you oppose everything new because of what might happen?
> This is usually followed up by a request to ignore the entire line, which is one of the worst habits you can have as a developer.

It is usually a request to ignore it for now, because "we will get into each part latter". I fail to understand what is so bad about it. It's just not practical to provide all the theoretical foundations upfront, and postpone practice to the second semester.

Up to this day, I still think that the easiest way for me to learn a new language is to copy some hello world, and replace one line after the other once I get why they are there.
Integration of cpu and fpga has been done for years.
I believe that the point being made by the person you're replying to isn't to avoid acting until future effects can be perfectly foreseen, as that milestone will generally never be reached. Rather, the future effects of an action should be evaluated to a level befitting the severity of the potential consequences.

Put another way, if something can be trivially reversed and can't reasonably be predicted to result in any severe negative effects, then not much analysis is called for. On the other hand, if something can be reasonably expected to have a lasting impact, particularly a negative one, careful analysis prior to action is much more important. In cases where it's difficult even to articulate the approximate range of possible effects, a thorough analysis becomes extremely important.
1. Install multiple ROMs on your device.

2. One of the ROMs would, essentially, be a dummy device which would have the Jingwang spyware as enforced by gun.

3. The other ROMs would not.
Not at the beginning. We're starting FIDO2/U2F only, but we'll have the possibility to upgrade the firmware. PGP/SSH are the top feature requests, TOTP we'll have to look into it, if the way yubikeys are doing it is open, we're happy to be compatible.
They were pretty good about only putting the CD swaps only in major area transitions. Anytime I saw one of the magnetic rail trams, I knew it was time to get the disc box out and prepare for a swap.
This sounds very similar to the layoffs that happened with ML and computer vision staff at Shutterstock. I heard it was a super unprofessional sudden thing, poor severance, no continuation of benefits, happening to teams that just had been praised for being high performers for short term business critical product deployments.

It’s not a gaming industry thing, and no job segments are safe from this kind of thing. Just a reminder to insist on a clearly stated severance package when you join, and walk away if an employer won’t offer that to you, no matter what you think about your personal leverage in the situation or your seniority or anything else. When it comes to generous severance that is stated in the employment agreement, do not take no for an answer.
"Everything you've said may be true, and yet your comment is still a perfect example of whataboutism."

The initial topic of this thread is China, not the US, so it seems to me that criticizing China cannot, by definition, be whataboutism in this particular context.

I'm not personally inclined to dismiss things as "whataboutism" as though it were an automatic debate ender, but if you do, then you have to restrict your discussion to China's sins in this thread.
I hope Chinese party collapses.

If a large illiberal and totalitarian state can succeed and thrive then I fear our own nations will soon follow that path.
Even if your premise is that we should prioritize human life above all else, there's still a very good reason to consider the effect of eliminating any species on the rest of the ecosystem before we just pull the trigger. It's really easy to imagine a scenario where eliminating this mosquito ends up being more harmful to human life than leaving it in place.
Here's the deal, you need to use both: (1) a bottom-up Agile, and (2) a top-down estimation approach.

You need to do them at different times and for different reasons. The top-down estimation at the start of a project needs to be done to the lowest level of detail necessary to get a Go/No-Go decision made. You can't realistically start an Agile-managed project without understanding where $10k is in the ballpark of $10M. That's just foolish. This top-down estimation needs to be done to the level-of-detail and accuracy required by your Go/No-Go decision.

Then, on a day-over-day basis, you use Agile to manage the actual project operating process. (I'm speaking loosely here, of course, as long as Agile makes sense.) This allows you to be dynamic week-over-week and respond to outside forces, new information, new technology, etc., within your budget.

What people miss is that no sensible project sponsor is going to accept, "we'll finish it when we finish it for however much it costs" unless it's pure research. And if I only need accuracy to the closest $10M, then we can keep the estimates high-level, if I need it to the closest $10k, then we need lower level estimates. It's just the nature of it. As a project sponsor, I need to know what's possible.
This solution isn't about reduction, it is about eradication.

It is cost effective and also implies that you can do other things along the same lines. For example, you could do the same thing to Aedes aegypti (another mosquito species that carries thinks like Zika and Yellow Fever). You might be able to do it to bot flies. Lone Star Ticks. Or many others.
1. Dont try to circumvent with software, they have more experts than you. If you get caught its likely jail.

If you really need some app that they monitor install an Android emulator on your PC.

Or get a phone where their app wont work, like one with Ubuntu or Sailfish OS.
Which, IIRC, played a “calibration video” on first install. I’d never seen such a concept before or after.
I have worked with electrical engineers, and things are very similar over there.

Little sad story: my zenbook's SSD died 4 times; the last time it was past warranty and they wanted $250 for the replacement (proprietary port). Got a zenbook / sata switch from aliexpress, never buying macbook copycats again.
I mean I'm a "techie" and I think I understand. I still don't care..
Because it is difficult to get those challenging jobs in Europe and you are getting paid much more in the US. Plus, a certain "capitalism-envy" of the European.

I agree with the point about the weird American workaholism and the very peculiar boring personalities, low worldliness, and loneliness of the highly paid American professional.
Because done that way (in addition to what sibling comments suggest), halfway through, there'll be a point when everyone has to get to school at the same time and the bus fleet will have to triple, at huge cost. Or you just end up doing a large disruptive jump anyway to avoid that timing issue.
> Since we are not a big publisher

That's the thing. Ubisoft, EA, etc. get special treatment that happens before release. If you've released and it works without custom drivers, then obviously you don't need that special treatment.
Again, everything you've said may be true.. is true, and yet your comment is still a perfect example of whataboutism. I mean, just read it:

> I like to remind people of shit like this when they claim that the United States government is an "oppressive" presence on the Internet.

Why do you feel the need to bring up China when someone talks about the US govt spying on their online activities?

China is an order of magnitude times worse than the US. I'm not sure why you feel the need to keep arguing that point when I already agreed. But none of that is relevant when someone is complaining that they don't like their own US govt spying on them, "passive" or otherwise. For you to bring up China in that context is whataboutism.
I think a more interesting question than "should we do this or not" is "how would you build a tool that could model an entire ecosystem?". Does anyone reading this know what scientists use to do this currently?
Not true. I would say that Jacques has a pretty good idea, and expresses it pretty clearly for the rest of us in a four-part article: https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria/
And I equally support bringing the US/Five Eyes SIGINT activities to the attention of as many people as possible, and calling out bullshit like the australian government trying to backdoor crypto:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=aus...

The counterpoint to your claim of whataboutism is that it is possible to simultaneously denounce both the Chinese government's activities and the US, while at the same time critically and rationally examining their differences in methodology. And documenting where they are the same (NSA/CIA hoards zero-days, Chinese intelligence does the same, etc).
You can find verification of it in the various references provided in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12067185/why-is-it-calle.... In particular https://web.archive.org/web/20170424220609/http://www.alexho... is a snapshot of an explanation from the person who actually created the feature.
Unless any of us on here are personally representing nation states at a diplomatic level with roughly similar levels of violent shenanigans as each other, whataboutism really does not apply.

I've seen it referred to as the hypocrites favourite meme, and I am inclined to agree.

Also, China is hardly irrelevant, least of all here, a discussion thread about the technical issues surrounding state surveillance in China.
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As of today most people seem to want a hole to attach it to a keyring. So it's kind of hard to have even usb-a on one side and usb-c on the other side. Let alone lightning.

If you want to give it a try, we'll open source the hardware soon under CC BY-SA. It'd be great to see what you come up with.
Thank you. I took a big hit on posting the Iron browser, but someone has to know about it so we know it is scamware.
So how do you propose a non-profit like the IEEE make money?
I wonder how much the closure was financial mismanagement vs their business model simply catching up to them.

TTG shtick was essentially “emotional abuse simulators” all their games had one trick get you attached to characters and see them die with very little actual player control over it.

They were one trick pony and the novelty wore off rather quickly.

Their games also were based on expensive franchises and they often offered the first chapter for free in order to hook people in.

They also never really developed their formula further the games didn’t became more interactive the same quick time events over and over that never really changed the overall story more than which one of these two will die and or betray you later.

I’m actually surprised that they lasted this long given how expensive it is to develop these games even if they weren’t technically impressive recording hours and hours of voice acting is much more expensive than shiny coding shaders.
I’d like to do more in-depth research into this first, but my theory is that this move is innately tied to Google’s foray back into China.
I'm sure that Zoho has many talented engineers, but to manage abuse on the scale of 40M users you might benefit from engaging with one of the firms that specializes in this area.
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> and certainly it is nonsense to suggest that this is equivalent to imposing the precautionary principle on every possible technological advance

I agree, but would also like to point out that as technology in general becomes more "powerful" (for lack of a better term) ever increasing levels of precaution are inevitably going to be called for. The Wright brothers certainly didn't need to be regulated, but I'm glad SpaceX is...
> I have to say it's such a giant bloated thing that it really does not make me want to write native code.

In what way? How?

Browser-based has the fast reload thing going for but it's not in the same universe as lean for a modern development stack, not in terms of RAM usage nor size on disk. So can you elaborate on this "bloated" vs. "lean"?
Bought a car with free SiriusXM subscription. I listened to a few stations a number of times - pretty good selection, but really didn't use it much. After the trial period, started getting calls from them. I (regretfully) accepted a discounted rate to extend my trial, but I had refused to accept any subscription that auto-renews. (Only later would I find out the salesperson outright lied to me that they were offering me a one-time subscription). The extended period eventually expired, and they billed me for another subscription at a higher rate. Since I never ultimately listened to anything, I never realized it was still active. By the time that one expired, that particular card had been closed, and they started mailing me past due notices. Which is when I discovered they'd continued billing me. I was irate and called their customer service at least a dozen times, every time getting a different runaround. On most of those calls, the runaround was to transfer me to a menu system that went nowhere. I fired off a letter to them, then just gave up, refusing to pay. The past due notices eventually ended up at a collection agency, and I had a couple interactions with them until I discovered the magic word "fraud". I sent the collector a letter explaining how Sirius had charged me for something I never asked for, which is fraud. It literally took years, but finally I got Sirius off my back. I am definitely uninstalling the several instances of Pandora we have.
Go through the cancellation flow on the website. You’ll be offered a coupon before the final step.
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I would like a passport to that country with its strange and beautiful religion.

Where I'm at, C++ is the sugar sex magic that rights all wrongs and triumphs over evil.

edit: P.S., if I have a whole megabyte like Bjarne did in his AT&T days, I like C++ just fine.
Cloudflare Secure Registrar - I know you guys probably in some ways compete with Cloudflare, but maybe give them a call. Or for that matter become your own registrar and get into the corporate registrar business. With this experience under your belt, no doubt you'll crush it!
I started looking but the only thing related to china was this green tea thing, but

> "Green-Tea" is a code name for devices sold in China. Green-Tea devices have restricted access to various applications e.g. Maps.

isn't exactly a smoking colt for a spyware. Could you be more specific?