skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure which country you are in, but in the Netherlands when I bring in my Apple devices in for repair I just order a brand new one that I return when I go pick up my device after it has been repaired. You need to have money for a new device obviously, you need to order it online and you have to return it within 14 days but it's a great way to be able to keep working.

For anyone who thinks this is an abuse of the system, I don't feel guilty doing this if Apple takes weeks to replace a keyboard, doesn't offer a temporary replacement or do on-site repair the next business day. I have offered my local Apple reseller money for these services but they won't do it. Somehow they are OK with me buying a brand new device and returning it for every repair.
Times have changed. That repair would now cost you 700€
I feel sorry for the employees and apologize in advance if what I'm going to say sounds too negative or blunt, but anyway here is one opinion. Telltale games wasn't a very innovative company. It shouldn't surprise anyone when a company goes bankrupt that primarily produces bad game adoptions of blockbuster movies as a franchise.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm only a gamer and not an industry expert, but it seems to me that too many managerial constraints on creativity and fear of innovation are the #1 game company killers.
If your attack model includes Verisign or a government modifying your DNS zone, then that will allow them to obtain a DV certificate as well.

By and large, TLS security depends on the connectness of DNS. Though you could try your luck with HTTP public key pinning (HPKP).

I fully agree that 1024 bit keys are silly.
>From what I can learn from the history the web has mostly been centralised and will continue to be so.

How do you define "web" and "centralized" here? The internet (not necessarily the world wide web) was created to be decentralized because the US military recognized that having a single point of communication failure was a bad design (http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf).

In my estimation, the most centralized thing about the internet as we currently know it is the physical infrastructure (which is still not really centralized, but there's a relatively small number of Tier 1 networks connecting everyone else). But the protocols can be implemented over radio if necessary (albeit much more slowly), so even that's not really centralized.

My estimation is that as governments increase regulation of the internet as we know it, more people will move to TOR or something like it (move to the "dark web" if you like) as a way to just do normal internet things without the need for a lawyer. The governments in turn may decide to outlaw that (as in China), but enforcement of that seems infeasible against determined and skilled citizens.
They certainly outperform on gathering high review scores...
>To estimate the impacts of wind power, Keith and Miller established a baseline for the 2012‒2014 U.S. climate using a standard weather-forecasting model. Then, they covered one-third of the continental U.S. with enough wind turbines to meet present-day U.S. electricity demand. The researchers found this scenario would warm the surface temperature of the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius, with the largest changes occurring at night when surface temperatures increased by up to 1.5 degrees. This warming is the result of wind turbines actively mixing the atmosphere near the ground and aloft while simultaneously extracting from the atmosphere’s motion.

I am confused: How does the warming work exactly and is this actually a global climate effect? Because this part of the article makes it sound to me as if it's just a very localised change of temperature caused by the exchange of different air layers, which can't be right? Because you couldn't really compare that to climate change on a global scale.
A bit late to this thread, and this is coming from someone who used to code, but does not anymore, atleast not actively.

Avoid what is known as 'Somebody Else's Problem Field' behavior. (Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem)

What I mean to say is, a lot of times developers have an attitude which says "I'm done with my work, now if its not working, it's somebody else's task" or variants of that dialogue. As a developer, I understand and concur with your position that you might have done all the things right, but as a team, you are not helping matters by saying that. Volunteer to check your code, do more, and try to figure out where the problem is, like what input you are getting, what is the output, where is the code failing. the more you help in these cases, the faster the things get done.

This is also a common behavior, when someone asks you for a data or a piece of code, and you send her a straight forward export/import in the raw format. Occasionally, that might need the other person to do a lot of clean up and other operations, (with a bit less context), and would have been easy for you to do in the first place. As a developer I did that a lot. On the receiving end, this is one of the most frustrating things, since I need to account for it in my tasks beforehand. (Example would be a simple dataset, given to me at SKU level - cos requires a straightforward query - while if extracted aggregated, would have taken 5-10 more minutes for the developer, but now the asker is expected to spend sometime cleaning up and aggregating that data set. Might not always be this, but I hope you get the point.).

my 2 cents.
Here's the sign up link: https://cloud.dwavesys.com/leap/signup/

Things to note:

* You have to scroll to the bottom of the agreement to activate the checkbox, which activates the sign up button

* You have to be (or say you are) in the US
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But if "the nature of the goods" required them to ship the laptop to Apple to have a diagnostic run after the repair, and that takes a few weeks?
I agree with your assessment and prognosis, and look forward to employers and employees being held to somewhat higher standard of mutual tolerance (even if begrudging) and cooperation, and generally keeping it business-first while on the clock. If one wishes to protest or take other political action, sure, take a day off and head to D.C. or other visible public space.

A throw-away thought: business attire used to be a clear distinction between the time in official capacity, and the private time. With that mostly gone in tech, and given the 24/7 cellphone, email & IM connection, the distinction between workplace and personal doesn't feel all that clear.

That being said, there exists an idea that "the personal is political"[1]; politics supposedly permeate all of one's life. It is further expanded to claim that anybody who is able to avoid mixing politics with daily activities, or able to avoid strongly siding with a political, is benefiting from the current power structure (aka "the system"), and further reinforces said system by staying passive. I think there's a small grain of truth to it, but when becomes an overriding concern and disruptive to teamwork[2] or family & social life[3], something went very wrong.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_personal_is_political

[2] as in people asking for firing of others, or refusing to work with with or mentor others

[3] recently a "Divorce your Republican husbands." tweet made rounds. Not linking it as it feels too incendiary for HN.
I was an employee in a startup and had to take my MacBook Pro to the Apple store myself when it had recurring kernel panics. They bought a new MacBook Pro in the meantime for me to use, since there weren't any spares available at that time and Apple doesn't provide loaners. Since then, the machines have gotten even more expensive, the extras have been reduced and they've gotten less reliable. Only Apple fanboyism keeps the brand alive in companies, usually when someone influential likes having a MacBook and an iPhone.

Not every company is big enough to have service contracts with Apple. The IT department (two people) at that startup could fix Lenovo and HP machines thanks to them being the business models.
It also very much depends on who is doing the investing. If you're CALPERs with ~$320bn you don't want to put it all into the S&P 500. Diversification through exposure to other, ideally uncorrelated, equity types or asset classes.

The best asset managers charge low fees, they make up for it very comfortably in volume and long term holdings. Warren Buffet famously doesn't sell, he doesn't need to make thousands of deals a year to eke a small profit from each, he needs to judiciously pick fewer things that are going to do well in the long term. All too often people don't want to properly invest however, they want to speculate.
Yes, I think a more accurate statement is: “you’re unlikely to consistently beat the market (i.e. do better than index funds) assuming not too many people are using index funds”. Also, given the Nash equilibrium above, it follows that the best you can do is indeed follow the market.
#START Your DAY WITH POSITIVE AFFIRMATION
> it does not come with any kind of EU certification

They're already one step ahead and have just copied the CE Marking logo as well

https://www.cemarkingassociation.co.uk/ce-marking-and-the-ch...
Agreed, there is zero chance that Apple is doing any deep background checks on these Authorized Service Providers and all their employees.

In fact chances are, most third-party repair shops are going to end up finding such an employee who's prepared to authorize a bunch of additional repairs for a little extra cash on the side.
Very interesting. I don't fully understand this. How does having more employees increase their market cap?
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We have URs in a warehouses doing piece picking. They're not the right solution for very structured environments like a semiconductor plant but for medium structured environments like a warehouse they can make a lot of sense.

And frankly collaborative arms are just so much easier to develop on that it might be worth it to use them for that even if your final product is going to use a full industrial arm. You're going to make a mistake in your collision checking routine at some point.
Did they let you keep the sock?
I don't mind it at all. I've been relatively impressed with the price to quality ratio and I usually seek the Amazon label brand where I can and the price is right—just like any other store brand.

- It started with batteries, which are awesome for the price

- I bought a throwaway comforter + sheets to use for couch-sharing with the dog and they're my favorite set now. Better than my Ikea set which cost 2x as much.

I could go on but for random items the Amazon brand is often pretty decent.
Example of an ETF that tracks an index that adjusts weightings based on carbon footprint:

https://www.ishares.com/us/products/271054/ishares-msci-acwi...
Any ruling other than "tough titties" would be fucking insane here.

Unsecured API endpoints are public. I was going to say it's like leaving a folder of sensitive info on the train and complaining when someone accesses it, but it's not.

You can't program an endpoint by accident. Someone has to specifically go and code it to spit out the data without authentication. It's more like leaving a folder of sensitive information out on the street infront of your office then suing the first person to pick it up.

EDIT: Come to think of it. There has to be more to this story. If Grindr was broadcasting exact locations across an unsecure API that'd be extraordinarily unsafe. It would lead to all sorts of black mail and hate crimes. Surely we'd have heard about it if that was the case?
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/the-gops-no-compromis...

>Here’s John Boehner, the likely speaker if Republicans take the House, offering his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”

It was a public and documented plan by the Republican party to not compromise on a single issue with the Obama administration. You're evidence that liberals are less tolerant is also a study of a single college campus. Bring some more evidence if you are going to make claims that have gone against the past 10 years of public discourse
http://www.workrave.org/ - add eye exercises
How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Their Victims
I was going to reply "I don't know, it's all Greek to me" but then decided that was not a good idea. So, [0] says

> Chinese whispers is the British term for what is known as the telephone game in the United States

and then lists several other names for the same game. I've also met people who when discussing confusing messages say "send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance", which is a result of 'Chinese whispers' being applied to the input "send reinforcements, we're going to advance". The reference to the pre-decimal coinage ('three and fourpence', i.e. three shillings and four pence, approx £0.17) in this old phrase shows how long the concept has been around in British English (we decimalised in 1971).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
Shouldn't surprise anyone, no, but "250 people would find themselves with no job, no severance, and health insurance that would be gone by month’s end — just nine days."

That's appalling, and that's the real issue being discussed in the article, not the failure of the company. Horrific mismanagement of the situation, and shows a complete lack of respect for your staff.
Mine is crap too. I thought it was the hard drive plugged in to it but it seems to lose contact to all peripherals attached to it. It's got 3x "usb charging ports" but doesn't seem to have enough juice to power those either. Shame, cause Amazon Basics really appeals to me.
I'm really curious - how so?
That's pretty scary when you think about it.
"years of nonstop crunch culture, toxic management, and frustration from developers who believed the company’s refusal to diversify gameplay had led to creative stagnation"

I don't understand why the people who were let go didn't leave in the first place...
Key line there: if review scores are anything to go by
RawHTTP Duplex
If we're here to avoid pre-existing agendas, then Docker and Kubernetes promotional articles tick every box on the "tedious" agenda.

The best part is, the article is about "no thanks" to Kubernetes, which I wholeheartedly agree with and have stuck to commenting relevantly to the topic, backed up by plenty of citations.
Right, and forks are poor man's processes. All of them have pros and cons but I think forks are only useful for very exotic use cases.

> unlike threading it also gives you isolation.

If you want isolation why not launch processes? With forks, that copy-on-write thing can increase total RAM usage by a huge factor, if the parent process writes to RAM a lot.

> There are plenty of IPC mechanisms available to communicate things back and forth when you need to.

For communicating gigabytes of data back and forth you want shared memory anyway.

And even for small messages, with threads IPC is faster (1) they are in the same address space, TLB stays current, context switches are faster (2) In some cases, shared memory enables more efficient user-mode IPC methods like busy waiting and lock-free stuff.
I don't get how there is not a general insurance system for people losing their jobs unexpectedly which pays out three months of similar or something similar.
Pretty much every sentence in this article that uses the world "first" is wrong. Community Memory[0] is arguably the first social network and it was launched in 1973. For more information and depth on the origins of tcp/ip and email, I suggest the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Sta...
Political mind games.

Right now, most of the tech industry, and a good portion of the news media are at odds with the executive branch of the government.

This article puts at least one popular news outlet against several tech industry giants. Divide.

What comes after divide? ...and who has the most to gain? I doubt it's actually our executive branch. I think they could be getting played just as much as Bloomberg and the Tech industry.
Given climate fluctuations is 0.24 even meaningful? Also hard to imagine 100% being wind power.
Understanding Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection (FPN)
Because they are not going to be more accepting. The leadership is only trying to pull this argument out because it bothers them.

I agree that when all else is equal, we shouldn't do bad things to one person just because they happened to someone else. All else is not equal here. Given the power Facebook has over their employees lives and in politics in general, they are like a feudal lord. When they stop enforcing the rules on just them and their friends, that's a breakdown of the rule of law which leads to a breakdown of social harmony and leads to people starting to rebel against leadership like you see here with Facebook's employees
I used the free trial when it first came out, it's pretty slick.
French investigate after Interpol chief Meng Hongwei goes missing
yesterday i tried to drag/drop a single profile trace file to upload to a bug report. somehow JIRA uploaded it as ~100 different files, which i had to delete one by one, since JIRA doesn't have batch deletion for attachments. every single deletion sent out an email to everyone who was following the bug, which means i dumped 100 emails on five different people.
It would help tremendously to learn some music theory. I play the piano and I can play any song in any key. It's not all trial and error, there's actually a science to it all. Learn your scales. Practice, practice, practice and you'll eventually get it.
Heh. One colleague has "Hope is not a valid deployment strategy" as a signature.

Most places might be blocking this type of activity by default. For most of our security audits, it's just assumed that the SM IPMI or Dell idrac is vulnerable to one exploit or another. We mitigate that by controlling the traffic. I feel this is common practice in most places that understand vlans and firewalls.

However, while blocking is easy, being aware of something like this is on another level altogether. Unicorn jumping over a rainbow level rare. You really have to be logging outbound attempts and dns lookups. Where I work, there is a full security team and they are at an insane level where they log the allowed traffic. One told me that the allowed traffic is more interesting than the denied traffic. Denied just tells them what we anticipated, while active helps them establish a pattern and look for deviations.
Buried in the article:

> they covered one-third of the continental U.S. with enough wind turbines to meet present-day U.S. electricity demand. The researchers found this scenario would warm the surface temperature of the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius

That’s a ridiculous basis upon which to form a conclusion. For reference, that would require building 200,000 copies of the single largest wind farm in the US - the 3,200 acre Alta farm.
Probably they will be the only sellers for these items, so no counterfeit problem there. I doubt this will fix the situation for other items.

Personally I've switched away from amazon, after twice in a row getting a box with a switched item (HDD and SSD, respectively, both replaced with smaller and cheaper versions, and both "Sold by and shipped from Amazon"). Amazon support was good, they replaced the product, but it's a hassle to have to return-ship and wait. Now I either buy off aliexpress (if I'm okay with cheap/counterfeit, which is fine for many items) or local stores (if it's a product where I really care about quality).
My understanding was that America got the heads up on what would happen based on Europe's experience and was thus quicker to crack down on any sort of worker movement
8 Common Traps of Business-Savvy Product Managers
Because its clock frequency comes close to WiFi, its signal being quite wideband, and, obviously, being much more stronger than the incoming signal.
I’ve found fork useful for Python multiprocessing. To reduce the overall memory usage. But this is an ancient solution to an ancient problem in the first place.
And now days you just browse [www.fretflip.com](https://www.fretflip.com/021634424968) on your cellphone and booom you got that instantly! Or.. now days you just know that stuff by heart :-)
> primarily produces bad game adoptions of blockbuster movies as a franchise.

What are you talking about? Not one of their games is even an adaptation of a movie. Some are related to movies but separate stories not adaptations, and the majority have nothing to do with any movies (this includes the Batman game).
"Tragic"
Apple does offer a trade-in and recycling program so that old devices can be properly disposed of.
https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in
Scope Creep – How do you define it?
If you want to work in games, the crunch and toxic management are endemic almost everywhere.
I love their USB-C cable. I've gotten their 6ft cable and it's amazing. No damage since I bought it in the past year.

It also seems that Benson has labelled it adequate for phones.
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The derivatives markets are also enormous. Those often involve margin which requires allocating huge amounts of capital.
I’m talking about a Nash equilibrium for the investor who decides to invest in an index fund or an active fund for their own profit. So management fees are subtracted from either choice. Intuitively what I’m saying is pretty trivial: if one choice is obviously better then everyone would go for it, making the other choice better.
You mean like this: https://www.sovereign.co.nz/life-and-disability/pages/income... ?
Compared to Donald Knuth's font [1], Sans Forgetica is for wussies.

[1] Donald E. Knuth, N-Ciphered Texts: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
We should all be like you! /s
Move to a differenz country ;) Germany has this automatically, it‘s called „Arbeitslosengeld“.
> it doesn't adapt well to individual departments and teams

With Jira, one can create project-specific issue types, fields and workflow.
That's not saying much. Rally is probably the most overpriced, awful tracking software out there. I prefer Pivotal Tracker personally.
Interesting that you say that. I am based in Europe and always felt that the sexism / racism thing was over blown (to be fair I don't hear a great deal about racism in tech).
Having been in this exact situation before, its very hard to deal with. One of my employers died at 4:30 on a Thursday, we had 30 minutes to get out of the office before the building management locked the doors, there was no health insurance or severance for anyone (in fact as a contractor I was owed $8000 I never got). At least we all had some idea things were bad so it wasn't a complete surprise. This of course was during the Dotcom collapse so finding another job took me a long time. I've been in company ending situations since then but no matter how many you never feel good. It's easy to feel like you didn't do enough to keep things running (of course its not true) which doesn't help your attitude much. Your job is almost like a family sometimes and that makes it harder. If the employment market is hot its much easier to get over the shock but if its hard to find another job then its much more depressing.
Ask HN: What is your approach/plan for learning something totally new?
Suppose you are trying to improve/learn French Scrabble and French is not your first language. Or you are learning to play Go - or Sanskrit. Lets consider mostly logical stuff here (math, programming, board games etc) and lets say you are learning it on your own.

Other than the usual steps of picking good books, courses etc - do you have any other method to improve? If you can, could you provide specific examples?