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> your version implies that they are at leadership positions _because_ they are Jewish, and furthermore there can't be any palestinean for the same reason.

I did not intend that implication and I'm not sure where you're deriving it from. I think you're looking too deep into my comment, it was just a statement about what I've read, I made no comment about why they're the leaders, just that they are.
Interesting to see how someone experienced evaluates documentation. I've been doing Curriculum Development for several years, and it's easy to identify bad Curriculum. If I flip through a course and don't see a lot of diagrams (20%-50%) then I know that somebody didn't know all the research showing that diagrams aid recall and simplify the understanding of relationships. And if I don't see frequent labs/practice, then somebody didn't know all the research showing that the brain needs to have new concepts reinforced, and skipping that step prevents new information from being well-absorbed. I could go on, but those two are typical. And people wonder why Training isn't more effective. I have seen bad training sink more than one high-tech company - though nobody at those companies seemed to understand that. There is also an art to properly decomposing complex topics so that they can be "intuitive". My very best technical courses were often criticized as being "easy" and "obvious" - but only by those who hadn't tried to learn the same information before.
Indeed, it is. That's a problem because giving consent should be as easy as withdrawing it and right now it's slow, clunky and I am pretty sure it's also unreliable.
When has DRM ever worked as more than a temporary measure? Also if car DRM is like games and software DRM, it will punish the honest user while not even remotely harming the thief!
in my high school we had a bunch of PowerMacs networked up in all the classrooms with user profiles so you could save your work and access it anywhere on campus. I found a "feature" in the version of Office that was installed that let me traverse up through the shares to other students' directories, being able to open and edit(!) their documents. Bit of a glaring hole they eventually fixed by either upgrading Office or phasing out the Macs entirely.
Alphabet is historically horrible at dealing with enterprise businesses...
A lot of bullshit in this article. Not worthy even going on the trouble of articulating my disagreements. Sorry, HN.
Believe it or not, I found a very useful workout program in the comments on HN called Stronglifts 5X5. I kept seeing people talk about how great it was for beginners and I've failed to keep a regular weight lifting regime in the past due to feeling overwhelmed by having to memorize form for dozens of exercises. I've been doing Stonglifts for 2 months and I feel great.

The wiki and the app are super useful. I think the founder is a little bit of a salty dog, and his subscription model for the paid version of the app is just plain silly. That being said, he's given a lot away for free in terms of information and the free version of the app is still great, so for that I thank him and the people on HN for introducing it to me.
They did not. Simon Phipps, President of OSI, not only admits as much but provides a link in his blog that proves the point: https://opensource.org/blog/18418.
But a stack allocation is 0 or 1 instructions.
Have you considered trying to get people to use something like Jupyter or R Notebook?
Few years ago https://hackaday.com/2013/08/02/sprite_tm-ohm2013-talk-hacki... popped up, basically hdd have many arm co-controllers. Nowadays everything is a processor, everything is thus virtual and fakeable. Enjoy the paranoia :)
I would go one step further and say that I blame the medium.

TV and visual information mediums are very effective at promoting emotions, but make it very difficult to convey rational arguments and thoughts. Notice how easily you can be distracted by the appearance of the messenger and not pay attention to the message itself.

There is a very good book on this called "Amusing ourselves to death", by Neil Postman. He wrote this in 1985 and he was far ahead of his time.
The basic intent of all of this is fine, however, I don't believe this is going to end up where we want it.

Particularly with upcoming legislation regarding 'link taxes' etc. , we're already seeing hints of problematic issues.

Moreover, I think the end result will be just problems for Europeans and frankly very little improvement in material identity protection and basically no improvement in terms of quality of life for Europeans.

What's needed is another model for all of this, but it's way beyond the EU commission to come up with that, as exemplified by the odd 'link tax' rules, which hopefully will be amended.
Helping others is great and I think most people enjoy it. I think what most people don't like is when it impacts their own work. I've definitely had this issue in my own jobs.
More likely a fab in Taiwan than China.

You can run your RISC-V cores on an FPGA if you’re really paranoid. Of course, you’d be sacrificing performance.
Most QSPI flash chips start up in an SPI mode for interrogation of parameters and then are commanded to switch to QSPI once the correct parameters are established.

If your flash chip simply doesn't return the correct responses to switch to QSPI, most systems will happily continue communicating with SPI.
But I can fix your printer.
It's less "not wanting to help people" and more "once people know you're 'the Excel person' they come to you for everything to do with Excel". It's very similar to being 'the computer person' in a family/group of friends and everyone coming to you with all their various tech support questions. At a certain point, it starts ruining your productivity since you get taken out of your regular job to do these one time help requests.
Yes. I was once young and naive. I wanted to work for a cool startup or a big tech company like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.

Thanks to HN I learned that silicon valley culture is toxic and all those companies and startups are full of scumbags and people who were as naive as I once was.

This saved me from making some very bad decisions.

This post is not sarcastic.
Michigan legislators under pressure from the auto dealer lobby passed without debate a law at 2 am preventing Tesla from selling cars in the state.

Musk's response was to establish Tesla Tool & Die in Grand Rapids hiring over a hundred employees. Now he's helping Flint children receive clean water in their schools. You don't see the auto dealers in the state helping Flint.

Currently if you want to buy a Tesla you need to either go to Chicago or Cleveland.
This isn't a solution for most, but if you know your way around XCode, you can build https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch for any iOS device without the need for jailbreak. The repo contains working xcode projects (though it still may take a little tinkering...) I even got it running on my appleTV!
Peer review can still inspect whether the evidence presented in a paper would—if not fabricated—truly be enough to support the paper's conclusion. Mistaken analysis of honestly collected data, improper experimental methods, flawed proofs, etc. can all show up at review time.
That's a great direction to think in. Eventually the car will become a relic of the past, like the horse drawn carriage.
> This is simply untrue if you're considering average commute distance of drivers in major cities.

I'm sure that'd be correct if you'd said suburbs and rural areas, but according to this[0], the average commute for almost every major city is under 10 miles.

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-the-typical-commu...
the 5C is now 5 years old. No one should pay anywhere near that much. $750 now buys you an iPhone XR with the one of the same cameras that's on the new XS...
The NSA has been caught doing this kind of stuff to Cisco routers so I can believe it.
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The problem mostly lies in other people not wanting to learn. Anecdotally, I've found that people come to me with Excel questions because they want me to do something for them, not because they are generally interested in learning more or bettering their skills.
HN has helped me realize the staggering extent of the ethics problem facing software as an industry, and realize that most people are not inclined to do anything about it.

This post is not sarcastic either.
As a startup founder, why should I care about Brex in particular? I know startups are different in a lot of ways, but it's not clear how they're different when it comes to credit cards. The Brex website isn't much help.
The law pretty much rules out advertising as a valid reason, and that they can't discriminate on showing content based on opting out of the non-valid reasons (like ads).
Here, watch this:

https://youtu.be/ffryiLmQb1U

This is Fortnite build battling. BR as a whole just refers to a game ruleset that forces and encourages a last-man-standing situation. That part has been done before there was a video game. But the details of what's being communicated are different. They're different even between Rust and PUBG, despite both of them being military styled. Fortnite is in a class of its own since it's cartoonish and the building and mobility options present a lot of unique options. Even comparisons to Minecraft don't fit since the build system is different.

Performing jadedness about the games being "done before" is basically like saying new movies are just collections of old cliches. Even when they are, they end up saying something different.
> I still does not understand why can't we separate out operating system from user content. It would be pretty simply just have OS snapshots that you can boot up and switch between them while having /home unchanged.

You can: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/

Some of the Silverblue developers at Red Hat have been using it as their working environment for a while, but there's still quite a few rough edges left. Once the key applications work 100% on Flatpak, it will probably be viable for a wider audience.
A job.
I think it's less "not wanting to help other people" and more "wanting to do what is valued". Value could manifest in many ways:

* purely intrinsic ("doing cool work" vs. "de facto IT guy")

* purely extrinsic (the year-end perf review won't give me kudos for helping with excel documents)

* a mixture (I want this organization to succeed, the best way for me to do that is by doing X, and instead I'm helping debug excel sheets).

Often it's a mixture since people often enjoy doing what brings the most value. I do volunteer stuff for a charity. A lot of the stuff I do is very interesting and challenging and valuable to the charity's core mission. But I'm also expected to help other volunteers with mundane helpdesk stuff like connecting to the wireless network. I don't enjoy it and also it distracts from a much more valuable use of my time.
We house the richest.

The most advanced... probably not, not anymore. Japan is far ahead of us in terms of quality of manufacturing, many European countries are far ahead of us in terms of health care and quality of life. We are probably still the most business friendly country though.
> Please give an example of a game where the dev were done finishing the game weeks / month in advance and chose to not include part of the game in the release.

Content gets cut because games release on a set schedule, rather than "when it's done", so corners are cut. This problem is seen as normal in the game industry, especially as they often want to target Christmas releases. The side effect is that things that might be mostly done get cut out, or removed because they couldn't test it, etc.

I get that things get cut. The problem is not that it's unfinished, it's that remaining things are _added as DLC_, or things that masquerade as "free" unlocks, but where buying it with real money is far more appealing than the time they allocate to it (e.g. recent star wars battleground game). This is not solely EA's fault, but it's endemic in the industry. I don't want to buy a "season pass" for my game, I want to _buy the game_.

For an example game release, and pretty much started this thing. I'd be very surprised if it were not developed pre-release. Gran Tourismo HD even had a plan where buying the things you'd want to play was the big plan (though it never made it to release).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_HD_Concept
There is a difference between "doing other people's job" and "enabling them to learn on their own" in my experience. Explaining to someone why it is better to use INDEX MATCH in lieu of VLOOKUP will never ruin my productivity.
i remember during the financial crisis thinking if only the tea party and the occupy crowd realized they were two sides to the same coin maybe something great could have happened. I feel like that dawned on the powers-that-be and the old divide and conquer technique was quickly applied; tea party turned far right, occupy turned far left and they've been fighting ever sense.
Normally you can get around that by disabling js. Alternatively I have pocket installed and just save in that.

But we seriously need a browser standard header that says no to that, along with a requirement that the only necessary cookie to read a website is GDPR with the value 0.

I think tc is at more than 50.
Because keyboards have the most design inertia of all computer hardware products. The one thing that keyboard makers are loathe to experiment with is the keys. That's why keyboards in 2018 still have a gigantic CAPSLOCK key when it is almost never used. Also why in the age of prosumer hardware you don't see keyboards for programmers with dedicated programming IDE keys, such as a single key to compile. No matter how innovative (or retro) manufacturers in keyboard manufacture nobody wants to experiment with the actual key options that people press.
I often find interesting research and/or tech advances outside of my immediate field of study. Also, articles on startups here may have influenced my journey as a founder ;)
Well, most of the money simply doesn't belong to the right people unfortunately. But that's a problem pretty much anywhere on this planet.

Musk might be a nutjob and I'm already seeing the day where he goes completely bonkers, but sometimes that guy just gets shit done where others would talk and talk and talk. I wonder how he'll be remembered in a hundred years.
XBox 360 had the on-CPU memory controller with encryption, and it was very tamper-resistant overall. A good model to follow.
It's been going bad for a few decades now :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/23/a-stu...
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I saw the Who's Hiring for GitLab in 2015, became an early employee, still here, not leaving. Best job ever.
There is definitely value in teaching others, but first they have to want to learn. I work with a lot of mechanical engineers and I am the only real "software guy" in our office. Most of the time they don't want to learn how to do computer things themselves because (mostly the older engineers) consider it to not be their job or out of their scope.
I had the same thing on my iPhone 6S (yes, it was broken). Sooo, what does this one datapoint prove?
is it possible to filter lead using a filter? how good are these filters?

wouldn't make more sense to actually fix the root cause, i.e. the pipes?
I found a great freelance client, and on the more mundane level, I often find nuanced responses to typically hyperbolic news stories.
> Restricting firearms because people might hurt themselves and restricting them because they might hurt others are two very different things

The regulation resulting from the needs for these kinds of restrictions is exactly the same.

Firearm permits often have mandatory hours of safety training attached, that's also to protect people from themselves and drive home the point that this is a dangerous device they own and handle.

The same applies to drivers licenses, these have mandatory training requirements not just to protect other people on the street, but also the person driving the car and getting the permit.

In that context, it is completely irrelevant why you regulate something when both are valid reasons for regulating something, protecting people from themselves, by requiring them to show they are actually able and reliable to handle a dangerous device, and protecting others from people who handle their dangerous devices irresponsibly by requiring at least a basic amount of training and competency.
>Stand and you are a red hat conservative

can you provide an example of anyone saying this?
I wonder if people said the same thing when elevators went from manual motor controls to automatic push buttons.
Yeah. I am waiting for the first trial to see how companies are going to defend the "ads are needed to finance the content" argument.

Wait a minute. I am thinking of a webserver that would make each visitor/client pay a fee to maintain the connection (or the socket). The server would be connected to a feedback infrastructure (a service provided by another company) that would only allow individual connections to be maintained if it's fed with data from tracking.

So the tracking would actually technically be needed to provide the service (the connection) if the company hosting the content chooses to use that web server service from that other company. Eh.
This. I try to never brag, but I do it without realizing it sometimes. You are lucky to have such smart and humble friends! Unlike you, I am so much smarter than everyone I know irl. Just telling people what I had for breakfast, much less what I was working on while I ate it, literally makes people feel bad about themselves. I'd love to expand on this idea but you guys are smart just like me so I probably don't even need to explain anymore. I also need to get back to this calculation I am doing for my deep learning nueral network model to search for a possible newly discovered particle at CERN, where I work.
Explaining it to the same person for the 15th time though...
Could a freedom of information request reveal that apple did or did not contact the fbi about the alleged silicon trojan horse?
We will know for sure once the Surface has a touch bar.
> but it strikes me as odd and inefficient that keyboards (especially software based ones) do not have a dedicated key that can remove to the right of the cursor as well:

Isn't this the delete key?
I've never seen '^^' to mean exponentiation. In Python (and probably other languages), exponentiation is denoted with '', so 23 = 8.
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Also been doing this program for almost a year. Before that, I've never managed to do regular exercises

What I like about it is that it requires very little equipment to fully implement the program. A couple of months ago I bought a power rack, barbell and bumper plates, and have been lifting from home (usually when I take a break from work in the middle of day)
I found out about battlecode (https://battlecode.org/#/) which was lots of fun for many years.
I suck at excel, but confession: i know how to make Installer programs and I don't tell anyone anything about them, EVER. I learned how to make MSIs packages and NSIS installers about 15 years ago and it didn't stop until I completely redacted the info and experience and changed jobs.
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Windows update used to have a screen that said: “All of your files are exactly where you left them.”

I never trusted it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WLwfpg8PAzTfihSb9
>Visual studio and games

Unless you're maintaining old .NET Framework apps, VS Code and/or CLion should cover all your needs when it comes to graphical IDEs.
As far as games go, between native, Steam Proton and Lutris I've found no end to the amount of great games to play. Yesterday I started playing Overcooked 2 (native) with my wife, right after we finished the first one (regular Wine). I also play Overwatch (with Lutris) at least a couple of times a week which plays pretty great nowadays if I tone down the settings a bit, and been playing Doom 2016 (Steam Proton) which runs every bit as well as it does on Windows.
I don't buy the first part of what you wrote. For the second part, I agree but we need to cut it out with the band-aids. Passwords are not good enough, whatever the policies.

One of the few things I miss from my old job was the very intimate view of how much personal data is being stolen (or obtained through phishing) by crooks. If you imagine HIBP as a normal two storey house, and then imagine the data I was looking at and that's an Eiffel tower, or more.

And although some fraction of the feed every day was new (in the sense that we'd not seen it in the last 90 days, we deliberately destroyed it after 90 days so who knows before that) there was also lots of recycling. There are crooks still selling a SQL dump they got in early August by October, maybe they aren't getting top dollar for it, but it's shifting.

And the data people are buying for those "We know your password and if you don't pay us a Bitcoin we'll release webcam images of you masturbating" scams is much older. One of my bait accounts still gets those every few weeks, I used it for bait in a system that we know was broken into (though it isn't public in HIBP or whatever) by 2013. So while those bitcoin scam people aren't using it for account break-ins, it's still out there and represents a threat.
agreed. I've seen a lot of sociopath style thinking here. it is good to be aware that this is so common but it does make me sad.
>It is extremely challenging, perhaps impossible, to find a MOND theory that fits all available observations.

All the commentators agree on this. What Ranier and Stacy are pointing out is that the same thing is true of LCDM. Dark matter does not do a good job of explaining galaxy rotation curves (even though this is the context which dark matter was originally proposed for), bullet cluster, abell 520, or lots of other galactic dynamics.

Of course, MOND has its own share of problems. Most importantly that Sean points out is the 3rd peak on the CMB. Stacy sounds like he's holding out for the possibility that relativistic formulations of MOND may explain this peak, though he admits that may not happen. To support his position, Stacy makes reference to other instances where MOND had unintuitive but correct conclusions (like for the bullet cluster).
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Alternatively, it helps one see to what extent the tech-industry is a culture battleground, given the ongoing clashes of different moral systems.
They surely don't write their own firmware for Supermicro boards? So "update firmware .. with the latest protections" means update from the hardware vendor?
I certainly understand why they wouldn't want people to know about it. But lying outright in a public statement in a way that is direct and clear could expose them to serious legal risk. Trading PR risk for legal risk seems like a dangerous move that companies this large wouldn't take lightly.
I'm not certain why you're getting downvoted, other than a difference of opinion which is a lame reason IMO.
I think that's a great response, nicely articulating that you are prioritising utility over gimmicks.