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>Even inside the company, the internal tech support is essentially gaslighting the employees who report this problem, by saying things like "it never existed"

It's mind-boggling that this happens but having experienced it myself, it sucks. Attempting to address an issue that sure seems to be due to another team's system is already difficult, so when they respond "it's not us" you're not only left holding the bag but questioning yourself for doubting that system.
> tutor students in India or any country online,
I am a volunteer teacher at evidyaloka - a Bengaluru based NGO founded by two ex-techies - while working in the States! I don't know if you already know about this but thought it was worth pointing out :)
The observation that humans (originally human females) descended from a woman who lived about 240,000 years ago in Africa was first demonstrated by Allan C. Wilson, who looked at the evolution of mitochondrial DNA sequences, in 1987.

This was a very controversial result, in part because the length of human history was so young (much less than the 1 million years that some fossils suggested), and because the origin was placed in Africa. Shortly after this, I heard Wilson discuss the controversy, and he remarked that he was surprised that there was so much disagreement about the idea that a set of genes in a population could be attributed to a single individual. He pointed out that this was well understood by population biologists in the early 20th century; basically, for any population of individuals at some time in the past, after a long enough time, the descendants of that population will have genes that can be traced back to one individual -- that one individual whose children had children who had children ... Though well established in 1987 (and decades earlier), but it was still argued about (and apparently still is).

Mitochondrial DNA can be traced back to an individual Africa (mitochondrial eve), less than 300,000 years ago.
Skylake-X is quite innovative. The mesh-design was never-before seen, and AVX512 is an excellent instruction set. Sure, Skylake-X is expensive as all hell, but its still innovation.

AMD managed to innovate at a price point where most people can afford. But its a bit disingenuous to ignore the advances that Skylake-X has brought forward.

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Skylake-client is very similar to Haswell, but still has larger ROPs, decoder, and branch predictor. It doesn't lead to much better clocks, but IPC is still up over the last few cores.
Google+ was successful.in limited groups, where others were more likely to be also involved (for example, tabletop RPGs have a much stronger g+ community than many other hobbies).

This inevitably leads to confusion about popular/competitive it is. See also the final years of word perfect, where it was the norm in medical and legal circles but nowhere else.
H1b is a dual intent visa. Which means a person coming to theUS on a H1b visa can apply for green card.

If you think it makes sense for a person born in India to wait for 150 years while paying taxes etc, and a person born in a different country waits for 7 months, we’ll, it’s clear what your POV is.
My Apple lock down because of Google’s greed
I'm not advocating any external enforcement action. Merely taking the position that if there's an internal conversation which goes along the lines of 'that vulnerability could have been really bad but based on what information we have it doesn't look like it's been exploited... should we tell anyone?' then the answer should be yes, it should be disclosed. That sounds like pretty much the conversation that happened inside Google only they decided 'no, better not... we might get in trouble'. That's a red flag right there.
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Absolutely - always thought this. I fail to see why Google+ was a discreet product at all.
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:( I'm sorry dude. I wish you all the strength in the world.
I don't think it's helpful for anyone to essentially make a statement saying "the US is a dangerous place unless you're a white male"

It's just a divisive thing to say and I highly doubt it's true.
If local/state attorney generals refuse to investigate, this can and should become a federal investigation, that now includes the said attorney generals too - or so I understand.

Can any lawyers chime in?
> me and my kid are playing in our backyard. Do I have the right of privacy?

you probably have a right not to be filmed for commercial purposes, if at all. however, I don't think you have some fundamental right not to be looked at by people who have line of sight or to ban any equipment that might give them that. even if drones didn't exist, I could fly a plane at a legal height and look at your backyard through a telescope or from a nearby hill.
You and my father. I just logged into G+ for the first time in months (apparently not shuttered quite just yet...)

... and there are about five hundred political posts from him that I'm glad I didn't see, and six or ten cute bear cubs/cat photo things too. I guess he's shared privately with me, and they've just been going into a black hole?
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And it appears that a lot of people agree with you - that's why those markets are overheated.

But, well, if you want something different than what you've been getting, you're going to have to do something other that what you've been doing. I'd suggest that it might be worth re-thinking whether you really want to live in those places, at the price it's costing you. And if you do, then you do - it means that you're giving up what you want less (to own your own home) in order to get what you want more (to live in one of your chosen cities).
> Every year, we send millions of notifications to users about privacy and security bugs and issues. Whenever user data may have been affected, we go beyond our legal requirements and apply several criteria focused on our users in determining whether to provide notice.

> Our Privacy & Data Protection Office reviewed this issue, looking at the type of data involved, whether we could accurately identify the users to inform, whether there was any evidence of misuse, and whether there were any actions a developer or user could take in response. None of these thresholds were met in this instance.

They didn't announce it, they followed their internal policies which told them NOT to announce it. This is what people are upset about.

> The WSJ reports that the company chose not to report it because of fear of “immediate regulatory interest” that would lump Google in with Facebook, according to one source’s description of the incident.

If this source is to be believed, the decision not to announce was less policy-driven than they are claiming. It sounds more like they were intentionally keeping the issue (and potential breach) secret, which naturally bit them in the ass when word eventually got out.
Kinetic approach to superconductivity hidden behind a competing order
Socrates agrees: "no one ever knowingly does wrong". :) And a nice essay on the subject: https://midnightmediamusings.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/socrat...
I guess/hope "remote only" objections will sound as ridiculous one day as Viaweb being questioned about their use of a "freeware OS"
I think this reply actually captures one of the problems with the term. It's super passive.

I realize this usage is becoming an official usage, but the original meaning was something that would end by design and automatically unless it was renewed. Like a law had a sunset provision if it already had an ending named at the time it was created. So the ending is built into the original plan from the beginning, it's bound to happen unless something changes.

Like... a sunset.

It's not something passive that's happened at Google though. They're saying we are going to close a service that is open, and has been expected to stay open indefinitely. It's not a thing that is just kind of happening, it's a decision that was just made and is being newly announced.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract#Dominant_as... ... complicating and unproven in practice, just an offhand thought.
You realize Bloomberg doesn't really make any money from 'clicks', right? They are a data provider, and as such, have a pretty strong incentive to ensure their data is accurate.
That site says it’ll give you an AppImage or a Snap—I didn’t mention the AppImage format in my last post but it’s effectively like a DMG on macOS, so you just distribute the file and users only have to mark it as executable and run it.

A VM is plenty for testing that your app starts and lets you design labels fine, but you’ll be in for a world of trouble if you try interface physical hardware (like the thermal printer) from one. You could always just make a live USB of a popular distro like Ubuntu or Fedora and download and test your app on real hardware—booting Linux on a recent Mac would be a challenge so you’d want to use an older one or PC hardware for running a live USB.

Electron seems to support ARM, the processor architecture used by the RPi, so I would think you’d be good to go there aside from your app maybe being a little slow.

You will want to talk to someone else too since I’m sure I’m forgetting something, particularly about the Raspberry Pi.
The upper-end of Intel's offerings start to get into AMD's Threadripper price range.

AMD is offering a 16-core / 32-thread 4.4GHz monster for $899, and a 32-core / 64-thread for $1799.

If you wanted the best under $5000 (total cost of a computer), it seems like AMD Threadripper is the best. If you wanted the best below $1000, it seems like AMD Ryzen is the best.

Only if you are single-thread bound (5GHz clocks!!), AVX2 or AVX512 bound, or PEXT / PDEP bound (Stockfish 9) should you consider Intel. But otherwise, AMD is offering more performance at all price points up to the EPYC 7601 (~$3000 CPU: 32-core/64 threads / 8-memory controllers / 64 PCIe lanes direct to CPU, support for dual-socket).

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With that being said, I'm definitely interested in Intel's Xeon Silver platform. If Intel pushed dual-socket out better, then they would be cheaper AND faster. IMO, its a bit weird that Intel isn't taking advantage of their dual-socket solutions to counter AMD Threadripper (I mean... Threadripper really is just a dual-socket or quad-socket NUMA chip combined into a single socket).

As it is, Xeon Silver is hard to find and seems to be ticking up in price unfortunately. But their nominal prices are actually quite good, although their clocks are kinda low. But Xeon Silver really seems like Intel's price/performance champ (even if its still a bit more expensive than Threadripper or EPYC).
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Python is not strongly-typed, it's "duck-typed", i.e. everything is an object, and you should be able to hand over "X-like" objects to code that expects type X, and it should work properly if your X-like object supports all the interfaces that type X does. As part of that duck-typing, it's valid to compare anything with anything without raising an error, it's just that different things are (by default) not equal, so the comparison returns false. For example, you can compare a class defining a database connection with the integer 5, that would be a valid comparison that returns False.

This behavior is a key requirement for all kinds of Python core data structures, for example, if you'd define bytestrings so that they throw an error when compared to a "normal" string, then this means that for a heterogenous list (pretty much all data structures in Python can be heterogenous regarding data types) containing both b"something" and "something" many standard operations (e.g. checking if "something" is in that list) would break because the list code would require a comparison to do that.
It seems like SMT would create considerably more cache pressure, as well as requiring more decode and instruction cache hardware. I have been assuming it actually requires more die area, and is not (always) just disabled for segmentation. Maybe there is someone here who knows more about architecture? :)
The blog post explains that, and gives their reasoning:

> Our Privacy & Data Protection Office reviewed this issue, looking at the type of data involved, whether we could accurately identify the users to inform, whether there was any evidence of misuse, and whether there were any actions a developer or user could take in response. None of these thresholds were met in this instance.

So basically, they decided that because:

1. The data exposed wasn't very sensitive (name, email address, occupation, gender, age, etc)
2. They couldn't identify any specific users whose data was leaked
3. They couldn't find any evidence that the bug was actually exploited
4. There were no actions you could take to remedy the problem (no software to update, no passwords to change, no CC numbers to revoke)

that they weren't going to notify users about the bug.

Still, I would have appreciated at least a blog post or something so if I started suddenly getting more spam emails or something I could at least identify the source.
source: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/21/494927147/epis...
Yes. But there is a port of docker to manage them so people who insist on using only docker can continue to do so without having to risk learning a new technology.
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Many shops used to utilize powdered milk, most decent ones use real cows’ milk.

Anyway, this is almost the same problem as finishing your drink and only having ice left —for those of us who chew ice.
Without getting in the history of the parent poster, he's not wrong. H1B is a temporary (non-immigrant) visa which allows dual intent. Yes, most people on dual intent visas eventually petition for a green card but I think it's unfair to qualify his post as "junk knowledge". Same thing with L-1A and O-1.

Source : https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-nonimm...
JWST and HST are not comparable telescopes. Moreover, the idea that astronomers would stop using one world class telescope just because another one (even a better one) exists is sheer lunacy. Even if a space telescope that was worse than Hubble existed it would still be completely 100% booked in terms of observation time, because there is much more demand for those capabilities than there is supply, by orders of magnitude.
Here come all the comments that are strangely pro regulation.
What's your source for the average of $150k? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the median is $82k [0]. Glassdoor seems to agree [1]. Plenty of jobs in the legal and medical profession command higher salaries and provide better job security.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/programmer-salary-SRCH_KO...
I can totally relate.

This is a big problem to solve. Let's combine video input with some AI to estimate the boba to tea ratio. Then the app can calculate the precise angle of straw placement to maximize boba intake.
It's just ridiculous that they had it open for 3 years, didn't have proper metrics so don't know exactly how many were breached, but there estimate was 500,000 and they didn't disclose???

C'mon Google, why'd you have to try and hide this...
This article really hits the nail on the head about what is happening in Saudi Arabia. There's been some really excellent journalism about the so called anti-corruption campaign led by the new political powers in Saudi Arabia.

A multi-billion dollar transfer of wealth from the elite class in Saudi Arabia to the king/prince himself seems like something Gaddafi would do. And yet, we don't hear anything about the Saudi situation on TV currently, compared to the nearly daily coverage of Gaddafi's antics.

I'm not saying anyone is guilty or innocent, or good or bad. But I am saying that one country was covered in depth on TV, and the other is not.
No, they're removing the ability to filter your news feed by friend list, not removing friend lists entirely.
That depend on how dynamic the site is. If your site is implemented on Canvas and doesn't even allow text selection, copying the site to make a competitor would be harder, as would scraping price/inventory lists, or any sort of scraping. That's both the selling point and the problem.
But that's another good point, if you're storing multiple encodings, storing a single backup is less than double the cost, because you only need to back-up one encoding.

Slow-to-retrieve backup services like S3 Glacier are usually much cheaper, too.
You can pick any of the open source clones and probably find managed hosting for that.

Your family Twitter? https://masto.host/

Your family Facebook? https://www.oxwall.com
Yeah, take a look at this: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd...

> On average, both Xeons pick up about 20% due to SMT (Hyperthreading). The EPYC 7601 improved by even more: it gets a 28% boost on average.

These results are the same as I've seen everywhere except the quote you pulled out. Zen's SMT is more effective than Intel's HT.
It's not the reader's job to fill in implied proofs. It's your job as the author to give them enough information to check your argument. In some cases "this follows from results A, B, C" is sufficient, but it's often not.
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What’s getting Agile down?
Skype 2.6 was about 15MB, the 2MB is the web installer which pulls in more data. See[1]. Still, a far cry from 300MB -- and does about as much.

[1]https://skype.en.downloadastro.com/old_versions/
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If they are "front and center" they should be covered by your front page, probably also centered :P

Anyway I'm intrigued, but being it closed source means there's a huge "NO" for me written on top of it. Even if it's source code included (as in "we give code snapshots to customers") this means it is not the kind of project I would bet on.
Actually, this CPU is in 15 fastest single core CPUs ever, including all desktop processors: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
Well, the powdery stuff is quite similar to non-dairy creamer and thus is extremely delicious but also very very bad for your health, as they contain hydrogenated or even partially hydrogenated oils: thus may well contain trans fats!

personally, I always ask them to make it without any powders "no non-dairy creamers". in this case they'll use condensed milk or whole milk which is still bad for you but not as bad as trans fats.
__builtin_constant_p is a rats nest of edge cases. We're looking into differences between implementation from gcc and clang now for the kernel.
I think your comment makes a lot of sense and makes some good points. Sorry you were downvoted. HN is very pro regulation of drones. I never understood why.
If a lawyer knowingly lies to congress it's grounds for disbarment. I wouldn't risk it for any company, tho IANAL
Very relatable. Recently bought a Blackberry (BB OS 10, is terribly slow, but battery was excellent).

I'm willing to give Windows Phone another shot. No more updates right, and my needs are met.
I'm guessing that the underlying problem here is that you can share things in Google Drive / Google Docs to "anyone with the link" and when that's enabled, you probably didn't actually intend to share it with the owners of the websites that you happened to link to. Safer to just never let the URL leak.
WebAssembly makes it much more feasible to implement your own layout and display engine on top of a canvas element.
Except sales cultures are typically _very_ different from the rest of a company.
I've always been intrigued by Clojure but it feels like a huge leap to dive into a fully Lisp-style, completely functional language.

I guess single target isn't a particularly big problem for me; the JVM runs everywhere I need it to.
And on a tourist visa, you are not supposed to be looking for a job.
This is nonsense.

The gyros are only used for coarse pointing, guide stars are used for much more accurate and precise position sensing during exposures (which is why they are called Fine Guidance Sensors).
On my machine I got,

Firefox WASM: 1809ms

Chrome WASM: 2855ms

Edge WASM: 12872ms

Firefox JS: 5413ms

Chrome JS: 4779ms

Edge JS: 8512ms
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Not my words.

Did I induce cognitive dissonance in you?
I'm playing WoW and Factorio and both games are single-core limited. So while it might be true for most games, it depends on user, I'm not really interested in games, I just have few I'm playing for years and I want them to run fast.
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Ah.

I'd argue the marketing-making service itself serves an entrepreneurial role in my proposal. I proposed charging for making verified funding commitments, in part to prevent some bogus commitments, but also to keep the market-maker's lights on.
Is homeless the right word? Many of the people who live on the streets of sf have other issues. Is lumping all people without homes together detrimental to those that just need little stability and shelter to get back on their feet.
Biblical deluge and floods hit Iran
Also, toots.
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There's already a lively discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243.
There's been some recent cases around not wanting to accept certificates of home births in southern texas from 20+ years ago.
it sounds like quite a stretch to say everything shares the same genes. A lot of the genes have come into existence long after distant species split apart, and other genes have disappeared from one specie while continuing in others.
It's widely used by various Open Simulator related communities, also by various groups of Ingress players.
Guard your health. Your health comes first.

You won't enjoy anything else as well, without your health. And over the medium and long term, you won't accomplish it without your health.

You will be offered, or coerced into, all sorts of compromises. "Future payoff" is a ploy.

Very often, your intuition will warn you before conscious thought catches up.
Holy crap.

Poignant quote:

"When the company’s technical staff discovered the bug in March, they decided against disclosing the issue to users because they hadn’t found anyone that had been affected"

Later it becomes clear that this is because the data couldn't easily be associated with users. But still.