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This is my experience working in offices like law firms that are filled with people that have limited technical aptitude for using software. Showing any sort of competency is a recipe for increasing your workload with no conferred benefits.
I don't understand, why did you feel like you had to put down Android in this thread with statement that is unsubstantiated and probably years out of date at least?

If you're happy with your current iPhone (yay!)... why the need for this inflammatory rethoric? Or is it marketing?
If too many people try to abuse a service like this, it is likely the benefit will be taken away.

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/amazon-stops-giving-a-free-mon...
Do you not understand what i'm saying? They're criticizing the content of these journals.
ZGC has a very different design. Go's GC is non-moving and has no read barrier. ZGC has a read barrier and bump allocation everywhere (using compaction to ensure that memory regions are contiguous). As a result it does not suffer the throughput issues of Go's GC.
Sure, try light. But try vitamin D (D3 isomer) supplements, as well.

Whatever other benefits they do or don't have (the latest: 'No help for bone strength in seniors'), I am not alone in my anecdotal experience of having my mood stabilize (towards the positive side) significantly within a day or two of starting D3.
This is not accurate, you can not retroactively re-license distributed code, only code you distribute going forward. No code would need to be rewritten.
For me, this article shows as paywalled. Paywalled articles should be banned, or at least some indication of a paywall should be included in the title, as people sometimes do with PDFs.
As a career educator, and ruling out learning disabilities that are not appropriately accommodated, I believe that generally means you're not doing a good job of explaining in a way the other person is capable of grasping.

Blame goes both ways. And the original point still stands. It is productive to teach someone to improve their own processes.
a bit OT... I use Oracle (yep!) everyday. It's a very solid database. However, somehow, I read about postgresql every day, on planet.postgres and in some other web sources (and I use it a bit in side projects). All the qualities of Postgres aside, what sets it apart is that its develeopement unfold under my eyes and there'd hardly one week without an interesting news or comment or blog post, etc (from non marketing people). That's the opposite of Oracle for which I hear news when the databse team in my job upgrades it, ie once every three years (or when I read some advertisement). That makes Oracle dull. That heighten the trust I have into it.

One may argue that's just the way the web is, but nonetheless, it gives me that warm feeling...
Who said that standing means you're a MAGA supporter? That sounds like a straw man to me.
This doesn't scale well with the number of people who ask for help, unless you can organize a class - which is hard to do in a way that helps people when they need help.

I love talking about git workflow, and am happy to spend a half hour diagramming how your repo relates to origin, what branches mean, how pull requests and merges work, and what rebasing does. For people who don't yet grok git (or maybe just distributed source control?), this has proven to be very helpful.

I typically present this information about 2x a year. However, if I had people ask me for this kind of explanation every week, or multiple times a week, it would have a much larger impact on my productivity.
Regardless if someone of the details turn out to be true, there's a couple of really important network security takeaways here.

First you need to run an air gapped network or at least switch enforced vnet for your bmcs. Three firmware on these is only updated every few years anyway, so they're likely full of security holes anyway.

Second, in general, outbound connections need to be monitored everywhere in your data center.
This seems bitter and certainly exaggerated. For one, the three companies that you listed have almost 1m employees and clearly not all of them are naive or scumbags.

Serious question: what did you decide to do instead of working at a startup or a big tech co, and why do you feel that your life now is better than it would have been otherwise?

I know that comes across a bit rude, but I'm genuinely curious.
> and optimized the compiler to actually use that IPC is the really interesting question.

You can check that part at least. Isn't it LLVM?
Sounds like a cool startup idea.

A legion of VLOOKUP gurus manning a helpdesk, only $20 per screen-share!
No one in Washington would cry about Trump being impeached because Trump has done literally nothing with the Presidency that would earn respect from anyone. Even his own party sees him as little but a seat-filler who's only useful because he picks appointees along party lines.
Excuse my ignorance, but I'm interpreting this to mean that under GDPR users should be able to opt out of cookies and still view the content?

That doesn't seem right. Shouldn't I, the creator, be able to say "consent to having cookies or don't use my site?"
I've only seen X-ray as a destructive test. AOI is pretty commonplace on a per-unit base, but whether it could or could not detect some modification depends on lots of details we don't have.
I learn a lot. I'm the one management goes to when people ask to use a new tool or process. 95% of the time I have already heard about it and have a basic understanding of it due to HN. I describe what it is, how it relates to other stuff we already use and if it has merit to try out. I look super smart when I can answer on the spot. HN is a good filter to focus me on tools and processes that people might actually use or want to use.
I love being the excel guy at my office. I wish it was my only job.
I feel like I'm gaining less and less from it every year. Maybe that's me getting older and more experienced, more having seen everything already, or I am oversaturating myself, or the quality is declining.
Yeah, it’s draining. They have no desire or intention to learn. You’re not helping them, you’re just doing their job for them.

Yours, former excel guy.
I still don’t understand that maths - if you both get n requests per second and the time per request has not changed then the throughout is the same isn’t it?

Time between request translates directly into response time as someone is waiting during that time aren’t they? If nobody is waiting and it’s not added to anyone’s wait time then who cares?

The answer really is power consumption during GC even if nobody is waiting, but you didn’t mention that.
Generally people are referring to the on going expansion of Israel into the West Bank (and less commonly these days the occupation on the Golan Heights) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement
What's even worse is when you're good at actual programming and they know.
Not talking about the search or search results, talking about the Active Sprint board and Backlog.
Not if you have to check for stack space, like Go does.

It's no coincidence that a bump allocator and a function prologue have exactly the same structure: check against a limit and bump a thread-local pointer. There are runtimes like Chicken Scheme that actually implement heaps using the stack!
> The thing is, Windows 10 is starting to look more and more like a Linux distribution. Half-assed and inconsistent UI, broken updates, etc.

Desktop engineering is hard (as Microsoft are demonstrating). There are a very small number of really good desktop distributions (Fedora, Solus, Ubuntu Mate, may be a couple of others), which are not inconsistent or half-assed, but the side-effect of Free Software is that any motivated developer can have a go and put out their own distribution.
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Personally I'd be willing to risk open-mindedness spreading to people in society that "might not be able to handle it" rather than slide further into a dystopia where we're kept stupid on purpose because we might be harder to control if we thought for ourselves.
I'm curious if the stats for accidents while Autopilot is engaged includes those that occur when it disengaged within, say, 15s of the accident occurring. Excluding that might have a big impact on the numbers. (Big Tesla fan, just wondering.)
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This is a rare instance where I agree that 'dang has jumped the gun. I don't see how your comment is insubstantial either, and I think HN's weird relationship with the news media is worthy of comment. No reasonable person reads the comment above to mean "literally everyone on HN has inconsistent beliefs about the press".
> if possible, disable user notifications/emails when an account is being impersonated — or remind staff that impersonating a user will still generate emails, notifications, and dashboard events.

Never, ever disable notifications. Notifications are the only way the user has to cross-check that the agent actually did the thing they were supposed to do, and only that thing.

I worked for a large benefits outsourcing corporation. We had impersonation, and we had a way for agents to cancel notification. A few agents realized they could change a participant address, get a 401k loan, and then cancel the notifications for those things. They used these combined capabilities to steal from our participants.
I don't disagree with you but I was speaking to the premise of the article, which exposits that one should "run the other way" when people come bearing questions.
Separating admins from users is generally a good idea, but it doesn't really apply to the Facebook situation. They were trying to let users look at their own profile from the perspective of another user. This is useful because if you set a photo to be visible to "friends" and then you tag some people in the photo, their friends can also see it. So instead of tracking down every person you tagged and making sure, say, your mom isn't in every friend's friends list, you can just view your profile as it appears to your mom and make sure the photo isn't there.
Their advertising could be focusing on kickstarting their content marketing material. Spend big money creating good content, spend small (but smart) money promoting on niche targeted audiences, count on it to be further spread through word-of-mouth.
> I think we can all agree

There are twenty-eight countries whose regulators and courts will interpret this law differently. I don’t think we can say “we can all agree” about anything at this point.
> Apple puts the user in charge how an mobile OS should look like or should behave and this is the biggest differentiating factor between iOS vs other platforms.

The user in charge? Interesting. I have both an iPhone and an Android handset. It has been this way for years (work is the reason). I believe I will never be able to fully accept the iPhone.

It seems like it wants to make a lot of (often stupid) decisions for me. When I want to connect my phone via cable to transfer some files it is always a hassle. I can't sideload apps that somehow goes against Apple's will. As an example, NewPipe is a blessing on Android if you enjoy YouTube (not available via Google Play). The fact that full phone backups are done via an video/audio player (iTunes) makes zero sense.

I feel trapped and irritated when I use the iPhone. When I use the Android phone I feel like the OS trusts me to make my own decisions.

I should perhaps mention that I chose to run Android without a Google account or Gapps. I've gone from Cyanogen via Copperhead to Lineage. Ironically, Android without Google is the best phone experience I've ever had.
If there's no independent Palestine, then Israel is "merely" allowing land to be stolen from its own apartheid-oppressed citizens by the favored social class. That's supposed to be... better, somehow?
I am old enough to remember that the supreme court choose Bush as president -- that was an aweful moment (and would have been so if it was the other way around too). A conspiracy by one side to harm the other, that is politics.

As for civility, you can argue that but in my mind that civility ended with the candidacy of Trump. I hold the belief that civility is overrated though, I would much rather have them be honest than civil.
Tech companies like to keep their interview notes secret. Job seekers should be required to share what were the stated reasons for rejection.
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They didn't mention having problems with or even measuring throughput in the article, and the number of allocations a program makes is not the only thing that affects throughput. So again, it is unclear why they would spend time optimizing the number of allocations.
The old "Can you fix my laptop?"
It's good to keep in mind that:

"big data" != "privacy sensitive data"

by definition.
Unless you have very specific apps you use (most big ones are the same imo) I'd recommend getting a low end Android phone over a 1400 dollar phone any friggin day.

My $279 phone has taken more beating than all my iProducts combined and still works great, and whenever it breaks I can fix most of it myself (not having to deal with an apple store is always a big plus).
It figures - the FSF are believers in releasing under "GPLv3 or later", which almost no-one does, as the FSF are of course empowered to do whatever they want with future GPL versions.
I signed up for HN eight years ago yesterday.

Back then, I was working at a mind-numbing job in private equity and hating every minute of it.

HN encouraged me to move to SF, learn new skills, join a startup (where I met my wife), which led to an acquisition, which led to joining a YC company as an employee, and eventually starting my own company.

For a bunch of strangers, this community was, and still is life-changing.
That may be a bit naive on my part, but perhaps automakers should form some kind of alliance and develop self-driving tech together instead of buying it from another company.
The actual quotes in Reuters article:

“We are aware of the media reports but at this stage have no reason to doubt the detailed assessments made by AWS and Apple,”
"The NCSC engages confidentially with security researchers and urges anybody with credible intelligence about these reports to contact us"

This is not backing.
The last paragraph of the press release on this hacker news post:

"Finally, in response to questions we have received from other news organisations since Businessweek published its story, we are not under any kind of gag order or other confidentiality obligations."

So you're basically implying that Apple is colluding with the US government to actively lie to discredit this story.
Many American police have authority complexes and take any indignation as a front to their existence. There's also the whole 'not held accountable for their crimes' aspect which I suspect contributes to the lack of trust between law enforcement and other civilians.
If this attack vector is true, it seems overly complicated to me. Why not have the assembly house load the normal SPI flash with firmware you've altered to control the main CPU the way you want? That is WAY easier than hardware changes to the PCB design and installing a part which isn't on the approved Bill of Materials.
> For those driving without Autopilot, we registered one accident or crash-like event for every 1.92 million miles driven. By comparison, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) most recent data shows that in the United States, there is an automobile crash every 492,000 miles. While NHTSA’s data includes accidents that have occurred, our records include accidents as well as near misses (what we are calling crash-like events).

I'm not quite sure what to make of this data. How is it that Tesla cars (without autopilot) are in 4x less accidents than average?
Debugging R code, even badly-written R code, seems like it'd be less hassle than debugging layers of formulas and auto-written macros.
There needs to be an Excel "pro mode" where the mouse is disabled and you have to do all navigation by keyboard. People would become so much more efficient that way.
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FaceId on the macbook would be a game changer.
At least with Git there are _tons_ of ways to learn more. With Excel there are next to none because of the lack of developer community. There are few useful resources where someone can go to understand how they can best leverage their toolset.

Excel is also notoriously opaque when it comes to debugging, so there often are not useful questions to ask Google if you don't already know or understand what you are looking for.
Good news. Like a house key, the FIDO keys are basically anonymous. So, as long as you didn't e.g. leave it with your wallet on a bus, or write on it with non-erasable marker "simongr3dal@example.com" losing the key is not that scary.

In fact, unlike a house key, the Security Key works fine for its new owner, they can register it to sign into their Facebook, or whatever, that will work fine. Facebook will have no idea it's your key, now it's their key.

If they know you're simongr3dal@example.com on Facebook then that's a problem, yes, as obviously they can sign in as you, but if it's so hard for you to remember what you signed up to, seems like it'll be pretty hard for a hypothetical finder to figure out too... "Hmm, I wonder if this random stranger was into Diaper Porn and Antique furniture?"
By the way, that database is not intended to be public.
But corrupt officials sell copies of it.

Also, some interesting tidbits here: https://twitter.com/alexgabuev/status/1048153070956367873
> 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.

Javik, in Mass Effect 3, evokes considerable ire.

It was quite clear that Javik was expected to be a standard character (several things simply don't make sense if you don't interact with him) but they ripped him out specifically for the purposes of creating a downloadable available ON RELEASE DAY.
Joel Spolsky used to be a Program Manager for Excel. He has a great, 1h long video doing an Excel demo a few years ago - here, now YOU can be the Excel guru https://youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
In many companies, once you touch something, you own it, regardless of who's responsibility it was prior to your involvement. In that type of environment, it's often best to feign ignorance, while sending them links to resources while saying something along the lines of, "I think this may have something to do with what you're trying to accomplish."
Instead, Walmart's quality went down the toilet.
This is actually a really interesting question.

I'm not even sure which outcome I think I prefer, let alone which outcome is right.

It seems unfair for a hearing person to deny a deaf person the right to "hear" if he has a technological solution available, but it also seems unfair for the deaf person to be streaming everything the hearing person says to the cloud for analysis.

Maybe the deaf person can stream whatever he wants to the cloud, but you can refuse to talk in his presence if you don't want your speech to be streamed to the cloud?
"In summary, like theossuary, I believe figuring out your niche stores will be beneficial ..."

As we figure out our "niche stores", I hope designers and entrepreneurs will study McMaster-Carr[1] - a site I found through the garagejournal forum that is an absolute joy to use.

Just drill down into any product category and you'll get a very simple listing, with full descriptions and very helpful diagrams of every single part.

If you need pipe fittings or hose clamps or rivets or gas regulators, please vote with your dollars at this site.

[1] https://www.mcmaster.com/
>Enabling people to learn more about the software they use every day is better for everyone involved

I agree, but the flaw in your assumption is that the people who want help from "the office Excel guy" want to learn more. Much like being the "family computer guy", the person asking for help is really asking for you to just fix the problem.
I'm clearly biased (PG dev). But am I understanding correctly that you'd basically always prefer projects where development happens in the closed environment? Because aside of that I don't see what PG could do about what you say here.

Edit: I probably misunderstood the parent.
Past a low complexity bar, I feel like R is a much easier answer than Excel. Excel can get pretty hairy pretty fast. As you mention below, debugging even terrible R code is easier than debugging Excel.
China could cause huge harm to Apple, but the reverse is also true - how would the US government, other corporations, consumers and investors react to such a news?

The ultimate source of most Chinese factory equipment is Europe and US anyway, under extreme political/consumer pressure electronics factories can be setup in a matter of months in US.
Oh, that's a good point. I've often thought that the reason unions are so important is that employers bargain collectively by default because, well, companies are groups of people, not individuals.

On the other hand, IIRC studies show that larger companies pay more than smaller ones, and I think there have even been suggestions that this explains some of the GDP per capita differences between developed nations, that some have more large companies that are then more productive due to economies of scale and specialization.
There should be a gameified excel online course. You've got challenges which you must overcome by learning ever increasing advanced excel concepts.

This would have people more 'engaged' at learning the concepts instead of trying to find the 'excel person' and dump their woes onto them.

Excel is great product (I hate it) but so often misused and abused by technically challenged individuals.
Add another ten for pivot tables.
Too bad that they are still comparing crashes per autopilot mile vs crashes per non-autopilot mile without taking road type into account. If autopilot is mostly used on highways then that isn't a good comparison. A comparison between autopilot and non-autopilot for highway miles only would be more interesting.
You'll have to rip the keys from my cold dead hands.
Agreed. I expect them to be above clickbaiting, but, they're really not.
That's a moral argument, not a legal argument. GDPR codifies through law that you are unable to, legally.
I've not had a cover on an iPhone, and have owned every iPhone since the original. I've broken 1 (and a case wouldn't have saved it..it got run over). Not everybody is fucking gorilla handling their phones. Some of us can have nice things...
> I do not understand the mindset of not wanting to help other people.

I love helping people, but I also want them to become self sufficient. My first question when someone asks me for help is "have you typed into Google exactly what you just said?"
Really? I took a stab at R about a year ago and found it utterly confusing.
No not yet, but I hope it will soon :)
The description of the video is haunting. That was some excellent writing.
The 70s were over 40 years ago.
The "blockchain to multiple copies of an excel spreadsheet" extension should be installed on all browsers and enabled by default. Several years and several crashes and hacks and countless scams and fake startups later, and people still don't get it. I can't see any other way to stop the stupid.

A Thompson Reuters recruiter recently contacted me looking for a neuro-linguistic programming expert to help them with their new ai blockchain chatbot. It's driving me insane.
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Completely agree. People put to much blame on social media networks. Though I like Twitter and dislike Facebook they are not the core problem.

Great historical references as well. The Founding Fathers, though incredible people, were extremely partisan.
Is there a word for being good/talented at something you find undesirable?
Qualcomm was trying to milk Apple too hard.
Everyone trying to send a file over Bluetooth is a pirate!