skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed a lot of FOSS bug reports/emails for my projects are coming from foreigners lately, and I spent a lot of time thinking about how to help. Translation seemed insurmountable. I considered a lot of options.

My conclusion was to always strive for brevity and clarity. Say it all, say no more, be clear, and be concise. I now consider a foreign audience that may take significantly longer to understand what I write, they may use translation tools, they may be confused by any "flowery language".
Interesting, then why not sue? I imagine it’s because they’re lying and would have to turn over documents related to the incident.
This is probably just BadBIOS2[1].

If this is as common as it sounds someone will get a chip and do a teardown and the similarities to BadBIOS will be gone.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS
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Are you talking about some totally different case than the article? The scheme described in the article has nothing to do with VAT.
Scared of something? You are projecting
I’ve received a Walmart originated box when I ordered some poster frames. It was a surprise.
If the terms and conditions were onerous enough that Microsoft could not conform to them then I feel like this rounds to "Google can effectively block the native consumption of YouTube and Gmail."
I think he means more than just fixing the ANSI characters.
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They don't buy anything, but they don't cause any problems either. If they did, the language would have changed to accommodate it, or died out already. But since you're putting the effort in to learn it as it is, clearly neither applies...
Yet we have a wide variety of programming languages, and switch between them as the need arises for a better fit to the problem domain we're working in. With the wide variety of things like number systems in different languages, wouldn't it make sense that using some languages might be better for mathematical communication, and others maybe not offer the precision required to communicate everything necessary? It would make sense to me if some languages were better for talking about navigation, or weather than others. Or some were better with numbers, or parts of anatomy, etc.
It's necessary to have the sentence following even try to make sense.

>> Once the latter is aware of the former you can be reasonably assured who of will win.

What does it even mean to "win" in the context of the EV market? Or even just the car market generally? Markets may be competitive but that doesn't translate into the competitiveness of a battle. It's a wonder the world finds a place for variety of so many products and goods at all, given people's obsession over "the winner", somehow creating a monopoly, and fear of losing some "battle" that isn't actually happening.
People are pitching the gag order theory a lot but would they be legally able to not only flat out deny the events but also that they’re under any gag order?
To be fair, I also have no concept of an external drive being for my storage and not OS usage. Storage is storage, especially if it’s always plugged in.
It's a known practice, but security-sensitive organizations have supply chain management that's typically understood to prevent it from happening on a large scale.
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Um yea, aren't you?
SKAT... When paying my taxes in Denmark using a foreign bank I have to manually "enter my CPR number and describe what the payment is for" in the message field.
This is FUD, to be sure. Don't think so? Hear me out.

If wind turbines are even 10 stories tall, then they introduce the same atmospheric disruption as a residential or commercial building of the same height. That we are not researching the impact of urban sprawl with the same level of scrutiny is telling. What of smoke stacks, cooling towers and high rises? Hmmm?

Meanwhile, the idea that removing kinetic energy from a 400 foot thick layer of a wind's pattern's convection and coriolis path represents atmospheric drag any worse than trees is an idea to be laughed at. What about thermals from parking lots? What about desertification?

Indeed, watch all the hurricanes disappear, because we soaked up all that motion with fan blades dotting the terrain. Does anyone believe that a wind shadow carved into the Atlantic coastline with an array of modern windmills could effectively disrupt hurricane alley? I sure don't.

And no, I don't think that's a grossly oversimplified comparison.
So, there is such a thing as a free lunch?
Yeah, hyphen seems best. Still wouldn’t solve cases where you need to embed one compound inside another, but otherwise it is good. Maybe languages should just have parantheses though to explicitly indicate the parse tree.
Do you have a source for the majority of of azure running on Linux? Would be very interested to see this.
Agreed. What happens if Amazon acquires deliverr after these companies fully dependent on deliverr?
The best reason is probably that the person creating the system doesn’t know at the outset exactly how, or even if, what they are building will work.

Excel often gets used for prototyping new models. A new model for allocating overheads - try it in Excel and see what the effects will be. A new forecasting method - get a ballpark estimate of the impact on the bottom line in Excel.

Once the model is in Excel it isn’t cheap or easy to get it out, so it often just stays that way, accumulating technical debt.
Your company wants to manage their personnel using active directory, you want access to the office suite, you want to be able to play modern video games?
Where did you see it has a max altitude of 60 feet?

The article just mentions that in a recent flight it flew up to 60 feet. It doesn't mean it's the max.

It also flew at around 30 mph, while its max speed is 44 mph.

The way I understand it is that they are reporting on recent test flights, not on projected abilities.
I was raised in Atlanta and I instantly bought tickets to see them play their first comeback show at Coachella. It blew my mind that the Coachella crowd, while awesome welcoming people, were lukewarm about the fact that OutKast was reuniting. In Atlanta you grew up indoctrinated with OutKast we literally danced to Hey Ya in middle school physical ed.

I got to see them a few times on the comeback tour but I wish they had got tapped for the Atlanta Super Bowl halftime show instead of Maroon 5.
Yes I am scared of anonymous sources writing with an agenda that is bullshit as often as not. Not sure when this became the norm in journalism for people to just take everyone at their word just because they are senior and they have an axe to grind but it's quite tiresome.

If it's important stand up and put your name behind a story as a source, everyone just cowering in the corner because they want to keep their careers safe is making things worse, not better.
The only gag order version that makes sense is "An incredibly small number of people at the companies were aware of this, and they've been lying to their own company."

It's possible... but that starts to be fairly chilling and I can't see them being employed after this shakes out if it's true.
If it were a gag order why would they respond with specific denials instead of just saying "We take our customers' privacy seriously, your data is safe, we cannot comment on rumors" or something?
I'm not saying it's a fake story, but the US is in the middle of a trade war. It could be a huge piece of propaganda. The sheer audacity of that though would be staggering.
Who, what, when, why, where? Bloomberg needs to tie it to specific SKUs of servers, get shipping records, see where they were sold after three years of use which is when they usually go out of warranty so researchers can get their hands on them.
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Yep, good call..
These things (Protobufs, Flatbuffers, Cereal, Cap'n Proto, Bond, Apache Avro, Thrift, MessagePack etc etc) are now a dime a dozen.
In fact, even if you want a C++-only solution like this, you're still spoiled for choice (any of Boost.Hana, Boost.Fusion, Cereal, or Boost.Serialization for reflection + a little code for binding to your choice of codec). Hopefully one day we'll get standardized compile-time reflection as a language feature.

Imho, code generators and schema files are a feature. If you don't care about forward or backward compatibility, or portability to other languages, then just avoid pointers and memcpy your structs to disk. There are even libraries like Boost.Interprocess that will help you do just that... even with complex multi-indexed data structures like hash tables and maps inside mmap()'d blocks.

That all said, these days I use Flatbuffers, because it's super efficient, header-only, round-trips to JSON, the code gen is tolerable, and it doesn't lead to executable size bloat.
If you want to make a legal youtube app, you shouldn't use any youtube apis. You can only access things that a browser can access. That's how newpipe does it, and it works fine. I don't know if MS took that route.
Chinese of course has numerous dialects outside Mandarin. Do any dialects change tones when using that “tā” phoneme for a "he" or a "she" or an "it"?
Not just the US intelligence community but most of the Western world was convinced.
Microsoft did develop an HTML office format in Office 2000 for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint designed to be a replacement for the binary formats. It included extensive embedded XML. Users and companies still used the original. With Word html, people wanted all the Office specific code stripped out. Internet explorer was necessary if you wanted accurate rendering.

I was a developer in the Excel group in 2000.
Operative word here is _malware_.

Bloomberg reporting was about a hardware hack.
The response is equally interesting. I wouldn't have assumed people would be so quick to jump to "Well, private US companies are lying to the public because the US government is compelling them to."

Times we live in...
That comment was sarcastic. It was intended to mock common pro-Android arguments by pointing out that the author doesn't care about doing that at all.
The good news is we are designing languages for humans, not computers, so we can make a big mess of it and still get the message most of the time. If we were designing for computers, we would certainly prefer more data to interpret the intent.
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Based on independent intelligence or a relay of the bad US intelligence?
> And it seems to me that if Sony can't even solve that problem, when Sony seems to have a clear financial incentive to solve it, they're not really in much of a position to start tackling MMO community preservation yet.

There's a problem with that argument, though. Sony et al have an incentive _now_ to want the content for older games. But it wasn't until much later that the idea of rereleasing games, much less archiving bits of them for future use, was a common thought.

I'm not arguing that the industry has gotten particularly better at that in the interim, just that there wasn't an incentive for it historically, and concluding that they can't do it when incentivized to doso doesn't follow.
They are. Small Business Cards are always are. It's not tied to my credit report, but my report was pulled as part of the process.
It's probably tied to the play store. If they want to have it in their version of Android, they should be able to install Youtube on those phones. If they want to roll their own, they'd probably end up in a similar situation as WP.
Who spends more? DARPA on weaponized insects, or The Gates Foundation on eradicating malaria by controlling mosquitos?
Mind sharing the statistic in that last link?
>Don't follow your passion. Passion will come if your work is meaningful, you are competent and respected for it.

Ehh, everyone starts at zero and you need passion (or otherwise some form of goal/discipline) to become competent to begin with. Nothing wrong with using passion to follow a goal. Just don't be place all your eggs in one basket; it's not the end of the world if you don't instantly reach your dream goal/salary/life choices.
I think they meant majority of azure clients (i.e., people running vms on azure) running linux, not that azure itself runs on linux. Linux was above 40% sometime last year in azure stats, and I think it crossed 50% sometime recently.
I'm considering using the library for an embedded project that communicates with a Linux host and I have some questions.

- Does serialization/de-serialization require dynamic memory allocation? From what I've seen it looks like it doesn't.

- How are you handling endianness? floating point numbers?

- How complete/tested is the library? Are you aware of projects using it?
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They still give no detailed evidence. Why they can defame our Chinese without publish evidence? Before they publish detailed evidence, I believe this is just excuse to defame our Chinese like Mike.
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I don’t buy it. I know it’s fashionable to be cynical about the media at the moment, but Bloomberg is not a rag and it’s owned by someone who is no fan of Trump or trade wars. It doesn’t add up.
You don't need to root your phone to do that on iOS, either.
The true story of almost every finance/tech project:

Trader: "I've got a problem with my spreadsheet."
Tech: "You shouldn't be using Excel for that. Let's make this better."
Trader: "OK - how?"
Tech: (Proposes solution - involving databases, redundancy, risk management, GUI, streaming prices, booking, etc.)
Trader: "Great! So I guess at that point there (points at whiteboard), we can import it back into Excel?"
Tech: "Sure." (facepalm).

This said - Python is fast becoming the new crack/Excel for front-office. Thank God for that.
What does "in terms of width" mean in this context?
I suggest looking at nanopb to compare, that’s how I’ve solved this problem in the past. It’s just a couple kB on an AVR.
Nope. Well maybe a few startups. But nothing like more regulations right?
This has several transcribing errors. For example "of the Mud" should be "oh the Mud"; Leg is written instead of Garment once, which makes Leg both neuter and feminine.

http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/mtrdg1.html is better.
> there's no way to move data from one app to another, unless the apps have specifically setup that hand-off

iOS now has what's essentially a file-picker since iOS 11, to support storage of files on your device and iCloud.
This is like believing undercover agents have to admit they're cops if asked. Who even spreads these rumors..

No, Apple would not admit being under gag order. The publicist wouldn't even know, so they wouldn't be lying. Like the PR dude would even have the clearance for that type of info..
Bloomberg wouldn’t need to be deliberately deceitful - just misinformed by the government sources they’ve indicated they have.
Really? How many insects to genetically modify the Ukraine's wheat? I, too, wonder what they're doing.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a buzz.
That does not work when the plural is not appropriate. For example, you would have trouble saying: "the above commenter wrote about their experience", i.e. when talking about a specific person with unknown gender. I'm glad that English still allows this.
Haha you should have seen the treehouse my friends and I built when we were in about fifth grade. It was probably 15 feet off the ground and put together with as much carpentry skill as a group of 11 year old boys had, using boards and plywood scavenged from our garages or vacant lots. Fun times. Pre internet era, nobody had a phone and video games meant pac man at the arcade if you had money to play, or maybe Pong on a TV set.
> Buy a phone that gets support.

So Pixel, and, uh, Pixel XL?
It would be something Russia would do, plant a fake story to massively discredit Bloomberg. It would go with their strategy of launching so many fake stories that nobody knows anymore what to belive.

The problem with this theory is that Bloomberg says all the sources were from the American govt.
An obscure but interesting point, by DJB:

> In the United States, once you own a copy of a program, you can back it up, compile it, run it, and even modify it as necessary, without permission from the copyright holder.

...

> Once you've legally downloaded a program, you can compile it. You can run it. You can modify it. You can distribute your patches for other people to use. ... As long as you're not distributing the software, you have nothing to worry about.

https://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html
IMHO, if a company said "We take our customers' privacy seriously, your data is safe, we cannot comment on rumors" many people would interpret that as a confirmation of the original story. That kind of lingo doesn't sound specific enough or convincing nowadays. Maybe we're just too used to that. It seems like today's technical audience demands something that sounds very specific, airtight, watertight, germ-proof, shock-proof, etc
I studied fractals for years. But it didn't matter how deeply I looked, they still looked just as complicated as ever.
Facebook / gov can import all your data from Solid, rendering your options of who to share info with a cruel illusion.
There is value in thinking about the numbers as you build a model. Manually typing them in helps.

Just like Zed Shaw's LPTHW tells you to type in the code from the book, and not copy-paste.
The ability to run foreign software is a goal even Google embraces with their support for Android apps and 'Linux' within their Chrome OS sandboxes.

(If you're asking why Windows in the first place, well that is another discussion entirely.)
Bad US intelligence. Secretary of State Colin Powell gave a detailed presentation at the United Nations that was seen around the world. It was all based on faulty sources.
I've used nanopb in the past. It's a great library. The only drawback is that it requires a type compilation step that generates the sources.
You joke, but sending files over AirDrop is pretty much precisely this, except it also uses ad-hoc Wi-Fi networks to speed up the transfer.
Interesting to contrast this with the previous (far more optimistic) article discussed 3 years ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9585552
do you mind if I derail the thread for a little bit?

[if yes]
I currently work at a small-medium sized company, and we have one BI guy. Our ops team is ~5 people, and 1-2 of the more junior guys are tasked with doing everything necessary to support the BI guy. which basically means making sure the BI software is installed properly on the container, configured properly, has access to the db, and it comes up properly etc

BI is a critical business function, so it's a pretty high priority, but the process is way less automated and skillfully crafted than the other parts of the system, mainly cause everyone hates it and only barely understands what the BI system (in this case, pentaho) actually does. it's no coincidence that the most junior engineers often end up doing it (with occasional but pretty infrequent help from the seniors when blocked)

what i've been wondering is, what exactly does "a BI guy" need their system to do? I read a bit about ETL systems, but haven't done much research. I assume the job of an ETL system is to pull data from the production database(s), clean it up as necessary, and use that data to calculate whatever business metrics are required? is the software more about making it easy for the BI team to use an interface to craft their queries/dataflow/etc?

basically my motivation is I've mulled over the idea of having the ETL system be written in-house. the benefits being potentially smoother and more native operation and in a way that's more seamless to integrate with monitoring, alerting, automated jobs etc. my guess is that such a project would end up being a waste of time in 98% of cases, especially because you need a usable frontend for the BI guy.

so, if I may, what exactly is business intelligence / what do you do on a day-to-day basis? I'm pretty experienced with traditional finance/investing jobs, eg reading 10-q's, 10-k's, balance sheets etc, and using the data to calculate cash flow, opex, gross margin, and every other metric you could conceivably want. But I'd never heard of "business intelligence" until starting an internship several months ago.

thanks, and no worries if you don't have time to respond / if this is too off-topic.
Minor correction: you would have to resign the app, not rebuild it.
What? Maybe the denials are just honest.
If it was fake who decided that SuperMicro (down almost 50%) should be sacrificed for a trade war? Seems unlikely.

If the story is not true, occam's razor would suggest the journalists just got it wrong, maybe by turning a molehill (couple of hacked servers or server firmware) into a mountain (industrial scale espionage) .
> I enjoy the ease of pirating apps on Android too.

This is an unfair characterization–am I a software pirate because I don't get all my apps from the App Store on macOS?
It was news reported vs. government denies.

To know who is telling the truth you must know what the government policy really is related to NSA exploits and how bold NSA is when protecting secrets.

These things can be verified only when whistleblowers release documents. Snowden and other whistleblowers have revealed multiple lies, including that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied under oath.

That said, it's also possible that Riley & Co. rely on bad or unreliable sources.
Sure: you can make one easily in GarageBand.
It is. Monopolies only exist within context. Zero to one has a good section on this.
> I wouldn't have assumed people would be so quick to jump to "Well, private US companies are lying to the public because the US government is compelling them to."

I mean ask Joe Nacchio how going up against the NSA worked out.
Ok, but i suppose that in the future chip output pads can have circuitry which can detect a forced output (by measuring current). When this happens, the chip could short-circuit power lines, or superimpose a signal on the power-lines to notify the rest of the system.
Thanks for posting the video. Please do some research on Martin's story.
So there is no technical limitation of HTML itself compared to XML (doc format)? That HTML would be a just as good replacement for XML (.doc format) if someone tried to make a word processor for it?
> Well look at how the Nexus 5 still has the latest android version available.

…didn't Google drop support after Marshmallow?
Perhaps they’re afraid that some stiff regulations might come out of this, affecting their bottom line, so they just deny it?
The deployment of a swarm of these things in any context is a great reason to retaliate with nukes. Or at least B-52 carpet bombing.

But, then again, anybody without nukes or B-52 squadrons is out of luck.
Oh man, my life changed a month ago and I’ve shared this with a close family member that already went through cirgury.

I will say, this works better if you’re on the edge and just want to try anything.

Keep it strong.