skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely surprising that insurance company is attributing this to an Act of War.

* Russia is actively pursuing an Active Measures (активные мероприятия [1]) political war against the west

* Russian companies & persons charged by Mueller have actively used the defense in filing that their actions were Acts of War, and so not illegal. These defense claims have not yet been ruled upon, AFAIK.

* The Russian govt, former KGB organization, Oligarchs, Russian Mob, and hacker community have effectively morphed into a single operation entity.

Nevertheless, it is a bit of a stretch to consider a specific hacking event as part of the Active Measures war. Not that it is surprising that the insurance company tries it. They'll st least delay any payments.

This may, interestingly, raise the stakes on any cooperation with such operations (e.g., being a funds conduit, renting out a botnet to deploy the malware) from standard criminal conspiracy charges right up to treason. Not sure if it will play out that way, but I wouldn't want to be the one testing the prosecutors' discretion, or the inclination of the NatSec organizations to get involved. Totally changes the risk profile of getting involved for those inclined to play around the edges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
I didn't know Windows support was on the roadmap. Homebrew has been a critical piece of my macOS toolkit for nearly a decade but I've been working cross-platform more lately so this could be great for me. But what about Chocolatey?
Mackenzie Bezos now drives half of Jeff's income
This sounds overly complex. I don't see why regulation would need to worry about utilization, pricing structure, etc. Of course inefficient use of roads/vehicles is bad for a city - but even low utilization is probably better than private drivers? And low utilization is also bad for any company so why have any need to regulate based on it, all companies still want the highest utilization possible?

I guess what I'm asking is: why doesn't a regulation Just say "drivers should all have decent working hours (enough working hours, shifts not too long or short etc) and they should be paid at least the minimum wage for each of those hours regardless of whether they are driving or not.".
I have an ASUS that i have had for 5 years. At some point the keyboard stopped working, so I popped it open and played with the ribbon and it works fine now. I don't mind fixing things, stuff breaks, but the thing needs to be serviceable.
I use it daily for work. Haven't used it at home for years.

My main blocker games wise is Battlefield series which I don't believe works on linux.
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Right to repair laws are currently being considered in 15+ states that would accomplish #1-4.

https://repair.org/stand-up/

There are hearings in three states on the topic this week: WA, SD, and NH. Get involved! Repair.org has a simple tool to write your legislator.
iPhoto?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207587
On the one hand I genuinely wouldn't want anyone to get fired by accidentally following the not-a-link I posted.

On the other, if that really happened it would be hilarious and I'd love to do a podcast fundraiser with that person after the sting wore off.
The end of an era and one of the worst technology bets / choices. Every time I hear Itanium I think of SGI going under.
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I liked that book and highly recommend it, but... by the end I got the impression that Feynmann was intentionally manufacturing interesting anecdotes in his life, not just randomly having all these interesting crazy coincidences happen to him.
Especially unless they want to pay for it. Most experienced people already have all the jobs they need. No one else is going to train your employees for you. You don't want to pay the premium? Hire on potential and award those that do well. I don't know how many of my friends in these kinds of roles had their pay stagnate while the company were hiring e.g. consultant. Eventually they leave and things gets even worse for the company when the new project fails, because now they don't have either old or new infrastructure working properly.
A cult is a kind of polity at it's heart, and it's horrifyingly fascinating how they built an empire on top of these kinds of cultish practices.
So HPUX finally dies. Doesn't leave much of the original commercial RISC/Unix players still on some level of life support. I guess there's still AIX/Power.
Prior errors, even if we accept that, doesn't make every incident evidence of poor design.

I'm saying that the evidence of this "flexgate" being a design flaw is incredibly suspect. And it's worth noting that soldered in memory, hard drives, and heavy integration likely improves the long term reliability of those connections, in the same way that a display-connected ribbon cable removes one more point of potential issues (yet another connector interface).

Having said that, I absolutely think that Apple should offer a three year manufacturing defects warranty to all purchases, and their one year warranty (geared to push AppleCare+ which is priced primarily to cover the accidental damage coverage) is ridiculous for a high-end piece of hardware.
I would say that a package manager shouldn't break the runtime dependencies of your installed programs. That's really a poor design.

But you can also just copy the previous version into the new readline directory.

cp /usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.5/lib/lib*.7.dylib /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/

Although this will break with the next readline update.
The "global pool to be allocated to anything, anywhere" is called the economy. When concrete is not needed for walling people in, Iraqi concrete factories don't work extra shifts. The people who would have had to work there become employed at other jobs.

In the short term, a soldier who doesn't have to neutralize Sadr City probably does get assigned to some other war mission. In the medium term, his unit is not called up again and he returns to auto mechanic or whatever other productive thing he can do. He puts his effort into raising kids instead of raising barriers.

War does have an opportunity cost.
The question is: why is the US backing out of this treaty now when they knew Russia had been violating it for years. I believe the US is preparing for a new arms race with China and is just lining up the paperwork.

The massive arms race in the 70s & 80s is what arguable took down the Soviet Union by applying too much pressure to a shaky economic system. With major cracks showing in the Chinese economy, is the US beginning to employ this tactic again?

Edit: I added this comment before reading the article based on news stories I heard yesterday. The article is basically positing the same theory.
What a weird question. I sometimes feel like people on this website are super ultra rich. Like $100k+/year salaries rich. I feel like anything up to say $300-400 I can "comfortably" replace - but more than that and it's starting to eat into my savings, which obviously I don't want to do. Like, my $800 TV is not expensive by most peoples standards, yet if I had to replace it it would be two months of my savings. That's not trivial or comfortable in any way. Maybe I wouldn't buy a $5000 massage chair, but I own a ~$2000 solid oak table and chairs specifically because I want it to last few decades, it's a really solid table. But I couldn't "comfortably" afford to replace it. That's what insurance is for.
agreed. living in NYC, i’ve seen how extensive the problem is. we have lots of housing being built over a much broader area than san francisco and yet we still have the same problem. the number of people moving in to the city and getting high paying jobs (i’m a part of this problem) is so great that basically anyone else is pushed out. our affordable housing program has the right idea, but is so limited in its scope as to hardly make a dent. developers keep making luxury buildings with minimal affordable units and flipping them for big money. we need more regulation, more affordable housing.
> But what this “native” Bay Area kid won’t do is start blaming the guy from North Carolina or Wisconsin or Boston—basically every other person in the bar—for propelling the rents into the sky and inadvertently forcing the “locals” to flee.

That's one option. The other option would be to blame all the Bay Area natives who are seemingly happy to build massive employment centers but are completely fucking allergic to building apartment buildings.

But what do I know, I just live in New York, which really does share a lot of the dynamic described in the article as well and has it's share of problems with migration and gentrification, but where we also know how to actually build housing.

It helps.
I'm using that version of the Macbook Air right now. (Been vaguely wanting to upgrade for a good long while, but am too much in love with the magsafe connector and SD card port.)

The light doesn't permanently 'burn in' as you describe, but if there's sunlight shining directly on the back of the laptop I can see a (very faint and blurry) outline of the logo on the screen. Putting a sticker over the logo would fix it, I suppose, though it's rarely noticeable. (If the light's bright enough to shine through the screen, it's also bright enough that I'm squinting into the sun and wanting to sit somewhere else.)
I don't agree. Europe had a culture where the current handling of sexuality in the internet would be considered prude. There were people running around naked in the cities parks, munich was sort of famous for a these naked people in their park in the middle of the city center (englischer Garten). It's the biggest, most central park and munich and people go there with their work-colleagues for a beer after a long day.

There was a strong nudity culture in germany/europe and nudity wasn't something that was entirely sexual. But now it seems to be entirely sexual, at least on the internet.

> When I Google something in a meeting or in front of my mother, I do not want sexual results to appear because some term has an alternate meaning

I don't agee. Not every mention of sexuality is arousing and when something sexual appears and is embarassing for you, that's a cultural thing. I don't see sexual things appearing when you google stuff front of your mother as embarassing in by human nature, I think it's entirely cultural. I honestly don't know whether I would care? My mother is an adult human being after all and smart enought to know that there's an alternate meaning and I didn't want to google sexual stuff with her! I really don't think this would be a problem at all?

> but we certainly don't want to watch a steamy sex scene together

This was weird when I was a teenager, where steamy sex scenes can overwhelme you very quick. But sex scenes are an important part of many movies, it's part of human nature after all.
For example, I like art and my father likes art. When I am in my parents city and we go into a museum together, there are many artworks displaying nudity and some are explicitly concerened with the various forms of sexuality. There's no akwardness there, because we're both adults.

> So having major internet services like Google and Facebook default to being non-sexual seems like a pretty smart move to me.

It may be a smart move from a corporate point of view, but I really think it shapes our culture and defines what is a taboo and what not, they are just too powerfull. I don't think it's good that you can't post pictures of nudity on facebook. Nudity doesn't have to sexual. And if you argue that you shouldn't do that because some eployer could google you and sees you half naked, then that's also cultural, I think. Also, there's a privacy setting in facebook.
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I never even knew this was a problem until just last night. I wanted to play with OpenCV and so I setup a Pi plugged into a 2.4a ps and got the undervolt icon immediately on boot.

I had always used Pi's in headless mode with first boot enabling SSH and connecting to my network so I had never seen the power/temp notifications to question anything.

Now I'm wondering the best way to validate the Power supplies and USB cords powering all my other Pi projects scattered around the house. I'm less concerned about the power supplies and more concerned about the cables.
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Why should "act of war" not be covered?

If I'm going broke because of a war, why shouldn't my insurance company?

Similar, with natural disasters, those should be covered by default -- insurance companies can easily spread the risk geographically..

These exceptions feels like legacy from the "good" old days when wars were common and globalization limited.
Even if they would be a legitimate company they would need to understand that in this market they are not buying but selling.

So apart from blatant privacy issues - way too many hoops.

Scam either way, stay clear.

(the hiring dynamics described in this article are basically valid for all devs in the current market - pretty much everywhere - don't fall for anachronistic HR schemes: https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/trouble-hiring/)
I definitely get this argument but take some pictures with the newest iPhone, compare with some pictures taken with one of those fancy Canon cameras, and the difference is night and day. With almost no effort a really nice camera will produce shots that are extremely hard to do nicely with an iPhone

It’s also the difference between a random bike and something really well maintained with tires pumped to perfection. Super expensive bikes won’t get you to the Tour de France, but it sure makes riding a lot easier
That only works if you have the previous version on your machine, which we did not.
Still not so good user experience in the crypto world
You're taking a very uncharitable reading of that comment. This is clearly not describing a change they made in response to this particular article.
The original RISC/Unix players were most of my career. Pyramid MIPS/OSX, then Sparc/SunOS, AIX, PA-RISC/HPUX, Dec Ultrix followed by Alpha, etc. I remember trying to tell my co-workers that Linux would wipe it all out, shortly after AMD rolled out Opteron. Most of them chuckled.
Between this, ISPs charging more in exchange to not spy on you [0], insurance companies charging more if you don't run their spyware on your phone [1], and stores charging more unless you use their snooping/loyalty cards, it looks like there's an ongoing effort to make privacy expensive.

[0] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Says-It-Wants-to-...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/new-kind-of-auto-insurance-c...
The Large Hadron Collider Project Didn’t “Fail.”
this would be a welcome repurposing for ad-tech real-time bidding markets
What stops HP from porting it to other architectures?
Because you ask, here is an idea:
We are still using browsers, which offer flat surfaces and sounds that everybody can listen too.

1.
With 5G, one camera, two micro beamers and two sets of micro loud speakers, you can look at movies in 3D, even in a cramped place and hear beautiful sounds that people around will not hear.

2.
You can send in real time 50 biological markers that are measured by the daily pill that you ingest each morning (and defecate later).
This enables a health service to monitor your insulin pump as well as your tiny pacemaker and your vagal nerve to control inflammation. There are indeed other usages but I would refrain from mentioning them here.
https://downdetector.com/status/spectrum
Demand. Porting from PA-RISC to Itanium wasn't pain free for end users. Porting to Linux/x64 isn't likely much more effort than some HPUX/x64 that doesn't exist yet.
And that’s what houses are to Americans as well. Much of the real estate in the Bay Area is an investment purchase.
I'm not sure a house fire would be the best way to purge your closet, though. As funny as a sitcom with that plot would be, I'm sure there's a better way in reality.

If you feel overwhelmed by the prospect of purging, try doing it a piece at a time. Even make a game of it: when you get dressed in the morning, you also need to pick an item. That item goes into a box near your front door.

When the box is full, go donate it, burn it in the back yard, what-have-you.
> Benchmarks don't matter.

They Do, up to a certain level, and we haven't quite reach there yet across all spectrum of devices.

> They're both snappy and useable.

They are not.

>Watches are dying. The reason Android isn't trying is because it's a passing fad.

The data tells a completely different story.
A lot of developing countries prohibit currency exchange. For example I moved from the US to Tanzania about 6 months ago and the government has outlawed currency exchanges. There are only 2 ways to get USD: 1) the black market, which is expensive, 10% above the “fair” price 2) the National bank, which is 25% over the “fair” price.

I think BTC might be an attractive alternative here.

Moreover, by some measures, annual inflation is 7-10%. So holding the local currency is highly penalized
So many red flags there. Run away.
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It is legal to request, but you would/should never do so as part of interviewing.

You really don’t want to know the candidates age, marital status or citizenship as part of an interview process. Once you do, you’re open to discrimination lawsuits for your hiring practises. Avoid asking questions that reveals information about stuff that is protected from discrimination.

https://www.government.nl/topics/discrimination/prohibition-...
the truly disturbing thing is that there exists a group of people that think they can make ethical decisions for others and that people think that has any merit whatsoever
> only thing that matters is how much money you net at the end of the year

No it doesn't. Other things matter too.

I gladly give up spectacular amounts of money to live in New York City because I have no interest in living anywhere else. Glancing around it appears I am not alone.
It's not as easy as it looks, but probably can be done. The research I was doing was very much pure transducers, but with a couple of twists (the one I'm proudest of is alternating between forward and backward passes, which makes certain things like matra reordering much easier). There is some work in this space by Monotype as well.
Last I looked, they were porting HP/UX over to x86. The port came up in the whole HP vs Oracle lawsuit.
Something like:

include "rules.mk"

foo: bar.cpp

But if the syntax for cmake was more sane, I would like it a lot more... Why does cmake use a DSL, and let me define targets as first class objects..
Which of those proprietary systems were your favorite (or hated least) and why? Which did you dislike the most?
Mixed feelings. On the one hand, Itanium (as a platform) was batshit insane, impossible to write good compilers for and the pinnacle of Intel overengineering. Good riddance.

On the other hand, Itanium was ugly, but had its charm and uniqueness. Itanium is what EFI was first developed for. Itanium is where the C++ ABI got started.

Itanium being discontinued further reduces mainstream CPUs to the most boring, safe designs possible: IA32/amd64. ARM was kinda quirky (conditional execution, barrel shifter), but those were slowly neutered (by introducing Thumb), and then totally thrown out of the window with aarch64. SPARC is dead. PA-RISC is dead. RISC-V is new and promising, but is also the most pragmatic and safe design of an ISA ever. The Mill CPU is interesting, but is underfunded and I don't think it will ever be taped out.

Similar as with OS research (think: Solaris, Plan9/Inferno), researchy and experimental CPU ISAs seem to be a thing of the past now.
No doubt, fancy cameras are designed specifically to produce better quality images.

I think the core of the issue that I am getting at is how the average consumer spends thousands of dollars on their gear. Pixel peeping, gear talk, MTF curves, the bokeh battle, the whole culture is preoccupied with the details. And yet, they don't have anything to show for it in terms of results. To me personally, it doesn't bring joy. Joy to me is creating something incredible that is avant-garde, unique and something that gives me goosebumps. To others, amazing gear brings joy so there is something to be said about consumer spending in form of stress therapy.

The other point is that it creates an artificial barrier to newcomers where there is so much chatter about this gear and that gear.
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Does that more powerful $100-150 system have an ecosystem comparble to Pi's? Programming tools, shields, etc?

I suppose that could be a significant factor for some (but not all).
The Russian counter is that the "missile shield" being deployed by NATO in Europe, to knock out russian missiles before they reach their intended target, can also be modified from their "defensive" use to also attack (as regular missiles). Thus, they feel that the US has already violated the treaty by using a loophole (anti-missile defences were never considered when the treaty was made).

Moreover, some analysts are suggesting that this move is more directed towards China, then Russia. The treaty makes it difficult for US to deploy missiles targeted at China in that region as these missiles could, in theory, also target Russia.

So maybe some of the criticism is justified, if it is indeed the US that is trying to come up with excuses to wiggle out of this treaty.
It's x86 all the way down.
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Dotfile madness
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think for a second if your 'reasons' can be applied to any invention in general and reflect on that for a while
Monospaced font for terminals with focus on greater text density
It depends on the zone.

RH-1, which is a bulk of the city west of Divis, is approx 15' (depends on historical building construction)

https://sf-planning.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Docum...
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That’s an interesting point. Just as there are financial auditors for investors do cyber insurance companies actually do any auditing of their clients?

It would be in both of their best interests to do so. Mondelez would see that they need to get their security house in order and Zurich would gain some expertise in what to look for in their clients.