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> "On the other end, John Deere argues that access to the company’s proprietary software could be used to bypass emissions controls or safety measures"

They do have a point on emission controls, though. Pretty much every person I know that owns a diesel car has either ripped out or plans to rip out the particulate filter. Doesn't matter that it's illegal, doesn't matter that it hurts everyone around. People just don't care.

I'm all for the right to inspect and mod electronics, hardware and software alike, but we also need alternative ways to stop socially irresponsible people.
Why would compliance costs differ greatly once the technical problem of tools that build for accessibility by default are commonplace? Maybe some minimal oversight to verify accessibility, but no much else. Or am I missing something?
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If you look at an integrated circuit like a CPU at the gate level, you will find complexity which goes beyond the logic being implemented -- the snaking physical routing of the traces; the width and layer of the traces; supply and ground lines; the orientation of the gates; the number of fins on a multi-gate finFET. Someone without a high-level understanding may wrongly assume that any of these things contribute to the logic.

Sometimes specific details are important, yet do not encode higher-level information. Supply lines must be able to carry enough current, so changing their size may break the logic. Clock distribution lines must propagate their signals at the correct rate, so changing their length may break the logic. Neither of these factors need be considered in a high-level emulation of a processor.

In the same way, complexity in the brain may be irrelevant to its function, redundant, or even problematic. As an example: the vascular anatomy of the brain is complex, but not generally considered to be instrumental to cognition; it's similar to the Vdd and ground, but shapes the neural matter around it. As we don't understand the mechanics of how intelligence arises from neurons, it would be wrong to assume all their properties are instrumental.

Given that an integrated circuit is an engineered system, and the brain is a evolved biological system, and evolution is in many ways more prone to unnecessary complexity because of local optima traps, I would speculate that much of the brain's complexity is likely not instrumental to intelligence (yet may be contributory).
In California, the level for computer professionals is nearly double the main (professional/management/admin) amount ($88K+ vs $45-50K depending on employer size.)
I would like, just for once, that a company comes out and straight up says: “We choose how to make our products, you choose whether you want to buy it.” That’s everything there is to it. Don’t use any other arguments like “We do it to protect you.”
Those two complaints are easy to fix.

Get a yard service - I pay $150 a month for them to come twice a month.

Get a home warranty - it’s about $600 a year and they fix everything - appliances, hot water heaters, plumbing, etc. I haven’t purchased one for current home because it’s a new build, but I did for furnished rental property I previously owned. In the grand scheme of things for an owner occupied home it’s probably not a great deal but it’s worth the peace of mind for some.
It's not 2FA when you have your password and the TOTP secret in the same place.
I've never heard any one classify maritime shipping as high margin. Having spent over a decade in both ocean and inland waterways operations, my experience has suggested more on the order of 5-10% net margin at best
When I call the super they drag their feet, do a half-assed job, take a dump in my bathroom, and then I get a rent increase for "improvements" they've made to the property.

I used to own a 1000 sq ft cape cod that was built in 1942. I fixed everything myself and since it was small, nothing could really get out of hand. I believe most of the pain involved in home owning lately has come from bigger houses with more complex systems/appliances.
I understood that as you intended.

It's a fine line between understandable to laymen and people been pernickity sadly.
Yes, I'm aware who owns WhatsApp. I was talking about the functionality aspect, I apologise if that wasn't clear enough in my initial post. I don't miss any functionality that Facebook offers because WhatsApp effectively does away with things I don't care about by providing me with highly curated groups of conversation and sharing, without the cruft.

I am fully aware it's a part of the Facebook ecosystem.
"That said, my godawful company man manager would repeatedly proclaim how "

I've never worked at Google but am friends with many Googlers. Someone I know was one of these awful company man manager who worked there would just keep defending G+ with these awful spoon fed comments. I stopped bothering trying to say anything about it since it became obvious that the group think has set. He's doing great at Google these days from what I can tell from his LinkedIn profile. I guess the culture has really changed if those are the Googlers who get promoted.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, sometimes it's fun to push back on the slackers!

It's kind of like enjoying a spicy meal, or an extremely bitter beer!
> Amazingly Bill does get work done, somehow.

How do you define what "get work done" means? Everywhere I worked (as a developer) there has never been a situation where you can say "OK, there is nothing else useful to do today". So it obviously can't be that.

Is it related to seniority? Or even salary? As in, "we expect our senior/highly paid people do accomplish 2X (or whatever multiplier) amount of work that the junior members of the team do".

Or is it just related to how much work the developer estimates they can do? You say you will take these 4 tasks this week, everyone agrees that it's a reasonable amount (for your level/role) and then if you complete them your work is considered done.

Or is it something else completely? I'm interested in anyone's thoughts on this.
This is more down to globalisation than anything else though, everything has become centralised into very specific hubs because it's more efficient and elsewhere has suffered. As someone who grew up in a pretty rural area in a small country, I can tell you there wasn't that much of a choice to remain there.

A lot of the most expensive places to live are also becoming some of the only places where career prospects seem remotely strong.
I was talking about the functionality aspect, I apologise if that wasn't clear enough in my initial post. I don't miss any functionality that Facebook offers because WhatsApp effectively does away with things I don't care about by providing me with highly curated groups of conversation and sharing, without the cruft.

I am fully aware it's a part of the Facebook ecosystem.
So the equivalent of Wikipedia for a Chinese person is what, for a Westerner? Snuff movies?
You got a dirt cheap printer because you're paying with supplies. Printer heads are the normal price.
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If you type the age you lost your virginity into your team slack channel today with /IPO you get a free share of Slack stock .

I tried it and it worked !
XSLT is an unpleasant language (particularly for beginners) but implementations I've seen tend to be correct and stick to the standard; what trouble did you find yourself in?
Not sure how them having to sell their house for $1m less would somehow alleviate hardship elsewhere. It's not like it would go into taxes or something.
I don't think anyone is trying to be mean/overly critical with their comments here. I hope you keep writing/submitting to HN.
Ok, but even in your example your thinking in spending $20k for a $500 piece for being able to use something that costs much more than $20k.

Perhaps I should made it clear in the original reply: what I expect is to own the thing I buy. And owning it means that I should be able to do whatever I want with it, including fix it using third-party suppliers.

Of course, if we think of extremes, I think that SpaceX will charge much more for providing me a replacement noozle than it actually costs, but in this case we will be talking about rocket science.
> but would it have killed Google to keep read-only access to it?

I might be misremembering, but wasn't the decision to completely kill Google+ made soon after a Google+ bug exposing account data was revealed (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/google-bug-expos...)? Given how integrated Google+ was with the rest of Google, keeping it alive, even in read-only mode, could be a security risk even for unrelated Google services.
AIS transponders are required for almost all commercial vessels
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The track-pad is small enough for me not to be a problem typing (it is small, compared to Macs especially), and have never used the nipple for anything serious, and have a mouse. But the keyboard.. simply the best.
"[TypeScript] seems to encourage complex types instead of simpler contracts."

Having refactored a few different codebases across two different businesses and my own personal projects, I must say subjectively that this is the opposite of what I've experienced. Without TypeScript there is essentially no contract at all beyond sparse documentation (be realistic) and the fading memory of whomever implemented the interface you're looking at.
Alternatively, one could use NBD (network block devices) to create a network block device that resides entirely on a server's RAM.

The nice thing about NBD is that its a super simple protocol, the server runs in user space, and it's easy to modify to suit own needs. I built sometime ago a version with block deduplication for a farm of disk-less clusters that had very little ram in ~1k LOC. Main disk had persistence activated, while swap drives were pure RAM.
The data they received is a competitive advantage and they are not under any obligation to publish it. You don't need to, or are allowed to, extend your demands of peer-reviewed academia to modern online journalism. Stop whining, and address the claims of the article.
What's the 'black Eegyptian hypothesis'? That Egyptians in fact are not/were not ever Scandinavians as they are portrayed today?

How are you able to ascertain Jesus' complexion?

"What Did Jesus REALLY Look Like?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRnrfTHeL4

"How Jesus Became Widely Accepted as Being White": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJCyDmTwyg

"There Is No White Jesus": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APMu32sC2nM (This one is the best!)

I'm detecting bias . . .
Causing more house fires? Probably 1% of products sold/in use would be a good criteria
I don't think the nerd/Ivy distinction you're making is significant. Most students at Ivy League schools are nerds, at least by the standards of broader society (you need good grades to get in). Few of them "network for a living."

If anything, the real distinction is that a network for college students is appealing to teenagers, who are the perfect audience for social media. A network for adults doesn't draw in this crowd.
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MIPS is a fun architecture (other than the delay slots that plagued early RISC ISAs) and implementing a subset of it on an FPGA is still a pretty common undergraduate university course project. I was kind of amazed just how simple it is to get a basic CPU working, though even the 1988 version was quite a lot more sophisticated than the class project version (multiple cache levels, having an MMU, probably much better branch predictor, etc).
Ask HN: Any AI/ML approaches to “date tag” text documents?
For news articles, press releases etc. etc., might/not have an explicit date mentioned, but in the body could state "In the Spring of 2018...." => 2018/03/??

Any tools in this space?
SSDs cost 26€ for 128GB and offer significantly more performance and reliability. USB drives are not significantly cheaper.
I'm left handed and it used F for "no" and J for "yes".
That's the fairy-tale but most chips come off the line with all cores functional and the manufacturer disables some of the cores. Taken to the extreme - there just aren't that many chips with, say, 4 broken cores and yet the rest of the chip still works. Demand is highest for these cheap parts and supply is lowest, so you disable cores.

The other thing is, these 12Cs are actually clocked significantly higher (and have much more cache enabled) than the lower-end parts. So these are not simply "bad silicon". Really this is a misnomer in general since there is a variety of ways silicon can be "bad". Bad clocks, damaged cache, damaged cores, etc etc.

Binning gives you the opportunity to pick the best cores on a chip too. So if a chip had two cores that could only do 4 GHz but the rest of them could do 4.4 GHz or whatever, then all of them might be functional yet it might fail binning as a fast 8C chip, but you could disable the two derpy cores and ship it as a very fast 6C chip.

The binning process is a deeply trade secret kinda thing, but is undoubtedly much more complex than people generally believe. It's not "top X% silicon becomes Epyc, next X% silicon becomes threadripper", etc. All that is known for sure is that AMD is very efficient at using every part of the buffalo.
I currently have probably my best manager yet. She takes the time to actually understand what is going on from my perspective, and she does that for our whole team. Empathy. Moreso, she's also always coming up with new variations on meetings... Like at the end of sprints we do a new Retro exercise. She comes up with 10 or so funny cool names for each sprint and then we all vote on them. Things like that. She also advocates for us when we have a technical opinion and feel like we cant get it passed through on our own. Stuff like that.
Isn't it funny that people still don't use a messenger with decent filters, which assess personal ratings of posters to show you more relevant results first? Even Discourse doesn't have personal blacklists. Though its search is more advanced than Reddit's. Isn't that strange in 2019?
The numbers have to be seen in relation to 250.000 immigrants (2012) that occupy a larger amount of flats each year. Also this pool of AirBnb flats offers flexibility for people who didn’t find a long term apartement yet and home owners who want to reshape these homes.
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Google was at its best a relatively open culture and 2011 is the year they killed other cultural icons such as Google Labs and (unofficially) deprecated 20% time. I think the road to the Google we see today started then. It's also the year they paid too much for Motorola and started pushing Marissa Mayer out the door.

Something about this rings true.

it was really disappointing to see a potential Facebook killer die of a thousand papercuts like this.

From my POV, the Google+ launch was doomed by the way it was foisted on Google users. Because of that, my feelings of cynicism towards the product started in less than a second.
Its only as high as the amount of demand for _both_ of those things. It may be that landlords convert some percentage of units into short term rental units, but even that has a limited return on investment. There are only so many people that are going occupy those short term rentals, so even if you kept the price of them the same the decrease in occupancy is going to hurt enough to limit the total number of units going onto that market.
Multi-cloud: I don't think it means what you think it means
Would be interesting to see this shipping data joined w/ other macroeconomic indicators like foreign investment, trade deficit/surplus, and +/- GDP...could be a good way to spot emerging markets
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And that's why there are anti-dumping laws. And I assure you it wasn't the cheap version of the printer....
And I'll bet his system still takes 3 whole seconds to launch a word processor.
Thanks for the kind words!

Do I understand you right as arguing that having some people not use 2FA because the requirements are too harsh is better than bringing people onto "2FA lite"? Or are you saying something different?
Throwaway because my real account can be easily linked to my real name.

Being a Chinese living in the US, thoughts:

1) Kudos for doing this experiment - one of the authors works at Peking University and I imagine there must have been at least some pushback for him. I hope this indicates a greater trend where academics gets free passes from censorship but maybe not. That being said...

2) Maybe things have changed but a few years ago the GFW wasn't really a hinderance for me browsing YouTube or Wikipedia or anything. If asked in a survey "have you ever tried to get past the GFW" of course I would have answered no. Of course I am a computer person, but I wonder how valid the findings are given my anecdotal evidence.

3) There are fake news everywhere, both on pro and on anti Chinese government news sources. One thing I have observed is that in China at least among the educated population there's a lower level of trust in pro government news when compared to the trust level in anti Chinese government news in the US educated population (assuming HN is a somewhat representative subset of said population).

4) Chinese media quality is low at least IMHO. Gossips always win over important news, international news are not shown prominently. I would rather read NYT or WSJ or WaPo.

5) Side comment, a lot of the comments on HN are anti Chinese government and sometimes anti Chinese. I don't care about the former, but Chinese people are people and anti Chinese is not cool.
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And control over users and their behavior.
I'm curious. I presume you also speak Spanish? (And, clearly, English.) If you don't mind saying, which is the language of your heart? When you are alone and think, which language do you think in?
Show HN: Using GitHub as a CMS for Techie Notes
PXE boot FTW! I use to work on a project that used LTSP to make a couple dozen thin clients. The thin clients were slow, but the OS was fast. This isn't entirely the OS in RAM as a big chunk of the file system was mounted over the network, but most of the OS was in RAM.
Some customers would assume that since a place did repair the phone that Apple approves of them doing so, therefor putting liability on Apple.

Any such harm coming from that phone would be first applied to Apple and Apple would have to expend money to prove otherwise.

I have no problem with allow customers to select the shop they want for out of warranty work but I am fully in the camp of manufacturers being able to provide an obvious means for shops to have certification to repair a device in warranty.

As to the idea of "Right to Repair". I work in the automotive industry and the company I work for lives by this, however by no means is it realistic that having the information, tools, and parts, would guarantee a good result for all those who undertake the work. Plus people do have an unrealistic idea of which parts would ever be replaceable. Batteries sure, but individual chips would be not be.
Right, but you're mitigating an extremely marginal attack (a purely passive interception of a login) and enabling a somewhat more realistic attack, and for what? If you're just doing it to fake out 2FA requirements, sure, do whatever. But otherwise, just use 1Password passwords and skip the TOTP theater.
Yes, I know, but it seems most of the value Microsoft Teams provide is in its video conferencing capabilities. Why is Slack said to be competing with one and not the other?
> I've worked at a lot of places like this, and I'm continually surprised people enjoy it.

That's been my experience as well. When a manager says they try to "shield you from the bullshit" it's just a lack of transparency that leads me to making my own (often worse) assumptions.
Why do you suppose Sony apparently believes otherwise?
I'm already using this for personal use... makes it easy for me to review what I learnt in the past. Wondering if it's useful for anyone else (clone the repo) or if anyone wants to follow my notes and maybe even contribute their own notes (add an issue to the repo... i'll review it and assign it to myself, at which point it will become visible on the site...)
This is why they call it fake news.
This is a neat format but I wouldn't trust the results. Some of the "real" words are not actual English words (I got a Spanish word and an acronym) and some of the "fake" words are real, but obscure (for example, "coath"). Still a lot of fun, which seems to be the point.
> Only if you(and the person receiving) can afford a smart phone, and an internet connection

The number of people in India who can likely exceeds adult population of the United States :-)
Why does losing the device require invalidating seeds? If I lose my phone or its stolen, those seeds are still behind a lock screen, and even if they get out, an attacker would need my password.
And me still having an 8GB one.
Yup this is a thread to follow. Will be checking yoyr advised books too!
You are missing where most of the work/cost is occurring, it isn't in the code, but in the design and verification process.
In general, no, but for 1Password users sophisticated enough to store TOTP creds in it, I'm guessing: almost always yes.
Having been directly involved contributing towards a government investigation that resulted in the conviction and incarceration of someone for white collar crime, I would disagree with your assessment. Doing something > doing nothing. You have to start somewhere, and a phone call is a fine place to start.

"Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand."
It's worth mentioning Tiny Core Linux[1] which runs entirely from RAM as well! It's a wonderful little destro with a small footprint. I boot TCL off of a USB, load it entirely into RAM, and am able to use it as my daily driver.

[1]: tinycorelinux.net
Yes and no.

I don’t consider a home an investment in the traditional sense.

I do consider a paid off house to be worth the amount of money that I would have to save to have a safe rate of return to live somewhere minus maintenance and property taxes.

If a paid off house will save me $12000 a year. The value of that house to me is $12000/.04

Also, a house is a great inflation hedge. Rent goes up with the market. The mortgage stays the same. Property taxes and insurance can go up.
I think it's both. There's a few different situations with AirBnb

1 We had surplus housing. AirBnB would (probably) be fine from an availability perspective.

2 We have adequate housing. AirBnB would still not be good. A good portion of the available places for long term rent would be taken up by short term tenants and would drive up prices.

3 We have not enough housing. AirBnB same effects as 2, but even more so.

It seems to me that we live in situation 3. We need to build housing AND curb the excesses AirBnB. Just building more housing won't fix the problem. Just banning AirBnB won't suddenly give us an adequate housing supply.
We have a similar minimum in Australia to the UK, and our airfares are considerably more prohibitive than the US.
Any thoughts on Montreal?
There's a good writeup by Oliver, our head of engineering, about our tech stack on our blog[1] with an accompanying Kubecon talk[2].

TL;DR- Largely Go microservices running on k8s, with http-based RPC calls for synchronous communication, and kafka for asynchronous communication.

As for sending and receiving of this kind of payment message, they are largely async but it does depend on the payment system we're talking about. When we build our own FPS gateway we're going to have to have something to manage "sessions" (TCP connections) which will block waiting for a response to an individual payment messages. Right now our communication with our third party Gateway is via a queue.

[1]: https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkOY7DgXKyws
Anyone have any thoughts on Montreal?
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