skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I strip the outrage and emotional rhetoric from your comment, what I’m left with is a suggestion that not all workers were deceived into opposing labour regulation.

Well, ok.

And then there’s a suggestion that people talking about labourers are looking down their noses at labourers. Well, that is a thing. As is people looking down at “Apple fanboys,” or looking down at “People who buy whatever marketing tells them to buy,” or “People believing whatever Fox tells them to believe.”

That is absolutely a thing, and it goes across almost all discussions about almost all topics. You can’t bring up interviewing without a bunch of people confidently stating that everyone else is doing it wrong and stupidly cargo-culting.

But I don’t see the OP talking about the way that disinformation and political dark patterns as framing labourers as simpletons.

If you want reductionism, when it comes to humans persuading other humans to do things, we are all simpletons. We all have what amount to zero-day vulnerabilities. We all can be stunningly brilliant in one area of our lives, but thicker than a block of wood in another.

I don’t think there's anything condescending or paternalistic about saying this.
We want to make a subscription model for this course, and will publish 2 tutorials a month. We will charge 19.99$ a month for it.
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Let's not forget what has been done in South America.
Particularly when you consider that so many of the links to the original sources just 404 now. Those archive pages are a glimpse into the past, but end up just being a tease.
Google cycling directions don't exist in my country but does it really not show/optimize for elevation changes? I use a local navigation app and the options you select between all show an elevation curve, I thought that was the whole point of a cycle route option!
I thought freedos was written in fasm
Again, I find refactoring tools handle this well, and also this is kind of the point for me - I want to see the effect of type changes.
Leaning Toothpick Syndrome
Been there and done that in the academic word. Had 4 weeks of vacation, and the manager refused to approve vacation time until the week of.

I started informing that I'm going on vacation. And for doing interviews elsewhere, took "sick" days.

It was a horrible situation to say the least, but now I'm out of that toxic hellhole.
I cut my finger quite badly a couple of weeks ago. Being unable to just switch my phone on as I picked it up was a whole world of annoying. It's surprising just how quickly we take these things for granted.
> Our relatively wealthy, safe, modern lives with all the bells and whistles and freedoms we in the west take for granted, only is possible because it ultimately sits on top of military dominance that allows us to secure acccess to the proper resources and gives us negotiation power.

This belief astounds me. Do you really think your material condition requires the constant death, destruction and turmoil inflicted by the US military around the globe?

We should ask the 1 million dead Iraqis and Afghanis what the pros and cons of the past 20 years of American military policy. How about asking the average Libyan, Syrian or Yemini if our actions were worth it for "access to the proper resources"?

Or ask your children, who will be saddled with tens of trillions of dollars of debt spent on the military industrial complex for decades to come - money that could have been spent on improving health and welfare domestically for them.
I'm actually really interested in this topic.

Not just as far as remote working is concerned, but running better companies as well. I'd say it's fairly clear that knowledge workers don't all fit in the 9-5 schedule, people have different sleep/productivity rythms, there's other beneficial activities that help foster creativity and focus (meditation, exercise, stretching, post-meal nap, ...) that one would ideally enable and even encourage employees to engage in...

But all of that brings a huge problem, that in some way we also need to measure productivity - both to prevent (fire/reeducate) people from abusing the system (freeloaders), and to fairly reward people (avoid negative selection). An additional complication is that productivity is even ill-defined - is banging out tons of code day after day more or less valuable than brainstorming for a few months and coming up with a revolutionary new product? What about basic research, which takes years and has an uncertain outcome?

Probably computing is one of the best test cases for better systems, as programmers have almost complete freedom to work when-/where-/however, it's not a heavily regulated industry, most code is not critical (so it's easy to iterate quickly, as well as experiment with different objectives - slow&correct vs move-fast-and-break-things), and also programmers are productive enough that a few bad apples is unlikely to break the company...

I'm really interested in this general topic, I'd welcome any ideas/discussion/experience!
No. Humanity's big problem is not global warming. It is uncontrolled demographic explosion in Africa and Asia.

More mouths to feed only will make ecologic problems worse.
I don't want to sound snarky by questioning what's probably an org mandated tool usage, but I can't quite believe companies where there's only one accepted way to get in contact.

Ideal would be a live conference call (phone, Skype, Hangouts etc...), but you've got SMS, email, heck, I once solved a pressing issue with my team in a Sharepoint Word document where all our comments were just new paragraphs being edited live (which actually had the handy benefit of being savable without needing to pay extra for the privilege...).
I think Apple CAN spare a penny or 2 to pay his salary..

It's more a divorce/open relationship Cosmopolitan style.
How about the USA rather starts a military intervention in whichever country is destroying the environment the most. Fighting for a habitable planet for all mankind sounds like a better idea than fighting for oil, no?
Suppliers can’t do whatever they want, as they will quickly go broke when people vote with their wallets. You and I might disagree strongly with disposable electronics, but people are happily handing over their money for this stuff. And it makes sense when you see polls that say people aren’t even willing to pay $100 more a year to stop climate change.
Using oil and coal is a design decision - and we live in a free market.

The fact that these design decisions have been integral to making oil companies some of the most valuable companies in the world probably indicates they were good design decisions.

See where we are now.
Trump was a lifelong Democrat and in many ways, he's still a Democrat

The flipping on the Democrat side comes from the need to oppose Trump on everything, even the stuff they agree on because Orange Man Bad
You mean I have to open OpsGenie and Grafana now instead of waiting for a ping in the ops channel???

Also, how many IT service desk ticket systems just lit up with people asking them to fix Slack?
Spring / summer 2019 I'd say:

>In March, Hanoi lodged a protest with Beijing after a Vietnamese fishing vessel crashed and sank after it was chased by a Chinese maritime surveillance vessel in disputed waters. https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/once-bitter-rivals-us-...
The recent outage was very very delayed. I stand by my comment.

Also don't get me wrong, you do a great service. It's just a pet peeve that it seems invariably status pages are a lie.
Fair point. I read somewhere that complying with the US demands would be equivalent to "roll over and die" and that the US didn't expect compliance at all. Maybe not then.
For dev environments SSH is essential, but in production environments I 100% agree with using SSM Session Manager instead of SSH. Getting terminal access to a production server is sometimes necessary but it ought to be temporary access, all actions are logged, and treated as an exception situation rather than routine. SSM session manager provides all that without requiring SSH keys and SSH firewall rules in production.
FWIW, status pages for medium to large companies rarely reflect the actual status of a service. They’re powered by PMs, not monitors.
epic. proper ballsy game devs. love it!
Well “logically” I absolutely hated it when it was announced, like it is a ridiculous thing to do.

Actually using it and I don’t mind it a single bit, and that’s all that matters. I bet most people hating on it have not used it more than minutes.
This looks interesting but how are they going to make money if it is free? I looked for an option to pay but couldn't find it.

Perhaps I'm jaded but I intensely distrust any service that is free (as in free beer), because it's raison d'être is unclear and unpredictable.

E.g. I liked WhatsApp while you could use it for free and see ads, or you could pay a fee and avoid the ads. It's clear. You could opt to pay for a product or be the product and get a service in return.

Here it's not immediately clear.
> Even if you experiment on a subset of humans and get knowledge about this subset, a different subset of humans could react completely different.

The same is true of chemicals, rocks, or lots of other categories of things subject to scientific inquiry. In fact, interesting scientific results tend to come from how the behavior of different subsets of categories like that behave in similar conditions, rather than being made impossible by such differences.
You are just rationalizing China’s purposeful one way trade barriers.
I agree that JS is missing a lot of standard library features that libraries like lodash or underscore have tried to backfill and the proliferation of libraries in npm is a cause for concern but is that enough to call an entire runtime's ecosystem obsolete or unwanted?

I just find it hard (however biased I may be) that we can just say "Node has all these problems, let's throw it out" when it's helped lower the barrier to entry for new people programming at-large.
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man", said Mr. Knowledge is Power, "And, therefore, if a man writes little, he had needed have a great memory; if he confers little, he had need of a ready wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning to seem to know that he knoweth not”
You're making a mistake in assuming that it has to be a commercially viable undertaking. It doesn't.

They can unnecessarily spend an extra $10b on that shit and "recover" that extra money by simply forcing everyone to buy one (military, gov, state owned enterprises, and so on).

It'd take just 2-3 years to make it "profitable".
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Nonsense - his design of the 'black mirror' iPhone that turned the communications industry on its head will be very much kindly remembered. Every smartphone is now a take on that first iPhone. Almost none of them are any more or less repairable than the iPhone for practical purposes.
I get most of my outage notifications from HN. If it's a blip, it probably won't make the front page through my standard refresh cycle. If it persists through two refresh cycles, there's a TITSUP somewhere and it's time to take a look.

This community is awesome. Always someone with their finger on the pulse :)
> so if you don't like it you're welcome to buy a different laptop or phone.
Is it not well within the author's rights to write a piece about it and talk about it? Are the only options in Appleland really "buy it and like it" and "go away" ?
How many times "where is a good laptop that run linux" you hear?

That is the market at work. The market doesn't exist to serve every possible need, only profitable needs. The demand for Linux laptops is so low that it supports only a handful of specialist businesses, none of which have the investment or infrastructure to build laptops like Apple's.
That's where I think this is headed. The old model of them mining your emails just wasn't good enough for them.
We need legislation that only affords copyright protection to DRM-free works. Works protected by DRM should not be afforded any more protection than normal trade secrets.
Cutting-edge tech stuff isn't really Toyota's thing - they excel at quality, reliability, and lifetime value, and thus have an incentive to delay new tech until they can perfect it.
Oy. An article or talk where every point includes a disclaimer (or even a YMMV) would be pretty tedious. Katie started her talk saying it was an anecdote and it's too bad that a blanket statement in the preamble isn't good enough.
America did not elect this administration by a majority of the popular vote. The electoral college did.

It’s an artifact of the original founding of the country where there were checks and balances put in place to deny direct democratic rule.

It’s been slowly rolled back over many years, but until we get rid of the electoral college, it always has the possibility of ignoring the will of the people.
If it were me, I think we need to be able to fend off the largest rivals convincingly.

If Russia and China were to enter the fold and be good world citizens and share a common vision and cooperate, then yeah. We only need to be as strong as the combined strength of our nearest rivals.
> China is the most populated country on earth and an emerging superpower. They have every right to consider themselves exceptional, just the way the US considers itself exceptional.

Being highly populated and powerful is not really an exception in history. The USA got (? gets) its sense of exceptionalism from their innovative form of government/constitution that provided more freedoms than any government in history. The roots are based in a sense morality.
I believe so - Xubuntu is based on XFCE, which is an X based environment. I've seen some mutterings that they may eventually write a Wayland backend, but I don't think that it's in the near future
Sad. It's probably unpopular but wayland is not ready yet IMHO and lacking on a conceptual level. Yet another few years/months until most bugs are fixed and more broken functionality...
The article mentions this is going to affect Drive soon too, but couldn't find any info about this on Google announcement. Anybody has any info on this?
Because the allocation memory address patterns are pretty predictable, heap overflows can be used to modify state in an object known to be very probably adjacent. Even read overflows enable the attacker to read the required state to make some other exploit reliable.

Double free implies the attacker can control victim object's memory through another object (which the attacker can somehow influence) occupying the same addresses in memory.

So the attacker can now carefully craft state that causes the desired (=bad) behavior in the original buggy object. Or to use it to learn something about the buggy object's state, like code locations in memory (= reading C++ virtual method pointers / function pointers directly or indirectly) possibly leading to defeating ASLR and other protection mechanisms. This leads into various exploit scenarios.

Hopefully I explained this well enough... it's pretty straightforward really. Especially if you step through in a debugger.

Double frees (and use after frees!) can be very dangerous.
I didn't remember that it was AA. And ultimately, that's my point in all responses to this article.

I don't know the login process for specific services I use. I don't know what they require or how many pages they are. It takes me less than a minute to configure a login sequence. And it works.

So, to me, none of these login workflows are broken. And the games of "yes, but" that others (not you) are playing is silly, because people are trying to tell me I'll be frustrated doing a thing that has decreased frustration for me for years.
That's not a sinister "land grab" by Google, that's a fundamental aspect of the web, predating the advent of JavaScript. You reveal your identity quite thoroughly to the individual hosting services.

And it's difficult to imagine legislating that away, as it's sort of fundamental to all network computing.
People do forget about the used market. Apple products are well-built and tend to last. If you can't afford a new one, get a second-hand one instead of a top-price new one.
Not OP, but I believe he's talking about how the iPhone's large notch size is due to additional hardware used by face id. Having that size notch on the left/right side wouldn't be much better than in the center.
Personally, I'd rather use my fingerprint anyway.
Privacy? Have you read what Play services sends home?
reminds me of that one time a genius at IBM created an `ibm-global-announcements` channel and force-invited 200'000 people in it, and then some guy `@channel`d and all ibm's slack workspaces were down for 30 minutes

https://status.slack.com/ibm/2018-03/f01d4c22cd953dd7

https://i.imgur.com/Rk6Kdgp.png

EDIT:

also that channel made using slack impossible for mac book air users, they had around 80% cpu usage for slack. so basically entire marketing and PM part was unable to work that day. developes machines were wasting around 20% on slack.

after people started complaining in that channel, posting in it was limited to admins only, but they didn't lock commenting. so, for approx 6 hours all of IBM was posting memes in ＴＨＥＴＨＲＥＡＤ as we dubbed it, and @mentioning the genius who created that channel. next day the channel was nuked, not even an archive preserved.

some guy calculated that the entire affair, considering electricity prices, a 20% decrease in developers productivity, and so on resulted in IBM loosing several millions with that stunt

fun times

p.s. shout out to Martinj for that spicy jeff-coffee-mug meme
I don't think so. NPM packages aren't installed globally by default, they're scoped to the local project via `node_modules`. So by default, the version of npm on the user's PATH wouldn't get updated.
Just to close the loop on this and connect back to "the people":

Congress funds the military. The military funds large corporations. Large corporations fund congressional election campaigns. And "the people" base their votes off of campaigns.
>* update the version of the IRC server

Odds are that you’ll have updates worth installing once every couple of years.

>* update the version of the os of the machine running the IRC server

Almost never unless there’s a remotely exploitable code execution vulnerability. Local bugs wont matter unless you run multiple services on the same box.

>* repair a broken disk / fan / overflowed disk on the machine

Depends on your hosting setup. With a cloud setup perhaps never.

I’m certainly not trying to suggest that anyone should use IRC over slack in any situation, just that it’s not a horrible time sink requiring significant maintenance.
Did they enable "replace email" feature?
Google, obvs.
So you paraphrased the article, which I'll take at face value. How does this make the article trash?

Critics don't owe us better products just because they have the audacity to write about other people's products.

I think the world needs more articles criticising companies for making unrepairable crap.
US mouths eat more than asian and african.
Source : https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person
Observability – Metric Memory Loss
Once XFCE is ported to GTK3, it should be Wayland-compatible, but for now Xubuntu still depends on X.
Because Slack is so much better than email!
It certainly doesn’t have to be Fortnite in particular, which has over 80 million monthly logins, but if you are on a bus or subway count the number of people who aren’t reading, playing, or watching content on their phone during the journey.

As another example, Nintendo completely discontinued the non-XL 3DS models in the USA.

I think you aren’t wrong, there are enough people somewhere to buy a small screen smartphone, but apparently that number is small enough to not even open up a single assembly line for.
I have heard a horror story involving a phone line multiplexed over fiber to an IX and someone used it as OOB.
By the looks of it, it would probably be in India or China. [1]

1. https://waqi.info/
You really need to get yourself checked.
I was about to disagree with you, then I remembered the little red dot they put on the crown of the Apple Watch 3 to differentiate it from older versions. That was purely about demonstrating the owner has the newest iteration.
There is discussion thread on YSFHQ Community forum.[0]

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The thing that puts Tao in that upper echelon of mathematicians is his ability to solve unsolved problems and create new mathematics. Those aren't really the skills being tested on a qualifying exam, and you're right that it's just a matter of being more well-read.
Consider an alternative world: Apple decides to only make highly repairable devices, and a computer like the iPad is never created.

Obviously this is not the only alternative world, but I think it is realistic. Say the design initiatives were inverted: Repairability were king and form & function were subservient to it. In such a world, we would still have giant beige boxes on our desks. That's not to say there is not a balance to be struck that could result in a more repairable iPad, but my point is that Apple's design initiatives have resulted in many new, successful computing form factors (touch, tablet, watch, AirPods even).

I will hitch my wagon to the horse that continues to plow new ground, even if there is some theoretical ideal that is "better."

I personally believe that Apple's resistance to repairability (or, more accurately to repairability outside their dominion) stems from a desire to control a customers experience with their product, not from some business case or greed. This goes all the way back to Steve Jobs and the original Macintosh [0].

I personally can, and have, repaired my Apple devices with 3rd party parts, and the results have been less than sub-optimal. A screen that was deeply blue-shifted (so extreme that even software adjustments didn't help), a home button that became nonfunctional, and a battery that became swollen. I've had some repairs that worked great, but buying quality parts is a bit more expensive, to the point it is worth it (to me) to have Apple repair.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Expansion
The supposed advantage. Many perfectly productive languages don't even offer the option to specify the type at all, and not just in the inference case. As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever convincingly demonstrated (with empirical data) that this is worse along any metric that people care about (development speed, bugs, cost, etc.).

A lot of people have preferences on this front. Somehow, these preferences get promoted to best practices if not moral license. Just, which approach is claimed to be better really depends on who you ask, and then mainly on whichever language that person first cut their teeth on. And nobody's going to be able to cite any well-designed study that demonstrates their preference is actually superior, because none exist.
That's what open markets are all about.
Well, kinda! Just look at this recent CloudFlare blog post[1]. It's true, theres no Single Point of Failure - there are MANY points of failure ;)

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...
The new Dropbox: full announcement video
I used to police until I called out a new account that was literally copying and pasting the same stuff from a FB doc about privacy settings.

Then other hours old accounts staring commenting I should be banned for calling someone out.
Why? These events are often great opportunities to learn about system failures and their impact on other systems in real time. Status pages are often not even genuinely accurate.