skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not just in Germany. The €3bn Dutch energy company I've worked for was glued together with a shared network drive. It was effectively their poor man's event bus. Pure anarchy, a house of cards of excel sheets and legacy software writing to and consuming from it. Controlling serious infrastructure like the major power plants of the 18th largest economy of the world in 2012 [1]. The result of IT managers who failed to see how the world was changing and came and go, to do things like "agile transformations" instead. I've learned valuable but painful lessons there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Netherlands
This "stop and think" warning is very good, but let's be honest, in many roles you can't say "no" anymore. Most companies require a significant subset of employees to use their personal device for work and have corporate accounts active on it.

It may not be true for you personally, but I bet it is for most people who have on-call rotations.

Features like Android's separate profiles are critical. We need similar sandboxing on all platforms. I don't think we can change the 24/7 availability culture, but we can change things from a software side to make it less onerous.
Can I Have Your Email?
Unless, as is probably the case here, most of that revenue comes from preying on people with gambling addiction through lootboxes, psychological manipulation, peer pressure, etc.

When that stuff gets banned, revenue will tank and any developer completely reliant on that will be in big trouble.
If companies saw that multiplayer games sell better, so they decided to optimize towards those, that is the definition of market forces. Right?
> he was way ahead of gas for his previous car

Wait until his current battery dies, and he has to get a new one.

For Tesla, it's close to 10k-12 or more.
Jura is certainly interesting https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/music/why-did-the-...
He means that he’s never heard of it as a “supposed to be”, or rather, a core feature/reason to use email.

Which is my experience as well — it happens to be easy to quote.

The real quoting that email supports, the reply w/ embedded copy of replied email, is unaffected by html/plaintext choice.
Katamari and Portal are the last games that really had me thinking about playing even when I wasn't playing them. I wish those games had additional levels to buy.
Humans have pretty good visual acuity, but unfortunately birds of prey have us beat.
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Company size and industry definitely play a significant role in the roll-out of managed device policies. Some organizations are required to pass specific ISO/IEC standard certifications with regards to their security policies. Managed-devices with remote-wipe capabilities being one such requirement.
1. What's the alternative?
That's pretty close to class warfare IMO. I like this passage:

"A Sociopath with an idea recruits just enough Losers to kick off the cycle. As it grows it requires a Clueless layer to turn it into a controlled reaction rather than a runaway explosion. Eventually, as value hits diminishing returns, both the Sociopaths and Losers make their exits, and the Clueless start to dominate. Finally, the hollow brittle shell collapses on itself and anything of value is recycled by the sociopaths according to meta-firm logic."

This realization has stopped me from trying to hire people. I don't think I have the shoulders to be the chief sociopath.
Likely they see self-driving as a complement to their core business of vehicle-passenger matching rather than something they hope to profit from directly in a meaningful manner, in which case "commoditize your complement" applies.

"A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus."

https://www.gwern.net/Complement
This. Italy here, working with Slack, GitHub, etc. But my customers don't always care about the technical details. Companies with an IT staff usually do, the others don't because they don't know anything about those problems, except some scare about cookies and GDPR.

I could write software on paper and deploy by magic, it would be ok for them. And why not, they make money selling other stuff. Then a customer I haven't been working for a very long time calls me asking if I got a copy of their production VM, even many years ago would be ok (obviously I didn't) because they got hit by ransomware years after having stopped to do backups, maybe because it was too inconvenient.
Building a PoC to prove you can get reliable code execution is typically 10x harder than finding an issue and patching it.

The modern approach is to assume that most types of memory corruption could be exploitable, and just patch.

Especially given that an inability for one person to reliably PoC does not mean it’s not exploitable; as soon as you say it’s not exploitable, Mark Dowd shows up and exploits the bug.
The other way would be that writers check for correctness of what they're writing with the impacted party (VLC). Distributions watch out and look for security holes in their packages such as libebml and then issues fixes as soon as possible. Security bug reporters behave more responsibly in that they talk authors of the package first, then go cash in their piece of fame.
If your device is enrolled in MDM, it would be listed there in Profiles. So your device is probably not enrolled in an MDM policy.
I don't think it will be the "wrong side of history" any more than using animals for transport prior to technology. It's not purel= senseless violence it's just the best way to make meat with the current technology, it'll probably be looked back on as "haha remember when they had to raise and keep an animal purely to transport them slowly".
Disagree, I don't find this a "toxic" comment. The parent makes a point. Such potential in my opinion from these researchers/engineers and instead gets scooped up by the big tech companies, hoarding the talent such that nobody can compete with them.

Happy for Chris's decision to be at the big G doing his research, but it seems every researcher/engineer is obsessed with being at the big tech companies being on their resume, which is such a shame.
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> "making it impossible to derive insights on a discreet individual"

doesn't clarify how much information you already have about the individual. There is a distinction between being able to identify someone without any prior knowledge about them vs re-identifying them. I don't think the GDPR is clear about that.
That is totally understandable, and I hope you don't get in trouble when law enforcement comes looking for your personal device that somehow got caught up in their list of devices to look for.
I'm still trying to access the relevant papers, but from bits of discussions here it seems to me that the difference between the Julia scheduler and cilk is that the former will try to distribute sibling leaf tasks among executors enforcing as close as a global depth first view as possible, while cilk does depth first on each executor but different executors will be exploring distinct the problem space branching off as close to the root as possible (due to the steal the oldest ancestor behaviour). It is a compromise between better cross executor cache locality and increased contention I guess.
Depends, some companies have mail accessible only from trusted devices web app or not.
When I lived in California, the town I lived in was surrounded by freeways to the extent that there was only one way out of town that didn’t require traveling over or under a bridge, and that required you to drive the wrong way on the freeway to find the one spot where there’s a gap in the concrete barrier.

If there had been a sizable earthquake, it would have been effectively cut off despite being right in the middle of a wider urban area.
Look closer, it's not his account. The same thing happens with Musk all the time.
The attitude of high-skilled tech people to think that their stripped down, interface-less, and brutalist version of something has to be simply better than anything else needs its own German term, something like Schadenfreude or Treppenwitz. I'm sure some of the German readers here can work out something.
If your employer subscribes to an ethical model which permits them to abuse MDM, viewing your web history and tracking your location, you need to do more than remove your personal device from their control.

You must find a new employer—preferably while you make public this repulsive behavior.
I do care what Blizzard does. I want to see new features and balance updates and maps in starcraft 1 and 2, and I also want an SC3. Unless there are indie RTS games worthy of hundreds of hours of deep play, I'll stick with blizzard.
Our company uses G Suite's Advanced MDM on a G Suite Enterprise account. I administer its configuration.

Unless I'm missing something, there's not an obvious way to "spy" on employees, which this article is claiming. Perhaps it's possible, but if it is, it would require a lot of deliberate effort to accomplish. For example, there's not an out of the box way to track employee location. There's not a way to track employee internet browsing history out of the box.

TLDR: using G Suite Advanced MDM, there are not out of the box solutions for tracking or spying on employees in the ways suggested in the article. It might be technically possible, but to accomplish it, your company would need to make a (large) deliberate effort to do this.
Can you provide a link to your paper?
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Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but you could use notmuch[0]. Haven't used it a lot, but I think it can import an mbox? Maybe you can merge multiple mboxes together?

[0]: https://notmuchmail.org
A decent email client will load images asynchronously. Many can also be configured to not load remote content at all until you allow it.
> they should be banned as soon as possible.

Way to sell it dude.

The environment would benefit dramatically if we ate half the meat we did. That's not nearly so distressing a concept. Let's start there.

You can still have your mignons and bacon as a treat every now and again, for fun, or to top up your iron levels, and everybody will be happier and healthier.
This is good information but omits some key details. Many urban street trees were planted during greening actions during the 1970s and those trees have lifespans in those environments of about 50 years which means that we can expect large scale die offs of urban trees and should consider not only planting replacement trees but also putting in place a strategy of regularly removing aging or otherwise troubled trees in order to replace them with new trees so that ongoing plantings prevent this kind of large scale die back in the future.
Yeah I saw that and was just like, well if they're looking for you bud then you just gave them all they needed. It got a chuckle out of me all the same.
TLDR: "do not put work email on personal phone, as the company may ask you to install mobile device management (MDM) to manage your device, which gives them opportunity to spy / control".

This conflates two different things: work email and MDM on personal phone. While I would never install company MDM on my personal phone, many organizations allow you to access work email from personal phone, no MDM strings attached. My 2c.
And the point of this post is????
> David Tinley, 52, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Peter J. Phipps to one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer

In fact it was CFAA: 18 USC § 1030.

> The case is U.S. v. Tinley, case number 2:19-cr-00156, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

[1] https://www.law360.com/commercialcontracts/articles/1180318/...
Not responding to people who post messages like this. It's a baseless attack against people under 30.

If you don't like it, and YOU refuse to use it, fine. Just say that.
>just as applicable to government as to business

That's a very optimistic reading of GDPR. In practice, LEO agencies legal counsel has to write them a compliance rationale doc supporting their need to use private data and that's it. I bet activists are gearing up to challenge some of those rationales in courts but those will be speed bumps at most. It's hard to see the judiciary constraining the powers that law enforcement traditionally had.

I know of some Romanian park rangers who temporarily lost their fining powers until their GDPR compliance gets sorted out - they're low priority compared to other LEO agencies. It's funny to think that people degrading natural parks is a consequence of GDPR, yet here we are.

Unless you have some specific LEO capability you wish GDPR eliminated, it's hard to see GDPR as anything else than an compliance burden on government agencies.
Keep what in mind exactly?
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Also this is not helped by spruce bark beetle outbreaks, which seem to be worse on warm years.
The comment at the top of this chain mentioned Paradox. They sell DLC for their games every year, which the players for the most part buy. This seems basically the same?
Unless the recepient is color blind or has another impairment. Also instead of highlighting important parts, one might focus on important parts in the first place.

That said there are valid uses for formatting. But unfortunately most of the formatted mails are harder to digest than needed. Especially if it becomes a longer exchange and people start highlighting in quoted mails.
Not disagreeing, but providing a different perspective. By maintaining labels that associate lab-grown or plant-based with the "real-deal" (not a "fake" or new/different) meats, perhaps more people would be willing to try the alternatives. People are resistant to change and many stick to what they "know". It's part of why the milk industry is fighting for nut-milks to not be labeled as "real" milk. If the alternative has that "other"/"outsider" label, there's more resistance from the customers.
I understand hating that from a health perspective, but for a profit-driven entity there's no resolving this issue without compromise. Sick time will always get abused by someone, so you might as well provide some incentive to not abuse it.
>>This isn't art, it's business, no matter what you might read.

Bad art, derivative art, and boring art are all still art. Those terrible paintings in hotel rooms and office lobbies still had to be created by someone. There's always a complex balance between the creative expression vs business side of art (especially in something like film or music).

Some people just genuinely like "safe" or "boring" art, be it music, games or films.
Object oriented programming a trillion-dollar disaster
email is a terrible place to keep reference documents.

"where's the information on that?" "oh, you should have it in your email somewhere. I think I got one a few months ago about it"

no. just. no. If you care _at all_ about your reference documents you get them out of email ASAP.

And that's ignoring that anyone can delete old emails and thus not have what you considered a reference doc but they just considered old mail. Or that the server could loose your emails and no-one has they synced locally these days.
> Any sane person who have even a vague idea of what a MDM is will answer with a resounding NO.

Very few people have even a vague idea of what a MDM is.
my friend group works for 3 different f500s and all three hand out locked down iPhones for work use only. it's clunky, but I like it better.
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This is not about work email, this is about MDM software.
The title is confusing.
It’s sad that people have less time to contribute to public knowledge when hired by big companies, but saying that someone “has peaked” is just mean. I am sure you’d find it easy to say no to Google money.
The GPL is much more specific in its terms. I imagine people who break laws wont care about this software license anyway. You cant stop criminals by giving them more rules / laws to follow. Just wont ever happen.
I hadn't noticed the part at the very bottom the first time I'd read it. Idk I definitely wouldn't participate in whatever that's about.

If you know of a better source of information about McAfee's disappearance other than his official twitter, I'm all ears.
While I sympathize with the privacy concerns, carrying two phones around is pretty much a dealbreaker for me.
I have an Android TV with hotstar insalled. So I didnt try any of this. Casting works if you have chromecast installed in the TV by default or if you had purchased separately.
>Saying "this is true because X is trustworthy and Y is an 'evil schmuck'" is not an argument

Great! I didnt say that and neither did the gp you originally replied to. Whats your point?
I thought it was pretty cool. Almost everything is legos now; you can't claim something isn't novel just because the components exist independently - if they haven't been used in that combination I say it's still novel.

"What's the breakthrough here? It seems they just mated peanut butter with jelly between two slices of bread, all of which we've already had for decades"
I can't imagine ever spending $2000 on the installation of a single 240V socket right next to the panel

You can’t? Here, I’ll throw you a softball: service panel upgrade because your 6Kw charger is way more than your 1960s house can handle.

Most common case, of course, is run a piece of conduit from panel, some wiring and a plug, sorted in 30 minutes. But not everyone.
Many Americans (including myself) have gas ovens.
I also deal a lot with data transformations and also think auto-conversion is BAAAAAD...... BUT, is a signal that most languages (all?) are pretty bad at handle this concern.

I'm building one too in Rust and there exist a very nice concept:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/convert/trait.From.html

Is the first time I see a blessed way into a lang to define conversions.

For example, to parse strings into int you need to say (in pseudo-code):

convert::From(String) -> Int //Or better convert::TryFrom

and suddenly you get the way to convert to strings into ints EVERYWHERE.

Is amazing.

The key here is that is for much more than just basic stuff. You can do a lot of very convoluted things here, like Auto-Convert a vector of ints into a Zip compressed stream in one go.

----

The second things required is how avoid the boilerplate when dealing with data. If I read a file and need a lot of parsing and validation and need to be relaxed about this... how about the same thing between eager and lazy?

- Have "strict" by default and need to manually do

1->Str + "hello" + today->Str + ...

calls

- Have a "auto-convert" when need to chain a lot of steps:

auto {
1 + "hello" + today + ...
}

this is nice because you can see where the " big dirty vicious beasts full of mistakes and traps" are in your code!
Id be interested to know if the downvoters think you're morally wrong, or whether they think its just never going to happen.

I'm reminded of a court case in the UK between Tesco and Levis. Tesco were importing Levis from the US where they retailed and presumably wholesaled for much less than in Europe, but were forced to stop distribution due to trademark rules. I wonder if you could avoid that by reselling debranded Netflix, I'd guess you'd fall foul of a load of other laws doing that though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1261829.stm
Our IT policy is pretty broad and obnoxious so i just carry two phones. Couldn’t be arsed to try and keep things separately with policy and software.
Don't be afraid to hop in the shower real quick if you have a nasty event. Doesn't mean you have to have a full shower.
I disagree. You don't get 79,600,000,000% (in Zimbabwe's case) inflation long after your farms had been idled. The price of goods in foreign "hard" currency actually remained relatively stable after some initial shocks, but the actual inflation was in Zimbabwe dollars after the gov't printed more Z$, which the majority of people there got paid in.

If you study monetary history in the US, you'll find that the OPEC angle of the 1970s inflation was a scapegoat, and the real causes were politicians (in that case Nixon) refusing to raise interest rates (which indirectly slows monetary growth) because it would cool the economy and affect his popularity. It's a prime reason why the Fed (and most central banks in the world) now have "independence" to set rates. If the high cost of oil was all it took, we'd have had higher inflation during the oil spike a decade ago. Heck Germany, which has to import 100% of it's oil, saw it's inflation levels DROP in the 1970s as they raised rates to tame inflationary pressures.
>There's not a way to track employee internet browsing history out of the box.

Some large enterprises use MDM to deploy certificates and proxy policies that essentially force you into a MitM situation, with the intention of tracking browser usage.

Location is a bit more tricky. I would say that's less common, but I've seen MDM solutions that offer location tracking as a feature
"What's going on, why have you cancelled so many flights? This isn't how the pass is intended to be used. Please only use it when you are likely to take the flight."
Company and its leaders dont get in trouble, dont serve jail time, but get a slap on the wrist. So no accountability and everyone sees it. Whereas the people that got affected dont get a single dime for privacy violations. Where are the users compensation? That money should go to the users and not the govt that already wastes and mishandles money. It's ok to lie to congress, its okay to do shady business practices as long as you have enough money to pay off the govt. This is absurd!
It could be that's the true cost of a basic breakfast provided to you by someone else when you take into consideration the value added through labor, facilities costs, food costs, food transportation, etc. There's really no axiom stating a meal out must not be substantially more costly than preparing your own food.
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How does one know if an employer is abusing MDM? Honest question... I have no idea. I just point my iPhone's mail app at our Outlook 365 server and that's it - I assume that installs a profile that allows them some remote access (I believe they can remote wipe the phone, but maybe not), but no idea how to tell if they're doing anything else.

Edit - looking at Settings->General->Profiles, there is one entry, which is for connecting to my Olympus camera. Nothing for the office.
Lots of talented men don't get promoted either, and it demoralises them too. Promoting the right people is hard - what makes you think it was sexism and not just the normal day to day corporate realities that led to those outcomes?

For what it's worth I've seen a female developer who had both no talent and also lied constantly be promoted, which surprised nobody, because the company was desperate to promote female developers. This sort of thing can cut both ways. Hopefully you're against that and just want a robust, gender-blind promotions process in general.
> Being able to embed screenshots is awesome. Being able to use color, or bold, or italics, makes a difference in communication.

Yet, you cannot do any of that on HN (other than a limited case like italic). But, we can communicate just fine without those features.

I suppose it's really a difference of a read once message versus having a discussion. In a read once message, you can format it like you describe. That's how most blogs and web pages work. But if you want to have a discussion, then plain text with very limited markup works best since it minimizes the required vertical scrolling and it allows you to see the overall discussion since you can view more messages in the given screen space.