skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was what caught my eye about MS's antivirus offerings from the start. I was really impressed how well it ran without me ever noticing.

I got a new laptop from work recently and I didn't spend a great deal of time looking it over as i was busy and ... of course I hit some random performance problems as McAfee was abusing my machine while I was trying to work. Endlessly installing antivirus programs is getting pretty old.
Not that easements are easy to get or are free of contention -- a lot of pedantic property law comes out of asshole neighbors making other people's lives miserable.

Source: good buddy of mine is a real estate lawyer, and after a couple drinks he'll bitch and moan about it for hours
https://www.transposit.com/ is a pretty interesting company making it possible to define SQL on top of REST APIs
What’s the most asinine technical requirement you’ve had to work into a design?
Why does it need firebase? That doesn't seem to tic the "not-google" box. :-)
I love birds. Volunteered at a wild bird rescue, wish I had 100 of them, love visiting any place with parrots when travelling.

But I would never buy a bird. Offering a better place for one who no longer has anyone to take care of it is great, but promoting breeding and sales of captive intelligent animals feels very wrong.
That won't be my troop. I'm setting clear expectations to parents from the beginning that they are only there for safety, driving kids, etc. I will make sure every Assistant Scoutmaster and Committee Member knows this. I will do my best to make sure that whomever succeeds me, will do the same including letting their eventual replacement know as well.

My goal is to make the Troop self-reliant, not reliant on me. I need to protect it from the Bus Factor.
They will not only detect existing viruses. AV software has used heuristics to detect viruses for decades, and more recently ML is being used. Microsoft has really been investing in Defender and Defender ATP recently and there have been several Twitter and blog posts about the successes their ML approach is yielding, including for new viruses.
Ostriches are dinosaurs. You don't need to do any special breeding on them, if that's the kind you're after.

Obligatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1211/
German banks and technology are terrible! They're now using an app for authentication, that you can only get from Google's PlayStore or Apple's App Store.

Germany, the country of data protection, and yet their banks force you to use Google/Apple.

Oh sure, I can use terminals or pay money for a hardware device whose manufacturer has an exclusive contract with the bank, but this is absurd considering all they'd have to do is provide a channel for getting the APK straight from their own servers instead of through Google.

...or at least give me an SHA256 of the APK, so I can really be sure that when I use a 3rd party app to download it, I'm not getting a Trojan or something.
Marketing victims. We've been told for decades that "security" cameras make us safer. They don't. A guard might. But all a camera can do is provide evidence after the fact. By then you're already dead or robbed or worse.
Dear downvoter, please explain.
The switch to llvm/clang was about more than just avoiding gcc… it was also about filling holes in gcc’s functionality. Swift for example is heavily rooted in llvm/clang because at least at the time, llvm/clang was capable of a lot of things that gcc simply wasn’t, and the arcane nature of gcc’s innards made it unnecessarily difficult to add missing features to. Of course, GPLv3 poses issues too, but that’s only a single factor among several in Apple’s decision to deeply invest into llvm/clang.
My first EV was an 80 mile Leaf. Now I have a 300 mile Model 3 that I take regular road trips in. To be quite honest, with the range hit in cold weather, (I take the car skiing,) 300 miles per charge just isn't enough.

EVs need about 400-500 miles range in order to have mass adoption. Anything less is delusional.
The best way I've heard it put, is that good UX isn't automatically knowing what to do the first time you interface with something. It's doing it once and then it feeling intuitive every time after.
There's plenty of affordable areas in zone 2 and 3 which have average rents considerably less than SV (a 1 bed flat might be £1100-£1400/month). Annual travel within zone 3 is £1648. It's really not comparable, especially since the pound dropped 20% after the Brexit referendum.
I am well aware. But saying is a bad situation because you might get into a bad situation again is not a good strategy, and the fix for that problem is to get out of that problematic marriage too.
Native dropdowns do have integrated search, you just start typing, but it has very poor UX.

It used to be worse, if you used to type "Eng" then you'd find yourself at "Gabon" not "England" but that was fixed 5-10 years ago so as long as you keep typing it'll keep searching.

But there's no UX, so there's no discoverability to that feature.
Hah, I had only ever seen that abbreviation used for Prime Minister. Thank you for telling me the other options.
Chicago's shootings are almost all gang related. That means there are no witnesses. Even if there are witnesses there are no witnesses.

A couple of police chiefs ago the chief said people unwilling to talk was the number one reason crimes go unsolved in Chicago.
Yes, dead humans are probably cheaper to sustain and never get too unhappy to program willingly.
Similar to how tomatoes are legally vegetables so that tariffs would apply to their import.

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Aaaargh this one gets me every time. Any interface made out of on/off toggles needs some really clear signalling to say which way is on and which is off.

Also an honourable mention goes to touchscreen widgets that look like a left/right slidey switch but are activated by a tap and not a drag.
And then create a market. A space company could buy space trash credits for the mass it wants to litter, from space cleaning companies that specialize in the task.
If you can only remember a few long term complex secrets, then using one slot for your bank password seems reasonable to me. The other big ones for me are: google/microsoft account, password manager, FDE passphrase.

If you use hardware 2FA and have lots of bank accounts (business, trading, etc) then using a password manager starts to make sense.
You have more luck than I do since I mostly see 2 variations of this play out:

CEO: I want X....and Y, Z, and enhance A-F, all yesterday

SE: you outsourced me last month!?

PE: I can’t do anything without more specs

Or

CEO: I want X

SE, PE: 3 months later deliver X

Sales: Customer doesn’t want X, wants Y and Big Deal deadline is tomorrow

CEO: drop everything, R.I.P. out X and build Y and ship it tonight!
That's the Toyota Venza. Technically a wagon, very much lifted.
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What, you mean it's not intuitively obvious? /s
Does the law apply to the old human computers back in the day too.
I was in Spain early this year, and even in semi-agricultural suburbs around Jerez I saw people burning large piles agricultural waste in their gardens.
The situation isn't being helped by another proprietary solution that won't be cross-platform. (I'm an iOS dev, and I don't see integration of this possible without using private API's, and this would also fall under the 'Duplicate existing service' issue.)
Maybe that depends how busy the doctors are, and how flexible you are.

I always had the same doctor as a child in the UK (1990s, in a village), then one at university, and then one when I moved after getting a job in London.
I'd be interested in a write up or blog post of what things specifically were you weighing, pros and cons and numbers. Too often I hear of European healthcare being cheaper but I never see case by case details.

My experience as a healthy person in US is mixed. I rarely need things, but it is hard to navigate the complex insurance business when I do try to get things. I see many people, meanwhile, one accident or illness and it sets them back a long way financially.
I work in a SoftBank invested company. SoftBank started investing in us when the company was already ~7 years old and had a pretty high market share, with established technology, big customers etc. So, SB investment is not necessarily an early stage investment. Unfortunately, I don't know if our case is pathological or the common case.
That's exactly what the same people also said about Amazon.
This topic is already dead, but you asked a direct question so I'll bite.

Many of the old buildings in downtown Sao Paulo used to have ads on their sides. Renting space for ads provided extra income for these buildings that was sometimes used for renovations. People who live in these buildings are usually not that well off to begin with (some of these buildings are known as "vertical slums"), and there's little incentive to repaint when people know that graffiti will be back before the new paint has even finished drying. I live in downtown Sao Paulo and have seen it happen several times.

By the way, fines for business owners who put out signs outside the law's strict specifications are way, way heftier than fines for graffiti, which usually goes unpunished anyway.

TLDR: yes, I really see advertising as the lesser evil in this case.
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Look at the ceiling in most shops, lots of shop façades, all of the S-Bahn and U-Bahn trains, lots of railway stations and similar. It adds up.

Semirelevant digression: A few years ago someone found that in Munich, the shop façade cameras covered every meter of the main pedestrian street (Hbf to Marienplatz). Not planned by anyone, it was just that each shop added a camera to watch over its own expensive display window, and there are shops everywhere there. Now the government is proposing a new law giving the police real-time access.
There is a very big difference between standard CCTV cameras and automated high resolution facial recognition ones. Standard CCTV is used to collect evidence when a crime has been committed. Automated facial recognition cameras are used for real time tracking. China makes extensive use of the facial recognition ones and London only has those near Kings Cross station (which has recently caused a public outcry). Source: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/14/kings-cross-facial-recogni...
I have no idea, and I don't really see how relevant this is to the original remark that you responded to.
I don't like FaaS much more because of the ambiguity of the word "function". In most servers I've worked on, you start by definition the single function that determines where to route the request. What it really is, is managed services, but that has its conflicting definitions.
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Can we please stop pretending that the "ask a bunch of random people" tv news sections are at all representative of anything other than the opinions of the the aforementioned random people?
> Do you have sources for that huge claim?

There are a lot of sources but 1) will be in spanish or portuguese, 2) recopilate it for you would take me a few hours and 3) even if there is a strong suspicion about the authors, not all cases are solved. This is not new at all. Some day, somebody dies in their bed, and the forest stops burning misteriously once a year like in the last forty years.

Some recent links, all about farmers detained from starting and spreading fires in natural environments:

https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3268868/0/detenido-ganadero...

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/ourense/2016/12/20/det...

https://www.diariodeleon.es/articulo/provincia/detenido-gana...

https://www.laregion.es/articulo/ourense/detenido-incendio-a...

https://www.farodevigo.es/comarcas/2009/05/06/ganadero-caniz...

https://www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticia/asturias/2019/03/28/d...

https://elpais.com/politica/2016/02/26/actualidad/1456484922...
This reads like a Koch sponsored hit-list for pushing privatized schools. "Needs more standards!" "Can't fire teachers because teachers unions are literally the devil!" "Social Justice Warriors are ruining everything!"
SAS is a valid tool as well, many colleagues in healthcare research use it. Useful sure, but that Doesn't mean STATA, R, and Python users will heal their scar tissue over using that awful software. I could calculate regressions with pencil and paper but that valid tool is just not performant.
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What about your apple peer developers, who have made a deliberate and conscious choice to use Apple devices in their day to day life, and stable open source solutions in production / deployment environments?

Some of us used to live in the FOSS garden, and decided to trade extra money in exchange for receiving a lot of time back and a shiny finish. Everyones values vary.
I'm not quite sure if I should answer to your reply, as it seems you've wrote it in quite an angry spur of the moment. Did you perhaps take the time to read my whole post? Or was the last alinea enough to make you drop your panties and throw insults and swears around?

The spokesmen of protesters are demanding the extradition law to be upheaved indefinitely and Carrie Lam to be dismissed, one of which has happened already. Four months back there was absolutely no traction for any massive protest like this, not to mention the flares of violence. Even though this law has been in the making for years and published in March of this year. Can you think of any other legitimate reason the overall population is demonstrating so fervently other than dissatisfaction about the way their current government is running their city into the ground?

You speak of moving onto the mainland as a solution to purchasing power but I don't think you have any idea what it means to uproot your existence in a city which you consider your home. Especially when you're living from paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford the housing anymore. It's not as stupid to the majority of the inhabitants working in the service sector in Hong Kong and the fact that you see this as an 'accusation' to protest instead of a right to demonstrate is quite telling.
Especially when that 11% is a particularly vocal and active part of the market.
It's a perfectly fine practice for 8 or 9 months of the year. It's illegal in the summer for good reason.
That's because both of the parties are pro-business, against regulation and getting more similar on the key economics all the time.

USA hasn't had a left wing party since 60s or so.
That's not true at all.

Try document.cookie = 'a=b' in a browser console on non-www domain and then do document.cookie on the www variant.

You'll see it not set. (The cookie will only be accessible on subdomains if you include the domain explicitly, like document.cookie = 'a=b;domain=toplevel.domain')
This explains why nvidia.com has terrible TLS [1] config while all their other domains are ok [2] (in particular, the domains hosting the driver downloads as ok [3]).

1 - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=nvidia.com

2 - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.nvidia.co...

3 - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=us.download.n...
That depends, having cameras up around your house certainly makes it a less appealing target than your neighbor who doesn't have cameras. Other than those sorts of situations though, yeah.
Disagree, you can find plenty of places in zone 2 that are fairly affordable, especially for software engineers. If you're willing to share with strangers (as is so often the case these days), it's even cheaper. Bear in mind that when you go further out, what you're saving in housing, likely just moves to a season ticket so the savings are much less, but you add additional time to your commute.
Thanks for your post. Reading about the Fermi paradox brightened my morning.
Just an FYI, saying 'code-monkey' at work can get you in trouble in some places. The sun is setting on the use of 'xxxxx-monkey'. Unintended cultural references & all that.
Its been referred to as the Senate Launch System (SLS) since inception.
Ah, that's not been my experience - but I can understand that if non-developers are the ones making the changes
I disagree with the point you made about 0days and detection rates. Defender has less false positives, but almost never catch the files that actually matter, like important 0days or antiemulation and anti-unpack files. They are pretty slow with crafting generic detections.

While I understand that data from well known tests may support your point, as an employee for 2+ years at a security vendor I can say with certainty that defender falls way behind when it comes to fast generic detections and response time.
I quite frequently find myself copying maliciois files to my work laptop with defender activated and the detection rate is pretty poor as shown by the actual number of files that got copied.
Not even mentioning how it quietly scans my files and activates itself even though I singlehandedly shut it down a minute ago
I never understood coders who don't separate UI threads and network calls - which is exactly what it sounds like is happening, here.
Someone should share this with the Gnome devs.
I'm curious. Did he start a project to find out why people were unwilling to talk? Or to find out how the police could adapt its behaviour to make people more willing to talk?
Ditto. And they ask for an explanation why.
Realistically, I don't think the EU is going to offer any concessions that would solve the problems that parliament has with it, but that doesn't mean the problems aren't real. In particular, the current offer trashes the part of the Good Friday Agreement which the government's current coalition partner cares about by eroding Northern Ireland's status as part of the UK, and the backstop tramples on the constitutional requirement that no parliament may bind its successor by tying us to the EU until they permit us to leave. The EU seems to think that the Good Friday Agreement consists of only the parts which help them, and the only way out of the backstop problem was to make the GFA problem much worse.

We can't just solve this by deciding the EU is impossible to leave and giving up either, because again there's that pesky bit in the constitution about parliaments not being able to bind their successors. Whilst we have other international commitments about stuff like war crimes which could technically be argued to violate this, irrevocably transferring the power to create laws across many areas to a foreign body goes right to the core of what it's meant to prevent. Clever arguments about how we could technically leave, it's just not possible in practice don't solve this - our constitution is based on principles, it's not computer code where if you find a way around the literal rules you can get through.
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This article opens up with a mistake? It's 7 yuan per dollar. Not the other way around.
I use said bank and they are generally pretty good. Also note they even said in the tweet that they acknowledge the role of password managers so I think you may have read a bit too much into the tweet. Almost every time I log on to their online banking site, I get a page detailing the latest scams and what to look out for.

I also agree with their statement for the most part. The general public, at least here in SA, aren't too discerning when it comes to tech matters who will probably download any random app from the play store. If you don't trust pretty much anyone with your credentials, why trust a probably unknown 3rd party with them.

I think the best idea in this case is to choose a strong password, try and remember it or write it down and store it in a safe.
I see this sentiment (it's not like this in Europe) all the time, yet in NL where I live it definitely seems to be about the same as the US.
And the opportunities you give them don't always have to be something that costs you time or money, sometimes it's just giving them the opportunity to go outside and play.
> I think opsless would be a better term

Considering that 'serverless' actually needs a more experienced and expensive ops team, no, it really wouldn't.
We call her Mary Jane Pepsi
By EU standards, these are medium-low taxes still, by percentage. The difference is not in healthcare though, but in other social spending, esp. pensions. US healthcare is extremely expensive by percentage.
It's a policy failure, not money failure.
I'm sure there is an app that could tell us the true count.
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I had the 2013 then the 2015 Nissan Leaf. At least from the outside it meets the "Weird whacky" criteria. If you look at the 2019 Nissan Leaf, it looks very conventional.

It turns out there's a very good reason to do that: these early models appeal to early adopters. The range kinda sucked. And yet I was happy to be an early adopter because of my nerdiness—and the financial incentives made it hard to refuse. But it definitely required planing insofar as range was concerned. At the same time, knowing that I'm putting up with these inconveniences for benefit of having some new early tech that few others have... that was worth it to me. It was also worth it to some of my friends but definitely not to most of them, who wanted first and foremost a car that didn't come with a peculiar usage pattern.

Now the 2019 Nissan Leaf has twice the range as those older models, it looks "normal", doesn't require much forethought in terms of destination distances, and is marketed to a broader audience. At the same time, the tax incentives have almost all disappeared (the $5k Georgia one is gone) and that is the normal course of action because these cars don't carry the inconvenience that they used to.
To expand on this, all the corporate big box retail chains have such networks & add AI facial recognition to their ubiquitous feeds. It has been like this for a couple decades now.

Anecdote: A manager of a Fortune 50 location I was working at received a call from HQ to keep an eye on a known perp who entered the store no more than 5 minutes prior to the call. Very impressive & very scary.
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I can understand if a government service requires this but it also happens with a normal, ecommerce website!
This is a good question actually, with 2 mods either HN is unmoderated at some times or the mods work an ungodly amount of hours. Neither seems very plausible...
In any case, thanks for mentioning it. Thoroughly enjoyed Story of Your Life and Others and had no idea he released a second short story collection a few months ago.

It's going straight to the top of my to-read list.
That is correct, AirDrop works without Internet. It's unfortunate that Google and Apple have created these respective systems with no cross-compatibility. There's really no technological reason for it, but an obvious business reason.
Yep- all the dogs my wife and I have owned have been female- yet, nearly universally, everyone has presupposed them to be male.

Our one cat, on the other hand, though male, was presupposed to be female.

It's definitely a thing.
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Password managers are a very useful idea for general accounts, but I would not trust my financial solvency to them. If you only have one or two bank accounts, generate a long complex password, memorize it, don't save it anywhere, and use a mnemonic or other method to vary the password between the two accounts.

Even if password managers are implemented perfectly, there are various attacks that they can still fall victim to that a memorized password won't. Most password managers are not implemented perfectly.