skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wouldn't get better in an open ecosystem. No harm means not infecting your phone, other app, can be uninstalled easily etc.
> “Engineering is figuring out how to do what you want with what you’ve actually got”

same lines as... _life is figuring what to do with what you’ve got_.
IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle Use H-1B Visa Subcontracting
Film and TV makers debut new feature to end the “soap opera effect” scourge
IBM over the past couple of decades have been gradually shifting away from hardware and more into a service provider. Yes they still do their mainframe style behemoths and their AS/400's (not sure what branding they have upon those now ?-series last I touched that field) and with those have consolidates much upon the power CPU (least the AS/400 stuff).

What I do wonder is - what will they do with AIX? As I do foresee it going the way of Solaris, and the parallels to their CPU architecture do seem somewhat uncanny.

Personally I have a little mixed feelings about this having used IBM's first ever attempt at a RISC CPU in the RT6150 and got one of the first (before public release) hands on the power 1 cpu used in an RS/6000.

I also do find it interesting how an instruction set is so coveted in a day and time that compilers are so mature that to create your own ISA and adapt a compiler to accommodate it is not out of the grasp of an individual and much more easier a task than days prior. But then the real hard work is designing a CPU to run that instruction set, that becomes very much more than a one-person job. Though who knows - maybe in 10-20 years from now, the ability to design some silicon becomes as accessible as programming in SCRATCH (drag and drop style design/programming).

But back to the Power Architecture, what is IBM's real plans here - charity/PR or a way to shift processor design into a realm of outsourcing that enables them to focus upon their more profitable streams and focus - like services? Maybe.

Though I do feel they may of missed the boat upon this, what with Apple at one stage a big Power cpu user and now looking to shift towards ARM, of which they design their own CPU's. Could Apple embrace this opertunity or would the transition be a cross to hard for them to bear? That is for me one of the signs on how this will traction. If Apple shows interest, then this could be epicly big. Not saying that if they don't that it will fail. But do feel that had they did this 5-10 years ago, things would of been more likely to traction and grow. Today, beyond some niche area's, I'm not so sure it will be as epic as it could of been and may just be a case of too little too late.
Equally I'm mindful that whilst IMHO it is too late to have as big an impact as it could of been, it may prove damaging towards RISC V CPU progression and by splitting the options open - may well damage both and only aid the existing Intel and Arm options out there.
I do not think a market share of 90% in most markets is ‘significant competition’, especially when the markup on any non-google phone can easily be 1000%
> IIRC, one of the old problems with general/convenience stores was having to ask around about which products are good, and branding has mostly solved that.

I lived in Africa for a little time, so I had to learn to do that. As an introvert geek, it was painful.

But going back to France, what strikes me is how much more efficient eventually this solution is.

So many brands failed us: intel, oracle, facebook, etc. They haven't paid nearly close to half the price of how they misbehaved with their customers.

Brands don't allow me to build much trust.

Local sellers however ? Well, once I befriend local shop owner, I trust him or her to really tell me which products is worth what.
Because that is HK ISP Association's denouncement.
Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
I don't think it's possible unless the fossil is well-preserved in a way that some cells retain intact genetic materials[1].

[1] - https://youtu.be/cQR5P_C2ElE?t=2373
I'm just using the Dropbox app, scanning is included.
Sorry, but Apple did a really great thing with this keyboard. I absolutely love it, and its a shame that its going away because people like to complain on the internet.
In this case I'd say it's more like 99/1, only even more so, to the point where using numbers doesn't even make sense. Spies are way more trouble than they're worth, except when they're not. But when they are not, they're worth literally everything.
Step 1: Collect Problems

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Step 3: PROFIT
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Is it wrong to believe at this point that instead of macro evolution, we could be looking at several differing extinction points?
On the other hand, remember that guy whose complaint about Google termininating his developer account "for no reason" made the HN front page a couple of weeks back? https://medium.com/@tokata/how-google-play-terminated-a-deve...

According to his blog post, his "anti-piracy system" used "custom techniques including dynamic bytecode loading from a local app resource", the exact same technique used by this malicious code to hide from detection.
Getting a Software Development Job with Working Holiday Visa?
Has anybody done this? I know it might be tricky as you shouldn't be able to get this kind of work with a WHV, but I think I might find something and make it work as a _freelancer_ instead of a full time worker. Just wondering if it's possible and if people in Denmark are open to this.
> Both the App Store and Google Play stores I think are basically illegal monopolies. I should be able to install whatever app I want, without having to jailbreak my phone and deal with warranty nonsense from the manufacturer. Just like my computer, which I can also install whatever software I want on it.

Is Google Play doing that now? It used to be that you just had to change an option in settings to "allow third-party software" or something and you could install anything you wanted. It was necessary for the Humble Bundle Android app, among other things. That was years ago, though.
> I don't know about his recent activity, but he does has a history of pushing conspiracy theories. Most notably he claimed the moon landing was a hoax.

I subscribe to JRE and this watch it regularly. Rogan has not recently pushed the moon landing was a hoax. I'm not sure where you got that information.

Rogan has discussed how he used to think the moon landing was a hoax many years ago and now thinks the moon landing happened. Rogan also talks about how most conspiracy theorists are sad, lonely people.
And a flag in the wind is soft and gives in. Shall we all thus be flags in the wind?
Not only recognition, but also video quality adjustments. A bank surveillance system often has to archive months of video so police can go back to try to find out if the robbers had been there before to plan their crime.

A smart AI surveillance system might have 4k cameras, but not save the video in 4k format.

Instead, everytime a new face appears, it can use the maximum resolution to take a profile photo of the face for archival purposes and to calculate facial recognition.

If integrated into the banks software, it could match the faces to associated accounts by noting what account was looked up while the new face was at a tellers window.

If a robbery is detected through behavioral analysis or gun recognition, then the recording system would switch from 720p @ 15 fps (for example) to 4k @ 60 fps. It could also not just alert the police automatically, but could quickly pull up the associated account information, clips of previous visits discovered through the facial recognition, and send that to the police or have it ready for their viewing.
That's basically how "your mom" got 800 different browser toolbars installed. The people who tend to "void the warranty" tend to be the least equipped to evaluate the pros/cons of doing so.
Non-technical people doing the hiring. Keyword bingo and thinking Java and JavaScript are the same thing. The endless search for a unicorn or Goldilocks hiring (not unqualified, but not too good either). HR lacking EQ when they reject with weak white lies – this reflects badly on the company when the candidate is more qualified in the future.
Cerebras has at least a three-year lead on competition with its giant AI chip
"(required when you serve ads for some reason)"

A privacy policy is always required.
Well you are a minority then. I also love elm. I gave talks about it in meetups/confs and organized a local elm meetup but finding job as elm developer is extremely hard.
Reading that book permanently raised my internal bar for what it means to be a disciplined programmer. The work ethic and what it created was breathtaking.
And how did they determine the age of the rock?
Testify, friend.
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> Why they call a container a "task" when the term "container" already exists

Likely for the same reason they call it ECS and not EDS. Making everything docker-specific could be a bad idea is more container tech becomes popular and they want to allow you to start Frobnicator tasks as well as Docker tasks on the same platform.
Of course it is "just" a linguistic construct. Those distinct entities do not exist in the real world. We come up with definitions for things we experience as distinct entities. Definitions merely good enough for us to reason about their effects on the rest of the world.
3. uptodown
It is definitely a skill that the meeting runner needs to have. You don't need to keep it completely choked off but you do need the ability to call a spade, a spade. When someone is just repeating someone else to kiss up, then they can move the conversation along.

We have someone who always brings up some story about some company he worked at 20 years ago and blah, blah, blah. But it isn't a "We solved this at company X by doing Y, should we try that here?", it is more like a 15 minute chest pounding of "Back when I ran the largest logistics company providing dental products to all the Fortune 500 and the government, I was in charge of 5K employees. When we faced challenge X,...... blah blah blah". This is where someone needs to step in. Again, most people don't want to be the jerk and so everyone sits there listening to this person talk about himself and wasting everyone's time.
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Microsoft’s HoloLens 2.0 goes for sale in September
On "MS loves open source" ...

I'm a long-time Red Hatter, and it's been nearly 12 years (or maybe more) since I installed a Windows Desktop. With that out of the way ... I see what you mean (some of it might well be orchestrated), still, we should try extra hard in not letting prejudices or cynicism come in the way of sincerely giving credit where it belongs.

(I know you are acknowledging MS's contributions to open source, albeit in a back-handed way :-))
Apparently yes. The gradle file of the project does include it.

Why could this be related to this issue?
PostgreSQL WASM Extension
> Motion smoothing in particular has drawn the ire of film buffs and filmmakers alike, as it produces unnatural movement that is radically different from that which was intended and often even creates distracting artifacts in the image. Many TVs ship with it automatically enabled, and while it can leave a positive impression when watching video content at 60 frames per second (such as sports broadcasts), it is a poor fit for movies.

Wonderful!

I bought my first flatscreen when this effect came out and it. It was a feature that tacked on about $1-2k onto the price tag. In the store, I looked at the TVs with it on and immediately thought "oh hell no" and bought a cheaper TV that looked better.

I've since bought a few TVs where motion smoothing is default, and the FIRST thing I do is turn it off.
Polymorphism on Clang Inside Linux Kernel Source Code
Sounds to me like "the tragedy of you being a dick" to paraphrase a xkcd. They caused all of their problems through their policies (not keeping existing competive with new hires, refusal to consider lesser experience, expecting loyalty without any give) and it came to bite them yet they don't want to take any effort to fix them in any way.
Evaluating cellular automata is comonadic (2006)
Features on the web site are largely irrelevant, though.

What was the last Google Search feature? These companies grow not by improving product, but by expanding their reach and squashing competitors.
if I'm reading this right, he sold off his entire award that vested last week.
> But maybe our use cases are the outliers, and the new search is what works for most people.

I think it's a probability problem more often expressed in terms of medical tests / false positives. If a million people search for <word> but 1% of those make a typo and search for <wrod> instead, whereas a thousand people deliberately search for <wrod>, Google's observation of a search for <wrod> is 90% likely to be a typo.

However well-intentioned, this can undermine one of the core, original features of a good search engine like Google: deriving value from the "long tail" of esoteric (and often very technical) quests for information.
the new macbook pro keyboard sucks and a lot of users are complaining about it. apple should do something, not blame the users. I personally hate it, but I'm stuck with it.

it's not like we have a choice, we use whatever our company gives us and we can't just ask for another keyboard because we don't like our laptop. at least not in my company.
Even so it would be able to be simulated on a Turing complete computer. Albeit a lot slower.
That’s so counterproductive it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
You're correct: FF is not a printable character. But I'm seeing the same issue with Firefox on Windows (with some monospace font). I suspect that the issue is what Firefox complains about in the developer console: The file does not have a defined encoding. In fact, the Content-Type header is completely missing. I guess that those replacement glyphs are just Firefox playing it safe in the face of uncertainty regarding the character encoding.
It would not fix the problem of time zones. It would just change their interpretation, and maybe their name. As long as we live on a spherical planet with just one sun, and keep our sleep cycles roughly synced to daylight, we will need time zones or something equivalent.
Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
Do they have a computer? Might as well take that away from them with that kind of outlook.
Either way, I guess it's just one of those stories people like to tell because it confirms their biases (always insert your elevator pitch into every conversation, always be super positive about your product, etc etc.)
使命遂行と関係ないお話 僕はスマホが大っキライでスマホなしで生活する方法をずっと模索してるのですが （祈）†
> The fact that in Finder the Enter button does not actually enter a directory or run/open a file but let me rename it was the biggest surprise. I personally rename filesystem objects rarely, while I 'execute' them all the time, it does not make sense!

You are right, I hadn’t thought of that. But there is an easy solution that imho in a way is better anyways:

CMD arrow allows you to navigate through file structure including drill down, I.e. open folder.

CMD o opens/runs any file selected (also opens folders so it’s a not-so-elegant replacement for open on enter)

This to me makes more sense though now that I think about it because it differentiates between running (potentially unsafe/slow) and quick keyboard navigation through folders. I admit the CMD arrow functionality is a bit hidden
As you elucidate in your first point people can choose with their wallet. However, I think that blog posts and complaints are another, perhaps stronger, way of impacting change. People may still like a product, they may still want to buy a product, so a complaint is the only signal which can let a company know how to improve.

It’s unfortunate that you are getting sneered at for liking the keyboard though. It’s step too far when the complaint targets other users who enjoy the product and doesn’t focus on the product itself.
That airbag "helmet" seems susceptible to pointy objects and edges, like the edge of a sidewalk. Also it's not designed for MTB use, which is understandable but quite limiting.
> The Gendarmerie also obtained a snapshot of the C&C server’s disk from its hosting provider and shared parts of it with us so we could start to reverse engineer the contents of the C&C server.

That's surprising. Would full disk encryption even help to counter this ?
The time is long since past for the CIA to be disbanded. It was staffed with ex-Nazi's who used its secrecy as a fortress within which to build their own new reich, and this is the #1 cause of turmoil and strife in the world today.

When you PAY someone to generate reports of bad news and non-optimum situations, they will generate bad news and non-optimum situations - and then report on it (accurately or otherwise).

When you allow those same people to keep everything they do a secret, for the sake of 'national security', everything they do will be for the sake of 'national security' and therefore kept a dire secret. This includes their own war crimes and other crimes against humanity - as we have seen time and time again with the CIA and its military-pharmaceutical-industrial super-state, which rules us all through fear and coercion whether we like it or not.
The competence is their half and the only bit of filtering - them sticking around is "yours" (the start ups) as you set the environment, pay, and benefits.
The piece about Iran mentions them sharing it with friendly nations, which likely included Lebanon. I haven't heard of events like that in Russia recently, an arrest or two but nothing major. And the encryption seems responsible for most of the Chinese events, the "mole" seemed like an attempt to push the blame elsewhere.

Most of the public incidents in the past ten years seems related to that CIA failure, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Well, who in their right mind would bring a cellphone to a bank robbery? And yes, creating an alibi would be good. But not with a knowing accomplice, because that'd be a vulnerability.
Ask HN: Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to host Wikipedia on a P2P network?
Wikipedia is always asking for donations and I'm guessing most of it would be to handle their massive hosting and bandwidth bills (?)

So wouldn't it make sense to ask people to donate their CPU / bandwidth as compared to money?

A lot of people like myself will gladly install a Seti@home app that helps host it like a P2P network (there have been plenty of projects implementing decentralized hosting using browser extensions also)

This would make hosting practically free and redundant.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to think off this? Why isn't it a good idea?
For those interested in all of Carmack's clever hacks in the Wolfenstein and Doom source code that made it possible to run these games on PCs of the day, the Game Engine Black Books are a great read (they are also free):

http://fabiensanglard.net/gebb/index.html
I think he sold half, but still he _vested_ 54.7 million dollars worth of stock... I'd happily sell that off instantly as well.

Damn.

[edit--he sold all!]
> What you call dark patterns are ways to ensure users don't accidentally load malware onto their device. They can definitely do better though - I think a good first step would a dialog to choose trusted alternative app stores such that installing apps does not require a separate confirmation step (as is currently the case.)

Note that since Android P or so, only explicitly whitelisted apps are even allowed to ask for app install. There's a user setting for each. So this is effectively already in place.
Part of what drives higher rates is expense/lack of replacement parts, which can increase the severity of the claim.
Two startups to create 1 lakh AI, deep-learning experts by 2020
In my case I just had to get my insurance company involved. The insurance company had to call the hospital few times to "remind" them that they weren't supposed bill me for certain items, per their contract with the hospital.

In other cases I just wrote on the bill, in big fat marker, "bill my insurance." The bill very quickly went away. (And I got a much more reasonable bill for my co-pay.)
Overcoming the desire to build a legacy is something I struggle with
From the Battlefield to ‘Little Women’
> 2. If your keyboard breaks, Apple will replace it free. The newer gen keyboards generally don't break.

This is not true. My keyboard broke and has been replaced with the same generation keyboards. I asked the apple store about it before they start any reparation, they told me they would never replace with a newer generation.
(MacBook Pro 2018, a few weeks after Apple introduced the new butterfly keyboards.) I am located in Paris, France, if it matters.
That is and for many, always an issue. Adverts help pay for content, be that a game or website - people literally make a living that way that it has become a bit of a defacto approach.

But when you are tied to including some code that goes off to a site that you have no or very little control over, you are outsourcing part of your company (web or app) into the hands of another in which, if they mess up. You are the the one that takes all the PR flack.

After all, if somebody slips an exploit into an AD hosted on a 3rd party site and offered up by a reputable AD serving company. Whilst the blame and fault may clearly be with the AD serving company for not screening what they offer. You are the ones that from a consumer and as it also transpires - the media as the one to blame. As we all know, corrections and retractions are always less viewed and eyeballed than the initial drama article based upon a small picture view of the issue/drama, instead of the root cause. Even with the best most respected media sites in the World, such retractions/corrections never get the same attention as the initial article of drama and doom.

That is one problem that even today, still prevails - media does an article with the finger pointing at one direction and the truth, even when it comes out and updated, never tracks as well as the initial finger pointing and is very much the old saying of "if enough mud is slung, some will stick".

{EDIT spelling and below}

With that all said, ad-blocking by the likes of https://pi-hole.net/ is more than just avoiding AD's, it's about privacy and more and more so - security.
That's a very viable approach.

We got my wife's grandmother an iPad because she kept getting fleeced by Geek Squad after opening email attachments. Smooth running for years now.

A lot of people don't have any need for a full-on computer.
Spacemacs is disturbingly slow.
That's a deeply flawed line of thinking.

Those components were obtained at a price of 0 moneys, which at the time of "obtaining" was agreed upon by both sides. In this situation, yes, asking for money later is very rude, in my opinion.
This is missing the main way people get paid for open source work, which is to work for a company that will pay them to work on an open source project. Everything from Go to React to Bitcoin falls into this model.
You can always start floating out your resume. Replace #2 with "transfer companies."

Honestly, smaller companies are not the best places to get into management because there aren't that many people to manage.

The key point is that you create a conversation between two people about your management potential. That way it becomes a social fact, as opposed to just a thought in one person's head, who may or may not act on it depending on how much they like you or want do to you a favor.
I use the page-break-lines package to show these a bit more nicely (IMO).
12:34 - I have found a security vulnerability

12:47 - I noticed you haven’t fixed it yet, if you don’t do it soon I’ll go public

14:13 - I noticed you still haven’t fixed it, please hurry, if you don’t do it soon I’ll go public

14:15 - I noticed you haven’t fixed the bug yet, if you don’t do it soon I’ll go public

16:55 - Since you still haven’t fixed this. I’ve made this public on my blog. Enjoy the consequences!