skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also kind-of not fair to blame only the brand/manufacturer, they are complicit -- yes -- but no the only party to blame.

I work for a company that, in between other things, develops and sells Android devices (TVs, tablets, phones, watches, etc.)

We buy a design from a Chinese developer, customize it, add apps and other "value-add" bulls*it, and then import the manufactured products and sell them.

The problem is, we recently found malware in the OS images which were provided by the manufacturer/developer, and traces back to Mediatek themselves, but we were not made aware of it. On request, the developer removed the malware and we sent an OTA to all devices of most models that removes the malware.

The point I'm making is that in many cases, the backdoors and spyware aren't even provided by the company that sells the phones, they are usually secretly put in much closer to the actual manufacturer/developer of the device and/or SoC.
Synchronous talking has a synchronization overhead. If you do the stand-up in the beginning of the day it forces everyone to arrive at the same time. If you do it in the middle of the day it is an interruption for everybody. It's usually just not worth the costs to create meetings just to satisfy the interaction needs of extroverts in your team.
I've long been sceptical of the three questions – well intentioned no doubt but way too prone to becoming an unhealthy exercise in individual self-justification. Much prefer to review the work "right to left", starting with work just completed, then work we can get over the line, then the bulk of what's in progress, and (if there's capacity), what's in the immediate pipeline. Now it's about what _we_ can do to finish the most important of what's in front of us.
Why can I smell those clean cars then?
You just have to look at the Twitter feeds of these two to see why things are going where they are going.

https://twitter.com/SaraJChipps

https://twitter.com/df07
> I think it would be frustrating for people to have to walk away from it and start from scratch

All the StackExchange Q&A content is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA). You can start your own website and use all the content. The only sense in which you'd be starting over is with building the community; the existing questions and answers are free to use.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
I blame automatic OTA, not the manufacturer. There should be rigorous virus scanning of each OTA before sent to the customer and even then it shouldn't be allowed to be automatically installed.
I understand fully. I just want to shine light on the problems of consumers loosing control of their devices that they own and paid for. I would understand that a work-provided device has such protections, and spyware, because it's provided for a single purpose, usually under contract.

A device that you buy with your own money cannot "hand-wave" the contract (TOS, EULA, Policies, etc), and say it's OK that you don't own your device or your data.
As far as I can tell the caching is happening server-side. Pretty much all the frontend seems to be doing is poking the back-end to re-run the script (or get results from cache) and then getting back the diff to apply to the UI.
I just didn't have that time to keep making these videos. The research alone took a huge amount of work and then there was writing the script, recording, editing and finally fighting YouTube's copyright mechanism that won't recognize what I'm doing as fair use.

Also, being Cloudflare's CTO is time consuming.
I strongly disagree. People sometimes won't mention important things (e.g., blockers, possible misunderstandings) unless prompted and encouraged (you sometimes actually need to look at the person's face and hear the intonation). Async interrupts are bad (I don't have time to get into that one right now). I would have replace "Excitement" with "expectation management", "mental atmosphere monitoring".

I do agree that badly managed stand-ups are a waste of time.
Google actually serves the OTA for most devices, meaning they can "see" and check for malware. The files are stored on and downloaded from their serves. Given the "rigorous" testing the apply to devices before they get Google Play certification, I assume they could revoke the certification remotely if malware is detected in an OTA, or even reject the OTA binary.
That's why they're building ITER.
There are 7.6 billion people on the planet.

Each of us will use 300 toothbrushes during our lifetime (4 toothbrushes per year).

A conventional toothbrush weighs approximately 18 grams.

Each of us will throw away about 12 pounds of plastic toothbrushes in our lifetime.

Plastic toothbrush waste generated during our lifetime = 80 billion pounds!

I read about the 2 billion a year in an article that I can't find at the moment. I will do some more research about this and remove the quote for now. Thanks for your calculation and for pointing this out!
Being able to back volumes by files is an amazing feature for testing. I've lost count of the number of times I've done this to prove some documentation works before applying it to the actual storage array in question.
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How do you obtain the macros? Via API to MyFitnessPal or a similar service? How do you make sure macros are accurate?
I know it's possible to have workarounds and I have used them as needed. But the workarounds still have bugs, or are OS specific (your third one for instance), and they don't solve the problem of slow compilation.

There are also fundamental limits to TeX language such as the number of arguments to a function limited to 9 [1], or overloading functions is a pain [2], etc etc.

The advantage of rewriting from scratch in a modern language is that these issues can all be dealt with without workarounds.

[1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2132/how-to-define-a...

[2] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/448877/check-number-...
I watched an interview in which Zach said that he gave infiniminer away for free because he didn't think anyone would want to pay for such a game. Ironically Minecraft is the video game that has sold the most copies.
>> self-driving technology

Which _does not exist_ yet, and will not exist for at least another decade in a form that can be mass-deployed on public roads without causing mayhem.
They said that they aren't using raytracing I believe. That'd be great if they did, I don't think there are any killer apps for a 2080ti yet, but this would certainly be one.
I think what you're against are the sync daily standups, not the async, usually written, ones.

If I was an employee, I would prefer you to let me self-manage my work however I feel comfortable using whatever tool suits me and my team, instead of constantly interrupting on Jira, Trello, etc. And I'll keep you updated at a frequency we agreed on (daily or weekly).

It's also great to read daily updates of others on the team, and even other teams, to learn about what they're working on without having to check at multiple places or interrupt their work. It's usually a great way to discuss, give and receive feedback, asynchronously.

Also, it's strange that you're suggesting "reach out on Slack" as an alternative. Doesn't that promote the "incessant messaging that Slack allows" you're decrying at the start of the article?

Disclaimer: I'm cofounder of the team communication tool https://www.happierco.com
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It's a known issue it seems. Try going to http://localhost:8501/index.html instead of just http://localhost:8501
Inevitable when there is a lack of respecting authoritative, primary sources:

https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Whalers_on_the_Moon
> Just wait couple decades...

This is why I'm not just waiting, I'm getting richer, and I will continue not to do business or politics benefitting the CCP whenever possible.

That's all anyone can do. You can't help but lose if you give up before starting. If things go well, I can do more, maybe go help secure trade secrets in Taiwan, or document CCP controlled forign land and infrastructure purchases; if not, at least I don't see a coward in the mirror.
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But stoning people to death is ok?
This is absurd to me. Standups are quick and it is helpful to know what everyone is working on. And they can serve as a time when you are up front about being stuck on something and get some help from a teammate when maybe otherwise you might have just kept tinkering or hammering away in your own world. It’s just a little nudge to share your status and keep everyone on the same page. It prevents wondering what your colleague is typing up a storm about which is a natural human curiosity.

And the author says make it async, I agree! That’s not against the spirit of standups, I’ve worked on remote teams with an asynchronous standup slack channel.

The most common problem I’ve seen with standups is they can become more than status updates and end up a time during the day to brag about your accomplishments or justify your status within a team/project. Usually to keep management happy or angle for an agenda other than keeping the team together.
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Waiting a year for a driver fix for such a basic feature on widely used hardware, it makes Linux driver woes feel like a walk in the park.
I've read reports of worse vision in dark after Lasik. And what if my short sighness worsens over time (as it did so far). I don't think Lasik is the ultimate solution which works perfectly forever.
What if an author or speaker feels that context is lacking and is not comfortable with the ambiguity? The answers to that question do not sound all that understanding or conciliatory in my experience, especially not as phrased in a code of conduct.

It sounds pedantic, but SE sites are especially attractive to folks who close helpful questions for pedantic reasons.

I just want people to chill out and exhibit a bit of grace instead of bringing up codes of conduct and unhelpful lectures about manners.
And sometimes justified too. But in a different way. You don't see lispers ensuring us "You are smart enough to learn Lisp" because Lisp is quite easy to get started with. And you don't usually see lispers trying to be "friendly" by communicating in children's language.
I suppose privacy is a premium now.
As I see it, if managed properly, daily stand-ups is more about introverts. As one, I found the formal obligation to give verbal updates and a be in a place to hear updates very helpful especially when I was a junior programmer.
What happens then is that you get lots of service between big cities, but smaller cities and towns lose service. Unless there are subsidies, prices will also increase.

In Germany at least, rail is viewed as a public good that should provide mobility to people in both big cities and more rural areas. Making it available outside the most heavily trafficked routes at a reasonable price is incompatible with privatization, again unless heavy subsidies are involved.
Don't agree with this assessment at all, we do stand-ups and it rarely takes more than 5 minutes. It help immensely with production as your colleagues often help keep things from falling through the cracks. (I.e. someone forgets something). Or they might be able to help you out, or further along because they've done something similar. When they do, you don't do it during the stand-up to not disrupt that.

Overal I don't think it's disruptive at all to do a short stand-up, constant nagging however is very disruptive. That person that just walks in or starts spamming you on slack takes more time altogether per instance than a single stand-up does. It takes you out of your process, you then have to pick that up again. If you're working on something complex that can mean it takes an additional 10 minutes before you're back on track. That's the kind of disruption stand-ups can help prevent.

This of course only works if you actually stick to what the stand-up is meant for.
That was by design in Opus Magnum. The game is still brutally hard by sticking to the (self-imposed) constraints, but it wants to open up to a much broader audience.
Celeste follows the same designed approach to difficulty.

Related RPS article: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/27/what-works-and-w...
The negative externalities for this type of transport must be massive. Even the noise pollution on its own should probably disqualify this beyond public emergency services.
It would probably be about as easy as a lawyer trying to write a new OS, because from the outside it looks like it should be straightforward.
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Many discussion threads here seem to be losing sight of the fact that these are internet forums. 99% of the time one doesn't have a clue what gender, race, species etc one's interlocutor is.

There is a perfectly good third person pronoun for this situation. Some might decry it as a neologism, but I suggest it has been around long enough and has firmly entered the language:

"OP".
I wouldn't expect anyone to read "player" in the blog title and read it as the meaning in your link!
... a far-reaching plan to create new neighborhoods that will generate their own power through solar photovoltaic panels, biomass and biogas from material, food and animal waste, and geothermal sources, to name but a few. The communities will also grow their own food largely from aquaponic farms, which essentially combine plants with fish cultivation in water.

OK, so far, so good...

At the outset, the communities that ReGen hopes to build will be within an hour’s travel from major cities to attract those who must commute to work.

Fail. Expensive land within commuting range, but remote workers don’t need to commute. Expensive land near supermarkets, so what’s the incentive to “farm”? Kids need to be driven to baseball, but your car is a 10-minute schlep from your house, and it’s raining.

Here’s a better idea: Bring a few key urban amenities to any thousands of actual existing but fading exurban and rural villages: produce market, bakery, well-equipped playground, car charger, decent fiber line, bookstore cafe/co-work space, weekend evening bus into town and back so you can have a couple of glasses of wine.

It’s funny to call a project that prominently features waste biomass and swimming pool aquaponics “glam” but that’s what it is and why it won’t change the world. ReGen could make an actual meaningful difference if it spent a fraction of the investment it hopes to raise on actually learning how people live and making strategic improvements to their existing environments. This takes time and is gradual work with an unglamorous mix of success and failure, uninteresting to investors and unlikely to get you featured as a “visionary” in the NYT. People and their bullshit, SMH.
I don't think there's anything here that would particularly benefit from raytracing. Raytracing usually shines when modeling stuff like reflections, refractions, and multiple light sources that are expensive with shaders, but I don't see much of that here.
It's a Veblen Good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
It doesn't necessarily have to cost money to get someone to offer a second pair of eyes. Could be a friend or interested party. You could add an attribution "Edited by <name>" so they get something out of it perhaps.

It's pretty common amongst webnovels, translations, and fanfiction for an editor to help out and get attributed.
This just shows the poor state of NYC's public transport. With decent public transport there should be approximately zero demand for this service.

It's about 1h20m from Penn Station to JFK taking first the LIRR to Jamaica and then changing to the AirTrain. Sometimes you'll get lucky and get an express train and you can do it in about 40 minutes. The distance is about 15 miles or 25 kms.

It's normally longer (and a lot more expensive) to take a taxi.

It would take about 1h30m to cycle to JFK from Penn Station, which is comparable to public transport (though obviously impractical for most people taking a flight).

With well designed public transport the trip should be no more than 30 mins. That's an average of 30 mph, easily achievable by light rail. There should be a direct train connection to JFK instead of the slow AirTrain. Why isn't there? Basically because NYC can't get it's act together when it comes to building public transport. The Wikipedia page has more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK
Came here for this :) it's such an old game and I remember it so fondly.
you are right. but there is bigger question of what information is "correct". no offense, it'd be naive to treat the first result of google result as being correct. we all know there is such a thing called SEO.
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You have to admit it was too good a setup to pass!
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Yes, I have a 2018 MBP. I also used to run a T420. I still prefer the MacBook.
Not really abandoned. It's just not the main priority anymore. And perl6 decided to do something else, to go forward with a very shortsided and wrong approach (again).

There are two major blocks here,

1) the parser surviving a GC. There was one help from outside, but without real code. It almost got fixed by myself recently. macros depend on this, and improving the compiler and adding a matcher on macros.

2) threads support for the GC. hard problem. would need to switch to boehmgc, as fellow Tiny(Ruby,Python) folks did with this codebase. But they got not much farther. Only wren did. I liked his approach.

The TLS cert if unfortunately out of my hands. Someone else is maintaining the domain.
In my limited experience, one key to successful standups is making them as small as possible. The worst standups are the ones which contain over a dozen people working on a bunch of only vaguely related projects. The best ones are the ones that only involve the people working on things directly related to thing I happen to be working on. I you're a manager this might mean that you have to organize 3 or 4 standups instead of just one and keep track of who is working on what and being sure the right people show up to the right meeting. If it turns out that someone is being blocked by someone not at the meeting then either set up a new meeting with just the people involved in that problem or make sure that particular person is at the next meeting.
I'm sympathetic to that line of thought. On the other hand, if you support SO.corp, nothing will change. If everybody kept supporting experts-exchange.com and not migrated to SO, we'd still deal with hidden text. My guess is that we will do that again, as SO is aggressively pushing for more monetization, and that might be the point for people to switch again - or they may not, because of the time and effort they've put into SO and not wanting to give that up.
Is there any app/website that allows you to put what ingridients you have, and shows you what recipes can you make with that?
30mbit is huge though. For plenty of people 30mbit would be faster than their home internet connection, especially if they're allowed to tether unlimited devices behind it.
Got a link to the friends issues?

Google isn't turning up anything. What was the issue with Friends?
> Do you want to say no terrorism has been prevented by lawful surveillance?

There could be no verifiable data on how much is that. Maybe many, maybe none.

Yet the facts are: terrorism is not a huge threat. There are few terrorists, even fewer successful ones. It's three times more chances of getting killed by a lightning strike here in Europe, than by a terrorist.

Another fact is: the vast majority of people are good decent people, who behave well and not blowing up planes, shooting jews in synagogues etc.

Hence, the surveillance measures taken to "prevent terrorism" have costs vastly surpassing the benefits, since the majority is suffering for the sake of (allegedly) diminishing of already tiny numbers [1] [2].

Not to mention the increase of risk of waking up in a totalitarian state.

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/security/201...

[2] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/2019...
Most of the time I think in a cloud of English and images and... Well, ideas.

But, if I spend more time around Spanish speakers, which was my birth language, I find I do switch out the English for Spanish.

I'd expect most people with a multilingual background are similar. Your thoughts express with whatever language your brain is most comfortable with at the moment.
Same reason you'd want a bigger mouse pad with turned down sensitivity, it's more precise and you have more space. Also having no mechanical click is a huge plus. It still feels like you do, but it's even all across it.
You're talking as if unbreakable end-to-end encryption doesn't exist today. It exists and we are not suffering horribly because of it.

On the other hand, we will suffer horribly under an authoritarian panopticon if it is able to come into existence.
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I always had heard that first 3dDone was Tron but that the first one to arrive to theaters was Star Trek, the wrath of Khan, I was told that the explosion of the Genesis was the first one full computer generated scene in films.
Why bother with plants if you can cover the desert with solar panels?
And they totally know this, going so far as to offer an 'export to gif' option at the end of the puzzle.
A law must be enforceable, otherwise it is useless. A law for wiretapping voice phones is enforceable, because only few criminals have the capability to build their own hardware encryption devices for secure real-time voice scrambling. A law for wiretapping into text chat software is not enforceable, because anyone halfway skilled in cryptography can produce his own encryption layer on top of the wiretapped text chat. The worst inconvenience a criminal would suffer from such a law is that they would need to use the copy&paste function of their device.

A law that by design is not enforceable, serves no reasonable purpose.
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Thanks!

I've not had much sleep the last few weeks thanks to my newborn son so am making these kinds of silly mistakes.
Completely agree with this. It just seems like ritual for ritual's sake. I tend to learn nothing from standup that I couldn't learn by checking Jira or just directly asking someone. And waiting a full day to raise blockers is foolish.

Sometimes things go a bit too far, with people delving too deeply into whatever topic, with a sort of side-conversation starting. Yes, these people should "take it offline", and often after a minute or so of back and forth, they will, but it still happens often enough that it turns into a waste of most of the team's time. "Be more disciplined!", you say? Sure, ok, wave your magic wand and make that happen, please.

The counter-argument I usually hear to anyone who wants to get rid of standup goes something along the lines of: "but it's great to get everyone together once a day, and sometimes people will spontaneously learn of something that they have useful input for, and save someone some time". Ok, so you want to waste 10-20 minutes of my time on the off chance that someone might randomly have a useful contribution that wouldn't otherwise come up? No, pass.

And regardless, this sort of attitude is actively hostile toward remote members of the team, who may be in different time zones and can't reasonably participate.

If your team really needs daily status updates, create a "standup" channel for your team on Slack (or whatever you use), and have people do a once-a-day post in there. No deadline, just when they get to it. But even that just feels like micro-management.
It is really that good.