skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even worse... many women from the community I grew up in have developed strange autoimmune disorders in their 40s and 50s.

Interesting myself, my wife, and a number of friends have remarked on how a lot of people around us are getting sick with difficult to explain neurological illness in the past few years.

I try to keep my skeptical hat on and say it’s all probably within some base rate, and we are just older, etc. but it doesn’t feel like it and multiple people are having the same bad feeling.

There’s little overlap the people affected though. (The closest thing to a cluster would be Silicon Valley.) I really do hope that the health agencies and CDC are properly doing their job and we’re not missing some response developing to a fairly widespread unrecognized pollutant.
Could be a good angle to work as Trump has done some stuff lately that's also likely to anger the CCP.
If Apple has "removed" the Taiwanese flag now, soon maybe they'll automatically translate what people say into NewSpeak which is acceptable for the China market. Just saying...
It's not just "one unpatched router". It could be millions. Or millions or billions or IOT devices in the future that are unpatched.

That does have the potential to create some damage if anyone takes control of them. Maybe even kill some people, if say they DDoS the V2I network for self-driving cars in the future, or a hospital network over which remote surgeries are performed, etc.

I feel like this argument that "you get what you pay for" is pretty lazy. Usually, or ideally, consumer regulations are about setting standards and raising the bar.

So that means that if there were strong laws for stuff like this, then the minimum router price may become $70 instead of $50 - but everyone would be reasonably protected for the large majority a device's lifecycle (only a small portion of the customers should be affected by leftover bugs when support ends, like say <5%, as others will have moved on to new products by then).
What kind of shit are you reading.

Also, quit it with the Whataboutism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
If it’s such an issue then surely a larger federal government is the solution.
Xiaomi sells routers in this price range that ship with OpenWrt. The buildroot even has config options for branding! It costs them nothing for the OS. It costs D-Link more to produce their mess.
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How many enemies can China and YouTube make?
No, it only shows that they essentially have no principles at all, or at least none that they’re willing to lose money over (which is ultimately the same thing). It’s always useful when someone reveals their true moral fiber, as the NBA has done.
I agree. My belief is that the racial biases of the police don't come from beliefs about racial supremacy, but due to the patterns that emerge due to the income factor. If we can solve the first issue, the biases will disappear. This is supported by the fact that the race of the officer doesn't appear to be a factor in police violence cases. It seems, to me at least, that removing the root of the bias would be vastly more effective than trying to instill counter-biases.
The solution is that there is no preemptive solution, any more than there is a preemptive solution to using an axe dangerously. You can build a transmitter out of a Raspberry Pi and a short length of wire; for extra credit, you can buy a cheap amplifier and really go to town, but the simple fact you can strobe a GPIO pin fast enough to transmit on unauthorized frequencies is the final nail in the coffin for any plan to restrict broadcasting by restricting radio sales.

The enforcement comes down to this: If you transmit in an obnoxious way and you annoy someone, you get squashed. If you kill someone, you get squashed harder. That doesn't bring the dead back to life, but sending someone to prison for killing someone else with an axe doesn't bring the dead back to life, either.
But how do you put team fit into a rubric. It's absolutely an element - a team of 1Xers will be more productive than a team or 10Xers who all can't stand each other. I wouldn't want to be part of a team where everyone has an excellent objective mark, but is just a bunch of jerks. What part of the objective rubric accounts for "can't play well with others"?
Right, but now you have explicit consent required to elevate to that level, whereas if you’re running as root already you can just silently do things without the user knowing.

> Do you use macOS?

Almost exclusively.
It would seem to me that this is another symptom of overly concentrated industries. Automated hiring is driven by a desire to optimize - either to cut costs and/or to handle a situation where applicants outnumber openings by an exponential number. Automated hiring is another concentrating, anti-people solution - we should be using anti-trust laws and regulation to create a system that encourages a greater number of firms, distributed over a much wider geography. That's the democratic solution to this problem, and abrogates the need for these types of solutions.

I would also disagree with the premise of the article - the government has shown time and time again that they are not good at compliance. They are good at investigating and regulating. Trying to audit these systems is an impossible task that will wind up with the agency responsible captured by the industry. The only permanent, self-executing solution is to make the companies smaller such that these systems are no longer viable.
OSX is horribly bloated already. I want to add in things without the bloat.

Never heard of AROS...

ReactOS is bloated by definition of replicating windows, isn't it? It probably uses less than main windows, but it is just my opinion that the 1990-1997 period preceded some of the real bloat added due to the massive Moore's law gains after that with the GHz races.

OS/2 ... seems obscure to me but I never used it. But NeXT and Beos had revolutionary capabilities, I think OS/2 was basically just preemptive multitasking for Windows. Is that right?

BeOS, which I've never used, is probably also a good starting spot. HaikuOS probably has more oomph behind it community wise.
Even if it means bad press for saying nothing?
>the amount of money the NBA earns in China dwarfs its U.S. revenue.

Source?

>It already has basketball leagues.

I guess it's a good thing I didn't say they don't. Partial quoting to try to make a point where there isn't one isn't very cool.

>And considering that China has exported star players to the NBA, it's certainly a possibility.

It's exported exactly one star: yao Ming, and one slightly above average player in Jeremy Lin. And those two were so far apart they never played in the NBA at the same time. If you think one star every 30 years is going to be good enough to replace an NBA that produces multiple stars every other year.... I guess pass whatever you're smoking my way.
I live in an African country. I know what China is doing in my country. This is what they are doing -> Investing billions of rands and they never supported an unjust government like US which was sponsoring apartheid government in my country and listed Nelson Mandela as a terrorist for fighting against their favourite government which was oppressing black people in their own country.
Is there an equivalent of the Trusted program in Europe? I know of a bunch of companies capable of manufacturing chips, like STM, but because of the scattered nature of europe, I don't know how euro militaries handle this issue, specially Airbus.
Not subscribing to consensus is not an argument against her. Not addressing that there are non-model-dependent detections (ie not in danger of p-hacking) and her support of much disproved (experimentally) tired light are why people don't take her seriously.

There are plenty of things wrong with high energy physics and cosmology, the fact that most theory is not-even-wrong is a big one. She is, however, often barking up the wrong tree.
What do I expect or what does a typical consumer expect? The folks on HN are not typical consumers of these products.

Often times when defective products are sold there is some responsibility for some time to correct or notify people. Cars, child seats, and many other things fall into that.

The defective devices that get updates or notifications are often safety related. Yet, safety and security are not talked about much with regard to technology. Maybe it's time to start doing that.
So it's OK to ask developers to sacrifice 1-3 months of their time working without benefits for at least 50% less than what they would normally be getting paid at any other company simply because $25/hr is more than the median wage in the US? I'm simply surprised that anyone worth their salt would submit to such a lopsided transaction! Good on Automattic for taking advantage of the situation, though?
This is the new normal, folks. Consumer technology is manufactured for six to twelve months, but live in our homes for three to five years. Today's manufacturers cannot afford to update software for hardware devices they have already moved on from. Changing that requires a significant upheaval in their business models.

This applies to every "connected device:" printers, cell phones, home routers, refrigerators, thermostats -- you name it. Michael DeGusta did a great infographic demonstrating this for Android phones in 2011 [1, 2]. Sadly, this hasn't materially changed in the eight years since. Just this year, Google added new terms to the Android license requiring security patches, but even then only for "popular devices." [3] Imagine those dynamics in the secondary and tertiary markets of printers and refrigerators.

As an industry, we've been to this rodeo before. The advancements we've made in operating system and core applications security over the last 20 years have more about patching speed and agility than shipping fewer bugs. However, those areas have backing and control from Apple and Microsoft, managing the end to end ecosystem. There is not a similarly equipped manufacturer of embedded operating systems with the scale to provide post-sale/post-deployment patching infrastructure.

Since this is Hacker News, I'll point out the enormous opportunity to anyone who can address that problem. Can you provide an "enterprise class embedded OS" to device manufacturers and address post-deployment updates? Can you provide infrastructure device manufacturers can use to manage post-deployment updates themselves? Do you have a better approach to it? There's a burgeoning multi-billion dollar market waiting for a few leaders to take it over.

1 - https://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orpha...

2 -
img link is broken in his post, the graphic itself: http://media.theunderstatement.com/016a_android_orphans.png

3 - https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019356/android-securit...
That couldn't be further from the truth
Satya Nadella looks to the future with edge computing
But the NeXT UI was (IMO) the best UI of that stage of processing power.
"A sizable portion of GED in all 3 IAMs could not be attributed to any economic unit either because they could not be clearly mapped to a specific sector or because they were biogenic or caused by wildlife and therefore not associated with any kind of economic activity. Overall, we were able to attribute around 60% of total GED to industrial sectors for the years 2008, 2011, and 2014."

These seem like other numbers based on extrapolation, in that the sector comparisons and time comparisons are probably accurate on a relative basis, but saying that air pollution is 5% of GDP is most likely off by a large factor; it could be 2% or 10%.
He has since changed his mind: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Apple Time Capsules [0] released in 2011 received an update last June 2019 [1] despite being also discontinued in 2018.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Time_Capsule

[1]: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2008?locale=en_US
The constitution is not determined by the state, it is ratified by a democratic vote. Sometimes this vote is conducted by representatives, and sometimes by popular vote.

I feel like you are missing a vital part of your understanding on how liberal democracies were founded and how the balance of power is distributed between the people and institutions that govern them.
I'm from the North of Ireland. We had sectarianism and "troubles" with fear of the "others". We should find a common factor <points elbow at British Imperialism>.
To the OP's point, just because you're good at something doesn't mean you can explain it well to others, especially if you don't understand it. Or at least, if you only intuitively understand it
We millennials have more ‘friends’ than ever. So why are we so lonely?
> Their success is your success

I guess so yes. At the same time, if someone installs and helps their customers with n8n, in addition to some other bigger more "main" things s/he does, then $30k can be fairly much?

If it's not the contractor's main thing but a smaller part of his/her offerings? ... O.t.o.h. maybe s/he never gets really good at n8n if s/he won't focus on it full time.
It’s really more than “some code”: the kernel, core frameworks, and many utilities are a single codebase with platform-specific #defines. I have no idea if there was an actual fork when iOS was being made, but if there was they merged the changes back in.
Your argument seems to be that git, like all change control systems, is powerful and requires explanation. I would counter that there are other change management systems I can explain in 5 minutes, such as Perforce. Git is hard to explain because its model is a mess and few or no people naturally grok the model right away.
Whataboutism

Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which in the United States is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Why does most of the Chinese use "whataboutism" to defend their country?

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-most-of-the-Chinese-use-whata...
It's already the case with credit-rating companies that slowly nudged themselves everywhere and are even being used by the government to check your identity. I bet that having a mistake on file at Experian can make your life a nightmare.

Once the market has consolidated itself there will be 2-3 companies controlling the vast majority of all hiring processes. At that point it will be easier to just ask what type of job their AI decided you would be a good fit for.

Think about how inefficient the hiring process is right now. Humans can only process very little information. There are only so many companies you can learn about and apply to. Most of the time people end-up in a local maxima and aren't really happy about their job. In contrast, the AI has access to hundreds of thousand of companies and profiles that they can match with each-other. They will claim how the AI knows what you truly desire and find the best fit that will make you truly happy.

Welcome to the future where you will get lessons in virtual-school on how to be best perceived by the big AI.
Especially considering that JSON compresses well.
Not likely, players (not superstars) can already make more money in Euroleague yet everyone given a choice wants to play at the highest level, which is NBA. Superstars even more so, Kawhi Leonard won a title in Toronto but chose to go back home in LA, for less guaranteed money.
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This sounds exactly like how I get stuck. As the sole developer on a team of pretty much all biologists, all of these things come into play constantly. Especially that bit about the last 10-20%.
Mikrotik has had quite a bit of security issues, too.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/unpatched-vulnerability...
Most companies will require legal approval anyway before you are allowed to use it.

For instance, at a previous company we were forbidden to use React until Facebook changed over to the MIT license. Facebook had a poison pill buried into their original "open source" license.
> Somebody can conceivably receive significant financial damage though. Why they shouldn't be liable?

Not just financial damage, the owners of defective routers can be targets of criminal lawsuits if their connections are used as proxies for attacks, death threats, bank fraud, etc.
In case someone at Backblaze is reading this : I had a less than ideal experience in the past couple of days, trying to report through normal support channels a potentially critical bug breaking the "inherit backup" feature in the Mac client.

Here goes : a few days ago the Backblaze Mac client started prompting me to upgrade urgently to the latest version (6.1.0.370). I went ahead and did that but got "Installation could not complete, please contact support" each time. Support advised me to wipe /Library/Backblaze* , reinstall, then inherit the existing backup.

Well, we never managed to get the inherit process to complete : it failed with "ERR_error_unknown" every time. And I started freaking out.

That's where things get interesting : I became frustrated with the canned responses from support and decided to delve into the client logs myself. I quickly found a potential smoking gun (in bzbmenu.log) : a spelling mismatch in an XML attribute name between the server response (support_inherit="true") and what the client was expecting ("ERROR could not read attribute named supports_inherit"). Notice the extra "s" ? Pretty obvious typo and one that could definitely explain the failure (client can't confirm that the selected backup is eligible for inheritance, bails out)

I was rather happy with my findings and shared them in plenty of details with support (including log excerpts), but instead of a "thank you and here's some free months of service !" response, I got "meh, this log file is irrelevant", and worse: no promise to escalate the issue (until I insisted a second time). They suggested updating to the 6.1.0.372 beta, which turned out to have the exact same bug.

Now, I'm left wondering if should try upgrading to 7.0 and inheriting my 6.1 backup from there. But the point of this message is to share my disappointment with this support experience. I went out of my way as a customer and spent a couple of hours researching and finding something potentially useful to the company, but had no appropriate way to report it. I even tried security contacts, but was (rightfully) told it wasn't a security issue. No word on whether they were going to pass it on to the relevant team.

EDIT: I've just confirmed that the same issue is present in 7.0.0.386. Still can't inherit my existing backup.
This is why I explicitly avoid these lists and highlight some core tech which should be meaningful for other engineers. I try to use terms specific enough to implicitly include several skills.

My intuition is that if my CV is ignored by a recruiter, it's because engineering is not involved enough in the sourcing process for the company, and that is a terrible signal.
https://theconversation.com/africa-has-an-air-pollution-prob...

>In the first major attempt to estimate the health and economic costs of air pollution in Africa, an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report[0] found that air pollution in Africa already causes more premature deaths than unsafe water or childhood malnutrition.

>Given the lack of PM2.5 ground measurements in Africa, the PM2.5 data derived from the WHO air quality model for Africa should be viewed with caution.

>The review [1] concluded that (based on the few studies) 17%, 10%, 34%, 17% and 22% of PM2.5 levels in Africa are due to traffic, industry, domestic fuel burning, unspecified source of human origin and natural sources - such as dust and sea salt.

[0] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/the-cost-of-air-po... https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/the-cost-of-air-pollution-in-a...

[1] https://source-apportionment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Docu/Karagulia...
China presents a huge opportunity for growth to the NBA, and this is a really crucial period for them as it seems like the NFL's stranglehold might be weakening and extra money to reinvest might help that process. I don't understand how people can act like losing the Chinese market is some sort of trivial decision?!?

I would love for the NBA to stand up to China on this issue, but it IS NOT AN EASY OR OBVIOUS DECISION.
Really it seems like the radio ASICs themselves should be adding a little bit of embedded flash or OTP memory. But barring that, as the storage requirements of routers increase (having already moved from NOR to NAND flash) we may eventually reach the point where a router includes a BGA SSD whose controller can enforce permanent read-only permissions on a partition that stores RF parameters.
This narrative? The Russians hacked the US election. They shot down a Dutch airline. They invaded and took Crimea. They poisoned a former spy in the UK. And that's just what I can list off the top of my head.

I'm not a neoconservative, and don't care for them, but it seems like for Russia, the Cold War never ended and the West has been sitting around saying 'We Won' for the last 30 years.
If you don't like Donald Trump's conduct in office (I don't, incidentally) you and millions of others can organize and likely prevent him from getting reelected. If you don't like Xi Jinping's conduct in office...
1. FCC has only started to require home router manufacturers to prevent users from modifying transmit settings some years ago, we have lived quite long without this ban and had no problems it is supposed to prevent. 2. Put detailed transmit settings modifying tool right in the web UI of default firmwares of all the routers and you'll see just a negligible portion of the userbase ever touching it. Most of the people don't even know what a megahertz is, let alone have any clue on how to tweak transmit settings for any kind of benefit.
Decompile the old kernel? Yeah, definitely above my modest pay grade, and OpenStep was created to be more portable (but probably not open in the OSS sense). Hm, there is GNUStep

You are correct that one can't snap their fingers and create the community that even FreeBSD has. The last big corporate sponsor opportunity for this was the infant smartphones like the Palm Pre era (they owned Beos IP at that point I think) and early Android.
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I haven't met a colleague at Automattic who quit a job for the trial. And, for what it's worth, my (anecdotal) gut feeling tells me that we have quite a few people with dependents -- kids, sick parents -- apply, work, and succeed here.

Work is mostly asynchronous. Not sure if that came through properly. If you have about 90 minutes time every evening you can go through the trial within a month.