skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you expect should happen if someone creates a thing of value worth a billion dollars?

Let them have 50 or 100 million, then put the rest in the hands of the other people that worked to make it happen. If all of those people are now rich, then use the excess money to help the impoverished.

> Reaping what you sow provides the incentive to work hard in our society.

It's not binary. People don't get all the money or none of it. You can still have ridiculously large amounts of monetary incentive without it being possible to hit a billion dollars.
It's a huge step forward, because some of the bad actors that have ruined mobile by abusing every possible API to read whatever they can get their hands on are also developing for the desktop.

The article is a pathological example anyway, because I got zero prompts even on my work machine.

And Vista was a good step forward also back then, but people can't be bothered to take care of their data.

This is why security work is such a slog, you're dealing with motivated, well funded attackers that only need to succeed once, while the people controlling the key to the castle are mostly nincompoops.
My understanding of the article is it applies to those who completed probation, not those who's probation is ongoing or revoked.
you can use Gource to get a graph like this: https://youtu.be/iZjvVxbM3kY
I like to think that its spirit lives on on .NET.
What if Moray says something to support Palestine freedom and human rights? Would NBA support Moray or Israel?
Painting black cows to look like zebras dramatically reduces horsefly bites
Cherry-picked input and model data to exaggerate their claims, Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger both work for the CATO institute, and Ross McKitrick is an economics professor and known climate change denier[0].

I do not have enough in-depth understanding of climate sciences in order to fully comprehend the articles you've attached, nor can I be bothered to (there's no attempt to make it accessible for the layman), but the comment section appears to be quite telling.

Does that sound rich to you? Well, I'm a simple programmer, not a climate change specialist, but Judith Curry OTOH is, and she has chosen to "not “bother with” peer-reviewed journals, in favor of publishing her own papers so that she could editorialize and write what she wanted “without worrying about the norms and agendas of the ‘establishment.’”"[1]. In other words, she's a lone scientist defying the consensus. Maybe she's our modern day plate-tectonist, but in all probability, not.

EDIT: To summarize, why even write (apparent) highly scientific articles if you're ignoring all the other scientists? To me, it just seems like someone wants to appear that way.

[0]: https://twitter.com/carbonbrief/status/913361157846597634

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Curry
The US still conducts operations in Afghanistan and Iraq without informing their governments, that's military occupation, not "democracy"
No, what I'm saying is that a VPN application does not need access to my Documents folder, and if it tries to access it, then I'd like to know about it.

Nor do I entrust it with all my network traffic. As to whether it warrants completely removing the app or not, it's up to the user to decide, isn't it?
I sure hope not, that sounds like an ineffective way to help anyvody. (Not to mention that it would only work on dumb or unimaginative people.)

You can't argue someone out of a mental issue. If you really think it would be helpful for them to realize they're wrong, the best you can do is be a mirror so they can convince themselves.

But generally, the fixation on whether something is right or wrong is a distraction, a mechanism for avoiding facing the real issue.
The only real problem I have left with my XPS13 is with sleep/hibernate.

I’d like it to work like macOS. It seems like that’s possible but it requires a swapfile to save state to. As far as I can tell that means enabling virtual memory which is a no no on SSD.

Just that and I wish Bluetooth remembered the on/off state it was left in after reboot.
Checkbox + CSS custom properties for the colours/font weights etc . Checkbox checked, adjust the variable values.

There's normally a little more to it than that, but there shouldn't ever be _much_ more, custom properties are fully dynamic
> ad should be on-topic to the specific web page, not specific to the reader

Amen. I find myself returning to something I said 4 years ago about the limit of acceptable ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521930

Target the intent or interest, not the user.
50k seems really low for new grads today even in Atlanta.
If you standardize on CMake, lots of up-front choices go away, and will be converted to options which can be changed on per-developer basis. CMake can generate the whole project part for lots of different developers, allowing the devs to use practically any IDE they wish.

Plus, you'll get a properly configured project with automatic dependency tracking.

I don't understand why CMake isn't used by default. (or Meson)
Also >> a version of an industry-standard product

just so people know that Twitter at least has standards
> we gave Iraq and Afghanistan the opportunity to elect a representative government, it is not our place to complain about the representatives they elected.

The USA insisted on representative government within those countries’ existing borders. So much of the strife in those countries is ethnic-based. If regions were given options for secession, then some of the new territorial formations that resulted may well have become more politically stable. Just look at how much better off Iraqi Kurdistan is, which is as close as it can get to independence, than the rest of Iraq.
Changelog to 3.0.1 here: https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-changes.html
Didn't once have an unexpected braking event on my old '14 Mazda 3 Astina (6MT sedan w/radar cruise as well).

LOVED that car so much. They just get the UX so much.

Tested driving through empty cardboard boxes three times from 30km/h steady not moving inputs a mm:

First time detected and applied braking, but stopped 5cm into them, only just knocking top one off the bottom.

The next two times it stopped just in front. All times car engine stalled into stop and go mode, IIRC, and applied hazards automatically.

(Was I one of the three only drivers who ever verified the systems workings?)

In dense highway traffic, on a few instances it alerted me to stopped traffic ahead when I was checking mirrors and tired. Was able to stop myself before AEB.

Found myself using radar cruise all the time after that, as it applies braking earlier.

Loved the rear cross sensor especially when pulling out from 45d angle parking, and doubly so when being parked next to a truck. One does not simply reverse into these. AFAIK Tesla still doesn't offer rear cross alert.

Did I mention BLIS with visual indicators in the mirrors? Or the fully functional HUD? All this for a fraction of the cost of a Tesla or other luxury vehicles offering the same - in 2014 this list was far shorter than today. Really miss it, would buy again if we had to have another 2nd car.
Interesting comparison of most fast json parsers. Just https://github.com/lemire/simdjson is missing.
Purple beating RapidJSON.

The standard is btw. my Cpanel::JSON::XS and he didn't compare with cperl which would be much faster and more secure. And he misinterpreted why glibc made a big difference. - march=native got better, not malloc.
Any chance you work in corporate IT security? Sounds about right. Treat your users like dummies, maybe shove a dozen “security” dialogs in their faces, and have no qualms about disrupting their workflows or providing crappy experiences.
Is that the case or is it that the Chinese government is subsidizing the 5g products that Huawei makes so that western countries will purchasing them?
All my Linux devices do a lot better under Linux than under Windows; Lenovo X220, MS Surface and GPD Pocket all run both but battery life is miles ahead of Windows for my use (programming and browsing for programming). I use Ubuntu with i3wm. i3wm is, I think, where most of the difference comes from; it is very light. And, imho, much easier to work with than mouse driven stuff.
A misleading one because Libra is not managed by any one entity.
The website changed:

>If you purchased directly from Adobe, we will refund you by the end of the month for any paid, but unused services. We are working with our partners on the same.

I wonder what caused this. Did something important change, or did Adobe just overreact at first?
China did not help AMD.

AMD partnered with a Chinese partner and produced /knowledge transfered an older chipstack.

Ps. Everyone can manufacture, so not sure what your mean with edge. There are a lot centralized/easy to be found in China, that's true.
And so she became a programmer. I wonder if she were alive today what her commit messages would sound like?
Any advertiser that made the match previously will likely have that stored somewhere and will also probably have that identified with the twitter handle, so yeah those identifiers are still active, just not within Twitter.
I've tried to use Conan, but was unable to use 'openssl', because it was named 'OpenSSL'. So, then I wanted to use HarfBuzz library, but Conan was unable to find one. Later I've found out HarfBuzz exists, but it's named 'harfbuzz'.

The 'case sensitivity' bug was created in 2017, is still open. I think it's connected to a case sensitivity flag in filesystem which is used in the system. So, since 99% of Linux systems use case-sensitive fs, it's not usable on Linux.
They didn't know how to present and to what people.
NBA vs. China: The Power Struggle Behind the Standoff
It's not that they should be just as upset, it's that they don't have any sort of principled stance and are in the cheer squad when the same thing is happening to the other side. They cheer people losing jobs because they disagree with them and get upset that the same thing happens to people they agree with, at least at the group level.

Should you be able to lose your job, be cutoff from a private service, be banned from a project because of your public opinions? It's a yes/no question and modern society appears to be converging on yes. This is a consequence of that decision. An easy to see consequence that many of us warned about but got drowned out of the conversation being called racists, christian fundamentalist, pedophile apologists and everything else when we speak for their rights.

So congratulations to the people that cheered Stallmans firing, various de-platforming techniques, codes of conduct, etc, you've normalized this and given the CCP all the weapons they need to control speech in the west.
Maybe I'm just lazy but I'm pretty sure I'll never be an expert in climate science. So when a near consensus of actual experts in climate science say that something is happening I'm happy to believe them and move on to pondering other mysteries that aren't so clear-cut.

That this guy opposes that consensus and takes funding from interest groups like the IPA, mining companies and cane growers leads me to another, quite possibly equally lazy conclusion.

That he was not treated fairly, I'll take the judge's word on that, too. The university's position was, ironically, partially about the quality of the debate:

“The University has not objected to Professor Ridd's right to comment on quality assurance.

However, the University has objected to the manner in which he has done this. He has sensationalised his comments to attract attention, has criticised and denigrated published work, and has demonstrated a lack of respect for his colleagues and institutions in doing so. Academic rebuttal of his scientific views on the reef has been separately published.”
Until Linux-on-the-desktop gives me the GUI workflow, a full OS stack of the likes of macOS, Windows, Android, it is going to be left as a travel OS for my tiny surviving Asus netbook.

For a couple of years I believed on the dream, nowadays I rather invest my time elsewhere.
But thb it's not only kids. If you have free time it would be better to exercise your body- your mind gets enough exercise at work already...

concerning professional advantages: after spending more than two decades writing software I seriously doubt that a side project gets you professional advantages.

Imho more important are soft skills that are not in the focus of most technically savvy people. Being able do communicate well and being a team player are at least as important in most cases- not everybody builds a new google...

We tend to focus on technical aspects while most fail to see that this is not a purpose in itself (in most cases / companies) but the purpose is to generate business value.
I like my windows 10.

I also like my arch Linux as well.

Even my MacOS rund stable enough that I don't have any issues with that.

But if you don't keep your Debian up to date the chance that you can't longer upgrade it is high. After 1-2 years.
They are allowed, it is just like everyone else on comercial world, they rather not deal with copyleft software licenses.

Which is a quite different issue.
more completely rid itself of cancerous cells by consuming them

I don't think that's the mechanism of action.
> It seems like that’s possible but it requires a swapfile to save state to.

Has macOS solved this issue differently? Do they save RAM state to some non-SSD non-volatile memory, or do they just not care and dump it to SSD anyway?
The theory about the iOS 13.0 is that Apple was forced to updated to this buggy iOS version because of Apple Watch release. Watch was shipped with watchOS 6.0 already installed and it requires iOS 13. iOS 13.1 was still not finished and to prevent situation where new watch customers couln'd use it after the purchase - they needed to update as it is.
Not all developers are doing this, no. But pretty much all the ones I’d like to strangle are.

It’s elegant! No, your dumpster fire of a Second System Syndrome is not elegant. Fractal designs are not elegant. Also you are in your late 30’s. Why are you just having your second system syndrome now? </oddly specific>
Any good recommendations for logging? (Embedded environment with SD card)
Azure PowerShell: Mostly Harmless
I wonder what would happen if you gave this to the top marathon runners. I feel like the savings would be a lot less. They have already quite a high cadence.
KDE reached 1 million commits ~10 years ago

https://dot.kde.org/2009/07/20/kde-reaches-1000000-commits-i...
Nitpick: the link title is jarring. Either take the headline of the piece being linked to, or if you insist on forming a question that begs us to invoke Betteridge's law of headlines, at least move the "are" to the start of the sentence. This is grammatical gibberish.
Scientist asked 'was Einstein wrong?' after object broke laws of physics
Keep in mind that any inside knowledge leaked to the public is also knowledge available to Apple, which can use it to either find and patch the bugs Cellebrite is exploiting, or at least build defense mechanisms that mitigate the effect of exploits. Even short of detailed technical information, simple things like “how long does it take?” or “how many times does the device reboot?” or “what does the USB cable look like?” can still help narrow down which software components (or even hardware components) to look at. So Cellebrite is well-motivated to avoid any leaks.

That said, it is most likely “just” a computer that talks to the phone over USB and uses a chain of software exploits. It has to take over first the application processor, then the Secure Enclave, in order to bypass the passcode entry rate limit. The rate limit is key. iOS encrypts user data based on the passcode, so without guessing the passcode there’s no way to get at the data short of breaking AES. But you can guess. Passcodes default to 6 digits, creating only 1 million possibilities, low enough to bruteforce. Even if the bruteforcing has to be done on-device (because the passcode is tangled with device-specific keys managed in hardware), and even if repetitive crypto operations are added to make the key derivation take longer (not sure), key derivation can’t take too long or it would negatively impact the user experience, and 1 million is just really low. The only way to make a 6-digit passcode secure is to make the nth access attempt take (exponentially) longer than the first, a restriction that can’t be done with pure crypto but requires some trusted software to enforce. Which can be hacked.

That said, if you’re planning to do something sketchy, you can set a long non-numeric passcode and you’ll probably be immune to whatever Cellebrite is doing. (Unless they’re recovering the passcode itself from… somewhere. It’s not supposed to be stored, but bugs are possible.)

Source: iOS Security Guide
No, I know exactly what he means. I sometimes get irritated with code I wrote a year or so ago, and that feeling is compounded the farther back you go. And that’s not counting the spots where I catch myself doing things I’ve told others to avoid doing.
It's a bit scary that the Tesla Model 3 doesn't fare well at all.. and this is the same company shipping live metal torpedoes in parking lots via the Summon feature.

Scary.
IMHO, this is much better than giving an exercise for test. They are talking about 10 hours per week. So $1000 for four weekends (while keeping your existing job) is quite attractive for anyone trying to get entry into tech space.

I would imagine many (not from 'traditional' academic background, or fresh out of some unknown college, etc.) would do this for free for a decent shot at getting hired in a well known tech company.
400k CVS commits
- The NBA has spent years and many millions of dollars investing in China, helping to build courts, giving broadcasting rights away for free and bringing its stars over for preseason games.

One second you are in the market.

Poof, you are not anymore.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Investing in China as a western company to earn money is the worst business decision you can have.

Knowledge transfer for manufacturing is the second.
but so are a lot of other people comrade xlc0212
I try to spend 45 minutes a day on meditation (as recommended in The Mind illuminated), though I probably average closer to 25. You are unlikely to get anything useful done in 25 - 45 minutes of side project time.

A side project is going to take a long time especially as your time on it is likely to be split up a lot more - so effectively far more context switching. All the other activities (except meditation) can be done more as a one time activity.

(I have started multiple side projects, but then I get busy with other aspects of my life and they get forgotten about).
There is also the fact that GDPR cannot overrule industry specific regulations that mandate long-term retention.

I work in gambling industry, and we are required by the regulations to keep ALL user information, including the KYC documents they submit, on file for a minimum of 5 years after their last activity. If you are looking for toxic data stores, this is among the worst ones there is. Limiting access to that data is crucial, and making sure it's not misused is mandatory.

It could be worse. There are domains with more demanding data retention requirements: insurance and consumer finance in particular.
The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
Or for our next time around the cycle. At which point I think of Mote Prime[1]. Their "museums" were to document tech for rediscovery each time around the cycle, after their civilisation crashed.

[1] Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Roads, bridges, forests, power grids, water pipelines, solar farms, as well as indoctrination camps and mass surveillance network.
The first reply to tweet #1 is

> Imagine how good this would be if Lucas hadn’t already exitscammed from his previous project in 2018?

Can somebody shed some light on that?
Building advanced economies sure, I agree with that. Building a better society? I doubt that. Theyre an Orwellian state because they know that without the propaganda and massive human rights intrusions, their communist party would crumble instantly. If the people actually believed in their own leaders, the CCP wouldnt have to use all that propaganda and censoring to further their cause.

Theyre an advanced economy yeah I agree with that. However, their markets are not open to foreign companies at all. Not a single western company can compete in China because of the tech theft and spying, and most of all because all the big companies are not private at all, theyre just communist institutions that are disguised as "private companies". If any western person uses an app like WeChat they would be so weirded out by the UI. That is because companies like Facebook and Google evolved that big organically, while companies like WeChat or Weibo or whatever evolved unorganically, their users are forced to use those apps.

And on top of that all, theres just no doubt whether theres tech theft. Most of the big companies in China are that big due to the fact that they blatantly just stole the tech and theyre not even trying to hide it. Theres countless of instances of this occurring, and its very surprising to me that the West just woke up.

Look at Hong Kong. Because of the West, HK has had a taste of what freedom looks like, and they would fight a lot to get back their liberty!

Fraternité, Égalité, Liberté!!!!!!!!! You can only compete with bullies if you are a bully yourself. With fire with fire!
Correlation, causation. So similar, so different.
And had this story that was on HN recently played out slightly differently, neither would have existed:

https://www.damninteresting.com/dead-reckoning/
chore(*) s/foo/bar
So now the expectation is for them to suffer 100-500 years until they finally figure out how to do democracy? I think I'd rather live in a stable dictatorship that through the hell of never-ending war
What I find personally funny is the amount of bashing Microsoft gets for being hostile to privacy, yet when Apple or some other company tries to make a push forward, they get bad comments because of a side effect of it
Yes, this could probably be better, but practically no security improvement can be achieve without a tradeoff. As mentionned in the blog post, this user is a power user, with many programs installed and these popups appears only one time. Spending at most 10 minutes accepting/denying permission prompts (which, let's be honest, are pretty concise and clearly worded) is a good tradeoff for more control on what applications are doing on my system.
The Google monorepo had 35M in 2015: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4143...

Not sure what Microsoft's monorepo for Windows is like but it might be near 100M.

Beyond that I would guess some aerospace or DoD projects have a larger codebase, but they probably don't use version control consistently.
US police are not going to use a literal wrench. They have tried to jail people until they reveal the passcode, but even that has been subject to constitutional challenges. Much simpler to be able to get access without permission. Also, in some cases the owner of the device has not been apprehended; perhaps they don’t even know the police have their phone, and the police would like to keep it that way. Or the owner could be dead, as in the San Bernardino case.
> when you go to the DMV to get your license/ID you're automatically registered to vote?

No. First thing to understand is you are required to have a valid ID (ID card, passport or driver's license) so almost everyone has at least an ID card (even children).

You have to go register to be able to vote in a city. You don't have to change when you move but it is easier to vote where you live instead of going back to where you lived 3 years ago.
The fundamental big mistake was having 3 boards at once.

I have no idea how they thought that would be an acceptable design given that nowadays it's well known that mainstream people are unwilling to learn any interface that is even slightly complex.