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Fortnite started as a cooperative tower defence kind of game, it's still out there with a name I can't remember, but it was not a good game. AFAIK, the battle royale mode was someone's side project, thanks to PUBG being all the rage back then. The fact that fortnite even exists seems like dumb luck to me.
Because Gitlab is an American company and now they're playing the American politis card.
Ah, thanks. That’s a ‘we’ I am not part of.
Its the buisness side that doesnt care. For my personal buisness i make sure everythig is fast, lightweight, and accessible, works on browsers that has below 0.1% usage, do not track users, nor store personal info. But I do not make any extra money doing it.
This article is talking about a role typically called “data analyst”. They help product managers, marketing, operations, etc by running reports, building dashboards, (business intelligence), building data models, running an exploratory analysis, analyzing A/B tests (product analytics) or things like building marketing attribution models or timeseries forecasting.

It’s the job that’s 80% of what a data scientist does but without Python or R. But mostly it depends because no one can decide what these roles should be called or what their responsibilities should be.
You can get 32GB of RAM in a 15" form factor, just not in 13".

This is due to the well known engineering limitation that links LCD size to the density of RAM modules that can be supported by a motherboard.
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Mozilla alone is the reason we couldn't have Web SQL and instead we have that stupid piece of shit known as Indexed DB.

So, how did that happen? They had less market share and they still got their way.

https://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memor...
flying, why is driving to work for office jobs still a thing?
No, he has to plug it in where he wants it to run at exactly midnight there, because he can't change the time, either. You have a problem-solvers mentality though!
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The general conversation of the comments here is confusing.

> Companies are required to transmit real-time data on all trips made within the city, including the start point, end point and travel time.

This is not "real-time rider information" as mentioned by many comments, this is 'real-time scooter information'.

> Uber has resisted the rule for months, arguing, with the backing of several data privacy organizations, that the city’s policy constitutes government surveillance. With minimal analysis, they say, the information could easily reveal where people live, work, socialize or worship.

I don't understand. The city should know where you live, you pay taxes and utilities and I'm sure there is a whole mess of bureaucracy that knows where individual names live for different reasons. Are we worried about specific elements within the bureaucracy knowing certain information? Is this information only accessible by monitoring scooters and not available to said entity by getting it through other means (school district zoning and so on)?

> Los Angeles officials have said the data are necessary to figure out which companies are flouting the permit program’s rules, including caps on the number of vehicles and bans on riding in certain areas. They have also argued that the companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.

This makes sense, no one would expect a regulation with no ability for the enforcing agent to monitor to be followed.

> Companies such as Uber “generate and collect massive amounts of personal and financial data,” while the city “does not collect information specific to individual riders beyond trip information,” said Marcel Porras, the Transportation Department’s chief sustainability officer, in a letter to Uber last week.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I expect from this situation, the whole dog and pony show that these rideshare companies put on seems like a farce.

I'm not happy with municipalities for a whole load of reasons, LA especially has an awful history in many domains. But there is no world in which I trust these rideshare companies MORE than I trust municipalities.

EDIT:
I should add I'm sad that Uber(Jump) get to redefine the data privacy debate via their spokesperson and this journalist. I don't blame the writer, but it is absurd to validate claims like my second except above. I think this is gaslighting? If not, then related. Some PR moves to seed public expectation in this matter. They are implicitly defining this issue as something that is fundamentally different when the data is stored and collected by a corporation (them) to be sold and used however they desire vs utilization by entities in the public sector. I am happy to point people to a fantastic conversation on the "two" definitions of data privacy here:

https://idlewords.com/talks/senate_testimony.2019.5.htm#two_...
In my estimation, where the company is incorporated or based does not matter as much as where do the investment funds come from.
Admittedly, I believe Gemini released their stablecoin well after the end of the 2017 bull cryptocurrency market. It was much easier to get people to try your shitty new coin in 2017 than it is now, so demand for any new coin will be lower. I agree that Tether was a hype-driven scam, but I don't think the relative unpopularity of the Gemini stablecoin reveals that.
I wonder how people feel about working for one of the most evil companies in the world? Do they even care? It's not like most people working there have no other options available, so it must be a well-thought decision. Or maybe they live in their own bubble where people actually believe in all the Zuckerberg lies?
A guy in Austin used to run a BBS in the 80's with one of those things. The interface was very very similar to a PDP-10 running Tops-10.
> Uber is a corporation and the property is the corporations. The data is the corporations too, and not the property of the individual.

I'm not arguing who is owning that data, I'm arguing about what happens to that data and whether that's right or wrong. The fact that it's legal or not doesn't change anything.

Would you be fine with a genocide if the ones comitting them made sure it was ratified as a law first?

> Uber is simply using you as a tool to get around the laws in the regions it operates in.

If they didn't use that reason and simply shared it, I would still be arguing the same point...

> How would you feel that instead of demanding the data , they simply purchased it?

It would be just as bad.
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It isn't.

But this one is more visible due to the article. Hell, I bet they get more requests from this.
Yes but if you get that CO2 from the air in production its carbon neutral.

But of course during the transition you would not really save on CO2. As methanol would still be produced by natural gas. But once you have it carbon neutral you can at least still use liquid fuel, and that's something the world will continue to use.

But alcohol fuels also burn much cleaner and release less actual harmful stuff and would make cities much healthier. So there are other things to consider outside of CO2.

But in general, for personal cars and stuff like that batteries are a better solution. The thing is, we could have done more alcohol fuels much earlier.
Maybe it's appalling but it is true. The developing world cannot become as rich as the developed world or everything collapses. The developed world needs to become poorer.
I do not know if Raymond is posting in HN or not. I've been seeing an increased number of his posts lately on HN.
The main things are CPU microcode updates, GPU drivers and wireless LAN/bluetooth drivers. But on some devices (don't think this applies to the Dell models in question) if you get into an esoteric hardware configuration you could also have proprietary drivers for things like high speed wired LAN, storage chipsets/devices, audio, fingerprint readers etc.

This is typically stuff you can get on your own usually by downloading drivers from the manufacturer's website and either extracting firmware from their Windows drivers or downloading a Linux-specific driver package, if available. All Dell is doing is collecting it all up and pre-installing/configuring it for you.
The problem isn't the cursor itself, but that it is usually a symptom of procedural thinking vs set based thinking. In an RDBMS it's typically far faster to puzzle out the joins, CTE's, and set based expressions and functions to use to winnow down a dataset vs a cursor based procedural logic on a row by row basis.
I disable all desktop notifications in the OS, and block all notifications from websites, so I have no idea.
> My favorite thing about remote work is the written communication. It creates a form of documentation in itself.

Agreed. Even when we do video calls, someone summarizes and posts what we talked about. I noticed Meet is now doing live captioning. It would be nice to email everyone the meeting at the end of the call.
This suggests that there is no genuine demand for stablecoins

That just suggests that "audited" and "100% reserve" are not the most important features to people using stablecoins. What is more important is having a deep market on Binance, which is where most BTC <-> stablecoin trading happens.

Despite these terrible news articles, which are indeed reporting accurately that there are terrible flaws in Tether, you can still trade Tether for $1 right now. A hundred dollars worth of Tether is still more valuable than a hundred dollar payment made via a credit card.
Nope. The indentation bothered me for an hour one afternoon in the spring of 2001, then it dawned on me what a master stroke it was. Code with ~25% less redundant bullshit.

Less is definitely more here.
Same way you find evidence for other crimes... emails, texts, messages, witness testimony, etc describing their plan.
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I've heard that consumers perceive SUVs as safer
>adding weight [...] being electric doesn't change physics

Unlike Internal Combustion vehicles, electric vehicles typically feature regenerative braking. Therefore any added weight is much less of an efficiency handicap (compared with IC).
Having borne witness to the multitude of compromises and suboptimal design decisions that are required to bring a product to market with a bare-bones team at two hardware manufacturers now, I assume that everything described on the box will be shoddy, glitchy, and not work at all as described.
Can we please talk about AirBnB, Coinbase, et al selling personally identifiable data to third parties?

Buried deep in their legalese, they may have the right to do this, but I was NOT aware this was happening. This is not acceptable
- https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~Brecht/courses/702/Possible-Reading... - for the Intel 432!
Modern Intel iGPUs are more than enough for browser acceleration. I mean the bigger issue is that that acceleration is most often disabled on Linux at least for chromium based browsers.
Great points! What would you do in situations where your engineers aren't all that interested in customer conversations?

In the past, I've tried to bring in our engineers to user interview/feedback sessions or customer meetings, but most of them didn't seem that interested in coming again.
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Facebook has said it disabled 2.2bn fake accounts in the first three months of 2019

Uh, no they didnt that is 90% of the network.
Corporations and corporate properties are not people and do not have a right to privacy--that's for real people.
Jeesh you must be fun at parties.
ah right. They can simultaneously fail business and the homeless. #concurrency
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And maybe Raymond Chen is completely fine with 'choward' of Hacker News not believing him.
Not clear why you'd use your phone to connect to an alarm clock when the major phone OSes all come with an alarm clock app?

I'd have thought phones had swallowed up alarm clocks along with maps, calculators, walkmen, etc by now.
I have to agree with the user chupa-cups, that paying for certificates yourself is not worth it.

I cannot offer you a job, but I can at least take a look on how you apply, and help you imrpove that process of application. I have several year of experience in recruiting on my back, and that in multiple countries.

Improving your resume and application progress might actually be the missing part and if not, you can still figure out a way sell yourself good enough to get hired. :)

Send me the following stuff to my email: zahrc_hn |at| protonmail.com

And please make sure you redact any sensitive or private information of you and the companies you've applied for.

- the listing or description (position name, requirements, ...)

- How long it took for them to respond, after you've applied

- your resume/CV/cover letter/portfolio whatever you send to a company

- a informal written document on what you did and at what level and how big the company was, paired with what you really like to do and what you would like to do in future

edit: formatting and adding: please also add from which country you are from
I got into OpenSolaris shortly before Oracle swooped in and killed it. For a long while, I ran OpenIndiana on a server where I work, but I found that it really wasn't friendly to white-box hardware. In particular, it was prone to hiccuping badly if I hot-swapped SATA drives on an AMD AHCI controller. I probably would have had better luck if the system had an SAS HBA for the drives, but that wasn't going to happen.

I finally switched it to Ubuntu Server with ZoL, and the hot-swap woes went away completely.

As for systemd vs. SMF, I'd take systemd any day over the crawling XML horror of SMF. :)
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> which includes ability to find a distinct scooter

I understand why a company needs to find a distinct schooter, but why does the city need the ability to find a distinct scooter?
Nothing. But it's my way of saying, didn't study computer science, not an academic and fully self-taught.
Seriously? Is there any accessible write ups on this with proof?

I think all internet-based stock boards contain scams and minor pump and dumps. I am sort of doubtful that any large scale pump and dumb would be coordinated out in the open, even if it was in Mandarin.
That's a fair point, but I'd still like to get the word out that doing it on HN will get your accounts and sites banned.

A similar point here if anyone is curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439027
Yeah, even if I have plenty of Jewish customers in the rest of the world. What if I am Jewish?
I agree with the argument that two examples are not exactly a pattern, but I am not basing my opinion on just those.

It may be that I have become too cynical lately, but if some court cases taught us recently, it is that popular fora of all kinds are a battleground of sorts and everyone there is either an FBI agent, a shill or a dog.

For the record, the moment you used word populist makes me question whether you have an axe to grind yourself ( ie. UE establishment is not that happy about Poland and Hungary breaking ranks), but I digress..

This how bad it is. HN is pretty decent moderation-wise and I still keep my guard up.
He mentioned in a comment that the person who bought it didn't know that an app was needed. So it was maybe a gift from someone else.
My favorite is their cloud platform, Azure, named after the color of a clear blue sky.
Feels like the buried lede is that all the other companies already sold out all the private information of their riders.
Your source says that the cause of the flash crash is unknown and not shown to be caused by a single individual.
My phone is my alarm clock. Why would someone desire a single purpose device for "alarm clock"?
> Oil is a limited resource

So oil is like every other resource, good to know.
That's not actually true. Taiwan agrees with China, because China's claims are simply those that successive Chinese governments held throughout the 20th Century. The United States used to agree with China - that is, until China went from being the ROC to the PRC.

As for what China is actively doing to assert these claims, I suggest you look at a map of which countries occupy which islands in the South China Sea. The PRC is not the worst offender there, by a long shot. Nobody's hands are clean in the matter.
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I have an MA in math and I was somewhat exposed to category theory and algebraic structures in my time at the university. I find knowing math generally is useful for programming but I haven't found it useful for understanding functional programming in particular.

I think functional programming uses category theory in a different fashion than even fairly advanced mathematics; Breaking Hungerford's Algebra text, in the chapter on Category Theory, he writes, "A significant part of the elementary theory of categories is the attempt to generalize as many concepts as possible from well-known categories (for example, sets or modules) to arbitrary categories". Which is a rather different approach than building programs.

Which is to say that for most mathematics, categories are tools for generalization or for providing a firmer foundation for existing mathematical structures. For understands monads as used by FP, the description as "little languages" seemed the best - it's way of not having side effects by using functions to incrementally construct output instead of doing output in the middle of computation.
Why would someone create a fake post explaining a frustrating situation and intentionally not share the make and model?

I actually find it more valuable that it's written this way. Rather than pointing out one brand of product as the problem, it encourages readers to keenly review a product's "features" before purchasing.

Even if it is fake, it's a simple post explaining a completely feasible, frustrating situation.
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Trim support has been built in to ZFS since FreeBSD 10.

Presumably, this utility is useful for disks that are not ZFS formatted.
Swappable RAM and storage is a feature. I don't care if it adds 2 oz and makes the laptop thicker (the X220 was both thin an light enough for me). Bring them back, at least on "developer" machines.
How can you generate word clouds but in sentences?
I have a bunch of text from various different sources that I've aggregated together and want to find a way to show mini sentences trends that might be picked up from analyzing from all the text. Similar to Word Clouds, but more than just one word. Any recommendations?
Yes, I see the difference. My purpose with this comment was to illustrate that Uber's primary complaints appear to be about the Process, and not the request. "Last minute X" etc.

While a good process is important, I was holding up that often times in local regulation there are all kinds of really terrible flaws and gotchas - you have to know people to get a license or permit, etc.

In this case, it seems like a pretty straightforward compliance request, using an API whose code is publicly available, in a process that has been in-progress for at least six months, which, for local regulation, is pretty good!

I was not comparing the industries, or the materials requested.
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I've found one of the best compromises is using setting uBlock Origin to advanced user mode, globally block 3rd party frames, and enabling a few extra filters that I don't know off hand.

Most sites will still mostly work, and the few that don't usually just need a CDN to be enabled (you can do this per-site).
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Ayn Rand would be furious that she cannot install air conditioning at home without a special permit which is only granted in exceptional circumstances. Not to mention lots of other environmental regulations which vary slightly depending on the canton. Switzerland may be capitalistic at heart but is very far from being a libertarian utopia.
I can guarantee no sane engineer would have designed that. That was almost certainly designed by some marketer who didn't know the first thing about alarm clocks. The engineering team was probably outsourced, saw the requirements, facepalmed, and implemented them exactly as described. The project manager made sure the project was on-time by removing any workarounds for creating the account. And the clock team had a great dinner out to celebrate another successful product.
They do not offer Linux laptops in many countries. I am from Belgium and they never had Linux as an option.
The Linux laptops aren't available everywhere outside the US sadly.
I'm not claiming they've deliberately swung elections yet. But do you doubt Facebook or Google could easily do it? They self-evidently have the data needed to identify swing voters in key districts and the reach to control a large part of the media those people are exposed to.

If they haven't done it (yet), it's only because they've decided not to (so far).
Thanks for adding this insight. An import/export feature is the only reason why I'd commit to try this, so looking forward to that feature launch!
What is your assertion?
> Now, unfortunately this should really have started in the 70s,

Today's solar and wind boom was started in the 70s. It's kind of amazing how many people prefer the "bird in the bush" over the "bird in the hand".
It looks like Centaur as such has very little left to offer except as a research and educational platform. They sold a design (Isaiah core) to a Chinese company so they can manufacture a very low performance x86 CPU as an alternative to Intel/AMD in case the US ever bans exporting this to China.

But there's certainly nothing new coming out of Centaur or Zhaoxin except the rehashed versions of the CPU above. And that may not be enough for either since now China also has access to AMD's Zen core [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_vent...
FreeBSD is issuing TRIM in ZFS and UFS2 for quite a while.

When I was researching the topic, I learned that how TRIM is implemented on the drives, issuing it in bulk is more efficient than individually, so perhaps that's why the tool was added? Although looking at ZFS at least it looked like it also collects blocks that supposed to be TRIMmed and issues it periodically.
> Two points: First, the very act of requesting your data is in a way confirming and verifying the accuracy of the data.

Same dilemma as hitting the "unsubscribe" link on spam: when doing so you confirm them you have a valid email address. It's a pure act of faith, you hope that they will comply and not take advantage of you even more.
Everyone throws some sandbags and rock salt in the bed, next to the shovel and tinfoil blanky. Sure gonna need it when you're stuck in the ditch :)

I'd take computer managed digital torque delivery over feathering my old clutch plate, if you even still get to run one of those. The dual-clutch trans will need your other foot. Mushy delivery (Sounds like an f150 to me) and out of the mud aren't really compatible.
The inmates are running the asylum.
So I wasn't going crazy haha - just today we migrated our site to Netlify from Heroku and the second I wanted to demo it my boss the COO, it was failing and not loading.

It wasn't just netlify though. I also was having trouble loading random websites like aptible, youtube, imgur.