skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue what the author is commenting on is a problem of poor implementation. The author admits people describing what the person did over the weekend.

There is no place for that or discussion in Standup. Each person should take no more than 30 seconds except on the rare blockers. Ideally for a team of 6-8 we're speaking 3-4 minutes.

Yesterday? Today? Blocking?

We require every member to have their item list pulled up already and ready to talk without hemming or hawing.

I could easily agree that Yesterday/Today could be removed. As a team lead, it's a very nice way of getting a daily rundown in a structured, fast way. Also, if something shows up too often, it's a sign it's time to dive in, but, again, if there's too much resistance, it goes.

Blockers are a must. What's blocking you? X. Once you've said X, many times it's immediately known who can help. If the PM cannot immediately prescribe helpers, the standup slows to hear what the gist of the problem is and volunteers/leads are asked for to step up to carve out time at 2... 3... after lunch, whenever - the key is an agreed upon time to tackle the issue.

In the end, I think I'm saying the same thing as the author, but I don't think it's necessary to speak so poorly about Standup.

Unblocking is everything.
Part of the reason why Germany is burning more fossil fuels is that the coal lobby paid for that. The coal industry got a shitload of permits to build coal plants a while ago, in some cases coal plants that are being shut down are being turn down and replaced with a new coal plant that the operator got a permit for.

Meanwhile the renewables are being choked by increasing regulatory burdens (which the coal lobby lobbied for) and fake news (pushed by the coal lobby) to prevent even those who pass the burden from building anything. In Bavaria the area where wind turbines can still be built is less than a percent of the total area of the state, the coal lobby meanwhile is building a new coal plant (they got a permit to build one and politics is unwilling to revoke it).

Renewables could have easily replaced a large part of nuclear if not for the coal lobby.
Crim­in­als are using virtual money in video games to launder dirty money
Blackbird doesn't have any other business prospects.
What GPL projects are Ubiquity using? I would have thought they would be using something FreeBSD derived as they sell networking gear which leads me to believe that whatever the infringement entails it’s not related to the core networking components or software.
Agreed. We just would need to figure out who is standing in the clouds.
> With all the propaganda going around, it is hard to find the truth

If bot/organized posts are properly classified as spam then surely the factual accuracy of someone's postings don't really matter anymore, as anything "inaccurate" falls into the realm of "opinion" or just human error. Presumably it's ok to be wrong.

So I don't see any problem with a person believing that e.g. Epstein was killed, and posting online about this belief. I don't see a problem with grassroots communities arising around this belief. It only seems to me to be an issue when such postings are sponsored/encouraged because of e.g. some political aim, and proper spam detection would mitigate this.
Does anyone have any insight on what actually happens to this data? Is it really deleted or just stored in a warehouse somewhere inaccessible to me but accessible to some snooping government or hacker?
You are correct when you are talking about the origin of British patent law. There a king could grant a patent for a wide range of monopolies, including practicing a particular craft only by guild members, etc.

The US patent law, which I referred to, is not as old, and it definitely talked only about inventions, and explicitly required drawings, explanations, etc to be made available: [1]

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AUnited_States_Statutes...
Adobe Photoshop on iPad (launched)
Coming into year 7 I went to school with a bad atmosphere and some really bad people it.
Management also had some idea that they'd break up all the prior groups, so I got placed with only one guy that wasn't really a close friend for classes.
For the first year it wasn't very personal. Senior students would loudly mock me, and a lot of non-aggressive pupils, usually for some thing to do with personal style or alleged sexual perversion, in front their peers, sometimes someone would sweep my leg, or break stuff, mostly like expensive mechanical pens or textbooks/notebooks.
The younger jackasses in my cohort would do things like light spray deodorant on fire and use it as a flamethrower and sweep laser pointers against peoples eyes (and at the time it was still rumored that can give permanent eye injuries).
Year 8 I had dirty pond water thrown at me and a classmate by a group of bullies blocking a path. They scattered and ran when I started towards them, but after that it was personal. I guess rumors travel quickly in those circles and I had about a year and a half of personal hell as they marked me (always in groups, the fucking cowards) in recess and lessons with weak teachers.
First followup I got soaked through with water the assailant said she'd taken out of the toilet. Not too long after two guys cornered me with a clear aim at breaking my musical instrument and beating me up. They didn't succeed, I evaded, but the ringleader was known to have beaten a guys face bloody against a brick wall, so the threat wasn't idle. In practice the physical violence was limited to getting pushed roughly into lockers and getting hit i the back of my head once when one of them managed to catch me unaware. They broke my vehicles twice, one of them in a way I'm just lucky didn't kill me in a traffic accident.
But the constant threat of much worse violence and their ever-present jeering about my alleged sexual deviances, mocking my dialect, calling me crazy, and so on, that really took its toll. I had days when I couldn't hold any food. I'd just throw up frow the stress.
As for the crazy, they were just being assholes then, I was simply a sensitive kid with too much belief in pacifism and going through the system. But that one they kind of managed to make come true.
I have struggled for decades now with depressions and a sense of hopelessness. I can't connect with friend groups, I've been in to shitty shape to get a partner and I am fighting the suicide impulses less and less for my sake and more for the effects on my relatives.
And I won't say the bullying alone did that, but it was an indispensable beginning for it.

For your statistics, this was Sweden.
Very cool hack, a microphone with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia !
Not to the same scale of Amazon, but UPMC (Pittsburgh’s regional medical giant) is a non profit who made $400 million profit a few years ago to some outrage. Their CEO is a pretty high flying guy for being a non profit!

Suspiciously they made near zero profit the next year.
Aluminum electrolytic capacitors have higher ESR at colder temperatures, and lower ESR at higher temperatures. That is my guess at what went wrong. They generally perform better at higher temperatures (within reason), although a particular circuit may require the ESR to be within a certain range (don’t go randomly swapping out your capacitors for low-ESR capacitors, it may make the circuit unstable or destroy something).
» possibly income-tested

I strongly oppose income/means testing for many reasons: weird unintended consequences at edge cases and extra hoops to jump through. I'd much rather we all pay more in taxes to pay for everyone without means testing.
Almost everything people complain about in air travel (other than security restrictions and inconveniences) is a consequence of the relentless competition over price. If we assume the customers are rational actors, then we must assume that this situation is optimal, and it is certainly the case that for a few bucks more on top of the lowest base price, you can often get an experience more suited to your preferences (not so easily, however, if you are taller than average.) Most people do not seem to see it this way, however.

At least regulation has broadly prevented a race to the bottom in trading safety for cost reduction.
Ubiquiti's stuff is all based on Debian Linux. You can even SSH in, enable the upstream repos, and apt-get stuff. But they patch a bunch of packages and of course the kernel is their own build for their hardware.
Depends on your eyes. Mine(I wear glasses) prefer 4k for text/code. Will try 4k curved at some point to avoid unnecessary neck movements
For me that was NT service pack 3 which brought DirectX to NT. That way I was able to play Diablo on my workstation!
I was impressed when I upgraded an old Win7 system and Office 2007 still worked on W10. Makes me wonder what the oldest version of Office is that would still work. There are a lot of things to not like about Microsoft, but their dedication to backwards compatibility is great.
Smartphone AP Shipments to China to Continue Falling in 4Q19
Uber has been doing damage to society ever since they introduced the rideshare option. They don't have to be the only player available to be a problem; being a monopoly would just be a cherry on the cake.

Competition is fine, as long as it plays by the rules. That it has to play by a stricter rulebook than the incumbents had when they were starting isn't a bad thing, just suboptimal. "Better late than never".
Everything is Linux based. Debian specifically if I’m remembering correctly on the access points. The routers are based on the vyatta code that brocade open sourced.
Are you sure there are more than 2410 universities in France? Running the SPARQL query below at https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%28count%28DISTINCT%20%... , I get 218 French universities with a Wikidata item (which usually means there's a corresponding Wikipedia article) but for "higher education institution" I get 675: https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%28count%28DISTINCT%20%...

Query:

SELECT (count(DISTINCT ?school) AS ?count)
WHERE
{
# find instances of subclasses of university Q3918 (use Q38723 for higher education institution)
?school wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q3918 .

# in France
?school wdt:P17 wd:Q142 .
}
I used to ride the central line from zone 4 through to tower hill and back every day

Really glad to be out of London now.
Kagglers took several weeks to beat the GCP AutoML benchmark
Yes! Buildings are bad for the climate, so all climate alarmists must go live in the woods and without access to cars, internet, or toilet paper. It's the only way to prevent the inevitable climate doom!!!
Cloud Native Buildpacks take advantage of this to isolate a JRE or JDK to its own layer for fast rebasing and high reuse[0].

[0] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-cnb
The biggest factor working to their advantage was that the tech back then was much simpler and more robust. To get todays tech to work for a decade without interruption would be a very tall order. Layer upon layer of abstraction has made it impossible to know for sure that there are no edge cases that will only trigger once every 3 years or so.
It is shocking to me; car owners get gouged on no less than four different surcharge taxes (license plate registration renewal, road tax, vignette on top of the road tax, fuel tax)... and then public places like that gouge them on parking. Because they haven't been extorted enough and ridden enough and squeezed enough for the luxury privilege of owning and driving a car? "Car owners don't want to be packed like sardines in a tram, bus and train with a whole bunch of other strangers, so let's punish them!" That makes me so angry, AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Indeed, the next paragraph in that article discusses that.
edx.org is just awesome. When I decided to learn programming I found on it the CS50X course from Harvard, which gave me (4 years ago) a great foundation which then allowed me shortly after to land my first job as dev. I will be always grateful for the quality free content they put online.
M4 (Forecasting) Competition
I've recently started using VueScan for old scanners - it started when we got donated an old 35mm film scanner but it seems to cope with most hardware thrown at it.

Not free, seems very good though. Cross-platform support too: https://www.hamrick.com/
I’m on a 40” 4k, have been for a couple of years. It’s generally fantastic and a huge leap up from either a 32” 4k panel Or two 27” 1440p panels. No comparison. However, I do often find myself thinking that I would give up some of the vertical real estate for extra space on either side; you can run a three (even) column setup but it feels just that little bit too tight. If you’ve an IDE up covering 2/3 of the horizontal space and 1/3 of the screen as a browser or terminal, there’s no room for anything else. My next monitor will be ultrawide.
Why not take the top 20% (or whatever number) of the lower class, and give them a change to go to a higher class? and the same for the bottom 20% of the higher (who maybe aren't able to keep up) to go to the lower class.
Not everyone is in your boat. As developers, we build things for others to use;
empathy is a cornerstone of the job description. Hopefully this will help illustrate
why Electron isn't a good choice:

Say a somewhat below-average user has 6GB of memory (I'm being generous here; plenty
don't have more than 4GB). Today is a worse-than-usual day, and 4GB are taken by
everything that isn't Electron because 40 tabs are open for a research paper due
tomorrow. That leaves three gigs to spare. Now the user starts up some Electron
apps.

- Music player? +400mb

- Note-taking? +300mb

- Messaging? +500mb (thanks, Slack!)

- News? +300mb

- Editor/IDE? +500mb

That's it. No more space. And that's before we even begin talking about what we're
putting that dual-core CPU through. Battery life is a joke at this point.

A comparison: My OS, window manager, mail client, password manager, taskbar, music
player (mpd+ncmpp+clerk.pl), file manager, system monitor, RSS reader, podcast
player, IRC client, and editor/IDE (neovim+language servers with diagnostics, gotos,
floating documentation, and refactoring all running) barely use over 1GB of memory,
combined. Let that sink in. Essentially, a single electron app using 500mb of
memory would increase my memory usage by 40%.

People shouldn't have to throw away/upgrade their computers every four years. I'm
still rocking a 2013 HP Elitebook G1 with a Haswell i5 as my secondary machine. It
runs just as well as my desktop for anything except heavy websites with JS enabled,
compiling, and graphics-intensive work. I plan to either continue using it for
another few years or donate it and switch to a more lightweight \$199 Pinebook Pro.
Using less powerful hardware forces me to empathize with users who are using tech
from the past rather than the future, because that's my job. I build tools for
people besides myself to use.

If you must use the web, consider making your "app" start a local web server and
launching the users' preferred browser for a more lightweight solution.
Conservancy represents various Linux kernel and other developers who hold copyright on parts of the Linux kernel and other projects. In other cases developers reassign their copyright directly to Conservancy. Then Conservancy performs copyleft compliance actions, aimed at code release, with lawsuits being a very last resort reserved for wilfully non-compliant organisations.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...
Since the rules are known, the threshold has increased so much that people don't see any issue when leetcode hard questions are common place.

I have seen multiple instances where the interview questions are ridiculous by any sane terms. It incentivizes gaming the system by just getting good at algorithms and not building up other skills.

Just as an example, look at Google as a new user (without any brand context). The design is terrible, the product management is terrible, the hideous search bar everytime you open the android home screen, etc. all in my opinion caused by optimizing for one attribute in 99% of the hires. It causes them to think "oh well the data says people don't mind the change", but you can't track the growing discontent of the customer base. And you are a monopoly so don't have to give a shit about UX anyways.
Exactly my thought! This has "tax loophole" written all over it.

Company gets to subsidize favorable propaganda, while at the same time getting a nice tax write-off.

Edit: For those downvoting, would you care to elaborate? I don't see how this won't be abused. What am I wrong about here?
In my experience people annoyed by updates are mac users who are starting Windows VM once in a few months which will obviously download tons of updates and will ask to restart almost immediately. And, yes, as Windows did not have enough time to do its housekeeping, it'll do it, slowing down the whole experience.

I'm using only Windows in the last few years and it was never a problem for me. Windows asked me to reboot exactly once. Other times I just had "power off and install updates" menu item instead of "power off". That said, I'm powering off my PC every day, may be it matters.
Netflix – NUMA Optimizations in the FreeBSD Network Stack
It's hard to limit trade secrets without severely limiting the freedom of contract.

You can still get an FDA approval for secret-formula products; a good example is Coca-Cola.
>Is there a 32bit Windows 10?

Yes, all Windows 10 editions are availables in 32 or 64bit.
Yes, and yes. I saw some video of it once, so it can be done.
Split fab off from design, and you have two major players in a configuration like AMD/TSMC. They seem to be doing quite well, and I don't see why the intel fragments couldn't compete
Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. Whonix mitigates the threat of common attack vectors while maintaining usability. Online anonymity is realized via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network. A heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from malware and IP address leaks. Commonly used applications are pre-installed and safely pre-configured for immediate use. The user is not jeopardized by installing additional applications or personalizing the desktop. Whonix is under active development and is the only operating system designed to be run inside a VM and paired with Tor.
Yes, "Absolute FreeBSD" by Michael W. Lucas:
https://nostarch.com/absfreebsd3
Once more we have to reckon that centralized governments pretending to act upon vast nations won't solve anything.

Worse: their mere existence lets us think that some major public action will efficiently tackle our problems.
I'm looking at buying a home AP (I like the idea of the AP being seperate to the router, on PoE etc), but this really puts me off ubiquiti.

What are good alternatives?
In 201709 I tried to install FreeBSD, and could not find any reasonably practical way to verify the CD image PGP seal, nor clear pertinent documentation.

On the official IRC chat some people tried to help, however this patently is not a common issue. How weird. Who wants to install an OS without being able to verify the image seal? Downloading through HTTPS may be MITM'ed, or the image replaced on the server.

I reported the problem. Somebody also reported it more than a year afterwards.

More than 2 years after my initial report... the ticket remains open. At best the BTS seems neglected.

The FreeBSD maintainers probably agree upon the relative importance of those seals, because they publish them at https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/signatures.html , however this is neglected in documentation ( https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/b... ). BTW I just noticed that the signing key isn't in the strongset ( https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/mk_path.cgi?FROM=8D12403C2E6CAB086CF64D... )

Everyone involved probably thinks there are more important things to do. I don't complain, as nobody "has to" do anything upon this matter.

My point is that such a way to handle this may reveal that most FreeBSD "hacktivists" just aren't willing to do such menial but necessary onboarding-facilitating job, which would IMHO be useful.

It may be part of the reasons why FreeBSD has way less users than it could and should. In a way it is related to "ease of use", however this "image sealing" is more fundamental than bells, whistles and porcelain.

The ticket: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222044
Has its downsides, though - one of the reasons Active Directory has been (and still is) so insecure out of the box is backwards compatibility with an ecosystem of shitty third party vendor solutions.

Sometimes, change is good, even if it's painful in the short term.
Thanks, I'll certainly try it out.

Edit: Yup, it covers my Visioneer 7300. Thank you indeed.
I'm curious why you think Win95 wasn't a 32bit OS?
You can use Guix inside toolbox!
Unless and until most people are willing to accept that the earth's resources are finite and our massive overpopulation is not sustainable this problem will simply accelerate until we die off from starvation (or killing each other from the wars over resources that will inevitably occur). You can only squeeze so many people onto a spaceship with finite resources. At some point, no matter how efficiently or responsibly you try to allocate those finite resources there will not be enough resources to sustainably support an ever-increasing population. Earth is the spaceship. Unfortunately everyone would rather keep their head in the sand and pretend that technology will solve all of our problems while the ecosystem we literally depend on to survive is being depleted and destroyed in front of our very eyes.
Yesterday we had a great thread about tools for detecting captive portals; today one about getting your IP address.

Anyway... not quite the same as this, but we have one that also supports responding with a non-200 status if a field doesn't match e.g. `curl --fail https://whoami.oya.to/tor-exit=true,ip=192.168.1.2`.

https://whoami.oya.to/about
Yes, when civilians are involved.
The way Google acts with regard to privacy law is similar to how they act with regard to tax law.

That is they look for loopholes and places they can use dark patterns to nudge users into giving up more data. They stay within the rules but push the envelope of what’s acceptable to the legal limit.

It’s not that they are holding onto data specifically to support prosecutions it’s that they hold onto data because that’s what Google do.

They’d hand that over because they have it and to not cooperate would unnecessarily cause them business friction they could easily avoid.
Location: India (state punjab)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: MySQL, PHP/Laravel, Javascript/Node/express/react, Go/gin/gorm, python, rust, and Clojure (Yes, I like learning languages next will be erlang/elixir with phoenix)

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I have to admit I don’t know much about Tor/Onion routing beyond “the dark web lives there” — where is a good starter guide to legitimate things to do/find on Onion routed sites (in the same vein that BitTorrent for distributing free/open source software is perfectly legitimate)?
Where do you see the link "GPL Archive"?

I wanted to download the archive for Unifi nanoHD, the GPL archive is mentioned in the download blurb, but there's no link to it and the normal download shows classic proprietary EULA, including no reverse engineering.