skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but I think, with traditional money exchange the reliance is on regulatory and legal enforcement, rather than making the technology itself watertight, which increases the risk profile, and thus cost. You can do this in traditional approaches because you just pass on these costs and there's no need to improve beyond what people are willing to pay. Crypto represents an asymptote for what a rigorously applied technological approach (as opposed to beaureaucratic/legal approach) can do, using commodity equipment, which is much more available at the endpoints of these transactions now ... (because most people have high-powered, always connected computers available to them).
Your comment is one big straw man. I don't think most reasonable people believe that corporate power should never be questioned. What people mean when they question whether employees would quit over an issue is that, if the employees aren't willing to quit over a cause, then that puts into question the authenticity of the demands being made. Signing a petition, sending letters, calling journalists, and posting on Twitter are low effort and low risk activities(aka slacktivism) that even casual activists can carry out, and just because someone demands something doesn't mean that they actually care about the issue as much as the optics suggest.

While I think it's good to demand change within organizations, the demand to eliminate all carbon emissions is unreasonable, and usually such demands are made by people in a comfortable position with no real skin in the game.

Nobody is saying that their only option is to quit, and nobody is going to say that.
It's great stuff and supports a seemingly endless number of scanners old and new.
I would imagine a non-profit isn't able to well.... profit as much. And if I know one thing it is that a rich guy loves his money as much as a preacher loves the Lord.
Do you have children? I'm at a loss as to how you transport a baby around without a car? No offense if you don't but some of us do. I think there is a self-centered entitled view around the USA which to me, seems out of control.
By using a remote machine, you gain in upfront cost but you lose dev time due to poor tooling. It's possible to use X11, SSH, SSHFS, or Kubernetes but it never truly replaces the flexibility of developing locally with an IDE. Kubernetes tooling _might_ get there in the future though.

If you have a team at work dedicated to the tooling problem, remote dev can become really nice though.
The lack of safe landing sites also sinks the flying car initiatives. Only a few skyscrapers have helipads today. Adding them after construction is tremendously expensive. Roofs aren't designed to support the weight and are full of equipment (antennas, HVAC).
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If you may spare a minute, I'd like to know your opinion on mission-critical software in dangerous-prone contexts (such as avionics, life support, even just economically for permanently-written "ROM" software, etc). Formal methods seem required in such projects, but your final paragraph seems to imply the formalism isn't key to end quality?

(my agenda, for transparency: I want to send SOC's in space on tiny RISC-V satellites, and the lowest layers of those should be 100% error-free because there's no going physically there to reboot a working shell, remote is all we have.)

Regarding 'love' for blockchain, I think it's the basic proposition of "100% accurate data that cannot be controlled by anyone" that seduces. The 'cost' of that in performance becomes a nagging second concern. It gives people a feeling of safety if no other party, not their bank nor family nor employer nor anyone can alter their data, their transactions (whatever the kind, financial is but one use).

Whether blockchain is the only way to achieve that is another matter, but (afaik?) so far it's the only working implementation of the concept of perfectly secured data. I think that's what drove people nuts. I also think Bitcoin or currency in general is but one use case and a very impractical one in the current financial environment, i.e. Earth circa 2019. I'd wager there are much better avenues to explore, eminently non-financial in nature, such as peer-to-peer 'free' communication, or formal (law, contracts) codification (anything official and 'forever' until 'revoked'). No coin, no market, no whatever but the benefits of a slow but 100% truthful database, for small data (text fits quite well).
Doesn't seem dubious to me. I would expect it to be removed (or at least have the utf8 alias changed to point to utf8mb4) in the next major release. utf8mb3 was deprecated in the most recent release series (MySQL 8). For feature deprecation notices, MySQL consistently follows a pattern of deprecate in major release N --> remove/change in major release N+1.
Well support thousands of users using mvs. Only got 24 MB as well.
> hypocritical employees who pick and choose about what to be outraged about

Prioritizing issues does not make you a hypocrite. Probably the opposite is more likely.
> I've never understood why they don't just go work somewhere else.

Because they don't want to walk away from their responsibility, and they believe they are able to change the company from within.
That’s pretty neat
FWIW, most (if not all) of the big tech companies working on flying cars or UAV are aware of the noise problem and have in-house teams working with research labs & consultant on the problem. Now whether or not they succeed is another issue because it's a hard problem.

There is at least one prominent tech firm that appears to think they can mitigate these issues in a year or so, which is... unrealistic.
>Founders like you describe are likely mythical. Don't exist. Not a single one in the world... at least if you mean founders of possibly competing firms.

If that were true, both Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg would have said "yes" to billion dollar offers from Yahoo and therefore both Google and Facebook would have become subsidiaries of Yahoo. Well, we know that didn't actually happen and Jerry Yang is not the boss of Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg. Startup founders saying "no" to potential acquirers is not a myth.
Oh interesting, totally missed that one.
I agree totally with the HORRIBLE customer care. In fact, HORRIBLE doesn’t even begin to describe.

That being said, their devices are pretty good. Mine is broken since I put more RAM and as I tried to screw the bottom panel back in, the screws stripped. Likely cheap hardware, but if I didn’t open it it would have been fine :/

PS: Lately I moved to an ASUS ROG Zephyr (Ubuntu) since the Razer bottom panel wouldn’t stay on when moving the laptop. ASUS display and it’s 200+ refresh rate with GNOME is beautiful. Also, Ubuntu 19 now includes nvidia drivers so you don’t need to do the nouveau.modeset=0 bootline option anymore!
You'd better believe that if these CEO's who say shareholder value isn't everything, stopped delivering on growth and earnings, they'd be shown the door real quick. They're free to say shareholder value isn't everything so long as they act as if it is.

Should the law be written this way? Probably not, but that's a much larger and somewhat tangential debate.

This is about a group of talented people who have the option to put some skin in the game and take their labor elsewhere, but who choose instead to put forth empty talk about the ethics of their employer all while enjoying the lifestyle that employer has offered them.
In theory, yes. In practice, the way that most U2F tokens (for example, Yubikeys) work is to storage a single device-specific secret key on the token, which never changes. Then, when “adding” a key for a site, they take the provided details from the server as inputs, along with the secret key, to derive a new, site-specific private key, which is used for U2F. That allows them to “store” an unlimited number of site keys. Note that this method isn’t mandated by the U2F spec, so it’s not guaranteed that any key which implements U2F will do so in this way.

The OpenSSH protocol doc alludes to this requirement when they talk about why U2F needed a custom method for interfacing with SSH: the site’s handle needs to be provided as input to the key, so that it can re-derive the site-specific private key, and that communication channel didn’t already exist in ssh-agent.
> A publicly traded corporation has a legal obligation to maximize value for their shareholders

No, it doesn't. Stop spreading myths.
well we had a recent discussion here about basecamp having to run ads to insure their name was top of a search listing. to me their name was more generic than this one. that is the problem with having a corporate name that already has been used in literature if not common discussion. if the name you want is already a reference to what you want to do or what you want to associate with your not really establishing a brand your merely exploiting an existing situation.

google became the term after the name gained popularity, base camp, back country, and such, were terms of activities or places long before someone decided it was a brand.

* edit : the two that stick out in my mind as brands establishing association with the product regardless of who made it would be xerox and Kleenex. In some parts of the world Coke is synonymous with soda.
1) buy something from backcountry.com

2) be not in the US

3) realise you can't access their website for support because they use geoip to 302 their entire domain to a different website.
Yes, in elementary school, relentlessly. Lots of verbal abuse, being excluded but also regular physical abuse. Fist fights were a daily occurrence at my elementary school, often to the point of real injury (i.e. bleeding). Fights didn't just involve bullies and people being bullied either.

All this was in the Netherlands. Past elementary school I haven't seen much bullying. My elementary school was particularly bad but friends who went to different schools also confirm that this kind of thing wasn't unusual.
Aren't the keys are generated dynamically every time, based on the devices secret and the pub key id.
Fair point. I can tell you the people I know who work at Google predominantly feel very uncomfortable with the aim of total surveillance for profit. I suspect giving these same employees more of a say in the day-to-day running of the business - rather than big-ticket issues that are easy to assemble around - could lead to improved rights for users.
Compare the curriculum for yourself. An MBA program at a reputable business school has more elective and specialization options, along with a higher level of difficulty. It's not accurate to declare that Community Colleges have no difference in curriculum to a respected graduate business school (and they do not cost 10x more, that is an exaggeration).

Cleveland State University MBA:

https://www.csuohio.edu/business/sites/csuohio.edu.business/...

Cuyahoga Community College Business Administration Degree:

http://catalog.tri-c.edu/course-descriptions/badm/?_ga=2.241...

At Cuyahoga Community College, do you see any electives like Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain Analytics, or Medical Care Organization?
> Should the law be written this way?

No, which is why it's a good thing the law is not written that way.
This runs in direct opposition to the interests of the largest browser vendor though.
All that I have seen is that now there is one more popup window obscuring the content I'm trying to view, which is especially egregious on mobile.

At this point, I might see one or two lines of text for a news article on initial load between their gommy sticky header, a couple of ads, and their "We're using cookies here, if you don't like it, go screw" popup. Of course that's assuming it's not paywalled.

The net effect of the GDPR, from my perspective as a user, has been to make the internet even shittier to use. There's also the developer side that I have to deal with, but to be honest, after an initial flurry a year or so ago, nobody even asks about whether the software we provide is GDPR compliant anymore.
How hard is it to write your own OS ? Based on experience of Gates and Torvals, I think someone will eventually write an owesome Operating System that will be beautiful abd flashy yet yseful and wont steal user data to make extra money.
> Lotta people will say "if you don't like it, quit" but I've never understood this

I'll explain it to you: it's the only thing that works and the only thing that does not make you look like a big hypocrite.
Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
Links were already removed a long time ago when they switch from URL strings to this format:

https://www.thoughtco.com › ... › Science › Chemistry › Chemical Laws
Sounds like you don't believe in voting with your wallet.

If enough people protest against Blizzard that they make a public statement at their party (BlizzCon) about how they were wrong perhaps they're feeling the heat? If enough people cancel their services with Blizzard over this, they're feeling a direct result of their political decision on their profit.
It is a disadvantage and probably a bad legal framework, but it's the one that exists right now and companies are obligated to follow it, Google is no exception. When you go to work for a large corporation, this is one of the things you need to make peace with, and if you can't, you should work somewhere else so you can live according to your values.
> but I think, with traditional money exchange the reliance is on regulatory and legal enforcement, rather than making the technology itself watertight,

A lot of money and research has gone into this, and the tech is being tightened up all the time.

> which increases the risk profile, and thus cost.

Except the cost isn't actually higher.

> You can do this in traditional approaches because you just pass on these costs and there's no need to improve beyond what people are willing to pay.

In the US perhaps, not in places where these costs are regulated.

> Crypto represents...

A much more expensive and more risky way to do basically anything, because you have neither solved security nor trust problems, you've just moved them.
It used to be that the .doc format changed incompatibly with every release and if you had to share documents with someone on an earlier version you had to manually select the format on the "save as" screen. I have distinct memories of opening a Word 97 doc in Word 95 and seeing a bunch of weird boxes between each character - in retrospect, obviously because they changed the internal format from some 8-bit encoding to UTF-16.

But I can see how the conflicting requirements to keep the upgrade treadmill rolling and never break any old apps have made certain versions of Windows into such unholy piles of kludges.
Ugh, I promised myself I'd stop replying, but I'll ignore most of this comment and correct some obvious misinformation for the benefit of other people who actually read comments.

Microsoft has a history from the earliest days of existence of bending over for developers.

Going as far as to literally to add a special case to their memory allocator to support explicit undefined behavior (reading memory after free) for when a specific game, Sim City.

They avoided writing more than 80 characters on any given line in system.ini, because one specific program would fail to read those lines correctly, then delete the system.ini when attempting to write it back

Microsoft is literally still packaging 16-bit subsystems with Windows 10

Anyone actually interested in learning more about it should read Raymond Chen's blog and learn about the truly insane lengths Microsoft goes to make sure they don't break what developers have done, no matter how wrong it is:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/author/oldnewthin...

Honestly anyone who doesn't know the lengths Microsoft goes to treat developers as partners doesn't have the base knowledge for the conversation this thread has been about, but I digress.
I find my 32" 4K scales poorly in macOS, basically I can have everything tiny or everything massive and the scaling options make no sense there's only 720p, 1080p, 1600x900 or 4K.... there is no option between 1920x1080 and 3840x2160.

In Ubuntu it is more flexible but I think the sweet spot is going to be a 6K for scaling the UI at 3K but those might be a year or two away from existing and affordable. At below 30" 5K would be fine, I have a 25" 2.5K monitor that is very comfortable to use.
It does not include the VCS. Gnu did not make their VCS publicly readable for many of their projects back in the day.
People are talking about the sort of general idea of politics vs profit, but actually I don't think that's the issue. There are tonnes of companies that are political. The problem is that Google doesn't have a coherent approach to their political position. Frankly, I think this is a self-created problem by talking way too much about politics and encouraging people to bring their politics to work, but taking very little action to actually respond to their employees. Rather than taking the hint that Google were just all-talk, employees decided they were going to force Google to take action and now there are literally no guard rails around what is a political issue and what isn't and what is up for debate and what isn't.

How long is it before some Google employee starts kicking up a fuss about the ethical issues surrounding Google's core business?
MySQL's defaults have been massively improved in the past two major releases. Can you please cite any major examples of modern-day "bugs and footguns" configuration in MySQL 8 related to bad defaults or backwards compat?
The dried barley cakes reminded me of ones used for making keptinis beer, which is an Interesting roundabout process.

Documented on Lars blog along with other old beer making styles: http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/394.html
And it’s hurt Microsoft by making it impossible to ship operating systems that are not years late, with promised features removed and they haven’t been able to move beyond the desktop - which has become increasingly less relevant over the decade.

They are now at a point where they have to base their browser on a rival’s engine, their developing a mobile device based on Android and their own cloud platform hosts fewer Windows instances than Linux instances.
Came here to tell about a similar project: coder.com
They offer a root environment too which, IMO, is a deal maker for me.
More people should be aware of "Exit, voice and loyalty", and its excellent discussion of the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

Personally I think all this manifestation of what "should" be political-sphere politics at work is a side effect of the complete brokenness of the politics sphere for having a substantive discussion about issues that might actually improve things. It's all been driven out by culture war and various sorts of loyalty-behaviour.

That and an acknowledgement of the huge amounts of power held by extremely valuable western companies. In some ways this is the logical conclusion of Citizen's United; if companies have a privileged voice (and running a media company is a huge megaphone!), then the best thing the public can do is attempt to wrest control of that voice. If they don't, it will be used against them on behalf of the CEO or a single wealthy owner.

Not to mention the political donations.

(Diffuse stockholders seem to have relatively little control over corporate voice as well.)
I'm a big fan of things like this, but a part of me can't help wondering who finances this, and more importantly why?
Only if it's open-source, which I doubt.
techmeme.com still works for me. it gives me the trending headlines across the industry. twitter for targeted news about projects/products/frameworks
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Transform of nightmares. Computers were not yet invented in 1974 and we were trained to design analog electronics with massive laplace matrixes and sliderules and tables. Now I not remember anything about matrix calculations and know exactly nilch about any bloody transforms.
I had a Dell 4K USB-C 32" 2019 model and then got an Alienware Ultrawide 34" 2018 (1440p) when a friend was moving and didn't have space for it.

Unless you need the smaller resolution for gaming performance, I'd go 4K everytime. You probably won't get anything above 60Hz refresh rate for a reasonable price. But, if all you are doing is programming, consuming content, and browsing the internet, it is more than sufficient.

If you do any color specific work, you can get some pretty good panels in the 4K display range.
That hasn't worked well historically though has it. Looking at you broadcast media ;)

Also, within tech/new media VCs are the ones feeding the beast, doing the initial investing and the reason for new competition to "spring up". Even if there is an acquisition plan in place, it's not the acquisition itself fueling new competition - it's a for-profit exit from competition.
Any idea where is a triple colon operator used actually? I can find Vertical Ellipsis in matrices to denote continuation but nothing about using the glyph as an operator
Uber Loses Another $1.2B, Stock Dives Again
” How long is it before some Google employee starts kicking up a fuss about the ethical issues surrounding Google's core business?”

I for one am super excited for this being the case. I want people to protest the privacy invasions and anti-open-web initiatives.
Man, the comments here are depressing. So much cynicism in one place.

Workers protests have been successful in the past (guess why you work 8h a day and have 2-day weekends?). I don't see why you criticise the employees that try to make their company better.

They don't need to and don't have to threaten they'll quit, they don't have to leave for non-profits. They can protest from within the company and try to make it better. Quitting is not the only way company can feel there's a problem. Lower morale of the team, fewer new ideas and initiatives coming from employees - these are visible things, and can make a change. How big a change? How successful change? I don't know, but I support the fact that people are trying. Even if they still get their salaries and still work at Google.
Actually, it’s not quite that they get additional benefits. Churches are automatically tax exempt, with no need to apply for 501c3 status, even. In other words, a better way to look at it is that the gov doesn’t have the right to interfere, so they don’t.
Hint for Dell: just ensure that your hardware works perfectly in Linux (drivers) and please don't add any ^(bloat|crap)ware[s]?$ to it.

I have a Dell Precision 7530 laptop with an I5 CPU, 64GB of RAM, AMD GPU, 3 SSD M2 drives... I installed Ubuntu 18.04 (from Ubuntu site) and it's the only distrib that work perfectly out of the box with an external monitor, suspend mode, ... :)

Note: I tried Linux Mint (issues with external monitor, suspend mode, ...), Parrot Linux (doesn't work at all) and others without any success.
> "Glass has a very, very long lifetime"

Did he say that with a straight face

EDIT:
> “If you take a hammer to it, you can smash glass.”

Most people wouldn't need a hammer
Hi, can you share the status of the hiring process for new grad SE roles? I spoke with the recruiters at my school's career fair and applied online but I haven't heard back.
I believe “serious clients” meaning more towards to military/banking clients. The access to their production env is very strict, and the personnels are always being audited no matter their nationality and/or geolocation
> There's so much Google is doing to directly damage the technology ecosystem. It seems silly to protest some customer's business when Google itself is generating a ton of protest worthy things.

Probably because employees motivated enough to protest value the actual ecosystem more than the technological one, and care more about detention camps at the border than an url format? (just a wild guess)