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Mirantis Acquires Docker Enterprise Business
Having switched recently from Firefox to Brave, I must say it's a pretty nice browser but with some unwanted quirks.

1) It tries to also be a bit-torrent client but the downoad doesn't even survive a tab closing. Pretty frustrating to lose a big long download that way.
2) new tabs have a weird eye-bleeding background and there's no way to change it
Remember always: The US Supreme Court found that police in the United States have no obligation whatsoever to help. Anyone. Ever.

The police are a criminal organization and should be treated as such.
RequestCatcher: A reverse Postman for your HTTP apps
The article says "with accounts run by Citigroup Inc. and a credit union at Stanford University". If the accounts are run by these partner banks, maybe that means you will be able to contact the partner bank's customer service when stuff like this happens.
You can implement something similar without needing any special kernel features:

- Userspaces cooperative scheduling for all the tasks, in multiple threads if multi-core.

- A periodic timer signal sent to all the userspace threads. (Or one thread, but you might have to give it high scheduling priority; not all kernels offer this)

- The key to keeping kernel-userspace transition overhead down is the periodic timer doesn't run too often.

- The timer signal handler checks the per-thread "context-switched since last check" flag. If set, clear it. If not set, either pre-empt the active co-operative task in that thread (if that's possible; see another comment about safepoints), set a "pre-empt soon" flag for the co-operative task to detect (e.g. if it's looping but checks the flag in the loop), or move the inactive tasks in that thread to another thread (work-stealing), or a new thread (using pre-allocated idle threads because you can't make a new thread in a signal handler).

- If the timing of the timer signals is inconvenient, for example if you want to give the active task about 15ms more execution time, the signal handler may start a second timer instead of immediate action.

- Checking a per-thread flag from a signal handler may prove entertaining to do in a standard async-signal-safe way. (This matters more on older platforms where threads are themselves implemented in all sorts of ways.)

- Waking an idle "monitor" thread with a timer would be a cleaner way to do some of this, but there's no guarantee about when the monitor thread will run, and it may be a while if the CPUs are already busy. RT priority helps, if available.
Perhaps because the author had access to the tool before writing the title? In which case, less of a "prediction."
Blockchain isn’t as unbreakable as you think
What point is being advanced here? That it is ok, or at least inconsequential that Google can lock you out of services that you rely on? Or that we should be happy because Google is "reasonable" here?

I have purchased a domain and used it to underpin a fastmail account; personally, I don't share in your line of reasoning and don't want to continue to trust Google.
A staple of science fiction comes to life.
Maybe if a company is making big bucks off ML and were highly regulated, you would have thought they could setup a GPU/ML server....
Seems that their idea of "pros" are mostly people like music creators and photographers, not really developers.
edit2: Nevermind all this, Brave did in fact implement protected content this earlier this year

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/413

I still can't use brave to watch netflix on Linux. Its a great product and I love shifting the incentive of advertising away from intrusive data harvesting, but treating Linux like its a second class citizen means I won't use your product. Whats worse is that Firefox is 100% open source and Chromium is 100% open source and they both manage to get this working out of the box. There is no reason for Brave to not have working Netflix

edit: Also I know the library that decodes the DRM is proprietary, my point is the integration with it is open and available, no reason it can't be duplicated.
> When lawyers representing some of those youths discovered the violation, the police department dragged its feet, at first denying but eventually admitting that it was retaining prints it was supposed to have destroyed.

> To date, the department has made no public admission of wrongdoing, nor has it notified the thousands of people it impacted

How many cops are bastards? Every day the answer sure seems to be all of them.
I've observed that sentiment applied to innumerable interfaces for decades. Interfaces change. The change is painful, but moves us forward to better.
That's what I'm saying. I don't think people feel cheated seeing $100 + $5 S/H. I mean, speak for yourself: do you really feel cheated by the transparency?

And if people do feel cheated (I'm unconvinced), I still don't believe they need to be manipulated into thinking that shipping doesn't have cost. These kinds of reality-distortion practices are all too common in tech and ecommerce.

It's like Verizon manipulating people into thinking they get a "free iPhone" when they sign a 2-year contract. It's 100% misleading.

If people are surprised by shipping fees, it's only because this misleading practice is widespread and we're racing to the bottom on dark patterns. All the more reason to be principled, imo.
No, it's setting themselves up for breakup, an it's the FAAG, Netflix is not engaging in these shenanigans. Sad to say, you would think the most corrupted of the FAANGs would be the entertainment company, but they are the most pure of them all.
Yeah, could definitely be a combination factors. Mostly I think it is that people who care about design have frequently gravitated toward the mac because of their nice design.
A touchbar above the function keys would have been a radical improvement if it helped explain what the Fn keys did. Or leds in the keys that allowed them to show icons for what they did.

If I wanted a super-sexy fn experience, I'd have function keys with leds for changeable icons, and a bigger touchbar above it for app-specific bling.

And I'd drop the size of the touchpad. That thing is too big, the retina one was more than adequate.

And there's no option to get legacy ports, but it's Apple, ports are a religious jihad not a customer convenience.\.
This release is essentially a "we messed up, this is what you wanted all long", but they can't say that so they're using the regular MBP marketing talk.

Not hating - I am getting this laptop.
Did Brave ever claim to reduce the use of ads? As I understand, they want to shift the revenue model and put control back in hands of users. You can use their browser and ignore ads (also not receive Bats) or you can see ads and receive compensation for it.
> or the ballot could have a "receipt" section you tear off and keep

It's been a few years, but doesn't California's "vote by mail" do this? You get the ballot in the mail, you vote, you sign and date, you tear off the half-inch strip of paper off the top, and mail it back. You keep the narrow strip of paper if you want.
Keeps getting re-posted every couple of weeks (with very few comments)...

see https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dubfi.com
I tried out Brave ~3 years ago when it was still Electron-based, and it was unfortunately too laggy to be a daily driver. Then I tried it out again ~6 months ago after they'd switched it to being a Chromium fork. The speed was much-improved, but it suddenly started spamming me with push notifications about various features, Brave rewards, etc. I felt like I was blocking web ads just to get native ads instead. You can turn them off deep in the settings, but I got sketched out and stopped using it.

I think Brave's payment model concept is a very interesting idea for freeing the open web from the need for advertising, but I haven't been impressed with the way the project has been executed so far.
I was sorta kinda OK with the missing escape key. For me the biggest keyboard improvement is a return to the inverted-T arrow layout.
Just to help others searching for "confused lieutenant," I believe it's usually known as the "confused deputy problem," perhaps as a reference to Barney Fife. I do like the image of a confused lieutenant though.
How is the rural coverage? Is it better than the rural coverage in the US?
What is Brave doing under the hood to get these claimed performance improvements over Chrome, Firefox and Safari?
I actually have one of the top of all time posts on r/redditads (their advertiser support subreddit) and have done a number of how to guides for Reddit ads. I'm a big fan, but honestly most larger companies don't use it yet because 1. They don't have a very sophisticated platform. It's a ton of work to do simple tasks and the analytics etc aren't particularly insightful.Media buyers and PPC specialists time is at a premium already so it's hard to justify adding in yet another platform that doesn't scale super well. 2. Reddit users are pretty hostile to ads still. 3. The traffic quality is a bit all over. Very high bounce, very high instance of ublock etc. so tracking is hard. That said the CPC is super cheap so it works out overall but some people get freaked out about the traffic.

Like I said I really like it but they have a ways to go to attract more mainstream users.
> People holding the majority view are publicly cheered by the company, but people holding minority views are (at best) tolerated

May I have a specific example?

There appears to be a lot of negative opinions about this kind of workplace based on the comments (and my downvotes on some of my comments haha). I'm just trying to understand it.

If you're curious, you can see a specific example from my workplace in the edit region here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21524930

I've never personally had a bad experience from being in a "progressive" workplace. I don't agree with them on everything, but in general I've never had a bad experience. The "social justice" aspect is pretty opt-in, so I don't know what could lead to a negative experience such as being less than tolerated.

> The company / majority position seems to be self-contradictory. E.g., they promote LGBTQ behavior as praiseworthy, which implies that certain religions' teachings about sexual ethics are factually incorrect. But the company also claims to respect people's religious choices.

I don't really see the contradiction. My work celebrates employees by giving us catered lunches that often include pork but nobody perceives that as being anti-muslim, as long as there are non-pork choices. The vegetarians and vegans don't mind meat on the table as long as there are vegetarian and vegan choices.

A subset of teachings from a subset of Christian faiths will say something like "[homosexuality] is an abomination". It would be disrespectful to employee's religion (and common sense) for the employer to tell their employees they must be homosexual. It is not disrespectful for the employer to celebrate other employees who are homosexual. Am I misunderstanding?
Ah, good to know. Haven't tried Chromebooks in a while because I didn't want only a browser. Might revisit when this hits stable.
The GTK Rust bindings are not ready yet? Yes they are!
Sprint Review Anti-Patterns
How many Hacker News stories was this network trained on? From the code, it wasn't many, and you need a lot of stories.

A year ago I made a Hacker News submission score prediction notebook on the full HN corpus: https://www.kaggle.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-submission-scor...

Even with hundreds of thousands of data points, the R^2 was effectively 0.
cause they want them to buy an iPhone as well, and iCloud sync to the MacBook.
I figured it out. This guy is a SJW who is offended that Brendan Eich donated $1000 to Prop 8 in California.
What are you guys doing that you touch type using FN keys? Touchbar is far better — you can’t scrub audio or video. You can adjust things with more granularity with sliders. It’s contextual.

I don’t remember ever using a hardware F6 or F4 key in my life, but the touchbar I use all the time.
It blocks the on-page ads, but, if you opt-in will show you notification ads (non-invasive notifications), and will pay you for them.
I've frequently heard mafia-run areas were much nicer to live in.
> Unfortunately there are lots of policies and laws in place that prevent this kind of labor mobility and give the employer a huge amount of power.

What are those policies and laws? AFAIK employees can leave with at most 2 week notice and lot of places with just a days' notice.
I have one device which is USB-C - a mouse. In what world is a mouse better with USB-C?

As for CD drives, the world moved on to bluray and that has a licensing cost as well as not fitting with the iTunes strategy of rent-and-never-own. Apple led, others followed. I'd still use it if it was built-in but not as an external: too much hassle to balance it on my lap and not drop the drive ruining the disk.
lol.
No excuse, you can even do that in perl : https://metacpan.org/pod/Crypt::LE
> DSP slices aren't being made at the exclusion of LUTs on modern FPGAs.

Of course they are. Every square-micrometer of the die is going to be either a LUT, DSP, or RAM on that chip. Xilinx makes a decision for how many of each is most useful to its customers.

> There's nothing about LUTs that are harder to make at scale than DSP slices.

Scaling "typical" designs on LUTs is worse than scalaing "typical" designs on a DSP Slice.

Synthesize a 32-bit wallace-tree multiplier for instance, and you'll use thousands of LUTs (maybe 2000ish). However, reserve a DSP-slice for a 32-bit multiply routine, and you'll only use ONE slice.

However, those multipliers on the DSP-slice could be "wasted" if you didn't need that many multipliers. Maybe your arithmetic is primarily addition and subtraction. In any case, when most people talk about "Reconfigurable FPGAs", they're talking about the LUTs which can be the building block of any logic. They aren't talking about DSP-slices, which are effectively prebuilt ALUs connected in a mesh.
And even bus based mass transit hits carrying capacity limits.

Bogotá’s bus rapid transit system, which is among the best designed in the world (train-like boarding platforms, all door entry, express and local “tracks”) is nearly impossible to use in rush hour because too many people are trying to use at once.

At that point the only thing that works is a subway or elevated train line
Did they fix their sync issue yet? I couldn't get my laptop and desktop to work together so I switched over to Firefox.
I've used Brave since March, and I'm really not impressed. For a browser that tries to be different, it's incredible how little consideration has been given to things that annoy users and that could probably be trivial to remove.

To be more specific, my issues with Brave are:

- Still uses the Chrome Web Store as main store

- Does not have an easy way to load packaged extensions from 3rd party sources

- Even after adding them as unpacked, you still get the same annoying popup every time you open the browser.

- I received notices that "My account was waiting for a deposit" the entire time, even though I never allocated any money to anyone

- Tipping amounts are fixed

I always saw Brave as "not chrome, and not as much of a change as Firefox", but their approach seem lazy, features halfassed at best and the sneaky anti-features that Chrome has been adding to push users to lock into Google stuff (see all my remarks about extensions) not addressed at all.

I'm using Firefox as main browser now, and I haven't been missing brave once.
If not Ads, how would a 'free service' generate money?
Were you born after the year 2000 or something? I am talking about the original Doom, not Doom for millennials.

John Romero created the original Doom, not 2016.
Yeah, as someone who grew up on 12 acres off a dirt road -- in the comparitively populated SE corner of Michigan and still within the suburban area of a small city as well -- I think a lot of the more Eurasian crowd have a hard time understanding the true scope of situations like North American rural communities.

Cable didn't even come up to our street, and this is ~4mi from the local town -- pretty far from 'super rural' in local terms.
Brave was founded by Brandon Eich who donated $1000 to Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.
The manifesto links one of his papers, "The simple essence", which I've started but haven't finished.
I wasn't sure if you were being sarcastic, but you may be indeed trying to understand, so I'll give in.

>With all due respect, what makes you think you're qualified to lead this movement and screen people?

I won't 'lead'. I'm trying to initiate/coordinate. In fact if the coalition had a leader in the conventional sense, it would be no different from any of the conventional political ideological structures the world already has.

>What makes you think your value system is the best one?

I cannot be ever sure mine is best. But I try to be as empirical as possible. ( if we both have differing opinions on how best to bake a cookie, why not try baking and comparing our cookies)

>What ARE your beliefs?

You can read them here:
https://realminority.wordpress.com/observations-of-the-world...
Guess this is a perk of QBasic being my first language. It's so dead and forgotten and I haven't touched it in 20 years that I just don't care about it. That, and once I learned C, I felt like a real programmer, so there wasn't any reason to go back.
At the very least, you should be running isync[1] to keep a local copy of your emails. Losing access to future emails would still be devastating though.

[1] http://isync.sourceforge.net/
German labor laws and how unions work there is rather different to other European countries - the Netherlands included.
I dual book my X1 Extreme with Windows 10 and Pop OS and it works about 98%. The trackpad is buggy as hell, auto date/time switch is broken, and a few other minor usability issues endemic to using Linux just drive me crazy.

I've been debating hackintoshing it (https://github.com/Errrneist/Hackintosh-Thinkpad-X1-Extreme) but it seems like eGPU support isn't there and that's one of the primary use cases I got for this laptop (CAD primarily).
In this argument, that point does not matter. OP said that Chase stole money from them. That is not true; banks lawfully complying with government orders is not theft. Banks, or really any private business, do not protect you from the government.
Offers 3-6x faster browsing than what exactly, browsing with IE or Edge without any ad blocking?
I wonder why they chose to use (yet another) crypto currency for this.
I'm in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and my apartment is a 4-bedroom. Building used to be owner-occupied, now converted to two addresses with two apartments in each plus a shared basement with a single-room fifth apartment, price is astoundingly low for the area because the landlord is just the senior who grew up there, I think the other apartments are all 1-2 bedroom or studio. It might be a bit cramped, but you could rent the entire big apartment and fit four to six kids plus two parents.
I worked on the TRIPS project in graduate school - specifically the compiler (my dissertation was about how to optimize the selection of dataflow subregions). I’d be curious what Doug and co. At Microsoft have done with E2 and whether they’ve actually cracked the compiler problem.
> ... the lack of a physical Escape key, and the full-size left and right arrow keys.

Seems that if you scream hard enough AAPL listens:

> What Apple emphasized is simply that they listened to the complaints from professional MacBook users. They recognized how important the Escape key is to developers — they even mentioned Vim by name during a developer tool demo.

* https://daringfireball.net/2019/11/16-inch_macbook_pro_first...
Intel parts only dynamically OC to their max turbo presets. you can often go quite a bit further if you don't care about idle power use. I was able to OC my 9700k to run 5 GHz on all cores and tighten up the AVX offset to -1 (I think it's -3 stock).

can I notice the difference outside of benchmarks? probably not, but the performance increase per core is comparable to stepping up to a stock 9700k from a 9600k (ignoring core count). if you would pay $100 to have a 9700k instead of a 9600k (which I did), why not overclock it too? it took me about 20 minutes of actual work and 12 hours of waiting for stress tests to fail.
Sorry, 2018 Mac Book Air
64GB RAM is like "hallelujah". Doing enterprise dev with Docker + Java is pretty horrible with 16GB on my 2017 MBP.

The fact that this review didn't even once mention the fact that this machine is now thicker & bigger and yet they didn't add any useful ports back in is amazing.

I still hate that the 2017 one I have has only USB-C + Headphone jack. I appreciate that it still has the headphone jack.

But at our office we all got OWC Thunderbolt 3 Docks @ $300/desk and the whole experience sucks.
Their marriage is irrelevant because as GS have stated, they don’t have that information so they don’t take it into account.

They claim they don’t know the person’s gender.

If they are inferring that from a first name or from other information they have then their statement is a lie.

By all means claim that GS are lying.

I’m curious to see what the result of the investigation is.

As for paying the card off in full and still not being able to spend more, indeed that doesn’t make sense for a millionaire with a high credit score. Clearly the system is not doing a good job of assessing what credit to offer her.

However the fact that she is being treated differently from her husband, who is not just a millionaire - but someone who is estimated to have >$100m, is not evidence of sexism.

Sexism would be a systematic bias.

She hasn’t provided any evidence whatsoever of that, although she has demonstrated that the system is bad at recognizing creditworthiness.

So yes - the bar for demonstrating sexism is indeed much higher, and yes, materials about how the algorithm works so implicit biases can be evaluated would necessarily be part of that.

I hope the New York Financial services investigation does get access to these materials.

My guess is that if there is a sexist bias it will take some tracking down, and that it will be a result of industry wide practices.

I think this should be reviewed across the board.

But I stand by my original comment that she hasn’t shown that there is sexism at work in her own case.
And conversely, Star Trek's frequent use of voiceprint authentication looks sillier by the day.
Yeah, seems weird that Hacker News is censoring this. I guess they don't want people to know that. Maybe Brave gave them some money to push this announcement.
What is your job? Just curious how pro you really are.
> Management deciding whether or not to increase vacation days is a political act.

No, it's a company policy. There is a contingent of people who believe everything is a political act, and perhaps you are among them. But know that this view is not as widely held as you might think.

> Employees deciding whether they want to stand together in negotations with management or handle stuff individually is a political

Interestingly, unions actually try to argue that they are not political. That is the cornerstone of their arguments as to why union dues are not compelled speech.

> Hell, trying to push for more/less meetings in day to day work is a political act.

Again, not for the overwhelming majority of people who consider this an apolitical change.

Yes, if you believe everything is political then everything in the workplace is political. But most people don't subscribe to this view.
Your username is accurate in this case.
It is weird how a house in Minneapolis has ended up costing more than a comparable house in the Jacksonville, despite the latter having twice the population, being in the tropics, and located on the coast.