skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just read that there have been updates since this time:

https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams

> Here’s an answer I received from a former engineer at Apple who was intimately familiar with the software drivers for Mac webcams: "All cameras after that one were different: The hardware team tied the LED to a hardware signal from the sensor: If the (I believe) vertical sync was active, the LED would light up. There is NO firmware control to disable/enable the LED. The actual firmware is indeed flashable, but the part is not a generic part and there are mechanisms in place to verify the image being flashed. […]"
From their perspective, my job is the stressful job. Sure that physically my job is easy but to them my job is stressful because it requires a lot of thinking, not to mention a lot of learning and studying. Its a different kind of stress.
Thanks for the clarification. I think my mistake was interpreting what you said as the perspective of a hypothetical company and thus assuming you meant a peer-level company. It seems in general McKinsey is rather targeted at the C-Level.
1) The percentage of people with EVs who leave them plugged in at home during the day is very small. This is unlikely to change for several years.

2) It's a bad proposition to people because you're basically telling them they won't be able to take long trips in the morning and you're going to decrease the life of their battery (people are rightfully really concerned about this).

3) The big concern with utilities right now is how to handle home renewable excess power during the day. All the rooftop PV is feeding a bunch of power back into the grid when it's sunny, then all those homes are sucking down power from dusk to dawn. The utilities need daytime power storage or non-daylight generation to offset this. Storing power at night doesn't do much to actually solve the problem, so there's not much of a business model in it. Grid-scale battery installations are quickly becoming the solution here.

If you're looking for a car-based model that could potentially work for this, it has to involve solar parking lots and also be car-specific. Charge your car at a parking lot during the day, drive it home and plug it in to power your house in the evening. Get a discount from your electric company as a result.
EV car batteries are too expensive and overdesigned to be used for grid power (imho)
Some are graph based, some aren't.
ALttP was a giant pile of if/else last time I checked the logic, which makes adding new modes a bit complex.
I don't think quite yet. As others have noted, porting x86 apps to ARM can be fraught with issues concerning memory models and concurrency. Especially apps written using unmanaged languages. Newer apps written in things like .NET Core (especially if you can keep any native dependencies out of the equation) are probably going to be a lot easier to port when the time is right.

I think we'd have to be at a point where the ARM server is <50% the cost of the x86 server while offering equivalent real-world performance to make the jump worth it for the average shop. You'd also have to have a very accessible ecosystem of reliable ARM machines that developers could purchase and hack on. There are many businesses that will happily incinerate millions of dollars to keep x86 around just because changing things is frowned upon or otherwise scary.

For some applications ARM is today and it's an excellent approach. But, for most it's still somewhere on the horizon.
> For the concerns you have, it'd be far better to maintain a socially-optimal profile with data collection, to show what a normal/happy/healthy/productive member of society you are.

Surely you understand that many people don't want to live in a world where you have to maintain a false persona 24/7 to avoid being flagged for some unknown perceived infraction. Many people already curate a social media presence for that reason, but are you really okay with extending that to every last facet of your life?

Should you have to worry if some future employer or your insurance company might possibly think that you're buying too much alcohol, are too supportive of the wrong political party, are too gay, opinionated, not social enough, not happy enough, dating too often, eating out to much, etc.?

It doesn't make any sense to try to change your behavior to try to look like a model citizen at all times because you can't know what the criteria is you'll be judged by, how accurate the dossiers on you are, or how they're being used to impact your life.

This is a broken, dystopian, dangerous system and telling people to give up even trying to limit the amount of data they expose and simply accept it is not going to help change anything.
Agreed there doesn’t seem to be a consensus. Thanks for the links
As intended. We desperately need some anticompetitive scrutiny on google.

Unfortunately... https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000067823
But who in their right mind would allow the Javascript code of one tab to access data in other tabs?
so AMP is like the play store but for advertisers?
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It's a tangent about how to power personal vehicles, which are overwhelmingly powered by the gasoline.

Is that just path dependence, or maybe there are advantages to having lots of built in range?
"Capital accrued through the exploitation (yes, that's the legal and technical term) of labour."

I started my businesses with capital I accumulated by being "exploited".

"If everyone suddenly had 5m in their bank accounts, you can bet your ass of millions of people would quit their jobs and go off to start their own things."

For sure they would, "their own things" in most cases being a spending binge on who knows what, followed by someplace they could be "exploited" again.

The hoots just keep coming.
Not sure I get your point. But contextual search only works for the search within Cliqz browser, on the address bar dropdown, on the client space. The same approach cannot be done on the (web-page SERP page, beta.cliqz.com), because from a web we have no access to the tabs opened. It could only possible via tracking and user-profiling, which is something that we do not do, or want to do.
Economies of scale often get mentioned as if it is some sort of magical property that makes things cheaper. Reality is often far more complicated. Amazon, for example, hasn't really had an improvement in fulfillment costs over time. They've gotten more expensive as they've pushed ideas that grow the company: faster shipping, more products, etc. Also, resource constraints tend to have overwhelming impacts: the cost of extracting oil from the earth got a lot cheaper on economies of scale right up to the point where they had to go after more expensive sources to get enough to fill demand. Economists have a name for this effect: diseconomies of scale.

It is pretty safe to say that economies of scale has gotten us to where we are now with batteries. But that does not necessarily mean the trajectory will continue.
Sundar Pichai is also McKinsey alum, so in a way McKinsey has Google now.

People are also starting to take note of some of the bad things McKinsey have been involved in like their role in Enron (CEO was McKinsey and it was their 'sandbox'), role in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), role in Saudi clampdown on dissidents, support of authoritarian regimes and the Great Recession 2008 financial crisis and many, many more scandals or questionable actions. [1][2]

> McKinsey is said to have played a significant role in the 2008 financial crisis by promoting the securitization of mortgage assets and encouraged the banks to fund their balance sheets with debt, driving up risk, which 'poisoned the global financial system and precipitated the 2008 credit meltdown'...

Overall, like the other management consulting firms, McKinsey and the like can be used to justify some anti-competitive/anti-consumer/anti-employee but pro-board/executive or authoritarian policies and introduce plausible deniability for the directors that employ McKinsey.

Some have said McKinsey is a "culture of corruption". [1]

> McKinsey's fingerprints can be found at the scene of some of the most spectacular corporate and financial debacles of recent decades. — Ben Chu, The Independent (2014)

> Defenders of McKinsey claim that the firm merely advises, and is not a decision-maker.

Plausible deniability on both the company and consulting firm, they deny liability for all parties involved in a McKinsey action.

> Nevertheless, since the end of the 20th century, McKinsey has been either directly involved in, or closely associated with, a number of notable scandals. Reuters describes these incidents as indicating "not bad apples, [but] a culture of corruption".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company#Role_in_c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company#2008_fina...
my favorite flavor of this bug is:
printf("%f %f %f",0,0,0);
I use mainly duckduckgo and only use google if duckduckgo doesn't bring up anything useable (which is far too often for me tbh). And yes I blame firefox for every mishap over the last few years like the certificate expiration, the mr robot "advertising", the cloudflare dns and so on. But I see the good things as well like trowing out avast. So I trust them more than google.

But still I will never trust something like cliqz which belongs to the media gmbh which produces Schund like die bunte.

Ps I tested the beta and the search results werent good
Pps I will read the search engine articles thought
This only really applies to really large companies mind you, but I would say:

1) You don't need to work your way up the approval chain. Your idea is already going to people with the authority to act on it.

2) You have significant ability to just call people and get them to share their data and domain knowledge

3) You have little risk of long term problems from saying something that someone doesn't like, so long as its not the person who hired you.

4) The pace is probably very very fast relative to the speed of most large orgs. Probably not sustainably fast tbh. It's fine because it's several weeks of hard focus and then a bit of a break.

If you feel like you're doing fine and are answering important questions then you probably are doing just fine and your company's data culture is healthy. IMO people who build analyses that few people want or need are acutely aware of it.
The key problem with UBI, as much as I love the idea, is that any UBI amount will instantly be sucked up by landlords using every trick in the book. What the landlords leave on the table, will be sucked up by rising costs for energy (petrol, electricity, gas) as honestly all three will at least double or triple by efforts to save the climate.

In the end the workers will be as fucked as they were before UBI. The problem is modern capitalism itself. Ford-era capitalism where capital owners were proud in paying employees a wage they could live on... that could possibly work for a long time, but many equate even this level with outright "communism".
Same thing for 'performant' instead of 'fast'.
This is an excellent policy. I think people should also be forced to live in a dangerous ghetto before voting to take away my guns and capital punishment. I wasn’t a staunch supporter of either of those things until I had experience with situations that they are relevant to.
Only if I was part of the elite. ;-)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the majority of users don't use spacebar for scrolling in 2019. Besides that (and the screen real estate), I'm not sure it's bad enough to need a bookmarklet to kill it.
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> In other words, the agency of the government in charge of bulk buying isn’t paid for saving money, but for spending too much of it.

I'm shocked SHOCKED to learn the U.S. government is not a well oiled machine free from fucked-up incentives or outright corruption.
You don't have to publish them immediately; when it's only you reading your writing, you might feel embarrassed, but no harm or loss of status will come to you, so you absolutely should at least give it a try!
Great hack to manipulate the DOM with a bookmark!
> I'm not happy that I don't have the option of a hardware switch to disable the cameras and mics on a phone

Librem 5 is the phone you're looking for. Or a Pine Phone.
Maybe, you’ve also got to consider the fact that Flemish is more similar to English than French is, and cultural differences between French and Flemish/Dutch speakers overall (broadly overgeneralising, French people are salty that their language has been overtaken in relevance by English, while Dutch speakers are comfortable with the fact that their language was never all that important).
On the other hand, as an American I was blown away by how good most Icelanders’ English was. The young people for the most part spoke perfect English that was about on par with your average American college student.
This isn’t exactly surprising. With functions like printf and scanf you always have to be super careful to pass the right data types. It may work with one OS or compiler but not with the other. You are actually lucky if your stuff crashes. Otherwise it will just keep going now with wrong values.
This kind of stuff is why I'm glad that the brogrammer fad of "ergonomic" c library interfaces with heavily variadic function signatures has died down a bit.

You need either a static type system, or a runtime that'll catch weird accesses and throw immediately. A dynamic but happy to corrupt memory interface boundary is just crazy town.
I wonder how reliable are these Linux syscalls?

Found this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man2/perf_event_o... and that article doesn't instill much confidence in the reliability of these counters. Comment for CPU_CYCLES says "Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling", comment for INSTRUCTIONS says "these can be affected by various issues, most notably hardware interrupt counts", BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS says "Prior to Linux 2.6.34, this used the wrong event on AMD processors" and so on.

If I wanted to measure what OP was measuring, I would disable frequency scaling (probably doable on overclocker-targeted motherboards, also search finds some utilities which claim to do that, both windows and linux ones), measure time, then divide by frequency.
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Thanks for providing the background on how this came about, it makes a bit more sense now.

Could we get the same result by allocating the GSA a flat amount based on what they need and then penalize them by cutting the budget if no one uses their services, just like we do for other agencies?
If you’re middle class with a shitty car, everyone thinks you’re poor. If you’re rich with a shitty car, everyone just thinks you’re painfully eccentric.
It does not really matter whether those ~40% would agree. It only matter what portion of those would vote for someone who does. As a floor for that number I would submit that the Freedom Caucus has 32 of the 198 Republican seats in the house (~16% or Republican seats). Those Representatives have pretty much declared that they agree with him. So some percentage above that.
That's a good post. The sticky elements is one of the most annoying things on the web. So after getting annoyed enough I made a simple extension that hides them. It automatically hides the sticky elements on nearly all websites, has a whitelist, and handles special cases like sticky splash screens. It runs on desktop browsers and mobile Firefox.

https://github.com/lykahb/sticky-ducky
> "but that's just your opinion, man".

TIL The Dude is a phenomenal businessman.
F# has computation expressions.

I am not a fan of them, as I prefer working with Haskell/purescript do's, but the people I work with enjoy them.
Given the ongoing GitHub / ICE controversy which is ever prevalent on Twitter.. I have to wonder. Is there a viable alternative for open source projects with enough of a network?

I see people who are very outspoken on the subject that are maintainers of projects on GitHub.

Seems rather hypocritical, but maybe there isn't a better option.
I had very similar idea a few years ago, did some quick numbers and came to conclusion that it was not going to fly commercially.

Interestingly the working name for my idea was also "ResearchEngine", so i guess it summarizes pretty well the unmet need you and me have.
See also (x4):

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hexing+the+technical+interview

(+2):

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=typing+the+technical+interview

(+1):

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=reversing+the+technical+interview

But, as far as I'm concerned, these articles could be posted a dozen more times and it wouldn't be too much.
I’m using safari + adguard (an app that injects adblock rules into it) and pretty sure that I see no ads. Except on few sites that usually try to push it even through desktop uBO anyway. Even no youtube ads, idk how they do it.
Literally everything you mentioned isn't a loophole, it's tax fraud. Tax loopholes are what they do within a single jurisdiction to avoid taxes. What you're suggesting is transferring money from one jurisdiction to another, which can't be done tax-free.
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So developers will no longer be able to create integrations?
Thanks.

Quite amusing that the most GPU-intensive game I want to run on my computer is a text adventure :)
That's true but those lead acid cells are only practical for stationary installations. They are far too heavy to use in vehicles.
I believe I was primarily using Architexa (https://github.com/i3labs/architexa), but it was a number of years ago when I was working exclusively in Java.

JetBrains also provides a few diagramming plugins, but I've never used them.

I haven't yet come across tooling that does the same for C, C++, or D. This response inspired me to take a look though, and I did find something for Python (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45238329). Thinking about it, the instrumentation approach taken there might actually work fairly well for most systems languages assuming you don't have any dead (or rarely called) code. Graphviz could be combined with the "-finstrument-functions" GCC flag and a few supporting data structures. Templated code would be tricky to deal with though.

Edit: Just came across CppDepend (https://www.cppdepend.com/). It's proprietary, but appears to be incredibly powerful at first glance. See its dependency analysis in particular (https://www.cppdepend.com/dependenciesview).
I don't know anything one way or another about the author, but his website lists him having a phd in biophysics from an actual, respectable research university (university of Guelph), so i'm not real sure how "anti-intellectual" pertains per se.

I'm pretty sure i don't think he's right, but that's not at all the same thing.
What does "brogrammer" mean, in this usage?
> the majority of users don't use spacebar for scrolling in 2019

Like halal food, or kosher food in New York, it's not about how many people use a browser feature. It's about how much they care.
It feels like French speaking people in Canada and France are extremely insecure.
One will be the fast iterator. Her name is Jorunn, and her legs are strong from years of skiing.
He also appears to reference His Dark Materials, which is my personal favorite book (or trilogy, but they're one work).
At least for printf, there's normally a way to tell the compiler that it's a printf style interface and get something approaching typesafety back. On gcc this is

extern int
my_printf (void *my_object, const char *my_format, ...)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));

(Now I like rust's solution better, a sane macro system so this interface doesn't have to be special cased by the compiler to be safe).
I actually like the lack of progression, someone once described it like a dreamworld and that's somehow comforting.
The problem with “it needs to be uniform and higher than 0” is that another sovereign country would have great incentive to set their tax rate at a fraction of yours. Income would then flow towards being recognized in that country.

You might call them a “defector”. Others might say “well, they’re sovereign and what does that mean if not determining how to set their national tax policies?”
Correct me if I am wrong, but...

If I just make sure that incomming packets that are destined for the VPN LAN are dropped, this attack does not work?

Of course there are such rules in our firewalls??

Is everyone walking around without any firewall filtering nowadays? How is this a bug? Maybe I am just stupid. Did I miss something?
You can't tax revenue when the business is losing money. No country in the world does that for a reason.
This is what France does.

The Académie Française is responsible for defining the proper spelling of words and update the intricate grammar rules.

At some point the Éducation Nationale adopts the changes and requires that all children learn using the new rules.

Eventually style guides of major newspapers and TVs are updated as well.

This has worked mostly until the reform of the 1990s which is controversial. I think the Éducation has only recently started to enforce it (15 years later). Many publications still use or tolerate the old style. Microsoft office gives you two dictionaries to chose from.

So basically this has worked until people started to actively go against it...
> Google giving ranking incentive to sites that are faster seems like the exact sort of thing they should be doing.

Really? I thought Google's purpose was to find information in the web, not to give me fast links. If I am looking for an article, I want that article, not a different but faster one. If I am looking for a piece of information, I want the best fit, not the second or third best but faster fit.
I watch that show. It's one of my favorites. Maybe it's beneath your level of intellect--I presume you're a 10x'er who only watches PBS--but I've learned a lot about the super-obese and their challenges from this very sensitive show.
This is really cool! I've been thinking about dabbling with Vue.js and having just wrapped up a project using the react version, might be a fun opportunity to play around with. I'm a big fan of Appbase having used the hosted service and reactivesearch UI elements for react. Shout out to Siddharth and Yash; customer service is awesome and they're really knowledgeable (disclaimer: I do pay for the dev tier so I can't speak to what its normally like). The documentation is pretty solid too. All around good work. I'm excited to see what's next in the product roadmap for them. Definitely a nice alternative to AWS ES if you're just looking to spin search + UI quickly.
Proxmox is pretty nice, except it has two glaring issues:

Setting up networks is a pain in the butt.

Setting up storage is even worse.

Both really require the command line, which shouldn’t be necessary.

I ran Proxmox in production for a year for a small ecom company, but if I had to do it again, I’d go vSphere. It’s worth it.
I found it annoying to work in retail but I appreciate where I am now 1000x more.
A pejorative for "I can't let any types or anything get in the way of my productivity as I crush some mad code, braugh" types.
Well I would argue that there’s also a significant cultural difference. The American car culture is not going to go away. People here love their cars. In addition, people in China didn’t have broad access to cars until 1990s. Even now, it’s likely below 30% per HH. So in that sense investing in alternative transportation infrastructure makes a lot of sense. I just think we are expecting almost an insurmountable change in our culture if we were to actually utilize a fully flushed out rail system.