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You're right. Disable javascript on [*.]archive.org, and you can read techcrunch just fine. Arguably, better :D

TL;DR: Google cloud revenue includes Saas offerings (docs, gmail etc), in addition to the infrastructure part. They may make roughly 2.5bln per quarter now, but it's still small compared to Microsoft (12.5bln per quarter, includes Azure + Office/outlook) or Amazon (10bln per quarter, AWS only). What is impressive is the growth of the business unit - more than 50% in the last year (they do have to keep it up at the same rate for 4 more years to catch up to competitors though)
100% this. Kotlin is a blue-collar language.
Kotlin and InteliJ are from JetBrains, no wonder.

They are trying to be the next Borland with Kotlin as their Turbo Pascal (#KotlinEverywhere), and got Google Android's team as the language godfather.
> everyone's unhappy, and we do .... nothing. Because of 'innovation' or some other conjured up fantasy term.

The only reason "we" do nothing, is that "we" have no agency. Other reasons are just rationalization to cope with our powerlessness: we pretend ideological debates among the people decide the faith of the country. The only vote "we" have is voting with our wallet, which only works in a truly free market.
Not a myth. Yes it has been exaggerated by later stories, as if the print was clearly visible, while in fact it was 'white on white' (letters were pressed into cloth, as watermarks on the money) and difficult to even mention let alone read.
Hopefully the open/free nature means it'll be cheaper to integrate into lower end ARM IPs so that is not just the flagship Snapdragon and Exynos chips that offer AV1

Getting it into the hands of the top 5 Samsung devices would probably cover a significant market share (not to mention getting it into all Apple phones/tablets).
It's a great episode. It discusses empirical reasoning, peer review, mob mentality, and more. It's written very intelligently.
> That’s not how auditing works. The point of GAAP...

Hate to break it to you, but there’s other countries and other regimens out there.
You would still buy the burger even if it has a few fewer sesame seeds, would you? ... until there are just three artfully placed seeds on each bun and nobody buys any?
Burp Suite and Wireshark come default in Kali. Give it a try:

https://www.kali.org/downloads/

(Also make sure to check out Maltego, Metasploit Framework and Armitage.)
Did you know that some hardware mixing desks being sold for live concerts and TV broadcasts are actually 2 Linux systems in a box?
Care to share the regression you did? Just eyeballing it on a semilog scale, looks like it is plateauing already.
Read up on the state of the bioinformatics field and get a feel for the tooling used in typical pipelines. There will be a lot of R and high performance computing. There's no shortage of work to be done.
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Sometimes you just want to make something work, as soon as possible.
Does anyone here know about the process of updating a tile set?
No, the cookies are only required if the implementation of the site requires it. Not if funding depends on it.
Edit: to clarify, this is not a rhetorical question - I would like to know so that I and other end users can make an informed choice about whether to opt in to this or not.
Sure, but for clarification the channels I noted are if you are any registered developer and don't have close contact.
They new about it for weeks, 5M people left Wuhan, and then they started the quarantine.

You think that should be praised?
Genetics = statistics.
The MAX is a system design issue... for reliability it should probably include at least a third AoA sensor.
Configuration IS typically called customization in SAP. "The Customizing" is SAP speech for the sum of all configuration settings and it IS DEFINED THAT WAY IN THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION, even in the english version (the difference is more blatant in the german version, as "customizen" and "customizing" are not german words, but still used in the german docs to specifically refer to the configuration section of SAP)

https://help.sap.com/viewer/521cd184dd2f491a9a4179edb66951c3...

Let me quote:
"The term Customizing refers to the process of system configuration during which the members of the project teams make the required system settings. In the SAP System, Customizing activities are performed through the Implementation Guide (IMG)."

And no, this leaves no room for interpretation. The IMG is basically the centralized config setting catalogue of SAP and does not allow programming.

It may not be, what is typically meant with customization or with other systems, but in SAP "customization" refers by definition to anything which can be configured WITHOUT programming.

All documents clearly differentiate between "customizing" = using the configuration, "extending/programming/development" which would be Z-reports etc., "enhancement" with user exits, BADIs and the like and "modifying", which would be patching the standard programs.

And yes, of course upgrades still require testing. But saying it is "impossible" to upgrade just because you have z-reports and the like is plain wrong. Most of the time, especially if we do not speak about a full blown ECC to S4 migration, which involves large scale changes to the underlying database structure of the ERP unlike upgrades within the ECC line itself, you will not require updates to your z reports at all.
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Especially because does imply that.
Props to https://ceylon-lang.org/ for a good effort. It doesn't seem to be on the race anymore, but at the time it looked like a super interesting contender.
I provided individual examples. There are many others. Go do your own research instead of shitting on other peoples rebuttals to your clearly uninformed position.
Amazon Choice label is being 'gamed to promote poor products'
There are no repositories or publishing functions on sci-hub. It is only a kind of proxy for already published works.
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It's 100% illegal under GDPR.

What's funny is that Verizon's "Oath" advertising/content business has been a total and utter failure (the kind of where they pay $5 billion for Yahoo and it's worth only $200 million a year later), so I'm not even sure why they are so aggressive about this type of tracking anymore, since I don't think they do much with the data themselves.

But most likely they keep selling it to Google, Facebook, and other ad networks. They aren't going to recover that $5 billion this decade doing just that, though.
Yeah, it's not like it's a Google project. You can probably expect JetBrains to support Kotlin going long into the future.
We don't have a SARS (a related coronavirus) vaccine yet .... it's likely going to take a while, why we need to be even more careful about keeping it contained
To put you on the spot. It would be great if "maybe when I retire ..." was an actual plan you had. It sounds like you have the opportunity and ability to personally make a difference, I sincerely hope you do. :)
Before KVM appeared, VServer performance was way better than QEMU.

After KVM appeared, it was a little better, so people who were already using it continued to do so.
I think that this article (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/06/h...) illustrate that it is very likely that the symptoms in most people are mild and these people are not seeking medical advice while spreading it around them.

If this is really the case, it is going to be very difficult to contain it.
You're missing the fact that the tlab pointer is only ever moved forward, so it always points to recently unused memory. Until the reset happens and it points back to the same memory again, the application managed to allocate several megabytes or sometimes hundreds of megabytes, and most of that new-gen memory does not fit even in L3 cache.

The stack pointer moves both directions and the total range of that back-and-forth movement is typically in kilobytes, so it may fit fully in L1.

Just check with perf what happens when you iterate over an array of 100 MB several times and compare that to iterating over 10 kB several times. Both are contiguous but the performance difference is pretty dramatic.

Besides that, there is also an effect that the faster you allocate, the faster you run out of new gen space, and the faster you trigger minor collections. These are not free. The faster you do minor collections, the more likely it is for the objects to survive. And the cost is proportional to survival rate. That's why many Java apps tend to use pretty big new generation size, hoping that before collection happens, most of young objects die.

This is not just theory - I saw this just too many times, when reducing allocation rate to nearly zero caused significant speedups - by order of magnitude of more. Reducing memory traffic is also essential to get good multicore scaling. It doesn't matter each core has a separate tlab, when their total allocation rate is so high that they are saturating LLC - main memory link. It is easy to miss this problem by classic method profiling, because a program with such problem will manifest by just everything being magically slow, but no obvious bottleneck.
I just ran across this link (https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594) suggesting that the official numbers coming out of China may be significantly understated. I'm not familiar with the site, though - are they a reliable news source? Not sure how much credence to give it.
I used to like Kotlin, but now I switched back to Java. The only thing that I miss in Java is short property syntax. And praised null-safety just gets in the way too much. Kotlin adds new layer of complexity to tooling, etc. I don't like some Kotlin idioms. Kotlin made a bet to features I don't need (Kotlin native; coroutines). Kotlin compiler is slow comparing to Java.

That said, Kotlin is awesome language with awesome tooling. I don't think that it'll go anywhere since Google declared it as a preferred Android language. So you won't make a wrong choice, it's just a matter of personal preferences. I'm more of old guy who's not afraid of writing XML and repetitive code and don't like all that modern functional one-liners.
Perhaps publish it on Github? Maybe someone will find a gem in there.

I have some musings [1] on Github too. Thoughts that I want to get out there but are too incoherent to become blog posts ...

[1] https://github.com/Rainymood/musings
Indeed, but they are what causes OS vendor to actually do something about it.

Android now is requiring hardware memory tagging on ARM, Fortify by default, and Treble requires out-of-process for new drivers exactly because of the same kind of issues.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7761169/Jeffrey-Eps...
Not quite, it's causing someone to commit a crime they wouldn't ordinarily commit, so it all depends how pushy they were about it. If you could argue they coerced the contractors into doing the work, that's entrapment. But inviting them over under false pretenses and then simply asking them to commit a crime, while of questionable value to the community, isn't entrapment.
> I expect the finance team are using a 'real' ERP behind the scenes and posting the values from the custom system manually every month

Exactly this.

At a prior startup years ago, I noticed that the accounting & finance team was always in the office late along with the engineers. I would ask them to show me the spreadsheets/models/forecasts they were working on and how it all worked because it seemed so important to the CEO & CFO.

I casually commented I could build this more effectively in code, and a half dozen people laughed at my joke. They then sat me down and showed me things like journal entries, how deferred revenue is managed or annual subscriptions are recognized. There were dozens of examples of scenarios that were completely unique from each other and required tools to allow them to capture these things and roll them up into a consistent P&L and income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statements all adding up nicely.

And you realize that it's completely impossible for a company to capture all of this correctly "in flight", and things are going to be messy and wrong. ERP's have decades of experience capturing the nightmare that is actually managing a business and it's not sexy, but it works better than most alternatives.
The tile set I've been unable to find is an overlay of all roads, suitable for drawing on top of satellite and terrain maps. Are there any? There aren't any listed on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers
Agreed, local govt was very poor, federal has been excellent and I’m probably the biggest China critic here
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Just recently I was watching a Blu-Ray, while I'm mostly watching Netflix these days. There was a nice gray to dark gradient in in the intro and I noticed I was expecting some posterization artifacts and... there were none. ;)

Kind of sad that I'm already used to them it seems.
Nowadays there are trying to just get Kotlin anywhere and it remains to be seen how Valhalla and Panama will be usable from Kotlin.
Even if you could, it does not help if there isn't a good treatment.

That's why screening for some cancers (e.g. breast and prostate) is controversial.

First of all you might get false positives or negatives. False positives can harm patients since they get worried and might even get treatment for a disease they don't have.

Secondly even if the screening gives a valid result: In some cases (like mentioned before PC and BC) that does not mean the patients live any longer than the ones who where not screened.

There's a 5-year survival time metric which makes screening look very positive.

Let's say you and a friend have a cancer that will kill you in 10 years, no matter what. If you get screened after 4 years, you'll have a 100% 5-year surivival rate (so screening is celebrated as a success: more screening!).

However, you won't live a second longer than your friend. You will be worried though and might get treatment with serious side effects.

That's why the mortality rate is IMO an actually much more interesting metric.
I would mostly disagree. You get all the Java solutions plus the Kotlin ones. Few languages have that much support.

Within ~2 years, native things will hopefully become sufficient, but the state now isn't gloom and doom.
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> browser extension

Using browser extensions to block ads is much higher risk than doing DNS blocking. Most ad blockers have full access to all web pages, which essentially means they could trivially scrape your usernames/passwords for your email/banks/etc or perform actions on your behalf.

There's room for this to go bad (AdBlocker dev turns bad, or sells extension to a bad guy for a wad of cash, or extension has security vulnerabilities, or keys for publishing extension are not propery secured) so while DNS-level blocking might not work as well, it's definitely not an obviously-worse solution.

(though FIWI PiHole in the past had some really agressive default lists which stopped my from using it - though I set it up again recently and it's been much better - I haven't had any broken websites besides Amazon's own sponsored product links at the top of their own search results pages).
If you want null-checking, you can use Nullable annotations. While they're not as good as proper type system, they mostly do the job.
My take: depending on the nature of the business, and how the publicity was done, they may only have had one shot at gaining the customers. In 2-3 days time you might have fixed things, but by then the prospects moved on to the site that worked.

I’m not convinced that you need to superscale your infrastructure first. I think it’s normally a waste of time and money. But for the example listed this is a likely benefit.
However, it's futile unless it reflects in our purchase (and employer) preferences.
It also means that Kotlin doesn't get all Java goodies, like virtual threads, value types or GPGPU support.
His point is that their #1 priority was keep this under wraps instead of fixing it as soon as possible, even if it meant more people had to learn about it to protect themselves and not have the virus spread.

Coronavirus has disrupted many businesses in China, and I think the government knew this would happen if more people found out about it. So their priority was not getting a big economic hit, not solving the issue.

This is a good post on what happened, but there are others like it if you want to dig deeper on how they tried to cover it up:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-dis...

I'll just copy these 2 paragraphs here to address your "China responded quickly" comment:

> To be sure, at first glance, China’s government has appeared to be more forthcoming about the latest outbreak. But, although the first case was reported on December 8, the Wuhan municipal health commission didn’t issue an official notice until several weeks later. And, since then, Wuhan officials have downplayed the seriousness of the disease and deliberately sought to suppress news coverage.

That notice maintained that there was no evidence that the new illness could be transmitted among humans, and claimed that no health-care workers had been infected. The commission repeated these claims on January 5, though 59 cases had been confirmed by then. Even after the first death was reported on January 11, the commission continued to insist that there was no evidence that it could be transmitted among humans or that health-care workers had been affected.
This site isn't Microsoft?
I agree. It's not easy to stop font piracy, most companies and legitimate users that want to use the font will buy it. I think they might as well make it easy for the revenue-generating customers and stop worrying about potential customers that weren't likely to buy their fonts anyways; DRM makes things worse for the paying customers.
You can always fill out more of the tree going back further and out more. My dad loves this stuff and is always talking about the people he's paying to research vital records from churches in Slovenia to fill out more of our family tree.

There are enough people who do it for a hobby and/or religious purposes that it seems like a pretty viable subscription model.
This is a more complicated question that it seems!

Cookie banner are not directly related to the GDPR, but to the Eprivacy directive, which, not being a Regulation, is subject to variation in national law transcription. So the answer may vary depending on your country!

Still in an effort to have a uniform position on the question, DPAs( Data protection agency) are working at the EDPB (the European Data Protection Board, a sort of council of DPAs) to have a common position.

One of the currently shared position is that a cookie wall impedes the "free" part of the consent, since you have to support a negative consequence.

In a communication regarding the (future?) Eprivacy regulation, the EDPB clearly stated that:

"In order for consent to be freely given as required by the GDPR, access to services and functionalities must not be made conditional on theconsentof a userto the processing of personal data or the processing of information related to or processed by the terminal equipment of end-users, meaning that cookie walls should be explicitly prohibited." [1]

If I remember correctly the Austria DPA is not of favor of a cookie wall ban though..

From memory, not a legal advice!

EDIT: try to make the explanation clearer!

[1]: https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/edpb_sta...
This seems to be an odd position to take in a thread about kernel extensions given that they're a fairly esoteric feature that power users make use of.
UI is too complicated for me to comprehend. I need 3 animated generic icons on a Bootstrap site to explain all the features
Here in Australia the general sentiment is that the response has been good relative to the magnitude of the fires. At some point nature overwhelms any government.
Why do many online maps like Google have so little contrast? It's very different to printed maps over here. You basically have a really hard time seeing the white roads on the light grey background, especially when looking at the display from some angle.
Yet still can't compile kotlin on android.
Compressed blacks / greys, they work until they don't.

Especially for drama and horror where dark scenes and night scenes are frequent!
All it needs is a browser!

BTW didn't work in android FF.
Guest languages cannot make use of Valhalla/Panama without having plaform specific extensions.

Basically they will end up with some form of conditional compilation or performance loss emulating those features on other platforms (if at all possible).
It's the fashion nowadays. Flat, low contrast UIs are all the rage.
It's easier to load a real-time kernel in Debian than it is to install nvidia drivers.

I haven't done it in a few years but a quick google search says that it's as simple as: apt-get install linux-image-rt-amd64 on Debian.

Hell it's probably easier to load a real-time kernel in Debian than it is to install video card drivers on any other operating system.
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Indeed, but if you want any OO, it’s a liiiittle weird looking at first, since it’s so much syntactic sugar. Only a little, though. It was a stumbling block when I was learning it at first.
Ask HN: What are you currently working on?
Always interesting to hear what projects people are working on!
IANAL, but why would it be illegal. Isn’t that like saying a company can’t charge you for a product if you don’t want to pay for it. Tech crunch chooses tracking as its fee for reading its content. The law simply states that they must notify you of said tracking. It’s not a public service, and the content is generally pretty crap anyway.
What about cat example.txt?

No browser needed. No GUI. Works offline.

Surely that's simpler?
There is, but the choice available doesn't quite work for developers. In my opinion anyway. (reasonable for generic office workers though)
Simple while showing up shell commands don't combine for the crowd I am speaking of.
A bit off-topic, but your landing page is a blatant ripoff of Stripe. Even a bunch of the colors are the same. It is one thing to take inspiration, but this is a complete turnoff.
If you are still targeting java8, isn’t that due to organisational constraints about software version management and wouldn’t that normally also imply issues around getting new tools like kotlin into the org too?
It's important to also acknowledge the crucial role culture plays in this problem, regardless of the political system it cradles.

The public is simply ignorant about surveillance technology issues. Not that long ago we used to tolerate sawdust in our bread[1], and that's food, something humans should be pretty knowledgeable about. People would revolt if this happened now, whether they live under a capitalist or communist system. A free market might accelerate the transition, but education about the issue is still the underlying factor of change.

[1]: http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2011/03/sawdust-bread.html
it's also not an editor.
Works for me on android firefox
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Are you suggesting a submersible that might run underwater only temporarily, during the storms, to avoid the undulating surface?
Because under GDPR services cannot be conditional on giving unneeded personal information. How well this is enforced is a different matter.
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You can only lock down a city in a dictatorship. So I certainly would not approve of this behavior.

Additionally any speculation about the effectiveness of the quarantine is futile in my opinion.
It has changed: https://blog.adacore.com/pointer-based-data-structures-in-sp...