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Or could it just be puffery to get the word count up?
But very often it's sloppiness. On Android you can write data just fine without permissions, just not everywhere.

When I encounter an Android App which needs file permissions for no apparent reason I assume malicious intent.

Edited to add: I wrote an Android App which has data import and export. You don't need file permissions for both, at least not on newer Android versions.
> > if there's demand

> And if there isn't?

I feel like this question is meant for speculators and investors.

> Bisq appears to rely on bank transfer services, which are usually traceable, reversible

Bank trasnfers are of course not anonymous, but there's nothing linking them to crypto trading, because those are direct transfers from buyer to seller. The platform, Bisq, doesn't ever touch the money. Bank transfers are sometimes reversible (called chargeback), but for example for SEPA that's only in the case of theft and you're not actually obligated to return the money, but you would have to explain why you received it. The worst that I've heard happen is a bank account being frozen, because of suspect activity (unexplained transfers from many different private individuals). Bisq has effective mechanisms for dealing with the chargeback risk. If anyone reading this is at all interested in trustless system, I highly recommend taking a closer look at Bisq.
This professor is actually pretty good compared to the other computer science professors at the University of Cincinnati.
> The discounting model works well for Steam...

For many people I know, we all have a backlog of games we haven't even gotten to yet. And there is a convenience with digital goods that doesn't work so well with brick & mortar stores.

I put stuff on my wishlist throughout the year, and if the price is good enough, I spend a few moments clicking, and I have it. Easy.

If I'm in the store looking for a shirt, it is probably because I need one soon. So dealing with coupons is a hassle, with the alternative that I feel I'm getting ripped of paying full price. I'd go to Costco, but the selection for clothing items is generally quite poor.
The US infrastructure is partially made of copper. It would be very expensive (but doable) to change that.

Laws, carriers, whatever. Doesn't make a difference, we still have no say over enacting your suggestions. We can sit here and theorize all day about what may work, but if you cannot implement or test your solutions in the real world, what's the point?

That's why I suggested coming up with solutions that do not require the participation of large entities. Although I am HIGHLY biased, since I'm working on a peer to peer solution.
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It was a video of me in my university dorms, it wasn't anything illegal or violent. I'm not sure why they felt the need to ask, I wonder if they were just curious for context.
I thought that too until I moved to Arizona and I can say I hate the fixed time because work hours typically don't adjust with the sun.

Summer is worse for me than winter because I have a tougher time getting a good nights sleep due to the sun rising so early.

What I've discovered about myself is that I could never live in Alaska because I'd probably be an insomniac in the summer.
Yes, perfective and imperfective aspects are very tricky, particularly how they interact with various other linguistic features: imperatives (and the negative imperative), the subjunctive, and verbs of motion come to mind, each of which modifies the use of the aspects in it's own way.
It is down voted due to being off topic. Copyright and trademark are two unrelated topics.
Oh yes, I imagine it's sloppiness in the large majority of cases.
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Thank you for this. I don’t think we tried this technique — but yes my legs are usually the first thing to go down, pretty much instantly. And I have a shorter torso, longer legs (when I sit down with someone several inches shorter than me, we are at the same eye level)
I'm not sure I understand your response. Am I missing something in my original comment?
The seeds might not be sterile, but you will probably not get the same breed of plant. A lot of mass-produced veg is grown as an F1 hybrid, and the next generation (ie, from the seeds) will not have the same desirable characteristics.
Would it? In other words, can humans bear a new set of sensors without feeling overloaded? (IDK - at the very least, the peripheral vision cameras could help a lot)
The heath is lovely and it is a credit to Londoners that they managed to keep developers off it.
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If you excluded metallurgical coal from our exports, we'd still be the largest exporter of coal in the world.
This is called storytelling. It is one of the great gifts of being alive and human that we are able to create or enjoy a well told story.

While it’s not appropriate for every subject, or every hour of ones day, it is really a lovely thing and we should cherish those who expend the effort to create long and detailed narrative works.

If you’re not in the mood for a story of this kind and just want to know what happened, the headline is a pretty accurate summary.
That just raises the bar for how much they need to want it. It doesn’t eliminate it.
Donating money towards what? Setting up a new supercomputer dedicated to this sort of work comes with a lot of overhead and most crucially time delay. Even slapping a leftover raspberry pi online is worth more if done in a couple minutes.

Edit: the RaspberryPi is not supported, unfortunately.
> One thing people should include in commit messages is why

> the change is being made.

In a perfect world, there would be a massive document with each commit, specifying exactly how it behaves, all the possible edge cases considered, why it was implemented, other implementation choices and a justification for why this one was selected, etc, etc.

I think the reality of the matter boils down to a few points:

1. Commits are not read that often and if they are, it's usually recent history. If they are being read very much in the future, then the "why" may not even make sense either.

2. Unbounded limits on commit message lengths leads to some people waffling in their commits. If you can't explain it in 80 characters, you should very much consider breaking it down.

3. Usually it's not possible to isolate a commit from the context of the commits around it.

4. Usually it's not possible to understand a commit without the larger context of the system.

Generally if some implementation requires an explanation, it can be better understood as a comment next to the implementation in question.
>nobody was held liable and in fact no charges were pressed and no civil lawsuits were filed

As noted below Uber settled (that typically means their insurer settled) so there is no need for a civil lawsuit. That is efficiency of the system and how the system is supposed to work. In other words you only bring a suit against the insured if the insurer wrongfully denies your claim, here the insurer paid up, so there is no need for a civil suit by the estate of the deceased against Uber.

The criminal side of things is interesting...but for sake of argument lets say you were in an accident, further assume it was your fault, resulting in a fatality. Typically, unless there was a separate crime (e.g. DUI, drag racing, etc...) there will be no criminal charge, just a civil traffic ticket for the accident (in many jurisdictions there will be a specific charge/penalties for an accident resulting in a fatality, but that will still be a traffic ticket, meaning non-criminal).

I am curious if the "driver" received a traffic ticket for the accident, my guess is he did, I can't imagine the responding officer(s) not issuing a traffic ticket for an accident much less one resulting in a fatality. Interestingly these traffic tickets for accidents with fatalities do usually carry a potential penalties that include suspension of the drivers license, so I do think the law will need to catch up with reality in that regard because suspending the driver's DL doesn't seem to punish the right party in the case of a self-driving car, so perhaps these states that allow self-driving cars need to think about adopting traffic laws specific to self-driving cars and figure out who those tickets should go to and the proper punishment (obviously you can't suspend the DL of a self-driving car or a car company).
> I don’t think GCP is fully aware of their position in the market as the second, inferior choice

Aren't they the third choice, after AWS and Azure?
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It's just wild how blind we are to our privilege on this. To me, it's pretty clear that I should be SUPER circumspect about allowing software on my machine or in my browser. I need to trust the author, and figure if the additional complexity really pays for itself in additional utility.

I'm sure most HN readers are like this.

Our nontechnical friends just add extensions and other cruft willy-nilly with no thought to the implications or risks.
And yet, here we are, over a quarter-century later, and that "disaster" is still allowing our programs to run on one computer and display the result on another computer on the other side of the world.

The 'Unix Hater's Handbook' is supposedly a humorous work. But it was mainly used in the 1990s by non-Unix companies as anti-Unix propaganda. Unfortunately for them, all of today's main computer/software companies either use Unix or Unix-like operating systems (Apple:BSD Unix, Google:Android, IBM and Others:Linux, Microsoft:WSL). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix-Haters_Handbook
THANK YOU!!!! I was just going to comment this.

I went to their website and gave it the 5 second test. I couldn't figure out ANYTHING through their homepage in a 5 second scan. There is ZERO call to action that makes any sense on their homepage. WTF is folding? Why not just say, HELP US FIND A CURE? What's funny is that I can bet these projects sit in a conference room and wonder why they aren't getting the support they deserve and it's all because they NEVER explain themselves correcly to the average layman.
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>It is the job of the CTO to steer excitable juniors away from the new hotness, and what might look best on their resumes, towards what is tried, true, and ultimately best for the business.

Then they might simply join another startup or a big tech company as competition for good engineers is fierce. Startups also famously underpay versus larger companies so you need to entice engineers with something.
Is remote US-only or worldwide? I'm in Europe.
When I saw the title, I wondered how a survivalist story got to front page on HN.

Then I read it and saw it was really a story about high rents, and then of course it made sense.

My sense of where the highest rents are doesn't keep up with the times though. Tokyo became relatively inexpensive long before I figured it out. New York beat London at some point, and when Vancouver had overtaken San Francisco I was floored.
You make it sound like professional drivers are currently personally liable when they cause accidents. Is this true? (I have no idea)
You do in fact get a lot of this stuff with ECS and Fargate - rolling updates, automatic restart, log aggregation, auto scaling, some discovery bits, healthchecks, Secrets Manager or Parameter Store if you want, etc.
Thank you, that does sound like a reasonable setup!
I created https://idorecall.com/ and it is different than apps like Anki. You upload your learning materials into iDoRecall. File types such as .docx, .pptx, .pdf, images files or add media share links from YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, etc. You consume your content in iDR. When you come across a concept or fact that you want to remember, create a linked spaced-repetition flashcard. When you practice your flashcards, if you struggle with an answer, click a link to open up the source file or video at the exact location where you created the card. Refresh your memory and then get back to your practice session. Also, you can create study groups with classmates and collaborate, sharing files and flashcards. I have written about my background and story https://bit.ly/2Tp3vTr
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This is wonderful and gives people a constructive way forward instead of feeling useless.

Does bring hope that after this they could tackle other uncured viral infections like herpes for example.
It’s ok to let them go.
the bottom line is Uber can kick you off the platform for any reason or no reason. If it walks like a duck...
> A previously-used disk, wiped to NIST standards, will be filled with random data - that's exactly the point of the wipe.

Yes, and that is suspicious. Random data is suspicious.
It should be easy to gather political consensus for laws to prevent what is metaphorically like pulling a fire alarm for fun. Society would similarly disapprove of seizing up trains by threatening to jump.
My impression of app engine is that you have to use all the cloud* services like SQL, cache, etc, which will make it significantly more expensive, even if it does that app layer fine. Is that wrong?
Excerpt:

"Just iterate, baby"

"I’ve spoken with plenty of the earliest engineers who worked at SpaceX, and almost all of them have noted that Musk tackles the hardest engineering problems first. For Mars, there will be so many logistical things to make it all work, from power on the surface to scratching out a living to adapting to its extreme climate. But Musk believes that the initial, hardest step is building a reusable, orbital Starship to get people and tons of stuff to Mars. So he is focused on that.

He knows he won’t get Starship right at first. He employs some of the smartest engineers on this planet, and they’re still, in many ways, fumbling toward solutions for the extremely hard problem of getting a super-large vehicle out of Earth’s gravity well into orbit—then to land it and fly it again. Musk has come to believe the only way to realistically achieve this is through trial and error, by iterating closer and closer to the right design."
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Debian simply is less juicier to attack than consumer focused stores. Debian has much more technically aware and vigilant user base. It's also probably being used somewhere where there's constant monitoring for security and breaches etc. Not to mention that Debian can move really slow. Default repos have nginx at 1.10 (when 1.16 is the latest), node is stuck at v4, postgres is at 9.6 (when v10,v11,v12 exist)

Why would you attack a store where you can be burned in less than a week when you can attack stores where there are millions of less technically users who are more easier to fool and exploit?
It's also super helpful when you want to run one command which spews out a bunch of errors, and then read the first error. Cmd-K, enter, and fling up the the trackpad. I think I'd have to pipe to less if I don't have cmd-K.
For modern hard drives the head actuator is linear motor made from permanent magnet(s) and solenoid. the arrangement is called voice coil, because it is mostly the same thing as coil of an speaker (although the geometry is 90 degrees rotated such that it is flat instead of cylindrical)
Maybe you need less engineers trained in the new hotness but just experience with, uh, older hotness. Which may be easier to find.
For programming, memorisation doesn't matter that much. Not knowing the argument order for a function isn't a big deal. You use an IDE or you get a good offline docs viewer (Dash, DevDocs etc.) or you learn to Google efficiently.

Language learning is an obvious use case.

Also: law and medicine. Having knowledge mentally 'to hand' is pretty important if you've got a patient under general anaesthetic, or a judge asking you a very difficult question.
Whoa, someone downstream says `reset` clears scrollback.
Many years ago I wrote some 3D code for the 486SX, back when floating point units for PCs were optional extras. I used a fixed-point approach with 9 bits after the fixed point in 32-bit integer arithmetic. It worked pretty well, but doing that does force you to design the world coordinate system to avoid objects that are too small and suffer loss of precision errors.

I don't think it would entirely do away with things like z-fighting and seam alignment issues, but it would effectively "round" them off in more cases.

I'd definitely encourage any game developer trying to represent a "big world" to investigate fixed-point systems to avoid precision-loss problems creeping in when far away from the origin.

Floating-point is slightly more future proof in a world of increasing resolutions.
The death statistics from China is not a truly reliable indicator, for one simple reason: that Wuhan was hit with a massive onslaught, a denial-of-service, that overwhelmed their medical system.

There was simply not enough resources to service everyone, and those that came later, probably fared worse, and lost their lives.

In a normal situation, the sick people would be more evenly spread out across the country, that all the hospitals and clinics should be able to handle them, and provide them with medical care in a timely manner.

The key indicator to realize how deadly this virus is, might actually be Italy. There, the virus diffused evenly throughout the country, that their medical system should be able to handle the caseload. We shall see how well this theory plays out in 2 weeks.
That depends on the situation and is the CTO's decision to make. Given the difficulty and time frames of hiring letting go could mean another 6 months of too few engineers. Acting like there is a single universal answer is the wrong world view I'd say.
I haven't had to use the Strangler technique, but I think I would disagree with this post. It is possible to use ALBs in this way, but I think it goes against the point a little. I thought the point was that it should be a little bit annoying to maintain all of the pass-through routes in the replacement codebase, to ensure that there is motivation to actually do the replacement, instead of just leaving it in place indefinitely.

Plus, leaving the pass-through in the codebase lets you do a much wider variety of things. You could run both the original and your replacement, and check the responses against each other. You could do that, or do replacements, at however tiny of a part you can imagine. You could choose which cases to handle where according to any algorithm you can dream up.
How much of a 10$ wrench attack / rubber hose attack / bribery do you think it takes to target a Debian packager? This seems like a pretty weak defense.
> Please, I said nothing about "millenials/zoomers".

My bad, I saw you mentioning young people a few sentences earlier and my brain tied the two together.

> But it's not doing anyone any favors to spread misinformation to amplify the urgency for political change.

Each person has their own level of urgency. Personally, I'm not cool half a million bankruptcies a year due to healthcare costs, but maybe a health-exec from Pfizer is. You have your threshold for urgency, but many people have long since passed theirs. They have perfectly valid reasons for doing so.
That doesn't seem it would increase airport security too much.
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To me they are reminiscent of the drawings the monks put in the margins when creating the illuminated manuscripts. These were not hidden, but were certainly at odds with the serious text they surrounded.

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/naughty-nuns-flatu...
What do people use cryptocurrencies for, other than speculation?
An encrypted volume (fixed space) should even remove the white space. After all, knowing the size of a file contained within could leak information about its contents.

I imagine the only way to detect a volume would be to have it decrypted (enforced by law enforcement), to take the supposed volume type and files within and then re-encrypt with the same data. If your volume and the supposed clone are different, it would suggest that you have hidden another volume within.
madvise( start, size, MADV_DONTNEED );

start must be page-aligned. size is in bytes, but if you take one byte of a page, you take the whole thing, so clip as appropriate.

this informs the kernel you're done with some part of the memory. mapped things will be re-read and others will act as if zero'd when later accessed. both can be safely dropped without taking space in the swap, instead being newly created when next needed.
I'm coming from the serverless side of things where people always say that only a few companies on earth even need K8s, like cloud providers.

How do you rationalize using it in your company?

For example, a learning platform that allows to integrate code for frontend and backend into your lessons uses Docker containers for their product. They can't offer runtimes for every programming language running on the frontend and backend, so they allow the teachers to upload their own container. I'd say they are a good example of a company that could need k8s.
This Musk quote from the article resonated with me:

> There’s plenty of forgiveness if you pass me the buck. There is no forgiveness if you don’t.
> Wouldn’t it do the opposite? Instead of racial profiling it’s using a system that pulls from social media.

Oh there'll still be plenty racial profiling because the trained models will likely inherit these biases. Instead of a store clerk following me around, it'll be an automated system that just flags me as "high risk" and who knows what other secret feedback looks that results in.

I wish our leaders were smart enough to legally require that such services _must_ publish their accuracies and be open source.

A system like this as a for-profit business will go about as well as for-profit prisons have gone in the US.. except more subtle and sinister
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It's not about waking up in daylight. It's about a large chuck of the population waking up earlier than is healthy.

When you have research showing that the western edge of a timezone is worse off health- and sleep-wise, it is clear that a policy pushing people to get up earlier is not good.
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