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Huge diff btwn privately obtaining legal guidance, vs "bringing in the lawyers" which ~everyone agrees is either a formality at signing, or a surefire way to make ~everything adversarial and zero-sum. (and expensive)
There is employment channel here: https://erlanger.slack.com/
>Do people work under the assumption that sudo is meant to protect against malicious actors?

I wonder if it comes from having a windows mindset and the way windows screams at you about unauthorized software and forces you to use an administrator password for random arbitrary things while saying it's for your protection. With windows background as a single user operating system, heavily targetted by malware this makes sense.

Then they come onto linux, find out they need to use sudo to install things from package managers or access files in the root directory and immediately that protecting themselves mindset comes into play. However, taking into account Linux's background as a multi-user operating system, this mindset makes less sense as the tools while working similarly at a shallow level, were designed for totally.different purposes.
Anything is better than having root account enabled.
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from the "venturebeat.com" domain though, this is about what i would have expected.
The results seem pretty drastic in comparison. Did you drop caches between these measurements?
Yeti microphones pick up everything. If anything it would make the test more difficult.
Ask HN: Should or can a startup be ISO-27001 compliant?
I think the key here is "in the background". I would assume if you're speaking close to the microphone, with no other voices going on, it will not filter anything.
Last time Apple did this (PPC -> x86), the new Intel CPUs were so much faster & more efficient than the equivalent PPC chip that programs ran at the same speed under emulation, and the system & native programs ran much faster, so it was still a worthy upgrade.
meh. this is an ad (after all, it's spectrum) for a new high profile passwordless company. by focusing on the technology (certs) instead of the user-visible benefit (passwordless), they are doing ... something.

if it were someone ordinary, i would write it off as another poorly conceived and poorly run wannabe startup. but given the people involved, instead i find it puzzling.
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With Thunderbolt couldn’t you have external coprocessors?
That becomes extremely problematic as a lot of devices anymore ship with bare minimum firmware to turn themselves on and require the host to upload firmware to actually work. The "drivers" on disk are then the modules required by the OS and a big blob of firmware.

Other times devices are just a thin PHY interface and all of the work is done in software inside the driver. There's nothing on the device to even run onboard firmware.

So many devices can't store their own drivers for the host to use, let alone store drivers for multiple operating systems.
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Still sounds better than being a feature factory for someone else's vision.
I like your comment. I think this point you mention is very relevant for more complex cases:

> if you expect that your pledge will meaningfully contribute to the threshold being reached

Kickstarter solves the coordination problem for their case (which is great), but coordination is harder or easier depending on the scale. Kickstarter here deals with a "rather simple" coordination problem: value proposition and conditions are very clear and straightforward, risks are low, there are no opposing parties / colliding interests, and thresholds are low enough that individual contributions can be quite meaningful. So even if they have an interesting business around solving that coordination problem, and they managed to reach the critical mass for it to work (which I highlight as trickier than the actual software)... as programmers would say, the solution doesn't generalize. (Even if it might be a good place to start looking).
> The only purpose of sudo is to protect you from yourself, that is, to avoid messing up your system by mistake.

This is one reason I increasingly don't like the normal Linux distro "system packages, plus everything else under the sun, with one interface and all co-mingled" default package management solution. I big fat "update the system" (or don't) button with my user-installed packages totally separate, as I get with macOS, is nicer. This made worse because, unless you're self-managing the base system and keeping it super minimal (as one might in Gentoo, Arch, or Void) Linux installations are weirdly fragile, I think in part because of this too-large package ecosystem all tied up with the "core" of the OS.

Especially on a single-user system, I should be able to install most software without escalating privileges. I should be able to blanket-update my user-facing software without any risk whatsoever that a kernel update will get thrown in with that (even if I don't read over the list to check—it shouldn't even be possible), nor with privileges to perform such even if it somehow did try to sneak in. I ought to be able to delete the directory with my user-installed packages and the system still boots with no errors or warnings—and yes, with a GUI and audio and networking and all that still working.

I know Nix and even a Homebrew port (with worse package availability, though) are options for achieving something kinda like this but it still feels like swimming against the current.
I agree with you on the first part: Linux's best weapon is its community and strong leadership.

But in my opinion, the second most important feature of Linux is in fact its ability to change large parts of the kernel when and if needed. And do it very very quickly.

And this something microkernels cannot do. They are just slower when doing major changes that touch many parts of there OS.
You are correct. The sound quality of Nvidia RTX is amazing, compared to this.

Unfortunately, you need a $400 graphics card, and >100 watts of power to run RTX...
I remember when I wrote DVIview for VM/CMS being jealous of the fact that your initials were valid hex and mine weren't.

(And for those not in the know, David also created the DVI format.)
I passed a couple Elixir interviews with zero knowledge of this language :) You can just treat it as Erlang with funny syntax.
Most people have no idea of the amount of incredibly advanced signal processing that goes into echo cancellation and noise cancellation in videoconferencing.

This post is on noise cancellation specifically, and it actually has the potential to be a huge step forward.

One of the big audio problems with group meetings is that the background noise from each participant adds up, to a point where it quickly becomes unbearable. For that reason, videoconferencing generally only plays audio from one or two participants at most, using a fairly simple estimation of whichever audio signal is currently loudest. The problem is that this can make it really hard to interrupt (people will literally not hear you), or tell the difference between two people going "mm-hmm" versus the whole group. If you've ever been in a group meeting where everybody applauds something, this is why you see everyone applauding but only hear a smattering.

But if this noise cancellation really succeeds, it could be a huge leap forward because audio cues and overlap will actually work for the first time -- hearing the "mm-hmms", hearing everyone pipe up, and so on. Videoconferencing will feel more like an actual single shared audio environment, rather than the kind of "walkie-talkie" effect it so often feels like now.

I'm really looking forward to this.
This is great and applies equally well as advice for managers (and especially executives) of how to work with their employees. For a more job-oriented set of similar advice, I highly recommend "Turn the Ship Around" by Capt David Marquet.

The core premise of both of these is not letting responsibility gravitate by default to those in power above you. It prevents a mentality of "I just take orders" or "I just do what I'm told." Granted, it requires the support of those above you (as seen with the parent in the article being very supportive of this way of thinking) and it also requires people to be open to learning to work in this way (some people have gotten so rigid in how they work they won't be able to make the leap).
I feel this paints a far uglier picture than reality. In my limited experience (been with two fortune 500 companies, one of then in the top 10), you can expect maybe one of these issues(or two if you're really unlucky).
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xargs! Instant concurrency for small scripts.
Obviously they record arbitrary strings. One of the mains points they made was to make fun of the typo "bulid".
I'm pretty sure UO is (or was) unique among MMOs for having non-instanced player-built housing with full customization and decoration [1]. I fondly remember player-owned houses set up in high traffic locations such as near NPC cities, around moongates, along roads, and outside dungeons. It was so cool how you could go into a dungeon and fight monsters for treasure and then come out and visit another player's house which was set up as a shop, allowing you to restock on resources before heading back into the dungeon.

All of these houses and shops were customized and decorated to an incredible degree, giving the world a very cozy and lived-in feel. I know Star Wars Galaxies had player-owned housing but from what I remember the interiors of the houses were instanced away from the main world. This totally destroyed immersion. I can't tell you how many times I was playing UO, crafting in my house, when I'd see people outside wander by and step out to chat with them. Incredible stuff!

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uo+house+decorations&t=osx&iax=ima...
And why others would recommend Nginx Plus.
France has been effectively off coal now, for a while.
That's fun ! I don't think i've ever needed something like this for major directors (usually you hear about the movie months in advance / see trailers), but it might be helpful for less famous ones.

Edit: I tried with two french directors I like, and there weren't in the database (they are on TMDB though).
I might be unusual, but my experience with videoconferencing has been that ambient noise is rarely a major problem. The big issue is audio cutting out due to a shaky network. When ambient noise is a problem, it's not so much someone typing as their spouse talking in the background or a fire engine going by -- and at that point the solution is for them to hit mute.
I disagree with the trend of people flocking to suburbs. I have no data to back this up but the trend seems to be more like folks choosing reasonable cost of living such as cities like Salt Lake, Minneapolis, Chattanooga, Rayleigh etc
DoS attack, ex: consuming CPU or RAM resources.
The difference is ff's were captured over many millions of years, and natural forces controlled the total amount of co2 in the atmosphere.

What is happening today is the ff's captured co2 is being released a thousand times faster than it was captured, and that is overwhelming natural forces and causing co2 levels to skyrocket. Wood pellets are one of the ways to counter this.

I could be wrong, but my guess is that you already knew all this and were only pretending to be ill-informed because you are a member of the fossil fuels forever club. If I wrong, then please let us know your views on global climate change.
> recite monologues from Canterbury Tales was also a good party trick

I'm guessing not the Knights Tale

> apparently piqued the interest of this girl who later decided to marry me

I waited until after the first date before trying this one (Millers Tale). Reader - she married me!
Labor prices relative to material prices are higher than they have been in all of human history (at least in Europe and North America). That's why everything that can't be economically shipped is designed for quick and efficient assembly by the lowest skilled labor possible. Interior and exterior architectural fanciness and whatnot still exists in new construction, just only in the mansions and beachfront cottages of the wealthy because nobody else can justify the cost of labor.
Ask HN: Facebook's account recovery broken for anyone? Can't use trusted contact
A friend of mine had his Facebook account hacked, email address and 2FA changed by the hacker and they have taken over a page that was his local business.

After trying the "trusted contacts" recovery system, Facebook approves his request after verifying codes from two contacts, and asks him for a new email address and supposedly sends a confirmation email to said new email address. The confirmation email never arrives though, despite trying multiple different email addresses.

Does anyone know of an alternate way to get his account back? Despite Facebook's recovery systems looking fairly good on paper, they seem to have let him down here. He was really dependant on his business Facebook page so any help would be very much appreciated.

Would also be interested to hear if anyone else has had a similar experience.

Thank-you.
Some back of the envelope maths, he said it takes an area 18 miles by 18 miles every year to produce 7% of the UKs electricity demand.

Pine trees are harvested around 30 years old (ignoring thinnings deliberately here). So to set up a 30 year rotation of 300 square miles you are looking at an area roughly the size of Wales.

That seems pretty unsustainable from a UK point of view but obviously there are less densely populated parts of the world where wood can be shipped from.

I'm not sure. Perhaps as a dispatchable source of power it makes sense.
It doesn't have the entrepreneur approval yet. Elixir is halfway between toy and legit and moving towards legit. I think we will be singing a different tune in a decade. It's hard to imagine the distributed systems status quo persisting so long. Software ideas have shorter lifespans.
Not sure why you would create a throwaway account to post this invaluable information.
100% - any smart buyer of a company is going to inquire about key employees to ensure they know who to retain. If you can be in the sale meetings so the buyer knows who you are and how critical you are, that's ideal. If they know what they're doing, they'll try to find out whether you're going to stay and what it will take to keep you. That's where you negotiate.

If the buyer doesn't like your position, they may walk away from the sale - that may upset the business owner, but it also re-establishes your leverage. If the owner wants to sell and buyers need you but won't accept your terms, then you can explain to the owner that in order for you ask for less of a retention bonus from the buyer, you'll need the owner to give you a bigger percentage of the sale price.
Apparently you can’t. I guess they’re serious when they say “no external dependencies.” On the plus side there’s no need for a package manager.
Microphone quality has very little to do with it. Noise separation is just an incredibly hard problem, particularly when a noise is loud. Scrunching potato chips, there's no scenario where his voice won't become degraded unless you can isolate the scrunching sound separately (microphone beamforming can help here, but is still never perfect).

Running this economically on servers at scale in realtime, I consider this very impressive. I can't say how it compares with RTX, but I wonder if it has anything to do with the amount of computing resources that can be dedicated to it. A single expensive card dedicated to one audio stream, versus a single Google server than needs to process hundreds (thousands?) of audio streams.
Keep in mind that it's not fundamental. Generational GCs just make a bet that you can save a lot of effort by segregating the objects by age. In almost all Java workloads there's plenty of short-lived objects, and a generational GC takes care of them at an especially low cost. The price to pay for that is pretty low, basically it's the overhead of card marking (a write barrier is needed) and subsequent partial scanning of the Old Generation if there are many references from old to new objects.

Only very specialized workloads won't create much short-lived objects, and for those cases there are alternative non-generational GCs on the JVM (Z, Shenandoah).
Agreed. The defining feature of `top` is that it updates in real time.
This is especially true in the US where the article says they are sourcing from. US forest cover has been increasing for years as marginal farm land is reclaimed by trees - intentionally or otherwise - http://www.fao.org/3/x4995e/x4995e.htm
I really love this particular example:

"About a year ago I brought Lily to an amusement park. Near the end of the day there was a roller coaster she wanted to go on, but it was too scary for me, so I told her I wouldn't go on it with her. She asked if she could go on it by herself, but you needed to be 48" to ride alone. She told me she was going to find someone else to ride with her, and I didn't object. She wandered a bit with me until she identified someone who I think she thought was sufficiently non-threatening (middle-aged woman hanging out with family) and Lily asked me if I would be willing to ask on her behalf. I declined, expecting Lily would be too shy, but Lily went up, explained the situation, and asked if they would go with her. They were a bit confused, confirmed the situation with me, asked me if I was ok with it, and I emphasised that it really was fine if they said no. They decided to do it, and as far as I could tell both had a really good time."

This is just such a great example of what we're losing in society and community, the ability to put some trust in others, even with things that are really important to us. I'd love to work on ways to help people regain and build that ability to trust in others.
> Typically around 7 trees are planted for each harvested

How does that work? Most trees die of disease or get eaten by animals? Or are you just saying that at this point in time, maybe in some specific country or region, planting vastly outweighs harvesting?
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Unfortunately the data science craze has resulted in a lot of these corrupt academic politician types coming into industry, so you definitely don't want to go into "machine learning" if you want to see decency.
I've been using https://krisp.ai/ to great effect with Zoom while sitting outside on the laptop with road traffic, birds, etc nearby - My team really had a "wow" moment when i turned it on the first time
>"All Lives Matter" is Racism 1.0 thinking.

I genuinely wonder, why is that? If I'm white, this means my life doesn't matter, and when I will be killed I will end up just as +1 in some statistics because of the colour of my skin?
Even if you set aside those legacy G Suite accounts, this is still also a problem for any business on a current paid plan. Nest even advertises their products to businesses here: https://nest.com/nest-for-business/

However, they fail to tell you that your company will be unable to use it with G Suite. There's nothing the administrator of the G Suite account can do either.
No, when Ballmer decided to torpedo Linux, it was starting to make inroads into the server markets. Momentum had been there for some times already.
There are a few more substantial differences, like Elixir utiling binaries rather than Erlang's 'strings' that I think are nice improvements, but I was never worried about getting up to speed with Elixir. The tricky bits of working with BEAM are nicely illustrated here:

https://ferd.ca/ten-years-of-erlang.html
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No, it could be used to imply the person saying it will treat everyone the same.
Sudo provides access control for root access, it's definitely not useless. Sudo allows for logging and locking of root actions. Those settings can be configured irresponsibly and lead to compromise for sure, but the main purpose is creating a sense of order to who can access what protected resources. Without sudo (or doas, or something like that), you're just running su whenever you want without real access control. For a timeshared system with a lot of users, handing out root in this fashion is especially irresponsible.
Do you have some kind of axe to grind on this topic? I just ask because, at that time, almost the entire male fighting age population were mobilized. So when it comes to the question 'is something generally known', it's obviously relevant that such a large portion of the population were actively involved in it.
> I suppose I'll just start using definitions instead: e.g., "the list of allowed IPs".

That's pretty verbose. How about acceptlist and denylist (or blocklist)?

For "master/slave" maybe "boss/worker" would be a good substitute?
Ask HN: How did you land an early job at a future Unicorn?
I'm using the word Unicorn loosely here.

For those that were first/early employees of eventually very successful companies, how'd you hear about and get the job?
For another previous effort, @bradneuberg built some stuff around this a while back. See http://forge.blueoxen.net/purple-include/ and http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/labels/purple%20include.h....
The last 6 months I worked at a large for profit education company all I ever worked on or "released" were simple configuration changes. it was a struggle to find things to fill my day with.
sudo is like CICD in the respect that it protects you from yourself.
"user-installed packages totally separate" from the system is more or less how the BSDs work. OpenBSD provides user packages via pkg_add and pkg_delete, and the system updates with syspatch/sysupgrade. FreeBSD uses pkg update/pkg upgrade for user-installed packages, and freebsd-update for system updates. Maybe you'd like those systems better.
Good for Britain for going coal free by using hydro and nuclear power.
> By the time you're done with all that, the carbon footprint of your wood pellet plant is greater than that of a coal plant.

Could be true. Are there numbers/sources backing this argument?
> A musical instrument will probably also get filtered out. “To a pretty large degree, it does,” Lachapelle said. “Especially percussion instruments. Sometimes a guitar can sound very much like a voice — you’re starting to touch the limits there. But if you have music playing in the background, usually it’ll cut it all out.”

This is a big issue with hearing aids. The whole industry is focused on optimizing for voice intelligibility and as a musician you end up doing trial-and-error with the audiologist to turn all that stuff off.

We need more open source hearing aids - I've read of a few but they're not mainstream.
But they said "widely deployed", not "popular". No one is claiming Minix is the most popular OS in the world.