skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
North was not doing so hot - they've been looking for an acquirer for a while now and were facing running out of money. So, not exactly a promising startup at the current moment unfortunately. Based on the announcement that second gen focals are cancelled as a part of this acquisition, it doesn't even seem like they're pretending it's to continue the product line etc - it seems pretty clearly for the tech/patents/etc

https://9to5google.com/2020/06/25/alphabet-north-focals/
Which platform are you seeing janky scrolling? On desktop, you might try enabling WebRender (set about:config pref gfx.webrender.all = true).

On Android, you might try the Firefox Beta. It is the new "Fenix" browser that is a big perf improvement over the older Firefox Android ("Fennec") browser. All Fennec users will eventually be migrated to the new Firefox Fenix browser this year, but you can try Fenix in Beta now. Installed along Fennec as a separate app, it won't overwrite your Fennec user data.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
What law does explicitly allow the NEL?

If I recall correctly, the Internet Archive decided unilaterally that they would do this due to many libraries being closed.

I (not in the US) do not remember any changes to the copyright act being passed to allow this.

Edit to add: They offered this globally and therefore disregarded any laws in countries which have already settled this issue. (Hint: to my knowledge not in a way that favors their interpretation)
In neither case are we obligated to tolerate them.
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VW actively detected if the car was on a treadmill testing setup and electronically changed the engine parameters to make it run cleaner.

The water heater was designed with the test in mind but functions the same regardless.

VW was clearly cheating whereas the water heater is taking advantage of known deficiencies in the test (is that cheating?).
ARM has a weakly-ordered memory model, while x86 is much more strongly-ordered. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ordering#Runtime_memory....

So e.g., on x86 if you store to A then store to B, then if another core sees the store to B it is guaranteed to see the store to A as well. This guarantee does not exist on ARM.
> https://youtu.be/IVEjsvip8kc

Starting at 1:30, there's a 1998 vs 2015 Corolla. Manufacturers only started taking the small overlap frontal test seriously in 2015 (it was introduced in 2012). If you can afford not to, you really don't want to be driving a car older than that. The safety improvements that have been made in the last 10 years alone make a new car worth it.
My clipboard frequently holds sensitive or even compromising information. If it isn't providing direct access to my finances, it might be something that could be used to blackmail me.

No, these random apps are not my spouse. They should not get access to sensitive info without explicit permission.
That's only because the interview process is being run by people who don't know what they're doing. They may be able to code, but they're amateurs at interviewing.

You could do the exact same thing, but with sanity. When you ask what they do without the modulo operator, you're looking to see if they just have a cookbook method memorized, or if they can handle having to adapt it. You don't have a "right" answer - if their answer works, it works. If it's kludgy, that might be a bit of a mark against them, but less so if they know that what they did is kludgy. And so on.

It's not all like what you describe. There are people who can actually interview.
It was honestly more of an expression of frustration in the article than an argument. I'm pessimistic that I can do anything to stop the iOS-ification of the Mac.
Astronomers baffled by unexplained disappearance of star
You have to be completely nuts to put your secret keys in a site on the web.
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Those are the ones that got through all the way, or at least the ones that got picked up by the view counter. Not the people that got error or timed-out responses.
I feel like this is the sort of story you hear from a diplomat about how great it is that in some other country they can hire a gardener, nannies, and etc for very cheap. Then they move home to a different country and they bemoan their lack of cheap help.

Is this a great thing? I'm not sure for the folks getting paid very little it is ...

Granted every system somehow relies on cheap labor somewhere so there is more to it than that.
> Buying enough 16tb drives for an efficient raid array is an expensive way to save money.

A lot of ways to be efficient with money start by having or using a lot of it:)
Given enough mass, you won't experience any noticeable deceleration during a collision! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWToJxKYRSc
According to the table in the article, improvement from 2010 to 2020 was 7.5×, from 1.6TB to 12TB. The projected improvements by 2030 are 32×, so I'm a bit skeptical.

It's too bad that cheaper drives can't be made with old technology. Perhaps by making much larger cassettes? Everywhere I've worked the total cost of a backup system built on tape was higher than buying HDDs due to the drive itself.
Yeah, I don't think these "door lock" analogies are helpful for either side of the argument. The situation with a computer operating system is not analogous.
They make lefts, but they do routing in advance and heavily prioritize routing using right turns. There is no hard and fast "zero left turns" routing policy or driver policy.
the products are already killed as a part of this acquisition. Google must think the market is worth pursuing if they're willing to dish out $180 million for the company, but considering they simultaneously announced the end of all product sales and no more focals 2.0, this is pretty clearly an acquisition for the patents and talent. They were already close to running out of money.

https://9to5google.com/2020/06/25/alphabet-north-focals/
This is a critical bit that won't address the problem worldwide:

For now, the tech giant is focusing on stories in English. It hopes to expand to other languages in the future.
Or, not do Scrum. Do another process, like having an experienced team that respects the other team members to plan their time and prioritize tasks, with good communications between members of the team.

That seems orthogonal to the question of how desirable (or not) scrum is. You can have scrum (or not), and/or have "an experienced team that respects the other team members to plan their time and prioritize tasks" and shitty management is still going to wreck things.

A real and reasonable criticism of Scrum or Agile is, the structure is not helpful to the actual work.

I 100% agree that there are times when the structure imposed on a team in the name of Scrum (whether it's actually prescribed by Scrum or not) is harmful. Don't mistake what I'm saying here as a massive endorsement of Scrum. It's not actually my preferred methodology. But I do think Scrum can be useful to very many teams in very many situations, and I feel like a lot of the criticisms directed at scrum are somewhat misplaced.

If nobody is doing Scrum right, we're right on the edge of a No True Scotsman argument.

I think I get what you mean by that, and I probably agree to a point. But I don't think it's quite "No True Scotsman", as Scrum has an actual definition, to an extent that "true Scotsman" does not. But I'll buy the suggestion that "if everybody is doing it wrong, then there's something fundamentally wrong with the whole situation".
> and its gone forever

is it though?

do you honestly believe that?
I think they use "Close to the metal" as a way to say "Less abstractions"
Fair enough, we don't have any of the known spyware - TikTok was the only one. I was already questioning the value of TikTok before it became well known that its spyware. I won't tell you about the week of crying because someone was calling my 8 year old a 'viscogirl' after seeing something on Tiktok about it. It really looks like toxic garbage to me.
> It still comes down to the person sitting behind the computer is in complete command of it.

No I'm not. If I had complete command, I could actually turn off the damn prompts so my own scripts worked.
Use sccache and an S3 bucket
A nice flourish would be to have every example with both, and have a global switch to pick which one you prefer.
We're so close to the official V2 release, but there are still issues. I'll make sure to fix most by then. You totally have a point about the lack of an ecosystem, but building one is where the fun is. I am sure we'll get there! Thank you for your feedback.
I tried them at a promo event. They had to be sized for your head/eyes, so the demo glasses had to be held in a particular way to see the screen.

They were alright. The frames were reminiscent of big hipster frames, which I don't like, but they weren't outrageous. The visible area was small and neat, but I couldn't see any use for it. Probably the size of an apple watch, just floating in the corner of your right eye. The demo was walking directions and talking to alexa. They didn't sell because they weren't very useful and were very expensive.

Maybe Google's current strategy is the correct one - keep developing the tech for well-scoped, very niche applications until some day the tech might be good enough for general purpose applications. I think that day is still far away.
Like Youtube, Android, Firebase, etc?
Making baseless complaints like this doesn't help your crusade.
In a phone interview? When they could just fire up Google on their laptop and get an answer in 30 seconds, and you wouldn't know unless you heard them typing? I mean, I guess you could conclude that they are too honest to cheat, which is a plus...
Interestingly, my very first internet post is still available. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.micro/Gx803-rVnDI/...

The funny part was that it was nostalgia about a defunct computing platform.
I tried to use Brave for a little bit, but it felt like I was apart of a meme. The browser is fine, but it felt invasive and awkward. I can't put my finger on why it made me feel this way; something was just... off.

Firefox and Safari are my two main stays now. Both have privacy focus, although one takes privacy significantly more seriously. They are both phenomenal browsers in my opinion.
That's what it is, thank you for clarifying.
We all are the losers. That money is used in one of the least productive ways possible. Imagine all the other startups that had genuine productivity increasing, humanity enriching potential that was deprived of this fund due to investor incompetence and rewarding short-termist exits.
Unfortunately, we will also have to start taking into account pathogen transmission risk on public transport.

If you have a larger family and a limited budget, suburbs are the best of both worlds.

Also cars are quite reasonable unless you want new ones before their useful life is exhausted. A modern car will usually last 25+ years, which is more than many homes before they need major renovation (new roof, windows, etc. in the US).
My experience with the startup scene in another country agrees with your description. When tech is funded by government incubators, it tends to become a fake imitation of the VC funded industry that we know from Silicon Valley. Which often is itself a fake imitation of actual innovation, so (fake imitation)^2.
Malice or just stupidity? I can imagine a dozen different reasons a program might access the clipboard in a loop, all of which reduce to "we are bad programmers".
Izmir Aliağa şakran da satılık denize yakın büyük bahçeli köy evi 150 m2
Dormancy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dormancy/
The big difference with VW is that they put in a mechanism that detects the test and completely changed the behavior of the car for the test.
I had the chance to use one at a hackathon, and can confirm the device barely worked. It had huge difficulties differentiating between different input gestures, and the employee who demo'd it admitted as much.
Remind me not to donate to EFF. This money and time would be better spent on fighting EARN IT.

The Internet Archive's best bet is to settle and apologize very publicly.
There is no law permitting this - IA main legal argument it:

> Our principal legal argument for controlled digital lending is that fair use— an “equitable rule of reason”—permits libraries to do online what they have always done with physical collections under the first sale doctrine: lend books

http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds...

They are saying digital is equivalent to physical which is the same exact argument vidangel tried and lost a year or two ago
> We'd love to eventually partner with publishers but especially larger ones probably won't want to talk to us until we have millions of paying users and can offer them a significant revenue share.

So until then, is the revenue share that you owe to them a permanent liability on your balance sheet?
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> What law does explicitly allow the NEL?

> If I recall correctly, the Internet Archive decided unilaterally that they would do this due to many libraries being closed.

Exactly.

It's not even clear that "controlled digital lending" is in compliance with copyright law[1].

The NEL or "uncontrolled digital lending" is almost certainly not in compliance with the copyright statutes.

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1. It's not specifically allowed, and there hasn't been any case law on it. To see arguments for controlled digital lending, go here: https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper
Agreed. I was just curious about why, specifically, the parent poster never schedules follow-ups. If the discussion in question was actually valuable, it seems like they would want to pick it up later (or use your approach of just forking off immediately. I look at those two things are being approximately equivalent).
"Racism" against white people in the US is completely devoid of systemic material consequence. Understanding definitions isn't about "mobs" or even ideology, it's about identifying what happens in incidents of racial bias and why those things happen.
The one drawback of the BDFL model is that you need a person, and a very specific kind of person at that, which tends to be irreplaceable - to sustain it.

Redis has succeeded because of antirez. I really wish it can continue doing so for the long run without him. More than anything it reminds me of Steve Jobs' death (although gladly this is in much happier circumstances and I wish antirez many more decades of hacking). It's true that a decade later Apple is still doing great, but you just know things would have been different if he was still around.
My impression of Brooklyn is that there are a lot of small (but high-end) "makers" based there, or at least selling their goods there. It is not so different from what the author is describing, but on a higher tier of affluence. You can start a small operation in whatever small space you can find, and have many potential customers within walking distance.
Tiktok has a lot of money. They can control speculator, then control America, then everyone.
It didn't really start as a volatile cache, it started as an in memory data structures server. It's useful for all kinds of stuff memcached isn't (and has been since day 1).
TikTok reading it every couple seconds is definitely excessive. And frankly our tools fail us by not at least revealing that it's taking place -- new clipboard notification aside, as shown in TFA. How do I know how common vs weird this behavior actually is?

I'd only refine your post to say that it's common for apps to read the clipboard without you pasting. Right click Chrome's omnibar and it will show "Paste and go to <clipboard contents>", my bittorrent client and RSS clients prepopulate the new torrent/feed form if I have a URL in my clipboard.

Is the tiny convenience worth the ability to snoop? I don't think so. Or rather, I would like to decide that for myself.
Sure, but it's going to come up whenever sexism comes up, which is often.

I guess I feel very conflicted here. We have people who--riggt or wrong--think that there is at least partial biological explaination behind this.

Then we have women who are saying that this opinion is so toxic that it makes them feel uncomfortable\unwelcome.

There is no solution that will make everyone happy. Either we must accept that there will be views aired that are uncomfortable (you don't have the right to not be discomforted), or we restrict the opinions that can be aired (you don't have the right to say what you really think).
It is the OS that should transfer the contents of the clipboard to an app, when the user tells it to do so, and not the other way around. The content of my clipboard shouldn't be any app's business until I decide to paste.
> Every great society was built on the backs of a disposable workforce

~ Bladerunner

The question is what could those other people do instead? Are they happy with the pay?

$7/hour might seem chump change to you but as a high school kid getting $7 bucks to build websites at an agency I was fucking ecstatic. Nowadays I’d laugh at that rate and yet I still think it was the best thing I couldve done for my career at the time.
A sign of things to come…
(Holding the risk per mile driven constant, from current driving patterns. Risk might increase with more drivers on the road, especially given they're all driving ~16 hour shifts.)
Any time you are operating in water, your mode of failure goes from falling to drowning.

Rocks are slippery.
What was more heinous about the VW case IIRC is that the cleanliness gains the cars made on the treadmill setup were enough to push them into compliance with regulations, which the engines normally didn't meet.

"Cheating" a better efficiency rating is significantly less reprehensible than cheating a legal obligation which was legislated for public health and environmental reasons.
> Why is there no tagging or other organization (besides per author)?

The only reason is because I'm the only developer and simply haven't had time to build it yet! In fact right now I'm working on a new "Discover" screen that will allow filtering by publisher and topic. We gather "tag" and "description" metadata for articles even though it isn't currently displayed in the UI.

> With no other hooks for following my interests I feel like this is still abusable with clickbait titles.

It's not a perfect filter by any means, but keep in mind that even if an article title looks like clickbait it will only rank highly if users are finishing it so the real garbage usually doesn't float up since people chose to abandon those articles. Again, not perfect by any means but it is something to consider if an article is more than a few minutes long and has a lot of reads on it.

> Could you have like moderator-written abstracts for the AOTDs, at least?

Yes! When the AOTD email goes out (midnight PST every night) it includes the "description" metadata provided by the publisher if present (seems to be available about 90% of the time). We should definitely show that in the UI on the web app too for the AOTD at least (and maybe have some expandable toggle to show it for other articles).
They don't have a particularly good track record here. Have we got reason to think that there's going to be better news for them this time round?
You will never be able to exchange 1 billion dollars at will with RBC or any other bank.
Writing documentation is boring, and requires the kind of rigor and focus that I haven't found to be common in the Bitcoin community.
> Or maybe you see an old white guy in charge of Linux and that can be considered a problem in itself

Why is that a problem?
tl;dr what do I do about recycling my Focals, ring, and case, given the difficulties a generic e-waste facility will have in removing the highly integrated batteries from the Focals and case? Also, if you have a startup making pretty, highly integrated devices, please have a plan for recycling your devices when they inevitably turn into bricks.

I was a little surprised to hear that the acquisition is going to turn my Focals into a pair of chunky-looking, prescriptionless eyeglasses, and the carrying case into an alcantera-lined brick. I would like to recycle these, but I'm not sure how. The post-acquisition FAQ only seems to cover what's happening to their products/services, how we're going to get refunds (wasn't expecting that), and how to wipe my Focals.

My main concern in recycling these is the highly integrated batteries. The Focals, the ring, and the case all have batteries that I can't access and can't see, and I don't see too many screw holes (though I admittedly haven't looked). Given what I've seen of e-waste recycling processes, I don't see anyone taking the time to carefully opening these up to get the batteries out, and I doubt they would try cracking them open like a crab to get at the battery, given the risk of possibly breaking a battery or cutting onesself on something sharp.

Ideally, I would be able to just ship them my Focals and they would take care of recycling properly, but providing instructions on how to remove the battery or the types of facilities that would be capable of recycling these things would be a start.

Also, I'd like to make a request of all of you: if you are or are ever involved with a startup that is making pretty, highly-integrated devices, please have a plan on how to recycle your devices when they inevitably turn to bricks. Hell, make it part of your acquisition message so customers won't just throw them in the trash (or blindly throw them into the single-stream recycling expecting it to get handled there and have it end up back in the trash) and dump more lithium into landfills.
I'm not even claiming the vulnerability is serious. But when there's a bug bounty involved, the question is whether the vendor is ever going to pay, or the vendor is just leading the bug reporter on to keep it quiet for as long as possible.
A 5$ option

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Grater-Stainless-Parmesa...
Ok, but your beef is with Apple, not TikTok.
> All my sensitive data is over in a separate work apps launcher anyway.

How does that apply to children?