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Ask HN: Help out an old data center tech monkey which job is about to deprecate
I am not really old, but old enough to be on the verge of not being able to learn anything drastic and not being able to take a radical 180 for my own sake and change the course of a confirmed deprecation

I am one of those thick-skulled data center tech monkeys that for the most part doesn't know shit about the bigger picture, and knows only how to rack servers, connect network cables and replace hard drives

my only luck is that as my english is decent, I got hired in a fortune 500 software company.

I Never chose my path, I could have been a software engineer if I was a little bit lucky and worked for it, instead I work in the physical infrastructure, I do see that where I work is neither were the money or the gratitude is, and lately the company like many others decided to go full public cloud. we should be done in about 2/3 years

The company have good reputation and pays well, very above the average. for the same job, I cannot claim the same salary anywhere else. so naturally me and many of my peers are stuck, slave of the paycheck and we could be tempted to stay as long as we can, hoping that we will be able to jump off the sinking ship in time and find something else

I read HN among other websites to smell the ambiance and learn new acronym and also the culture, I found very interesting links, found also a lot of resources for self learning

But there is not so many books and articles that someone can read per day while working a very busy and stressful job. catching up in 1 or 2 years what some learned in 15 years is no easy task. I am looking for a shortcut.

I know that this needs huge efforts and I'm willing to provide, but rather than going one way for too long and finding out that it is the wrong direction, I am trying first to get the big picture and see where I am, and then if it exist, take a shortcut
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I agree. Sorry I removed
I’ve had two apple cables fail over the past five years despite being mostly just plugged into the charging ports of a powered (anker, hah!) usb hub on my desk. The cable I keep in my bag for when I’m not home is an anker one.
I believe they are just one of the things you can "boot", alongside regular iBoot in the boot partition and loaded appropriately by SecureROM. I'm pretty sure the images at least ship inside IPSWs.
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are seen as a pretty terrible mistake in Java because of the limitation it has with current GC. Having a method deterministically being called before being freed is a feature that increase language expressiveness and that has no inherent downside.
So yes many devs would want that and you have failed to say a reason for a dev to be "against" said feature.
In Java you should really manually clean up external resources. this is nuisible work that should be automated and allow an error class that shouldn't exist (e.g forgetting to close a file descriptor)
How can this make sense to you?
Things to say:
Java already has autocloseable which cover in big part the needs of a destructor. It's just that it can't be used (I believe) for logging or behavior, only for resource closing which limit expressiveness and observability.

And no serious GC is going to be able to signal it deterministically yes this limitation is shared by all current GCs hence my point on a future GC. The linked article make deterministic something that weren't before so my comment is not HS.

The GC doesn't guarantee to free any object at all.
If this is universal to all GCs that exists and that will ever exists? Then how does autocloseable work?

reference queues what is the difference with weak pointers?
Protected wild areas where no synthetic chemicals, lasers, nanoware, etc. are allowed.
On a slightly related note, I've had a bottle of Russian Imperial Stout (from Courage) in the fridge for over 6 years now. The intent was to do an experiment in bottle aging and also to time the opening to celebrate a birthday.

I do hope the cap hasn't leaked badly and oxidized everything. The bottle's been in the cold all the time though.
The whole idea of using TSMC is being able to switch to someone else if they drop the ball. Apple has never been interested in buying commodity manufacturing, or they woukdhave bought Foxconn.
Keep in mind that a large fraction (majority?) of Ford trucks are work trucks. They aren't purchased because consumers have a particularly strong emotional connection to them. If they tick the right boxes and make the job easier, they get bought.

Putting a generator on it is such an obviously good idea I'm now surprised they didn't do this decades ago.
There are only a few hundred people in Congress. Even if all of them were partaking this still wouldn't be a societal impact level issue.
I'm not sure it's by "design" so much as catering to very specialized tastes is difficult/expensive. Add to that, the sort of people wanting "outdoor trip" vehicles are probably going to stress those vehicles a lot more than the person renting a car to drive 30 miles from the airport and back.

There's a reason renting Jeeps in Death Valley is something like $200/day--assuming you have your own insurance that will actually cover how you intend to use it.
You could use it power a house the same way you can with any generator - using a double male end extension cord.

The reason you can't find such a cord at Home Depot is that it's dangerous and a generator should only be connected to a home electrical panel through a transfer switch that prevents paralleling it with the utility supply.

It would also be more economical to install a stationary generator or battery system for emergency power.
Almost 4 litres of ice cream per month? Every month? And someone wonders why there are so many type 2 diabetes cases...
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Treasury to acquire 30% of company for $700M. Company is worth $120M
And theft, which tends to be a problem at work sites.
I hate these prices as much as the next guy, but if every other apartment charges that much, and they get rented... the landlord would absolutely be crazy NOT to charge that price.
It's worth keeping in mind where this happened - a place where there's still a lot of gear, expertise, parts etc kicking about. Nearby Romania was once a licensed producer of this particular type of old Soviet utility helicopter. Corruption is endemic and the line between 'legitimate' business and one that isn't can be blurry and change over time, both intentionally by the operators and due to shifting political fortunes.
The bill also offers legal protections for companies that follow those best practices. It’s not hard to imagine that 1. The best practices include not using strong encryption, 2. An environment with lots of lawsuits directed at companies not following those practices .
July 2017 - HTML5 games account for more than 50% of all new games uploaded to Kongregate and almost 50% of the revenue. https://blog.kongregate.com/html5-is-here/
Check out https://culdesac.com/ - their first project is a clue to the scale of ambition that they're thinking with regard to city development.

And they are traditionally VC backed.
> Eh...

This is fair and I won't really push back against it. This is the reason I push so hard against IRV. Because once IRV is the status quo it will be hard to continue moving forward. After all, we already have the capabilities. If you have to chose to eat acid, plain oatmeal, or chocolate pudding you don't eat the oatmeal then the pudding, you just jump straight to the pudding.

> It's also a false compromise because the opponents aren't generally people who benefit from the worse voting method, only people who haven't yet understood why it's worse.

While I'm in this camp I do think it is unfair to completely rule out Condorcet methods. The interview I linked to with Dr. Arrow I think expands on this well. If asked to advocate for a system, advocate for score (STAR). But that isn't to recognize that there's so much uncertainty in Social Choice Theory that we can trust theory alone. There's smaller experiments that have been done, but nothing on the scale we are advocating for. Of course we expect the theory and experiments to be relatively accurate, but we must acknowledge the lack of empirical large scale data. Frankly, you can only get that by doing it.

> Of course, if we were using STAR/Score/Approval to vote on which voting system to use then I could express my preferences more accurately.

;) For me

STAR 5, Score: 4 (4.5), Approval: 4, RP: 3 (3.8), Schulze: 3, IRV: 1 Plurality: 0
Sounds like living packets.
https://livingpackets.com/
This is exactly the attitude to which I’m referring.

If you don’t understand that engineering is the fundamental bedrock of IT and the lack of security application during the engineering SDLC is a consistent failure then I don’t know what to tell you except maybe to gain more experience in software engineering and read more about data breaches.

Cyber security:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security

But for arguments sake let’s just stick to network, application, mobile and IOT security.

- Why is MFA not on by default?

- How many devs have prod credentials published to Github.com right now?

- How many unsecured IOT devices are there?

- Why is email security such a dumpster fire?

- How many companies have an SSDLC?

- How many companies require separation of duties and approvals before a dev publishes another AWS bucket or some other unprotected data store to the web?

Go ahead and blame business but they don’t know jack about software engineering. We determine which corners to cut as opposed to stating to business that security is just a part of doing engineering. We’re the one’s who decide and thus it’s our responsibility despite denials of people like yourself.
Russia did pay extremists to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan, says Taliban
My wife broke the USB C port on my T470 when she threw a cushion at me (i was winding her up over something). It tore the connector shell off the board and lifted traces when the cushion landed fairly lightly on it after hitting me. Fortunately it has an old style charging port so I just use that. I didn’t use it for anything else.

But cheap USB-C connectors are crap. And USB-C connectors that are mounted on the motherboard of the device are a sin (Apple don’t do this - well done Apple!)
Certification?
https://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/23/gm-discontinues-the-para...

From 2004-2007?
But is it cheaper than hiring an American metalworker at $8/hr?

It also makes American workers start to ask questions about why it's so much cheaper to pay a Mexican worker "the same amount" and whether or not the things that money buys are worth what it's costing them.
Congrats your job title doesn't mean shit to anyone worth their salt bro
It has many of the advantages of the Bay Area (outdoor activities, craft brewing scene, bike paths). Denver and Boulder have very nice, walkable downtowns. Cost of living is lower than the Bay Area or NYC (but Boulder is approaching fast).
It is still typical (for which I am thankful), but that seems to be shifting a bit.

A relatively common example would be shops using the Shopify platform.
I love this, I also miss the more fun side of the internet that seems to be dwindling.

The best whimsical site I've seen in a while is https://hannahblair.co.uk/ , she made a whole Windows 95 Desktop remake as her personal site, including some remakes of some classic software, it's really amazing!
I would love to know what you folks are using, any tool your recommend?
Every link in that repo needs to also be archived as a video file into that repo, to protect against link rot.
Denver is inexpensive compared to California, Seattle, NYC, and Boston. But it is (relatively) urban, dense, walkable, and bikeable, with lots more bike lanes incoming. It has a mass-transit system of sorts, although it really needs a north-south subway connecting Cherry Creek to Downtown and past the freeway, as well as an east-west subway along Colfax. It has relatively good and sunny weather. The airport is very large and relatively easy to get to. The economy is pretty strong. Taxes are not insanely high. I was looking at it as a possible place to move.

Austin has many of those, but without mass transit, and Phoenix has some, but it's less urban and the traffic is horrible.
From how i understand the public/private space in China: Authoritarian government tells you to do something, you do it or go missing and are replaced by someone that will.

I think its fair to assume that at any time, your data can be turned over to the gov, but if this is the way the FCC is going to go about it, where is the funding to offset the cost of switching to a Nokia or Ericson system? It shouldn't be the small regional ISPs that have to foot the bill for this one.
You would know that landlords often seek to increase rent, without adding value to the home, while the fittings in the home age, as the amenity and wealth of the surrounding community increase.
Lol that job title doesn't mean shit to anyone except clowns like this chasing money. The guy has 2 years experience and you're pointing to his job title as if he's some genius... That's why this book is actually devoid of any novel content
2016 Subaru Outback.

I upgraded the battery from factory to a larger capacity, hybrid deep cycle, and that has increased idle discharge time by a couple of additional weeks.

So a low quality OEM battery compounded the issue, but either way the electrical system leaves a lot to be desired.
> Why do people focus on aggregate unemployment metrics so much?

To avoid focus falling on inconvenient truths.

Haven't you seen a magician waving his right hand? It means he's doing something sneaky with his left :)
Show HN: Native Prime Video Player for macOS and only see free-to-watch videos
The Fed is printing money.

Err.. I mean, according to them, they are expanding the pool of money available, by buying out the junk bonds issued by corporate America. The same bonds from the cheap loans that they took out at super low interest rates, in order to buy back their shares, thus increasing their stock value, and enabling them to give millions of dollars in bonuses to their executives. While everyone else, gets an unpaid furloughed vacation and unemployment.
If you finance the car, that extra cost about extra ~$10/m
Great find! Thanks for this. But after reading I wonder how many of these subs can be out there crossing waters of the USA while the whole coast on both sides are monitored full time on irregularities by the US military?
I drive one every day that is owned by my employer and I'm amazed how many people fork over $50,000 plus the higher running costs just to utilize the truck features once or twice a year, if that.

You can rent a truck for a day when you need it and save a lot of money and emissions.
I know, and I thank you for that. I have read and shared those links (and others).

Unfortunately it falls on deaf ears and it is still overused pretty much everywhere.
How I Program C [video]
>>> France is a wealthy, highly developed country with strong labor laws. Cost of living in France certainly isn’t cheaper than the US.

Pretty sure the cost of living is quite a bit cheaper in France.

- Education is free.

- Basic healthcare is free. Little known fact is that private coverage is mandatory in France and paid out of pocket. It's double digits a month instead of three in the US.

- Bills are cheaper. internet/phone/mobile/tv is fixed 35 a month with all providers while the US subjects on hacker news are routinely throwing all sort of crazy numbers for these. similar advantage with water. electricity depends on the US region.

- gas is very expensive in France. One litter is roughly the price of one gallon (3 litters). People don't travel as much and cities have must stronger public transportation (bus, tube, tramway, trains).

- Decent food and items are easier and cheaper to procure in France. Highly discounted food is similar I think (meaning lidl/netto can do cheap shit in volume like wallmart).

Overall French have a lot less money than American. The vast majority of the country is living on 1000-2000 euro salary a month after tax (outside Paris). There's nobody that's routinely making triple or quadruple of anybody else, so anything expensive simply has no audience.

The rent for a 2 bedrooms in the top major cities (toulouse/lyon with one million inhabitants and jobs) is 600-700 euro I'd say. The same rent in deep countryside with no jobs could be closer to 400 euro. Rents typically don't go below 400 (or 300 each for shared) because there are many too subsidies and benefits for people in need. I don't know what is clear lake iowa to compare, is it small city or truly the middle of nowhere?
Color Maximite 2 – ARM CPU that runs BASIC
Hi friends

Drew here, founder of DBK Labs, with an exciting announcement - we are launching a Prime Video app for Mac!

It has a ton of features that I think really elevate watching Prime Video on the Mac, including:

- Launch Prime Video right from your Dock

- Control Prime Video from the Touch Bar

- ️️ Picture-in-Picture support

- ️️ Quick Resume from the Menu Bar

- Show Only Free-to-Watch Prime Videos

- Hide the Standard Amazon Nav Bar

- Prevent Trailers from Auto-playing

- Auto-resume the last played video

- ️️ Truly full screen browsing

- ️️ Auto-skip Ads and Video Intros

My favorite feature by far is the ability to remove shows you have to pay for from the browse experience. Knowing that any show I see is one I can stream for free instantly is so nice

To celebrate the launch of the new app, we are running a launch promo. Get the app for just $2.99 for a limited time by using the code launch20.

Enjoy!

Drew Koch, Founder, DBK Labs LLC
Ask HN: Could UN/US selectively legalize hacking as a punishment for countries?
Could it be possible or practical to legalize and provide extradition protection for hacking countries that break civil liberties laws and specifically hacks that undermine the laws being broken and don't put civilians in harms way?
Well you kind of have to read the whole thing, but specifically section a1: “That rent which is charged a tenant upon initial occupancy plus any rent increase allowable and imposed under this chapter”
Whether it works is irrelevant. If anyone buys it, the time between belief and disbelief will be longer than the time it takes to screw up individuals' lives.
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> I mean to say, for instance, I prefer Sam Adams over 90/100 microbrews I've tried.

All a matter of taste, of course, but I've always found Sam Adams to be on par with Magic Hat as the worst of the Big 'Craft' group. They tend to produce the most inoffensive option of any style, typically devoid of any of most palatable of its respective flavors.

After years of drinking these kinds of beers and being consistently disappointed, I'd rather reach for a macro lager or a small brewery's pale ale, gose or berlinerweisse. I think this is because they tend to appreciate what makes each style work and demonstrate that.

Sam Adams pale ales are basically post hopped, skunked lagers.
Alternative battery systems for hearing aids. Most of the size of the more powerful hearing aids are due to battery size. If the hearing aid battery could be miniaturized further or even completely eliminated (by, say, running off body heat or something), then hearing aids would shrink to be invisible.

The advent of Bluetooth has made it normal to have things hanging out of your ears, but a lot of hearing-impaired people would feel less self-conscious if their hearing aids were invisible, yet still functional.

Pipe dream, I know... but one can dream.